Show Pane 2 - ISPS Millard Cuunlx Ihurx Feb 5 1987 My Opinion A Newspaper is a Business too! Teacher to Parent Helping your child succeed by Betty Condie President Utah Education Association Is your school board doing all it can and should to help improve education in your district? The Institute for Educational Leadership has some things to say about the typical American school board and has issued a new report “School Boards: Strengthening Grassroots Leadership” which offers a checklist any parent can use to school its board’s evaluate effectiveness An effective school board the Institute’s study contends is one that: Devotes most of its time and energy the community to obtain the enunciated goals for the system and fosters both assertiveness and cooperation Deals with controversy openly Exercises continuing oversight of education the programs acquiring background and knowledge to ask the right questions Works out the division of responsibilities with the superintendent Determines the mission and agenda of board committees if they are used and makes sure they coordinate with board policy and oversight functions Invests in its own development Establishes procedures for selecting and evaluating the superintendent and for evaluating itself with other school Collaborates boards to influence state and funding ’Understands the role of the media and develops procedures for media contacts that do not manipulate media attention for personal gain - - to and education educational outcomes for all Believes that advocacy students is its primary responsibility on goals and uses Concentrates strategic planning to reach them of Works to ensure adequacy resources and equity in their distribution Uses the strengths of diversity represented on the school board and in Community Calendar Jan American Legion Auxiliary Americanism 7:30 pm Program Legion Home Fillmore Feb 10 Young Children’s Story Hour 3:30-pm Fillmore Library Fillmore Chamber of Commerce noon Fillmore Medical meeting Center Conference room Feb 11 Pahvant Valley Senior Citizens health and education workshop 12:30 pm Identifying and Coping with Stress Sharon Blad and Terri Winslow presentors Delta Area Chamber of Commerce meeting noon Rick’s Family Restaurant Delta 14 Basic EMT Course in Fillmore Call Kent Dalton for information Jan 14 - Feb 11 Traveling Art display Delta City Library pm Feb Darlene Fowler Week in Fillmore Feb 5 LandlordRenter Workshop West Central Utah Vocational Center 7 pm Women for Work Sponsor Feb 6 & 7 2A State Wrestling Championships Richfield High School Feb 6 Weeds Crop Diseases Crop Insects Soils Courthouse Fillmore 9 am Sponsored by USU Extension Feb 7 Benefit for Darlene Fowler Fillmore Elementary School 6 pm Delta Heart Day Duff’s 5682 S Redwood Rd Smorgasbord 9:30-SLC pm East Millard Fine Arts special birthday party 2 pm Library 43rd birthday for East Millard Fine Arts Guild 2 pm Fillmore Library Feb 8 Elder Shane Stewart mission farewell 10:45 am Meadow Ward Elder Myron Darnell mission farewell 10:40 am Hinckley 2nd Ward Feb 9 - 23 Art Exhibit and Open House pm Millard Fillmore Library Feb 9 Video from National Gallery of Art 7:30-pm Fillmore Library ‘Feb 12 Eagle Scout Recognition Banquet Delta 3rd & 4th Ward 7 pm $8 per Millard District Roundtable Fillmore Stake Center 7:30 pm Feb 13 M E Bird Sweetheart dance Center music by the “Moonlighters” 9:30 pm $150 per person Feb 17 Utah Crop Improvement meeting Delta City Bldg 9 am noon Sponsored by USU Extension Feb 18 Tryouts for “Guys and Dolls” pm Delta North Elementary Exercise for seniors Pahvant Valley Center Sharon Blad Terri Winslow Quilters workshop Mom’s Crafts snd Fabrics 9:30 am Feb 25 Scuba Diving Class begins West Millard Pool miHEtn Delta Area KitI JcIIitx Fillmore Area Bx tax Chronicle Progress T Rngerx Just for Today USPS think about when we were told about alcohol and other drugs when we Colfee (caffeine) were children ugaiettes (nicotine) whiskey and beer (alcohol) are no good for children Only big people can use these substances Children ate going to be big people someday and are told throughout their and to act grownup adolescence mature Part of showing this maturity wonder is to mimick what adults do why so many teenagers are getting in trouble for possession and consumption ol tobacco and alcohol? Call Geno ei Publisher Suxan - Editor Dutxon 6 Editorial Mark 4moll Reporter at large Advertising Sales Riley Wood legal Billing Sales Daxxn Carder Design tvelyn Fillmore Mallet Office Accounts Deb xirealhouse Manager Receivable Circulation Circulation Rita Bullcreek Commercial Shellie Subscriptions In County In County Out of County Out of County 1 In Advance 00 per year 00 per 6 months $18 00 per year $10 00 per 6 months 2 to $4t04 rvha "14 fdtmorf niRlNHINv COWAN rut'ON OSMP j 5 2 W ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Meetings: 8 Mon & Wed 2 8 ! pm ALANON: Thurs pm Delta Mental Health offices 51 North Center For info call ! 1 ! 5 ’TIU‘ ii-- lip— r— Dear Readers in any area of Accomplishment human endeavor is directly affected by four major concepts: direction velocity ability and desire Each plays a maof jor role in the final determination who we are or what we become There is really no mystery to this process It’s governed by irrevocable laws that are usually learned through experience by trial and error Our success in life is guaged by our understanding of these concepts and our willingness to put them to work For the most part life often seems unfair when considering that we are not all endowed with the same characteristics status intelligence or looks Most people get more or less in each category than we do so we often rank ourselves in comparison to them that ranking is usually Unfortunately very subjective and is often determined by our mood and perception at the time The ranking itself which is usually incorrect spawns a variety of ideas that impose drastic limitations in all areas of our lives And these limitations often appear to be unalterable This perception is wrong Regardless of any limitations that we might have either real or self imposed we have the ability to change to improve to grow if we choose to do so Successful accomplishment in any area is based on having a goal and knowing which direction we need to head For if we don’t know where we are going we will inevitably end up somewhere else Next we decide how fast we are going to get there Many people start out in the right direction but they move so slowly that they never reach their objective Will Rogers said that even if you’re on the right track you’ll get run over if you just set there Or you can be on the right track and still be going in the wrong direction Success demands that direction and velocity go hand in hand Next comes ability and desire Many people have tremendous abilities but they fail to ac-complish their full potential because of lack of desire They often settle for far were invented less than they are capable of and live in an unhappy unfulfilling existence To some extent most of us have problems in these areas Unknowingly we develop in ways we didn’t plan and the patterns that develop appear to lock us in to certain habits To counter this we need to understand certain dynamics about ourselves Basically we are what we repeatedly do we become what we pursue If we don’t like what we’ve become we can change We aren’t locked into anything at least not until we give up Granted there are certain limits but when factors such as heredity environment training and experience join together they provide an avenue to reach seemingly impossible heights We need to understand these dynamics if we are to get even a glimpse of our full potential because ultimately our performance is based on the laws of our construction We are the determining factor in this equation Another interesting concept is that we are all in the process of developing both our future and our past Life is not simply an ephemeral transitory stage in which things happen accidently with no cumulative effect But rather there is a natural process of cause and effect What we do today impacts directly on the future and what we are today is directly influenced by what we did in the past There is no magic to it Everything is connected Our thoughts and feeling determine our Our actions determine our actions our habits Our habits determine And our character detercharacter mines our destiny Past present and future all are interconnected of these With an understanding dynamics comes a realization that we can change if we choose to do so No one is locked into being the way they are However we often resist change even when it’s in our best interest So often it seems that people in distress often prefer a problem they’re familiar with to a solution they’re not That identifies the process but it doesn’t justify it It must be remembered that although the change process is sometimes difficult or painfully slow it is literally true that we can act ourselves into a new way of thinking or think ourselves into a new way of acting Change can occur It will occur It all depends on where we’re going Most of us CONFIDENTIALLY: measure our accomplishments by what others have not done in 1892 by a Philadelphian named Joshua Pusey wholeheartedly support this I How many merchants philosophy wonder truly practice what they preach? At Christmas time I enjoyed as I always do shopping for family and friends Like most people I got caught up in the spirit of giving spending more than I really could afford but regretting nothing With the exception of two gifts I bought all of my presents had locally Many of my their similar experiences pouring money into the county’s economy My job as an ads salesperson and as a writer for the Chronicle Progress has allowed me the opportunity to get to know many of the fine local business men and women I have been made keenly aware of how the suffering farm economy and the loss of IPP workers has affected business and the flow of money here I am sympathetic and I am preach New column is a new vxeekly “My Opinion” feature of the editorial page Readers are welcome to submit columns of 800 xxords (txxo type written double spaced pages) Subject matter is unlimited but xxe reserve the right of rejection and unsigned articles will not be considered We encourage readers to take advantage of their First Amendment rights ol free expression Middle America Search for “Middle America” Churchill by Bob Thomas I stumbled across the name “Winston Churchill” in of all places was a Pensacola Fla phone book looking for an old friend who worked Bar & Grille and at the apparently passed it For no reason that comes to mind I dialed Winston’s number And I’m glad I did It proved to be one of the more interesting afternoons I spent out on the road Over the phone he told me he was a and that I was perfectly painter welcomed to drop out to his place and chat He said I’d find him out in his backyard He lived in a trailer park on the west end of the city A neat place with wide for lawns He streets and was sitting in a chair and facing an easel that held a large He sketch pad was doing a street scene in charcoal that featured dancers The men were the women The sheet was filled with gaslight lamp posts and the wrought-irotracery that are the landmarks of the New Orleans Vieux Garre the French Quarter I asked about his name He wasn’t named after the other “Winnie” he knew “Just a coincidence” His mother was Cajun and his father English but he had doubt the man who would be Great Britain’s prime minister was much of an international figure in ’97 That’s when my Winston was born at Krotz Springs in the heart of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin didn’t remember much Winston about his father “He went out for cigarettes one day when I was about seven or eight and just never came back” Sometime after that he and his mother moved to Slidell and then into the heart of New Orleans just about the time World War I was getting started His mother made a living the best way she knew how so young Winston spent a lot of time out of the house He more or less lived on the streets And in a city forever known for mirth mischievousness and music he remembers only a happy youth He took to drawing early he said and was soon finding buyers for his Bourbon Street sketches By the time he was 20 he owned his own gallery on Rampart Street He got into the habit of making duplicate sketches One he’d sell the other he put away for his retirement Life treated him well for a lot of reared a family years He married retired at 65 and moved to Pascagoula Miss He “and Mom” bought a big house there - big enough for all the kids and grandkids - within sound of the gulf’s gentle roll Sure fire consumer predictions for Printing Dulson Pad it sUS JOHN WATERBURY Dear John Letters aphone played “that’s all” and the young man would take the girl back to where he had found her He would thank her and she would thank him The girls who had not been asked would stand up hoping to be asked for the next dance One time I told my mother about a boy I did not like to dance with She said “If he asks you you dance with him his mother is my friend” So I danced with him if he asked me A girl never turned any boy down unless for some good reason My Junior Prom in the spring of 1928 in the Marsoni hall was a great event to me The Juniors spent a week and probably a hundred dollars a lot of money for those times to decorate the hall with paper streamers and paper flowers carefully kept away from the stoves in the corners Everyone had programs with little pencils attached The boys asked girls for dances numbered and they were written down on the program The orchestra put the number of the dance out so everyone knew when their dance came The boys wore their Sunday suits and the girls had home made Prom dresses Most towns had dance halls and a home town orchestra that was really good whether they played a fast “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” or a dreamy “Shine On Harvest Moon” it was good dance music music that would make a wooden man want to dance Mary Henrie concerned for I too want Millard FurCounty to survive and prosper thermore I can appreciate the frustrations these hard working people are exthat every periencing Lately it seems is less than attempt to improve their lot successful I empathize for I feel the the paper same frustrations for Yes a newspaper is a business It hires local people It promotes and supIt circulates businesses area ports It keeps its revenue in the county finger on the pulse of the community It attempts to inform its readers of all Yet welfare their to issues important there are local merchants who rarely if ever have their advertising or prinsubscribers ting done locally There are who fail to submit items of interest or personal opinions This apparent lack of awareness andor support is difficult to understand “United we stand divided we fall” If all of us in Millard County are truly concerned about our economic survival and growth we must stop talking out of both sides of our mouths We must be aware and supportive of each other We must work together in a positive manner We must practice what we And there they were: A picture of the American Dream And then the autumn of ’69 came and a hurricane came whipping out of the Caribbean It struck Galveston and then hugged the Texas coast in a sadist’s embrace and followed the shoreline across the mouth of the on Mississippi and took Pascagoula Winston wasn’t sure how or why he survived God knows he lost everything else but his life His house was gone A storage structure that held a lifetime of art was gone “Mom” was gone years All gone in nine hours Winston buried his wife of a scrounged in the rubble of his house for whatever he could find settled for a pittance with an insurance company Winston was catching up on 86 that afternoon we spent together He seemed in fairly good health He smoked crooked cheroots and sipped on a little His hand was steady His charcoal strokes firm and defined If there was bitterness within him he hid it well “Do you paint?” he asked me “No I can barely write” “Well keep at it” he advised “You’ll do it if you really want to” I watched him for a long time in silence taking my eyes away only long enough to refill his glass and freshen my own He was affixing his name to the lower righthand corner before I spoke again "Is that sketch for sale?” I have today is for “Everything sale” He sounded like a man who had no intentions of being caught twice with his paints down “What would you ask for that sir?” “How well do you like it?” I reached into a jeans pocket and came out with $35 xvorth of crumpled bills “This is what I can afford” “That’s all you have?” “That’s it” He got up from his chair entered his trailer home and came back with a cardboard mailing tube He sprayed the sketch with lacquer from a perfume atomizer allowed it to dry rolled it and stuffed it into the tube I took it and offered him the $35 He refused it “It’s a gift” he said “Art belongs with those who enjoy it and not with just those who can afford it” And with that he poured us two more drinks I went back to see Winston the next morning I took him a quart of Jim Beam know I got the better of the I deal but like to think he seemed genuinely pleased with the trade Comp Production Single Copy 50 cents Send Address changes POSTMASTER P O Box 249 Delta Utah 84624 x flowers” After the couples had danced around the hall a number of times the sax- - Book matches Circulation Julie Ward “I could have danced all night” and not have been tired Dances were our recreation The big Marsoni Hall with stoves in the corners was a great dance hall The flor was smooth and the ceiling high The floor manager would put cornmeal on the floor under the feet of the dancers for one dance and the floor became as slick as glass ended with a Every celebration dance the Fourth of July New Years Christmas the beginning and ending of school and all the school activities There was always a dance after a home basketball game Some towns had a dance every night during the Christmas season except Sunday Everyone danced Children grew up dances in Primary with “Children’s” They were taught how to dance and acceptable behavior Not many young folks had cars Dating was not easy Many young folks went to dances with their families or in groups of friends Girls stood at one side of the big hall the boys on the other When the music started the boys would come across the floor to the girls side Each boy would choose a girl “May I have this dance?” If a girl was not asked to dance she would go to the seat along the wall That is how we came by the word “wall plate j Bx Dancing in the Old Marsoni Hall by Dawn Carder Area merchants are concerned about in keeping business and revenue Millard County For the past several months there has been much talk about “shopping at home” in order to promote our county to create jobs for to just plain keep Delta residents Fillmore and Millard County alive I PROBLEMS? Geno: TEENAGE Call 1 by Dennis Hinkamp Consumer information Writer Utah State University There’s nothing more fun about January than lists of the top hates ers of the last year and the predictions for the coming year I probably can’t come up with any lists that haven’t already been listed but mabe I can add a few consumer predictions: We will have a tax reform bill before the current reform is completely enacted The current reform will just require replacing the old forms with new forms In a few years we will be paying creased taxes to pump water back into the Great Salt Lake to save this landmark f W'ith continued refinement and lower prices of compact disks albums will go the way of tapes Since VCRs are selling faster than new movies are being produced we are going to end up renting a lot of bad movies or seeing the same movie a dozen times a year in short it will be just like network television If cable television stations keep scrambling their signals faster than unscramblers can be produced many satellite dishes will be converted to bird baths and barbeque pits There will be a on every corner Once everyone has a microxxave oven people will return to traditional cooked food Being fat will be “natural” The sugar industry is already promoting its product as natural to combat the artificial sweetener market Come to think of it aren’t french fries chocolate fudge cheesecake and beer made with natural ingredients? MacDonald’s Wendy’s and Burger King will all come up with at least one new name for a piece of hamburger meat between two pieces of bread and Pepsi will spend more on advertising than they did last year but their sodas will taste the same This year’s best selling books will clude at least four new actors’ diet plans three criminals’ biographies and two former Reagan cabinet members’ '87 memoirs A former president will announce his candidacy for actor The cost of living will increase but it will remain a popular item It' still easiest to press damp linen while it's |