Show LSPS Millard County 2 - Page Tburs leb 9 W y jS u e The weather we are enduring this week is certainly not a high point for me (no pun intended) freeze when the thermometer dips to 72 degrees so that will give you an idea of how have been coping this winter was trying to think of similes for the cold weather and I could only come up with two I could repeat: “Cold as a kiss” and “Cold as a tax collector’s heart” The rest I have heard are not suitable for a family paper But don’t know why should be so concerned since TV has broken out in a rash of “Enquirer” type shows one is apt to see anything and most of it in bad taste haven’t been on my soapbox for awhile but the Steinberg case in New York has really warmed up my blood (which is probably the reason haven't frozen up this winter along with the cars furnace and pipes) My snit goes like this: i am really tired of all the ranting and raving burning bombing picketing and arresting going on regarding abortion or not abortion Where are these zealots when a little girl is tortured and killed and her killer gets com icted of manslaughter? Where are these fanatics when hundreds and thousands of children are neglected abused mollested and killed daily? After spending all ol my adult life dealing with children who have been messed up by some adult m the name of parental whatever I am a fanatic and zealot on the subject It is one thing to get all worked up over whether a child has the opportunity to be born or not but it is a whole other thing to live up to the responsibility necessary after they are born have always thought that a crime against a child should carry a sentence much more severe than the senttnce for a crime against an adult but it always seems to be the opposite - manor some other slaughter probation puny charge and sentence An adult has a fighting chance but a child is helpless against an adult have thought about this subject often How can one help it with some new bizzare report of horror inflicted on a child in the news daily? And what about those who suffer and never make the news? But guess what constantly amazes me is that there is a lot of “isn’t that awful?” but no flaming outrage My usual reaction is we have become too civilized and think a little taste of their own medicine in the public square a little would be quite suitable bone breaking burning cigarette beating demeaning etc would just be fine Then I begin to wonder what kind of a society we have become that we appear so callous toward the horrors so many children suffer and then become so outraged when they grow up to be violent adults We click our tongues when “60 Minutes” exposes social workers in the big cities who are totally unqualified with indifferent supervisors who know these things are happening but have a hundred excuses for someone “falling in the cracks” (I really hate that bureaucratic term) But where is the DEMANDING demanding outrage they clean up their acts? keep having a phrase run through mind often seems that to come up my in a lot of these cases - you can’t So I with “parental rights” begin to wonder if some people are misinterpreting what that means or if have I have never thought that “parental rights” meant the child was my possession but rather entrusted to me and my responsibility I didn’t think that I owned a child like I do a car In fact I have heard it said that driving a car is a privilege not a right and that is why you have to have a license to drive a car And if you are irresponsible you lose your privilege and get your license taken away buried two of my children As have always thought having children was a privilege and giving birth to them does not change them from a privilege to a right If you have the money you can buy a car but you can’t drive it without a license If you have the ability you can I just can’t have a oaby but seem to rattle all this around in my brain and come out making any sense Dunng my third pregnancy which was full of worry for me after burying my second son I remember hearing about a new born being abandoned and found dead My thoughts of what should happen to a mother that does such a thing were far from civilized or pleasant And my attitude about such things has gotten more intense over the have grandyears In fact now that children I am even more fanatical on the subject get such pleasure and delight with every word they learn every step they take and every smile they share just can’t understand lunatics who could flict pain neglect and indifference Continued on Della Area li was 41 of 95 page 4 Fillmore Area lrltrr Kml Bn 1 Roger inches which was in the form inches of snow Community Calendar Motor Vehicle Schedule: Eillmore & Millard Delta weekdays County Assessor’s offices Mondays 10:30 am Reflections Turning Point Office Voc Center Delta leb 5 - 10 “Revival in the Home” by Dr Ed Millard County The Chronicle Progress USPS fl Date Utrt mry Publisher Editor - Dutton Susan Editorial Ken Rand at Reporter Large Advertising Sain Riley Wood £ Accounts Rita Robinson Juke Goertz Ward Evelyn Mallet Fillmore Rec Sales Design Office Manager Circulation Julie Pa Ward Goertz Robinson CirculationComp CirculationProduction Commercial Printing She! lie Dutson In Advance Subscriptions In County SlZiiO per year In County SI300 per 6 months Out of County 12500 per year months 51300 per Out of County Single Copy 50 cents POSTMASTER Send Address changes to P0 Box 249 Delta Utah bus Haim rUftlSHtNG I 'Uu' t 84624 m Dctu Utah ar M Hi ?d Pen Mia national —— r 1989 W atke Grace am Baptist Church Sunday and 6 pm each week night leb Kevin Wasden’s Sterling Scholar Art Exhibit at Eillmore Libtary Multipurpose Room I eb 9 American Legion Dept Service Officer at Delta Job Service pm - March 3 Feb Baseball and softball league White Sage Regional Park Feb 10 Deadline to register for Girls 10 am - 5 pm White Sage Regional Park Della MHS Sweetheart Ball 9 - 11:4' pm MHS Gym Kanosh Cholesterol Screening - 5 pm at Paiute Sewing Plant $6 fee Feb II Jay Neil and Shauna Ross Huntsman wedding reception pm Pahvant Senior Center Fillmore Sunshine Generation Open House II am pm 1105 East Mam Delta 24th “Delta Heart Day” Duff’s 5682 South Redwood Smorgasbord Rd SLC 9 am brunch 1:30 am Feb 13 American Legion and Auxiliary 7:30 pm meeting Legion Hall Fillmore Free Style Wrestling meeting 5:30 pm DHS Wresting Room eb 14 Diabetes and foot care 7 pm Fillmore Community Hospital speaker David Jaramillo DPM “RAD” Day Fillmore Elementary School Feb 16 Fillmore Food Handler's Class 230 pm Fillmore Public Health $5 Feb 18 Rabies Clinic Hinckley Fire Station am Feb 21 Fillmore lmmunzatton Clinic - 12 noon Blood Pressure Clinic pm Fillmore Public Health March 18 St John Bosco Catholic Church sponsoring a Craft Bazaar M E Bird Center Schools Greetings from the land of and makkara! (I’m talking about food and will explain it in due time) The daily routine begins at 7:45 A rush of bicycles pedestrians automobiles all sweeping toward the Puncschool section of Uusikaupunki tuality is very important not because if a student is tardy three times he will be sent to Saturday school but because the headmaster stands guard at the door every morning Yes the word is which is even more HEADMASTER scary than PRINCIPAL It is my fortune (or maybe misfortune) to be attending one of the top five academic schools of its kind By “school of its kind" I mean that after the age of 15 all students make a decision about the career choice they wish to follow In my city students have three school choices: My school the most difficult and stringent is attended by students who wish to study at a University in such fields as law or medicine Another school focuses on all sorts of engineering training The third is a cluding apprenticeship sort of business college teaching classes and like keyboarding accounting management Required classes in my school are geology Finnish one of German or French languages and To give you an various alternatives idea how important English is here besides math and Finnish it is the only is that required in all three types subject of schools in my city By the time a student graduates he or she has invariably studied AT LEAST eight years ol English The morning proceeds with morning announcements The entire class is supposed to stand respectfully and listen as someone enlightens us with some spiring bit of wisdom lasting from minutes This time can include music or surprisingly enough singing praying comWhen learning commences pletely different atmosphere exists in the classes The teacher is in complete control and demands silence and rapt And it’s not just that the attention teachers demand attention the students naturally give it It is very important for these students to succeed in school There are three grades and each is classes each of around divided into 25 students The entire class runs on the same schedule meaning that they share the same classes day in and day out The schedules revolve on a weekly rather than daily routine 'Which think is far less monotonous The schedule and classes change every seven weeks or five times yearly Each class lasts 45 minutes with a 5 minute bieak separating each During this break the atmosphere is much more relaxed than during the classes Half of the school files outside to smoke cigarettes but the remaining half sits around in groups talking or listening to cassettes This is the ritual for three hours until lunch bieak There are two lunch hours with two lunches each Lunch bieak is 45 minutes long the first beginning at 10:35 (OUCH) Finnish school lunch even puts American to shame! (It’s paid for by the government from income Finns pay more than 50 percent in total income taxes) chemistry biology religion sports math Swedish musicart history at least This is where nakkileipaa and makkara come in They are staple foods of Finland that are served virtully EVERY day with lunch Makkara is a light pink sausage that Finns inhale as if it were oxygen Nakkileipa is a thin crisp whole grain bread These are two usual items served but other lunchroom specialties include liver casserole fish blood pancakes (as in real soup don’t make blood) Needless to say my way to the lunchroom every day but Finns don’t seem to mind the food at all They would probably feel the same about say tuna casseroles or other traditional American lunchroom delicacies Besides the food the lunch system is quite similar lining up style while ladies in blue caps serve you appropriate portions After lunch classes recommence The school day varies for each class Some school da) will eid as early as pm Howeve1 the highest grade must stay nearly every day until 3 or 4 pm Even though of all Finnish students schooling is intense that of the senior class is outrageously difficult Their life’s success with begins graduating with high numbers from this school so from August until February they study an immense work load Then in their school year terminates giving them a month to study independently for the graduating exam This exam will entail four or more subjects of their choice which they must know inside and out Very sincere efforts are made in When Finnish students preparation come to school they come to LEARN As I mentioned in class they pay rapt attention and the notes they take look like encyclopedia graphs They pay sometimes up to $40 for different and study and paperback textbooks underline in them with surprising dedication The tests they take are graded in the European system 10 being the highest and nearly impossible to achieve and 4’s and 5’s far too will never forget the day in common Swedish class when a girl actually began sobbing when she received a low number on an important test That shows how meaningful school success is to them had difficulty adA difference justing to in school was the amount of respect and obedience that must allowed to teachers here They are in complete control because basically the i uture of the students lies in the hands of the teachers and very few students are stupid enough to jeopardize the situation One day when I was feeling particularly frustrated about this difference a friend told me clearly “You’ll just have to get used to it The learned as a little boy in first thing school is that the teachers are just better and you do exactly what they want There’s nothing you can do about it” That statement more or less cleared the clouds and made me see things in a new light The moral of the story is “Never tend school in Finland” That’s a joke of course hope I haven’t painted too grim a picture of school here If there is one thing I’ve found through being here it’s that the people and relationnot ships make the situation So school here is not any more of a dreary daily venture than anywhere else (take that how you want) It just definitely has its differences Thank you We would like to thank the anonymous person who donated a $50 bill to our choir trip We really appreciate the support! 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Dramatis Personae hotn by guess (Editor’s note: In last week’s column a new character was in’roduced Those of ' like Media Man! before his tr iair loss who can remember v u read more than seven days noticed the introduction of the ti Tm ed Sourcerer You have already Cab Prof Mediocrity and in this column so it appears time for a “program” as in: “loti an t tell the players without one” Let lolio' s then is the Dramatis f Tvjnae of Media Man! the Exciting 0 entures There f ) 1 Prof Mediocri y: of the Man of Spiel Born to Ozzie and his Harriett Jones of Normal Okla first name remains a mystery Which is okay because it’s probably something ordinary like Ken Or Sue Known associates include Howard Cosell Paul Harvey and Mr Rogers He is now working for one of the nation’s surviving Savings and Loans Creator of the beehive hairdo Sugar Corn Pops and the Stat Wars Delense System 2 Censorman: Records on the origin of the man who first said “Just say T respond in a negative mode”’ have been expletively deleted Inventor of the paper shredder He is known to he a dose personal friend to Oliver North Richard Nixon and William Casey He is believed to be on whispering terms with several world leaders whose names he is not at liberty to disclose He is armed with scissors to snip away ugly phraseology a magnetic to be used when certape officials misspeak tain government themselves and a can of spray paint to paint over “Yea! 88 yer cooool” signs on the walls of high schools and some colleges He is currently trying to find a wav to edit obscene without getting arrested 3 The Informed Sourcerer: rom whom MM gets a lot of usually reliable information some of which is often relevant Known associates clude Bob Woodward Sam Donaldson and Daniel Webster He has never sat in the Mystery Square He never gets asked to play Trivial Pursuit twice in a row because he cheats He’s probably secretly watching you right now taking no'es 4 Cato: Fierce feline protector ol the Sultan of Soliliquy Favorite saying: “Meow” Known associates include the MTM kitty Garfield and apparently a very large mouse who hides in the woodwork somewhere but never shows itself Very dangerous She will attack viciously and without arning anyone approaching the secret headquarters of the Lord of Locution with intent to solicit Distributors of the Watehiower Deseret News delivery boys Girl Scout cookie sellers and Mormon missionaries are among her victims 5 Nick Onihon: Henchman of The kind of guy who would send a “Happy Birthday" card with the word Known “Birth” deleted associates include Bozo the Clown Pat Boone and Nosir Arrathm Currently employed by the Air Force Office of Public Information 6 hnem Moortzer: Lobbyist for the Congressional pay raise Apologist for Arab oil interests Likes to vacation at haaidous waste dumps You don't want to know about him 7 Little Nell: Incurably cute Mortgage holder behind in her rent In deep trouble and in need of rescue Currently tied to the railroad tracks And a train is coming 8 Fargo North: Professional decoder Works occasionally with the Emperor of Eloquence on cases requiring especially large shovels Currently learning to read lips Originally studied to be an economist but dropped out when accused of being a “Nattering Has vowed to Nabob of Negativism” figure out what in hell the government is talking about Oliswel Goodinov: 9 Comrade There is a lot that can be said about the man known as the Great Compromiser but this’ll do Anyway the column is long enough as it is You and Your Child: Success in School by JIM CAMPBELL Utah Education Association President I’ll admit it Teachers are jealous people They’re jealous of every minute time they have with your children With the current outbreak of fluenza B in Utah many students are missing classes because of coughing sneezing stuffy noses fever chills and all the other symptoms They should be home for obvious reasons But there are other kinds of absences that concern teachers very much Scheduling hair appointments or dental appointments during school time means loss of learning opportunities for instance is usualMathematics ly a progressive chain of learning or periences The loss of a school day two can leave a student bewildered because the class is using concepts that were taught the days he was away When a child is habitually absent who is the loser? of Is it the teacher who must try to fit into a full schedule the time to help the student catch up? Is it the parent who may not see the impact of lost learning until it’s too Late to do much about it? Or is it the student? If a child misses Tuesday’s lesson Wednesday’s lesson isn’t going to make as much sense If a child misses a week he or she will need to spend time catching up And if a child habitually misses days or weeks will it even be possible to catch up? A recent national study in 000 high schools showed that of students who said they cut classes frequently as more than half dropped sophomores out within the next two years One of the most important lessons a student can learn in school is how important it is to be there as much as possible CUP continued have a gentleman’s agreement with IPP and we intend on living up to it If we don’t they just may not pay us the taxes next year and you still won’t get the money” On the other issue Baker said the idea behind withholding the remaining taxes was to get some piotested answers “We want to know whether with them for we have a contract water” he said “and how much we’JJ get and how much it’ll cost and where it’ll be measured and delivered” Styler said the issue has been reduced to one question “That is: when the water is delivered into the Sevier River system will the Sevier River water users be able to distribute that by agreement among themselves instead of having the CUP dictate how the water will be distributed within our system?” he said “We got the idea they'd answered us when they said they didn’t intend on changing the Sevier River delivery system” Styler said “We asked that we be able to talk it over among ourselves as a commission to decide what we wanted to do” That discussion was held at the regular Tuesday in Jan 24 commission meeting Fillmore At that meeting Styler was directed to write a letter to Robert Hilbert chairman of the district which read in part: “We have decided to release the remainder of the taxes we are holding for the Central Utah Water Gonsei District We will direct this to be done as soon as we are assured in writing that the water delivered into the Sevier River System will be diverted and exchanged only as agreed to by Sevier River water useis: pacted memorandum decision issued by the Utah State Engineer or judgments orders and decrees of courts of competent jurisdiction That is ihe substance of what we understand was 12 1989 agreed to at your Jan meeting “We request your board confirm such understanding by adoption of an appropriate motion or resolution” The district’s next board of directors meeting is scheduled for today Thursday Feb 9 in Orem Laird said the commission’s letter would be on the agenda as well as Clyde’s recommendation that the board not accept the escrow of the 1PA tax protest Questions recently asked about whether or not CUP water would ever reach Millard County have been answered by two new developments Styler said One: the latest figures put out by CUP officials indicate it will cost about $180 million to get water from Strawberry Reservoir to Utah County $80 million to get it from there to Juab County and $40 million or less to get it fiom there to the Sevier River System which serves Millard and other counties in south central Lhah Styler said the figures are much less than those he’d heard used earlier Two: negotiations among the Colorado River Storage Project the seven western states it covers and Congress ate underway One result of the talks may be restored funding to the CUP that Congress had recently dropped Styler is now confident getting the water into Millard County may not be a pipe dream after all “In fact I’m more optimistic than I was two months ago” he said “1 hen if they’d have paid up our tax money to get out I would have Now I don’t think I will because I think there’s a possibility of getting the water” But will the v ater district officials act favorably on the commission’s letter? “J don’t know” Styler said “I really don't know But we're not gambling arvtlurg We’re still holding the money If they’ll sign it fine And if they don't then we’ll see what happens” Gov Norm Bangerter met with commissioners in Ins office Monday Jan 30 lo discuss the issues “He needs to understand there is one point that we fell very strongly about” Styler said The point: who would control the water? "We have this existing decree that basically gives us our blueprint for distributing water on the Sevier River We want him to understand that if that decree is tampered with or if it goes by the wa side then the CUP water is not worth it to us” But Styler added “We don’t mind disturbing the decree if every party is agreeable to that We just want mutual consent on the distribution of CUP water” talks about the politics of CUP Laitd said the CUP is not at odds with the county on the distribution issue “J would imagine that they would not want to gam any control as a district over the Sevier River” he said He said the district is primarily in delivering the 36000 average flow into the Sev ier Bridge Reset voir as originally agreed “And from that point on” he said “it’s going to be up to the water users to determine the distubution of the water” In addition lo county officials the meeting with Bangerter was attended counsel for by Thorpe Waddingham the DM AD companies which are essentially the irrigation and farming interests in Millard County “Purpose of that meeting” Waddingham said “was to wait on the Governor to see if he would be agreeable to formulating a state policy ith tegard to the irrigation and drainage features of the Central Utah Project as it impacts lands that would be seived in Utah Juab and Millard Counties Of course our piimary interest in it was the Sevier River Basin” Waddingham said the Governor was asked to declare his support to Utah’s Congressional delegation and urge they join eflorts to get funding from Congress to complete the project A draft letter of support “invites them to join forces so that there is a solid Utah position belore Congress” Waddingham said ”1 he Governor asked questions” he said “and he asked to be shown a map so he could follow In my judgment his position was a! Urinative but he did not give a final decision He felt he should discuss it further with his staff and so on ” Waddingham said he is confident Congress will appropriate lunds to finish the water project He cited the same reasons for confidence Styler noted: a downwatd revision of the price lag of the ptoject and negotiations volving fedetal power producers in the West “They would be supporting this unified approach” he said “the environmentalists would probably be supporting it the stale ol Utah would be supporting it and it looks like that should be sufficient interest to at least give us a pretty good chance of success of some kind" Congtessman W ayne Owens will be among those present when the Sevier River Water Users Association holds it’s annual meeting Friday I eb 10 in Richfield “Owens will be there to clarify his position on the project and to respond to questions” said “and all of the other Congressional people ill be inv ited to either be present or send observers” The state engineers olfice and the boatd of water tesounes will also be represented at the meeting The meeting begins at pm at the Sevier County Courthouse |