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Show THE Page 8 OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Volume XIII Issue V December 15, 2005 Letters to the Editor LETTERS TO EDITOR cont. from page 2 ter branch of the Spectrum Academy for this area. We just need to get the word out and demonstrate that there is a strong need here as well as in Davis County. This would allow for more children to be helped. It would also help the strain on the public school system, allowing for our aa to receive the best education we can giveth ‘ou know, “autism ceieean 1 estimated lin 250 births (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2003 )? This means that as many as 1.5 illionA fim of autism. Data collected for the Department of Education indicate that the number of children ages 6 to 21 diagnosed with autism and served in special education =e increased by more than 500 percent in the last ten years. With this increase in the ce of children Sadie some form of spec’ , comes the need to design programs that will help ‘them become successful in their education and social environments. While no known cure for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exists, the eeeneral agreement is esear! ly diagnosis followed for fater 3 years for most chile with ASD” (spectrum academy website). eSpectrum Academy i is another opportunity for children ADS to get the best help possible. The sada is peers afisaine ee eras Please register and enroll so that chool can go forward. But please write to Mrs. Natalie Longson so we can get things rolling for another branch up in the Weber County area. The more information obtained, the better prepared we can be to help our children. And, with this knowledge, we will be able to start a sister branch of the school in the Weber County Area so more children can be helped. For more information, please visit <www.thespectrumacademy.com> Or contact Nat at <natalie.longson@thespectrurr it takes is a little Laaletion a little insight and a lot of work, but our children are wor April T. Flit Mother, ieacher Huntsville and fighter Thanks for Making the Valley the Special Place that it is About a month ago, I had a friend and his wife visiting us from Southern California. While driving them around the Valley showing them the sights, I had to make a run to the bank. I pulled up and parked in the parking lot and got out to go inside. My friends asked, “Why don’t you use the ATM?” My response, “T don’t have a PIN number. And besides, I have to go in and geta check.” “A check for what?” He asked. “For hs ” T replied. He stared at me in disbelief. “You don’t carry checks?” h e “Well, yes I do, but I only need four or five a month, so I keep them at the bank and get them when I need them. “How do you pay your bills?” he asked. “In person.” I told him matter of factly. You’d have thought that I had just gotten off of the first stagecoach from Dodge City! “You are nuts! You must drive people razy. You are just wasting their time! In Southern California you’d be the kind of person that ee ire on They \ would lock the doo’ Ww you ing. Why do you think techisatonsy was ‘averted, to make life easier, less stressful and more convenient! Don’t you feel bad taking up their a s beginning to get a complex, kind of an identity crisis, but as I watched the vein pop out of my friend’s forehead and his wife frantically trying to resolve an issue on her cell phone while scheduling appointments in her day planner at the same _ I realized they were ae ones that didn’t ou life is not al getting things done baste better, quicker, or quieter; or about short lines and fast food. It is about your relationships with people, and sharing your life with the people around you and in your community and letting them take the time to do the same. This is how you get to know your neighbors and their families, and build strong ties that hold a community together. I realized that I do these simple face to face visits for a reason; I am actually excited to go to the post pe - visit with seas the postmaster, and it is very ee t the post office is closed for their lunch I love going to Maverick to et a : hot chocolate and visit with the girls there, and talk to Mr. Fuller about his ranch, and to Woody about Powder Mountain and his animals. I like the fact that our carwash has only cold water and that Subway is packed with standing room only at lunch time. I love that you have to wait for the occasional tractor, < truck, or bus on the way to town. I like taking the back way through Middle Fork to get to my daughter Mindy’s school so we can look for deer in the morning. I do not live in a large metropolis for In the holiday spirit, I would like to share a few, short “thank yous” to the people who make the Valley so unique. Thank you Patty at the bank for taking such good care of me and my checks, and Lisa for hand picking the candy that goes into the candy containers on the counter so that i customers get a good variety when they st Thank you Jettat the bank for sharing your hunting stories with me. I hope the article from Field and Stream helps, and, by the way, nice elk! To Jeannie at the post office—thanks for always smiling and storing my mail when I forget to pick it up for weeks at a time. Thanks to Jan at the Chevron for helping to clean up m orade and for a to smile when she spilled it again! d te Monica, a fellow We omingte, at South Fork Mercantile, nice hat and, by the way, the bolt fit the garbage disposal just fine. o Bill at Eat’s of Eden—thanks for always taking time to sit and visit when I come in; most iow me know I talk a lot. Also, thanks to Ben at the General Store for always making an effort to say | ve to me even ee your eyesight isn’t what it used to be. the firemen whi washed my a eat after rs nese last year, it is still just as warm. Thanks to Chris and Becky a the Firehouse for caring about my daughter like she was their own. In fact, thanks for caring for all of our Valley children. Thanks to Jeanie and Shanna at The OGDEN VALLEY News for their hard work on the paper, and caring enough to print the things that matter. Thank you to Ryan at the market for letting me use your truck, and Drew at the Coffee Shop for the emergency hot tub repair. And to thai X a the visit to the dentist a tolerable experience . . . but the blue fillings do freak me out a bit! And P.S., to the girls at Zions bank, you always look great and professional, and we love you for your sense of style! nd thank you to Spencer at the General Store for always getting my hot chocolate before I sit down, and to Debbie for the great 7 — : — to find a couple selfe of a ee nena in the Valley that have heloed me everyday. I love sharing your lives with you. I know I haven’t mentioned everyone, but you know who you are. Merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for mane this Valley home to me and Mindy. God Bles: Erin and Mindy Dauby, Eden as Unmatched la anywhere Writer Should Learn More Before Writing About Suicide m writing in response to a recent letter to the editor that ran in your paper (December | issue) by a woman who said at the end of her letter that she was suicide prevention hotline certified. Well, I —_ like to know what she was certified in. I am “been there, done that” and survive such a horrible thing as suicide, you had better get off the hotline and get some actual training in what you are giving advice for. If you are telling anyone who may have the misfortune of getting you on the phone any of that garbage you tried to lay out in your article, then you’re in for a rude awakening. The child I lost was my new son-in-law, but = had been a partof my family since he was 12 years old and he had gone camping and fishing swith our family; this boy basically grew up in ny house and around me. For you to come off with this “if families pay attention to their kids, suicide will dwindle away,” then it confirms even more the lack of knowledge you have about this problem. It is disturbing that people like you think you know all about suicide—you don’t; you don’t even have a clue. My daughter has spent a lot of years having to deal with people like you who basically say peon to what was the problem is and why it goes on. The problem comes from peer pressure as well as pressures on teens to be what the world and people in it say they should be. You also seem to forget that there are girls committing suicide as well. Suicide is not caused by families ignoring their kids, it’s caused pa = ‘ant people claiming to know how it feels, what the person is Eons thr es kno how it feels to be a failure when they eally na but just need someone io believe in i em. I can go on about people like you who think you know about it but don’t! You believe you can make a difference when all you do is add to the problem. My daughter has moved on but it’s something she will live with for the rest of her life, but it is people like you who make survivors feel the pain all over again. n’t thing that in your little corner of the world where there is no dark streets; no youth centers, just the Maveri the outside world isn’t — it is! 2 sells, there are alcohol/beer parties, and all the het teen things that go on. 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