Show wv ww Mr fttyi yfni'Hi i mions A4 Sanpete Messenger Sanpete Wednesday November 24 2004 Valley Edition Messenger-Gunniso- X f ifijLIJVMt I ? gra? thanks — and say thanks o Thanksgiving is a time to thank the Almighty for blessings only He can bestow It’s also a good time to say “thank you” to public officials and every day citizens who have into our recent months Thank you Lori Nay and the Gunnison Arts Council for saving the Casino Star Theater one of the most architecturally significant buildings in the county Now the whole county needs to get behind the brought blessings community life in restoration effort Thank you President Michael Benson Vice Presidents Bradley Wheeler and Snow College leaders for strategies that have brought enrollment growth four-yepartnerships and donor funds to Winn and Richard other of the Bank of Ephraim takeover You kept the press public and depositors informed You worked sw iftly to begin returning assets to depositors You are proof that federal bureaucracy isn’t all handling bad Thank you Kathy Peterson your efforts to save and invigorate the Central Utah Art Center Thank you Adam Bateman the new director for your vision The quality of exhibits and number of visits have taken a sharp upswing Thank you Shauna Busby and the Mt Pleasant Library staff for your daily good work The library has been nationally ranked for two years in a row Thanks for opening the new for children’s section Snow College The college continues to be a pillar of economic growth in the county Thank you Commissioner Greg Dettingcr Sally East economic development director and other commissioners for your vigilant focus on economic development Dettinger’s conversation with a New York man attending a wedding the in the county led to a new company Reliadat locating in the county and bringing in jobs Thank you Sheriff Kay Thank you Ken Lindsay gardener at the Manti LDS Temple for creating inspiring flower arrangements for the past two decades The temple grounds leave an impression on visitors and even on people merely driving by Thank you Sanpete County Search and Rescue for your service in several cases in recent months particularly rescuing a West Valley man from the Manti-LaSNational Forest east of Fairview despite Larsen and the Sanpete County Jail staff for bringing the jail up rain mud and slick slopes had to be hospitalized for to standard enabling it to recoup state inmate contracts The contracts are important to keeping a good jail in the county Thank you Robert Schoppe of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and other FDIC officials for your efficient days for 4 jIl 1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR RULES: letters to the editor from our readers Letters must tie n good tase and submitted with the withhold we not be published number Occasionally and phone number The telephone the author's name from publication so long as the author reveals hts or her name to the newspaper Letters are limited to 500 words We will publish a maximum of one letter per person every four weeks We ask that writers Bmit themselves to an issue or aspect of an issue that they have not addressed before We reserve the nght to edit letters for space grammar the letters to the editor section do not reflect the opinions of the newspaper or its staff clarity and taste Opinions The Sanpete Messenger invites author’s name hometown n Reflects on Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation A few days ago I was given a copy of Pres Lincoln’s 1863 I Proclamation Thanksgiving though it w ould be a good reflection for all of us at this time in history The proclamation is as follows: “It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord “Know that by His divine law nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sms to the needful end of our nation reformation as a whole people? “We have been the recipients the choicest bounties of heaven we have been preserved these many years in peace and we have grown in prosperity numbers wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown “But we have forgotten God We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us and we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own Intoxicated of with unbroken become too success we have to feel and preserving the redeeming grace too proud to pray to the God that made us “It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly reverently and gratefully as with one heart acknowledged and one voice by the whole American people I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heav ens" Rodney E Harris Mt Pleasant head hypothermia GUNNISON VALLEY HOSPITAL 64 East 100 North Dli (435) 6 Gunnison Provider Clinics Monday through Friday Kimberly Beck MD Jan Christensen He two 5 MD 1 Dwight Inouye MD but he’s Christine Jackson okay thank you to the 9000 Sanpete residents (74 percent of our 12200 registered John Jackson voters) who took time to vote in the November election Your Jan Jonson Finally Gunnison Providing for all your Healthcare Needs! 2 MD 2 MD 2 Monroe Clinic vote is where democracy and community life begin 6 PA-- 7 Cary Judy DO 7 Richard Nay MD 1 3 tislB dSfflEISxE Ephraim should extend 600 East I have seen drawings of the City roads masterplan be very foolish in the if we don’t extend 600 the way from Canyon Ephraim It would long run East all Road to 300 North I urge Ephraim citizens to let their city council representative know how important this is to the tation patterns Larry Smith Ephraim Visiting Specialists sanity of our transpor Marvin Allen MD C Barton Anderson Scott Bingham Save our manufacturing say no to ETAA Congress will soon be asked to approve US entry into the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) There is no doubt however that such "free trade” agreements Americans gering hae millions of jobs the Christian reported the Recently ence Monitor cost Scistag- fact that why the number of manufacturing jobs in our nation has shrunk from 193 million in 1980 to 146 million over the past 25 years A strong and independent nation is one that manufactures what it needs A nation that gets its goods from elsewhere becomes dependent on other countries Addressing this matter ’’free trade" is the major reason Senator Fritz Hollings stated “the world power that loses its manufacturing capacity is no longer a world Creation of the FTAA simply worsen this already serious problem Congress must say “No!” to the FTAA power” w ill Kenneth Spring Davies City Thanks customer and employee for returning day planner In the afternoon of Nov 16 I left my day planner in a shopping cart at the lot I didn’t realize that my planner was missing until I came home from w ork and was unloading my car I panicked because in the day planner were my checkbook driver’s license cash credit cards among many other cards and personal items three ' returned times that evening looking for my planner both in the store in the parking lot and along highway US89 thought that maybe I had left it on top of my car I felt devastated that I had been so careless The next morning as I prepared to deal with the aftermath of such a loss my mother found me driving through Spring City and gave me my day planner with all the contents inside untouched She and my stepfather went to and talked to the employees They reported that a customer had found my day planner in a shopping cart and gave it to an employee They kept it locked up until my mom went and in quired about it want to thank this unknown customer for hisher honesty and integrity Thanks tothe honest and trustworthy employees at And a special thank you to my parents w ho took it into their own hands to help me solve my problem Today is a little brighter for me because I know that I live in a community where people care for one another Cardiology Audniogy Cardiology Oncology Urology Urology Electrodiagnosis Plastic Surgery J Cordell Bott Dean Bnstow Collins MD Ronald Duerkson Trenton Jones Patrick Kronmiller Matthew Parsons Robert Pearson Warren Peterson DO Brian Tudor MD Jeffrey Wallentine Urology Ophthalmology Ear NoseS Throat Dermatology Oncology Orthopedics Mobile MRI Service r Central u Utah Public Health Tuesday each a? 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