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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1823 Community Gary Ladd to speak at Cari Hayden Visitor Center Tuesday ODildtlSi The Glen Canyon Natural History Association is pleased to announce a free evening program at the Carl Hayden Visitor Hid ill Im 13 ipr ppl Center entitled Basic The guest Catastrophisrn! speaker will be noted area tographer Gary Ladd. pho- The program will be held on Tuesday, February 9, 1999, at 7 p.m., at the Carl Hayden Visitor Center. The program is free of charge and everyone is welcome. Mr. Ladds program will be on the geologic history of the Page area. After the slide show, free refreshments will be available while participants will have a chance to informally ask more questions of Mr. Ladd. Many of his books and posters will also be available for purchase for those wishing to get autographed irtkp luiiim ullfti a (ffiiiyjKl (j my a utmir PMlifti'o copies. Gary Ladd has been a professional landscape photographer for over 20 years, and is also an accomplished writer. He has been published in Life Magazine, Smithsonian, Omni, and National Geographic, as well as being an award winning frequent contributor to Arizona Highways Magazine. Gary leads Elderhostel trips on Lake Powell and in the Marble Canyon area, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Glen Canyon Natural History Association. This program is part of a winter long series provided free of charge to the public by the Glen Canyon Natural History Association, a organization providingaid for educational and research in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. For more information, please contact the Glen Canyon Natural History Association at As you may know, Utah is dead last in per pupil spending. With every dollar being so cruc ial, we need tax-exem- pt V non-prof- it 520-645-353- or by e-m- ail 2, at to carel ully examine who is exempted Irom helping pay lor our children s education. Youre also probably aware ol the current debate over credit unions. Some would say banks want to eliminate credit unions. Nonsense. The problem is that a nandlul ol big, rich credit unions have stopped operating like real credit unions. credit union status to Theyre using their dodge millions ol dollars in taxes money' the states constitution requires to be spent directly on our schools. A Utah court has ruled that these lew large credit unions have been operating outside the law. And by not paying taxes on their retained profits - profits which are not returned to their members - these g credit unions are our schools and our children. Its also unlair to Utah's teachers, manv ol whom spend hundreds ol dollars ol their own money' on school supplies as a result ol tight budgets. Its a shame that a lew rich credit unions are allowed to expand and build elaborate branches at the expense ol die state school lund. These missing revenues would be ol great benefit to our under-l- u ruled schools. l i short-changin- vistaspage.az.net Police tip The Kanab City Police Department advises motorists to be aware of an increase in vehicle accidents and near misses on US 89A. The trouble spots are the Kanab Creek Ranchos and Kanab High School turn offs. With the turn lane changes on this highway last year, vehicles merging onto or turning off of US 89A should watch carefully for oncoming traffic. The state of Utah has been notified of the traffic problems at these locations. The police department is hopeful that turn lanes will be put into place. o i Finally, theres a question ol basic equity: Is It right to tax one business and allow a similar business next door to pay nothing? We dont think so. Its time to divide the real credit unions Irom the pretenders. And its time those pretenders supported public education like the rest ol us. It's only Mi ss r. i SiMt sou i i m I i n Cnnat m H ' a- a. i |