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Show I ommunity ews A2 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2009 Guardian of Your Community News Share your abundant harvest 42 East 300 North Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Lane Henderson Publisher Namon Bills Editor Dana Robinson . Assoc. Editor The Sentinel is published each Wednesday for $37.50 per year in area and $41.50 out of area by J-Marc, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork Utah 84660. E-mail stories to etfi to r@sfsentinel. com E-mail ads to ads@sfsentinel.com Call us at 801-794-4964 The entire content of this newspaper is Copyright © 2009 The Sentinel. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. THE SENTINEL (USPS 024716) is published weekly for $37.50 per year by J-Man Publishing, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork, UT 84660. Periodicals Postage Paid at Spanish Fork, UT. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Sentinel, 42 East 300 North, Spanish Fork, UT 84660. DEADLINES Weddings, anniversaries, missionaries, 1st birthdays, articles, photos, letters to the editor Friday, 12 p.m. Display advertisements, classified ads, Business Index Friday, 12 p.m. and using them again. The seed package says "Black Beauty" a nice dark green variety, but my zucchini are lighter green with stripes. I My first garden was a call them "zebra zucchini". good learning experience Even though they taste the for me. I purchased the same, I usually don't give seeds, everything I thought them away because they my family would eat, then look so strange. Even if I had perfect proI carefully followed the directions on the back of the duce this year I have been package. When it came to too busy to pick it. Thank the zucchini and cucumber goodness for my daughter seeds, I opened up the pack- and her four enthusiastic age and planted all the seeds. children who love harvestI ended up with 11 hills of ing the garden, and I'm so zucchini and 20 hills of cu- glad to share with them. cumbers! I had never heard Summer is a great time for the joke, "How do you plant healthy meals that include zucchini? Plant three plants lots of fresh vegetables and hope that two of them from the garden. die." Here's another zucchini I soon found out that joke: "Do you know why everyone who likes zuc- Mormons lock their cars chini usually has one or when they go to church in two plants in their back- the summer? So they don't yard. I couldn't give away come out and find their car my surplus and was proba- full of zucchini!" I think bly picking a dozen a day. it is a blessing to have an Not wanting to waste any, abundance. Just have lots of I decided to look for new good recipes and friends to recipes. For just a dol- share your harvest with. lar I got 20 pages of tried and true recipes from the Zucchini Picnic Cake USU Extension Service, by Marilyn Atwood everything from pickles to 2 3/4 cup flour (or half pancakes. I enjoyed test- whole wheat) ing the many recipes and 1 tsp. baking powder most often my family en1 tsp. soda joyed eating my culinary 1 tsp. cinnamon creations. 1/2 tsp. salt That first year I had 1 3/4 cup sugar wonderful zucchini, but the 1/2 cup melted butter past two years something 1/2 cup oil (or applehas gone wrong. Instead sauce) of getting new seeds, I've 2 eggs been freezing my seeds 1/2 cup sour cream (or Happiness is Homemade Marilyn M. Atwood Marilyn Atwood / The Sentinel HELPING HAND: Children learn to eat and love vegetables when they help grow and harvest them. until blended. Stir in zucInstead of sugar topchini. Spread in a 10x15- ping, frost with caramel inch pan that has been well frosting. Melt 6 Tbsp. butgreased. Sprinkle on the ter in a sauce pan. Add 1/4 Sift flour, baking pow- top a mixture of 1/2 cup cup milk and 1 cup brown der, soda, cinnamon and packed brown sugar, I cup sugar and bring to a boil. salt together. Set aside. In chocolate chips and 3/4 Remove from heat and add a large bowl, cream sugar, cup chopped nuts. Bake 1/8 tsp. soda, 1 3/4 cups butter, oil and eggs. Add at 350° for 30 minutes or powdered sugar and. l j s p . sour cream, vanilla and until a toothpick inserted vanilla. Beat with electric dry ingredients, stirring comes out clean. beaters until smooth. buttermilk) 1 tsp. vanilla 2 cups grated zucchini Letter to the Editor Don't annex Ensign-Bickford property iwr i i PLU #9325 Not to be useExpires Aug. 26, 2009. 795 North State Rd. 198 Salem 801.723.0500 NOW OPEN HILLS PHARMACY A Clear and r e f r e s h i n g differencetaif>haMUK# w £ PHARMACIST BRENT WARREN I don't want to have any part of annexing the old Ensign-Bickford property into Mapleton. Sure, I can understand a developer wanting to make money by building homes on his property, and it is certainly reasonable for him to want to annex the land into Mapleton City. This would make it financially feasible to bring utilities to his property so he can develop it, but that is where all reason ends. We're talking about land that the state has condemned due to contamination from having an explosives factory there for many years. Yes, considerable measures have been executed to restore the land to a safe condition, and I'm sure it is much better than it was a few years ago. But there are some hard questions to be asked. Would I be willing to trust my life on a government agency's declaration that it is now safe to live there? Would I be willing to risk my children and grandchildren's lives and health by having them live in one of these homes? Could I watch 565 families move into this development and not warn them of the possible dangers? Could I face some young couple who innocently moves into one of these homes and later their baby is born deformed, or their child becomes ill? I do believe that only innocent people who know nothing of this land's history would live on this property. Names such as Toxic Hills, Cancer Circle or Leukemia Lane certainly wouldn't attract perspective home buyers. I have personally watched two people die as a result of the contaminated wateroriginating from this property. Yes, their families were given large settlements, but that is little consolation in their loss. Mayor Brady says that annexing the property will give us more control over this land, Serving the entire Salem, Woodland Hills area and beyond. 1 Locally owned and operated to serve you "-• , • Competitive prices / Unrivaled service Salem Days Special • Prescription delivery for the home-bound • Refills done online, over the phone, or in person • Prescription transfers • Compounding pharmacy (call for details) with prescription transfer. Expires 8/31/09 . Hours: 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Monday-Saturday Phone: 801-723-0570 • Fax: 801-723-0575 Inside Crisp's Grocery - 795 N. SR 198, Salem GOOD NEIGHBOR PHARMACY "If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs." Arthur Baer and that Mapleton City will not be liable for future problems concerning contaminants. Having control over that property would be a good thing, but I fear what would happen is that our city would be pressured by the developer to provide the utilities he needs for his development. If we refused, we might become ensnared in an expensive litigation process; and if we agreed, we would be enabling the development of property which was once severely contaminated. Yes, the people of Mapleton may not be held financially responsible for any consequences resulting from living on this land, but we would be morally responsible for any damage to the health of the people who came to live there. I personally want no part of annexing this property into Mapleton. Cheryl Merrick Mapleton |