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Show 20 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, September 25, 2008 Playing it safe on National Farm Safety Week is Sept 21-27 How safe are you on your farm or ranch? According Ac-cording to the National Safety Council, during the past year there were 715 deaths and 80,000 disabling dis-abling injuries attributed to agriculture. This year, the council is recognizing National Farm Safety and Health Week Sept. 21-27. The week is dedicated to the well-being of America's farmers and ranchers. The Farm Bureau Safety Safe-ty and Health Network sponsors a national safety wek every spring. Its educational efforts, coupled cou-pled with those of the National Na-tional Safety Council each fall, reach farm and ranch families at two key times of the year planting and harvest. Since children especially are at risk for farm-related injuries, many Farm Bureaus Bu-reaus are focusing on talking talk-ing directly to. school students stu-dents about farm safety. For example, the Uin HEATING & AIR "w rflciofv w .. l Authorized Dealer I ' """" ' -cx - ; 1 ' l HEALTH ESSENTIALS ALLEflR CfiNDIS Call 794-9912 for more class information.' ""' - P ?rf rW" 2 CI3 Take -the "crap" out of Scrapbookina! V'-' .i , y ; Scrapbooking Computers Scrapbooking Kiosks Scrapbooking Classes Archival Scrapbook Pages Digital Templates Album Supplies 5 tah FFA Chapter recently hosted A.J. Ferguson, Utah Farm Bureau Director of Farm Safety, who came and shared messages with students about the importance impor-tance of tractor safety on the farm and roadways. Ferguson also talked to kids about the need for operating other equipment safely and paying special attention in compromising compromis-ing situations, such as being be-ing tired or otherwise impaired. im-paired. A similar training took place in Sanpete County, where elementary school students attended a Farm Field Day and learned about agriculture, in addition addi-tion to ATV safety and the potential dangers of playing play-ing around tractors. The Farm Safety program pro-gram has also been active in the community, with the only state-wide bilingual safety program, aimed at helping migrant workers perform safe farm practices. prac-tices. , Working with the Utah Labor Commission, the Utah Farm Bureau Farm Safety program visits Utah Farming operations to ensure en-sure worker safety and CONDITIONING Sales Service. Installation Green Sticker Financing OAC ffnffftfflCk pn :n WIMil & t &11 IT TAIIES -1:11 in j 1 1,1 NORDIC NATUMLS GoodTerough October 31, 208 rcnn? Ln. Visit the NEW Pigital Bcrapbook Cafe at Snelson PhotoColor Lab TODAY! 80 West Springville, UT 84663 801-489-3218 the farm productivity in the agricultural agricul-tural community. There are many factors to consider when it comes to farm safety, such as hearing, skin, lung and vision vi-sion protection. Safeguarding Safeguard-ing measures like putting rollover bars on tractors, wearing goggles and applying ap-plying sun block all play important roles in a producer's pro-ducer's well-being on the farm. The Farm, Bureau would like to encourage all to make safety a habit. Take the time to ensure your safety and the safety of others. To learn more about how you can play it safe on the farm, contact A.J. Ferguson Fer-guson at 801-233-3006 or check out the Farm Safety and Health Week Web site at: http:www.nsc.org necasHealthWeek2008. aspx. A tale of two Dr. Marvin J. Folkertsma Reactions to Governor Palin's selection as Senator Sena-tor McCain's running mate ranged from laughter to incredulity and then from alarm to panic. Indeed, editorials edi-torials on the danger she poses to Senator Obama's once inevitable coronation in November now radiate furrowed brows and nail-chewing nail-chewing anxiety among those on the political left. The reason is that Sarah Palin constitutes an existential exis-tential threat to an ideological ideo-logical narrative that has animated the Democratic Party for about the last century. It goes something like this: From the 1890s through the Wilson administration ad-ministration in the 1910s, members of the Progressive Progres-sive movement worked diligently dil-igently against entrenched interests on behalf of ordinary or-dinary individuals and instituted in-stituted such reforms as the initiative, referendum, and recall, along with other measures that genuinely genu-inely improved the lives of Americans. Many progressives knew what they were talking talk-ing about either because, like Jane Addams, they worked with the downtrodden down-trodden themselves, or like others, had experienced experi-enced personal traumas that burned empathy into their souls, such as Teddy Roosevelt. Progressives worked to reform municipalities, state governments, and Washington, D.C. Regular Regu-lar folks benefited, and a narrative was advanced: promoting democracy with expert guidance in independent commissions, boards, and so forth is-the is-the engine of material and moral progress. The New Deal continued this story, regardless of FDR's more absurd forays for-ays into collectivism, such as the National Recovery Administration. The Supreme Su-preme Court demolished this effort in the appropriately appropri-ately named "sick chicken" chick-en" case, and otherwise held sentinel over the administration's ad-ministration's adventures in economic wonderland, until Roosevelt's effort to pack the institution cowed your oruMfv worttroom MUen hoioOo)or Lml Center Street I 800-537-8635 A f n "at 7 r ,......'.,.. i. , ,, wnrimt, .ii..i.nr H.T,,, , it, m, uiiinnimiiOT.ni.il, , t ...mmrni -v- The men and women of our local police department are dedicated to serving the public Sometimes children only see the somewhat scary side of a policeman's job. But the kindergarten classes from Art City Elementary got to see Officer Mitchell up close and in a fun way as he talked to them about what he does. He showed them were he keeps his microphone, radio, taser and even his gun. This is a job they would all like to try. narratives it into submission. Scholarly consensus about his two terms has been that though New Deal programs did not bring America out of the Great Depression indeed, may have prolonged it government efforts did help many millions of victims vic-tims of Federal Reserve meddling during the 1920s . and President Hoover's ineffectual policies in the early 1930s. FDR was a Hamiltonian-Jeffersonian, in that he applied Hamil-tonian Hamil-tonian means powerful central government to achieve Jeffersonian ends better lives for ordinary or-dinary people. Call this progressive liberalism, lib-eralism, a tradition that became so dominant and prestigious that it swept aside all competitors, leading lead-ing to postwar commentary commen-tary about the "end of ideology." ide-ology." The progressive-liberal progressive-liberal narrative seemed inevitable in-evitable and unstoppable. Until the '60s. The countercultural revolution revolu-tion strove to demolish the old order and substitute it with what James Piereson calls "punitive liberalism." Radicals were defined less by what they favored than by what they despised, which included traditional marriage, family, religion, love of country, and perhaps per-haps most of all, the progressive-liberal narrative, which was condemned as sexist, racist, imperialist or just plain boring. Multiculturalism supplanted sup-planted patriotism and American exceptionalism; feminism and environ-mentalism environ-mentalism filled in other gaps. Progressive liberals bequeathed the FDA and . the GI Bill. Sixties liberals liber-als have given us censorship, censor-ship, moral relativism, anti-Americanism, and no drilling anything to punish pun-ish the folks. For all that, a pretence of the progressive narrative remains the part about big, activist government but its core is hollow or meretricious, as evidenced by Senator Obama's dismissive dis-missive comments about rural Pennsylvanians "clinging" to their guns and religion. Like Dracula, the narra mmmmimmnmmK i pp v " ' Haaga's Mattress Sal mattresses not as pictured 1032 S. State, Ofem 802-6050 ... - i f '. '", - I ' ..." , Vf.. t .7 V S f .-i . v-'- f i i i ? U ' 'J 1 Wedne and the Palin Paradigm tive faced the danger that someday someone would drive a wooden stake through what remains of its heart and kill it off once and forever. Enter, stage right, Sarah Palin. Certainly her opponents oppo-nents fear what the governor gov-ernor can do, but more importantly are terrified about what she represents. Alaska's moose-hunting chief executive stands for what liberalism still imagines imag-ines itself to be, and that is a movement and governing gov-erning ideology that genuinely genu-inely represents ordinary people, especially women and minorities. But just when members of the party's encrusted f eminocr acy were celebrating celebrat-ing their womanhood by bragging about how many abortions they've legalized, legal-ized, they hear the throaty rumble of a Harley-David-son sporting a lady with a rifle in one hand, a baby in the other, and running the biggest state in the union with an 80-something-per-cent approval rating. Talk about worse than having a bad hair day. Regardless of the election's elec-tion's outcome, Governor , Palin has inaugurated, probably unintentionally, unintention-ally, a new narrative in American politics. Call it Pit Bull Progressivism, which represents everything every-thing progressive liberals have forgotten or about cay wood win ward Dr.TraerCaywood Dr. Rick Winward EYE AND VISION CARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER. f HOW CONVENIENT. 374 Last 400 South 489.5 lit 1355 N. University Ave. 377.4333 Mon-Fri 8:00 to 5:00 Saturday by Appointment We accept Altius, BG'BS, DMBA, EyeMed, Medicare, PEHP, Value Care, VSP& others. hp Liu CDWdDUJ m u. .. which they have become contemptuous traditional motherhood, family, love of country, individualism, personal responsibility the list goes on. Most of all she represents repre-sents the courage of regular regu-lar Americans who never heard of arugula but know a phony when they see one. Which means, look out, Democrats: the image you see in your rearview mirror mir-ror is not a hoard of worshipping wor-shipping followers, but a pitbull. With lipstick. Marvin Folkertsma, Ph.D. is a professor of political science and fellow fel-low for American Studies with the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He is the author of several books. His latest lat-est release is a high-energy novel titled The Thirteenth Thir-teenth Commandment' How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Washing-ton Carver A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. - Edward Bulwer-lytton Bulwer-lytton JLt LIa fCX' WjJ rni v m J |