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Show ' 2A The Summit County Bee Coalville UT 84017 Friday, July 3, 1987 . As EDITORIAL PAGE THE Letters to the Editor Top of the News The Summit County Bee (UfSf 6M20) if pubfehed weekly for S10.00 per year in Summit County and SIS. 00 per year by Wave PubMiing Inc., 675 Weft 100 South, Heber City, UT 84032. POSTMASTER: Send addreft change to: The Summit County lee, Coalville, Utah 84017. Readers Views Dedicated to Serving Summit County Publishers Phelps, EditorCoalville Office Manager Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday Sharia Banz, North Summit Area Reporter, Bessie Russell, Kamas Office Manager Monday, Tuesday and Friday Natalie Noble, South Summit Reporter, B. Shirley 336-201- 783-438- 7, 9-- POSTAL IDENTIFICATION News Reporter Substitute is away from the paper for a few Noble Natalie While or weeks, please call Kamas news to Glen Brown at All news will be appreciated and be considered for printing in the paper. Kamas Town 4 Letteff to the IdHor, if a column for the puMfc to voice their opinion. Letters to the Edteor muft be submitted prior to Tuefday noon, and muft bear the rigaature, Mi name and addicts. Names must be printed on letters but may be withheld for security real on. Writers are Smiled one letter hr two weeks. Please no endorsement letters. Preference wM be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters, permitting use of writer's name. Al letters subject to condensation. Mai to: EDIT OR, Bos 7, CoaMRe, UTAH 84017. 3 9--4 783-228- Top of Hie Hem Letters RICHARD M. AND SUSAN F. BUYS .136-550- 1, I See It 4 783-22- 21 783-439- 2. Bond Election Held The South Summit School District bond election to held June 23. The improve the high school facilities was majority. A building committee is bond passed by an 83 for the high being selected to move forward on the plans school. NO. 525640 Coalville Public Notice Coalville City will hold its regular City Council meeting on July 6 at 7:30 p.m. The agenda will be posted at the City Hall Office. The start of July, the month of our two big summer holidays. We seem to expect big things from July. After all, Indep- endence Day gave the American Colonies, and ultimately the rest of our great country, independence from England. The colonies had decided they did not need or want help from others. Even though the signing of the Declaration of Independence was 200 years ago. we still feel the importance of that grandeur occasion. Being independent as a nation was something the colonies wanted very much. To be under a ruler with their laws and regulations was not desirable or needed and England's taxes were a definate hardship on the people, with few benefits. Yet as we look at history and our needs now, we are very dependent upon many other nations. Substances that are scarce in the United States that are needed for many varied products from medicine to produced goods are in abundance in other countries. If we theck where items in the' store are made, evidently our needs are great, as we continue to buy shoes from Brazil, clothing made in Korea, Swiss watches, gold jewelry from Africa, cars and parts from all over the world and what Japan sells to U.S. customers would be listed in the thousands. Not only products are available from other countries, however. What about the great scientific minds that have given us super medicines inventions, and all kinds of equipment, great strides in cult '.re and the list goes on and on with no end. If everything we have that is from a foreign country or in life-savin- g fluenced by someone other than North Americans, just what would we have left? And yes, we are dependent upon our allies when we are at war. Not being too well read on our foreign trades or too knowledgeable about our huge country, 1 might guess that the true Amish people are more independent than most others and yet they use tools that are made from foreign substances, along with other commodities they are unable to make themselves as well as trading with people outside of their own communities. They are not entirely independent of others. Even though the colonies wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence, they were not entirely independent of other nations. At various times, they sought the help of other nations. A nation, a state, a community or a person will never be completely independent of others. The real reason for the Declaration seems to be more for the right to make our own choices and have our free agency in doing so. Perhaps our Declaration of Independence could have been better called Declaration of Free Agency to All to Make Our Own Choices. JUST THOUGHTS People who think they are too big to do little things are perhaps too little to be asked to do big things. Why Doesn't Someone Invent Placed beside this one idea, other planned inventions turn pale. What this country really needs is a good dishonest bathroom scale. Public Meeting Scheduled About Public Access Along Provo River A public hearing to discuss the issue of public access by Glen E. Brawn State Representative Each year, as my family makes special plans to celebrate July 4th, I mae a point of stopping for a minute to think about what it means to be patriotic" and the role freedom has played in my life over the past year. This year, with the bicentennial cele- States was the amount of personal freedom exercised by Americans. Free enterprise, freedom of the press, free speech. Things were different in Zimbabwe. The employee related the visitors observation to me, adding that his story had given her a greater sense of apprec- bration of our Constitution coming up in Sept., Ive thought about our constitutional freedoms and tried to imagine life without them. It doesnt take long to realize that the freedom we enjoy as Americans is far more than just a special feeling we discover when making plans for a July 4th celebration or while watching an evening fireworks display. Freedom is a fundamental aspect of our everyday lives, so basic that it has become . iation for her citizenship, her freedom to work at the job of her choice, her right to vote for representatives in her government, and her opportunity to freely express her opinion on the direction of the laws governing her country. She said that she had a tendency to take these freedoms for granted and that Applications for Big Game Permits End July 8 Hunters have until July 8 to apply for the big game big game permit drawings on August 7. The 1987-8- 8 proclamation and applications are available at most sporting and all Division of Wildlife Resources offices. foods stores applications must be received by the Division of Wildlife Resources by 5 p.m. on July 8. Only mailed applications will be accepted. the visitor's enthusiasm had almost synonymous with the word America. Recently, started wondering if maybe 1 was just a Fourth of July Patriot, that is, somebody who waves the Stars and Stripes every year on July 4, but lets the rest of the year slip by without giving freedom .a second thought. A few weeks ago, one of our state legislative, employees assisted a visitor to the Capitol who was gathering information about state legislatures, hoping to visit all 50 states. Utah was his 26th stop. The man was from Zimbabwe, a country in southern Africa. He commented to the legislative employee that the most remarkable thing that he had noticed on his travels through the United along the Provo River below the Jordanclle Dam is scheduled for Wed., July 8 at the Wasatch County Courthouse in the Court Room, 25 North Main, Heber City at 7 p.m. There will be representatives from the Bureau of Reclamation, Division of Natural Resources, state and local officials present to answer any questions there might be in establishing policy. The three legislative representatives from Wasatch County, Senator Alarik Myrin, Speaker of the House Glen Brown, and Representative Beverly Evans will be present to assist in identifying the options available and getting the various issues resolved. If you have any questions you are encouraged to contact one of them or other parties concerned prior to the meeting. Everyone who is involved or interested in the issue is encouraged to be in attendance. I , Immunization inspired her to think about what it means to be an American. Admittedly, though I believe I am patriotic, I share her tendency to take these freedoms for granted. And, I suspect that many Americans, like me, do the. same. It seems to take a rousing July 4th celebration of speechmaking, band playing, and fireworks to remind us of what living in the United States of America is all about. So this year. Im going to try to keep the July 4th spirit long after our special family weekend is past. I'm going to take a long look at the Constitution, something I haven't done much of since school days. But most importantly, I'm going to try to be more appreciative, all, year, of what it means to be an American. 3-- the Health Department in Coalville. For more information, call ext. 350. No appointment is needed. Cost is minimal. Blood Pressures Taken Senior Citizens Blood pressures will be taken July 15, 1987 from a.m. at the Coalville Senior Citizens Building. A film on skin cancer will be shown following the blood pressure. 10-11:- 30 Local Families Needed for Exchange Students Host families are being sought for 10 high school students from Germany, Spain, Holland, and Japan for the 1987-8- 8 school year. g The students, age 15 through 18, will arrive in the United States in August and return home in June 1988. They are participants in an .exchangevisitor of the American Institute for Foreign Study Srogram it Foundation, a organization. The students are well screened and qualified by AIFS. For more information contact Bertelle Bagley at or write the AIFS Scholarship Foundation, 3661 Buchanan St., San Francisco, CA 94123. English-speakin- non-prof- 277-373- 6, o u U V side-tracke- end-ru- n d. around this process when they unwisely passed the retirement window bill during the last session. The new law will cost taxpayers hundreds of mil-- , lions of dollars over the years. yet the bill had no interim committee work, no public hearings, no legislative staff involvement or even an actuarial study. The state retirement department was not consulted. Abuses and flaws are coming to light daily. The legislature was told that of those eligible would only 45 take early retirement. Now the retirement office claims 65 will retire early. Many legislators admit they made a mistake voting for the bill hut now say its too late to clean up the mess. Why the chaos? Because the legislative process was short-circuite- u j . O it O Ot The legislative process is seen by many as cumbersome and time consuming. The process docs not move swiftly, nor should it. Some say it's a miracle the unwieldy system works at all. But it works best when the methodical legislative process is followed. When every bill is reviewed by the legislative analyst for fiscal and managerial implications. When each bill is scrutinized by members of standing committees. When each bill is debated and reviewed and public input is provided for. When adequate floor time is allowed for discussion. . Major legislation should also be assigned to interim study committees for more detailed examination by staff, lawmakers and the public. The complete legislative process is necessary to avoid costly mistakes, political manipulation and gimmickry, and the passage of just plain bad laws. The mechanism works best when it is allowed to run its course and it is not The Utah lawmakers did an s m . . d. The May special legislative session did it again when they passed major tax legislation without the benefit of interim committee study; standing committee reports, public hearings or staff involvement. The Geneva sales tax i i 336-445- 1, Jacks Ccimer by Jack Olson Clinic Note the change in Immunization Clinic date for July. The Immunization Clinic will be held July 15 from 4 p.m. at ex- emption and the unemployment tax rate reduction bills were not distributed to the public or the lawmakers until the day before the session began. We arc not arguing the merits of the legislation, only that the bills arc complex and and needed more than one day of study before passage. The legislature's "shooting from the hip syndrome" produces shabby laws and certainly does not help to improve the lawmakers' image. v, '- -- -- -- . - |