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Show Staff column CEU museum needs community help ful exhibits on dinosaurs and pre- ral science of the present, as it does now. That means more competition. The Vernal area is also getting ready for the storm. For years, the dinosaur museum that is part of Dinosaur National Monument has done well, but new construc- historic life in the state. But that A community is often known not only by its people but by the institutions that represent that community. Carbon County has had many well known sons and daughters over the years, but the enduring legacy of many of those people are the agencies and institutions they committed service and time to. One of those institutions is the CEU Prehistoric Museum. Since its founding over 40 years ago it has grown from a small showcase of fossils, Native American relics and western memorabilia that was housed upstairs in the Price City Hall into a world class museum, with a collection of materials and fossils that is growing by leaps and bounds. Many people over the years have donated countless hours to the museum, including many of the paid staff who have always put in more hours than they are actually paid for to make this institution a success. But times change and so has the museum business. Our museum (we all tend to think we are part of it) is in trouble; not deep trouble and nothing we can realty put our fingers on at the moment, but the trouble that is com-inis like an impending storm on the horizon. It hasnt readied us yet, but we better prepare for it or we will get wet or worse. The problem is that the museum most of us so dearly love is not the only show on the block anymore. It used to be that, other than the museum at the national park in Vernal, it was the only g the exhibits to go with that sci ence. We also nave the people who perform the science and feat science is right in our back yard. will have much more emphasis on the past than it will on the natu- museum that had truly wonder- RICHARD SHAW Staff reporter By has already changed and is changing more every day. In the last three years, some things have happened in the state that is already affecting the visitor rate at our museum. First, Thanksgiving Point was constructed. This is a private museum that is located right in the middle of a population who used to come ana visit our museum. A private entity with loads of money, this museum has basically bought its exhibits and has hired professionals who are This past week the Carbon County commissioners approved $20,000 from the restaurant tax fond to be used at the museum. Of that $10,000 will be used to promote the institution to others m other places and $10,000 will be used to upgrade exhibits. Sounds like a lot of money doesnt it? But it is just a rain drop in the bucket compared to what the museum really needs to not only survive, but to thrive. The college has also recently advertised for a foil time paleontologist that will round out the staffat the museum. Thai will add more science and will give our museum even more credibility. According to the old newspaper accounts, the originators of the museum saw this institutions future as being the centerpiece of a prehistoric park feat would sur- tion and projects are planned thereaswell Another project that could well affect our area is the dinosaur museum in St. George stemming from the discovery of dinosaur tracks iq the red rock of that region. With Washington County being tied to corridor it would be the the for that growattraction perfect area. ing But the museum in Price has meant much more than bragging rights to the community in past years. If a community is going to thrive in an economy like we pro-por- ed more interested in exhibiting what has been purchased than in the real science behind what they show. Unfortunately in this day and age of high tech and entertainment, the money is what has spoken to the public. In fact, many of the school children who were once bused to Price to see our museum, now go to Thanksgiving Point instead. Reported, even some schools from eastern Utah have traveled there in the last year, forsaking their usual visit to our museum. I-- have here, we need attractions that will get people off Highway 6 and round die Carbon County area. And so it is. But unless those of us who are here today do all we can to support the museum, by volunteering time, by donating money, by helping with projects that will expand it scope and by selling our area and our museum to others outside our area, all of that sci- into towns along the route. The museum has dome that consistently over the years, moving uncounted dollars across restaurant, motel and store counters in the area from people who tould not even have stopped for pa here if the museum didnt exist The last true expansion of the museum was well over a decade ago now, when the new addition was put on the west side. Since that time innumerable discoveries by the museum staff in the field have made the need for more expansion urgent. Our museum has an advantage over many museums; we not opiy have the science, but we also have That is the part of the storm that is already here, and it has already dampened attendance at the prehistoric museum in Carbon County. But more of the storm is to follow, e University announced tl n doltkm of a new lar museum of natural history to replace the old one on University Circle on the U of U campus. The interest in prehistoric multi-millio- life hast so mi 1 I I TURN IN A PUSHER I I DRUGS The information gathered as a result of the following IES form is strictly confidential and will not be divulged to anyone outside of the Cstbon Metro Drug ThskFoic& The hnr fnftffffpipH ftfficinh will fwhmtt foe fafriMfinw and place the facts into a composite file. Action will be taken on all ence and (hose wonderful exhibits could go away vety quickly under the pounding rain of competition in other areas of the state. It is largely up to the citizens of this community if we want a world class museum in our area or a relic of the past that will fade into the storm of history. I I I I I I I I Name of suspected drug dealer Nickname: I I I Gnat! column - ' ".-r- . V. I I . I Food security may be gravest concern By PETER MANN Minuteman Media Since the horrific September attack on the World Hade Center, Americans have become aware in a new way of homeland security. For most of us, that means security from terror, im11 proving airline safety, renewed military defense. I think we now need to make, sure that homeland security also includes food security. We must ensure a secure and safe regional food supply. We have to think in a new way about where our food ' comes from, and how we can ensure that everyone in a large yet vulnerable city like New Ymfc, or in smaller suburban or rural communities, has enough to eat, and access to their own cultural foods. Americans take for igranted a global brings all kinds of food from all over the world to anyone who can afford it Yet the real threat to US. food security is the inability to produce our own food, daw to our homes. Military terrorism is in all our minds, but what happens when terrorists sre able to corrupt Inc food and water systems, or destroy bridges and transportation systems on which our present I globalized and vulnerable food security depends? We must begin thinking seriously about food miles. In our present food system, the food we already present Farmers markets, where citizens have access to focal food, are springing up all across the country. There are now around 1,000 CSAs (Commu Agriculture) initiatives in the U.S., reaching eat travels on average about miles. This makes our food tystem tremendously vulnerable in the field, in storage, or in transit We getaforetastecif this threat when an area is afflicted by natuI,- 200 100,000 people. The Farm to School movement connects schools and colleges to focal formers and brings fresh food to student cafeterias. ral disasters such as floods, droughts, or hurricanes. In the changed world after September II, that kind of threat can touch all of us. How can we do this effec- tively? Every community should be able to produce at leak a third of the food required by its residents. At present, in many cases, less than five percent is produced locally. Local production means economic revitalization, as dollars circulate in the local economy. Every community should have a food system that connects producers, processors, distributors and eaters. This would demand a rethinking of agriculture, from industrial forming and large-scaproduction, to a multiplicity of small-sca-le forms with vegetables and animals, and a revitalized marketing system. The good news is that the seeds of this new food tystem are le . ' Urban agriculture growing is food in and around cities spreading. Consumers are using their food dollars to support organic production and the humane treatment of livestock. We need public policies to expand regional food security as part of homeland security. Food Security and Wbrld Peace Just before her untimely death, I interviewed Robyn Van En, one of the pioneers of community-supporte- d agriculture in the United States. Eating from a regional food supply, she said, would be a real step toward world peace. Growing food is foe common thread throughout the world, in that everybody eats. It connects everyone across all party lines, all efotuc and religious differences. Robyn spoke of multinational food companies who control so much of the food, and ex- - Motor Vehicle: Make. I I I COfor Year I Associates of Dealer tract it from starving countries to stockpile it somewhere else until the market changes. If every place in the world had its own regional food supply and its own regional food security, the world would be a very different place. It wouM be different ifpeople just did not have power over others to manipulate them with food. I I I I I I I I I I Method of dealing:. Location of dealing . Drug(s) being dealt:. List any other suspected illegal activities: I haw been thinking of these . words since the terror attack at September 11. The breeding ground of terrorism is poverty, hunger and hopelessness. Mae than one billion people live on less than one dollar per day. Nearly two billion more survive on less than two dollars per day. They are outside the market I I I I I I Mail completed forms to: TIPS, Carbon Metro Drug Ifcsk Force 91 East 100 North, Price, UT 84501. Biotechnology companies claim they will feed foe hungry, and ADM call itself Super-mark- et to the World. Yet these are empty words for the billions vnui of poor people outside the corporate market who can ill afford to feed themselves. Many have little access to food at any price. A hungry world is indeeda dangerous place. Only when our sawr,-- .a1 . foodpobcies begin with the hopes and dreams - as well as foe knowledge and skills of the urban and ruralpoorof the world, will we build true food security. This will m&wmsi mufcEsteaei ramsaiisiM -- be a huge step toward national security and world peace. The voice of Carbon County since 1892 Addras ADM1N1STKATION 845 Eart Main, Price, Utah. Telephone: (435) Publither 637-073- KeaLanoa Fta - Anvnnsiwo ir Safer, Onto u. 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