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Show n Mmd 4 Tuesday August 27, 2002 Staff columi The joy of exchanging different cultures about the similarities at our lives and the many differences as wed. I was raised in Canada and he was originally from Scotland before his family moved to New Zealand so we have both been By KEN LARSON Sun Advocate Publisher A few years ago, while living in Oregon, I was involved in a sister city project with New Plymouth, New Zealand. ! began corresponding through the internet with a graphic artist in the under the control of the Queen and part of Commonwealth countries in our lives. With our newspaper backgrounds it has been fun to talk about the changes we have seen over the past 20 years production department of The Daily News, a a week newspaper. circulated, A lot has happened between those days of the sister cities and my friendship with the young in six-d- ay this industry. After his arrival we went to Temple Square in Salt Lake City and then the first tour of duty was volunteering at the Helper Arts Festival. I couldnt think of a better way to introduce someone to our community and culture than by having them jump into a community festival like the arts event and getting to work with the volunteers and guests. artist. the Olympics and retorch members the as it first came into Utah and stood proudly under the Delicate Arch. By the time that happened last winter I had moved to Price He was impressed with and he asked if it was possible to visit our newspaper and community while on vacation to America in August of this year. That young artist is Michael Collins and he has been our guest at th a Sun Advocate and in my home for the past 10 days. We talked a lot Saturday was particularly interesting as we served beer in the park for nearly 10 hours. The differences between the two countries are incredible. New Zealand is a very small country comprised basically of two islands in the south ' Australia. New Zealand is me largest country aose to me international irate Line. 9 begins ifiii ti Nntr Eiiliil and then works its way west New Zealand is 19 hours ahead of us. So as l writs this column on Monday morning at 10 a.m. it is already 4 ajn. Tuesday in New Zealand. When Michael leaves America next Tuesday he will literally lose next g. J L. L. k! L. i nWntJSOdj DGC3US0 Dy TO uTO nO uMJCMS OOWfl in Auckland it will already be Thursday. There are so many very strange terms used and different ways of doing things in various cultures. The tiling I found hand to understand is driving on the wrong side of the road, a custom most British countries still practice. I learned that cookies are called biscuits, coolers for camping are called chilly trins, and the trunk of the car is called the boot We pump gas in our care and they call it petrol and the little day trips we took in New throughout the area are called Zealand. ng seas, almost three hours flying time from their (Continued on page 5A) Staff coIiihb The long term consequences of drought ness, and like those who have worked the land before us, look to tomorrow for By JOEL FRANDSEN Utah State forester rains." and wildlife use to graze on are virtually nonexistent due to the drought What foragB and browse the animals can find is mostly the remnants of Reloading may not be enough as the longterm problems extend beyond agrarian needs. The dry spells of the 50's, while damaging, pale in comparison to the problems being met last year's growth and is nothing more than fuel for potential fires. Ranchers are selling off their livestock in an effort to head off starvation. The wild animals today. Environmental infighting has prevented the thinning of forests through logging and prescribed bums. Throw in development along the with the drought and you have a multifaceted problem for the forests. Trees already stressed by unchecked growth are now drying out due to lack of water. The trees are no longer able to maintain their natural defenses against pests and become vulnerable to infestation. The dry trees, which have been and will be attacked try these pests, now become kindling for any kind of fire. Again, this is still the tip that roam crop-savi- . With temperatures blasting tiiermometers into triple dipt range and no measurable precipita- tion in sight it is hard to imagine we have an iceberg to contend with. You may not realize it is there, but it sits there shimmering in all its hidden gkxy smack dab in the middle of this desert we call Utah. Not since the early 50s has the state endured ng urban-interfa- as long lasting period of time without measurable precipitation as it is now experiencing. Many over the past 50 years have worked to-- to intensify the effects of the current dry period, effects that will most likely be felt for many years to come. Utah Agriculture Commissioner Cary Peterson, ; however, remains optimistic; Drought is nothing new to us. We will share what resources we have, rethink how we do busi of ce the iceberg. The grasses and shrubs which cattle, sheep tint freely in the mountains be headed into a winter and plains win for what Res ahead. Many will starve to death others win be forced into urban areas in search of food. These issues still just mask the underlying and longterm problems. Bear and mountain lion win wander into areas in search of sustinance. The bear cub population this season it almost certainly going to be lost Deer and elk herds have already calved but the young wiU be lost either to huma- n-populated the sparse diet of their mothers or the lack of forage for themselves. (Continued on SA) column Thought, planning, work proceed image By JIM MARRS thoughts about what the Price area should evolve into, so I apologize if I make some redundant or obvious points, but a good editorial piece should Guest columnist I just finished reading the thought-provoki- promote dialogue and I hope this does that I believe the logo committee should hold their horses until it can be determined what it is we want to say about the Price area. Any good business book you read will advise you to not sit around the kitchen table and dream up names, logos or business cards for your initiative until you have a dearly defined business plan which includes your vision and the mission statements. Has this been done? By whom? Also, its smart not to go overboard on the ng editorial by Ken Larson entitled "Many try to be unique, but few succeed". I believe Mr. Larson has addressed some serious, important issues around the broad concept of creating a niche community. In doing so I'm sure he has raised the collective blood pressure of those folks who have been talking about this issue in those long com- mittee meetings. As a disclaimer, let me say this. I haven't lived in Carbon County for forty years, however I recently moved back to Price after retiring from a three-decamanagement career in branded marketing for a top fortune 100 company, so I have a passion for this. I most likely have missed much of the earlier community dialogue about . de the "branding issue. I haven't attended any pub-f-ic meetings about it, nor have I been asked my . marketing "hype" until you are absolutely ready to make a positive, long lasting impression with your customer or visitor. Logos, icons, slogans etc. are supposed to impact people's impression of you, to create instant recognition and positiye emotions. Without doing a good deal of up front work I believe its possible this committee could make an irreversible mistake. The cart before the horse is the visual or logo that comes to my m ? Give it time and the mind, or is it right jogo wifl pop out of the woodwork when the time is right ready-fire-ai- dorrt know what work has been done to identity Die customer" for the desired future community niche. No doubt the people living within fifty miles of Price are one audience. What do they want the Price amr to become? Have they been asked? How were they asked? Where and I how many were surveyed? Do they want the Price area to be known as the shopping Mecca of south- eastern Utah? If so, Walmart is only part of the solution. Where are the factory discount stores you see popping up al over the county? How can main street merchants get more business? Can or does the city and county offer tax incentives to new and existing businesses if they wH relocate anchor budd in Price? Does the city or county have Letters to the editor soldiers We were more than 200 North Vietnamese Army regulars. The Amei?-- Editor The- - recent movie We Were Soldiers staffing Mel Gibson views the Vietnam Whr through a different lens than most Hollywood productions. Pint of all, it does not portray our Vietnam warriors as dope-smold- ng degenerates who could not defeat an outgunned third world army, or as genoddal maniacs who brutalized unarmed women and children. It instead presents diem as good, patriotic Americans and pays homage to their heroism and sacrifice. Secondly, it is more history than Hollywood, in spite of the feet that it is a dramatization and not a documentary. The movie is based on the book We Wot Soldiers Once... and Youngbyll. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret) and Joseph L Galloway. The book recounts the savage fighting that took place in the la Drang VSdley of Vietnam in November 1965, when 450 "Air Cavalry" troopers testing the Army's innovative new concept of air mobility via helicopter were attacked on all sides by Letters issues can unit, an element of the Seventh Cavalry (die same unit Gen- -' eral Custer commanded), could very well have met its Little Big Horn if not for the exemplary of its courageous com- leadership mander, CoL Harold then-L- L Moore. Joseph Galloway, a reporter who was able to helicopter into the thick of the fighting, was soon forced to pick up a rifle in the raging struggle that did not allow any quarter for non combatants. The movie only hints that thie, war effort was hampered by political decisions in Washington: In his interview General Moore does not mince words regarding the political duplicity. ; "The fact is that (President Lyndon B.) Johnson would no let us follow the defeated enerrty to his death or surrender in Cans bodia; so he was allowed to rei group, reinforce, resupply, and redeploy ... The fact is that thig enemy had sanctuaries in Laofe Cambodia, southern North Vie nam and northern South Viet nam. And by handing him thes (Continued onSAt to theeditor should focufr.on public; CS oij; njustbeverified :xrtor-t- idle;"' puhlittiodLThe Jettersnot only to'sajdsfy spacer: concerns. utsm Him Sun Advocate (Continued on page SA) The voice of Carbon County since 1892 ADMNIST1ATION Publisher Kea Lima AUUXnSNG JUNFIWfl MffKMr . Addrew 845 East Main, Price, Utah. Telephone: (435) 637-073- 2. Fax : (435) ; 5 . 637-271- 6l Her Send change of addrew to 843 : Bart Main Street; Mr, Utah 84501. ' Cheefflade deadline Mondqr at 10 ajn far Tueadaft publication and Wedneaday at 10 ajn. far Thundayk publication. 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