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Show 5 Atk et AaAS CI lO SABREa BANA COTES LL RAED ORR CE UTE Ta BS ei ae wl ONE AT 8 Oe nee ~ a CaSaat ATE ly small gymnasium, hg A nl Nir BID Bd a he OF a BIS 0 TE oI I ERLE IROL OT IMEI BELT + DLE FROGS” S PO AS ES. ee Sb hs BAS - _ Olde Swiss Square. | PO Box 1030 210 East Main | Nliduay, UT 84049 Rowse UT 84032. Wasatch County s Source for Neus | (4357 654-2661. e (435) - MEMBER: UTAH 654-2531 (f) © editor@wasatchcountycourier. com PRESS ASSOCIATION/ASSOCIATED Dan Stephens Editor & Publisher Managing Editor Derek Jensen Dixie Bishop Paulette Tillman pd Russ Riggsés: ¥ . ‘Office Manager ::...... » Education Editor.... _ Sports Editor. a’ wood shop,a PRESS STAFE WRITERS Kirsten Shaw © Paul Swenson ¢ Tim Westby — ; CONTRIBUTORS Sam Allen'* Matt emi bose ° Aue Taylor Art. Director | Books . . .2. Advertising Bracitive Circulation/MIS Es : Security .. s is Erin McGuinness ae Amber Stephens Dianne Davey Dylan Stephens- : : $y ocak. ee e Ramona Sha PRESIDENTIC EO . . Michael J. Kearns time, learn many things of worth. The new ice rink in Midway is a success © because a winter activity was needed and because people can enjoy it even if all they have is a half hour. We have PRR TT OTN TS trained to do. Give the people who need help a chance to survive. _ Not only is it the law, it’s your obli- Te, many fine organized and scheduled activities and programs in our valley, . but of course they’re not available for — all of our kids. A recreation center could help fill those gaps. We all know that the more young people are chan~ neled toward the more positive things in life the less chance they'll slip into Please folks, pay attention to flashing lights and sirens. Pull over! Let these people do the jobs they were the negative and destructive things. gation. Pay attention, you could be saving someone's life. IEF ne OE ft gt en ay Pe bah = for the Kids’ I There are many more serious pitfalls around these days than when I was young, but we can foster a process that can snowball and become the fot tion for a happier, ‘healthier dicey from which we all reap the benefits. I've detected, in this county, a philosophy of, “All kids are our kids” and “Anything for the kids.” So, the con- , rf 7] BB nk cept is there, the land is there at the I am sure that the great majority of us are filled with shock and sadness as — sith i ee Quite often, just when despair to set in, we are treated to an that restores our faith in our and their future.A prime exam- ie ae ourselves “why and how does this hap- a cae county sports complex, the need is" there, next, we require the resolve and the commitment from the people and, subsequently, from our leaders. Please, let’s all get behind it. It should turn into a great investment. 28 we hear or read of incidents of juvenile crime and self-destruction. We ask Boe Morgan Heber ple of this occurred at- the Wasatch meeting on Jan. 8. I personally wish all of you could Slips Available graders from Rocky Mountain Middle School. What followed pleasantly blew student government Applications to obtain a boat slip drive to secure a recreation center for the young people of Wasatch County. Using the political system to bring this to possible fruition, the class had elected a team of students that would speak to the commissioners. In their own - can also be obtained at Utah State Office: 435-654-0090 - Toll free: 800-574-1006 _. Mobile: 801-641-7094 Come visit me atwww.wardleygmac.com/pensabene ‘or email gae@sold.wardleygmac.com Park and Recreation offices or the Jordanelle visitor center. — their evidence book to the commissioners who then committed to the New this year, dry storage spaces will be allotted on a first- of a task force that will - issue a report on the matter within six _ thanks and admiration to the students and applause and thumbs up to their | teacher and mentor Brent Burnham. I came to this meeting to support . Four room farm house, large barn and out buildings | on almost 1/2 acre for only $112,000- applicants are awarded one of the slips. Successful applicants will be notified after March 1. Applications will [ available eae beginning this week at http://parks.state.ut-us. Forms chosen by the young ‘Breiner Charm with otis Polat tion process will determine which combined, one by one described the research, interviews, surveys, and petition drive they conducted to fortify their case. All of them spoke with eloquence and maturity beyond their years. They then handed a copy of people. At this point I want to offer my _son. They must be completed and received no later than. Wednesday, Feb. 28. 3 A computerized, ro selec- - come, first-served basis beginning ‘March 10. Applicants must have~ boat registration information and pay the five-month season fee of $200 at the time of application. Utah State Parks and Recreation COURIER _ Wasatch County’s Source for News g “Government is like a big baby— an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ee —Ronald Reagan Pham kids available for the 2001 boating sea- ee Brent Burnham, had decided on its — own that their class project should be a at Jordanelle State Park are now ARI MOET, IERIE, the tutelage of teacher six or seven ERI Jordanelle Boat have been there. The first item on the agenda was a presentation by seventh as requested A7 WASATCH COUNTY Club Band with a director who eventually taught our son to play the trumpet. That started him off on a career in which music dominates. What we kids appreciated about it most was that it was always there for us. It was a place where we could go to be with other kids, play, have fun and, at the same Sometimes it’s not that serious. months, I upstairs. There was actually a Boys ling by ambulance sometimes has only a very short time to survive without proper attention immediately! | organization te ates nt small library, and a large music room that’s an extreme, but very possible. A severely injured person or one travel the Ne for sure I would have been much more trouble-prone without it. In it was a huge game room with ping-pong tables, table games such a hockey, soccer and basketball, board games, a doing an efficient job! You may as well words center hood kids, we lived close to one: ’'m _ be committing murder! Yes, I know under recreation for me and the rest of the neighbor-_ or even a child who has been seriously away. This a chain of Chicago Boys Clubs. Luckily, hurt. It makes me so angry to see other cars not pull over and give these emergency vehicles the right of way. You are actually preventing these people from County Commission about ~ Chicago, where I grew up, there was a ~ The people who drive these emergency vehicles don’t do it for fun. There is an accident or someone who needs help ‘somewhere! There could be a fatal or near fatal accident, a fire, a heart attack, me RGAE _ Wasatch County. Some of that. comes _ _ from my own youth experiences. In | way. In fact they pay absolutely no attention to them at all! People! Wake Up! class, OPS the kids and because I too feel oe I have been wantin to write this let ter for some time now. I work for a business located on Main Street. It never fails, just about every day there is an emergency vehicle, with sirens and flashing lights, traveling fast, going down Main Street. It also never fails several cars & trucks not giving these vehicles the right of pen?” starts event youth ha Psp! Ptnrey A lope ncg ERT yA Pera a CENCE PNP eS POP PRI LAO a ONSTAR AC, Slowdown, Pullover ue aera __WASATCH COUNTY COURIER FEBRUARY 7, 2001. Valerie Shaffer Heber... lar ai in 9 teh Ah nero fon oT ci r Pree ere API, al Ye asp nA Ae Le So |