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Show Poor Voting Record Recently a large group of citizens attended a Bountiful city council meeting. They were concerned about fire protection pro-tection above Bountiful Drive. MANY OF them, during the past several years, had lived in or near fire damaged wooded California hills. It is perturbing that citizens do not attend council meetings except to protect personal interests. in-terests. There are many problems prob-lems affecting the entire city that are discussed and voted on during the Wednesday meetings. The recent primary election was a prime example of resident apathy. THE MAPLE Hills area includes in-cludes the highest Bountiful potential fire hazard. District No. 6 and No. 36 has 1243 registered voters, 149 ora measley 11.98 percent voted. The area east and south. District Dis-trict No. 37 and 38 has 743 registered re-gistered voters, 74 voted which is 9.95 percent. The remaining re-maining 36 Bountiful districts were not much better. These districts had a turnout of 15.95 percent to 35.51 percent. BOUNTIFUL residents cannot can-not expect responsible action benefitting all residents when only 24.65 percent vote. With this disgraceful pattern of area participation we cannot expect to always receive responsible re-sponsible Utopian action. Halley Thomas |