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Show Time to take a realistic look at things are the last ones plowed everytime there is a snowstorm. We don't even By Kir Bruce Lee i m trom nocn. That may be dangerous to put in print, and it may be even more dangerous to say what I want to say in this column, to defend those of us who don't live within the sacred confines of Cedar City. However, there have been a number of people shoot from the hip during the past month. There have been a lot of people make fools of themselves in the media. Now it's my turn. First of all, those of us who have chosen to live in Enoch for various reasons really don't complain too much. We really don't. We don't complain when our streets of landscaping around the Fiddlers Canyon Elementary School, a school which is supposedly almost identical to the Enoch Elementary. However, the Enoch Elementary, open for two years, still doesn't have the same amount of landscaping as Fiddlers, which won't be open for another year. We really don't complain much. We don't ask for much. However, comments this past week by Cedar City Mayor Robert Linford, now officially a "politician," were totally out of line, and now we are complaining. Let me first clear the air: I agree that the representatives of Enoch, Parowan, Cedar City and Iron County need to sit complain when the Minersville Highway, High-way, a state road, sometimes never gets plowed beyond the Cedar City limits. And so far I haven't heard anyone complain about the thousands of dollars s down and hash things out. I agree that ol everyone should pay their fair share, to However, I don't like threats. I don't . ie like political headline-grabbing. I don't Si like being treated as a second class of citizen. ;t Enoch is not paying its way, said Mayor Linford. re Not paying its way, indeed. Enoch, as the mayor and the city ik council now know, has an agreement in rj) one form or another with the county to :e furnish fire protection. That agreement e is based at least somewhat on Enoch bailing out three subdivisions which it had nitrate in their water systems, ii, Losing their collective tempers and it sending a $20,000 bill to Enoch without first checking into the matter was far off base for the council and the mayor. Also, if Enoch is not paying its way, maybe the sales tax distribution should be changed from the point of sale to some other means. I doubt if Cedar City would like to lose the sales tax paid by Enoch residents. But then nobody ever talks about that, do they? Third, I doubt if I need to remind the mayor that the Cedar City redevelopment project is being financed by every citizen of the county, including the residents of Enoch. Enoch is paying to revitalize the downtown area of Cedar City. Perhaps Enoch should form a redevelopment agency including its entire municipal boundaries. Then Cedar City residents could help finance new businesses and industry in Enoch. But again, let's not talk about such things, okay? It is time that Mayor Linford and the rest of Cedar City look at things a bit more realistically. It is time we all quit acting so quickly. It is time we quit threatening. It is time, this time, we act as neighbors. |