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Show Page Two - The Springville Herald - February 7, 1990 pringuHte IHftalii (UPS 513-060) Published Weekly by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Springville, Utah 84663 Phone 489-5651 Publisher Editor Managing Editor POSTMASTER: Please tend change of oddress to The Springville Harold, 161 South Main St., Spring vill. UT 84663. Second class pottage paid at SprlngvllU, UT 84663. Subscriptions in Advance per year $15.00 Out of County Subscriptions per year $18.00 Per copy 50C Delivered by carrier, per month $1.50 Member Utah Press Association EDITORIAL Thanhs National Guard When good things happen in our community we all benefit. And a good thing is happening north of the Springville High School at the site of the old Spring Acres Race Track. The area there has been a vacant, weedy, partially boggy mess since the demise of the race track in 1 973. Before long, it will be a beautiful city park with amphitheater, soccer and playing fields, picnic areas, jogging trails and a pond for the natural habitat that already live in the area. , These things don't just happen. The work and planning behind this project has taken several years and lots of hard work. .We commend the engineering unit of the Springville National Guard, who, for the past two years have been making things happen on the 14.28 acres that will become the Springville Art Park. They have donated thousands of men and equipment hours. The city could never have afforded af-forded to build this park if they had had to pay for it. The money that has been needed for various things in the building of the park has come from an allotment out of the $15(),()()0 grant that the city received from iq National Endowment of the Arts. These monies can be matched with city money or inkind donations like that of the National Guard. The park area is full of natural springs that carry underground under-ground water, These were big problems in preparing the grounds. The guard also spent hours clearing and cleaning th,e property of dead trees, weeds and debris in additional to removing foundations of stables. The east end of the park will house the outdoor amphitheater. amphi-theater. The center will consist of the large playing fields big enough for soccer matches. The west end will be the picnic and pond area. Because of the water on the property, it has been a place for birds and natural habitat. About one-half acre of the land on the east of the park was marginal wetland. When the park is complete, over ah acre on the west end will be a wetland area. The area will be accessible for citizens with trails and seating so that the natural habitat and birds can be viewed. The guard provides a valuable asset to our community. We cannot thank those men enough for the service they have rendered at the Art Park. Man likes to help kids Mr. Andy Shellinc, owner of the McDonalds in Spanish Fork, likes young people and wants them to feel good about themselves. Be causeof this, he has been givingout Big Maes to Springville Jr. High and High School students. He has handed out 50 so far. He finds out who the young people arc who get good grades, have improved their grades, or who arc good citizens. He wants to know who the young people are who arc trying to do better. He doesn't like kids to stay on the bottom step of the ladder of life. He says, 'If kids are true to themselves, they will be on the top step looking for the stars and farther beyond." "If kids feel pride in themselves, they will have more confidence, and they will be happier. All of a sudden, sud-den, they take a more positive attitude atti-tude and know that they can do County Democrats Dr. David B. Magleby, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University, Univer-sity, will be the speaker at the Utah County Democratic Lecture Series meeting on Wednesday, February 7, at 7 p.m. The meeting will convene con-vene in the auditorium of the new Provo City Library, 425 West Center. Cen-ter. "Winning Elections, the Future of the Democratic Parly in Utah," is the subject of his address. This bi-monthly lecture series is sponsored by the Democratic Party of Utah County, Robert Stringham Martin W. Conover Patricia Conover Betty Lou Bailey A nW m,m Andy Shelline things if they try." Mr.Shcllincsaysthatthesehools and community have helped him and so he wants to give back something some-thing that will help the students to go for their best-a little reward. Thanks, Mr. Shelline, for caring about kids and sharing your Big Macs. President. The lectures are held on Wednesday nights and will feature speakers prominent in their fields addressing items of interest to political po-litical and public minded people. Some will be dinner-lectures while others will be free to the public talks and discussion groups. Future Fu-ture speakers will include Karen Shepherd and former Governor Scott Ma.neson, addressing the subject of "Charting, a Sensible Course of Direction fqDcmoerats." Dates and places will be announced. Many fishermen consider the wahoo to be a good porting fish. Legislative report by Don Strong The Legislature is over halfway completed. Our appropriations work will be done by Thursday of the next week, and some of the larger decisions which need to be made will be done. Perhapsoncof the most interest-ing interest-ing bills of thesession has been the liquor reform bill which passed this . week. Probably the largest boost to the measure came several months ago when the Mormon Church announced that it would not oppose op-pose the bill. Had the LDS Church opposed the bill, it's fcubtful that the Legislature would have approved it- . Highlights of the bill ban brown bagging and provide metered dispensing dis-pensing of liquor instead of mini bottles. It also bans the retail sales of kegs and doubles the number of restaurant liquor licenses that will be available. It is argued that there will be stricter control over liquor advertising in the state and closer surveillance of the state licensing procedure ofbars. Now that brown bagging is gone, there will be a lime of adjustment while everyone gets used to the new laws. There are advocates of the bill who believe thai ihe one ounce metered dispenser will call for less consumption of liquor. The mini hot t les con ta i n 1 .7 ou nces o ffiq uor and provided a very easy way for the state to collect its taxes. Revenues from the liquor tax go directly to hot lunch in the education system. There is concern over whether the new reforms will cut into the revenues reve-nues of the lunch program. There were no changes in t he bill, although there are those who are not happy with its passage. It appears ap-pears to be a very reasonable and well thought out form of handling a difficult problem in our socie'lvand one w hich I was happy to support, !n addition to the regular Legislative Legis-lative work, we met as a group of Utah County Legislators with concerned con-cerned teachers at the Utah Valley Community College Saturday. The most interesting part of the meet-' ing was a report from the attorneys who are handling ihe bankruptcy forTimp Menial Health. The obvious obvi-ous problem is that the Federal Government has indicated it wants to be repaid for the money which was taken by the officials of Timp Menial Health, since the menial health clinic does not have the funds, the only entity remaining to repay the money would be the State of ; Utah. As an interim measure, the state and Timp Mental Health filed a chapter 9 bankruptcy. Chapter 9 has to do with governmental agencies agen-cies filing for protection of the bankruptcy court. This is a seldom used device, however, it does point -out a real problem when cmploy-eesof cmploy-eesof the State of Utah take a large sum of money as was done in this case. By this time next week, many of the decisions will be made as to t funding levels and the larger pic-,. ture of the affairs of the state will start to focus. . Police report The following arrests were made in Springvilleduringihe past week. David R. Wakeficfd, 1010 South 400 East 7, Springville, was arrested ar-rested for lewdness. Blaine De-veraux, De-veraux, 202 North 400 East, San-taqui San-taqui n, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. Edward D. Reynolds, 210 West 1500 South, Provo, was arrested for having an open container of alcohol, public intoxication, and possession of a controlled substance. He was a passenger in a car driven by Pam K. Reynolds, same address, who was arrested for DUI. Susan E. Booke, 642 East Swcnson Avenue, -Springville, was arrested for DUI. Douglas C. Howell, 997 East 40 North, Springville, was involved in a traffic accident in the parking lot at Allen's Market. During that investigation he was arrested for1' DUI. Three juveniles were caught throwing throw-ing rocks at vehicles and damaging them. They fled into a vacant house at 21 1 North 400 East, and hid until police found them. Two femaie juveniles were caught shoplifting. Juveniles were seen setting a dry ice bomb in the road at 49 North 700 East. This is a very dangerous practice. The same kind of incident had been portrayed on TV this week before this happened. Another citizen citi-zen had eggs thrown at his vehicle. . Springville Police handled 103 incidents, 7 of which were animal related calls. The ambulance went on two runs this -week, and there were four fire incidents including one car fire. Mapleton Police handled 1 1 incidents inci-dents including several coyote problems in that area. itizen appreciates To the Editor: I desire to pay tribute to and express my personal thanks to a group of very special and extremely well trained young people in our community com-munity - the SAVERS - they arc well named. I had need of their services this morning when my wife Naomi, had a serious problem-with heart, bkxxl pressure and lack of oxygen. I called 91 1 and in less than ten minutes the ambulance arrived with four people, two young men and two young women. Within three minutes, they had my wife hooked up to their Help the Girl Scouts, buy coohies Dear Editor: Those of us who live in Utah have shared at least one tradition for the past 56 years and it's time to share it again. The Utah Girl Scout Council's annual cookie sale begins be-gins on February 15lh. !i is iikely to begin wilh our phone or doorbell ringing. You hear yourself your-self saying, "Sure, I'll lake three boxes." You may not realize that when you place an order for Girl Scout cookies, you aren't just satisfying satis-fying your annual craving for thin mints, and you aren't just pleasing your aunt by ordering a couple of The USA is Editor, ' Have you noticed the media blitz . the UEA is putting out lately to influence the publicand propagandize propagan-dize thedire needs of the educators for all of the huge tax increase surplus sur-plus money? They are even demanding, and the Democratic legisjuors have introduced a bill, to reverse the S35 million tax break the elderly retired, which was-passed in the September special session. This special session was necessary neces-sary to comply with the.Supreme Court ruling that Federal retirees could not receive less tax exemption exemp-tion than State retirees. Our Legislature, despite the Democratic opposition, fairly and equitably granted all retirees in this state equal treatment under the income Tax Code. The teachers union opposes this concession to senior citizensand equal treatment under the law. There was no complaint com-plaint from them as long as they were receiving preferential treatment. treat-ment. Jim Campbell, the UEA President, Presi-dent, is flexing his muscles and t h rea t e n i ng to ca 1 1 1 he teat he rs o u l on strike, unless the Legislature gives the teachers all of the money they are demanding. Teachers work on individual contracts for 180 days of teaching instruction to youth. If they go out on strike, they will be breaking this good faith contract, and abandoning the children they claim to be so concerned about. If any teacher is not satisfied. ith what the legislature feels they can give them, then they do not have to sign a new contract for next year, no one is forcing them. There are many enthusiastic young people who have prepared themselves, arid would love to sign a teaching contract. The Utah State School Board, elected local school board members mem-bers and district superintendents, need to enforce the terms of the teachers contracts. If a teacher decides to walk out of class on strike, they should be held responsible for ' breaking their signed contract. They should be immediately replaced, or advised that they will not be offered a new contract for next year, because be-cause they violated their present contract, and put the education of youth in jeopardy. Teachers say that they want to be considered as professionals, but there area number tff them who act like spoiled children. There arc some who are troublemakers, and should be replaced. Self-employed professionals have to provide their own office space, equipment, employee benefits, insurance and business taxes. Teachers Teach-ers are furnished all of these items at taxpayer expense. Over 70 of all tax money collected, col-lected, goes to finance education in this state. We are the fourth highest high-est taxed state in the nation. Our leachers have a better deal than they arc willing to acknowledge. They continue to harp on the large class sizes. We have always had large class sizes in Utah. Statistics prove that class sizes have been dropping, and projections are that they will continue todrop. The average class size is at 23.6, not many years ago it 7fso Gprfcgvlllo fJoralcJ COMMENT PAGE machines and were administering her the much needed oxygen. They called the hospital on their mobile , phone, and within 40 minutes of the time I called lhcm,they had her in the emergency room of the UVRMC where her doctor was waiting. Hestabilicdhcranddctcrmincd her problem. Thanks to the SAVERS SAV-ERS and her doctor, she is back with me. I do not know the names of those four young people-but they do-and do-and I want them to know how impressed I was wit h their concern. boxes for her. Your annual purchase of Girl Scout cookies does so much more. You might be helpinga girl explore a future career in sales, accounting or merchandising. Selling Girl Scout cookies may give a girl her first experience in the business world. That's something young people need today, to help them succeed in the competitive job market of tomorrow. tomor-row. Local Girl Scout troops benefit directly from the cookie sale. Proceeds Pro-ceeds from cookies support antidrug anti-drug programs, horseback riding, behind a media blitze was at 27.4. Circumstances are different dif-ferent for' every class'and in every school. If someone has45 students, they do not mention that they also hae an assistant. Some elementary schools have specialists in different subjects, and the teachers move their students around to these classes for this instruction, and their only responsibility respon-sibility is to maintain discipline. Come on, let's quit these cry bab tactics, and concentrate on iiivinu RESERVE CANYON FACILITIES FOR THIS SUMMER'S OUTING " Mike Bartholomew, head of The Springville City Parks Department, has an nounced the dates tor making reservations at Kelly's Grove, Jolley's Ranch or Rotary Park this summer. On Thursday, March t, Springville residents can make their reservations in person mt the Springville Civic Center, 50 South Main Street. March 2nd and after reservations can be made at 444 S. 200 W. in Springville or by calling 489-4914 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday thru Friday. Fri-day. Group use of the campingpicnic facilities will be by advanced reservation on ly. Fees need to be paid at the time of reservation. Only one reservation per per son will be allowed on the first day. The following is an overnight fee schedule for group use. Per Night Fees 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Number of Persons Pavilion 10 to 25 $ 25.00 26 to 50 $ 50.00 51 to 100 $ 75.00 101 to 150 $125.00 151 to 200 $175.00 200 to 250 $225.00 The following i a schedule for daily group use reservations. Day Fees 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Number of Persons Pavilion 10 to 50 $ 20.00 51 to 100 $ 25.00 101 to 150 $ 50.00 151 to 200 $ 75.00 - 200 to 300 $100.00 Reservations should be made at least 10 days before the requested reservation date. Advanced reservations will not be made for group of less than 10 persons. Overnight camping is on a first come first serve basis. The fee is $4.00 a night per vehicle ($2.00 a night for Springville residents.) At Jolley's Ranch where there is electricity, water and new restroom with showers, the fee for camping will be $10.00 a night per vehicle ($5.00 for Springville residents.) P ofix 'Professional Electronic Repair 2S3 South Main Springville liipyters Fine Wo also repair TV's,. Stereos Grid VCR's .03 I7c;r CzzrctfQzd tcr C;'9 a.d. ft 6 p.o. Cz2? K SAVEEIS Kielp their professional manner, and I desire them to know of my deep appreciation and gratitude for their assistance. I hope our community appreciates appreci-ates these young people and what . ; theyaredoingon a volunteer basis, ; ; without any of you having to call ; for their assistance in a very grave ' moment. .'. Their example has taught me mo;c , deeply the true meaning of love Thankfully, Grant S. Thorn and workshops where girls learn everything from how to be a responsible re-sponsible babysitter to what types of careers in math and science are available to them. So, when your local Girl Scout asks vouforyour order February .15 through March 1, remember how much saying "yes" means. Then you can think about how good those thin mints taste and your promise to your aunt. Sincerely, Pam Russell Volunteer Cookie Chair Utah Girl Scout Council the youth the education you arc ; being paid to furnish. Most teachers teach-ers are conscientious and doing a good job, but they are allowing themselves to be manipulated and portrayed by a few as being greedy and self serving. ' Hob Wright Orem, Utah Don't store silver for several hours after washing or polishing. Dampness Damp-ness ca cause black spots. 1: |