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Show Page Six - The Springville Herald - January 12, 1994 SPORTS Red Devil wrestling Hunting's really big bucks The SHS Red Devil Wrestling squad returned from the Bear River Tourney with several mat-men mat-men that placed in the tourney from the Varsity and JV team. They are now in preparation for a dual meet on Thursday where they travel to Payson to face off against one of the toughest teams in the state. The Varsity will then travel to St. George to participate in the Pineview Tournament. This is an excellent tourney because the team will meet several different schools that they would never have an opportunity to wrestle. Some of the team will be from out of state, so they will have an opportunity to experience some different types of wrestling styles. The coaches thank the following for their support of the outstanding "Wrestlers of the Week", Video Stop Pizza Shop and Fat Jack's Pizza. The outstanding Varsity "Wrestler "Wres-tler of the Week" is Zack Sherman. Sher-man. Zack is another product from the junior high school wrestling wres-tling program and he came on board ready to wrestle. This is the second time this year that he has been awarded outstanding wrestler. Zack is very competitive competi-tive and the team will benefit for several years with his winning ways. Zack placed second at the Bear River Tourney. Congratulations Congratula-tions Zack! The outstanding JV "Wrestler of the Week" is Jon Haderlie. Jon has been close several times this year to earning this award but has been inched out of it. Last week he placed third in the Bear River Tourney. He has several years of experience in being a grappler, and he carries a lot of confidence with him when he goes on the mat. His good nature helps keep the madmen in good spirits. The coaches look forward to several more exciting matches with Jon coming out on top. Congratulations Jon! "--"'-"'I, 7 ", Zack Sherman 3 ;L ......jyutm" i ft 1 ' ' IIKilllK'lIlt ' ff Jon Haderlie Weight training Weight training is held Tuesday Tues-day and Thursday evenings in the weight room at Springville High School. Anyone, ages 14 and up, can use the facility from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on those days and lift on their own. Cost is $2 a visit or purchase a 16-day pass for $25. 1 By Dr. Terry Messmer Several weeks ago, while eating eat-ing at a local restaurant, I overheard over-heard several hunters discussing the past Utah deer season. , Each had his own theory about what had happened to the herds. The most interesting idea however, howev-er, was raised by one hunter who had recently viewed an episode of the television program "Unsolved Mysteries." This episode had to do with the lost colony of settlers of Roanoke. Roan-oke. Roanoke is an island located just off the coast of North Carolina. Caroli-na. A settlement attempted there by Sir Walter Raleigh mysteriously mysteri-ously disappeared without a trace in 1587. Modern theories concerning con-cerning the disappearance suggest everything from an Indian attack to being spirited away by aliens. This hunter then suggested that it could have been aliens that pulled off the greatest deer heist in history. Although his comments com-ments generated laughter, the laughter still couldn't hide the hunter's concern. When ' that ten-point buck finally appears and your heart is in your throat, or when the season's sea-son's first covey of quail flushes in front of you, you can be excused ex-cused for not thinking about hunting's contribution to the nation's economy. But during more relaxed times, that contribution contri-bution is worth thinking about, and talking about. Most hunters, and certainly most anti-hunters, will be surprised sur-prised to learn that the sport of hunting pumps more into our national economy each year than corporate giants like Coca-Cola, RJR . Nabisco, Anheuser-Busch and Goodyear Tire and Rubber. In the few minutes that it will take you to read this, you and your fellow hunters will contribute contrib-ute more than $100,000 to the nation's economy. That translates into some $1.6 million an hour, nearly $40 million a day and $14 billion a year, according to our friends at the National . Shooting Sports Foundation. Whether it's a young hunter using his paper-route savings to buy his first shotgun, a business executive writing out a $4,000 check for the elk hunt of a lifetime life-time or a local deer hunter paying pay-ing $4.50 for an early morning breakfast at an all-night diner"; our hunting heritage fuels th economy at a pace that is rivaled by few sports and few industries. In this era of layoffs and downsizing, government officials may be interested to know that: more than 380,000 jobs are directly or indirectly supported by hunting. Each day, hunting produces enough economic activity activi-ty to support 1,000 jobs. Hunting employs as many people as all Sears Roebuck storesand then some. Hunting employs as many people as Northwest Airlines with enough workers left over to staff Delta and USAir. The people employed by hunting hunt-ing could fully staff the Turner Broadcasting Companyand 1 ,000 more just like it. Each 50 hunters, enough economic activity is generated to create one job. Think about that. Each time you and I can do something that encourages one additional person in each state to go hunting, we create one job and each time an anti-hunting advocate prompts one person in each state to stop hunting they put one person out of work. Put in one place, the people employed by hunting would create a city the size of Minneapolis, Minneap-olis, or Colorado Springs or Sacramento. Of course, dollars and cents alone do not represent hunting's true worth. Wealthier than all the Fortune 500 CEO's is the man who has a greater awareness and respect of the natural environment environ-ment and the game he pursues. Wealthier still is the hunter who can share this treasure with a youngster. According to Bob Delfay, President of The National Shooting Shoot-ing Sports Foundation, "The NSSF does not maintain that hunting is an acceptable activity in our modern society merely because it makes a significant contribution to our national and local economies. Hunting is an acceptable and desirable ingredient ingredi-ent of our nation's heritage because be-cause wildlife management professionals pro-fessionals and our conservation experience over the past century tells us so," Delfay says. "The economic value of hunting is only a bonus to its spiritual, social and environmental worth. If a penny did "not change '"hands hunting would be no . lessT acceptable or vital to our nation's fabric. But pennies and dollars do change hands. Lots of them. " The average hunter contributes some $850 to the economy each year. That is significant money and Fortune magazine recently explained how hunters can afford it. According to Fortune, "A Demographic, profile of the roughly 20 million Americans who hunt may surprise you! Urbanites may think of hunters as yahoos, but the truth, demo-graphically, demo-graphically, is that they get less yahoo-like all the time. Compared Com-pared with the hunter of five years ago, today's hunter is better educated, more likely to be a professional or manager and earns more. The average hunter has an income of $43,120 per year, compared to the national average of around $29,000 and 80 percent of all hunters own their homes." Hunting contributes to the economy in many ways. Among the more obvious are: hunters spend $7 billion annually on guns, ammunition, scopes, binoculars, binoc-ulars, clothing, reloading equipment equip-ment and countless accessories. Hunters will spend approximately approxi-mately $3 billion annually on food and lodging in association with their hunting tripsbe they half-day outings near home or a 10-day hunt of a lifetime. Hunters acquire or lease more than $1 billion in real estate of their outdoor pursuits each year. Hunters spend $520 million annually on permits, licenses, duck stamps and other government govern-ment fees directly associated with their sport. These national statistics, while impressive, don't adequately express the economic significance of hunting because, so often, hunting's economic benefit is concentrated in rural, economically economi-cally sensitive areas where even modest incremental expenditure by hunters can have a pivo'tpl effect on the success, or failure, of a local merchant. As stated in Fortune, "The dollars spent ;by hunters pack special oomph, because they hit small towns, far off the interstate. There, merchants mer-chants look to hunting season the way Macy's looks to Christmas: it can make or break the year.?;- Those who are eager to bring an end to hunting in America might consider what substitute they could offer for the $14 billion loss in overall economic value that would result. l As hunters, we should not argue that hunting is good or hunting is acceptable in our modern society simply because it provides jobs for 380,000 Americans Ameri-cans and funnels $14 billion inio the economy. But it is certainly an element that should be factored fac-tored into the equation when a politician in Washington, an animal rights advocate in Boston or an anti-hunting activist in San Francisco decides that "NO HUNTING" signs should be posted all across America just because he or she doesn't like hunting. . Gun safety Owning a firearm carries with it responsibilities, and safety tops the list. Firearms play a vital role in our heritage. They can be as much a part of our lives as a prized car or any other personal possession. Learn safe handling practices. Firearm safety is a vital part of hunter education. Classes run year round and some begin in January. Call your local Division of Wildlife resources office for a schedule. The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does..; . 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