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Show Page Two - The Springville Herald - August 9, 1995 EDITORIAL Thanks Springville! If you haven't been up Hobble Creek Canyon this summer for a picnic, then you had better get on up there and pay a visit to Kellys Grove or Jolleys. There just aren't two prettier or nicer places to picnic, hold a reunion or go camping. Springville City workers maintain these two city parks, and they do a terrific job. And our cool, wet spring helped to make the areas lush and green. There are plenty of picnic tables, playground equipment, grassy areas, restrooms, water and the creek to enjoy, not to mention one of the most beautiful golf courses in the state, Hobble Creek, located nearby. We thank those city people who had the foresight to purchase this large chunk of land so many years ago to be developed into the canyon golf course and park areas. At the time, it probably seemed like a lot of land compared to the population of the city. But, today, it is adequate, and the city has more land to develop in the future between Kellys Grove and Jolleys. Not only is it pretty and a nice place to go and get away, but it is close by. In minutes, we can be in the cool, beautiful setting of these canyon parks and the golf course. Thanks, Springville, for this city treasure! Family needs help Dear Editor: Our son who is nine, is having hav-ing severe problems. He is being admitted to a Residential Treatment Treat-ment Program for approximately one year at Primary Children's Hospital. Primary Pennies has graciously agreed to cover three ; quarters of the cost. However, our portion is still $25,000. Sewer fees due by April for lower rate From reports, there may be some confusion about sewer hookup fees in Mapleton and when they are due. Mayor Richard Rich-ard Maxfield wants citizens to know the facts. At the time of the loan closing for $6,330,000, Mapleton City had to pay into the escrow account, ac-count, the sum of $367,500. This money was to have come from the $350 connection fee that residents would pay. As not all residents had paid their connection connec-tion fee, the money was borrowed bor-rowed from the water, streets and other accounts, to be paid back as soon as the sewer connection fees were paid. The city council passed a resolution at the last council meeting, requiring the connection fee of $350 to be paid by April 1, 1996. Anyone paying after that time will be required to pay $700. This is the cost to the city for the hook-up and the stub from the sewer to be brought to each home now in the city. New homes built after the sewer is installed will have to pay for their own stubs into the sewer line, plus an impact fee and the connection fee. The connection fee will be the cost to the city of overseeing the work and inspection. The impact fee will probably be between one and two thousand dollars, calculated calcu-lated according to the new impact fee law passed by the Utah State Legislature. Only present homes, and those homes completed or under construction within the next 30 to 60 days, (when the new sewer impact fee ordinance will be passed), will pay the $350 (USPS 51 3-O60) Published Weekly by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Springville, Utah 84663 Publisher Martin W. Conover Editor Patricia Conover Second Class Postage Paid in Springville, UT 84663 Postmaster send change of address notice to: The Springville Herald, 161 S. Main, Springville UT 84663 Subscriptions in Advance per year $20.00 Out of County Subscriptions per year $23.00 Per Copy $0.50. Delivered by carrier, per month $2.00 Member Utah Press Association We are asking for donations , in his behalf, which will be tax deductible. No money is required at this time, only a written commitment com-mitment and amount. We must have these commitments as soon as possible. If you can help us, please call 465-0838. Eric & Anna Raun Mapleton police report by Joy Hiatt Mapleton police report that Randy J. Doherty, 33, 1064 E. 360 South, Provo, was arrested at 148 N. 1200 East, Mapleton, for driving while under the influence of alcohol. At 425 N. 1800 West, Mapleton, police arrested Steven Childs, 38, 715 N. 1600 West,: Mapleton, for intoxication;, other charges are pending. In a call about a citizen dispute dis-pute at 790 N. 1600 West, Mapleton, Map-leton, police issued a citation to Kirk J. Openshaw, 36, 8955 S. 930 West, Payson, for having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle. A 16-year-old male juvenile was arrested for theft of a vehicle worth $18,000 and for theft of a vehicle previously found on a trampoline. Three male juveniles, all age 9, were referred to juvenile juve-nile court for criminal mischief and auto burglary in connection with damage worth $180 to a stake center belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints and damage to a back-hoe, back-hoe, both located at 970 N. 400 East, Mapleton. Total number of Mapleton police calls were 43; 15 calls were animal-related. This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. -Lin Yutang and have the sewer line stubbed into their property. A person may not expect to pay the $350 now, to have the sewer stubbed to a future building build-ing lot. Thanks for help Editor: May I commend and thank ' city employee Leon Fredrickson for his prompt and decisive action ac-tion on Saturday. A huge limb split off our tree onto the street -probably by lightening. It was only a few minutes until he stopped and assessed the problem. prob-lem. It was leaning on a light wire. In a few minutes, he came back with the crane and had it sawed up enough to be out of the way, even though it was after 5 p.m. I appreciate what a pleasant person he was. Before 9 a.m. Monday morning, it was all cleaned up. Marie Whiting Springville police report by Joy Hiatt Springville police had 241 calls last week. Kenneth R. Pass-ey, Pass-ey, 19, 385 E. 600 North, Mapleton, Map-leton, was arrested at 310 W. 400 South, Springville, for possession pos-session of marijuana and possession posses-sion of drug paraphernalia. Steve L. Smith, 28, 1518 W. 900 South, Orem, was arrested at 39 S. 800 East, Springville, for possession of drug paraphernalia and a felony warrant from Utah County for possession of a dangerous dan-gerous drug. Police filed charges against Robert C. Anderson, 30, 1310 E. 400 S., Springville, for intoxication intoxica-tion and disorderly conduct. Lee R. Hansen, 59, 312 W. 100 North, Springville, was arrested for aggravated assault and intoxication. intoxi-cation. Richard A. Deuel, 19, 850 N. Main 15, Springville, was issued is-sued a citation for illegal consumption con-sumption of alcohol. Edward Vaughan, 19, 560 E. Swenson, was issued a citation at 768 S. Canyon, Springville, on the same charge. Police arrested Jeremy D. Petersen, 20, 1272 N. 1200 West, Orem, for a $1054 warrant from Springville. Gabriel Ortiz, 18, 510 N. 200 East, Moroni, was stopped for speeding and arrested for illegal consumption of alcohol. . A male juvenile, 16, was arrested at 601 E. Swenson, Springville, for possession of alcohol and evading arrest. Police filed charges against Patrick A. Stubbs, 22, 939 W. 500 North, for the theft of $700 in property. Police arrested a male juvenile, juve-nile, 17, for possession of drug paraphernalia at 700 N. Main. A female juvenile, 17, was arrested for illegal consumption of alcohol. alco-hol. Police came to the scene of a noise disturbance and arrested two female juveniles, 15 and 16, for illegal consumption of alcohol. alco-hol. A male juvenile, 15, was arrested for shoplifting merchandise merchan-dise worth $4.29 at 759 E. 400 South. Three auto burglaries were reported. Stereo equipment worth $780 was taken from a vehicle at 627 E. 100 South, Springville. Stereo equipment worth $600 and a CD player worth $300 were stolen from vehicles at 850 N. Main. The theft of three rings worth $3100 from 442 Buckley, was reported. A backpack with property prop-erty worth $293 was taken from 685 S. 800 East. Rear license plates, worth about $10 each, were stolen from vehicles at 745 S. 100 East and 1525 S. 400 East 26. Reported criminal mischief mis-chief last week included the following: $365 damage to the floor window of a backhoe at 952 S. 100 East; $150 damage to windows at Springville Middle School; spray paint on a residence resi-dence at 475 E. 100 North; graffiti on a bridge at 600 S. 700 East; 13 locks cut and property stolen from storage units at 1700 S. Main, and damage to a vehicle at 595 E. 400 North when it was egged. Forty-two calls made to Springville Spr-ingville police were animal-related. We may have come over on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now. Whitney Young The Japanese call their country coun-try Nippon, which means "source of the sun." A treaty with Siam in 1823 was the first pact between the United States and a country of Asia. COMMENT "PAGE Profit caps on medicine! Dear Editor: Q: True or False: Medical bills are reasonable? False. No one thinks so, not even doctors. I recently received the condensed con-densed consolidated balance sheet for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Utah and subsidiaries. They have a whopping 86 million dollars of "reserves for the protection of our subscribers." I feel so safe now! I can't wait to pay my next medical installment. With some liver transplants running $578,000 and kidney jobs $250,000, it would only take an additional 148.8 liver transplants trans-plants and one kidney job to wipe out the entire "protection reserve." re-serve." My point is that the medical industry is so far out of control, and costs so outrageous, that the only solution to the medical morass is to put the entire industry indus-try under a public service commission com-mission similar to electric, phones and natural gas, all of which are lifesavers, too. Without With-out heat in the winter, electricity all year, millions of people would die too. The medical industry needed, but should be capped at a 6 profit after expenses with caps on administrative costs and salaries. Look, if you want to get rich, fine. Just do it outside the medical industry. You know, like the Nike guy selling $160 sneakers. sneak-ers. Getting rich off sick people and the natural aging process is sickening, and should not be allowed. Selling life preservers to the drowning for money is repulsive, repul-sive, yet medical greed has gone overboard with its own billing machine and has done the same thing by billing the sick, young and feeble to death. Is it 24 or 25 hours from door-to-door for a woman delivering a child today? Further, the leading causes of personal bankruptcy in Colorado are medical costs. A significant number of people are unemployed unem-ployed due to high medical costs. A significant number of people are unemployed due to J high medical insurance costs which employers wish to avoid. U.S. products do not compete well due to built-in medical costs. Medical costs are killing the U.S. economy. econo-my. Thank you Editor: The parents of the Springville Hobble Creek Gymnastics Girls Softball Team would like to thank two wonderful coaches. Rick Rominger and Donna Scho-field, Scho-field, for all their time, effort and talents. We feel they did a great Tired of sharing trash can Dear Editor: My husband and I have been residents of Springville for four years. We have tried to be good neighbors and mostly keep to ourselves. Over the past four years, a single event keeps occurring occur-ring which at first just amused and perplexed me," but now has pushed me to the point of anger. Is it a "clan" custom to use your neighbors garbage can at will and without permission? Several times since owning our home, we have found trash, that was not ours, overflowing the can into the street. Once I even found a dead animal in the trash can, and someone had to come onto our r.operty next to the house to place it there. AH I am asking from whomever whom-ever it is that has excess garbage, is a little bit of common courtesy. Pleases just come to my husband or myself, knock on the door, introduce yourself and just ask. I think, for the most part, we would be happy to share our trash bin, but we just would like to be asked. Think of it as a way to get to know your neighbors! Thank you, Karen Eskew-Wyllie A proud Springville resident The first duty of friendship is to leave your friend his illusions. -Arthur Schnitzler Car insurance rates are high due to medical costs related to accidents and the legion of lawyers law-yers trying to recoup catastrophic medical bills after the accidents. I am confident that phones, electricity elec-tricity and natural gas have saved far more lives every day than the medical industry ever will and at reasonable costs and reasonable profits. In fact, garbage men do more for the daily health of a community commu-nity than any doctor or hospital ever can, or has. The proper handling of human refuse and waste is far more important and useful to society than any immunization immu-nization program or combined goods and service of hospitals may produce, yet garbage guys don't milk the community by raising their prices 15 to 29 each year. Let us not be bullied by greed masquerading in medical costumes cos-tumes with stethoscopes tuned for profits, and put the entire medical issue under a Public Service Commission. If the power company com-pany were not under the Public Service Commission, I"m sure power bills would be staggering. Getting rich is OK, but not in the medical industry anymore. Call or write your representative and ask them to propose legislation legisla-tion to put the medical industry under individual state Public Service Commissions with profit caps. The idea that a "nonprofit" administrator can be paid $250,-000 $250,-000 or more per year and not see a patient is pretty funny stuff. The entire medical complex is riddled with so much greed, manipulation, price fixing and price gouging, double speak, cost shifting that it is outrageous. It is ironic that an industry dedicated to reducing pain and suffering should be the direct cause of bankruptcy, divorce, unemployment, unemploy-ment, misery and economic pain and suffering. It is all too obvious that money mon-ey is the obvious real goal to the health care industry. The first question asked, "How do you plan to pay for this?" If one has lab work done, you first receive a bill in quadruplet and then have to beg to have lab results given to to girls coaches job with these girls. They taught them confidence, built their self esteem and had fun playing together to-gether as a team. They had a great softball season. They took first place in Springville, and went to state and had a great experience playing is baseball for kids? To the Editor: After last week's stories, this needed to come forth. This letter is to the coaches in the Mustang and Bronco ball leagues who's egos still cannot be met, who care nothing of what was set up or about the kids whose possible future rests with them. They will sacrifice all for their egos. This is for this year's "Ego Stars". There was to be no all-stars all-stars because of previous ego coaches, now we have this. My grandchild was upset as he was told to follow instructions, instruc-tions, yet, these select coaches feel they are above thisnew generation I guess. Well, maybe they should be barred from any coaching ever again here as they surely don't have the kids, or their well being on their minds. We saw plenty of these examples exam-ples at the games, and some of the coaches were contemptible in their actions and behavior. it ft- w- t II . I 3 Kim Barry Allensworth WEST REALTY 489-7948 3 72-1530 you. And what is this billing scam, where insurance companies are billed one price and you another so if you pay your 20 co-pay, the entire amount as billed to the insurance company is covered entirely by the patient co-payment. Medical care has its place and purpose,' but, thank God, that farmers haven't done what the medical industry has gotten away with, or bread would be $100 per loaf. Farmers couldn't plant crops without an eight-year college col-lege degree and state license. Obviously, food is of more value than pills, is it not? Each Halloween there are wonderful non-profit hospitals that will X-ray a child's $2 candy haul for free, yet needed X-rays are billed out at over $50 a pop. "Oh, the cost of equipment is so expensive," is the never-ending cry. IHC will X-ray kids's $2 Halloween candy for free, but women's breasts are only X-rayed X-rayed for money. Recently, Utah Valley Regional Re-gional Medical Center touted the 1 ,000,000fJi cat scan on the same machine. Surely, that machine did not cost $100,000,000, yet that is what that machine most likely has billed out over the years if not three times that amount. What goods or service do you really get from the medical industry? indus-try? They either talk you, pill you, cut you, and always bill you. That is all. I would venture to say that more paper is used in medical billing than reporting all the medical tests, lab procedures, or patient conditions combined. Medicine today is about money. mon-ey. There are only two ways this medical billing madness can go. Either the current system will continue to bloat like a rotting corpse until the exorbitant medical medi-cal bills burst public and private , budgets, or we can put this new entitled American right under state controlled public service commissions. The latter is much more sound and reasonable, so please contact your state and federal representatives today. Sincerely, David Johnson American Fork other teams and winning with ; pride. We wish to extend our thanks and appreciation to these two fine and great member-one coaches, Rick and Donna. Thank You From all the parents and girls One of these kids was chosen MVP. He had one of the most foul mouths and arrogant behavior. behav-ior. These coaches teach our children to do as they want; instructions mean nothing. There were some excellent coaches in the program, and we need them so we can watch our children or grandchildren have fun as we did. Name Withheld Going gray Going gray early appears to increase your risk for osteoporosis. osteoporo-sis. A study done at Boston University Uni-versity Medical Center shows, people whose hair turns gray' before age 40 and six times more likely to develop osteoporosis later in life. Japan has the world's largest fishing industry. No Hype! 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