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Show Page Two - The Springvil.o Herald - January 31, 2001 EDITORIAL We need passenger limitation bill for teen drivers Just this morning on the news they were talking about a carload of male teens being picked up somewhere in Southern Utah after driving on the freeway at speeds of 130 plus! Amazing, but the teen passengers admitted they had seen the speedometer reach this and more. Something happens to teenagers when they get their driver's license and get behind the steering wheel with a boatload of their peers. And it is usually not good. The Utah State Legislature arc considering a Passenger Limitation Bill this session, designed to prevent injuries and save lives. It will keep newly licensed teenage drivers from driving with 3 car full of their friends. We applaud this bill. We need it. In Utah, a teen driver crashes every half hour. Statistics for 1992-19 in Utah show that there were 112 fatalities in vehicles driven by 15-17 year olds, and 62 of those who died were passengers. In that same age group, drivers are five times more likely to have a fatal crash when traveling with passengers than when driv ing alone. And they are 6.5 times more likely to have a fatal crash when traveling with four or more passengers. From 1992-1996, 531 occupants of vehicles driven by this same age group were injured and hospitalized at a cost of nearly $10 million. Young people have the highest number of crashes, injuries and deaths of any drivers. We need this bill to help curb these statistics. Limiting the number of passengers a teen can drive with gives the new. young driver an opportunity to concentrate on their driving and develop driving skills before having to cope with distractions in the vehicle when they have passengers. We feel this restriction, which would become part of Utah's graduated licensing program, should be approved, as it would allow teens some time to really learn how to drive, and it will surely save lives and reduce the number of injuries. :( Fx. a.Vx ji . 1 ih wt.t j I km" Kendall and Carol Oldroyd, left, owners of S.O.S. Drug, and Grace and Max Alleman were honored by the Springville Area Chamber of Commerce Saturday at the chamber's installation . banquet. S.O.S. Drug was named the Business of the Year, and the Allemans were honored as Citizens of the Year for their years of volunteer service in the city. Margy Layton, owner of The Read Leaf, is the new chamber president. Springville police report Craig V. Carter, 15 W. 300 North 6. Springville, was arrested arrest-ed for an outstanding warrant and no driver's license, a female juvenile was caught shoplifting. A 15-year-old female juvenile was charged with sexual abuse of a child she was tending. Danial Ray Dolinar, 923 E. -1150 South; Springville, was arrested for a warrant and for giving false information to police. A . male juvenile was caught passing notes saying that he was going to kill someone. prmrjutUf rali (USPS 513-060) Published Weekly by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Springville, Utah Publisher Martin W. Conover Editor Patricia Conover Periodical 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 Out of County Subscriptions per year $23 Per Copy 50 C delivered by carrrier, per month $2 Member Utah Press Association Three male juveniles, ages 12 and 13, have been charged with burglary in a Jan, 13 case. A female juvenile, underage driver, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident. Robert William Joseph, 148 W. 100 North 12, Nephi, was charged with burglary and theft. Dustin Brooks Robison, 480 E. 200 North, Springville, was arrested for three warrants. Arthur Ar-thur Todd Rowlands, 746 S. 2400 East, Spanish Fork, was arrested for a warrant and no license. Travis Jake Shepherd, 1048 S. 400 East, Springville, was arrested arrest-ed for a warrant and possession of tobacco by a minor. Adam Keith Swenson, 46 S. Ask a Specialist How Can I Make Family Mealtime Meal-time A Success? Answer by: Tom Lee, Utah State University Extension Family Fami-ly and Human Development Specialist. Only one in three families in the United States eats meals together regularly. Family mealtime meal-time provides many benefits. It is an ideal time to teach family values, strengthen family ties, encourage learning, strengthen youth and. of course, encourage good nutrition. Teaching values. Eating together is a natural time for children to be around and observe ob-serve adults. Children learn values through many little interactions, inter-actions, not in one big dose. Values are taught by discussing daily events, decisions and the reasons why something was good or bad. Bonding families. Meal preparation, clean up and spending spend-ing time together while eating are natural rather than "staged" times to talk together and strengthen family ties. Encouraging learning. Preschool Pre-school children who eat with family have better vocabularies. Dinnertime chatting exposes them to a broader vocabulary, especially especial-ly as they listen to conversation between adults. Strengthening teens. Researchers Re-searchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital studied 527 adolescents and found that if mealtimes are shared with parents or grandparents grandpar-ents regularly, they could account for 75 percent of the difference in youth being well adjusted or having problems with substance abuse, depression or other adjustment adjust-ment problems. That's probably not due to mealtimes alone, but is an outgrowth of families that eat together also being more likely to do some other positive things. Modeling good nutrition. Children eat better at a regular family mealtime than when they fix food or eat out on their own, With all these benefits, it's worth getting the family together at- mealtime. Make it a priority, but be flexible. This might include in-clude bringing prepared food home or giving children an early snack so they can wait for a later dinner when everyone is home. Make it a time for pleasant visiting visit-ing with an emphasis on building relationships. Avoid making it a time to lecture or scold. Offer a variety of foods but don't force children to eat. Turn off the TV. Fast finishers can stay at the table to visit for a few minutes. A six-year-old girl, when her parents told her of the plan to start sitting down to dinner together to-gether every evening. Spend less than you get. 100 East basement. Springville; was arrested for a warrant. Ada-lid Ada-lid Valdovinos, 2092 Nevada Provo, was arrested for a warrant. war-rant. Johnathan Watkins, 455 W. 920 South, Provo, was arrested for a warrant. Kenneth Willett Webster, 1080 N. 560 East Spanish Fork, was arrested for a warrant. ; Someone threw a chunk of concrete through a window of a vehicle parked at the commuter . parking and took a stereo face, plate and other things. Someone sliced boat covers and took things from boats at a business west of the freeway. And a person is missing furniture and other things from Bird's Storage. A carwash change machine was broken into, and tools were taken from a construction trailer. Juveniles were caught after shoot-', ing paint balls at a security cam era at SHS, and two mailboxes were blown up. , Other thefts included a spare-tire, spare-tire, bike and skateboard and three disposable cameras from West Maverick. Mapleton police report; Mapleton Police had 38 calls last week including 18 of them that were animal related. Eleven of the animal calls were for stray animals. Police said that they are having lots of trouble with dogs running loose and remind citizens that there is a leash law in Map-1 leton. Dogs should be on a leash or confined within a fenced area, i A mailbox was blown up and ' another one was shot with orange paint balls. In another incident, a vehicle was shot with orange paint balls. Police also caught two juveniles playing with paint-' ball guns. - .,' Copper tubing and stainless steel tubing was taken from the city chops. It was worth $500 to $1,000. A cell phone was taken from a vehicle.- ...it COMMENT ' Thank Editor: I would like to thank a young woman from Mapleton for ' a great effort and a fantastic achievement. achie-vement. Angela Peterson saw a segment on a news program about Thermal Imaging Cameras for use by firemen to find people in a smoke-filled house, and she decided to raise the $30,000 to purchase them. Editor: Where has Caleb Perkins been for the last thirty years! No score, but a great article regarding regard-ing the "throw back" game at the old Springville High gym. Right now the article and game have equal importance to me. My first recollection about attending a basketball game is a game between BYU and Wyoming Wyo-ming at the old Springville High gym. I don't remember anything about the basketball game, but I Editor: Almost 46,000 unwanted animals were put to death in Utah last year. It cost Utahn taxpayers approximately $1.7 million to destroy these animals. The most important thing we can all do to reduce these staggering statistics is to prevent surplus, unwanted litters of puppies and kittens. We are three women working to secure the passage of a specialty special-ty license plate bill that will help finance low-cost spayingneutering spay-ingneutering of companion animals ani-mals in Utah. As ardent animal lovers, nothing could be more important to us than to live in a state where all adoptable animals Support Don't need Constitutional !,! Editor: The Constitution's Framers provided for two methods of amending our Constitution, both found in Article V. Both methods were intentionally designed as difficult processes in order to prevent changes to our Constitution Constitu-tion for frivolous reasons or without sufficient public debate. In the first method, Congress puts forth an amendment, then passes it in both houses, then has to get ratification from the several sever-al State Legislatures or conventions. conven-tions. This is the amendment method chosen for over two centuries. The second method, an "Article "Arti-cle V Convention," or a Constitutional Constitu-tional Convention (con con), is convened when 23 of the State Legislatures apply for such a convention. Since 1903, Utah's past legislatures legis-latures have made 12 applications .to congress to call a con con! These "calls" remain open until Defensive driving class The Utah Safety Council is now offering four-hour defensive driving courses for people in the ProvoOrem area. The courses are held throughout the month at the Utah Valley State College (Orem campus). The four-hour course consists of classroom instruction' and focuses on accident prevention, diiving confidence, awareness of hazards and improving driving skills. Drivers who successfully complete the course receive a 50-point 50-point reduction from their Utah driving record, once during a three year period. Individuals 55 years of age and older, may qualify for insurance discounts after completing the course. Registration is $25 per person, per-son, or $8 for those age 55 and over that are only desiring a reduction in their insurance rates. To register contact the Utah Safety Council, 1-800-933-5943. Yellowstone National Park, which covers over two million acres in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, has more geysers and hot springs than any other area in the world. , . you, Mug Us, Angela contacted the Mapleton Maple-ton and Springville Fire Departments Depart-ments for their input and got the ball rolling to purchase the cameras. cam-eras. Through a concerted effort from various citizens and businesses, busi-nesses, she accomplished this feat. The cameras are here and in the hands of both fire departments. depart-ments. Angela worked tirelessly, remember attending with my father (my father only watches Cougar and Jazz basketball). You have to really love basketball to limit your interest to these two teams! Also, I remember Roger Reid lighting up a team from South Salt Lake (Murray) for 50 points, plus (There was no 3-point line then, maybe not even a jump shot! With a 3-point line he would have scored 75) and Ron Reed making a hook shot, during Mouse are placed into loving homes rather than euthanized in local' shelters. We believe Utah should join the ten other states (Connecticut, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Mississip-pi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee Tennes-see and Virginia) that have given vehicle owners the option of purchasing a license plate benefiting benefit-ing animal welfare, in particular, spayingneutering. These license plates are a win-win win-win proposition. They cost the taxpayers nothing, while providing provid-ing people with a creative and voluntary way to support and encourage spayneuter. ., they are all officially rescinded by a resolution of Utah's State Legislature. If 34 legislatures made application appli-cation for a convention, the Constitutional obligation is for Congress to convene a convention. conven-tion. A short time ago, 32 had applied! This same type of convention, con-vention, convened to amend the Articles of Confederation, amended amen-ded the Articles out of existence, giving us a new Constitution and a new government. Scholars mostly agree that such a conven .1 v V X r f ,. - ' x - I f-, 1 I j ' Sons of the Utah Pioneers for the January meeting had Lt. Jim Tracey from the Utah County. Sheriff Department as guest speaker. Lt. Tracey is on the bomb squad and is a defective. He told about his work with explosives such as defusing bombs, demolishing structures and dismantling pipe bombs. He said cocaine, heroin and meth labs are among the biggest challenges in the county. Utah County has the most meth labs of any other county. Pictured from left: Program Chairman Irwin Curtis and Lt. Jim Tracey. Photo by La Verne Measom. r 1! ': -l 113 E. 52 Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there, State Farm Insurance Companies Home Offices: Bloomington, Illinois PAGE even through her mother's illness and passing, to see that the communities com-munities she cares for have this life-saving equipment. I salute you, Angela, and send you my thanks for a job well done. Someone, someday, may owe you their life. Jean and Kelly Hardman Springville the last seconds, from the base line at the corner to beat Orem High; or what is Provo? It seems like yesterday. Well, maybe a couple of days ago! What a great idea. More important, this is an event that I would have completely missed, even in my mind's eye, without Caleb's article. Keep up the good work. Von G. Memory Montgomery, Alabama We would like to urge your readers to join with the Humane Society of Utah, Salt Lake County Coun-ty Animal Control and No More Homeless Pets in Utah in support of House Bill 92, the Spay Neuter License Plate Bill. Those wishing to voice their support should call or write their legislators, encouraging them to vote in favor of this important bill. An online petition anr" additional addi-tional information can be fo nd at www.u-love-pets.org. Vanessa Hamilto-Highfield Julie Weaver Teresa Wilhelinsen "Uflahns) Love Pets" License Plate Program Convention tion can not be limited in it's scope. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights could be amended out of existence if such a convention were convened; a "bloodless revolution" from Article V. While the legislature is in session, shouldn't you consider phoning your State Representative, Representa-tive, telling him to rescind all calls for a con con? Idaho rescinded re-scinded their calls for a convention; conven-tion; Utah can too. Bliss W. Tew Orem, Utah V'5. ' '' . ... . . Dean Brian West 200 South Springville 409-9444 STATF FARM INSURANCE - e mil 2 POOR |