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Show re Two - The Springville EDITORIAL iiu'iiiiss fite SprnmigiviDD Work! MCtfestt! The hundreds of people who enjoyed the city-sponsored ir vies Friday and Saturday can attest to how fun it is to go to the Spring Acres Arts Park for the evening. Families, couples, teens and lots of children played cards, threw frisbecs. ate, enjoyed the pre-show entertainment and visited wlnle waiting for the free movies to start. All citizens are invited to enjoy another fun night, or niiijils, at the Arts Park by attending the Springville World Folkfest that starts Saturday, July 12, and runs through next week ending on Saturday, July 19. There will be perfor-n perfor-n lances nightly except for Sunday and Wednesday. On Wednesday, July 16, there will be a Street Dance in the parking lot at the Springville Museum of Art at 8 p.m. Ia ci yone is invited to this free event. Bring your blankets or lav n chairs and enjoy that evening too. Many citizens new to Springville and Mapleton might not know about this city-sponsored festival. This is the 18th year tl.at Springville has welcomed dancers and musicians from around the world to the city for the week-long dance event. I lie v isitors pay their own way to Utah, and we invite them iii stay in the homes of local citizens during the week of the festival.. Host families are asked to provide food, lodging and oilier kindnesses. They learn about the traditions of their quests, have a wonderful cultural exchange and form Ij iendships with their foreign visitors. I he visiting dance groups bring authentic dances, authentic costumes and live music for their performances. Many of them do several dances from their native countries, so each night's performance offers something different. Music and dance are a language everyone understands. The people who come to perform at the World Folkfest are NOT amateurs. Many of them have danced for years and years and have attended festivals in other parts of the world. If you haven't attended the Folkfest, you have missed a wonderful opportunity and a beautiful program right here in our community. The performances are exciting and it is lots of fun to meet the dancers. We hope that everyone will enjoy an evening or more this year at the World Folkfest. Performances are at 8 p.m. with tickets available at the door. It is fun to come early and pin chase food at one of the food booths or browse the other vendors selling souvenirs. I here are chairs available, but you may bring your own lawn chairs or blankets. And don't miss the Street Dance Wednesday. . The World Folkfest is a week of international friendship in addition to the performances. Don't miss it! Mapleton Police report Mapleton Police had 59 calls last week with 10 of them for animal problems. Christopher Bacon, 787 ! I 100 South, Orem, was anested by citation for a misdemeanor charge of driving driv-ing a vehicle on a suspended license. Brad Morton, 123 E. ('i nter, Nephi, was arrested In i possession of prescription medications without a prescription, pre-scription, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving .on a suspended license. Jesse Rowley, 740 E. 400 Not ih, Mapleton, was arrested arrest-ed for illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor, driving on a suspended license and no insurance. A nailgun was taken from a home and later found at a pawnshop. Eight illegal fire-wot fire-wot ks calls were reported. Some of them caused minor grass fires. Police are investigating sev eral complaints of a reckless reck-less diiver who ran motorists (USPS 513-060) Published Weekly by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Springville, Utah Publisher Martin W. 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Kelly Carpenter, 111 N. 300 East, Springville, was arrested for an outstanding warrant. Rosalie Jensen Dixon, same address as Carpenter, was cited for assault. by William S. Mount Unless unconscious or off the planet, you've surely heard the news of the United States Supreme Court's rulings handed down last month in two cases that have already produced a Niagara of comment. In "Grutter v. University of Michigan Law School," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's ruling for the majority concluded diversity is a sufficiently compelling goal that the Law School's race-based admissions preference prefer-ence trumped the strictures of the Equal Protection Clause supposedly guaranteeing that all will be treated equally. In "Lawrence v. Texas," Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority with a broad brush, ruled that a Texas law making sodomy a crime was void under the federal Constitution. My point here is to not take sides in these moral collisions parading as issues of constitutional consti-tutional law, but to suggest the endgame could shift the venueand with it the focus-of focus-of the underlying debates. The outcome of both decisions could be to move the struggle from Washington, Washing-ton, D.C., to the individual states. States like California, whose voters endorsed by a wide margin Proposition 209's prohibition on race-based race-based government action by amending that state's organic law in a 1996 initiative, may now serve as a kind of "virus," "vi-rus," spreading to other states as voters express their preferences on the issue through initiatives. Daniel Castro, 1025 N. 300 West 109, Springville, was arrested for theft and possession of amphetamines. Brandon G. Collings, 629 S. 700 West, Payson, was arrested for possession - of amphetamines, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving driv-ing on a suspended license. Christopher Patrick Dam-ron, Dam-ron, 2419 Cimmeron, Springville, Sprin-gville, was cited for child abuse, domestic violence and criminal mischief, and Maria Mervene Damron, same address, was cited for child abuse and domestic violence after a family fight. Elva Diaz, 1414 N. 150 East, Springville, was cited for shoplifting at Wal-Mart. Troy W. Hansen, 675 E. 170 North, American Fork, was arrested for shoplifting at Wal-Mart. A male juvenile was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and marijuana. mari-juana. Brian D. Carrier, 1391 W. 1400 South, Springville, Spring-ville, was cited for throwing lighted fireworks out of a vehicle which caught grass on fire. Michael D. Jarman, 145 N. 900 East, Provo, was arrested for a warrant. Brandon Bran-don Jocelyn, 464 N. 200 East, Springville, was arrested arrest-ed for a warrant. Sarah Renee Johnson, 655 Mitchell Dr., Spanish Fork, was cited for shoplifting at Wal-Mart. A male juvenile was also cited for shoplifting at Wal-Mart. Stephanie Mary McCor-mick, McCor-mick, 1291 S. 400 East, Springville, was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia. parapher-nalia. Jefferson Clark Pope, 1768 N. 1880 West, Provo, was arrested for two warrants. war-rants. Shane Rising, 1025 N. 300 West 17, Springville, was arrested for a warrant. Robert Ellison Roberson, 315 E. 700 South, Springville, was arrested for a warrant. Paul Joseph Ruggirello, 500 W. 221 North, Provo, was arrested for three warrants. war-rants. Mike E. Schanderl, 1010 S. 400 East 12, Sprin-gville, Sprin-gville, was arrested for assault. as-sault. Kyle Snyder, 950 N. 200 East 13, Spanish Fork, was arrested for a warrant. Deborah Debo-rah Ann Walker, 745 S. 100 East 3, Springville, was charged with four counts of forgery, unlawfully obtaining a credit card and theft. James Christian Warner, 2611 E. Canyon Crest r ., Spanish Fork, was charged with assaultdomestic violence. vio-lence. A small computer was taken from a vehicle and a purse from another. Other thefts included checks that were taken and forged; a ttlGgii'OftDifid shift Ward Connerly, the man behind Prop 209, has been quoted as declaring Michigan to be next in the anti-affirmative action cross hairs. Remember, Re-member, Justice O'Connor's opinion did not require the University of Michigan to adopt the challenged "diversity" "diver-sity" program; it said that, having done so, Michigan's program did not run afoul of the Constitution. Voters in the individual states remain free, as California's Califor-nia's voters were when they approved Prop 209, to express ex-press a contrary preference, either at the ballot box or in the legislature. As for the court's "Lawrence" "Law-rence" decision, Justice Kennedy's reasoning virtually virtual-ly removed the possibility of criminal prosecution, in the name of "sexual liberty. " But the plain implication of "Lawrence" "La-wrence" is the possible legalization legal-ization of same-sex marriage. That specter not only made "Newsweek's" cover but was one of the main themes of San Francisco's annual "Gay Pride" event. Such an outcome, out-come, should it come to pass, will almost certainly be the result of action by the individual states. Congress has already set the stage for that engagement, engage-ment, having passed The Defense of Marriage Act permitting the states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages mar-riages contracted in other states. Assuming that provision withstands a constitutional challenge, the question is COMMENT PAGE Maid tar surplus in city Editor: ' My opinion on finances; and cities is very simple.! Don't spend more than you receive. Take care of your bank account. Overdrafts are costly and diminish the coming com-ing month's income. Such overdrafts put doubt in others' oth-ers' minds as to the capability capabili-ty of the check writer. It is called Credit Rating! Sitting down and floating a bond just to have spending money for a popular idea is not fiscally responsible at this time for this city. Too many bonds put in the ship of the city will surely sink the whole carrier. I call to mind the party The news media and STB Editor: Interesting that the "Des-eret "Des-eret Morning News" editor and Chief Operating Office, John R. Hughes, in a June 16 article about The John Birch Society, admitted to being a member of the influential, influ-ential, New York City based, private, globalist-leaning organization, The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The February 10 issue of "The New American" magazine maga-zine detailed pages of names listing the amazing domination domina-tion of America's major media by CFR members. Leonard Downie, Jr., the editor of "The Washington Post" is a former CFR member, mem-ber, while the "Post's" Editorial Edito-rial Page Editor, Fred Hiatt, is presently a council member. mem-ber. At the "New York Time" Company we see two editorial board members, David C. Unger and Steven R. Weisman, as wel1 as the "New York Times'" Foreign Affairs columnist, Thomas L. Friedman and their UN Bureau Chief, Serge Schme-mann, Schme-mann, are all members of the council. "Newsweek's" Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Richard Smith; their trailer; gasoline; and construction con-struction tools. A vehicle was hit with paintballs; boards were broken bro-ken in a fence; a smoke bomb was put in a mailbox; graffiti was found on a building; build-ing; and windows were broken in a vehicle and a building. likely to be whether the Texas Legislature or Wyoming Wyo-ming lawmakers will choose to align their states with Vermont , by permitting homosexual ho-mosexual marriages. Or whether they will continue to bar such unions. Who can doubt that, put to a vote, citizens of . Montana likely would prefer a different outcome than the citizens of, say, New York? America, as Chief Justice Salmon Chase famously wrote in 1868, was conceived con-ceived as "an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible inde-structible States." If, as recent events in Washington suggest, the debate over affirmative action and same-sex same-sex marriage now moves to the individual states, we may witness what has been called "one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a... courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel, social and economic experiments...." experi-ments...." This notion, also known as the "fifty labs" theory of federalism, could scarcely be more timely. Forgotten or unknown to most Ameri(tensa structural implication rather than a constitutional clause-federalism principles are nevertheless neverthe-less Topic A underlying the issues that occupy the chattering chat-tering classes from coast to coast. The fate of the physician-assisted suicide initiative twice adopted by Oregon voters? It has been nullified by Attorney General Ash-croft's Ash-croft's threat to prosecute any Oregon physician who held in Boston that caused quite a ruckus and soon there was another government that raised one flag that had as it's motto, "Don't tread on me." I suggest that we consider Carl Carpenter's thoughts and look at the need of the whole city first, especially concerning conservation of available water. Drinking water is of super prime consideration. Water running down the old irrigation irriga-tion ditches could be put to good use in providing a much needed secondary watering system for the entire city. I was very impressed im-pressed by Carpenter's sug Editor, Mark Whitaker; and their Managing Editor, Jon Mecham, are all members of the council. Editorial Page Editor, Cynthia A. Tucker, at the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution" is a CFR member, etc. Dozens of other key management positions within major media conglomerates, television networks, major newspapers and magazines, who are also members of the Utah disaster area Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) (R-Utah) praised the U.S. Department De-partment of Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman's decision to designate the entire state of Utah a natural disaster area and provide Utah's agricultural community communi-ty with the resources to help withstand the effects of the five-year drought currently facing Utah. "Today's disaster designation designa-tion will help Utah farm operators stay afloat during these devastating times," said Bennett. "As we face another year of drought, the ability of farmers and ranchers to apply for emergency loans, now possible Jirough this designation, is a huge relief. I appreciate Sec. Veneman's quick decision on this designation desig-nation and her continued efforts to provide Utah the needed resources to combat these conditions." USDA issued the Secretarial Secre-tarial disaster designation 3 to tette acts under it. California's . medical-marijuana medical-marijuana initiative? Using the same federal Controlled Substances Act, the Justice Department has won federal criminal convictions against those who dispense under it Maine's entry into the Medicare Medi-care prescription drug controversy con-troversy with its "Maine Rx" program? Another federalist initiative by a state. In the wake of a deeply divided high court's decisions over matters as momentous as "Brown v. Board of Education," Edu-cation," it seems all the more fitting that these issues should now "devolve" to the individual states. After all, underlying federalism is the idea that citizens can vote with their feet, choosing the locality that suits their views of how democratic government govern-ment should (and should not) work. With hyper-controversial issues like gay marriage and affirmative action on the national front burner, what better time to let American federalism function as it was conceived, not as an anachronism anachro-nism but as fifty heterodox social laboratories competing for citizens' allegiance on fundamental issues of public morality? William S. Mount is an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation (wwww.pacificle-gal.org) (wwww.pacificle-gal.org) and a former staff attorney with the California Supreme Court. PLF is a Sacramento-based public-interest public-interest law firm that litigates for limited government. gestions. I don't think that using a little 1 prudence in designing a secondary wafer system would endanger the water rights of those who still irrigate. Recreation facilities are needed, but in the future, when it will not be a long time burden upon the great citizens of this community. A quick glance at the recreation facilities in place right now shows they are being well used and should suffice until city books are balanced and a surplus is indicated later down the road. Leo J Lee Springville Council on Foreign Relations, Rela-tions, could be listed. Many Americans believe that the CFR's dominance in America's Ameri-ca's major media is a significant signifi-cant fact that should be investigated in-vestigated rather than shirked-off by Americans as mere coincidence or as unimportant unim-portant to the news stories we see, hear or read today. Bliss W. Tew Orem, Utah after it completed its review of the Damage Assessment Report,, which showed sufficient suffi-cient production losses in all 29 Utah counties.The designation desig-nation will make farm operators opera-tors eligible to be considered for low-interest emergency loans from the Farm Service Agency (FSA). FSA will consider each loan application applica-tion on its own merits, taking into account the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability. For further information on emergency loan eligibility requirements or .for any additional questions on the designation, please contact the Utah FSA office at (801) 524-4530 or visit their website web-site at www.fsa.usda.govU-T www.fsa.usda.govU-T http:www.fsa.usda.gov-UT. http:www.fsa.usda.gov-UT. Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. GreviUe |