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Show u ill mm Editor: . This November my yard has a strangeness to it. The familiar aroma that for 30 years has wafted from piled up Christmas trees and permeated per-meated our yard and neighborhood neigh-borhood is gone. , I will miss lots of things about selling trees from our yard. During 30 years of married life and raising a large family, this was our finest seasonal tradition. I joked with the many friends who came to get trees, saying, say-ing, "I don't send out cards because you guys keep coming com-ing to see me every year so here's your card, 'Merry Christmas!'" I'll miss looking out my window and seeing the many birds who come to roost in our little forest, and the children knocking on the door holding a bough or tree-top tree-top politely asking, "Mrs. Jensen can I have this little tree for my room?" I'll miss kids running, laughing, playing fetch with Buddy, my dog, who also will miss them. I'll miss tending little ones and keeping them warm in the house while parents leisurely choose their baby's first tree. I'll miss leading kids to my bathroom (unkempt as it is). They didn't think it would take mom and dad so long to choose a tree. I'll miss the gentle bantering between newlyweds whose ideas of the best tree are as different as their personal backgrounds and traditions. I'll miss Clark Palfreyman's dickering (always picking on me only) while Aldene smiles sweetly on the side lines. I'll miss Rick and Rebecca Rebec-ca tramping round and round the yard, and Finley. Roy-lance Roy-lance searching for days, and Leland Bird and son so concerned con-cerned about pleasing their mom. I'll miss the cute little Hales family who take their tree home in their little red wagon after paying for it with the considerable change from piggy banks. I'll even miss waiting for Janine to write out her check in that slow unique writing style of hers. I'll miss repeated never ending questions such as: "Where do you get all these trees? When were they cut? Do you have those board things that hold up the trees? How does this tree stay up? Do you have some string to tie this tree on?" Or my favorites, "Can you tie this big 400 lb. pinion on my little Toyota? I'm taking it back home to Vegas?" I'm thinking, "Sure, I'm here alone, close to being a Sr. citizen now, but I'll just chuck it right up there." Oh yeah, and this one, "I know this homeless guy who need a tree really bad. Do you have any scraggly ones I could give him?" I think,, "You bet. That's what we do. Cut down old scraggly trees to give away to homeless home-less guys. " This season is going to be so weird for me. I feel so depressed at the ending of this traditional era for us. We have been told that in order to keep our business we must sell trees from a commercially-zoned area. We will comply com-ply with the law which we believe in obeying even though we feel singled out. We wish to offend no particular partic-ular neighbor ever. We'll start a new tradition on Main Street selling the same fresh-cut Utah trees as always and will also have some plantation grown trees. It won't be as quaint and fun for you guys who have always al-ways supported us in our Christmas tree business at home, but please come down to Main Street and find us anyway, because I still am not sending out cards and I just have to tell you, "Merry Christmas," in person again. Happy Holidays. Carol Jensen Springville H&spiital welcomes general surgeon Resolution of South Utah County Mayors on healthcare WHEREAS, the South Utah County Mayors represent repre-sent a population in excess of seventy thousand, and WHEREAS, Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Health Care (IHC) operates oper-ates health insurance plans and an integrated health care delivery system including hospital and physician care, and WHEREAS , approximately approximate-ly 70 of the managed care population of Utah County is insured by IHC, and WHEREAS, Mountain View Hospital is located in southern Utah County, has an excellent history and reputation of being able to deliver outstanding primary care to the residents of the community, and WHEREAS, Mountain View Hospital is unable to provide medical for a substantial sub-stantial number of patients in the community because it is not a provider for IHC health plan patients, and WHEREAS, many patients pa-tients in the south Utah County area must travel several miles to receive even the most minor of medical tests and services, and WHEREAS, traffic congestion con-gestion and pollution in Utah County is increasing and is a significant safety and health concern, and WHEREAS, Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, the closest IHC hospital, is overcrowded in many areas, resulting in significant waiting wait-ing times in the emergency room, operating room and in the obstetric units at Mountain Moun-tain View Hospital are operating oper-ating much under capacity, and WHEREAS, there have been several instances of patients and their doctors hurrying to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center on crowded and congested roads to receive care that could have been delivered in the community hospital resulting in delays up to one half an hour and creating unnecessary unneces-sary risks to both patients and physicians, and WHEREAS, the mayors are aware of some instances where patients were delivered of their babies in transit to the hospital at Provo because they were unable to use the community facility, and WHEREAS, the mayors feel that their citizens should have the option of choosing -to have their health care delivered at their community hospital rather than traveling to a neighboring community, and WHEREAS, some of the patients in south Utah County r annot receive highly specialized special-ized care at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, but must travel to Salt Lake City because of their insurance plans, and WHEREAS, Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Health Care Plans have set a precedence by designating designat-ing Lay ton Hospital, which is not an IHC hospital, as a provider to meet the needs of that community. NOW THEREFORE, the South Utah County Mayors resolve as follows: 1. That all Intermountain Health Care Plans designate Mountain View Hospital in Payson, Utah as a provider so that MVH can fulfill- its mission to serve as the community com-munity hospital for southern Utah County. 2. That Mountain View Hospital and iis parent corporation corpo-ration work hard to facilitate this by negotiating in good faith a workable contract with IHC. 3. That a solution be found allowing all patients in South Utah County to receive their primary care at their community hospital and tertiary care as much as possible at Utah Valley Regional Re-gional Medical Center. 4. That the physicians and providers that practice at Mountain View Hospital be allowed to apply to and be considered for providers for IHC plans. Mayor Randy A. Brailsford Salem City Corporation Chairman, South Utah county Mayors ' Mayor Dean S. Allan Mapleton City .... Mayor Toby M. Harding Woodland Hills City Mayor Bernell C. Evans Payson City Mayor W. Neil Brown Genola City Mayor Dale R. Barney "The Place to Watch a Movie!" Stadium Seating THX Sound Exit 252 in Payson, 633 South 950 West November 14-20 ll HUM ) (1:20) 4:20 7:10 9:40 (1:30) 4:30 7:15 9:30 (1:25) 4:10 7:00 9:15 (R3) (1:05) 4:00 BET 7:05 9:35 H3T (1:00) 3:45 6:40 9:35 (1:15) 6:25 9:25 Early matinee will play on Saturday and Sunday Only No 9:00 Showings on Sunday. No discount passes. Matinee Price $4.00 Showtime ft 465-8500 www.stadiumcinemas.com Order and print your tickets online! www.stadiumcinemas.com The administrative team and staff at Mountain View Hospital in Payson are pleased to welcome Dr. Daniel S. Mehr, general surgeon, to the hospital's medical staff. Mehr will be starting his Utah practice on Nov. 17, 2003. He has been practicing medicine in Iowa for the past nine years. His office will be located at 39 Professional Way, Payson, in the same suite as Dr. Max Cannon, general surgeon. "My family and I are excited to call Utah home," said Mehr. "We had planned to relocate somewhere some-where in the west and fell in love with Utah County." Mehr is board certified by the American Board of Surgery. Sur-gery. He specializes in laparoscopic lapa-roscopic and general surgery. Some of the common surgeries surger-ies Mehr has performed include hernia repair, gall bladder surgery, appendectomies, appendecto-mies, colon resections, breast surgery, thyroidectomy, as well as various emergency surgeries for bowel obstruction, obstruc-tion, gastrointestinal bleeding and trauma. Mehr works closely with the anesthesiologist to control pain associated with general surgery. He administers - a local anesthetic to the incision inci-sion site in conjunction with the general anesthetic in a method known as preemptive analgesia. "We have found patients respond well and report significantly less post- November 13, 2003 - The Springville Herald - Page Three Mehr was raised in northern north-ern Wisconsin. He graduated magna cum laude from Lake Forest College in Illinois with a double major in chemistry chem-istry and biology. He earned his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin and completed his general surgery sur-gery residency at the University Univer-sity of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Dr. William Collins, urologist practicing in Utah County, was instrumental in Mehr pursuing a medical career. Mehr met Collins in college. He observed Collins perform a surgery and was hooked in pursuing medicine as a life work. Mehr, his wife, Maureen, and their three sons plan to reside in Woodland Hills. Besides his family, Mehr's other passion is ice hockey. He played minor league hockey and has coached youth teams. He plans to assist his father in coaching BYU's hockey team. Mehr is currently accept- ing patients. He can be reached by calling 465-1701. Dr. Daniel S. Mehr operative pain," said Mehr. "There is often more than one way to surgically treat the patient," said Mehr. "I evaluate the patient carefully and use the best method of surgery to treat the patient's needs safely and with the least amount of distress." Mehr prides himself in knowing kno-wing several operative methods. meth-ods. "Technology has evolved to minimize invasive procedures. My goal is to use the least invasive method that is relevant to the patient's patien-t's problem. For example, nearly all appendectomies are now done laparoscopically." He also uses methods of closing incisions that minimizes mini-mizes scaring. Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. -Rivarol The thing that gives people peo-ple courage is ideas. -Georges Clemenccau In 1930, Vannevar Bush, an American electrical engineer engi-neer built the first reliable analog computer. 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