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Show 2 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, March 10, 2005 Comments Editorial Does our community care? It is evident in the world today that there are lots of our young people who are having problems. Problems with al- conoi, pornography, drugs, violence and sex. According to Kevin Scholz, chairman of Youthnet of Springville, and Springville Police will back him up, there is obviously a great deal for everyone in the community to be concerned about. These high risk behaviors are touching touch-ing youth in every city, and ours is no exception. Since Youthnet was organized, they, as a group of con cerned parents, have been doing all they can to intorm the citizens of Springville and Mapleton of the real risks young people are taking and equip them with tools to reduce re-duce these problems. In another effort to help parents, grandparents and concerned con-cerned citizens with tools to strengthen families and support sup-port our youth, Youthnet is sponsoring a special community commu-nity education night on Thursday, Mar. 31, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Springville Jr. High auditorium. That is three weeks away, and plenty of time for everyone every-one to plan their commitments so that they can be there. Mark your calendars now. The meeting on March 31 is also being sponsored by the city governments of Springville and Mapleton, Nebo School District and the SpringvilleMapleton PTA, all concerned con-cerned about our youth. The theme of this special community education night is "Communities That Care." It will feature Fred Riley, worldwide commissioner of Social Services for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Lieu? tenant Governor of the State of Utah Gary Herbert, with his wife Jeanette Snelson Herbert. Riely reports directly to the First Presidency of the IDS Church and leads the worldwide efforts of the churches' social programs including substance abuse prevention, family and personal counseling and adoption. He also sits on a number of national committees and has met personally with President George W. Bush representing represent-ing the church, concerning social initiatives. Herbert and his wife have raised a large family of their own, and are widely known as family advocates. They are involved in promoting programs that strengthen the family statewide. Mrs. Herbert was raised in Springville and is a past Miss Springville. This program has been designed to give citizens in the area an opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to a healthy, safe community and the safety of our young people. Mayors in Springville and Mapleton will declare the week of March 27-31 "Communities That Care Week." This is an opportunity for all of us to CARE, to work together to protect our children from these life destroying behaviors. Come to the meeting on March 31 and show that you care. Illegal Immigration does what our enemies couldn't Editor: In World War II, more than 400,000 American men and women gave their lives and more than 700,000 were wounded. Thousands more Springville Herald 269 E. 400 South Springville, UT 84663 An edition of The Daily Herald, Pulitzer Newspapers, Inc. Subscriptions & Delivery Service ....375-5103 News & Advertising 489-5651 Fax 489-7021 E-mail artcityavpro.com USPS 513-060 Published Thursdays by Pulitzer Newspapers, Inc., 269 E. 400 South, Springville, Utah 84663 Periodicals postage paid at Springville, Utah 84663 Postmaster: Send address changes to 269 E. 400 South, Springville, UT 84663 Member. 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Now our open door immigration immi-gration policy and our failure to close our borders to illegal immigration, are doing what Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan with all their guns and war machinery could not do. It's time for the people in this country to demand that our inert politicians uphold their responsibility to stop this illegal immigrant invasion inva-sion by guarding our borders. bor-ders. Polls show that the American Ameri-can people (except the radical radi-cal New World Order elitists and their minions) overwhelmingly over-whelmingly want our borders bor-ders closed. Polls revealed that 85 percent of Americans view illegal immigration as a serious problem. The majority majori-ty of those described it as "very serious." Over 70 percent per-cent said that the U.S. should try to stop illegal immigration immigra-tion completely and deport all illegal aliens now residing here. We spent more than 450 billion dollars on the military, with troops in 120 countries around the world, but we can't guard our own borders against a massive invasion by illegal aliens. Does it make sense that 37,000 American troops guard the South Korean border, yet not one can guard the homeland border? History is littered with the gravestones of great nations and civilizations which allowed al-lowed aliens to overrun them. We are right now by far the most liberal nation in terms of who we let come into this country legally (up to 1.5 million yearly). We also have up to 3 million who Thanks from Commitment to Youth! Editor: Over 200 of Springville's most EXTRAordinary youth attended this year's Commitment Commit-ment to Youth conference. It was a phenomenal experience experi-ence filled with outstanding inspirational and motivational motivation-al speakers, entertainment, great information from area agencies and fabulous food. All who attended had a great time. We wish to thank those who worked so hard to make this event successful. Our sponsors included: Springville City, Physical & Sports Therapy, Nestle Foods Corporation, Breathe Easy, Inc.; Kirk Holt, CPA; Copies Plus, Springville Herald, Her-ald, Westpro, Reams Bak Greenspan urges consumption tax system Editor Chairman Greenspan wisely advised the tax reform commission com-mission to strongly consider a consumption (sales) tax system sys-tem like the FairTax. He emphasized em-phasized that the consumption tax is the most ideal system, and he lamented the existence of the national income tax. Former Secretary of State Jim Baker also testified in favor fa-vor of a consumption tax at Thursday's hearing. Baker repeatedly re-peatedly emphasized the need to establish a consumption tax and to eliminate the income tax permanently. Everyone knows that we are long overdue over-due for replacing the wasteful, manipulative and invasive income in-come tax. HR25S25-commonly called the FairTax - frees Americans from all personal, gift, estate, break our laws and come in illegally every year. Massive illegal immigrations is costing cost-ing our taxpayers billions of dollars every year. When American workers cannot be found for needed jobs, a well-designed and properly managed guest worker program would allow al-low migrant workers to come into this country legally, legal-ly, work as long as they are needed in jobs that are certified certi-fied as requiring foreign nationals na-tionals and then return to their homes. To be secure within it borders bor-ders is the first right of the people of a sovereign nation. According to the Constitution, Constitu-tion, the first purpose of our government is to provide for the common defense and repel re-pel invasion-which is protecting pro-tecting our borders and nation na-tion against foreign invaders. in-vaders. The noted writer and talk show host Bill O Reilly writes: "The federal government govern-ment is Constitutionally mandated man-dated to protect the borders and enforce naturalization laws. The feds will not do it." In our government, each member mem-ber of Congress is required to take a solemn oath to uphold up-hold and defend the Constitution Constitu-tion of the United States. It's obvious they are failing to uphold their oath of office. Intelligence reports reveal that had the government (bureaucrats (bu-reaucrats and politicians) been doing their Constitutional Constitu-tional mandated duties of protecting our borders and security, instead of pandering pander-ing to illegal aliens, 911 most likely wouldn't have happened. hap-pened. Senator Orrin G. Hatch, writing in the Deseret Morning Morn-ing News on 122203, said, "Illegal immigration is a seri UCASJump nijany know EMC2. But do you know that IlIUCAS equals an early start to college? Utah County Academy of Sciences (UCAS) is a new innovative, early college high school located on the UVSC campus. Students earn approximately two years of college credit while earning a high school diploma. lasses are ery, Snow Dairy, Granny B's Cookies, Pepsi and Party-land. Party-land. Door prizes were generously gener-ously provided by: Breathe Easy, Central Bank, Checker Auto, Classic Cruise & Travel, Trav-el, Cracker Barrel, D'stinc-tionZ D'stinc-tionZ Salon, Great Faces Photography, Heritage Woodworks, Mountain View Hospital, Quizno's, Springville High School, Springville Parks and Recreation, Recre-ation, Steiner's Floral, Taylor's Tay-lor's Bike Shop, The Read Leaf, Utah Community Credit Cred-it Union and Wal-Mart. The Springville Area Chamber of Commerce Commitment Com-mitment to Youth Committee worked tirelessly, again showing their dedication to capital gains, alternative minimum, mini-mum, earned income, Social SecurityMedicare, Se-curityMedicare, self-employment and corporate taxes. The legislative package is revenue neutral, therefore Social Security, Securi-ty, Medicare and treasury revenue rev-enue would be unaffected. Several nationally known economists, including Harvard's Har-vard's Dale Jorgensen, conclude con-clude that these key components compo-nents of the FairTax package will eliminate from 22 to 25 percent of the hidden tax costs in retail prices today. The FairTax retail sales tax of 30 (equivalent to an income in-come tax of 23) approximately approxi-mately offsets this savings so that prices do not change appreciably. ap-preciably. Being free from the income tax, all Americans may do what they wish with their en ous issue. The United States must always al-ways protect its borders and enforce immigration laws... We must protect our borders and remove those who do not have permission to remain." re-main." The national security, the future of the nation and the American people depend upon how well we do our job and defend our borders. Springville Police report Springville Police has 241 calls last week including 43 for animal problems. Jose Miguel Aguirre, 1060 E. 972 South, Springville, was arrested after a traffic accident for four outstanding outstand-ing warrants, giving false information in-formation to police and driving dri-ving on a suspended license. Geoffrey Leigh Barnes, 1094 W. 1050 North, Mapleton, Maple-ton, was arrested for a warrant. war-rant. Devin Brooks Boulter, 608 E. Swenson, Springville, was arrested for a warrant. A 14-year-old female was cited for driving underage. And a 16-year-old female was also cited for underage driving. The father of the latter lat-ter was cited for allowing a juvenile to drive without a license. li-cense. Fab'iola M. Gajardo, 215 W. 100 North, Payson, was cited for shoplifting at Wal-Mart. Vincent Lane Hobbs, 10225 N. 300 West 53, Springville, was arrested for interfering with arrest in a 2004 case. Wyatt Andrew Perkins, 14 S. 100 West, Springville, was arrested for a warrant. A female fe-male juvenile was arrested for a warrant. Rose M. Steele, 308 N. Main, Springville, was cited designed with an emphasis in: the youth of our community. This year's committee included in-cluded Keri Gordon and Jamilah McMurdie of Breathe Easy, Inc.; Springville Police Chief Scott Fmlayson, Officers Ron Mitchell and Jason Harward of the Springville Police Department, De-partment, Craig and Landon Conover of the Springville Herald and Audio Visions, Darci Bertelsen, Ben Cruz and Colby Groneman of the Springville Youth City Council, Coun-cil, Troy Bohling of Springville High School and Dave Samuelson and Joy Wimmer of Springville Jr. High Thank you all. Keri Gordon Commitment to Youth Chairman tire income without the IRS looking over their shoulders. No loopholes. No politics. No privacy invasion. No withholding. withhold-ing. No records. No receipts. No tax preparers. No tax software. soft-ware. No filing. No audits. No enforcement! Best of all, everyone pays a fair share. The tax base encompasses en-compasses all consumers, including in-cluding criminals and illegal aliens who have previously not reported their income and therefore have not paid their share of taxes. America is quickly mobilizing mobiliz-ing against tax politics, unfairness unfair-ness and waste by endorsing the national consumption tax and learning about the Fair-Tax Fair-Tax by visiting www.fairtax.org. Andy Landen Salt lake City Some twenty years ago, President Ronald Reagan declared, de-clared, "This country has lost control of its borders and no country can long sustain that kind of position." Did our men and women fight in vain or will our politicians politi-cians stop pandering to illegal ille-gal aliens and uphold their oath to defend our borders. Art Larson Springville for shoplifting at 7-11 and having a prescription drug in the wrong container; and she was arrested for a commitment commit-ment order. Terry Lambert, 665 W. 400 South, Orem, was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia parapher-nalia and giving false information infor-mation to police. There were reports of a male juvenile mooning people peo-ple and another of teens making lewd gestures. Another An-other sex offense has been referred to the prosecutor for charges involving lewdness lewd-ness with a child involving an 11-year-old and a 4-year-old. $5 was taken from a locker lock-er at the jr. high; a license plate was taken from a motorcycle; mo-torcycle; a purse was taken from a cart in the Wal-Mart parking lot; and there were four gas skips. A purse and backpack were taken from a vehicle and a window was broken at a machine shop. A mailbox was blown up, and a back window was borken in a pickup. There were three incidents of fraud where someone was using someone else's debit card or credit union account. Start to Dn partnership with Alpine, Nebo and Provo School Districts, UCAS is affiliated with UVSC. Interested? Contact UCAS. Hurry, applications will be accepted until March 18, 2005. Youthnet says"Clean Out Your Cabinets" Editor: I was much concerned to read the article in the Springville Herald regarding the increase in opiate based drugs such as heroin. This is a serious problem which is ravaging our nation and our community. Youthnet has been aware of this trend, and therefore felt it important to sponsor the "Clean out the Cabinet" campaign last fall. A recent survey completed by the Federal Government states that in the last 10 years, there has been a 289 increase in-crease in the abuse of narcotic narcot-ic painkillers, such as Lortab, Percodan, Percocet and Qxy-contin Qxy-contin among young people in communities like ours. The danger of misused prescription drugs is having a detrimental effect on our area, with an increase of home invasions for the purr pose of stealing these sought after substances. In an effort to protect ourselves our-selves and neighbors from burglaries by drug seekers, we would urge you to please go through your medicine cabinet and dispose of, or lock up any medications which are no longer of use, particularly prescription painkillers. By' doing so you will be reducmg the chance of your home or your neighborhood neigh-borhood being targets For these burglaries. As pointed out in the article! because of their expense and controlled availability, use of prescription drugs often leads users to harder drugs such as heroin which is much less ex- Eensive on the street. It has, een said by those that know of the effects of heroin, that once addicted, most users end up either dead or in jail, with only small percentage of users ever achieving fuflreha-bilitatioa fuflreha-bilitatioa I know if we take the important im-portant step of "Cleaning out our Cabinets", that we will make our community a safer place for our young people; and help them avoidthe dangers dan-gers of this terrible addictioa " Kevin Scholz Chairman of Youthnet Springville i The Springville Herald Customer Service 375-5103 489-5651 Fax 489-7021 239 E. 400 S. Springville, Utah 84663 PuUsher Kkk Parkinson lqxddnsonlieraidexlra.com Manager Crag Conover axmwrherddexlTaaini Editor Pat Conover (vtdlyavpro.com Page desgnad layoift Maraa Harris Typesetter Sherri Harris Office Mowger JanealDuffin Send Newsttems to us at ai1dtyavpro.corn College mathematics engineering physical & life sciences UTAH COUNTY ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 225-UCAS ucascomcast.net |