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Show Thursday, June 2, 2005 SPRINGVILLE HERALD It's summertime, the roads are deadly Schedules may ease and the days lengthen, but danger on the roads actually increases during dur-ing summer. American Automobile Association Associ-ation of Utah urges parents of young drivers to carefully monitor moni-tor their teen's driving and to use summer as a time to improve im-prove their driving skills. Studies show that the summer months are the most deadly on the roads. Reasons for the increase in fatal fa-tal crashes could be high speeds; fatigue caused by travel and longer days spent driving; and overconfidence due to dry, clear roadways. In Utah there is a teenage driver dri-ver crash ever 30 minutes. These risks increase for teens because of their inexperience and overconfidence. The fatality rate for teenage drivers is four times higher than the rate for drivers age 25 to 65. Teen passengers are also in jeopardy. Nationally, two-thirds of teen passengers killed or injured in crashes are passengers in vehicles vehi-cles driven by other teens. In Utah, the numbers are worse. 85 of 15-17 year-old hospitalized patients were in a vehicle driven by a 15-17 year-old. year-old. Seventy percent of the 15-17 year-olds killed in crashes were in a vehicle driven by a 15-17 year -old. "One way parents can protect their teen rivers is to use the provisions in Utah's graduated driver licensing laws in their home as guidelines as they decide de-cide how their teens can drive during the summer months," explains ex-plains Rolayne Fairclough, AAA Utah spokeswoman. "The provisions in the law address ad-dress the situations that cause the majority of teen crashes, injuries in-juries and deaths." The provisions of Utah's graduated grad-uated driver licensing law are: A new driver must log 40 hours of adult-supervised driving dri-ving practice before they receiver receiv-er their driver's license. Young drivers need additional addition-al experience behind the wheel in a controlled situation to gain the needed expertise to operate a vehicle safely. Even if your teen driver has their license, the summer months provide extra time for parents to help their teen develop devel-op additional driving skills such as driving in the canyons or on long stretches of freeway. A new driver must drive 10 of the 40 practice hours after dark and a new driver is restricted from driving between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. the law says. Nighttime driving poses a great risk for teens. Parents should consider the danger of driving after dark when the set the time limits for their teen drivers and even make an earlier curfew for their families. The law also says new drivers may not transport teen passengers passen-gers for the first six months of the licenser. The law allows new teen drivers dri-vers to drive with their family members, and they may transport trans-port teens if an adult is in the front seat. The new driver may drive with family members andor his friends if their is a licenses adult driver in the front seat. Certain exceptions do apply, such as going to and from school and school-related activities, activi-ties, church, and agricultural-related work. In these instances, however, the teen driver must have a permission per-mission note from a parent or guardian. This is an extremely impor . x ...t.:..r tant component of the graduated graduat-ed driver licensing law because teen drivers are at far greater risk when driving with other teens. Parents should be aware of this and protect their child by prohibiting their young driver from carrying other teen passengers pas-sengers or riding with a new driver until the parent is certain of their level of driving skill and maturity. The law also says it is a primary prima-ry offense for anyone under the age of 19 not to be properly restrained re-strained in a vehicle. In other words, a teen may be stopped by a police officer for not using a seat belt. Teens are less likely to wear their seat belts, especially when riding with other teens, and this increases the risk on the road. Parents should make it clear that seat belt use is mandatory at all times and if their teen fails to wear a seat belt or allows others oth-ers in their car to not wear seat belts, they will lose their driving privileges. "Clearly too many people are killed or injured in vehicles driven dri-ven by teens," said Fairclough. "Without change, the situation situa-tion will grow worse, since teens make up 10.5 of the driving dri-ving population in Utah, the highest percentage in the country. coun-try. Parents can help by controlling control-ling how and when their teen drives and emphasizing the responsibility re-sponsibility their teen driver has for the safety of all their friends, family and others who share the road." AAA Utah offers a wide array ar-ray of automotive, travel, insurance insur-ance and financial services to more than 130,000 members. AAA has been a leader and advocate ad-vocate for the safety and security securi-ty of all travelers since it was founded more than 100 years ago. Tips on saving gas NAPS- When gasoline prices are high, nobody wants to be fu-elish. fu-elish. It's bad for the pocket-book pocket-book and the nation as well. Driving tips Idle as little as possible, idling gets "0" miles per-gallon. The best way to warm up a vehicle is to drive it. Aggressive driving, such as speeding, rapid acceleration, and hard braking wastes gas. Avoid high speeds. Each five mph driven over 60 mph is like paying an additional $0. 10 per gallon for gas; use air-conditioning only when necessary. Maintenance tips Keep tires properly inflated and aligned. Get regular engine tune-ups and car maintenance checks. Replace clogged air filters-this can improve a car's gas mileage by as much as 10 percent and it will also protect an engine. Combine errands into one trip. Several short trips taken from a cold start can use twice as much fuel as a longer multipurpose multi-purpose trip. Long-term savings Consider a highly fuel-efficient vehicle for the next car, SUV, or truck purchase. For some A-to-Z energy tips visit www.energy.gov and click on "energy saving tips" and select se-lect "cars." When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius , n KTLC.V. ft s. l'v .rfCf-ir- I , i J i' V "-h-mi. J"'! Lt.wm-miml U l- -I l LimumimI V Cmfii.aMHit,.iM Art City Elementary held their end of the year awards assembly on the course of the year and math. Congratulations to all the students Thursday, May 26. Children received awards for many achievements for an excellent year and working so hard to achieve their goals, including attendance, spelling, reading, running 50 miles or more over The return of the parents Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D. Students are approaching the final days of this educational educa-tional year but increasingly parents are heading back to school. While many students will soon be thinking of summer sum-mer jobs, administrators, teachers and parents will not be getting a break. Controversies Controver-sies involving schools and social so-cial issues will be keeping the adults busy for the foreseeable future. Weekly it seems a new situation situ-ation comes into the public consciousness where schools are the centers of controversy over what to teach regarding sexuality and sexual orientation. orienta-tion. Here is a sampling of the most recent situations: Two parent groups in Montgomery Mont-gomery County, Md., sued the school board over a proposed health education curriculum partially based on resources provided by homosexual advocacy advo-cacy groups. The curriculum and accompanying resources were so biased that a federal judge issued a temporary restraining re-straining order to halt the implementation im-plementation of the changes. The order was recently continued contin-ued until December, 2005. One of the groups involved in the Montgomery County, Md., lawsuit was recently rejected re-jected in its bid to exhibit its literature at the national convention con-vention of the National Parent-Teacher Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). PFOX is crying foul because a comparable group, the Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), was allowed to exhibit at no cost last year and is back again this year. At least one of the state PTA associations as-sociations is not happy. The Mississippi chapter of the PTA is supporting the right of PFOX to be at the national convention. con-vention. The Iowa State Board of Education will-soon determine if the Pleasant Valley Iowa School Board was correct to limit a pro-gay children's book to the middle school. After a father complained, the school board voted 4-3 to remove "The Misfits" by James Howe from the elementary school as a read aloud book. The author of the book has said publicly that he wanted to write "The Misfits" with a gay character in order to change beliefs concerning con-cerning homosexuality. In Massachusetts, a father was arrested because he refused re-fused to leave his son's elementary ele-mentary school until the principal prin-cipal agreed to follow Massa m chusetts parental notification law concerning sexual content in instruction. The father, David Parker, wanted to introduce intro-duce the subject of homosexuality homosexu-ality to his 6 year-old rather than the school taking that role. School officials declined to notify the father as required by law and provided books to kindergarten students that portrayed gay couples along side heterosexual couples. At this year's annual meeting, meet-ing, the Southern Baptist Convention Con-vention will be considering a resolution proposing that churches investigate whether the schools in their town promote pro-mote homosexual advocacy. If schools do and will not listen, parents will be encouraged to find other educational options. What are we to make of these eruptions of controversy? controver-sy? The educational establishment, establish-ment, as represented by the National Education Association, Associa-tion, would have us believe these parents are closed minded mind-ed or maybe even uncaring. When asked about the Southern South-ern Baptist resolution, Melinda Anderson, a spokeswoman for the NEA huffed: "It really baffles baf-fles me how a caring parent could find fault with public schools for trying to teach children to be respectful of others." What baffles me is how groups like the NEA and PTA can miss the significance of these parental uprisings. In states blue and red, mainstream main-stream parents are becoming organized in unprecedented ways to express frustration over how homosexuality is being be-ing taught to children from kindergarten to high school. The mantra recited by the educational establishment comes off sounding like a feeble fee-ble attempt at a Jedi mind trick - "what we teach about homosexuality is none of your concern; you want safe schools don't you?" Waving the club of tolerance, the educational edu-cational establishment smugly proceeds to denigrate one set of beliefs regarding homosexuality homosex-uality in order to promote another. an-other. Parents such as those who brought suit in Montgomery County are offended by the continual specter of unsafe schools raised by the educational educa-tional establishment. Are schools unsafe because of traditional tra-ditional beliefs concerning homosexuality? ho-mosexuality? Where is the research re-search to that effect? The The best birth experiences happen at Mountain View Hospital. MVH's birthing suites have many of the same comforts of home. The suites allow labor, birth and recovery in the same private room. We invite you to tour our spacious birthing suites. Call to see if your insurance plan will allow you to deliver at MVH. QucUUi 'Pleas call 465 '-7053,. ik school system has produced no evidence. Mainstream parents appear to be fed up with being told that their values and beliefs are intolerant, homophobic and even worse, responsible for the bullying of children. Read again the NEA statement concerning the Southern Baptist Bap-tist resolution. Ms. Anderson suggests that all the public schools are trying to do is teach respect; parents would like a little of that respect. If the educational establishment establish-ment does not make some moves to insure moral neutrality neutral-ity in instruction, I predict we will see lawsuits such as Montgomery Mont-gomery County's case replicated repli-cated throughout the land. In short, more parents will be coming back to school. Warren Throckmorton is director direc-tor of college counseling and an associate professor of psychology psycholo-gy at Grove City College. His research re-search "Initial Empirical and Clinical Clin-ical Findings Concerning the Change Process for Ex-Gays," was published in the June 2002 ill II D II June 3 (12:00) 3:10 6:20 9:25 (12:10) 3:15 6:25 9:35 (1:05) 4:05 7:00 9:35 (1:15) 4:15 6:45 9:25 (12:05) 2:15 4:25 7:15 (1:00) 4:00 6:55 9:35 4 Order and print tickets online at www.stadiumcinemas.com Early Matinee will play Fri, Sat, Sun only. No discount passes. 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