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Show 2 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, July 21, 2005 EDITORIAL COMMENTS Thankyou everyone i outstanding Folkf est Editor: The board and officers of the Springville World Folk-fest Folk-fest thank all who helped with this year's festival. Thank you to the host families, fam-ilies, the Springville City employees, em-ployees, the mayor and city -council, and the volunteers who spent countless hours working to make the festival the success that it was this year. We thank all of the neighbors neigh-bors to the festival site who were imposed upon because of the noise and late night music on two evenings last week. Thank you for your patience. Attendance was higher this year at the performances perfor-mances and we thank all who attended. We thank our sponsors, the Springville Herald, The Daily Herald, Neways International, Inter-national, and Gary Price for their support of the festival this year, along with all of the other advertisers in our Flag Amendment fixes Constitution Editor: As we near a Senate vote on the flag amendment, which passed the House for the 6th time June 22, the hysteria hys-teria in the media runs wild. They fear it could pass and in their frenzy they distort the facts. From recent radio and TV interviews it is clear to me that many of them have not read the amendment and do not understand its purpose pur-pose or impact. Tragically, they mislead their audience and are blatantly bla-tantly unfair to the truth. As an aside, many of those who fight for the right to desecrate dese-crate the symbol of our country coun-try are outraged at the desecration dese-cration of the symbol of many terrorists. Let's look at the truth. Many in the media support flag desecration as free expression." ex-pression." One need only think of the many types of expression to know why the Founders wisely eschewed that word. Some, in desperation despera-tion to fit their objections into the First Amendment, use the word "speech" in contradiction con-tradiction of the dictionary and in defiance to reason. Sixteen years ago 90 Senators Sena-tors voted for a statute to protect the flag after the Supreme Court, in Texas v. Springville Herald 269 E. 400 South Springville, UT 84663 An edition of The Daily Herald, Lee Enterprises Inc. Subscriptions & Deliver)- Service ....375-5103 News & Advertising 489-565 1 Fax 489-7021 E-mail ancityiavpro.com USPS 513460 Published Thursdays by Pulitzer Newspapers, Inc.. 269 E. 400 South, Springville, Utah S4663 Periodicals postage paid at Springville. Utah 84663 Postmaster: Send address changes to 269 E. 400 South, Springville, UT 84663 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Newsstand Price $.50 Subscription Rate 1 jw-$36.40 (in county) 1 year - $45.40 (out of county) Thursday only delivery or Sunday & Thursday plus holiday deliveries Holiday deliveries include delivery the week of Raster, Memorial, Independence, Pioneer, Labor, Thanksgiving, Christmas & NewYcart. (For in county subscriptions only.) News We welcome news tips. Call 489-5651 to report a news tip or if yoo have a comment or a questions. ' i We welcome letters to the editor. All letterc must include the authorls name ( printed and signed) and a telephone number. We reserve the right to edit letters for clarity, punctuation, taste and length. Letters are welcome on any topic. T program. The weather was very good this year, and all of the dancers and musicians who came from far and wide suffered suf-fered no major accidents or problems. Even the Tahitian dancers were astounded when three wooden drum-like instruments instru-ments were found here in the area after their own instruments instru-ments failed to arrive due to a baggage mix-up. Had the instruments not been found, they could not have performed. per-formed. Thank you to all the dancers and musicians who came to our city and shared their native dances and music. mu-sic. This year's World Folkf est was one of the most successful success-ful in recent memory. Thank you to everyone who helped. Martin Conover Chairman, Springville World Folkfest Johnson, took that right away. Those Senators could not have so voted if they believed be-lieved flag desecration was constitutionally protected speech. Three of four Americans, Ameri-cans, all 50 states and over 70 percent of the Congress agree that desecrating the flag is not speech. Critics say the amendment protects the flag and changes the Bill of Rights. It does neither, and this is important im-portant to understand. The flag amendment says: "The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical physi-cal desecration of the flag of the United States." An amendment, of itself, does not protect the flag. It simply takes control over the flag away from the courts and returns re-turns it to the people where it resided until 1989. Once the amendment is ratified, and only then, can a law be passed to protect the flag. This point is fundamental fundamen-tal for those Senators who seek a statute to protect Old Glory. They can have a statute, but only after an amendment is ratified by the people. As for changing the Bill of Rights, consider this. By judicial judi-cial fiat, with a single vote from one Supreme Court Justice, Jus-tice, flag desecration was inserted in-serted into the Bill of Rights. If you deny this then answer this question: If the Court had declared that flag burning burn-ing was not speech, would they then have amended the Bill of Rights? One pundit feared the amendment would curtail the rights of those who hate us. There are no laws against hating, but there are laws against hateful conduct. Flag burning fits both roles. But this is about rights, the right of the people to protect their flag, the right of the majority to rule, the right of the people to define their Constitution. And beyond the flag, this issue spills over into the right to protect our children from pornography, the right to own property, to pray, to post the Ten Commandments, Com-mandments, and to say the Pledge of Allegiance. If we can recapture our flag, we will have begun a march to recapture our Constitution. Con-stitution. Patrick H. Brady (Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Patrick H. Brady is a recipient re-cipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, credited with the medical evacuation of over 5,000 combat casualties casual-ties while serving as a "Dustoff " helicopter pilot during dur-ing the Vietnam War. He is Chairman of the Board of the Citizen's Flag Alliance, a coalition of more than 140 civic, fraternal, veterans, minority mi-nority and business organizations organi-zations representing some 20 million Americans determined deter-mined to return to the people their right to protect Old Glo-, ry-) Library Contribution Anyone? "Mapleton's My Town" Editor: "Which brings us to our final fi-nal point regarding the new facility. Why is Mapleton City out with a tin cup in hand asking for library contributions? con-tributions? According to their statements, the community commu-nity center seems to be adequately ade-quately financed. Furthermore, Further-more, the vast consensus of Mapleton residents is that because be-cause they are already paying pay-ing the highest utility rates in the state, the highest impact fees in the state, and their property taxes have been soaring as a result of escalating escalat-ing property values, they are in no mood to make additional addition-al 'donations' to fund a library li-brary of dubious need in the Internet era." Reprinted from the Mapleton Coalition Newsletter, July 2005. On behalf of the Mapleton Library Fund Committee, we want to thank the many volunteers vol-unteers who helped "Make a Difference in Mapleton" by contacting the citizens in a door-to-door campaign. Many volunteer hours were put mto this endeavor and the community will greatly benefit from having a library in our new city building. In the event you were missed and would like to contribute, please take or mail your contributions to the city. Again, we thank all who participated and those who contributed in making a difference in Mapleton. We feel the need to respond re-spond to the negativism written writ-ten in the Mapleton Coalition letter about "the city out with a tine cup in hand asking for library contributions." The city" was actually a group of concerned, dedicated volunteers volun-teers who were willing to visit every home in our community com-munity for the benefit of a new library. We have read every issue of the "Mapleton Coalition" newsletters. We can see nothing good, uplifting or positive coming from such a publication. We only see ill reelings in our community, divisiveness and a self-serving attitude among the critics. crit-ics. If all of the efforts and funds expended to collect data, write articles and produce pro-duce the newsletter were put into the betterment of the city, what an amazing difference differ-ence could be made. To quote Doug Brinley, author au-thor of "America's Hope," "For this nation to move ahead in the coming years, we need citizens and statesmen states-men to put country above personal advancement." Attention Springville High School Class of 1995! Can you believe that it has been 10 years since the Class of 1995 was in high school? It is now time to get together and have fun. It's reunion time for the Springville High School Class of 1995. It all begins on Saturday, Aug, 6, with a lunch-time picnic pic-nic for the family at the Mapleton Maple-ton North Park, 1400 W. 1600 North. This is NOT Mapleton Park in the center of town, but the baseball park on 1600 North. It will be held from 11 am to 2 p.m. This event will have lots of games and activities the whole family can enjoy. Bring your own picnic luncH, blankets and a change of clothes for the kids (they might get wet!). Drinks, chips, snow cones and fun will be provided. That same night there will be a dinner for the adults at the Bella Via Reception Center in Spanish Fork, 519 N. Main Street, from 7-11 p.m. Semi-formal Semi-formal casual dress is expected. expect-ed. The organizers hope that everyone can attend at least one event, but they hop to see everyone at both. The costs are as follows: Picnic - $10per adult (kids are free). Dinner -$40per adult. Discounted price for attending both events -$35per adult. Tickets will remain re-main at these prices until July 31, after which there will be an additional $5 late fee. You may pay via Paypal online by visiting the web site for our reunion: www .byte- Oscar Whiting served as mayor of Mapleton in the days when there were no TDR's, zoning ordinances, sewer problems, personnel complaints or unnappiness over secondary water. His greatest challenge was irrigation irri-gation water disputes! He served at the beginning of city government in Mapleton. Maple-ton. It would not be a bad idea to return to our roots and take the high road on challenging chal-lenging and difficult city issues. is-sues. We recommend reading read-ing the words to a wonderful Mapleton song from the past, keeping in mind that by working together, not against one another, we can make this a better place for all. "Mapleton's My Town" You may wonder why I have this special feeling, Why to me this dear old town is so appealing. I have thought about it too, why I feel the way I do, Well, it's more than heart; it's more than head, I suppose it simply can be said that... Mapleton's My Town, Mapleton for Me! This is the place to be. In the shelter of her mountain moun-tain I'm content to spend my days. The atmosphere for living here could win a poet's praise! Oh, I like the people. They're my folks and friends. I am bound to them by love and loyalty. Oh, our orchard hills were blessed, With the most of heaven's best And it all adds up to "Home Sweet Home" to me! Mapleton is our town and it is your town. It's a wonderful won-derful place for all of us to live. Let's begin to work together to-gether to build and maintain the atmosphere we all enjoy so much. Respectfully, "The City" (Make a Difference for Mapleton Library Volunteers) Gayle Gammell Diane Butterfield Sharon Gomez Hope Crandall Mary Lynne York Karla Hjorth Sue Wiscombe Laurel Lopez Judy Walters Anne Gappmayer Marian Larsen Sharon Nelson Dawna Jeffers Kathy Brinkerhoff Geri James Shauna Peterson cave.comSHS1995, or pay by check through traditional mail. If you want to pay for your tickets by check, please make the check payable to Joe Widdison, making sure to write "SHS 1995 reunion" on the memo line. Send the check to the following address: ad-dress: Joe Widdison, 14 Boulevard Boule-vard Terrace, Allston, MA 02134. They have located some members of the class but, are still missing a large number of individuals. If you know where your friends are, or where their families are, they need you to spread the word. An email can be sent to Bryan Johnson at bryaneverleaf.net with any contact information you might have. You can visit the website at www.bytecave.comSHS1995 for details on maps to the locations loca-tions and payment options. They hope to see many of the class members and catch up on everything! Please get the word out. Mupkton Police report Mapleton Police took a female fe-male dog to the animal shelter shel-ter after it killed 12 chickens. The police had 48 calls last week with 14 of those for animal an-imal problems. Thanks for coming! The 2005 Springville World Folkfest officially ended Saturday night to rousing applause and fireworks. The weather, tnougn very nor, was perieci ror tne perror mances, there were no serious problems, and everyone at tendine enioved another ereat event in our citv. As a host family, and in words cannot express the good-bye to our guests at o nara to speaK as we au nuggea, wun tears m our eyes, knowing we will probably never see each other again. How can you get so close to someone in only a few days? I never knew it was possible until we volunteered to host for the Folkfest 19 years ago. That first year, I said food-bye to my guests after our week together, went ome and cried ail day. I had no idea that I would have those feelings when I offered to open my home to total strangers. This year was the same, as all of the 17 years that we nave been a nost ramiiy. roiKiesi wees is jusi ine Dest time of the summer. You put your life on hold and just enjoy en-joy the week, getting to know your guests, taking them Dlaces and eniovinff everv nieht of the performances. One family who hosted encing Folktest tor tne tirst time, ine coupie ana tneir tour boys live in saiem ana naa ine rime oi ineir me. i ney made sure that their name is on the list for next year, and they are seriously considering visiting their guest dancers in Tahiti! Another family with four young children also hosted for the first time. They could not believe their feelings by the end of the week. They thanked and thanked us for getting them to host. They said their children thought the guests were going to live with them always. And, they too, want to host again next year. Hosting the performers is like that; you experience the wonderful feeling of cultures coming together and loving one another. The last night of the Folkfest there is a gift exchange between be-tween each country that has come to perform and the Folkfest Board of Directors. The Native American group Morning Star gave a simple gift, a prayer feather. In presenting pre-senting it, the director said that when they say their prayers they pray that we can all come together some day in world peace. And that is what the World Folkfest is all about, peace and love and friendship. The dancers and musicians feel the magic too. They all expressed their gratefulness for the wonderful time they had here in our city and for the friends they made. They expressed a special thanks to the host families. They so appreciate staying with American families and learning about how we live. One director said that he was grateful his young people had the opportunity to meet American families. We are grateful these wonderful people came to our citv and entertained us and stayed in out homes. We are grateful for this opportunity. Springville Police report Springville Police had 273 calls last week with 42 of those for animal problems. Shad Heber Bechstrom, Orem, was arrested for giving giv-ing false information to police, po-lice, suspended driver's license li-cense and four outstanding warrants. A female juvenile juve-nile was cited for shoplifting shoplift-ing at Wal-Mart. A 13-year-old male juvenile juve-nile was cited for curfew violation. Scott Charles Boel, 646 S. 170 West, Springville, was cited for possession of tobacco by a minor and aiding curfew violation. Jason Lee Caras, 1138 E. 100 North, Spanish Fork, was arrested for four counts of burglary and criminal tresspassing. Timothy Tim-othy Jared Devey, 1192 W. 5000 South, Spanish Fork, was cited for disorderly conduct. Eldon L. Fleming Jr., 360 W. 400 North 19, Springville, was arrested for a warrant. Julian Jiminez Gutierrez, 435 E. 565 South 3, Springville, was arrested for a warrant. Juan Diego-Acosta Hernandez, Her-nandez, 1388 Dunmore Drive, Dri-ve, Springville, was cited for disturbing the peace. UDOTRegion Three Road Report Motorists should expect lane restrictions and detours The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) advises ad-vises motorists of the following follow-ing construction work. S.R. 75 Interchange in Springville July 17-22. Interstate 15 will be closed from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. for bridge demolition. Motorists will be detoured around the area via the on- and off-ramps. Flag-gers Flag-gers will be posted to guide motorists through the construction con-struction area. Motorists should expect slight delays. UDOT encourages motorists mo-torists to use caution and travel at the posted speed limits while driving through work zones. Schedules and are subject to change due to inclement weather, equipment equip-ment problems or emergency emer-gency situations. talking to other host families. feelings we had as we said a.m. Monday morning. It was with me this year were experi Patti Lyn Madsen, 2085 S. State, Springville, was arrested ar-rested for assaultdomestic violence. Kevin Kay Maynard, 355 S. 900 East, Springville, was cited for disorderly conduct, suspended license and no insurance. Jake Ny-land, Ny-land, 95 S. 100 East 20, Springville, was arrested for two warrants and possession pos-session of drug paraphernalia. parapher-nalia. David William Peay, 95 S. 100 East 18, Springville, was cited for shoplifting. A male juvenile was citeeffor shoplifting at Walmart. Robert Matthew Shaffer, 232 N. 1100 East, Springville, was cited for assaultdomestic violence and criminal mischiefdamage. mischiefdam-age. Nicole Stremke, 380 W. 300 North, Provo, was arrested for a warrant. Dennis L. Wilson, homeless, home-less, was arrested for two warrants. Travis John Wright, 259 W. 100 South, Springville, was cited for shoplifting. Thefts included an x-box and cell phone from a business, busi-ness, money from a cash-box cash-box at a business and two gasoline skips. The Springville Herald Customer Service 375-5103 489-5651 Fax 489-7021 239 L 400 S. 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