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Show 1 SPRINGVILLE HERALD- Thursday, febniary 2, 2006 Comments Remember the little guy Editor: I would like to voice my opinion on the new Walgreens Wal-greens chain store coming to Springville and the effect it most certainly will have on three little guys: Art City Pharmacy, Allen's Market Pharmacy and S.O.S. Drug. - I am scratching my head and wondering why Springville City would allow a major chain store to be built one city block of these three assets to this communi ty. People! Please! Lets keep supporting these guvs. We don t want them closing their doors. They are your neighbors neigh-bors and friends. They are not in business to make a million dollars! Obviously, Obvi-ously, they are just trying to make an honest living and provide a service to their community. I would just like to say, Thank you little guys, Bow for health instead of shaking hands Editor: I believe that we could vastly improve the health of our citizenry and save billions bil-lions of dollars in costs associated asso-ciated with colds, flu and other oth-er illnesses if we, as Americans, Ameri-cans, would adopt the practice prac-tice of bowing when greeting greet-ing one another, rather than shaking hands. Millions of Americans at any given time are infected with various viruses, the symptoms of which are often concealed by the use of the vast array of medications available, which allow sick people to continue working, rather than stay home in bed where they are less likely to infect others. This fact was brought home to me this past week, when after working in the cold and rain for several hours, I came down with bronchitis-like symptoms. I should have stayed in bed for a couple of days to avoid contact with the outside world, but an extremely heavy work-load forced me to medicate myself to the point that I could continue working. ACLU wars on Scouts and U.SA. Editor: To get back at the Boy Scouts for refusing to let homosexuals ho-mosexuals and pedophiles become scoutmasters, a federal fed-eral judge ruled that a local scouting troop is a religious organization and therefore ineligible to continue its longstanding long-standing lease of a public park. District Judge Napoleon Springville Herald 269 E. 400 South Springville, UT 84663 An edition of The Daily Herald, Lee Enterprises Inc. 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We reserve the right to edit letters for clarity, punctuation, taste and length. Letters are welcome on any topic. I know a lot of us appreciate your years of effort. Thanks to big businesses, it is progressively harder for small business to be successful. success-ful. Walgreens is the biggest drug chain store in the country. coun-try. They have nearly 5,000 stores nationwide and report doing 4.2 billion dollars in sales last year. Yes, we all shop for the best bargain that we can get; competition is good for the consumer. I just feel for all the small busmesses fighting to sur vive in this ' little fish, big fish" sea of commerce. I am not from Springville, but I have worked here for several years. I also opened a small business on Springville's Main Street this past year with my two sisters, sis-ters, and we ended up closing clos-ing after being open for only I made a point of staying away from my aged parents' house during the time that I might have been infectious, and further made a point of standing back from people when visiting with them. Yesterday evening, even though I was' feeling much better, and felt that I would no longer infect otb ers, I made a point of sitting at least two seats away from my family and guests at supper. sup-per. The biggest problem that I faced was in avoiding shaking shak-ing hands with friends, new acquaintances, and business associates during the period that I felt that I was somewhat some-what of a danger to society's health. When I would be approached ap-proached with an outstretched out-stretched hand, I would stand back a step and bow with my hands behind my back, or bow with my palms touching with my hands against my heart as do the Hindus. At first, several of the people peo-ple I encountered felt a certain cer-tain degree of offense that I refused to shake hands with them, for in this country, re- Jones said last month that because be-cause Scouts take an oath of duty to God, the group's agreement with San Diego to use the city's Balboa Park violates vi-olates the First Amendment's Amend-ment's prohibition on state--sponsored religion. His decision came in a suit filed against the Scouts by the anti-Christian bigots at the ACLU on behalf of Scout-hating Scout-hating lesbians their "Boy Scout-aged sons." The local Scout troop, The Desert Pacific Council of the Boy Scouts, had used a corner cor-ner of Balboa Park since I IVAYAYA O if 'WO 410 South 450 West Springville, Utah 84663 80 1 -48Q-Qfi7fi Dr Haro,d Judd Davis DVM- UVl lUv Veterinarian NATIONAL PET DENTAL HYGIENE MONTH r fc, For . call I v.. ' -N . L . 'A. VJ seven to eight months, but it was a great experience! We thank everyone in town that came to Sidetracks while we were open. Springville's Main Street has a lot to offer. I for one plan on trying harder to support small businesses. Yeah, Walgreens and Wal-Mart Wal-Mart have a lot of everything, every-thing, maybe even too much! I have found more interesting interest-ing items in Art City Pharmacy, Phar-macy, Allen's Market (gifts and household goods, etc.) than anywhere else in Utah County. Thanks to small businesses everywhere for keeping things interesting and not so generic. I am not suggesting to everyone to boycott Walgreens, Wal-greens, I am only saying, remember re-member the little guy! Connie Swenson fusal to shake hands is a sign of disrespect up to and m- eluding malice and even ha tred. Some friends even tried to insist that I shake hands with them, in spite of my attempts at explaining why I preferred pre-ferred to bow, especially while as a potential disease carrier, l would say, "it is be cause I love you and care for you that I prefer to bow - not because I am mad at you or don't like you." It that explanation seemed to fail, I would continue with, "If you were my adversary, I would not only shake your hand with great gusto but would kiss you on the lips as well." That further explanation explana-tion would always do the trick. After each explanation, the friends or associates would accept my polite bow and dow in return, lhey would even express gratitude when i explained now numan hands are significant disease carriers due to natural, unconscious un-conscious human mannerisms, manner-isms, such as sneezing against the back of one's hand, coughing into the palm 1940, and leased land from the city since 1957. The Scouts spent $2 million building an aquatic center in Balboa, as well as improving the land with new trees, water, wa-ter, campsites, a swimming pool and other facilities. All that must be abandoned aban-doned now as the war against the Scouts and God by the anti-Christian ACLU and its allies of the radical God-haters continues across our land. To drive the Boy Scouts out of Balboa Park, the ACLU received $940,000 in i roTH RXO i il ------i Mention this ad and receive ! !150FF! your pets next teeth cleaning all this month! J Expires 2-28-06 more information on us today at 489-9676! Mapleton Police report Mapleton Police had 39 calls last week including 10 for animal-related problems. Tyler Bringhurst, 95 N. Main, Mapleton, was cited for two dogs running at large. William Young, 1570 S. 600 East, Springville, was cited for two loose horses. Roger and Tracy Com-stock, Com-stock, 3180 S. Main, Mapleton, Maple-ton, were cited for two dogs at large and dog attacking another animal. Richard Coleman, 830 W. 1000 North, Mapleton, was arrested for three outstanding outstand-ing warrants and criminal trespass. Cortney Hoffman, 645 S. 700 East, Springville, was cited for criminal trespass. James Coleman, 830 W. 1000 North, Mapleton, was arrested arrest-ed for a warrant. There was a hit and run accident ac-cident with damage at 370 W. 1600 North, and police found a bike at 625 N. Main and are holding it at the station. sta-tion. of your hand, or rubbing itching or watery eyes and nose. I believe that if enough prominent Americans, including in-cluding celebrities and politicians, politi-cians, would begin to politely bow in public and before the media rather than shake, hands, that many if not the vast majority of Americans would abandon the un- healthv practice in favor of the polite "bow for health." George H. Russell Violence-loving society to blame Editor: I am as repulsed and upset as anyone who has seen the recent reports - or video - of seemingly amoral teens beat ing, is ing, stomping, and kicking t helpless adult victims simply tor tun. (the incident in Philadelphia involved the filming film-ing of an apparently premeditated premedi-tated attack on a random victim.) vic-tim.) , However, I'm also upset by the sanctimonious, hypocriti- attorney fees. So far the ACLU has filed fifteen law suits against the Boy Scouts to destroy them. As part of their war against America and our Christian culture, the anti-Christian anti-Christian ACLU, the Hollywood Holly-wood filth peddlers and their allies of the far-left secular humanist elite (Gadianton Robbers) are among the foremost purveyors to completely com-pletely eliminate our national borders and sovereignty. After they have destroyed our national borders and sovereignty, sov-ereignty, they would then turn our nation into a Third World, secular humanist despotism v America is . engaged in a mighty culture war, a contest con-test pitting godless globalist elites against heartland Americans who love their country and traditions. The destruction of the United States by the forces of evil is a top priority of Satan. Sa-tan. Art Larson Springville HELP WANTED: Performer Story-time Performers will stage weekly half-hour programs to groups of 25 to 150 ranging from infants to 5yr-olds & adults, reading and telling stories, singing songs, & making dramatic presentations which may include wearing costumes, dancing, rap, improvisation, puppets, etc. All performances perform-ances will support emergent literacy under the direction of Children's Program Coordinator. Must be able to work as' a team and effectively interact with young children and parents. Must be creative, extroverted, high-energy, animated. PT 9:30-noon T-F. $1 0hr. Apply by Feb. 15 at www.springville.org EDITORIAL Why does the city do it?.... Have you heard that question before? Why does the city do this or that? , ..... We have all heard it; we might have even said it our- selves The problem with this question is that the person asking usually does not know all the facts before he or she asks the question. . Take for instance; a well-meaning reader sent in a let-ter-to-the-editor wondering why the city would allow Walgreens to come to Springville when we already have three pharmacies in the downtown area. The truth is that if someone purchases property and meets the city building codes, they can build whatever they want The city cannot turn a business down just because be-cause there is already another business of the same type in the community. , , , Other equally well-meaning citizens ask why the city allows al-lows so many people to move here, saying we already have enough population. The answer is similar to the one above. If a person or developer purchases land for building homes, meets the city building codes and has the water rights, they can build homes. Others ask why the city spends so much money on the statues that have been placed outdoors in the community. The answer is that the city does not, nor have they ever, paid for the statues. Funds are donated by individuals or businesses, or the artists donate the piece. The statues have been placed in the city under the Statues to Live By program for all the citizens to enjoy. The city does pay a small amount for the bases. Some citizens complain that we should not let any more people come here because we don't have enough water. When in fact, we do have enough water. The city is working work-ing all the time on increasing the water supply. Yes, in times of drought we have been asked to conserve, but that is just sensible. We do live on a desert. The answer to the question of "Why does the city do this or that?" can be found a study of the problem and is usually a matter of being uninformed or being told something some-thing that is not right. We invite all citizens to study the city's problems and methods which are usually dictated by state law. Rarely does the city do things which are unexplainable. But sometimes we do not like the reasons. Attending city council meetings, serving on citizen committees, reading the newspaper and the city newsletter, newslet-ter, or talking to city leaders and employees are all ways to become informed. cal hand-wringing and confusion confu-sion that traditionally follows these events. "Who ARE these teenagers? And, where on earth did they come from?" we ask. .They came from us - from the violence-loving hearts of our violently entertained adult society: Let's be honest: we love violence. vio-lence. We truly do. (The exception, ex-ception, of course, is when it really happens to someone we know or love.) Watching violence vio-lence has replaced sex as the edgy New Porn of the day. Consider this: the movie "Hostel," which opened less than a month ago, features extended scenarios of extreme ex-treme physical torture (not as a sideline to the plot but as the plot itself). Not someone whacking someone across the kneecaps for information, but burning, cutting, eviscerating just for the heck of it. Not only do we gleefully watch it -don't you want to know what a burnt eyeball looks like when it is pulled out? - we reward re-ward it amply ("Hostel" has brought in well over $42 million mil-lion in less than a month) and wait for more. Hostel's predecessors in gore - "Saw" and "Saw 2"-earned 2"-earned $59 million in 9 weeks, and $30.5 million in three days respectively. We love this stuff. (By comparison, the beautifully offbeat "Garden State" earned less than $27 million in 21 weeks, and Kevin ' Spacey's daring "Beyond The Sea" earned little more than $6 million in 10 weeks.) It is no accident that the new rage in violence seems to be videotaping it. Because the real "buzz is in replaying it, sharing the Director's Cut. Isn't Is-n't this what slow-motion was invented for? Why go to the movies to see it when you can produce your own? Let's also be honest about what has possessed us as a people for the past four years: war. Our troops are not overseas over-seas doing Peer Mediation; we are spending billions of dollars dol-lars - and what would have been billions of our children's dollars - training our young men and women to learn how to better kill people. Not only are we bombing, and shooting "the enemy" on command, some underground videos of this have already made their way home, been put to a rap beat and have been circulated for popular amusement. (Anyone see the one by the rapping soldiers with the image of the Iraqi with a gun on his shoulder who gets shot in the head from a distance before he can fire off his rounds?) The more sensitive teenagers I have talked to who have seen "Hostel" have been disturbed by it. Somehow Some-how seeing someone tied to a chair and slowly tortured to death wasn't all they had hoped it would be. Make no mistake: neither these movies nor our current war(s) were made by teenagers. They are merely consumers and participants. "Counter-culture?" Forget it -long gone. They are us. You may have more reason to fear than you knew. Jerry Sander Warwick. NY (Jerry Sander, is the author of Permission Slips, a novel. He has worked with teenagers as a psychotherapist psychothera-pist and school counselor for the past 19 years.) The Springville Herald Customer Service 375-5103 489-5651 Fax 489-7021 239 E. 400 S. Springville, Utah 84663 Pufafcher Kkk Parkinson l(porkhsonheraklextni.com Manager Craig Conover aMnoverheraldexfra.com Edrtor - Pat Conover ' artdtyavpro.com Page dedgnad layout Maraa Harris Typesetter Shem Harris Office Manager JanealDuffin SendNevKhemstousat arldtyavpro.coni |