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Show Thursday, February 16, 2006 Comments SPRINGVILLE HERALD Editorial mnks Nek for support oi music programs! Editor Every now and then as a parent there are moments when you forget about all your nagging and lugging a string bass around and receive re-ceive a gift beyond comprehension. compre-hension. Watching our children play their instruments as a part of an orchestra of 138 sixth graders last Thursday night .at the Springville Middle School Orchestra concert was just such a moment. Our children played to an absolutely packed auditorium at Springville High School. As their instructor Deanna Helquist said, "They make it look easy." But we as parents know it is not. In just six months, our children have gone from knowing nothing about stringed instruments to playing play-ing part of the Brandenburg Concerto in concert. . As a parent of two sixth graders who are both students stu-dents of orchestra, I would like to thank Deanna Helquist for all she does, and thank the Nebo School District for their support of the music-program! To have that many separate sepa-rate classes and individuals come together to create something beautiful which they in turn share with the community is the ultimate educational ed-ucational experience. The students are learning much more than how to play their musical instruments. They are also experiencing the joy of participating in something much larger than themselves and the discipline ' and rewards of practicing to improve their skills. Only someone who is passionate pas-sionate about what she is doing do-ing and able to communicate that to her students could have drawn such a superb performance out of our children. chil-dren. I will be forever grateful for this wonderful learning opportunity given to my children chil-dren that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. Janet Riley Springville Mapleton police report Mapleton Police had 48 c'alls last week including 10 for animal realated problems. prob-lems. They stopped a juvenile for a taffic violation and found he was in possesion of a handgun,' which was illegal. Springville Herald 269 E. 400 South Springville, UT 84663 An edition of The Daily Herald, a Pulitzer, Inc. Newspaper Subscriptions &. Delivery Service ....375-5 103 News & Advertising ..489-5651 Fax 489-7021 E-mail artcityte avpro.com USPS 513-060 Published Thursdays by Lee Enterprises. Inc., 269 E. 400 S.. Springville. Utah 84663 Periodicals postage paid at Springville, Utah 84663 Postmaster: Send address changes to 269 East 400 South, Springville, UT 84663 . Member: Audit Bureau of Circulations Newsstand Price $.50 Subscription Rate 20c per week or S10.40 annually Thursday only or Sunday & Thursday plus holiday deliveries Holiday deliveries include delivery the week of Easter. Memorial. Independence, Pioneer. Labor. Thanksgiv ing. Christmas & New Year's. ( For in county subscriptions only. ) News We welcome news tips. Call 489-5651 to report a news tip or if you have a comment or a questions. We welcome letters to the editor. All letters must include the author's 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. Air, water, earth and fire Editor: In my conception of "Our Situation", there are four absolute necessities. Unfortunately, government govern-ment can only handle number num-ber three, without violating human rights. We must learn how to learn these truths: ' 1. We are all breathing the same air. Thus, we must each accept all of us as equals, It's time to stop thinking as countries, cultures, cul-tures, religions or other groups. We must see ourselves our-selves as a species. Our subdivisions sub-divisions within that species must not over-ride our concerns con-cerns for the happiness of our species. We are all humans. We must find ways to live together. to-gether. This is not a government govern-ment thing. It is a personal, spiritual thing. It is the first and most important step we must take. 2. We all use water, yet we violate it and leave it to Mother Earth to recycle it for us. Amazingly, She is still doing a great job. We must learn to recycle everything, every-thing, especially, but not limited to fuel. There is plenty of energy from the sun both on the surface and in near space. We can recycle all the minerals min-erals we use, once energy is abundant and cheap. We can clean up nearly all the water we spoil, and generate gener-ate more than enough electrical elec-trical energy in a combined solar stillelectrical generation genera-tion plant . It can be developed to make it economically very competitive, making fossil fuels as obsolete as horses. Recycling everything is not something government can achieve without overwhelming over-whelming support from committed individuals. 3. Each of us stands on a unique spot of the Earth. We have a right to stand here. We also have the right to choose what we will be. This is a government thing. It is time for all governments govern-ments to read, adopt and obey the second paragraph . of the US Declaration of Independence. In-dependence. It is time to repeal re-peal all religious laws, including in-cluding the laws in the United Unit-ed States of America that step on some of our unpop When asked what he was doing do-ing with the gun, the juvenile admitted he was going to use it in a robbery. He was arrested ar-rested and taken to Slate Canyon Detention. John Bayon, 136 W. Maple, was arrested for an outstanding out-standing warrant. There were three auto burglaries bur-glaries in which vehicle windows win-dows were broken and CDs, clothing, a bookbag and other oth-er items were taken. Police are asking anyone with any information on these bur- flaries to please call the po-ce po-ce station. There was a two car accident acci-dent at 60 N. Main and a car hit a deer at 1400 N and SR 89. 0357 Springville Exit 260 off 1-15 806-9500 Signature service on most vehicles, see dealer for details ular citizens for practicing their inalienable right to the pursuit of their own happiness happi-ness their own way, as long as they have no unwilling victims. Start with America, then show the world the results. When these laws are all repealed, re-pealed, the motivation for religious violence will be mostly eliminated, bringin war and terrorism to a to erable level. Violence will not resolve the violence. 4. Although last, the fourth necessity is not less important. We must learn, voluntarily, to limit our population in a manner that allows acceptable prosperity prosperi-ty to everyone, within the limits of our resources. Again, I do not see how this can be achieved by government gov-ernment without some serious seri-ous violations of rights. We Springville Police report Jeremy Bloom, homeless, was charged with aggravated aggravat-ed robbery, aggravated kidnapping, kid-napping, aggravated burglary, bur-glary, child abuse, theft and criminal mischief last week. Police had 177 calls for the week including 31 for animal ani-mal related problems. Sarah Atwood, 231 E. 100 South, Springville, was arrested ar-rested for an outstanding warrant. Terry Black, 1110 E. 1200 South, Springville, was arrested for two counts of forcible sexual abuse of a 13-year-old child. Jeremy K. Prince, 459 E. Center, Springville was cited cit-ed for aiding curfew violation, viola-tion, and two juveniles with him were cited for curfew, with one of them also cited for possession of tobacco by a mmor. Carla Lynn Covington, 148 S. 900 East, Springville, was arrested for a warrant. A male juvenile was cited for tresspassing on school property. Rebecca J. Johnston, 598 E. 400 South, Springville, was cited for contributing to the delinquiency of a minor, mi-nor, and five juveniles in the same case were cited for possession of alcohol by a minor with one of them also being charged with DUI. Lesa Young, 733 E. 200 North, Springville, weas cited cit-ed for disruption on school property. Vance Wayne Dhooge, 280 E. 300 North 8, Springville, was cited for intoxication. Matthew S. Glade, 890 S. Cranberry Way, Springville, was arrested for a warrant. A female juvenile ju-venile was cited for possession posses-sion of alcohol by a minor! Roger Grady, 991 S. 2300 East, Springville, was arrested ar-rested for a warrant. A female fe-male juvenile was cited for possession of tobacco by a minor. Dalyn Albert Olsen, 164 N. 200 East, Springville, was arrested for DUI and cited for theft, suspended license li-cense and interfering with arrest. Someone cut a fence and broke into a storage container con-tainer taking semi tires. it is ex- tremelv EVIL to multiply and overflow the world. God commanded us to multiply mul-tiply and fill the Earth. Okay, it is full. Mission accomplished. ac-complished. We must, as a society, make it very unpopular un-popular to exceed the calculated calcu-lated recommendations, especially es-pecially considering available avail-able technology. These four solutions (air, water, earth, fire) must become be-come the new religion of mankind. They must override over-ride all other sacred notions. no-tions. This is, indeed, a spiritual spir-itual quest, as well as a political po-litical one. I claim no spiritual spiri-tual authority and speak only from personal conviction. convic-tion. Ken Larsen Planned Candidate for Utah Senate, District 2 Salt Lake City Construction tools were taken in another burglary of a storage shed. And a laptop, lap-top, DVDs, digital camera and mail were taken from an unmarked vehicle. Patriotism is easy to understand un-derstand in America, it means looking out for yourself your-self by looking out for your country. - Calvin Coolidge must learn that "Cartoons, religion, and the Dr. L.John VanTil The Muhammad cartoon incident is the latest chapter in the 30-year-old revival of a world-wide jihad-holy war-against war-against Christians and Jews. This revival was inspired by Osama bin Ladin's friend and mentor Abdullah Azzam. Azzam was a Palestinian born, Cairo educated Ph.D. in Islamic jurisprudence, who wrote books and spoke incessantly inces-santly about his view of jihad. He was also very active in the Afghan war in the 1980s against the Soviets, though assassinated in 1989; he was recognized by many in that venture as a gifted war strategist. His view of iihad was a revival of an old, obscure ob-scure view which claimed that it was a duty of all Muslims Mus-lims to seek out and kill all infidels, in-fidels, that is, Christians and Jews who were, by definition, defini-tion, enemies of the Prophet. We may wonder whether Azzam's radical view of jihad will feed this incident and cause it to mushroom into a much larger international crisis. cri-sis. This incident is surely an opportunity for followers of Azzam to find new recruits and pump them up for serious seri-ous mischief, and that is worth noting. We can, however, how-ever, also taKe this occasion to understand more fully the vast gulf that separates an Islamic Is-lamic view of the world from that generally found in the West, particularly in the United States. On reflection, it seems remarkable, re-markable, if not astonishing, that American leaders have not pointed out this crucial difference in world views. Indeed, In-deed, minimizing the great difference could generate FACTORY AUTHORIZED DEALER & SERVICE CENTER We offer service and tune-ups on most chainsaws or small engine yard tools! Get yours done today! 'OUR StEDS GROW f (ARPENTER EED tO; 1030 South State, Provo 373-3740 Hours: Mon. - Sat. 8 am to 5 pm Hobble Creek Golf Course one of many assets in our community Each month department heads in Springville City report re-port on the state of their respective departments. Not only do they report verbally, but the mayor and city council are given printed copies of their reports. In reading through the 44-page report for the Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 meeting, one is amazed at how many things are happening and being accomplished in the city. Things that the average citizen knows nothing about. Members of the city council have to read through all of this and have it in their minds so that they can ask questions ques-tions and make intelligent decisions. The department heads have to answer to all of the things that are happening happen-ing in their respective areas. ,',,, We were intrigued at the report from the Hobble Creek Golf Course for January. Most citizens would think that the golf course must be closed for the winter and not much going on. That is not the case. , . , In January, the golf course took in $ 1 1,673, which came from annual passes, punch cards and gift certificates! Their report said that the golf course is on target for their revenue projections for the year. Since July 1, 2005, they record total revenues of $520,184 The golf course is a money maker in the city. It is also a place that attracts many out-of-town and out-of-state players. . The Hobble Creek Golf course is well-known and revered as one of the finest courses in the country. If you aren't a golfer, you might not know how popular it is. But what do the golf course workers do during the winter? win-ter? We found in the report that they are very busy working work-ing on 130 pieces of equipment what include steam cleaning, clean-ing, servicing and sharpening of such. Operation and maintenance of equipment is very important im-portant in order to eliminate breakdowns during the regular reg-ular golf season. They are also working on 66 electric golf carts that need to be cleaned and serviced in the off season. This includes in-cludes adjusting the brakes and steering cables, replacing any worn parts and thoroughly cleaning all carts and applying ap-plying armor-all to all rubber and plastic areas. These are things we certainly never thought about. They also check weekly for ice build-up on the greens. Thanks to Sonny Braun, director at Hobble Creek, and all his workers for the things they do all year long to make Hobble Creek Golf Course one of the jewels in our community. grave errors in foreign policy poli-cy decisions. What are some of the doctrines doc-trines or assumptions of Islam Is-lam that set it so far apart from Western views of society? soci-ety? First, Muslims view their religion as a world-wide community com-munity of the faithful-Islamic believers call it umma. The world-wide element needs to be emphasized here because it is an assumption that sup- Eorts Azzam's claim that ji-ad ji-ad must be a world-wide effort ef-fort to kill Christians and Jews-because of their sins, that is, living in Palestine or stationing troops in Saudi Arabia, Islam's holy land. Since all Muslims everywhere every-where are all citizens of a single sin-gle religious community, the community is transnational, that is to say, political entities in the Muslim world are subsumed sub-sumed under or in the umma. Second, Islamic law-the collected col-lected sayings of Muhammad, Muham-mad, from the Koran or tradition-governs all of life for all Muslims in the umma. All of life, therefore, is religious. This pervasiveness of Muhammad's teachings also means that laws of particular Muslim nations are subject to or governed by Islamic law-a transnational law. In other words, Islamic law takes precedence over all other laws. Third, violations of Islamic Is-lamic law may be the basis for jihad-a holy war. And, when warriors are followers of Azzam's view of jihad, the threshold for going to war is lower. A look at the cartoon incident inci-dent suggests other sharp differences dif-ferences in worldviews between be-tween Islam and the West. The cartoons are, of course, a violation of the Islamic law against depicting Muhammad Muham-mad in any way, form, or shape-a principle, emphasized empha-sized by Azzam's "new jurisprudence." ju-risprudence." Notice that Islamic Is-lamic leaders in the incident have not only railed against the cartoons as tasteless representations rep-resentations of the Prophet, they argued that the cartoons violate Islamic law and re-, quire that the cartoonists and their publishers be punished, some suggesting that the offender's of-fender's hands be cut off. This demand raises a very important point. Islamic leaders' demands assume that Islamic law transcends tran-scends laws of the West just as it does, in fact, in Muslim countries. From another an Dizziness & IMBalannth ram' , Constitution" gle, they claim that Islam's religious laws transcend the constitutional principles of Western democracies. These claims are extremely revealing reveal-ing because they show that it would be impossible for the principles of constitutional democracies to be used in Muslim nations. To state the obvious, American Amer-ican constitutional principles, such as freedom of expression, expres-sion, are the supreme law of the land. Not so, from the point of view of Islamic law. As noted above, Islamic clerics cler-ics claim that the laws of all nations are ultimately subject to the requirement of transnational Islamic law, that is, the sayings and traditions tradi-tions of the Prophet. It certainly is true that American military fire power can protect America, and American interests abroad. On the other hand, the cartoon car-toon incident shows that another an-other kind of power is involved. in-volved. It shows that there is a clash between the "people power" of America's constitutional consti-tutional democracy and "Prophet power" which is the foundation of Islam. 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