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Show Thursday, November 2, 2006 SPRINGVILLE HERALD, "Red light-Green light" began Wed, Nov. 1 Utahns will have to face the harsh reality that keeping the air clean this winter will be tougher. Faced with new federal air-pollution regulations on microscopic particles that go into effect Dec. 18, the Division of Air Quality (DAQ) is focusing more attention on managing air pollution this winter. Wednesday, Nov. 1, marked the beginning of "Red Light-Green Light" Choose Clean Air's winter program aimed at curtailing curtail-ing air pollution caused primarily by vehicle emissions, wood-burning stoves and fireplaces. The program, now in its 14th season, keeps Utahns apprised of poor air quality conditions that require everyone to limit their driving and wood burning. Those days are when an inversion is approaching, ap-proaching, which occurs when cold air traps the pollution beneath a layer of warm air. "This program has been absolutely crucial for Utah to meet air quality standards in the winter," said Rick Sprott, director direc-tor of the Division of Air Quality. "It's even more imperative now with the tougher federal requirements." require-ments." The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposed new rules that lower the allowable daily average of fine particles known as PM2.5, from 65 micrograms per cubic meter (ugm3) to 35. Utah counties met the old standard. However, the new standard will be much more difficult for counties along the Wasatch Wa-satch Front, including Cache, Summit, Juab and Tooele counties, based on air-pollution data collected collect-ed by the Air Monitoring Center over the past three, years. . "If everyone does their part to heed the wood-burning wood-burning warnings and use mass transit whenever when-ever possible, it will make a significant difference in our air quality," said Bob Dalley, manager of the Air Monitoring Center. The program works like this. People can sign up to receive alerts on the Department of Environmental Environ-mental Quality's Choose Clean Air Web site www. cleanair.utah.gov. On days when pollution levels are below the new health standard of 35 ugm3 a "Green" light lets people know burning wood is allowed. al-lowed. When pollution builds, a "Yellow" light signals for voluntary no wood-burning wood-burning and efforts to curb driving. When pollution pol-lution levels exceed the standard, a "Red" mandatory manda-tory no-burning is issued. Fines, ranging from $25 to $300, may be imposed on repeat offenders. Burn conditions are announced an-nounced daily in newspapers, news-papers, and on television and radio. Updates are available from the Air Pollution Index Hotline at 801-975-4009 (Salt Lake and Davis counties) and 800-228-5434 (all other counties). These new EPA regulations regula-tions are aimed at helping make all Utahns breathe easier. Winter air pollution can pose serious health problems prob-lems when fine particles become lodged in lung JL The Pet Dish Don't give pets Dr. Harold Davis D.V.M. MT. WEST ANMAI HOStfTAi. Here's an interesting article from DOG FANCY: You've seen those Christmas cards depicting fluffy : pups with red bows on their necks, front paws draped over the edge of the foil-wrapped gift box. Adorable? Absolutely! But in real life, the holidays are not generally gen-erally a great time to introduce a new puppy into the family. The first few days with a pup are an important time. The pup has just left its mother and siblings and needs to bond with it's new family. It's hard to give a new pup the attention it deserves when everyone's focus is on the holiday. Puppies don't arrive housetrained. They need to be carefully tended to when exploring a new home. They need lots of help at first to understand potty rules. In a busy home with visitors coming and going, a new puppy can easily get underfoot and maybe stepped on. Fragile ornaments look like tempting toys, but can shatter into sharp objects. Tinsel and ribbon can cause intestinal blockages. blockag-es. Electric cords running strings of light are often plugged into low outlets where they can be chewed by a puppy causing burns or even fires. If you decide to give your family a puppy and don't have the time to give it the full attention needed, then maybe you ought to wrap up a collar, leash, doggie dish, some toys and maybe even a photo of the pup. Put those under the tree and wait for the festivities to get over to get your pup, so it can re4ceive aU the important attention it needs. suir Firm Twin Mattress Sale$89 Box Spring $60 10-year warranty J V7 s Js,"7 - - AfcUaMB Open 10-6 Mon - Sat flo payrasrS for i months 0AC fte interest for 6 months. OAC ; Freedisposaidf old rartrass. tissue, decreasing lung function, increasing susceptibility sus-ceptibility to respiratory infections and aggravating aggravat-ing breathing problems like asthma and chronic bronchitis. Children and older adults and those with existing heart and lung conditions are most sensitive to particulate par-ticulate air pollution. "This is a serious public health problem and pollution pol-lution levels in Utah can cause these health problems," prob-lems," said Sprott. For more information on ways to keep air pollution pol-lution levels healthy, visit vis-it the Choose Clean Air Web site www.cleanir. utah.gov. l , . .' .' ; i j : .- The Springville Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting last Friday at noon at the new Tech Pro Now location at 1190 N. Main Street here in Springville. Pictured, from left to right Melissa Nielson, Dennis Gallagher, Katie Hullinger, owner Ryan Thompson, his wife Kimberly, and their daughter, Constance; Steve Chandler Executive Director of the Chamber and Chamber President Rex Hale. Tech Pro Now is a total help store for all your computer needs and will be able to help you with all your technical problems as welt as web site development. Been There, Done That Voting rites...it's that time Liz Elder Well, here it is, that time of year when we trot out our fundamentalist selves, of either stripe, and let eer rip. It's election time! My Democratic friend Suzie Q (sure, her real name) mentioned that she would be praying for a friend the other day and someone piped up in surprise, sur-prise, "I didn't know Democrats Dem-ocrats prayed." Suzie had enough presence of mind to say sure, she prayed, she's a mom. Oh, my heck. Can't we keep it buttoned up? Apparently, Ap-parently, according to the New York Times, people in the Big Apple are no longer lon-ger able to communicate with others who differ from them politically. One lady didn't e-mail her mom for a month because she was so morally outraged by her continued support of President Bush and the war in Iraq. Eventually it dawned on her that perhaps she had her priorities mixed up and decided she could cope with HER OWN MOTHER, even if she was a Republican. As an aside, I recently spoke to a woman from New York who was late for her flight, in fact, I let her butt into the security line ahead of me she was so upset. It turned out we were on the same flight and we were early. She said she just had to catch that plane. I told her again, I was with a large group going to the same place, and we all knew we had plenty of time. She informed me that she was Important. I told her we were all important in our own little way. However, I do think she was Important. She apparently had a house in Florida as well as a house in Brooklyn or wherever. Her husband looked like a pro wrestler. I think that possibly people peo-ple in New York who drop their friends because they support different views may have the dreaded "Important Disease," where they overestimate the value of their opinion. The View, the morning morn-ing show with Rosie O'Donnell, had a discussion discus-sion about whether or not you could be married to someone who differed from you politically; Luckily Luck-ily for my husband and me, you can. We regularly know we're going to cancel out each other's votes. Too bad, so sad. Isn't there a difference between the political and the personal? It certainly jazzes up our life to have those little differences, dif-ferences, in more ways than one. And it's always so fun when we agree. Part of the whole democracy de-mocracy deal is getting along. I heard someone say that we are obligated DO IT YOURSELF C J L ) Experience A New Way To Shop. 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