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Show Thursday, August 2, 2007 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 7 BeenTheraDoTiR That A point Liz Elder What's the point of old age? Inquiring minds want to know! Well, for one thing, it certainly makes being young look better. Even if you're an ugly young person, doesn't it make you feel better to look at a wrinkled old person and think, "At least I don't look like that!" As an old person, young people look a lot prettier to me than when I was one of them. Your face doesn't have that saggy, baggy, brown-spot thing going on that mine does. So why bother having hav-ing old people if they're grumpy and lumpy and ugly? There are reasons, but honestly you have to look hard. . For one, old people don't Scout to have yard sale Sat. Boy Scout Drew Botch-erby Botch-erby is working on his Eagle Ea-gle Scout Award and will be having a monster garage sale to raise money for humanitarian hu-manitarian as part his Eagle Scout project. The sale will be on Saturday, Aug. 4. from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. at 1435 E. 900 South. The sale will include furniture, fur-niture, clothing of all sizes, household items, office, sporting goods and other things. ed look at old age have anything to do so they're always glad to see you. Just kidding. They're not always glad, but they should be because they should be grateful that anyone wants them anymore. any-more. But occasionally, if you've already read the paper and there's nothing good on TV, it's nice to see the grandkids. They are just so darn cute, and they remind you of yourself "when you were young. It's a good chance to remember that no matter mat-ter how awful you were, you're genes will at least get another shot at doing something worth while. Old people should provide pro-vide perspective. They should say things like, "Oh, it's not so important that you make tons of money, what really matters mat-ters is your family and how you've lived your life." Of course, you might want to catch them right . after their Social Security check comes so it feels like there's a little bit in the coffer. Later in the month, they may be a little ticked off that they didn't save more and give you the Go Out and Grab All You Can speech. It's going go-ing to be a toss-up there. It's important when you're old to just be yourself. When you burp all the time and can't see the hairs growing out of your chin and you heave-ho heave-ho every time you get out of a chair, it's good to be natural, good to be okay with who you are. And that should be a lesson to young people: no matter how disgusting you are, it's okay to take up space. I know my grandkids feel that. When we were dozing off last week, my three-year-old grandson grand-son patted my leg and said, "Don't snore, just breathe." And, wow, passing on those old stories about the family? You don't want to miss that. Isn't it funny how some stories sto-ries just keep sneaking up on you: like the time we lost the farm? About how much gumption it took to get a job in the old days. About how much a dozen eggs cost, a loaf of bread, and we wouldn't want to forget: how much you made an hour when you first started working. You minimum wage younger people don't know real hardship is. It's good to be reminded that no matter how much you try, you will never be able to beat the old days for trouble. And genealogy. Well, I won't bore you with how important it is to hear all about genealogy. And so, in conclusion, we can all see that we older old-er folk play an important role in society. Actually, if someone wanted to share with me what that is, I'd be willing to get up off the couch and make a glass of lemonade for them. I've certainly got lemons. Mapleton asks residents to water on certain days Due to the very hot daytime day-time temperatures that are causing heavy outside water use of the Mapleton culinary system, the city is asking that even numbered num-bered houses (i.e. 2, 4, 6...) use the water on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Odd numbered houses (i.e. 3, 5, 7...) are to use the water wa-ter on Tuesdays, Thursdays Thurs-days and Saturdays. No watering is to be done on Sundays to help refill the water tanks. The public works department depart-ment is asking residents to please check the coverage of their sprinkling systems and adjust the heads so that water is not spraying onto the sidewalk or into the street. To further optimize your sprinkling system for better service, more stations sta-tions may need to be added to provide better coverage of the landscaped area. They say to check the soil with some type of probe to see at what depth water is penetrating the soil. Clay soils may require several short applications of water to allow a time period for the water to penetrate the soil. Connection to a secondary second-ary water source requires a physical air gap, not just a valve between the secondary sec-ondary and culinary systems. sys-tems. As part of the cross connection program and for public awareness, the city does periodic checks on the system. Please also be aware that a cross connection between the pressurized irrigation system and the culinary water system is in violation of State and Municipal Code (Mapleton City Section 13.30, Class B misdemeanor). This is to protect against cross contamination con-tamination to the city's culinary cu-linary water system. Eye Care Notes Letter reversals in children Dr. Traer Caywood It is not uncommon for children to reverse letters let-ters as they are learning to read. Reversals can be normal through the end of second grade. Devel-opmentally, Devel-opmentally, boys seem to take longer with this concept con-cept than girls. Children who have difficulties diffi-culties with reversals of letters let-ters mix up "b" and "d" and also "p" and "q." Reversals can also cause problems with the numbers "2" and "5." Additionally, entire words may be decoded backwards: "saw" is read as "was." Reversals become be-come a significant obstacle for young readers since it is estimated that over 80 of learning comes from vision. vi-sion. If by the start of third grade your child is still struggling with revers- f 1 y i i l jjr ing letters or words, it is possible that intervention may be necessary to supply sup-ply the skills necessary for reading. As a result of reversals, young readers may acquire the label of a slow reader and thereby lose confidence in their scholastic abilities. Proper intervention is necessary to avoid that loss of confidence. confi-dence. In my next article I will discuss the diagnosis and treatment of Reversals. Liz Elder can be reached at clelder2001yahoo. com Disagree Continued from page 6 time soon we'll see them gathering for a barbecue: Make that double for Senate Sen-ate Majority leader Harry Reid.' : It seems that America's all-tolerant culture assumes you don't like, indeed cannot can-not like, those with whom you disagree. It's become more a matter of person or group than issues. For' example, if I say I disagree with people who choose alternative lifestyles life-styles it does not mean I'm a gay-basher. If I say I don't support abortion Tights, it certainly doesn't follow that I hate or even ,djslike women who've had an abortion. If I don't agree with the merits of your idea, i I don't agree with your , idea. It doesn't have to be a matter of your character or mine. : Turning disagreement into dislike or hate is an unhealthy trend making debate more divisive and consensus more remote. Respect and decency are the foundations that make a vigorous democracy possible. ; Rex M. Rogers, Ph.D. in political science from the University of Cincinnati, is a syndicated newspaper newspa-per columnist in 92 newspapers news-papers in 31 states, and is president of Cornerstone University, Grand Rapids, Mich, (www.rexmrogers. com) 0iWtml "MMM W : in! The Intermountain Utah Valley Internal Medicine Clinic welcomes Gily Ionescu, MD, to its staff. A native of Romania, Dr. Ionescu has recently completed a residency in internal medicine at Norwalk Hospital, a Yale University affiliated program in Norwalk, Connecticut. He graduated from medical school in Bucharest, Romania, where he also did a residency in infectious "disease. Dr. Ionescu also holds a master's degree in human nutrition from Andrews University in Michigan. He is pleased to be part of the Interniountain Medical Group. Appointments may be scheduled by. calling 357-7323. X- i: GILY IONESCU, MD New patients are welcome. 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