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Show I ' .. v.:.. . - Dr. Harold Davis D.V.M. Mt. West Animal Hospital According to the AKC Family Dog Magazine, statistics may point to the fact that your dog rules your life. In the AKC 21st Century Dog Owners Study quite a few interesting statistics came to light. This study focused on the behaviors, attitudes at-titudes and purchasing habits of 750 owners of AKC-registered dogs. This is what they found; 88 regard their dog a beloved family mem- 51 stated that their dogs affect how they spend their leisure time 47 consider their dogs' comfort when shopping shop-ping for a car 72 said they look for the best and highest-quality highest-quality brands of pet products for their dogs - ' 2 out of 3 owners purchased and average of : 9.3 balls for their dogs to play with in the past 12 months Around 89 of owners who compete in AKC events with their dogs say they are most proud of, their dogs' accomplishments Whoever said it was a dog's life sure got it right! Book Look 'Irons in the Fire' Debbie Balzotti - Our Springville library : had a display this month iof librarian's favorite books. I wish I could have stayed home from work, neglected the laundry and just read. Since that is never possible, I selected the book on tape "Irons in the Fire" by John McPhee which was recommended by Claudia. You seldom go wrong when you read what our librarians recommend! recom-mend! McPhee is a prolific essayist es-sayist who also writes for "The New Yorker." As an mvestigative journalist he pursues a cast of American Ameri-can characters that would intrigue even Mark Twain. Non-fiction trivia fans may hyperventilate with joy while listening to or reading read-ing his detailed stories. I must admit even subjects sub-jects like cattle rustling became fascinating to me over the three weeks it took to finish the book as it traveled around with me. There were some essays I liked more than others but all made the ordinary seem extraordinary. The first of the tales is a bit long but hang in there or skip to another tape. "The Brand Inspector" is a man devoted to a job that's part cowboy cop, part Hollywood Hol-lywood hero. Who knew there were so many bad guys out there riding the range and rustling cattle in Nevada and even Utah? Another subject addressed ad-dressed in "The Gravel Page" is geological foren-sics foren-sics -a new term I just picked up and plan on using us-ing whenever possible in social conversation. It is a fascinating study involving involv-ing danger and digging j., V..-.,. " 1 Mm. mm . W. I 1 BMiitfiaAsmisi'S -. LITTLE ROOM FOR ERROR Pricing a property correctly has always been a key fac- can' offer a home evaluation that will give you an accu- tor in making a sale. In today's market, property pricing : . rate assessment of your home's current market value, and is more critical than ever. 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Our approach to real estate includes success-Experienced success-Experienced agents know that the amount by which a fill partnerships, understanding of business relationships seller may overprice his or her home when it first comes and long-term commitments, onto the market is likely to be the amount that the seller ' Conveniently located at 315 South 500 East, Ameri-will Ameri-will end up selling the property under its market value. can Fork, we are here for you. Contact our office at 801-For 801-For those of you considering selling your home, we 830-9292 or visit our website. The Pet Dish Do you have a top dog at your house? Debbie Balzotti around for clues. McPhee tells us all about gravel as evidence in kidnapping and murder cases. Very cool. Since I have limited space in this column I cannot can-not even briefly describe the world of auto tire disposal, a blind author and his use of voice-recognition software on the computer, a virgin forest in New Jersey, an exotic auto auction, the origins of Plymouth Rock and more. McPhee's descriptions descrip-tions defy description. "Irons in the Fire" entertained enter-tained me as I traveled 115 to work in Orem and bent over the ol' washboard doing do-ing the laundry. Ok that's a bit of an exaggeration on the laundry part but I do not exaggerate when I say that I enjoyed librarian Claudia's recommendation as I went about my mundane mun-dane but necessary tasks while listening to tales of Americana. You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen iveryrninq L1GC3B LlCyCTJG Presented by Mike and Pretty much everything might hurt your kid Daniel B. Kline Children's cold medicine might kill your child. That news, which hit all the ' major media outlets last week, would have been more shocking if it didn't represent just the latest minefield parents must avoid in order to raise a healthy, productive kid. If you believe the various vari-ous books and magazines forced on all new parents, everything represents a possible danger for your child. Forget peanut allergies, aller-gies, the large variety of things your baby might choke on and the incredible incred-ible risk you take if your car seat gets installed slightly askew, your newborn new-born might not survive the night if you give them a blanket. In addition to being blan-ketless, blan-ketless, your baby must also sleep on his back. Stomach sleeping, already frightened new moms and dads are told, might cause your kid to stop breathing and even a novice parent knows that, for most kids, breathing is essential. Should you manage to beat the odds and keep your child from dying as a baby, the media and the baby products industry would have you believe things only get more complicated com-plicated and more dangerous. danger-ous. Today's toddler, one would have to assume, faces a series of perils that would make a Navy SEAL cry for his mommy. When I was born 34 years ago my parents pretty much used their own judgment as to what might kill me. They kept me away from the rat poison, poi-son, put gates in front of the stairs and were usually successful at keeping me from falling off the changing chang-ing table. We slept on our bellies under piles-of blankets in cribs with bars spaced far enough apart that if we were particularly dumb our heads might get caught. I rode in the front seat of the car and the back of the station wagon. As I got older I rode a bike without a helmet, ate foods Local man appointed to state position D. Craig McKenna, owner own-er of McKenna Financial Services and Insurance, in Spanish Fork, has been appointed ap-pointed the Chapter Director Direc-tor for the State of Utah of the Foundation of Personal Financial Education. Their purpose is to educate employees em-ployees of interested companies com-panies on a wide variety of financial topics that range from such diverse issues as retirement planning, legal issues, insurance concerns, and questions on real estate es-tate and mortgages. The foundation has put together a team of profes- Julie Pierce that contained trans fats and walked to school without with-out an armed guard. , Whereas most of us older old-er folks were lucky if our parents put those little plastic plas-tic things over the outlets, the modern child's home must include an array of safety products designed to protect them from every ev-ery imaginable danger. Catalogues actually exist ex-ist offering everything from padding to cover the sharp edges on tables to every manner of device conceivable to keep doors, cabinets and other storage spaces closed. In addition to the steps taken in our homes, we also outfit our kids in safety safe-ty equipment for pretty much every activity. The days of riding a skateboard skate-board without elbow and knee pads have long since past and a parent who lets his child ride a bike down a quiet street without a helmet would be viewed in pretty much the same way as a parent who buys his youngster cigarettes. Judging by the precautions precau-tions parents must take today, to-day, one must assume that either the world has gotten more dangerous or our children have gotten softer and dumber. In reality, of course, today's children face little more danger than I did as a kid. Today's parent, however, myself included, includ-ed, wants so desperately to protect our child from even the mildest hardship that we have become unable un-able to use common sense or distinguish between taking reasonable precautions precau-tions and being insanely over-protective. This fear of allowing our children to face danger has made all parents vulnerable vulnera-ble to every manner of media me-dia hysteria. We're all so paranoid that we eagerly gobble up stories about the newest threats to our kids' well-being and are happy to spend money to insulate them from those dangers. So, if my son gets a cold, we're not giving him any cold medicine. Fortunately, Fortunate-ly, he won't get a cold, because if we let him play sionals who have agreed to educate an employer's staff and personnel in a series of "lunch and learn" programs. 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