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Show Thursday, November 15. 2007 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Comments Check your ' home for Ration Editor Last night Extreme Makeover: Home Edition featured the Miller family from Wyoming, the Radon problem in their home, and how to eliminate it: they blew up the house with explosives. ex-plosives. Utah has many of the same Radon problems as Wyoming and people ask many questions. As a Radon expert, I understand un-derstand why it is confusing. confus-ing. Radon is invisible, tasteless, taste-less, and odorless. The only way to know if you have a problem is to test. www. utahsafetycouncil.org has tests for $10 to let you know if you need to fix the problem. Radon causes non-smoking lung cancer and is responsible re-sponsible for 12 of all lung cancers. Though all The Springville Herald Customer Service 375-5103 489-5651 fax 489-7021 239 E 400S. 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M letters must indide the author's name ( prrrted and signed) and a telephone number. We reserve the right to edit letters fa darrty, purxtualm taste and tengft. Leners are welcome on any topic BEST CODYSHO? FOil LESS! S74N State St Orem, 84057 51) 224-9 311 HOURS BAM-SMPM appointment Ul PRQVO 3SSE.900S. Provo, 84606 05t) mizn M&fitii &rfy f r:dav 7:30 AM -5:30 Wf iaU.'iMv9;ii :2.0 Undif. Closed Credit Cards Accepted 4 4j-Ji' m mm cancers are unfortunate, sometimes citizens feel like lung cancer is something some-thing you deserve, since people who smoke need to understand choice and accountability. ac-countability. After all, they chose to smoke, so they kinda deserve to get lung cancer. Radon causes lung cancer can-cer in people who have never smoked. A $10 test lets you know your homes levels. If you are buying or selling sell-ing a home, absolutely include in-clude a Radon test as part of the home inspection test. Radon Educated Realtors can be found at www.ra-doautah.gov, www.ra-doautah.gov, along with a host of other inf ormatioa David Neville West Jordan, UT Springville police report Springville police are warning citizens to keep ' their vehicles and garages locked. There has been an increase in vehicles being broken into on the street and in garages. . Charges are being filed on a male juvenile for possession pos-session of stolen property, curfew violation and possession pos-session of tobacco by a minor after police were called to Flying J to a fight in progress. Darlene Jean-neene Jean-neene Carter, 850 N. Main, Springville, was cited for disruption of operation of a school John Cassius Collect, 732 E. 200 North, Springville, was arrested for an outstanding out-standing warrant. A male juvenile was arrested at SHS for possession of alcohol alco-hol by a minor. Dustin DaVid Downey, 500 N. Main 9, Springville, Spring-ville, was cited for domestic domes-tic violenceassault. Jared M, Guerra, 541 S. Art City Circle, 4, Springville, was arrested for a warrant. A male juvenile was rrested at SHS for criminal crimi-nal mischiefgraffiti. Luis Armondo Morales, 584 E. 400 South, Springville, was arested for DUI, leaving the scene of an accident, no license li-cense and no insurance, Brianna Hall, 464 200 South, Springville, was arrested ar-rested for a warrant and shoplifting. Angel Manuel Rosado, 2153 W. 220 North, Provo, was arrested for DUI, no insurance, improper improp-er plates, no license and interfering in-terfering with arrest. Joshua Michael Thompson, Thomp-son, 222 N. 1200 West 22, Orem, was arrested for a warrant and suspended license. li-cense. Police were called on a noice disturbance of a vehicle vehi-cle and ended up arresting Alexander Sanchez Val- - ' ''i'Jr . t J I V A IX hmm r r ry Judge "The Golden Compass" by reading Editor As a member of the Springville community, a mother, an elementary school librarian and also a person with a deep passion pas-sion for many books, I can no longer hold my tongue as I watch an excellent book be defamed and vilified vili-fied by the members of our community com-munity based not on their knowledge from the reading of the book but an email that was sent around the community and the world at large. The book I am referring to is the children's book, "The Golden Compass." It was originally published ten years ago in England. It has won the following fol-lowing awards: Winner of the Carnegie Medal (England), Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize (England) An ALA Notable No-table Book, An ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults A Horn Book Fanfare Fan-fare Honor Book, A Bulletin Bulle-tin of the Center for Children's Chil-dren's Books Blue Ribbon Rib-bon book, A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, A Booklist Editors' Choice - "Top of the List." A Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection, and A Children's Chil-dren's ABBY Honor Book. While the number of awards a book has won is certainly not a direct measure of its worth as a written worth it is a guide in helping both librarians and parents seek out well written books to share with their children. This is a book like the Lord of the Rings trilogy that was not written for dovinos, 388 E. 300 North, Springville, for two counts of forgery, interfering with arrest and possession of al- uonui uy a minor, ana v ic- tor Valdovinos, 300 N. 88 tast, bpnngviue, tor a war- rant and giving false inf or mation to police. Police had four calls for criminal mischief, four for domestic violence, seven for family problems, three for sex cases, three for forgery, five for fraud, four for harrassment and one runaway. There were two gaso hne skips; tools way taken xiuxuagarage.anuaraoiai saw and compressor were taken from a construction site. Two vehicles were bro- ken into and things takea ' ""' - J t for yourself it the under ten year old set to read independently. I doubt due to its high reading read-ing level many younger than fifth or sixth grade could truly understand all the characters and plot twists found in the book. That said, as for the controversy that has been swirling around due to an e:mail generated by someone who had neither seen the movie nor read the books. I took the time to research the e-mail origin. So I went in search of some truth and I will quote the author directly, "How do you respond to the claim that your books are anti-Catholic and promote pro-mote atheism? Lyndsay Petersen, Parkersburg, Iowa Hello, Lyndsay: In the world of the story - Ly r ais world - there is a church that has acquired great political power, rather in the way that some religions reli-gions in our world have done at various times, and still do (think of the Taliban Tal-iban in Afghanistan). My point is that religion is at its best - it does most good - when it is farthest away from political pow- er, and that when it gets hold of the power to (for example) send armies to war or to condemn people to death, or to rule every aspect of our lives, it rap- idly goes bad. Sometimes people think that if something is done in the name of faith or religion, it must be good. Unfortunately, that isn't true; some things done in the name of religion are very bad. That was what I was trying to describe in my story." This is a book that the author wrote to celebrate kindness, love, courage and courtesy and also in- tellectual curiosity. All of these are good things, i ne dook attacks cold-hearted- ness, tyranny, closemind- ness, cruelty, the things that we can agree are bad tmnSs- Is there an underlying iiiCaaa5C iui aiucism m your book or did you sim ply want to write a fan tasy story, like Tolkien? Kim Mapstead, Friday Harbor, .Wash. Hello, Kim: What I was mainly doing, I hope, was reiimg a story du not a story like Tolkienis. (To be honest I don't much care for "The Lord of the Rings.") As for the athe- ism, it doesn't matter to 1 ORTHOLtDONTICS Brian F. Trapnell, D.M.D., P.C 187 East 400 South Springville 1 fglPpL FffflWI With Full i Orthodontic Treatment ($250 Value!) ! With this couoon only. I Not valid with other offers. Offer expires 1 1307 I 1 The people have spoken IViartm Conover SP9!NGVaxEHERAU Last Tuesday's election was a great exercise in tow Utah government can work. A law that had passed both houses of the Uah Legislature and had been signed into law by Governor Huntsman was called null and void by the ultimate authority, the Utah electorate. Let's review what happened. The legislature last winter win-ter passed the voucher bill under public criticism and even after polls had been taken, saying they knew more than the people who had elected them. The governor then signed the bpl under the same cloud of public protest. The dissatisfaction with the measure was so great that a protest movement was started and citizens collected col-lected well over the some 70,000 votes needed, about 130,000 as we remember, to put the measure on the ballot. bal-lot. Then followed one of the most hard fought battles in recent political memory over yes or no on vouchers and ended up costing about $9 million according to the papers pa-pers to the opponents and advocates of the measure. As we all know, in the end, the electorate, the same people who elected the legislators and the governor, voted almost two to one to not go with vouchers in education edu-cation for private schools. Regardless of your position on the issue, and for the first time, the electorate took "legislative" action and expressed their decision to the legislature, the governor and the electorate how things will be done. There is no higher authority in the state including the state supreme court . Therefore, we say to all the decision by the voters grapes. If you believe in true representative government, and majority rule on the part of the electorate, then you have to go along with this decision. Never before in the history of the state of Utah, some 110 years old now, has this action been taken and it shows the wisdom of the tion. What we would like to governor is, listen to us, the electorate, and you will save certain people lots of money. Do what we, the electorate, elector-ate, want and not what you, our representatives, want. me whether people believe in God or not, so I'm not promoting anything of that sort, What I do care about is whether people are cruel or whether they're kind, whether they, act for de- mocracy or for tyranny, whether they believe in open-minded inquiry or in shutting the freedom of thought and expression. Good things have been done in the name of re- ligion, and so have bad things; and both good things and bad things have been done with no religion at all. What I care about is the good, wherever it comes from. With the author's hon- est views quoted based on an interview with MSNBC it is my hope that parents will take a step back a re- alize that this is just a fan- tasy book. Set in a world much like our own, where some of the bad guys are leaders of an unnamed church (most likely Cath- ouc u we were to choose a church matching one in our world). Remember it is fantasy, Not Real It is a book written for teens and older children that is verv well writ. ten, an adventure about a young girl in search of her best friend Roger and truth. The end is the end of her innocence and ends in her betrayal, innocently of her friend. KALI CONDIE This Week's Awesome Brusher! Full Exam and i f Consultation With this coupon only. Not valid with other offers. Offer expires 113007 if ; f that anything you say about ot this state is true sour framers of the Utah Constitu say to the legislature and the Much can be read into and taken from children's literature as it contains powerful messages for both the old and young alike. My only thought in writing this letter is to encourage en-courage the great citizens of Springville to stop and think for themselves. Do not believe everything you read in an e-mail or hear on a sound bite or radio program. J If you choose not to read a certain book fine, but what I have seen in the children is a type of fear of this book as if it has power to suck them into the depths of Hell by itself . Please, do not give power to any book by casting baseless fears about it. If vou have Questions about the book Read it. I saw similar reactions when the first Harry Pot- w hnnir ws, nlarPd nn our shelves and news flash, but this one has been on our shelves and checked out for eight years with no noticeable ill affects Be an informed citizen and a knowledgeable reader. Please, don't cause your children to fear a book. If you choose to explore the world of the Golden Compass, eniov the expe- rience without looking for any hidden agendas just L nure fativ Anqel Pearce Springville Braces for Adults, Adolescents & Teens Invisalign 'Clear Braces . Flexible Payment Options Shortened Treatment Times OS |