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Show , tx m J M 11 Thursday, October 16, 2008 SPRING VILLE HERALD Co MMENTS Large and spacious building now? Editor and Springville residents: I would like to render my opinion on the proposed library. li-brary. I do not reside in Springville but rather in Mapleton. I am however, a Springville taxpayer. How is that?, you ask. My wife has non-income property in Springville and we do' pay taxes and utilities on it. We do not get to vote on the library bond but will be expected to pay for it if it passes. (Isn't that taxation without representation?) We also have family here, so with that and being be-ing a taxpayer, I feel like I'm entitled to an opinion. I am also Patrice Bolen's father fa-ther and where she is practical prac-tical I am radical. I am beginning to think that in a meeting somewhere some-where the proponents of the library bond decided that they would say to anyone any-one and everyone that does not want this huge monetary mon-etary undertaking, "You just don't understand," as Springville Herald 269 E. 400 South Springville, UT 84663 An edition of The Daily Herald a Lee Enterprises, Inc. Newspaper Subscriptions & Delivery Service ..,.375-5103 News & Advertising ......489-5651 Fax .489-7021 E-mail ., artcityavpro.com Springviile Herald. Daily Herald edition (USPS 513-060) a weekly newspaper published at 269 E. 400 S. Springville, Utah 84663. Periodicals Postage Paid at Springville, Utah 84663 and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER; Send address changes to the Springville Herald, 269 E, 400 S. Springville, Utah 84663 Member. Audit Bureau of Circulations News . - ., We welcome news tips. Call 489-5651 to report a news tip ot if you have a comment or a questions. We welcome tetters to the editor. All letters must include the authors 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 The Springville Herald Customer Service 375-5103 489-5651 Fax 489-7021 269 E. 400 S. Springviile, Utah 84663 PubEskr Rono tahf rrahlfher0ldextfa.coni inover aorwerwTOmcom Editor PatConover artdtycwpro.com Page desipid layout Marria Harris Typesetter Sherri Harris Janeal Duffc Send Newsllems to us at artciyavpracrjm Mow Open! depot NEW DRY CLEANERS & LAUNDRY 1851 W. 500 South, Springville Just North of Wal-Mart parking lot . Open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. M-F Saturday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Closed Sundays Orders in by 9 a.m. out after 5 p.m. Drive-up window that is what I am hearing time after time. I will be first to say that I don't understand who is going to pay for this. If some of the buyout money mon-ey is coming to Springville Spring-ville and I knew it for sure I might understand. I see street after street in Springville and Mapleton with "For Sale" signs in the front. The company that I work for just laid off close to 20 employees and I understand un-derstand 20 more are to follow. Most of these are young people with families and large houses they couldn't afford in the first place. How are they going to help pay for this bond? Are the city officials asleep? One thing I do understand under-stand and that is last Saturday Satur-day and Sunday I participated partici-pated by way of television in a General Conference in which men and women counseled us on the hard times that are upon us. (True, we aren't feeling it yet except those who are losing their homes and jobs.) No where did I note that building a large spacious spa-cious building was a wise thing to do at this time. When I get mail out of my mail box the only first class items are bills and Big may be better, but isn't always WISE! Editor: I was grateful to read Patrice Bolen's voice of reason letter in the newspaper news-paper last week. I have, with increasing concern, been reading the pamphlets pam-phlets and letters-to-the-edit or about the library bond. . What are we thinking? At a time when the economy econ-omy of the United States is in serious peril, citizens are losing their jobs, we have cut back on driving because of the price of gas, state budgets have had to be slashed because of tax shortfalls, people on fixed incomes are- in danger because of tax increases, in-creases, and planned retirement re-tirement funds have been decimated. Great Britain, France and Germany are trying desperately to stabilize sta-bilize their banks, and Springville is proposing that we increase our indebtedness in-debtedness by 9.8 MILLION MIL-LION DOLLARS! We are being told that it will only cost a few dollars a month but that is on top of huge tax increases last year and the unknown tax increases of the future because be-cause of the failed economy- No literature that I have read has addressed the increased costs to heat, cool, maintain and staff a library of that size and where the money will come from. The buy now, pay later lat-er mentality of the past addition it will be for this statements. All else is large city, and long overdue. The amounts of unsolicited current library is too small third class material. I then for the amount of people re-realize re-realize that the Internet siding in this area now. has had a huge effect on It will benefit all amity the personal mail that we members from pre-school, get. Notes from loved ones elementary thru college are now read on a comput- and their parents and seer se-er screen and replies given niors citizens. More books, in a matter of minutes. Just magazines, music CDs and as significant are letters from missionaries all over the world. Isn't the same thing happening hap-pening to libraries? I am currently reading a novel from the Internet. If I want to know more about something some-thing I look on the Internet. Inter-net. If I don't find it there I pop in a CD that is an encyclopedia. ency-clopedia. Just a few clicks and I've got my answer without leaving my chair. I used to take an older teenage grandson to the Springville Library as he didn't drive. I was really impressed until I found he was going there to play video games! In my opinion, if this bond is passed I'll know that the parable of the fool ish virgins is alive and well and is going to come and roost in good ole Spring- ville, Utah. Just my opin-ion-I told you I was radical. radi-cal. Mac Mathews Mapleton needs to be abolished. We need to SAVE for a big- ger library and THEN purchase it. If the Friends of the Springville Library will begin planning fund raisers, I will be glad to volunteer my time to work at them. Then, when we finally fi-nally raise the money, we can have a city-wide celebration cel-ebration in a library that was paid for BEFORE it was built. I have lived in my home in Springville for 30 years. Just like all of the citizens of Springville, we have had to cut back and there are luxuries that we cannot can-not afford. I CANNOT vote for a library that it's indebtedness indebted-ness in a time of crisis may worsen an already grim fi- nancial forecast. But I can help save tor the future. last name since the last Cathy Greer election, you need to reg- Sprngville ister with the Utah County Mapeton police report Mapleton police had 37 calls from Sept. 30 to Oct. 7 with five of them for animal ani-mal problems. Phillip David Montague, 1557 N. 440 West, Mapleton, Maple-ton, was cited for possession posses-sion of tobacco by a minor, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Madeline Irene Nelson, 12260 N. 300 West, Mapleton, was cited for possession of tobacco by a minor. Jordan Charles Edwards, MATC Cosmetology Iff i Presents: A Hair Fashion Show Saturday, October 11, 2008 1030-11:30 am. Come and enjoy vendors and refrehments before & after the show - Call for information 1200 S. Del Monte Road Spanish Fork 801 - 492 i Bond for the newlibrary Editor: We truly need the new library here in Springville that will be voted on in November. No-vember. What a wonderful CD ROMs, movies, private study rooms, multi-purpose auditorium and a conference confer-ence room can be provided with the additional space a new building will allow. In addition to the wonderful won-derful new library will be a beautiful landscaped area with a creek as part of it, plus a playground area. So, let's get out there on Nov. 4 and vote YES for this new library our city so desperately needs for all of its citizens. Joan Arnold Springville Thanks for Editor: Citizens of the little tumble down town of An- atevka visited bpringvitte Jr. High School last week as students from Mapleton and Springville Jr. High Schools presented "FIDDLER "FID-DLER ON THE ROOF." And it was neat! Under the direction of Leslie Walker, choreogra- phy by Corrin Gleave, music mu-sic and tech by Erin Baily, assisted by many and a cast of a lot, the stage came alive. Did you know that in order to live in Anetevka, you had to be able to sing well, even if you were only 13 or 14 years of age? Well you did. And you had to be able to dance and keep time and the men had to shake and rock and roll. The boys were too young to rock. The Russians had to sing and dance, but no rockin'and rollin'. The women just did "traditional" "tradition-al" dancing and wished, Last minute county voter registration still possible Editor: If you have recently moved to Springville or changed your address or 1930 S. Elk View, Mapleton, Maple-ton, was arrested for an outstanding warrant. A female fe-male juvenile was cited for joyriding with no license. Police had 52 calls last week with 15 for animals. Rocio Baray, 1566 S. 840 West, Payson, was arrested arrest-ed for a warrant. Richard Joseph Better-court; Better-court; 178 S. Main, Helper, was arrested for DUI. Jacob Ja-cob Ranard Washburn, 488 S. 400 East, Provo, was arrested ar-rested for a warrant. "" 4t iSt 8 - 2968 lankyouforMer! ything to do with tne aprmg vii M . y -f v l & , o-f wp atnte vnn' What a duction of "Fiddler on tnenuui, u,;uu. ai fine rendition ot this Deioveu mua. After seeing Fiddler this summer in Cedar City at the Shakespearian Festival, we were thrilled. But we were just as excited as we saw what these young people in SlThywsS1VaIker, noted musician and choir teacher at the jr. high, for your dedication to these young people and helping them to get involved and appreciate the arts. If only the whole student body could have been in that production. The teens in Fiddler not only learned to love this story sto-ry and music, but they gained confidence all the while learning discipline and having lots of fun. After the first night's performance, the excitement could be felt as the young people involved in the musical, and those attending, attend-ing, mingled outside of the schooL Everyone, actors and audience, had enjoyed the evening. Parents whose young people got involved in Fiddler were asked to help in some way. Costumes were made, scenery constructed, publicity happened and many other things. Thanks to everyone who got involved in this memorable memo-rable experience. The only down side is that there aren't more performances perfor-mances so more citizens could enjoy it. We appreciate the dedicated teachers in our schools who go the extra mile in educating the students in our community! 'Fiddler on I suppose, from the stage wings to cut a rug in their tumble down abodes. Tevye, you've a beautiful beauti-ful wife and five beautiful daughters! And I did enjoy your eyes. Yabba Dabba Do. Come to think of it, all of the members of that community were beautiful. beauti-ful. Even the Russians. The beauty must have been inherent in-herent in the milk of the cow that Lazar Wolf did not want to buy. My favorite moments of music were two choral songs by the entire cast. The first was "Tradition." The sound, harmony, blend, intonation, -diction and everything ev-erything else was stunning. The audience was in awe and aught to have been. The music was beautiful. The next was preparing for the Sabbath, "Sabbath Prayer." The Bose system has nothing on you. Spine tingling it was, and so well-staged. well-staged. Who would have thought to do it that way Clerk's office to be eligible to vote in the Nov. 4 election. elec-tion. The deadline for mail-in mail-in registration has passed, but you can still register in person at the Utah County Clerk's Election Office, 100 E. Center, Room 3100, Provo Pro-vo until Monday, Oct. 20. Registration forms can be down loaded and printed print-ed from the www.utah-countyonline.org www.utah-countyonline.org website, or they can be found on the last page of the government govern-ment section of US West Dex or Provo-Orem phone directories. If you want to check your registration status, or find out where to vote, go to the Utah County website listed above, click on "Online Services," then "Find Out Where to vote." If you don't have the In ternet &t home, the public Some Restrictions Apply lilfll 1 iPaSSX yV lis J" ' rf-i" jManuary200g i the Roof! ' except you talented people. With added staging, props, set and design, lighting light-ing and everything and everyone else that worked for a very successful production. pro-duction. There is one underlying un-derlying theme that was portrayed. I think it needs be mentioned. So Friday evening- After the eviction had twisted our heart strings and wrenched our souls and our "TRADITIONS" "TRADI-TIONS" were purged- and we never had, or have lost, or we wanted and could not, or were not able to, or just had bad luck, perhaps we couldn't afford, or ugly misfortune happened, or there was a pure "d" mess up, so we can still move on, go forward and work and love and hope. Then perhaps per-haps we can go to America and stay with Uncle Abraham. Abra-ham. : Many stood. I didn't. I wept. Thanks troupe! Karl Barton Springville library has computers, the Internet and staff members mem-bers to help you. You can also view a sample ballot to help you know which candidates you will be voting vot-ing on. This election is critical. 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