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Show THE PARK RECORD A-ll oints. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1,1997 EDITORIAL Vkwp 'WpilWMwwwwiLluu mm in Mini J mmn m-'tliy)iw T iji-i'li-Tiri'rrilwrtnia -i muni wjiiai veteran teachers As of press time the teachers of the Park City School District were caught between the proverbial "rock and a hard place." They were being asked to accept a base salary increase substantially below what they had originally hoped for. But they also were being offered a new pay incentive for staying in the district for the long haul. In essence, new teachers teach-ers were being asked to sacrifice, some of their demands for the benefit of those who have been in the district for many years. Per the recommendations of an independent hearing officer, the school board was offering the teachers a two-year contract which included a three-and-a-half-percent base salary increase for all school district personnel including classified classi-fied employees and administrators, and a new salary "step" above the current ceiling for veteran vet-eran teachers. The exact details of the offer were not available avail-able at press time, but the concept of adding a step for longtime teachers is overdue and should get the districts full support. Currently, teachers top out on the step scale after 13 years of teaching and almost a third of the Park City deserve pay step school district's teachers have hit that top step. After that point, the only raises they receive are the same as those given to new teachers.Though the pill may be a bitter one for first- and second-year teachers to accept, we hope they will acknowledge the value of their peers who have served in the area, in some cases, for decades. Certainly, those veterans will remember the support of those less senior during dur-ing the next round of negotiations. Everyone agrees that Park City teachers play an invaluable role in educating our children. The tough part is quantifying that role in terms of money. ' Ultimately the school board must balance the teachers' demands against the district budget. bud-get. They must also weigh the pros and cons of higher salaries and fewer teachers against lower salaries and lower student ratios. In this case a fair compromise has beenpro-posed beenpro-posed which will help to maintain Park City's low studentteacher ratios while also rewarding some of the educators who have worked over the years to establish and maintain the district's excellent reputation. No Food Served ! order c? Suwvni Couwry Sexually Oriened r -.j-i era e3 jc m v WhatagreqVidecxl a week! JOHN KILB0URNR4RJC RECORD GUEST EDITORIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Parkites offer mental illness support group by Joanne) Bloom UTAH ALLIANCE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS Does someone you know suffer from mental illness? Is a member of your family fami-ly one of the. many people with an illness that a few years ago people were afraid to talk about? What is mental illness? It is a brain disorder, and brain disorders like epilepsy, are biologically-based medical problems that can be treated. No longer do people blame mental illness ill-ness on poor parenting, early toilet training, train-ing, weak character and the like. One out of every four Americans will suffer a serious seri-ous mental disorder during his lifetime. One in 100 people have schizophrenia. One in 100 people have bipolar disorder. One in four women, and one in 10 men, will experience major depression in their lives. Over three million children and adolescents suffer from these illnesses. Mental illness can strike anyone. It knows no age limit, economic status, race, creed or color. During the course of a year, more than 48 million Americans are affected by one or more mental disorders, what we now know to most likely be caused by a chemical disorder in the brain. Mental illnesses ill-nesses are far more common than cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or arthritis. The five major categories of mental illness ill-ness are schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic disorder. These can be treated and controlled with proper medical med-ical care. If you or someone you knows suffers from one of these disorders, his or her life may be greatly disrupted and those mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, children or friends of the mentally ill find tremendous stress in their own lives. In his book Mind, Mood and Medicine Dr. Paul Wender talks about people suffering from varying degree of mental illness. Those who are hospitalized obviously have a greater degree of the illness but thousands of people are walking around with 10 percent, 20 percent, or even 50 percent of these diseases without any help from the medication or treatments now available. My own daughter had a schizophrenic break at the age of 18 while in her first year of college. I was devastated when she was hospitalized, but with proper treatment treat-ment and medication, she recovered and resumed normal activities. Throughout the years she has had ups and downs, been hospitalized two more times, but lives by herself in her own apartment with a cat she loves and she goes to Wasatch Mental Health on a daily outpatient basis. I suffered suf-fered alone through all the hard times and only recently, less than a year ago, found a support group right here in Park City Called Journey of Hope. It is through their support and friendship friend-ship that I have gained knowledge and strength to handle the difficult times. We meet one Wednesday evening a month at the Summit County Health Department Building. At first I thought, I didnt need any help. I could handle my problems myself, but by going to the meetings and talking to others who have close relatives and friends with mental illness, I have learned so much better how to cope, found out what is and what is not available avail-able for my daughter, and tried to be an advocate for mental health. Thursday, October 9. 1997, is National Depression Screening Day. Depression is an illness and effective treatments are available. This screening is free of charge . and you can call Toll Free 1-800-573-4433 for a site near you. If you would like more information call UAMI (Utah Alliance for Mental Illness) at 936-7337 or Journey of Hope meetings held locally, call Mary or Ray Freer 645-7896 645-7896 or Joanne Bloom 649-6418. Disheartened as a second class citizen Editor: As a part of Jan Fisher-Rush's comments com-ments to the City Council at the meeting of September 25th, she asked them to extend special consideration to Mr. and Mrs. Sheinber saying that after all, "...this is their home, not employee housing". As a ten-year employee and resident in Park City, I have faced the fact that I will never be able to afford to purchase a home here. However, I am offended and disheartened to find that I am, in Ms. Fisher-Rush's opinion anyway, a second-class second-class citizen, undeserving of the rights and considerations of a homeowner. Well, Ms. Fisher-Rush, I am certainly glad I dont work for you. My thanks to the City Council for not bowing to this mentality. Liz Simpson Park City GUEST EDITORIAL Cannon Pulls Plug on Draining Lake Powell Submitted by U.S. Congressman Chris Cannon Washington, D.C. Speaking today before a joint hearing of the House Parks and Public Lands and Water and Power Subcommittees, Congressman Chris Cannon (R-Utah), who represents the Utah portion of Lake Powell, highlighted the ridiculous nature of the proposal to drain the lake. The following is Rep. Cannon's prepared statement: Mr. Chairman, I represent the Utah portion por-tion of Lake Powell. Today you will hear several witnesses testify tes-tify as to the logical reasons for preserving the integrity of the lake. As this committee will hear, Lake Powell provides substantial power, drinking and irrigation water, and 1rotection from ravenous floods to mil-ions mil-ions of people whose lives are now dependent upon the lake's existence. Not to mention the fact that Lake Powell is incomparable in scale and quality to any other recreational area in America, providing pro-viding world-renowned water recreation to some three million people each year. Mr. Chairman, draining the lake is a ridiculous idea. I remember the debate before Glen Canyon Dam was built. The environmental impact was discussed, the damage to the canyon acknowledged, and the decision to go forward made. It is too late to change that now, simply because some have grown sentimental for Glen Canyon. What existed then could never be restored to suggest otherwise is silly. I dare say that this could be the silliest proposal pro-posal discussed in the 105th Congress. Mr. Chairman, I have seen some environmental environ-mental proposal in my district that can only be described as dumb some monumentally monu-mentally dumb. But now, Mr. Chairman, we have "dumb and dumber." v In that spirit, I would like to introduce my top ten environmental ideas that might be even dumber than draining Lake Powell: 10. Remove the Statue of Liberty and reclaim Liberty Island. 9. Return New Orleans and southern Louisiana to its natural wetland wet-land status. 8. Dismantle all lighthouses cluttering our nation's shorelines. 7. Return Mount Rushmore to its pristine state. 6. Re-pack Manhattan's Lincoln Tunnel. 5. Remove the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco Bay. 4. Rip up the interstate highways that litter our landscape. r 3. Fill in the Erie Canal. 2. Return Washington, D.C., to its original swampy wetlands. : 1. Designate a 1.7 million acre national monument in Southern Utah without due process, hearings nor local input. Wie opinions expressed in our guest editorials ; . do not necessarily ' reflect the views of the Park Record. C Conflict of interest Editor: I was appalled at the discourteous comments made by Mr. Jan Fisher-Rush at last week's City Council Meeting regarding The Old Miners' Lodge B&B project. Her attempt to discredit and insult the council members by saying "their minds were made up prematurely and it was difficult to trust the governing body", was hard to believe. Why? Because Mrs. Fisher-Rush identified herself as a "resident living in the neighborhood neigh-borhood on Norfolk Avenue" when, in fact she is an ownerinnkeeper of The Angel House B & B. A business in direct competition with The Old Miners' Lodge. Now who is difficult to trust, Mrs. Fisher? As a ten-year resident of Park City and a former owner of The Old Miners' Lodge, I would like to express my respect and gratitude to the City Council and staff for a long and thoughtful process. Cliff Wynne Park City Park CitySummit County Government Directory Park City Council Members Hugh Daniels, 645-8187 Chuck Klingenstein, 649-3368 Roger Harlan, 649-2624 Paul Sincock, 649-2181 Shauna Kerr, 649-671 8 Mayor Brad Olch, 649-8352 Summit County Commissioners Sheldon Richins, 336-5550 Jim Soter, 783-4462 '-'' Eric Schifferli, 645-8145 Summit County Planning Commission Chairmen East side: Glen Brown, 336-5952 Snyderville: Max Greenhalgh, 649-4166 Park City School Board Colleen Bailey, 649-1 346 Burke Jolley, 645-51 00 Ext. 1 26 David Chaplin, 649-961 3 Nikki Lowry, 649-61 00, 649-0424 Roger Fulmer, 645-7844 Carol Murphy, 649-3385 State Government Governor Mike Leavitt, 538-1000 Sen. Alarik Myrin, 454-3494 Sen. Lyle Hillyard, 752-2610 Rep. David Ure, 783-4650 U.S. Congress Rep. Chris Cannon, (801 ) 379-2500 (202) 225-7751 Rep. Jim Hansen, (801) 393-8362, (202) 225-0453 Rep. Merrill A. Cook (801) 524-4394, (202) 225-3011 Sen. Bob Bennett, (801 ) 924-5933, (202) 224-5444 Sen. Orrin Hatch, (801 ) 524-4380, (202) 224-5251 QUOTES OF THE WEEK" Two good things have happened to me on chair- lifts -1 met my wife and came up with the notion of going to physical therapy school." -Peter Dickinson, physical therapist at Performance Physical Therapy "The American Legion contribution really illustrates how much the community is involved in the Eccles Center. " -Teri Orr, executive director of the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Center for the Performing Arts . The Park Record Staff PUBLISHER Andy Bemhard Editor Nan Chalat-Noaker Staff writers Kirsta H. 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