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Show .T..-ucit Pf( I Keeoine th Covern 'wen when but!: eh what is goi. -;' med has :.. a "formed. This is esps level, where rc have a say in the run. muni. ' -s. Uctostunat t at any level woi ehhs and citi.eew 1 I 1 ne puDiic mrormea , i . larai t from den i cos in th-!' th-!' h ' i t ii !ecaar:ts' scrutiny ( zam s I ' y. This , wtVl as in 0; i.a!ly true ;.t the local idonis ' .in and should a of their corn-there corn-there are peo- :woe m ted in want hi or (.! ;.. --5 oi'tlic table who are lwilhry lo m ike the chert necessary 1.0 keep the information fhw "oing. A recent example in-n n the govern ment sic!r- ir Pleasan' to fix a ; .ty council oroperlv inJ- On Thursday a .yoga veined a ci ordinance, ruling that the city IVslei give afeqoate public notice1 before j ing the measure. The city's i'' emergency nv . ' -o ao ha oh es the t'-J torts of the o eily cenncil i.a.-t week em cruiL-d by an earlier v not Ivcvpk'y the public rmt d. to a; i. i the hoyshthiw public notice. : use the InU i'i Thur attitude care let; us r saee wiih chill '.V.yt.four 1 could toil you t indeed, care J but onfortonai already overw. spoon-fw x! the JvUOW. t - t. . . i v Ki Y'. vt- ss a e '. Mi. luL; r-:u ciMuaiissiai heid a public hoacLi to modhv the Jr.iiixua.'.' ol the enon- eet mfcrt awe and cao:- it's coea; kt, one Ui.-e.-n t ;he care of this"... a roes-y roes-y O.'-'-cUian ovwtones. c. dco y o! 1 iee-1 luhlers lai i he pabhe does, nit what thy; are doing, jy many ethicm expect rked re prose ri atives to i what ihcv want to 11 -.pi las' ance 1 v did 'as to call an I hat night to a n jog regula- y cen'd complete -. h y ii bare notice; in three as no effort to r-' u. may st;-" k-fl en ii-iliev bad ad on! ah am sp:tc: ordinance which had passe: year aw years of discussion and development. Instead of locus: og en the purpose of the hearing, residems who at tended spent me. a. of the time asking the same oui.whens t'v.d bod been a times bo lore at answe''e ot b-"f i ii : cUr!-' cUr!-' iag:- thr city i irw cancafe c-,.-'ar ih..h: ho s ip wi! i an the ci ail the bene' i hs bo. aids all aeprnri: c1 ror t ha iwhts wi r euilU dent. Li-O .' m ttu ir co , Ihnit.i . ; ofbe-in; a.laries. Af,i'L ariag io j ,-(iU. t their i! oe M .a ; to nave .:hmt the "i i change o ' lOrtits aihs the, ahin the ivsidi-J.ta ; churning in imai an. '.va.'i'i' ani ire ; could he cited ana GCOI i ai'ig 1 in a . We d; r a:t thai on- v, hfii the h 1'Viday because of d adiiiio to modify a dec e.d to the .-.) d' -v.: w-ould have 'loasarg i " f!0(!S th 'S Lle.'Se cass hat city gov-resiilents O, his an.: last v : the ti;e . hasp .eant. made i.ah Lixtislatitre iest hill trying ; ice.-; !rom newspapers an si' as on the biter-e biter-e has .aw access to the bii l a sponsor's cU-- .oiiViil.ar e-'.a'vpj'a ; coulu Oe cneo ironi virtually every city nnx tiug that takes place. What they all have in common is tint srnie earnest but ignorant residents resi-dents dcop in el the e:ai of a lui'g. dtrovn-out process io address issues in 'he community find want, their repre-v"?!nt: repre-v"?!nt: -es to stop the process while. acv phiv ''catch up.' A lot ol' lime is . asa cl in public noeung-; doing just this. Vnt.ers don't, tok-raie it wb-n tiv'r elected oifidals don't do their hum v:)rk, yet they fail to "e ihat they have an equally important impor-tant n sponsihiiity to use public notices, cal newspaper an ides, city newslct- 10 ten; edn -ind otner ava it o themseU'4' 5 a process th la, ile resources to it needs to go both i - ioo in any cais " '" ''ihs ca ' a: his:: 's'e( to mR)rm me of ail v:ir in last week's newspaper when we reported that there were more than 1 .500 animals mainly cats, .l.cs-v. a.., ww .;ad iaiihits en the Fox f ! a in I hwwanl irnve. ' a m, which coi'.asts of tv o acres ' '.'? vas the : hi"Ci of '.; a , pubiWiWO anmial removal ojier-' ojier-' Ion bv rieas.int Grove City last week. ;ews leports indicated that Pleasant Grove police claimed that there were 1,400 to 1,500 animals on the property. Due of t he calls came from a member oi the Few family, who Lnlo.'mod me trvst if I knew anything about animals and (arms and wach. I would know that you can't keep 1 . iOO to 1.500 animals on just two acres. Another call caaie from a very emo-; emo-; ml woman. She claimed in htive sonailv ibun.! lioaies lor most ol wimals but she didn't v,n named. She said there were thaa hhh animals or' tlv fa ,,hiaa 4h0 i '" Ihoin i "nr. "d. ieanct nca UOiV.vS. On! a!:. nit in! e. i tie animals v v.-r i uihanixed hist Friilav. sis- said. 1'J! he honest. Wh- n hie ohichd esti- t 1.500 a.ni.iiats (.urn' m. I did.nt on it. ! awl-e ! -Ira 'a have, but I'm ,.cii of a firm pw -c .. Ltct V a. 1 g;x v up .a ' h ,'el;s fonily ; a: l ;,: nouses away Mtll I. ifthi it to be tie nn'i'e nn. i It lb oat unc i's is Uesj; mi:!! rur; fi'.. : dd. and cow - . sa o didn't p;g much idea hwv m -. aci:. Nevertheh-s. l;raiiklv. o is J.", who has trie cor Irave both a; id i liie p wa ;)S, 10 )i ses i'e oleai, bat I !. S'1 1 nave no .an live on an .000 aiiiina:.-' i a I' to hoi;, fin no: twla .V.O-er.i, !. I., da lor yourself which sounds most reasonable. As lor me. both are beyond my ability to comprehend. We haw two ca- s and that's two louinany for mo. I have a hard h,r." i murJi ;a cwa:. xmi-i uwaureas ot '.'..r ' imagining Mtei all. fiiey woii't '.as hvime and thray 'o'.i as; them to do. at them? ire cats, and an t-vi e v.; trying to count timm. hold still, they wwt't wori't do a darn thmo So her-, do vou cei (hliickens I can see. You simply move them from one piece of fenced property to another, and count as you go. You can do that with ducks, too. But cats? Frankly I don't see how that would work. That's what made the Supcrbowl commercial featuring the- cat herders so funny. Rabbits would be evert harder to count, especially if you had a lot of them. The problem here, of course, i-- that by the time you get done counting there are already more than when you skwiwi. Don't get. me wrong. Despite mv strongly held h boh about cats. Tain r,nt an animal bat-.-r. not (hero is a. time find a place for everything, and in the.-? times, a small leem ia the middle of .a gnawing town is tl io wrong ilaco to try to run a sa.ncuiaiy for lets oi small animals that rc..st conanemvnt. - be it 500 or 1,500. Winn we get numbers like thai .'billows .'bi-llows storks, we lend lo print what we are told, with proper a: .tribal ion. of couiwe, so ear readers know whei information canto from and cao cv; its PustWorlbiiH - wwcordhwh: The trouble w;!. wo didn't g 1' -as i -y anaii.' in t imc- ibr (;.. :.m- tii.it ra.ti le our siorv . '- -hh h lu iiddiison. its inn io know that home- wow- (bund for me-1 ot thise animals ani-mals in setiing- nui;v ;:,,! and rr.ore appropriate than the box (arm. Not everyone will agree with, this sentiment, aiid that? okay We welonw letters to the edulor esyressMng a co:t: raiT opinion. For mysek; 1 still think that even if vou take the lowest nnmhww, the situa tion at the fa nil w as the aitian taken last Griiv-e (iiiy to reduce ; m:tls at tlte Fox ibrm : (Is v. as necoss.nv. the luate f the : and f control, -ii-.,! , by !'!easaat u rubor ofani-r.;upri ofani-r.;upri ite le- 1 .' 1 , : 1 W' .-A Vv ill be ooys, and anything can be a guf done- will you sword I'm gstLinr a late -tart on my column col-umn tins week. I ready wanted to get it done earlier. Saturday allernooa I sat down at the computer and tried to get some work done. My little boy, l.'allin. who will be live next month, stood next to me. "Mom, when wall vou be done? When vou'ro licnt warn me. atom' we swr.rd fagot yet'.''' I finally had to quit working and swoi'd light w ith him. It was just easier eas-ier than listening to lain whine. We had quite a good fight, too. I delivered what I thought was a winning blow, then he informed me that he had 1,000 lives. Pius, whenever he spun around really fast, he said that gave me a crippling thunder shuck. I can't remember exactly when swords, guns and fights took over our sweet, little boy's life. 1 never planned to raise a battle-hungry warrior. Before w e had kid 3 I used to be one of those people who thought 1 would have control river what my children liked and what t hey played with. Our first sword came from grampa 1 think. Dallhi fell in love with Hercules Her-cules w hen Disney's movie came out. Grama made him a Ik-rcuk-j costume cos-tume for Halloween and grampa iheaght he should have a sword to go with h. Dakin lav ad that txwu'd and he was inconsolable when it tinaily broke from so ran So there 1 wa actually buying h It didn t seem though. It's w him bus Then Kvoiw lh use,. s at I he toy store, nm another weapon, so terrible anymore Ci hat he liked and it kept for av, nil-j. e it i s -1 was no i.i' wars pnase. a lightsaber. Darlh Vadcr vas the ultimate hero. We accumulated a collection of action figures and little guns. "ikiuk of Mormen stories were also popular with our little guy. Mostly because three is so much lighting, esowially using swords. Dallin seemed a little too enthralled with the .stories. His favorite was Ammon. Yep. the story where Amnion cuts off the arms of the bad La m unites. We were smarting to get a little worried and em hirrassed . I thought everyone was saving what a bad parent par-ent 1 was. A.; 1 looked around his 1 . . ... vti-ri i fit vorck-, and t-j viniwu action wgures.. l won- oatn towarcis But as I talked to other part. young boys; I learned that D-ow actually pretty normal. That parents who restrict their soriw playing with swords and gUilV. that their kids still find ways tri -with other things. A stick or ak-become ak-become a sword with a little im;-tion. im;-tion. Even a toy car or Lcjr0 cap. like a gun if you hold it riwht "' I'm not saying it's okay to ,,. boys run wild and do anythinh. want. Dallin's ruies are he can'p a toy gun at anyone and if he f anyone with a sworJ, -the sword' taken away for a day or two. I'm also relieved to say that D is not quite so fixated anymore his swords. He does have moments when he loves a good V fight, but as he is growing"); finding many other things to do his time. Several w . i ks ago we wero r mom's house with my younger t Angle and her little one Dakota. 1 moo civaainiL' nn rough-looking pirate action f-. Dallin hod been playing with ? said to her, "Just wait until restarts re-starts playing with stuff like th . She said that Dakota was going to like playing with balk books. Yeah, 1 thought, we'll ; can't wait to get hirn a swora shield for his next birthday. year-old Lake room a: id w.iw a ventuo weapons, from shields, vu a cha ed if he VOui.h vowae ,u or: th 'Standing for Something elves everybody something to stand for to It's lieen nvaikthle at local bookstores for about a week. Yesterday it was released to a national audience. Its author has been called the most famous LI )o church president since 'wigham Young. With a foreword written by "(SO Minutes" journalist Mike Wallace and published by h'a.ndom House, Tunes Books of New York, thus w ork was not meant for Presides it Hinckley's; typical LBS audience. However, its purchase by members alone will, I'm sura, propel this title to many best seller lists. That someone like Mike Wallace would be willing to write the foreword for such a book is amanog enough hi and of itself. What is even more marvelous mar-velous is the mutual friendship between these two octogenarians (Wahhice is 81 and Hinckley, is hh) -- a hienddrip tint began in interviews that i'.-d to the first ever "(iO i.h'nu'.es" program featur ing an LBS church president. I have been told ('please con farm if you have any firsthand knowledge) that President Hinckley twiiod Yvadaee and his wife to a regional LD3 conference held at Madison Square Gardens. The Wallaces not only came, but were invited invit-ed to sit on the stand. At the close ofl lie cor.fereitce, as President and Sister Hinckley departed, members stood and bii waved white handkerchiefs as they sane. We tnank tnee u trod tor a prophet." I understand the Wallaces also stood and, with no lack of emotion, began to wave their white handk.erehiefs as well. It's a scene I never expect to see on ''60 Minutes." Wallace is a national icon of journalistic journal-istic cynicism, yet lie seems to have a very high ivgard and warm friendship for perhaps this country's most avid and optimistic believer. What a pair! All Latter-day .Saints will enjoy this boo!;, but I recommend it for a more important reason. You'll find that it purpos pe pociahy Ht s not use LBS "churchs-an',eago "churchs-an',eago LBS members, hi men hers, need to learn avoid. For example, we have an almost universal tendency to refer to our friends and neighbors as "members" "mem-bers" or ''non-m.embers." No one should evee be referred to as a "h.on." because, as such, Uiey can never be on equal mound! We should emulate President ninck'.cv and r-ioice friends of other faiths. The difference may seem too that we ha'. mbtle for some la I L r-c tints, but it is ve; inii'oi lant to our- li iimds! President llincki-y sp";;-:s of neglected neglect-ed virtues that will hwal our hearts and h I di';nvs upon his rich ex: en tice and knowledge io make every point an simple and straightforward a ding hashes of the obvious. I loved "his introduction. Although he has ei'jeyed his numerous visits to far binng: points of the globe, President Hinckley expresses his love and awe of America. fl calls the Constitution and Bill of aghts not only inspired, but "the keystone ol our nation." For example, before the 1007 Israeli w ar. lie reniem-b reniem-b rs climbing to a higher elevation so has Arab pancle could show him the other side of a divided 'Jerusalem. llinckely writes, '"With tears in his eyes, (his man pointed to the home from liicli lie had bean dispossessed. And ion he said with tkap emotion, "You hong to the greatest nation on the face t! of the earth. Yours is the only n, that has been victorious in war never claimed any territory asapr. conquest. Your people have given lions, even billions, to the poor c earth and newer asked for anvth:: return. Rather, even after coming conqueror, you have poured yet billions to revive those who hail your enemies in bloody conflict." lie also writes, that Great L. Prime .Minister. Margaret Thatch said, "You use the name of Deity i Declaration of Independence and r Constitution olljthe United State; yet you cannot use it in the schoolr "Her words," he says, "are an and an indictment of America. "If we would individually and:, lively resolve to stand for sonietk. lift our voices for truth and gea. and offer our supplications to our" nal Father, those supplications wot heard, and the result would here: able.'' That is his plea. As a nation .: world of nations, he urges us to ret the time-honored virtues that made America great and which served and saved civilization? t turies. For example lie speaks of love..; lodestar or polar star of life. As he under the milky heavens of his you would always 'try to find that co: amid cha ne'e Tn todnv's world,: h O'l-U a nKci'n i-n -ii n- 1'ifiM- if flip hp? We look to ourselves rather than God who created us. Neverthek polar star is still there. President Hinckley's new reminds all of us that we mis above the light pollution of the and re-sot our bearings on the that matter most: love, honesty, r. ty, civility, learning, forgiyenes mercy, thrift, and industry, grx optimism, and, above all. faith in i Ji. k- JL J jl -A. V V fr ORUM 7b teachers: sink t r f nor me ansv&r I'k.Iitor: An-open letter to teachers: Jkrike is not the answer. hhiwe more- nioiK'y needs la be gonera'ed to continue to pay for the ever increasing, never ending number num-ber 'of kids in this stale, here are a couple of suggestions Lei's not continue to raise existing property taxes. There is nothing i more American than the right to 1 own property. Let's not d:i away with sales lax on food since that is the most equitable equi-table fax there is. Let's not slap commercial bu-i-ii( .-s with more tax. We need to reconsider and implement imple-ment a head fax or registration fee. people choose to have kids, then they Lib: choose to pay for their ctluca-f:. ctluca-f:. oi. Why d0 we feel that a quality e iacaiian is free? We will pay for thai, w luck we value most. V'.V must car h.l a- vhat other .-tales no dt.nr;? by charging a bus he. If you choose to ride a bus, then 1'ti.v a bus pes, Saings on trans-perk'tiuu trans-perk'tiuu coy s would bo substantial. Lo ;uvay with f; o waivers. ll:mv ludents who sunnnsedb- i , - . . . , c f!U wawiM' are tl best A K-12 tax or fee the i parents pay If or a p. ' - . i r.j ; ;s ! i i sc rand name ciol him '.V'o need to cut the number of district, dis-trict, ad mini sinners and consultants. consul-tants. We are top heavy in most all district positions. Li t's do away with teacher career t'?,,tl'.'r ai1(i -ki'iv that money where if v ill wo some sroed. At mvr.nt rr; -by gut is not eensidered part -nia.rv scale. lieo! with top men Let's look at the insurance; age for teachers. We need to 1; only the employee, not the i and entire family. Idaho has a: made this change. This alone' save mega-bucks. Utah is so unique in the f-.student f-.student ratio that we sliot;Mr compared with other states, the nation's average family two-three and Utah has Is whore oight-10 is net. imemn"' Isn't it true Utah has tho percentage of the fax dollar-going dollar-going toward education tbf other state? And now we he:"' is not at the bottom of the either teacher salary or class -- Come on, teachers, sink? the answer. We have entertained only1 of suggestions and there are- Pleasant Grove Review (ISh's N (U.b.P.S. -l:Si;l I .)- i.n Published w: w Zl'O, ; PW s h) ONW MEWSPAPtR JCIAUON 59 West Main American Fork, Utah 84003 WiC lhOliiJ fJ'JM'JGIS 'a-wr Ere:; Ezzf.r,! wyw E-O-v '..wc H.;cJ-c' E:sa- K.-.ai ?'.a;r Subscription price S24 per year Periodicals Postage Paid at American Fork, h'tah POSTMASTER: send address ch,:-nqc to 59 West Main. American Fork. Utiti 34003 DM D1.-1.-i e.vs . . . 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