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Show Senutr County Monitor PAGE 5 Anita SlansHeld's latest MARCH 6, 1997 Book Anita Stansfield. a popular LDS romance author, will be her books at Beaver Drug Wednesday, March 12th, from signing 4 to 5 P.M Stansfield has achieved tremendous success ge an early start! 77ger Drew Lamb, eight months old, gets some early lessons in basketball from Grandfather Norman Lamb. writing romance novels Her books "First Love and Forever", First Love, Second Chances", "Now and Forever", and "By Love and Grace" have sold over 60,000 copies since being initially Her latest book, "A Promise of released in August 1994 Forever" was recently released in January of this year. Anita has become known for her ability to tackle tough social issues in a positive and straightforward way. In "A Promise of Forever" Anita has masterfully woven a plot that satisfies from beginning to end. It has romance, undying love, tragedy, surprise, renewal, and a keen insight into the challenges and blessings of life. In 1995 Anita's novei, "First Love and Forever, was the recipient of the BEST FICTION AWARD from the Independent LDS Booksellers, and the GOLDEN QUILL from the League of Utah Writers Anita will be speaking to Relief Society sisters and Young Women in the Beaver 3rd and 4th Ward Chapel at 7 P.M. Wednesday, March 12th Winning Entry of Milford Valley Memorial Hospital Essay Contest By Steve Giedhill A group of businessmen told Beaver County Commissioners last Monday that they have invested their resources to provide services for the traffic going through Minersville. A proposed bypass to link SR2 with Thermo Road north of town may limit the return on that investment. They said they appreciate the fact that commissioners want to run vehicles on state funded roads, but they have seen what happens to other towns when traffic was diverted. The business owners would like to delay the decision.... at least temporarily. "What's a few months in the life of a town that is 150 years old?" Bill Fails, a Minersville service station and convenience store owner asked. The proposal is for approximately 2,000 feet of new road through the old Cow Palace, just south of the Minersville Cemetery. The county is seeking state funding for turn lanes on the highway. is to offset impact created by Circle 4 Main purpose of the Farms traffic. Business owners, on the other hand, want to attract the workers traveling from Beaver to farm or construction sites west of town. The service stations, cafe and grocery store are enjoying a long awaited increase in trade as the workers stop in for gas, a meal or a snack on their way to work. This traffic would be diverted to the 1 . by-pa- ss by-pas- s. Mayor Howard Pryor said the Town Council did not make the request for the nor have they taken an official stand. it Pryor said that was introduced to them through maps from the State Department of Transportation. The Town will hold a public 'r"rr " meetrng-beforany decision is made: ' With the plan, Circle 4's farm to market trucks, along with other heavy truck traffic, would still be directed past the elementery school on Center Street. The county appears to be making provisions for 60 farm to market trucks daily. Skyline complex trucks would logically travel east on Thermo Road to SR2 1 , and turn south through Minersville. Doug Carriger, county planner, indicated Monday that, in the 60 truck per day estimate, the county may be including farm to market traffic from the Blue Mountain complex, to be located near the Iron County line. Rob Adams, Circle 4 general manager, clarified Wednesday that Blue Mountain plans are still in flux. If the complex contains a significant number of finishers, shipment may be directly south through Lund, reducing the truck traffic impact on Minersville streets. Pryor said Minersville Town has no immediate plans to annex land between the Town and the proposed road for either residential or commercial use. "I can't see going out and annexing more land until we fill up the Town." He added that quarter acre lots are selling at a reasonable price. "The Town is growing. They have split the Ward....that's a good indication," Pryor continued. Twenty-nin- e new houses have been built in the past year or so. The Town now has 268 service connections, and they are looking toward a new water tank or elevating the present tank to provide upgraded fire protection. An upgraded irrigation system will be completed this coming summer, after which the open irrigation ditches can be covered. by-pa- e by-pa- ss by-pa- ss n Xerth, Clot One hundred fifty years ago there weren't many clinics. Most doctors did house calls by horse and buggy. Today clinics have become essential for the success of health care systems. In the past the doctor was paid in kind, meaning his patients didn't have much money to they paid the doctor by what they raised. As it became easier to travel, the doctors had the people come to them, and that's when they started to have hospitals and clinics. One hundred fifty years ago doctors became generalists meaning they did everything. They treated the sick, delivered babies, and did surgery. Today doctors are so specialized they may do just one specialty. They usually do this specialty in a clinic setting. The way a doctor is paid has greatly changed from one hundred fifty years ago. Today the people don't pay in kind, they usually have insurance, Medicare or some other monetary form of payment. These new payor systems have forced doctors to have business office personnel to track all these payers. Government regulations and rules have greatly changed over the 100 years. Under new modem health care systems of (Health past Maintenance Organizations) (HMO's) Preferred Provider Organizations (P.P.O.'s) the medical field is becoming more complicated. There are many new rules and regulations medical practitioners have to follow. There are government regulatory commissions who enforce these rules. Hospitals and Clinics are spending more money to upgrade equipment and follow these new regulations. More and more of the cost of providing medical services is attributed to these new rules and regulations. More .(and more time is being spent doing paper work than doing patient care. More money is'beiflg spent in defending lawsuits brought on by attorneys who are offering to take percentages of what is awarded in lawsuits rather than being paid up front The medical professions is becoming a good hit. As medical practices become more complicated higher trained administrators must be hired to manage the practices. Health Care is becoming a business run by insurance companies. In the past years physicians were able to run their practice independently, however physicians are employed by larger health care organizations. The clinics in Milford and Minersville, Utah are used to draw more population to the hospital. These clinics are essential to the success of the local hospital. Under the new health care systems, a trend that is good I that practitioners are concentrating more on keeping people well. By keeping a person well a medical practice will be able to keep more of the health care money. Medicine will be moving from where more money will be made when people arc kept well than when they are sick. Doctors will be given a certain amount of money to take care of the patient for a year. If the doctor keeps the patient well he keeps all the money. If the patient gets sick the doctor will have to pay for any tests or medications out of his pocket therefore the doctor will concentrate on keeping the patient well. There exists many problems today in rural health and health care in this country. Efforts to eliminate the problem have centered on the forces of social policy, financing, and manpower. The complexity of the problem, the number of doctors, has prevented a clear, solution to the problem. The provision of health care services to the rural areas of the country by means of satellite clinics may be a significant factor in alleviating some of these problems. The clinical way of doing medicine is certainly a long ways from the horse and buggy of yesterday. an, and mrr L--- - a Lji Kurt Collins, at the Milford High School, has an Internet Room now, with 5 terminals linked to the hub in Beaver. Milford High has a Career Ixidder Program going each day from 3:30 to 4:30 under the direction of Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Osborne. Ihe Internet can only be accessed currently at (he High Schwl under teacher supervision because of limited censorship. on-li- ne Sedi fountain times gone fey ma.lt op cherry eofoe lrarijtt't. Remember us flor that special gifit 3ernvood 3iue Chocolates. $eUw Mlvj. tVtnimals and much. m,ew With. each fountain .purchase receive a coujon jpv 25 fjfj any wguUT juiced item, er 10 ofjfl any sa,le item at good Hie Wod 'X Aee ffUee, Do Government employees they serve the interests of (ithe people " or large corporations? Editorial comment by Alice Smith: Ouch! The firing of Lisa Ilurtadi, Armstrong as legal counsel for the I Itah Committee of Consumer Services is a slap in the face to every citizen who has retained even the slightest faith in government ethics. Who paid for Armstrong's services? Every company or professional (doctor, engineer. barber. OR utility company) that is regulated or licensed pays a Lisa Armstrong did fee. Regulated entities build that the people Utah! work fee into the cost which Two years ago. I found myself on consumers pay for their product what turned out to be a or service. The fee is then used crusade for extended area telephone to fund the Committee of service to provide toll free calling Consumer Services. Department You throughout Beaver County. of Commerce. Armstrong was blow.. .county unity keep business an employee of the State of Utah, at home.... if it's a toil free catt to" with a paycheck coming from the Beaver, customers will call there to fund by paid regulatory check on the availability of a product consumers essentially or service before making a toll call to Annstrong worked for "the Cedar. Armstrong provided s....! " people of Utah. If she w as paid advice. explained requirements, by "the people" of Utah, then did and limitations possibilities. she not have a moral and ethical Unfortunately. I was unable to inspire responsibility to represent enough enthusiasm in the hearts of city and count) government leaders to get Was Armstrong fired them to jump on the bandwagon. (The for failure to do her job. or for same Milford City Council that doing her job too w ell? As a doubled water and sewer rates said state employee... who worked for they were unwilling to ask senior "the people" of Utah....it would citizens and those on fixed incomes to have been her job to represent pay an additional $ 1 .09 per month for the interests of consumers if they county-wid- e calling.) were being overcharged. "The people" of Utah benefit from scrupulous workmanship by their public servants, but what happens to the employee if that same quality of work and integrity costs a big corporation a few million dollars? The obvious question is: IfArmstrong 's "position was eliminated" because she was a good advocate for "the people " of Utah, how are other government employees holding on to their jobs? Department of Health of Environmental Department Quality. Division of Water and of Economic Quality Department Comrnunity Development Community Impact Board.... Department of Natural Resources. Division of Water Rights.... who do these folks represent? Do they work for "the people" or have such state agencies evolved into a giant public relations service to benefit large corporations? Is it time to restructure and downsize government by moving a few folks into the private sector, and replacing them with public servants willing to protect the interests of "the people"? of for one-wom- w - Installation of the Internet began this week at Milford Elementary. Education Technology Initiative, under the direction of District Supervisor Tracy Davis, is making all of this possible by providing the funds for Internet hookup and access. Utah Power & Light ' ' N ran the fiber optic lines, and each school has a teacher acting as representative in charge of the project, w ith the responsibility for running the lines to each classroom. Darrel Davis, District Maintenance Supervisor, is on sight at each location to oversee the initial installation. He explained the advantage of having the fiber optics: A residential hook-u- p over standard phone lines can take 30 to 60 seconds to respond, whereas the fiber optics are in the neighborhood of 100,000 times faster, making responses almost instant. Milford Elementary is hoping to be e within a month in each classroom. Cullin Carter, who knows the Milford Elementary representative is Duke Hollingshead. elementary school inside and out, is also giving valuable assistance. Kurt Collins hopes to have each classroom linked up within a He says each classrwm may have up to 4 terminals hooked up, month as well. Mr. Collins plans to use some student involvement to get with each terminal able to visit a different site. One of the the lines ran, possibly having something such as a Technologies Class adantages to this is a direct line to University of Utah. to help with the hands on installation. A!h on-lin- . atv pemembfcT1 Milford Students "Catch A Wave " a III JTUtl - Cedw Shiorud with Clinics How Have They Changed by-p- ass Here Come Itu ' Businessmen don't want (Bulloch Drug) gr |