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Show Free Press Wednesday, August 13, 1986 Page 2 Tuesday primary election will be final for races Is it important to vote this Tuesday? You'd better believe it. The lack of any meaningful involvement by the Democratic Party in this year's election make next Tuesday's primary one of the most important in recent election years. The absence of opposition candidates means that four, count them, four county races will be decided Tuesday. And these aren't insignificant positions, either. Included in the four are the election of a county sheriff and a county attorney the two top law enforcement officials in the county. Despite the similar party affiliation, these candidates offer a broad spectrum in style and substance. In the county attorney's race, voters will choose between the considerable experience of Wayne Watson, deputy county attorney and a successful prosecutor in several high profile murder cases, and Steven Killpack, who lacks Watson's exposure and experience, but is getting a lot of mileage out of his promise to make the e for the first time. position commissioner. Here, too, voters have a major decision to make, since the candidates feature very different styles and differing political philosophies. One of the problems with this wide variety of choice is that if local Democrats want to make a difference in county elections, they will have to do so by voting on the Republican ballot. The Democratic side of the ticket offers local voters only one race - the race to decide who gets the thankless task of running against Jake Gam in November. True, both parties will have a say in the - -- full-tim- non-partis- candidates file for board They'd asked me to give a lesson last Thursday evening and I'd prepared three months' worth of material for the ladies. I wanted to really wow them right off the bat so I bought a bouquet of smiley face orange balloons. I also bought a black "Over the Hill" one for contrast. I tied the strings together and pushed the bouquet of 10 balloons into the back seat of my trusty Plymouth where there's definitely plenty of room for all of them. hot. And, I But, it was didn't want to close all my windows, so I headed for Highland with all my car windows open. Just as I was rounding the Park corner, I glanced back to see how things were going. Then I reached out and grabbed the string of a balloon just before it sailed out the Dr. Reid, Alpine, has served as an administrator in several schools in Utah. In addition to serving as a high school principal in American Fork, he has been a superintendent of schools and has taught at the university level. He is currently the university Sanyo-Ico- n for representative of an received He Orem. Systems from Snow associates degree College, his B.S. from Colorado State University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Utah. He has been president of the Utah Association of Secondary School Sud-week- s; Principals, of president-elec- t the Utah Society of School Superintendents, chairman of the Eastern Utah Service Center and a member of the Utah Vocational Advisory Board. Dr. Reid said he .wantSo make g of students the fun:i the damental plank of his campaign. He also expects to listen carefully lo ' See CANDIDATES on page 12 DouSudweekspS Highland, is r term cojhplefjng his first tour-yea- with the school board. He is a professor at BYU, where he is a specialist in educational testing and program evaluation. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois n in 1978. at He said one of his main goals is to among improve communication administrators, teachers, school employees, the board of education and the public. Dr. Sudweeks claims that the, Alpine School Board has become one of the most listening boards in Utah by including in their meeting a monthly schedule meeting specifically for the purpose of permitting patrons to speak to the board and raise questions or voice concerns. "Anyone who has attended very many board meetings will know that we expend extra effort to listen," Dr. Sudweeks said. The board has also established a procedure to insure that proposed policies are considered in at least two meetings before a decision is made, he said. Dr. Sudweeks emphasizes that the schools belong to the public and the public should have an active voice in making decisions related to the schools. Some of the board's accomplishments over the past years listed by the candidate include inin enrollment creasing mathematics, science, foreign language and vocational courses by adding an extra class period; acan commodating expanding enrollment with a minimum number of new school buildings; and energy conservation measures and more effective bus scheduling to cut costs. Sudweeks and his wife, Jo, are the parents of five children. Urbana-Champaig- IFrcc ISSN No. U S P press , ,. , Lehi Post Office Church without my balloons. I consoled myself with the knowledge that I still had an one withered, unblown, Smiley Face orange balloon," and one black, wizened, unblown, balloon that I intended to use as examples of what something looks ; ' Over-the-Hi- . column , . - h . non-reade- r. And most of you have children living at home. (They like to read our paper, at least part of it, too.) The survey showed that you come in all ages, so I can't tell you how old By MARC HADDOCK you are. But our average reader is about 10 years older than the r. We found that a lot of our subscribers are senior citizens, and almost 30 percent are retired, but a lot of young people read the paper as well. In fact, we average about 3.3 readers per copy of the newspaper. Most of you read the paper each week and most of you spend more than 16 minutes with the paper. In - ; - ll one. On to my next project the skies next week folks. fact, most of our readers pick up their paper more than once. What do you read when you pick up the newspaper? Well, before you got here, you spent some time with the front page. And many of you read the editorial - more than will read this column. That is good news. I've always felt the editorial was important, but there are times when it seems like no one reads it. Most of you do.' You also read any letters-to-the-- ', editor that happened to be on this ' page. In fact, those letters are the fourth best read feature in the newspaper, after the front page, the society section and the obituaries. If anyone has an opinion they would like to express, the is an excellent place, because it will be very well read. After the editorial page, your next stop is the society pages, where we list weddings, missionaries and community events. Almost everyone reads the society pages at one time or another. Obituaries are almost as well read as the society pages. Then, according to our survey, readers scatter to their areas of spouse, and everybody is happy. Newspapers can provide something for everyone. However, knowing all of this makes it even harder to be a newspaper editor. After all, 70 percent of you rely on this newspaper to inform you about local elections. That's a big responsibility, one we take very seriously. As a reader, you are not just interested in the news. Most of you rely on this newspaper as your main source of advertising for grocery fast food restaurants, stores, clothing and hardware stores -every thing you shop for. .The survey results show that our readers use the newspaper for lots of things. How about our non- - s . . . Watch readers? As mentioned before, they tend to be younger than readers, and to have lived in the area for ashorter time. And only 55 percent of the election. . voted in the last city , So there you are, dear reader. In a nutshell, you care about . what's happening in your community. You have a sense of commitment to your town, you feel like a part of what's going on and you take the time to do the things that support the community, like vote. And that's one reason you take the community newspaper. I hope you find it informative and interesting as well. And I'm glad I'm getting to know you better. Performance Counts! Re-ele- ct RICHARD SUDWEEKS interest. There are devoted readers of the sports pages, the comics, the television listings and the classified ads. But not everyone spends time with these sections of the paper. .. And this is the strong point of a newspaper - you may skip over something that deeply interests your . fS 'f& aaa""'"" UTAH . PuMmUftlpr: Send addreM changes lo P.O. Box 7, American Fork. Utah MOOS By BETTY FOWLER the editor's : 309-50- 0 Brett R. Bezzant Marc Haddock '"i .' Betty Fowler , J Subscription price $16" per year v Second class postage paid at y There wasn't time to go back to the drug store and buy more. So I just peeled up to the Highland Hello. Yes, I'm talking to you. The reader of our local J. typical '. newspaper. i ;' For almost four years I've been telling you more about myself than I should have. Sometimes, I've even told the truth. But it's always been a shot in .the dark, so to speak. I mean you knew who I was. And I knew who I was. But I didn't know who you were. Well, now I understand you a little better, thanks to a survey vye recently ran. We asked some questions we'd been wanting to know for a long time and we got some answers. Not just about you, but about the guy who passes over this column every week over a fourth ' ' of the people who pick up the newspaper. And about the guy who doesn't subscribe to his hometown newspaper at all. First of all, about you. Most of you own your own home, are registered voters and 83 percent of you voted in the last city election. Most of you, about 80 percent, have lived in your current home for, over six years, and 33 percent of you have lived there for over 20 years. The average reader has lived in his or her home for 15.8 years - almost seven years longer than the average COUNY Published weekly except t for Thanksgiving ' and Christmas by Newtah, Inc. , - 32 West Main . Lehi. Utah 84043 ' i Tolrphone Numbers Advertising k Circulation. 756-76News. 3 . minute'-'1'- full-blow- Here's a chance to read about you semi-weekl- y Publisher. Editorf - beautiul balloon bouquet sailing into the evening sky - all of them but the one I'd captured at the very last well-bein- 8750-466- 9 S. No. gray-haire- rear window. It was very frustrating to see my . Richard R. Sudweeks r realize their full potential isn't :! reached without some effort: balloons up Now, maybe blowing isn't your idea of true effort, but there is a great contrast between a wrinkled prune of a balloon to one that is stretched to it's limit! Full of air, helium, or something that will fill out the folds and make it big and beautiful. It's sort of like comparing n a rosebud to a gorgeous rose. It takes lots of TLC and nurturing, but we usually have lots of time to work at it. Those balloons that got away are probably somewhere over Denver now, maybe even Nebraska. There was a west wind that night, but I'll bet if anyone finds them, they won't have half as much fun as I did worrying about my Smiley Faces and wondering what effect they'd have on whoever found them. And, here's to all you Smiley Faces out there. Please don't get blown away by an errant wind, a nervous, when especially sweating, gray-haire- d grandma is at i- the wheel Mm .? a '?,- -: ' Let's about that just forget like that hasn't been expanded, and pushed to it's full beautiful proportions. (There should be a lesson there someplace, folks). I laughed at myself all the way to Highland. I wondered what people thought that saw the trusty blue d lady Plymouth with yon steering, and all those helium balloons blowing out the window. A wouldn't you sight for sore eyes imagine? Anyway, the the ladies in my class enjoyed the story of the blown-awaballoons. And when I asked them to choose a number between one and 10, so that I could give away my helium-fille- d Smiley remaining Face balloon to the lucky lady, they loved the chance. Of course the lady that guessed the number that I'd picked out beforehand, nine, had no children, or grandchildren, to give the balloon to, but she said that if she's had kids at home, they'd just have quarreled over it anyway. I should have picked some petunias and saved myself some bucks, and some anxiety. ' But, somehow, the petunias wouldn't have had the impact. I was trying to get the ladies to in Highland L. Wayne Reid non-partis- an This visual aid turned into flight of fancy you better believe it 4 Local voters will narrow the race for a seat on the Alpine Board of Education from four to two candidates in next Tuesday's primary election. Running in the election are two Lehi residents, as well as one from Highland and one from Alpine to represent the district's Precinct No. 5, which includes all of Lehi, Alpine, Highland and the northern part of American Fork. Candidates include the current board president Dr. Richard former American Fork High principal Dr. Wayne Reid; a teacher in the Jordan School District, James Warren Miller; and local dentist Dr. J. Blake Evans. races which offer the voters a chance to select two candidates for the November general election in scnooi board and the constable races. That's important, too. If we as voters don't express our preference Tuesday, our choices will be severely limited on general election day.. However, for Utah County, most of the action is taking will be the only place on the Republican ticket - and it this will see races year. And the action most of these ones. close be will : odds are many of the races to residents local for register If there ever was a year to do that) and vote in the tomorrow until have (you primary election, this is the year. l! What voters decide next Tuesday will affect the taxes operations of county government, and how county and next four maybe years, are spent, for at least the electhe until wait voters can't general Those longer. be selected. will already tion, because these candidates For this primary election, it is crucial that local voters become familiar with the candidates and their positions, and then state their preferences at the voting polls on Tuesday. the sheriff's race, voters can select between the low key approach of Sheriff David Bateman and the high profile, low blows campaign of his opponent, Deputy Scott Carter. The one county primary race that will be contested in November is an important one, as well. If past county elections are any indication, whoever wins the Republican primary election between Malcolm Beck and Robert Warnick will probably be our next county In Alpine School Board Precinct August 13-1- 6 Spanish Fork ' - ".alL : August 14 In the Rodeo Artna Tickets are $6.00. $8.00, and $10.00 Showtime 8 30 p.m. ' .TlONSlj CALENDAR OF EVENTS ' Senior Citizens Day: Thursday August 14th Kids and Dogs Fun Day: , Friday August 15th 3rd Annual Diaper Derby: Saturday August 16th t Twins Contest: Saturday August 16th Animal Petting Farm: Come let the kids pet the animals. RODEO RMRA Sanctioned: Friday and Saturday August 15 & 16 l City of Fun Carnival : Entire time of Fair. Under The Big Top: Local talents for everyone to enjoy. Home and Garden ExIbHs: Enjoy over 100 booths and entries. Rich Listens, Thinks, & then Acts He incites a difference! He goto tho job done! , |