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Show Page A6 iThe iTinug-3nhcpgnhg- Thursday, February 17, 2000 nt OURTOWN y doctor e Community Comments Consult ft you FFtOM.. ToU SUFFER by Sam Taylor amogance on the part of legislators to attempt to stifle the desire of the electorate n this fashion it's like saying that it isn't what the people think that counts but what the people should think. The governor has hinted at a possible veto without actually saying so Since he has ten days to make that decision after the legislators have gone home, he will probably wait a while hope he dumps this misguided piece of proposed law. difficult for voters to initiate voter action concern Tha? measure would require that petitioners, who have already faced pretty tough rules, would have to gain signatures from 10 of registered voters from all of Utah's 29 counties Currently the law requires that the ten percent requirement would be necessary from only 20 of the 29 counties That s still pretty tough, and doesn't happen very often Even when it happens, those issues usually tail the test of voters at the November polls make on it more issues votes in the houses, and expensive economic studies will have to be conducted in the counties concerned. That last one could be a Studies like these, usually done by consultants, dont come cheaply two-thud- back-breake- awareness of children with The fibrosis. park will be called Sixty-Fiv- e cystic old from the way one name a derived Roses, disease." his pronounced met a lady for dinner at a Taipai Restaraunt which she thought was for Type A personalities." If you're ever in New York City, Id love to meet you for a drink or a cup of coffee at what a friend's niece called The World of Astoria.' hope she wasn't disappointed to discover it was a mere is dedicated to raising The Valley Voices delivered approximately 50 Singing Valentines on Monday, and also sang Happy Birthday to several people in the course of the day This is our annual fund raiser, which pays the rent on the practice hall, plus incidentals during the year Its a joy to do these valentines. For me, it may be the only time during the year that see certain recipients And suspect that may be so for other members as well Some of our fellow barbershop singers say we should up our prices, but $10 a pop takes care of our bills, so why charge more? And we would like to publicly thank City Market for providing the carnations which go along with each Valentine Thanks also to the anonymous donor who paid for our dinners. Valentines given and received, ar I I I I n hotel." never forget the time my brother choked at dinner and my father gave him the Hemlock Remover." am glad to finally know what to call it, A favorite around our house is the Farmer John Cheese we put on our spaghetti." The word mondegreen" is not listed in the office's large dictionary, nor in my new Merriam Websters Collegiate Dictionary on CD (nor in my computers spell check, not surprisingly). Same for the word "linguaphile. suppose I'll join Marian and thousands of others and subscribe. It's: wordsmith.orgawad subscibe.html (Its weird to end a sentence with an internet address, because you dont dare put a period at the end, for fear people will think it's part of the address!) I'll I I guess aft Fellow linguaphile Marian Eason shared some material from Wordsmith regarding a recent World a " Day The word was mondegreen, and believe the meaning will become clear from the examples given by subscribers All of them made my day on the laughter score. Thanks for todays word. It left me with a Mooday-gnn.- " "Ground was broken for a public park in Greenwich, Conn. The park, which will open next summer, I I When you need to Washington, D.C. 2C515 Fax, 7 Contact your elected officials The Hon. Chria Cannon U.S. House of Representatives 118 Cannon House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20515 The Hon. Orrin Hatch or 51 S. University No. 317 Provo, UT 84601 U S Senator 135 Russell Senate Office Bldg Washington, I) C 20510 202 Fax, or 8402 Federal OfT.ce Bldg 125 South State, SLC UT 84138 4380, Fax. The Hon. Mike Dmitrich Utah State Senate 319 State Capitol, SLC UT 84114 224-525- 801-52- 0 566 North Dover Circle Price, UT 84501 Bennett U S Senator Dsrkxen Bldg , Suite 2 (H) (O) The Hon. Keele Johnson Washington, D C 20510 Fax, 202-226717 or 4225 Federal OfTice Bldg 125 S State. SLC UT 84138 Fax, Utah House of Representatives District 71 318 State Capitol, SLC UT 84114 8 Desk phone: 9 House of Rep.: mail' INTERNET.kjohnsonle.state.ut us 300 W. 732 North, Blanding, UT 84511 538-121- 538-102- The Hon. James Hansen U S House of Representatives 2466 Rayburn HOB v Country hues -- (31 nhcpeitfrmt (UPS) Entered as Second class Matter at the Post Office at Moab, Utah under the Act of March 3, 1897. Second class postage paid at Moab, Utah 84532. Official City and County Newspaper. Published each Thursday at: 35 East Center Street, Moab, Grand County, Utah 84532 6309-200- 0) address: edltorOmoabtlmes.com Postmaster: Send changes of address to: 77ie P.O. Box 129, Moab, UT 84532 Tunes-lndependa- or 435-259-75- FAX 435-259-77- and UTAH Sena T. Renders Franklin Seal Tom Taylor..... Ron Flanders.. Mary Wright Dorothy Anderson Samuel J. and Adrien PRESS ASSOCIATION Taylor Editors and Publishers .Associate Editor Zane Taylor. Production Manage News Writer Kelly Etlcson, Steve Cooper, Circulation Mgr., T-- l Maps Jed Taylo Backsho Systems Manager Ken Davey. Contributing Writ Advertising Representative ...Green River Corresponded Betty Bailey. ...Mail Room Supervisor Ron Drake..., .....Castle Valley column! Jose ChursmpL. Distribution F. Y '--s HONE-HAV- E yoo -- TAfcF-N YovSc OtTCHKS WORT IV y exfj Idle Thoughts from Mt. Waas by Ollie Harris ant light. Her left hand curiously, tiredly rests The nude across the top of her great, swollen belly. The model for The Nude was comfortable in my Artists have the power to take us into their fidence. Whatever their medium, they touch us intimately. They make us feel as if their creation was meant for us alone. I do admire them and have often had a yearning to create something beautiful. This desire led me many years ago to the creation of The Nude. The Nude now hangs on a private wall in my home. It is a beautiful pearl sheltered from unappreciative eyes. My wife is aware of The Nude. She walks past it every day, but mostly ignores it or views it with a vague discomfort. Her discomfort is rooted in an innate modesty. It is the same sense of modesty that deterred me from taking a photograph of her as she nursed our tiny twins born in Moab so long ago. Is it sensuous? Of course it is. All things perceived by our senses as beautiful, as pleasurable, are sensual. The Nude fairly exudes a voluptuous, Raphaelian sensuality. I created The Nude from three of my favorite media: leather, velvet and brass. The Nude is gracefully scribed upon an ovular piece of leather. The leather is pressed into a bed of velvet, held there by brass studs. All is bracketed by a leather frame upon which is scribed the names of our children. Oh, did I mention that The Nude is portrayed in a very advanced state of pregnancy? The Nude is standing. Her head is tilted slightly to her left. Her eyes are contemplatively closed. Her thoughts seem to be turned inward. There is an air of wonder, of submission, of resignation about her. Her hair swirls about her head like a halo of radi con- presence although, had she known that I was memorizing each curve and line with the dream of someday recreating them, she might have been uneasy. It was a most informal modeling. The vision of The Nude stems from the days of our youth and poverty. We lived within the walls of an old adobe house. There was no indoor bathroom and cold water streamed from the single faucet. Our bed was made upon a foa m pad on the floor to be removed first thing each morning. At the end of the day. when our children had gone to sleep in the adjoining room, came time for her bath. Water, cold from the well, was heated atop the stove in a round tub. I placed the tub upon the floor and added cold water to make its heat tolerable. The lights were turned out except for the dim glow of a light on the stove. I lay upon the bed on the floor. We quietly visited as she cleansed herself there in the dark, silhouetted against the faint fight behind her. I was stunned by her beauty, as smitten with love, awe, admiration end gratitude as a young husband can be. It seems almost indelicate to speak of these things. Who knows? Perhaps these words will be quietly put away for private viewing as The Nude now is. But, they are sentiments that seem worth sharing. I am not the only one to be drawn into The Nude, to sense the beauty, the wonder, the sensuality and tenderness that are there. One of my daughters, herself a mother, asked me if she might one day have The Nude. Naturally, I said she could. High Country News Writers on the Range Pumping iron in the New West by Auden Schendler locals and Among the dirt pimps, conflict at for room Latinos, you might think theres offer amBut walls cinderblock its as if the my gym. nesty in this small western Colorado town; its a place where we can all circle the wagons and unite against and be friends. a common enemy weights This is the local joint. Its also cheap, with the best rates around. We have a big Latino population here. Jorge, who Ive seen lifting weights in a red bandana, cowboy boots, and jeans (though only when he forgot his basketball shorts) lifts hard and works hard for six months, then goes down to Chihuahua and relaxes. He leaves Muy Fuerte! and comes back flabby, chunky and tanned. Ive seen this cycle for three years now. When he returns, he pinches my bicep, apologizes for having gotten out of shape, and starts lifting like a champ. Jorge tells me his job is hauling cement buckets, and that he could U3e a mattress and some chairs. I keep my eyes peeled for furniture. The Valley Athletic Club" is really an old gad rage. Except that the sliding door has been cold to out winter. in the shut keep the Once, g before it got taped, 1 was on my back heavy weight when suffocating exhaust fumes billowed in. Turns out the guy next door owns a heavy equipment rental shop, and somebody was testing a diesel Which iB one of the trade-off- s you make to live in the West, where zoning never really caught on. Anyway, why should we mind? Arent weight lifters the seme kind of people who rent power washers and backhoes? Some fitness freaks might say your body doesnt need dieBel fumes when youre trying for peak performance. But I consider them metabolites. If I can max out. on the bench on a respirator, Fm tougher than you are. Just like the snake handler who injects venom once a week, Im ready for the big one. Recently, a newcomer appeared next to the military press machine. He started talking about his club back home. Boy," he said, they bad towels and soap and all the latest machines. I kicked the bucket out from under the seasonal drip in the ceiling, (hadnt rained for a week) and asked him if duct-tape- Qlljc RCGIEN HTH r. by Adrien F. Taylor F. THIS IS REAU-- R Hack vnCAL THE AF4Etr s Many Trails The Hon. Robert VOO I of 3 IF o IWDUSTuKX VS CME OF legal community Having failea to get the bili passed a few years ago, and later havng had an altered form vetoed by Governor Leavitt, we have a new bill that tries to answer all the concerns that have been expressed. Even the bills sponsor, Rep Brad Johnson of Sevier County, cant explain some of the language in his measjre. predict that if this bill becomes law, counties involved annexation moves will face monumenin cross-borde- r tal costs Elections will have to be held, legislators in both houses will have to be lobbied to get required Gov Mike Leavitt has expressed concern over a --tL. WERE BEING PH sjt bill ot the law, passed by both houses of Speaking the legislature and now on Leavitts desk concerning the annexation concerns of the people of Green River is a complicated nightmare and a ripe pium for the measure passed by Utahs Republican majority to COKKt'NDCD M 6E61NU1K TO SFF WHS THE I s, t KE SUFFER FROM ACNC Qft apoplexy- Ar 20 8U tJOHBARDSb o fRCSCFtlPrioM PAUS APS PAYS it is Utah s legislature has only two more weeks to finish their work and they have a lot to do Beore they can wind up action on major budget items including an ongoing transportation obligation and possible increased funding for education, they need to know what revenjes will be available And those revenue projections are going to become ava laole onlv this week Obviously, things will come to a head in a hjrry Utah teachers, who are talking about a str ke if fhmgs don't go their way may have to make a decision pretty quick It that threatened strike is to have much impact on legislative actions, it will have to take place while lawmakers still have time to react Expect a lot of action on the legislative front during the next couple ot weeks The session is going down to the wire rtOT bench-pressin- power-washe- r. -- carbon-monoxi- de there was one exercise he couldnt do here The answer, of course, was no. Then whats the problem? I asked. The proprietor a tall, excitable, blond exknows everybody by stonemason and ski racer name. He bops around with a towel, cleans up sweat and spilled water, comers you with information on a new diet, and offers to spot you on the bench, yelling COME ON, BIG CHEST, BIG CHEST!!!" Hell challenge you to lift all the weights on the rack, and you want to do it. Theres a local architect who moved here in the 1970s. He wears Chapstick on a string around his neck, purple sweats, and a muscle shirt. He calls our gym fourth world and regularly complains about the lack of soap and water pressure. I was cleaner in Vietnam, he says. I tell him he loves it. He says a towel would be nice to have. He wont go in the steam room, which he calls a biology experiment." I tell him its part of the melting pot ideology. n His buddy is a Chicago Blues guig weight-liftina tarist, fanatic, who is also known as the shoulder guy for his devotion to his deltoids. These two hard-cor- e liberals are counterbalanced by the real estate agent on the leg machine, who has systematically bought up the town, and is bringing in big box retail. He wants a warehouse liquor store and has his name on almost every For e Sale sign within a radius. A swank new gym recently opened up right down the block from me, part of the golf course that just moved into town, built by the largest real estate developer in the world. Talk about David and Goliath. Since I own affordable housing thats part of the development, Fm also eligible for a pretty cheap membership. But Fm a loyalist. For the same reason I spurn the ugly new Subway in town for the local burger joint, FU stand by my roan. Besides, if I wanted lotion and in the bathroom, or a proprietor in Chinos, boat shoes and a polo shirt, Fd move to Boca Raton. Auden Schendler i a contributor to Writerg on well-know- ten-mil- Q-ti- the Range,' a service of High Country News (www.hcn.crg). 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