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Show 14A Emery County Progress Castle Dale, Utah Tuesday Orangeville4A.City Continued from PAGE override the refusal, and should Utah Power have to come back again, it would be at the owners expense. The comments made by the company doing the trimming is that it is not good for the trees, nor is it cost effective to cut the trees even under the power lines, as has been done in the past, Bean then noted that because of the w arm weather we have had lately, the snow totals are down 11 percent and are now in the low 50s. Orangeville city has received a bronze and a silver hockey puck. The pucks signify the 21st Century Community Awards. The city is now entitled to funding, they will receive S500 for the bronze puck and ShOO for the silver puck. The city only needs three assessments to receive their gold puck. It was noted that there are not many communities in the stale that have achieved this recognition, and most of those that have are along the Wasatch Front. Bean mentioned a need to find out who has copies of the assessments, and also the need to get done with the three assess-mentas the money is only available until June 30. Next Bean mentioned the spring training for state auditors. She requested that Nielson and herself be allowed to attend the training in Richfield as there is a training class for recorders there at that same time. The council approved her request. She reminded the council to work on their budgets. There is only one building inspector in the county now, and Bean reported that the previous building permit fees ordinance for s, April 1, 2003 Orangeville City will no longer be effective. Since they will be using the county inspector, the county will collect the fees and then send the city 35 percent quarterly. This is less than the city was receiving before. Council business was next on the agenda. Mayor Cox excused Patrick Jones and Howard Shorthill from the meeting and then turned the time over to Ware who reported on parks department and beautification. She reported that they will be working on a ball complex. Plans for Orangeville Day are being made. It has not been determined whether or not there will be a parade this year due to many complaints by residents y event. about having an The fireworks have been ordered. It was suggested to have the parade on Friday night. Ware asked the council for any suggestions they might have. It was commented that the annual breakfast should definitely be in the plans. Ware mentioned that they were thinking of hiring a community artist to come and do caricatures. Orangeville Day is planned for June 21. Stilson then reported on animal control and public safety. There will be a change to the OHV ordinance. There will be no riding OHVs on the streets of Orangeville without a valid drivers license. Drivers must be at least 1 6 years of age. This has come about as a safety issue. Stilson then shared with the council that there will be 27 shares of water going up for auction and asked permission to purchase them for the city. His request was approved. Tuttle then reported on the road work that will be done this year. There all-da- will be seven and one half curb and gutter projects, eight asphalt projects and a couple drainage projects. These are city and service district totals combined. Mayor Cox then discussed the upcoming conference and road schools. He mentioned that he saw a need to look at street sweepers for the city. He then handed out the mid-ye- ar districts intergovernmental agreement and asked the council to look them over. The agreement discusses who, of the city or the district, is in charge of what, and will be voted on. It was noted that the agreement didnt discuss meters at all. It was suggested that it be added under either the maintenance activities for existing meters, or under capital improvements in case new meters need to be added. There is no section for water, sewer and meters. He then showed the council the districts new curb and gutter plan that has been ADA approved and mentioned that Ferron City will be getting sidewalks this year. Cox then presented a list of attorneys that specialize in dealing with city problems. The process of obtaining an attorney will be: announce a need for an attorney and then let the attorneys bid on the job. Other business was last on the agenda. Linda Jewkes presented an article to the council suggesting that Orangeville be declared a heritage area. She made a point to clarify that this was not a land management deal. It would make matching funds available to the city for any heritage related projects. It was then motioned to adjourn the meeting. The next Orangeville meeting will be held on April 10. Sheriffs Report It was reported to the Emery County Sheriffs Office that burglaries in Huntington had occurred early last week. Detective Bob Blackburn and Sergeant Norm Vuksinick investigated the case. One of the suspects in the case was subsequently arrested in St. George for DUI where he is still in custody. A juvenile who was with them was brought back to the area and is in the juvenile facility on a warrant on another unrelated charge. On Friday the sheriffs office received a call that one of the subjects involved in the burglary was back in town and had duffle bags stored in an apartment in Huntington. The subject was at that time riding in a truck with the callers husband. The truck was stopped and the suspect was escorted back to the apartment wiiere the officers asked for permission to search the duffle bags. The permission was granted by the suspect and a search yielded the items from the two burglaries. Items such as stereo speakers, skateboard, CDs, movies and other miscellaneous items. The burglaries were perpetrated against people the suspects knew. In related questioning of the suspects the officers obtained information that some of the prescription drug Lortab had elecbeen used at the tronics department in trade for electronics equipment. Detective Blackburn said this information obtained wms passed along to Detective Scott Olsen from the Price Police De partment. The officers were also able to obtain information which led them to believe the person who had been burglarized had obtained the DVD player by allegedly trading Lortab for it. The Price Police Department questioned the suspect on their end of the crime and were able to secure a confession from him. The Emery County Sheriffs Office has filed burglary charges and possession of stolen property against the three initial sus pects involved in the incident. A call was made to the Emery County Sheriffs Office on Saturday reporting that they had found a man hanging partially out of his car at a rest stop The man had prealong sumably stopped his car upon feeling ill and pulled over and attempted to get out of the vehicle, but collapsed. An EMT also present at the rest area checked the man and could not find a pulse. The man was identified as George William Pyeatt, from Paonia, Colo. Since the cause of the death was unknown the body has been sent to the medical examiner. The man had apparently ridden a bus to California to see his mother and was returning to Colorado by car when he passed away. Detective Bob Blackburn investigated the incident. On March 21, Emery County Deputies responded to some in formation given to the sheriffs office concerning a party by minors on the desert. The deputies located the party and 20 citations were issued. The subjects were from the Carbon and Emery County area. On March 25, the Emery County Sheriffs Office received a call from the Emery High School concerning some stu- dents wrho were exhibiting unusual behavior. Four students were transported to the Emery Medical Center w here they were examined and it was determined that they were under the influence of prescription drugs. The students have been charged with possession of prescription drugs. Sheriff Lamar Guymon said the matter was very serious and a cause of great concern. A presentation by the sheriffs office on the dangers of prescription drugs is being planned for the studentbody at the high school. The Emery County Sheriffs anticipates that the upcoming Easter weekend will he busy as usual for them. They encourage everyone to be careful and to observe all speed limits. Use extreme caution on the desert where ATVs and street vehicles make a dangerous combination. The sheriffs office wrants everyone to know they will be available to help as needed throughout the holiday. Call 4 to reach the sheriffs Office 381-240- office. Commentary HARRIETS WORLD By HARRIET BISHOP have a cordless phone. Nowyou say, bigdoal. Well, this phone does everything but make ice cream for me and I am sure by next week someone will have figured out a way to do that. This phone has so many options that it is a built in computer by itself. It is taking me awhile to get used to all the options etc. have been taking my time learning them. It has a little screen on it and I 1 have call waiting and caller I D and voice mail and on and on. It will dial and redial and pick your phone numbers and I have a devil of a time remembering how to use all the dial thing's on it. keep the little book handy that tells you how to do all these things so can learn. Good grief, I ask myself, w hat happened to just picking up the phone and dialing Rugby 6 2835. The other day my answering machine bit the dust and one of my friends said, use your voice mail on your phone. So activated that and now I can take the messages on the phone just like all the 1 1 1 I rest of you intelligent people. My mother never could have used a phone like mine and she never would have wanted to. Buttons made her crazy. Well, the other day I found out my phone had one more great thing on it that had never used before. I always keep this cordless wronder in its cradle right next to my chair. When I am finished with it, whereever I am, I replace it back on its little charger stand so it can recharge itself. There isnt anything that makes me more crazy than to be talking to someone and be cut off because their phone needed to be recharged. Thats not going to happen to me if I can help it. I was ahvays taught to put things back where they belong. Well, the other day the joke turned out to be on me. As I turned to get something off of my phone stand, the receiver inadvertently flipped off of the stand onto the floor. saw it fall. It landed, so I thought, in a little narrow space between the stand and my chair. Thats happened before and it is no big deal to retrieve it. tried reaching down and feeling around for it from my chair but couldnt find it . Reluctantly I got up (this is no easy thing for me to do as have to use the chair lift) to search for 1 1 1 1 1 it. I searched and I looked etc. and I could not find that silly phone. Pretty soon I had the stand pulled out and I had looked in every space available for the silly thing and it was nowhere to be found. I knew I had seen it fall there but it was like the floor had swallowed it up. I really felt stupid. I finally decided that it had accidentally slipped downstairs where I am unable to go. I walked to the head of the stairs and peered down the stairs but could not see that stupid receiver anywhere. Finally in desperation I decided to call one of my neighbors wrho have children who were old enough to come and help me search for the phone. I often call them in times like this for assistance. So I got hold of my neighbors and over came one of the girls to help me search. I was just sure we would find it now. Guess what, we didnt. We tore that place apart and could not find that phone. Now am sure that the cat has eaten it. I am feeling dumber by the minute when the little girl suggests she bring her Dad over and maybe he can help us find it. I jumped on that one. Man to the rescue. Here comes my knight in shining armor. Over comes Dad telling me not to feel so stupid that they often lose their phone too. We search everything again and we are just about to give up when the little girl says, Dad push the pager on the charger. Pager, I say, What pager?, I have never had to use the pager before. Dad pushes the pager. Now we got a beep beep to help us 1 Editors Notes find the phone. We follow the sound of the beep beep and find that the beep beep keeps coming in and out. Wait a minute. says Dad. Its coming from inside your lift chair. Everytime the chair goes up, the sound goes away. Everytime the chair goes down, the sound gets closer. The chair has eaten the phone! It took some figuring out but God bless pagers. It seems the phone fell into a little pouch that appears in the back of my chair when my chair is in the reclining position If I had tried I couldnt have made that happen. It was just a freak accident. Without that pager we would never have found that phone. It took a little time to retrieve it but my phone is now in its cradle with the pager ready for action if I ever need it again. As for my knight in shinning armor? He went home with his daughter and a lot of thank yous from me and we all had a good story to tell our friends. Remember those infamous words from me,Its a good thing to know how to use the pager on your cordless wonders. . Letters to the Editor Coalition for a Tobacco Free Utah Dear Editor, As part of National Kick Butts Day April 2, the Coalition for a Tobacco Free Utah would like to extend their appreciation to the Utah State Legislature for helping Kick Butts during the 2003 legislative session. Were thankful you realize the importance of maintaining tobacco prevention and control program funding. We understand the gravity of the states current funding difficulties, and recognize that allocating tobacco prevention and control monies, as a quick fix to compensate for budget shortfalls must have seemed appealing. States such as Wisconsin, New Jersey and Missouri have taken this shortsighted step. Tobacco prevention and control programs are fundamental in reducing death, disease, and costs that tobacco inflicts upon taxpayers. Yearly, tobacco kills roughly 1,218 Utahns and costs Utah approximately S273 million in tobacco related health care costs. Every dollar spent in tobacco prevention saves roughly three dollars in medical costs. Funding tobacco prevention and control programs not only saves lives, but also increases revenue for the state in the long run.Utahs statewide tobacco prevention and control programs have been successful: fewer students and adults smoke, and more smokers want to quit. Our hope is that Utah will continue to use its resources sensibly until we eliminate the devastation caused by tobacco. We urge continued support of funding for tobacco prevention and control in Utah, which will give Utah a fighting chance to prevent another generation from becoming addicted to tobacco. Tug Gettling CTFU Co-Cha- ir By PATSY STODDARD The world seems so crazy and mixed up these days, even more so than usual. I support President Bush and the war in Iraq. I dont like war and people dying. I dont like to see people protesting against the war and our president, but I am glad we live in a country where we can protest the things which we dont like or support and wre can do so without being shot or hung the next day. Now that w e are fully involved in the conflict I would like to see the people in our country get behind President Bush and support him and the war effort. Its sad to see people dying because a madman will not surrender. How heartless he must be to see his land and military forces destroyed because he is too proud to let it go. Its sad that his Iraqi people are so downtrodden and browbeaten that they cannot reach out to the U.S forces who are trying to liberate them. People who have never experienced freedom do not know what they are missing. They do not understand what the U.S. is trying to bring to their country. A country where they do not have to be afraid...a country where they might experience some of the freedoms that we enjoy in our country. Do you ever winder how you came to be born in America where these freedoms are taken for granted? Why were the Iraqis born into the regime they are forced to endure. I am proud to live in a country where there are people willing to risk their lives to help those people be liberated. Our country has long been Its the popular perception that Americans are hated all over the world. But, I dont really think that is the case. I have talked to many people who have lived in other countries and they all seem to say that the people there want to be like Americans. We have long been considered the greatest country in the wrorld and I believe that is true. We have come a long w ay in our country, but there is still a longway to go. I have a son who alw'ays likes to watch Remember the Titans, if youve never seen this show its one that you should watch. Im not much of a movie watcher, but this show' ahvays makes me cry'. Its about a football team and how black and white football players come together to make a team. One lesson from the show is about how they learned that the soul of man know's no color. The people of Iraq have the same souls as we do, they deserve the same advantages that wre have known. It will not be easy and many people will die. The cost of freedom is priceless; there is no way to gauge the worth of a human soul... I know them to he priceless. I know the heavens weep for each loss of life from both sides of the conflict. I hope and pray that Saddam Hussein will end this madness and set his people free. Horse Sense By BETTY BRIGGS Lets face others isnt always easy. In fact, if youre like most people, its one of the biggest challenges you face, said a brochure advertising How to Become a Better Communicator. Okay, Ill buy that. Making others understand precisely what we mean can be difficult. While some people are auditory, others are more readily to things they can see. Some people, like me are...well...some people are horse-atorThings are much clearer if they relate to the equine species. So, for those of us who speak Equines, I make the following observations, adding definitions for others who prefer written communication: Its no fun to ride an unmanageable horse, even if its pretty. (True beauty comes from within). Horses greet friends with a whinny. (A smile makes the w'orld brighter). Let a foal nibble on your finger and hell chew your hand when he grows day-to-d- visual-respond- ing y. teeth. (An undisciplined child grow's into Letters to the editor should focus on public issues ; rather than private personalities or entities, All submissions must be verified prior to publication The Emery County Progress reserves the right to edit letters not only to satisfy space constraints, but potential liability concerns. . . involved in noble causes. Just look at the amount of foreign aid which we send to other countries. How we have helped the underdog time and again. an unruly adult). An ornery horse gets sent to the auction. (We do others no favor when we let them get away with inappropriate behavior). Never end a training session on a negative behavior. (If possible, settle all arguments before days end). Good horses perceive an inexperienced rider and are on their best behavior. (Be aware of the needs of others). Ease up on the reins when a horse responds to your command. (Obey the rules and earn your rew ard). Mean horses are made, not born. (Abuse breeds hostility). Its difficult to pet a horse whose teeth are bared. (Nobody likes a grouch ) An unthreatened horse will let you come closer. (Discuss without accusi- - ' . . ng)- Horses fight a tight rein. (Force cre- ates rebellion). Mares let their foals venture to the ! other side of the pasture, but keep a ; touch). ; watchfull eye. (Everyone needs freedom to progress, but its nice to keep in Weaned foals find dinner elsewhere. (Grow up and make your own w ay. ) Given a chance, freshly groomed horses will always roll. (Learn to take life less seriously, at least once in a w'hile). ; Horses running in the pasture tend to stay trim, while those left vegetating in a stall develop big bellies. (Unfortu- nately, this needs no explanation). Get the Idea? Sometimes it helps to view things from a different perspective. Actually, though, its all just horse sense. ' : ! ' : |