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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday April 7, 1993- - Page 2 Southeastern Utah Spring Southeastern Utah is a time springtime of contrasts. We wake to snow from the night before, sunny mornings and warm afternoons. Add the red rocks with mountains in the backgrounds and you live in a picture postcard world. Springtime is also when youngsters thoughts turn to romance, or so the poets tell us. This is also the time of graduation, a new beginning, and junior proms, something the youth will look back on and remember for a lifetime. What should be an enjoyable and lovely time often has a note of tragedy as the young experiment with drinking and driving - trying to be more grown up, they think. Parents, we can help eliminate that type of tragedy by talking with our high school age youth. Drinking and driving for any age is stupid, for youth it is both illegal and insane. Lets try to keep as many of our young people safe, happy and healthy this spring that way we can all enjoy more Southeastern Utah springtimes together. - Shelter from the Storm by W.M. Croke A man sits on a steam grate. He is dishevelled, filthy, seemingly delusional and threatening no one in particular. With a sense of trepidation, you walk around him at a brisk pace. You want to put him behind you. You may ask yourself, Why is he there? He is there because the mental health system has failed him, and refuses to take responsibility for his wellbeing. He is there because he has a right to be crazy. This poor soul that everyday you see occupying the same stretch of sidewalk has come full circle, Chances are that he has a psychiatric history, but is now caught up in the revolving door policy which turns thousands out into the streets without treatment or prospects. During the time he spent institutionalized he was encouraged mostly through the use of psychotropic medication to recover. He slept in a bed with regular sheet changes, ate three - - San Juan Record j ISSN 0894-327- 3 Published weekly at 937 E. 666 Monticello, Utah. Second class postage paid at Monticello, Utah 84535 (ISSN Highway 0894-3273- man? When he left the quiet seclusion of the hospital to face the daily uncertainties of the world, he might be shaky and apprehensive, but he was very much lucid. In the old day, doctors knew best and everyone trusted their judgement. Now it seems lawyers know best. Men and women trained in the discipline of the law now propose to know how to run mental hospi- tals. Among their many duties they tell hospital administrators and doctors how the facility should function and they advise patients to refuse to take certain medications or any at all. When did lawyers progressed from the right to treatment to the right to refuse treatment. Some progress. These misguided policies resulted from a symbiosis of ideas. (more next week) PRODUCTION: Pat Richardson CIRCULATION: Marie Harris TYPESETTING: Delphine Whitehorse SUBSCRIPTION RATES San Juan County $11.00 Outside County - USA 30c $1 1 .50 Send all AN AWARD WINNING address changes to P.O. Box 879, Monticello, Utah 84535. The San Juan Record is a member of the Utah Press Association and National Newspaper Association. $12.00 $12.00 APO or FPO address Newsstand Senior Citizen $10.50 ). Postmaster be- come doctors? In about 25 years we have GREG DUERDEN Managing Editor and Publisher the k meals per day, was urged to bath regularly and be well groomed daily. He was treated like a human being and expected to act like one, in the hopes this would aid his recovery. Is this wrong? Is it inhu- COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER: 992 Utah Press Assoc, awards Best Editorial - 1st place Best ROP Ad - 2nd place Best Sports Photograph - 2nd place 1 Best Feature Column - 2nd place Letters To The Editor The Record welcomes letters from its readers on any subject of public interest. Letters must be no more than 300 words in length. The publisher reserves the right to edit, condense or reject any contributions. Letters must be signed and include an address and telephone Thank you. number. and be productive. People need to try new things and the other people need to support the new businesses. Val D. Palmer Blanding Dear Editor, I wish to thank publicly the employees of the highway department and sheriffs office of Monticello, especially Monty, Max, Dear Editor, and two other men It has came to my atten- Mike, whose names I cannot retion that we need a golf member who helped me free course. The one that we car from the Abaho Loop have is too small to get a my Road this past Thursday. real feel on how people reI especially want to thank ally golf. All you can do is the unknown cross country practice hitting off the tee skier who brought the word box, chipping and putting, if back to town for me. the greens were kept up to Everyone was kind, par. warm, courteous, and helpSome city council memful, and Monticello should bers say we cant afford it be proud to have such great and say, Its not worth it. servants. We have one, and if thats public Pat Lorenzo not good enough too bad. Park City There have been arguments about not enough water, but as everyone can see there is plenty of water this year and for the years to come if we use it wisely and conserve it as much as pos- sible. At San Juan High we have a golf team, and just last Monday, we had to go to Moab to practice before our tournament, because Moab was the closest place with a good golf course. Another argument which is commonly heard is that there is not enough money. Maybe if we had a better golf course people would stay in our town to play a few rounds of golf, and spend their money at the local businesses. That would boost our economy. This year we are suppose to have more tourists than in years past. There are quite a few people that want to learn how to play golf. If we had a good golf course with a fantastic hitting range and a good place to practice in Blanding it would bring people from the surrounding areas to Blanding to learn and play. Right now if they want to play, they usually go, and spend their money elsewhere. We need to try new things We need in Blanding. busibetween competition nesses for our city to grow Dear Editor, Last week the Legislature met in special session to discuss eliminating sales tax exemptions. The funds raised from closing these loopholes were to go to ed- ucation funding, which consumes over 50 of the Utah State budget. ' I called Keele Johnson to make sure to bring up the sales tax exemption on the reservation. After all, Utah Navajo children are educated in Utah schools, funded by Utah taxpayers. Shouldnt the reservation also be subject to taxable When you need to Write your State and U.S. Legislators ... sales? As Eric Swenson is dragging the San Juan School District back into court, and news articles appear on the Navajo Tribal Councilman Mark Maryboy could respond to this public forum to explain the rationale of this seemingly biased loophole? John Dear Editor, Last week as my family were out playing and working in the yards our dog was hit by a car. It was obviously the way it happened that it was na accident. This is the third time, twice our dogs, in the past six months that a hit and run has occurred in our neighborhood. It has come to my attention since asking around that this is becoming an all too common occurance in Blanding. There are some who are running down animals just for the fun of it. It fright- ens me to think what those sick people will do when running down animals loses its kick. Theres more to this story Not only were we very upset to loose a loved and expensive pet but were very concerned because, as the rest of the family were in - Letters Continued on page 16 The Hon. Keele Johnson Utah House of Representatives District 71 Representative 318 State Capitol, SLC UT 84114 1 or 8402 Federal Office Building 125 South State, SLCUT 84138 0 or (801) 51 S. Univesity 320 Provo, Utah 84601 524-438- (801)375-788- 1 9 300 W. 732 N. Blanding, UT 8451 1 678-207- 7 The Hon. Mike Dmitrich Majority Whip - Utah Senate 319 State Capitol, SLC UT 84114 (801)538-103- 5 566 North Dover Circle Price UT 84501 6 (801) (home) 5 (801) (office) 379-250- The Hon. Orrin Hatch U.S. Senator 135 Russell Senate Off. Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20510 K. Black Monticello (801)538-102- Washington, D.C. 20515 (202)225-775- 1 or 51 S. 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