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Show i 2 The Salina Sun Wednesday, February 3, 1993 Hometown Newspapers by Ken Adams The Value of a hometown paper first stuck me several years ago while as a young man was living in Central England. Being away from a small Utah town and thrust into a large urban area is difficult enough, let along being separated from family Nyals Andreason, Salina I and friends. Next to the regular letters from Mom and Dad, my most ancitipated piece of mail was unquestionably the Morgan Countv News. Woven through its pages was the history and happenings of a community steeped in pioneer heritage and laced with tidbits of everyday life. From the lead story to the smallest classified ad, one could glean informaiton about the town and about its people. Where else but in a small hometown publication could you read about Johnny's first birthday party or Uncle Joe's experience while shoveling coal on a blustery winter night? On page two, Editor Mac McConaughy would open his words of wisdom in the 'Ant's Eye View" column. Mac could preach you to heaven for youur saintly community efforts of volunteerism or condemn you to hell for speaking ill of a high school basketball team. On the same page was the occasional letter to the editor. Readers could speak their mind and rail on any public official they chose. Comments were usually tied to a previous weeks front page story on why the commission spent money for a new dump truck or the refusal of the city council to plow sidewalks during the snowy winter months. Buried in the center pages would be staged action shots and mugs of outstanding athletes. Aunt Dora's smiling face would lead an article on the benevolence of a local women's club. Perhaps the most appealing articles dealt with who was selected by a panel of judges to serve as head cheerleader for the high school. The most alrming articles were the wedding announcements. All those lovely girls were going on with their lives and had found someone much more handsome and at least one year older and wiser than me. Would any young fillies with looks rated above Mr. Ed be left when got home? Even today, after all those years, wedding announcements still evoke for me a certain aversion to the society page. It seems a small paper can, over the course of a lifetime, report on and print the name of every citizen within the boundaries of its readership. The printed page will tell all: when you were born, if you earned a spot on the honor roll, how many touchdowns you made in your football career, when you graduated from high school and college. It carries lines concerning when you served in the armed forces, if you volunteered to carry your religion to others and what girl your chose to marry. Later it will announce the birth of each of your children. It will brag about your advancements in the work place. It alerts the town to your appointment as president of the local Lions club and it will even type a few lines on your hernia operation. When the time comes and you are called back home to a higher station of existence, the paper will alert the community of your demise and state in a few concentrated lines all of your I achievements from birth to death. No other media source does such a thorough job of reporting on the important things of life. TV and radio certainly can't feature each of its listening audience and even the large daily papers fail to focus on the individual. In generations to come when social scientist seek information about "our town" and "our time," they will thrash through the fluff and underbrush of large media sources and look deep into the pages of small hometown papers. Hidden within the lines and among the faces will be the lifeblood of America the true story of real people who lived, loved, and died in everyday society. (Ken Adams is of the Morgan County News, er and former president of the Utah Press Association) Hors doeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through, wondering what the next course is going to be like and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres. CMC3?) tM The average car in America now gets about 20 miles per gallon. At the monthly meeting of the Sevier County Council of Governments, held Wednesday, January 27, at the Sevier County Courthouse, the commissioners and mayors heard a report by Paul Lyman and Woody Farnsworth on a proposed countywide building inspection proposal. The proposal is to meet the changes that will become effective July 1, 1993, of having fully certificated building inspectors for all new construction. The action is being taken to implement state legislation passed during the last session of the Utah Legislature. The major purpose of this change is to insure that construction in Utah meets all safety standards in all codes for new buildings. This procedure will help protect the pew home owner, the new business establishment, the new industrial management that all structural, electrical, mechanical and other facets of the new building will be in harmony with the established standards of safety. The recent news that buildings along the Wasatch Front have collapsed due to heavy snow is evidence that buildings are not being built safely. The county-wid- e building in It daiat Looks From Here in ten semi-annu- al CivicEquestrian Park lands Vernal World Finals Little Britches Rodeos A Utah city has been named site of the 1994 and 1995 National Little Britches Rodeo Association's World Finals. Host city is Vernal, and site of the finals will be it's Western Equestrian Park. The park includes a convention center, indoor arena, race track, museum and amphitheatre. It was completed and dedicated in 1991. More than 700 youth are ex Reintroduce religion Dear Editor: Why a stand on religion? Why a stand on the fact that there is, could be, should be, or if we dont know, it is still all right to think there is a deity or many deities. The minute interpretation or the slight deviations of interpretation of Bible, Koran, Hinduism, Judaism, whatever, is not the important thing. The important thing to the welfare of the world population is that religions of any kind, translate into ethics and morality. The morality is in knowing and understanding the difference between right and wrong. It is the morality or the ethics, where we as individuals take the responsibility for our actions. This is possibly philosophical, but there is a societal impact when we do not behave and stand for those things which absolutely differentiate between right and wrong, moral and immoral, ethical and unethical. Therefore, religion, in whatever form, needs to be laced into everything that we do. Our family, our schools, our government, our public meetings. Religion creates or supervises the instinct to know intui Vernal was selected over Dodge City, Kansas, and Colorado Springs, in part, because of the new facility. A similar civicequestrian park is planned for Salina and should be under construction this year. 529-783- 4780-800- 0 0 Correspondents: Aurora: Kathleen Lloyd - Redmond: Tammy Johnson -- Salina: Evelyn Kiesel ar Blackham has been serving as a Sanpete County Commissioner. He also served as chairman of the Utah County Commissioners Organization, and was a member of the Governors Advisory Board; Utah Manufacturers Association; American Farm Bureau Poultry Board Chairman; Utah Farm Bureau Poultry Board, chairman; and Sanpete County Farm Bureau Board. He is a board member of Moroni Feed Company and the Sanpete Chamber of Commerce. . Blackham is a turkey producer and raises over 150,000 birds each year. He has received several awards, including Poultryman of the Year in 1981, and Outstanding Young Farmer Advisor in 1984. Blackham has also had a long career in Scouting. He is an active member of the LDS Church and now serves in the Snow College Stake Presidency Blackhams District includes Sevier, Sanpete, Juab, Millard, couple. We have just finished an important part of the education package HB 39, and while the other education bills passed very smoothly and with much support, HB 39, Children At Risk, was debated for three and one half hours. The debate was on which children should be helped with the $4 million dollars we set aside to fund this bill. Some of us thought that we should expand the program to as many Kindergarten through grade three at risk kids as possible, knowing we couldnt solve all problems. Others wanted to include birth through 1 8, but not cover all schools, instead Wayne, Piute, Garfield and Beaver Counties.. Michael R. Styler was named to the Utah House of Representatives by Governor Leavitt on January 18, 1993. He makes his home in Delta and will represent Central Utah. Styler, 39, teaches history at Delta Middle School, and also farms. He is president of Deseret Irrigation Co., which supplies water to Millard county farmers. He also serves on the State Library Board. Styler served as Millard County Commissioner for 8 years. He was president of the Utah Association of Counties foi; that period. In appointing Styler to the House, Governor Mike Leavitt said, I am pleased to name a new House member who will represent the needs of rural Utah. He has also established a solid track record in public service, winning the respect of his peers in local government Todays issue has information about a federal judge overturning a request by Environmentalists that a y waiting period be enacted before a coyote could be shot for molesting or killing livestock in the Fishlake or Dixie National Forests. The judge said that the control program carried out by APHIS would not lead to an extermination of the coyote; that the Forest Service has taken sufficient measures to ensure it has considered all reasonable alternatives; and that the predator control program would not 30-da- damage recreational opportunities on the forests. I was talking to a rancher about the coyote. He said one of the problems is that one of the principal staples of the coyotes diet is all but missing. He said there used to be lots of rabbits on his ranch. The coyotes came in - caught what they needed for dinner each day -- - and kept the rabbit population from exploding. Enter the rabbit hunter - rabbits all but disappeared from the range. What are the coyotes supposed to eat? Coyotes began looking at range livestock; they were hunted and trapped, and their numbers dwindled. Theres a prairie dog colony on the ranchers land. In fact, the Forest Service has been transplanting some of the prairie dogs from his colony to the preservation colony near Fish Lake. He says now that the coyote numbers have gone down, the prairie dog colony has exploded. Their dens are everywhere - and vegetation is suffering from their extensive feeding. If the coyote had its way, it would keep the rabbit and prairie dog numbers under control, and for the most part, would not bother livestock. Its the way the coyotes done things for thousands of years, and made him a survivor. of the Environmentalists - who want to protect Instead of the and the far-leof the rancher who wants to get every coyote everywhere rid of every coyote -- - maybe the answer lies somewhere in the center with the coyote doing the job he was intended to do in the first place? far-rig- ht - ft in. Met Johnson PO Box 560 New Harmony, Utah 84757 Representative Bradley New Representative & Senator for Central Utah The Utah House of Representatives and the Utah Senate have seen changes since new Governor Mike Leavitt officially took office. Leavitt named Senator Cary Peterson to serve as the state Commissioner of Agriculture. This action left open Senator Petersons seat in Senate District 28. A Republican Committee chose the names of three candidates which were sent on to the Governor, who chose one for the Senate Post. Chosen was Leonard Blackham, who was to begin his first day in the House of Representatives representing District 68, the following Monday. The committee then chose another set of candidates to fill Black-ham- s seat in the House, and the Governors final choice was Michael R. Styler, of Delta. Senator Blackham will fill two years of Senator Petersons four-yeterm. An interim two-yeelection will then be held in 1 994 for the District 28 Senate seat. tively those things that have value and those things that have no value. When you believe in something, you have a quality of ethics. When you believe in nothing, you actually believe in everything, and all things arent good. This is far from a speech on religion to any specific organized religion or body of religious beliefs, but it is an attempt to defend prayer in schools, public meetings, governmental affairs, and all other places that it seems to be being chased out of. I encourage all of you who have religious beliefs of any kind through any religion, or even if you claim no specific religion but believe in a greater, and more omnipotent power, to demand and hold to those demands, that the ethics of religious standards be reintroduced into this state. Without those standards, we cannot have the decency, the morality, the knowledge of right and wrong that must be instinctive. For all of you who want to make prayer legal again -- - count me Legislative Report Johnson pected to attend the World finals, We are well underway in the and the economic value of the event second week of the Utah State Legto the city should be $2 million or islature. There are many issues to more. report to you, but I will just select a 9 - 63 East Main Salina, Utah 84654 - Phone: is published each Wednesday for The Salina Sun, SECD 4780-800$15.00 per year in Sevier County; $18.00 in Utah and $21.00 per year out of slate is paid by the Salina Sun, 63 East Main. Salina Utah 84654. Second class postage Salina to the send address Please POSTMASTER: changes at Salina, Utah 84654. Sun, 63 East Main, Salina, Utah 84654. Single Copy $.50 Publisher: Kevin Ashby - Editor: Carol Jensen USPS ar The Way spection should get the best qualified building inspector, save money in carrying out this function of government, and have a uniform process in the county. It is expected that building permits will cost more. This is not a system to raise revenues for cities or the county. The program will operate under the county commissioners. Applications will still have to be obtained from city offices to determine that the building is in harmony with city zoning ordinances. After meeting with local approval, money collected will be passed on to the county building inspection program. The building permit fees will be adjusted in line of the costs of carrying out the inspection program. Quarterly or reports will assist cities in monitoring the use of building fee monies. This was the second meeting on this topic. City councils will discuss their interests and concerns bout the county-wid- e building inspection program. In February or March it is hoped that this program will be in place so that a building inspector or inspectors can be hired and be effective before July 1, 1993.' We will all learn more of the details concerning building inspection in our county at a later date. a compromise was reached and Im optimistic that it will be a very good program. The issue of predator control has received a lot of my attention, and I feel it is an important issue for this area. We must change the trend. Predators are increasing and pheasant, deer and other wildlife are decreasing. Ive introduced House Bill 99, which will allow the unrestricted hunting of red fox, skunk and other pheasant predators. It has passed the Natural Resources Committee and will soon be debated in the House of Representatives. This is just one step in reversthe trend. I have some other ing legislation on this subject which will be coming up. Please call 538-121- 7 if you have any questions or input. sets monthly pickup of newspapers Lions Club The monthly Salina Lions Club newspaper pickup will be this Saturday, February 6, at 9 a.m. Citizens are urged to have their newspapers tightly tied and at curbside by that time. Your local Lions appreciate this support for their service club. The club is moving along with a collection of funds for a building primarily to store the clubs July 4 float and other materials belonging to the club. It is hoped that the building can be built this year on the east side of the city, just below the city , maintenance sheds. $189,870 found door panels of vehicle in On January 21, a Sevier County Deputy stopped a vehicle east of Salina on SR-7- 0 Westbound, for a traffic violation. As a result of a consent search of the vehicle, $189,870 was discovered in the vehicle door panels. It is believed this money is part of a drug transaction and has been seized by the Sevier County Sheriff. Investigation concerning criminal culpability of persons involved in the narcotics distribution conspiracy continues at this time, according to Sheriff John Mcacham. Scouters urged to register for Woodbadge New Officers of North Sevier Jeep Posse New Officers of the North Sevier Jeep Posse for 1 993 are: Commander Charles Woodside; Vice Commander, Ellis Quarnberg; Greg Harward, 1st Sergeant; Terry Phillips, Secretary. The Utah National Parks Council would like to notify all scouters planning on attending the Capitol Reef Woodbadge course set for March 13 though 20, that they need to get their applications turn in. The council has notified the Fish-lak- e District that if there are not at least 32 applications received by February 12, the course will be cancelled. |