| Show you irnignyriiinr Standard-Examine- Opinion r Letters & Columns our Readers To Clinton but the program needs to be the best it can for the children even if half the money comes from outside the city To be DARE officer of the ear means the program the officer provides is one of the most outstanding in the state The city administrators are trying to take that away and the police department is also trying to replace the officer program urged If you have an award-winnin- g program why would you want to stop it? If you have children who go to Clinton City schools talk to them and find out how they feel about the DARE program and officer Call the mayor city manager or city council members and let them know how you and your children feel They can be 0 Rememcontacted at ber these are our children - our future - we’re talking about If city administrators saw it this way things would be different 774-260- Ruthann Scott West Point Lori Hardman Clinton This story sounds similar to the Littleton Colo tragedy - only on a smaller scale with the difference being a car was used instead of a gun Nowhere in the small newspaper or television reports was anyone calling for car control In Littleton there is a national outcry for gun control be cause the guns were the tools of death and did the killing not the young men holding them The same holds true in Costa Mesa The car was the tool of death and did the killing not the man driving it - correct? That’s insane A car and a gun are inanimate pieces of steel They are not responsible for the deaths in both tragedies The persons holding the guns and driving the car are the evil killers time guns and cars are not used by evil people to destroy human life The only difference between a car and a gun is that all Americans have a constitutional guaranteed right to have and carry a firearm if they choose to do so We have no such rights with a car Robert C Adams Layton support of our wonderful cus-on- ce tomers non-wor- I completely agree with the May 9 letter to the editor “Drivers are uneducated or disobey laws” I was bom and raised in California and drove the Los Angeles freeways in rush hour for many years That was pretty frightening but I adapted I’ve been overseas to Turkey and have driven with those crazies for two years Very scary but I adapted once again Then there are Utah drivers who scare the daylights out of me abilities with their No signals first of all I wonder if people think those things are a steering wheel decoration since most never use them Some act as though they own the whole road and others should feel privileged to drive upon it with all the lane changing (no signal of course or a look in the rearview mirror before they move over) acted as though our family members had been a part of them for generations They showed us that people really do care Their support has been overwhelming and appreciated Thanks to all Thomas Wukawitz White supremacists Nazis communists and every other kind of group meet on our school campuses Christian or Jewish students are prohibited from meeting in small groups on those same school campuses for prayer or Bible study Any semblance of teaching right and wrong is outlawed in our schools Accountability for one’s actions is never taught to our youth and the liberals wonder why? To all moral decent religious Americans 1 again pose the question: Isn’t there a cause worthy to stand up and defend? Lonnie D Crockett EPISODE 7- - THE HONEYMOON IS OVER s own Grondahl the cartoonist pays tribute to “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” with look at the year’s hottest film this daily countdown His continues through the movie’s premiere tomorrow SEEING STARS: Cal Huntsville Then we have those lovely left I can’t even count how many times I have come very close to having the driver’s side front of my car tom off by a car cutting the lane I don’t pull up to the line anymore until their light turns red lest I have some take out the front of my car because they don’t know how to make a left turn! AcrwU-- the turns non-driv- er To top it off we still have those people who are in such a hurry that they speed through school zones Our children are precious to us - we don’t want any more tragedies like the one that happened in front of Hill Field Elementary School People please Slow down for our children Use your turn signal and don’t cut that left turn lane Happy driving to all! Hill Holly Eckroth Force Base A ir State shows no regard for ‘little people’ Kudos to the Standard-Examinand its May 1 1 editorial view that “Homeowners deserve more from Baucorp” Is anyone really surprised that the deadline for an investigation by the attorney general and the assurance by Baucorp that more of the homes would be completed by Apnl 1999 has come and gone and still nothing? But wait maybe I’m wrong! That’s right I remember many months ago reading how a certain lawyer painted a beautiful portrait of a true martyr hero -Baucorp owner Dan Mehr A hero for the huddled masses He was a hero who could do nothing wTong and therefore he benevolently blamed all the construction woes on his underlings It absolutely amazes me that er r calling around I learned about a place on 12th Street called the Ogden Nature Center I called them to see if there was anything I could do to help and I decided to recruit a group of Scouts to fix up the trails and build a badly needed bat shelter for the Nature Center We worked hard and it turned out great I’m writing this letter because -- Doonesbury ' F OPENING OF J con- cerned about doing anything that might cause a black eye for the business community - forget about the consumer I quote the Standard-Examinand agree that "Utahns must have some kind of recourse when their dreams are deconstructed” Ed Viektich er Clinton Loro Free Long Distance Calling to Anywhere in the 50 States When Calling From Utah! the Ogden Nature Center is a wonderful place to visit and I highly recommend it For only 2 New Calling Plans $1 per person families can go down to see animals in their natural habitat It would make a great family outing Derek Fausett Riverdale £ W45 tHiMhikr tfkr VecotNz EMF&nz -- -- BY GARRY TRUDEAU CU ie! StPHCfZ RAP News arm — tug spummr The state appears more H Free Voice Mail Free Text Paging Free 1st Incoming Minute Free Caller ID ezft&TioN-INGTH- the attorney general’s office can find no evidence of any wrongdoing Maybe they should look a little deeper or even talk to the victims The action by the state simply reinforces my view that they could not care any less about the “little people” Caveat emptor: Let the buyer beware! What an easy way to brush a problem like this aside Announcing the new Statewide Toll and Roaming Plan Both Plans Include: smews Standard-Examiner’- By Bruce Tinsley XxWG WiUtt! -- Cal’s Countdown ever to do with guns We live in a time when every kind of socially disoriented group is rallying to every cause If I may be direct we in this country are being whipped to death and continually intimidated by causes of every kind - the witch pseudo-religiohumanists freaks mockers blasphemers cursers liars and many others recently had the opportunity Mallard Fillmore Visrte WEDNESDAY: David Broder on the first test of J Dennis Hastert’s House leadership to do an Eagle project for the Boy Scouts of America After and family Hill Air Force Base Members of the community 8 1999 11A Opinion pages Ogden Nature Center A great place to visit I We especially want to thank the customers on Route 10 and Route 4 We asked you to help and you gave from the heart Thanks to you we were able to collect 1253 pounds of food items from Route 10 and 1010 pounds from Route 4 Customers like you make us truly love the work we do - you are the best Terry Horton and Nancy Dollmeyer Letter carriers Layton Family thanks community for love and support The family of Samantha Lynn Wukawitz wishes to express our heartfelt appreciation to the community for its support love and prayers Being a member of the US military means that we do not always appreciate our neighbors outside the base community Let’s face the facts Firearms are less available and less accessible today than ever before in hisilk and the libtory The anti-gu- n erals with then anti-gu- n agenda can’t or won't accept the truth The violent and brutish society liberals complain about is precisely the type of society they created Liberals got everything they wanted Liberals wanted sexual promiscuity drugs no censorship of pornography no laws against sodomy or public profanity abortion on demand (this kills more children than guns) easy divorces acceptance of homosexuality civilian review boards to second-gues- s law enforcement officers Miranda warnings and public defenders a welfare system that pays women to have illegitimate children and a tax system that penalizes marriage work ethic savings and investk ments and subsidized and immorality The liberals got every dam bit of it This is called reaping what you sow and has nothing whatso- - 1 8 to READER Post office workers thank generous patrons It looks as though we may have broken a record this year In the state of Utah we exceeded 500000 pounds of food At the Layton Post Office we collected 11850 pounds of food We couldn’t have done it without the (801)625-450- Lettersstandardnet non-drivi- percent of the e READER On May 8 the US Post Office again held its annual food drive to help stop hunger Customers were asked to place food items next to their mailboxes to be picked up by their carriers as they delivered the mail FAX May Coming up in the: er P0 Box 951 Ogden UT 84402-095- 1 Reader concurs: Utah drivers are careless Guns like cars not responsible for tragedies Ninety-nin- Standard-Examin- Liberals are reaping what they have sown EL In our opinion the administrators of Clinton City do not care about the children of their community The Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education officer for Clinton City one of five outstanding DARE officers of the year is having his job and program threatened by the city Recently officers of Clinton were ordered not to patronize the store in Sunset City because it is outside the city limits is the onHowever the ly sponsor for the DARE program donating a substantial amount each year to Clinton City's program which goes directly to the students The only asked in return thing was the support of the DARE officer by placing pictures drawn by students in the store for people to see the program in force in their community If the police department is no longer able to go there that donation may be lost and the city is not willing to make up the difference The store is outside city limits and officers are there to protect The man was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol and did not know anyone at the school MAIL Please keep letters to 300 words or less and include your name address and daytime phone for verification Letters must be signed and may be edited and condensed Support of Clinton DAR In the May 5 newspaper was a story of a tragic event that happened in Costa Mesa Calif A man who told police he wanted to “execute” innocent children intentionally plowed through a day-car- e center playground with his car killing two toddlers and injuring five others two critically WTien the Cadillac finally came to a stop on top of the children the man calmly sat behind the wheel until police arrived Tuesday voummn oven rue thing ajhats THtYMUST UPIWH THAT? 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