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Show Sun Advocate Price. Utah Tuesday April 27. 2004 5A Letters to the editor ( Continued from allowed in the temple. In the same article the wave pool, rodeo and the motocross were mentioned, activities that put monev into the economy and can be enjoyed by a large of people. I can't even begin to mention all the events Helper and Wellington sponsor that bring people into the area and have created a cross-sectio- n positive image of Carbon County. I can honestly say I've never met anyone who has been ashamed of being from Carbon County. I think it is a badge of honor that we wear, we are proud of w ho w e are, our image and our reputation. Weve worked hard to be leaders not followers, activists not pacifist, in hiring practices in this area. In one case he applied for a position w ith Carbon County, yet when the position was filled the niece of the head of the department for which he was interviewed receiv ed the job. In an- other case with the City of Price, he never even was granted an interview. As a disabled veteran, he should be inters ie w ed for positions w ith any government entity. When he was not chosen for an interview with Helper City, he was told that the Veterans inclusive not divisive. So to those who think a temple will help improve our image and reputation, look around because we find nothing wrong with the reputation and image of Carbon County and it's people. Preference didn't apply' to Helper. A job within the Department Oliveto-Byr- d Stacey I don't understand this. He is educated, is a retired Army Ranger with numerous decorations including Purple Hearts, has extensive experience in computers. He is partially disabled due to injuries he sustained during Operation Desert Storm. He is a wonderful husband and devoted father to our 6 vear old daughter, and a very good person. He has so much to offer an employer. There are numerous examples of favoritismnepotism vet to find employment. 4A ) page ship numbers not an actual number of Mormons that are of Workforce Bountiful Services for which he applied and interviewed was filled from within the Department. An entry-levreceptionist Without secure borders el Editor: The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2003 have height- position with the Office for People with Disabilities was refused him. You would think a Disabled Vet would know a bit about what people with disabilities face. ..including the problems they have with things like job discrimination. ened America's awareness of border security. Illegal immigration is a serious problem, but one that can be solved if our elected officials take appropriate steps to stop the invading force from the south. What kind of signal does amnesty for illegal immigrants send to others contemplating a similar action? The Congress should reject any bill that gives lawbreakers a free pass and makes their actions legal. What is needed is serious enforcement of the current laws and deportation. There is always the call to expand NAFTA further south, Several months ago, he tested for the position of Radio Dispatcher here in Price. He was told by the people who interviewed him that he had tested higher than anyone else applying for the position. He got a call the next day telling him the job was his, and was even told that should he need special equipment due to his disability that would be arranged. A week later a letter arrived saying that he did not qualify reafor the job due to sons. He contacted the author of the letter up in Salt Lake to find out what the reasons are, but was told they couldnt re- into South America. NAFTA, when first proposed, was supposed to raise the standard of living in Mexico, slow the flood of illegal immigration and create jobs here. None of this hap- veal the reasons because that was privileged information. He then contacted the supervisor of the letters author and was told the same thing... privileged information. He wanted to know what the reasons were in order to have a chance to fix or correct what could be inaccurate information, since to his knowledge there was no reason in his background for the refusal of pened. Mexicans are still among the lowest paid workers in the hemisphere. Illegal immigrants still stream across our border, 1.5 million a year. As Ronald Reagan once said, A country without secure borders ceases to be a nation. James Franklin Rinehart Price hire. He felt, and still feels, that it is his right to know what pre- Handling of open positions unfair vented him from getting the position. I just found out that a relative of someone within the Department of Corrections was hired instead. There is something seriously wrong when people who want to work cannot find employment unless they are related to someone within the department, office or company to Editor: I am writing today to express the employmy frustration ment situation in this town. Jobs are listed all the time in the help wanted section of the newspaper, or listed on the boards at Workforce Services. Yet it seems that so often they not filled by those who apply for them. which they are applying. In my eyes, there is something morally wrong about advertising a position or job when there is no intention of hiring any of those interviewed, since a rela My husband has been looking for work since we moved to Price 1996. He has applied for many jobs, and has been interviewed many times. He has CROWN 7:30 Daily, 7:30 & said needed repair. The dressing room stalls are also in disrepair, but there are virtually new stalls being stored in the pool shed that were donated to the pool when Willow Creek Mine closed and are just waiting to be installed. Many citizens at the council meeting offered to help raise funds to help make the repairs, but the offer seemed to fall on deaf ears. A comment about a dead horse was made refer- ring to the pool. To those of us tive or friend is already lined up to fill the slot. This is not just a few isolated incidents. He has applied for many, many jobs since our arrival here. While there are some out there who are going to toss my letter aside as sour grapes, I am willing to bet that there are numerous more who can attest that they also have been victims of the unfair hiring practices in this area. Kelly Wilkinson Price w ho faithfully use and enjoy the pool, it is not a dead horse, but an institution that is worth the effort to keep open until w e can Pool closure not what public wants get funding. Not only is the pool worth it, our kids are worth it Editor: Carbon county residents as well. Without the pool. Helper kids are left with nothing as our parks playground equipment are in worse shape than the pool. We understand that Helper City is in need of revenue, but w ith the pool closed, those vv ho to swim. Jodi Mascaro has enjoy swimming will be taking been managing the Helper Pool their revenue to Price. Our for 10 years and considering councilmen made it perfectly the lack of funding, has done clear that Helper City has an the best job possible. The pool extremely tight budget, but we is antiquated and in need of reare aware that Helper City ow ns alhas our but water an $87,000 street sweeper pair, pool we as and been clean and many late model city veways pool goers have felt that it is a hicles. Perhaps Helper City safe place for families to play residents would rather have and cool off. less money spent on equipment Jodi met with Bob Farrell, and more money spent on pubthe councilman overseeing the lic facilities. Near the end of the meetpool, a couple of weeks ago to look over the pool conditions ing, Mr. Farrell was discussin preparation for the upcoming the many phone calls he had received from concerned citiing swim season. Mr. Farrell informed Jody about his intenzens and how when they question to propose closing the pool tioned his plans to propose cloand said he would start the ball sure to the council he conrolling on repairs. Those who ceded. Mayor Bonacci then have consistently used the laughed as he said "and this is pool, frantically gathered towhy all these people are here." as We wonder if some didnt like many pool supportgether ers as possible to attend the the fact that Mr. Farrell shared Helper City Council meeting on his thoughts and would have April 15. preferred keeping Helper City As the meeting started, residents in the dark until June Mayor Bonacci informed all when we realized the pool those in attendance that we wasn't opening and it was too must raise our hands before late to do anything. This, in combination with the fact that speaking during discussions. The swimming pool discussion we had such little notice to was number 12 on the agenda gather people and information and, although six to eight people and were in our estimation not had their hands raised Mayor given ample speaking opportuBonacci precluded further disnity before the vote was made, cussion by evoking the council leaves us frustrated and permembers vote after only two haps suspicious about how and residents had spoken. The vote why the decision to close the to close the pool was three to pool was made. two in favor of closure. Had the Approximately 0 people council members heard from signed up to be on a committee those who still had comments to try to expedite the process to offer, the vote may have had of refurbishing or reopening the different results. pool. We are currently sending Mr. Farrell stated the he was around a petition to inform residents and to gather names of going to attempt to find fundthose in support of keeping the ing to either refurbish or replace the pool, but that it pool open to show our mayor would probably take a couple and council members that we of years. We as pool supportare serious and are willing to go ers know, the pool is in need the distance. of repairs and are glad to hear that Mr. Farrell has expressed Betty Mascaro to research Charmaine Jones willingness sources of funding on the Jodi Mascaro pool's behalf. In the interim, Becky Curtis we as Helper pool advocates, Terrie Saccomano are unsure as to why the counMargie McCourt cil members are unwilling to Tracy Haus make a few minor repairs to Linda L. Bradstreet the pool in order to keep it open Jessie while we are awaiting funding. Mick Foderaro At the council meeting, Mr. Jolene Sorensen Farrell explained that he still Sherline Riche had insurance money received Brandee Fausett J.R. Plaga after the hailstorm of 2002 damaged the roof and the gutJudy L. Plaga ter grates, two of the things he Helper have been enjoying the Helper pool for over 65 years. Many of us, who have fond memories of swimming at the Helper pool, are now continuing that tradition and bringing our children, some their grandchildren, 15-2- QZE5 L2.A J, 9:30 Weekends 1 Attraction KING K0AL 7:00 & 7:00 KING K0AL m tapes of Roy Hits and Greatest Rogers The Best of Tiny Tim on sale cassette in a rack near the cash j she found the soda machine which had these huge cups that took minutes to fill, and two hands to cany. Next to that was one of those hot warmer glass cases with a sign that said straight up in bed w ith a start I was buttoning my looking woman behind the The whole time she was do- ing this I was sitting in the car, looking straight ahead. When she got to the vehicle, the pop was so big that she sat the rainbow nuggets wondered from which What are you talking on the ground, while she tried to get in. As soon as she and half the stock of Dr. Pep- per in the country got into the car I drove off, leaving the rainbow nuggets behind in a cloud of dust. Hence, she about? I didnt go anywhere or leave anything, I said defensively as I tried to pull on a pair of socks over my ugly Where have you been? She realized where she was and then began a bizarre tale, which could only have occurred in a fantasy or a started to yell at me and w oke up in the process. I looked at her when she finished the story. Do you really think I would do that? movie. In her dream we had I been driving for hours, never stop anyone from eat- ing what they want just because I cant. Oh you think you dont? she said, obviously still an- gry over the flattened multi- color nuggets that were left on an imaginary asphalt pad in never-nevland. Re- member last week when everyone was eating ice cream in the kitchen and you kept reading the total fat levels, saturated fats and ingredients labels out loud? Do you think any of us really enjoyed eating it. Its basically the same Francis Ford Coppola across a desert where there was nothing. Worse than Green River to Grand Junction; even worse than Barstow to Baker. The whole time she said she was starving and kept asking me to find a place to eat. I just drove along with a blank look on my face, not listening to anything she had to say or her protests. It sounded like I was acting similarly to the ghouls in the Night of the Living Dead, which is the way I sometimes feel on this diet I am following. Finally a small convenience store came into view and she made me stop. The details of how this was accomplished were not clear to her, considering my Bela Lugosi state of mind. She said the store was one of those typical asked incredulously. I er thing. But by this time I was off in a fantasy world of my own, wondering what rainbow chicken nuggets would taste like, and trying to figure out where I could get some without anyone noticing. I wonder what Freud would say about all this. Poverty higher in rural areas whether people should be (Continued from page 4A) never get the resources nor gen- poor. Things have been far too quiet on the home front, added Penn States Amy Glasmeier. Its time to get angry again. As is the case with most vex- erate the political will needed to end rural poverty. According to Gary Stangler, executive director of the Jim Casey Youth Initiative, the best way to get that attention is through the media. If the issue doesnt exist in the media, he said, it doesnt exist for policymakers. Sadly, getting the media, public, and policymakers to care about pov- ing problems, an understanding of and then solution to rural poverty remains elusive. Caring about it, however, should not be. Thomas D. Rowley, is a Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) fellow The Rural erty in general and rural poverty in particular may be the toughest of the three tasks at hand. Policy Research Institute provides objective analysis and facilitates public dialogue concerning the impacts of public Describing that difficulty, States Cornelia Flora lamented, I think theres a real difference of opinion about Iowa policy on rural people and places. 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She peered in and there they were: chicken nuggets with every color that could have existed in Dorothys rainbow. It was the only hot thing to eat in the store so just as shirt. Whats wrong? j ister. Looking around the store reality is that chocolate i i reg- Harry London ' row multi-millimete- rs eclairs in dreams taste no w here as good as they do in real life. But now the food syndrome is beginning to affect my wife's dreams as well. The other morning I was getting ready to head off to work at a very early hour, being careful not to wake her, but she sat Specialty Man on Fire I ft little shops, w ith cans of chili on the shelves coated by of dut and (Continued from page 4A) problem quite a bit by then. That was great for me, but little have I realized what this diet has done to my family. It's bad enough that w hen I dream I see visions of the foods I no longer eat. The Fun fo five Fun to receive Fun fo eaf Laws of vj in fho family: A dlo? Thanks a Million nirb;ut I j |