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Show Two Page The October Pyramid 25 1 989 Pyramid Editorials THE Comments Letters to the Editor For their sake This weeks paper carries the last in a series of articles about the tragic life of a boy who recently died, a victim of alleged child-abusWe realize the feature material may have been offensive to some of our readers. We have been accused of sensationalism and of trying to bias a prospective jury regarding pending court action. In addition to providing the natural parents an opportunity to tell their story, the articles portray a growing problem that most would choose' to ignore. Child abuse is a part of our society as is spouse abuse and other forms of domestic violence. While the abuse itself is heartbreaking, the tragedy is that the cycle is often repeated into the next generation. Statistics now show the number of sexual abuse victims in Utah has risen 343 percent since 1982. Estimates reveal that one in four females and one in seven males were abused as ld e. children. In addition a crisis center for battered women and their children has been established in the area, including Sanpete County, for local referrals. The New Horizons e Crisis Center, Richfield, has a crisis line, ty 24-ho- ' ur actions against them. For their sakes, we plead with adults who may not be able to control improper compulsive behavior in their families to seek professional help immediately. We also urge spouses who either know of abuse or are facing abuse themselves to take advantage of the crisis centers and other helps available, and for parents to listen to their children if abuse is suspected. All will have to sort through the painful realities of the recent Aragon tragedy because it happened. The guilt or innocence of the principal players in that scenario will be determined as the legal system gets into play, but we are all victims. The tragedy does not have to be repeated, however. As long as we are aware that this may not be an isolated case and that help is available, there may be some benefit, at last, to Ericks death. We hope so. Reader objects to story Dear Editor: We strongly object to the the Ruth Aragon story in The Pyramid. One can read that type of material in a cheap romantic novel movie. It is or view it in an not the type of material that is proper for a newspaper to print A newspaper is a vehicle which should be used to disperse newsworthy, important information to the public. The details of the Ruth Aragon story should not be made into general public business. It is a matter which concerns the Aragons, the Mackays, Social Services, and the judicial system of Sanpete County. The matter should be resolved in the proper manner through the print-ing- channels provided by law. We think it was very unscrupulous for the newspaper to print material such as the detailed description of the deceased boys body when the Mackays have been charged with wrongdoing and have a pending court date to resolve the matter. We believe in freedom of the press, but we also believe that the press Sanpete's Leading Newspaper Published Weekly at Mf Pleasant Utah 84647 49 West Main Street (U.PSS Telephone: MARTIN CONOVER KOLEEN PETERSON PENNY HAMILTON LOIS BYNUM ) 462-213- 4 Publisher Managing Editor Editor Office Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES (in advance) $15.00 per year 50 per copy $18.00 per year Outside Sanpete Co. CORRESPONDENTS Mt. Pleosant Hollee Anderson Spring City Kathy Jackman 462 3131 462-328- Moroni. Ida O. Donaldson . 436 8312 Ftn. Green, Jessie Oldroyd 462 2134 Wales ... Snow College Mark Soderborg .445-342- address to The Pleasant Utah B4647 Second ctoss postoge paid ot Ml Pleasant Utah and additional moiling offices ROAST MASTER Send chonge of Pyramid, 49 West Mom Street Mt has a responsibility to use wisdom and integrity in deciding what to print. Also, we cannot believe that there are so few newsworthy events in Sanpete County that the press r.ust resort to exploiting a situation by printing the material that we have referred to. We appeal to other readers who share our views to voice their opinions to the newspaper. Kevin and Shelley Washburn effort. NS volleyball team applauded Dear Editor: On Tuesday, Oct. 17, and Wednesday, Oct. 18, 1 had the opportunity to go to Morgan High School and watch the Region 9 Volleyball Tournament. The girls, Emilee Allred, Charity Palmer, Tami Thompson, Erika Jensen, Christine Hall, Sharon Hansen, Content Anderson, Nicole Dingemanse, Catherine Cook, Stephanie Blain, Sarah Spencer, and Raylynn Bills, from North Sanpete High School were the class team in the tournament. They are poised young ladies. The community and their parents should be very proud of them. The game they played against Manti High School was the best volleyball game that I have ever seen. Jim Shaw Ogden Halloween Party planned Oct. 31 - FOUNTAIN GREEN- Fountain Green Elementary Schools Parent Teacher Organization is sponsoring the annual Halloween party, Tuesday, Oct. 31. This years festivities will begin with a costume parade at 5 p.m. at the school with games following the parade. Chili, scones and corn dogs will be the dinner menu. A quilt and bicycle will be raffled off during the evening. The public is invited. All students are encouraged to bring their carved pumpkins to school that morning for the pumpkin carving contest. Merline Morgan and Melba Benson, of Spring City, spent the week visiting with Janice Justesen, in East Carbon. They also traveled to Moab. County director to attend small cities economic confab SAN FRANCISCO, Ca- .- Sanpete Countys rural economic development director, Chris Shoppe has been awarded a scholarship to at- tend a business development center here. Utah Small Cities, Inc., a nonprofit corporation promoting rural economic development, will pay tuition costs for 13 rural representatives to attend the National Development Councils Business Finance Symposium. The week-lon- g conference, Oct. 30 to Nov. 3, will focus on a variety of business finance issues ranging from credit analysis to financing new enterprises. Regardless of whether a local economic development director is working to expand an existing business, cultivate a start-uenterprise or attract a new firm, financing always becomes an issue. To be effective, we must understand how to prepare our businesses to approach a funding source, what sources are appropriate for a given kind of business and how to use public finance tools to leverage private funds, Craig Davis, chairman of Utah Small Cities, Inc.s Entrepreneurism Subcommittee explained. To qualify for scholarships, local p The Renaissance, painter Raphael painted more than 300 pictures of Sisters listen with the heart needy kids toll-fre- A Salt Lake City television station aired a special program on child abuse Sunday, dealing with four recent child abuse convictions that were thrown out by the Utah State Supreme Court because the court severely limited the use of social workers testimony. To say that these things do not exist, is to allow even more children and adults unnecessary suffering. To categorize abusers as social misfit prototypes is also an injustice. No one wins when abuse is covered up or ignored, but the real losers are the children who must not only suffer the abuse, but who may feel somehow responsible for an adults Koleen Peterson UNICEF drive to aid MT. PLEASAN- T- First Presbyterian Church Pioneer Club will be collecting for United Nations InterFund Childrens national (UNICEF) Halloween night. Boys and girls, kindergarten through eighth grade participating in the fun raising drive will be carrying official UNICEF banks. UNICEF money is used to assist needy children in other parts of the world and 100 percent of the money collected will be used in the relief organizations were required to pay travel, lodging and meal costs for their representatives. Senior citizens MORON- I- Moroni Senior Citi- zens will have flue shots and the annual bazaar Friday, Oct. 27. Flu shots will be given at the center from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. The bazaar will begin at 5 p.m. Soup and chili, pie and ice cream will be sold as well as baked goods, needlework and crafts. A quilt will be given away to the lucky ticket holder. Tickets are available at the center. Donations are encouraged and may be brought to the center that afternoon. FROM HERE UV Sisters listen with the heart, was inscribed on a small picture I saw at a craft fair last week, Im fortunate to have the best, Sandra and Patricia. High above the fluffy clouds at 35, 0(X) feet, I had time to reflect on the events of the past week and my visit in Mt. Vernon Mo. with Sandra. Sisters can share thoughts and dreams. Sisters can share problems and concerns, and sisters do listen with the heart. It is in sharing thoughts about our years growing up on the (arm in Miiburn, the things our parents taught us, their goals and aspirations for us, and yes, their disappointments, that makes life worth while. At this time in our lives Sandra and I find ourselves where our parents were in what seems like just a drop in time ago, sharing the hopes and dreams, and yes, concerns and frustrations that come with rearing our children. Yet, we know, too, that just like we did, they will have to learn by trial and error, but wilh patience, they, too, will weather lifes storms. From 35, (XX) feet, the world one sees below appears in miniature. Its after the landing that we must move on in life and deal with realities. As sisters who enjoy doing things together, we found ourselves at one of the countrys largest craft fairs at War Eagle, Ark. where about 500 booths Spring City man wins first prize SPRING CITY-K- en Jensen was recently notified he had won first prize in a magazine writing contest, a combination deer and elk hunt with world famous guide Ben Pinkham, Grand Junction, Colo. Jensen wrote of an elk hunting experience with hunting companion, Gary Blain, also of Spring City. The article was accepted and published in the July issue of Western Bowhunter magazine. Jensen received a letter from the ownerpublisher of the magazine informing him that his story had won the 1989 writers contest. According to Linda Jensen, Kens wife, the announcement of him being the winner will appear in the maga- zines November issue. Jensen plans on using his prize hunt in 1990. Library program slated tonight MT. PLEASAN- T- The second of a series of family programs will be presented Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. at the Carnegie Library. Mike Kowalski, a Snow College teacher, will conduct a group discussion on John Fitzgeralds book, The Great Brain. The setting of this childrens novel is a small Utah town in the late contained thousands ol items. We enjoyed looking at the many things and were amazed at the creativity of the Ozark people along with the vastness of it all. Sisters can spend six hours in the Springfield shopping mall and go home with rings on their fingers after they have looked at literally everything in 20 stores. But how do you explain that to who wonders a brother-in-lahow anyone can spend six hours in a shopping mall. Sisters can dine at a Chinese smorgasbord and put diets on hold for a week somehow convincing themselves that vacation calories dont count. Flying home in the clear, crisp, friendly skies of United, there was time to ponder on ouryouth when choices were few. Ours was one pair of good shoes, one winter coat that lasted two years and parents who struggled to give their children a future. Today, our choices are limited only by our vision of the future and our pocket books. As kids our parents took us on trips, but we never dreamed of flying. As sisters we can still dream, still hope and most of all still want the best the world has to offer forourchildren and grandchildren. As the Rockies snow-tippe- d loomed in the setting sun, I was reminded that good times never last long enough. Thanks Sandra for a wonderful time, and thanks Trish for being there to come home to. fn 1800s. According to Bonnie Mellor, lid brarian, the story is a a mischielife the of romp through vous child whose Catholic lives in a Mormon community. It has tail-tal- e exaggeration, gently layered with family solidarity, homely discipline, and neighborly tolerance in a Utah light-hearte- historical perspective. The program is being presented in conjunction with the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. The next program will be Mitzi and Frederick the Great which will be 'held Nov. 8. The book is available at the library and may be read prior to the program. Fountain Green 1989 beautification winners include Carolyn and Perry Christensen, right, first place; Rita and Calvin Allred, center, second, and Alex and Peggy Johnson, left, third. Flu clinics set MT. PLEASAN- T- Hu clinics will be held throughout the area Friday, Oct. 27, according to Public Health Nurse Sharon Boynton. Flu shots will be given at the Mt. Pleasant Senior Citizens Center, w ft i - At from 9 to 10:30 a.m.; Fairview Senior Citizens, 10:45 a.m. to noon; Moroni Senior Citizens, 1:30 to 2:45 p.m., and Fountain Green City Hall and Spring City, 3 to 3:30 p.m. Flu is a viral infection of the nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs which affects all ages usually from about November to April. Symptoms include fever, chills, cough, and soreness and aching in the back, arms, and legs. While the illness usually lasts only a few days and most recover fully, some people are more seriously ill and require hospitalization. On the average thousands of people die each year in the United States from the flu or related symptoms. Health officials urge the use of flu shots for the elderly and people with health problems, those likely to suffer serious illness, as well as those who have contact with high-rispatients and those who expect to travel south of the equator. For further information on flu shots, one should contact the public health department or his local doctor. . 'N Christopher Cook and other scouts from Troop 555 turned out for priming and painting bleachers for Christophers Eagle Scout community project. Scoutmaster Lynn Cook that the youth spent 96 reported man hours during two days finishing 13 bleachers at Moroni City and he Processing Plant ball parks. Those participating are from left, back, Ben Morley Robert rCrfkBeardal1 Justesen, Scout-- r ki Joshua Cook, Benjamin . r 2!!n Preston Dyches, an el iar Matthew Cook was not 3n for present thritiireU,n0n 1!?? CERTIFIED LIST k OF NOMINATIONS Mt. Pleasant City MAYOR CHESLEY R. CHRISTENSEN STEVEN ROSENLUND Response Requested There is presently movement to organize a co-o-p grocery store in Fair-vieIt would entail investments by many people, with a fully organized president and board of directors, similiar to Moroni Feed Company. 1. Would you be willing to invest? DYes ONo 2. How much would you invest? 3. Would you support a co-o-p store in Fairview DYes DNo 4. Would you shop at a' co-o- p store? DYes DNo. Name ..Residence Clip and mail this survey to P.O. Box 218, Fairview, Utah 3 j COUNCIL DOUGLAS N. BURDICK CAROL GUNDRY PAUL C. MADSEN JON SCHUHMANN 84629 Sept. 27, 1989 Mt. Pleasant City Paid Advertisement the Madonna. 1 DAN R. SIMONS Dixie L. Brunger Recorder - A |