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Show Page Two - The Pyramid - October 20, 1993 A Penny's-wort- h fay Live it up Have I done any canning? leaders help youth 4-- H Motor vehicle crashes continue to needlessly dominate mortality records in the state of Utah as one of the leading causes of death. They claim the lives of approximately 300 Utahns annually. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), deaths and serious disabilities caused by motor vehicle crashes could be reduced by 50 percent with use of safety belts and child restraint devices. Some people argue that their loved one was saved because they were not wearing a seatbelt, and sometimes thats true; but strong evidence still points to the fact that most of the time seat belts save lives. A law was passed in 1986 which required all front seat passengers and the driver to use safety belts when they ride in a motor vehicle on Utah roadways. The child restraint law was amended in 1990 mandating that all children under eight years of age must be properly restrained in motor vehicles in all seating positions. In addition to safety belt legislation, various safety belt promotion activities are provided, such as community projects, classroom presentations, media campaigns, health fairs and incentive programs. In fact, theres a brand new seat belt slogan. Its "Malls, Movies, Seat Belts - Live it up." According to a survey conducted statewide by the Utah Highway Safety Office (UHSO), data showed that urban dwellers are above average at wearing seatbelts while driving, and rural drivers are below average. Even the average isnt good. Its only a little over 44 percent of us who buckle up. Women are more likely to be strapped in than men. Urban children are 20 percent more likely to be in child restraints than rural children. Toddlers (under age two) are the safest with almost 85 percent now in child restraint devices. Children between the ages of two and eight are in seat belts 58 percent of the time. The statistics for children show an increase over the last few years. Maybe were doing something right just not as often as we should be according to the seal belt laws. With as many serious accidents as weve had as a community in the past year, it might be time to remind ourselves what a precious gift our lives are. It might also be time for a moment or two of silence in memory of those who are no longer among us, for lack of wearing a seat can belt, and to let their memory remind us to "Buckle Up" "Live it Up." -- so-w- e Dear Editor: As we wind up the year acand tabulate what was complished, I am always amazed at the great investment our leaders put into the Sanpete County youth. Tliis year, over 200 adults signed up as leaders and put in thousands of hours and considerable amounts of their own money and other resources so youngsters could participate in nearly 1,600 projects. Dozens of other leaders participated as short-terspecialists, chaperons at contests and school project leaders. have Many other volunteers provided projects to raise money or have contributed resources outright to ensure opportunities for youth of limited means. These people have made it possible for hundreds of Sanpete County youth to learn a skill or have a growing experience and decision-makin- g learn skills, communication skills and gain while they are some having fun. Theres no way the Extension professional staff could begin to do all this work for all the youngsters involved. Its, sometimes, a taxing job. Sometimes the youth seem to only have a passing interest in the project but many will remember what these volunteers did for them many years later. Parents and former youth have come into our office and told us what an important experience they or their child had because of some caring leader. Those who havent participated as a leader before, and would like to help, please call us 4-- H 4-- H m special-intere- st 4-- H self-estee- m 4-- H Letters Dear Editor: As fall and the hunting season are upon us, we find ourselves extremely discouraged on the prospects of having a successful hunt. Having hunted for several years and always having the opportunity to see a mature buck at least once or twice or to kill one has always held us excited for the next years hunt. We have watched the deer hunt go from this excitement to being totally discouraging. The license fees have gone completely out of sight with promises of better management, increasing buck to doe ratio and a bigger herd altogether. Instead, what we have are very few, small bucks. We realize last years harsh winter took its toll on our deer herd, but its not the first bad winter weve had in the past 30 years; and the deer survived. We also realize the hunter population has grown from 35,000 to over 100,000 in the Sanp.t.'a Leading Newspaper THE PyRRIDID (USPS 365-580- ) Published Weekly at Mt. Pleasant Utah, 84647 49 West Main Street Telephone: FAX: 462-21- 34 462-24- 59 Publisher Craig Conover Penny Hamilton Managing Editor Associate Editor Lynda Grover Shirley Christensen Sports Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) $18 peryear-50- ( CORRESPONDENTS Fairview, Shirley Christensen ... Moroni, Barbara Gordon Ftn. Green, Jessie Oldroyd 462-287- 5 462-21- ! Wales, Colleen Lamb Snow College past 20 years. But with the new hunters comes more revenues that were supposed to get better man- agement. To us, this has given the Fish and Game more drive trucks and more employpickup ees, which might be needed, but in the form of more field officers to stop poaching and other illegal acts of killing and less upper management sitting in their offices catering to special interest groups. four-whe- el Big game isnt the only thing being mismanaged; the small game and fishing have suffered as well. that sprinkling systems have taken away the ditches and places where pheasants thrive. Having hunted pheasants for many years I tend to disagree that the pheasants habitat has changed to the extent that justifies our poor bird population. Weve heard excuses Rather, lets point to the problem as being skunks, racoons, foxes and other controllable predators of the pheasant and other feathered game. There were days when a magpie egg was worth 5 cents and a magpie 15 cents at the Fish and Game office. Maybe this is where some of our money should be going now, by offering a bounty to control the predators that are killing off our small game. Although our fishing is fairly stable at present, we cant help but wonder if its the next to dwindle away in view of the hatchery closings. We have read in the paper about the intentions of the Fish and Game to raise license fees again next year or face having to lay off employees. per copy $21 per year outside Sanpete County 445-342- 2 436-880- 8 Dean O'Driscoll Photographer, Hollee Anderson 462-313- 1 POSTMASTER: Send change of address to Tlw Pyramid, 49 West Main Street, Mt. Pleasant, UT 84647. Second class postage paid at Mt. Pleasant, UT and additional mailing offices. 3 4-- H A good business offers good products, low cost A good business offers a good product at the lowest cost. To us, the Fish and Game is a business whose first priority should be providing us, the buyers, with quality hunting and fishing at the lowest price. A good business makes cuts wherever possible without effecting the quality of the product. Maybe the Division of Wildlife Resources needs to become a better business. Shane and Bull Keisel Mt. Pleasant Penny Hamilton at 835-215- 1. Gary L. Anderson USU Extension Agent Fine Arts Club MT. PLEASAN- T- The Mt. Pleasant Fine Arts Club met on Oct. 4 at the home of Helen Lasson where a musical program by Earl Madsen was presented. There were 15 members present. ! "Have you done your canning?" a person asked me recently. "Who, me?" I responded, thinking they certainly must have the wrong person. They did. To my relief not everyone knows who I am, and I can still have a stimulating, honest without conversation any liability. This woman had sold one of the Pyramid ladies some canning equipment. She thought it was me. It was actually one of my cohorts who was, in fact, canning something. After I had assured her that she hadnt really offended me by not recognizing me (all of us newspaper people really do look alike), we began an interesting stroll down memory lane my memory that is. I told her I used to can everything. Actually I was rather good at it, too. I even won blue ribbons at the County Fair. There was all the regular stuff that people can like green beans, com, beets, applesauce, peaches and pears, etc., etc. Late summer and autumn just werent productive unless my hands were stained nearly black from beets or apples and my feet stuck to the fruit syrup spilled on the kitchen floor. I also made my own pumpkin puree for pies, spent hours blanching and processing rows of spinach, and experimented with about every known recipe for jams, jellies, pickles, and relishes. It was a grand time. I thought I didnt have time to accomplish anything of value other than keep house or raise kids. I wish I had that kind of time today. One year we had a bumper crop of zucchini, and so did everyone else. Since I couldnt give it away and I wouldnt think of throwing it away, I began to can zucchini. I made zucchini spaghetti sauce, zucchini strawberry Responsible people dont need more government aid Dear Editor: Im with my health care and insurance programs; I believe most Americans satisfied are. If there are between 6 and 37 million people (Who agrees on the figure?) without "proper" (whatever that is) health care, then let the Feds work up something for them, but leave the rest of us alone. I dont want any more federal government regulation and intrusion into my life! Especially if its anything like the horror of the Social Security system. Were all forced to participate in Social Security, even those of us (and there are a great many) who prefer to take responsibility for ourselves and our own retirement arrangements, knowing that we can have a better, more dependable program at less ex- pense. If its absolutely necessary for the government to take care of some people from cradle to grave, why cant they leave those of us alone who are perfectly capable of taking intelligent care of ourselves and who are mature and enough to choose to do just that? We dont want to be forced into another expensive, inefficient government program which, like the others, will encourage sloth, graft, corruption, irresponsibility and greed, ed Euleda Cook spent the weekend in Clearfield with her daughter and There, she attended the blessings of Bailey Flint, daughter of Dan and Susan Robertson; and Eleisse McKenna Cook, daughter of Paul, Jr.; and Marci Cook. son-in-la- Whoops! There goes another Whoops! Here comes more wasteful, expensive and inept government bureaucracy bringing more government regulation and control. Is this socialism or what Joyce Stumphy freedom! Orem Desert camp for gang members Dear Editor: jam, zucchini apple pie filling, and even tried plain canned zucchini (YUK). Nearly at the end of my rope a friend suggested I try zucchini relish. She had the recipe (which actually belonged to another friend) and she convinced me it was the most tasty way to disposing of all that zucchini. I copied it down, went to the store because I needed a few items, and when I returned I began chopping up zucchini, onions and peppers. Now one of the reasons I had to go to the store was because the recipe called for five pounds of rock salt and I didnt have enough on hand. Part of the preparation period was mixing the vegetables with the salt and then letting it sit overnight. In the morning the vegetables were pressed through a cheesecloth to remove excess moisture and then the brightly colored mixture was mixed with the rest of the ingredients (vinegar, spices, etc.) Once the relish was cooking away in several kettles (I didnt believe in making a small batch) I began to enjoy the powerful aroma of the relish. It was heavenly. The house was filled with its sweetness. This was undoubtedly my greatest triumph. As the relish simmered gently I occasionally stirred it, noticing that it made a decided "clinking" sound and wondering what could possibly be left hard enough to "clink" after all that soaking and cooking. Those of you who have caught on pr heard the story before can quit reading now. The rest who are as naive as I can continue. Hopefiilly Im not alone. Theres a time during the canning process when any good cook can no longer resist the urge to "taste. " It eventually happened with me and my relish. . so walks Now I defy someone else to if I have done my canning. ask me Our Constitutions Bill of Its up to us to get our freeRights was meant to bind down doms back. the federal government of things Vernon Baugh that the federal government could Orem not do. Article X reads, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respecMT. PLEASAN- T- Louise Johansen and Esther Christensen tively, or to the people." Somewhere "We the people," recently returned from a lost our states rights. If "we the tour of the New England people," would phone or write all fall foliage. They visited Boston, our lawmakers and ask them to Maine, Vermont, New Hampwork on getting our states rights shire, and went to Nova Scotia, back, we would regain our inNew Brunswick and St. Edwards alienable, or natural rights. Island in Canada. Mt. Pleasant news two-we- J2acu cSaLz! cJ-funte.i- s, With our jails so full and the cost so high for taxpayers to build more jails, I would like to make a suggestion: build con- centration camps in the deserts. Put up the barbed- - or razor-wir- e fences with guard towers. Build however many barracks it would take. With all the desert lands available, we could build as many as needed. The law breakers would be treated just like in a military boot camp. To hell with the ACLU. If boot camp is good enough for all of us who went into the military, it would be no problem to put gang members and drug users in the same place. There would be no TV, no girly books, no pornography, no smoking, and no parole. Treat these law breakers the same way we were. They would get three meals a day and marched everywhere they go marched to meals, to school classes, to work details, to PE, and back to their barracks each night. There would be solitary confinement for those who like it. My willpower was strong enough that I had just about finished sealing all the jars, before I spooned a big portion out of the pot and began to and spitting enjoy, the choking. I thought I had been poisoned. My mouth burned and my eyes watered. I couldnt get the taste out of my mouth. It was overpowering. Drinking water didnt help. The taste in my mouth made the water taste like... salt. After I could breathe again, I called the friend who had given me the recipe. "Did you actually make the relish?" I asked after carefully going over each ingredient. "No," she answered but did and I tasted hers and it was delicious. Another frantic call was made. This time to "Does your relish taste a little salty?" I asked her (I said a little salty because I didnt want to offend her if that was the way it was really supposed to taste). "Salty?" she asked, "then continued, "How much did you use?" "Five pounds, just like the recipe called for," I replied. "Five pounds!" she exclaimed. "The recipe calls for five tablespoons." I got the recipe out again to make sure I hadnt overlooked something. Sure enough it said 5 lbs. Now if my other friend had crossed her T when she had copied the recipe down in the first place, it would have said 5 Tbs and the relish would have turned out differently. But she hadnt, and it didnt, and I was stuck with a bumper crop of salty, sealed zucchini relish. Naturally I couldnt throw it away either. 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