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Show Shop at Home policy would bolster local economy, promote more economic prosperity By invest Tricia Call in the Sanpete County quality of life; roads, schools, jobs, parks, and volunteer and youth organizations. If compared to international trade, it would be similar to the trade deficit between Japan and the USA. Shopping at home does other things besides create local jobs. It can lower prices in the local stores This spring, 300 students will graduate from local high schools in Sanpete County. Of tjiis number, only a small percentage will be able to return home and live with their own families once they finish their formal education. Other small counties face the same challenge where the economy is small and specialized. Sanpete County has a great lifestyle and the people who live here know and enjoy this little secret. There can be some minor disadvantages that can be eliminated over time w ith each persons because they can purchase in better quantities. It can improve selection and quality of food items because stock gets rotated faster and w ill be fresher. In clothing, a better selection of current styles and colors could be possible. Other things happen when people in the community rally around their local businesses and support them with their shopping dollars. Suddenly the economy can also support more services and entertainment, recreation and participation. Since Max Call first purchased the Manti Messenger and Ephraim Enterprise over 22 years ago, he has strongly advocated shopping at home, for everything from food and clothing to furnishings, automobiles, repairs and citizen-in- goes out state wide, they definitely can compete on price, quality and selection. If they dont have the color in the style you want, they can get it, and they go out of their way to make sure you get what you want. Give them a chance - step into a local store this week, and see what is available here. Weve all experienced what happens when a community loses a good business. Main streets start looking like ghost towns where stores stand vacant, vulnerable to vandalism and blight. Neighboring merchants struggle because the empty look tends to overlap and stigmatize a whole shopping area. Roads go without improvements for years and parks cannot afford to maintain facilities and insurance nounless taxes are raised--an- d -- body likes that option. Even though it may cost a bit more to shop at home sometimes, there are competitive prices and organizations. In speaking to a local car dealer and servicer, it was determined that his business alone could add up to 15 employees if half of the cars (of similar make and model that he carries) purchased by Sanpete County households each year were purchased at his dealership; more employees if these vehicles were also serviced By Bruce Jennings here in Sanpete County. The River Lane, a bubble-shape- d ice and conceivable sen road that crosses the Every product (with few exceptions) can Sanpitch River at two locations, be purchased locally through about seven miles apart, apparSanpete County businesses. ently had its beginning in Manti Though they cant compete for in 1850, and its other section at Ephraim three years later. Has your attention with costly television and radio advertising that gained new status - its now a livestock highway. That means the occasional herds of cattle and bands of sheep that move along the River Lane now have an official volvement other services. Beyond being good for business, it makes sense to shop at home. After some basic research this last January, it was discovered that out of 6300 households in Sanpete County, over 1000 Sanpete County checks go through Utah County grocery stores each week. That equates in dollars and jobs to over $100,000 or 300 jobs! That would give each high school graduate from Sanpete County a full time job that could support a small family. $100,000 earned in Sanpete County leaves this economy to go into another countv that does not -- right of w ay. The main purpose of River Lane, though, over its near 150 y ear existence, has been to provide access to somewhat isolated farms munizations will be offered for in an area collectively calleJ over various fees. (To ensure accurate west. At its Tuesday meeting the results, please fast 12 hours prior to any blood tests.) County Commission also gave the Many local and state health same livestock highway designaserv ices w ill provide information, tion to the Pigeon Hollow Road, including the American Cancer the Wales to Fountain Green Road, the Milburn Road, and the Society, the American Lung AsYour Canal and sociation, Baby Canyon Road. These liveBaby stock highways are now so desigmany others. Blood donations will be ac- nated on the Sanpete County Addressing Map, for those who want cepted. To reserve a time to do3 to know. lor nate, call Refreshments will be proAnd the Sanpete County vided for blood donors. Commission, in case people also to Warren want to know, was authorized to According chair the health fair take this action by Sections of Benincosa, Utah Code Annotated, 1953 committee, participants will leave the health fair with a better idea as amended, to prov ide for the of what they can do to live a movement of livestock. This makes it all legal, and the healthy life. We would like to see in comthe livestock highways will now new every person county mitted to living healthier. And we be posted by the Sanpete Road arc committed to help members of Department as such. In other action at its meeting our community be healthy for allocated some Benincosa Commission said. the life, For more health fair informamoney: $400 to the Mt. Pleasant 1 or tion, call Pyramid to provide fora full page Sanpete Valley Hospital is sponsoring the Sanpete Valley lealth l week! Personal note: Please talk to local the merchants and tell them what you buy and want to buy in their stores. Tell them if you heard their ad on the radio or saw it in the paper. Tell them if you would shop more often if you saw their sales advertised in the paper. Then follow through. If a store sells you something with which you are not satisfied, please tell them and give them a chance to make it right. And on the other hand, if you are pleased with something they have or have done, be just as quick to tell them. Feedback has been called the breakfast of champions; communication from customers is essential to a successful small town business! County roads designated as livestock highways Sanpete Valley Hospital to sponsor Annual Health Fair Saturday I selection here if people will look. And there are greater costs to losing dollars earned here and spent out of county. Just think what could happen if even 500 of those 1000 shoppers stayed home each air, Saturday. April 22 at Snow College Activ itics Center in Ephraim. 8 a.m. - p.m. To emphasize the need to Ii e 1 a healthy lifesty le, the fair, tagged Be I Icalthv For Life, will provide free screenings, health services and health and safety information to people of all ages. Mammography screenings 462-34- and prostate screenings will be available. A geriatric grant has made it possible for participants 60 vears and older to receive mammograms and prostate screenings (PSA) for free. For other participants, mammograms are $65 and PSAs arc $20. Free services include foot screenings, hearing screenings, blood sugar testing, body fat testing, GlaucomaAcuity testing. EKGs and some child immunizations. Cholesterol testing is $5 and CBCChcm 18 is $20? Other im- - 462-343- ad in that papers special Sanpete summer activities brochure. And a $1700 contribution to help cover live attendance of several Sanpete County residents to the School on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies, sponsored by the University of Utah. The Sanpete County appointees are customarily persons who, because of their professions, have a special concern with people who have those dependencies. And, as usual, the Commission spent some time dealing w ith land problems. One of those problems was outlined by Jay Barlow and D.W Crosby, representatives of the Indian Ridge subdivision. They explained that because of growth Indian Ridge needs more water. And in order to obtain the water, it needs to be organized as a special serv ice district with the authority to raise the necessary funds. The Commission gave preliminary approval to that request. It also agreed to facilitate the movement of power to the subdivision. Another land matter involves 3,000 acres in North Sanpete that are headed for development. Marc Mascaro, a Salt Lake attorney representing the owners of the tract, asked, and was granted, preliminary approval for the Skyline leights master dev elopment plan. That could soon mean another four new subdivisions in Sanpete I County more homes, more streets, more need for services. And finally, the Commission approved the sale of three more lots in developments, to people who want to live in Sanpete. Week National will be observed by thousands of homes, schools TV-Turno-ff A New Specials! National April any 2 footlongs for $5.99 Sunday Buy Monday Night Special - After 6:00 p.m. Buy any 6" sandwich at regular price and get a second 6" sandwich FREE! Tuesday Family Sub-Clu- b double stamp day! 24-3- 0. 1 Week. 1995, is the first na- tionwide effort which targets the medium of telev ision and asks that people reassess the role TV plays in their daily lives as entertainer, pacifier, babysitter, time filler and background noise. Telev ision is generally a passive hich often detracts from more healthy, interpersonal, productive rewarding and community-oriente- d non-activi- ty activities. National Week is about having TV-Turno- Wednesday Ephraim 283-501- 5 footiong sandwich at regular price and get a medium drink and bag of chips for only $ 1 more! Buy a Gunnison 528-766- 9 Salina 529-715- 0 more fun and turn inti on y ff our life. Local turnoff participants will join with thousands of schools, libraries and community groups nalionw ide in a coordinated effort to encourage millions of families and individuals to turn off their TV sets for seven days. This week will focus attention not on the quality of TV programming but on the excessive quantity of television that most Americans watch and the lost opportunities to read, converse, participate, think, create and do. Listed are a few alternative activities: work on your family photo album, cook a new recipe, go on a nature hike, ride a bike, organize a clean-u- p in your neighborhood, fly a kite, learn a new riddle or joke. Please listen to KMTIs Community Bulletin Board for more ideas and locally sponsored events. Trivia . . Webster's definition: trivia: Insignificant which or inessential matters, that comes from the street, of little importance or significance, trifling, ordinary, commonplace. Beth's definition: trivia: hogwash. balderdash, but My definition: trivia: lot of fun. a by Max E. Call Is Golden never The person who said Silence with laryngitis. had to live w'ith a wife afflicted in bed, tapped Beth A few weeks ago, I rolled over time to get up. on the shoulder and said, Its I know! I know! But She usually responds with, she was this morning all I heard was a squeak. Thinking I said still asleep, I nudged her again. Roll out, dear, sweetly. but only a As she faced me, I saw her lips move, muffled croak was audible. I must have great perceptive she croaked, I can t talk. powers, because imagined Cant you talk? I asked. At that, she reached for a pencil and paper on the bedside stand and wrote, Any fool can see I can t talk, and I knew I was in you old goat. She misspelled goat for a bad day. Thus began nearly a full week of communicating by writing notes (for her) and talking (for me). At one time I actually forgot I could talk and wrote her a note in response to a note shed written me. During the four or five days, we developed a sort of sign language to alleviate the note writing task. She came to understand that if I patted her on the (???) knee it meant, I love you. (It really wasnt her knee but I dont want this to get too personal). If she patted me on the knee, it meant, Turn down the TV and read this note. I dont know why she thought I had to turn down the TV to read. Perhaps it was because she wanted my undivided attention. One night as we prepared to retire, I misread her wink - and got into trouble. I found out later that what she was trying to tell me was that she wanted her eye 1 -- drops. After about four days, just as we were beginning to perfect our sign language, and all the note pads in the house had been used up, I saw her lips move, and heard a squeak that sounded like, I think I can talk now. I didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed. Snow marked the end of spring break with students preparing for the last six weeks of school. Seniors are waiting to hear from various colleges and universities regarding admittance and scholarships. It is becoming apparent that competition for scholarships is getting tougher. Students must maintain good grades, score high on the ACT, and be involved in many school and community activities. Also, as students and parents hear or read of scholarships that would be appropriate, they should apply for them. If our students do not make the effort to send in the applications, they will not be considered for the financial aid. Robert Johnson and Preston Frischknecht were nominated for the Sony Student Project Abroad. Senator Hatch will make the final recommendation. Nikki Peterson entered the Utah Credit Union 2002... Boon or Bane? contest. This oratorical competition as held in Salt Lake City. Competing with students statewide, Nikki placed 6th winning $600.00 Our congratulations to all our students. We continue to urge them to chase after those scholarships that interest them. The Steven I lenager representative met with all th grade students in their English classes. Topics covered include resumes, cover letters, and job interviews. Senior students who have concerns on their graduation status need to check with the counselors office. We are currently reviewing transcripts. Parents will be contacted regarding any deficien1 cies. 1 . This seems like a good time to ask, Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? Rodney Cox, Natasha Madsen, Diann Rogers SNOW COT T .FOF JOB OPPORTUNITY CRIMINAL JUSTICE INSTRUCTOR (TENURE TRACK POSITION) Qualifications; Masters degree in Criminal Justice, Crimi- nology, or closely related discipline; 5 years law enforcement experience preferred; preference to those with college andor P.O.S.T. teaching experience. For position announcement and application information contact Snow College HRPersonnel Office, Phone Ext. 240. 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