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Show Web site: letters wwwkclippertoday.com ertalkcllppertoday.com Thursday, May .1 5,' 2003 i Davis County Cumt New WSU-Davcampus is boon for Davis County is sod first structure. I le told the WSU Board of is being laid, lot striped and The work completed for a pending August opening of the Weber State University-Davi- s campus. The 106.000-square-fo- building, which can house an enrollment of 4.000 on an average day. has been sorely needed. It's also been by everybody from the president of the university. T Ann Millner, who has been involved in planning since the early stages, to the thousands of Davis County students who now must make the trek to the Ogden campus. The need for a separate campus is obvious when you visit the long-awaite- d building cramped, in west Layton that currently serves as the WSU-Dau- s center. Thanks to a cixipcrative agreement with the Davis School District, several North Davis high schools are regularly used for evening courses. This new building will contain all of the latest bells and whistles." For instance, the use of wireless technology will be possible throughout. It'll even be possible to check out" laptop computers for use elsewhere in the building. 'There are 31 classrooms, laboratory areas, student serv ices including b(xkstorc and counseling center, even a convenience store for harried students who dont have time to leave campus. Director Bruce Davis say s e that the campus, with its of the area, view commanding has plenty of room for growth. Due to budget constraints at the state, there's no telling when additional buildings will join this 105-acr- ' Regents earlier this week that upwards of 10 buildings can eventually dot the site. Such facilities could house about 10,000 students, or the enrollment of a small- - to medium-size- d university Davis students will have a choice, in many cases, as to whether they make the drive to Ogden or attend classes at the Iayton campus. Currently, about 35 percent of Weber's student-bod- y comes from Davis County. That's about as many students as Weber C ounty, home to Weber State University, sees attending the school. This new campus can proudly join Davis Applied Technology College as a beautiful, place w here post-higschool learning will take place. Many people have made this day possible, including scores of Davis County civic leaders, and others. Their lobbying, their scouring for a suitably large site, among other aspects, have helped make WWA, VCELv--- 14 KUl Forever grateful to city police rt it all possible. We applaud this milestone. It another example of Davis County coming of age! of having services available locally for its residents. With a population now well over a quarter of a million, Davis is no longer the only county in the state without a major university, or university campus. May it serve our students and the community at large, well. We look forward with much anticipation to the great things that this campus will bring to the county. is Live with deer and enjoy them Editor: I would like to respond to Floyd Doty's concerns about our deer and mountain lion problem, as he sees it, among the Wasatch Front. I have lived in Davis County for 76 plus years. As the housing population increased, homes eventually pushed the deer higher up on the mountains, taking over the winter range of the deer. Many of these people enjoyed the wilderness life but had little knowledge of the deer's need for survival. love tulips, Yes, the deer shrubs, flowers, and apples. Solutions: 1. learn to enjoy the deer or plant daffodils instead of we find deer do not like tulips daffodils, neither do the squirrels; or 2. install a higher fence to n keep them out. Results: a situation. Several years ago. as the homes moved higher up. we had more complaints about the deer. For three years the Fish and Game issued 300 doe permits each year to eradicate what they called the nuisance deer'" The deer population is now on the win-wi- Quote of the day "If a window of opportunity appears, pull down the shade." dont - Tom Peters Editor As a busy mother of seven. 1 h downhill. Concerning the mountain lion problem (if there is a problem), first of all, yes, the deer are their main source of food. As long as there are adequate deer to eat, the mountain lions will be happy. Fact: the mountain lion is one of the most cowardly wild animals we have in our mountains. But as their food supply diminishes, they just still eat. To do this, they must sneak down and prey on our loose cats and dogs. Solution: keep the deer population up or put a bounty on mountain lions and kill them all off. The best authority on mountain lions is our own Gordon Pace of Bountiful. He has captured dozens of these animals and has never been attacked by one. Yes, I have deer in my backyard. I do share my tulips, tomatoes and apples with them, as many of you do also. The solution to the deer problem is dont fight them but do live with them and enjoy them while you can. Alden M. Higgs Bountiful Stop worrying about neighbor's waistline in Syracuse or haranguing magazine vendors in North Salt Lake. Unless a person is breaking column are the opinion of the writer and not necessarily those of the ownership or management of this newspaper. I Although grudgingly gave in the eaily lSWOs cigarette smoke in Utah restaurants. I worried in this column that the antitobacco move might prompt to nail Twinkies. other Call me a prophet. Concerned about the increasing obesity in the American public, a national health group is now calling for a tax on snack foods. If soaring taxes on tobacco have led to reduced sales of Camels and Marlboros, a special tax on tasty foods greasy cholesterol-dogginwould have a similar impact and all in the name of the public good. This is nothing new. Every' year a few sour LItah legislators try to legislate what products can be placed in school vending machines, believing that teenagers can be coerced into rs g trading Snickers bars for asparagus spears. And just last month, this column told of the outcry d chains that superover sized customer orders. In fact, it sometimes seems that everyone but me is by someone elses waistline. Apparently it's all right to watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding as is long as a big fat popcorn-eate- r not sitting next to you. Sorry, but I have more things to worry about than someone else's eating habits and taxing coconut cream pie or a bag of potato chip is not the role of government. In the first place, snack foods cannot reasonably be compared to dgarettes. Tobacco products fast-foo- overly-concern- are specifically manufactured to be addictive and. given a long enough time, will certainly lead to one's death. The same thing can't be said about Cheetos! Another problem is defining a snack food. A potato chip is an obvious culprit, but what about a Slim french fry or a Jim? A Hostess cupcake could be easily labeled a snack, but is that product any different from a slice of cheesecake? Anyway why single out cookies and chips? If sugar and calories are such a concern, why not just slap a $ tax on every Maverik mug refill? The bottom line is that there are too many busybodies try ing to alter their neighbor's behavior, whether it be chastising beer sales meat-produ- 1 P.O. Box 267 Bountiful, Utah 1 ext. 119 or 120 Grculation Department: 1370 South 500 West ADMINISTRATION R. Gail Stahle Publishing Co.f Inc. 84011-026- 7 295-225- Subscription rate: 50tf per copy. Hand-delivere- $25.00 per year. Mailed: $35.00 per year. Publication No. (USPS on published Tuesdays and Thursdays at Bountiful, Utah. Periodical postage paid at Bountiful, Utah. Address all correspondence to P. O. Box 267, Bountiful, Utah 84011-026ISSN: v tmmm 1061-122- 149-18- semi-weekl- y rs MAIN TELEPHONE Davis County Clipper Clipper the law or directly impacting the health of someone else, he or she should have the freedom of purchasing items deemed stupid or even evil by their neighbors. Some people label this as live and let live! others call it liberty. Whatever it is, we should resist to lead any attempt of us to better nutrition. Certain things simply taste good. Harp on me all you want and youll still never get me to switch from a Tasty's donut to cauliflower. As one food writer commented, Anyone who digs with intelligence and depth into the tangled quagmire of weight gain quickly will come to view a complicated picture. Other issues are far more integral to obesity (than foods) including the alarming lack of exercise and the simple issue of too little willpower! Right now I'm thinking of buying a Great Harvest chocolate chip cookie. Dont butt in and worry about my arteries. EDITORIAL Rolf Koecher Tom Busselberg Russ Riggs spend most of my afternoon hours driving my children to and from soccer games, friends houses, play practice, and dentist appointments, or just taking my turn driving the car pool. One day at 3:45 p.m., my son and I were on our Woods Cross Elementary to way School to pick up his bike so he could hurry to do his newspaper route. I was heading west On 1500 South when I passed a police car parked under the freeway overpass. We were watching for my son who might be crosshis on bicycle, but we didn't ing see him or any other children at the crosswalk. I continued to the four-wa- y stop intersection near the Apple Store on 800 west, where I stopped and waited for a large group of children to cross. To my surprise, I was pulled over by a police officer right after I turned the comer. He said he was concerned about the speed that I was going when i drove through the first crosswalk near the freeway on 1500 South. I explained that I was watching for my son and didn't notice that I wa speeding. He chose to only give me a warning and cautioned me about paying closer attention to my speed when children are crossing. Feeling relieved that I didn't get a ticket, I thanked him and drove away. After picking up my sons bike, I drove back the same way I had come. This time as I approached the crosswalk, I slowed down to about 15 miles per hour. I continued to slow down as I was preparing to turn right onto Sorrento Drive. Just as I got to the comer, our neighbor came flying down the hill on a bike and didnt even slow down. I hit my brakes and heard his handle bars slide all the way across the front of my car. He continued across both lanes of traffic, just missing a van that was heading the other direction. I pulled over and crossed the street to see if he was all right. He was just fine but explained that he was just test driving his friend's new bike, and couldn't figure out how to work the brakes. I will forever be grateful to the officer who took the time to pull me over and caution me about watching my speed. Had he not done that, it could have changed my life and the lives of several other people forever. I'm sorry to say I dont remember his name, but I think it is sufficient to say thank you to police officers everywhere, who are putting forth the effort to make everyone's lives a little safer. Name withheld by request Woods Cross Taxpayers shouldn't fund center Editor. Your editorial on May 8. endorsing the construction of a Davis Convention County Center, is ridiculous. One of the main obstacles you point out. is public support and that the county needs to build that support. How in an economy when the hotel and travel industry are desperately struggling should we as taxpayers be willing to spend our money on a conference center that would most likely be largely subsidized by taxpayers? Not to mention that we cant begin to compete with the convention business of Salt Lake which is next door In the year of one of the countys largest tax increases ever, you would support a conference center? Taxpayers showed up in masses to protest the property tax increase which was largely for helping our law enforcement. Why would we protest our taxes being increased to help law enforcement, then on the other hand endorse building a confer FAX LINE 295-225- 1 Publisherext 114 Executive Editorext. 126 News Editorext. 118 Sports Editorext.129 OFFICE Annette Tidwell I Office Managerext. 113 ence center? If we're going to spend our money in this county for extra conference space, the only place we better be looking toward is for the jailer and inmate. We need to appropriate any funding toward building jail space and not look to the future for more tax increases. Julie Fisher WittisLsmaol.com Editor's note: Actually, there is demand for significant pent-u- p such a facility in Davis County, and it's hard for larger business or corporate groups to find suitable places to meet. But the way the project has been handled makes it highly suspect in the minds of many county residents. The center is to be funded from tourism tax dollars and does not draw on the county's general revenue sources. Due to nearly five years of delays, however, public understanding of the issue has been lost making it vital that county officials aggressively ll the need for this project re-se- 295-304- 4 PRODUCTION Hayes Powell Production Managerext. 123 ADVERTISING Gene Milne Advertising Managerext. 137 GRCULATION Roy Millard Rosalie Millard Circulation Managerext. 120 Subscriptions Managerext. 119 i |