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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS Opinion Letters Continued from page Guest Editorial 1 By Dr. Aden Ross, Utah Arts that no one can legislate values, would be amazed at Council Board member but we can legislate support for viduals, he I am writing because I feel I activities which carry values, the technology that is widely available to assist in personal have no choice. I have devoted which encourages values in communications. The library my entire life as an educator other words, activities which already has some devices, such and artist to the creation and regenerate the human soul. I as a personal computer, that protection of culture. Culture am writing to speak on behalf of could be used to assist Marolynn is not a fashionable word to most those acts which literally save if that need is identified. twenty-firs- t century Americans. the soul arts education in our We g not would comI like to participamay agree what it means, schools and Finally, ment on Mr. Hendersons asser- we may not even know what it tion in the arts in society. tion that library use would in- is. But we will certainly know Utahs legislative expendicrease and more people would when we lose it. We are witness- tures on the arts totaled just be comfortable with someone ing the annihilation of culture twelve of one I feel I know cannot it. who can communicate fluently, as we percent ofthe total state budget, while is stand There evidence no every- yet every dollar spent on the by silently verbally. to support any claim that library thing I value horrifyingly col- arts leverages eleven to twenty-si- x n movie dollars in federal and private use has suffered. In fact, docu- lapses like a mentation shows a steady in- of a cathedral destroyed by a money. Numerous studies prove that the arts in the curriculum crease in patronage. Prior to the bomb. The annihilation of culture increase students overall acaCivil Rights Act of 1964, people were routinely denied employ- takes some very recognizable demic performance; yet in most ment and services, both public forms: abdication of individual Utah schools, the arts core curand private, on the basis of race civic responsibility, as happened riculum is not being implein ancient Greece; unbounded mented as mandated by the and national origin. I am sure many of us who live indulgence in sex, power, and State Board of Education. Stain southern Utah have ances- violence, as happened in ancient tistics argue for the arts as a tors who lost their homes and Rome; the failure of genuine social force, particularly for givbusinesses prior to coming to spiritual or political leadership, ing youngsters alternatives to Utah because their beliefs made as happened in the Middle Ages; gang membership, substituting the majority uncomfortable. The the rapid growth of a massive creative expression for violence, reasons behind these different uneducated underclass, as hap- and providing the underpriviforms of discrimination seem pened before the Industrial and leged with a renewed sense of At the same time, ridiculous to most of us now in Bolshevik Revolutions; the sup1995. Although Mr. Henderson pression of intellectual inquiry funding for the arts has never may be well meanig in his as- and artistic freedom, as hap- been more precarious. The arts at once create and sumptions and opinions, this pened in the Inquisition, Nazi type of benign discrimination Germany, and our own preserve culture. They are a direct measure of what a civiliza-tio- n has resulted in the relegation of McCarthy era. what Utah - values, and the America, 1995. Utah, 1995. We people with disabilities to permanent lower class for far too have all the symptoms: wide- only permanent documentation long, and is the type of prejudice spread disrespect for law, un- that we existed at all. Art is the journey from one which created the need for the leashed appetites for sex and cenof heart into anothers. We may ADA in the first place. The point brutality, lack a spiritual is that people with disabilities ter, and a rapidly growing not understand or like the are entitled to the same rights underclass disadvantaged so- journey. It may sound crashingly and have the same responsibili- cially, economically and educa- dissonant, as it does in some ties as the rest of us, regardless tionally. In spite of the dedi- contemporary music, or proudly of whether or not it seems like a cated efforts of parents and majestic, as it does in our Babother or makes some of us un- teachers, some of our young roque classics. It may look discomfortable. Ms. Watson is en- peoples lives are spiralingdown-war- d turbing or even chaotic, as it in ignorance, ugliness and does in some co'ntempoirary abtitled to make a living in her chosen profession just like the despair, which naturally strike stract painting, or it may be tenback with revenge and violence. der and spiritual, as it is in our rest of us. life-lon- one-hundredt- hs slow-motio- self-wort- h. -- The fact that a defendant has been charged with a crime, does not mean he is guilty. The defendant is presumed innocent, until and unless proven guilty. Names will be withheld in some cases due to the sensitive nature of the crimes, or if the defendant is a juvenile. During the period of March 1 through March 9, the Kanab City Police Department handled 58 incidents, 11 cases, issued 5 warnings and 7 citations. During the same period the animal control officer investigated 3 cases, issued 5 warnings and releasedadopted out 4 animals. February 24 Theft. At the Kanab Theater. 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Accident at South Ranchos from a local residence. It was Warrants served. Chris and Clayton Church Perkins in some bushes. recovered .later were served with warrants. AlSpeeding too fast, accident, ex- leged suspects were arrested and pired registration, no insurance. booked in Kane County Jail. accident. The driver was A March 4 cited. Several passengers were Accident in the IGA parking taken to Kane County Hospital lot. Driver backed out of parking for minor cuts and bruises. They space and ran into another vehicle. Estimated damages $900. were released the same night. March 7 Criminal mischief in the served. A hitchhiker, Warrant Ranchos. Single, wide trailer had several windows broken out. James Shasteen, had an outEstimated value $250. Under standing warrant and was arrested and booked into the Kane investigation. Criminal mischief at Chefs County Jail. He will be extraPalace. 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