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Show BSS SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY Opinion JUNE 23, 1899 Letters to the Editor What is your opinion ? This newspaper welcomes opinions from its readers concerning any subject. Anything of a libelous nature or defamation of character will not be considered for publication. Please limit your letters to 300 words or less. Letters must be signed and include your full name, address and telephone number. Thank you for your interest. Thanks Dear Editor: I would like to thank everyone who helped me with my Eagle project. We cleaned and restored the old chicken coop at the Heritage House. I appreciate the leaders, scouts, ward and family members that worked hard on it with me. Thanks to Joan Kirby for her support also. A special thanks to Lumber Plus for the building supplies, Food Town for the lunch supplies, Bishop Doug Jacobs for the chicken wire, Que Johnson for the cedar posts and Kanab City for the paint and supplies. one of the Jewish Workers res- cued from the Nazis told Schindler that when a person saves even one other human life, such a person saves the world. Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Americas largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned dogs and cats and ani- mals of all kinds, is a good example of how this applies to our relationships with other species. Best Friends is a Godsend to the animals who are protected and cared for there. It is also, I am sure, a blessing to the community in which it is located. Whenever we provide an animal a home (or humanly euthanasia mi animal whose sufferSincerely, ing cannot otherwise be preBeau Shakespear vented), speak out against cruelty to animals or get involved in endeavors to promote kindness Promote animal to animals, we save the world. kindness Does protecting just one animal really make a difference? Dear Editor Several years ago I adopted a For at least the one animal you frisky black labrador retriever have helped, it certainly does. There has been an increased A coal mine such as this would from a local animal shelter. between of link the awareness Athena thrives on affection. provide work for hundreds of -' humananimals violence to and Whenever I come home, there is employees and employers, help vioviolence. as Just all raise and educate hundreds of Athena to greet me, her eyes hulence animals by against children, provide energy for devotion, her tail wagging. She n loves to accompany me when I mans promotes heating homes, making steel and anito kindness violence, a myriad of uses for industry. jog or take long walks. n Athena bounces up and down mals promotes But this could never happen, kindness, improving the because Secretary Babbitt and when she is happy. And when I feel despondent, Athena gives quality of life for everyone. his environmental friends think Joel Freedman it is far more important to save me a comforting nudge, remindCanandaigua, NY the land for future generations ing me I am not alone. ' to look at and to appreciate its Earlier this year, I decided to I beauty, than to remove minerpurchase two mice. If had left More wilderness? als from it. the pet store without them, they well ended snake In order to appreciate the as have Dear Editor: up may food or as victims of gruesome Secretary Babbitt wants to beauty of the land, you will eisave the land by designating it ther have to hike over it or fly experiments. Today, each mouse has his own to be wilderness. But the ques- over it, because motorized vespacious cage adjacent to each tions is, what or whom is he hicles will be prohibited.- Be other for companionship. They saving it for? He cannot be sav- sure to take your canteen, beenjoy wholesome food and the ing it for development by future cause this desert place is exnature posters alongside their generations, for that wrould vio- tremely dry. Unless you are a late the wilderness designa- seasoned hiker, you will probcages. The mice love to climb up and tion. He must believe that any ably have to return to your startdown their cages and run their commercial development by any- ing place, because this desert is treadmills. I mix a pet odor one, now or in the future, would so vast in size, you will not be eliminator with their bedding in ruin it for all intents and pur- able to reach the other side in a order to keep the mice in my poses, and that the land must day. From one end to the other, living room. In nice weather I remain pristine for all future you will not find a lake or stream to break the monotony of the put the cages outside. Athena generations. will not allow any predators to desert. There are plenty of dry saved is the land Thus that must be looked at only, not desert mountains to please the get near them. I noticed that one of the mice plowed, planted, mined, har- eye. But a cow or a coyote could left nothing soft at the bottom of vested or built upon. A billion not survive, I believe. I did not his nest. To help out, I kept tons of coal lying underground see any birds when I ventured placing cotton fluff in that spot, in the Grand Staircase Monu- through. Very few lizards, even. which the mouse wou Id promptly ment will never see the light of The problem withwildemess and defiantly remove, remind- day because a mine shaft mea- is that the land can never be ing me that' people are not only suring several feet in width and bought, sold, watered, planted, ones who appreciate the right to length and height will never be harvested, mined, or used in make ones own choices. I have built. A new road would not any way. The U.S. Constitution says come to know my little friends need to be built, but the existing as gentle, likable beings. that the federal government land roadway would have to be In the movie Schindlers List, ownership shall be limited to to-hum- an human-to-hu-ma- human-to-nu-ma- such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the ac- ceptance of Congress, become, the seat of the government of the United States (Washington, D.C.) and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, Southern Utah News AAA Deadlines AAA FRIDAY 1 PM See LETTERS, Page 5 1 - The Southern Utah News (ISSN No. 0049-1659- ) is published every Wednesday at 26 N. Main St., Kanab, Utah 84741 The SUNews serves Kane County, Utah, and the Arizona Strip. Address communications to 26 N. Main St., Kanab, Utah 84741 , or Fax telephone rates available upon request. 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