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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY JUNE 30. 1999 Opinion Paul has participated on the Valley High School basketball team for four consecutive years. From Page 4 Through his experiences and participation in basketball, see what happens there. I hope Paul has received several presand pray that Garfield County tigious awards. This year Paul wins that one. was chosen to the 1A All-StRainell Key Basketball Team and was also Letters ar disturbed by the liberties taken by the author. This history was paid for by Utah State and Kane County tax dollars. I have put her words in quotation marks. She has not attributed any of these statements to anyone else in her footnotes. Your tax dollars paid for the follow- chosen All Region by ing.... Tribune. He Lake was the Salt Resignation regrets On the flyleaf, inside the front to participate in the Traditional extractive Dear Mark Whipps and other invited held in Aus- cover, of Bowl Down Under members of the Fredonia Fire uses the lands resources SeAll-St- ar tralia both his Junior and Department: It may not be customary to begin a letter of resignation with the salutation Dear, but thats what Mark and the other members of the Fredonia Fire Department have become to me. I joined the fire department a few years ago because I wanted to spend some time with people who were willing to donate time and effort to help their community. The members have not disappointed me: they have been generous and caring in more ways than in just showing up and working haid where there nior years. Paul was also honored with the United States Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award. Paul has also excelled in track and field. This year he placed first in long jump, shot put, discus, and the 400 at re- But I need to resign from the fire department. Mark knows that I tried to resign two or three years ago for health and other tion, and reliability. Paul is chosen to represent the State of Utah at the USA Junior Nationals Eastern Regional High School Basketball Championship in Columbus, 1999. The Ohio this July overall cost of this trip will be approximately .$1,500 dollars. The cost will, also determine Pauls participation. He will make an excellent representative for the state of Utah in Ohio. Your donations are much needed and appreciated to assure Pauls participation. Thank you for your support. is a fire. reasons. He convinced me to stay and take on a new assignment, and I am glad for the time I have spent1 with the fire department and the members on it. I have become acquainted with some very good people who try very hard to serve this community, and they do it well. They train hard and have a good record of responding to fires and minimizing damage. . Im not resigning because of gion. His excellent performance resulted in his winning All Region in track. Paul placed second in long jump and fifth in shot put at state. He has worked for the last three years at Valley Garage in Ordervilie where he has learned excellence work skills, determina- 12-1- , Sincerely, any quarrel or disagreement with anyone on the fire depart- ment. Far from it. Its just that Im starting to feel my age and have additional things I have felt I wanted do with my life. But I will miss my good friends on the Fredonia Fire Department and will probably show up once in a while just to see them. Having seen them in person and in action week after week, I want to salute these community members who work so hard at a largely thankless, but sometimes dangerous job, of trying to protect the lives and property in this community. Good job! They are my friends, and they could use your help. Looking for 8, Paul Cox Thanks from Little Leaguers Dear Editor: We would like to thank all those who helped our major league team have such a fun, successful year here in Fredonia. Thank you to all of the sponsors who are so good to give. Thanks to the parents who helped & contributed! Thankyou Giff & Wayne Lathim. Thanks Hex Tait for umping and for many other contributions he was invovled in. Thank you Waterman Welding for everythingyou have done Ron Ellis for us. Also a big thanks to Fredonia Fredonia City Maintenance crew for nil ofyour help with the fields, they always look great! your support Thank you, Mike Simmons Dear Editor. and lloss Tait Paul Cox, son of Sherman and Lolly Ccx of Glendale, Utah, is a History Book graduating senior from Valley or cocp box High School with a 3.4 grade point average. He plans to at- Dear Editor: I have just finished reading tend Utah Valley State College in Orem, Utah. There Paul will the History of Kane County, by pursue a major in fire science. Martha Sonntag Bradley. I am popular with all groups supporting President Clinton's decision. I wonder what the potential political risk was. Page 348, Rural residents of southern Utah were for the most part dismayed in turn at a proposal gaining support in the 1990s for the dismantling of Glen Canyon Dam a proposal that is not as nonsensical as it might first seem but which is certain to bring mounting opposition from many quarters if it is more seriously advanced in the future. Nonsensical? How about just plain stupid? are 5 can feel Mrs. Bradley's you scorn for Kane Countys residents.. ..She speaks down from her lofty perch with these for of advice words unus. ..Attempting to gain an derstanding of opposing points of view can at least be a start, however, and it appears that Kane County residents will have to accept the fact that some things have changed- - Mrs. Bradleys rendition of The History of Kane County reads like a primer for the Southern Grand Staircase-Escalant- e Utah Wilderness Coalition and National Monument has theSierra Club. Her blatant brought the promise of inuse of extreme environmencreased tourism to the area. A Page 357, However, such uses talist propaganda is a compopular cry for environmental such as ranching, mining, and mon thread throughout this groups that caused the decline logging are now increasingly sub- book. to begin with. I have no problem with Mrs. ject to marketplace competition, Page 253, Outside making marginal enterprises Bradleys viewpoint of our corin groups endangered without federal in- ner of this w'orld. What I do have came to play a terference and subsidies- - the particular-alsvery a problem with is her choice of larger role in local affairs and things so bitterly opposed by medium. If Mrs. Bradley wants promoted policies that sought many in Kane County and also to tell the world how she feels to alter traditional land-usopposed by millions outside the about the use of public lands in policies, protect wilderness and county. Mrs. Bradley is a his- our county, then she should find oppose the funding of building tory professor, not an economics someone sympathetic to her projects at taxpayer expense professor and this quote shows views and publish them. For for the benefit of a few, in the Mrs. Bradley to take our tax why she chose history. case of ranching, timber and All of the quotes above are money and demean us at the mining interests in Kane exactly that....quotes from same time borders on the crimiCounty. The few in this case Martha Sonntag Bradley, the nal. being all of us in Kane County author of The History of Kane Curtis Cutler that need to make a living 12 As read the Kanab book, you months ayear.But we still have County. that promise of increeced tourhave declined in recent years, but the recent creation of the interests-environmentali- st o e . ism. Page 293, On the Glen Canyon Dam, Not all were pleased with the new developments, however. A growing chorus of voices began to call for greater protection of the remaining wild and undeveloped lands of the West. A growing conservation movement began to seek increased management of the nations public lands. The loss of Glen Canyon to the dam and reservoir became a rallyingpoint for environmental activists in years to comeThis was included in Chapter 1 1 , covering the years 1960 thru the 1970s long before enviromental groups proposed anything concerning Lake Powell. Page 347,Fcrmypart, I think that establishment of the monument was one of the most profound and appropriate acts of land stewardship ever taken in this Nation. It is an understatement to say the lands contain objects of scientific or historic interest, as the Antiquities Act requires.Conservation of the lands has been hotly debated for decades, and by last year, the lands were in great jeopardy. The President exercised his authority, despite potential 'political risk, to assure their continued protection. He protected the land and the traditional uses of the land, such as grazing and hunting, that are central to the areas rural values and quality of life. I think the President did exactly the right thing. Her words here I i J I . j I If this is a salute to I Utahns Dairy Farmers, I why the arw? First of ail, there just arent . many pictures of dairy fanners around. ; Theyre too busy working their farms to take lime out for photo sessions. Second, its June -,v ' and June is Dairy Month so . theyre busier than ever, hs pnme milk drinking season, you know. - But picture or no picture, we suJl wanted to tip our hats to the men and women responsible for the products that are part of our everyday lives. From milk to butter to cheese. Now about the cow. Since dairy farmers are such a hardworking lot with little time to dillydally, they tend to speed through publications like this pretty quickly. So, to make sure theyd stop and read this, we chose a photo of the one thing that always gets their attention. June is Dairy Month Q |