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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS Opinion 4 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 14, 2001 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. We reserve the right to edit for clarity or length. Letters must be signed and include your full name, address and telephone number. Limited to one letter per person per month. Voters should remember Dear Editor: Julie Pauls letter in the Spectrum was a wake up call and the Southern Utah News. This weekend we enjoyed watching our grandsons play basketball Friday night. While they did not win, it wa3 exciting and we were very proud of them. While we were here we had planned on going out for dinner Saturday evening, but Dennis and Dixie surprised us with tickets to the high school performance. It was fantastic. The young people put on a show that we thought was great. The music department of Kanab High School can be very proud of their students.We look forward to seeing another performance at a laterdate. Keep up the good work. warning of possible skyrocketing property taxes if a special tax proposal bill SB63 is passed. This bill will give special tax reductions to wealthy secondary home owners throughout the state which will include recreational home owners who come to Utah and build vacation homes for occasional short term use. This bill is being pushed by a senator named Ed Mayne of Salt ' Don and Goldie Brunner Lake City, who has presented durScottsdale, AZ this same bill over and over ing the past several years and it has been defeated each time. Batter up Senator Maynes bill SB63 only benefits the very wealthy second- Dear Editor: ary home owners in Park City and As outgoing president of the similar places and will severely y Little League, I am apraise taxes of primary residential pealing to the parents of all little home owners in Daggett, Garfield, Someone needs to step leaguers. Iron, Kane, Richfield, Washington up to the plate and take over as and Summit Counties. president of the league. There are 1 1 makes me wonder why Sena- a lot of good people who help each tor Mayne would knowingly hurt year and who are willing to still be Utah homowners by giving spe- involved with the league. We will cial tax breaks to the wealthy have four major league teams and who can well afford to build vacaminor league teams, along eight tion homes and pay taxes on with ten teams. There will them. I just cannot understand also be three senior league teams what would motivate the Sena- from our area this year. tor to cater to these wealthy indiI would like to thank all the viduals, knowing this action will people who have helped the last shift the tax burden to the lower three years that I have served as income families in Utah. president. Without the volunteers Homeowners in the above it would not be possible to run the named counties and other conleague. It is time for someone else cerned citizens need to contact to take a turn in the batters box. your commissioners and state Whether it is a parent, someone representatives to put a stop to who has a love for baseball, or this bill. Voters need to remem- anyone who enjoys helping and ber and consider who serves their being involved with the youth of best interest! our area, we need you! Please give Sincerely, me a call if you can help out. X-Pre- ss out-of-sta- te J V Tri-Cit- T-ba- Howard Gallamore Kanab, Utah ll Thanks! Dennis Shakespear 644-307- 8 Sterling thank you Dear Editor: I would like to thank Radio Shack, R & R Pizza, Honeys Diary of a hard winter in Kanab Dear Diary: into our new August home in Kanab. Its so beautiful here. The mountains are so beautiful. Its so warm with a slight breeze. Can hardly wait to see snow covering them. October is the most beautiful place on earth. The leaves are turning all the colors and shades of red and orange. We went for a drive in the mountains and saw some deer. They are so graceful. Certainly they are the most wonderful animal on earth. This must be paradise. 12-Mov- ed 14-Kan- ab ! Mrs. Angela Werners students want to thank everyone who supported last Saturdays Blue Moon dinner and concert. Thank you to the Brunners, the Houstons, to our parents and to thank-you- ess Jubilee, and Glaziers Foodtown for their help and donations for my Sterling Scholar project. I appreciate all their support in all who so generously donated to everything we do at K.H.S. Thanks, the cause. We appreciate living Matt Pepper in Kanab and the wonderful people who give over and over to November 11-little breeze Deer this morning. season will I soon. cant open imagine anyone wanting to kill such a gorgeous creature. Hope it will snow soon. I love it here. December 12-snowed last Woke to find everynight! up thing blanketed with white. It looked like a postcard. We went outside and cleaned the snow off the steps and shoveled the driveway. We had a snowball fight (I won), and when the snowplow came by we had to shovel the driveway again. What a beautiful place. I love Kanab. December snow last door to Couldnt the get night. the car open, it was frozen shut. I couldnt get even out of the driveway to get to work. I am X-Pr- ess w. 19-Mo- re 22-Mo- re X-Pre- ss AAA ry Deadlines .AAA FRIDAY 1 PM See LETTERS, Page 5 A . help the music program be successful. The Kanab High School Dear Editor: gym was completely filled for a to Kanab great dinner and super enter- exhausted from shoveling. My wife and I come for a visit several times a year to tainment! Thanks again. Damn that snowplow. see our son and daughter-in-laKirsten Mason December of that Dennis and - Dixie Brunner of President white stuff fell last night.' Ive Wowed by 25-Mer- SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS I love it here. It X-Pr- got blisters on my hand from shoveling. I think that snowplow hides around the comer until Im done shoveling the driveway. Idiot. The wind blew like crazy today. ChristDecember mas. More snow. If I ever get my hands on the guy that drives that snowplow, I swear Ill kill him. Dont know whey they dont use more salt on the roads to The Southern Utah News (ISSN No. 0049-165is published every N. at Main 26 Utah 84741 . The SUN serves Kane St., Kanab, Wednesday County, Utah, and the Arizona Strip. Please address communications by mail to: 26 N. 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