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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY Opinion JUNE 20, 2001 Dont judge Letters . Dear Editor: I am writing in response to the Maril Christiansen letter to the editor published last week in the Southern Utah News. ' I am one of the three of Kanab High School this year and I am outraged at your comments about our school. It is unfair to have a biased opinion about the whole school, on the notion that a few students were misbehaving. Make sure you know who the culprits are before you bash an entire school! Only a small portion of the students are spit-wa- d Continued from Page 4 famy , derived from French word infamie or Latin word infamia, means of ill fame, bad reputation, dishonor and disgrace. Desecrate, from Latin sacrare(to make sacred), divest of sacredness eg temples, graves, places of worship. So lets see what happened. A group oflocal citizens, farsighted enough and caring immensly for the community we live in, decided on a strictly private initiative, to create an attractive addition to our town. People could shooters. Please dont judge of the the and go enjoy history a student body on the behavior area and the peaceful surround- of a few bad eggs. ings of a park and perhaps conKyle Brunner . template and meditate. The park is to be dedicated to who is believed to be the founder of Kanab and the pioneers.The site, worth hundreds of thousands dollars, was generously donated by Mr. and Mrs. Hale, noteworthy since they have no connection to Levi Stewart. On the site were two structures, one erected by scouts and the other a plaque to Jacob Hamblin and pioneers. They sat in dirt surrounded by weeds. Most of the time huge diesels parked in front obscured their Proud ian of Kanab High School ' 5 Next, there was a trip to the Thanks for kindness high schools throughout the na- gas station where mechanics and tion. The libelous inferences to station owners assisted her with Dear Editor: The family ofNorman B. Cram the past valedictorians who are some pesky car problems. Next currently graduated from col- she remembered she had been wishes to express appreciation lege and holding good jobs, at- summoned for jury duty, so it for your kindness and sympathy acts tending college and receiving was off to the courthouse and a at this difficult time. These of evidence of are kindness your academic honors, or serving mis- few hours with the judge who love and are concern and nice like seemed greatly man. a really sions for their churches, were inexcusable. After, she had to make a quick appreciated. Special thanks to Kane County I have spent time doing home- stop at the local bank, a friendly work on these youth and wish man, that manager, she thought. Hospital and Staff, Dr. Marilyn On the way home she drove by Vermeesch, Allan Black, Jamie that Maril Christiansen would Check some reliable sources so that awful place, Kanab High Mackelprang, Lori Ramsay, and that she could move out of her School, so incensed with the Mike Church, also the nurses at life of Tear and see the bright quality of education there, she Home Health and Southern hope of the future which these was paying no attention to her Utah Hospice. We would also like to thank speed, the local Chief of Police youth will provide. Mary Anne Cluff was. O well, she had received The American Legion Post 69, Fredonia tickets before, no big deal. What Sons of the Utah Pioneers, a surprise when the Chief only KHS Class of 1942, and Evelyn her and smiling, allowed and Loreeta at Flowers and judge everyone warned her to return home. Things. To Ms. Christiansen: This had been quite a day. She Sincerely, I am a graduate ofKanab High felt it Norm Cram a to little family get necessary School and I am disgusted to exercise to ease the tension of read that you are Kanab firefighters living in this town so on went the the students. I have to agree shoes and out the door are the best! that there are a select few that running she went. She started the walk do vandalize and are disrespectslowly at first then picked it up Dear Editor: ful to others. There are always after about 15 On May 30, a fire got out of minutes, then, she a few bad apples wherever you felt it, a control at 903 W. Navajo Drive. searing pain, the last school. in go any high thing remembered was being We thought we did all the right You cannot judge the students lifted onto the ambulance by some things to prevent such a disasthat try to get the good grades strangers with concerned and ter. We watered and cut a fire and are generally good kids, with looks on their faces. break, just as we lit the second the kids who vandalize and dis- caring In the hospital people were pile of weeds we had raked in, a respect property, because these taking care of her making sure wind gust took it completely out kids are very few at best. this day that had started so of our control. Minutes later, Your letter reads that you were would not be her last. the fire was running in every at career day. How did you dis- pleasantly Well, Maril lived to continue direction. We called 911. The fire detinguish students from Kanab her rampage against the imHigh School from other schools mature, not so bright students partment arrived with around also attending Career Day? 15 firefighters. A blade came out of Kanab High School. Finally, on the remark about of Lets recap your day Maril, my nowhere, and ran directly the last five valedictorians, I friend. It started by visiting the through the fire and made a wide know most of them personally at some very success-fi- d fire break between my neighand these are some of the best employees local Kanab businesses who bors houses. kids I have ever had the pleasure You had water going every the way, graduated from to know. And just so you know by You went to see the direction within fifteen minutes Kanab who they are, Ill name them for judge-does- High. matter which one, of our 911 call. You are the best! Aimee you: Kyle Brunner, both local judges graduated from We thank you very much. Our Vreeken, Matt Pepper, Joy Tait, Kanab High. Then the bank, the neighbors thank you very much. Charles Hammon, Dwayne manager? Sorry Maril, a gradu- I wish we could do more, but for Reynolds, Denny Mosdell and ate of Kanab High. Oh and your now, Thank-yoThank-you- , Tim Clarkson. The majority of Thank-you! ticket, that too given by these students excelled in high warning a Kanab High graduate. Wayne & Joan Larson school, as well as in the Sterling Kanab But Maril, did you know that Scholar program, and have eipart of the day when your life ther gone on LDS Missions or was saved, EMTs, Nurses, DocThanks have gone offto college and have tors, and all that, yep, you guessed excelled there. it, Kanab High graduates. Were Dear Editor: So inthe future Ms. Christiansen so I would like to thank all my glad things worked out for you if you wish to write another letter because a Kanab High graduate friends, neighbors and my secon the students of Kanab High is also the local mortician! Think ond family at United Church of School, you should take the time to about it Maril, if you go out to eat KanabFredonia for their supget to know AH the students, and in one of Kanabs restaurants or port, love and care during the notjust the ones thatyou think are you need your taxes done by a untimely death of Floyd Lee screw-uphouse bums down, Stowe. CPA or Ronald Jay Glover chances your are a Kanab High graduSpecial thanks to Chief - Kanab High School ate is going to help you. Pastor Don Proctor, Graduate of 1995 But on the bright side Maril, Crosby, Garn Thompson, Patti should to decide move from Tralongo, Velda & Jerry Cowie, you A day in the life this town so you no longer live in and the United Church of Maril... fear of these .awful Kanab High Womens Bible Study. Extra graduates, well line up some special thanks to Dennis and Dear Editor: to help you pack. Jeff Mosdell for their compasvaledictorians It started so pleasantly, Maril Roger K. Cutler sion and assistance. compared to their peers at other Dont bad-mouthi- ng Youth provide bright hope of future Dear Editor: My husband and I retired to this area 10 years ago after his retirement as a career senior Naval Officer. Our family lived many different places during his time in the Navy and in each place, I was deeply involved in the educational process serving presence. The scouts gave per- on superintendents advisory mission to incorporate their councils, as PTO president, as a structure into the new monu- member of base education comment even ifit meant moving it. mittees, and as the president of Those who scream infamy and site education councils. Each desecration would have us be- place we lived I found some high lieve they are the self appointed school students who lashed out guardians of culture and heri- at authority, but many who extage in this town. I want to know celled and were highly motivated. how many times they went to Our three area high schools are the place and cared for the well no exception to this pattern. I am currently the site coordbeing of these structures? Did for a youth mentoring proinator make it you care to beautify and attractive enough for people to gram developed by Utah State stop in awe of the place? Did you University called Youth and spend a dime planting lawns, Families with Promise. In this capacity I visit the three trees, walkways, fountains??? It is hard to call the incor- high schools on a regular basis. poration of these monuments Many outstanding young adults into a beautiful park-- , taste- from these high schools have fully done and brilliantly volunteered their time to be thought out, as desecration mentors and outstanding role since the screamers of des- models to youth who need some ecration hardly treated the extra support. I cannot say enough good about the sensitive place as a sacred site. Incidently, private donors and caring young people with funded the whole project (includ- whom I have been blessed to ing those of us whose roots are associate. Therefore, I feel a sense of responsibility to respond not four generations deep). to the letter printed on June 9 So, as' opposed to the small minded and eternally negative written by Maril Christiansen. individuals whose only contriMy son was also a presenter at butions are armchair expertise the Career Day to which she reand that profoundly sublime ferred. He said that the youth pronouncement that it cant be attending were attentive and redone or should not be done or I sponsive. Perhaps he made an can do it better, I salute the effort to try to establish a rapport immense hard work and sacri- with the group rather than to fice of the Levi Stewart Founda- radiate a pompous and overbeartion directors and their selfless ing attitude such as Christiansen service to the community. As for indicated in her letter. I have grave concerns that an the whining infantile - for heavadult would label all of the stuens sake, GROW UP. Avnish P. Pandya M.D. dents of a high school as imma(first generation deep roots ture, not so bright juveniles who and proud of MY community) dont amount (too) much when -- . nt u, s! arose early, she opened the Grad-Severblinds on her glass house, and a KHS wonderful day was soon to begin. First she needed to go to the local market and found a' nice spacious building with nice people working there. al years ago Louise Stowe and family |