Show Pt Millard 2 C'ounl LSPS Thurs Sept II 1986 TO THE THIS TIME IM GOlbt DOWN T THEIR U8UC A leETW AH' TELL 'Em JUST WHAT THINK LETTERS Neils C S Peterson a Millard County Pioneer JR Poodles- Niels C S Peterson was born in Denmark August 6 1848 He married Grethe Peterson in Denmark November 18 1873 In the fall of 1877 they sailed for America arriving in Utah October 6 1877 In Denmark Mr Peterson had acquired a home of his own He was considered fairly well to do Before he left for America he sold his home and all him conhis belongings netting siderable money in excess of the amount necessary to bring him to America At the time of his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints the United Order was one of the practices of the church in Utah Mr Peterson was of the opinion that when he arrived in Zion money would be of little value as the members of the church had everything in common With that thought in mind he used all his surplus money in paying for the transportation and helping other Saints come to America He arrived in Salt Lake City with cents He was assigned mediately to the United Order in Mill Creek where he stayed until the spring He He moved to Pleasant Grove stayed there until the spring of 1879 when he moved to Deseret where he ed and helped to pioneer that area Two months after his arrival in Deseret he walked to Holden and borrowed fifty pounds of flour and carried it back making the trip in two days He mixed his sack of flour with a hundred pounds of bran that he had - JOHN WATERBURY Dear John Letters not: Editor’ John Waterbury is Director of Dayspring Chemical Dependency Services for Intermountain Health Care and questions or information for requests sent to him at behavior we use to cope with problems Almost invariably we choose behaviors which are consistent with our thoughts and feelings Now if you take these dynamics and add a new variable called alcoholism things change a little For the alcoholic his feelings are telling him that he is uncomfortable and anxious and confused His thoughts are telling him that if he takes a drink those problems will diminish But he is also aware that continued drinking will cause more problems His feelings come back and tell him that he has to do something The fear and confusion His mount thoughts are telling him one thing and his feelings are telling him something else They don’t work together The resulting confusion is often terpreted as personal inadequacy As a result a process is put to gear and behavior pattern is chosen It’s which makes reality manageable called denial The alcoholic denies the severity of the problem He rationalizes and minimizes and finally gets drunk With this in mind the answer to the following question is Why do alcoholics use denial? Because it works It makes reality manageable at least temporarily It allows a person to maintain a comfortable level of selfesteem at least temporarily It provides a myth of control and solution at least What it fails to do is to temporarily make the problem go away Back to my original thought: as a "friend” what is our responsibility in a case like this or do we have any responsibility at all? That question was presented a long time ago: “Am my brothers keeper?” It was left unanswered then and it is just as lusive today But to make a long story short agree with your wife Dear CC While I have (o admit that your letter on head lice is an interesting one I’m not sure we could do it justice in this column I’ve been itching to get letter from the community— (scratch that) Instead let me say I enjoy the variety of letters I receive and I appreciate your support CONFIDENTIALLY: Don’t ever argue with your wife You might win and then you’d really be in trouble may be 36 South State IHC Street 2 st floor Salt Lake City Utah 84111 These letters form the basis for the "Dear John Letters " Dear John I have a friend who has a drinking problem but we’re not close enough that I feel I should say anything After all it’s his life The main problem is that he refuses to admit that anything I say he’s a little crazy is wrong Anyone who can do what he’s doing to himself has to be My wife says I’m wrong Unresolved Respite Dear UR If had a friend who would allow me to slowly and systematically kill myself while he sat silently watching in the wings I’m not sure would call him a friend And yet that’s the way most people deal with the most prominent of symptom alcoholism: denial - Alcoholism has often been referred to as a disease of denial because of the extremely strong denial patterns that develop as the disease progresses But it is interesting to note that denial is not limited to the alcoholic Everyone uses it At some time or another most of us use denial to deal with things that scare or confuse us and as a result a The variety of problems develop severity of which is in direct proportion to the amount of denial we use Our management of reality or the basis is way we cope on a based on a number of variables Our perception of the problem the interpretation we make and the resulting action that we take determines our happiness and success in every area of life our perception can be Basically and divided into two thoughts What we think and how we feel determines to a large extent the way we see the world around ps We interpret what we see based on our past experience and training and that interis what influences the pretation Millard County Chronicle Progress The Alcoholics Anonymous i USPS Publisher Editor - Susan Dulson Editorial Mark Amott Reporter at Large Advertising Fillmore Greathouse Deb Office Accounts Kyle was excited when saw him last Sunday Monday was the first day of school Would his friend be in the same class? Would the kids like him? Would lunch be good or would he take a sandwich in his new lunch box? Who would be his teacher? Parents too wonder about these things They’re almost as excited about a new school year as their children Especially they wonder about the teacher Parents know that quality education Parents starts with quality teaching have the right to insist upon a fully quality teacher in every prepared classroom Teaching demands a complex set of skills that go far beyond mere mastery of the subject To help all students reach their full potential teachers must master skills that range from a full understanding of how children learn to a command of techniques for diagnosing students’ learning disabilities Quality teaching begins with quality Oct 9 classes Delta Community Medical Center 7 pm Sept II West Millard Fine Arts Club fallwinter kick off 4 pm M E Bird Center Sept 12 Ginger Taylor and Bryce Moody wedding reception Delta 3rd4th Ward - Sept S Ward Rita Bullcreek Circulation Circulation Commercial Shellie In County SI0 Sit 00 per 00 per 6 50 cents Bon 249 Della birt Utah Bv Heed year months changes 84624 J Jeflerv Bv Juv i T ft ’tJsHO compam ftUUAM ottsir ttltSOS Fifty years ago the Millard School District began a library program in its school This program was well funded and soon had trained and caring personnel to operate those libraries Millard’s school libraries became among the best in the state even the nation Today they are on the down grade It is sad to see the schools gradually losing their fine libraries through lack of funding and the use of untrained personnel Good library services involves more than checking materials out and in It took more than forty years to establish Millard’s fine school libraries They are being dissipated in a traction of that time Many of the mateiials that Sat 6 93 52 are being lost and destroyed are replaceable Publishers inventories do not allow the holding of titles for long periods of time so books rapidly go out of print Complaints are often voiced that our young people cannot write effectively any more Various remedies are being proposed My experience indicates that students who are readers are also the best writers: they have the best and the best style Good vocabularies librarians cultivate readers Let’s rescue our school libraries before they become obsolete Ruth Hansen t In Poslmaslor Tom Hamilton il 82 inches of preep for August 03 5 £ i Goddard delivers the mail Back to history Remember that Benjamin Franklin is now the joint Postmaster General for the new British crown in America About 1774 he colonists were iew ing the Royal Post Office with a great deal of suspicion At this time Benjamin lanklin was dismissed fiom his post for actions that appealed to be to the causes of the sympathetic colonists Within a short time William Goddard a pi inter and ncwspapei publisher set up a constitutional post for mail service Goddard's father had been the postmaster of New London Connecticut under ranklin By 1775 when the Continen- tal Congress met at Philadelphia Goddard’s independent post was a great success with 30 post offices in operation between Portsmouth New Hampshire and Williamsburg Virginia After the riots of September 1774 in Boston it became apparent to the colonists that they would separate from the mother country The Continental Congress was established in May of 1775 for that purpose One of the fit st questions asked by the delegates was how to convey and deliver the mail Because of Goddaid’s effort the process was already on the move Community Calendar Sept 16 Emergency Preparedness Fair 6:30 pm Oak City Town Hall Quilters meeting 313 S 100 W Delta Sept 17 Tarm Field Day meet Delta City Council Chambers 10 am Sept 18 Commodities distribution 59 and 8:30 - II atn ME Bird younger Center Back to School night Fillmore Elementary School 7 pm Sept 19 Katen Johnson and Chi is Gale wedding reception pm Sutherland Watd Cultural Hail Kami Mvers and Gino Schena wedding reception 7:30 - 9:30 ptn Milch Myers residence Sepl 21 Elder Thavne Haidy mission icpoii 12:45 pm Delta 2nd Ward Sept 24 ood Handlers class illmore Public Health office 2:30 pm Sept 20 Last Millard itte Ails Guild opening luncheon I lenient aiv School ium pm & 21 20 Sept Delta Utah West Stake Confei once ood Handlers Class Delta Public Health office 2:30 pm Sepl 29 Imimmiation Clinic Delta Public Health oftice a m & IN THESE TIMES OF R7PC7C SPECIAL INTERESTS ANX fZAR-OU- Sepl 25 pm T CAUSES I GUESS YOU CAN CALL ME GX77?JEAiELy AiPPL£ Of THG-RO- rm IN OTHER WOR tVSHy-HMSH- F&4 4 Sj r to Jill runttv4tv Support school libraries Rogers m DHu Council events Delta and the west desert is a wonderful place to live and to raise a We have made many dear family friends and will miss sharing our lives with them And we will remember our days in Delta with fondness We wish Delta the best of luck Bruce Pam Alison and Bryan Hamer pm Jennifer Lewis and Mel Dutson wedding reception Hinckley Ward Cultural Hall pm Program 9:30 pm Sept 14 Sister Kristin Land mission farewell pm Hinckley Fisrt Ward Elder Chett Ivans Robins mission farewell 11:50 pm Scipio Ward Chapel Elder David Brown mission farewell 2:45 pm Fillmore lst4th Ward mem hep Fillmore Area ' Delta Area People in Delta are concerned (if not curious) about who you arc and what you are doing They say “Hi" or "Good Day" when they pass or you can stop and visit with them for hours When we first arrived in Delta all our neighbors dropped by to welcome us And when our daughter Alison was born we had friends bring us dinners for nearly a week We especially liked the July 4th celebrations and the evenings with the West Millard Cultural WAI1 preparation when a future teacher is in college All prospective teachers should be to demonstrate expected mastery tests as well as through through evaluation during an regular extended practice teaching experience All practicing teachers have an ongoin ing responsibility to keep their teaching specialties and to sharpen and improve their teaching skills They also need and expect feedback on their performance in the form of regular valid reliable evaluation Some people say a poor teacher should be paid less than a good teacher believe a poor teacher shouldn’t be paid anything He or she shouldn’t be in the classroom Parents have a right to insist that their students are not shortchanged and the teaching profession is not undermined by allowing unsuccessful teachers to remain in the schools Is your district doing all it can to in every sure a quality teacher classroom? Printing Single Copy POSTMASTER Send Address ixmii HbAN Patricia Probert and Jeff Schena Ward reception Scipio wedding Chapel pm Sept 13 80th birthday Callie Morrison openhouse M E Bird Center Delta Dulson of County P O PROBLEMS? Call Geno: TEENAGE ! Comp Production In Advance Subscriptions SIS 00 per year In County County ( 8 00 per 6 months Out of Out j j 2 Circulation Julie S Manager Receivable We have recently moved our family back to California after li ing in Delta for five years while working on the Power Project We ui ed in Delta in the fall of 1981 after being born and raised in the I os Angeles area We were to say the least apprehensive about how life would be in such a small town so far from the big city And now as we have left behind we all our friends and neighbors warned to write to you and the people of Delta and say how much we enjoyed living there The climate in Delta couldn’t be better (except for those cold and foggy winter days) The air is so dear and the dean crisp mornings ically make you eager for another new day And the sunsets and sunrises and the nights can’t be matched where we are from But more than the place it will be the people that we will miss the most PH ALAN0N: For info call i Evelyn Mallet brought from Pleasant Grove He also had a gallon of molasses left which he mixed according to his wife’s story with about three gallons of water This constituted their diet for the first six months that they lived on the old farm in Deseret This is but one of the many incidents that Mr Peterson told of his early experiences Regardless of the hardships he could always see the hand of providence and no one ever heard him complain because of the circumstances with which he was surrounded and the troubles he had to endure He placed his Church ahead of all responsibilities and his duty to it was his first consideration Mr Peterson was a ward teacher in Deseret for sixty years and never failed his assignment without having a proper excuse Besides being an ardent church worker in his own ward he acted as a missionary in his native land before coming to America In 1899 and 1900 he filled a mission for the church in the Eastern States He died December 13 1939 at the age of 91 years His passing marked the last of the original settlers of what was commonly known as “Old Deseret” Niels and Grethe Peterson have a great posterity many still living in this valley where they came with faith and hope over one hundred years ago From "History of the Sevier Bridge Reservoir" by Dudley Crafts page 4 Mary Henrie Parents should know the basics 1 Sales Riley Wood Legal Billing Dawn Carder Sales Design We’ll miss Delta Postmarks pm Meetings: Mon & Wed 1 8 pm at Delta City Bldg 2 Chamber of Commerce office I 76 N 200 W Delta Tuesdays: 8 pm at IPP 1 Housing Community Center EDITOR y |