Show Page 2 Millard Countv Chronicle Progress February 3 1394 letters There have been many interesting developments in the Legislature this week The highlight for me was the announcement by Governor Leavitt requesting SI 6 million in one time funds for Wildlife Resources The Governor proposed: in DecrTag A40perccntrcduction Sales each year for the next 3 years 2 A “Wildlife Summit” for those concerned with w ildlife to contribute to a “strategic plan” for Utah's wildlife 3 An increased emphasis on predators that are impacting the deer and pheasant populations The SI 6 million requested by Governor Leavitt will replace the revenue lost by not selling deer permits The of management in reorganization DWR w ill continue and is not affected by this plan I believe this plan will be the start of better limes for Utah’s wildlife My fifteen year old daughter w ill be interested to know that a bill passed by the House of Representatives allows student drivers to get practice permits 3 months before they turn 16 The rural caucus met this week and decided our top priority for this session We voted to try diverting a small portion of the Slate sales tax (18 of one percent) to water projects throughout the state This will help in developing water by earmarking S20 million a year to water development This next w cek the "Indoor Smoking Restrictions” bill will be heard in our house This would ban smoking in nearly all public places if passed as it now stands It appears many amendments to the bill will be attempted The House of Representatives voted to close (to the public) the Rules Committee I was one of 16 Representatives voting to have meetings open to the public discovered that the toll free number I gave last week has been changed The correct number is: Thanks for your phone calls and letters They are very helpful Representative Mike Styler Motor Vehicle Schedule: Fillmore Delta weekdays Millard County Assessors Office Great Basin Historical Society Museum Delta Tuesday open Wednesday Thursday Friday 10 am 3 pm Tours and after hours call Technical Center Social Services or Sarah Jo Louder Every 4th Tuesday Social Security Rep Delta City Offices Tuesday and Thursday English as a 2nd language 7 pm Delta City Library Wednesday Full Gospel Fellowship Church bible Study 7:30 pm A A meeting 51 North Center Delta B eehive B aptist Church 200 W 400 N Fillmore 10:30 am Ladies Prayer Meeting 3:30 pm Childrens Good Samaritan Club 7 pm Evening Service Story Hour Delta City Library 10 am year olds First & Third Wednesday B eehive B aptist Church 200 W 400 N Fillmore 6 pm Children’s Choir Second Wednesday Holden firemen's Auxiliary regular meeting 8 pm Fire Station Every 4th Wednesday Social Security Rep Fillmore City & Job Service hours in Delta: Wed & Thurs in Fillmore i Drivers License Examiner Schedule: Delta (Suite 2 58 East Main) every Friday 8 am - 5 pm Fillmore 1st 3rd & 5th Wed 9 am - 4 pm Sunday Personal Ancestral File (PAF) Computer Instructions 5 pm Fillmore Stake Family History Center Phone ext 114 Personal Ancestral File (PAF) Instruction Computer pm Wednesdays Delta Stakes Family HisCenter Phone tory Services at the Full Gospel Fellowship Church 10 am & 7:30 pm All faiths invited Beehive Baptist Church 200 W 10 am 400 N Fillmore Sunday School 11 am Morning Service 7 pm Evening Service Second & Fourth Sundays Beehive Baptist Church 200 W 400 North Fillmore Christmas Play Practice noon Fourth Sunday services Presbyterian' worship Catholic Churchy 390 North Main Fillmore Mondays CUFS Food Bank pm Oci March 30 162 West 100 South Della A A & ALANON meeting 8 p jn 5 North Center Delta AA meeting 8 pm 290 North Main Fillmore Monday Thursday Saturday Alcoholics Anonymous 8 pm 280 N Main Fillmore Last Monday of Month Parents Support Group for families who have children with disabilities meet 7 pm Millard School District Offices Delta More information call Sandy Nielson Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Lunch at ME Bird Center for Seniors pm Lunch at Pahvant Senior Center Fillmore noon Every Tuesday Basic Life Skills classes pm Turning Point Delta Technical Center No Charge Narcotics Anonymous open meeting 8 pm 51 N Center Delta AWANA for children kindergarten to 6th grade 58 S Center pm Every Tuesday & Thursday Parenting Class For Info call Della The Millard County Chronicle Progress USPS Published Utah Thursday every by DuWl 84624 Located a! 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Kent Hofheins Beaver Utah Student of SL'U Education Dept (Editor’s Note: Dear Sir????) Deserving credit and blame Whose fault is it that my son tailgates? Now I’m not saying he'll admit it but I 've been his passenger and you can trust me on this It was taught at school and reinforced at home that you drive one car length for every 0 mph When I ask him he can recite that to me He also knows the unposted speed limit in a residential area and who goes first at a slop And that the yellow light is a caution to slow down and get ready to stop not a racing flag to whip through He learned it all by heart and proved it by passing two tests One was taken with pen and paper and showed he had memorized the rules The other was taken with an official tester in the car demonstrating he knows how to technically handle a car and perform safely He passed I knew he would He wanted that license more than anything in his young life So he listened to us explain a clutch He took notes when his driver’s education teacher lectured He practiced He studied And it paid off He got his license As do thousands of each year Yet while our children rejoice at victory and the resulting prize their parents and teacher hold our collective breaths We know there’s a third test to pass We know it will come soon and we will not be in the car It will come when that child must take the knowledge we’ve taught and tested and mix it in a concoction of attitude of wanting to impress friends with a natural sense of adventure and a cultivated sense of responsibility and out will pour a very personal decision A free choice of how to act w hen parents and teachers and testers aren’t watching Ours is the task of making sure our children have the information That they know our values and hear our cautions But I've heard parents beating themselves up when even after careful instruction their children’s actions are irresponsible They take the blame upon themselves saying “If only I'd done things differently Where did I go wrong?" It's dangerous to lead a child to believe that running a red light could be the teacher’s fault or that her speeding ticket might really be Mom or Dad’s responsibility There’s an important difference between what kids leam and how they use what they’re taught As they get older our children will make important choices Hopefully what we teach them will guide their decisions But the acceptance of responsibility and consequences is a lest in and of itself If they deserve the credit teach them to stand tall If they deserve the blame teach them' to step forward My friend has just returned from Cosu Rica She and her physician husband spent three weeks on the beach there having a wonderful time I expected that What I didn’t expjcct were her horror stories about the ecology in this tiny Central American country There were the obvious warnings about the “Americanization" of this thin thread of land that connects our America to Panama and on south There were the glowing stories about the inexpensive lifestyle that draws so many US citizens to set up second homes there There were the stories about bargains (although my friend hates to shop and says there really isn’t much to buy there anyway) I expected these stories But what really wanted to hear were the stories about the indigenous creatures that live in this tropical rainforest I am familiar with some of the creatures that call Costa Rica home leaf cutting ants orange tree frogs giant sea turtles I wanted to hear about the strange and wonderful insects and animals That is what makes Costa Rica so spiecial My friend brought back bad news She had joined tours led by park rangers and research scientists (my friend doesn’t mess around w hen it comes to getting the "whole story") and what they shared with her was frightening Those tiny orange tree frogs that looked so much like painted iron sculptures have completely disappeared The last one was seen in 1989 she says No one knows w here they went why they died out but they are gone Forever The giant sea turtles once clamored on shore to deposit their burden of eggs in the thousands Now only a few come each night under the moon Again no one knows where they have gone on what has happened to them The scientists believe that a need for these creatures is not being met Their rain somewhere in the forests still stand but a vital ingredient for their survival has been taken away So they are gone I don't know where to place blame in this other than to say that humans are responsible We kid ourselves by saying that we have dominion over the earth What a hoot! We can’t even control our own impulses we still don’t know how to raise a child in our own image how can we presume to dominate life itself? I realize I’m in the minority But that's okay It’s where spend most of my time I abhor patriarchal philosophy that says that humans can own anything the men of course being the “head" of that system because of their gender By egocentrically assuming that we rule over the planet we in fact play God Animals do not piossess what we pxisscss neither do we have what they have We are not here to dominate over the planet we’re here hopefully to live in harmony with other life forms and that includes each other Humans arc marred imperfect creatures who take more than we can use kill each other for the excess steal and lie to one another in the name of the game and wc have no idea of the far reaches of our actions At MIT scientists have discovered using mathematical models that the beating of a butterfly’s wings directly impacts a tornado in Texas Y et wc go about dumping gouging slashing and crushing and think that our actions will have no affect on the rest of the world Man has been on this planet a blink of an eye 250000 years The world did very well without us and it will go on after wc cut down all the trees pollute and use the one percent of water suitable for consumption bury all our nuclear wastes destroy the interrelationship between all spxxics The planet won’t forget our passing our legacy will be visible for millions of years We're destroying hundreds of species every day and their importance to the planet is unknown We bum the rainforests in Brazil daily we’re draining the aquifers and weakening the crust of the planet We bemoan the Endangered Species Act because forests or cementing wetlands How can it prohibits us from cutting down a spotted owl be more important than jobs? How can wc protect the darter snail over the construction of a mighty dam? We have dominion only ovcr ourselves and here wc do a m ighty pxxir job We can’t control our own impulses let alone proclaim what's best for the planet as a whole We Americans lake far more than our share Wc consume most of the world’s resources and create half of the world’s trash Our job should be to leave more than we found not less More trees more life (and I don’t mean more humans!) more love than we’ve been loved A current motto reads: Live simply so that others may simply live How can wc leam to do that? - - Thousands of Deer Hunters Say: ‘Our Vote Counts’ at Rally Darrell McMahon Wildlife Biologist Division of Wildlife Resources On Saturday 30 to 40 sportsmen from Millard County made the long drive to Salt Lake City to stand on the steps of the State Capitol Over 30(0 other sportsmen rallied together with a common cause “I have a dream" was on one sign "My vote counts” was on another For the first time in the history of Utah the sportsmen of Utah are fighting back at “dirty Politics” said Aaron Nissen from Delta Don Peay organizer of the new group SPORTSMEN FOR WILDLIFE AND HABITAT CONSERVATION spent hundreds of hours traveling across Utah promoting the organization and rally He has lapped into the frustrations of the sportsmen on a variety of subjects Last Wednesday he was in Delta and asked the crowd of over 00 people to please consider the Facts: The State hires a Washington DC based consulting firm using 560000 of the Division of Wildlife sportsmen dollars to come and tell them how to Resources (DWR) In all honesty a group of B YU or U of U MBA students could have done the same thing for free Don asked the crowd “Do you think the Utah Dept of Agriculture would hire a Washington DC based consulting firm to tell them how to graze on public lands? 2 14 of the 28 jobs came out of the Big Game Management including all three of the key SLC Division of Wildlife Resource (DWR) personnel who have helped build the herds over the last 20 years There is someone at the State Capitol that doesn't want wildlife to conflict with private hatcheries or the livestock industry in the slate 3 All the research the DWR was conducting on range impacts of wildlife vs livestock has been eliminated even though 75 to 100 percent of their budget was federally funded Someone at the Slate Capitol doesn't want the results of these studies published 4 The entire DWR habitat program was eliminated including four jobs that the consultants recommended keeping The jobs functions included the entire winter and range program 5 Using the state governments trickle down layoff policy many of our most knowledgeable big game biologists will be misplaced and will end up working on nongame waterfowl or other tasks 6 Throughout the consultants report they emphasized that the primary priority of the wildlife managers and wildlife biologists is that and threatened and endangered (T & E) species receive sufficient resources and attention In other words the positions that formerly focused on big game must now spend their time and resources on programs management is fine but how much longer must the hunter fund programs taking time away from game programs only to have some of the environmentalists continue to attack hunters and hunting? Don Peay went on to say: “Whoever the politicians were that made the cuts and then say that the cuts will not impact services to sportsmen they must think sportsmen are awfully stupid We must educate sportsmen and let the politicians know in the news media and through phone calls that we do know w hat they are doing And when we get enough members get united they will listen to us" “Its fantastic that the 200000 sportsmen in the state are getting organized" said Rudy Jackson a s portsmen from Richfic Id "We are concerned about the d irty politics involved with the recent reorganization of the DWR” “We are concerned about the lack of funding for the DWR over the past few years" said Aaron Nissen of Delta We’re not fooled by Governor Leavitts sudden interest in wildlife He has been silent on wildlife issues for over a year Its obvious that the sportsmen message is finally getting through to the governor and the legislative leaden Yesterday’s announcement to cap the deer hunting numbers and adding 6 million to the budget was just a reaction to the anticipated pressure from the sportsmen For the first time in Utah history the sportsmen votes do count” Don Peay praised Gov Leavitt’s deer plan and promised to support it through his Don was also Sportsmen for Wildlife and Habitat Conservation organization enthusiastic about the April wildlife summit called by the governor promising badly needed long term planning Forester Award Bestowed on Holden Citizen Tom Stephenson a member of the Holden Town Board in charge of streets was recently invited to become a member of the Utah Community Forest Council’s Board of T rustccs to represent Holden and surrounding towns In the past year the Holden Beautification Council has planted 60 trees and they plan to plant more trees in Holden this coming spring As a community project the Council is also planning a small seedling tree nursery for six- - to seedling trees These seedlings will be planted in future years In recognition for his efforts Mr Stephenson was named a 1994 Utah State Forester's Citizen Forester for his “outstanding public service to the town and community for initiating a comprehensive community forest management program” Mr Stephenson was honored for his dedication and his voluntary contribution for thousands of hours of time “The children of tomorrow will be the benefactors of his legacy the trees” The award was issued in Salt Lake City on January 12th 1994 by R Edward Storey Utah Slate Forester PUBLISHING BY SUSAN WILLIAM COMPANY B DOTSON V WILSON children on a given night in 1991 was 67 In 1993 it was 304 The number & of homeless Horse Club 4-- by Jim Stevens Millard Co Ext Agent Fillmore Horse Qub would like to start getting ready for the new 1994 year They have a lot of great ideas this year to make it a fun year for all you kids Anyone interested in the4-Horse Program please contact these leaders for information and for enrollment: Kelli Carter Vicki Mitchell or Barbara Bamhurst Delta Reed Jeffery Date High Low Predp 26 27 28 29 30 39 38 43 41 35 30 26 19 01 31 31 14 5 35 3 Jan Does Your Heart Good FlmoTB: DUWL OWNED American Heart Association Photo by Kato Heibnbrand DVM Thomas A Stephenson holds his citizen Forester Award The County Agent FAX Delta Southern Exposure - pk 15 Feb 03 tr 01 Fillmore Jay T Rogeis |