Show l — Serving Utah's Great Pahvant Valley Singk ( USPS Law Vol opy "f cents 88 No 46 May 27 1999 enforcement helps Special Olympics Br Derin Phelps aw enforcement personnel in Millard ount) haxe been inxolxed in the tan llx Special mpics Program for more than ears now hex help bx raising money the ast xs Aest Millard County game and through the annual Spempics Torch Run from the Millard Representatixes Count) Sheriffs Office Ctah Highway Patrol IVpartment of Adult Probation and f'arole Millard Count) Attorney's Office Justice and Juxenile Courts and the ildhfe Resources Dix ision of got together m Fillmore last Tuesday night Vvest Millard Count) officers played against ast Millard Count) officers Miliard Count) Sheriffs Detective Scott Corn Special ( mpics Torch Run Coordinator said the w est side defeated the Fast side This was the third ball for the year game Special Olympians were also inxited to play "Fach participant donates $20 to play in this game" Corn said "In turn thex and a hat from the aw gel a Torch Run Committee" Monex raised goes to the State Special OK mpics Committee It will be used for the Millard Magic Special Olympic team In 1997 Millard Count) was rated 10th in l lah for Special OKmpic fundraisers ast xear the count) was rated 8th aw enforcement personnel were out again last Wednesday morning for the 6th running of the Special Olx mpics Torch in Millard Count) The torch started at IVIta RiA just after 9 a m and was run on Main Street At about II am the torch was run on Fillmore's Main Street he torch left Fillmore shortly thereafter headed for Beaver and the rest of Southern I lah here are three torches traveling around the entire state The will meet June 3 in Provo and unite into one torch That torch will enter HYl"s Cougar Stadium for the Special OK mpics opening ceremonies Members of the Millard Magic xxill be participating in the state games Spectators from Millard Count) are encouraged to attend and cheer them on through ill U&fe Delta youth with relief packages ready to Ashby Jake Chnstensen bottom row I Ashby softhall cial Olx i send to Oklahoma Top Chaste Amanda Bunker and Sharamee Youth answer call to help Oklahoma tornado victims Br Derin Phelps Three Delia High School students and one young aJull answered a radio plea and deeided they could do something to help ihe ictims of tornados (hat hit iklahoma early this month Sharamee Ahh of IVIta said she and three of her friends were cruising Delta May 5 listening lo the radio when they heard that the American Red Cross was taking donated items to Oklahoma "We thought "You know it would be real cool if we could do something like that in Delta" Ashby said ""A e just got together printed up fivers and decided ihis is what we wanted to do and we did " it and figured Vila could help out too he four hax e tl lied a comer in a rented house with boxes of clothes food baby supplies and household items Kerry Manis of MCT Trucking agreed to haul ake City lo the Red the items lo Salt Cross ear old junior Amanda Hunker a Delta High School and Jake hnstensen also a Dl IS junior said they are glad they could help " hex had enure towns destroyed and they probably need everything that we can give them" Chnstensen said Donations are still being accepted " he still ned ex erx thing" said Vila High School student Chasie Ashby he donation drop off location is 76 West Mam Street in IVIta just east of to make Casey Carpets Call arrangements to drop off items Ask for Chasie "Anything xou need and use exery single da) is what the need and use and don't hae" Chasie Ashhv said he four expressed their appreciation lo IVIta and the surrounding area for helpat Special Olympics Torch is through Delta last Wednesday run the torch started at IGA and ran through the city w here it was picked up east of town It was transported to Fillmore and run on K'ain Street The torch run has a tradition in Millard County for the past 16 years Millard County Special Olympians would love to see you the first week of June as they compete at B YU In Delta ten ing Salt Lake 5th graders bring gifts to Topaz Museum Br Derin Phelps leidi Van rt has been teaching her fifth grade students about orld ar II and the I'S Cioxernment's decision to imprison in what the government called relocation camps Van rt teaches fourth and fifth grades at Konnex illc Elementan School in Salt I ake Citx She brought 24 of her students to Delta Friday to present 1000 paper cranes to the Topaz Museum Cranes arc birds that sx mbolie peace Students spent part of the school ear learning Origami so thex could make the cranes The Bonnexille students slopped b the Topa Museum after a school field trip to Lehman Caxes Onlx three of the 24 actually made it to the museum The other 2 students joined them and a group of Delta High School students later at Delta Cirx Pari for a pizza picnic The high school students also joined the three students Van Fn and Jane Beck with President of the Topaz Museum for the museum presentation Beckwith is also a journalism and English teacher at IVIta High School She said her students haxe studied a little bit about Topaz thisxearand haxe wanted to isit the camp site in the Sutherland'' " V V' ille area ler ninth grade students haxe been reading the book "Farewell to Manzanar" w hich tells the storx of a interned at the Manzanar Relocation Camp located near Death Vallex California dunng World War II Beckw ith thought it would be a good idea for her students to meet the Bonnex ille students Van Ert said her students recently read the storx "Sadako and the Thousand Cranes" The origami crane project goes along ith the story It's a true story about a girl who lived in Japan during WWII There's a Japanese legend that if a person makes l(HK) paper cranes he or she ill get his or her heart's desire "Their heart's wish is that there won't be an) more w ars or any more internment camps or anymore of w hat happened here at Topaz" Van Ert said about her students Along with the story Van Ert's class has been stud) ing WWII and internment camps When the students found out Utah had an internment camp they wanted to hat happened there see "They just made the connection cranes their w ish peace and World War II and sax ing 'We need to do some- Sugarx ll 1 1 Jan Beckwith Topaz Museum Board President (I ) presents "The Price of Prejudice" to Whitney WaKace 5th grade student at Bonnevifle School in Salt Lake POOR COPY to stop this'" Van Frt said Frt's students sent cranes to different places including the funeral for a Bonnexille teacher who died thisxear of cancer Students hung 1000 cranes in the church Some of the cranes were hung in Van Ert's classroom Manx were sent to a shrine in Hiroshima Japan for a girl named Sadako Sadako was xery young when the I'nited States dropped the alom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Several years later when she was 2 Sadako veloped Leukemia because of the nuclear fallout from the Hiroshima bomb She came dizzy while she was running a race and fell During her hospital stax a friend made paper cranes for her She w as told she would get her greatest wish if she folded 1000 paper cranes She only ished 600 before she died It took the Bonneville Elementary students two months to make 10(H) paper cranes They made 2700 cranes during this school year After the cranes were presented to the museum Beckw ith presented the Bonneville students with a copy of Leonard J Arrington's book "Ihe Price of Prejudice" She then explained xxhere the Topaz barrack at the museum came from and said it was half of the recreation hall The hall was used in 1942 as a Box Scout meeting place "It was sold for about $250 and it was down by Delta South Elementary until about 1991" Beckwith said "It came here on Dec 71991" The building was restored by the Great Basin Museum The Topaz Museum Board considered air conditioning the building in the summer and insulating it so it would be w arm in the w inter Board members realized however that doing so would change the atmosphere so it would not be a real representation of the internees' ing conditions The building walls are made of sheetrock that is not This allows rain to come in to the building The floor is made out of masoniic which is about a quarter inch thick Later Beckw ith showed students a map of the camp printed on a board and plained where the different buildings and houses were located The Topaz Museum Board purchased 400 acres of the camp site "This is one camp that has been more preserved than any other camp" Beckw ith said Beckwith said West Millard County farmers had much interest in the area that thing Van J fv" eral 'iWs Bonneville for peace Elementary nght Left to 5th 000 paper cranes to the Topaz Museum as Fassman and Tommy Zimmerman graders present Whitney Wallace became Topaz They had fields that were once planted that needed to be worked "After the sugar beet factory fell apart in about 1927 all that land out there was just being wasted" Beckwith said Beckwith said one of the land owners wanted the land to be farmed so he asked the federal government to force Japanese to come to est Millard County and farm the property The goxemment then considered setting up an internment camp in the area At first the gox emment w as going to build the camp north of McComick The goxemment decided not to build the camp there because the land had nex er been farmed After sharing her insights on the Topaz Museum building and the camp site Beckwith pointed out lo the high school students that many of them had relatives who were involved in the camp in some ways during the war Japanese internment is an emotional sue for Beckwith Even though it is part of Millard County 's hentage she doesn't think people really understand what happened °t a symbol i of then hope Wesley " more interested in the emotions" Beckwith said "Some people interested in the propaganda than studx ing about the camps uist thought the history rather it was time to study than just the emotions" Beckw ith said manx people misunderstand the diilcrence between Japanese and Japanese- - mcncan citizens She has found that some people beliexe that since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor the I' S bx impnsomng Japashould hax e retaliated nese- American citizens "I think people haxe been taught to liexe that internment was for the protection of the Japanese people" Beckwith said "I don't beliexe that If thai's true then the guns would not have been pointed inward " Beckwith said she believes wartime hx stena and a failure of leadership plax ed a part in the internment decision She said she thinks the consequences of the Constitution were suspended and that there w as racial animosity hex are Bonnev ille fifth grader V himey allacc said that since she has visited the Topaz Museum she feels more connected to the internment experience She saij hc lieves her school was able to nuke a by making the cranes and bnncing them to lopaz Some ot the cranes were also taken to the opaz camp sue teel bad because think was wrong S to do thai" allacc said about ihe government's decision to intern "It shouldn't hax e happened " Tommy Zimmerman also a Bonncx ille fifth grader said his studies haxe led him to beliexe that the I'S goxemment the Japanese- - Americans because of the ay they looked "1 was amazed that we did that" Zimmerman said Zimmennan learned a year ago that lopaz existed He said it is something about I tah that was totally wrong Being inside the old Topaz barrack gave Zimmerman an idea of the type of lite internet lived Bonnev ille fifth grader Wesley I assman said "It's so temble that they bad to iv e in here for around three cars " |