Show T” H The Gunnison Valley News Wednesday Oct 21 1992 'va's a: ' k V ' ? Don't waste that waste October 'National Lupus says county agent Awareness Award' Gary L Anderson USU Extension Service Sanpete County Agent Arc you aware that if you bag up leaves and take them to the landfill you are not only to the growing waste contributing disposal problem but you are wasting a valuable resource? You can make a valuable soil conditioner and fertilizer by composing your leaves and other garden refuse as you clean up your yard this fall Even tilling or digging your leaves into your garden soil will pay big dividends by helping to loosen up the soil which helps us as we try to work with the heavy Sanpete soil To compost leaves and other garden materials simply chop them up with a lawn mower or other tools Then pile these materials in a pile in an area that you can use for composing Because composing is a bacterial process nitrogen is needed so that bacteria can grow and multiply about 15 lb (1 cup) of Normally ammonium nitrate per 3 bushels (4 cubic feet) is needed to provide adequate nitrogen for good your county composing Composing bacteria are also aerobic (need oxygen) so it will need to be turned to supply the needed oxygen the optimum temperature for are from 90 - 140 decomposing grees Bacteria can create their own is heat so the outside temperature not as important as you might think Outside these limits the bacteria will not do well is also necessary to Moisture Moisencourage bacterial growth are best for ture levels of bacterial growth You can tell if the moisture is in that range by squeezIf it ing a handful of the material feel damp but you can’t squeeze water out of it with a good squeeze the moisture percent should be about right After the composing process is complete you will have some of the best and cheapest soil conditioners So don’t and fertilizers available waste that waste! For a great book Composing to Reduce the Waste Stream ($700) see us at the Extension Office or call us Test your knowledge: educational Test your knowledge of facts and trends surrounding issues These are some of the questions presented to Utah teachers last Friday at their annual UEA convention held in Salt Lake City You will find the answers at the bottom Good luck A Pome I have a spelling checker It came with my PC It plainly marks four my revue Mistakes I cannot sea I’ve run this pome threw it I’m sure your please to no It’s letter perfect in it’s weigh My checker tolled me sew Phil Byrum There This poem was from an Oklahoma Publisher are some weeks that spelling errors seem to creep into the copy more than others and even though we have a spell checker on our computhow some of the errors are typed into ers you can understand existence This past week I was challenged to list five things that would make our communities better places to live and then decide how our newspaper could make these things happen I was intrigued by this and started thinking of ways that would improve our challenge standard of living My list was not too long as I feel that we already enjoy a high standard of living when compared to many other parts of the world But I thought it would be interesting to see what the readers felt were areas for improvement and their ideas of how our newspaper could help in solving or bringing to pass these ideas So put on your thinking caps and send me your ideas and possible solutions I will look forward to your thoughts A newspaper has been defined as very simply a community talking with itself The only way this can happen is with the help of the readers Please take the time to become involved by sending in your ideas for stories or improvements October has been declared “National Lupus Awareness Month” by President George Bush disease Lupus is an that can affect virtually any organ in the body The immune system of a lupus patient produces antibodies that attack healthy tissue instead of protecting it against foreign invaders such as infection and viruses Lupis is not a form of arthritis nor is it AIDS and it is not contagious Lupus affects over 500000 women of Americans primarily childbearing age The ratio of women to men is about 10 to Lupus can range from mild to severe The cause of the disease is unknown and there is no known cure Mild cases are usually treated with aspirin or other anti inflammaIn more serious cases tory drugs the treatment remains steroids and immunosuppressive medications some of which can have In its severe serious side effects form lupus can cause damage to kidneys brain heart andor lungs and it can be fatal The Utah Chapter of the Lupus Foundation is sponsoring a series of events throughout Utah during Ocof tober to raise public awareness lupus and money for research on Lupus For more information of contact the Lupus Foundation Inc Utah Chapter 4036 America So 2700 East (new address) Ogden Utah 84401 or Barb Anderson Group urges rustling of Utah cattle and A group of persons calling themselves the Utah Land and Wildlife is putting Restoration organiztion up posters in the state's rural areas the rustling of cattle encouraging and sheep The posters claim the range is overgrazed adn urges people to 'take just one animal per family' The telephone number listed on the psoter is actually the Provo of sheep of Senator Jake Gam Secretary Sandra Tanner says they have not received calls from people who want to join the bogus group but they have received several calls from Law enforcement angry ranchers officals are urging ranchers to watch fice for the posters or any signs of vandalism and report the incidents at once equity By the year 2000 one in every ( ) workers will be female workers are women earning an average 2 ( ) percent of of $290 per week while the same proportion of workers who repair their equipment are men earning about $515 weekly 3 ( ) million children are being reared by single mothers whose family income averages about $1 1400 in 1988 dollars (within $1 000 of the poverty line) The average family income for a married couple with children is slightly over $34000 a year 4 ( ) percent of children under the age of 6 had working mothers in 1988 5 Eighty one percent of elementary school girls like math By high school ( ) percent say they like math 6 By 2010 the minority youth population will increase4 million to 23 million while the number of white youth will drop ( ) million for a total of 38 million 7 By the year 2000 ( ) percent of new entrants into the work force will be members of minority groups immigrants and women 8 In its 1990 sample of 26000 private and public school and 12th graders the National Assessment of Educational could solve problems Progress found that ( ) percent of decimals or percents involving fractions 9 ( ) percent of pregnant mothers receive no physical care during the crucial first trimester About 20 percent of handicapped children would not be impaired if their mothers had had one physical exam during the first trimester 0 Overall students are taking more math and science than they did a decade ago but girls lag as the level of coursework advances Only r physics courses in 1989 were ( ) percent of the students in girls 2 Two workers percent 561 percent 6 6 million 10 30 percent 25 percent ANSWERS: 4 48 87 percent 3 15 million 7 85 percent 8 14 percent 9 This test was given as part of a seminar on the racial gender and cultural biases that are present in today’s schools Teachers were then urged to make their classrooms “warm learning places where kids are regardless of who they are” respected Blocked return air vent nearly kills four people Take precautions says Poison Control Center “Headaches and nausea are common symptoms of other diseases however if the whole family has it then there is a high level of suspicion for carbon monoxide poisoning said Barbara Vuignier acting director of the Poison Control Center Carbon monoxide is a colorless gas that the body picked up in the spaces where blood would normally include Symptoms carry oxygen nausea dizziness and headaches Everyone is urged to check their chimneys to be sure they are not blocked clear! air ducts and be sure that there is no furniture blocking any of these ducts before relighting their furnaces for winter use at the Utah Poison Employees Control Cento- are watching for more such symptoms related to the comof winter ing cold temperatures PO Box 187 - Gunnison UtaJj 84634 - Phono USPS The Gunnison Valley News is published each Wednesday for $1500 per year in Gao pete county $1800 in Utah and $21 00 per year out of state by the Gunnison Valley News Gunnison Utah Second class postage is paid at Gunnison Utah 84634 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Gunnison Valley News PO Box 187 Gunnison Utah 84634 Single copy $50 Publisher: Kevin Ashby - Editor: Kevin Ashby Correspondents: Axtell: Rilla Dee Sorenson - Mayfield Correspondent wanted Fayette: Ruby Hammond - Gunnison: Correspondent wanted VV XW iV 0‘ Hi A Hi A Hi A Hi AA A AA Hi Hi ill Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi A Hi A Hi A Hi A Hi Hi Hi Hi KEEP BRAD WORKING AS YOUR REPRESENTATIVE! ' Four people came close to death last week when a blocked furnace duct caused carbon poisoning in an apartment building Four occupants of the Shady View Tooele were found unApartments from carbon monoxide conscious when a family member poisoning stopped to check on them They had previously complained of headaches and nausea A return air duct blocked by a dresser caused the furnace to pull air from an exhaust chimney into the small apartment Central Utah Project comes closer to completion in 993 1 When 1992 dawned the Central Water Conservancy District mark to two major milestones hoped The first was congressional passage of the Central Utah Project Completion Act which authorizes Utah $992 million for completion of the CUP The second was completion of construction on the $350 million Jordanclle Dam six miles north of Hebcr City The water district saw the CUP Completion Act milestone reach fruition October 8 when the US Senate passed a western water bill containing the CUP appropriation vote The House passed by an the legislation on October 6 The water bill which affects federal water projects in 17 Western states has been sent to President Bush for his signature They also found that realization of the second major milestone for 1992 is also near Bruce Barrett of the US Bureau of Reclamation Utah Projects Office reported that the major contractor on Jordanclle Dam was within 2 to 3 feel of topping off the massive dam structure “The face of the main Jordanclle Dam is now just under 300 feet high It will have a crest length of 3600 feet and a crest width of 40 feet The compacted volume of material in the earthen structure will be 14504000 cubic yards Brad Johnson was exceptionally effective in the Utah Legislature and represented the people in his district very well" Senator Cary G Peterson It will have a capacity of 320300 of water with a surface area of 3070 acres when full Deer Creek Reservoir downstream from Jordanelle on the Provo River has a - or capacity of 152546 about half It is possible the Jordanelle could be operational to catch and store spring runoff waters in March of April of 1993 However work continues on rehabilitation of the Jordanelle wetlands area and this must be complete before the gates at Jordanelle are allowed to open The Jordanclle is designed to store enough drinking water to meet the needs of 91 000 families in Salt Lake Utah and Wasatch Counties COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WHO SUPPORT BRAD'S ELECTION T Merlin Ashman Mark Justice Clyde Thompson CITY MAYORS WHO SUPPORT BRAD'S ELECTION Utah Symphony plans night of Annabella Noel Torgersen Castle Dale Gary Cox Clawson Gary Price Ferron Dale Roper Gunnison Bruce Blackham Monroe Ralph Okerland Redmond Eugene Honeycutt Salina Nyals T Andreason Sterling Curtis Ludvigson goblins witches and music The Utah Symphony’s Hallow- Concert extravaganza conjures up images of witches and goblins and of course music On Monday October 26 Symphony hall will become a congregating place for all types of creatures and things At 7:30 pm under the direction of Associate conductor Robert Henderson the Orchestra opens its Family Scries with a concert of classical music with Halloweenish themes The concert will open with the een Overture to Wagner’s Flying Dutchman which tells the story of a ghost The proship and ghost captain gram also includes such macabre favorites as Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain Berlioz’s “Witches Sabbath” from Symphnic Fantastique and Gounod’s “Funeral March of a Marionette” there will be a conIn addition test with prizes for the best Costumes both from the audience and in the Orchestra Registration for the contest begins at 6:30 pm if you can get past some of the surprises that await you at Symphony Hall Tickets are $84 for a season pass for the entire are available Box Office Outlets immediate family and at the Symphony Hall and all Smith’s Tix Aurora Larry Cosby Centerfield Dell Draper Emery Gary Petty Glenwood Mark Lewis Mayfield Ace Robertson Orangeville Tom Humphrey Richfield Jay C Anderson Sigurd Willis D Allred That's 17 out of 17 Paid for by Committee to Elect Brad Johnson: Farrell Huntsman Paul Dyreng Paul Crawford Tim Jones Dr Lamar Stewart Warne Linton Kay Mclff Kim Robinson Dr Richard Maxfield Phone News Items 529-783- 9 528-311- 1 Leonard Blackham Keller Christensen Gene Mendenhall Gerald Nice Dixie Thompson That's Eight Out Of Nine! j E |