Show Off the top Laundry by Lori Olsen Doing laundry is my least favorite household chore do at least five batches ofjeans a week With six famhave a dear friend that feels ily members and a pair ofjeans or jean shorts two pair getting the clothes clean is all that she well that is a heck of a lot ofjeans can handle If her kids want someThen there are bath towels Six thing to wear they go to the mounshowers every morning and everyone tain of clean clothes in the comer of wants a clean towel That is 42 towels her bedroom and dig through them a until they come up successful She is including hand towels washclbths and dish towels DON’T doing her part HAVE 42 At my house if you complain pATH TOWELS! So wash about not finding your certain jeans How about all the items that have or special shirt cleanwell you can to be washed in cold water and hung do your laundry yourself Or on a out instead of put in the dryer Heaven Sunday morning when someone can’t find their white shirthey help me ifone ofthe kids miraculously decided to help with the wash and put don’t have the time to hunt the house my nice blouse in warm water or in for all the dirty clothes If you can’t the dryer take the time to put it IN or near the The laundry is dirty clothes hamperwell it’s your When I get to the bottom of the dirty tough luck Don’t whine to me I'll clothes tub the kids straighten their blow my top I'm doing the best can bedrooms and the tub is overflowing with the huge ever growing pile of can never finish the laundry again laundry that does make it into the try to wash the sheets off the beds hamper Don’t cry to me if you find every other week All ask of the kids your white shirt under your bed 30 is to make their beds again with the minutes before church Suck it up clean set of sheets But one of my kids throw it into the dryer for a few minutes press it with the iron and hope (I am ashamed to say this) sleeps on top of the mattress without sheets for there are no major spots Repent and is of until a couple he threatened days get it in the wash for next week with doing all the dishes for a week if This is a subject could write a thesis on Do you have a huge basket he can’t stop and make his bed The blankets usually end up in a of socks with missing mates like do? ball in the middle of the bed when a Or do you ever encounter a perfectly in the dirty folded clean couple of my kids bail out in the mornclothes hamper? These are laundry ing Or worse yet they wrap the blanket around their body and drag it out mysteries to the laundry room to hunt for a clean One thing is a certainty-ki- ds and mountains of grimy clothes go hand pair ofjeans do fold the clothes fold them in hand You can’t have one without the other on the counter and stack them in piles I remember the day one for each family member The kids finally gave are responsible to occasionally take up trying to wash diapers had two their pile back to their bedroom and babies one year apart I’m sorry in it the clothes failure was a their do dresser couldn’t know put away drawers But this is usually how it created a drain on the environment when works: At night they go the counter switched to disposable diastrip off their dirty clothes and leave pers Will you forgive me? them on the floor were they stepped You know teenagers and six out of them and then slide on a pair a people in jeans is horrible but messy Well as a mother I will pj's In the morning the pj's and undies babies are on the bathroom floor were they ways have something to complain stepped out of them to get' in the about Something to make my shower Then they wrap up in the lifeworthwhile I have a purpose the run out to the keep my kid's clothes pretty clean and have a life away from the laundry counter to find some jeans and a in their pile of clean clothes This is room too guess am truly blessed but can't someone invent disposable where find the blanket on the floor in front of their pile of clean clothes jeans Boy surely have done a poor job This column is the product of in training my kids Okay may be Lori's rambling and often disjointed exaggerating Sometimes they do the thoughts This conversational style right thing and put away their clothes does not reflect the opinion piece and even throw their dirty clothes in of this newspaper You can reach the general direction of the clothes 1 fax Lori at or hamper (usually on top hardly ever IN) NOTICE TO WATER USERS The State Engineer received the lowing Application(s) to Appropriate Water in Sevier County (Locations in SLB&M) Persons objecting to an application must file a Protest stating the reasons for the protest To have a hearing before the State Engineer persons must request a hearing in the Protest Protest must be filed in duplicate with the State Engineer 1636 West North Temple Salt Lake City on or Utah 84116 before NOVEMBER 5 1996 (PROTESTS MUST BE LEGIBLE WITH A These are RETURN ADDRESS) informal proceedings as per Rule of the Division of Water Rights (LEGEND: Point(s) of Diversion POD Place of Use POU Nature of Use USE) Charles and (A70395): newsgtelconet QUANTITY: Michelle Thompson 0 01 5 cfs SOURCE: 6 in well 200 ft to 300 ft deep POD: (1) N 2130 W 1640 from SE Cor Sec 20 T21S R1W (2 miles west of Salina) USE: Irrigation: from Apr to Oct 31 total acreage 025 acs Stockwatering: 6 famhead of livestock Domestic: ily POU NW14SE14Sec20T21S R1W sRobert L Morgan PE STATE ENGINEER Published in the Salina Sun on October 9 & 16 1996 PUBLIC NOTICE The Gunnison Valley Hospital Governing Board meeting will be held at 6 pm Thursday October 17 1996 This meeting will be held in the conference room in Dr Nay's building (49 East Center Street) sNeil Mellor Chairman ofthe Board Published in the Gunnison Valley News on October 16 1996 National Holiday tree cutting ceremony set for November 15 Utah’s Centtnnial Celebration will end with a glow In honor of the State’s hundredth anniversary a Englemann spruce from the National Forest will be sent to Washington DC where it will adorn the Mall in front of the US Capitol As the National Holiday Tree it will glow all through the holidays with thousands of lights ornaments made by Utah school children Governor and Mrs Levitt and the Utah will be Congressional delegation present when Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich lights “The People’s Tree” at a ceremony on December 0 The cutting of the tree will be on Friday 15 November at 9 am up October 9 1996 Salina SunGunnison Valley News Page 3 Todd’s Wheelin’ America’s favorite sport - baseball by Todd Wheeler The time has come to talk about a true American sport A sport that can have a spectator sitting on the edge of the seat from beginning to end The sport that is least understood in the hustle and bustle society we now live in Baseball Sit down and put the cheese back on your head Mr Football Don’t be me Mr Basketball Stick the puck in your mouth Mr Hockey There is no sporting event as wonderful as a baseball game Huntington Canyon A true baseball fan would much rather see two pitchers duel it out in a no hitter that was broken up with a Breast Cancer Awareness month home run in the bottom of the ninth than watch the games played by the Colorado Rockies Baseball is a true team sport he pitcher throws the ball towards home catcher where the awaits The plate MAMMOGRAMS SAVE LIVES batter hits the ball to the shortstop w ho Many Utah women are missing out on one of the very best early detection is backed up by the third baseman le in the war against cancer According to the American Cancer Socitosses it to the second baseman who weapons can help a doctor spot breast cancer years sends it to first base to complete the ety a mammogram before it can be felt And when detected early more than 90 of women with double play A thing of beauty It breast cancer survive Yet currently only about 37 of Utah women take is even prettier than a Steve Young of this detection touchdown advantage early option pass Every woman should have her first mammogram by age 40 then every Watching the playoffs this past one to two years until age 50 Beginning at age 50 annual mammography is week has made it readily apparent that recommended Other early detection recommendations for breast cancer baseball plaers are willing to give up clude monthly breast self examination beginning at age 20 and a clinical ex- their personal fame and glory for the amination by a qualified health care provider every three years between age betterment and hopeful victor) ofthe and annually thereafter team Rarely will you see a pla)er To find out more about early detection for breast cancer or to find an throw a temper tantrum when they are accredited mammography facility in your area call here removed from a game Wh)? Because is only one American Cancer Society and it will continue to raise its sword they know that it is the team and the against cancer until the war has been won victory that is important not their stats and not the money BEWARE OF SUNSPOTS This would not happen in other See your doctor if a mole changes in sie or color— it could be skin cansports Do you think Kail Malone cer According to the American Cancer Society melanoma the most serious would sit quietly if he were removed skin cancer will be diagnosed in 420 Utahns this year and 50 patients w ill die in a dose game because someone else from this disease To learn more about skin cancer call your local American can shoot free throws belter? don't Cancer Society office or Things you should know about cancer think so And most any pro quarterback has a fit when he is taken out of a game even if he is doing a rotten Falcon job Look at the quarterback Jeff George for a good view of a quarterback fit But have you ever see Paul Oneill of the Yankees have a fit when he is removed for a pinch hitter No Or a pitcher heave the ball into the stands and yell at the coach because a relief pitcher is coming in? Only in the movies Baseball the perfect team sport Wouldn’t it be funny to see that potential double go to the shortstop over to second on to first but there’s no first baseman to catch the ball so it hits the firstbase coach in the head As the World Series begins this week let’s remember what it's like to play on a winning team Not just one that wins all its games but one that works together and cares about the players on the team Oh yea one more thought GO YANKLES! This column the opinion of this Unte does not reflect newspaper far your candidate Ufltt for your most But j4crufl6ct7ta£jU' 522--7 942 ETS KILLS According to the American Cancer Society’s “Cancer I acts & Tigures 1996” each year about 3000 nonsmoking adults die of lung cancer as a sult of breathing environmental tobacco smoke In fact the risk of dying of lung cancer is 30 higher for a nonsmoker living with a smoker computed with a nonsmoker living with a nonsmoker This year 450 Utahns will learn they have lung cancer and 400 will die of this disease The American Cancer Society wants to see those numbers come down It offers guidance and assistance to those who want to quit smoking To find out more about ETS lung cancer or smoking cessation call your local American Cancer Society or There is only one American Cancer Society and it will continue to raise its sword against cancer until the war has been won LUNG CANCER IS 87 PREVENTABLE According to the American Cancer Society cigarette smoking is sponsible for 90 of lung cancer in men and 79 of lung cancer in women - about 87 overall Smoking accounts for about 30 of all cancer deaths Those who smoke two or more packs of cigarettes a day have lung cancer mortality rates 12 to 25 times greater than that of nonsmokers For information about quitting or for your other cancer related questions call your local American Cancer Society office or American Cancer Society research dollars Utah According to a September 1996 report current American Cancer Society research dollars being spent at Utah institutions are at $1908500 This total includes $1783500 at the University of Utah and $125000 at DonaBrigham Young University tions to the American Cancer Society throughout the year make such research possible To find out how you can help call your local American Cancer Society office or Custom Construction Daniel PO Box 1728 Sandy A & Olschewski Utah 84091 Design Inc (801) STEEL BUILDINGS Industrial Barns Arenas Agricultural Commercial HUGE SAVINGS - MUST ORDER BY OCT 30 CALL DAN This is the last chance to use your Bulldog Schedule card for Home Game Discounts! Good Luck Girls Volleyball! Bulldogs vs Wasps Oct 16! Trounce the Trojans! & Boys Football Fri Oct 18! If you don't have your card We'll give you a coupon for $1 00Off! Gunnison Thriftway Thanks for Your Support This Season! mfipnr |