Show Satina Sun November 8 2000 Valley News Gunnison - Holidays fraught with tradition or 'Just how did we start doing this?' by Nathan Thompson Staff writer When hear the word tradition feel like lev e from "I iddler on the Koof " get this incredible urge to pump my fist in the air while sing" I radi ing at the top of rnv lungs were to lion!!" Now honestly if walk down the street in sue h a per formanre probably would be thrown in the entral Utah Medical dime Random ads of singing just might not be looked upon as kosher (pun intended) Mere in rural Utah we ha i a few the wav traditions that determine culture looks it our unpretentious things lake environmentalists tor Manv of us mav think instance am talking AorSierraC lubbers Utah Wiir the ev er ev ll Southern lderness Alliance (SUW A) We don’t often consider folks like the local rancher whose irrigation pond houses hundreds of migratory as an environmentalist If we take a closer look at people underneath the skin they are just the same folks we are Let’s envibirds sion those ugl urban dwellers in Salt actually they’requite but some of us might attractive think thnv dress funny or drive cars that aie iust tivi darn clean for real life for one think that and some- John's Mad House Cafe will offer a free 430 Wit Main 8llnaUtah (435) tion of New York He does all this on an island no bigger than the sie of an golt uiuisc Army Spec Gregory Wixilsey son of Danny and Rae Ann Wcxilsev 430 F Mam Salina is stationed at Johnston Air Force Base Johnston Atoll a tiny base situated on a island more than 800 miles southwest of the coast of Hawaii Although surrounded by an endless expanse of clear blue seaf Johnston Island is anything but a First sighted m tropical paradise 1783 by an American sea captain this atoll has since been used for everything from a World War II airfield to a nuclear test site In 1983 the atoll assumed one of its most dangerous missions — the destruction of chemical weapons Since that time the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System has destroyed more than pounds of nerve and mustard rockets agents stored in containers and projectiles We would be happy to deliver dinner to you if you are homebound Please call ahead before Wednesday November 22 3 Have the Hunts Shot Your Budget? Make Today RAINflJHECK y 0ttf Payday! Fast Convenient Friendly PAYDAY ADVANCED $ 00 to $500 547 South Main Richfield Call he difference between Jenevieve is that she is an artist and with talent she has inherited all the quirks that go with it She no longer with: Is this tradition really fun for me? Dixjs it inclucfe children and family members? Did we start this tradition because up plain unadulterated greed expect more from humanity and hope the traditions we start can be based on something a little more grand than Santa Clausand senseless gifts May our traditions promote faith famand nation May ily community our traditions serve our fellow huSierra Clubbers and man beings ranchers alike and her wrappers and outdated office This trash is made up of thousands of tons of nuclear warheads and deadly nerve agents that could easily take out the popula- EjLwwwwwwwyJp 529-412- found' myself giving technical support by decorating the house carving pumpkins setting up a fog machine borrowing a strobe light for the stairway and cranking up my stereo to play Martha Stewart's "Spcxiky sounds" CD (Please don't hold this against me) question is the most pertinent especially as it applies to Christmas just cringe at how much junk people buy year after year giving in to mass marketing schemes fads and just memos are lonely elderly or in need Cafe preparation toscaring nificance tastes good family friends service etc ) Am just keeping up with the Joneses? The trick is not letting tradition for the sake of tradition force you into doing something that really shouldn’t be done in the first place That is exactly w'hy I feel the last by Flaine Tarello JOHNS I ON ISLAND It's the son of a Salina couple's job to take But not the usual out the trash Hefty bags full of discarded candy Thanksgiving Dinner if you HOUSE ning a life of my own (at least that is what like to tell myself) find the little traditions Jenevieve and are starting to be quite amusing lake this past Halloween for stance Mv wife decided that her recessive "spcxiky gene" needed to be expressed this year While she dressed up as a real life ghost in trick my parents of some cast on me as a child? What's the meaning of tradition? (ie faith promoting historical sig- a Salina native keeping the world a cleaner place fWWWWWWWWI Mac feel it is more resentment limes than tradition - or is it? have to remind mv self that they —just as us - need focxl water and air and maybe a touch of love People from Salt IketoSt George react the same way we do when it comes to livelihood religion and politics They just have a different spin on things It just so happens that our opinion is more correct than theiis Traditions throughout the world bring a sense of solidarity and heriHowever tage to civilized society on a less formal sense traditions define who we are as families and individuals Fixids we eat television programs we enjoy and even the clothes we wear are often predetermined by tradition or perhaps even our rebellion against tradition Now that am married and begin I(xks at an apple as fruit she sees it as something to carve wrap in clothe and hang on our dexir as a little shriveled head Maybe nobody noticed all the subtle things she did to decorate this Halloween but making it was half the fun And so I've concluded what the backbone of traditions are or at least should be Traditions should be FUN! Now that Thanksgiving and Christmas are on the horizon I'm considering new traditions hopefully forgetting all the materialism and the associated nonsense and creating holidays that will be memorable for years to come Here are a few questions I've asked myself to eliminate old dusty traditions and consider creatingthriving new ones Maybe they will help you as they ha ve me Here is the criteria came - LOANS No Credit Checks Today (435) 3 Pleaie jtfift linY For a holiday Army Spec Gregory Woolsey prepares to board a weafions transport vehicle Army s most remote assignment Woolsey is an ammunition specialist on a Atoll in the Pacific with a mission of destroying nuclear warheads and Gregory a typical day on the assignment to Johnston agents (Photo by during deadly nerve Kobashigawa) Woolsey a nuclear biological and other soldiers carry to work every chemical weapons specialist is one day of the more than 1200 soldiers airThese masks come in handy parmen and civilian contractors asticularly since Woolsey and the He and 220 other soldiers work around and with signed to the island other soldiers not only provide se- deadly agents some dating back to curity protecting the deadly agents World War II with potentially leaky from all threats but are also responThe casingsand faulty mechanisms sible for transporting the volatile fact that there's never been a major thick bunt accident at the plant is a testament agents from kers to the plant where the chemito the stringent safety measures cal agents are burned and the metal "Safety is paramount here" said casings are incinerated down to Woolsey "My gas mask is a very scrap metal important piece qf equipment "I load transport and create storYou'll never find me without it by age containers for chemicals" said my side" Maintaining safety isn't Woolsey a 1994 graduate of North Devoid Woolsey's only challenge Sevier High Schcxil Woolsey's reof fast food apd shopping malls far sponsibilities don't end with his from home and family Johnston job Surrounded by a stockpile of Island is a remote assignment in deadly weapons he is also tasked every sense of the word Woolsey with ensuring his own safety and and the other military members are the safety of those around him Stanthere for a year and all residents of dard issue on Johnston Island is an the island are there alone Family M40 gas mask which he and the members and friends aren't given access to this atoll "Being away from my spouse and family while facing the challenges of dealing with deadly chemicals is a great challenge" said Woolsey Woolsey's job may be challenging but it's also about to end After 15 years of operations and more than munitions destroyed Johnston Atoll is just about outof chemical weapons And since it is too dangerous to transport the after the remaining US stockpile last 13(X)0 M23 land minesare destroyed the Army will close up shop and pull out The Air Force will then clean up and turn the island over to the US Fish and Wildlife Service which will use the atoll as a wildlife But in the meantime refuge Woolsey and the other soldiers continue to accomplish on this tiny island a big mission "The destruction of chemical weapons makes the world a safer world for usto live in" said Woolsey j elebration W A V 4 Thursday November 10:00 am Gift Ideas Prizes Fun & Games Party Trays Gift Baskets - 8:00 pm Entertai unent Ideas Demos Throughout Store Custom Gift Certificates Prime Rib Standing Rib Roast Ha EMftiorrPLACs See Yoti fkre! 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