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Show Opinion!! Clouds of o? secure with the knowledge that their sins, clean channels and culverts awaitMother. Nature has to neighbors will lend a helping hand in ing the worst offer. an emergency situation. The feeling of "it cant happen here The floods and mudslides pointed out a need in county officials to prepare among Davis County residents is gone. their defenses against a possible repeat Last springs flooding and mudslides foof the massive damage of last spring. cused national media attention on the Gone is the lax attitude that has existed Davis County. County residents effort watched reports on the local situation since the last major of the on national television news, and read during the depression days about it in such publications as TIME 1930s. A major disaster possibility is in the magazine. Last years disaster helped bring a minds of Davis County officials as it should have been all along. Evidence is closer tie between cities who were forthe millions of dollars of new debris ba merly divided by the imaginary Ma- - BARRY KAWA Review ivu&iy mstiu Staff There may just be a silver lining for Davis County hiding behind the clouds that produced the infamous mudslides and flooding of the spring of 1983. No longer will the county get caught with its pants down in an emergency situation. The community emergency preparedness plan being implemented in every Davis County city, if kept in working order, will be able to handle all types of possible disasters, ranging from an earthquake to a nuclear attack. And the people of Davis County are more flood-contr- ol line. With Farmington as the dividing line between north and south Davis counties, many cities on both sides barely knew the other existed. Yet, in last years disaster, north Davis cities worked side by side with south Davis cities in sandbagging and offering their available equipment. son-Dixo- n Hill Air Force Base is now ready and organized to handle prioritized emergency requests from cities and the county. Instead of last years mass chaos in groups, organizations and cities asking the base for help, the state will now handle all requests and filter the most urgent ones back to the base. ftius, Hill Fields massive resources in numbers of volunteers and equipment can be mobilized and used in the most efficient way possible. Davis County and her residents have learned a valuable lesson from the results spring flooding of 1983. And the of this education is all around us. You can see it in the grim determination of residents and Davis County officials who will handle the next disaster situation with the experience of lessons learned. . Page 4A ,v North Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, May 9, 1984 dlntornoD Should Kaysville, Layton Join Library System? whether it would be advanta-no- r geous to residents" of the two cities and other Davis Coun-tety residents if officials of ton and Kaysville agreed to join the county system. Presently, neither Layton Kaysville participates in the Davis County library sys- Several lakeside area were asked to ex- press their opinions about m. Lay-reside- I nts cant speak for Layton, but we want a library in Kaysville. At least since Ive been on the board .weve not been formally approached by the county and as I understand it they could not guarantee to keep a library in Kaysville open. So right now its not an issue. Its never been brought up at board meetings or talked about. There is a tradition to have a library in Kaysville and we want to keep it. We are continually upgrading and offering better services. Don Edwards Chairman Kaysville Library Board Yes, I think they ought to join the Davis County system because it would benefit the children of Kaysville and Layton. They would be able to check more materials for their studies. . John Jensen Clearfield Davis High School has a pretty good library. I havent been to the Kaysville Library in a long time. I think if Kaysville had a better library it could provide for more indepth studies for the students. Yes, selection of books would be greater. They would have au- dio visual and longer hours would be available. Also Kaysville library is too small. Marjorie Putman Kaysville , Carolyn Lawson Well actually, I love the Kaysville Library. Its very convenient for my children for school research projects and I like going there. However, I feel larger facilities are also impor- tant. Loretta Cheney ; - Layton Kaysville Letters to Editor Winter Hard f For Animals Review Editor: The Humane Society of Utah has stated that this has been a very hard winter for the animals, especially the horses. Many were left to starve in deep snow. The truth is they starved because the ; owners did not care, not because of mother nature. To make excuses for the owners is absured, I feel nothing but disgust for them. . The few that are taken to court for cruelty to animals are given such a small fine that it is an insult to the animals or they are found not guilty. The sadest thing of all is that people of Utah do not care. People moving here from other states all make the same remark, I cant believe how little concern the people of this state have for animals. Many of these people end up leaving the state unable to witness the cruelty. I moved to this state 5 years ago and decided to do something to help the animals, last year I organized a group called Help Save the Animals Inc. We have high hopes of helping abused, abandoned and unwanted animals. During the last year we have rescued dozens of animals, they have been taken to a veteriner-ia- n for shots, spaying and neutering and cared for until good homes are found. We have placed ads in the papers asking for help from other caring people, but after placing ads and sending out flyers asking for donation for our annual rummage sale for a whole year, 8 people have given us help. We are very often asked why we bother doing what we are doing since they are Only animals. So I know what I am talking about when I say that the majority of people here dont care. veteri-neria- see the horses. tacted , . ; Tokens Sought By Hobbyist , a I then con- veterinarian and I would like to hear from anyone having one or more of these tokens or from anyone that might be able to help me. Any help that you can give me of any kind, is greatly appreciated. My address is Travis Roberts, Box 1168, Bellaire, Texas 77401. j - Travis Roberts . ' Bellaire, Tex. Thanks Given For Cat Show Review Editor: We at Pumpkins' Pride would like to express our deep grati- Bureau started the feeding program two weeks later in northern Utah, than in other parts of the state. Why, I dont know. Especially since northern Utah received the heaviest snow. Strangely enough, the Utah Wildlife Bureau did very little about feeding the deer and elk. It was mainly left up to the hunters and humanitarians. I am very much in favor of the deer and elk feeding. But, they should be fed every winter. Weve allowed building, grazing, etc., into their winter range. The stockmen, poacher, and rangers have slaughtered the predators and tilted the balance of nature. . So now, we must continue to ' feed them. ff- ' creabeautiful The poor, wild, tures are so unfairly put upon. In the winter they starve and freeze, and then are hunted in the fall. Mans intrusion into na- ture is always thumbs down for the animals. This season will be even more cruel, since many deer have become tame, and used to man. I agree with Dr. Stone, of Spanish Fork, Utah (editorial of April 10 Deseret News) that the U.W.B. had a budget nearing half a million dollars. There , Our appreciation to Frank Dangerfield - Stroke of Genius,! Lou Dorshorn - Mr. Fix It, Family Tree Restaurant and T Shirts Plus of the Layton Hill; Mall, Safeway Food Store, J&J Produce, Gibbys Floral, Ernst" Home Center, Timberlynns Grooming and T Js Pets. Last but not least the Ink Spots for Garfield. Review Master of Business Administration (MBA) Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. . Master of Science in Political Science (emphasis in International Relations) v Master of Science in Applied Statistics (with Applications in Logistics) Master of Social Sciences (emphasis in Human Resource Administration) Master of Social Sciences (emphasis in Public ; . 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Letter Policy Lakeside . Enroll now in one of the following Evening Programs being offered special thank you to the Salt Lake Cat Fanciers for allowing us the space and privilege of Review Editor: this at their show. I am a lover of history and I holding A heartfelt thanks to Keri of have a somewhat unusual hobWeber Memorial who accompaby. I collect old tokens used by nied us to the show and won the stores, barber shops, lumber Easter Basket. She found a speand companies, saloons, forts, cial friend in the KKAT cat other businesses years ago. The. mascot tokens were good for $1,50 Marjie Higgins' 12V2 25 cents or cents, cents, ' Layton such in trade or merchandise or good for loaf of bread, one drink, one shave, one ride or whatever. ' They were usually made of metal, and while having the general appearance of a coin, they Review Editor were made in all shapes and This terrible winter and the deer1 feeding is over. As you sizes with some picturing eledrive through the canyons and. phants, cows, birds and buildwooded areas, the proof of a ings. I have reason to believe that heavy winter is evident. There some of these tokens were used 'are pitiful carcasses of deer in your area and L would be strewn everywhere, particularly most interested in obtaining in northern Utah. some of them for my collection. Of course,, the Utah Wildlife The ? capped. Indifference , should be an accounting. Particularly, in view of the fact that the deer and elk feeding was mostly volunteers. Meanwhile, the rangers should collect the. starved carcasses from the canyons. Tourists and others driving through our canyons surely must wonder why these' once magnificent creatures are so disrespectfully left to rot in the open. I It seems the main function of, the Utah Wildlife Bureau; is to" sell hunting, trapping and fishing tude to the individuals and merchants who helped make our, drawing at the cat show in the Salt Palace such a success. This helped us raise some much needed funds to continue our visits to the elderly and handi- Criticized For ... am very thankful for having a Humane Society here, but many times the animals cant even count on them for protection. The Davis County Animal Control called me this winter to bring my camera dn meet them at a horse pasture. What I saw there made me sick, one horse laid dead, several others was nothing but skeletons. Snow and thick ice covered the pasture. When I saw the pain and hunger they had suffered I decided to see what I could do to make sure the owner would be taken to court at least. I went to the district attorney and was told that in order to prosecute the n owner I needed to have a I brought him with me to see the horses, he stated it was a terrible case of nelect and wrote a report to that effect. I then called The Humane Society and spoke to John Fox chief investigator, he told me that they , had filed charges against the owner and that the .vet I had spent the whole day getting would not be needed for the courts considered the Humane Society Investigators to be expert witnesses. I then repeated what the district attorney had told me, but to no avail. They even went so far as to tell the veterinarian his testimony would not be needed. Well, it went to court and the horses lost because of lack of ev-- ; idence. The judges reason, no veterinarian had seen the horses. If the animals cant count on the Humane Society here for help who can they count on? Certainly not the people of Utah. The Humane Society has many caring people working for them, to bad I cant say the same for the management. My heart goes out to the suffering animals in Utah. Karin Britten Farmington Dr. Terry Teigeler, USU Program Director Building 368, Room 24 HAFB, Utah 84056 Review Editor, Lakeside Review, 2146 N. Main, Layton, Utah 84041, or 145 N. Main, Bountiful, Utah 84010. (801)777-353- t 6 |