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Show Forum Lakeside Review REVIEW TT o o Saturday, April 27, 1 996 3 Street Talk... What residents of Davis County think about the issues o O o What do you foresee for Laytons future? Layton City is celebrating its 75th year as a With all the changes that have taken place years, the Lakeside Review informally asked what they think the greatest problem facing the 2000 will be. city. in the last few some residents city by the year Dale Fackrell Layton Overpopulation. That would be a big problem. Overindustrialization would be another part of the problem, overcrowding and too many businesses all in one place. I dont see that as a plus. You are not going to shut off the production of people. It seems like espe- i OSHA making changes for better By JOSEPH A. DEAR Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health GUEST COLUMNIST you expect to go home and healthy tonight? OSHA was created 25 years ago, people were getting hurt and killed and that was just part of the job. People who think theres no need for a safety and health agency have forgotten how it used to be. Today, its easy to take ease, is gone. Fewer workers die in trenches, get lead poisoning, lose fingers to unguarded machinery or face death in grain elevator blow- Do safety for granted. American workers clearly want safe and healthful places to work. They dont want to get backaches, lose fingers or develop cancer. But they may not give much thought to the institutions that help prevent disabling injuries and illnesses. The public may be frustrated with red tape, but Americans overwhelmingly support government efforts to protect their fellow citizens safety and health on the job. For the past 25 years, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been standing with workers facing danger on the job. We care about each worker on each job. And weve helped make the workplace a whole lot safer. More than 100,000 workers are alive today and thousands more are healthy and whole because OSHA has pushed, pulled, cajoled and demanded better working conditions. Brown lung, the cotton dust dis- - ups. Why? Because OSHA set rules to protect workers from deadly problems. Employers responded. Workers shared responsibility. And everyone won. Some people still put profit first. They dont want anyone to check the comers they cut. Theyd like to reform OSHA by transforming it into a paper tiger - a toothless old n with snarl but no bite. Right now, theyve got help on Capitol Hill. Some in Congress are ready to gut OSHA in the name of reform because of a misguided notion that destroyed the agency will benefit business. Or theyll slash the budget to please their constituents. But rolling back protections for workers isnt what the American people want. And it wont pay off for business either. President Clinton believes that companies can do right and do well. At OSHA, we mean to prove it by changing the way we do business. We want to reward companies that are trying to keep their people safe. We believe that most businesses will choose the high road. has-bee- Government directory LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Tobacco industry ruined House The Coalition on Smoking OR of the AmerHealth, a ican Cancer Society, American Heart Association and American Lung Association, commends Governor Michael O. Leavitt for his strong statement of support for Utahs public health by vetoing HB43, the Cigarette Excise Tax Increase. The original bill was a good one, which we wholeheartedly supported. Raising prices through a tax increase is the single most effective way to reduce tobacco con- sumption, especially among youth. Many studies show that children are the most apt to give up smoking (or never start) as the price goes up. However, a emption pre- amendment that was attached to the bill in the last 40 minutes of the legislative session not only made the revised bill un- - And we want to make that an easy - look for serious problems elsewhere. and a profitable - choice. Were going to offer partnership Were committed to cutting out to the good guys - those who have unnecessary regulations and red demonstrated their commitment to tape. We recently dropped more worker safety and health - and keep than 275 pages of regulations - the throwing the book at the bad guys. downpayment on a total of 1,000 Of course, what makes the choice pages President Clinton promised real is a credible enforcement prowe would cut. gram. Thats why we cant go along Weve begun rewriting our stanwith the misinformed idea that evdards in plain language. We have eryone already is a partner who may other great ideas, too. Like phoning just need a little advice. and faxing employers first when we We know this strategy will work. hear about problems instead of Three years ago in Maine, nearly starting a lengthy process of letter 200 companies with lots of injuries writing and formal inspections. Like and illnesses agreed to turn away asking employers and employees from their bad records toward parthow they think hazards should be nership with OSHA. As a result, fixed. Like creating special industry more than 134,000 problems have partnerships to leverage resources been straightened out and build enthusiasm for cutting Injuries and illnesses are down specific injuries and illnesses. by 65 percent and workers compenWe know where were headed. sation cases - the most serious injuWe want to prevent injuries, illries - have been but by 45 percent. nesses and deaths on the job. That Another innovative OSHA prowont ever change. gram is focused inspections. In But we dont mind changing have that construction, companies In fact, we plan to change routes. effective safety and health programs and routes change again. We'll do today are seeing OSHA inspectors whatever it takes to make sure look for just four killer hazards. We workers get home safely - in the inspected a contractor in Indianaposame shape they left lis before this program, and it took You safety is our greatest contwo to three days. His strong safety and health program qualified him cern. Our business is to serve you. for a focused inspection the next Thats why we intend to do our time around, and it only took two to job finding the best ways to protect three hours. Then the OSHA inyou - even better in the next 25 spector headed down the road to years. Count on it Commissioner Gayle Stevenson Bill 43 (R) palatable, but threatened to undermine the progress Utah has already made in dealing with tobaccos impact on our health through the passage of the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act by the 1994 legislature. Preemption is one of the tobacco industrys primary tactics for countering local tobacco control initiatives such as reducing access to tobacco by minors and limiting smoking in public places. In the case of HB43, it also threatened to negate much of the progress Utah has already made in dealing with the public health risks of tobacco use by previous legislative, regulatory and com- munity actions. Davis County Courthouse 28 E. State Farmington, Utah 84025 Office Commissioner Dannie McConkie 451-32- (R) Davis County Courthouse 28 E. State Farmington, Utah 84025 Office Commissioner Carol R. Page (R) 451-32- Davis County Courthouse 28 E. State Farmington, Utah 84025 Office 451-32- Clearfield City Council Mayor Neldon Hamblin Home E. Gene Fessler 4 Home Diane Layton 5 Home Martin Eliason 9 Home Curtis Oda 6 Home Garr L. Roundy 9 Home Clinton City Council Mayor DeMar Mitchell 1 Home Dennis Simonsen 8 Home Arverd Taylor 3 Home 825-58- 825-556- 825-784- 773-619- Kenneth N. Bunchi, M.D. President, American Cancer Society, Utah Division 773-979- 773-563- Country needs agreement over rights Who has the most power in America? The President, the Congress, the military, industry, foreign countries, or the people as a whole? I always thought it was the Constitution, but just like the Bible, Americas Constitution has been interrupted, added to, and split into so many different ways, all that is left is confusion, bitterness, and greed. At home, at work, at church, at school, at play, in jail, everywhere we go the people as a whole are arguing about THEIR rights. Not freedom for ALL, but INDIVIDUAL rights. The problems with this IS, each individual wants the people as a whole to do it only ONE way! ANYONE in America to come up with a peaceful solution that does not have anything to do with the Bible, the Constitution, or individuI challenge al preference. Maurine Fergueson Layton 773-583- 825-841- 776-086- Bill Russell Home 825-938- 0 Richard Lee 5 Home Merlin Mitchell 2 Home Farmington City Council Mayor Gregory S Beil 9 Home Pat Achter 825-689- 773-195- 451-728- Home Gary E. Elliott Home Tammy Boyce 3 Home David M. Connors 1 Home Larry W. Haugen Home Fruit Heights City Council Mayor Richard L. Harvey Home Richard Muhlestein 9 Home Tina LePendu 9 Home L. Dale Green 0 Home Daniel J. Phelps 9 Home E. Robert Purdy 9 Home Terry Stephens Home Kaysville City Council Mayor Art Johnson 8 Home Joe Hill 1 Home Stephen Whitesides 0 Home Brian D. Cook 1 Home Reed Nelson 2 Home Robert H. Rees 3 Home Layton City Council Brent A. Allen 1 Home Lyndia Graham 3 Home Debra Ledkins 0 Home Stuart Adams 9 Home Steve Curtis 9 Home 451-50- 451-24- 451-533- 451-283- 451-73- 544-43- 68 cially retail business is concentrating in this area. We live in Mesa, and we just got back. It is very noticeable every time we come back, all of these new businesses. Traffic - thats another bad thing, it all centers on the same thing, too much population in too small an area. One of the things the people in this area have got to do is plan ahead a little bit, like on highways and that sort of thing. I just got through telling my wife that I thought Mesa did it better. They plan ahead, theyve got a grid system that stays out ahead of development. Its getting real crowded, there are 2 12 million people in the Phoenix area, but you dont seem to have the traffic, you can plan your trips better than you can here. You dont have as much trouble in the Phoenix area. They have better freeways, more of them, of course they have more people. Here we have one road from here to St George. If they dont start doing something about that soon there is going to be gridlock. We see it clogging up worse every time we come back. It wont be three or four years before we cant move. Ill live to see it. Carol Grove Layton Probably where I live there wont be a house anymore because of all of the construction on the roads off of Gordon and Hill Field Road, and by the mall. They are taking is no tomorrow. And its really getting crowded. Id stay in Layton somewhere, I really like Layton. The traffic is the worst problem, especially at Christmas time over where I live. I dont even try to go out on Hill Field Road or Gordon at that light; it takes about 15 minutes. I go all the way around just to get away from iV out houses like there Mark Faerber Kaysville Traffic problems, there are going to be a lot of people moving in around here, its such a nice place to be. It really is a nice place. The planning commissions better be very farseeing, because there are going to be a lot of people and they had better have the roads designed to handle heavy traffic. They are not designed well over by the mall. Water supply is another problem. With more people you consume more water. The mountains can only store so much water up there and you can only store whats up there unless you want to bring it in from somewhere else. Build more dams. Cindy Keyes Layton Traffic and people. I havent lived in Lay-to- n very long, but everyone keeps saying that the traffic keeps getting worse, people keep . moving out this way from Salt Lake. I think its the traffic and its just people. Another thing is kids dont have respect for adults anymore. When I grew up you did pretty much what your parents said. You came home from school and you did your homework. Now kids are running wild and dont have any respect for adults. When I grew up in northern California, there was discipline of kids; now there isnt enough discipline. If you grab your kid the wrong way youll get it for child abuse or something. I think that is a lot of the problem. I think that if a handle is not put on the way people raise their kids, there is going to be a bigger problem with gangs and every thing else. There is no family unity any more. Joan Charter 544-173- 546-378- 544-868- 547-012- 544-214- 544-79- 544-844- 544-326- 544-329- 544-587- 546-491- 451-600- 544-141- 544-442- 546-079- 544-010- 546-444- 1 Layton Tve only lived in Layton about seven months. I have only been hear a short while, but it appears the biggest problem is growth. Its growing so fast and furious I dont know if they will be able to keep up with it. I dont really know what they can do, it appears that in the short time Ive been around that there are still pieces of ground people can buy to build on. There seems to be a lot of stores and malls going up so maybe they are keeping up with it. I came from Minnesota, I lived there for 30 years. One of the things that Ive noticed is that the schools are so much difd ferent. Im not used to schools. I understand that because of the crowding of the schools they had to go year-roun- year-roun- d. Minnesota just has regular schools with nine months on and off. They didnt have the growth in population where I was from. Thats the two things Ive noticed. My little boy goes to Mountain View which is a new school. They have only got it on one track now and some of the parents would like to keep it that way but of course they cant because of the growth, it will have to go multi-tracBut the growth isnt just here its all over the state. have no idea what they can do, obviously they are working on it bed schools. That must be a solution for cause of the three k. year-roun- Utah. |