Show 4 I “Right conclusions are more likely to Be gathered out of a multitude of tongues than through any kind of Opinion The Herald Journal Logan Utah Hllllftff flMlIfV 0wi0vlnrfvi — Judge Learned Hand American (Uriel (1I72-1M1- ) Thursday August 13 1996 Page 19 Your view ‘Proctor’ program tographing them It should be considered that only this particular pair have deserves support lb the editor I have been a proctor parent In Logan for more than two years I worked with the YFCS agency until June and am now ot affiliated with the Office of Family Advancement I have read with great interest the recent news articles ana editorial on the topic of proctor parenting I would like to present my viewpoint of this service There is a concern that juvenile offenders are being brought into Cache Valley in a clandestine fashion The implication is that the secrecy is a necessary strategy in order to get youth into our neighborhoods The real truth is that confidentiality is a component of this program Transcending labels and their inherent stigmas are important aids to getting a new start in life A long ing tenet in education is the prophecy" Simply put if you expect the worst you'll get it or if you expect the best you'll get it These kids need a clean slate and a support system built on positive expectations The Herald Journal editorial strongly suggests that the weakness in the program might be the proctor parents and their selection training and qualifications I can state emphatically it takes a lot more than answering an ad in the newspaper to be a proctor parent The state and local agency requirements of “eelf-fulfill-i- fitness and eligibility are broad and intensive For example my own application required FBI fingerprinting to verify an absence of any criminal record and training coven a vast array of suits with a goal — rehabilitating our Pre-traini- become more aggressive in their defensive behavior because of their nearness to humans The article states that the “bird with a “ has been responswing span ible for the Incidents I concur if attacked it might seem so large but the Swainson's hawk is only a medium-size- d buteo with a wingspan from 3 feet 11 inches to 4 feet 6 Inches the female being larger It u unfortunate that anyone be injured while enjoying the countryside on a bicycle especially by something so uncommon that they are unaware of the threat Mr Dykstra suffered a great deal because of his resulting crash after being struck by the storming hawk no one should have to go through such trauma As Dykstra said “People need to wear helmets period” This would be the first step toward an acceptable solution to the problem of travelling Airport Road without harm The open fields and grasslands surrounding the tree where the hawks' nest is located constitutes their territory and is exemplary habitat for Swainson's hawks It is a fact that this roadside tree is the only one within the hawks' territory that is large enough to support a nest andpro-vid- e shelter m inclement weather Tneir territory borders other hawks' territories and they must respect that or risk being attacked or chased themselves Dykstra's suggestion of cutting the tree down has several unfavorable consequences Without the tree it is conceivable that the hawks would not return to the same territory next year thereby eliminating the threat to cyclists However the problem then becomes one of habitat loss for die on-goi- single-- birds forcing them to relocate They minded may face leu favorable hunting ground poor choice in nesting sites or increased competition with other raptors' territories youth Far and beyond the formal training sessions for procton ate the incidental learning we gain from local OFFA administrators case managers trackers psychologists judges etc who work in the field of juvenile rehabilitation There John Hess's suggestions of holding something high or standing up on the is a large team of people at work to bike are good but the best solution is to simply be aware By knowing the birds are there you can take precaution to note their location and avoid attacks before they occur If you are uncertain travel in a group or avoid the road kl together The birds will be most defensive while their young are learning to fly hnd hunt from spring to late summer Within the next month or two they will migrate south Swainson’s hawks are indeed recovering from pesticide poisoning in Argentina In 1996 with funding from many supporters Brian Woodbndge (USDA-FS- ) Dr Mac Bechard (Boise State University) and Michael Goldstein (TIWET) assessed mortalities of this species in ensure each youth has opportunities to succeed The most troubling question of all centher we want these ters around yvhe ‘ living in our you’d like to liYtftHftf teetMfter that has a strictly enforced curfew doesn't drive a car never plays loud music does chores and homework every day and is under the watchful eye of many dedicated people I hope you'd say yes my neighbors did Tb anyone who doesn’t support this youth program I say one thing "shame on you" ' neigh-yoursel- fif Argentina to range from 13000 to 20000 Ninety percent of which were JaneLanger Logan adults The estimated total number fin: the species at that time wu 400000 to 300000 individuals Some finer points Jared Yelton Newton on Swainson hawks To the editor: In Friday's (Aug 7) Bridgerland an ticle by Arrin Brunson about cyclists' encounters with a Swainson's hawk on Airport Road was published The article had a few inaccuracies and was somewhat exaggerated I am writing to hopefully clarify some of them I am a longtime hawkwatcher photog- Thanks to sponsors 1b the editor The Logan Race Club sponsored the Cache Classic Stage Race mi Aug 8 and 9 Cyclists from all over the west converged in Cache Valley to participate in one of only two such races in the state The race consisted of three separate stages on three different courses and required the time and effort of may vol- rapher and member of HawkWatch International and participate often in educational cooservatkxial and research activities involving raptors Cache Valley has a variety of habitats that combine to form an ideal place for raptors to live in abundance The article begins saying that ( cyclists “should be aware of another seri-“ ous threat — the Swainson's hawk f This sounds as though all of this species I of bird are extremely dangerous to bicy- clists All raptors will defend their nest young and territory but do not often approach humans unless an immediate threat to the nest is observed (such as climbing die nest tree) It may be due to the close proximity this particular pair has with humans by living so near a busy road that they have become leu afraid of human passersby The Swain-son- 's hawk is typically a raptor with respect to human interference but attacks have not been unheard of in the past Other pairs that live in the valley mat have nesting situ located farther from highways exhibit little or no hostilitoward my presence when pho- - unteers to be successful We would like to thank Jeff Pease Randy Bek and Craig Sorenson for their efforts in heading each of the stages as well as the many others who helped Our list of volunteers approaches 30 too numerous to list here Without their help the race would not have been possible Weare very grateful for the personal rifices made in our behalr We would also like to thank the sponsors that made Joining the West’s exploiter class By Ed three times cleaning up after the last Quien T Preston Watts Autobody Old Grist Mm Bread Co Northern Tide Co McDonald's The Car Connection Western Sports Medicine and the Sports Academy Wb appreciate the donations of these businesses and their interest and involvement in the community ive Kirk Eck Smithfield Quintin ApedaUe Richmond Mike Rowan Logan ty two-bddrdo- )NHat I We fwonea A ft -- rd Other views Three cheers for a i c has skipped Washington for a month's hiatus causing critics to croak that nothing has been done in this OOP year of a slate-thi- n majority divided government and a scandal-wounde- d presi- cumt-depriv- da though the relative inaction should occasion a nationwide sigh of relief Doing nothing can sometimes be a way of doing good An administration-backe- d package which died mainly because of Republican opposition had essentially become a way of siphoning money from the tobacco industry to pump into other suspect programs It would have made the government effectively a shareholder in the cigarette trade dependent on its anti-tobac- co Igp I ueTij ' Mr to ptepitSu hmWU i AftfUATE VlFDR A j "L ms POOR COPY ' I secret Oust $bes task ifc ygr AMtoe yeote' part AUyMore i iiwnnun Congress do-nothi- ng future prosperity for the revenues to keep constituents happy A fallback GOP plan meant to nakethe ratty look tough Settops Howard News Service OUR WtedWS-TOf- the Range m say Mr fStMoee h four-bedroo- m MUIARP DC HOW £ u Mallard Fillmore JoiAiitt ‘Writers money for new trucks and the latest in Wal-Ma- rt household junk but who never paid his rent on time — I find myself less interested in Big Bill Haywood and Mother Jones and too often sounding yards where children and pets can thrive like a member of the local Republican But then a few People of Money disCentral Committee covered our town and began moving in “What’s with these people?' I mutter Realtors called with utonishing offers to myself “I tried to be fair and the SOB for that house they couldn't sell back took advantage of me" The first just when I desperately needed to sell it and time or two this happened I felt it wu a that rise in demand meant a rise in markarmic of justice: What went ket price for rental or far sale And so variety around when I wu a rowdy young tenwe did raise the rent a few dollars a ant came around when 1 wu a landlord month every time a tenant moved on But that’s over Now 1 think how much make our move we the market still below But rent kept easier and we planned to my life would be if the next tenWe rented to people with pets and chilants had steady jobs and no pets espesell the old house dren and tobacco habits and we were cially dogs that dig holes in the lawn and and apply the prounderstanding when a tenant said he cats that confuse floors with litter boxes ceeds to our new might be a few days late house Thus a Maybe no children especially brats that that made for a pleasant relationship shoot BBs into the walls And without rather dilapidated itt 1992 But in 1998 after the town got common habits since wine stains are favorable mention in everything from Impossible to remove from carpets and house went on the “Outside” and “Sunset” to “Mountain market for cigarette burns are even harder to Bike Monthly” and "The 100 Best Small remove from counter tops The “For $30000 In other words I wouldn't rent to Sale” sign stayed there for two and a half Art Towns in America” it has become myself — no steady job but with several years without attracting any offers even an impossible relationship 1 can’t an insulting one put my finger on exactly what's pets and children and vices And even Without much choice we tented out changed but it’s probably related to weirder this bizarre market allows me to the place until we could sell it When we what I heard from a long-tim- e Aspen charge a rent that I couldn't afford now couldn't sell it we adjusted to realty resident one night in a Gunnison bar He Hypocrisy? Sloth because I just want an the “we've bemoaned how and the market it off money every month and don’t want developed reality by taking continuing our unplanned career move: upper clau and a servant class Wore to have to labor for it? Am I honorably the big money arrived in the 80s you protecting an investment for the continulandlording Back when everybody in town wu might sit down and drink with the waiter ing benefit of my family? Or is this clau poor it wu a pleasure Our tenants took after dimer — he might well have had a warfare with me now standing uncomgood cam of the property paid the rent PhD that sort of thing But that doesn't fortably at the capitalist barricades? No answer appears except the impospromptly and left tne place spotli sible one of turning the clock back a This isn't Aspen (not even close when it wu time to move on We preferred to rent to young waking families except in the summer when the pus is decade to when we were all poor here at a rate below the market We wanted to open) but the dynamics seem to be and landlords and tenants weren't autowalk the talk that you hear in any discusevolving toward the same end: Clus matic enemies sion of mountain town economics — the Division And I'm stuck in an uncomEd QuHten Ives in Saida Colorado Ha ta a regfortable position shortage of affordable housing the diffiular contributor to Writers on tha Range a serhoushave fortfeat better the After spending finding culty employees part of a vice of High Country News baaed In Paonla Colorado ing close to their work the need for night and filling a two-yadumpster ime was I’d gently correct peo- when they complimented me about Ele smart I was nearly a decade ago when I held onto an old house in a ramshackle Colorado mountain town In 1989 our daughters were turning into teenagers and we wanted a bigger house Half the town wu for sale then the mines and quarries had shut being down and so we got a good deal on a brick Victorian A good deal but not an easy deal for us We had to stretch for every nickel to the race possible financially They dent Considering what wu on the agenIncluded Renegade Sports Weston’s Lamplighter Inn Square One Printing tenant who always seemed to have in its dealings with Big Tobacco mostly duplicated laws already existing in the states The patients' bill of rights that President Clinton campaigned for would actually have been a patients' bill of frights a system of providing patients with more care while keeping costs as low as now an impossible trick unfortunately The legislation which had the potential of crippling health care was iopsidedly based on anecdotal evidence about the draconian doings of HMOs As an excellent piece of reporting has shown that information was misinformation It was partial and misleading not statistical comprehensive and factu- al Other languishing legislation? 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