Show mm mm I flight condustoMir mdr Hkety kibe gathered out of muNtuda of Opinion tongue than through any kind of flwlfKTflflUW WWWWi —Jaap Friday August 14 1998 Tha Herald Journal Logan Utah twwi Hrt tmarican wM (im-IMl- ) Page 14 Our view Signs of the times I has been several weeks since three caretakers for a cluster of Logan Canyon cabins were convicted of terrorizing youths caught sneaking onto the property but there is one aspect of the affair that remains unsettled The trio struck a plea baigain after prosecutors established in court that the owners of the cabins — Which sii on leased national forest — had no legal authority to post the surrounding public property much less erect a razor-wir- e barrier to keep people out Yet that forbidding green gate that we have all come to know and love remains in place at the bridge leading onto the property Do you suppose it Will ever cOme down? much-publiciz- ed Elsewhere in the Cache National Forest another matter screams Out for comment It has been said that members of a certain segment of the local hiking community take great pleasure in removing sigAs and other markers put up on trails to help mountain trekkers find their Way The thinking here apparently is that people going into the shOuldtx skilled enough to get where they’re going Without guidance — and if not they should just stay home And to think die battle cry of some Of these trailside tricksters is “Save the Earth” Save it for whom? Them alone? back-count- ry SO parents are simmering about 8 Eiai to charge their Mountain Crtst School students $30 each for an assigned parking spot if they drive to school Excuse Us but is 8 parking spot at school guaranteed in the Bill of Rights? How about Using the bus that Our property taxes fund? HoW about Walking or riding a bike if it's close enough? If you drive a car consider it 8 privilege and be prepared to pay for it And Iasdy the bull moose sighted frequently this summer wading die Waters Of Dry Lake in WellsViue Canyon needs a name Unless someone tomes forward with a better name let the beast henceforth be known as “Sherwood" Now there’s the empty nest rebound syndrome By Dale McFeatters Scripps Howard News Service T he parental eihotional perils of -i nest syndrome" are the saidness and family realignment that take place When One or more kids leave home That happened to Us two years ago WheA Our Oldest son Went off to college With jobs sports and ROTC he was home only for scattered Visits of a few days at a time — until this summer When a fortuitous break in the calendar allowed him a rel- aiiVely extended Well-docu- stay of three Nobody Wanted Amt and me about the perils Of “foil nest syndrome” Dale’s arrival home was preced- ed promisingly old brother Mad enough by his 16-- ’ le “When’s getting home? 1 saying can't Wait to show him my ” (lacrosse stick 400 hours of professional wrestling Videotapes new biceps etc) and his sister Kirsten scrambling to restore all the stuff she had looted from his bedroom When the great moment came I 1 recalled something about child-tearin- g had been told long agO: They sleep longer and longer through foe night until they come home from college When they don’t get up at all Ah but the quality time in those brief waking bouts For a start We had What can only be described as a viewing Kirsten's friends all had to see — and be seen — by her exotic Older brother WillOWV young adolescent females in cutoffs iand midriff Would Visit the house and contrive to pass back and forth before tire young college man zonked out on the couch watching Wrestling (Pro Wrestling my son assured me is -- soap opera for young males there is some truth to this Like soap operas Wrestling is pointless and foe principals talk too much but Wrestling is much louder) Time had softened my memory Of our Young adult group helps with caregiving lb foe editor: Do you know where your children are? With the publicity about our older teenagers f want the community to know about the dozen or so kids that ‘hang out around my house My daughter has a close-kn- it group Of friends that are at my house anytime from 8 am to 2 or 3 am 1 feed them 1 water them My neighbors must be rick of seeing all the Vehicles puked out in ftOtttOfthe house Horrible? Oh well Fortunately we live next to Latter-da“Saints" These 'lads’ fori range in ages from 1$ through 2? are m fois casual group the initiation to being in foe group has tO do WiA Picking the Up Off foe ground or floors I ean’t do the things that requite walking or standing And when y my broken hip (it’s just an arthroplasty) decides to pop out very often I find on the ground before 1 even “You can’t accept the fact that I’m myself thought about falling I've broken ribs bigger stronger smarter and better look- and bones ing than you can you?” This Soctatic dialogue escalated Until one evening when they were driving back from Weight-liftin- g 8 number tWO son’s school Whatever the argument Weeks jsm two sons together That too had started My older SOri having learned at Ft Knox to administer a haircut short enough to satisfy my younger son who can't seem to attain the proper level of stubble at commercial establish- ments I had however forgotten the preferred mode of opening a sibling conversation: “You know why nobody likes you don’t you?” promisingly With Your view was about —each gave the same expla-- t nation: the Other Was being Stupid — the younger one got out of the ear and announced he would tun the rest of foe way home all 12 miles of it Mi att was doing pretty well until be got lost The phone tang at home: it was Matt — collect — saying please come get hint Unfortunately Where he Was didn't have any street signs tire number had been ripped off the pay phone and there were no bnsinesses or honses around only warehouses One of the Warehouses had a name and fori name was in the Yellow Pages listed at an Obscure address 1 was almost lost myself until the only light in foe neighborhood turned out to be foe loading dock of a Rastafarian ft factory where the foreman was able to give tare directions to Whett 8 foriorn figure Waited under a streetlight so whose fault was it? Mine of course Each complained that 1 had reared foe other to be an idiot The question Of blame being resolved they Settled in to watch an eddying program involvVs ing Goldberg While 1 Hollywood Hulk was still steaming Dale other inconsequential Your children are here for occasionally days at a time and sometimes just for horns When it became a horrible necessity to paint the house these kids laid into the work like professionals It doesn’t bother them that I’m so crippled that 1 can barely supervise to say to foe parents of ijuxtwi these (oftentimes) troubled teens yon did good Your kid is wonderful and sensitive 1 know nil about how so many could not graduate from high school xi: i At dcchiisc or our Waipcu senoo! system Don’t be concerned about what these kids talk about They rarely talk about all you parents out there Maybe one or two comments about not being able to talk to you They love you but just can’t express fori ri this time 1 know it is tough to let go of your children It has to be foe hardest thing I’ve ever done But they’re emancipated adults therefore old enough to make decisions Do 1 agree with them? Of course not! t fuss and worry about them and say a loud prayer fori they BE SAFE and watch out for all foe idiots on foe road Mostly we talk about whrt we want to be when we grow up 1 can relate because ri 36 1 still don’t know what I warn to be when 1 grow up Most of your kids worry about foe fact fori they’re not living up to your expecW 2 a h so-call- promised his brother fort he would net home some Weekend tins fall to see butt tations that includes at least one play football and foal yes Kirsten and Rhodes scholar Several more went away her friends could tide in his car to dm with scholarships to trade schools and game erfllege Maybe their mother and 1 could borDespite foe crowding and sometimes row his college room foal Weekend Let messy kitchen they are wonderful They foe kids cope with empty nest syndrome cook shop and they feed me I they don’t know What I’d do Without them It’s pretty obvious how well they feed me if you know me Thank you for raising your kids SO well I’ve so enjoyed them and their incredible talents They never cease to amaze me I blow you love your kids 1 do too of them are like mown When many kids 1 have! usually ask if this is a trick question Please don’t be disturbed if they feel they can talk to an adult other than their folks 1 actually remember being in foe same place All 1 can say is thank you for foe wonderful values you have instilled in your children (We Mb' lots Of New Testa- foe works for a long time before WH Larson derided to tun” 1 agree However in defense of Mr Pearce’s letter 1 think his key point Was fori if 1 had hot announced my attention to run for sheriff and placed this important issue into my original platform police eover- - Southfield In foeir July 12 letter Ms thuigood-Presco- tt and Mr Barfus would like you to believe that the jail you still owe over two million dollar for is too small Having woiked as a jail supervisor in that jail lean ted you that the Cache County Jail is not too small The sheriffs own 24-ho- ur age for the citizens of Cache County would still be “m foe works" the second concern in foe luly 12 letter addresses Cache County's housing of state contract prisoners (convicted kl i KalAMtak Wh a1 u to me jau reionsi wno are conuniuca a condition of probation hy state district court judges “Contract prisoners” are state prisoners not county prisoners And Id's get something out of foe way tight now— if the state of Utah was los ment) ing money boarding out prisoners in lust know your kids are safe Inst county jails they would immediately know they're very mature and make Stop fori practice and build a new prison! There is no way foe suae of Utah can good derisions build a prison equip it and staff it for whri foe state pays Cache county LizMoosman Candidate discusses sheriff’s office doings Tofoe editor: Earlier this month n lea to foe editor written by two current Cache County Sheriff’s Office employees appeared in the Herald journal The letter was critical of comments made by Reed Pearce who was addressing what be believed were foe benefits of an emerging system hero in Cadre Camay two-par- ty For clarification: Before and during Ms thurgood- - Prescott’s employment with the cache county sheriff’s Office! was to oversee shift scheduling for foe nal Patrol Division When graveyard-shi- ft coverage Was eliminated Over eight years ago 1 strongly disagreed with that i course of action and I immediately began to solicit the sheriff to reinstate coverage 1 have personally presented to Sheriff Oroll and every other 24-ho- ur sheriff’s office administrator many dif ferent scheduling options that would annual reports support my position According to foe Cache County Sheriffs Office 1997 year-en- d report foe average daily inmate count has dropped for each of foe last three yean the July 12 letter composed by these two Cache County employees also contained a commonly used threat a warning foat insinuates foat taxpayers must contribute more money for a larger jail or foe sheriffs office will “let them (inmates) go" Wed 1 got news for you — foe current sheriff has already over 20 inmates hack into cur community Oannary through March 1998) ad without telling you and obvi ously without telling his own deputies earty-tdeis- ed and Staff And finally in foe last paragraph of and Lloyd Deputy Thutgood-PrescottBarfin’ Wrier they allude to a discrimi’s nation law suit fori I filed in which a jury came back wifo a guilty verfod in U S federal court agaim Cache Counand Mr ty Both Ms thurgood-Ptesco- tt Barfus know foat they have me at great disadvantage hare as Cache County and 1 have settled cm differences and neifotr one or us can discuss any of my adega-t-y xonx However I wid Hk count the number of times a mother teB tgamst fori I did what 1 believed was you would call into the (dispatch center morally and ethically right for foe reporting an overdue son or daughter of this county and a federal jury Only for Us to discover fori their child after hearing seven days of testimony had been up a local canyon wafting for with me agreed Wi lUiklA omcers on to Bain Mw tnnxcemem go So when Deputy Knri Prescott and Lloyd Barfra say foat the recently rein William Harvey Larson stituted coverage had beea “in Box Elder Conwy Sheriffs Office have allowed rMfoout police cover- t'niiin rorwr communities age As a swing-sbi- ft patrol supervisor 1 knew firsthand foe liability and safety concerns fori increased enormously by not having kw enforcement coverage for cache county residents from 2 m foe tairtraiftg Wntit ft t foe 0rtriwhg tptfniV titi-xe- 24-ho- ns ur Mallard Fillmore Herald Journal Mom I witeA sod vtere foiOoHMMSbMsMsdteaoqwM teadrn wMt a variety of vtawpoMs on maflsri tH puDic vnponanoo wig provioG irummoi tht community wlftttoriim -- tefctaK Vbu mf&rep? mow Editorial policy to 1 “XW Nl ite' inGrwwa journal wwoomwiMiMiomt to Lomond cotonnit cartoons end Mtoi from lasopis lanaci mo cpnona w iwr wnvofi ana emton EdHwMstjndM’M hearing V)ur namn journal lapwaam mvmwigvii Adlledri SuimA ike canonw iw iXMra MomDom ot vw oogio WFi0C!E18MlYHapiMlahr kHKEWEtMERORENMyadHeir Wmor rMvrnmy oronanoNt ioqm WM hdtbi pUbWMd hOHMr UM Mttr tUsMUM fM right to Mk al Motto contort tea itngtfi and sty reqiAemami m ait UnsmihouMba: Typwwinai and flotFiis spuad No sms than 460 words in lanafo A J AAJI kAiAA i via w nOwHiva viauoo cwynmo pnono numucr vor puvpoooo m wwncHon Slgnod by M author tedMdurii aia 1MIM tO CM edMahod r wRran wiy 9(HMy penoo MOOMN CWMi SMAdkhA Akik MIMVVM IqMRmiyiVIIKMVIiwMflOnr kX SWAAAAe AA AfaA TIVGiMhVM Wv HNeUOOmB AkJi MQ Aa UR ftkA AdhiUto JlUaakA WO VtmOri MQlBOfk Nb-M- pi I POORC mm |