Show ' Wed March 20 2i A4 The Herald Journal Soapbox The United Way process step by step Mary Prudent United Way of Cache Willey A the attack on our nation ' last year many have opened their hearts and their wallets to support those who are in need through United Way As the Director of the United Way of Cache Valley I feel that it is important that everyone gain a clearer understanding of how your dollar actually reaches those in need in our community Many people are unaware that all United Ways across our nation are separate and independent from one another When you think about it it makes sense because each community has different needs and different beliefs The United Way of Cache Valley (UWCV) started as a local community chestin 1967 In 1974 the community chest became the United Way of Cache Valley Now 35 years later the UWCV has the same goal as we’ve always had — to improve our beautiful community by those in need through supporting ' local agencies in Cache Valley The UWCV is an agency that is funded by local individuals and businesses in Cache Valley and every peiiny goes to support agencies and people in need in Cache Valley In fain one hundred percent of the money donated to UWCV stays in Cache Valley The UWCV is an agency that exists to facilitate your donation it needs We are a agency that is willing to prpvide support to it ANY our contributors wish to support If you give a dollar to the UWCV your dollar goes to support 20 different Cache Valley it agencies Each of these agencies lias met a list of stringent admission requirements which are also met by the UWCV Every ' agency provides direct human ser- vices in Cache Valley not duplicated ' by another agency In fact last year over one million units of service non-prof- non-prof- non-prof- - were provided to needy citizens here in Cache Valley by UWCV agencies Each year the UWCV conducts an extensive allocation process to determine how to distribute the funds that have been collected Each UWCV agency applies for funding every year ensuring they still meet every one of our strict requirements Each agency has to provide several pages of detailed fiscal personnel and statistical information to a volunteer board of Cache Valley citizens Every year these volunteers spend weeks filtering through each agency’s grant proposal making sure that every one of your dollars are given to fiscally sound agencies who meet real needs in our valley At the end of these weeksrof review presentations are provided by each of the UWCV agencies to die volunteer Allocations Committee enabling the committee members to ask any additional questions of die agency leaders before making a deci- sion When all the agencies have presented their needs and when every question has been asked and answered a wrenching discussion begins Extremely difficult decisions are made as the volunteers struggle to meet so many local needs with limited funding ' When complete the Allocations Committee makes a final funding recommendation to the UWCV Executive Board also composed entirely of volunteers 'that govern the actions of the UWCV throughout the year The UWCV Executive Board then reviews all of the hardwork of the Allocations Committee and votes weather to accept the recommenda- -' tions Following this meeting the UWCV conducts an annual board meeting in which the public is invite ed to attend At this meeting the final allocations are announced and ques- tions to the Allocations Committee or the Executive Board are invited Inaddition to the announcement of the allocations the UWCV Board provides a packet of informationincluding the budget for the - STUP1P PET TRICKS government that can be trusted TX A ByThad Box he mountain valley was beau- tiful that Utah spring day March 23 1877 New grasses painted the landscape bright green Early wild flow' ers shouted color from protected spots The breeze was sharp cool enough to require overcoats and mufflers A man convicted of participating in the death bf 127 innocent men women and children walked across the meadow guarded by soldiers Wagons buggies and hacks brought gawkers Newspaper reporters huddled in the cold A photographer posed the condemned man on the edge of his coffin The prisoner said UI have but little See SOAPBOX on A6 to say this morning" He claimed he was sacrificed for deeds of others He continued “I am ready to die I trust in God Death has no terror” He finished with “I ask the Lord my God if my labors are done to cation to justice and his kindness receive my spirit" Scott has served Cache County He handed hiS overcoat hat and well as county attorney He has muffler to ? friend He asked the demonstrated great fiscal responsiTo the editor: guards' to aim true Center his heart bility seeking funds on the federal Scott Wyatt and his gracious fami- not mutilate his body He sat again fevel to offset increased need for seron his coffin Fivp rifles spoke as ly are to be commended for their vices to our county He developed a decision to pursue the 1st Congres- -' one John D Lee fell back into his nationally acknowledged arid sional District House of Representapoffin Only his left hand twitched respected team of prosecutors as The lawns were manicured around tive's seat vacated by Jim Hansen well as a model Victim’s Advocacy Mr Wyatt is a man of integrity and the prison that early summer day ' program He has vigorously prose: ' June 11 200L Flowers started in a intelligence with is strong sense of luted domestic physical and sexual the values that make America strong rainbow blankets abuse cases with great sensitivity for-- ' greenhouse spread He is an articulate and compassion- -' around colors of bright dreary brick the victims of these crimes as well as ate leader dedicated to making our walls The air was hot and humid for the community at large A man convicted of causing the community our state and our nation My family and I intend to do what' '' death of 1 68 innocent men women a stronger safer place to live ever is necessary to support Mr and children sat in a windowless cell My first experience with him was Wyatt in his candidacy We believe Artificial light fell on a gurney teleto recruit himto speak to a group of' his election will be good for this ' vision cameras drip tubes and nee-- : university students who were tingle ' community for Cache County frir mothers recovering from Substance dies Television trucks were parked the state of Utah and for the entire outside News anchors jostled to abuse He look time from a busy prination We encourage you to research interview witnesses who talked bf vate practice to spend nearly two his qualifications Listen to his cam- -' hours answering their legal ques- 'closure''" ' become acquainted - ’ tions At this time he was voluntarily ' paign speeches made no last speech The pritoner with his platform If you do this sinInstead he asked his lawyer to read spending time each week providing we believe you will join our cerely William Henley’s poem “Invictus" free legal advice to university stu- ‘ family in supporting his candidacy dents-Withis help every woman in It ends "It matters not how strait the and hdping him win this election ' that group was able to right her situa-gatey How charged with punish" Thank you! ments tiie scroll I am the master of tion and get back oh her feet My most recent experience with him has v JoAnn miy fate 1 am the captain of my Autry Shill”' only increased my respect and admi- Hyriim ration for his competency his dedi- - Your view Wyatt would make good Congressman The condemned man made eye contact first with his lawyers Then his eyes met reporters and family of his victims He showed no emotion no remorse The executioner opened valves Chemicals rushed through convict veins Dilated eyes stared at tiie ceiling Timothy McVeigh died with his eyes wide open bis body unmarked save for a needle hole in his right leg The two mm described above executed 124 years apart were very different Lee was a leader in Utah pioneer culture God Church and family were important to him He repeatedly said he was sorry for his role in fee massacre at Mountain Meadows He expressed compassion for tiie victims and their families McVeigh was a loner and an atheist He showed no remorse He referred to children he killed as “collateral damage" Both men were part of minorities Both participated in horrible crimes! Both distrusted Responsibility also includes speaking against an executive order that permits people to be tried in secret by military tribunalsEven minorities and deserve an ami fair open hearing Neither the fate of traitors rim local school bud- gets should be debated in secret Freedom is safer when a free press publishes facts especially those government wants hidden Citizens need to know what their government is doing City councils legislatures and presidents should play by fee rules Those rules are guided by our Constitution Rights of individuals even those who disagree wife the majority are protected Perhaps a majority ignoring an unpopular minority led both Lee and McVeigh to hate "govern- -' non-citize- ns God-feari- ng self-righteo-us merit" Utah has its fair share of egotists zealots and suspicious isolationists It has a culture that accepts leaders on faith But that same culture was itself oppressed and knows firsthand hurt from a majority Most Utahns pride themselves on fairness and many consider tiie Cofr stitution divinely inspired We are a state wife towns that want to ban nude dancing Others a woman ' prosecute folks who gardening in a bikini We have towns that want each household to own guns Others want to ban guns We have a dominant political party that ' closes its primary to those who vote as independents We have a party wife enough votes to pass whatever they decide in secret caucus In this environment the public’s business is best conducted in the where minorities are heard The Legislature hammering out a budget in closed caucus not only but it allows i to be vindictive It shields those who make bad decisions Where minorities are free to teach unpopular ideas where tiie majority gowns in open meetings and where the press writes openly about the excesses and abuses of those in power fieedbmis safe Iheje can be trusted ft is cafied a super-majori-ty tiie majority Psychologists and historians try to determine the extent to which each was involved in mass murder Whether Lee was a scapegoat or a ring leader and whether McVeigh acted alone or was part of a conspiracy will probably be sorted out eventually But what was in the minds of tiie men as they did their deeds feed non-toler- ant wife them Some analysts suggest the same motive for each: distrust andor fear of government I admit to feeling frustration even rage when a vindictive Legislature decides issues in secret caucuses I am dismayed when commissions and councils hold telephone meetings to they cannot be covered by fee press It is easy to see where cynicism toward and distrust of government 1 arises But anger toward arrogance in government should never lead to killing innocent people In a free democracy we should vote the rascals out Wfe do not know what John D Lee and Timofey McVeigh thought was "foie government” have a responsibility to insure that government is fee people At die local level that responsibility includes speaking out when a council changes rules to allow power plants on inappropriate public lands Or officials meet privately for compromises off the record: super-majori-ty super-majori-ty ” K i ‘ gtiv-ernme- democracy nt y- -' Logan resident Thad Box's freelance column appears on the Opinion page every other Wednesday He can be leached by mal at tbaxOccsuedu Mallard Fillmore Aai Y xmse ATNWr!WE (WllcolCAr THIS M Herald Journal v f&ae tine cowepciAu caimmL Tbs HsMd Journal wstoomeo Man to the dSofPotanfaly fcatcus of ortanstva tsMsn " not bs ouMahod howavsr and ths odMor MDPV V) GOnVOfm JVtlrVM urn npK VI 001 si Tbs Opinion paps Is Htndsd to aoquSM Isadora sMh a vanity of vtmnoMs on Importance and prams mambas ol convtiunty iHSiitorisn torSoVvioi y Paraonol ootumns cartoons and Mtsra from gAAiSMa ranareiansci sis opinions or swrwmsra ana creators Edtoriaia under ho heading nour totwlsnglhandstyloraquirainaniaafft man ranmn ‘ jouvm-Mdoor- DMflREliEHRLICKfcltyadtor CINOY YURTHrtaaturas odlor JufaUtntdfoU ' -- ‘ IndMdusis tereMiany30daypsilodAddraMEfHl IbOstsIo bMsrdhkwwseom Quasi obn montariss an alre wsloonn and an nsi at tUCESMmVpubtonr CHARTSI MoCOLUMAnaoagkig ‘tfghtcoKkskmtanmon L" : onidbythautr an frnNsd to one puNshad to ii ’ i -- iAddntesdtKtlncludodsyBnnphon nunftr for IksposM ol dsriflcaSdn ' Members ol Vn odHoriel boant r LaOaa should b w k ' lyptwrinsnanddouUespacod r No mors than 460 wonts hi ItngdL -- ft rvriisfvmvitwSiX i If n M — m IW WmQTU OmIIMIi fimaiMiKri(Un-19a- R 5 a ) t ' A’ i I ' I- iMl : F' $ MUM ' - |