Show '' " ' J - ’ ' ‘ ’ ' ' '' ' ': ’ - ' K V Vj 'o : ' V"' ' A v v i Wednesday March 27 2002 A4 atTfU wy' The Herald Journal ' Your view XiMCAiluML CToaNPaVoiP PUBliC CPNFlfSioM If nine months of seminary were permitted more students would spend more time in the seminaries First things first in our schools ' and the school population would students each hour in 0 drop by in Cache Valley school every high thus making smaller classes The schools would not lose one cent of funding doing this I encourage anyone who desires nine months of seminary to write to the school board and make that wish known to' them Those who take seminary cannot take as many academic courses ' Employers yearn for dependable moral-base- d employees Show me a resume that includes seminary institute church awards requiring dozens of hours of public service Scouting awards and missions Add to that no cigarette breaks nor coffee and a life free of drugs and alcohol and I will show you a resume that will be very sen- ously considered for any job available Students who do not achieve these awards may be as dependable and moral as all others but they do not have the transcripts or certifi- cates to help them establish it To the editor: e public-employee- - ' Mont Poulsen Smithfield plans not fully explained To the editor: You recently reminded your readers of a lawsuit between the ACLU and the Logan Seminary in 1977 I’d like to further educate your readers' about the outcome of that suit The ACLU sued the Seminary feeling it was wrong for a religious institution to give high school credit Because the seminaries stopped giving credit immediately after that suit many people assumed the Logan Seminary lost hut with the services of Oscar McKonkie the Seminary soundly- won that suit ' ' Seminaries also won the right to teach any high school course but the seminary must first obtain accreditation from the state to teach the course(s) The LDS church did not want accreditation so they surrendered the right to give credit (see Civil N0NC How could the court's forbid the LDS seminaries from giving credit 1 - 77-002- ‘ 5) 'while permitting thousands of Catholic high schools to give credit? Even today if a- student transfers ' from Judge Memorial High School in SLC to Cache Valley most of her credits will be accepted by our m ' Charles O’Brien Smithfield public-school- ‘ The judge also stated “Parents may request permission from the School to have their children released for one period during the school-da- y throughout the school year to take a course at the LDS seminary” V Notice the ruling allows students to take seminary through the nine-- 7 month school year but our local school board allows the students to ' take seminary only six months: The local school board has the legal right to regulate the hours of seminary a student takes but if the school board were to lower graduation credits ‘ from 27 to 25 student&could take seminary all year The state requires only 21 credits to graduate from high ''school IS ailowep To KNdW ifflaa 9flasl l WHar you THars For MS To KNoW aND You To FiNP OUT mbs? mm i These letters and other personal essays on the Herald Jour- rial Opinion page may express opinions that do not align with your own If you disagree please respond with a letter to the editor or contact editor Charles McCollum about a possible 1 guest commentary (Phone: Ext 3020 cmccollumO hjnewsicom) See infor-- matron box at bottom of page for more details Product Warning - We'Re DoiNS An Easter miracle er prank John Stewart week or next year Just be patient Sometime in the future 1 will be right back in style You might even say that rather than my bung a reminder ext Sunday being Easter I of the dark ages I am a courageous would like to note that this chief fes- forerunner of the future A style setrival of Christians in celebration of ter Something like that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the But the Easter bonnet business has only celebration that I am aware of whose date is determined by the caused me to stray from other forces of nature You will recall that thoughts I desired to share regarding Easter and related matters: No doubt it is always on RSaPHfcSasB!uis the Sunday during the past few months you have noticed occasional historic Cache after the first full moon folValley photos in the HJ extracted from its recently published book lowing the Several of these have been of vernal (spring Wellsville Cache Valley’s oldest rime) equinox ' (when the sun community crosses the Many people claim that Wellsville natives have a unique colloquial equator and day and night vocabulary and dialect I have never everywhere are theoretically of equal detected that and never lived in Wellsville Yet many times I have length) been asked “Are you from Unfortunately commercial sales and Wellsville?’ When I ask diem what vacationpromotions springtime ' ing have detracted from the true sig- prompted their question they say nificance of Easter as have the “Because you talk like you're from Wellsville You use strange words heathen traditions involving ' ' and pronounce other words strange- bunny rabbits baby chicks colored eggs and Easter egg hunts With' the ly” prolonged winter we are having in They cite the' word “snib” for Cache Valley as my daughter Rebecinstance which as anyone from ca mentioned to me the Easter Wellsville can tell you means “lock” or “fasten ” as in “snib the door” bunny this year might well be a snowshoe rabbit Apparently I picked up a few such words from my beloved father' Perhaps you will recall hearing a Robert Haslam Stewart (Stuart) a popular song of years ago which native of Wellsville Years ago he begins “Put on ypur Easter bonnet with all the frills upon it Not wrote a book ‘True Stories of the women Easter bonnets wear West” in which he includes mention ‘many of some interesting characters and any more A few little girls still do just for Easter Sunday And they look events in Wellsville Ode of several that he did not include but which I darling in them Fashions are fickle and what is will include if ever I publish a new edition of it is about an old gentle1 popular arid stylish in one generation can be totally outmoded in another man he told me of who had die habit Call me a fashion expert if you wish of ejaiming visions ' At each monthly fast and testimoMy children complain about my clothes being terribly outmoded but ny meeting in church this visionary 1 remind them that styles come and 7 old gentjeman had a spectacular new vision to report fo the amused or go and while my garb may be con- sidered outdated today it could be astonished congregation But one 7 'the raging thing tomorrow or next Sunday he lost whatever credibility he might have had for at the end of his newest tale in his heavy accent he asked “Und ver do you rink I had djs vision?” After a dramatic pause and with a sly look on his face he proudly announced “It vass in der outhouse!” Someone in the congregation cried out“Good hell!” then got up and Stomped out of the meeting Apparently the bishop put a damper on the old gentleman for he did not share any more visions for several months even though he still attended the meetings Then one Easter Sunday something happened: My father was about 10 or 12 years old at die time! He and some of his friends decided to color a double dozen eggs and place them in the nests of the old man’s chicken coop replacing the white eggs that his hens had laid It was a late Saturday night covert operation With nervous anticipation the boys' took their usual seats in church next day — Easter Sunday They glanced around to see whether the old man was in the meeting: They did not see him But near the close of the opening hymn die outside door was flung open and a loud voice cried out “Der Safior he iss coming! Der Safior he iss coming! I haf der proof off it!” He marched up the aisle proudly displaying the colored eggs for all to see and behold Several youths with their heads ducked down and unsuccessfully trying to suppress laughter immediately alerted the bishop to die basic cause of the excitement 7- - ‘ It was an Easter Sunday long remembered in Wellsville' : - age-ol- d i : - : John Stewart is a longtime River Heights resident His freelance column appears on the Opi nion page every other Wednesday He can be reached by frfnaH at johnstewart84321 0 yshoocom : views Leave it to teens for Unique perspective Christian Science Monitor room? tjround zero” Something bwcyiTjlteweapbns-grad- 752-212- ' V I “r"- t didn’t take long fortrend-set- ting tfens to come up with slang and jokes related to Sept 11 Messy bed- - 7 ' JL' so-o- -o break the bouhds' of respect and - HE O'pDNN&t &WR Bra wot a vsimy or vwwpoinu on tnanais dpibfcilnportmNandpiovidainatnbanof rrapyilttr ttiaoonvnunltvYvIthafoninlorttwir mmam '7: lolhalenothandavlTBOulwmanlaofltia iMliutsP t l H iVV 4 :r DARRELLEHRUCKtity CINQY YURTHIaaturea - 7 ' : r a t’rn ! - A f' If ' ' y y r'’ ’tf Urfr ft Mm ' ’ tfOaianotiODs: aiypowittManddoubifrspaoad A "f '' V: ' 'i '' Nonxthan450o(Ulntonfllti t : A AcUraMadandkxAiitodBytbw phono r nunhm'tor tmtroaaa nf vittftiatkw ' Sgnad bytwaultipri ' t i V Vv j:v lndMduatoaialriiMtocinaput)Mwdlai tsr within any v oortod Addresa tattara to lilMarOtifnawaeom GumI ' V? -- Vv HIM -- ' Y ' 'A 30-ds- 7 (CHAME8 McCOLLUMknanhsfng adBor’ 4 " UtmArm ’ 7 adHor adltor' 4v'BM)CE8MITHbiMatiar : Journal Mbornm Man to tw tnr PnauHtaly Itxitiw wor ofhmsiw total not be pubiOwdhowover mdVwadkx ' ninnnf MinxoiiiitpBoniiDOtKp r TlwHMd " raadanreOsottha opinions of ttwirnttan and craalots: Edkxfatouniartwhaaifng'Our Vlaw raprasent tw viawt of IhaHsrad Journal we NBA? I'Vi vlnn 7 'V- :lThe rttevwsr :m jj so-o- -o - Herald Journal 12 taste But leave it to teens to relieve the stress of this ongoing crisis and to keep adults mindful of dieir own word choices such as “crusade” which is past millennium e “That’ Sct pot Such “terror humor” can easily Mallard Fillmore 7 i we KNOW WM3T TRUST US ! ' Pont know VtoMTHURT You ’ To the editor: I really had to laugh when 1 read the Friday March 22 article about the construction of a new golf club house for the Birch Creek Golf Course JimGassis quoted as saying ?The club house will be paid for exclusively with revenues from the course They’ve been putting money away for about three years for this” To think that Birch Creek has gener- ated enough revenue in the last three years to build a new clubhouse is absurd The true source of funding comes from the selling of city owned recreational property Guess where Smithfield’s next development is going to be located If you guessed “next to the 18th fairway?" you are' 100 percent correct Needless to say the adjoining Jand owners (including myself) are not happy about this and are trying to purchase the property at its fair market appraisal to keep it as an open space or turn it into a walking trail when a mote health conscious administration comes to power I think our efforts are in vain The city is already touting how big and nice ’ the new clubhouse is going to be and how much they expect to make off the property sale What they are not ' effects addressing is the long-terthiswill have on the city of Smith- field What are you going to sell off the next time you need money? Seminary won that 1997 lawsuit ‘ItfeSHaiWdrteftlMgNT ONLY By Smithfield Sam Jacobs Logan ' ABSouma None of Your 60L- PURH Beeswax! 75-10- news! Utah legislators cut $41 million from public educg- tion budget We are told that this will cause us to lose teachers increase class size and raise local taxes bad news for Utah education Turn the page Logan schools spend $125000 on security cameras These cameras can catch kids pulling fire alarms or other pranks and we get to watch students and teachers 24 hours a day Great idea trade four or five teachers for fun spy cams Does anyone see something wrong with this picture? Other than the invasion of privacy for students and teachers we are wasting much needed money Why is it that always get the boot and citizens get the bill when legislators can’t budget? If your income were cut would you go out andspluige on anewcamcorder? Maybe if some-on- e else is paying for it That is why we have new spy camsat our underfunded schools: you are paying for it our teachers arc paying for it and our children are paying for it Let's take the receipt to our legislators and school board in the upcoming election and get a refund on their broken promises Please support Sam Jacobs for Utah House No 5 and help us demand that the schopl board and legislators put first things " first! Front-pag- Panic FROM MOW oH Trie aPMiNiSTRaTioH WitlPeSiSteife ‘I com- - J s ' I |