Show ffiMM Sunday April 25 2004 A4 The Herald Journal Our view £ox £ue&axm v£om£ Me MATEmir Pisrucr ON ftSftUT0& Time for mandatory ffcj Iwwtp men if W0 emissions testing wf ftouep a as were the older cars Unfortunately all three of hrce things stand out these results point to one thing: about the recent “Is Your Car up mandatory emissions testing is to Par?' voluntary emissions needed in Cache County and testing day in Logan the sooner the better The most obvious one is that Apparently preserving our in spite of all our complaining volhealth is not enough of a carrot air about last winter's dirty to us get to tune up our cars let untary efforts to reduce the polalone leave1 them in the garage lution won't work Only 80 their to have showed and take a bus We need a stick up people cans tested a miniscule fraction And those of us who think our of Cache County's nearly newer carscaii’t be polluting are 100000 residents living in a dream world The second thing was that Nobody likes to be told what Bear River Health Department to do but apparently we need a Air Quality Chief Grant little nudge If someone in the Koford's prediction that 20 per- valley gets killed by a drunk dri- cent of the cars wouldn't pass ver there's an outcry for tougher was right on Of course with DUI laws but if an elderly asthsuch a small sample size it’s matic dies after going out for a ' impossible to extrapolate the walk next winter who will take results to the valley's whole responsibility? Will we still motor fleet but if one in five insist on our freedom to pollute? Cache Valley care is polluting The 16 or so cars that got more than it should no wonder tuned up as a result of last Saturour air's a mess day’s exercise are not going to A more surprising finding make a dent in the brown cloud even to the testers was that folks Eighty responsible people almost as many of the newer can’t make up for the rest of us cars were polluters (post-199- T $10UQCAL WEAfbWS 'MS lUlS M& U$ Words to remember Boston by To (heeditnr: v I read a letter to the editor about street racing and 1 have to agree with the letter The problem is there is more than just import cars and mus- cc cars that race There are a lot of bigger trucks and more and more diesel trucks oh the roads racing' There is more than enough need for a track and way more than enough rooiii lor a track here in Cache Val- : Icy If scheduled right the revenue a track' could bring in would be tremendous Especially during the Cache Valley Cruise-ILogan's biggest event is centered around cars" yet we have no drag strip' You' can go down to the fairgrounds and enter in the go to the skate ' park) go tobikemoto events in the- fairgrounds hut 'you cannot drag race unless you drive 90 miles one way to' ' ' n truck-pull- a bronze of the duckling family in non balls couldn't penetrate its sides Boston Commons It’s the oldest commissioned ship in Boston Commons — One of the the U5 Navy and fought the British oldest public parks in the country in the War of 1 812 It has never lost a battle It has been restored and still and the beginning of the Freedom acations end quickly and the sails out of Boston Harbor once a Trail British troops camped there memories fade fast Karen and I just in from Boston week a back year (luring the American Revolution It got Mike's Bakery — We didn’t was established “For the enjoyment Neither of us had been there before know what a treasure we found when of the people an4 for the grazing of and we wanted to remember the we stumbled across Mike’s Bakery experience So on the way home we as we were walking the Freedom made a list of words and phrases to Legal Seafood — This restaurant Trail When we made our way back claims that if the fish is not fresh it’s help remind us to the hotel everyone was impressed ' not legal They also have the best of some of the because we had boxes of goodies clam chowder I’ veever tasted unique expert ' from Mike’s Everyone wanted ences of the Free Lunch — We actually got a directions to Mike’s Bakery week Here is free lunch at an Italian restaurant in Red Sox — The Red Sox were in a sample of North Boston When we were walk- town playing a four game series what we came ing the Freedom Trail we stopped against the Yankees and wegpt tick- up with into a small Italian restaurant for Patriots ets Fenway Park isn’t very big we lunch and ordered a pizza It was so ' had great seats on the third base line Day — Mon-- ’ that two days later we went tasty We saw “The Green Monster” day of last back for another When we finished ' week- was Patripts Day and it’s a holUnfortunately the game we saw was our second visit the waitress told us the only one of the four that Boston in that is on celebrated Boston iday lunch was on her When we asked lost the third Monday of April each year why she said that she had rememRoasted nuts — Karen stopped at bered I knew people in Boston celebrated us from two days ago and had a street vendpr to buy some roasted Patriots Day blit never knew what it given us someone else’s bill and we nuts and asked if they were as good was all about I always thought it paid too much No matter how much " was kind of like Utah’s 24th of New York’s A man overheard her as July we insisted we’d pay again anyway ' I soon learned it was a little more and informed her that Boston roasted she made-surthe lunch'was on hor nuts were much better than New significant than our Pioneer Day — is what Bostoni- This Patriots Day commemorates a huge - York’s because “We gave 'em the ans call the subway system We event that began in Boston about 225 recipe but we gave them the wrong found it very user friendly Only one” years ago The American Revolution $125 to go almost anywhere We ) Cemeteries T—Ajohgthe Free-Boston Marathon — A : rode it a lot and werehappy that we domTraiif are Several very old cemeroad race that always hap- didn’t rent a car' The morning we teries We spent a lot of time looking pens on Patriots Day Unfortunately! wanted to walk the Freedom Trail we " at the old grave markers and reading was a spectalornot a participant asked a subway official about the some of the insightful and humorous ' Karen arid I were about 300 yards trail and which subway train we inscriptions oh the headstones One from the finish iine and saw the winshould take to get to where it Started caught my eye was the headstone of riing runners' finish We also saw We also made the mistake of corn- Edward Carter'who died in 1742’ many runners struggle to the finish menting that often people who live in Bejow h'is name were the following Ijne because it was a hot day It was a community don't take advantage of words orie of the hottest days ever for the ) some of the things tourists come to ' Boston Marathon: see such as the Freedom Trail He Farewell vain world I have: " ' Freedom Trail TrTwo'andone quickly corrected us and smdr “I’ve enough 'of thee half miles of fascinating American walked the Freedom Trail many 'And now I care less what thou times You're here because you’re a History in the heart of Boston We "i say of nie took all day to walk it and enjoyed tourist I'm here because I love: What fault thou see in me take ' ' Boston”"every minute of it It's Well marked care to shun (' 7 with a red brick Ijne that meanders 7 We enjoyed bur week in Boston There work within thyself thou : and through the city and includes many obviously "didn’t have time U) see’ should be done " historic places including Paul) everything We learned to love Tfiy snulfl courtnor thy frowns Revere's houseThe Old North Boston and will go back sometime Churchy Bunker Hill Faneuil Hall) see more of it and cares lies arc head My jtast my " the site of the BostonMassacre the ) quiet here : Bruce Smith is The Herald Benjamin Franklin Statue and many ' : others-- ' Joumal'e — for The Make Way publisher His column Ducklings Old Ironsides The Freedom ) ' name of a famous children's book by' appears on the Opinion page Trail ends atthe battleship USSGon-stitutio- n Robert McCloskey about how a fam- - every other Sunday He can be ' that was nicknamed Old reached by at ily of ducks made their way through : Ironsides because the enemy ’scan-- -' '' the busy streets of Boston We found' bsmithhjnewscom: r By Bruce Smith Herald Journal publisher ' - - -- track makes sense s race Not to mention the fact that ' RMR midnight drag events are so crowded you might drive 180 miles round trip and pay $1 5 to race on top of the gas prices now days to run one or twq times V I do understand the amount of rev- enue the Logan Police get from '‘catching’’ people street racing but I think they could get a lot more opening a track and having the policy pro-mote the legal racing than spending lots of money and hours trying to stop the illegal part of it But really the bottom Tineis people are going to race Weather it is on die streets oral ' other tracks around like Boise and ' Vegas’ and RMR and no matter how you look at it the people and busi- nesses oif Logan are loosing put on the revenue and advertisement possibilities for no reason at all V ' oretu? 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