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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, February 14, 2001 Page 6 Thanks for love and concern The San Juan Record welcome letters from our readers. Letters to the Editor must be: No mote than 350 words We express our sincere thanks to our many dear friends neighbors and family, for the expressions of love and concern,' visits, cards, letters, telephone calls and continued love and concern to us during our hospital stay and every day since our return home. Each one has blessed OUr life, Thanks, Don and Iris Barton . Signed Include the author's address and sa it Atlhe MOVIESI pm and 9:30 pm 7 phone number Record reserves the lire San Juan right to edit letters for length, clarity and to eliminate libelous or tasteless material. Fortunate to have hospital in Monticello . NEWSPAPER Editor BILL BOYLE Offioe Manager TERRY CRAMER -- Ad Paste-u- p Design AMANDA HILLHOUSE DAWN BOYLE Office Assistant NICOLE BYRNES Writers ANNA THAYN FREDA ARON NELL DALTON MAXINE DEETER MARY LOU HOGGARD LEO PLATERO GARY TORRES TERRI WINDER SUBSCRIPTION RATES am 5 pm -- 24' wide laminator color copies scrapbook supplies Bureaucrats are at it again Record Monticello 435-587-22- 77 435-587-33- 79 TODAY ONLY EVERYTHING " I roOOFF O One Sticker, Get One FREE Buy (of equal value) when Away". do you know you're really covered ? In the past century, Cottonwood Canyon has injured no one. If the canyon must be remediated, let it be done with the private funds of and the employees of the BLM (Bureau of Land those of the DOE (Department of Environmental mischief). Require they replace every cottonwood, pinion, juniper and sage in its pristine condition. Please allow no taxpayer money to be spent on this mischievous insult on the environment. (It looks like a ploy to steal Ute Indian land) De Lamar Gibbons, MD $15 SIS SIS 50e Newsstand $14.50 $17.50 4 t Aggressive logging won cure Horsehead ills PHONE & FAX 435-587-22- 8 . Dear Editor. Dear Congressman, Your bureaucrats are at it again. The little buggers are determined they must remediate" Cottonwood Canyon in San Juan County. Cottonwood is one of the crown jewels of the Canyonlands Country. They want to turn this canyon into another Bingham Canyon, or even worse, another remediated Monticello (the mess they made there would make you vomit). Their claim is that the abandoned uranium mines pose a public health threat Phew! Where have they been the past half century? The risk has been so great they have not even bothered to put up a warning sign. A sign would actually solve the problem much better than excavation. It would read: Caution this area contains spots of low level radioactivity. If this is a problem for you, Stay The Hell AN AWARD WINMNG Sr. Citizen Sr. Out of County mon - fri 49 S Main Record San Juan County Outside County - USA APO or FPO address Most at the San Juan HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY. UTAH SINCE 1915 -- Matter John Williams The San Juan Publisher Memories Dear Editor: It is with a well body and joy that I would like to take this medium and thank the San Juan Hospital staff and Drs. for their expedience, very professional care and compassion extended to me in my recent bout with appendicitis. Thank you, Drs Fisher and Nelson, who operated on me and Dr. Redd, Blen, Marty and others joining in the care. Thank you nurses, you were excellent. The facilities were post-o- p cleaner than any hospital I have been in. We are fortunate to have such a facility in Monticello. Thank you so much. Dear Editor In the January 31, 2001 article titled Save the Horsehead, City Councilman Evan Lowry made reference to an environmental lobby coming in the 7th inning. Some of these environmentalists are members of the community that drink the water. These health community members happen to care deeply for the long-terand sustainability of the watershed, as well as the Horsehead icon, and have not asked the Forest Service to do nothing to ensure protection of our drinking water. Rather, they have asked the agency to and other alternatives that will not damage pursue the community watershed, and have expressed support for certain improvements made to the water collection system. As Councilman Lowry should know from his years with the Forest Service, agency studies show that "aggressive logging will neither cure the beetle epidemic nor create a healthy watershed. Rather, it will tear up the soils that are crucial to watershed health, especially in these steep areas. And statements from elected officials that we will have nothing but dead trees... or... a mountain any more to look at, only insult the intelligence of community members who wish to learn the facts and to make decisions based on them. Spruce bark beetles only infest spruce trees, not all of the other trees, and they typically limit their diet to spruce trees of a certain age. Thus. even if we had an epidemic, only a portion of the trees on the mountain would die. TVue, certain spruce stands may be hit harder than others, but this natural process is the forests way of clearing out some of the old conifers so that aspens and other species can grow, while leaving standing and fallen dead trees to provide habitat for wildlife and to protect against soil erosion all benefits for Monticellos watershed. Plus, as far as I know, spruce bark beetles cant carry away mountains... well still have a mountain to look at Herb McHarg Jeff Nielson BSZ Monticello Farm buremi financial Sbivices karZTa 435-587-26- 11 tax-payi- ng 77 m sjmewsOaol.coiTt WEB PAGE www.utahpress.com sanjuanrecord To have a sample copy sent to a friend, send us nis or her address. Write to PO Box 879, Monticello, ITT 84535. Copyright, The San Juan RecordO, 1998. Alritfits resented. Reproduction, reuse or transmittal of id matter herein is prohibited without prior written permission by the pubWter. ISSN 0894-327- 3 PuMehed weekly at 40 SeuOi MM, MBIIMIBiMBi rWMW d MontfMto, 4535 PtataMtatatahtaf (ISSN0S84-S271- Stafitf 98 Utah ). 8999 chanfee to P.0. Sea ITS, MentlciWe, Utah S4SIS. The Can You Think Of A Single Reason To Be Worried About tree-trappi- ng - Monticello Osteoporosis? :Herete !0Re 1. 2. 3. V j l Jt si V ! f . H 1 j . b 4. Smoking history 5. 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