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Show November 26, 1986 Page 2, (UJintah Editorial Basin Siaindairdl Attending City Council could provide facts Attending city council meetings, be it as an elected official, newspaper reporter or citizen, is usually boring. But the last Roosevelt City Council meeting was sparked with the discussion of a letter from businessmen regarding the redevelopment property the city recently ' developers, Brubaker, face the cost of providing the fill dirt for the expansion instead of having the city provide it and receiving $10,000. City officials felt the the city could not have provided necessary amount without it costing the city more than the money they would have received. This city has had the reputation of be- for several years and it ing is refreshing to see businesses move into town. This provides increased employment, opportunity and a breath of fresh sold. The businessmen were claiming the property was "given away," and were upset over the decision both at the bowling center deal and the Dove's expan- anti-busine- sion deal. Most residents think the idea of getting a bowling center and having an expanded Dove's are positive steps, but ss ideas to the community. It will eventually bring increased tax revenues to the ci- providing a better for all of us to live in. The idea that the city was "antibusiness," was partially based on lack of information, just as the idea that the ty there are some businessmen that disagree. They alledged that the city "give away," might be illegal if not just a bad decision, but if they had come to city council meetings they would have learned it was not a give away. It is too bad most residents don't feel it is important enough to spend a couple of hours a week attending the city council meetings. They would be informed first hand instead of waiting for the gossip and coffee-sho- . and assist in com-muni- ty "give aways," were. Some of the businessmen in the area are upset about the new businesses coming into town and seemingly getting a good deal. It appears that what they are upset about most is not being the first ones to think of the swap idea. We again encourage all citizens to attend the city council meetings to find the facts of the many situations they face each week. Boy Scouts have to at- tend one meeting to qualify for their Gtizenship in the Community merit badge and perhaps it would be a good idea if more citizens attended at least one meeting a year. ' Council meetings are Tuesday nights 6 p.m. to 9 or 10 p.m. From 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., they take care of the purchase orders and mundane business, which is interesting but can be missed most of ,the talk. If they had been to the meetings they p would have realized that the city gave away nothing. the previous offers to the city for the property at 1 00 North and Main, the city would have been responsible for putting in the public parking lot. Estimates for this were from $80,000 to $ 1 00,000. The proposal from Fogle Brothers puts the burden of the parking lot cost on the developers rather than the city. This appears to have saved the city upwards of $20,000 instead of being a give away. The Dove's expansion is also more of a swap than a give away. Dove's In time. ; . , , . .. . . ' . 'i .; : : See you there? -.- v ft , l I .. principal - . INUIM earth and all ita creatures, every bird, every animal and every, plant. Please let us all work together to help Smokey along. Coloring competitions were held and winners were given special prises. The winners wen: Tien Hadden, Joanna Lamb, Michelle Crapo, Nicole Richens and Nathan Jenson. Mrs. Phillips also recognised teachers tor all their efforts. She also left materials for all the students to make Smokey the Bear necklaces. Mrs. Phillips we appreciate your work and efforts to make education not only fun and enjoyable but meaningful. Thank you, Larry Henry Sewer problems are partially preventable i ..1 rti r:ji s fr t County taxes decrease and services will follow Dear Editor, Recently as I have responded to sewer problems in various parts of the city, there has been the same type of waste material ( : found to be causing the plub. In the last four instances, each time I removed a very large , chunk of grease. Please dont j pour this type of waste down ' your drain lines. You might be the next one with Yes, we do have some problems: yes, we should recognize and help these people in any way we can. But, to headline an issue of this type sounds like all of our kids are spending every waking minute in the back seats of cars, and that is just not true. tat me now refer to an article from the Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, November 20, entitled Researcher Says Teen Pregnancy is Family Problem. "In spite of documented increases in premarital sex among the majority of high school students in the western study, both male and female, repent sexual abstinence, he said. In terms of these rates by state. New Mexico teens scored the highest in sexual involvement Utah scored the lowest, with California bring closer to Utah than New Mexico. Another positive reinforcement for the teenagers as a whole 'comes from the Deseret News, Thursday p.m. and Friday a.m. entitled "LiNovember beralism blamed for the decline in ' 13-1- 4, family life. It also challenges conventional wisdom .on teenage sex. Contrary to the rid excuse, everybody is not doing it. Adolescent sex is on the decline, ..Citing date from the National Center for Health Statistics and other surveys, the report said, Several studies indicate the percentage of American teenagers sexually active declined between 1979 and 1982. Ahnost half of all unmarried girls are virgins."' Explain the statistics, why are they bo high? Young marriages are perfectly legal and socially acceptable: they are a part of the statistics used in the November 5 article I am sure. The public deserves some explanation when sensational statistics like these are given. Teenagers of the Basin are among the best in the world! Sincerely yours Nancy Perrival , - to eliminate tight budget, but anything already when economic times are hard, it must be accomplished. And with the economic uncertainty of years ahead, hopefully the stringent budget. philosophy administered this past year, be followed. Because when candidates spoke of their philosophies, raising taxes was not among their attributes. Thinking about it, not raising taxes does have a certain, pleasant ring to it. However, not every good deed goes unpunished. Residents should realize that as your protesting high taxes, while demanding them to decrease each year, services, which you have grown accustomed too, will also diminish as quickly. If services are something you can live without, than voice that to the decision makers. But remember, once the services are put away and forgotten, it's costly to have them reincorporated. With encouragement from its constituents along with a bleak economic - picture - Duchesne commissioners lowered the budget in almost all departments - starting with their own. Commissioners' salary dropped from $89,076 this year to a total budget of $82,503 next year. Most other departments saw a decrease except the assessor. That department had a substantial increase because of the cost it will take to reassess the entire county next year. Besides the three commissioners, each department head should be proud of cutting where they could to make the Letters The Uintah Basin Standard welcomes and encourages opinions from readers in the form of Letters to the Editor. All letters will be published unless they contain libelous andor defamatory statements. Letters must be signed with a telephone number. Letters should be typed or dearly hand printed, double spaced. They can then be submitted to the STANDARD Office. P.O. Box 370ot 268 S. 200 E.. Roosevelt, Utah 84066, before 5:00 p.m. Friday. All letters become the property of the STANDARD and may be edited to fit space restrictions. BASIN Ida Phillips and Smokey visited Myton Dear Editor, I.BBt week 1 The Uintah Bolin STANDARD it published weekly at P.O. Box 370, By the Uintah Roosevelt, Utah 84066 Basin Standard. Second-Clas- s USPS Postage paid at Roosevelt, Utah. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Uintah Basin Standard, P.O. Box 370, Roosevelt, Utah 84066. OfFICI 0 HOURS: Office hours far the Uintah Basin STANDARD are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday.Closed Saturday and Sunday. Tuesday working with students preparing posters, worksheets. Mrs. Phillips told the children how important it was to understand, protect and preserve our wilderness hertitage. She emphasized the importance of care the first, second and third grades of Myton Elementary School were priveleged to have Ida Phillips provide an Fire excellent presentation on centered The program Safety." around' Smokey the Bear and teachers Donna Pitt, Laurie Davis. Boyd Lemon, Joan Jones and Gloria Jones had been UINTAH STANDARD 722-513- 6469-000- difficult , ! will year's budget. THE It's in an and safety. Smokey made an appearance to the delight of all. Songs were sung, accompanied by Dorothy Scott of Myton. We saw a short movie on fire safety and the dangers of playing with matches. Mrs. Phillips then made this comment: Now you know why I love Smokey the Bear. He loves our PAP1R? If you missed your paper, call during working hours. and ask for Greg Duerden NIWS TIPS: Call 727-513-1 (Roosevelt), Tom Brennan (Duchesne): Delyse Bel Ion (Upper Country); LaAnn Walker, (Ballard). MISS TOUR 732-513- 1 BIVTORIAli Greg Duerden, Tom Brennan, News Reporter, Delyse Bellon. DSADUNISi Deadlines for the Uintah Basin STANDARD ate: Legal Notices, Thursday at 5 p.m. Classified Advertising, Friday at Noon: Display Advertising, Friday at Noon; Around the town news Friday at 5 p.m. To request a photogrohet, please call during working houts and set up a time. ADVIRTtSINOl Craig Ashby, Advertising Manager; Cindy Belts, Advertising, Ad Design; Colett Ashby, Ad Design (. the clogged line: with sewer backing up into your nice finished basement or even in your unfinished basement filled with all your odds and ends. Lets be considerate of others. Robert Jarrett City Sewer Superintendent Teen pregnancy story told only one side Dear Editor, As with most things there are two sides to every story. I would like to refer back to the November 5, 19K6, issue of the Uintah Basin STANDARD to the article Teen Pregnancy High in Uintah Basin." I have been associated with the young people in the Basin for 23 years in the capacity of a junior high and fMwilnr high school teacher. I have watched many students go through some very difficult times in regards to this problem. So, I see it, yes. but I also see many other students who have not had such problems. My complaint in regards to this issue is the way the local paper handled the article. To headline the issue on the front page of a paper that goes all over the United States, and perhaps farther, is unfair to the majority of teenagers in the Uintah Basin. Dear Editor, The subject of teenage pregnancies in the Basin is hardly a new topic of concern. Several years ago, it waa reported that there were 37 pregnant students at Union High School To my best recollection, the student body at that time numbered about 600. Assuming that half the students were male, this computed to something ova 10 percent of the female students bring pregnant As far back as I can remember, it was difficult to generate an awful lot of interest in the pregnancy statistics, not just in the Uintah Basin but in Utah as ... whole, for the reason John .Foster ., offered in his letter to the STANDARD , last week, that girls here marry younger and value having a family over having a career." In my opinion, this is pure, unadulterated baloney! We are not speaking here of girls who have graduated from high school and married in the Temple. We are speaking of girls who marry at 15, 16 17, not because they value having a but befamily over a career, cause they are pregnant Parents of teenagers must acknowledge that once these young people become sexually active, they don't ' often juBt give up this ' activity voluntarily. The moral and societal problems that result from this activity must be dealth ' with, and can be dealth with in any of. or a combination of, several ways. First identify the "sexually active youngsters and provide them with safe, reliable methods of birth control. Since we can hardly label them, the most practical approach is to provide the information to all. Certainly no moral, religious. young person with a stable, church oriented family situation is going to rush right out and have sex as a result of learning certain irrefutable biological facts-n- o more than a person who knows that headaches is aspirin relieves going to rush right out and take an overdose of aspirin. As a Catholic, I support my Church's position on birth control, but I acknowledge that this position is Reader wants campaign signs taken down -- Dear Editor, ' Every year at this time I find myself elections following wishing that the campaign supporters were as zealous in taking down their posters from electric light poles, old buildings, and vacant lots as they were in putting them up. Other years I have looked at some candidates faces for months until the weather turned the poster to litter on the ground. I live in Roosevelt but have lived in Vernal and know this to be true of both areas. Maxine Gardner absolutely meaningless to the young people at risk because they are sleeping around." It is ludicrous to imagine a sexually active consenting to have Bex with a girl or and saying, I can't use birth control because that's a sin! Secondly, identify the opportunities and limit them. A prayer known to virtually all Catholics ends like this: ...I firmly resolve... to avoid the near occasions of sin. To drunkard, the neighborhood bar ia probably an occasion of sin. To a sexually active teenage, a pick-utruck on the Safeway parking lot may be boy-frien- , SUBSCRIPTION RATES PMOUCflOft: I teen-ager- s, . Christmas time for Duchesne County, taxpayers may have come early. Duchesne County preliminary budget has been released and the numbers are startling. Tax revenue for 1987 will be down 10.18 percent and the total budget decreased 2.65 percent over last Steps to take to avoid teen pregnancy . d p Craig Ashby, Publisher; Greg Duerden, Editor; Tom Brennan, Delyse Bellon, Reporter; Joan Z. Crazier, Business Manager; Stephanie Betts, Circulation; Tomi Long, Typesetter; Cindy Belts, Ad Design. Name: Address:. City: -- Zip:. Correspondents 722-277- 722-477- 2; 646-328- 1 Year 912 2 year $29 247-237- 848-541- 355-454- 247-235- 0; 848-547- 545-243- 9; 738-263- . n State: Ida Horrodts, ArGladys Ross, Roosevelt, cadia, Marly Rasmussen, Ballard, Garda Seeley, Bluebell, 454-- 3 1B3; Tracy Roberts, HanNola Arda Mansfield, Lopoint, na, Connie Lee, Tabiona, Nelson, Montwell, Ivy loma McKee, Tridell, Zola Spencer, Neola, Chandler, Randlett, 3554528; Virginia Ferguson, Whiterockt, 3534584; Orindo Gee, Duchesne, an occasion of Bin. Almost cer-tainly, six hours in the back seat of an automobile at the drive-iis n occasion of sin. A house with no parents at home, likewise. If the public behavin' of many of Clip this form and mail to: The Uintah RorIii STANDARD P.O.DOX 27t.2MS.2NK. Roosevelt. UT S4tM this community's teenagers is indicative (driving around and for flipping each other off, example), one shudders to think of what their private behavior muBt be likel , Continued on page 3 . |