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Show Pac 2 - November 21. 1990 dtiimtiah ESasSrn A Uintah HandlsurtS Basin Thanksgiving It seems we often spend more time complaining than being thankful. This may beagood time to pause and think about the many benefits we have hoe in the Uintah We have a low crime rate. Many people Uintah Basin leave their doors unlocked. It s not uncommon to see a car at the grocery store or post office with the keys in in the ignition and the motor running. People watch out for each other. Neighbors keep the of neighbors. track That leads to a second benefit, the association with one another. In many cities, people don't even know who lives next door to them. Here people not only know their neighbors, but are concerned about their welfare. Often, neighbors are part of a large extended family, that may stretch the chairman of each Precinct Party Mass meetings, each two years, select and appoint a rspresentativs to the UCCC from each precinct as reflected in the revised ws of the UCCC after the new Commie-dimer-s take office in January. 2. The silent majority still want the county to retain the Uintah Care Center and be fiscally accountable and provide necessary improvements in management and services to ensure necessary improvements in management and services to ensure quality care for the dignity of our elderly family By-La- uintah basin welcome! mi encourage! opieioai from leaden in the fora of letten to die Editor. Letten may be utilised to expra i or comment!, md ako to highlight acrvice of m indmdual or to the community. Letter! may not "Cards or contributor! pmJdparti . of Thanki", firing aponaon. to a particular veaL All letters will be pubiidied unless they coatoin Sbeloua antVor defaaalocy nate-aa- Letten must be signed and include a telephone Bomber. Letten Would be typed or cm deudy band printed, double then be admitted members. 3. The County Attorney should be the Commissioners legal ooun-e- d qcud. liicy to the Stmdard office at 26S instead of their adversary. 4. We have a new School Board and wo recommend that they give our parents, toacheresnd students S 200 a, Rooaeveh, Utah 14066, befom 5:00 pja.Rnday.AU lettera beooaie the propeity of toe Standard aaid may be edited. the chance or opportunity to be accountable for the Education of our children and grandchildren. ' The ODDM (Outcome Driven Development Model) and the Uintah Council Dear Editor: Tha Uintah Council met SHIFT IN FOCUS are processes adapted by the Uintah School District and the Utah State Board of Education to ensure each student a productive learning experience in their homes and in our public schools. Hyrum C. Toons County Community last week and alter an and lively diucuaaion by intonating few memben praaent the following concepts were formalized: 1. The silent majority who voted tha needs out lost week needs a voice in the decision making tha pro-csMoft- he County Commission and School Board before decisions mads eo the decision! mads will the will or feeling silent reflect the majority. The UCCC Recommends a public hearing be hdd to revise the UCCC Ordinance 8--19 86 to have that Disgusted Dear Editor: Now that the election is over and the Duchesne County Voted Leeway Uintah Basin Standard Inc. 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I I I I Yr.-$- 1 Yr.-$- 20 2 Yr.-$- - Address 35 has been ao soundly defeated, I hops that administrators and teachers of Duchesne County are (TAX) intelligent enough to eee the message the voters are sanding to you. We are tired of hearing you asking for more money whan wa continually sea a deterioration at values and meaningful levels ofeducation being taught in our schools. I swear that if wa gave you 100 of our pay checks, you would still be screaming far money. Are our schools getting better. Are our children getting a better education? No, no, no, they-arnot. In fact, its getting worse by the day. So bad, in fleet, that over 200,000 children today are enrolled in Home Education programs where they are being taught some real values instead of being exposed to drugs, decoying morale, peer preaaure, and the total confusion at inefficient teechere arid educational ; technique!. No where dee in this world do people continue to expect monetary rewards for increased inefficiency. Recent studies done by our own Utah state University Institute of Political Economy indicates that students enrolled in Private Schools exceed their counter-pa- rts in public schools by one fbll grade, while the Jamas Midi son Institute fbr Public Pofity Studies in TUIahaasee Florida reports that students enrolled in Private Schools achieve an extra A. Lee Robertson grade level in every two year period, and itis bring done on $900.00 a year per etudent as opposed to $2,443.00 Uniting per year in our local Utah Public Schools. And you. want mors and Dear Editor: mors manqy. Shame, shams. The holiday seaaon is upon us. It The wholesale waste that I have is a time to realty count our many aeen, right here in our own Duchesne and individual blessingi. It is also County, leads me to believe that our a time to gather together with our schools need to dean up their own families. The past several months act bafbre any fkrthar consideration I have enjoyed an experience which ofincreased fimdiity is mads. In that has united our family and helped light, I am today forwarding a letter build something beautifbl in so to Governor Bangerter, requesting many ways. that ha appoint a Citizen's Auditing ' I love the Manti Temple. It is Teak Force, armed with a member truly a beacon in our lives. This of tha stats Attorney's Office, summer I became interested in the empowered to subpoena records; and garden thatia bring planned to add given tha task and freedom to roam to the beauty of the temple. It will tha State and pull surprise audita show our love fbr the Savior and on any and all schools and load will show honor and respect for our school boards in an effort to find and ancestor! who came here to pioneer this great stats as a place to live expose waste in our school system. Let me give you Just a couple cf and worship God in true freedom examples ofthe waste IVe witnessed according to the dictates or our right hare in Duchesne County. ' While anrbllsd in a shop class at Funds for the garden coma Tririona High School, my son was moatiy from extended families who taken on a (eo called) field trip to dadda to have the name of an Salt Lake City to visit a frirniture ancratar placed on a bronze plaque. manufacturing company to see how ' I thought of each of my ancestors furniture waa made. Upon arrival, ' who cams early to the ' Rocky they learn that the items being made Mountains so they might help build ware just stapled together instead up Zion. I dedded to try and write : of bring doweled or dovetailed and a large and scattered family of blued. Instead of turning that bue cousins, many of whom I did not around and coming back to school know and others that I had loot where they could learn something; contact with, eo that tiw name of the shop teacher took tha shop Thomas Stol worthy could be redoes down to tha 49th Street membered at tha foot of tiw Tem-p-lGalleria fbr the rest of the day, ' ThcmasStolworthy and his wife, getting hone in late evening, this aids trip absolutely without parenMatilda, my great grandparents,' tal permission or knowledge. joined the Mormon Church in Using school time, teachers and England near 1850. They suffered school equipment tor this kind ofa many trials as did all the early field trip, or tripe to Lagoon, has no pioneers. In Salt Lake they built a cabin here the union Pacific Depot educational value redeeming now stands. Great grandfather whatsoever. ' worked for Brigham Young and to visit Duchesne a High During waa always willing to do what the School, I visited the Mechanical Drawing classroom and found the prophet wanted him to do. Ths first drawing tables slashed and cut to white child in Cache Valley, Eliza Cache, was born to this couple. pieces. I was told that these tables Later they were sent to Palawan to were replaced leu than a year ago. I looked in the cabinet that these help build a bucket factory and tables wars replaced leu than a foundry. Then they were called to year ago. I looked in tha cabinet pioneer in Centerville, the Muddy where the sets of mechanical Minion, Orderville and Hunting-todrawing instruments wars kept, ' Donationi needed to place the and found these vary expensive eats completely trashed. Fine Stol worthy name at Manti cams e y family . ' , ' City CaiorCheck only, Sorrynojhares rage eg Thanks to you, Im working This is Pollyanna season, the time when we find something to be thankful for, no matter how deep wa have to dig. I have a lot of things like that For example. Im thankful I have a jab here at the Uintah Basin Standard, and not eoma newspaper in Kuwait Im thankflil I was forced to taka type in high school. (I hated the class the entire semester, and vowed I would NEVER be a secretary. I took a typing teat once and got a grand total of 28 words per minute.) Im thankflil Tm not any ehorter, or flatter, or uglier, or stupider. Tin tiuuikful the election is over. But Ill bet Tm not as thankful as the candidates. And I know Fm not as thankfiil as the candidates? families. Fm thankful store bread doesnt go moldy very fast. And Tm thank- - Tha English language is a but there are many phrases that are used quite often and most people dont know who invented the popular sayings. One puzzling phrase is: "Close, but no cigar". I recently saw tide cigar phrase used jn a headline in a newspaper to describe a volleyball tram's performance in a tournament The team won a match, but just missed going to the state meet and thus "dime, but no cigar, was used. If the girle had won the championship or qualified far state would they had been required to emoke a cigar or since it waa a Utah team chaw a bubble gum cigar. I think tiw phrase, "Close, but no cigar" , goes way back to political or professional eporte races. Once the race or ball game wee won it waa time to light up tha old dgar to give a signal that tha opposition had gone up in amoks or chaw a bubble gum dgar to stress that the opponent had gummed up the works in the race fbr the political or athletic jackpot Than were many dose races in Duchesne and Uintah County lections and the losers weren't in any mood for a smelly dgar or the chewabla sweet tasting version as they probably needed some antacid medicine to sooth their upset stomachs. Then there ia "Step cm a crack and youll break you mothers back!" Now where did that come from? Well I dont know, but who wants to take a chance and hurt dear mom. So I have always been fill homemade bread doesnt last long enough to go moldy. Don thankfiil grasshoppers go somewhere fbr tha winter. (Where do they go? It same Mbs, theyre back in fiill force come summer. Maybe they juet lay a million eggs ana die- -I would too.) " Fm thankful I can play "Mary Had a little Lamb" on my telephone. But the phene company rarity needs to do something. Tha 8 key ia a little sharp. Fm thankfiil ia going to open soon. But 111 bet local budnaas people are thankfiil it hasnt opened yet. Fm thankfiil gasoline prices haven't mada it to fllJSO-yFm thankfiil that winter only lasts eix months of tiw year, and that wo rarely have enow to shovel. Im thankfiil that what snow we do have ia nearly always gone by Memorial Day. Fm thankfiil that one day a year . I get to do nothing but cook enough food for tha Desert Shield, and rat until I fori like a turkey-y- ou know, stuffed. ' ; Wal-Ma- rt et. . careful to watch out for one of those cracks, but dont worry cause If you step on a wide crack it wipes out the cures according to school communication tool, boy logic. Another interesting phrase ia "A titch in time eaves nine". The paint cf tiw message ie if you fix tiw first hole in your drirt there wont be nine mars to repair later on. However, I foel "A stitch in time saves nine" ie baseball related. The star outfielder had hie glove foil - pert, but the equipment manager stitched it bade together. The outfielder made a great catch in the ninth inning' that saved the game for hie team. , Also, a bunch of youth baseball players might have, had oily one baseball and tha com came loose, but it was stitched up tow tha gams that went nine imringi: ... "If ifb and buta were candy and nuts wed all have a Merry Christa maa, la a statement that I wish I could discover tiw author because I would like to era what tiw person looks like, who penned this masterpiece of poetry. Apparently a person or boedika figure mada up this statement when Me workers came up With excuses for not having daw the desired, work, but ths author had . plenty cf time to create tiw Merry Christmas wish instead of getting tiw job dona. Children for years and years when asked why they didnt do their homework have come with the me word answer of "Beonbe". I dont know who invented that one ... word answer, . n. . I down-to-ea- . Correspondents 646-328- instruments like these when property eared for, should last a lifetime. Why is expensive equipment like tide allowed to be destroyed. Why cant we expect eoma semblance of discipline in our schools to avoid such flagrant waste? You might find that the students would even get a better education in the process. Do you realty think? Have any of you walked through tha Duchesne High School lately, and realty looked around? Can you realty be proud of what you eee? The damage to walla, lockers, rest rooms, chalk boardg, desks, books, chain and tables? Instead of being leader in teaching moral behavior and responsibility, you are tha purveyors of a decaying educational system. And you want more money for that? Yon don't even have the guts to call your attempt-b- its right name, tax, instead, you sneak it on the ballot under tha guiae of "Voted Leeway", especially after telling us ' ;last spring that the' Duchesne "County School District would not ask for higher taxes. Well tha people of this County saw through your deception, and are sick and tired of paying for your inefficiency and waste. Just keep it up, youre giving us mors and more reasons far Hama Teaching Programs and more and mare Private Schools where our students will be taught some good rth values, morals, patriotism, and responsibility . Hansen, Roosevelt, 722-3-4 1 1 ; Ida Horrockes, Arcadia, Marly Rasmussen, Ballard, 7224772; Garda Seeley, Bluebell, Marlene McClure, Tracy Roberts, Hanna, Beverly Lapoint, Behanm, o . Aldon 454-318- 3; - , the secret out. non-parti- tion note n STANDARD : . throughout the town. Perhaps the high desert climate we curse is the very thing that allows us to have these other advantages. If the climate were more hospitable there would probably be axiom irf7 WHO more people, higher land costs, crime rates, competition for jobs, and traffic jams. This climate is a benefit in another way, People here are tough. They survive the cold dry winters, droughts, oil market fluctuations. We believe the pioneers who settled hoe, and stayed, were especially tough stock. Their descendants have remained to become the foundation of our society. People are used to overcoming problems, they don't expect life to be easy. They're willing to work hard and help each other out There seems to be a peaceful, leisurely attitude here. There isnt so much rushing around to get from one place to another. We can certainly be thankful we dont have to drive in city traffic. So this Thanksgiving, lets gather our friends and loved ones around and truly be thankful that we have the opportunity to live here in the Uintah Basin. And don't let For example: Basin. RAISES THIS YEAR HE WANTED TODINKIER HIS 044W THANKSSIVIN RUT NOW ITS A QUESTION WITH 0 HWO IS RAISINS from kinfolk in California, Utah, New Mexico, Kenaae, Arizona, Idaho and Colorado. What waa mere important the letters forward with great antid potion to a reunion at Manti next July during tha Mormon Mirada Pageant. I am now planning to start on another branch cf nty family. Thera names, too, need to be remembered in the garden under the Temple. MaVon N. Herring ' . LETTERS Continued on page 8 it as welL. ! . but adulta should use Bank preadent says, "Why didnt a car payment?" and the car owner says, "Because!" However,1 tiw. answer could1 backfire when tha batik president has the car repossessed and tiw person says, "Why?" and the answer given is "Because!" Now I will sign off with a 30-, which means tiw and of an article and tiw numbered ending waa probably invented by a linotype ' operator during the days. you make -- . |