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Show OPINION Pape 1 - April 25. 2QQQ Uintah Basin Standard Education Begins at Birth and Continues Forever mother holds her newborn babe against her breast, she doesn't know all that will be required ofher as a parent, neither does a father who picks up his infant to proudly show it off. None ofus really know, parents are bom the day their children are, and just like the so do newborn babe who learns we. Tien a young day-to-da- y, Parents learn quickly what their babies like and do not like. Most like wann milk and dislike being unwrapped from the security of their blankets. They like being sung to and read to. Some want to be held, some push away. Parents begin teaching infants that there is an adult in charge who they can trust They teach toddlers not to pull a dog's ears or stray into the road. Later on, children are taught respect for . others w hen they learn to share and say please and thank you. It is a partnership oflo ve and trust that begins long before kindergarten and will remain in existence throughout life. This road has been walked by countless feet before ours. It began with the birth of this world when our ancient ancestors passed survival skills to their children. The centuries-ol- d to computer programjump from but is fundamentally the same. It is ming huge, ital that our children become computer literate to survive in a world ofexpanding technology, as essential today as it was for yesteryear's children to have the skills to create warmth and fire-buildi- ng a meansof cooking food. While the world has changed, the task of educating our children has not, it has only intensified. I low evcr, the partnership has now opened up to include a public school system. Some may feel that the role ofparent as educa- tor is crowded out, yet, teachers, principals and administrators are the first to say parental involvement in crucial to a child's success. Children need to know that parents value education. They will come to understand this only if their parents take an interest in what they're learning in school and how well they' are learning it When parents are involved in the process, children will be successful. The best way parents can inspire a child to continue onthe pathofeducation is to walk that path themselves by consistently seeking opportunities forcontinued learning. Whenchildren see their parents reading, their natural curiosity prompts them to ask w hat is in the book, when a child sees their parent studying foran exam, they will begin to understand that continuing education is the key to a successful life. Education opens the door to endless possibilities for our youth and ourselves. Sure, learning can happen without love and support, but, few children manage to excel on their own, after all, what is the purpose ofparenting i fit is not to teach? Equine Infectious Anemia Extensive horse testing finds one infected of 558 in local area By Cheryl Mecham Just a little adds up to a lot EDITOR'S NOTE: The Uintah Basin Standard wekom and encourages opinion s from readen In At from of letters to At oditor. Letsen may be a utilixtd lo express opinions or comments, to kightight outstanding service efan individual or organisation. or any oAtr worthwhile purport. fatten may not be used to rtplacspadL of ftanu, or to list sponsorsT participants .or contributors to. O', particular event or purpose. Lfcl luRS MUST CONTAIN 400 WORDS OR LESS. BE TYPED OR WRITTEN LEGIBLY. SIGNED. AND INCLUDE SAME. ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER OF THE AUTHOR. Letters will bt published unitss they contain libelous or defamatory statements. We reserve the nght to edit letters and to withhold a name by request ifAt neturo of At letter is positive. Letsen may be submitted to the Standard office at 268 S 200 ERooseveH Utah. 84066 by the published deadline (narmally Thursdays at 5:00 p.m.) All letttn i property of At Uintah Basin Asking for return of stolen telephone Dear Editor, To Whom It Un Concern: On the weekend of April 15-1our brand new Pink Lady telephone disappeared right off the counter at the Uintah Basin Medical Center. This is a 450,000 phone digitized to work only o the hospital system and will not work on any other. So, to whoever has it, or if it may have been sold, it is of no value to you. If you would care to return it (no ouea-tion- a asked), or unobtrusively slip it back on the UBMC counter from whence it came, it will be greatly appreciated. Leola M. Freaton Pink Lady Information Desk Th Dear Editor, I think we all know what a drip is. But I looked to aee what Mr. Webster had to sty: Drip - to fall in drops; liquid or moisture which falls in drops. Slang, a dull or unattractive person. Then I looked up drop. Webster says, "Drop - a tiny, or rounded mass of liquid. A , small quantity of a substance; the smallest unit of measure.... . Now I will tell you why I was interested. About six weeks ago, the good man over our new Rural Water District called and told Helen that our bill for Februaiy was $62 where it had bean around S25 per month before. He wondered if we had a broken enter line. We had everything checked out, but couldn't find anything wrong. I have heard all my life that just a drip of water could add up. I asked many people if they could tall me how many dripe of water there are per gallon. Someone told me they could find out on the Internet, but no one ever let me know. So after a few days I was impatient and decided 1 would try to find out myself. Most drips are about the same sixe. I got a glass, turned the kitchen water tap on, and got a stool to sit on because I knew it would take a while. I had water dripping as fast as I could without it being a drinle. Eighty dripe per minute. That ia fist. It took 13 minutes to fill a glass of water. Whan it was full I took the glass and poured it into a measuring cup. It hud 1 M cups of water. My calculations were 9 minutes for one cup, divided by 60 minutes equals about 7 cups per hour, times 24 hours which ia about 168 cups per day, divided by 16 cups per gallon, which ia approximately 10 gallons a day. Ten gallons per day by 30 days would be about 300 gallon a month. You figure it out and sea how far offl am and let me know. As I have been thinking about this, I got comparing it to Ufa. Wa often spend money for pop, candy or pear-shap- ed Uintah Basin Standard Inc. Periodical pasngr paid si Roosevdl and Duchesne, Utah (LSFS 646-900- ) Published weekly at 261 S. 200 E.. Kootevch, Utah (4066-310- 9 POSTMASTER: Scad sddrew dunges to Ac Uinuh Bust Standard al 264 S. 200 E, Roowvek, Utah 14066-110- 9 OFFICE HOURS: tOOsutolOOpm. Monday, 9 00 w to 500 p si T unday Am Friday Fax 722-41Phone DEADLINES: Deadline a Thursday Fw al New Legal Nonces. Chwfisdi A Adnsmang. Ipm PUBLISHER: Crwg Ashby EDITOR: Lcdee E. touting ADVERTISING: MichcOc Roberts OFFICE MANAGER: Bonnie Penuh PRODUCTION: Wntos, Aldon Radicle. Lome Stradmger, A Cheryl Medum Production. Cokoe Ashby, Jkoc Ashby. Kartya Mrycrv Kan Marts and Shsuna Gilbert CORRESPONDENTS: ROOSEVELT -- Teresa Hamtskm Lac ALTAMONT ; BLUEBELL HANNA Tracy Roberts 141-541Locftsdicr 454-397- 6; LAPOINT Martens McClure MONTWELL Nola Nelson 3534544. MYTON ; 5; TK1DELL Lama McKae 247-235NEOLA Mondi Taylor 353-475-3, toOTUlOCKS Vagina Ferguson 3534544; DUCHESNE Ortnda Gee 734-263- 4 cigarettes each day. It can soon add up. Likewise just a few minutes a day reading our Bible can soon add up and we could have our Bibles read and then start over. We would all be closer to God. How many of ua has road the Bible through? Kit you have to be like the drip of water and do it each day. Let us all be steady in our studies Rif the Bible. We will all and I mean all die some day. Wa should find out what we need to do here on earth to be prepared to meet St. Peter, or God, or whoever, so wo can make a good report.' A girj give a talk church in Mena, Arkansas, a few weeks ago, and at the dose of her talk, she said something like, "Let's all live righteously so the bishop will not have to lie about ua at our funeral It was fanny, but the truth. PS. They had to retd the water meter wrong. No big deal, but it made us check out the water system, which we did not mind. I love you all, Mr. Whitney R. ChecketU. '" Ballard residents urged to join in clean-u- p effort Dear Editor, I would just like to invite my fellow Ballard-itte- e to join in the Ballard beautification project, by making plans to take advantage of th 1 Annual Ballard free dump day. Saturday, May 6. The K&K sanitation transfer station will be open from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. on Saturday for all our regular garbage. If you have junk cars or old appliances on your property, please take those things to Herbert's wrecking and recycling. If you need to dispose of old tires, you can bring them to Big-- Tire, there will be a charge. If you have a neighbor who is unable to haul their garbage olT for themselves and you volunteer to help, tink of th peat opportunity you'll get to render a little service and get to know the folks in your neighborhood a little better. It would be neat to see neighbors get together for a street cleanup in their area. You might even want to organise a little BBQ after your through. Wa live in a great place! Lets upgrade the value of our property as well as our neighbors, andr make Ballard a beautiful place for alL So get your Moves on and wall sea you all out there Saturday May 6! If you have any questions about ' the free dump day, call the Ballard City Office building. Yours Truly, Tammy D. Meacham 0 sUa . I I I I I I I Subscription Rates: Clip and Send to: Uiatah Basil Standard 269 S. 200 E. la the Uiatah Basil lYr.S24-2Yr.S- 37 Oat of the Uiatah Basil Roosevelt, Utah 84066-310- 9 lYr.S36-2Yr.S- 56 Name. Address. City. CaAer Cloth outr. Sam Zipt4 Afo Clkwyri Tayla Baca is recovering from a relatively new surgery that doctors hope will end a great'dcal of her pain Horse owner may breath a sigh of relief to hear one hors in 558 tested for Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) was found positive fw th deadly disease. The animal, from the Upalco area was euthanixed and horses in its does proximity were tested last week. Veterinarians will know within days what th results of those tests will be. Knee the spring of 1998 when EIA was found in free roaming horses on Ute Tribe lands and testing revealed the disease to be at epidemic proportions in wild horses on Uintah County on both tribal and public lands -- domestic horse owners have beeh Ctinterned about the problem-- u - since the deadly di spread by horse flies ana mosquitoes. Aprils testing cams about when Uintah County and th Uintah Basin Chapter of People fw the USA hosted the testing clinics, cm th basis that fear of EIA had eroded the local horse industry and was hindering recreational horse activities. Th EIA clinics wars held in five , locations in the Basin Uintah and veterinarians from across th UiL assisted local vets in conducting th i official Coggins tests to teat fw th viral disease of horses mules and donkeys. The beat time for tasting is in the springtime before exposure to horse flies and mosquitoes. April's findings indicate a fair confidence that we don't haves serious roblem, said Dr. Nelaon H. nean, of Uinta Veterinary Services in Ballard. According to Duncan it is important that hors owners continue to take safety measures where horses an being mingled together. Breeder may require tatting of horses before coming on their property i yearly testing ia a good idea, es. dally if their horses are mingied on the desert with wild horses. The Coggins test costs approx15 and is dona by imately aveterinarian drawing blood from a vein in a horses neck. EIA ia an anemia and results in tha destruction of red blood celli. Horse show symptoms by elevation of temperature, weakness, lethargy, lack of coordination, low of weight and subsequent death. Just as in other viral diseases hwses may be earner of EIA and are not affected by it unless they art put under atrese due to illness or iqjuiy. The Bureau ofLand Management (BLM) has been gathering since tha discovery of EIA in March of 1998. In on herd of 53 free-roami- Local family could use your help Central Dispatch is sponsoring a fiind raising effort to help a west Uintah County family with medical bills. Last week, Tayla Baca, a old 3 grader at East Elementary underwent her 16 operation in an effort to correct a birth defect known as hvdrocelphalus. Tayla is tha daughter of Jack and Radial Baca. Because of Taylaa medical condition th family ia not eligible for health insurance. As part of her medical treatment ah requires very expensive shots each day. Central Dispatch is asking kelp with Tayla's medicu bills and related expenses. Dona tions can be mad at th Central Di watch office at 152 East 100 North in Vernal. Deposits may also be mad in her name at any First Security bank. horses, 27 tested positive for EIA, an alarming 61 percent. The diseased horses were given a lethal injection by a veterinarian. A group of 12 wild foals which initially tested positive for ELA were quarantined and shipped to Oklahoma where they were monitored for several months, as young foals who teat positive for EIA are later found not to carry th disease befrom mothers milk cause may cause them to teat false positive. Since that time the BLM has been corralling and testing wild horses on regular basis. Last November 210 wild hoses wsrecaptuivd and tested, of those 32 tested positive and ware euthanixed. The others were held in quarantine until earlier this month whan State Veterinarian, Dr. anti-bodi- Michael Marshall lifted the quarantine cm those who underwent further testing and were found free of the disease. The BLM had intended to re-- , lease the horses, however, due to concerns about EIA raised by Uintah County and gracing permit holder in the Bonsnxa area, the horses will remain in holding pens until there is public input concerning the matter and the BLM examines other options. A Public meeting will be held Mgy 3 from 6 p.m. 7:30 p.m., at Western Park to discuss uie wild horse issue. The BLM will offer a brief report at thehegmninftof th meeting after whidi public opinion will be allowed. According to BLM officials, a decision will not be made during the meeting. ARE BASIN HORSES SAFE7-- A Basin wide testing effort for Equine Infectious Anemia two weeks ago found that th disease is not a problem in domestic horses, but remains concern in wild horse populations. by Cheryl Mecham I knew something was terribly wrong Tuesday afternoon. By the time my husband walked in from work I was tying in a heap on the couch. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Are you sick? Summoning up a bit of energy, I nodded my head in the affirmative. What for dinner? H asked, laughing, dodging a pillow that I aimed right for his head. He was lucky it was something soft at that momsnL Th stomach flu had mad itself manifest by tha next morning. I wanted to die, my insidea felt Lke they were trying to turn themselvee inside-ou- t. Never had my digestive tract become so obvious to ma. Every time I threw up it had the same shock value to ma as falling down now that I'm an adult. Can I do anything for you before I go? my husband asked just as he was leaving. "Do you believe in assisted suicide? I answered. Nop. "Ill see you later then. Okay." he answered, relieved to be getting away from the sickroom. Ht has new been one to rub your back while youre face down in tha toilet, because than he'd have to join you poor man. My husband has more respect for m because I can dean up vomit and without losing it than if I wrote an g essay. It's amaxing that someone who I think is m tough and etrongcant stomach a few bad odors. While I lay on th couch In a doggie-d- o award-winnin- tha beys rmn th house. I didn't know what was goingon and I didn't care. The only thing I had to do was write a decent obituary for myself and jot down a few notes concerning my AineraL Th next morning I was stunned to wake up alive. My insidea had quieted down to a low gurgW. While not 100 percent well, I dressed and left my bedroom. Within seconds I surveyed the remnants of my one tidy home. It was clear that some kind of natural disaster had occurred. Perhape a tornado had come in through the front door? An emergency reeponae team would have to be called in! Or one realty mad mama armed with righteous indignation could summon the perpetrators and lay it on th bn. There will be no basketball playing, no video games, no television, no phone calls, or life as you have known ft until this house ia shipshape! That's th image I comforted myself with, as I ran out of the house for work. I was as irritable aa a badger with hive. Later that day as I pulled into th pi, all 1 could are under the of our truck were elbows and back-endThepig sty culprits were bun trying to fix the old truck. Somehow, I'd loot my righteous indignation and moat of my stamina. With a weak smile I asked them how ft waa going; squared my shoulders and walked into the house. I realty for them, every on of those While they tinkered with the truck. I rolled up my eJeevee and got to work, confirming th latest statistics that working women do 80 percent of all housework, regardless of whether or not they were in the three of death just hours before. meee-tnaker- a. |
