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Show OPINION Little Things Do Make a Difference! sweep their front walks numerous times a day to keep them free ofaccumulaled sand anddirt stirred upby passing vehicles arc experiencing some reiiefthanks to the sweep. And, by keeping on topoflhc problem in the winter, when spring rollsamund thccity wont have to play catch up. Thccity street sweeper isconcentratingon main street and Second North, but will be tackling residential areas in the spring when a seasonal employee can be brought on board to you do muduiriving through d wnl w n Roosevelt then you've probably noticed the streets are much cleaner lately. There is less sand, salt, dirt and grime buildupalongcurbs and gutters because Roosevelt city is sending out their street sweeper early in the year, rather 1 1 once-a-we- Ilian waiting until spring. he city had preferred waiting until it wai med up because cold temperatures cause t he sweeper's water jets to freeze. There's no question that it's cold outside, but with direction Ironilheciiy council itwasdecidcdthecity would get out the street sweeper and at least attempt to keep the streets cleaned despite I frigid temperatures. I he results "sure made helpout. Just driving down main street its obvious llial things lxk brighter andcleaner. Operating the street sweeper in the winter has been well worth it. It isjust a little thing" really, but it has adillerence, a KK) improvement,a.sic downtown percent ek mer- paidofTforthccity. chant exclaimed. 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( Ink kiDfihhi the t not mails published deadline Ikursdtns nl S 1)0 pm) All letters hetnme mtwrly nf ike l.'inlak Standard Hu-s- Enron officials should face prosecution (fi-wr- . d d Utah will not tax federal rebate checks IVar Editor. bn I to rexind to liw year letter to Governor Leavitt. dated Jan 12 No. t'lah will nM lax the federal heck you received ia--t year Thank you for takingtlietimeto with your oniat tjiAerj.or If you have any question please oailasl rue at 'Wit 29 XXV, extension 772b or or we') - tl Opposes plan to create national monument in Emery County M'S Cif. fr-PuSi st In spile of tlie governor's insistence that this ia not a stealth" monument like the Grand Staircase, it amelia like stealth to me. Tlie general public includingorga-nization- a representing San Rafael stakeholders had noknowledgcofthis monument proposal. I lielieve thia ia more like an orchestrated stealth proposal being moved ahead at unbelievable speed with mi intent to consider the wishes of tlie citizens of Utah and tlie stakeholders of die Swell. Tlie Antiquities Ait provides for of historic and scientific prou-ctioobjects on federal landallowingdesig-natio-n of only the land necessary for such protection. Thera is no obvious neixl to include over 620 thousand acres of land in a monument to preserve relevant historical objects. It should be important to the commissioners and l he governor that any monument request meet the Antiquities Act and that the public process truly reflects the desires of the people of Emery County and tlie State of Utah. In spiteof what has happened in the (last, moving ahead as the Governor announced r propi-- public input and would set a pour public policy precedent for the Ihish administration. It is hard to understand the nix'd to rush thia proposal aliead wlii-- the area to be considered is federal land currently protected by the Federal Und Policy Management Act and ia KubjHt to a myriad of federal protec-tmnnodilTerent than a monument designation wiaild firovide. I believe it is mil in the ls-inter- n require-mentsoft- n s, 'll k tr. llutho'ie. t I!pvaafre p .i i K'nscse'i ? 200 1 . k'n-vrii. l.ik H 1ST MAM IP ilitifev kj t.'.e!: liiv r. S'n'iiei 2hy S 2'; t Konucse'A. L uk s si-- '''ft (HIIttHTN RS: MiHifiKt. 1 Xl nm lo ? fX.i p fn 1 unats ihr. t nds) i, V-r- 1 i ' ri IM.AM.IM.V :sr olSoiMr, iU'rirdi A Adirnwins icy PI Rl IM4LR: I.DITOK: le w I r Alihy ADMKTIMM.: Ki K (Ml ICC MANAl.Mt: ' .. H-- rkODirilON: A4us Pailirir. Cotir Kv TV-c- r AstiSj. AflC'e Aitetf mi r r, Ptv. W c : uikHtroMimv S i1-4M- 4 -- ;j-4l- M I I X :ifc.i4 Clip and Send Bavin Subscription Kates: Standard I Vr.S36-2Vr.S- I Xrrx I I Add-- tly I In the l intah Bavin g I Vr.S24- -2 Vr.S37 Out of (he L intah Bavin I I 268 S. 20011 I Rootevclt, llah 840663109 56 " o (mk m Cketi rmly. Sam Aw f lursn You re on the Went Coant when . . By Thcrena Morrill cancer of the has the third highest rate ofincidcnceofany type of cancer in the United Stales. While the cure rate is high if diagnosed early, colorectal cancer claimed 56,000 lives in the United States during the year going down your driveway. 2000. You know how to cat an artichoke. You drive to your neighborhood block According to the Cancer Research Foundation of America, in the parly. area of Duchesne, Uintah and When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long Daggett counties there have been an it will take to get tlie re rather than estimated 12 new cases of colorectal cancer diagnosed every year between how many miles away it is. 1095 and 1999; the occurrence rate is You 're in New York when . . . You say the city " and expect every- equally split among men and women. ' There is no evidence that the rate one to know you mean Manhattan . You have never been to the Statue of of incidence for colorectal cancer in area is any higher than Liberty or the Empire State Building. tlie the statewide rate of incidence. And You cun gel into a four-hou- r argument about how to get from Colum- Utah's rate of incidence of colorectal bus Circle to Battery Park, but can't cancer is almost ten percent lower than the national rate of incidence, find Wisconsin on a map. You think Central Park is"nalure. according to statistics provided by the You believe that beingable to swear Utah Cancer Registry. However, according to Dr. Gary at people in their own language makes you multilingual. You've ever worn out a car horn. You think eye contact is an act of aggression. You're in Alaska when . . . You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup and Tabasco. Halloween costumes fit over parkas. You have more than one reci for Thinking Out Loud nvxjv. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel February 5, 2002 with kiss than eight buttons. Tlie four seasons are: winter, still Last week I was thinking how nice it winter, almost winter, and construc- was that I hadn't been sick all winter. That's when my lip started to tingle tion. end an enormous cold sore broke out. Youre in Ihe South when . . . You get a movie and bait in the same On the same day my ear lobe grew hot and began to swell up. store. What's wrong with your lip? my Ya'll is singular and all ya'll is observant teen asked. plural. Im thinking it's a cold sore ... After a year you still hear, You ain't What's wrong with your ear? from round here, arcya?" I think it is having an allergic is a valid deHe needed killin reaction to my earring. fense. Gross." Youre in Colorado when . . . "You're not a kiddin" I answered, You carry your (3,000 mountain bike atop your 1500 car. tumingaway from his rather critical You tell your husband to pick up gaze. Il'sone thing to haves gob of fever granola on his way home and lie stops blisters on your lip and another to at the day care. A pass does not involve a fix A ball or have to go out in public that way, with a new hairdo engineered to hide an dating. The top ofyour head is oald, but you earlobe the size and odor oft Christmas tree ornament. But, it was all still have a pony tail. down hill from there, and it was only Your bridal registry is at REL Youre in the Midwest when . . . Tuesday. You've never met any celebrities, Thursday morning I felt it, a but the mayor knows your name. twinge, like an electrical shock. Our Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars exercise class was working on lower abdominal crunches, usingour lower waiting to pass a tractor. You haw had to switch from heal legs ss leverage. Instead of faking it, like every other day ofthe week, 1 waa to AG" on ti.e same day. actually trying. I should have stopped You end sentences with a prepoe.-tiotrying right then and there. But, no. I Where's my coat at? or Ifyou waa going Car some BnttanySpesraba, a Cindy Crawford six pack. I waa seri-ougo to the mall I wanna go with." When asked how ywur trip was to ar.y It wasn't until I waa home and did exotic place, you say, It was different." something as foolish as MAKE MY BED tkatdiaaKter struck. There 1 waa innocently pulling my bed spread over my pillows and someoneshot me. Or, thals what it felt Lke. I grabbed the right side of my lower hack, and instantly knew I was down for the count. It took 45 minutes to practice I called in to work Household income figures for breathing normally.while and explained that nuking my were left of out Myton inadvertently serious injury had bed that morning a chart in the Jan. 22 ed.tion of the occurred. When the receptionist quit Standard in the story, Tax returns laughing, she assured me that she show county lags in household inwould never doanythingquite so dancome. The statistics for Myton are as gerous in the morning. follows. Household Income Average So, there I waa: fever blisters, an (26, 028; Household Income kibe the sizeofa doorknob and one -Middle S20J&74. Tlie figure are aar that wouldn't puhatingauadespesm Tax Utah State from a Commission even let me move. The first or quit, report for 2009. day was pretty Atony. The second. I could srt propped up without too much pain. The third, some mobility was restored - enough to presn the microwave buttons so I ovoid enjoy hot find again. I had watched TV, read books. You make over $2!0,000 and still cant alTord to buy your own house. The high school quarterback calls a time-ou- t to answer his cell phone. The fastest part of your commute is Colorectal cancer colon and rectum ty I I I Utah Medical Group in Roosevelt, the death rate for colorectal cancer is 0 percent higher than the death rate for the Wasatch Front. Dr. While attributes the higiier than average death rate in the Basin to tlie fact that area residents are delaying being screened for the disease. According to the Cancer Research Foundation of America, widespread screening for colorectal cancer could save 30,000 lives each year if all tlie cases were found at an early stage. There are fourdiflercnl metivxis used forscreeningforcolorectalcancer: fecal occult blood testing, flexible sigmoidoscopy, barium enema, and ty 10-2- colonoscopy. According to Dr. White a colonoscopy is the gold standard for screening for the disease. Tlie procedure costs $ 1 , 1 00 at the Uintah Bain Medical Center, and is performed on an outpatient basis. Medicare and most insurance companies will pay for a colonoscopy once cveiy ten years, but most physicians agree lliat is not frequent enough. Dr. Randall W. Burt, the head of the Biogenetics Department at the Huntsman Cancer Center and a professor of medicine at the Uni vereity of Thinking Out Loud Clarification . PIXiSIAILT - Tries liurrmiefi ALTAWA7 . . Hi. 1,1 HI V,wit l MAWA - Trw.) g(ce K4S4 '!, LAplIM 1'wnw.hci ie ; M. 241.2J5. AXATWILL - Woi Kcvs MV7IA ;t HX KA. DUNtSM. THIlUt. M ((LA 7lor f. 72-:;- sea to shining sea percent higher than the death rate for the Wasatch Front. 0 a. ar V irell inr-'- From death rale for White, a physician at Northeastern ty n: i ps...1C4M.-,;:.M5- 'Ariven-- The Dear Editor, I he proxMtl to create n national monument over 620,000 acre in Emery County wua a surprise to Utahns, (rhMH;ially to Emery County residents who first learned of it on January 26ala public meeting held in Cast kHJale by thecounty commission and the Emery Public Lands Council. T wo day later, the guvernordeliv-ere- d an even bigger surprise in the stale address whim he announced the monument pnixnal would lie formally submitted to the President. What in unsettling ia that the governor participated in theCaatle Dale public itHH.ding and I, like other attending, clearly heard that thia weuld not go forward without the support of tlie )eoplc of Emery Uintah Basin Standard Inc. e Death rate for colorectal cancer in the Basin is higher than normal colorectal cancer in 1 t.'ounly. Var Editor, John Axhirofl Attorney I (Ik lout his US. obligation for Enron contribution in moot It is also my opinion, attorney advist-nor director indemnity" nor supervisor instructed nor ignorance" are acceptable shields, whenever questionable acts create innocent victim'!. This Knnm debacle im so severe that all advising attorney and dincc-to- i and bcncfitting agents, and need to be proMH.ni ted. Onr country kgal system must tie allowed to weigh their actions against lheappniriatestandands-if-(tindiM- l , iMemune innooemeor guilt; and render judgement, wlw-r- e warranted. In addition, why aren't the Knnm victiiui-- . ibiit are worldwide, entith.-to : lie al ual US Attorney tieneral to act on their John Hauer Th Thin letter wan rreviued by Charles in resxaise to his query to (iov. Mike fjeavitt repo riling whether the stale would lax fnleml inetme tax rebates issued last year. dray esla of thia state to muke such a request before gatlmring input from its citizens and the users of the Swell. To request monument status for the Swell before soliciting input from users is a violation of public trust. I sincerely hope neither the Emery Con nly commissioner nor the Governor would violate that trust. Glen Zuinwalt finished two needlework projects and written dozens of by the fourth day. That's when 1 thought of the puzzle. It seemed like a good idea. It would keep me occupied, and I had a puzzle board that could lay right across my legi so there wouldn't he any bending or stooping. It was doable. How many pieces? Five hundred or 1 ,000? " My young son called out. Iconsideied, it was mid afternoon, Five hundred! I hollered heck. He brought the puzzle hoard, laid it across my legs and even helped me turn all the pieces face up before leaving me. The hoarder went together easy enough. I had forgotten how it waa to find the right pieces. My whole mind, my whole body became focused on the varyingahadesof grass and earth and sky. "Hey mom? Mom? Telephone. I waved it away. "She can't talk right now ... ahe's busy. Plugging one piece together after another waa liking discovering the answers to life's grestest questions. sat-isfyi- WhysmlT Utah Medical Center, spoke to local physician last week in Roosevelt. I le recommended that all men and women age 50 and older he screened every five years. If you have a family hihlory of colorectal cancer or polyp, nr a personal history of inflammatory bowel (iineaKe, you should he screened at age 40. In addition, if you arc a woman, and have a personal or family history of ovarian, endometrial or breaiit cancer, you should bo screened at age 40. According to Dr. Burk, if you have a personal history of polyps,you sliotild have a colonoscopy yearly. Symptoms of colorectal cancer include blood in or on the stool, a change in bowel habits, general stomach discomfort, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation, frequent gas pains, weight-los- s for no apparent reason, rectal bleeding, and constant tiredness. However, according to Dr. White, if you are experiencing (heap symptoms and they are caused by colorectal cancer, most likely the disease has already spread beyond the colon. I hi said ptxiplc should not wait to have symptoms before they get screened. "They should get a colonoscopy especially if they're not having symptoms, said Dr. White, "because then you are still salvageable." I le explained that once the cancer has spread, the cure rale is only about 66 percent. But if the disease is detected early before symptoms occur, the cure rate is almost 100 percent. Uintah Basin Medical Center is promoting National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in March. They will bcofleringa financial incentive in the form of a rebate or a discount for all colonseopies that are scheduled during March. Watch for fiirther information in the Uintah Basin Standard. Clarification A story in last week's Standard , gets prison term for molesting child, incorrectly stated had been sexuthals ally abused by her foster brother. The convicted abuser was actually the foster son of the victim's grandparents. TheSundand spulogixe fertile error. vk-ti- Miss Utah Teen Pageant seeks participants The Miss Utah National Teen Ager scholarship pagtsnt is accepting applications for the 2002 state pageant. Contestants are Judged on 3Yi, academic achievement, 30 leadership skills, 30 communication skills and 10 poiseand personality. There is no swimsuit competition. The pageant will be held May 31 and June 1. The final program will take place on stage in the RagMiTheateronlhecampusof UVSCin Orem. There will be a state winner in each ofthe two age divisions Winners in each division will receive a 1 1,000 savings bond, a n scholarship to Southern Utah University and a trip to an exciting, week at the National pageant scheduled to be held in Nashville, Tennessee, The National Winner will receive (5,000 and (10,000 esah scholarships. At the tute pageant, universities will be awarding annually renewable tuition scholarships totaling over (100,000, Additional swards will be given for congeniality, citizenship, photogenic, program participation, community involvement, best letter to sprmsor and many more. The program also offers an optional Talent and Essay competition. For application or Information, Contact Mike and Slier Finke, 3721 Juanita Way. 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