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Show 2A Tin Summit County Boo Friday, Octobor 22, 1993 the News Readers Views Top of As I See It Letters to the Editor All articles Letters To The Editor The Summit County Bee welcomes Letters To The Editor on any subject. They must adhere to the following guidelines: They must be received to the Coalville Oflice, P.O. Box 7, Coalville, UT 84017 or the Kamas Office, P.O. Box 225, Kamas, UT 84036, no later than Monday noon to be considered for that weeks issue of the paper coming out on Friday. The letters must be hand signed with full address and telephone number of the person writing the letter. No letter will be published under an assumed name. Name may be withheld on request at the discretion of the editor or publisher of The Summit County Bee. They must not contain libelous or slandering material. Writers are limited to one letter in two weeks. Prefer ence will be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting the use of the writers name. All letters subject to condensation if they are too long for the space available. No endorsement letters will be published as Letters To The Editor. The views expressed in guest editorials or Letters To The Editor do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editor or publisher or express the viewpoint of this newspaper. are to be in by 3 THE P.M. Monday Shirley B. Phelps, EditorCoalville Office Manage 9-336-550-1, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 4 Sharon Pace, 336-22Bessie Russell, Kamas Office Manager 9-Monday, Tuesday and Friday 4 and City News for County Ruth Wagner, Reporter Summit County 32 783-438- Richard M. & Susan F. Buys 7, The Summit County Bee (UPSP 525640) is published weekly for $15.00 per year in Summit County and $20.00 per year by Wave Publishing, Inc., 675 West 100 South, Heber City, UT 84032. Second class postage paid at Coalville, UT 84017 post office. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Summit County Bee, P.O. Box 7, Coalville, UT 84017. ty Attention: Renewals to The Summit County Bee renewals to The Summit County Bcc should reach the Cbalvillc or Kamas Office by the third Friday of the month to keep ycur Bee from being cancelled by the computer. We need your renewal by this time in order to get your name on the renewal list and keep you from being cancelled. Thanks for helping u$ help you. .Ail As Beaver-Shingl- See It I Shares By Shirley Too many residents of Summit County are trying to live the same as in die 1930s and 1940s. You used to know everyone in your community and was related to most of them. Even the surrounding communities were, if not close relatives, distant cousins, school mates, teachers, working companions or friends of the family. No matter what kind of event or activity you participated in or was sitting in as an audience, you knew them or their kids or their parents or grandparents. At that time, you respected your neighbors and worked with them to conform with, not county rules and regulations, but neighborhood plans and expectations. It wasnt unusual to see neighbors get together to work on projects for everyone with no strings attached. A handshake was better than a contract which always seems to have a loophole in to break it. If someone built a home or a shed, they did it their way with no government interference or inspections. Their ground was theirs to do with as they wished. Tunes have changed because, as some say, We have to progress with the times. Yes, times have changed. We have many move-in- s as next door neighbors and we dont even know their names. They have brought with than new ideas and customs. Their likes are different and some have different lifestyles and standards. We can no longer do with our own land what we want. We must get government approval and then hire contractors to do what we used to do ourselves. We have to conform with rules that we dont like and seems ridiculous. We feel we have lost much of our freedoms and free agency. Some say forget this part of the county or that part of the county. We want to stay just as we are. This is not possible. Some dont want to know about what is happening in the Snyderville Basin with their millionaires and million dollar homes. Let them worry about their water and sewer problems, their overcrowded schools, their roads, and their congestion. But the rest of us had better take heed to the entire county. The county, as a whole, has to live by the same rules rather its taxes, zoning, shortages of water, road maintenance, laws, etc., etc. Ordinances that rule the Basin, also rules all of Summit County wife some variation, but where fee Snyderville Basin was a few years ago wife their farms, ranches, and rural atmosphere is where fee rest of the county is now and we are catching up to them faster than you may realize. He bragged of his sons intelligence, so pleased he performed feat find. He must have gotten it all from me! Quite likely, she said. I still have mine. Few gifts actually improve with age. Your bank sells one of diem. BONDS nf lhl ncwqwprf School Board Meeting... that day. It was a meeting concerning a gifted and talented program for our school and he said that they will be starting to take steps to implement fee program. The next item of business on the agenda was a discussion on the Kamas City Police Department situation. Board members, Kathy Gordon and John Blazzard, along wife Dr. Littleford, met with Sheriff Eley in Coalville earlier on Wednesday. The county will be continuing with the DARE Program in fee fifth grade. One of their officers has been teaching it for several years at North Summit and in Paik City and will pick up here where Officer Powers left off. Sheriff Efey said feat if fee board or individual principals will inform them in advance of what activities will be going on, they will schedule to have coverage from officers during the activities. If in the future, this doesnt seem to be enough coverage, the board discussed contracting an officer for fee activities. The projected growth for the next few years is 5 percent in our District. However, there is never any concrete evidence of exactly what will happen in the future, and the board said they will continue to track the growth of fee District and keep on top of it on an ongoing basis. They hope to be able to save some money, so feat in the next 5 years when changes will more than likely need to be made, they will have some resources to use. The board discussed possible football field renovations, and voted to move ahead wife having an analysis done and working together wife the Booster Club on this project. 3-- 3-- Board members in attendance for the meeting were Zane Woolstenhulme, Kathy Gordon, John Blazzard, Dr. Littleford, Diane Evans, and student representative, Derek Beer. Those absent were Jared Weller and Rod Maxfield. The next board meeting will be held on Thursday, Nov. 1 1 at 7 p.m. t t Summit County Special Notices Calling All Singers Your voices are needed to join in tbe performance at Handels Messiah. Practices are Sunday evenings at 8 pm. at die Coalville Stake Crater. The final performance will be Sunday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. All community members are welcome. 'Anyone interested in joining the orchestra, practices are at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday evenings at the Coalville Stake Crater. Please join wife them in making this an important event in your holiday. For information call Kathleen Vander Linden, 336-414- 2. Rural Carrier Examination 1 Applications are being accepted at die U.S. Post Office for a ru27 J If you have ral carrier examination. Starting Oct. call any questions, please 783-432- Assume your parents bought their house for $10,000 in 1941. They passed away in a car accident last week when their property was wrath $110,000. If they deeded the house to you anytime before their deaths, your basis is $10,000, fee amount they paid fra fee property. If you sell fee property for its value of $1 10,000, you will have a taxable gain of $100,000. The gain is computed by subtracting the $10,000 basis from fee $110,000 sales price. The federal and state income taxes from fee sale of fee property would be approximately $35,000 for most people living in Utah. If your parents had waited for you to receive the property under their will, a living trust, or other proper estate planning, you would have received a step-u- p in fee basis of fee property to $1 10,000, its value at fee time of your parents death. If you sold fee property for $110,000 you would have no gain, and would have saved $35,000 in incrane taxes. Anyone who has deeded property to avoid probate would be well advised to seek fee counsel of an estate planning There are so many cliches for fee occurrences in Kamas City these past few weeks feat I tremble at writing this article lest I foil into the trap of fee entire article being a cliche. It seems from the demonstration a week ago last Thursday that the county has a Gang of Three living the good life in Kamas. They too think they have the best interest of the public at heart; you can tell by fee manner in which they listened to fee outcry of fee public, some three hundred in number, that turned out to oppose a secret meeting agenda of several weeks past Was it secret? Well, though fee agenda for the meeting was posted in all the appropriate places and though the local newspaper had printed the agenda, that agenda did not contain information regarding the possibility of disbanding of fee police department It merely had the usual police matters where the chief normally cranes in and reports fee police activities of the month previous. The council claims that they have the interests of fee citizenry at heart yet they seem to be exposing them to senseless anxiety. Despite the outcry of the public from young mothers to senior citizens stories and fears were put out there for fee council to bear, they seemed to have heard than not In the words of Bill Mitchell, who finally made a new motion, I havent heard anything here tonight that would malm me change my mind. It seems that Mr. Mitchell may have been giving himself airs. So the Gang of Three held fest and did the unthinkable; they voted to disband the police department; they voted to disband fee police department without an immediate replacement to cover the dty wife the same intensity as before; they voted to disband the police department leaving Kamas an Open Gty. At the beginning of time (once again) people collected and made determinations for their safety, for the people who would speak for them and they were called leaders. When others felt they could do the job better, they asked fee people to make them fee leaders and great discussions and sometimes hand to hand combat occurred. Tbe people looked at each other in wonderment because they didnt know who would do fee job better, they had only the promises made by the vieing antagonists. And promises were made to the people that, if elected, fee people would be safe in their homes and businesses, and politics was born: The oldest profession in fee world. I 5. LDS Church Satellite Broadcast! An Open House will be held on Oct. 24 at 6 p.m. at the Coalville Utah Stake Centra. A church satellite broadcast will be presented. Neal A. Maxwell will be the speaker, also a video, The True and Living God, will be shown. Everyone is invited. Well Child Clinic The Well Child Clinic for fee North Summit District will be held on OcL 25. Appointments are required and available from 8:30 am. to 3:30 p.m., at fee Summit CityCounty Health Department 85 North 50 East, Coalville. For additional information and clinic charges, please call the Summit CityCounty ext. 228. Health Department at 336-445- 1, Flu Shot Clinics Flu season is rapidly approaching! The Summit CityCounty Health Department is holding the annual Flu Shot Clinic for the North Summit District on Oct. 25, between 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., at fee Coalville area health department If you have any questions, please call fee Summit CityCounty Health Department ext. 228. Sooth Summit District on OcL 19, at. between 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., and OcL 27, between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., at the Kamas area health department Questions, Shot Clinic will not start before time specified. 336-445- 1, 783-432- 1. Summit County Planning Commission Meeting Notice is hereby given feat the Summit County Planning Commission will hold its regular meeting on OcL 26. Agenda: 7 p.m. Regular Meeting - Bums lire Station, 730 West Rasmussen Road, Park City. Regular Items: 1. Approval of Minutes - Aug. 24, Regular Meeting; Sept 28, Regular Meeting; Sept 30, Special Regular Meeting; Oct. 7, Study Session; 2. Vested Rights Recommendation, Clissold Property, Old Ranch Road: Jeff Graham; 3. Vested Rights Recommendation, TL. Henderson Property, 5200 North: Thomas Bowmen; 4. Public Hearing 8 p.m. - Impact Fee Procedural Ordinance, Snyderville Basin Development Code, Chapter 8; 5. Discussion and Recommendation, Impact Fee Procedural Ordinance, Snyderville Basin Development Code, Chapter 8. Chairman and Commission Items; Ruth's Views SAVINGS member, Diane Evans, had attended le by Bradley Wm. Bowen Strong & Hanni I have known many people who gave their real estate to adult children or other family members to avoid probate. This is a big mistake! For example, creditors of fee A recipient may take fee property to' satisfy a judgment. The property might also be pledged as collateral for a loan, or your child may prefer feat you be in a nursing home and simply refuse to permit you to live in your own home. Finally, most people do not realize that fee Federal Government extracts a large financial penalty for transferring propety prior to death. Under Section 1014 of fee Internal Revenue Code fee basis of property is increased (or decreased) to fair market value at fee time of death. Basis is the number used for determining gain or loss when property is sold. Usually, fee basis" of property is the amount paid when the property was purchased. In most cases, real estate is worth a lot more at fee time of a persons death than when the property was bought. The following example illustrates the devastating financial impact of transferring real estate before death. Parental Logic Hazel T. Marrott Continued from Page 1A Supreme Court hearing with regards to East Jordan Irrigation Company and Payson City. Any future applications feat either one of these entities file wife fee State Engineer must first be approved by the board of Creek. It must be approved wife a minimum of three signatures from fee current board members, and if fee application is not granted, it will automatically be thrown out by fee State Engineers Office. During fee meeting, a well application to fee State Engineers Office, by fee city of Kamas, was protested by fee board members until further information can be obtained and studied. The board would like to apologize for fee cancellation of the September meeting due to unforeseen circumstances. Tbe next meeting will be held on Monday, Nov. 8 at the county services building in Kamas. If scheduling permits, a membra from fee State Engineer's Office will be here for the next meeting. Don t Use Deeds To Avoid Probate watch. pulifc' Subscribe To The Summit County cL The best system is to have one party govern and the other party im-fc- Creek Re-evalua- ted In a hearing held recently wife the State Engineers Office, Beaver-Shing- le Creek Irrigation Company announced that each share of stock was for value. Each share is now wrath .3 per acre foot, up from .2 per acre foot. Beaver-Shing- le Creek held their regular meeting last Monday, OcL 11. Items of business included several transfers of water shares by some local individuals. Other news of interest was a conclusion from a Beaver-Shing- Just Thoughts From Bessies Collection A e POSTAL IDENTIFICATION NO. 525640 Directors Items; Adjourn. Summit County Board of Adjustment Meeting Notice is hereby given that tbe Summit County Bond of Adjustment will hold its regular meeting on OcL 28. Agenda: 7 p.m. Regular Meeting in the District Courtroom, County Courthouse, Coalville. Items: 1. Approval of Minutes - Sept 23, Regular Meeting; 2. Variance to Front Setback Requirement, 130 Innsbruck Strasse, Summit Park, Dan Inman. Board Items; Directors Items; Adjourn. Francis Town Meet Your Candidate Night There will be a Meet Your Candidate Night" at fee Summit County Services building courtroom in Kamsx on OcL 28 at 7:30 pm. Crane and ask your candidates whatever questions you have. Organized by Brad McNeil. Coalville Cancer Screening Clinic The Coalville Cancer Screening Clinic will be held on Tuesday, OcL 26 at the Coalville IDS Church, located at 40 North Main. Services include a pap smear, pelvic exam, breast exam, blood pressure check, and educational materials. For more information and to schedule an appointment, call RaNae at 3364451, exL 221 I Summit County Hazardous Materials Meeting I I I The Summit County Hazardous Materials Local Emergency Planning Committee will meet on Monday, Nov. 1 at 7 pm. at fee Summit County Sheriffs Office in Coalville." The present hazardous materials emergency response plan for Summit County will be reviewed. In compliance wife fee rnmrnimity Right To Know Act and SARA Title Iff, this meeting is open to the public and anyone interested is invited to attend. Any questions, please contact LaMar Richins at I I I I I 9 I I I I I 8 I 336-258- 9. t I I I Holy Cross Mobile Mammography The Holy Doss. Mobile Mammography Unit will be in Coalville Tuesday and Wednesday, OcL 26 and 27 at the Coalville LDS Church, located at 40 North Main. For more information and to schedule a mammogram, call VT 4 |