OCR Text |
Show Volume XVII Issue XIV The Ogden Valley news Page January 1, 2010 UDOT Encourages Residents And Businesses To Keep Snow Off State Roadways The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) advises area residents and businesses clearing snow from their property to please not push it onto state road right-of-ways. When clearing driveways, sidewalks, or business parking lots, property owners are asked to please store that snow on their own property and not shovel, blow, or push it out onto the roads, said Cory Pope, UDOT Region One Director. “Putting snow on the roads after they have been cleared creates a safety hazard for other motorists and makes it more difficult for our snowplows to keep the roads clear and drivable,” he said. Pope noted that state law prohibits this practice because it creates obstructions on the road, which can freeze in place and endanger other motorists, emergency responders, law enforcement officers, and highway maintenance crews. “With several storms projected to pass through our area in the next few days, let’s help everyone using our roadways have a safe holiday season by storing snow removed from our driveways, walks, and parking lots on our own properties,” Pope said. HUNTSVILLE TOWN NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING OF THE HUNTSVILLE TOWN COUNCIL, JANUARY 21, 2010 7309 East 200 South, Huntsville, UT Public notice is herby given that the Town Council of Huntsville, Utah, Weber County, will hold a Regular Council Meeting, January 21, 2010 at the time and place set forth below to consider the agenda items below. MEETING PLACE: Huntsville Town Hall TIME: 7:00 PM AGENDA: 1. Call Meeting to Order – Mayor McKay. 2. Pledge of Allegiance - by invitation. 3. Welcoming all in attendance. 4. Public comments: Residents attending meeting will be allotted three (3) minutes to address the Town Council regarding concerns or ideas. No action can or will be taken on any issues presented. 5. Approval of Bills for November 2009. 6. Approval of Work Session minutes held November 19th, 2009. 7. Approval of Town Council minutes held December 3rd, 2009. 8. Any unfinished Council Member business. 9. Comments from retiring Council Member’s. 10. Swearing in Ceremony for Newly Elected Council Members and Mayor. 11. Comments from Newly Elected Council Member’s. 12. Citizen Comments. New Council Member Business: Discussion and/or action on Ordinance to establish 2010 meeting schedule. • Council Member Department Assignments. • Public Hearing to discuss proposed amendments to Title 9: Garbage and Title 10: Culinary Water Ordinances. • Set date for Public Hearing on Resolution for Natural Hazard Pre-Disaster Mitigation Plan. • Discussion and/or action on Inter-Local Agreement for Animal Shelter Services. • Set date for Closed Door Session with Town Council to discuss appointments. • New Business. • Citizen Comments. • Adjournment of meeting. • Open house to honor retiring Council Members and welcome in the Newly Elected Council Members and Mayor. Dated this 6th day of January, 2010. Posted: Post Office Town Hall The Ogden Valley news www. huntsvilletown.com _________________________ Gail Ahlstrom, Clerk/Recorder In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, persons needing assistance with attendance to these meetings should call Gail Ahlstrom @ 745-3420, giving at least a 48 hour advance notice. This agenda is subject to change up to 24 hours prior to meeting date. For last minute changes to agenda check town website, www.huntsvilletown.com OPEN HOUSE Saturday, January 9 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. We are opening our Eden clinic in the High Altitude Fitness building located at 4776 East 2600 North. (801) 778-0555 or (801) 473-3333 Our Constitution and What it Means to us All—Part III By Lonnie D. Crockett, Ph.D. Now that we have discussed, and hopefully learned, what enumerated and defined powers are granted to our Congress under Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, one should now be able to recognize whether or not a Bill being introduced in Congress is Constitutional. Case in point: the Health Care Bill now being debated. Ask yourself this: which enumerated power grants Congress any power to be involved in health care? Amid all the acrimony over the Health Care debates, the debate should not be centered on which plan is best, but whether Constitutional authority exists for any of the plans under consideration. Unfortunately, such inquiry is scarce and hardly noted. Recently, three leading Democrats were asked during a news conference to site the Constitutional authority for their healthcare proposals. To one, they responded with answers that betrayed unmitigated arrogance and a disdain for our Constitution second to none in our nation’s noble history. The oath our congressmen/women take is to “… preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic… and bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” Too many of our representatives in Congress have forsaken their sacred oaths. Hopefully, by reading these short, easily read and understood articles, you, the reader, will be able to hold our representatives’ feet to the fire and demand that they honor their Oaths of Office. Our representatives get away with violating the Constitution because WE THE PEOPLE do not hold them to it. Our Constitution was written to protect our Natural (God given) Rights and to limit government. Whatever powers the government exercises, it must first be granted those powers by WE THE PEOPLE. Any usurpation of those powers is nothing less than tyranny. Our Founding Fathers also wisely knew that the Constitution would be utterly worthless to restrain government legislators unless it was clearly understood that the People had the right to compel the government to only act within the Constitutional limits. Our form of government was established to protect the weak against the strong. Remember the earlier statement about the wolves and the sheep sitting down to vote on what to eat for dinner. Abraham Lincoln sated, “The [P]eople are the masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it!” The Founding Fathers fought and won the Revolutionary War; and they wrote a Constitution of limited governmental powers and made sure that the powers entrusted to the government were separated so that no one part of government had all the powers. The Bill of Rights protects our liberties, it doesn’t provide them, not only in times of peace but in times of war as well. The government was entrusted with the protection of our Rights. The remedy for a government that does not honor that trust is identified within the Declaration of Independence. It states, “That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.” Samuel Adams stated, “The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards, and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. “It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. “Of the later we are in most danger at present; let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former; for the sake of the latter. “Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.” Sounds like he is speaking to us right now, doesn’t it? Remember this, slavery is free, freedom costs, and once lost, is regained only by the shedding of blood. George Washington states, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” What are some of the powers WE THE PEOPLE have given the government? Take for example, the power to tax. The power to tax, given to Congress by the Constitution, has been exercised to the point of serious abuse. Taxation has been used to suppress as well as regulate certain areas of our economy and society. Individual income tax, corporate tax, and other taxes levied, stifle production, create classes and privileges, are applied unfairly to some, and give favored treatment to others. The power to tax is the power to destroy. The power to spend and borrow, given to the Congress, has also been terribly abused. Our Congress spends more money every year than it receives in tax revenues many times over. This creates debt and it is immoral to saddle our posterity with our debts. We are now saddled with debt too large to even comprehend. Had we sound money that was in compliance with the Constitutional mandate, that is, gold and silver, we couldn’t just spend and spend forever. Government’s appetite for money is insatiable. Because of the massive debt our government has heaped upon us and our posterity, additional oppressive taxation will continue. It is one eternal round of abuse. Because of the departure from sound money in the one instance, there CONSTITUTION cont. on page 11 New Year’s Eve Ski Party! For the love of snow… We’re ringin’ in the New Year with a bang! Adult price Child price KITKA January 23, 2009 7:30PM Browning Center for the Performing Arts Tickets: $15/$12 801-626-8500 $35 $22 THIS LOW PRICE INCLUDES… xAll day lift pass xSki extended hours* xFireworks xMidnight torchlight parade xParty xMusic xDancing xGames Spend the last day of 2009 on snow and welcome 2010 with a bang. Your holiday lift ticket includes access to so many extras. New Year’s Eve Dinner Special in the lodge: “Even God stops to listen when KITKA...opens its collective mouth. The sound is so chillingly beautiful...” — THE GUARDIAN www.wsuculturalaffairs.org Adults: $19.95 Children 5-12: $9.95 2400 N 3500 E Liberty, UT 84310 801-745-3511 WolfCreekUtah.com Children 4 & younger: free *Ski until 11:30pm |