| Show page 4 The Grantsville GAZETTE July 24 1985 Wednesday BILL RYDALCH: LUCILLE KELLEY: ABBIE PASKETT: Congress and the way that they quarrel back and forth over our money and how they are going to spend it and who is going to get the biggest piece I think they should start balancing the budget and go from there! I'd like it a little cooler! Personal decisions are my biggest probIf I could find peace of mind lem in making those I would be happy Our Main Street always looks so trashy with garbage all over and weeds all I think over some of the properties it gives a bad impression to people I think who are traveling through we could all help a little and it would the wrong question for me! I like to be positive -- rather than negative I think there is definitely more that is positive about the community there is negative GAZETTE The Grantsville encourages public dialogue "Letters to the through the Editor" feature Letters should not exceed 20 words in length They must be signed and we reserve the right to edit or not print letters Letters may be mailed to POBox 800 Grantsville Utah 84029 "How about me?" Dear Editor: How about me? The City of Grantsville Tooele and have County provided a new Senior Citizens Center for the old how about folks --- now me? ' sixteen can't years old find anything to do in Grantsville to pass the time and I'm bored and looking for trouble Why can't someone spear- - I just The articles with a liberalist slant bureaucrats are entrenched under any regime so change yrouldtbe very diffi-tha- n 1 cult Olympic-size- d swim- pool and a snack bar an indoor recreation ming with liberalists detest All they are is a diluted Communist Even in the Deseret News you get some head a program to provide a center for young people? We could use our park for this by building sidewalks with street lights and more benches to enjoy in the We could build evenings a large better My husband walk along it every morning so look Liberalism That's — ALBERT PASKETT: -- DONNA McBRIDE: I'm and I The weather room They've imposed this curfew on us to be in by an hour dark after (approximately 10:30 pm in the summer) because of all the vandalism This curfew is more like a police state action and not something in the free West The answer is a "family-teecenter — not a curfew — to remedy the vandalism The only form of recreation we have is dope and vandalism The money that it (Editor's note: I much see the problems every day LINDA REED: gripes me! to get along with Nothing Many take to repair the radiators etc damaged would almost pay for a munity residents are the misconception that the new Senior Citizens Center was built by Grantsville State and federal City funds paid for this facility Grantsville City paid only for inspection fees sewer and water connections secretarial services to complete and $2200 the paperwork for extras It is estimated that a center would cost youth to $300000 approximately build with many additional thousands of dollars yearly to maintain and operate such a facility) pool This should of the City be a It isn't goal some- thing that just one individual can do Other towns do it! So — how about me? (Anonymous) Reasons against swimming pool Dear Editor: Tooele it has a swimming Tooele built it a pool But right long time ago now that swimming pool is costing Tooele City taxpayers over fifty thousand dollars a year to keep it If it were not running for the Tooele County School Board paying twenty thousand dollars a year to help run I'm pretty easy swimming classes it v would have shut down long before now The fees they take in from the Tooele County swimming pool only amount to ten thousand dollars a It costs at least year eighty thousand dollars a The year to run the pool taxpayers have to pay the com under n" would and we ' for balance In addition there must be a lifeguard on duty every minute that the pool is open Every eight hours the water must be totally No matter what circulated the cost to build a pool the cost to run it each year is veiy expensive The same thing applies There to a bowling alley have to be ten thousand people in a community to support a bowling alley In Salt Lake County there are a little over a million per cent Ninety of those people live farther from a swimming pool and a bowling alley than GrantsThe ville is from Tooele young people in Grantsville get in their cars and drag three Main For Street trips up and down Main people CONTINUED ON P5 |