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Show "WASATCH COUNTY COURIER LETTERS TO THE Selling depositions is While Hes depoaons are public records and are clearly accessible to those who would wish to review them, -we would question the propriety of offering court documents for sale. Some may interpret such advertising as an effort to manipulate the litigation and turn the _ dispute into a commercial venture.. Canyon Meadows has no such intention, nor do we suggest or insinuate that the Courier is undertaking such an effort. Nevertheless, to avoid the never forget Amelia. never had She was a widow, children, and was buying some groceries in a store. She had two carrots, two potatoes, and one onion, yet every year her taxes went up for schools that she-could not afford. What do you think,! How about when we turn 70, our taxes for schools stop? After all, the only one I know of who had children at by either the courier or Canyon Meadows, we would request the withdrawal of the offer to sell copies of these depositions. Your attention to this matter is appreci- - about 90 was Sariah,/ or Sarah and then they home schooled Isaac I am sure. _ated. I guess this is just a place to “vent”, since the whole thing was “greased” anyway. Duval, Hansen, Witt & Morley, PC Publisher’s Note: We regret raising any concerns the attor- neys for the Canyon Meadows landowners may have over the Courier’s sale of the depositions. However in this county it is Maxine Zawodniak, Charleston well neigh impossible to glean the truth about what has hap- Kids in Wallsberg . pened in the past. The depositions are the best tool available to _ The $50 we are charging for reproductions of the documents taining almost four hundred pages of testimony and almost as ‘many pages of exhibits. Copying, collating and binding dotu- pleted a GRAMA request of this size they would charge around to these documents and will continue to offer them. School Board made decision before Truth in Taxation Hearing to Keith Baker and_ his agg. course I forgot, then pr Aa te EET lane Se thanks report on the school spending, and how to save money. I was really making an effort to attend the meeting, and of Gee Fy. Re 3c First of all thanks for all the work you do in putting out a newspaper that tells it as it is. | talked to some folks who had attended, and it came out just about how I thought it would. When 1 worked for the lephichic Company so many years ago, we had a saying that still applies today in any job. could have such a seemingly important place in a little predominantly Mormon community such as Wallsburg. Frankly, | am puzzled that the subject of the sale of and even asked to have Keith It appeared that the whole meeting was “greased.” The board voted to go ahead with their original plans. I don’t know about the rest i you, but our taxes went up about $200, and on a fixed income that hurts. My husband used to drive school bus, and I[ can’t believe how much time and money is drinks in the little store — 525 S. Main Street of pathos in watching all of the little (435) 654-2531 up piles of beer cans and cardboard beer cases from slobs who heave them out their car (!!!)} window. When the kids Letters to the Editor Policy We invite the submission of reader opinion letters for publication in The Wasatch County Courier. We will do our best to print all letters we receive. We promise not to pick and choose which ones to publish based on our own agenda. However, a few rules are probably in order. wonder if the Round Valley Market is 1. We reserve the ube not to print letters we deem to be inflammatory, factually inaccurate or with unsupported accusations. going to do periodic valley wide beer. can cleanups if they start to sell beer, or is the job still going to fall to the chil- 2. We apologize in advance if we are unable to print your letter because of space consid-- erations. But,.please, don’t stop writing. We will try our best to print your next letter. dren of Wallsburg? 6. Demographically, beer is out of place | here in a little town settled by Mormons, and still inhabited by their progeny. William. Madison Wall surely |rolls in his grave like a lathe. I have mentioned a Cy reasons am I ‘consider beer sales in the little| Wallsburg store to be inappropriate. It may come as a surprise to some to find out that the reasons that I have cited of life. may not be at all original. LH wa fal who. wed believe that the youth in this town will not be adversely We in Utah seem to be embarrassed to admit that religion enters into our politics, but throughout the country, espe- do her best, of course there will be beer accessed for youth from that store, whether bought for them by someone, or Wasatch Heber. City, UT 84032 pop-drinking kids of the valley cleaning can’t do a thing to improve this quality affected by the sale of beer from this little store. | have been constantly advised by some of the youth in the town that cigarettes and snuff have been supplied to youth illegally from the store in the past and although Brenda will no doubt _ a year the youth of Wallsburg these cleanups, | have habitually kept an informal tally of the number of beer cans vs. pop cans thrown at the side of the road. Without exaggeration beer cans outnumber pop cans 100 to 1. I have to of alcoholic input, Send your letter to the editor to: do a valley wide cleanup. There is a sort need not be embarrassed to speak up, and as the majority, we shouldn’t feel shy about our views if we believe them to be right, and we surely shouldn't _ allow ourselves to be shouted down by the determined, but numerically insufficient minority. Many of us simply don’t | want beer sales here in our little valley. Hote: - Baker’s plan reviewed. speak louder in words. : Because I have been involved in most of well. Wallsburg is such a place. The sale | 5. Once They just don’t know yet In this democratic society, the majority Here are some of the reasons why my family and I find the idea of selling Beer in the little store in Wallsburg inappropridte;. =: | up Opinions numerically predominant. | their E.O.C. the paper transfer was for | end 4, Every a in Wallsburg knows that The Nick Bigney Family the biggest crowds flock into town during hunting season, and | think it’s pretty realistic to believe that the biggest beer sales will take place during that time. Keeping in mind that most of the beer that would be sold by the store © would be consumed in this valley, the are done cleaning up, they invariably smell like little beer cans themselves. -and the small town ideal is alive and | heard that the meeting was quite well attended, and that people gave good wn ceteton o few months. It amazes me that beer sales person the and well County Courier to cover had in Wallsburg may The to the town candy store, kids can fish in the little spring in the center of town, already laws the subject. find out “the job was greased.” out they wanted, reflecting the morality of the minority. how wishy washy we are ourselves about 1. Many parents dream about moving to words they sales. us Mormons. a town where their kids can run barefoot picked Wallsburg stands up and is heard, the me to read the comments of the people who have written and spoken about the “Wallsburg Beer Affair” during-the past wanted a transfer, they had In other naive, but I. can’t believe that these ~ occurrences will decrease with local beer © that is the only thing that you can legislate, and unless the majority in It has been interesting for my family and to submit miserable paper work to only If someone We have all heard the old crock that “you can’t legislate morality.” Indeed, ‘ly make me want to take my kids hunting. What’s funny is that when some of us take people hunting here from out of state, they don’t drink out of respect for alcoholic beverages even entertains debate in a town where teetotalers are so - Editor. Next _ and flipped his car. The sodden driver pulled himself out of his car and went to sleep in the front seat of my son’s truck. We found him in the morning. I may be the hills around my home doesn’t exact- Editor, are roughly our costs: There are three separate depositions con- $120 per set. We feel it is important that the public have access in common. of us who thought of more beer and more guns in don’t need beer give the public a peek behind the curtain of county government. ments of this size is a huge task. For example if the county com- Most cially in the “Bible Belt”, there are dry ‘counties, where no form of alcoholic beverage is sold. People who want to drink go to the next county and drink and that’s the way it is. The reason is © purely religious. The people in those counties don’t believe that alcoholic drinks and their religion have anything 3. We will print letters as they are submit- — ted, with spelling and grammatical errors. This is not because we want to embarrass or ridicule. writers with their errors. It is because we do not want to unintentionally change the meaning of your letter. Some letters are written in character with intentional errors to emphasize a a point. ~ We will be ters that after the ' print that glad to proof and correct any lethave a written request to do so signature. Of course, we won't request in The Courier. You are also invited to come to our office and write your letter at one of our computers. Please call 654-2661 in advance to schedule a - time on one of our machines. 4. We give priority 1/2 floppy disks in keep your letters reserve the right brevity. to letters submitted on 3 text only format. Please under 500 words. We do to eet long letters for if All letters must include a signature and a phone number. Please bring a photo ID with your submitted letter. The Courier will confirm the identity of the writer. We will not print your letter without conformation. The Wasatch County Courier is not responsible for, nor do letters to-the editor express _ the views of The Wasatch County Courier. The 7 i '——- ‘0 ns i © Wasatch County Courier cannot and does not vouch for the accuracy Letters to the Editor. or validity of any | = owe Provost. improprieties illegally. nas aon copies of the depositions of Mr. Mathis of any door f I am writing to respectfully request that the Courier withdraw its offer to sell — appearance like the cigarettes or snuff, hurried out of the These good people don’t profess to have have lived a few years can sadly point to the “Word of Wisdom,” yet they are the spot where our childhood friends good Bible believing people, and smart I don’t blame fe school teachers per ~ died on the highway as a result of drinkenough to know what they believe, they sei; I more so blame the parents, and ~ ing. We need closer proximity to beer don’t care what other folks - think of the times we live, in which we cannot for our youth like a moose needs a hatthem. We timid folks in the “Book of have any form of discipline in school or rack. - Mormon Belt” ought to stand up and be the home. We're always saying “let’s who we are. - The re that is sold at the store will take back our streets from crime.” I say, be drunk in Wallsburg. No one believes © “let’s take our kids back from governIt is not unusual for the religious mores that people that flock into Wallsburg to ment rule”. Discipline is love. Cruelty of the community to dictate the customs buy beer, and then drink it in Heber or is something else. and the permissiveness of the laws in Charleston. We in Wallsburg stand to be the community, in fact, it is the norm. I honestly do not think that we have to the proud victims. A couple of weeks Usually the morality of the majority of keep increasing the school budgets to ago we had a memorable experience... in the people is the predominant influence get the job done. I feel that it isn’t what — the middle of the night a drunk driver in forming their societal laws. they “need”, it’s what they spend. I'll hit the fence a few yards past our home, » Editor: Commissioner EDITOR spent driving these kids all over the state for “activities, and for the most part they can’t even read. - inappropriate and September 14, 1999 ¥ |