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Show Ay anttaeammnali : ; | WASATCH COUNTY COURIER LETTERS TO THE EDITOR found in News Briefs of September 28, titled, “Good Work, If You Can Get It.” Are the editors of the Courier suggesting that Wasatch County employees work the _ holidays of . Christmas; If the Thanksgiving, New Years, the Fourth of July, and the other legal holidays, while most other working citizens. of the © United States enjoy these select times with their families? I’ll bet that even the. offices of the Courier are closed most holidays. | that night, if not later, just to get up the in a moments notice to fight a wild land fire or try to control ‘the floodwaters that are created by spring run off and-are threatening our homes, as well-as maintaining. our pub- of the their sick leave, unless some sort of tragedy strikes their health. At these dire times when the wolf comes. knock= ing at their door would you take their livelihood away? ! It is the responsibility of any good news- the writer-editor’s personal opinions. It home again until ten or eleven o’clock homes most in an insidious way, it becomes bias. The reader is subconsciously swayed toward to go out in a blizzard risking their lives to make the highways safe for their known, tistics. But when such a report is titled employees arise at three o’clock in the next morning and do it again, or leaving be paper to research and report various sta- Frequently many of the Wasatch County the rest of us who rise at a decent hour to go to work. Sometimes not going truth Wasatch County employees seldom use | becomes distasteful, uncalled for and undermines the public-government relationships. Trt Ty 1. We reserve the right not to print letters Edger: we deem critical of our community and the lack of response to UVSC’s convocation in which the Reverend France Davis was the speaker. Having heard Reverend 3. We will print letters as they are submitted, with spelling and grammatical errors. She was very This is not because we want to embarrass or Davis in the past, this would have been 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. © very interesting. But Ms. Anderson forgets one thing with her quickness. to criticize and find fault with us, the Thursday night in question, there were at least three (3) meetings and maybe more, that citizens should have been We will be glad to proof and correct any let- ters that have a written request to do so after the signature. Of course, we won’t print that request in The Courier. involved with. They were not meetings 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 — to entertain or bring us in remembrance of historical facts or stories, but they were meetings that would effect us, our time on one of our machines. 4, We give priority 1/2 floppy disks in keep your letters reserve the right brevity. _ children and grandchildren for years to. come. They were meetings that may effect our taxes, laws, and our quality of life. Life and it’s demands sometimes becomes a series of decisions based on. All letters must include a signature and a phone number. Please bring a photo ID with your submitted letter. The Courier will con- priorities. What we want to do gets pushed aside by what we need to do. Ms. Ran could to letters submitted on 3 text only format. Please under 500 words. We do to edit long letters for . firm the identity of the writer. We will not print your letter without conformation. _ Publisher's Note: The intent of the news brief was not to denigrate our hard working influence with UVSC to find better days and times so that all the citizens could -attend in the future. use her The Wasatch County Courier is not responsi- ble for, nor do letters ‘to the editor express the views of The Wasatch County Courier. The Wasatch County Courier cannot and does not vouch for the accuracy or validity of any Letters to the Editor. | Paul Royall Cost—$8.00 | | Immunization Clinic 2:30 pm—4:30 pm Blood Pressure Clinic 8:00 am—12:00 pm WIC: By appointment 5 WIC: By appointment _ Water Samples Due by noon October 15th > 13 WIC: By appointment 1:00-2:00 pm 19 Water Samples Due by noon 20 21 _ WIC: By appointment. Immuruzation Clinic 8:30 am—11:30 am Food Handlers Class October (9th 3:00 pm—5:00 pm 1:00-4:30 pm 27 Cancer Screening October 21st 8:30-11:30 am & 1:00-3:30 pm 8:30 am—3:30 pm by appointment October 22nd -8:30-11:30 am & 1:00-4:30 pm October 25th 8:30-11:30 am & 1:00-4:30 pm } <i aE aie RC cas tS 9h igen . apelin ae cath 8+ eee re eee 1 12 WIC: By appointment 1:00—4:30 pm ee OCTOBER 8:30-11:30 am & 1:00-4:30 pm October 18th eed ee oe 4 October 1st younoD AyD 49q9H ee SLC mele cove WASATCH CITY-COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT MONTHLY SCHEDULE — IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE FOR > FLU CLINIC HEALTH © DEPARTMENT Time Magazine is currently accepting votes for the Top Person of the Century. The poll is being -conducted on their internet web-site. President: Gordon B. Hinkley was listed at number. 15 on October 26th 8:30-11:30 am & 1:00-4:30 pm the list Friday morning, October ist, but when checked again this afternoon, he had risen to. October 28th number 12. If you wish to access cast your vote, the address is: 8:30-11:30 am & 1:00—4:30 pm October 29th | 8:30-11:30 am & 1:00-4:30 pm nats Re tanta this site and http://www. pathfinder.com/time/timet 00 /toppersonmain.html | The results of this poll will be included in the in mind Keep December 1999 issue of Time. that the poll is ‘case sensitive’ as you are typing in your choice! ee eit factually inac- 2. We apologize in advance if we are unable to print your letter because of space considerations. But, please, don’t stop writing. We will try our best to print your next letter. by one Sybil Anderson. Perhaps county employees. The point was that work- to be inflammatory, curate or with unsupported accusations. ‘Read with interest a letter to the Editor’ Marcia Young - ers in the private sector (who pay the salaries 1 choose which ones to publish based on our — _own agenda. However, a few rules are probably in order. | SN le ten ll i AeA a a ie ae casein izens of Wasatch County, should not offer the same benefits to our hard working public employees as the rest of the country? Should they risk their very lives on our behalf with no thanks at all? I would like to comment on your article little time Sl cleats ‘ers. Are you suggesting that we, the cit- So much to do, so | - ters we receive. We promise not to pick and alge agencies as well as many private employ- Editor: — letters for publication in The Wasatch County Courier. We will do our best to print all let- AICS San DS the same one used by most government We invite the submission of reader opinion inet They deserve a break Letters to the Editor Policy : The formula used to determine the amount of vacation and sick leave they receive for the amount of loyal service is of county emplo'yees) work as hard or harder and usually receive much less in the way of benefits. We wish all employees were treated as well. | | oa in words. morning that es Opinions: speak louder and running the events a lic parks ‘the rest of us enjoy. These are only a few of the so-called routine duties that they perform which on rare occasion have proven to be fatal. * ee hl in sila a a A A lt a |