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Show WASATCH COUNTY COURIER _ Debate Rules? The got the pretty sunset. You are not ‘immune to the potential plant odor drift- same ing your way too. I suppose I shouldn’t threshold should apply for Presidential - Ifthe Democrats feel so compelled to to’ scare tactics perhaps fallout. Where there’s air, asphalt plant we and wind, you too will wish took Beano. | would all be well served if we knew why they are so fearful of Ralph Nader. is i a list of the activities and accomplishments of the Boosters in the year 2000 to date. While there are a few remaining events in the last months of The Board of 30 members is hard working and committed to the welfare Enclosed week before election, and that was prior to the technological age in which we Hall et Reagan and Carter debated only one ing © ° of this area. The working relationship with the City of Midway has been one of | great cooperation. The Swiss Days Committee produced an outstanding . event and has plans to make next year’s even better. Our Chorus and Handbell “organizations — represent us well as 11,000 they perform Bush, Gore, Nader and Buchanan in the context of one final debate. - John Zenger President, es aad Boosters Asphalt around Cannery buildFloat and Swiss Miss Pageant WASATCH COUNTY ‘Wasatch County’s Source for News Olde Swiss Square . IRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! Got your attention I hope. That exciting headline I wrote just to make you’ _ aware of our problem. I’m a Daniel area resident who is fighting to keep that bad-bad Asphalt plant from being erect- Midway, UT 84032 PO Box 1030 Midway, UT 84049. - (435) 654-2661 (435) 654-2531(f) 3. We will print letters as they are submitted, with spelling and grammatical errors. 4. We give priority to letters submitted on 3 1/2 floppy disks in text gous cana 500 words. We do. reserve the right to edit long letters for brevity. woes es _ Alf letters must include a signature and a phone number. Please brine a photo 1D with ge ee wasatchcountycourier@yahoo.com eae your submitted letter. ASSOCIATE - The Wasatch County Courier is not responsible for, nor do letters to the editor express the views of the Wasatch County Courier. To sin by silence when they should protest, makes cowards of men _ a n i a t n i a M t n e d i s e r P e h t n Ca _ ? t e g d u B Healthy A _ fter next week’s victory parties die down . comes a sobering . challenge for the man answer- ing to the name “President-elect”: How 1 te OE MERE so em Pe ee eeeane to keep the nation’s longest-ever eco-— | eqies good times for at least another five years. A recession, Shc client : enka - come as a shock not to be forgotten and, fairly or unfairly, not to be for- ‘Always volatile, the —Abraham Lincoln Dan Stephens ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Susan Stanley OFFICE MANAGER: Dixie Bishop -MANAGING EDITOR Jon Lamoreaux stock saitiet. could fall rather than rise, as ‘millions of new investors are anticipating. Will foreigners, big customers and heavy -f- Arts & aii monetary miscalcula- tively low-cost imports due to the strong dollar. Should the dollar decline, there could be problems for con- tions. tion. This scourge has faded from public consciousness, wage and price increases having been offset by productivity gains since the mid-1990s. But recent figures show slower gains in output. efficiency, or on per work hour. ‘He must consider the level of debt, which: is unusually high in both busiconsumer . economiés. ness and - Energy problems supuhes: and prices: are | not likely to disappear — J s se ; : Paulette Tillman | Russ Riggs I : Edi ST. AFF WRITERS me Kirsten Shaw Tim Westby Paul Swenson— oy CONTRIBUTORS Sam Allen Bob King 3 Matt Heimberger ART DIRECTOR Exin McGuinness~ Books Amber Siopibers, Advertising Pideidve Dianne Davey - Circulation/MIS = = Dylan Stephens Security Ramona - entirely, and could have a severe PRESIDENT/CEO . impact on economic growth. Billions are being spent on new energy sources, but they're a long way from market. - And, never to be iainimnized govern- Michael J. Kearns ment and regulatory mismanagement — mainly the handling of spending, taxes and interest rates — could drag. dards, it should now be weary and the economy down into recession or lift . and many consumers continue to lamed, but it isn’t. The stride diminit unwisely into inflation. spend only by ——— from their ished: to 2.7 percent in the JulyAll these possibilities. exist now, home equity. | September quarter, half that of last largely obscured by the soaring rate of Business failures may rise, especialspring, but it’s still healthy. productivity. But as the economic -. ly among high-tech companies with remain — grand plans but few practical accomMoreover, expectations expansion slows, some will become | high. Consumers are spending and bor- - plishments. Failures could mean rising more visible, and they must be dealt rowing, and the University of Michigan with by the seni House’s new rest unemployment, something the workconsumer survey shows the public dent. force has not had to deal with in years. Corporate bond failures are increasing, : Jon Lamoreaux Editor Education Editor . investors withdraw their support? nomic expansion from withering. The new president must ea vith Failure to accomplish the goal may | the ever-present possibility of infla- - sumers. _ brand the next president as the man who brought the good times to an end, whereas a: triumph may be taken for granted by a public long accustomed to financial good times. This expansion, 116 months old, began after the last recession in 19901991, a downturn that political analysts often contend cost President George Bush a second term. Measured by old-economy stan- EDITOR & PUBLISHER given. But keeping the expansion _ The trade value of the dollar must be alive is a high-wire act that allows for | considered. Americans now enjoy rela- _ few fiscal or MEMBER ‘Utah Press Association | ed at our end of the valley. We think of BY JOHN CUNNIFF - AP BUSINESS ANALYST — 210 East Main 1. We reserve the right not to print letters we deem to be inflammatory, oe inaccurate or unsupported. 2. We apologize in advance if we are unable to orinit your letter because of space considerations. But, please, don’t stop writing. We will try our best to print your next letter. Asphalt Plant Not Dead | | call (435) 654-2661 in advance to schedule a time. Heber, UT and 12,000. "We invite the submission of reader opinion letters for publication in the Courier. You are invited to come to our office and write your letter at one os our computers. Please Michael Summa throughout Utah 3 neighboring states. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLICY now live. Let the truth be told about — - _ @ . Costumes and supplies for Swiss Chorus 2,000 | * Utilities and insurance 1,000 be glad that that fire started in the area candidates given their potential responof north Deer Creek, but it showed me the year, we thought you might find this sibilities, tax payer funded matching — how the wind blows your way, a | tobe useful. funds if they receive 5% of the vote, and . sometimes and really often. You may also find it helpful to know the arguably questionable history ofthe . So why don’t you great folks join us generally how we spend our funds. We two mainstream candidates. -down-southers when theplant project is began the year with approximately The Democratic Party is propagating brought up again in Nov, and add your 25,000 and we received $45,000 from fear in voters thata vote for Nader is a negative votes to our feeble cries for a Swiss Days. We have spent approxtvote for Bush. Perhaps in the context of Permit to Build NO Vote? We need you!! _ mately $70,000 for a variety of projects one final debate the voters will realize One day you will need us for something in the valley. Some of those are: why the Democrats are resorting to and we will reciprocate your ne atten-. such tactics. They are scared silly of the tion to our pleas. . Three hundred new chairs for truths that Nader and Buchanan would . Where there”s smoke, there”s stinkTown Hall $21,000 bring to the fore. ing, coughing, watering eyes, and sooty e _ Refurbishing upstairs of Teas resort Heber Valley Arts Council 2,000 ‘Youth scholarships, a vation 2,000 visible to the community at large. rere) eeeee pre arr e ome candidates. Midway them fight it out.” “We’re not involved.” _ the work of the Boosters become more -— Oh yeah! You got the smoke and we. they are not sufficient for Presidential the nme olds are sufficient for Congressional candidates _know it. “It’s not our problem.” “Let President of Core polling at 5% and must be running an’ active campaign. -While these thresh- “As Boosters, I have received strong encouragement from my Board to have “Advertising, Classified — Story & Article Flyer & Insert Noon Noon Noon Spm - Wednesday Monday Friday Friday For questions or comments to the Courier, please call (435) 654-2661, or fax information to (435) 654-2531 or visit Gumning office hours, iday, 9 am—5. - pm, at 650 West, 100 South, Heber City, Utah 84032. Disciaimer—The Wasatch County Courier, LLC is locally owned and operated by Silver King Media Group, LLC and printed iby the Ogden Standard-Examiner. Any claims made iby letters to the editor, advertisers or in classified ativertising are not those of the Wasatch County Courier, LLC or its staff. The Wasatch County Courier, LLC is not liaitle for any such claims or for any loss or grievance claimed iby those not of the same opinion. . © 2000 Wasaitch County Courier, uc Ke ‘ Me \ a ria for entry. Each candidate must be ® Flags “for Main a jg , cemetery — 2.000 2s © 4th of July Event, including fireworks 7,500 VINNIE it as being our problem and it is — ours — yours and ours. . That fire last week and its day-long The thresholds fk US House and US | — aoe cloud hardly made it to the air-. Senate debates. sponsored by taxpayer ’ ‘port, BUT most of it drifted tip to you. It funded, big government institutions, made me think how many of us are in NPR/PBS, represents reasonable crite-. the same boat and sometimes don't A7 ~ po | a is: “NOVEMBER 8, 2000. |