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Show I The Gunnison Valley Gazette Thursday, October 19, 2006 ESSAY WINNERS of time and money. I would rather call a friend and go shopping. Why would you want to waste money on drugs when you could buy new clothes?! There are lots of better things to do than drugs. Continued from Page 5 by WYATT JEFF OUTZEN 7th grade Fve got better things to do than to do drugs. I want to stay drug free because I don't want it to ruin my life. My main goal in life is to be drug free and be a police officer or a swat team agent and if drugs interfere with that I'm going to be furious. I know people think that they're cool doing drugs but they're not they're just plain stupid. I'm not talking Motrin or pain pills or allergy medicine. I'm talking alcohol, beer, wine, smokes and stuff like that. For example I know people may smoke to relieve stress. I know that they may do that but once you start you can never stop. My mom started smoking after I was born to relieve the stress from paying the bills and groceries and stuff parents have to pay for and now she is pretty healthy but she could never ever quit. Every day she wishes that she didn't start and she's trying to quit for my sister and me. I hope she never dies from lung cancer or anything like that. She might not and I hope she doesn't. i El 1 by MARISSA PICKETT 8th grade I have better things to do than drugs! I would rather call some friends over or watch a movie and just have fun. Drugs are a waste by JOSHUA CARLISLE 8th grade I'd bet that everyone in the world knows someone who smokes. That is hard core evidence that drugs are too widely used today. When I went to the store, I saw a line at the counter of about six or seven people. I noticed that all of them had come to buy cigarettes. Now they may think they are "just smoking", but that leads to other drugs like marijuana, heroine, and methamphetamine. Later on in their life, they are likely to try one of these drugs and they will get addicted. Now these "innocent" smokers are doing other drugs. Then they try to get their friends to join them. Soon enough, we've got half the world's adult population doing drugs- that's horrible to think about. What's even worse is that people aren't the only ones smoking. I was watching T.V. and they were showing how five monkeys in a Japanese zoo have seen so many people smoking in front of them that once they got hold of a lit cigarette, they automatically started smoking. Soon enough the monkeys started reaching out of their cages for cigarettes. They would even grab and shake people for some cigarettes. That's scary! If monkeys want to smoke just by watching complete strangers smoke, then think how big of an influence it is on kids when they watch their parents smoke. We need to find a way to stop this world-wide addiction now, because this problem is only going to get worse. by HADEN McAFEE 8th grade Did you know that there are tens of thousands of slaves in the U.S. alone? It's a fact, and that number grows daily. Doing drugs makes you a slave to your addiction. All your money goes to buying drugs, and all your time1 goes to either getting money for drugs or using drugs. You can't stop either- the addiction is so powerful that you become a fly in a spider's web with no chance to escape! Not all drugs are addictive at first, but they all are in the end. Some people are so enslaved to their drugs they end up in prison for stealing, making or abusing drugs. They waste years of their lives, but still can't stop. The slavery never ends. by AUSTIN JAMES 8th grade I don't know why all people do drugs, but I do know one true story. My mom works with this girl who has a son who drinks and smokes every day. 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Cabelas Memmofs favorite mount is If you haven't had a chance on the back of the "North Amerito see Cabelas first hand, don't wait. Get in your car, and go. can Big Game Display-a tribute to It's worth your while. If you're an American sportsmen." Customers avid hunter, you'll find yourself in and workers alike just call it the hunter's paradise, and even those mountain. "There's a bear on the who don't really have any interest back side of it that's discovered a in hunting will find the store cap- beehive and is covered in bees, i tivating. You'll come away wowed. think that's my favorite," he said. The biggest department in The first Cabelas store opened in 1961 in Sidney, Ne- Cabelas is their hunting departbraska. Now they have 16 stores. ment, and during the hunt season, The store in Utah opened in Au- Memmott said they are "overrun" gust 2005, just over a year, and every day. In a single day they get it's already surpassing every other over 30,000 people in the door. "Our customer service is secattraction in Utah except Zion Naond to none," said Memmott. tional Park. People come from all over "They say we get more people than the temple in Salt Lake," to visit Cabelas. "This is a destia said Brad Memmott, part of the nation center," he said, We have Cabelas management team. He is a lot of loyal followers. There're a what's called a senior Manager in lot of people who take their vacation just to visit different Cabelas Training (MIT). Cabelas is a 175,000 square stores. The average time spent foot store, with 400 employees. here is four hours and thirty minThe store includes a 55,000 gal- utes. It just takes that long to go lon aquarium, with both fresh wa- through the store." Cabelas also has RV faciliter and warm water fish, and we're talking big fish-lake trout, brown ties with an RV dump, (not power trout, pike, walleye, some salmon, hook ups). "Any one is welcome to stay and warm water fish like bass and perch and catfish. They range in in our parking lot." size from eight or nine inches to Memmott said Cabelas is a 25-30 inches. The aquarium is es- very family-oriented company. pecially popular with the kids, but "I've been in this business even adults find themselves for- a long time, and I've never seen getting their busy schedules and anything like it." watching in wonder. The restaurant upstairs sells There are 430 mounts inside pizza, barbeque beef, and prime the store, all of which are owned rib sandwiches-your usual fare-but for the real sportsmen, or by Cabelas. "We do purchase trophies," those just wanting to try something said Memmott, whose family origi- unique, there's an elk sandwich, a nates in Scipio. "People contact wild boar sandwich, a bison ridge us when they've got something sandwich, and an ostrich sandbig, and if the animal fits our quali- wich to.choose from in the deli, fications, we might negotiate to and bison brat or venison brat on the main restaurant menu. Respurchase it." Many of the trophies have la- taurant manager B-Jo Laing-Dumbels saying who shot the animal, ler said they sell a lot of big game when and where. Memmott said sandwiches. Cabelas will put on the label on "We actually sell more of the the animal if the hunter requests exotic menu than the traditional," it. she said. According to sales, LaingMemmott said the elk trophies are as good as any in the Dumler said the elk sandwich country. They have close to 40 elk - from the deli is the most popular. trophies alone, all of them giants. Restaurant prices range from Cabelas has taxidermists all over S6.99 for the primeribsandwich, to $2.99 for the fry basket. Most the country who do the displays. of the items run between $4.29 to $3.69. Besides having the largest selection of sporting goods and clothing, Cabelas also gives scheduled tours, and according to Memmott, they have "quite a lot of small groups" that take guided tours through the store. They also have two conference rooms for conventions or other big gatherings. One thing Memmott said to be sure to check out is the bargain cave. "Cabelas has a 100% guarantee. All the merchandise we get back we can't resell as new even though much of it hasn't even been opened. All of it goes into the bargain cave with a big mark down, and the discounted items change in there on a daily basis." One of the favorite departments in the store is the gun library. It has all kinds of custom guns. "It is a high-end/special deal gun store," said Memmott, "Many of the guns are transferred from different Cabelas locations." There's over $200,000 of guns. "These are very expensive fire arms," said Memmott. All of the guns are for sale. Cabellas takes in trade guns, and the gun outfitters determine their worth. "We're about the only ones who do that anymore," Memmott said. Bill Bates, an outfitter in the gun library said his personal favorite is the 1923 Colt Army Single Action revolver. It looks just like a shiny silver cap gun with a white handle. "It's in spectacular condition," he said. The cost is about S1500. Memmott said by way of advice, if you want a leisurely trip through store, don't come on a weekend close to the hunting season. Mornings are best. This is an afternoon store for sure," he said, "By the afternoon things really pick up, but around 11a.m. any week day is perfect to avoid the worst crowds." 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