Candidates’ Commercials

In his new TV commercial, Sevier County Sheriff candidate Rippstein cites his 19 years of experience, and says that keeping you and your family safe is his first priority.

You may view Kirt Rippstein’s new commercial online here:

Sevier County Commission candidate Tooter Ogden is offering three TV commercials, to help you learn more about him and how he wants to serve you.

Tooter Ogden: Working Hard for You

Tooter Ogden: Businessman

Tooter Ogden: A History of Service

Christensen’s Summer Fashion 2010

The Christensen brothers, Dave and Allen, walk you through the new Summer fashions available at Christensen’s Department Store on Main Street in Richfield. Watch on channel 10, or catch a few excerpts available online — covering men’s dresswear, young mens, juniors and ladies casual and dresswear — here:

Rene’s Restaurant

Rene’s Restaurant recently opened at the Days Inn in Richfield (the previous Mexican restaurant has closed). The new, conveniently-located restaurant serves delicious — and generous — steak and seafood dishes, along with a variety of large sandwiches, giant hamburgers (be sure to try the Ultimate Bad Boy Burger!), and much more — for lunch and throughout the day. Bring your family — kids meals are available for only $2. See for yourself by watching their new commercial here:

Supporting local dairies, farmers

One way you can support Utah dairies (and the farmers who provide their feed), is to visit: www.whereismymilkfrom.com.

The new site, created by a BYU student, explains where your milk comes from by using the codes printed on milk cartons — just above the expiration date.

Ideal Living — live streaming channel

Enjoy a selection of Ideal Living Media’s local television programs — live online now!

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Permit revoked for IPP3, while concerns for coal plant pollution grow

As reported previously, the air quality permit for planned coal-fired power plant IPP3 has been formally revoked. The permit, along with Sevier Power’s permit, had been challenged in the Utah Supreme Court for several reasons, including an unexplained extension granted by the Division of Air Quality. Normally, permits are only valid for 3 years and only extended if construction on the plant has actually begun.

Dr. Brian Moench, a physician at LDS Hospital and former instructor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, and president of the respected group, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, emailed to pass on a recent medical study which highlights little understood health impacts of coal-fired power plants. Beyond the risks of coal plant microparticulates — which cause 26,000 deaths each year in the U.S. alone — a study in India has found a link between nearby coal-fired power plants and numerous birth defects.

The study found that living near coal-fired power plants caused poisoning in children from mercury, which has been well established in the past as coal plants release huge quantities of mercury from deep within the earth into the air and surrounding environment where people and animals live. A recent U.S. study checked a fish from a hundred sources across the country and found that virtually all of them — every one — had mercury poisoning. Mercury accumulates in animals (and people) and is cumulatively toxic, causing a variety of mental problems and handicaps, as well as miscarriages.

Yet the India study also found enormous amounts of uranium poisoning in children. The toxic radioactive mineral is found naturally in coal, but is also released in concentrated form into the air and in ash storage facilities, gradually accumulating in the surrounding area, including ground water supplies. The article states, “The situation became worse … if ash was used as a construction material or as a filling material for roads.”

The study found a link between living near coal-fired power plants, subsequent uranium poisoning, and increases in a wide array of handicaps, including retardation, hydrocephaly, microcephaly, cerebral palsy, Down’s syndrome and many other serious health complications and birth defects.

Dr. Moench said, “Copies of this article should be distributed throughout Sevier County.” Here is the link to the article, in leading British newspaper, the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/30/india-punjab-children-uranium-pollution

Citizens urged to take health precautions as fires darken skies

Fire fighters continue to gain on the several fires clouding local skies, though they are expected to burn for at least several more days. For the latest updates, visit www.utahfireinfo.gov.

During the previous Milford Flat fire, Ideal Living issued a health warning to everyone to be keenly aware of any heart attack or stroke symptoms over the coming month.

Smoke is actually particles of soot. Although the particles are small, they can be very sharp. Such “microparticulates” can be inhaled into the lungs where they pass directly into the blood stream. Larger, hardened pieces of fat can be cut loose by the micro-particles. The pieces of fat can then travel through the bloodstream for several weeks; if they block an artery leading to the heart, it causes a heart attack, or if they block an artery leading to the brain, they cause a stroke.

During a stroke or heart attack, seconds count. Immediately take an aspirin (real aspirin, not tylenol; aspirin is a blood thinner) and seek emergency medical attention. Over the coming weeks, be especially aware of any of the following signs in yourself or others:

- Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body
- Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding
- Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
- Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
- Sudden, severe headache with no known cause
- Discomfort in the chest or upper body
- Shortness of breath without chest discomfort
- Sudden loss of responsiveness (no response to tapping on shoulders)
- No normal breathing (for at least five seconds)
- Breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea, lightheadedness

Our dear friend died unexpectedly from a stroke 3 weeks after the previous Milford Flat Fire. Could an aspirin have saved their life? Please do not let yourself or others you love become a statistic.

Texting while driving + accident = 15 years in prison; Texting + no accident = 3 months in prison

A new study has found that drivers sending/recieving text messages are 23 times more likely to crash while driving.

That’s right: texting while driving raises your crash risk by 2,300 percent. For more on the study, which videotaped 100+ truck drivers for 18 months, click here: http://tinyurl.com/kjkq88 .

And Utah officials are not going to permit texting any more.

Utah now has the strictest limits and harshest laws on texting-while-driving in the nation. As the New York Times put it:

“The new law, which took effect in May, penalizes a texting driver who causes a fatality as harshly as a drunken driver who kills someone. In effect, a crash caused by such a multitasking motorist is no longer considered an ‘accident’ like one caused by a driver who, say, runs into another car because he nodded off at the wheel. Instead, such a crash would now be considered inherently reckless…

“Under Utah’s law, someone caught texting and driving now faces up to three months in jail and up to a $750 fine, a misdemeanor. If they cause injury or death, the punishment can grow to a felony and up to a $10,000 fine and 15 years in prison.” (More info here: http://tinyurl.com/lubhhr ).

Is this a problem locally? We at Ideal Living were nearly run off Main Street by a teen texting while driving a brand new car — who remained completely oblivious to anything but their text messaging until they stopped at a red light at 300 North — in the middle of the intersection. If the other drivers had not been alert, someone could have easily died.

Further, given the sloping shoulders on our country roads, there are numerous accidents and fatalities on Central Utah roads. Nearly all accident reports read the same: “Driver 1 was distracted, driving off onto the shoulder. Driver 1 over-corrected, the car rolled and…” The fatalities, impacts with other cars, and injuries are described next.

This text message is clear: Don’t text while driving. And, don’t send text messages to someone driving.

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