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Show 12A Sun Advocate, Price, Utah Tuesday, October 25, 1988 Health fair scheduled in Price for October 26 and 27 mini health fair and open house will be held Wednesday A and Thursday at the Southeastern Utah Health District, 6 East Main (upstairs.) People are invited to attend from 3-- 8 p.m. both days. We want people to see what we are doing, where we are located, and to offer health tests and blood pressure checks, said Nancy Lewis, community health education director. Health tests provided both days will include cholesterol tests, glucose tests and flu shots. There will be a charge of $5 each or all three may be obtained for $12. The blood pressure checks will be free. A special feature on Wednesday will be refreshments consisting of nutritious snacks. Also on Wednesday the entire staff of the health district will be on hand to give information about their jobs. About the nutritious snacks, she said, We want to give people munchies that are good alternatives to fat-lad- en potato chips, cookies and ice cream. We hope people will choose nutritious food whenever they have a snack. Recipes will be provided. Lewis said counseling about effective diet changes will be offered to those who have high cholesterol levels. Cholesterol levels, which are often affected by diet, are one of the three controllable risk factors relating to heart she said. The three controllable factors are cholesterol levels, blood pressure and cigarette smoking. Changes in cooking and food selection can often have a very disease, Women veterans to be honored Nov. 9 An estimated 5,900 women veterans live in the state of Utah. In recognition and a Salute to Women Veterans, on Castle Heights Street HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL Friday, October 28 5 Spook Alley Cake Walk Fun For All p.m.-- 8 p.m. Frisco Bay Fudge Fudge Apples Pizza Hut Pizza Games (Great Prizes) the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Salt Lake City is sponsoring their annual women veterans open house. On Nov. 9 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., women veterans are invited to the VA Medical Centers Reception Center in Building 8. The VA Medical Center is located on 500 Foothill Drive in Sait Lake City. In addition to light refreshments, displays, literature on veteran benefits, two videotape presentations, We All Came Home and A Time to Heal, will be shown. Screenings for hearing and blood pressure as well as flu immunizations will be available by VA health care professionals. All women veterans are invited and encouraged to extend this information to other women veterans. WELCOME TO 1 positive impact, she said. Recently the health department has taken mini health fairs to mines and industrial installations. The mini health fair is part of a continuing effort to reach as many people as possible. She said the machine being used to check cholesterol levels is borrowed from the state department of health and will remain here only until Nov. 17. Total cost is about $5,000 and we have raised $3,000. Individuals, organizations or companies interested are invited to contribute to the fund, she said. In fact, it would be ideal to have two machines. For further information, please contact Geneva Butkovich, RN, Women It Veterans Program Coordinator, VA Medical Center, 500 Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84148 or call (801) pager 981. 582-156- 5, Just passing through Matthew Hinson, who was in the process of moving from Oregon to Pennsylvania, stopped at Price City Park last Friday to play in the leaves. There were plenty of leaves to play in. School district to remove asbestos from buildings No asbestos was found in the air of any buildings in the Carbon County School District during a survey completed by a Provo company. Earl Marra, supervisor of buildings and grounds for the district told board members last Thursday that work on removing the friable (crumbly, can be crushed with the fingers) asbestos that was found in eight of the buildings and the board offices, will begin next summer. Because two of the board members were out of town and another was ill, the board did not have the quorum needed to conduct business. Several subjects were discussed, but no action was taken. The report on asbestos was contained in 19 volumes, one for each of the districts 19 buildings. Along with those, Marra brought a highly condensed summary. Deadline for beginning removal of friable asbestos is July of 1989. Supt. Ell B. Sorenson asked Marra if it would be possible to train one of the districts maintenance workers to do the work. Marra said, because of the sophisticated equipment needed, that he thought it would be better to hire a professional company to do the abatement work. Friable asbestos will easily float in the air if it is not f removed properly, he said. He also mentioned that some school districts that attempted to do the survey work themselves were unable to meet the Oct. 12 deadline and had to ask for an extension. A certain amount of asbestos seems to be present in the air of all communities. Marra said he has been told that doctors have never performed an autopsy that did not reveal some small amount of asbestos in the lungs. Supt. Ell B. Sorenson said asbestos in schools has never been identified as having been related to any death. Cost of the entire removal project has been estimated at $200,000. Plans call for a five-yeproject with $40,000 being appropriated by the district each year. There has been a trend away ar from using astestos as a building material and no asbestos of any type was found in Creekview School, Castle Valley Center or the district warehouse. No friable asbestos was found in Castle Heights, Durrant, Petersen or Wellington schools, the bus garage or the maintenance building. There was a small amount of other types of in such asbestos things as floor and ceiling tiles and in hot water tanks and pipe insulation. At Sally Mauro friable (non-friabl- e) rpJ7i bjrn asbestos was found in a hot water tank and boiler in- sulation; at Westridge in the hot water tank and manifold insulation in the boiler room; at Mont Harmon in one pair of gloves in a classroom, in boiler insulation in the boiler room and in the spray on the ceiling of the auditorium; at Helper Junior High in boiler insulation and in pipe lagging in the crawl space under the building. Carbon High School has some in boiler and tank insulation and in transit panels covering 12 square feet of a chemistry hood in a science room. East Carbon High School has some in boiler insulation and pipe lagging. At Reeves friable asbestos was found in pipe insulation and in dirt and floor debris in the crawl space under the building. The old Ann Self building in Spring Glen, for which the has district responsiblity regarding asbestos, there was some in pipe lagging. In the board office there is friable asbestos in ceiling tile. Asbestos, which is mined, is classified in three types in addition to friable and including chrysolite, which is white and most commonly used and is least dangerous, Marra said. There is also amosite, which is brown and second most non-friab- dangerous and le, crocidolite, is blue and the most dangerous. The least dangerous type was found most frequently in the district. The only crocidolite was found in elbow lagging in the boiler room and crawl space of the board office. which A Halloween offer from Hallmark! PYR1GH QSQ2DiflOIEEGra Vincent Price narrates this collection ol creepy classics "The Blob" and "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" are Just two ol the scary film clips featured on this Halloween VHS cassette. A Trivia Game card is also included tor an for your next Halloween party It's something all your family and friends added touch enjoy Get your cassette at the participating Hallmark retailer listed m this ad But hurry, because supplies are limited will c::nr All Waighti Ait Approximate Enlarged to Show Do tail ILovjiSo OtMfcirilEDQlD (UASD 46 E. JevjoDpy Main, Price at I1AMLUARK Ann's IIALLMADK SHOP 1177 E. Main, Castle Rock Sq Price 437-474- |