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Show The Beaver Pra»_- January 29, 2009 - Pag&ft :«:•;• -TOE; BEAVER '^'Ax'r'^^ ' 3 7 ;'/" Published every Thursday "In ;• ^ .; ,;. Beaver, Utah by, The Beaver Press- • . , " ' . ; . , ' Second Class Postage Paid Beaver Utah 84713 Martow L Draper Pub11sh«r/Edltor Sue Draper Bus. Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Beaver County., Beaver County Senior, Citizens Outside Beaver County Uninsured Parents v .,.;•/. $17.00 .$15.00 .. $20.00 J r Postmaster please send change of address to: The Beaver Press, Box 351, Beaver, Utah 84713 v V bpress@xmission.com Phone: (435)438-2891 Fax:(435)438-8804 / 40 East Center Street, Beaver, UT 84713 v v Washington,-'Iron, Kane, Beaver, & Garfiold Counties, UT - The Southwest Utah Pgbllc Health Department Is offering Pertussis vaccine at no cost to parents who have infants at home and who are uninsured and meet income requirements. Pertussis (also known as Wiooping Cough1) is a bacterial respiratory illness that is highly contagious and is often passed onto children by nonimmunized parents. . "Parents might just have the cough but It can be life-threafening to babies", says Pat Thomas, SWUPHD Nursing Director. "We are offering this vaccine through a grant we received to try and protect our community from further pertussis outbreaks." computer. Choose passwords that aren't obvious and can't be easily figured out by others. In your home, keep your personal How Can I Prevent Identity information in a safe place. Theft? * Detect is the second step in 'Answer by: Candi Crossteyprotecting yourself. Watch for Merritt, Utah State University bills that do not arrive as you Cache County Extension assis- expect them to or unexpected This • past November tant bills and phone calls for through December, Washington V According to the Federal accounts you did not open. Also, County experienced a pertussis Trade Commission, identity theft being denied credit for no outbreak which sickened fifteen occurs when someone uses apparent reason may be a sign people, most of them related to your personally identifying infor- that someone is tampering with each other. mation, .such as name, social Pertussis starts as a cold, your account. Review your credSecurity number or credit card then progresses into unconit report regularly. You can get number, without your permis- three free copies per year from trolled coughing spelts which sion, to commit fraud or other www.annualcreditreport.com. can fast for several weeks, infants start vaccinations at two crimes. The FTC estimates that • The FTC recommends defendmonths of age but are not fully up to 10 million Americans have ing yourself against the damage problems with identity theft each of identity theft as soon as you irrjmunized until the series is year. When your identity is suspect there is a problem by completed at 15 months, leaving them more vulnerable when stolen, it may take hundreds of following four steps. dollars and many hours to clear 1. Place a fraud alert on. they are exposed to pertussis up the problem. your credit report. This w,ams through family members. Identity theft can happen in The pertussis vaccine is creditors that they need to verify any number of ways. Thieves given as a combination injection your identity before they/issue may steal your purse, your wainew credit in your name. An ini- called "Tdap", \ which, also let or your mail. They may contial alert can be placed on your > includes tetanus and diphtheria 1 duct a "phishing" scheme where report for 90 days and is appro-,. vaccines. The Centers " for they pose as a legitimate compriate for those whose wallet Disease Control (CDC) recompany in an effort to obtain your has been stolen or victims of a mends that alt.; adults between information. Sometimes records "phishing" scheme. An extended the ages of. \9,and 64 get this are stolen from businesses or •alert should be used by those vaccine tf they have never had institutions that hold your inforwho have been identity theft vic- the shot before'"or have' had it mation, or through "skimming," tims. This will stay on your cred- over 4wo years ago. Contact where a data storage device it report for seven years, With your cfoctbr/health care provider captures your account numbers each type of alert, you will "or the. SWUPHD for more information. as they are scanned. receive copies of your credit Unfortunately, some thieves are- report. It is important to review Free Vaccine Qualifications: people the victim knows. your reports and make neces- •-. Adults ages -t6-64 wha are Once a thief*has yWr^inforcaregivers for infants up to 18 sary corrections. mation, it can bemused to commit 2. Close any accounts you months of age credit card fraud, utilities fraud, suspect have, been tampered • Must be uninsured and meet bank or finance fraud or governwith or opened without your income and family size criteria ment documents fraud. Thieves consent, and dispute any • Calf your local SWUPHD office can use your social security charges you did not make_ to see if you qualify: number to get a job, medical When establishing passwords, St. George: 983-2540 services, to rent an apartment or avoid using the last four num- < Cedar City: 586-2437 give your information during an bens of your social security num- Kanab: 644-2537 ; arrest. With each type of fraud, ' , ber or your mother's maiden Beaver: 438-243,2 ,; " the thief poses as you and uses Panguitch: 676-8000 .'.']' name. As you make changes c. \ your information for their gain. with accounts and talk to corn-. Unfortunately, many victims pany representatives, keep writfind out that their identity has ten records of all conversations, f been stolen after the damage who you talked to and the date.-'. has already been done. Usually, Ask the companies to send you victims find out when they apply writien verification of the MADISON, WIS. —Taking for credit or another type of serchanges. Once your case has care of your heart is hard.. \ vice related to credit and they been ciosed, keep your records Or it can certainly seem that are denied for no apparent reain case other problems .arise. way. Heart "disease remains the son. Another common alert Anytime you have tost personal number one killer of men and occurs when victims start information, even if you don't women in the United States— receiving bills for fraudulent suspect you have been a victim that part is easy to grasp. Yet accounts. of identity theft, error on the side every week seems to bring a Awareness is the biggest t of safety and report it. news report or study that identifool you have to fight identity 3. File a police report and fies a new threat to one .of your theft, it is important to be aware obtain a copy of the report numbody's most vital organs. pf your accounts and monitor ber. But heart health doesn't them regularly. The FTC recom4. File a complain! with the have to be confusing or complimends three steps to fight idenFTC. This can help them track cated. To simplify, heart experts tity theft: deter, detect and down identity thieves. The FTC at the University of Wisconsin defend. School of Medicine and Public • The first step, deter, can be can be contacted at vAVW.ftc.gov CM-S77-IDTHEFT. Health have boiled the question practiced by safeguarding your Information taken from the down to the three best—and the personal information. Shred al! FTC's Talking About Identity three worst-things yciu can do documents containing identifyTheft; A How To Guide* can be for your heart.1: ,\-•; .y ing information before throwing at* "if you can incorporate them out. Be careful who you found these things into ypuF daily life, give your personal information http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/micr osites/ititheft/downloads/Talking you're giving yourself a much to. Be aware of not clicking on AboutlDTheft.pdf better chance to enjoy a long links sent in unsolicited emails. and healthy life,, free- of heart Use anti-virus, firewalls and disease," says Dr. James Stein, anti-spyware on your personal director of preventive cardiology at UW Hospital and Clinics ahd professor of medicine at the UW School of Medicine gnd Public Health. Let's start with the bad news. If you're doing any of the following, you're increasing your chances of heart disease. Puffing. If you're one of the milSign up at the Beaver City Office for FREE lions of Americans who are still smoking, know this: With every Admission Tickets to the "Legends of puff, you're dramatically Country Music" Concert, Saturday, February increasing your chances of suffering a iife-threatening he.art 7th; 2009 at 7:00 P.M. at the Beaver High attack. "Hie chemicals in tobecsmoke raise blood pressure, School Auditorium. 4 tickets available per co reduce good, cholesterol (HFJL) family. FREE tickets pre limited* tfo come and dariia^/y^r^^lc^.yJBLS- Ask A Specialist: Three for the Heart Come Celebrate rd • . n i l > • • sets. BOt Hfyo&carf find a way to. qu)t an£;9tay away from smokr / get them before they are gong. ,>*• r fl-i-i ,V «i' r ^ ~'4fi -. .• 'J- i " . . 1 ' -.'•'• ' j i ; - " J ''')'•• • • fl V " • - ' " ' , " '.*,* I * f I • • Medicine and Public Healttt. He reduce your risk almost immediately, and eliminate tobacco's, first developed it as a medical resident in the mid-1990s. . ; ^negative effects within three Using algorithms based on years. the famous Frarnlngham Heart There's really no more sigStudy, heartdeclslon.org uses nificant thing you can do to basic info about a patient's Improve the health of your heart blood pressure and cholesterol than quitting smoking," says Dr. levels, as well as a few facts Michael Flore,' who heads flid UW Center* for Tobacco. about family history to calculate Research and Intervention! "It's' how likely an Individual Is'to suffer a heart attack over the next startling how much it can reduce ten years. Patients can work yourrisk." . with their physJcfar>to obtain the Finishing the entire six-pack: information to plug Into the jool. While several recent studies There Is a large chunk of the have suggested that consuming population that is unrecognized moderate amounts of red wine as being at high risk for heart may be beneficial to the heart, disease," says Keevif; "Patients excessive drinking of wine, beer 1 may slip by a clinician's attenor hard liquor can result in both tion when they only have slightweight gain (see next item) and ly elevated risk factors, but have increased blood pressure. And if many of them. Piling all these you're a ^chronically heavy pieces together surprises some drinker, you're poisoning your people.1* heart and risking cardiomyopathy—an enlarged and permaKeevil estimates his site has nently damaged heart. had 50,000 hits in the past four years, from people across the "Alcohol's effect on the globe. Recently, traffic has heart is not straightforward," pfcked up as physicians and says Stein. "But a good general patients begin to pay more rule of thumb Is not to drink attention to preventing heart disalcohol for heart health. If you ease. ' do drink alcohol, drink only in moderation. That means no The bottom line is that peomore than one ounce of hard ple need to.know their blood liquor, four ounces of wine or 12 pressure and cholesterol levels, ojunces of beer per day." says KeeviL "And if any of these Inflating the spare tire. raise a flag, we need to look at Researchers have recently distheir absolute risk to make best covered that belly fat—in other treatment recommendations." words, a sizable spare tire—Is a huge predictor of heart disease risk. In fact, at least one recent study has, suggestecl that for every tw6 'inches 'you ado11 to your gut,'your risk !of( heart disease increases nearly 20 per( l cent. Now for the positive steps: Washington, Iron, Kane, Beaver, and Garfieid Counties, Get a risk assessment. UT - THe Southwest Utah Public Most Americans "are daH^eYdusHealth Department (SWUPHD) ly unaware of how much their wants to .remind the public to age, genetics and lifestyle . avoid products made with choices affect the hpajth of their heart. UW experts agree that;, peanut butter until further notice due to a national outbreak of assessing your risk pf a,j)eart attack or death'/"|4*'$)S-t "slnflfte salmonella. The Center for Disease Control and most impOri&nt'I '/Prevention (CDC) has determined that peanut butter prodYour doctpr'can tjelp #PM, ucts are the likely cause of this fy the important burr outbreak, although peanut butblood pressure and your cholester sold in grocery stores terol—and assess'ypur ris^ Or p ars to be -safe. Items to you can.use a helpful online.topJ,...-?P ® peanut butter to do this assessment at horns. a v O i d i n c I u d e crackers made by Austin and (see sidebar). Keebler brands and King Nut "If you're micfdle-age8 and peanut butter (whfch is sold to have mor,© than one risk factor institutions and manufacturers, for heart disease —family histo- not consumers). Also avoid eatry, hypertension, smoking or ing peanut butter containing abnormal l cholesterol, for products such as cookies, instance-ryou also should think crackers, candy, cake, and ice seriously,about.having a picture cream until more investigation is of your -arteries taken,p says completed. Stelri. He'has piorieere'd the usa "The first signs of salmonelof ultrasound scanning to, mea- la include nausea, vomiting, and sure the amount of plaque on diarrhea, which can last for the wails of the carotid arteries three to seven days. Abdominal as a means of assessing a cramping and fever can also patient's risk of heart disease. occur", says Lisa Starr, Reduce your weight. Notice SWUPHD communicable disthe distinct absence of the word ease nurse. "Antibiotics are not "diet." While losing weight is the used to. treat this illness, so It ultimate goal in terms of keeping usually has to run its course. If your heart healthy, UW experts you think you have become ill urge getting there through eat- from eating anyof these proding smaller portions of healthy ucts,, please visit your doctor to foods, not by experimenting with get tested for salmonella." the latest fad diet or forgoing Salmonella is a bacterial food altogether. disease transmitted through The question really comes fecal matter. Humans usually down to the type and amount of get it from eating contaminated food you're eating," says Dr. foods of animal origin such as Matt Wolff, chief of cardiovascueggs, milk, and meat, although lar medicine at UW Hospital and any food can become contamiClinics. "Not every diet is nated. Salmonella can be designed to help you have a avoided by not eating raw or healthy heart. Healthy diets are undercboked eggs and meat, low in red meat, fried foods and unpasteurized dairy products, sweets. They emphasize fruits, and by washing produce thorvegetables, nuts, whole grain, oughly. Hand washing is also fish and poultry." effective. People with diarrhea Exercise. Outside of eating should not handle food or drink right, the best way to reduce for others. For more information your weight is getting off the on salmonella, visit couch and doing something, www.cdc.gov. For a complete anything, to stimulate your heart listing of foods recalled during muscle. •'..••-, v v \ the current outbreak, visit The more you exercise, the www.fda.gov.1 v better you'll do," says- Stein. "Find ways to bum energy, Even for Mff&our Printing walking for half an hour three times a week can have a positive effect on your heart's Salmonella Outbreak: Avoid Peanut Butter Products health/ ...v)\ ,-•*•; , Tf)ree upi threedbwn. Your heart will thank.you for It. , - ; , SidebanHeartdecision.org . Think assessing your heartdisease risk is too challenging to contemplate?, Wait a second. It turns out there's an easy-to-use tool that can help you—and you can find it online at heartdecision.org. ..; ^ r- . It's the brainchild of Dr. Job Keevil, an associate professor of medicine at UW School of Ikaver fPress We SpcdaTtzt in 'Business forms flyers (Posters Miypcs ofAdvertising CfiedLpttt our low everyday prices fxforz you [oofj€l$curftcri+ Ralph Wiljard Green Ralph Willard Green, age 75 of Summit Utah passed away on January 21, 2009. He was bom on July 7, 1933 in Cedar City, Utah to Ralph Joseph and Lucy Farrow Green. He was\ married to Teodora Armentilla Green. Ralph graduated from Cedar High in 1952t served for 21 years in the US Navy, a vet-' erari of the Vietnam War and * was active' during the Korean :' War. While in the Navy, he $ . received the rank of First Class Chief Petty Officer (DMC). In , 1977 he received a Bachelor of Science in industrial Technology . with high honors from SUSC. .He was a Building Construction Teacher for SUU, a Draftsman ; for John Rowley, Lynn Elliott & v Phil Leslie & Associates. He was also a Building : Inspector/Appraiser and : President/Member of the Summit Water Board for many years. Ralph was a member of the \ Elks Lodge. He served in vari- ous positions for the LDS Church including; Financial Clerk, Scout Master, Sunday School Teacher, Elders Quorum . President, Counselor in the . Bishopric and Stake Missionary. Above all, Ralph loved and enjoyed his family, going camping, fishing and hunting. He also '• enjoyed traveling, genealogy work and doingiconstruetion on •his own time. He was a people person and enjoyed visiting with family ahd friends. Ralph is survived by his wife Teodora, children: Leon (Lynda) . Green of St George, UT., Ralph *' Kenneth (Vicki) Green of Salt Lake City, UT., Linda (Derald) Joseph of Beaver, UT., Larry J. ; : (Jane) Green of Cedar City, UT., i Anita (Bill) Riggs of Lindon, UT.V *' David C (Christy) Green o f : Beaver, UT, and Damon W. .• (Valerie) Green of Saratoga : Springs, UT., 40 grandchildren ;and 17 great grandchildren. V He is preceded in death by ;' his parents, his son Arthur Felix Green, grandsons Eric Green and Jacob Leake, a grand- x daughter Sophia Green, and his . :• sister Laura Green. :• Funeral services were held->?~ on Monday, January 26,2009 at :• 11:00 am at the Summit LDS ' Ward Chapel. Visitations were held on Sunday, Jahuary 25, 2009 from 6-8:00 pm at the \ Church in Summit, and on Monday ftpm 9:30-10:30 am at ;. the Church. Interment was In ,: the Summit City Cemetery ' under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary. Online condolences can . be sent to •/. www.southemutahmortuary.com '£ Did You Knout? 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