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Show . Lakeside jfcj J i Grandma Study may help women wins award U of U researchers find two cones that contribute to difficult pregnancies l MUKKAY-li- will celebrate birthday w tkiuber. She it emJmuiher in II natural grandchildren and nine wuh erne on ihe ay. One would think that the kcept pretty buy threading her love and wudnm in ihee children. However ttnee 1969. Lila B - at xhc'i called - hat xhared her love and support with her other grarukhildrcn." ihe youth served by ihe Utah Youth Village. She recently ua honored by JC Icnney ftr that commitment, which began long ago. Almost 30 ycart ago. Bjorklund wa touched by the plight of troubled girls in Utah. At that time, there were plenty of program for boys, but abused and troubled girlt were placed A LONG COMMITMENT TO YOUTH: Lila 0Oridund has been saving the cither in inadequate foster homes troubled ol Utah &nce 1X3. youth or detention centers. By 1969, Bjorklund and other serve," said Bjorklund. "To see important thing is to help committed volunteers had raised troubled youth. After all. the children graduate from the funds to create the Utah Girls children are our future." progrjm and to sec their lives Village. The success of this is my greatest reward." Utah Youth has change served Village and the program, increasing thousands has chiIJrcn and of Until her recent decline in number of troubled youth, led taught them simple, yet health, Bjorklund spent 40 to 50 Bjorklund to include boys in hours per week working at the profound, life skills. 1989. In 1990. the Utah Girls The tools the Village uses to Village. Although now confined Village officially became Utah to a wheelchair, Bjorklund still Youth Village. Today, the Village change and improve the lives of attends each graduation and shelters and teaches more than Utah's troubled youth are the 300 children a year in four group gives each child a handmade Teaching Family Model, the homes and 40 therapeutic family treatment philosophy used in all quilt. levels of service; Treatment homes throughout the state. Recognizing her contribution All my life I have worked Family I Ionics, which are foster to the state of Utah, JC Penney homes; and Families First, an with children in one capacity or awarded Bjorklund with a intervention aimed at another, Bjorklund said. "So specially commissioned crystal improving parenting skills. fUme award and a SI 0,000 many unfortunate things happen to our youth such as abuse and "NVc successfully treat 86 contribution to the Utah Youth neglect, and I believe the most Village. percent of the children that wc it. Callahan's maternal grand motlier delivered two premature hahtet because of a condition known as tovemia, or pree clamps) a. She and her three sibling all were born at least a month early. Callahan's ll)carold daughter and son were bom small and prenut ure due to toxemia, which also gave Ihe Summit Park woman seizure. Both children now arc healthy. But five other pregnaneie ended in three miscarriage and two stillbirth. Now Ihe 37year-olwoman i IS week pregnant wiih trip let. She hopes toxemia won't harm them. She also hope re searchers will be able to help her llycarold daughter when g she reaches her own greal-granikhit- d I d child-bearin- year. "(She) i going to grow up and have babies some day," said The chance of suffering a hip fracture steadily increases every year past age 50. As the 78 million baby boomers in the U.S. start crossing this age milestone, the potential economic and social costs could be staggering. Utah was chosen by the National Institute of I Iculth as the S3 million site of a four-yea- r, study to more accurately calculate the risk factors related to Parent abuse common in murder Child homicide cases like Ogdens Erika Arroyo are rare, prosecutor says The Associated Press dren's Justice Center. It's one of the worst things a community can experience. It affects how you watch over your own children." Last week, a man was charged The most common cases of with raping and strangling Erika Arroyo, whose body child homicide involve abuse by parents, a state prosecutor said, was discovered Aug. 25 in an alwhile murders like that of ley behind her Ogden home. Erika Arroyo in Ogden are Jorge Lira Garcia, 25, is awaiting trial for aggravated murder. If rare. Of 56 homicides involving convicted, he could be put to Utah children from 1990 to 1994, 20 came from child battering or other maltreatment, according to the stale Bureau of Vital Re- U cords. We have come a long way in recognizing and identifying these cases, said Rob Parrish, chief child-abuse prosecutor for the ' Utah attorney generals office. The community becomes out- raged when a child is the victim of a murderous pedophile. There is nothing like losing a child, said Susanne Mitchell, director of Salt Lake Citys Chil 3 death. But Parrish said a case like the Arroyo murder is not common in Utah. When you look at the entire scope of murders by pedophiles to cover up the crime, it is less than 5 percent of sexual abuse cases, he said. Sixty-eigchildren, aged 14 and younger, were victims of homicide in Utah from 1990 to 1995, according to Vital Records statistics. The children were shot, ht drowned, strangled, beaten, stabbed and even burned. said DeCaria. lv " In two new studies. Ward and colleague showed how two bad genes can clog roughly I till spiral arteries in the mother's womb, restricting the flow of bliHsl. oxygen and nutrient to the placenta and developing fe l Us. Ward foe year optimistic that within i tSvctor will be able to identity susceptible women and treat them. to pregnaneie result in "One-fourt- h of one-thir- d miscar- riages, early delivery, damage J bahie or severe complications or death of the mother," he said. "I or the first time, we have the understanding But may allow us to prevent nuny of these tragedies." One of the new studies. leJ by Ward and genetic graduate student Terry Morgan, was published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. That study focusc on a faulty gene that increase the likelihood that spiral arteries in the mothers womb will thicken and Ihe blood thinner heparin dog, instead of dilating or widening to surply adequate blood soon will be tested on thousand to the placenta. of women at the university and 13 other medical center nationWard said one of eight women are 70 percent likely to suffer wide, Ward said. hip fractures. Utah State University. the University of Iowa, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Utah will cooperate on the study. According to the hip fracture study project manager, Nancy project from Utah State Univer- sity's Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences. She said Utah was selected us the site for the study because, contrary to what one might think, Utah has a heterogeneous genetic background. People settled here from many parts of the world. Another factor is an elderly population thats cooperative with researchers. Sjssano, the costs associated hip fractures in the U.S. with now and Ron are about SIO billion. She nutritional epidemiologist M unger will administer the MICHELIN "TIRES ON SALE! BURT BROTHERS Sadly, homicides involving a parent who discards a baby are becoming more common than people think, Parrish said. It seems to always be the same motive, he said. They concealed the pregnancy from everyone. They felt trapped (so) when they have the baby, they feel there is only one thing to do with it. Weber County Attorney Mark DeCaria said some parents believe a child is a burden, compounding the dilemma. They are so locked into their own problem, they dont think of their potential punishment, he said. Child-abus- e homicides can stem from young adults who are not prepared to be parents. When we prosecute a person for child abuse or neglect, were at the wrong end of the whole system, fered D Set of 4 MICHELIN J. 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I Along with the areas ferret underground, he has circulated . petitions, hounded county and ; city officials, circulated tracts and made countless telephone calls ; seeking to legalize ferrets as pets. Taylorsville is the only city in ; the Salt Lake Valley that allows ; ferrets. law is The countys enforced somewhat haphazardly, probably because a county ani- -' ordinance legalizing ferrets has been kicking around for years. On the telephone, animal control is very serious about (no ferret-ownin- ' anti-ferr- et mal-contr- ol - , - ; ferrets), but other than that theyre very lax, said Joe Tua- son of the Pet Center in Salt Lake City. The latest draft of nance has hung around than a year. Peggy Hinnen, who cently was director of the ordi- - for more until the Divi re- of Animal Control, said Salt Lake County Attorney Doug Short was holding it up. Short says, no, she has been free to proceed. The issue finally turned into a standoff, with everyone waiting for the new director, David Flagler, to come on board. Flagler took office just after Labor Day. He is generally proferret but nevertheless is proceeding cautiously. With new rabies vaccines, I do not believe that ferrets pose a health risk any longer, he said. (But) my greatest responsibility is to make sure the ordinance reflects the standards of the community. One of Flaglers chief tasks from the County Commission is ordito revise the animal-contrnance. He expects to have something for the commission to look at within a couple months. Roller wants the measure to be passed sooner than later, and has founded the United Ferret Organization. So far, he says he has 1,000 signatures on petitions. The Pet Center is one of the places where people can sign the petitions. Tuason sells ferret supplies, such as cages and leads, but not the ferrets themselves. There are a lot of owners that have them, he said. 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(HWY 89) 299-114- 2 3 Ihe problem because they carry two copies of the gene, Ihe other study, headed by Ward and obstetrician IKmna Dton low mend, was printed last month in the American Journal of Obstetric and Gynecology, It showed how a mutant gene raises the nk that blood dot will slog the spiral arteries, also robbing the fetus of what it need to Utrie, "lltere are JO.Ootl death of premature babies each year m the United States," Ward said, "Another 50, two die in the womb or after btnh because of tosemia." whidt also kills Jou pregnant women annually in this country, I be mutant gene that causes blood dots in fetal blood supply i called the factor V I eiden mutation. It previously was linked to an inherited susceptibility for people to get blind dots in the legs and deadly clots in the lungs. 'I he bad gene that makes the womb arteries fail to widen is not a mutant. Known a the gene, it i a "Stone Age gene" that helped early human retain salt and water in hot. dry environment. Callahan, a sovial worker, "I hope victor have the answer and knowledge so she doesnt have to sutler the Ive suf Utah chosen as site for hip study in-ho- I S4 cf-le- U ' kwMta) SALT l AKi: C ITY - Kaih. teen Callahan hope rebars!) by University of Utah obstetrician gcncticM Ken Ward may help protest her children from the d of an inherited predposj. lion for troubled pregnane Utah woman receives honor for years of service to troubled youth of Utah I 1997 S.i'.zfliy FARMINGTON 1271 N. HWY 89 (AT SHEPARD LANE) 451-459- BOTH STORES OPEN Mon.- - Fri. 0 7-- 7, Sat. 7-- 6 |