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Show Home of: Coach Wilbur Braithwaite honored at Red Hot 4th The Mormon Miracle celebration in Rice Eccles Stadium Pageant 1 999 Attendance, see page 94,100 VOLUME 113 mm NUMBER 52 MANTI, UTAH 50 CENTS immigrants celebrate 150 years V The Manti Utah Stake Public Affairs ing Joy: Communication with Children Committee is sponsoring a community w ill be presented in a ideo format; Andy wide Parenting Fair July 17 at the Stake and Robin Cox will present Guiding Center. The Fair w ill run from 6:30 to 9:30 Youth through Courtship and Dating; Shirley Cash will present Loving Discip.m. The first half hour and last half hour pline; Lloyd Smith will present Literacy will be for browsing, to view displays and and Reading. to talk to presenters. Beginning at 7 there Cultural hall displays will include will be a presentation by arious stake parenting books, publications and referleaders on topics regarding more effecence and resource material; DARE Protive parenting, following which partici- gram, Family History , Gift of Literacy, and others. pants may attend three different on presentations parenting topics. Larry Masco, Chairman of the ComManti and Sterling residents are en- mittee said, The Parents Fair will be an couraged to come at whatever time their opportunity for parents to receive inforschedules will permit. mation to improve their parenting skills. The presentations include timely Stronger families will only result if there parenting counsel and advice, as well as are more capable and diligent parents at questions and answers. Dr. Robert the head. One or both parents are inv ited. Armstrong will discuss Attention Deficit There are enough presentations to keep Disorders; Danon Jones will discuss Fam- both parents busy attending different sesily Budgeting; Dean and Marilyn Hailing sions during the ev ening. will present Gospel Instruction in the The committee anticipates making Home; Matt Queen will present Sustain this event an annual affair. -- f more than 8,000 emigrants to the valleys and deserts of Utah. Many of these settled 1 in Sanpete County, mostly in Ephraim. Denmark 2000 Parenting Fair to strengthen families 1 Denmark is a tiny Scandinavian counof the size of Utah, yet out try, one-fift- h of this lush green coastal region came They helped found the Intermountain West. Their contributions as community and church leaders, doctors, educators, farmers and temple builders left a rich legacy. At one time over 40 of'Utahs population claimed to be of Danish ancestry. The year 2000 marks the 150th anniversary of the emigration from Denmark. To honor their accomplishments, a group of descendants entitled Denmark 2000 are working with government and church leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to celebrate the event which triggered the mass migration from that small country in 1 850. Two statues w ill be presented JULY 15, 1999 Manti Stake plans m. See 4 i vy v-- t L' Crowned July 2 as Miss 4th of July Royalty were: Amberly Rogers, 1st Attendant; Charlotte Harr, Miss 4th of July; Jill Neeley, 2nd Attendant The Miss 4th Royalty reigned over the Independence Day activities in Manti City. on page 2 Sanpete plagued by rash of auto accidents Seat belts save lives of crash victims and w as not injured. Gil and Melody Conover were both wearing seat belts and were treated and Manti, just as she was passing, slamming the youth into the right front of the hood. When emergency crew s arrived, Alex was conscious and still had tne helmet securely fastened on his head. He was rushed to Gunnison Valley Hospital, stato Utah Valley bilized, then Regional Medical Center in Provo. At press time, Alex remained in the Intensive Care Unit in critical condition w ith head trauma and leg fractures. released with minor injuries. The occupants of the Stermer vehicle were equally protected. Stetson Stermer, y seat and was age 2, was in a not injured. Ty son Stermer was also in a child-seand was treated and released with minor injuries. The other occupants in the Stermer vehicle were all wearing seat belts and were not injured. It just goes to show, said Trooper VHP Report reveals Dylan Hoskins, 8, St. George, was Openshaw, that wearing seat belts really more accidents southbound when he fell asleep and drifted does save lives. into the northbound lane. Gil Conover, 44, July 2, 1999,9:01 a.m.: Crash w ith inand Melody Conover, 43, Ferron, saw the Bicyclist by truck juries investigated by Trooper Kevin vehicle coming toward their car and made on Bradshaw on SR 132 east of Ftn. Green. roadside highway a hard right, went off the road, blew a tire, Maria Petersen, 34, Delta, was passing a y d and rolled the vehicle onto its top. Alex Curtis, Manti, is tractor driven by Jess Bailey, 16, Ftn. Lesia Stermer, 36, Richfield saw lucky to be alive after a tragic accident Green, when the tractor made a left turn. Ms. Petersen w as not w earing a seat belt Hoskins vehicle coming straight at her Wednesday, July 7. and sustained bumps and bruises. Mr. and also turned hard right. The Hoskins At 4:17 p.m. Alex started for home vehicle struck the Stermer minivan at from Sterling on his bicycle. He was w ear- Bailey was issued citations for failing to which time Hoskins awoke. The Stermer ing his protective bike helmet as he display wamers and failure minivan ended up in the borrow pit after pedalled dow n US 89. For some reason, to yield'left turn. 3:10 p.m.: Trooper Avery investigated he decided to make a in front of a knocking over a stop sign. Mr. Hoskins was wearing a seat belt truck, driven by Barbara Peterson, 46, a crash w ith injuries on US 89 north of Centerfield. Jon Hunter, 48, Cedar City, was injured when he lost control of his motorcycle and flipped it. He was treated at Gunnison Valley Hospital for minor Seat belts do save lives! That message was made apparent Sataccident between urday when a three-ca- r and Manti Sterling took its toll on the cars, but left the people relatively unharmed. At 11 a.m., UHP Trooper Gene Openshaw was called to investigate a car crash three miles north of Sterling on US89. child-safet- life-flight- ed at auto 1 hit 15-- the teen lost control of the car and hit a utility pole, snapping it off near ground level, according to Dave Eskelsen, spokesman for Utah Power, w hich owns the pole and line. Tearing the line off the pole and snapping it did not trip a circuit breaker, according to Eskelsen. Usually a disruption in the power will trip such a breaker. Apparently, however, the 11 year-old got free of the car and crawled into the live wire. He was quickly thrown clear of the w ire, suffering serious bums. ing to a neighbor dent. w ho w itnessed the acci- Both youths were flown to the Uni-- v ersity Hospital's bum unit the only such facility in the Intermountain West. The who was burned on the head, year-old. feet, toes and backside, was released to go home on Friday. The much more seriously 1 1 -- 1 injured, was in good condition Sunday in the burn unit according to University Hospital spokesman John Dwan. but he is in for a long stay. The w he as "The as was burned on his try tripped his brother and away from head, back, chest, arms, legs and feet ing to get to the car. He then came in contact w ith the Dwan said. But the worst bums were wire and became the ground for the line from when the electricity exited out his as electricity surged through his body, See Accidents exiting through his feet for such a long on page 2 time that his sneakers burned off, accord -- -- ear-ol- slow-movi- ng U-tu- rn (Above) The driver of this car fell asleep at the wheel halfway between Manti and Sterling, causing a three-ca- r accident (Below) The family drivin the sport-utilit- y the two and the minivan, ing foreground, vehicle, back-gror. were all wearing seat belts, which probably saved their lives. injuries. Boys burned by ur downed power line By Connie Coyne The Salt Lake Tribune (Used by permission) Two Utah boys were severely burned but lucky to be alive after a harrowing accident in which they touched the live w ire from a downed electrical distribution line carry ing 7,200 volts. The Spring City y ouths were in their parents car last Wednesday heading down a gravel rcad in Sanpete County in central Utah where the speed limit is 55. They had been sent to mov e the sprinklers on the family ranchland. The 14-- y d Leftover debris (tennis shoe, bike helmet, etc.) litters US 89 north of boy was driving and his brother was in the passenger seat when Sterling where Alex Curtis was hit while riding his bicycle ear-ol- - OPY s |