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Show Page Eight - The Pyramid - December 18, 2003 vaccme Flu Health care t0 chi,dren home show successful MT. PLEASAN- T- Community support resulted in another successful holiday home show sponsored by the Sanpete Valley Health Care Foundation. Ticket sales and donations from area sponsors to the sixth annual event brought in over $3,000 which goes directly to purchase equipment to be used locally at the hospital. The success of the event would not be possible without the people who offered their homes to be shown. In Fountain Green, Gene and Karen Peckham, Perry and Carolyn Christensen, Jon and Shelly Cook and Jay and Peggy Page. Moroni residents Irell and Reta Despain, Alan and Morley, Tim and Leslie Keisel, Shane and Lori Simons and Todd and Jessica Pay were participants. Shal-mar- Community sponsors ie in- cluded World Alliance, Maple Leaf Company, Thompson Oil, Sanpete Valley Realty, Willow Creek Inn, GW Construction, Todd Alder, Splish Splash Car Wash and Ephraim Family Dental. Barclay Mechanical, IFA, Fat Jacks Pizza, Aspen Leaf Realty, Carol Beardall, Far West Bank, McDonalds, RJs Automotive, Skyline Pharmacy, Cellular One, Los Amigos and Snow Dragon. The foundation encourages the countys support of these businesses. The end of the year is a good time to remember tax-frdonations or gifts that improve patient care at Sanpete Valley Hospital. The foundation has contributed more than $100,000 toward the purchase of equipment. During the past several years the following equipee state-of-the-- ment has been purchased through the generosity and support of the community: mammography machine, anesthesia monitor, dermatome to aid in performing skin grafts, ultrasound machine, heater probe for EGD that helps prevent bleeding during surgeries and a fetal heart monitor. A donation is an excellent way to remember a friend or relative in a gift or bequest. Donations can be made online at www.sanpethospital.com and are guaranteed secure. RICHFIEL- D- Due to the severity of the current flu outbreak and the increased dangers to children, the Central Utah Public Health Department will be limiting flu vaccination to young children until further notice. With our flu vaccine almost exhausted supply and after consulting with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), we will be limiting flu vaccine to children from ages six months to five who have not yet years-ol- d been vaccinated, reported Robert Resendes, health officer. This is not an easy decision, but there just isn't enough vaccine for everyone who wants it, so we have had to restrict vaccines only to this flu seasons most vulnerable population, children. Restricting vaccine to high risk groups is common in times of vaccine shortages. Under ideal circumstances, theres enough medicine and vaccine for everyone. There are not ideal circumstances, says Sue immunization Hilderbrand, coordinator. Younger children normally receive two flu doses, one month apart. Public health officials at the CDC have recommended that given the choice, it would be better for more children to get just one occasional series by the Sanpete County Travel and Heritage Council on the people, places and preservation efforts along U.S. Highway 89, the Heritage Highway. MT. PLEASAN- T- Take a trip down U.S. Highway 89, the Heritage Highway and you will find something you dont see every day: mermaids. Along the Heritage Highway in the towns of Elsinore, Salina and Monroe, a group of women artists have come together and formed a unique coalition to promote their in the Mermaids work, Desert. They are writers, poets, jewelry makers, painters and craft makers who share a fondness for small Utah towns, their Danish heritage, the arts AND large bodies of water. We are all so taken with the ocean, it means so much to us and here we all are, so far inland, laughs Doreen Christensen, one of the groups founding members. The women have been working together to promote their artistic creations for a few years, but they reinvented themselves after Christensen developed a book and game with a mermaid theme. All of us really are mermaids out here in the desert, trying to swim our way out of poverty and away from medical challenges and other Chrispersonal situations, tensen says. We all are trying to find ways to be able to spend more time on our art and ways to use our art to help other people. Christensen created her book and game, Mermaid Meditations out of a need to find relief in her own Once paralyzed from life. the waist down, she is now able to walk, but still undergoes therapy. A certified clinical hypnotherapist, Christensen spends much of her time working with people with disabilities. I noticed that I started to have this heaviness about me, this feeling of anxiety that I needed to do more to help them, Christensen says, so I came up with this game, which is centered around a mystery story about mermaids. The game includes 25 sea shells, sand and 25 separate meditations. Each person reads a meditation and writes down what it means to them and later shares with the group, Christensen said. Once Christensen showed the book and game to the other women in her artists group, they began creating accessories to accompany Mermaid Meditations. It just evolved into a collection of all kinds of things that we have made that have a mermaid theme and they Mermaids in the became Desert. For example, one artist made a special pouch to hold the sea shells, another created jewelry and another came up with Native American meditations. The group published a small number of books that are available for sale and a web site is under development to promote the book, game and jewelry and other vaccine than for fewer children to receive two vaccines. two doses Although would be ideal, one dose should provide ample protection against the flu or at least minimize the symptoms of the disease. At this time, we have no idea if we will be able to get any more vaccine. In the U.S., only two companies in the private sector produces the vaccine. They have run out of vaccine and it takes weeks to do that. We are at their mercy, added Resendes. The Central Utah Public Health Department will be monitoring local and national influenza case volume, vaccine availability and demand for vaccine. As circumstances change, Utah Public the Central Health policy will change accordingly. By the end of this year, the health department will also try to reduce local cold and flu infections by implementing an Ask for a Mask program where sick clients who come to a clinic will be asked to wear a surgical mask to keep their germs contained. The Ask for a Mask those message encourages visiting health care buildings to request a mask if they have a fever with cough or rash and to wear it for the dura accessories. Mermaids in the Desert has also been holding private sessions for groups around the state who have heard about the game. We have done sessions for groups of women and also for groups of men and iMEnns Men's, Juniors & Missy Now 50 off o (gjgP fHI? ogspQggSsgsMSJ Country Squire 74 West Main, Mt. Pleasant 462-202- 7 Christensen says. women, The most surprising thing is how receptive men are when they play the game. For more information in the Mermaids about Desert or Mermaid Meditations, contact Christensen at 9 or by email (435) at 527-403- Fathers d6r 5 Mermaids m the desert Editors note: The following article is part of an These Our 1111111611 books still available of their visit. Wearing masks is a effective way to limit the spread of respiratory diseases which can be spread to others from tiny droplets that exit the nose or mouth of an infected person when they cough, sneeze or talk. Colds, flu, whooping cough, measles, rubella and SARS are all examples of diseases that can be spread by droplets in the air. tion MT. PLEASANT-T- he Daughters of Utah Pioneers reprinted the book These Our Fathers several years ago. These copies are nearly gone. A few are still available at Tuckers Emporium or through Roxy Washburn. Call Roxy at for a copy or for more information. 34 Hawk gridders named to football teams All-Sta- te by Doug Johnson MT. PLEASAN- T- The North Sanpete Hawks had a number of players named football to various teams last week. Both the Salt Lake TriNews bune and Deseret named seniors Brett Madsen and Trevor Johnson as first team Sanpete tied with Lehi and Delta for the Region 8 championship with a regular season record of 6-but lost to state runner-u- p Grantsville in the first round of the 3A playoffs. Madsen was named by both papers as first team running back. He averaged 118 yards per game for die Hawks while scoring eight touchdowns rushing and eight touchdowns receiving. Both papers named Trevor Johnson as first team defensive back. Johnson had 40 tackles from his comerback position, along with an interception, three fumbles caused and three fumbles recovered, including one returned for a touchdown. All-Sta- te All-State- 3, Senior Damon Gardiner was named by the Salt Lake Tribune as second team tight end. Gardiner was also an outstanding defensive player for North Sanpete, leading the team from his linebacker position with 109 tackles. The Deseret News named Gardiner Honorable Mention along with Hawk lineman Kyle Turpin. starter Turpin, a two-yefor North Sanpete, anchored the Hawk line as center. The Provo Daily Herald also named a number of North Sanpete players to its Football Team. The Heralds annual Team is comprised of players from schools in its readership area. Madsen was named to the Team as a linear All-Vall- All-Vall- ey backer. Named to the Honorable Mention Team by the Herald were North Sanpetes Trevor Johnson, Tyson Church, Brady Woot-toKyle Poulson, Colton Washburn, Damon Gardiner, Kyle Turpin and Tim All-Vall- n, 1 NOTICE OF PROPOSED TAX INCREASE The Sanpete County is proposing to increase its property tax revenue. As a result of the proposed increase, the tax on a $99,550 residence will be $128.29, and the tax on a business having the same value as the average value of a residence in the taxing entity will be $233.25. Without the proposed increase the tax on a $99,550 residence would be $69,26, and the tax on a business having the same value as the average value of a residence in the taxing entity would be $125.93. This would be an increase of 85.2, which is $59.03 per year ($4.92 per month) on a $99,550 residence or $170.32 per year on a business having the same value as the average value of a residence in the taxing entity. With NEW GROWTH, this property tax increase and other factors, Sanpete County will increase its property tax revenue from $821,210 collected last year to $1,521,210 COLLECTED THIS YEAR WHICH IS A REVENUE INCREASE OF 85.2. All concerned citizens are invited to a public hearing on the tax increase to be held on December 19, 2003, at 6:00 p.m. at the Sanpete County Court House Commission Chamber. Published in the Pyramid December 11 and 18, 2003. |
