| Show ©OUMYV Lines 2B Standard-Examin- Local News Editor: Tuesday August 29 2000 er Schools experience ground beef shortage (Ogden) 625-422- 4 Standard-Examine- Flu ( Ot v 'Ae fa T? FIREFIGHTING T0UR: Children f C from Lincoln Elementary in Layton gather' around the back of a firefighting aircraft for a tour at Hill Air Force Base on Friday The school’s student body was involved in a “snack drive" for Forest Service PARK- - Not only are the nation's schools suffering from a teacher they are also shortage experiencing a ground beef and Hill AFB shortage firelighters Even though Utah schools are facing a shipment delay of two to three months for its yearly order BRIAN NICHOLSON Standard-Examin- of ground beef many of the state's districts are prepared to serve ground beef in tacos spaghetti and hamburger patties because they bought in bulk last year said Barbie Faust the State Office of Education commodity technician The of Department Agriculture has set higher standards for ground beef forcing the price to increase anywhere from 20 to 60 cents per pound said Warren Gaddis the state assistant director of child nutrition and food distribution program Last year USDA paid SI 15 per pound This year they are paying SI 60 a pound Faust said You can reach reporter Loretta at Park 776-495- or 1 lpark(a standardnet Clearfield child dies of rare tumor CLEARFIELD - Meghan Mae Call daughter of Matthew and Jennifer Call of Clearfield died Saturday following a long fight with a rhabdoid brain tumor The Calls were featured with other families in a Standard-Examinarticle July 30 about how families cope when serious illness strikes a child She was diagnosed with the rare brain tumor on Feb 14 Jennifer Call said in an interview for the article that what helped her and her husband cope with the illness was “the support we've had by all of her grandparents uncles and aunts’’ Meghan Call is survived by er her parents her grandparents Douglas and Diane Call of Clearfield Gary and Cathy Jorgensen of Roy and Rulon and Marianne Call of Layton and Mildred Jenkins of Kaysville Funeral services will be at 11 am Wednesday at Lindquist's d Layton Mortuary 1867 N Road Viewings will be held for friends and family from 6 Fair-fiel- pm to 8 pm Tuesday and Wednesday from 9:30 am to 11:45 am Friends and family have set up a medical trust fund at America First Credit Union to help the Calls with Meghan's medical bills baron scoured America’s highways beer-bottl- e Tire Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY - Dennis Brezina has come to a good news-ba- d news conclusion con- Utah drivers litter drinking and driving: We’re sloppy and we drink but we’re not as cerning bad as some places After scouring 35750 miles of America’s highways rural roads and country lanes Brezina 63 has tallied 995 randomly tossed beer cans and bottles per year for every mile of road After an April trip through Utah the Maiyland retiree found that while drivers in the Beehive State are slightlyless sloppy we still chuck out 775 beer cans and bottles per mile Cruising along the nation’s various manufacturing problems according to a news release from the Bear River Heath Department There will probably be little or no flu vaccine available through public clinics Any vaccine public heath departments do receive will be delayed Therefore the Bear River Health Department will schedule no clinics prior to A limited supply of vaccine will be available through local hospitals and selected private physicians The Health Department will encourage these health care providers to reserve their vaccine for people in high-ris- k categories such as those who are 65 years or older those ' who suffer from chronic conditions such as lung or heart disease and diabetes DAVIS Laytoira Hindis swestoim loves and Hill AFB By LORETTA PARK Standard-Examine- Davis Bureau r ILL AIR FORCE BASE - Laura Brautigam watched the planes fly over her home in Layton into the smoky horizon and told her dad she wanted to do something to show her appreciation for the firefighters Her dad Air Force Tech Sgt John Brautigam suggested she make some cookies because "everyone likes snacks” Laura Brautigam told her fourth grade teacher Vanessa Leggett about her snack idea and before she knew it the entire Lincoln Elementary student body chipped in For two weeks students donated chips : FARMINGTON Job Corps student was in court Monday on charges of raping cookies fruit bars candy bars and other snacks to give to the Forest Service personnel and the Air National Guard units stationed at Hill Air Force Base crews coumY - A Clearfield : -J ' ' ' over the off voreffiglhitteirs Lincoln Elementary students donate snacks to Forest Service V Job Corps student charged with rape -- another student weekend Ruben Toledo 19 appeared in 2nd District Court and was felony charged with rape That charge is punishable by up to life in prison' According to court documents the purported victim repeatedly refused sexual intercourse with Toledo Toledo's bail was set at $25000 He is scheduled to be back in court Sept 1 1 for a preliminary hearing ’ first-degr- Katie Allen gave individual containers of applesauce and pudding Her friend Kyra Davis donated granola bars BRIAN NICHOLSONStandard-Examine- r FUTURE PILOT?: Katelyn Draper of Lincoln in Layton waves from the cockpit of a firefighting aircraft at Hill AFB on Friday Elementary On Wednesday the student council delivered part of the snacks notes and cards to the base bus windows “It has been real pleasurable to read their cards and notes while we waited for orders” Harlow said Col Larry Biggers with the 145th Airlift Wing Air National Guard out of North Carolina said the Forest Service feeds his crews well but this unique gesture from children has been overwhelming You can reach reporter Loretta Park at 776-49or lpark(a standardnet Leggett's class and Amy Madsen's fourth grade class along with the student council delivered more snacks and were treated to a Hercules planes that carry tour of the the fire retardant to the Utah mountain fires on Friday C-1- Chip Harlow a pilot with the 153rd Airlift Wing Air National Guard out of Wyoming and another pilot greeted the students with high fives through the school s i pilot killed in Texas crash F-1- 6 An Air Force reservist training at Hill Air Force Base was killed Monday after the he was piloting crashed 6 into a Texas Panhandle field The single-sejet went down about 6 pm CDT near the town of Tulia about halfway between Amarillo and Lubbock Military officials said the 6 was part of an Air Force reserve unit the 457th Fighter Squadron stationed at Naval - -Air Station Fort Worth at Hand molds help keep memories alive the joy her fourth daughter brought to their family She knows her family is not alone in losing a child but it still is “so unnatural to have a child die be- By LORETTA PARK Standard Examiner Davis Bureau BOUNTIFUL - The small delicate white hands holding dried flowers sit under a glass on a curio shelf surrounded by angel figurines The plaster hands are not a collector’s item but are priceless to the Ramaileh family of Bountiful They are replicas of Summer Ramaileh’s hands fore you three-dimensio- Summer was 6 12 years old when the hands were made on the last day of her life Her hands and her life have influenced the way her sister and her mother now spend their time Summer’s sister Sharifa Ramaileh 18 and her mother Suz- anne Ramaileh make plaster replicas for others The molds are taken from the hands of ter” minally ill children Utah children 4£ ANIANDASASLOWStandard-Examine- The people who f the help of her daughter Sharifa (left) Suzanne Ramaileh holds Dominick Wells’ hand immobile in a batch of dental plaster as the mold hardens HELPING HANDS: With ' After Summer died Sharifa who plans to go to medical school asked her mother if one of the things they could do is learn how to make hands for highways in an old Ford Escort Brezina has concluded that this is a nation of slobs “There is certainly a litter problem everywhere you go” Brezina said He is particularly concerned about the number of beer and quor cans and bottles he has li- made the molds of Summer’s em remember how small they were It comforts you Suzanne said ‘You can slip your hand over She slips the glass cover off the hands occasionally and tou- ches each finger remembering of the aluminum cans I found were beer cans More than 90 percent of the bottles in the roadside were beer or liquor bottles 1 am ” toying to put a face on drinking and driving “In Utah almost two-thir-ds -- Dennis Self-appoint- two-thir- Brezina beer bottle baron le Heavily Mormon Utah County with a proud teetotaling legacy threw beer cans and bottles out on the road at a relatively ti- - “Suzanne and Sharifa have used their grief and turned a tragedy into a beautiful tribute to Summer” Harrell said You Park at can reach reporter Loretta 1 or Iparkfastan-dardn- et 776-495- as others week the cans had been replaced and I noticed how many were beer cans” Brezina said Five years and $50000 of his own money later Brezina accompanied by wife Deborah has traveled through 48 states hugged mile after mile of guard rail and picked up a lot of cans Throughout his quest despite carcasses of dead animals and ds beer-bottThe baron discovered that the amount of roadside litter varied by location “They are my memories of my daughter” she said Since Summer’s death Sharifa and Suzanne have made about 30 hands The materials are donated by local dentists to the Kaleidoscope Kids which is part of Community Nursing Service Kaleidoscope Kids works with children who have illnesses said Sheri Harrell the volunteer coordinator Harrell is usually contacted by nurses who know what Suzanne and Sharifa do “I was astounded that every found “In Utah almost of the aluminum cans I found were beer cans More than 90 percent of the bottles in the roadside were beer or liquor bottles” Brezina said “I am trying to put a face on drinking and driving” do” she said Suzanne contacted the woman in Idaho and she learned how to craft the hands Utah drivers litter drinking and driving not as bad Self-appoint- ed vaccine BRIGHAM CITY -- The Influenza vaccine will likely be in short supply this year due to Davis Bureau r POX ELDER COUNTY in short supply Higher USDA standards forced increase in price By LORETTA (Layton) 776-495- 1 dy rate of 342 per mile Meanwhile roads in Summit County were littered with alcohol-container discards at a rate nearly double that Brezina’s - 626 per mile effort to stay ofT main thoroughfares such as Interstate 15 and to focus on state roads and highways kept him out of Salt Lake County less-travel- ed altogether That may have helped account for the state's overall low score “I try to set parameters to get a fairly representative level for the entire state Utah had about the lowest count in the West” Brezina said t Brezina founder and director of the nonprofit agency Alumi- num Anonymous first got the idea for his quest back in 1995 as he gathered cans from alongside the road to assist a homeless shelter in his hometown apeake City Md of Ches- containers of urine he has discovered along the way Brezina remains upbeat especially as he sees state and federal authorities use his data to combat drinking and driving “When I see the enormity of the problem and the need for in- creased visibility it has not seemed like a sacrifice It has seemed like public service” he said “I think I will keep on doing it for a while” Killed was pilot Stephen Simons 41 of Fort Worth He was returning to Fort Worth from Hill Air Force Base on a training mission said Maj Clayton Church a spokesman for the Air Station in Fort Worth There was no immediate word on the exact cause of the crash but a trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety at the scene said the jet apparently clipped a nearby barn before it went down in a plowed field Trooper Wayne Beighle said debris was scattered for about a quarter of a mile ' i REGIONAL Street work scheduled for today SALT LAKE CITY - The : Utah Department of Transportation advises motorists of an asphalt rejuvenation project on 9000 South between Monroe Street and 1300 East today and Wednesday One lane in each direction will remain open to motorists while crews are working Lane restrictions will remain in effect from 8 am to 6 pm daily - ‘ ' Writers to hold conference SALT LAKE CITY -- The League of Utah Writers is holding its annual statewide writing conference September 15 and 16 at the Salt Lake Airport Hilton Hotel The conference is open to anyone who is a writer or has an interest in writing There will be a literary agent and eight nationally-publishe- d authors to address fiction non-fictio- ‘ n poetry and how to market one’s riting Call Dorothy Crofts at or 964-086- or 1 her at Croftsnumucomcom for more information - Standard-Examin- I er i i |
