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Show B6 The Salt Lake Tnbune UTAH Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Alpacas listed as ‘medium’ Utahns to mark D.C.trek RIVERTON After resident Wade Alexander recently contested an animal-control citation that considered his two alpacas to be “large” farm animals, Riverton’s planning director, Brian Maxfield, this week said the alpacas smaller cousins of lamas will be reclassified as “medium”animals. 40th anniversary: NAACP members and others seek to honor King’s dreamofequality Keeping Martin Luther Jr.’s dream alive in 200 be aN re ognizing Thursday's 40th anni yn versary of the March Washington Four decades ago this sun mer, more than a quarter of a million people gathered in the Ai HamrmMann/ The Salt Lake Tribune The NAACP’s Jeanetta Williams, center, gives school-supply backpacks to Gay Dawn Pinnecoose, Indian Walk-in Center youth coordinator, left, and intern Tumani Malinga for distribution to children. h was about equal nation’s capital to demand equal rights for blacks in the United States. In Salt Lake City Jeanetta Williams, president of the city’s branch of the National A SSOC la tion for the Advancement of Col ored People, marked the event this week by handing out back packs for low-income children at schools and organizations and addressing inequality still i d by the nation’s minorit communities On Tuesday, Williams ping others, Wil And I'm helping out in every way that I can. I’m not nly going She tion sat to neip black down for a conversa with the center’s executive director Dena Ned and youth co ordinator We're Gay not Dawn just ‘We want to hack t a bl ack-only Williams organizatior Pin said tell ev erybody to go school and stay in school ered 15 backpacksfilled wit! school supplies and toiletri« More than with pencils, 300 backpacks notepads and erasers will be given out this week to American Indian stu dents in the Jordan, Granite and Salt Lakeschool districts. “We're hoping it will motivate students to stay in school,” she said. Step one is giving them the tools they need to go into the classroom “We have students who have parents going back to school because of the economic situation onthe Indian reservation andit’s hard for them buy the school supplies,” she said. “We also have moreIndian people coming into the cityfor jobs.” From adapting to life away Cedar Cityfair today Cedar City About 150 booths will be set up along two blocks of Main ee 42 Foothill Family Clinic is seeking infants to participate in an Investigational Human Rotavirus Vaccine research study. Street Fair this evening to wel come students attending South ern Utah University . * HumanRotavirus Vaccine WelcomeFest TO QUALIFY, YOUR CHILD MUSTBE: 4s * 6-12 weeks of age at the Center Street to 200 North for the 6 to 1030 * In good general health PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE: =. © Research related medical evaluations Karyn Hsiao Portrait Contest! Aug. 25-Sept. 28 Are you our $500winner? SPECTACULAR SAVINGS! University Mall 801-224-1161 Newgate Mall Valley Fair Mall 801-968-1693 801-394-3322 Southtowne Center 801-571-7990 * Reimbursement for participation CacheValley Mall 435-752-4060 Fashion Place Mall 801-293-9131 Cottonwood Mall 801-272-2441 Provo Towne Centre 801-852-4000 Layton Hills Mall Jordan Landing 801-547-0322 801-280-3955 ¢ Vaccination for Rotavirus p.m City public relations director Larry Baker said the festival ts higt light the down designed to five alpacas. time of the first vaccination Street. which will be closed from [t runs from Riverton neighbors with half-acre lots can now keep up FALL PORTRAITS AT & ae free event. we’re very pleased,” he said. A SEASON FOR SMILES! from thereservation to attitudes toward Indians in the classroom, students face a tough entrance into the school system, shesaid. Williams said that is an example of how equality, as addressed 40 years ago by King, still has not been met. Affirmative action has been underattack, especially at universities and at workplaces, in recent years. And in Indian Country, treaty rights have come under fire “People think, ‘You’re Indian, you're taken care of,” Pinnecoosesaid. the Indian Walk-in Center in Salt Lake CEDAR CITY holds its first te decision,” Maxfield said. “In our code, an emu is a medium animal and an ostrich isa large animal, so we kind of figured that as emu is to ostrich, alpaca is to ama.” Alexander called the decision “wonderful” on Tuesday. “They did the right thing, and “We feel comfortable with By Rutna Guipos The Salt Lake Trilnin remaining committed t tion, say Utahns who will This south Salt Lake Valley city has packed an opinion on alpacas to a For more information pleasecall: Foothill Family Clinic town area and services provided ; } the school} The by the city ind fair will include entertainment and games for children Viark Havnes South 801-365-1032 Ask for Research North 801-486-3021 AMERICA'S FAVORITE CHILDREN'S PORTRAIT STUDIO EST. 1920 |