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Show Community Vance inducted into What FHA Mali of Fame oim SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2, 1995 traffic era play In commemoration of the 50th have become successful in govanniversary of the Future ernment and industry and in Homemakers of America, 76 the arts and education. To be eligible for nominaformer members and advisers inof the organization were tion to the Hall of Fame, nomiducted into the FHAHERO nees must be living, former National Leadership Hall of FHAHERO members and adFame. The Leadership Hall of visers, good citizens, and posiFame was launched to recog- tive role models for Americas nize and honor former FHA youth. Honorees were selected Courtesy of Western Insurance Information Service More often than not, when we get behind the wheel of our car, were in a hurry to get somewhere. And what do we do when we need to get to work on time or d want to get away on a based on an essay describing vacation? We speed. the nominees success in their And we greatly multiply our chosen profession, their sig- chances of being involved in a nificant contributions to soci- serious traffic crash, said Nancy ety, and their roles in helping Barnett, Regional Manager. FHAHERO promote personal growth and leadership through home economics cation. Future Homemakers edu- of America is the only organization with the family as its central focus. It operates on the premise that everyone is a homemaker everyone contribg of their utes to the in-scho- ol HERO members and advisers who have achieved success in their chosen professions, contributed significantly to their communities and helped FHA HERO reach its goals, says Alan Rains, executive director of FHA. Using the skills they learned through their involvement in FHAHERO, Leadership Hall of Fame inductees traffic crashes in four basic ways: 1) Speed reduces the reaction time drivers need to avoid crashes. 2) Speed increases the distance needed to stop a vehicle. In addition, speeding drivers may not be able to judge distances accurately. Drivers who run red lights are likely to be speeding. 3) Higher speeds result in higher risks of injury or death in a traffic crash, because vehicles and their occupants in motion have kinetic energy that is dissipated in a crash. 4) Higher speeds reduce the ability of vehicles and restraint systems to protect oc- While drivers of all ages and has no time to react. Or a driver both sexes speed at one time or speeding along a similar roaddrivers tend way in eastern Colorado might another, high-spee- d to be young males. A recent Traf- believe a high speed is safe fic Safety analysis found that until last nights lack of sleep nearly 40 percent of all drivers suddenly overwhelms the driver, age 9 involved in fatal traf- who nods off for a second and fic crashes were in speed-relate- d runs off the road and into a telecrashes, but the percentage phone pole. A driver on one of among drivers, age 70 and older, Salt Lake Citys straight downdecreased to seven percent. At town roads might be lulled into all ages, male drivers are more thinking he can speed up belikely than female drivers to be cause of how far ahead he can involved in speed-relate- d fatal see until a pedestrian suddenly 14-1- crashes. According to statistics, about 36 percent of all fatal traffic crashes on rural roads are related to speed, compared with about 30 percent on urban roads. A safe speed depends on several factors. A roadways design, steps into the street and the driver cant stop in time. Or a driver speeding along a road in New Mexico may be doing just fine until a tire blows, and the driver loses control of the car. Safe speeds are relative, so each driver is urged to be aware of the current driving conditions and the posted speed limits, which typically are set based on a roadways design. Speeding may get you there faster, or it may keep you from getting there such as a narrow two-lan- e byacor a modern controlled way home. cess freeway, whether the surTwo inductees from Utah are: rounding area is urban, suburArlou Vance, State Advisor for ban or rural, current weather Future Homemakers ofAmerica, conditions, and how well or and Mary Monroe Shumway, poorly the road has been main- at all! State Specialist, Utah Office of tained, all combine to affect safe Education. Arlou is the daughspeeds. A driver speeding along inMr. Vance of on a straight stretch of a rural ter and Mrs. Lloyd cupants. Crash severity of Kanab, and graduated from creases disproportionately with interstate in southern Wyoming Kanab High School and Utah vehicle speed, so a frontal im- might feel that 75 mph is safe d State University. Mary is the pact at 35 mph is more until an antelope suddenly appears on the road and the driver daughter of Lamar Monroe and violent than one at 30 mph. Monroe of Gwen the late Scipio. She graduated from Millard High School and Utah State University. well-bein- Arlou Vance long-awaite- Speed influences 11 one-thir- Family History Center News Coconino County Health Department news MoyjjHDlaj 68jaSE" To Mesquite The Family History Center has received the IGI update which includes all of the temple work that has been done since the Church began. It has the update for the card catalog also. The Center is open Monday and Friday from 9 a.m. 4 p.m. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m.-- l p.m. and in the evenings from 9 On Wednesday, August 23, an immunization clinic will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Fredonia Medical Building on 100 E. Cowboy. Immunizations offered will be: HIB, diphtheria, tetanus; whooping cough, polio, measles, mumps, and rubella and Hepatitis B. These will be given accordingto the 3us -- Page Kanab 6-- recommendations of the Arizona Department of Health Services. T.B. skin tests are also available. No appointment is necessary. Please bring immunization records. Immunizations are free of charge for all children from infants through high p.m. The Center will be closed for vacation August 26 through September 4. Everyone is invited to use the library. You can sign up two weeks in advance for use of the computers. school. 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