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Show Page A5 tEfre ffitmeg-lftfrepenfre- Thursday, September 30, 2004 itt Professionals share domestic violence perspectives by Dawn Hollingsworth, Division of Child and Family Services Domestic Violence Administrator and Richard Anderson, Director of the Division of Child and Family Services Because Child and Family Services is the child protection and domestic violence agency for the state, investigating allegations of domestic violence is one of its responsibilities. The focus of these investigations is the alleged perpetrator and the goal is always the The State of Utah passed a law a few years ago that makes domestic violence in the presence of a child an act of child abuse. This is one once the mother has been able to access safety services. The caseworker will work with the parent to access services for legal, community implemented to hold the perpetrators of domestic violence fair . . . Swanson and Sherrie Buckingham were two of the guest readers who read the book Knots on a Counting Rope to Red Rock Elementary students in the school library last week. Other readers throughout the week were Rick Fullam, Dirk Shumway, Andy Nettell, Superintendent Ferguson, Tom Warren, Dave Sakrison, Gail Lea and Linda Warren. At the conclusion of the book the classes in attendance were presented with counting ropes to begin classroom traditions of tying a knot in their counting ropes each time they hear a story read aloud. The ropes, made by members of the Title staff, are attached to wooden hearts to indicate the love of reading. This week the school library is host to the annual Book Fair. Students previewed books on Monday and Tuesday. They may purchase books on Wednesday, or during the parent-teachconferences on Thursday and Friday. PTA and community volunteers make this event possible each year as they help young readers select and purchase books. The public is invited to visit the Book Fair on and Friday from Thursday from I er 8:00-4:0- 0 8:00-1:3- Film on 2000 election to be shown at the MARC Florida officials, extremely Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is a documentary that examines the suspicious pattern of irregularities, injustices, and civil rights abuses that occurred in the battle for presidency in Florida. The updated 2004 campaign edition featuring Danny Glover reveals the continued relevance and implications for this election. It will be shown loose parameters were used to create this list. As a result, an estimated 8,000 voters who were innocent of any crime, were removed from the voter rolls. African Americans represented more than half of the names on the purge list, and since they vote 90 percent Democratic, the states instructions eliminated thousands of democratic voters. They went on to say that as days went by and no winner was declared, a drama in the courts about the manual recount of unread ballots un- at the MARC on Sunday, October 3 at 6 p.m. This event is free to the public. (The T-- I cal- endar mistakenly had the film showing on Saturday.) Americans will find it hard to forget the events that occurred after Election Day 2000. A y controversy courts and in out the played streets of Florida surrounding the unread ballots, with images from the media forever imprinted in our memories of election officials squinting to examine ballots and their now infamous dimpled and hanging chads. According to the films sponsors, few of us are aware however of the Felon Purge folded. The day after the election, 175,000 ballots were discov- ered that the 36-da- ballot-countin- g machines had never read. Standard procedure would be to do a manual recount, but no complete statewide recount of these ballots has ever been conducted. With Bush ahead by such a small margin, the Gore campaign petitioned the courts for manual recounts in four counties that had reported numerous irregularities on election day, counties which were also heavily demo- List that disenfranchised cratic. The Bush campaign did everything they could to stop the recount including conducting protests staged by staff thousands of legal voters long before the polls ever opened. According to directions from members of Republican 6-- behavior. The overarching philosophy of the Division of Child and Family Services is that children have a right to be safe in their own homes whenever www.cnsvna.org Mountain Biding Day Tr-- Y okr. 5al-s- a Position Opening CNA 10 a.m. 100 Swanny City Park Strong, Effective at Pre-Regist- er Leadership Call Poison Spider Bikes Paid for by Steve Jones. 259-788- with benefits. e for details. 259-046- 6 2 Moab can be First in the Nation by Oct. 15th... 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CENTER V You can recounts and determining the Golden Wedding Stop by for prices THE TIMES- - INDEPEN D ENT Division of Child and Family Services really does believe that the best way to keep children safe is to enhance the parent will also be offered services to change the abusive X Need Printing? elected officials. but the United States Open Housf Mary & David Allen - these statistics will help the public understand that the housing, employment and other needs. The offending I support 0. non-offendi- take them home. Hopefully non-offendi- criminally accountable for their actions. However, there is a concern wandering through communities that if family violence is made public, the Division of Child and Family Services will be notified which could result in the removal of the children. In reality the Division has been working hard to collaborate with groups in communities throughout Utah to develop services that will help the nonoffending parent protect themselves and their children. of safety and the parent and to hold perpetrators of domestic violence and child abuse responsible for their behavior and provide services to have them to stop. Child and Family Services looks at the larger picture of all that is going on in the family and work tooutwards a good long-tercome for the children and parents. non-offendi- safety of the children. Research indicates that child abuse is likely to diminish strategy that lawmakers Book readings before Mel possible. During 2003, out of 3,629 children involved in this type of investigations, only 24 children were involved in removal from their parent because of domestic violence, and other abuse or neglect. Of these 24 dren, there were three of the children whose parents were incarcerated and they needed foster care. 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