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Show Wednesday, April 2, 2008 C3 Big week of losses for Uintah soccer " - ft t, '" , , ' " r Vernal Express Sean McRae tries to keep a Wasatch defender at bay as he brings and helps to clog things by filling up the holes. 1 I'M .i 1 j' Kevin Henderson, a senior, fights with a Wasatch playerfor control Cody Walker slide tackles the ball away from a Wasatch attacker, of the ball. Uintah had tough week with two region losses - includ- Walker is a junior for the varsity squad. Uintah lost the Wasatch ing a 5-1 loss to Judge Memorial. game 4-1. Government Web site will log health stories By Jemtr Dobner Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - What's more convincing - a fact-laden chart that shows the impact of a health condition on a community or a personal story from someone struggling to overcome disease? Utah's Department of Health is betting on the latter. "We can give people facts and statistics all day long. Those are valuable, but to really inspire people to make change you need the human element," said Lena Dibble, spokeswoman in the department's Bureau of Health Promotion. The bureau is launching the Utah Health Story Bank, a database da-tabase where the public can post personal stories, whether chronic disease, healthy lifestyle changes or experiences with traumatic injury or domestic violence. The stories are screened by staff but kept confidential unless permission is given to share them through community health promotions, pro-motions, research or to provide state lawmakers with information. informa-tion. There is no limit to the number of stories that can be submitted, Dibble said. Story Bank is the idea of Jenny Johnson, 26, who spends much of her time teaching the public about the importance of documenting family health histories. "When you're in a presentation presenta-tion and somebody gets up and ...are worth the time in the... i Vernal xpress 54 North Vornal Avenue Vernal, Utah 435-789-351 1 www.vernal.com 1? talks about how all these people in their family had a particular disease and how if they would have done something different if only they'd known about it earlier - it's pretty impactful," she said. "I've even shared my own family history and it seemed to make a difference. All of a sudden sud-den I wasn't just this nameless, faceless person from the health department," Johnson said. Borrowing an idea from a storytelling sto-rytelling pamphlet she picked up in 2006, Johnson held a "teeny, tiny" health stories contest that year, asking people to send their stories in hopes of earning a prize. , There were at least eight entries, confirming for Johnson that people would share their experiences if the bureau could make the process easy. "That's when I got the idea: Why aren't we doing this online?" she said. Glen Hanson, a University of y s n i w i i k v: -i ;j r, k- - a 4 V ., 3 ft1 i Mil m !WJ VJlJ a teil' h n'HlM If you want to make farm life less taxing, talk to your people at H&R Block. Our people can answer questions about things like fuel credit, farm income averaging, and casualty losses. Call 1-800-HRBLOCK or visit hrblock.com H&R Block H&R Block 1 607 West Hwy 40 865 E. 200 N. Vernal, UT 84078 Roosevelt, UT 84066 435-789-3335 435-722-3335 H&R BLOCK (f ?006 HSR Block Services. Inc. -' Yo" got people vCsH .. i" i 'i'l the ball down the field. McRae is i . Utah professor and the director of the Utah Addiction Center, said Story Bank is an interesting idea. Medical professionals, he said, have long valued the family history of patients and sharing personal experiences is a cornerstone corner-stone of counseling addicts. "When you have personal experiences, they always seem to pack a greater punch. ... It puts it into a context and whenyou hear that, you're much more likely to remember the details than if I were to rattle off facts," Hanson said. In substance-abuse counseling, counsel-ing, professional counselors often are recovering addicts who share their own struggles. "They have considerably more credibility" with people they're trying to help, Hanson said. He wonders about the breadth of the information being collected. col-lected. "I guess the one concern is that by making it open-ended a center piece in Uintah mid-field ""Tf a - you may get stories that are all over the map," Hanson said. The bureau quietly tested the Story Bank sipe a month ago, asking health department employees to voluntarily post their own stories. "I think as people know about it, it's going to be one of those things that's going to build," Dibble said. By Casey Chrbitjisct Express Writer A week filled with region losses is always tough on a team as it was on the Uintah's soccer team, felt Head Coach Jared McKeachnie. Although the team does not make excuses for the loss to Wasatch or Judge, perhaps the two-hour wait in Heber had something to do with crippling, slow first half. Crippling because within that time Wasatch took a commanding command-ing 3-0 lead. The wait was caused by a bomb scare at an elementary school. McKeachnie explained that his team spent the next two hours waiting in a Smith's parking lot while the fate of the game was decided. "One cop would say 'the game is canceled, nothing is going to happen today' and then we would talk to another and he would say another 30 minutes and then we would be able to go play," said McKeachnie. The Utes finally took the field at 4:40 without their usual speed and focus. The two-hour droll had taken its toll. Which translated into a three goal head start for the Wasps. "Too much drama and we didn't show up mentally the first half," explained McKeachnie. "If you get down three in a game it is pretty hard to bounce back." Things changed for Uintah in the second half as they were finally able to play their game again. Tyler Larsen scored Uintah's only goal during the half and Wasatch was able to score another. However, the result KS, NEED CASH NOW? We want to make you a loan! $100 -$3,000 "Se Habla Espanol" Gentry Finance 74 East Main St. 5 Vernal, Utah 84078 (435)781-4970 I it J. TRUSTED SECURE RESPECTED Since 1907. i Dale Van Pelt 800.838.1983 Cell: 970.640.8727 604 25 Road PO Box 1509 Grand Junction, CO 815021509 f ';' X .,.-""4 i . -''-! I .-' s -' . - . A,' v;:v - There are hundreds of excuses you could use to avoid getting screened for colon cancer. But no excuse is a good excuse when your life's on the line. If you are 50 or over, go get screened. For more information, visit www.ucan.ee or call the Health Resource Line at 1-888-222-2542. 5 NO EXCUSES UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH was decided in the first half and the Wasps walked from the field winners of this battle, 4-1. The Judge game was void of the two hour wait, but still mimicked mim-icked the earlier week's game as the Bulldogs jumped to an early 3-0 lead. "Judge is a stronger team than Wasatch," explained McKeachnie. McKeach-nie. "They have big strong guys . that are fast and attack with skill and vengeance." The second half didn't get much better for Uintah, although Derek Bunderson was able to net a goal, Judge countered with two more of their own. The final score, 5-1, was a little deceiving in McKeachnie's opinion. "Uintah played their hearts out," he said. "We controlled the ball well and had several close runs on the goal. We just couldn't get the ball to fall on our side of the line." Uintah looks forward to the rematch on April 11, he added. The losses weren't entirely negative, nega-tive, the Utes were able to learn a few things from the two opposing teams. "You definitely learn things from the opposing teams," said McKeachnie. "Soft touches and an attacking attitude is something some-thing we are working on for the next game. We have to attack with many players and with a quick punch. Defensively we are trying to pack the middle in hopes that we don't get strung out and open up the holes." . Uintah's next contest will be this afternoon against the Union Cougars in Vernal. The game will begin at 3:30 p.m. i (t tt Specialists in Oil and Gas field and Construction Insurance and Risk Management. Proud Representatives of the Travelers Insurance and Bituminous Insurance Companies. Mood v- 'alley Insurance Agency, Inc. hi ucan |