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Show LO ALLL OOO LE LEELA EDEL bk.)8 - WASATCH COUNTY COURIER Midway Elementary Has Colorful Week Utah University Campuses _ Decline to Offer abortion Pill wether \ MARCH 21, 2001. SALT LAKE CITY (AP)—While some campus clinics at universities around the nation are offering the newly available -RU-486 abortion pill, Utah’s universities are not following suit. Yale was one of the nation’s first uni_versities to offer the drug through its student health program. It began prescribing the pill in September, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved RU-486. Harvard University’s student -health clinic and others refer women Sa requesting the drug to one of their asso- ciated teaching hospitals. Executives at Utah’s taxpayer-funded public universities are quick to say they do not provide abortions, either surgical aeae Aare a a _or chemical. There is a lot of controversy surrounding RU-486 and we do not offer it,” said Laura Davenport, medical director for the University Health Services. of Utah’s Student The WORE dents, Davis said. | ~The drug can be used only within 49 days after a woman’s last menstrual peri- od. And while clinical tests show RU-486 decision not to offer abortion is | rights advocates = counter that abortion has been legal since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, and that RU-486 falls within the same Utah regulations for terminating a pregnancy as surgical abor- tions—informed consent, waiting period and parental a :24-hour notification Midway Elementary was full of color last week as the kindergarten class spent time making ‘rainbows. ~The south end of the building is awash with color. The children Again this year, the fifth grade © students have been participating in - -the D.A.R.E. Program. They arealmost finished with this and have learned a lot. This is another example of community leaders tak-_ painted and colored rainbows (rainbow starts with the letter “R,” ing an active role in the education - you know.) They also looked for pots of gold (ike you find with leprechauns) at the ends of their rainbows. Parents already know that their children are the pots of gold. This past week, many of the Midway children had a special treat. Several busses full of Midway students rode “all the way to Heber” to watch the third grade Disney Program at J. R. Smith School. As always, the program was | wonderful. There will certainly be no shortage of talented students much. for the high school productions in the years to come. The children also got to experience professional artistry last week. It was Meet the Masters time. This is such a beneficial program for the children. We can not of our children. We thank them soWe also want to recognize our Gold Slip winners this week. They are: Cody Clayburn, Zane Thurman, Chu: Dakota LeBaron, James Huffaker, Danny Maisey, Shari Jolley, Nathan Clegg, Savannah Giles, Nathan Probst, Chase Blair, Alex Probst, Kristen Anderson, Casey Butters, Weston — Probst, Ashley Bardole, Mary Kathryn Brown, Cade Allen, Cole Nielson, Mason, Desiree Zach Groberg, Collings, Ayla — Rebecca Buchanan, Tiffany Biesinger and Zach Gray. What good examples these students are to us all. Thanks to all ‘the parents, community members and others who make Midway work so hard best that it can be. for minors. tique feel that clearly is at the heart of REALTORS CONTINUED FROM AQ the company.” | Watalley Real Estate broker He said his brokerage has the highest amount of the market’s listings, approximately 20 percent of the share. Zuercher said the Wasatch market ~ has changed recently. A large percentage of the buyers—especially in -Midway—consist of Wasatch Front and Park City residents who appreci- ate the valley’s value and rural environment. Gary Coleman of Heber Valley’s _Davis-Coleman Realty said he was unaware of the merger and would like to learn more, but he doubts there is a reason for local agents to _ be concerned. with the outside com‘ petition. Prudential Utah Nee eae se claim it has the “prestigious honor of being the most productive and successful real estate practitioner across the state and in the industry.” The company has seven Park City-area offices, which garner 34 percent of Summit County's market share, as well as 20 percent of the market in Salt Lake Valley for residential and com- mercial sales. : | Douglas Jones is the new CEO, Joel Carlson is president and Bill Coleman is the new company’s executive vice ' president of Park City operations. “There are incredible synergies that emerge as a result of this new organization. We have fewer real estate professionals producing more sales than anyone else,” Coleman said. “Now, we have created positive opportunities for our real estate profession- als to work within an organization that has all the added benefits of a larger company...while maintaining the bou- Prudential Prestige has increased its market share annually since it’s 1992 inception, and has received the prestigious Prudential Gibraltar Award every year since. | Prudential Relocation is the Second ACADEMIC VISUAL ARTS Ali loves art and has been drawing Fortune 500 companies and a variety of U.S. government agencies. ‘Chris Robertson, realtor and executive vice president of Prudential Coleman prior to the merger said the company’s agents do_ and creating art since the time she got her first crayon. She takes after others in her family who also have a fascination County . represent Board “IT don’t know where Prudential will © stack up since they don’t have a physical presence here,” Zuercher | said. “People who want Wasatch County real estate generally use their Wasatch County brokerage. If you want to buy a house in Salt Lake City, you don’t ask a _ St. George real estate agent.” emaul: kirsten@wasatchcountycourier.com are the direction to where her art will go, along with the help of many great teachers, too. She of “It just adds more horsepower behind the Prudential name and a different awareness of properties we market there. The capacity we can attain as a group is certainly one that attracted all the parties involved,” Robertson said. “More agents will be aware of those properties.” Wasatch isn’t worried about the competition. “Tm not that concerned,” said Tracy Taylor of High Performance Realty. “There will always be competition, but there is a need to have the local connection. Their business is separate from what we offer here. The Park City agents who are smart will be connecting with us.” with art. They ones that have given Heber Valley, and a few are members of the Wasatch Realtors. | PROFILE ALLISON JARVIS largest provider of global relocation service. The client base includes plans to go into Graphic Design, but also plans to keep painting and creating many different fashionable and unique works of art. | Sponsored by BINGGELI ROCK PRODUCTS Supporting a strong foundation for education in Wasatch County! 654-2611 -654-2233 Charleston, Utah to Elementary the ! “ made with the backdrop of widely held religious anti-abortion sentiment: Both Utah’s predominant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the | Roman Catholic Church, the state’s sec- Abortion thank our wonderful PTA enough for arranging such terrific learning — opportunities. community remain skeptical. One is Jim » Davis, director of Utah State University’s Student Health Center in Logan. RU-486 “has a lot of potential, in addition to not working, for medical complications, ” he said. Additional training, staffing and equipment required to offer the drug also pose a barrier to. the clinics that serve stu- abortion or stop heavy bleeding. of SUBMITTED BY MIDWAY ELEMENTARY safe and effective, some in the medical -esterone that, taken within 72 hours intercourse, interrupts a pregnancy by keeping a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall. AS vehemently dose of the hormones estrogen and prog- But nearly all campus clinics offer the tab Git largest denomination, oppose elective abortion. Moreover, none of the campus clinics is equipped nor are their staffs trained to perform abortions, either through surgical means or RU-486, which is medically problematic in some ways. | While the FDA has deere RU-486 effective in triggering what amounts to a miscarriage 92 percent of the time, 8 percent of women taking the drug require follow-up surgery either to complete the so-called “morning after pill,” a multiple eA AN an |