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Show FUEL ASSISTS PROGRAM IS . NOW COMPLETE The Five county . ation of Governments ' ' completed the action ac-tion of the "Spec:. intervention Pft which was a tan Z " assistance progran, f by Congress in (h lessen the impact oncost on-cost of energy on weS families and the elder, '; Five County area ret'' a total of $98,112 fr0!': Utah State Depart!' Community Affairs v could be used to assistl, income households i,'! payment of their utility" Gayla Foster of the a" Agency on Aging that $19,112 had been in Beaver County. seVe' seven households v,ere.; sisted and 77 percent ! households assisted C over 60 years old. Dr. Beth S. jarnilri . ecutive Director of the partment of Community,',' fairs said that even ft the program was conceit as a oneshot emergentyp. gram to aid poor people', survive the financial hai-ships hai-ships as a re suit of the cor try's unusually cold .weau-last .weau-last winter and the spfe ing costs of energy, gress was now consider another appropriation t. cause of the crisis mr. of the problem. "Thepn lem Is very real andwefc to face the fact that a g: nificant percentage ol t population can no longerfe. pace with the spiralingto, of essential energy requit ed to heat their homes; prepare their daily meal |