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Show In Utah Legislature 1 2 4-Hers serve as page assistants J i . I alii k tj' Xi Twelve 4-H Club members had a first-hand experience in Utah government Feb. 6-7 when they served as legislative page assistants. The 4-Hers spent about five hours on the House floor, toured the Capitol and met Lt. Gov. Val Oveson. In past years they have met with the governor, but he was unavailable these two days, according accor-ding to John Paul Murphy, assistant state 4-H leader at Utah State University. Uni-versity. The page assistant program is an outgrowth of the 4-H Voter Awareness Program. It gives 4-Hers 4-Hers near voting age a chance to see the inner workings of their state government, Murphy said. It's important im-portant for them to see the tremendous tremen-dous amount of paper work, debating and lobbying that gos into passing a piece of legislation. In addition to this experience, he said USU will sponsor a 4-H mock legislative session at the Capi ol June 11. The mock legislature program was designed by state representative represen-tative Beverly Evans from Alta-mont Alta-mont as another supplement to the Voter Awareness Program. It will allow 75 4-Hers a chance to try performing per-forming the same duties as their elected officials, Murphy said. Blythe Arlington of Famington and Rebecca Wells of Cleveland were among 12 4-Hers that recently visited the Utah Legislature at state capitol and served as page assistants. The club members spent about five hours at the Capital building and met Lt. Gov. Val Oveson. The page assistant program is an outgrowth of the 4-H Voter Awareness Program. |