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Show ::;*•:-: The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Frf, September 17-19,2008 The way We Were ••>.'- 1 -,y:-'* Breast cancer er Image Reborn has provided more than 1,000 women with Image Reborn Foundation, a breast cancer, an opportunity to non-profit organization that helps attend private retreats in Park woman live beyond breast cancer City. These retreats offer therais holding their 9th annual peutic treatments, social bondfundraising event Sept. 27 at Stein ing, exercise, expert medical Eriksen Lodge in Park City. questions and answers, as well as Evening activities begin at 6 other beneficial programs for p.m. with a silent auction and women with all stages of breast cocktails, followed by dinner, a cancer. live auction and dancing with the To attend the fundraising event Joe Muscolino Orchestra. The or one of the retreats please call theme is Singing in the Rain. Donna Creighton at 658-1715. Submitted by Image Reborn PABKcr MUSEUM The bridge NAMI fall conference over mental illness, but to make normal life worth living. Salt Lake City, UT - The • "Connecting School Mental National Alliance on Mental Illness Health and" Positive""Behavior - Utah (NAMI-UT) is hosting the Supports for all Students"- The "2008 NAMI Utah Conference: integration of mental health services Treatment Works," Friday, Sept. 26 in the school setting is challenging at from 8:30 a.m. to 4:50 p.m at the best According to the Surgeon Utah Cultural Celebration Center, General's 1999 report on mental 1355 West 3100 South in West Valley health, schools are a major setting City. With advancements being for the potential recognition of menmade in mental health the knowl- tal disorders in children and adolesedge brings hope to the thousands of cents, yet trained staff are limited, as people affected by mental illness. are options for referral to specialty Dr. Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia care. Emerging research suggest (nationally acclaimed expert in men- that the integration of school-wide tal health and president of the positive behavior interventions and NAMI Board of Directors) is sched- supports with mental health is an uled to deliver a keynote address for approach that can help both families and systems achieve their goals. this conference. NAMI-UT sponsors this confer• "Portrayals of Mental Illness in ence to educate Utahns about the the Movies: What Hurts and What issues of mental illness challenging Helps in Preventing Stigma that is a people to provide support for others Barrier to Treatment?"- who live with mental illness every Consumers, family members, and day. This year's conference work- professionals have all been porshops provide a rich context of trayed with varying degrees of learning. Presentations include: empathy and accuracy in the • "Self-Care for Extraordinary movies. Some of these portrayals Care"- Life is demanding and we create stigma that is a barrier to all want to do our best. Self-care is treatment. Which of these portraythe key ingredient to making that als help prevent stigma and which happen. This presentation reminds create it? How can we all become us of this important lesson and pro- effective stigma busters? vides some tips on overcoming perMental illness can affect person sonal barriers to self-care. of any age, race, religion, or income. • "Positive Psychology and Mental illnesses are not the result of Recovery: A Focus on What Makes personal weakness, lack of characLife Worth Living"- Positive psy- ter, or poor upbringing. Most peochology is a recent branch of psy- ple diagnosed with a serious mental chology that is beginning to sweep illness can experience relief from the woricL. Rather than a-focus on- -their-symptoms by actively parties mental illness and its treatment, pos- pating in an individual treatment itive psychology "studies the plan. strengths and virtues that enable The public is welcomed to individuals and communities to attend and can register for the conthrive." The goal is not to cure ference at: http://www.namiut.org. Submitted by NAMI Utah Chinatown By Bea Mayes, researcher, Park City Museum Today, Fourth Street looks east to Swede Alley and the buildings of the China Bridge parking garage. Steps lead to upper-level garage parking, and on the far side of Marsac -Avenue a stair reaches up Rossie Hill Once a bridge ran from just east of Main Street, over the guliy below, and connected with Marsac Avenue. Beyond the bridge, steps ran up the hill. The City Council erected the bridge in 1886 over the gully where the Chinese lived. It was called "the bridge over Chinatown," and then the "Chinatown Bridge," and finally "China Bridge." It was painted bright red and was PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM AND HAL AND MARJORIE HIMES wide and strong enough for a horseman to ride across. The China Bridge, the stairs up Rossie Hiil and houses nearby. The sign below the bridge says council built it so that residents "Hop Sing Laundry." Photo taken sometime after the Great Fire of 1898. of Rossie Hill who crossed to Main Street Prohibited from being miners, Park City been two or three hundred at one time. could avoid going through the Chinese com- Chinese worked in boarding houses as cooks, The China Bridge was badly damaged in munity, which stood where the parking waiters and gardeners, and founded laun- the Great Fire of 1898 (and all the Chinese structure now stands. At that time the dries and restaurants. Many raised fine gar- homes destroyed). Residents Oi" Rossie Hill Chinese people were both despised and dens and peddled their produce from house petitioned the City Council to rebuild the feared. But eventually, according to author to house in great baskets which hung sus- bridge. Although Park City was in debt for Fraser Buck, the bridge became a memorial pended from long poles they carried across the first time after the Great Fire, within a to the Chinese who made themselves essen- their shoulders. Population figures tended few months the city built a far less imposing tial in the mining town. not to count the Chinese, but there may have bridge which served for over half a century. 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