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Show I Wed Thu 106 107 7342 EwA' Silent zoo ) Wt- SeeA12 - -It ' See B1 Single Copy 50c Wednesday, October 6, 2004 Vernal, Utah 84078 112th Year No. 41 r7 SUPPORT OUR TROOPS Express online: www.vernal.com VERNAL Giramitt ffiioinidls tilhiiree Conniniecftiioinis pirociiirairsnis Three mure Connections pro- grams have received word that grant funding will continue the program at Davis. Maeser and Myton Elementary Schools. The grant, submitted jointly by the I'intah School District. Duchesne County School District and Uintah Recreation District, is for five vears. A sum of S224.4KO will 'be awarded for each of the first three years, with funding at 75 percent for the fourth year and 50 percent for the fifth year. "Vere relieved that this 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant will now enable us to sustain a total of six sites for at least three years." I'intah District Connections director Bill Caldwell said last week in announcing receipt of the highly competitive grant. '"We're fortu- Center looks for funding By Steven R. Wallis Express Editor Since last May the number num-ber of residents of the I'intah Care Center has decreased to 78 making it more difficult to make ends meet. Since the completion of Care Center's expansion at the first of the y ear, resident occupancy has been at 90. The number has gone dow n because of summer and competition from other facilities. As of July 2 this year a $26 per patient day increase was approved, but the Care Center will likely not receive any of the increased funding until December or January. Brian Harrison. Traditions Health Care. Inc., thanked commissioners Monday for the county 's support of the Care Center. Traditions, as manager of the Care Center under the direction of the Uintah Special Service, has applied for a sole providers provid-ers grant in a community that is experiencing hardship. "Part of the requirements for the grant is that we have match money for 3 percent of the crant." I larrison said. Families disagree on new burial site By Maureen Spencer Express Writer The Southern Lite Tribal Council in Ignacio. Colo., has taken under advisement the proposals pro-posals and requests of several families tracing lineage to Chief Ouray. Chief Ouray's sister Susan or to Chief Ouray 's only known child, Ute Hanna. Southern Ute Tribal Council Chairman Howard Richards said Monday that following several sev-eral family presentations which "spoke to the issue" at its meeting meet-ing Sept. 29, the Council will make its decision as soon as possible. At issue for the various family fam-ily lines is a proposal before the Council submitted by O. Roland McCook of Arcadia to remove the remains of the venerated ven-erated chief from their present resting place on tribal lands at Ignacio to be buried near his wife, Chipeta, on non-tribal lands at Montrose, Colo. Chief Ouray and his wife Chipeta had lived at the site of her burial, which now has some importance as a point of tourist interest. Chief Ouray and Chipeta were respected for their wisdom and patience in working for peace between Native Americans and I nate to be selected." Only six grants were awarded for the entire state. The Myton Elementary Connections site will re -open sometime this month. Caldwell praised the program as "excellent", adding, "It is a program that provides expanded learning opportunities for children, chil-dren, older youth, adults and families during out-of-school-time hours. This grant, and the one that was received last January for Todd Elementary School, West Junior High School and Lapoint Elementary School, ensures that services which have been so valuable will continue at six sites in the I'intah Basin." Caldwell noted that now that the grant has been awarded, w ays are being pursued to offset vve are asxing tne commis-i sion to give $1,416.90 and! iiM 7 . I . .1. . ' the state will fund $45,786." Harrison said. Commissioners agree to provide pro-vide the matching funding. "We are doing everything we can to maximize the efficiency of the Care Center," said Gary Shovvalter, Uintah Health Care Special Service District Board chairman. "Our biggest cost factor is personnel per-sonnel and it is difficult to dismiss, dis-miss, especially nurses, when the numbers go down, and then have to call them back when the numbers go back up," said Showalter. "Eor so many years Medicare has been under funded," said Harrison. "All indications are that the increase in Medicare w ill be funded in one check and it will be from July forward." Harrison said that if the funding fund-ing doesn't come, the Care Center may look to the county for interium funding. "We are proud of the facility and hopeful that it will stand on its own two feet," said Shovvalter. "I remember when we were excited to have 59 residents. non-native settlers in Colorado and in the Uintah Basin. What may seem to be a simple and possibly even logical movement move-ment of Chief Ouray's remains to non-tribal members, it has opened a hornets nest of controversy con-troversy among the several Ute bands located throughout the region who have members w ith direct blood ties or ties through adoption to the two revered Ute leaders. Lineage, however, is vital to the issue of authorizing movement move-ment of Chief Ouray's remains since the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) in 1990. According to the National Park Services, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, "NAGPRA provides pro-vides a process for museums and federal agencies to return certain Native American cultural cul-tural items human remains, funiary objects, sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimonyto patri-monyto lineal descendants culturally affiliated Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations." organiza-tions." Kenny Frost, a Native American with expertise in tribal use of NAGPRA, also addressed the Southern Ute meeting Sept. 29. Monday, Frost told the the reduc uction in funding for vears four and five of the grant, and for funding sources to re-establish the Connections program at the Venial Middle School which would serve students from Discovery Elementary and Vernal Junior High if funds can be found. Vernal Middle School, Roosevelt Jr. High School, Duchesne Elementary School and Manila Elementary School were not included in the grant projiosal because those schools do not meet eligibility requirements require-ments established by the No Child Left Behind Act. Diiecior Caldwell reported that. " The program has received some wonderful local support. The Recreation District. I'intah County Commission and School Board joined forces to come up with funding to keep the Dav is and Maeser sites open this y ear." Manila is not pail of the Connections program now, but See Connections on A10 speak to Chamber To hear John Swallow speak, one wouldn't believe that he trails Jim Matheson in the race for U.S. Congress. Swallow seems confident, articulate arti-culate and optimistic about his chance for a win in November, but then so is Matheson. One of the key differences between the two candidates is Swallow would like to be a champion of Public Lands. "By focusing in on the access and responsible development of public lands along with tax cuts, economic development can occur in this area." he said during the Tuesday Vernal Area Chamber of Commerce meeting. "We don't have a balance between development and environmental restrictions." he said. "1 am afraid for rural Utah because no one is taking ownership owner-ship of public lands. He said he would not budge from the BLM's recommended 1 .9 million acres of wilderness. "I recounize that I don't have Chief Ouray, respected mid-1 9th century leader of the Utes known for peace and patience, is the subject of heated debate among tribal members regarding possible movement of his final resting place. Express that NAGPRA is specific spe-cific that a lineal descendant must make the request and that removing human remains must go back to "tribal jurisdiction" i .-;; '! i ' r . ..' : !-." Uintah County - Vernal City Fire crew responds to a trailer house fire on south Vernal Avenue Sunday. The trailer was not occupied, but was just being used for storage. Contents of the trailer were destroyed by the fire. 0, I ftp- ' . ml John Swallow all the answers, but I will surround sur-round myself with people who understand Utah, particularly rural Utah." he said. If elected Swallow said he would open an office in the Uintah Basin. Swallow said he is behind in the polls because Matheson has been pouring a lot of money into television commercials. com-mercials. He said that his commercials com-mercials will begin shortly and See Candidates on A10 (tribal land). Movement of the remains also stirs emotions for some tribal elders who respect the sacred-See sacred-See Ouray on A10 Sunday Fire Who ar abusers? By Virginia Harrington Express Writer A quote from the Nalmii.i! Committee for lite Prevention ol Child Abuse: "It is a s.ui irony that many abuseis genu inely love their children, but they find themselves caught m life situations Ivyond their eon tiol and they do not km a h, ivv to cope. I Ik are niton isolated from friends and l.unilv and may have no one v give them emotional support I hev ni.iv not like ihenisvlu-s ami may not know how to ;vi their emotional needs met." This is similar to w lui Vjt Jeff Merrell of ihe l uiiah ( nunr. Sheriff's Department refer to as "(lustration." "Ihistiation " is the striking out at children that abusive parents ior parent substitutes! ili i vi hen they lee! flustered, frustrated ami over whelmed with the ie-pon -.ihili-ties they face on a daily basis. Traditionally, the protession als involved in preventing ami treating child abuse, as well as law enforcement and judicial officials, have believed that most abusers were once abused as children themselves. One question remains unanswered under this theory: If child abuse is a cycle from parent to child, why do some abused children become abusers while others do not? Two recent studies indicate that abused children are no more likely, statistically, to become abusers themselves when they are parents than people who were not abused as children. Two research efforts are not enough to change traditional wisdom, but they do provide inspiration lor questions and additional studies. These studies stud-ies also lend support to the idea of "flustration" and they support sup-port the quote from the National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse. The quote fits well with the experiences of several abusive parents who have been interviewed inter-viewed but wish to remain anony mous. Isolation is a major part of w hat most of the mothers claim as reasons for their abusive behaviors. They are far from family, either geographically or emotionally , and are left home alone all day while their husbands hus-bands go off to work, or simply go off forever. They are left to e the handle all the difficulties and Initiations of child rearing on their own with no adult contact, day in and day out. I hese women feel unfulfilled and envious of others, whom they see as having an exciting excit-ing and interesting life in comparison com-parison to their own. They also experience a sense of failure when their parenting methods do not turn out the perfect child. Instead of seeking help, they seek total control over their children chil-dren in an attempt to make their own lives seem more tolerable and more worthwhile. The result can often be maltreatment mal-treatment of the children, physically physi-cally . emotionally and mentally. fathers may also experience these same sensations of isolation isola-tion and failure, but the economic econom-ic and family structures within American society make that less likely for men than for women. I alliens are more apt to define their abusive behaviors as discipline disci-pline lather than as abuse. fathers may believe it is vital for their sons to grow up strong in ev ery sense of the word. They may believe that the whippings they received at the back fence from their own fathers were for their own good. They may well believe they deserved these whippings and that only the discipline dis-cipline kept them from "going bad." This belief is then carried car-ried into another generation of males, supporting the parent to child cycle of abuse theory. Abusive fathers may also believe it is their role to keep their daughters along a narrow path, starting at a very young age. These fathers generally feel it is the responsibility of men to keep all females from damaging damag-ing themselves with their own foolishness. This type of parenting parent-ing also seems to be a culturally cultur-ally learned pattern that is often passed from one generation to the next. When these abusive parents, par-ents, who love their children dearly, finally recognize the damage they are doing to their own babies, they may react in a number of ways. Suicide or attempted suicide is one potential poten-tial behavior, especially among mothers who feel isolated and worthless to begin with. Desertion of the children or of the entire extended family is another potential reaction and is more common among men than See Abusers on A10 |
