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Show Wednesday, January 12, 2005 All ;! 1S t,s Vernal Express 4 , , 1 1 s"lCl Tina Tidball is working towards a healthier lifestyle in 2005 Lana Fullbright is keeping her New Year's resolution. Many resolve to New Year's changes By Carissa Magee Dennis Breer is pictured with his favorite tool - the net. Breer's guide service grows on Green River Express Writer As the New Year is welcomed with celebration and recollection recollec-tion of the past year's accomplishments, accom-plishments, many tend to look toward the new year with the expectation of better things to come. In the past, the tradition was to make a resolution of something some-thing specific to complete in the year ahead. Although most have tasks in mind to accomplish in the next year, the actual act of making one special New Year's resolution seems to be a fading tradition. Many people around the Basin Ba-sin were asked for resolution Utah's Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam has long been one of the most admired trout fisheries in the United States. Fly fisherman near and far gather there each year, from beginning to end of the season, to have the opportunity just to wet a line and the prospect of drawing in one unsuspecting fish to their counterfeit bug. In the late 1970s and early 1980s fishing pressure grew significantly sig-nificantly and by 1987 a number num-ber of guide services had begun operation on the Green River. One of these "die-hard" anglers, a man by the name of Dennis Breer from Craig, Colo., was fortunate enough to obtain his Utah guide license. He also applied for, and was issued, a permit by the U.S. Forest Service that would enable him to conduct business and acquire revenue on forest for-est land. That was the birth of Trout Creek Flies, Green River Guide Service. Dennis' company has continually con-tinually managed to grow and prosper and in late 2001 he purchased another guide service ser-vice and facility by the name of Green River Outfitter's. The merger brought together two of the top guiding outfits the Green River has to offer. Now Dennis is able to conduct con-duct his guide business out of a full service fly shop. He also has the opportunity to offer a variety vari-ety of services to his clientele including lodging, restaurant, convenience store and a Phillips 66 fuel station. His commitment to the river has continued to be strong and he manages to fit in a few days here and there to take out the dory and lay into a trout or two. The "rest" of his time is spent with his one and only love, his wife Grace, and raising his racing rac-ing pigeons, or what he calls "the kids." TriCounty Health provides scholarships The TriCounty Health Department offered its first Tobacco Prevention Scholarship for $500.00 to each high school in the Uintah Basin. The Tobacco Prevention Scholarship was organized to help implement the Tobacco Prevention Program within the TriCounty area. Many students were interviewed inter-viewed and then selected for the scholarship including: Leandra Tew from Altamont High School, Joe Lawson from Uintah High School, Rowdy Rhoades from Tabiona High School, Selanie Shields from Duchesne High School and Jamie Prevedel from Union High School. Erin Hacking with TriCounty Health Department's Tobacco Prevention Program helps to coordinate with the students about their responsibilities respon-sibilities to the Scholarship Program. Many of the requirements of the students include, assisting assist-ing with education of the elementary ele-mentary students within their, community, advertising the Tobacco Prevention t Program SCHOOL RECONFIGURATION-DO RECONFIGURATION-DO YOU CARE HOWYOURTAX DOLLARS ARE BEING SPENT? As concerned parents of the Uintah Basin, we would like to point out a few of our concerns with the proposed reconfiguration of the schools... Concerning the reconfiguration of the school schedule This new schedule would account for the following problems: Students involved in summer programs such as: 4-H programs-stock shows, horse show, etc. Scout camps Sport, drill team, and cheerleader camps Church camps and functions Students involved in these programs and many others like them, will have to drop out of these programs or miss a lot of class time to stay involved in these activities. How do families fit all these activities listed above and have any quality time left for family in the six week proposed summer break? Not every family in the Uintah Basin can have vacation time in the six week allotted time to allow for summer activities we all love here in this valley like camping, fishing, four wheeling, bike riding, hiking etc. It is proposed to have programs during the breaks during the school year for students who are behind to get help with their schoolwork. Does this mean we pay for student aides to be available? Do we keep janitors and cooks and secretaries on the payroll year-round? How do these students get to school? Will buses be running? What is wrong with the present system of afterschool help sessions with teachers? This has always worked well in the past, and I have never had a teacher unwilling to help my child after school. Students wanting to apply and go to college right after graduation will miss this window of opportunity due to school not ending until late summer. Students wanting to take college classes while in High School won't be able to because the school district's schedule will no longer coincide with the College's schedule. Every time the students take a two-week break now, it is hard for them to get back into the swing of things at school and doing homework. With this new schedule the students will go through this adjustment several times a year. How do our children have the great opportunity they do now, to obtain good summer jobs and earn money for college, missions, etc.? Don't we also cut the teachers out of their window of opportunity to have extra income during the scheduled summer break? During the proposed schedule, most students will attend schools with no air conditioners, which make miserable and inattentive students. Student's attention is less during the summer months when the outdoors are beckoning them. Concerning younger kids going to school before older ones Young children getting on the buses early in the morning, which means at times of the year this will be in the dark. Younger children in families will get home before older siblings, which means added day care expense. High school age students get out of school later which means they lose jobs because they can't be to work soon enough to do the employer any good. Every time we change, we change the whole system. Let's fix the problems with the current system instead of creating a whole new set of problems for our children to fix. O Dixie Allen says there is money available now to put this plan into effect immediately. Why don't we spend that money to fix a few existing problems instead of reconforrning the whole school system and creating more problems than we solved? PLEASE ATTEND THE MEETING ON JANUARY 25, 2005 AT 7:00 PM AT THE UINTAH SCHOOL BOARD DISTRICT OFFICE. WE MAY NOT BE A BIG FARMING COMMUNITY ANYMORE, BUTWE ARE STILL A FAMILY-ORIENTED VALLEY AND WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE QUALITY TIME WITH OUR CHILDREN AND ENJOYTHE GREAT OUTDOORS WE ARE SO LUCKY TO LIVE IN!! Dave and Jenny Chivers Zan and Sherry Bowden Susan Stowe Valyn Davis Lyn and Kathy Stoll Phil and Leah Davis Mike and Shelly Jones Jack and Ileene Chivers Matt and Holly Chivers Chris and Janessa Gardiner Chad and Niki Luck Susan Romane throughout their district and supporting Tobacco Prevention activities within the TriCounty area. TriCounty Health Department is pleased to announce this great opportunity opportuni-ty that has been offered to them and their communities. A plan of the Scholarship Program for future years is an exciting addition to TriCounty Health Department. For more information on Tobacco Prevention contact your local Tobacco Prevention Specialist, TriCounty Health Department, Toll Free 1-866-275-0246, Vernal (435) 781-5475, 781-5475, Roosevelt (435) 722-5085, Duchesne (435) 738-2202. They can also be contacted through their web site: www.tricounty-health.com. and only came up with a few ac tual resolutions. Cheri Womack has resolved to get to work on time. Melinda Barlow has resolved to buy more water for storage, which she points out, is a resolution reso-lution she can begin and end at anytime throughout the year with no possibility of failure unless she completely does not do it at all. It seems people are starting to live their lives a little more on a day-to-day basis coming up with resolutions for the day, week or month rather than that of a full year's task. The consensus of most seems to be that New Year's resolutions resolu-tions carry with them the feelings feel-ings of pressure to complete a large task that actually takes a full year's time to complete. Some feel it is almost a set up for failure, so smaller resolutions or tasks, such as day-to-day or week-to-week, seem easier to tackle if kept to a managable level. Beverly Merkley's New Year's resolution was not to make one at all. The flip side to this seems to be that the year 2005 has brought some unique and thought provoking pro-voking resolutions as well. Lana Fullbright's resolution is to keep a daily gratitude journal jour-nal expressing thanks in writing for the many positive things in her life. Lana feels this is a won-derful won-derful way for her to look back at her life and "really'' think about the many good events she has been faced with throughout each day. She avoids writing the same gratitude in the same week so the journal keeps her interest and her thinking process pro-cess motivated. She takes nothing noth-ing in life for granted. Another especially important resolution was many people, such as Tina Tidball, would like to quit the habit of smoking and make changes toward a healthier healthi-er lifestyle in 2005. Gene Bigelow, who has a wood working business in the Basin, has a New Year's resolution to give "no more freebie's." He says he tends to build things for people often at no cost to them. Needless to say his resolution lasted one day. So, maybe the truth of the matter is that we place too much pressure on ourselves to complete tasks we often have good intentions to complete, but really make no progress toward completing. Wouldn't it be better bet-ter to set goals that have at least the possibility of a positive outcome? out-come? 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