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Show Child abuse continued from A1 cast a broad net, bringing in clinicians, professional child-care child-care workers, family assistance and caregivers, law enforcement enforce-ment officers, and a lot of other people that exist to defend children," chil-dren," Watkins said. "If we have to," he explains, "we collect the child from school and go down to the Children's Justice Center." Usually, clinicians will meet with the child and a mentor, a person of the child's choosing with whom they feel comfortable comfort-able and safe. Once a problem is diagnosed, an in-home team or a foster care team may be called in to assist the parent(s) and child. Depending upon the risk to the child, in-home services may involve counseling. Only the most extreme cases require court ordered removal of children chil-dren from the home, which, Watkins states, "occurs in about 2 percent of cases annually. annu-ally. An unfortunate trend that has steadily increased over the 17 years of my experience in the Uintah Basin." Part of the increase in case load is due to the increase in domestic violence reporting. This brings CPS into the home where the familial circumstances circum-stances of a child can be evaluated. evalu-ated. "It's not just a matter of the child 'acting out,' he says. "We look into the underlying cause, for example, the chain of events and relationships in the 1 ' j r 1 J7 Fees for animal shelter impounds published Matt Watkins in his office surrounded family." Domestic violence often comes from a family-culture of violence that spans generations. genera-tions. Watkins explains, "Quite often, this is a learned behavior, maybe the violence starts as a coping technique. Intervention counselors are there to break the chain." It begins by telling parents, grandparents and children chil-dren that violence is not normal. nor-mal. "Most people love their kids," Watkins said. "Sometimes it just takes a neutral party to distinguish dis-tinguish the problem and negotiate nego-tiate peaceful terms in a family." fami-ly." Families meet with clinical support groups and advisors by his fishing "junk." to learn different coping techniques. tech-niques. Usually, it takes about 30 days for a family to adjust. Watkins says, "We get over 300 referrals a year in Vernal and roughly 280 referrals from Roosevelt." No matter what the underlying causes of childhood abuse and neglect happens to be, the kids are always the victims. vic-tims. Most people in the Uintah Basin will never call upon CPS, but if their services are ever needed, it is nice to know that someone is there. The Division of Family Services is located at 1052 West Market Drive, Vernal. For more information contact them at 435.781-4250. The Uintah Animal Control and Shelter Special Services District (SSD) is ready to post their expanded hours operation for animal control and sheltering. shelter-ing. The shelter will open at 10 a.m. Monday through Friday, with adoption andor owner pick-up of impound animals between be-tween the hours of 12 and 4 p.m. Saturday hours will be 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. for both adoption and owner claims. Adoption fees are similar for Vernal, Naples and the Uintah County; $72 for dogs and $30 for cats. For both dogs and cats, these costs reflect the adoption fee, the microchip fee, and the cost of sterilization. Fees are established for the three entities enti-ties identified above and Jensen, Jen-sen, Gusher, Ballard, LaPoint, and Tridell as well. Dog impound fees are: First impound in Vernal, Naples and Uintah County remain re-main $15animal. Second impound in Vernal Ver-nal and Uintah County is $25, Naples $30. Third impound is $50 in all three entities. Fourth impound is $100 in Vernal and Uintah County. 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Annette Hatch, the newest member of the board, was elected elect-ed spokesperson of the district In the effort to get information to the public, Tina Baley, director direc-tor of Uintah Animal Control and Shelter, said, "We are organizing orga-nizing a public awareness campaign cam-paign on pet immunization to curb the potential of infectious Dinah continued from Al Clark used innovative techniques tech-niques to craft her new eyes in the shop, "using hot plastic plas-tic and a salad bowl," among other procedures too technical " for the novice dinosaur photographer. pho-tographer. "The motor that originally made the eyes rotate was pretty gummed up," admitted admit-ted Anderson. Starting just a couple of weeks ago, the crew finished the eyes, and repaired the mechanism. Installation was on March 8. diseases in our pet population." Several pamphlets were made available for the newspaper newspa-per to review. Two brochures explain the risk to dogs and cats of infectious diseases and the standards of inoculation to keep your pet healthy. Another pamphlet describes the risks of rabies in our community and the danger it poses to our pets. Rabies is not just a threat to your outside pets; it can be a risk that humans face as well. As Baley states, "Vaccinating your pets is the most practical means of prevention." These brochures, as the shelter shel-ter program moves forward, will be distributed throughout the service district. If nothing else, this educational program represents a processes of public education, which regardless of county mandate is truly the responsibility re-sponsibility of every pet owner. At this time, the SSD is working to add at least 2 more animal control officers, one more full-time and two part-time part-time shelter workers to better the public. If you have lost an animal, call central dispatch 789-4222 to notify animal control. con-trol. To contact the shelter call 781-7197 or 781-6369, or fax inquiries in-quiries to 1.435.781.1660, or visit shelterpawseasilink.com. "She , is better than hew," said Fred Cole who identified Dinah's other crew members as Clay Simmons, Art Piva, and Gene Hunting. For the park at her feet, seven or eight new huge flower pots now surround sur-round Dinah. "We are putting in sprinklers and in May the planters will be filled with petunias." The park and little walkway! walk-way! were first created by the youth from the Split Mountain Corrections Center. An Eagle Scout made a small bench for visitors to spend a little time with Dinah, seeing the vista she enjoys every day. '-Vies?- I -Lr ' M it 1 1 "Good Morning, Sunshine!" That must be what Dinah was calling when Glade Wired took this spectacular sunrise photo. Felony filings in Uintah County March 6 -March 13 BASCOM, Mark Alan: Driving Driv-ing under the influence of alcoholdrugs, al-coholdrugs, 3rd degree felony; Conditional licenseoperate vehicle ve-hicle with alcohol in body, class B misdemeanor BAXTER, Winston Ross: Illegal Il-legal possessionuse of controlled con-trolled substance, 2nd degree felony; Use or possession of drug paraphernalia, class A misdemeanor CLARKE, Karen Marie: Illegal Il-legal possessionuse of controlled con-trolled substance, 3rd degree felony, Use or possession of drug paraphernalia, class B misdemeanor FREDERICK, Misty: Driving under the influence of alcohol drugs, 3rd degree felony, Conditional Condi-tional licenseoperate vehicle with alcohol in body, class B misdemeanor, Rentleaseborrow Rentleasebor-row vehicle without ignition interlock, in-terlock, class B misdemeanor HARDINGER, Steven Dean: Illegal possessionuse of controlled con-trolled substance, 3rd degree felony, Use or possession of drug paraphernalia, class B misdemeanor, Driving under the influence of alcoholdrugs, class B misdemeanor, Drive on revocationsuspension, class B misdemeanor HUNTER, Josh Ryan: Fail to stoprespond at command of police, 3rd degree felony; False information to government agencies, class B misdemeanor LARSON, Mikel Jo: Illegal possessionuse of controlled substance, 3rd degree felony; Use or possession of drug paraphernalia, para-phernalia, class B misdemeanor misdemean-or MCMICKELL, Frank Edward: Ed-ward: Distributeofferarrange to distribute controlled substance, sub-stance, 1st degree felony MCMICKELL, Frank Edward: Ed-ward: Distributeofferarrange to distribute controlled substance, sub-stance, 2nd degree felony MERKLEY, David J.: Illegal possessionuse of controlled substance, 2nd degree felony; Use or possession of drug paraphernalia, para-phernalia, class A misdemeanor; misdemean-or; Drive on revocationsuspension, revocationsuspen-sion, class C misdemeanor OLDAKER, Robert Louis: Burglary, 3rd degree felony; Criminal mischief, class A misdemeanor, mis-demeanor, Theft, 3rd degree felony . PETERS, Carla: Distribute offerarrange to distribute controlled con-trolled substance, 2nd degree felony RICO, Juan ManueL Possess forgery writingdevice, 3rd degree de-gree felony ; STUBBS, Scott Leroy Illegal possessionuse of controlled ; substance, 3rd degree felony iJ |