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Show i Page 20, The Garland Times, Leader-T- he August 16, 1973 Art Show Set Aug. Art, crafts, ceramics, and photography works will make up the annualArt Show to begin August 16-on sponsored by the City Recreation Department The show may be visited from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day at Mrs. Ruth Bone's store next to the Arctic Circle across from Safeway on uptown main street. All artists, photographers, ceramic and crafts artists are urged to participate by bringing their works to the show building all day Thursday, August 16, where they will be registered and displayed. New to the show this year comes an invitation for all photographers, amateur or professional to share their hobby by bringing all manner of photographic works. Also an increased effort is being made to contact persons with outstanding crafts items. Like past art shows guest artists from other communities are being Invited to participate. The four year old show was held the previous three years at the Senior Citizens Center. 23 Jt" 1.. -- t. p) " . ' '', " SPIHTOO-CI- 8 r '?T 16-- 23 Tre-mont- $ 4f M aus WESTERN SEED, INC. has added a new addition to their building located at the cross roads. The new addition provided an extra 4,000 square feet of floor space. Three new storage bins also provide over one million pounds of seed storage capacity. Trade Network "Twenty-on- e percent of our citizens in Box Elder County over the age of 60 are in poverty," according to one of the findings of a survey taken by the Independent Living Project under the auspices of the Box Elder County Council on Aging. "The Independent Living Project survey' found that of those people 58 and over interviewed, 4.9 percent had an annual household income less than 20.7 percent had In$1,000, comes less than $1,500 and 64.7 percent had incomes less than $5,000." These findings and others are part of a year long . study entitled Box Elder County's Older Adults An Assof Needs and Reessment sources, conducted by the ILP. The findings have ben published in a two volume report and presented to the Council on Aging. The public will get a chance to review the findings Aug. 20, at 10 a.m.. at a public meeting in the lounge of the Brigham City Community Center. The report will be presented by Leslie S. Dunn, Jr., chairman of the ILP Advisory Board. Responses to findings of the study will be made by Russell Capener, chairman of the Council on Aging, County Commissioner Malcolm Young and Mr. Iver C. Moore, director of the State Division on Aging. Person from the northern county area who need a ride to the public meeting should contact Mrs. LaRene NapolL As part of the study, interviewers interviewed 2,747 persons 58 years of age or older or about 78 percent of an estimated 3,522 individuals 58 or older residing in Box Elder County. Under section entitled "Economic and Social Needs" the study noted the "The per capita income for Box Elder residents of all ages is $2,558. which is considerable less than for Utah or the united States." Fully 89 percent of county citizens over 65 are receiving social security. "When considering that are-tir- ed couple in Box Elder County area generally requires $3,800 a year Income and a single person about $2,400 a year, it is apparent that our older citizens are faced with a major problem of low income as Inflation continues to erode an already inadequate fixed retirement income." the study reported. The study also noted that 4.8 percent of older adults have difficulty paying for "shelter needs." And only 3.0 percent of those 58 and older utilize director, told county commissioners Tuesday that in his opinion the areas of greatest need are nutrition, transportation, loneliness, income and lack of information about programs already available. Sherwood, along with Mr. Capener of the Council on Aging, requested permission to make application to the State Division on Aging for a new grant to finance an annual budget and the hiring of a new director. Sherwood has accepted another position. But county commissioners decided to hold off on the application until they have a chance to decide whether the findings of the year long study warrant continuing the Council on Aging. Mr. Capener noted that the council is currently studying the report and preparing a list of re commendation s. Regarding nutrition the study found that: 19.4 percent or 515 of the older adults interviewed require a modified diet 635 or 24.6 percent of the respondents indicated a desire to go to a center for a meal. 9.6 percent would utilize a home delivered meal immediately if it were available. percent would utilize a home delivered meal temporarily when sick or convalescing. portation." 83.1 percentof the County's adults drive a car, 5.6 percent walk, 9.6 percent depend upon relatives and 1.4 percent use some other means as their usual a form of transportation. "The services thatare available in the community to older often adults are under-utilize- d, as a result of lack of knowledge," the report stressed. "The ILP survey found that many agencies and the services they provide are invisible to most older citizens." For example, 91.2 percent "did not know that family services provided a housekeeping service to assist the elderly4 their home if they qualify, 87.2 percent did not know of adult foster care, 85.8 percent about food stamps, 81.0 percent about vocational training services 77,9 percent about the school volunteer program, 75.5 percent about part-tiskilled home nursing service and 71.0 percent did not know mental health counclling was available to older adults." food stamps. Despite a few gloomy statThe survey also noted that istics such as that relating to 33.4 percent or 1,176 older Income, the study noted...."the adults are employed either full reader should not misunderor part time. stand the report, for both study Robert Sherwood, and the survey, as a whole, inproject dicated that most of Box Elder Many cow moose ire barren; County's older adults are living less than half of tot females satisfactory lives in their own produce young tacb year. Howhomes without major problems. ever, Utah has one of the fast-t- it However, the study pointed out growing moose populations that there la a significant In the world with better than minority that have physical, averaft cow-ca- lf ratio. mental and social problems." t ,, .vA" j.. . 1 jl lii 3 RING P01Y ACADEMIE BINDER Bool: Ot Seed Has .... 52 Sheets of Colorful Construction Paper 12x9" Reg. 89$ 7 Assorted Colors To Choose From. New Look Flexible It's a family affair at West- -. em Seeds, Inc. in East Tre- -' mdnton. The entire family, 9 colors in-fa- ct. Durable Tough Owner and operator Ben Dan-s- ie has brought the whole family into the operation of his seed facility with his daughter acting as receptionist and his son helping out in the back. The warehouse facility which was "built basically to provide certified red wheats and two row barleys to the area," according to Mr. Dansie, has just completed a new addition. An estimated 4,000 square feet of floor space have been added at the north end of the building along with three shinny new storage bins with a total storage capacity of over a million pounds of seed. The increased floor space is actually the third addition to the business which has been operating since 1966. Construction of the new cinder block addition which brings the total length of the was building to about 250-fe- et handled by Oyler Construction Co. Storage bins were assembled by Jim Burgess. E-- KB LIVEWIRE BROIL Z ALUMINUM STENO HOT! BOOKS CENTURION 100 Sheets 1 9" x 13 11x8 12" Reg. 89C 80 Sheets of Paper- - 6 x 9 Green Tint Reg. 37: Reg. 79C 4$ stenfjiotes CEN:ru(U0N J PKGS. FOR BEST BET Accident Reg. 77? At Snowville Note Boob 12" Youth Killed In TIP All PENCIL TABLETS NOW. TOP 72 Sheets- - 8 x 10" Reg. 37f E-l-ciir The old son of an Orem man was killed Tuesday morning about 12:35 a.m. whenj he was thrown from a vehicle about one mile east of Snowville. Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Bryan Wheeler Identified the youth as David Alma Owens, son of Dr. and Mrs. William Seldon, Owens of Orem. to According Trooperi Wheeler, the van type vehicle,! driven by the boy's father, ran1 off striking a sign post The post went through the pas s- -l enger side of the vehicle striking the boy and apparently killed him Instantly. The youth was pronounced dead on arrival at Valley Hospital. Fourteen other people in the vehicle were un 15 hurt 9 Care REDUCED BIC CLIC BIC Super Sale iJLS 5 2 Ball Point Retractable Pens With Extra Refill $1.23 Value SCHOOL SPECIAL 3 Ball Point Pens 87c Value NOW. BLUE mou Security blanket. me KEEBLER Cookies Reg. 39$ RED TAG SALE lnjnlUU PKGS. FOR Take stock in America. Buy US. Savings Bonds. IIHIUMI " PANCAKE BREAKFAST The annual Dancake breakfast sponsored by the Sheriffs Posse in the with County Fair will be held again this year on the paving at Errol's American conjunction Service. Price is $1.50 for adults and $1 for children under 12. COLORS 5.0 Regarding transportation the study found: "within the boundaries of Box Elder County there is absolutely no public trans- "i . - Western Consumer Is Part Of World 1 Ho urn |