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Show THE West P mm 0N FlTfesSuInl(2lls Will Close X Weeded To Traffic The Utah Department of Transportation w ill close the westbound lanes of Tuesday, March 8, '..t-- from Hansel Valley Junction to Snowville in Box Elder County for approximately three months. Beginning at noon on that date, westbound traffic will be detour-e- d to the eastbound lanes, which will temporarily become two-wa- y while workers from the Parson Asphalt Company install waterproof membranes on the westbound overpasses and resurface the 7.7 mile westbound section with concrete. Last year, the eastbound lanes imtw niinri LEON POVEY, new director of the Division of Aging for Utah, recently toured the Bear River Valley Senior Center. Here Center director La Rene Napoli watches and Povey tries his hand on one of the two pool tables at the Center. were resurfaced under the contract, and traffic $39,000 May Be Made Available $4,481,265 was detoured to the westbound lanes. UDOT project Engineer Larry Durrant said the project is scheduled to be completed in July, however, it is hoped traffic will be restored to the westbound lanes by June 15. For Nutrition An allocation of $300,000 in the state budget under consideration by the legislature for nutrition food programs could mean about $39,000 for Box - Elder County. Leon PoVey, director of the state Division of Aging, said the decision of whether local aging programs want the money will be up to them. PoVey, a new director, but experienced in the Division of Aging, toured the Bear River Valley Senior Center Friday anq met with Bear River Association of Governments (BRAG) officials, senior center directors and others. PoVey said the nutrition money being sought from the legislature would require a ten percent match from the local unit and would be for use in counties not getting Title 7 money already for food programs. "None of the big counties (Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, Utah) are going to participate in it," he said. PoVey said the funds, if passed, wouldn't be available until July but urged program directors' to begin "1 , making plans. "On July 1 we serve our first.meal," he said. The $300,000 would also provide about $59,000 to Cache county and $2,000 to Rich. The allocations are based on relative percentages of senior citizens with a base amount figured LEADER-GARLAN- Don Additional medical professionals are needed in Box Elder County, a Utah Office of Health Planning and Resource Development study shows. The study released this week culminates 18 months of study on hospital and nursing home care throughout "A shortage of nursing home beds is beginning to develop in Cache County," he said, stressing the need to look at ways to expand its long term care capacity. Smith noted additional expansion at existing facilities could be the most economical way to meet local needs. Without additional beds some local crowding and shortage may temporarily occur until demand is large enough to justify construction of an bed new facility. Smith said, "the district is in need of better services for those who are mentally retarded. Of 53 mentally re- Utah. According to Stewart C. Smith, agency director, approximately 24 percent of Box Elder County residents needing hospital care travel to Weber County because there are specialists there. "Our study shows that at least two of five specialists - internists, urologists, general surgeons, orthopedic surgeons and obstetricians-gynecologist- s better help residents if they were located in the Brigham area," he said, saying the population will justify this shift by 1980. "With the new facilities that have recently been constructed or are under construction in Box Elder County, hospital and long term care needs of Box Elder County residents should be adequately met," Smith said. 0 Senior Center director, LaRene Napput to good use. "Studies have, been made... showing that nutrition plays a great part in helping keep people out of places like nursing homes," she said. The general public "can't afford a lot of nursing homes," she added. "Nutrition is vital. ..not just physically, but mentally too." "I can tell when people are eating well and when they're not," Mrs. Napoli added, "because I'm that close to them." In his first meeting with BRAG area olficials, PoVey pledged that the state Division of Aging will make no decision "without getting local input first.". He also outlined his intentions to put the Division of Aging in the thick of things. "We want our state to start acting on aging programs rather than reacting to what the feds tell us to do," Po Vey stressed. "I don't want us to go to the White House Conference on Aging (in 1980) to hear about what Washington wants." PoVey said the way to start avoiding that prospect "is to start taking the forefront at the state level. ..and us telling the feds this is what we want to do." mean that the property taxes paid have declined during this period. In many cases, the lower mill rate was more than offset by higher assessments placed on the properties. This in those counties was especially-truthat were revalued under the five-yea- r new program was, "Oh, great! I get a sister. That's just exactly what I thought." Taylor emphasizes the object of the Pal Program isn't merely to have fun. Vicky is expected to provide a model for Cindy of the sister she doesn't have. The two sisters will spend an hour and a half or so together each week, doing things which they work out together, for up to two or three years. Vicky said her goals are to "expose Cindy to new experiences and to help her gain a different positive outlook on life." She has the full support of Cindy's mother in the .venture. "I think it will really be good for Cindy. She doesn't have a sister and I don't have the time to spend with her." Cindy, who has brothers, often told her: "Mother, how come the boys go out and I never get to go for counties, 78 percent for schools, and 74 percent for cities and towns r period. during this same The rapid growth in special district taxes is attributed to the population expansion in the unincorporated urban areas, especially along the Wasatch Front. The increase in property taxes for the public schools, on the other hand, was moderated by the substanreappraisal program. tial increases in state aid that were Approximately three out of every five dollars in property taxes collected made in the period. in Utah goes for the support of local Last year there were 425 different schools. According to the Foundation governmental units in the state that had the authority to impose a property report, local school levies accounted for $144.3 million, or 60.1 percent of all tax. The study observes, however, that because of overlapping configurations, property taxes last year. In addition to the property tax, public schools rethere were actually 565 separate taxceive all of the individual and corporing areas where a different overall ate income tax revenue plus a substanmill rate could be imposed. The tial part of the sales tax through overall property tax mill rate varied transfers from the general fund. from a low of 44.77 mills ($44.77 per Although the schools receive the $1,000 assessed valuation) in one bulk of all property tax revenue, the corDorated area of Utah County ttf a largest percentage increases during wv high of 114.77 mills in one section of recent years have been by special Salt Lake City. The average mill levy for the state was 74.69 mills last year, improvement districts. The Foundation study points "out that property compared with 75.06 mills in 1975. taxes imposed by special improvement districts rose by 274 percent over the past ten years. This compares with property tax increases of 119 percent However, the recently funded Community Mental Health Center in this district should improve local services to the mentally ill individuals," he said. Noting that many rural areas cannot economically justify local availability of any of the health care services mention. Dr. Anthony Mitchell, executive director, Utah Department of Social Services said the district needs to find alternative ways of meeting the health care needs of rural residents. "The Department of Social Services already has several alternatives to nursing home care. These include such things as training families to provide health care needs of family members, group homes for the retarded, home-makchore services for the elderly, home visits by nurses and foster care er programs." Smith noted that nursing home and hospital construction is big business and has increased dramatically. In 1973 there were only 9 applications received by the office for new construction. In 1976, however, there were 43 applications. cont. from page one oli, feels the money can be cont. from page one Page 3 tarded patients from the district, 48 are receiving care outside the district. 10. 1977. Pal Project Taxes in each. TIMES. March ten-yea- anywhere?". ..and that's i. true, her mother noted. , Mrs. Dillree said she isn't apprehensive about the arrangement. "Cindy is my only daughter and she needs the companionship so she can go out and have fun like the boys," she said i ,.(,' iNot quite like the boys," Vicky; " laughed. First with Taylor points out that the mothis a very "important part" in the relationship. Volunteers are "not to interfere in her (the mother's) role at all." Taylor also pointed out that training sessions for the big sisters and mothers are held at periodic times. And all big sisters are screened before being matched up with little sisters. Little sisters are referred to the program through a variety of agencies such as schools and courts. (Courts were not involved in Cindy's case.) Although the program is in its infancy, Taylor said BRAG hopes to expand it "if everything works well..." He says there are about 300 who could actually use the service in homes in the er , ty one-pare- area. Taylor also points out that "if we find a person isn't a candidate for this program, we refer the person to other agencies who could help them." The Pal Project is financed through BRAG with a matching federal grant, but is relatively inexpensive, Taylor said. "Volunteers do most of the work in it." Taylor contrasts the program with the $9,000 to $12,000 a year it takes to handle a juvenile through the courts. BankAmericard ten years ago. Aral stl the betisr. Ten years ago this month, First Security Bank introduced the very first bank card in our area. BankAmericard. It became the recognized handy helper for all sorts of needs. 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