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Show Oil towns Teens SECTION SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2008 METRO EDITOR I Amie Rose 344-253- aroseheraldextra.com eart defect s amoM infants tend to Mow tffflilitiiillX. 1 fin I rt parents' reli$on 1 1 V 7 u y Brittani Lusk DAILY HERALD They may look like they're not listening behind the earphones, but teenagers are paying attention to their parents. Research shows that teens follow the lead of the adults in their lives, especially when it comes to religion. They just want an adult to come along and give them some attention. "They have the same needs as everybody else, they just make it a little more difficult sometimes," said sociologist Christian Smith. Smith spoke about American teenagers and their spirituality and religious beliefs Thursday at Brigham Young University. The lecture was the fourth annual lecture for the Marjorie Pay Hinckley Endowed Chair at BYU..Marjorie Pay Hinckley was the wife of recently deceased president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints, Gordon B. Hinckley. Four of the Hinckleys' five children attended the speech. Smith expressed sorrow at the recent passing of President Hinckley. "It's clear to me that he and his wife Marjorie Pay Hinckley were just immensely special people," Smith said. Smith is the of "Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers." The book, published in 2005, chronicles the results of the first wave of Smith's national study of teenagers and their faith, or lack of it. ; Renata Forste, chairwoman of BYLPs sociology department, choked up as she quoted President Hinckley's menticSnpf the book during the church's general conference in April 2005. "I have been reading a new v book, recently published by the Oxford University Press, which has received considerable attention among us. It contains a study conducted by members of the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It deals with the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers," Forste quoted. In his address, Hinckley said the study found that LDS youth are doing well and,practicing i ' their faith. 1 ; Jennifer Hurlburt of Drem went to the lecture'because she'd read the book andanted to hear ' See l LECTURE, B2 fit: 1 - ; r ) Photos elevates danger of avalanche this weekend THE DILGERDaily Herald Families find support, share awareness during national week Janice Peterson DAILY HERALD kY tores VY around the country have red hearts in ma. windows and Valentine's sales aplenty in anticipation of Feb. 14, but families across America will also be commemorating Congenital Heart Defect Week. Heart defects are one of the most common problems for infants at birth, with approximately one in 125 children affected. CI. SI f Jacob Davis reaches for a toy his mom holds. baby would be born with heart problems. Every time she visited the doctor after that, she only heard more Children's Medical Center in Salt bad news. Hope Quigley was born Lake City, said 300 babies with the April 24, 2000 and had open heart problem were brought to the hospital surgery the next day. "The doctor gave her a one in five between August 2006 and October 2007. Approximately 40 percent of chance of even making it through those babies were diagnosed before surgery," she said. birth. Hope made it through the surgery and improved, but she did not make Primary Children's has the only it to her next surgery. On Sept. 11, pediatric cardiology program in a e area, and it handles 96 per- 2001, Hope died at just four months cent of all cardiovascular surgeries. old. Carolyn Quigley said she wanted "Some kinds of problems must be to find a support group to help her, treated immediately after birth," she but there were not many at the time. "I felt at the time that I was the said. "Others receive surgery several months after the birth." only one going through this," she said. Carolyn Quigley found out durOver the next few years, Quigley ultrasound that her ing her The rate in Utah is about 6.3 per 1,000. Bonnie Midget, director of public relations for Primary . Warm weather by CRAIG Jacob Davis plays with his mom Christina at their home in American Fork on Friday. To the right, Jacob reaches for a toy his mom holds. Jacob needed at only five days old but is now doing well. five-stat- said she found some support groups and met other families whose children had heart defects. Although she enjoyed the connection, Quigley said she could not find a group that was as social and involved as she would like. In September 2007, Quigley and other families started the Intermoun-tai- n Healing Hearts support group. "I just didn't want to see there not be any support," she said. Quigley said members of the group have worked to, ensure new . parents have the support they need. Often they do not want to leave the bedside of their sick baby, so the support group brings information to them. The members also work with nurses and hospital staff to contact parents of new "heart babies." Quigley said Intermountain Healing Hearts has a Yahoo group for its members to communicate, and it has an "Angels" group for parents who lost their babies. In October, four' group members lost their children, and Quigley said the group is a good place for them to mourn. Quigley said many new members have joined in search of families who have experienced the same tri-- . als. The group now has more than 60 families, after starting with five. Christina Davis joined the group in Jacob, September with i Jacob was born with transposition of the great arteries, a condition in which the aorta and pulmonary See HEART, B2 ASSOCIATED PRESS With exSALT LAKE CITY pected warmer weekend temperatures, the backcountry might be a dangerous playground. The Utah Avalanche Center says avaianche danger in the Wasatch and Western Uinta mountains will be elevated. Warm temperatures and direct sun along with human triggers can create spontaneous avalanches from the peaks to the foothills. B ickcountry travelers should examine terrain carefully by choosing low angle slopes and avoiding travel below steep slopes, gullies, creek bottoms and steep banks, which are common at lower elevations. Before traveling in the check for the latest avalanche update at www.avalanche. org or call back-countr- y, Lack of funding delays tailings cleanup THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Federal SALT LAKE CITY Energy Secretary says budget constraints will delay the removal of 16 million tons of uranium tailings on the banks of the Colorado River near Moab, a report a Utah congressman calls "disturbing." Despite a congressional order to remove the mountain of uranium tailings and contaminated soil by 2019, Energy Secretary "Samuel Bodman told House members that his department won't finish the project until 2025 or later, The Salt Lake Tribune reported in Friday editions. "It just seems like this thing is have no doubt that, with a little creativity, the earlier deadline can "I go-in- g on forever," said Rep. Jim Mathe-soafter the House Energy and Commerce hearing. "More disturbing is that they would ignore an act of Congress." Matheson has repeatedly pressed the department to remove the pile, n, still be met," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, "I certainly haven't given up on that." The uranium tailings cover 130 acres at the edge of the Colorado River. It's left over from a uranium processing'mill that was operated by Charlie Steen's Atlas Mineral Corp. The company closed the mill in 1984 and filed for bankruptcy in 1998. which threatens the drinking water of 30 million users. He added a provision in the latest defense bill requiring the Energy Department to remove the tailings by 2019. This was Two years later the Energy Deonly the latest deadline in a plan that partment took control of the site and has remained in flux. made plans to remove the waste by 2012. Others, however, believe it can be worked out. To reach the 2019 deadline, the de partment would need more than $45 million next year, he $aid. Matheson said Bodman has used the funding as "an excuse." "It seems like every step of the process is taking longer," Matheson told the secretary during the hearing. "I don't understand why it is one delay after one delay after one delay, and I don't think it is simply budget." Right now, the department is only looking five years in the future, when it hopes to have removed 2.5 million tons of the 16 million tons of contaminated waste. |