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Show KIDDING AROUND AT KIDNEY KAMP -- Public access to Provo Bay .! threatened Caleb Warnock THE DAILY i HERALD Local residents are speaking out about the future of public access to portions of Utah Lake. . Last fall, U.S. Federal Court Judge Dale Kimbal ruled that Utah Lake's Provo Bay, used for 150 years for public hunting, boating and fishing, and as a refuge for numerous wildlife, ' is not public land. The ruling . means that landowners could legally fence off the 'Everyone I've perhaps ,1:1... u a. have trespassers arrested. SpOKen tOnaS A coalition of lake users been in disbelief hope to convince a federal that it has gotten judge to allow them to challenge that ruling on the basis this far." that the state acted illegally by giving away public access Charles Hanson to the bay. The court is set to Payson resident decide on Oct. 8 whether or not it will hear the motion. Beginning in 1994, 80 percent of private shoreline landowners settled a boundary dispute with the state, but 20 percent have refused to do so, prompting the state to file a 1997 suit. Last fall, attorneys for landowners and the state agreed to define the lake boundary line at 4,481 feet. All of Provo Bay is above 4,481 feet. , called the issue Rep. Stephen dark, critical and said few residents seem aware of its potential impact. k. Igj MATT . Itiends and fancies participate in a water balloon catch Saturday afternoon while at the Truck Show Kidney Kamp Swis presented by the National Kidney Foundation.. I ' SMITHThe Daily Herald at Aspen Grove. The camp fcamp offers peace away from dialysis On Saturday, people listened to a THE DAILY HERALD speaker, participated in activities and most wiB need to get simply relaxed ! went to badi to ttwirdlarysis centers on MonMarilvn Contreras-Pinega- r dialysis early on Friday so she could , day. - ,: mend the weekend at Aspen Grove in " Ifs hard to take a vacation when ' Hrovo Canyon, away from the dialysis you have to be somewhere every day": Contreras-Pinegsaid. .' ' Renter. "To get away inthe peace and quiet and her She daughter Sofia $ ; pined about 250 people who are on dial- win be nice. I'm also excited to meet people in my circum-1- 5 ysis or who have been donors or recipi- . stances because some times you feel like, ents or kidney trans'Oh, it's just me.'" "It's hard to take a plants for the 9th an. For seven nual Kidney Kamp, years Contreras-Pinegput on by the National vacation nt have to go to diary-s- is Kidney Foundation; in because of a transthe quiet mountain air tucked away from plant from her brothday.To get every er. But now her body their daily fores. Contreras-Pinegis rejecting the kidaway in tie peace visits her dialysis cenney. :' will be nice. and quiet Her next option is ter next to the Utah Med to get a new kidney, Valley Regional Marilyn Contreras-Pinegwhich her family and ical Center three Kidney Kamp participant, friends are being testtimes a week, after, dialysis patient ed for compatibility. work at Nu Skin Contreras-Pinegwhere she is a and about 1,400 other Utahns are on dialysis, At the center, the 30-- y ear-ol- d is poked in two places on said Richard Taylor, patient services director for the National Kidney Founda- - : her left arm where her blood is drawn out to be cleaned then continuously tioa About 150 people are on the waitpumped back into her body. ing list for a kidney transplant but only process, she reads, 60 per year receive one. During the takes a nap or watches television. On Though it's harder to get out and do her left arm is a line of scars and scabs things while on dialysis, part of the purover her vein. . pose of the camp is to help people do " It's something many Kidney Kamp just that. participants were happy to get away See CAMP, B4 from this weekend See PROVO BAY, B4 Juiene Thompson SCERA hits 70 years; ar erbhatfej celebrates withfee pool party, concert ar tobesomevfere': ar . . - . ft - . DAILY HERALD For Sandy Minnor of Pleasant Grove, the SCERA represents family values. To celebrate its 70th anniversary, the Sharon Cultural, Educational and Recreational Association, commonly known as SCERA, offered free swimming for hundreds and perhaps thousands of guests on Saturday, in addition to a free concert including a Scind of Minnor brought her husband, son Music and son's friend to the festivities. "We feel so good about this," Minnor said. "And I . just think 70 years of this, it is amazing. This is the one place I don't feel offended. We went to a concert at the Weber County Fair and the whole place was nothing but beer and tattooed people everywhere. You can tell the difference in the environment between there and here." Founded in 1933, SCERA is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to youth job training and the development and advancement of culture, education, recreation and family entertainment. SCERA has also sing-alon- ar . THE : ar . Caleb Warnock , in 1 1 MATT SMITHThe Daily Herald jokes with her daughter, Sofia Pinegar, while eating lunch at Kidney Kamp in Aspen Grove on Saturday afternoon. Marilyn Contreras-Pineg- ar ; yvYVW.nAKk I nfcnKAUM.WM CALL 375-510- 3 TO SUBSCRIBE See SCERA, 84 |