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Show Page C2 THE DAILY HFRALD. Provo, Ltah. SuikU, January 24, There are many ports of call for young Internet Trekkers The Internet, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship USS Very Big Ship. Its continuing mission, to explore strange new sites. To boldly go where no cyberkid has gone before. I am Captain Matthew Worsham, and you must be the new cadet that Starfleet sent to serve on the ship. Very well then, take your seat at the helm console. Ensign Jo, contact Starfleet command. "Aye, sir." Jo replies. "Hailing frequencies open." Cadet, set course for Here is where we switch ships (Dang it). Beam me up, Scotty. Cadet, set course for http:www.ufk.orgufk.html This is the United Federation of Kids site. You can pick which ship or space station you want to be assigned to. The ships and space stations are: USS Interdictor, USS Conquistador, USS Jaguar, DS8, USS Solar, CTS Polaris and Rollins Station. This site is intriguing. You can be many positions on this site, a commander, a cook, a risk taking shuttle pilot or whatever you want. But you have to enlist to get in as a low rank, or take a trekkie quiz to get in as a higher rank. Cadet, for this next destination, you must have AOL installed in your helm console. KIDS ON THE WEB Matt Worsham Drawings and pictures are available. For each ship there are pictures of her proudest moment, and her worst. It even has some music for most of the starships that you may use as your theme song when you are a captain. (Sorry, the Oberth and Excelsior class starship music is my theme song. Deal with it. I'm the captain. You're not). http:www.webzone.netrowan sb907ssrd Engage. THIS SITE is called Starbase 907. This site is perfect for your Starship studies course at the academy. Every starship that has ever served in the Starfleet is in this database. YOU MUST enter in these PROGRAM Continued from CI special coordinates. Go to Keyword, then type Star Trek, then go to Star Trek club, then scroll down the list at the bottom left till you come to Star Trek 4 Kids. This site has message boards where you can communicate with other trekkers, FAQ's where you can ask questions about people, places and more about Star Trek, and there's a library where you can download pictures and stories. Well cadet, your stint on the bridge has impressed me. So much in fact, I'm going to let you take command of your own in the 1950s, started the Family Home Evening program at the state prison. The volunteers meet their Family Home Evening "son" in the prison chapel where they begin the evening with a hymn and a prayer. A volunteer is selected to share a spiritual message with the group. Then, each inmate separates into designated rooms or corners of the chapel with his Family Home Evening "par- ship. Make it so. Matt Worsham, 13, is a teenage driver on the information super highway (without a license). He can be reached at astromatl3r" aol.com Continued from CI children and we must love them." Learning the hard way Randy said without the Family Home Evening program he wouldn't have changed. "If you didn't have it (FHE) here, you couldn't change, there ain't no way you could change. Everyone has the right to that (religious instruction); they'll bring in any kind of religion the inmates want." he said. After visiting Randy for nearly two years, Mark has noticed that Randy has become more tol- erant. True, Randy said. "I would have hurt somebody in here if I had stayed the way I was." Now he believes in letting others do as they want as long as they don't involve him in what they're doing. "Here, you have to be around it, but you don't need to be a part of it," he Utah State Prison, call Kent Pulsipher at (801) 566-255- 6. There is typically less cursing, more patience, fewer arguments and more helping one another. Inmates can be rehabilitated, Kent said, especially if they have had a bad childhood. When they finally get a better ents." image of family life, they Often small talk is shared understand what life can be before the lesson. "How's the like if they don't repeat the food?" "What have you read same bad patterns of their parrecently?" "How are you doing ents. with your goals?" "Many understand that their The lesson, whether it's preway of life didn't work," pared from a Family Home Pulsipher said. "That's why our Evening manual or is some programs are so well attended, connected favorite they want to change." loosely To be eligible to participate scriptures, is appreciated. in the Family Home Evening Teaching with love program, the inmates must E. Kent Pulsipher, director of attend weekly Sunday worship LDS Corrections Services for services, institute classes and the Utah North Area, said the be on good behavior. volunteers try to help the They don't have to be meminmate understand that he's bers of the LDS Church. In fact, loved and that he's important. 30 to 40 percent of the inmates The program's goal is to bring who are involved in the prothe inmates to Christ and to gram aren't LDS. motivate them to change their FAMILY Since being in prison, Randy said he's learned a few things. "I don't want to go back the way I was. I learned I don't never want to come back in here. When I first got here I started learning how to read and write. I've changed a lot as far as being religious, well, not really being, more following," Randy said. Mark and Lynn have noticed changes in Randy since he has been participating in the FHE program. They mentioned that he's quit smoking and drinking; He used to smoke three packs of Camels daily. He doesn't swear as often. He has learned to respect women. He attends Sunday worship services faithfully. He only missed two Sundays when he was recovering from broken ribs sustained from a fall. He's also learning to read and sometimes tries to practice with the scriptures. Normally though, he listens to the audio tapes of the Book of Mormon. That is how he sustains himself for the 29 days when there is no FHE and no visitors. If you'd like to participate in the family Home Evening Program at the Heber Gertz, an LDS bishop lives. , ..., t , j , - . This message, he said, is very different from the messages they receive in prison that they are dangerous, society needs to be protected from them, they are no good. Joan Pulsipher, the director's wife, said for many inmates, the kindness the volunteers show them is the first unconditional kindness they've received. This is when they begin to understand that they are someone of worth, she said. "We don't have to be judges," she said. "We just accept them where they are and take them where they can get better. "A lot of time we don't know why they're there (in prison) and we don't want to know so we don't have to judge," Joan said. 'They are so grateful for anything we do." The Pulsiphers agree that after inmates have been in the Family Home Evening program for a while, many undergo a visible change. The appearance is different and their speech is better. This difference is carried into their daily life, they said. f; MARC LESTERTTie Dail Herald Quality time: Mark and Lynn Richardson, foreground, have a Family Home Evening meeting with William Randall Lindsay, an inmate at the Utah State Prison in Draper. said. Sharing beliefs "There are certain guys that we try to bring into the church and others it's a waste of your time trying to talk to them. They want to downgrade you just for packing a Bible," Randy said. "I guess they haven't hit the bottom of the barrel or they don't want to change or something. "If I feel comfortable with them, I'll just ask them to come to church with me or to the LDS substance abuse program. Generally if you can get them to go to substance abuse, they'll start going to church. It doesn't matter which denomination you are, you can go to the substance abuse or church or other programs," he said. Randy said the inmates who go to classes to learn reading, writing, arithmetic: who go to work to learn a trade and who attend worship services and substance abuse programs are the ones who don't usually end up in prison again. "When I get out of here I want to talk to kids," Randv said. "If it's Brigham Young University Department been done, I've probably done it. I basically want to answer questions about prison, alcohol, tobacco and sex offenses," Randy said. "1 want kids to learn to stay out of trouble. If I can keep two or three out of prison, it'll be worth the trip I've made here. I feel good about getting out of here one day." Perhaps one day he will, but he knows that it will be harder to be good out where every move isn't monitored. He said if he gets out of prison, he will combat the temptations by prayer: Morning, noon, night and as often in between as he needs. He knows he has great potential, and attaining that won't come without a struggle. His advice to other inmates is to work on changing their lives, or they will just end up back in prison or simply never get out. For those who are headed down the wrong path but aren't yet in prison, Randy has a warning from someone who's been there: "Change or you'll be in here. You'll lose your family. You'll lose too much. It's not worth the sat of Dance Dance in Concert FEATURING BYLl's ancerd isfaction that you might get out of doing things that are wrong. It ain't worth what you pay." Worth the effort The Richardsons believe been blessed for their serthey've vice. "You can feel the spirit when you're there," Mark said. "We don't judge as we might have before. And we appreciate life, just mowing the lawn or going to the store." Those little things that people take for granted or even dread doing are often the things that inmates miss doing. Lynn advises young couples to take the time to fit volunteering into their schedules. "You can fit it in, just get someone to baby sit," she said. "You don't have to wait until you're old and the kids are gone." 1 R Q Si S ompany am. tm VbS I Y (six) (Cottonwood) Armani Italian Elle W Magazine Teen Guest Seventeen A. January 27-3- 0, 1999 7:30pm, Pardoe Drama Theatre, Tickets at Fine Arts Ticket Office (378-132- 2) - PublicSS Sludents&SeniorCitizens)6 HFAC message. vim management tollies 1 rtn "MM (Park City) Vogue Hugo Boss Calvin Klein Polo Sport Lu.'ftitJ (p.t' .r".r. Signed EMI Record -- I Call "To"H X V Cover of Brides 6 program and share a spiritual FW Elle I Clearance takes a couple of weeks. 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