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Show 2A Emery County Progress t Tuesday, November 21, 1995 County living Challenging sports, college & marriage are his way of life friends, but he could go home to visit his family. This was in the winter after the accident. His next big accomplishment was building and flying large model airplanes. In spite ofa few crashes, he succeeded and finally, about July 12, he soloed. Kenny said, "I flew it all by myself. I was great." Kenny still builds and flies model planes. But Kenny wanted to complete his education. His first attempt was in the fall of 1991 when he registered at CEU. For the first quarter he drove from Castle Dale, but driving that far wasn't that good. Rehab had helped him get into school, and with their help and that ofthe housing department at CEU, Kenny was able to live in a new dorm that was "wheelchair accessible" for the next two quarters. However, learning business management didn't seem to fill the need in his life. Kenny liked to work with his hands. He liked to "tear things apart and put them together again." He remembered seeing advertisements about the ITT Technical School, and he was defi- (The following is the second of a story on Kenny Price.) By Hazel Owens Guest writer It was only a week after the rt retp seminars, David Higginson has shown thousands of people the easy way to play the piano using the chords and rhythms professionals use. Now, itsj'owr turn! Lees Music Presents 7W 'Witfawt Paul' Learn how professionals play easily and beautifully without having to read music ! Learn to play beautiful chords and rhythms with both bands right from the start! I was delighted to find a method that sounds so good, yet is so easy to learn. Yvonne Egbert, International Piano Teaching Foundation This is the smartest thing I have ever done for myself! Lola Brown, Former Professional Singer 7 couldn 7 imagine anything better to learn from. Ron Simpson, Record Producer Talent Agent Thursday, Nov. 30 Seminars at 3 pm & 7 pm Hosted by Lee's Music 58 E. Main St. Price Please phone for reservations, (800) 231-086- 8 (801) 637-013- 4 San Rafael Bulldogs STUDENTS OF THE WEEK Janelle Johnson, Gentry Luke, Tyra Larsen and Katie Quinn have been chosen as San Rafael Junior High School's students of the week. Janelle is the 14 year old daughter of Randy and Betsy Johnson of Ca'Je Dale. Her favorite subjects in school are History and Science. She is on the Yearbook staff at schoc as well as Honor Society and Readers Club. She is a funny, nice, caring, energetic girt. She likes to talk to her friends, travel, take pictures, watch football, cook, laugh and sing. Someday she would like to work for a senator and fly around the world. Her goals are to graduate from college and be a wife and mother. She wants to be an interior decorator. Gentry is the 1 5 year old daughter of Garth and Gayla Luke of Orangeville. Her favorite class is math. She is a library aid and a wrestling manager. She is in the Readers Club and on the basketball and volleyball teams. She likes to have fun, flirt and always has a smile. She enjoys going for walks with her friends, being involved in sports, hunting and riding horses. Someday she would like to go skydiving in Africa. Her goals are to graduate from school, go to college, become a pharmacist, get married and have a family. Tyra is the 15 year old daughter of Debbie and Phil Jolley of Emery. Her favorite subject is English. She is on the volleyball team. She loves to be with people, talk on .the phone, listen to music, sing, and have lun. Someday she would like to be a model and be famous. Her goals are to sing and act. accident when Kenny recognized his sister, touched her nose with his finger as she was bending over him in his hospital bed, and said "boo" to her. What a relief if was to his family gathered around him when he actually spoke that one word. He said later that his brain was "rattled," and he couldn't put things in order in his mind. He couldn't remember the accident at that time, and even during the second week he could only remember . things in "bits and pieces," but to the family, that "boo" was music to their ears. They knew in their hearts that he would recover. Kenny's mother stayed with him for his first two months in the hospital. It was a real achievement when he learned (after trying several times) to help himself get out of bed and into a wheelchair and to get back into bed again- - all by himself. Kenny's injury was serioushe was paralyzed from the upper rib cage down. How fortunate that he had a strong upper body and a lot of courage and determination, and helping himself get out ofbed alone was only the beginning. The family realized that the wheelchair that Kenny would be bringing home from the hospital would not fit into their mobile home, so they purchased a house that his parents had looked at longingly for quite some time. But the inside of the house was not finished. The problem was solved by taking Kenny to Ogden to live with his sister, who had ample room for not only the wheelchair, but for Kenny to have room to learn to walk with his new leg braces. It was a thrilling day when he was finally able to go entirely around the living room at one 'time. nitely interested in the elec- tronics training that this school offered. "I remember seeing advertisements quite frequently for ITT Technical School," he said. "I though that sounded kind of cool because they have an electronics program there, and also a drafting program. I thought drafting would be kind of cool right off. The electronics sounded kind of cool too. So I went and talked to them. Through that summer and maybe part of the way into the fall of 1992 1 got signed up for school there at ITT to take their two year electronics program which would earn me an associate's degree. I started in ... While Kenny was working out his new way of living up in Ogden, his family and neighbors were working hard to make their new home ready for Kenny's return. Kenny had worked hard in rehabilitation while in the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. That was when he got his leg braces, but they were so awkward and hard to balance that he found he could do much better with his wheelchair. He could spin around and get from one place another much more quickly and easily. But that wasn't enough for Kenny. He was strong in his upper body, and he had a strong will. He wanted to get out of the house and see people, so he decided Of to buy a course, his sister Allisha had to drive it off the showroom floor in Bountiful, but she drove it directly to Interwest Medical in Salt Lake City where hand controls were installed. Now Kenny could not only visit . ' November. "While I was in school that first quarter, one of the instructors came up to me and asked me if I would like to be involved in any of the sports for disabled people. He had been involved with the Park City Handicapped Sports Association. They had programs year round for disabled people, and he had helped with the program." Kenny signed up for the five classes offered to teach the handicapped to ski. "It was really cool because I had seen the types of skies I would have to use. One of them they call a mono ski. It's a single ski that has a seat attached to it. It almost looks like a wheelchair without the wheels, and a ski stuck on it. To be able to use them you have to use skis. They hook onto your arms. They are short little poles with a handle on them, and they have a little ski attached to them. It's for stabilizing yourself while you are skiing. You have to learn to balance yourself, and not lean too much in any direction or you will fall clean over and then you'll have out-rigg- er "four-runner- ." . CANYON VIEW STUDENTS OF THE WEEK Tracy Druce and Amy have been chosen as Canyon View Junior High School's students of the week. which has enabled him to Kenny Price enjoys his hand cycle the Utah Summer including of races, compete in a number Games. to push yourself back up which can be rough at times. It took a little getting used to, but it was lots of fun. "Now this Park City organization would send out fliers telling of activities that were coming up. In the summer of 1993 they sent me a flier about going water skiing, and I had wanted to. do that for a long time. I had even tried it in 1991 or '92 when my brother and his friend strapped me to a knee board in a sitting position (most people use their knees). It was kind of hard to hold myself up with my feet sticking out over the front ofthe knee board, but I managed to make it pretty close to all the way around the lake one time. It really wore me out to be able to do that because I really don't have a lot of stomach muscle. When the boat was pulling me forward, I'd be leaning forward on my elbows at times. But that was a lot of fun." Of the Park City water skiing program, Kenny said, "I was delighted to be able to go out and do that. They had five different trips through that summer, and I was there every time. I think I showed up before they ever got started every time, too, just because I really wanted to do that. The first time that I did it I was really hooked. I have done it every year since then." Another sport Kenny has taken up is tennis. "I'm not exactly sure when I learned about tennis," he said. "It was probably the summer of 1993. I played tennis with these other guys in chairs. It is a lot of fun being about to go and do that. I guess you could say it's definitely a little different. I had hit a few tennis balls before the accident, but now it was a different experience. You get two bounces on your side of the court, otherwise you'd never be able to make it to the ball. Pretty much everything else is the same. It's just been another one of those exciting things that I have found I like." Kenny says he has always loved sports. "I played a little bit of basketball too while I was up in Ogden, living with my sister. I never actually played in a game. I just played with a team up there, and often just shoot hoops by myself," he said. Kenny made it through five quarters of school in 1994, and feeling ambitious, he decided to also work and go to school too, but this time he took on too much, and with such longhours of sitting, he got a pressure sore. It was necessary for Kenny to drop out of school for three quarters in order to heal the sore and haVe a chance to relax a little bit. He was now back at home with his family in Castle Dale. During this time, he learned about racing with a race chair Tracy Leonard Druce is the son of Leonard and Susan Druce. He is in the ninth grade. He plays the clarinet and loves band. He also plays the bass Katie is the 14 year old daughter of Danny and Danis Quinn of Castle Dale. Her favorite classes are English, keyboarding and drama. She is in band and chorus at school. She is active, helpful and easygoing. She likes to read and write, listen to music, work on computers and hang out with friends. Someday she wants to join the Army. Her goals are to get married, raise a family and become a police officer. Sponsored by PTSA the state. She has qualified to go to the State High School Finals in June in breakaway roping and she also competes in goattying. Amy is a member of the National Jr. Honor Society and also serves as the Canyon View FFA Chapter secretary and is involved in many FFA activities. She is a member of the band, Riding Club, 4-- and serves as the Mia Maid president in her church ward. Amy's best asset is her easygoing, caring personality. Sponsored by Castleview Hospital else the desert toward the old happened. "One day I went to Swinging Bridge with my family, an uncle and aunt, and cousins," Kenny said. "My brothers took turns and carried me to the top of a pretty good cliff. It was cool to be on top of the mountain again with my brothers and family." In June of 1994, Kenny went to the Summer Games in Cedar City where he won two gold medals in the bike racing events. Then he went to the Cedar City Summer Games again this year and actually improved his time on both of the races. "I got two gold medals out of the two races I entered at the 1995 Summer Games. That was a good experience for me," he said. Kenny had two more experiences that mean a lot to him. He said, "In the fall of 1994 after the Summer Games , I got a letter from a guy in California who races hand cycles. They were doing races for different groups. It's called 'The India Cycle Challenge- - The National Disabled Foundation Cycle Challenge.' They had people there in wheelchairs and then people there on race cycles. I went down for that and had a lot of fun going to California. I saw relatives who lived near that area. I got fifth place in that race which was really cool. At the last of 1994, I met a wonderful young woman up in Salt Lake and got to know her really well in the first couple of months. It was neat for me. We were engaged Feb. 3 and had a relatively short engagement. We decided to get married on the fifth of May. Ever since then it has been a really good marriage. Life definitely has great times. I'm glad I had a chance to share this with you." Kenny graduated Sept. 16, with his Associate Applied Science in Electronics Engineering Technology degree. He is continuing in school now for a bachelor's degree. He has put 2,000 miles on his hand bike and says that just because he is in a wheelchair, that doesn't mean he is "disabled." He says he is just "differently abled." 1995, JTPA Orientation Monday, December 4, 1995, at 9 a.m. I playing softball during the summer. This year Amy is a member of the Emery High Rodeo Club and has participated in rodeos all over last April something Also The Southeastern Utah Association of Governments, Job Training Program, will hold a clarinet, the berry sax, the organ and piano. Tracy loves church and playing the piano there. He likes fishing and riding the odysey around the desert Amy loves all kinds of sports and has been on the Canyon View volleyball and basketball teams for the past 3 years. She also enjoys or a hand cycle. After first be- ing turned down by the insurance company in April, 1994, they finally called him and said they would get him a hand cycle. "This way I could get more exercise and keep myself more physically fit," he said of his new ambition. In May the bike arrived. Kenny was elated and immediately set to work assembling it. After that, he took off and rode it around town. "It was a blast," he recalls. The JTPA Program has available a limited amount of funds to assist Carbon and Emery County adults, age 22 and above, to obtain an education for entry into the labor market. Persons must be JTPA eligible. you are interested and think you may qualify, please attend the orientation to be held at the Association of Governments 9 Building, 375 South Carbon Avenue, Price, Utah or call and ask for Kay or Donna. If 637-195- |