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Show Kresge Foundation awards grant for preservation in Southeastern Utah The Nature Conserv- reviewed 790 proposals and awarded grants totaling ancys Great Basin Field Office has been awarded a $67,248,000 to 154 charitable organizations in 37 states $430,000 challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation for the Bright Edge Campaign- -a major and in Utahs canyon country. Senior Program Officer the environment and public affairs. As one of the single land acquisition efforts in its $3.3 million Bright largest charitable commitments ever received for conservation in Utah, this challenge grant is expected to lend momentum to the Edge Compaign for Utahs Colorado Plateau had been approved by The Kresge Foundation Trustees at a recent board meeting in Troy, Michigan. overall Conservancys The grant has been made campaign effort. The ations Foundcommitment is wonderful news, said former Utah First Lady basis and requires the Great Basin Field Office to raise $1,175,812 by March 1, 1995 in order to receive the foundations gift. The Colorado Plateau is a national landmark which deserves the support of all Americans, said Ms. Getz. It is also a region which deserves the support of a growing number of Utahns. This is why we believe in the Bright Edge Campaign, The Nature Conservancys work, and why our grant Kresge Norma Matheson who also serves as a Nature Conservancy volunteer on the Bright Edge Campaign Committee. This is a great day for Utah, a great day for the Conservancy and a great day for the Colorado Plateau. The Bright Edge Campaign is an ambitious three-yea- r initiative conservation which was launched in March of 1992. It is designed to raise $3.3 million in order to protect , S. Kresge. In 1992, the Foundation over 40 endangered and globally-rar- e sites located within a four million acre section of the Colorado Plateau. More than $1.7 million in cash and pledges has been raised to date, including WIN $ $ $ if you to the games on 0KUTA kssts? Ian Fish and am 79 Mueller Broadcasting Inc. Pick the winners of the games and send it to or drop it off at Moab, the acquisition of two ranches in the rugged and remote Book Cliffs and the hiring of a public lands liaison to assist federal agencies with public land Colorado Plateau. The Nature Conservancy co(TNC) is a non-prof- it out- standing natural areas. The Conservancy is supported by over 700,000 members, 650 corporate sponsors. Known for its balanced, proach, the organization owns 1300 preserves and manages 1,600 properties which comprise the largest private reserve sanctuary system in the world. The Conservancys mission - to protect at least one good example of every ma- jor ecosystem, community type, and species in the natural world - has resulted in the preservation of over 7 million acres in 50 states, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean since 1953. The Conservancys Utah projects include the preservation of the Lytle Ranch, a 462-acr- e desert oasis in southwestern Utah containing critical habitat for the desert tortoise; Layton wetland Marsh, a 1,200-acr- e preserve on the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake; the Scott M. Matheson Wetlands Preserve, and e rare desert wetland along the Colorado River near Moab; a southern Utah wetland containing the last known population of the autumn buttercup wildflower; 3,200 acres in the heart of the Deep Creek Mountain Wilderness Study Area; 70 acres in P.O. Box 879, 937 E. Hwy 666 (Prize awarded after Super Bowl Sunday) winner with all correct choices and, in $30 or share thereof for case of tie, closest score. h sity, Rebecca Benally, Preschool Project Coordinator-Montezum- Kickoffs. Touchdowns. a Creek, Utah, Mary Jean Francis, Early Interventionist, St. Michaels, AZ., recently visited the Hawaiian Islands. The week-lon- g trip was to observe and acquire more knowledge of the Hawaii Early Childhood, 8 to 5 programs (Parent-Infan- t Education, Traveling school, and Pre- Center-base- d Preschool). These programs are funded by U.S. Department of Education and Kamehameha Schools-Bisho- p Estate. Providing educational opportunities for Hawaiian children has been the mission for Early Education Division, Kamehameha Schools. It is the philosophy and beliefs that reaching children when they are very young, and involving their families in the educational process can have a profound and lasting effect on their future success. The main emphasis for the trip was for the Traveling Preschool concept and g programs. Montezuma Creek Early Home-Visitin- Intervention Preschool (3-- 5) (8-3- ) and programs is working with Utah State University and Navajo Nation Early Intervention on a federally funded ) grant to provide services to (8-5- Monticello, Utah 84535 lands. Navajo children with disabilities or developmental delays. Navajo Nation Early The Nature Conservancys Great Basin Field Office boasts more than 57,000 acres preserved in Utah and Nevada, 57 projects completed, a membership of 7,200 and strong Committees Advisory extablished in both states. Live it up this season. the Address E33CC1 WE1E L01XIKG Off! FOI Y3B Phone Sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety and your State Highway Safety Office Administration Childhood Early Director, Carol L. Barton, Childhood Rebecca Coordinator, and Early Benally is to be able to extend and provide services for ALL children. This is becoming a reality, with support form various programs within the state and national level. With this support we have been able to extend services to Navajo Mountain. In January, 1994, the Creek Preschool will be the second to implement the pilot-sit- e Traveling Preschool conMontezuma cept for children that cannot access services due to distance. The Hawaiian Islands were the first to implement the Traveling Preschool concept. It was started as a pilot-proje- in 1987, by ct Virginia Fink, and is believed to be the first in the United States to have Schools on Wheels. Fink, Virginia Early Education Curriculum and Specialist Development from Oahu, Hawaii, will be Montezuma visinting Creek Preschool, January to assist in adapting and developing the curriculum. The Montezumas Creek Traveling Preschool has selected the Doowozhii bikooh community for the first site to implement the program. 18-2- 1, The community is in full support and excited about the program. If you want more infor- mation about the Traveling Preschool, please contact Montezuma Creek school (881) 651-342- 5. THERE'S NOTHING MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD AMERICAN CANCER V ? SOCIETY' Name k the Navajo reservation-SaJuan School District. The mission and goal of Seat Belts. I At-Ris- n Immel, Project State Univer- Nancy ap- non-confrontatio- totalling 11,303 acres. These ranches control access to and grazing privileges on nearly 360,000 acres of federal and state children residing on recently. Director-Uta- Pngo 7 made it possible to serve Montezuma Creek Traveling Preschool, San Juan School District staffers traveled to Hawaii organization - Intervention Program has School on Wheels went to Hawaii to learn the January 13,1994 areas, the Red Cliff Recreation Area north of St. George. The Conservancy has helped to purchase and preserve nearly 15 miles of the Strawberry River in eastern Utah and has also purchased two ranches in the Book Cliffs region, one of the states finest wildlife 875-acr- The San Juan Record (Must be postmarked no later than January 15, 1994) Then listen to the games on KUTA SUPER BOWL SUNDAY. If you have the winners correct YOU CAN WIN $30 near e the Matheson Wetlands Preserve near which works to acquire ex- change with the BLM that has protected desert habitat Projects completed thus far include the purchase of nservation and an wildflower; Wildlife on Canyon which contain the last individuals of the clay phacelia Corporation among others. designations Fork and Spanish Annette Cumming, the Dee Foundation, the Dumke Foundation, the National 875-acr- PICK THE WINNER and listen Foundation, THE SAN JUAN RECORD Thursday of Foundation, and Kennecott m Barbara Getz 'announced that the Conservancys request for funds to assist has been made on a challenge basis. We want to provide an incentive for local giving to this important project, and I think we have. ... The Kresge Foundation is an independent, private foundation created by the personal gifts of Sebastian District Columbia. Grants are made to institutions operating in the areas of higher education, health and long-tercare, arts and humanities, human services, science and con- servation effort underway on a challenge the major gifts from the George and Dolores Dore Eccles FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL TOLL FREE: Pre- |