Show 23 Sat-'- da J-- Mental health programs Local briefs UEA honors Protzman for work with schools MURRAY — Rep Grant Protz-na- n Ogden was among three people and two businesses saluted by the L’tah Education Association for their contributions to public schools at the organization's annual recognition banquet Thurs- day The citation for Protzman highlighted his efforts during the Iwl Legislature on behalf of special education and Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind Also honored by tbe state’s largest teacher union were Sen Scott and Rev France Howell Davis pastor of Salt Lake City's Caharv Baptist Church The' IBM Corp and WICAT both computer firms were the two businesses honored by the LEA “These persons and businesses have proven themselves real friends of education" said UEA President Lily Eskelsen “On behalf of Utah’s young people in public schools we thank them" arrested in raids indicted on drug charge SALT LAKE CITY — Five people arrested following May 7 raids on two Ogden hotels have each been indicted in U S District Court on a single count of drug trafficking The indictment handed up by a federal grand jury Thursday names John Henry McCovery 54 Kirby Washington 26 and Lorraine Hunter 32 all of Los Angeles: Brenda Jackson 31 of Layton: and Demetnas I Richardson 19 of Ogden They are charged with possessing 22 grams of a mixture containing cocaine that they intended to sell If convicted each faces a maximum federal prison term Agents who arrested the five individuals after raiding the hotels on May 7 said they seized products containing cocaine worth $5000 According to an affidavit filed in court investigators doing surveillance witnessed the preparation and sale of “crack" cocaine and other derivatives of the drug Their surveillance led to the arrests still closely linked to the county agency providing work ard housing for the mentally ill Thorpe said Weber County has one of the lowest rates of usage of the state Mental Hospital in Provo because of PAAG “We're just getting around in dent corporation 5 CHA!E3 F TFEN7ELYAN ra S Five Standard-Examin- UTAHLOCAL 15 1S31 “e OGDEN — Weber County's treatment of the mentally ill is showing the rest of the nation how it's done the executive director of the state Division of Mental health said Thursday Paul I Thorpe said programs such as Weber's PA AG program (Problems Anonymous Action Group) set a pattern that is only now being copied around the rest of the nation Thorpe was speaking at Thursday's 2uh annual awards banquet by PAAG which was set up by W eber County Mental Health as a community based way for mental health clients to be treated and help themselves It has since become an indepen many states to pro- value-drive- n grams but PAAG has been around for years" he said He said there is currently debate in st3te and federal levels on whether the state should have more control of mental health treatment again Thorpe said he strongly opposes any change from the current locally based method “It has worked and it has worked very well" he said allowing local treatment to be tai propriations in the state budget" The challenges in the future he said will mean that the funding level is going to have to change There are new medications new diagnostic procedures and equip Finally he said there is “the issue of children" Federal and state governments have mandated better treatment for adults he said “and that’s fine but along the way services to children have suffered" he said to attempted assault OGDEN — A 21 year-old Ogden man accused of trying to stab his roommate pleaded guilty Wednesday to a reduced charge -- Dennis R Owens 207 33rd St was charged with aggravated assaul for the June 7 incident He pleade guilty Wednesday to a charge of at tempted aggravated assault befor 2nd Circuit Judge Pamela G Hel fernan who set sentencing for Jul Police said Owens swung a folding knife at Anthony Doden 28 after the two were arguing about Owens’ failure to obtain a job Do-de- n deflected the attack and he and others knocked Owens to the ffoor US chamber presents awards to Gam Hatch The U S Chamber of Commerce has presented L’tah Republican Sens Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch with Spirit of Enterprise awards for their 199Q vonrg record on legislation supported by America's business community President Richard Lesher said that Gam's and Hatch's support of legislation backing the Chamber free enterprise system “has helped foster an environment which allows business to prosper proving a better standard of hvirg for all Americans" children to help prevent the spread of polio measles and mumps Way an Ogden native graduated from Ogden High School Weber College the University of Utah OGDEN — Two local pediatricians Dr Grant Way and Dr Howill be honored mer Rich Thursday at a banquet by the Women's Council of the Stewart and the University of Louisville medical school He served in Rehabilitation Center The annual event recognizing physicians for outstanding contributions m medicine will benefit pediatric rehabilitation of disabled children It is sponsored by the Women's Council part of the Foundation The banquet at the Ogden Park Hotel 247 24th St will begin with a reception at 6 p m followed by dinner at 7 pm Reservations for the $50 a plate banquet must be made by Tuesday McKay-De- e Rich Way d Rich and Way who met as students at the University of Utah more than 50 years ago were in the forefront of immunizing tire-me- World War II as an Army battalion surgeon and later interned at the University of Utah Medical Center where he decided to specialize in pediatrics He was chief of pediatrics at the old Dee Hospital and president of both the Intermountain Medical Society and the Weber County Medical Society He has worked at the University of Utah Medical School and is on the staff of OGDEN — The Forest Service has approved timber harvesting on 449 acres of forest land in the Baxter Sawmill area of the Wasatch-Cach- e National Forest The decision was signed June 7 by Forest Supervisor Susan Gian-nettifollowing an environmental assessment that concluded there would be no “significant impact" caused by the timber harvest According to the assessment no known cultural or historical sources endangered species or ecologically critical areas will be significantly affected The harvesting will include 116 acres of where all trees in the area will be cut and 333 acres where only selected trees can be cut In selective cutting the Forest Service individually marks each tree that loggers can take The timber harvest is being used as method of reducing the amount of dead or dying trees in the area because of a tussock moth infestation said Oeden District a OGDEN — The Ogden School District has invited parents of pu- pils who will be in the first grade next year to find out if their children are bright enough to qualify for a special program Parents interested in the district's EQLIP program are invited to a meeting at 6 30 p m Monday at Dee Elementary School 550 22nd St The first grade of the program has been threatened because only New Amtrak office to open Monday OGDEN — The new ArntrA ticket office at Ogden Union Station will officially open for business Monday a week mostly during the evening and early morning hours The tick- cast-bou- Additional information is available by phoning the station dunrg the scheduled hours at 627-333- cyde he driver cf the police car that was struck was Officer Lloid Davis tKe offur involved m the chase was Mike Darby Cepe T Errpey said he had ban told the cyde was chasid aster it wouldn't slop whin uffaers tried to pull it over bicause it was not luinsid ciord rg tv t' Ogdin pnluc run the cycle was gurg 35 rrph whin it hit the polue car The report said the pot ne car was going Id mph at the tone of the accident e re- 12 students have signed up and district guidelines require a full class or at least 20 pupils “If they're really out there: we want to get them in" said district spokesman Jane Renstrom The program sets apart “gifted and talented" pupils who can learn at the hands of special instructors at an accelerated level It includes an advanced curriculum presented at a quickened pace with an emphasis on developing higher-level For more information contact Denise Ervin at the Ogden Ranger District 625-511- 2 Said 0:uir Wiher County Attorney Reid Richards said he expects Washington Terrace to fle charges m the case He said his office is participating in the investigation because polite offiurs were involved thinking skills the district said The program which includes grades one through five is taught at Dee Elementary-Monday'- s meeting is intended to explain the program to parents who may then decide whether to get their children tested to see if they would be eligible No decision has been made on whether to suspend the first grade if more students are not accepted District officials said they are reviewing it Morgan Sne said he snouid bring the baby to her in the mall if he was worried which Morgan did about 10 to 15 minutes later She testified “1 picked her up and she was really day child to the hospital In cross examination defense attorney Nancy Bergeson tried to From IB side cf the child's identified tn an autopsy was not evident to her that “If she had a soggy boggy feel to the right side of her head would you have noticed?" Dames asked her "Yes I used to Eke to rub her head" A oungberg replied The child was alone with Morgan for the roughly three hours before she was taken to St Benedict's Hospital Youngberg said Morgan called her at about 7:30 pm that day at a Newgate Mall store where she worked and was crying saying Ashlee was limp and he feared he had given her too much Tylenol to relieve her colic symptoms PAAG-o&rne- shop went to the Utah Community Development Agency which has helped PAAG provide housing for its clients through funding grants Other awards were: Honorary Lifetime Award to Richard R Lirv-nebusiness manager for Weber County Mental Health County Employee of the Year to Lavia Carroll who works m the county auditor’s office: Male Citizen of the Year to Tom Rhine a volunteer at PAAG and Female Citizen of tht Year to Loa Jean Freshwater a client and member of the PAAG ’ board of directors ll He has been chief of pediatrics at the old Dee Hospital president of the McKay-De- e Medical staff and assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine He ts oa the staff of McKay-De- e and St Benedict’s hospitals Rich also is a past president or the Bertha Eccles Community Arj Center Council and is active yy the Rotary Club and the Ogden LDS 6 st Ward He and his wife Carolyn have six children Information about the Thursday banquet c4n be obtained by calling the McKay-De- e Foundation at 1 625-202- 4 t i Fort Douglas closure ' to displace 280 workers SALT LAKE CITY — Closure SALT LAKE CITY — A third of Fort Douglas late this yearwill child died Friday and a fourth redisplace some 280 civilian workers mained in critical condition followand military personnel who will ing a house fire investigators lose their jobs or leave the base for believe was deliberately set “There are multiple points of ori- offices downtown or i gin" said Salt Lake City Fire Bat- jobs An environmental impact statetalion Chief Gordon Nicholl who said the deaths are being consid- ment prepared on the base closure and released Friday said just 3Q7 of ered a triple homicide the fort’s 585 tenents will retrain The fire occurred early Thursday the same day the family of San and on the federal reservation after the 51 acres to the UniversiLeslie Ortega was to be evicted transfer of " Utah of ty from the Rose Park home fort After closes the Andrew Lawrence expected by the Ortegas’ nephew was pro- early November the remainirg nounced dead at the scene Chrismilitary presence will be on-th- e tian Ortega 13 died Thursday southern 68 acres retained by the afternoon at LDS Hospital Cray- federal government above theCru-versit- y on the city's cast benghjJj ton Lawrence 11 a brother of Andrew Lawrence died early Friday at the University of Utah Health U of U Sciences Center out-of-sta- te Nine-year-o- ld 5000 State land board delays decision on oil drilling MOAB — The state land board ‘has voted to keep proposed oil and gas exploration out of Dead Horse Point State Park but postponed a decision on whether adjacent land will be opened for drilling About 50 people appeared at a public hearing here before the Utah Division of Lands and Forestry Board and roughly two-thirof the 20 speakers favored the plan The board voted late Friday to maintain a ban on mining and drilling on 240 acres of school trust land that extend into the eastern Utah park However the board put off" until next month a decision on opening 12700 acres of adjacent trust lands that have been withdrawn from mining and drilling since the 1960s to protect valuable potash reserves from contamination graduates urged to shun ‘me-is- m’ SALT LAKE CITY — Universiof L'tah graduates were urgptfio work for the common good atfd shun “me-ism- " at ceremonies held Friday at the Jon M Huntsman Center ty Commencement speaker Anutai Etzioni a George Washington Umvensty professor and founder of the International Society for the Advancement of urged the 5000 graduates that “taking without givthat rights without ing responsibilities makes for an un- J tenable world" Ltziom's address capped tradi-- “ Socio-Economi- cs tional graduation ceremonies led by Dr Chase N Peterson w ho w ill retire June 30 after eight years as university president No replacement has been named — Standard-Examine- r Hire limp" and decided to rush the tuffd the possibility that Young-bergside of the family was unstable and capable of child battering But Youngberg testified that her mother never hit her or her sister 's despite the fact the woman was involved in a sometimes violent seven-year relationship with a man at the time She said she witnessed the man strike her mother and tear up furniture with a knife Bergeson said she was trying to demonstrate that a battered-chil- d syndrome could be possible with relatives on Youngberg's side of the familv ATTENTION p m tamed later indicated the police car was stoppid when it was hit by the From IB Ranger Randy Welsh Also “The dead trees have significantly increased the potential for catastrophic fire in this area over the next several years” he said The decision to allow timber har ‘Gifted and talented’ pupils sought for EQUIP but trrpey said intormution ub Chase vesting in the area also includes the following actions: Construction of a fuel break along 15 miles of the Curtis Ridge and Baxter Sawmill roads This will be accomplished by removing all the dead standing trees within 66 feet of the road and allowing d gathering following the harvest activities Reopening 4 miles of old road for use as a temporary road during logging Construction of 14 miles of temporary roads Reconstruction and improvement work on 4 miles of the Curtis Ridge and Baxter Sawmill roads Obliterating and seeding all temporary roads once logging is complete The harvesting activities are expected to result in 38 million board feet of lumber Appeals of the decision can be made to the regional forester's office at 324 25 th St in Ogden fuel-woo- no et office will be open Saturday through Thursday from 8 p m to 5 am and on fridays during the day fiom 7 a m to 3 p m The Ogden ticket operation has been opened in conjunction with the rerouting cf Amtrak's Pioneer ran from Si attic to Chicago via Ogden and Wyoming Law said people who plan to nde the Piercer can catch the run at 6 20 a m each day and the westbound run at 915 Ogden Fire Capt Steve Rick said the fre started shortly before 9 p m in the home of Mrs Alton Perry whin some food cookirg on the stove was left unattended for a few nmuics The grease caught fre spread'-- g to the rest of the stove and cabinets Biik said the fire had been put cut with a garden hose by the time f rt fighters arrived He said there was also smoke damage throughout the house ! B PAT BEAN 5ianoar3 Exanef s43f — A kitchen fre at did about 52500 damage to a home Friday right but there were no injuries fire officials said Harrison Bhd al fire third still child fourth critical Food cooking on stove causes fire in kitchen OGDEN McKay-De- e and St Benedict’s hospitals Way and his wife Joyce have five children Rich had decided what he wanted to be in life by the time he reached junior high school in his hometown Brigham City After serving on a mission for the LDS Church and graduating from the University of Utah and the University of Tennessee medical school he served in the Army at several hospitals and POW camps during World War II In 1983 Rich suffered a near-fatheart attack and was the first person in Ogden to have bypass surgery while having a heart attack Timber harvesting approved Utah briefs for land in Baxter Sawmill area House claims Tnket agent John Law said today tickits will be sold seven days 1931 PAAG gave a number of awarcs at the banquet t Top honor its “Golden I&rn" named for a unit of money clients d used to use in a Two pediatricians to be honored by council 40-ye- ar Man pleads guilty set example ment available now that Utah can't afford Some county agencies are better equipped to handle the mentally ill than others he said and that needs to be corrected “We have too many consumers awaiting services out there" he said “We have too many consumers receiving services in private systems at double and triple the cost of public systems” There is the major problem of who is to be responsible for helping the many mentally ill in jails and prisons he said lored to local needs and improving money use He said recent studies show that Utah is “amorg the very highest in the country in dollars going to community mental health" giving Utah a more balanced system “We're also the lowest m administrative costs m the state level and at the division level" he said “All of this is in light of the fact we are among the lowest and I mean 48th in fundng for mental health and 49th in percent of ap- er PINE VIEW SECONDARY WATER USERS All Pine View Water Users are reminded to conserve water by usmg common sense water practices All users are asked to voluntarily corserve water by watching water settings and time of settngs so water does not run eft cown curbs and roads It is recommended that you waer every fourth day m the spring and late fall and every third cay in the and eary fail Do not over water on these days IV m tne spring and 2" per wee in tne summer are sufficient to ra ntan a hea!t“y lawn Over watering is as harrfjl as too water Anycre determined to be negligenfy wasting water will bave fee reir service terminated for the year and a $50 00 hook-uthe fwowing year sjr-v-- er lt-t- ie p PINE VIEW WATER SYSTEMS SOUTH OGDEN CONSERVATION DISTRICT VALBER-bOELDER CONSERVATION DISTRICT is building focMes and speodng bg bud-- i on a dream of hosnng tbe 1998 Winter O'mpics 5o!t Lobe Cry Today tbe kvenat'onal Oymptc Commitree deades Soft Lake or one of four other international ones wil ocrjo’Y get tbe Gomes KJTV follows Utah's 0ymp detegcron to Birmingham England to bong you tbe butene announcement Ire ond loons n on tbe Deason Day exe'ement here or home and m the oer bid ernes across the gbbe Wse-be- r "Olympic Decision Kunnocott '98" Today of 1 1 30 o jn £2lKrM jiywuj |