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I ' J J I " ’ ' i V 'V Business Standard-Examine- r Thursday March 17 1988 w®m-af- fi mDimair By SUSAN CONRAD Standard Examiner correspondent BRIGHAM CITY — An AIDS seminar in Brigham City was one of the community meetings on the disease in the state said a health official Jessalyn Pittman AIDS coordinator for the Utah Department of Health said many times people are afraid to be seen at a public meeting about AIDS But the Brigham City meeting was attended by approximately 90 people and Pittman said that speaks very well for the commu best-attend- ed formation on the transmission of nity Pittman was the keynote speakAIDS and to dispel some of the er at the seminar which also fea- misinformation that exists said tured the controversial Red Cross Les Dunn the Brigham City Film “A Letter to Brian" and a councilman who coordinated the panel discussion that included seminar "It is important to know that questions from the audience “A Letter from Brian" banned you cannot get AIDS from mosfrom being shown by most Utah quito bites or toilet seats despite school districts is still being con- recently published reports to the sidered by the Box Elder School contrary" Pittman said “AIDS is Board Critics say the film deals transmitted by sexual contact too much with birth control and blood contact or from mother to not enough with morality child during pregnancy” The focus of the Brigham City One concern of the audience seminar was to provide basic in was the likelihood of getting the Whipple explained that larger hospitals in the state have a sysalof tem called chances the said Pittman his donate anyone in Utah developing AIDS lowing a patient to from a transfusion are one in own blood prior to elective sur100000 But that statistic in- gery in case a transfusion is cludes transfusions given before needed The program has not been imtransfusion blood began being plemented at the Brigham City screened for AIDS in 1985 Community Hospital yet he said a member Dr Robert Whipple Less than five cases of AIDS of the panel said "it doesn’t work been reported in Box Elder have for family members to donate said Lori Jensen Box ElCounty blood to other family members The safest blood is through a der County Health Department Chris Kallmeyer head of infecblood bank because it has been control at the Brigham City tion screened” disease through a blood transfusion "auto-transfusio- n" Hospital said the hospital has implemented precautionary measure recommended by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta Ga to control the transmission of AIDS All employees are instructed to wear gloves any time they come in contact with any body fluids “The staff is more anxious than they used to be" Kallmeyer said "It was considered to be a psychological barrier for nurses to wear gloves when dealing with patients but now it is the norm” See AIDS on 2B Ogden to vote on bonds By SUSAN IPAKTCHIAN Standard-Examine- r staff OGDEN — After nearly two months of study it took the Ogden School Board just 60 seconds to make a $10 million decision The board voted unanimously Wednesday to ask Ogden resi- dents to approve a $10 million bond issue to pay for school building repairs renovations and equipment purchases Ogden Superintendent James West said if the bonds are sold in three or four parcels over about 10 years taxes won’t have to be raised to retire the debt No date for the bond election has been set Board members plan to discuss options for the election date during a special strategy meeting Monday In a related action Wednesday the board appointed the bond un- derwriting firm of Kirchner Moore and Co to act as the dis- trict’s bond advisor West told the board in January that the district would need After tho exams - s t Mark Jensen and Jodi Budge relax near the pond at Weber State College after taking a TocWCroslandStandard-Examine- ' around $10 million to take care of its most pressing capital needs Much of the district’s capital r fund has been shifted into its final op- erating fund over the last few years leaving little money for exam Monday building maintenance See VOTE on 2B Rail line Cruncher the Lunch picks up Muncher out dines support Costumed alligator makes nutrition point By WENDY OGATA Standard-Examine- r Davis Bureau FARMINGTON — A local tourism official is collecting political support for a proposal to run a passenger train between Ogden’s Union Station and the He-bCreeper in Provo Canyon via Park City The next step is to take the idea viewed as a means of attracting tourists to the Wasatch Front to Union Pacific to get permission to use the railroad’s tracks er Davis County commissioners gave a letter of support for the idea Monday to Lynn Butterfield executive director of the Golden Spike Empire Butterfield said Weber Box Elder and Morgan county commissioners have already endorsed the project as have Ogden City Council members “All the support we’re getting will be included in a package and delivered to Union Pacific when we discuss the possibility of running scheduled service on their track” he said Plans call for running a train from Ogden’s Union Station up Weber Canyon to Echo Junction From Echo Junction the train would run to Park City and eventually connect up with the Heber Creeper in Heber City and run down to the mouth of Provo Canyon Homer Chandler executive director of the Mountainland Association of Governments in Provo By WENDY OGATA Standard-Examine- r LAYTON — For being an alligator Cruncher the Lunch Muncher is a real pussycat The costumed alligator has become a welcome sight in Davis County schools where he teaches children about nutrition especially the importance of eating breakfast As part of a nutrition presentation done with home economist Chris Bateman Cruncher grumps around elementary classrooms complaining of getting sick feeling tired and having a growling stomach It doesn’t take long for even the youngest child to figure out Cruncher’s problem is that he hasn’t eaten any breakfast full-tim- When told the solution to his dilemma start eating breakfast every day Cruncher the Lunch Muncher is the brainchild of Sandra Kimball kitchen manager at Kaysville Junior High “I wanted to get something the kids could identify with” she said “One day I was watching Ronald McDonald or something like that on TV and began thinking of some kind of mascot “I thought of a big mouse and then an alligator and decided to call it Cruncher Todd CroslandStandard-Examine- r Cruncher the Lunch Muncher (Kay Jarvis) and Chris Bateman talk to dents at Antelope Elementary in Clearfield about nutrition stu- Farmington seeks to annex future site of jail By WENDY OGATA Standard-Examine- Davis Bureau r FARMINGTON — The City Council has directed staff to draft an ordinance to annex some 266 acres in west Farmington that includes the future site of a new county jail Council members are expected to consider the ordinance for possible adoption at their April 6 Wasatch — has been negotiating with Union Pacific to acquire the Echo Junction line which goes into Park City and the Keetley Mine area “It’s just above where the Reservoir is being developed” Chandler said “We’re proposing at the end of the line there that we would build 16 miles of track to connect the UP Jor-dane- llc See Beneath the soft green and yellow folds is Kay Jarvis a e worker in the district’s school foods and home economics department and a mother of five who enjoys seeing children’s reaction to the alligator “They’re not afraid of me at all” she said “They like to come up and shake my hand wave to me and giggle” At first Cruncher’s tail was an easy target for young hands wanting to touch the alligator Now Jarvis is expert at flipping the tail over her shoulder and holding it there when lots of children are milling around her With the alligator young children pay more attention to the nutrition lessons she said “They have a much better attention span and it’s fun for them “His function is to promote a fun positive experience for the kids withthe school lunch program and nutrition” The child nutrition program handled by Bateman and Cruncher is an optional program that schools must request if they want it It’s been funded by a $2900 federal grant from the State Office of of Cruncher’s costume the alligator perks up and promises to said the organization of three counties — Utah Summit and TRAIN on 2B the Lunch Muncher” Kimball made the costume herself starting it last September and finishing it in December Davis Bureau meeting- - During a public hearing on the several whose land is people adjacent to the proposed area spoke against the issue citing concerns with en annexation Wednesday Standard-Examin- graphic from development aggravation of problems Jay and Melba Johnson were the only landowners within the annexation to speak against it They own five acres east of the 15 interBurke a acre half of it but only change remains in the unincorporated county that would come into the city with the annexation “I very much oppose being annexed to the city” Melba Johnson said “I have no desire to have my farm turned into a comcroachment and further storm-draina- Lane-Intersta- mercial te area" The annexation area includes the site for the new county jail that will go up on land on the southwest corner of Tippetts and ago outside the city limits of Farmington to an area planned for agricultural use and now that agricultural use is threatened” he Clark lanes said “I don’t feel I should have Aaron Richards a dairy farmer ‘to move every 16 years at total who owns 34 acres adjacent to expense to me" the annexation area on Clark Richards also questioned Lane said development that will whether an environmental impact accompany annexation will create statement had been done to defurther problems termine what development will for the area do to the populations of CanadiDevelopment will also encroach an geese muskrats and red fo on his dairy and likely prompt that live in the area complaints about his operation Robert Scott city planning and Richards said zoning administrator said an im- “I voluntarily moved 16 years See ANNEX on 2B storm-draina- ge i J A I d -- A -- i d 1 u 1 i - 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