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Show Building a strong family Salina SunGunnison Valley News Wednesday. October 7. 1998 Page 3 Aminals By David Sung Watch for by Lynda Whitlock, psychosocial well-- 1 being Executive Director New Horizons Crisis Center We live in a turbulent, crazy, and often world and yet families are the building block of our society. Our success as a community depends on what happens inside our homes, not what happens at City Hall. Every family is unique, different and at the same time similar. Families struggle with many of the same kinds of problems. One thing is certain--n- o family is free from challenges. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Various activities will take place in our communities and across the nation. The purpose of these activities is to provide education and knowledge and to help families translate that knowledge into effective action. The goal is to provide skills that will curb excessive, harmful behaviors and to safeguard families. We each need to take personal responsibility and use agency to contribute peace within our families. Sometimes the topics discussed concerning family violence are difficult and painful and yet they must not be ignored. Stephen Covey once told a family-unfriend- ly businessmen, group of If your company were falling apart, you know youd do whatever you had to do to save it. So should it be with our high-power- families. When raising our families, our struggles are ongoing. Losing ourtem-pe- r can compromise a situation and our pride can keep us there. Even though we know that factors within our society contribute to the continuation of violence among us, we cannot continue to tolerate violence just because we understand those factors. We must do everything we can to We can begin by equalizing the power and respect in our relationships with each other. The imbalance of these characteristics, often gives the authority figure-t- he stronger person the right to treat the more submissive person violently. If we could see all of us as equals we would find it more difficult to dominate others and feel less inclined to behave violently when crisis or disagreements arise. Abuse comes in different forms; physical, sexual, verbal and emotional. Finally, we each need to take responsibility for our own actions and we cannot use the behavior of others to justify our own violent behavior. No one deserves to be treated with violence on account of gender, economic status, racial or ethnic background, or age. Making the choice to have patience, tolerance, empathy, respect and love can take every bit of combined energy, talent, desire, commitment and determination we can muster. Happiness is homemade and we have a responsibility to make our homes happy and safe, not only for ourselves but especially for our children. Even though family violence is no longer a hidden crime and laws across the nation forbid this kind of behavior, the real problem is one of change, one of action and one of attitude. There is a need for practical information and a better understanding of the grim reality of family violence. Building a strong family is a matter of choice. By choosing to spend time on strengthening our families we decrease the numberand intensity oftrue emergencies in our family life. change them. A Window of Opportunity and $avings is Closing Previous Customers of State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance who changed insurance companies since November, 1995. e 0 Call Ray Smith at or at to understand what this can mean to you personally in Savings to Come Back to State Farm Insurance. ARM toll-fre- STATI Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company mate changes; grumbling about room-- ,, mate spending too long in the bath- room; complaints about roommate rummaging in ones belongings; fear of roommates physical or verbal ag- gression; disgust with roommates appearance, language, behaviororvisi- tors; and statements such asmy room- mate doesnt like me. Unhappiness with residents other chronic com- than roommate-i.- e., relationship. Despite changes in funcsocial life roles and about others; poor quality of tion, plaints community, continues to hold meaning and value interaction with others; lack of peers for the vast majority of elders who for socialization; and expressions of enter nursing facilities. feeling different or superior to others. Openly expresses conflict or anger Having good social relationships, a ex- sense of control over ones life and with family or close fnends-f- or opportunities to engage in activities ample, expresses feel ings of abandon-men- t, that hold particular meaning for each ungratefulness; lack of under- resident are crucial factors in main- standing or hostility toward family or friends. taining psychosocial The First Presidency of The Church member of the First Quorum of the Withdrawal from activities that once So how does one know when an Saints Seventy, regional representative, mis- elder in the nursing facility is suffer- had meaning i.e., has suicidal of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y has called six new temple presidents. sion president. Geneal J. Larsen, naing from impaired psychosocial well- thoughts; resists crucial medications,' Each new leader will be assisted by tive, Ashton, Idaho; served Church as being? There are certain behaviors withdrawal accompanied by failure to his wife, who will serve as temple Relief Society and Young Women that can be identified by the trained eat or drink; loss of interest in appearmatron, the First Presidency said. president, counselor in childrens aux- person which indicate the presence of ance and hygiene; doesnt want to will a attend dress in street clothes and resists prounsettled relationships or They iliary. temple presidents seminar later this month and start their C. Kenneth Powrie, Johannesburg the common Some of most problems. grams or activities once enjoyed. busiSouth Africa Temple-Retir- ed new responsibilities November . Perceives unacceptable differences behaviors we see at Richfield RehaThe Church now has 53 temples ness and accounting executive; na- bilitation and Care Center are: from previous patterns of life-sai Covert or open conflict with staff or family no longer visits on a regular operating around the world. Another tive, Lydenburg, South Africa; served 40 announced temples are in various Church as district president, counse- repeated criticism of staff such as basis; inability to make basic deci- -. stages of construction or planning. lor to temple president, counselor to chronic complaintsaboutstafftoother sions; becoming much less active or These 93 temples are in 32 nations. mission president, stake patriarch. staff, verbal criticism of staff in thera- doing little that was of value in prior The newly cal led presidents and their Anna M. Powrie, native, Smithfield, peutic group situations, criticism of life. When these behaviors are identified South as served Church Africa, staff communicated through families stake, temples: assigned Don H. Hendricks, Papeete Tahiti district and ward Relief Society presig or other residents or exhausting, by the staff, appropriate interventions' are initiated into the plan of care for all Temple-Retir- ed estimator for dent, counselor in the childrens auxlists of complaints. members of the interdisciplinary team Westinghouse Electric Corporation iliary, Relief Society teacher. Unhappiness with roommate-f- or to assist in correcting the problem. L. Blaine Vorwaller, Orlando example, frequent requests for room Naval Reactors Facility; native, administraMarysville, Idaho; attended Idaho State Florida Temple-Reti- red Church stake of as state served Florida; native, Tooele, tor, University; high councilor, bishop, counselor to Utah; bachelors degree, Brigham temple president, temple worker. Young University, served Church as Betty A. Hendricks, attended Pasa- regional representative, stake presidena Jr. College; served Church as dent, bishop, counselor to mission Relief Society president, stake mis- president, temple sealer. Joyce B. Just about everything you would Buyers Survival Guide, which dis-- , sionary, assistant temple matron, Vorwaller, bachelorsdegree, Brigham -' to know about auto registration, cusses the most common want Jacksonchildrens auxiliary leader. Young University; native, Utah license plates, and how to protect chase dilemmas and how to avoid oi Owen D. Jacobsen, Dallas Texas ville, Florida; served Church as assisfrom IBM sales and tant to temple matron, missionary, yourself in a car deal is available on solve them. Links are also provided to' Temple-Reti- red the automotive blue books and other- Utahsnewest Internet site, www.dmv-utah.comanagement; native, Salt Lake City, teacher in all auxiliaries. useful commercial sites. ) J. Marian Walker, Lima Peru Utah; bachelors degree. University The web page also has a section ov Created the DMVs by parent of Utah; served Church as regional Temple-Retir- ed educator; native. the Utah State Tax Commis- Utahlicenseplates,includingaphoto; representative, stake president, bishop, Hurricane, Utah; Ph.D. and masters agency, features a gallery of current and historic Utah' sion, mission president. Joyce W. Jacobsen, degrees, Brigham Young University, bachelors degree, Brigham Young bachelors degree, University of the Newcomers Guide that offers basic license plates (with inks toother states;: information on who must register their plates), along with infomiation on how University; served Church as Relief Americas; served Church as stake vehicles. The guide describes state to obtain andor personalize standard- Society and Primary president, teacher president, bishop, mission president, '? emission issue and special group plates. and safety inspection requirein youth auxiliary. branch president. Colleen H. Walker, lists associated the and taxes associate' Because ments, many people Dean L. Larsen, Provo Temple-Fornative. Hurricane, Utah; served Church Church general authority and as Relief Society president, counselor fees, and outlines the rules regarding DMV with drivers licenses, a link isj registration requirements for military provided to the Department of Public high school teacher and coach; native, in youth auxiliary. students. personnel and Safetys recently upgraded Driver Li- Utah bachelors degree, Hyrum, Utah; naand ness The site also features an Auto cense Division site. accounting executive; served Church as State One of the regulatory mandates that all nursing facilities has is to attain or maintain the h ighest practicable physig cal, mental and psychosocial of every resident. 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