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Show The Salt Lake Tribune COMICS C4 TELEVISION C7 HARRIETTE COLE C-7 DISCO @ The Utah State Fair opens today at the THURSDAY state Fairpark and runs to Sept. 15 SEPTEMBER 5, 2002 SCHEDULE, C-3 EXPANDING YOUR WORLD VA Hospital In Healthy Shape at 50 BY TROY GOODMAN THESALTLAKE TRIBUNE At a time when the U.S. De partmentofVeterans Affairsis studying whether to shutter a number of its hospitals, the agency’s Utah-based medical campus says it is growing strong. There are somecost-saving assessments happening at the national level but in Salt Lake we're not going anywhere,” says Susan Huff, the Salt Lake City VA Hospital spokeswom an. “In fact, we've recently added some things to better serve the 30,000 patients we see everyyear.” Among the newservices: a remodeled dental clinic, improved pharmacy services and anewheart catheterization lab. There is also now a women’s VA health center with on-site hospital roonas for easier overnight stays. This week, the medical center celebrates its 50th anniversary at its “new” campus next to the University of Utah off Foothill Drive. Previously, the VA hospital operated in the Avenues neighborhood of Salt Photos by Al Hartmann/TheSalt Lake‘Tribune Fidencio Flores, above,is among the Mexicanartists at Sundance whoturn recycled glassinto artworkslike the one below. LakeCity. The Utah medical staff has served veteranssince the early 1930s, Hutf says. See VA, Page C-3 "RECYCliny Blood Supply Has Fallen Since Attacks BY TROY GOODMAN ‘THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE Utah's blood supply remains tight but sufficient after last year’s terrorist attacks, yet the Artisans at Sundance transform broken glass into objets d’art need for blood donations is near-constant, according to the state’s American Red Cross chapter. “After 9-11 we had a fairly high blood supply, but now we're at a more normal level of a one-to- BY JUDY MAGID ‘THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE three-day biood supply, depend- UNDANCE Susan Spaeth has a S 30-gallon barrelfull of broken glass at her house, but her Heber City neighbors are not complaining. “They understand how importantit is to recycle instead of throw away,” lief SEPTEMBER11, 2001 Spaeth said. Manager of SundanceVil. lage Artisan Center, she collects broken glass for the newly enlarged glass. blowing facility where artisans from Mexico come close to being alchemists. “Theytake something useful only for roadfill and createart,” Spaeth said group's Utah Blood Services. “It’s just that as we get around the holidays and later in Julie Mack,directorof the North the year, people kind of forget to donate blood so the supply tends to go back downto Fork Preservation Alliance, is envious. Living in Salt Lake City, there is less opportunity for recycling glass. “{ hateit whenI have an empty spaghetti-sauce jar, My mother grew up in the Depressionera. She never threw lowerlevels,” Wulfsays. The group supplies pints to fill 80 percent of Utah's total out a glass jar,” she said at a luncheon to introduce the new shopto the public blood need, sharing any blood surplus with other parts of the country, mainly Los Angelesarea hospitals, Wulf estimates that Utah’s remaining 20 percent blood need is filled by David Reyes shapes glass after softening it on a blazing hearth at the glass-blowing facility in Sundance. It brought verbal memories of “drink. ing from jelly jars.” No such need at SundanceVillage in Provo Canyon. Master artisans GustavoCalderon Valdivia, José Ramon Beas Mendez, Juan David Reyes Mora, Fidencio Octavio Flores Barrera, ArmandoFlores Martinez and Vicente Martindel Campo Granados,all from Tiaquepaque, a suburb of Guadalajara, Mexico, make a couple of hundred glasses eachdaytoreplacebrokenglass from the resort's FoundryGrill and ‘Tree Roomrestaurants, resort rental units and Robert Redford’s Zoom restau: rant in ParkCity. ‘Theproject, in keeping with Sun dance founder Redford’s environmental concerns, was started about two years ago. “The idea was to recycle broken glasswarefrom the restaurants. There was one person andone kiln. The prod uct was 10glasses per day,” Spaethsaid A decision to expand was complicated bythe need for glassblowers who could work with recycled glass. Shauna Vanderlinden, Sundance’s director of humanresources, traveled to Tlaquepaque makers famous for its crafts and wasable to persuade the six glassblowers to leave their families See GLASS, PageC-3 otherprivate groups. Pints are shipped daily to See BLOOD, Page C-3 Forget the 3 R’s — Here’s What You Need to Know AboutSchool Everyyear, I got a newpair ofsneakers, somejeans, assorted y age caught up with me on Tuesday ‘The oceasion was a trip to the BYU li brary for the purpose ofresearch. I got shirts, pencils anda lec ture from the old man more than I bargained for. ‘The campus was a mink farm, A billionsleek and eager kids swarmed the place, each and ev ery one of them simply beside themselves with energy, optimisin and hormones. Thirty years have passed since | did the back-to-school scene, | forgot just howimpor: tant the process is to kids, Moreimportant, | { had forgottenjust how muchit taught me With a nod ofrespect to Robert Fulghum, all J really needed to know learned in the first five minutes of kindergarten. Every gradeafterthat was just extra credit Back to schoo!still costs money. My mom could do it for about 50 bucks a head. But these daysit costs hundreds forthe guys. and into the thousandsfor somegirls about good citizenship that ended witha few ill concealed threats. ‘These were things ROBERT KIRBY myparents thought| needed, stuff the school expected themto supply. Theydid their best but never got me what| really needed. Probably be cause what | needed was theright attitude, something I could only supply myself School, like near'ly all of iife’s most important situations, is decided inthefirst moments. ‘Those first impressions leave lasting ones. For example, I recognized iminediately in schoo! that it is not a good idea to take your work home. Jt should be left at the office. My gradesreflect an early maturity on this subject J alsorealized that clothes do indeed make the man, or rather that the complete absenceof them onthe first day will make the man go to principal's office. Sexual harassment. In thefirst minutes of school, | learned that attractive women all have boyfriends and brothers. Thesedays the gov ernmentis thefirst lineof defense here, but the result is much the same Speaking of which, sizing up bullies is a seri ous back-to-school science. The world is full of them, The sooner youidentify who they are, the easier it is to avoid (or provoke) them. Hasical ly, you lookfor subtle signs, a sup: bita) brow, an inhuman gleam to an eye, or simply anyone who could already shave. In the fourth grade, that person was Nancy School had not even begun before Nancy taught me two important life lessons, specifi cally that big does not always mean fat, and that slow of thought does not automatically mean slow offist Along with their new clothes, students should bring a deep suspicion back to schooltowardall forms of authority, Rather than swal low everything they are told, students should demand proof Really, it is possible to get a teacherside tracked away from a pop quiz by demanding proof that the Earth circles the sun, While they are busy doingit, you can run away andgo fish ing instead These back-to-school tips are what got me where | am today. If nothing else, they should serve as great warnings Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Kirby welcomes mail at 143 8. MainSt, Salt Lake City UT 84111, or email at rkirby@sttrib.com |