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Show mi m"inii nti'iiwiii"i m"f '''miT1 f1" miaii"sp" Mesangr-Entrprls- Letters Mae Thompson and Barbara Johan-soMt. Pleasant; Joy Jensen, Moroni; Mary Gilgan, Fountain Green; Sharron Andreason and Pat Foote, Ephraim; and Sherrol Snow and Sharon Stilson of Manti. by n, I would certainly like to express my deep appreciation to all of the people in your area on behalf of myself, The Womens Endowment Committee and the special children at Primary Childrens Medical Center. The response from Sanpete County towards helping with the Festival of Trees, a benefit for Primary Childrens Medical Center, has been overwhelming. A special thanks goes to Betty (Mrs. Ray) Carver of Manti, who has held the chairmanship of this project in your area. Many, many tfuckloads of choice, beautiful quality gifts have been brought to me, to be taken to Salt Lake City to the Salt Palace for the Festival. This has involved so many hours of both time and means for Betty and Ray. Their giving nature has helped me to make it possible to expand this Gift of Love for the children, to areas which have not been this actively involved in the past. Also a special thank you" to the following women who helped Mrs. Carver as a committee: Mary Lois Madsen and Pat Jensen, Gunnison; I would like to also thank the Messenger and Enterprise and radio station KMT1 for the publicity given so willingly. year 1,430 children were helped at Primary Childrens Medical Center because of the generosity of people like the people from Sanpete County. None of us are immune to this kind of need and the facilities there serve the whole intermountain west. Primary Hospital is designed to meet the needs of children, staffed by the very best physicians and nurses. How fortunate we are to have it in our midst! Last Thanks to all of you for your of Love" to the children I Gift Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year! Sincerely, Nora M. (Mrs. Glade Y.) Creer South Area Chairman, Womens Endowment Committee National Home Health Week in Sanpete County by Pat Mellor 1. There must be an acute or chronic illness requiring skilled nursing care. The week of November 28 through December 3 has been designated National Home Health Week by President Ronald Reagan. Locally, the Sanpete Valley Hospital Home Health Agency takes this time to recognize the efforts of its home health nurses, aides and therapists and the care they provide to home-boun- d patients throughout Sanpete County. 2. The patient's physician must order the care. A physicians referral may come from any practicing Utah physician, psychiatrist, osteopath, or podiatrist. 3. The patient must be home-bounHomebound doesnt mean bedridden, but confined to home due to physical, mental or emotional limitations. d. Home health care was established in Sanpete County in 1979. Since its beginnings, an average of 130 There are four Registered Nurses, two Licensed Practical Nurses, three Home Health Aides, and one physical therapist who serve as the Home Health force in - Sanpete " County. patients per year have received nursing care, physical therapy or speech therapy in their homes. Most patients have been the elderly, covered by Medicare insurance. Only recently has a change been noted as major private insurance carriers offer home health care as a benefit of their major medical plans. From the time home health was started in Sanpete County in 1979, its presence has made a difference in medical cost savings to the consumer. One case in point demonstrates that savings on family medical dollars. Each nurse is assigned 12 to 20 patients in a certain geographical area who will be visited weekly or more often. Care ranges from super- vising the medications taken by a patient, to doing personal care, terminal care (including IV therapy) and much family grief counseling. The nurses work 20 to 40 hours a week and each travels an average of 400 miles per month. Staff members are: Home Health Coordinator Sandra Little, R.N.; Ephraim Nurse n Helen Parry, R.N.; Nurse Jeanette Ugalde, R.N.; Pleasant Nurse Rosa An Sanpete resident fell and broke his hip and was taken to Salt Lake City for treatment. After the acute hospital stay it was deter- mined that the spouse was unable to care for the patient, and he was placed in a Salt Lake City nursing home. He remained there for 55 days, just short of two months, at a cost of $4,420. The elderly gentley mans wife made trips to see her husband, adding more cost and strain on the aged, already-burdene- d couple. .When financial resources ran out, die nursing home discharged its patient. A neighbor told the wife about home health, and she arranged with the family doctor and the Home Health Agency to have nursing help three days a week for an hour per visit. The nurses worked on personal hygiene, diet and medications, leg and hip exercises and reactivation therapy. The patient has now been on home health for five months: the total cost has been $2,250. Medicare has covered the entire amount. twice-weekl- Home health care is successful because the patient and family benefit from having the patient recover in his own home with minimal outside care. There are three basic qualifications for home health care: Manti-Gunniso- Fair-view-- Larson, R.N.; Moroni-Fountai- n Green Nurse Jean Cloward, LPN; and Mt. Pleasant-Sprin- g City Nurse Jeannette Rasmussen. Home Health Aides are Golda Stewart, Ephraim; Barbara Wood, Manti; and Leah Larson, Fairview. Dave Higham is the staff physical therapist, and Joan Olsen is Administrative Secretary for the program. The Sanpete Valley Home Health Agency is the only licensed home health care provider in Sanpete County, according to nurse Sandra Little. It serves the people from Indianola on the north to Axtell on the south, east from Spring City to Fountain Green on the west. The services are billed and most of the charges are paid by Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance. The Home Health Agency also provides a means for patients to purchase durable medical equipment for home use. If you or someone you know is interested in obtaining home health service, you may obtain more Pat Mellor Manti City and the Manti Irrigation Company, with bills Incurred during this springs flooding, are facing severe cash shortages for the next 0 days, spokesmen for both groups say. Manti City hopes eventually to have about $56,000 of its expenses picked up by emergency funding agencies such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency and locally by the Utah Disaster Relief Board. 60-9- The city officials say they have learned that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has received 1,200 Utah Damage Survey Reports which must be reviewed by that a city agency. Off the record, source said, I think theyre looking at about five years of work. The city officials said they could appreciate the problems faced by the federal agency, but say they are plagued with cash flow problems due to the expenses of the flood, which are being paid as money comes available to the city. City recorder Bill Mickelson said he believed it would be another 60 to 90 days before the citys cash flow problems were solved, due to ongoing current expenses and the added burden of meeting the citys obligations to contractors from the flooding work. Representatives of the states Disaster Relief Board met with county officials and representatives of other agencies within the county on Monday afternoon and suggested the county form a special service district and create a taxing entity to pay off flooding costs. It has been rumored that the State may be able to respond to only about a third or less of the requests for financial disaster assistance which it has received as an outgrowth of the floods of 1983. One representative who attended the meeting said it was his feeling that the creation of another special service district as a vehicle for additional taxation was unnecessary. We already have the taxing entity in place. Why create another one? People are still going to know they are being taxed. At this point, Manti City's flood debts amount to about $111.76 per resident. Of primary concern to the city and to the irrigation company is the cleaning and repair of the debris basin at the mouth of Manti Canyon, and repair to the debris basin dam. The city and irrigation company officials have met several times in regard to the problem and agree that the work must be undertaken before the spring runoff, with or without federal or state assistance, because the debris basin is an integral part of the high water and flood control system. cleaning the debris basin and repair to the dam at approximately $50,000-$60,00This year the irrigation company and the city spent $30,000 to clear the debris basin and reinforce the dam, and got the work about half done, an irrigation company spokesman stated. During the spring floods, the debris basin filled with four to five feet of rocks and silt. A sinkhole of persistent nature formed south and east of the spillway within the debris basin itself, threatening the dam wall. The dam itself required shoring, and the spillway needs to be heightened and reinforced. At present the city and irrigation company are cooperatively using rock and gravel fill from the dredging of the debris basin to form the sewer ponds north of the city. Large rocks uncovered during the sewer installation within the city are being moved to help form the dam in the debris basin. The city has applied for funding to upgrade the existing flood channel through town and install adequate culverts and bridges. It now appears that this project would be funded if at all, by state agencies. Not only are officials of the city and the irrigation company concerned about the present problem, they are facing the fact that conditions could again be similar next spring. City recorder Mickelson agrees that the prospect of getting the city back on course in the next 0 days brings the council almost to the time of the spring runoff and a repeat of last years problems. 25-4- 60-9- Were wringing our hands," Mickelson admitted. We need to pay this last year off, and we need to do the work to get ready for next year. An official of the irrigation company observed off the record that if he werent a farmer, hed be tempted to "hope for a dry winter and pray fora drought next spring." It's a serious problem, and were handling it to the best of our ability. The agencies with the funding have shown some real concern, and I think that like us, theyre doing the best they can with what they have to work with. We are seeing that a disaster really is a disaster, in terms of having to divert funds from other worthwhile projects to pay for damage and prevention measures. Its a disaster for all the taxpayers. And we have to face the hard fact that we could come up against something similar next spring again. Meanwhile, everything else that needed to be done before still needs to be done and needs to be paid for. Both the City and the irrigation company officers are very concerned. Were going through a rough period right now. We're hoping it wont happen again for a long time. This weeks Friday Forum speaker Bob Trythall Bob Trythall, Athletic Director at Snow College and also director of the Snow College Activity Center, will be the speaker at Friday Forum on December 2, 1983. The title of his talk will be, "Is Heavenly Father an Umpire or Coach? Born in Salt Lake City, Mr. e Trythall attended school at High School in Inglewood, California, where he was chosen Athlete of the Year. He was also in football and in basketbaseball, and ball. Mom-ingsid- information by telephoning Sandra Little at Sanpete Valley Hospital, or Mr. Trythall attended UCLA on a contacting any of the area nurses listed above. Home Healths number baseball athletic scholarship. He also attended Brigham Young in Mt. Pleasant in University where he received B.A. and M.A. degrees. While coaching softball at Snow College, Mr. Trythalls team was judged conference champion and achieved 8th place in the nation. He has been Intramural Director at Snow College and was chosen fast ideas. Snow College Teacher of the Year Enrollment for the class is not in 1983. limited. Classes will be held While serving as' a missionary in Thursday evenings, December 1, December 8 and December 15, from the New Zealand South Mission, Mr. 9 p.m. in Room 107, Applied Arts Trythall acted as Traveling Dder for and Science Building on the Snow the Mission President. Campus. Cost of the class, which will He has served as Elders be taught by Carol Jacobsen, is $7. president, Sunday School president, and as Young Mens president in the Those desiring to register may call Ephraim Second Ward. He is Snow College's Community Educacurrently serving as bishop of the tion Division, ext. 205. Snow College Third Ward. Mr. Trythall is at present serving on the Ephraim City Recreation Board and is coaching the Ephraim baseball team. Giants, a pee-we- e Married to the former Debbie Nessen, Mr. Trythall and his wife are parents of two sons and one daughter. Mr. Trythalls parents, Francis and Inez Trythall, are temple workers at the Seattle LDS Temple. His wifes parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Nessen, preside over the California San Bernardino Mission. Thursday evenings. The workshop will offer participants a chance to make a cookie train, a gingerbread house, and will present Christmas morning break- - , TitnmtitTr''wi'Ty'i"''ii"nciifiniip 1983 2 Pag Trivia by Max E. Call Decisions , decisions Im faced with dilemma this week. terrible a Next Wednesday is Beths birthday and Im having a tremendous struggle to think of what I could get her for a gift. After all, what do you give a person who already has everything namely, me? Why should a dutiful wife who has a kind, lovable, sweet, generous (and extremely modest) husband, want anything else? But I suppose I should be extra beneficent at this time and come up with something. I feel kind of obligated, especially since she got me a new color TV set for my birthday last month. But what should I choose? Over the years, Ive given her fishing boots, new tires for the car, an expensive fishing reel, an electric razor, a skill saw, two hammers, and one year when I felt extremely generous I bought her a bicycle (mans). Perhaps I could duplicate one of the atove items. After all the fishing reel is about worn out (I might even get her a new pole to go with it). Whatever I get her should look like a $100 gift, but should cost under $2.98. We need a new toilet brush for the bathroom, but somehow I doubt that shed be too thrilled with that. Perhaps something for the office. I wonder if shed like a new pencil box. And she's almost out of typewriter correction fluid. Or maybe a new wastebasket. Other items which I suppose might thrill her would be a couple of new font strips for our typesetting machine, more chemicals for the darkroom, or a whole new box of computer paper. Theres one thing 462-244- by Wayne Nielson The LD Singers and the Ephraim LDS Institute Choir will present their Christmas concert December 6, 7 and 8. The Dec. 7 performance will be Senior Citizens Night. The concert will be a special show consisting of humerous and serious choral numbers, some with choreography. The intent of the show is to provide a time to share in the spirit of the holiday season. The concert is in its seventh year and will develop the theme: Give a Little Love". Numbers such as "Ring Those Christmas Bells, Gesu Bambino and "Jazz Gloria" will be performed by the L.D. Singers. The Institute Choir will sing since then Ive given her something a little nicer. And she's always loved whatever it was. If there was ever anything which wasn't just right, I was the one who felt badly about it not her. If youll promise not to tell her, I'll let you in on a little secret: In spite of her calling me an old goat regularly, in spite of her cold feet on my back, and in spite of her other shortcomings, shes not only the best woman I have, but the best one 1 know, and I hope to spend many more birthdays with her. After all, the bicycle will wear out someday. And if anyone says I said what I just said, I'll deny itl After all, I dont want to be branded as an old sentimental softie. It won't do any good to ask Beth how old she is. Ive been asking her for over 40 years, and she won't tell me. The other day I asked my son why he wasn't putting It money in his piggy bank. David turns kids into misers and parents into bank robbers, was the sarcastic reply. Kay Peterson has a problem. Last week someone turned in to the post office a package, marked on alP "Fragile This Side Up six sides. Not ao trivial: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry It with ua or we find It not. four songs, including Let There be Peace on Earth," Do You Hear What I Hear Love One and Another. Several ensembles from both groups will also perform. Lisa Milne and Milt Olsen from the LD Singers have been working with Lara Gowen and Ron Andrews of the Institute Choir to organize the concert. It will be under the direction of David Willmore and the student officers. The concert will begin each night at 8 and last about an hour and a half. It will be held in the Ephraim LDS Institute auditorium. There will be no charge for the concert, but donations would be appreciated. Santa coming Members of the Manti Chamber of Commerce have scheduled a full calendar of holiday events to encourage consumers to shop at home. torium. Santa Arrives December 17 The second and final drawing will be held December 17. The date was T-Shi- changed from December 23 due to the Holiday Bowl scheduled for television on the December 23 date. Community caroling will begin at 5:30 from the four corners of the city. At 6 p.m. the Chamber of Commerce drawing will be held in the Armory, followed by the arrival of Santa Claus. The Chamber has arranged for a professional photographer to be on hand to photograph the little ones individually visiting with Santa Claus. Photos will cost $2.50. All children are invited to visit with Santa; photos are optional. on sale rts The Manti Elementary School PTA will sell and sweat shirts with the school's Eagle insignia on them as a fund-raisin- Bob Trythall five-poun- present Christmas concert Following the drawing, a free movie will be shown for children in the Ephraim Middle School audi- 1, whatever I give her, she likes. (I believe the first present I ever gave her was on her 14th birthday when I really splurged and gave d box of chocoher a lates. If I gave her that now, shed probably divorce me). The next year it was a bottle of Evening in Paris (that sounded pretty glamorous to me) perfume. Every year LD Singers, Choir will 7-- 283-402- ... I know for sure. Whatever I give her shell be pleased with. Ive noticed that during the 48 years Ive been observing her birthdays, that Saturday, December 10 the first drawing for a number of prizes contributed by local merchants will be held at 1 p.m. in the Manti Armory. it too, attend workshop for the next three 1 mi y-p Irrigation company officials Tuesday evening estimated the cost of Have your cake and eat Half the fun of Christmas is eating, and the other half is admiring the food before you eat it. Snow College is offering local residents a chance to have their cake and eat it too, this holiday season by presenting a Christmas Workshop y in flooding aftermath Thanhs for Gift of Love9 To the Editor: jp Thursday, Dacambar , Manti City wrestles with finance problems . . . "win' iiiiiifir"w,ffi'",i' g activity. The sale will be held at the school beginning next week and will continue all year. The price for the sweat shirts is the $5. The money raised will support the RIF reading program. The shirts will make excellent Christmas gifts, said Patti Davies, RIF chairman. $13 and for , |