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Show QUR TOWNS = | DailySHerald THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2006 METROEDITOR | Joe Pyrah - 344-2586 - jpyrah@heraldextra.com Student teachers learn great lesson Anna Chang-Yen DAILY HERALD Five BYU students hoped to test their teaching wings in Washington, D.C., this semester. But they brought home something more: close bonds with their teacher-mentors, who traveled at their own expense to BYU to see the young womenput a period on their college years. The students spent four months at Amidon Elementary,an inner-city school on Washington, D.C.'s south- west waterfront.“I've been doing this for several years, and I haven't quite seen this level of connection between the teachers and the student teachers,” said Becky Vanatter, student teacher coordinator for Brigham Young University. The teachers are in townto learn more about their pro- caloe and watch them graduate Commencement exercises Sabetaey, with individual college convocations on Friday. “Weji in there,and it was automatically like a team,” said Kara Petersen who is graduating with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. “We had unity right off.” The pairs spent time togetherinside and outside the classroom and got to know each other,Petersen said. “Wewereonly there for a short while, but it made sucha lasting friendship. I'm happy and yoneret that they're coming out her« Studentteacher Emily moun. was looking for a challenge when she applied to the program,and she found it at Amidon, where she said poverty Alpine anddiscipline problemswere abundant. According to District of Columbia Public Schools, about 58 perceni of Amidon's students receive free lunches,and the schoolhas one of the highest truancy rates in the district. “I guess just first of all the behaviorof the studentswas different than anything I'd seen’ , and the strategies I was taught in ‘school didn’t work.I tried out everything I knew howto do and found out| had charter school See TEACHERS, C5 approved Caleb Warnock DAILY HLRALC The charter schoolthat divided loyalties in Alpine has received its final approval — but maynot be builtin its original location. On Monday,the Utah County Health Departmentsenta letter to the organizersof Mountainville Academy acknowledging the ‘7-acre proposed site at 365 E. 100 South in Alpine “may be located within aflood plain” but “information was submitted to our office addre: he flood plain issue.” school's engineers have made recommendations to overcomeany flood danger and county engineers agree those recom- mendations aresufficient, said Terry Beebe of the Utah County Health Departmentin an interview with the Daily Herald. Tobegin building, organizers need only havetheir site plan drawingsandrelated papers stamped andsigned by the school’s engineering firm, amendthe flood zone area on their grading and drainageplan, and then follow the recommendations oftheir engineers, according to letter from Beebe to school organizers, a copy of which was obtained by the Daily Herald. See SCHOOL, C5 Truckerdies two MARIO RUIZDaily Heraid daysafter fiery Children shade themselves from the sun at a soccer tournamentat Lakeside Park in Orem on Tuesday afternoon. accident on U. | Beware ofthe sun: Cancer can come years later heavarm April sun feels sa good on bare skin. Atleast until a few, hours Jater, when the previously pale skin that’s been hidden underlayers of winter clothing is red and from the first sunburn ofthe year, which sneaked up unnoticed since the days aren’t that hot and the cool breeze is deceptive. little aloe vera gel, a few daysof avoiding hot showers and everything’s back to normal, right? Not quite, said Dr. Mark Donaldson, a dermatologist with Central Utah Clinic, A sunburn can result in much morethan a fleeting skin condition. “Sunlight you get as a teenager you pay for 20 yearslater,” Donald. sonsaid, and wrinkles arethe bestcase scenario. Excessivetimein the sun can lead to skin cancer, which can be fatal.Donaldsonsaid ultravioletlight causes mutations in the DNA of some skin cells, causing either a Le ora tan; within a few weeks has repaired about 99 percoat of those mutations. The extra 1 percentthat’s never repaired can build up and becomecancerous yearslater. Of course, not every bad sunburn will result in skin cancer. Hecited ~ three factorsthat can relate to the likelihood of cancer, although nothing is a sure predictor. The first is timein the sun. The secondis in the genes. “The most obvious genetic factor is the ability of the skin to tan,” he said. “Redheads havea lot higher risk of sun damage becauseof their coloring than a dark African-American has.” People with darker skin pigments have better protection from sun damage; Donaldsonsaid people.with olive-colored skin have the equivalent of SPF 6 sunscreen because of the darker pigments, while people with very dark skin havethe equivalent of 10-12 SPF. That’s something Orem resident Carrie Redford, a redheadwith pale skin, has found out the hard way. Several months ago doctors found a pre-cancerous growth on her neck andhadit biopsied to test for cancer. The test came back negative. “Since then I’m going to be even morecareful, because that was DAILY HERALD scary,” she said. The third factor, Donaldsonsaid,is a person's innate immunity. The human body kills thousands of cancer cells every day, but as the immune Truck driver Todd Nicolson died Wednesday morning,two daysafter a fiery crash in Spanish Fork Canyon. The 39-year-old, of Lupton, Ariz., suffered pen as peopleage,it is less able to. defend the body against those cells. Therealso are environmental factors,like the lack of vegetation to absorb sunlight and the snow, which burns on over 90 percentofhis body when fuel leaked from thespill and ignited. The Utah Departmentof Transportation estimates that clean-up will take three weeks and that the highwaywill be restricted to onelane duringthat time. Drivers should reflects the ultraviolet rays and can expect a 20 minute delay between8:30 a.m. low. This and the pale European a.m.to 3:00 p.m. Therewill be no clean up on the weekends. system weakens, which tends to hap- and 4:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday. cause severe sunburnsto skiers, snowboarders andothers even in winter when the temperatures are On Fridays, the road will be closed from 8:30 ancestry of most Utahns contributes to the state's higher than average incidenceof skin cancer. Crews spent Tuesdaynight repaving the road and removing gasoline from the pavement. They will spend three weeks replacing Even days that are cloudy and the soil on the shoulder. 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