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Show T O S3 SAVE Chapter Is IB THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, Sept. 6, 1984 mresiryue Organized To Aid In Saving Others HOLLADAY. My life had reached the point where there were two ways to go. I could accept God and live, or go on and die," said Patti S., a recovered alcoholic and advocate for Substance Abuse Volunteer Efforts Inc., (SAVE) in Ogden. SAVE literally saved Patti and now she is helping others. A Salt Lake Chapter of SAVE has been organized and will hold its first support meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Highland Ridge Hospital, 4578 Highland Dr. The group will continue to meet every Tuesday thereafter. Ed Brown, council chairman of the newly organized chapter and a professor at the graduate school of social work at the University of Utah, said the support group was organized by Rick H., a drug and alcohol counselor, Rhett Potter, a business consultant, and other LDS church leaders and members. Rick H. sensed a need for direct help from God in his work and a place where families with problems and common goals could meet. The group has become a way back into life and active church membership for many. James Goodrich, assistant director of Health Services for the LDS church, gave advice and helped with church ideas and materials. It is an example of a grassroots effort to combat a real problem - a type of effort we need more of, Goodrich said. Rick H is quick to point out that SAVE is neither affiliated with nor sanctioned by the LDS church, but the group does use and have permission to use some of the materials developed by the church. -- He said SAVE is patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous 12 steps, but with even more emphasis on God and Jesus Christs help. Patti was an alcoholic for eight years and would drink as much as a of vodka a day. She claims she didnt believe in God. When Rick H. first suggested that she attend SAVE she became angry, half-gallo- n pounded on the desk and threatened to quit coming at all. Finally, Rick H. convinced her. I havent had a drink in 18 months and feel good about myself, she said. I attend church and am accepted as part of the group. Lisa got into the drug scene as a teen-age- r and eventually her habit was costing as much as $200 a day. She kept supplied by buying for others and bartering for part of the drugs. She was in and out of the hospital with hepatitis and finally her doctor got her into treatment. Lisa looks forward to being rebaptised and says SAVE has changed my life in everyway. SAVE also has support groups patn to help family terned after members who have relatives who are substance abusers. Through this support group LaVar and. Donna were able to shed feelings of guilt about their son, an alcohol and drug abuser. Now, they realize the problem is his they offer him support and love, but refuse to make excuses for him anymore. Lavar claims, It was only after attending SAVE meetings that I learned to sleep nights. Al-no- Additional officers for the newly organized Salt Lake SAVE Chapter are Fenton Moss, former director of Western Region Alcoholism Training Center; Glenn Lambert, director of Odyssey House; Allan Proctor, a director and clinical social worker for LDS Social Services; Thom Giblin, Pat Ashby, Bill and Gai Kerbs Chad Hamilton, Alice Neff, and Joe Poteet, director of treatment at Highland Ridge Hospital. Karen Radisky, clinical social worker, and Lou Hancock, director of Alcohol and Drug Abuse for Salt Lake County, will serve as consultants For more information about SAVE Inc., those interested may call or write the office, Washington Blvd., Suite 202, Ogden, Utah 84401. For information in the Salt Lake area they may call Gai Kerbs, (80D621-SAV- 2568 4. 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Like Garfield the Cat, Larry is an unusual, precocious pet that has so completely won the heart of his owner he considers him his best friends. The parrot, a Yellow Mape Amazon, came into the life of Mike Siegel, president of an ICC freight forwarding firm, two years ago while the bird was still in pin' feathers. Although originally he was there on a temporary basis, it didnt take long to ingratiate himself into a fulltime position both at home and in the office. Siegel, who lives alone, has been into birds for the past 15 years. During the past 10 he has had a lilac crown, two double yellow heads, a blue and gold macaw, two African greys, a sulphur crested cockatoo, an umbrella cockatoo and a muloc-cu- n cockatoo which is considered the best talker among the bird population. However, Siegel feels that Larry is the best bird he has ever had, affectionately referring to him as the Green Buzzard. Not only because he has acquired a with His Parrot? wine, vodka tonics and McDonald's french fries. In fact, he eats everything that Siegel eats with the exception of meat. Everywhere Siegel goes, Larry "He begs worse than any dog you on a date. He takes goes ever saw, Siegel commented, in him shopping the supermarket, through a whole usually going eating out at a restaurant, boating sidewalk act to get attention by on Flaming Gorge and he even flies and hanging on planes in a shoe box tucked under screaming, whistling down until someone feeds upside the seat. him. Wherever they go, Larry creates a In addition to his lot of interest, especially from the vocabulary, Larry also had 10 in lice who kids flock around like sentences that he uses to fit the occaEgypt. Both adults and children sion When someone comes to the usually ask questions, but the most house, he says, Hello, Larry. How often asked is the query: When they leave, he says. Goodbye much will you take for him? To and if they should leave the which Siegel answers: No amount Larry, door open, he screams in a loud of money. He is not only a pet, he is voice "Shut the door." The only my friend. swear word he knows is Oh what The natural food for a bird like the hell. Larry includes fruits, nuts and ber"Sometimes he comes up with ries. Seeds are not part of the food in their natural habitat, but they will things that you swear he knows exeat them in captivity if they are actly what you are saying. Siegel said One time during deer season, taught how. Larry is not an ordinary bird; he we pulled up beside a carload of deer thinks he is a person. He gets up in hunters and Larry cocked his head the morning and waddles downstairs and said, Where are you going?" to have a cup of coffee with Siegel They are going to kill Bambi I said, He also like ice cream, tuna, and he dropped his head and said in fruit, nuts, a sorrowful tone, Aaah. salmon, vegetables, vocabulary, but because the two have developed such a strong affinity for one another. too-exc- ept "Another time we were riding along in the car with my girl friend and I made a remark that she didnt like. Larry cocked his head and looked from one to the other, then said, "You blew it At home Larry sits on top of his cage At 8:30 he crawls into it and goes to sleep At the office he takes a nap every day, and everyone knows when it is 3 p m. because Larry is sleeping. Seigel doesnt recommend people buying big birds unless they have an experience with small ones The big birds have 3,500 pounds of pressure in their beaks and the bottom beak is shaped like a chisel They can also get to be very possessive and jealous and are apt to inflict a painful bite But Larry rarely bites anyone, according to Siegel, who feels Larry has more personality than any bird he has ever seen. Siege! added that the bird is a lot easier to clean up after than a dog or cat He did admit though that is riding around on his shoulders, he has an occabut it is a small sional "accident, price to pay for having a friend like sometimes when he Larry. silk-lik- Regular $34 to $68 NOW 2267 to $4534 OFF Come to our Ceramics Open House at the stores listed in this ad Bring this along for a special Expiration date September FASHION PLACE Shop: Mon thru Sat. MURRAY 10-- 9 Sun. 79, 1984 vl D (2 H 03 A party that lasfls a lifetime: Upsey Daisey Gifts & Ceramics 7045 S. 400 W. 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