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Show From Redwood We Get letters - . . Editor: Excerpts from the 1971 Report of the White House Conference on Youth point out some specific steps that should be taken to insure the best possible treatment of juvenile offenders, A few of these are: Assistants? Are they fully aware of community problems and resources to solve these problems? The justice system Utah juvenile need of improvement and change - who is in will do it? National standards for correctional institutions should be established. Basically, these standards should assure that no Mr. Robert C. Clegg model neighborhood a resident juvenile be detained or incarcerated correctional unable to insitution that provide meaningful programs and satisfactory facilities. State boards of education should require young people to in a is take a professionally designed course on youth and the law, including the role of the police, courts and correctional systems. That the goal to be strived for is the improvement of the juvenile justice system with emphasis on community treatment and prevention Editor: Thank you for such an Our family enjoys reading it. I'm interesting newspaper. happy to see your paper reflecting many viewpoints and so far, not becoming another "establishment paper, nor a radical one. Keep it up. Sincerely, Joan Riley and family Salt Lake City programs. That a wide range of treatment and referral programs should be organized outside the existing juveile justice system, by private and public sponsoring groups alike, and a greatly increased number of juveniles be remanded to such programs, especially before being channeled into court. My question is - what is Utah doing to improve the juvenile justice system? What Model Cities through its Crime and Delinquency Task Force doing to is make changes and Which improvements? another question trained THIS IS YOUR PAPER WRITE TO THE EDITOR TODAY! Fred Keefer, director of the Council on Aging, discusses programs with senior citizens of Redwood Community. Residents Learn of Programs for Seniors Some of the services mentioned by Steve Varley were: he the Independant Some new programs, as well as extentions of some old ones, were announced and explained in detail Tuesday, June 6 at a Senior Citizen's Luncheon at the Redwood Center, 2717 South Redwood Road. Fred Keefer, director of the Council onAging, explained the services available to senior citizens and urged greater SPAN - Living Project, Outreach Information, Referral and Followup, Metropolitan Salt Lake Services for the Aging, which includes Meals on Wheels, Friendly Visitors and the Friendly Neighborhood Center, Adult Nutrition Activity Northwest-Ros- e Park Program, Seniors Program, Senior Citizen's Development Project and participation. a Transportation Subsidy, as well and Library And if you don't think that is enough to keep you involved, there is more! "Getting involved means feeling younger," Keefer told one member in the group as they enjoyed the luncheon. And there are certainly programs designed to interest almost anybody. For information concerning these and other programs available, call the Council on Aging, 487-- 344. as Home Services Delivery Services. 1 brings up how well are the Task Force - salt lake modal neighborhood news volume one The Model Neighborhood News is a publication of the Salt Lake Model Cities Agency under the supervision of the Joint Board of City and County Publication of the Model Neighborhood News is made possible through a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Commissioners with editorial offices located at 119 East 21st South, Bldg. 5, Salt Lake City, Utah 841 15. Publication of the newspaper is weekly with a distribution of 17,000 copies. Marlene Marie Young, Editor and Community Information Specialist Donetta Fluker, Editorial Assistant Distribution by Reliable Courier Terry, Staff Reporter Roger Taylor, Staff Reporter and Photographer Steve Varley, Staff Reporter and Photographer Kirk Joint Board of Commissioners Ralph Y. McClure, Chairman Phillip R. Blomquist Stephen Harmsen CoTirad Harrison Jennings Phillips William E. Dunn From your editor The Model Neighborhood News is approaching the one year mark as a weekly community newspaper. With some staff changes enabling us to move in the direction we feel is important, it seems a good time to review our ideas and plans for the future. The Neighborhood News feels it has several responsibilities to the residents of the model neighborhood and the community at large. First of all, the responsibility of informing. No one can become involved in identifying community problems, planning solutions or making decisions without pertinent information. This means being informed about community issues, operating agencies and projects as well as the opinions and feelings of fellow residents. Projects will eventually fail if the people they are trying to reach and help, do not know about the available services. Community problems will continue to exist if people are unaware. A second responsibility, as we see it, is to motivate people. No program and particularly Model Cities can accomplish its . . . goals without the involvement of the people to be affected. There are other functions of a good newspaper, such as to entertain its readers and provide a means of responding for its readers. A good newspaper will raise community issues and discuss community problems in an effort to help the residents of the community reach intelligent, sound decisions about solutions. The Model Neighborhood News will attempt to accomplish all of these objectives while continuing to be a "valid community newspaper. |
