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Show I Editor: May I take this opportunity to commend you on an excellent editorial which appeared July 12th. I concur in your reasons for the existence of attitudes that is evident in American society today, and the need to correct this dangerous trend or, as you so aptly put it, "we will become a Watergate nation of impersonalized robots, unfit to enjoy the fruits of a wide-sprea- d non-carin- The home, the university the legislature, the courts in themselves do not create caring people. For example, the home. Today, the family as a unit living together is fast becoming g Husband and wife both leave home for work and return to a house where children have been left to fend for themselves and work out . g parental guidance or sympathy. Result is the formation of an attitude which says "why should attitudes do not I happen overnight. They are the care-m- y parents don't". Love can results of a technological advance quickly sour, unless it is fostered and in every effort of human endeavor, shared in an atmosphere of trust. In summary I would say that that is overwhelming to Man himself. To put it more bluntly, as individuals and as a nation, we some of us have it too good here in have to make a concerted effort to America. Under the guise of bring about a change in values. At "freedom", we have let our guard the present time, money seems to down and every conceivable cancer be the prime motivating factor in has taken root to plague us. From our lives. A reversal of this attitude credit cards to convenience foods, is necessary if we are to bring about from women liberation movements and foster a nation of caring to educational excesses and a people. sexual permissiveness that lifts the Frank Howard curtain on everything, we have run Salt Lake City, Utah the gamut. People comprise institutions. Summer Youth Program by Willy Allen Although its been a long and hot summer there is still alot more in store for the kids of the North West side of the valley. One of the most enjoyable things to happen for the kids of that area is the Nettie Gregory Summer Youth Funding Ideas Held fc supervisor is to make sure each child is active in some kind of summer program and to qet to know that child's family as well as Program. The program was developed this year under the direction of voluntary workers, Marsha Boyd, Janett Leadbetter possible. The program was slow in starting but got underway after other groups took interest in its purpose. These groups were the Y.W.C.A., Salt Lake County Recreation and the N.A.A.C.P.. beyond the usual guidance The program is also working with juvenile court with those youths involved in delinquent behavior. The center also provides lunch for some forty kids daily. The program is solely voluntary. It is trying to establish, through its use of the Nettie Gregory Center, a program which will last throughout the year. The program offers the youth of the North West area plenty to do. Its future will be determined by community response. So, kids, if there is nothing for you to do for the remainder of the summer get involved with the Nettie Gregory Summer Youth Program at 742 West South supervisor. The job of the guidance Temple; phone and Julia Henry. As coordinator, Marcha Boyd, is trying to establish a working program which will not only go through this summer but will also continue into the fall. The program is a way to allow the kids of that area a working summer program. Each day something new is scheduled for kids from field trips to swimming to Salt Lake County Recreation competition. Already this summer the program has sent more than twenty five kids to camp. The volunteer's of the program have jobs which take them s I I. in S.L. 364-067- 3. A workshop on new directions funding and relationships between Community Action in Program staff and resident groups was held Friday, July 13 and c Saturday, July 14, at the Tri-Ar- Travel Lodge. Several concepts came out of the workshop including; 1. a decentralization of services will have greater benefit to the people needing services; 2. groups of people "speak" louder than individuals and 3. "the days of passionate I f pleas and emotional appeals" in seeking funding are over. Bill Bruhn, Executive Director of the Department of Community Affairs, said, "This troublesome time to is a be in i government. There are many ? changes being made." emphasized changes He in social action and social service programs stating that while the Watergate incident had given a reprieve to some programs, we should not be complacent." "It's a new ball game as far as funding concerned. We'll have to make some hard decisions to determine the best use of dollars," he added. Perhaps the most dynamic speaker of the day and a half is Jay Hudson workshop was Jerome "Jay" Hudson, Director of Community Affairs and Training with the Human Development Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri. He talked g briefly about the prophecy" which has you believing believing the worse and accepting the "inevitable" until you defeat yourself. He urged workshop "self-fulfillin- participants to "do your become bettter homework, prepared and "stop being led." Hudson outlined how the Community Action agency in St. Louis became a corporation "interested non-prof- it the problems of the poor" with the office of Economic Opportunity SALT LAKE NEIGHBORHOOD in providing approximately 28 NEWS ADVERTISER percent of its funding rather than 100 percent. The establishment of several profit-makinbusinesses brings money into the social service g Published by the Communications Service Center, Inc. operation, he said. Marlene Marie Young, Editor . , - Tim Funk, Staff reporter Donald Young, Photographer Clark Yospe, Graphics and Children's Supplement Editor Ed John, Advertising Manager Distribution by carrier. Publication of the newspaper is weekly with a distribution of 30,000 copies. jiwqu. 4 their own problems, without democratic society". Non-carin- non-existen- t. Workshop to Develop The major complaints from the resident groups were a lack of involvement by people in their areas and a lack of communication between various groups in the organization was needed, probably contact with otherrm-th- e state to share information and problem-solvin- g ideas," a resident at a stand still now with the question of from Logan said. In summary, participants and leaders of the workshop decided on funding unsettled. We don't have Saturday more unity and state. "Everything is in the form of a state-wid- e coalition, and some form of regular state-wid- e communication should be established. Dan Dix with the Public Service Careers program, served as workshop coordinator and moderator. |