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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS 6 News Nurse trio says 99 years have been challenging, exciting MONDAY MAY 6, 1991 Mary and Rosalie because Mary helped get Rosalie into nursing. Rosalie and Marys younger sis- ter, Madeline, were best Friends as children. They were only 5 Mary was graduatingfTom nursing school. They looked up to Maiy and because of her in- fluence, both became nurses. We would visit Mary in the summer," Rosalie says of her Together three nurses at Kane County Hospital account for nearly a century of service to the institution. Today, May 6, is National Nurses Day, and Kane County Hospital is proud of the combined 99 years that Rosalie Esplin, director of nursing, Sharon Willis, assistant director, and Mary Janes have put in there. Sharon has 36 years, Rosalie 32, and Mary 31. All three started in the old hospital and made the move to the new one in October, 1962. All say they have found nursing a fulfilling career, but challenging. Willis probably speaks for all three when she says, Its been a joy, but its been a heartache. Janes, 68, now works only part-timbut Willis, 59, and Esphn, 52, work full-timThe trio seem to have a lot more in common than their years childhood recollections. I thought she was a neat person and a very professional person, She was kind of our ideal. She encouraged and supported us nursing school. We to turned her with our trials and troubles. It was so neat to come back and work with her. I have a lot of respect for Mary." Mary returns the compliment Rosalie has been a fabulous boss," she says. Rosalie has been director of nwoi30vM but Sharon ad that position before her three are diploma RNs, having completed their school- ing at hospitals in northern Utah. Rosalie has spent her en- tire career at the local hospital, coming here right after she got This threesome of Rosalie Esplin. Sharon Willis, and Mary Janes accounts for 99 years of service to Kane County Hospital. I enjoy nursing because I en- together as nurses in the same famhospital. They are all very joy people and the self-sa- tand their interests isfaction you get from helping iy oriented, outsjde medicine center around people" Rosalie says. I enjoy their families. Mary andherhus- - what I do. Thats why Ive stuck , band, F.F. Blackie," have six kids and ,25 grandchildren. Sha- j. eyei?. r?, ron and her husband, Jim, have ?xpai1?- - You. j e S(?!ra . , seven kids and 11 grandchildren. lze. A general membership meet-- Rosalie and her husband, Gam, rJig :70TtTnuai learn- one and four have kids grandCORE-tof t,er ,d'P'0,ma'" 959 Coalition of he ing processYouneverstop Nursing, which Environ- child. Responsible learning." Westminster with affiliated was The similarities dont stop I like helping people and givmentalists will be held on in Lake Salt City. there. All are from the Valley ing service," Sharon relates. Its Thursday, May 9, at 7 p.m.(Utah from her got diploma Mary Rosalie and Mary exciting to see people get well. time) in the basement of Zions originally Memorial Budge Hospital in First National Bank in Kanab. from Orderville, and Sharon Its a challenge Youftave to work World War H in 1944. She be representatives of the Bu worked at the old hospital in Kanab and Rosalie lives in Mt. time. Kanab for a year, then spent 15 reau of Land Management who Carmel. at a number of small hos- will talk about the BLM proyears The three also describe their as dedication to nursing in similar posed wilderness set-asiwell as the Andalex coal project. terms. The Fire Department had a the fire. A strong wind was blow ing, and it could have blown the busy night last Wednesday first spending six hours putting spark into the pile and then out the fire in a bark mound at fanned the fire, loaders were the Kaibab Bark Plant in Three front-en- d Fredonia and then clearing a used on top of the mound to turn Kanab house of smoke from a thefireunderandtrytosmother it, while water was sprayed on dryer. About 50 people worked to put the sides. Eventually the bark out the fire in the bark mound, was taken out one scoop at a including about 20 Kanab time and wet down, and a new firefighters, 10 from Fredonia, pile made of the wet bark, - 3 p.m.: TWILIGHT SPECIAL We were worried about the and 20-3- 0 Kaibab employees, to Kanab Fire Chief bark plant because the wind was according 1 BUY 1 Mike Noteman. Because of the blowing hard, Noteman said, It was a difficult fire to put out wind, firefighters were con- of the same amount or less cemed for a time that the fire because there were little hot might spread to the plant itself, spots eveiy where," the fire chief Noteman said. 3 p.m. -- 10 p.m.: DINNER SPECIAL explained. Crews scooped the bark and Wegotitstoppedin time with 1. Sesame Beef $ 9.95 commented, wet it down until they couldnt everyoneshelp,"he 2. Seafood Pocket $1 0.95 fire call came into Kanab find any more fire, then Kaibab stationed two firetrucks and men 3. Governor's Chicken $ 8.99 to watch the mound all night to make sure the fire didnt start Mothers will receive a gift certificate for back up. FREE Buffet Lunch or Twilight Dinner It was good cooperation between agencies," Noteman sum(good through May 31 st) marized. Jim Koons, Kaibab vice Reservations Required Musical president of operations, was on scene for awhile and then Mother's Day Cards the left it in the hands of Isaac John e, e. ... CORE meets on May 9 ,,, a pitals, including Cedar City, Nephi, Richfield, andMonticello, before settling in Kanab in 1960. Sharon got her training at Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hos-whe- n in Ogden (the name has pital been changed), graduating in 1953 and spending her first 2 1 2 years in Ogden, St George, and Las Vegas, before coming to Kanab in 1955. All three nurses are struck by the changes they have seen in medicine and nursing. "The basic caring for people is about the only thing that mains constant," is the way Mary puts it. The changes in equipment. Its so sophisticated. The aperwork. The rules and r equations. Things are just diffegh rent Its changed from a bedside nurse to a case management type situation," explains Rosalie. There are lots of changes, exclaims Sharon. The care of cardiac patients is probably the most different. And surgical patients. The &iiurv0vuj!)i We used to keep them for a week or 10 days. Now its 24 hours, or even formal, operations only two or three are mon.tors days-.Ther- e for everything now. It s not so With the much hands-ogevity and families dont care For people like they used to, there are more people in nursing homes. Mary speaks for herself and her long-tim- e colleagues when she says: Its a good fife, but its hard work. n. Ion-Colle- ge Firemen fight fire at Bark Plant, smoke in home de Sara Gerrard at 1 28 N. 1 00 West WQK INN'S" Mother's (Day Special! Pirnoon GET - available now at WOK INN'S SPRING SPECIAL 9(ana6 May 9 BUY 1 FULL AMERICAN MEAL AND GET1 CHINESE MEAL AT HALF PRICE 6-- k, If! Ger-fault- FREE T i dryer, explained Noteman. y He said it is lucky that woke of out rard the up and got house when she did. As it was, she got a few whiffs of the bad floral 226 S. 100 WOK INN - 86 S. 200 W - Kanab jy,m Featuring the FTD Blossoms and Bows Bouquet or the FTD Spring Garden Bouquet . . , '4 m 4 4 son. Johnson controlled theheavy equipment and we controlled the firefighting it worked well," commented Noteman. Noteman said he got home 12:30 a.m., then at 3 got She woke up and ran to Randy Crams home, where she called the 91 1 emergency number. The Fire Departmentremoved the diyer and checked to make sure the fire hadnt spread any-Th-e where else in the house. Then firemen used a positive-pressur- e ventilation device to remove the toxic smoke. However, Noteman said there was still really a toxic smell even after the house was aired, andhe recommend that Gerrard no sPend the night there. The house sustained some smoke damage and would require some cleaning, Noteman said. This year is starting out to be a vei7 active one for the Kanab Volunteer Fire Department At time last year depart-aboment had onb 13 calls and its already up to 23 this year, the other call. A dryer had malfunctioned at the home ofj Notemai$aid;' ,v.v r.tai': J r rr ut |