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Show Feature SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY APRIL 20, 1995 Kanab Senior center Doins Menus Why a conference on IToarentina? 9 By Cynthia Taylor, steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, Kids Count Coordinator Utah carrot-raisi- n salad, homemade rolls, fruit, cake UTAH KIDS COUNT partners beans with ham, green salad with and several April other sponsoring pasta, French bread, fruit, pudding, cookies agencies are planning a statewide conference PARENT-INSuggested donation: Seniors, $2; those under $4.50. 0 IN THE 90s on Friday, Please call no later than 11 a.m. for lunch April 28 at the Salt Palace in reservations. April 26-Swi- ss 28-Li- ma day-lon- g G 644-525- Salt Lake City. Richard Coming events of FatherLove and 101 of the month is to Kodachrome Basin. April Things you can do for our a lunch and to dont Bring picnic forget bring your children's future will give both a camera. The van will leave at 8 a.m. Suggested dona- workshop and the keynote adLouv-auth- or 27-Tr- ip dress. There will be 18 other We hope to take a trip to Castledale later this year to workshops all day long and evening on various asattend the Castle Valley pageant. Let us know if you into the pects of parenting. For more info would like to go. This is a super show! and to register, call Amy Reitsch tion $4. Fredonia Senior Center News Menus taco, refried beans, corn, ice cream, peanutbutter cookies beef wgravy, mashed potatoes, capri April vegetables, parker house rolls, peaches lettuce & tomatoes, french April April 26-Nava- 27-Roa- jo st ers, fries, jello wfruit Coming events Every Thursday night we take the van to Hurricane to go dancing. If you are looking for an evening of fun, call Velma at 7229. and join us. Birthdays April 28-Fre- Griswold; April d Smith 28-Jean- ne Long Valley Senior Citizens Menus at 801-973-319- 3. Kids may not appreciate good parenting at some points in time, but they rarely get very far without it! Visiting in communities around Utah for UTAH KIDS COUNT, listening to both adults and youth, has brought us deeper insight into a universal need of children: good parenting. If you didnt have this vital ingredient in childhood, youve likely rebuilt an inner parent a nurturing voice that lifts you up and sets you back on course with your and confidence intact, self-estee- m when you inevitably fall down or fail. Who navigates through life without mistakes? And who first shows us how to deal with lifes ups and downs, joys and disappointments by both example and word? Our parents or parent substitutes! If adult encourageApril dressing casserole, corn, bread, fruit ment was not alive in your childhood home, you went hunting for jello salad, apple crisp. elsewhere. stir fry and rice, tossed salad, it New April research shows that the applesauce and cake. humans NEED freAll meals served with bread and juice or milk. Meals youngest quent and predictable hugs, 60-$- 2 Over donation: to be smiles, and cooing. These are as may subject change. Requested 648-250- 4 11 for a.m. before and under $4.50. Call necessary as oxygen, water, food, sunshine and clean diapers. lunch reservations. When little ones are left at very early ages with too many different caretakers their young and rapid emotional, cognitive and mid-wee- k social development all suffer womans realm. from this deprivation. Early and Some of us are blessed with steady nurturing makes a huge children whose special needs send us running for help. We recognize gaps in understanding, or knowing how to raise this child. As we develop new abilities, our other children benefit. with more rather than less reliThere is another aspect to able, familiar, gentle, joyful care parenting that contemporary right from the beginning of life. society is trying to restore: comIf mother is distant, anxious or munity parenting, often inforindifferent because of depres- mal but done sometimes through sion, drugs, illness or death, then relationships with mentors, the childs development is seri- youth service leaders, foster ously affected. If mother is cheer- grandparents, etc. The conferful, relaxed, playful, confident ence will also look at this aspect in her ability to care for the of parenting. Another workshop baby, the child grows up with will look at some cultural asbuilt-i- n feelings of trust and pects of parenting in ethnic comLouv will tell us that munities, because there is not safety. father has a more important role, one cookie-cutte- r way to be a too, than has been acknowl- good parent. Weve planned what looks at edged: he is needed for much more than a way to buy food or first glance outrageous: a conference. This is deliberhousing. While he can pay for needed security, Dad shows us ate in order to make it possible masculine tenderness combined for everyone parents, profeswith firmness, mastery of self sional, and grandparents to and complex skills revealing spend some of the day taking in parents values in action. Kids some of the material offered by need both parents and their role our many volunteer presenters. models to grow a whole self. A number of organizations is Our society has gone through involved in this conference, as times of devaluing both Mom well as UTAH KIDS COUNT and Dad. Its time we appreciate with Ms. taylor as leader, Coaliboth parents roles in childrens tion for Utahs FutureProject mental, physical, social and 2000; State Data Center; spiritual development. Parent- Governors office of planning and ing is not instinctive behavior budget; FACT, Vanguard Mefor humans and not just a dia; and Utah Children. difference in how kids turn out! While there is some controversy about how much stability each child needs, there is no doubt that all children thrive 12-ho- ur 26-Turk- ey 28-Chick- Hop Aboard The en Oasis Express to Mesquite Utah State Parks offers 50 off camping Its springtime, the weather is assortment of recreation opporwonderful what better time to tunities ranging from camping, make plans to camp at Utahs boating, hiking and golfing to State Parks, where an array of just relaxing with family and recreation opportunities await friends. Reservations may be made by you. And to show you how de- lightful the state parks are, Utah State Parks is offering a discount of 50 off camping fees from Sunday through Thursday, at selected parks. This offer is good on individual site reservations made for camping from August 1 through October 31, excluding Sunday, September 3. Reservations may be made from three to 120 days in advance. This discount does not apply to reservations for group areas. Selected parks are: Wasatch Mountain, Steinaker, Starvation, Millsite, Minersville, Quail Creek, Utah Lake, Scofield, Huntington and Hyrum State Parks. Utahs 45 State Parks offer an calling Utah State Parks reservations For further information: Mark or Mary Hadley, 801Tullius, 801-538-72- 22 538-733- Etna 33 ft 1" VIZ" 2W 3'T 4V2" 8W 104" 124" 56 76 84 76 2X3 7X3 8X5 Check out the Kanab Area Vacation Guide inserted in this weeks paper. Page Two Night Package Fences Gstes Corrals 54 -- pflnnryg f.'lETASf.'lAOT One Night Package Package Includes Ptiiid -- .64 1X0 1X3 May 17 Per Person Double Occupancy gffliraRita 35ft 1" 1V" 2 3" 4" PagefKanab May 15 & 16 6. 1V2" 13 ETC! ISon-F- ri Hours: 1:38 to 5:33 Sat 2 1200 e. 100 3. Lohi $100.00 Fun Book Transportation For individual or group reservations please call 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. PST daily o (5Xp ut Lodging w ) M () & s 00 ft Rates are based on double occupancy before tax. Single rates are available. Reservations are required. Must be 21 years of age or older. |