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Show Community SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1895 PFC Hammon serves relief mission for Domestic Blitz By Dixie Brunner U.S. Army Kids are a numbers racket So do you have his number? Questioned the professor as he glanced at my son and I over his glasses. We were at a university taking a facility tour. Number? I replied confused. You know, composite number, he said looking at me, like I should have a clue of what he was talking about. I surveyed all the papers that I had with me. I had grade sheets, birth certificate, and myriad of wire-rimm- ed other semi-importa- nt Army PFC. HeberM. Hammon deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and participated in Operation Sea Signal, assigned to Joint Task Force 160, JointTask Bulkeley. The soldier is a member of 1st Battalion, 3rd Air Defense Artillery from Fort Carson, The government gets into the numbers game shortly thereafter. While the kid is still wet behind the ears, they make him get a social security number. They used to cut you some slack. When I was little (in the dark ages) you didnt have to get your social security number until you got your first job. Now you have to get it right off the bat. I guess the government doesnt want anyone slipping by them...without getting a num- Colorado. The operation is a humanitarian relief mission in which papers ber! regarding my son, including a really-cut- e picture of him when he was one. Its his grade point average, along with his ACT score, the gentleman explained. Ah, I said, not knowing where to look for this little tidbit of information. How was I supposed to know about composite numbers, when I am a relative newcomer to this aspect of parenting? The more I thought about the incident, Ive decided that Kanab Elementary School student Kelly Sweet won an honorable mention in As the child gets school age, the "Utah's Week for the Animals" art contest with her cat drawing. Kelly they start earning (or occasion- participated in the first and second grade category. ally, not earning) numbers that adults seem to worry about alot more than they However, I have noticed an interesting phenomena about kids and grades. When they are in hot water with their parents over their grades, they do seem to remember how many kids got numbers lower than them! do-grad- es! Your score on this test is pa- thetic, young man. But mom, ten people got be- parenting is really a numbers low 60. In our family of four boys, they racket from day one. It all begins at conception. had a set of numbers they What is the first thing the doctor asks when you suspect youre pregnant? Heshe doesnt want to discuss the fact that the very mention of food turns you pea green, all they want to talk about are numbers. How many days since your al- ways used to love to quiz me about. Id be walking casually through the house, and all the sudden, one would leap out and quiz me. Mom, do . you know Ryne Sandbergs batting average? For kids that couldnt remember to clean their room, or take last period? You out the trash, they had an amazGiving birth is ho better. can beg and plead, but they still ing command of athletic stats. Other numbers youre supwont let you have a trip to the delivery room, until youve posed to know as your kids get achieved a perfect 10. When a older are clothes sizes. But with mother is about to give birth, fast growing kids, theres no she truly believes that 9 is close point in even trying to remember those figures-becaus- e theyll enough. The baby comes out, and what change daily! do you think that the medical So, the bottom line is, I guess staff does, welcome and applaud that I shouldve suspected that the newcomer? No way! They Id need to know yet another make the kid get an Apgar num- number when I took qur son to ber first! And if thats not bad register for college. After all, having kids is really enough, they go and make them get another one in a few minutes. just a numbers racket. Caring for Animals contest winners Over 1600 students entered the second annual Caring for Animals contest sponsored by Utahs Week for the Animals. sculpture included a paper sculpture of an eagle, an elephant made from a gallon milk container, and a turtle made from a walnut shell. Best Entries arrived at Rabbits, dogs, cats and snakes Friends Animal Sanctuary in were popular submissions in Kanab (headquarters for the drawings and paintings. from evevents October 22-2The grand prize winner was ery county in Utah. Poetry, es- Adrienne Carey, 4th grade, says, drawings, paintings and Crestview Elementary School in sculptures were submitted by the Literary category. Local stustudents in grades kindergar- dent Sheldon Douglas, Kanab ten through senior in high school; High School, won first place in public, private and home school. Art in 11 & 12th grade category Students wrote about animals and Kelly Sweet from Kanab they had rescued, their favorite Elementary won an Honorable animals, or why people should Mention for Art for grades one take care of their pets. Recycled and two. 8) the battalion task force has the responsibility for regulating, monitoring and caring for three Cuban villages or camps with a total of 6,000 migrants. Most of the Cubans came from Panama, where they had been involved in disturbances and riots that claimed over 250 United States casualties. The soldiers duties were to secure the safety of the migrants and U.S. personnel, to react to and quell any disturbances and riots that might occur in the camps, and to oversee and improve the quality of life for the Cubans inside their villages. Schools, chapels, athletics, musical instruments, carpentry tools and materials were provided to the Cubans. Hammon, a combat engineer, is the son of Heber B. and Melanie B. Hammon of 180 W. 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