Show Gunnison Shaking a baby is dangerous Did you know crying is the number one reason a baby is shaken or injured by a patent or caregiver? Despite many recent news reports 25 to 50 percent of Americans still don’t know that shaking a baby is very dangerous It’s normal to become tense when a child cries continuously but there are ways to keep your cool and keep the baby safe: Check the child’s basic needs - is she wet or hungry or perhaps just tired? Check for signs of illness such as a fever a stomachache or swollen gums Rock or walk with the baby talk or to him is soft tones Sing Take the baby for a ride in the car or stroller Call a friend or relative to take over while you take a break Sometimes nothing will stop a baby form crying and that’s when you need to getaway Ifyou’ve tried everything put the child in her crib leave the room and come back every minutes to check on her Because they have large heads and weak neck muscles shaking a baby causes the head to whip back and forth bouncing the brain around inside the skull Some of the consequences of shaking a baby include: blindness seizures learning disabilities physical disabilities and death If you lose control and shake your child or suspect someone else get help immediately Here are some warning signs that a child may have been shaken: lethargy sluggishness difficulty breathing extreme irritability decreased appetite vomiting seizures For more information on Shaken Baby Syndrome call the Child Abuse Prevention Center at (801) Congratulations to UPS Employees for 12000 Safe Working Days! 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School (Board approves Gunnison Middle School (Continued from Page 1) The TLC Industrial r oom will be enlarged and divided into a workspace and a classroom space With the TLC room: enlarged and set up more like a regular classroom the school will be able to function whether the two extra classrooms (alternative two) are Ibuilt onto the school or not Even though it’s not desirable to be teaching English in a room filled with equipment that might distract students it w ill work agreed the board Board members co mmented on the negative reaction of some Gunnison residents about inequ ities between facilities in Gunnison and Manti “When we get the school dow n there it will be magic” said Board Chairman Inouye implying that feelings would be smoothed over Principal Hill told Board members “You’re inheriting grief and pressure that has built up fory ears and years” He agreed that getting a middle school in Gunnison will “relieve pressures” He said that even though it’s true there are more students an d buildings can bejustified by the numbers it’s hard for people to visit other buildings and see something they don’t have “People expect the same op portunities and the same facilities at both ends of the district” he explain ed He told the board “You’ve got to do the best with the money you’ve jot" Vice Principal Alan Peterson advised the board “Regardless of the peripheral things i’s probably incumbent for you to grow as thick a skin as you can” Also at the meeting Darrell Warren told the board about the district’s busses “Transpot tation is a neglected issue” he told the board The state recommends that a bus be replaced after ten years The district is currently using five buses older than 1987 on regular daily routes One ofthe:m was built in 1975 There are also “relief’ busses which are used for bus r outes when the newer busses are gone on field trips etc “We have a seri ous maintenance problem right now” Warren told the board “They are the old busses not the new busses" One of the older busses on a daily route will need repair so a relief bus is used while the regular bus is in the shop 13y the time the regular bus is fixed the relief bus needs something fixed A few years a go the board agreed to buy one new bus (approximately $70000) each y ear to maintain the district’s fleet but new busses haven’t been ordered recently Warren asked if the board would approve the purchase of twc busses this year “It’s a poor ti me to do it” commented Superintendent Mullins “It’s been a poor time every year” answered Warren “We’ve been trying to get by and we have gotten by” school The board approved the purchase of two busses for the year Valley News Wednesday December 17 1997 Page New Food Bank in Centerfield (Continued from Page 1) 200 pounds of food from a G irl Scout drive Each April the bank receives from the Boy Scout drive Snow College has hosted dances and charged food instead of money to get in Various clubs have held drives and functions to support the food bank Goodwin has also become familiar with local store owners who work to bags “I’m extremely proud of the fact give her the best price possible for her that our pantry gives such a large purchases of food and clothing Each year Goodwin receives a waramount of food” commented Goodwin especially since families are rant (a Bishop’s order) from the LDS other in Sanpete county Since she is come allowed to stakes every only month only allowed to purchase food with The food pantry’s supply comes Federal Grant money she saves the from various sources “We basically warrants to stock the pantry with nonsurvive on donations” food items such as toilet paper soap explained “There are people who and sanitary Goodwin of situations I've found” she explained support the bank and donate on a regular basis” Grant money comes from Goodwin told of mothers who go FEMA and Episcopal Churches and without pads so their daughters will USDA commodities such as canned have enough Some families keep fruit meat vegetables rice and beans their daughters home from school for are regularly provided one week a month to avoid the girls “We get large donations from the being made fun of “Some ofthe ways Each they have solved their problem is very LDS church” said Goodwin year a certain number of tons of food ingenious” said Goodwin but she are donated to the Salt Lake City food works to avoid their having to solve it bank which is then distributed to “To me sanitary napkins are just as throughout the state The LDS great a necessity as food and they cannery in Pleasant Grove designates shouldn't have to do without” certain times of the year where everyThe food bank accepts any type of peanut butter jam 2 boxes of macaroni and cheese four cans of soup four cans of vegetables one package of spaghetti laundry soap and toilet paper “We add bread and meat as we have it” said Goodwin The order fills a banana box and two or three grocery thing canned is donated to food banks “Wasatch Academy bends over backwards to help us” said Goodwin A recent contribution was the money from the Thanksgiving collection food and nonfood staple (except for items) as long as it’s sealed Goodwin assured that most donated items are “normal stuff” although “I did get a can of rattlesnake plate Last October the food bank received meat” she said Last year the Sanpete food pantry served more households than any other pantry in the six county area “It’s really a poverty area in my opinion” said Goodwin “We just do not have industry or income producing jobs” Because it’s difficult for some of the needy to get to the pantry for food Goodwin personally delivers some packages She takes boxes to the elderly and to four families whose women and children are cut off Some husbands will not go for handouts and some will not let their wives use the car to go get the food “Sometimes it’s a little hard to take” commented Goodwin “but we can't let the kids and the mom go because somebody is ignorant” Before the food bank in Centerfield opened (Mondays from Goodwin was regularly delivering to 58 seniors in the Gunnison Valley area Though others needed the home delivery “We had to limit it to seniors because we couldn’t haul any more” she explained Excited about having another branch she said “We’re hoping we can reach people that we’re missing” Goodwin has enlisted three volunteers to expand the service in Gunnison Valley: Marlene Westlund Sandy Ivie and Nancy Boore “They know the area and the people” she said “We don’t get a lot of participation from that area (Gunnison) as far as food drives” said Goodwin but she believes it’s simply a matterof“spread-inthe word down there” When Sub for Santa boxes were placed at local businesses Goodwin received a call from a Gunnison police officer “He called to make rure we were legitimate” she explained “I really appreciate people calling because the ones who aren’t legitimate hurt us badly” Goodwin pointed out that the food pantry is registered and licensed as a organization The group is audited every year “We’re volunteers and are not really go'emed by anything but our own bylaws of the pantry” she explained The Sanpete food pantry sends annual reports to Richfield where the office and warehouse for the Central Utah Food Bank (six county area) is based Goodwin explained the food bank’s recent involvement with a Sub for Santa program In past years several groups have put together smaller programs but “There was no central location and no way of knowing needs and just to give is not good policy” shesaid Goodwin believessome families received from two or three groups while others received nothing By running the program through the food bank every club and person who wants to help can and it’s all under one “umbrella” Goodwin’s excitement grows as she sees ways opened to help these people that she has gotten to know so well first This reminder is brought to you by: Gunnison Businessmen’s Association Wasatch Technologies Satterwhite 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