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Show Lakeside Review 9 Saturday, April 27, 1996 Lifestyle matter of m Education degrees Family getting this spring 497-9- PARK r correspondent When Jennifer said she wanted to go into advertising, he brought another guest for dinner. And when Jonathon said he was interested in animals, the Hogges bought horses for him to care for. Then Justin said he wanted to be a pilot, Michael invited a friend over who flew for the Air F-1- Force. days, Michael Hogge said. Six of their eight children are enrolled in college. Their second to youngest son, Justin, is graduating from Viewmont High School, and their youngest son, Jared, is graduating from sixth grade at Centerville Elementary School. succeed. Not only that but all of the children were encouraged to attend college. Two of the Hogges daughters attend Brigham Young University. Jennifer Hogge, 27, plans to receive her masters degree in public policy with an emphasis in international development. Their other daughter and her husband, Janell and Craig Hackette, will receive bachelors degrees in English and physical therapy, re- My parents made sure there were opportunities for us to leam, she said. Michael read to the children nightly and continues to read aloud with their youngest son. He also discussed current events with his children at breakfast. Family trips were times when the children also were drilled on multi- spectively. plication, division and spelling. Ski lifts are great opportunities, Annene said. one-on-o- ar g, And going to places like Dinosaur National Monument in Vernal, means picking up brochures and reading them with their children. The Hogges try to be curious about everything so their children are curious also. Success doesnt stop in the class- pre-me- fifth-grad- DIANE BUSHStandard-Examme- SPRING TO REMEMBER: Jared Hogge, who will soon graduate to junior high, holds a photograph that contains five family members who are also graduating from various schools this spring. With him are his father, Michael, and his mother Annene, who will graduate this spring from Weber State University with her masters degree. didnt want to go back to school un- til the youngest was in first grade, she said. gives credit to her husband Cancer Society volunteers out to get the word out Shes 85 years old and every April for the past 32 years Norma Nichols has scoured the city of Copperton, Utah, instructing her neighbors about preventing and detecting cancer early, in its most curable stages. She is neighborhood captain of the American Cancer Societys community crusade, the annual education-in-fundraisin- g conducted each April during National Cancer Control Month. April 7 is also National Volunteer Week and the American Cancer Society will celebrate the volunteers and staff of the Utah Division with a special VolunteerStaff Partnership Day. The day will commemorate the people of the American Cancer Society and their contributions and achievements in developing and cancer control activities nacarrying out successful community-base- d tionwide. Nichols is one of those volunteers whose endless dedication, commitment and tenacity has changed the way people view not only cancer but the American Cancer Society as well. When Frieda Jones first asked me to take the job 32 years ago I said, I will guarantee you that every person in Copperton will be . contacted. Whether they give or not is a different issue, but they will be contacted, said Nichols. My crusaders attempt to make contact with each resident at least three times and then I go personally and try several different times to fnake .contact, added Nichols. I got every person this year but one, she said. My crusaders went several times and then I went several times. We concluded that he must be out of town. .Nichols says its a lot of work but it pays off. This year she and het' crusaders collected $1,345 in their community. Nichols is always the first person in the state to turn in the money collected from her coinmunity. f tShe and her 20 recruits visit every home in the city. have a record of everybody in town and I type. the name of fcach person the crusaders are to visit in the 15 spaces on the envelope, Nichols explained. I type the names of every household in Copperton, even apartment complexes. That way I know who has been contacted and who hasnt. The cancer society hosted an open house on Wednesday to thank volunteers for their individual contributions to cancer control at the door-to-do- 21-2- : ... ' .I jdiyision office in Salt Lake City. The Utah division is especially excited about VolunteerStaff Partnership Day because longtime volunteer Paul B. Dorius, Rocky Mountain region chair and Utah division board officer serving as national lay delegate, came up with the idea for this event and was instrumental in bringing it about on a national level. The American Cancer Society is the largest voluntary health organization in the world, with over two million volunteers in 3,000 Units nationwide. In Utah there are over 40,000 volunteers, most of them community crusaders like Nichols. When asked why shes been involved so long with the American Cancer Society, Nichols replied, I am very sold on their cancer research. Weve been contacted by other cancer organizations from Washington, D.C., Tennessee and Portland, but I tell my recruits if for their cancer drive, you find anybody asks you to do out first where they send the money, she said. Then I inform them that we do not know how much of other groups money goes to support local research and local programs. In Utah, for every one dollar that we raise for the American Cancer Society, we get three back in the form of research grants. Nichols said. Ill be 86 in June, stated Nichols, and when asked if Ill do the community crusade next year, I say, If Im here, Ill do it. door-to-do- or room. r for her children's tion. success in educa- - Theyd express an interest and Michael would grab hold of it, she said. When Jeffrey said he wanted to be a doctor, his father invited a doc-Sh- e tor to dinner. Four of their sons received their Eagle rank in Boy Scouting and their three daughters received their Young Womanhood medallion. Their youngest son has the first class rank in Boy Scouting. . Its important to us that our children are Annene d, said. Heroin luring, killing more Utah residents The Associated Press Ricky Connors thought he had found the closest thing to heaven when he began using heroin. It was the one thing that cured his pain, mania and misery. But the cure was an illusion. This heaven comes to an end not long after it begins and becomes a cycle of hell that gets bad enough before one notices that much time and effort will already be necessary, as well as pain, to come back, in an Connors wrote in essay titled Heroin. Connors never The made it back. Less than two months after describing the torment of his drug addiction, he died of a heroin overdose in the kitchen of his parents Salt Lake City home. His mother, who asked that her sons real name not be used, found Connors slumped in a chair the next morning. He had been dead seven hours, but his hand still gripped the mid-Janua- syringe. I had said to him so many times, I am scared to death Im going to find you in this chair dead, Gloria Connors said. Thats a mothers worst nightmare. It is a nightmare come true for a growing number of Utahns, according to Utah Medical Examiner Todd Grey. Since the start of this year, heroin has been implicated in the deaths of 19 people and is suspected in another half-doze- n drug-relat- ed fatalities. Nearly all of the deaths occonfirmed heroin-relate- d curred in Salt Lake County. Just anecdotally and from my own experience through the years, there is a higher number in this period of time than weve seen before, Grey says. When I first started doing this kind of work in Utah, cocaine was the big one. Now what were seeing is still a lot of cocaine, but heroin is much more common. Many times it is both. Toxicology tests on heroin overdoses often tum up other drugs, too. Connors girlfriend, Angie, also an addict who did not want to be identified, says heroin is so plentiful that dealers come looking for buyers. Cops say an abundance of brown Mexican heroin is keeping prices low and fueling competition among dealers. They may be luring customers by selling a more potent product, a possible explanation for some overdose deaths. Youre used to buying something that is 20 percent to 30 percent pure. Suddenly you get something with 60 percent purity. Youve effectively doubled your dose without knowing it, says Sgt. Robby Russo of the Salt Lake County sheriffs neighborhood narcotics unit. Heroin, which is converted in the body to morphine, belongs to a class of drugs called opiates. In the brain, opiates prompt the release of naturally occurring chemicals known as endorphins, which appear to block pain signals. But the nervous system adapts over time as the body seeks to ration its supply of endorphins. Ever larger doses are needed to achieve the same effect. The process works in reverse, too. If a habitual user stops using the drug, then takes the dose he was accustomed to, he may overdose. Heroin kills by depressing brain activity so much the victim simply stops breathing. Heroin, says West Valley City police Det. Kurt Imig, is becoming a more social drug among the pain-relievi- young. The heroin addicts of yesteryear were older. It was the last of the drugs to try, the end of their line, Imig says. What Im suiprised to see is, I meet up with heroin addicts and theyre in their teens. Surveys of teen drug use in Salt Lake County show heroin consistently is the least popular of drugs. Since 1984, the percentage of teens reporting heroin use has ranged from 1 percent to 2 percent. But the number of heroin users admitted to Salt Lake County drug-treatme- nt programs reached an eight-yehigh in 1995. Slightly more than 9 percent of the clients had used the drug or had a heroin problem, compared with 5.8 percent ar in 1988. Drew Moren, special of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration office in Salt Lake City, wonders if programs are glossing over her- agent-inchar- youth-educati- had said to him so many times, I am scared to death Im going to find you in this chair dead. Thats a mothers worst nightmare -- Gloria Connors I special programs. Call Paula at or The Utah chapter of the Lupus Foundation of America needs volunteers to help with the clerical and bulk mailings at the Layton office. Missing Children of Utah needs volunteers for private investig gating, general help, projects and clerical duties. Call 394-30- fund-raisin- 394-593- 3. He also took his son to the Hill Aerospace Museum and together they explored the aircraft. Justin plans to attend Utah State University and join the ROTC. Jennifer said her parents always gave her opportunities to leam, as well as encouraged all of them to Their oldest son, Jeffrey, will receive his medical degree from San Francisco School of Podiatry in California in May and plans to do his internship in Boston. Their youngest daughter, Jolynn deHogge, will receive a two-yegree from Ricks College in Rex-burIdaho, this summer. Their other two sons are Jonathon, who is majoring in agriculture science at Utah State University, d and Jason, a student at the University of Utah. And then theres Mom. Annene Hogge will receive her masters degree in curriculum and development from Weber State University. e She is a teacher at Centerville Elementary School. Im inviting everyone and they better come, she said. For the first 25 years of the Hogges marriage, Annene stayed home and raised their family. We wanted a large family and I 1 1 a variety of up are needed with Girl Scout troops, groups and CENTERVILLE - Michael C. and Annene Hogge will go to parents pay day six times this spring. The Centerville couple plan to attend graduation ceremonies for six of their eight children. They also will attend their graduation, and Annene Hogge herself will receive a degree. Weve worked so many years and now we are seeing the rewards. Its truly a year of parents pay son-in-la- i This is a listing of volunteer positions available throughout Davis County. For more information, call the Davis County United Way Information & 1 Referral Service at Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 497-911- :l with diplomas BYpRETTA Connection Weve worked so many years and now we are opportunities seeing the rewards. Its General A single mom needs a bed and 1. dresser. Call Terri at truly a year of parents Role models are needed to paydays. make a difference in the lives of -- Michael Hogge young girls. Volunteers age 18 and tasks for showered Standard-Examine- VOLUNTEER The Family Support Center is looking for volunteers at least 1 8 or older to help in the crisis nursery. Contact Kay at 773-071- 2. Davis Hospital and Medical Center needs volunteers for office support, information desk, refreshment cart and the new Womens CenterMedical Office building. Applications are available at the hospital, or call Sheila Loomis at 544-075- 2. Service Widowed Persons (WPS of Davis County) is being es- tablished as an outreach program . for newly widowed people of all or to ages. For more information volunteer, call 744-128- 8. Pines Retirement Home is looking for entertainers to perform for the elderly. Call Debbie at Wasatch Humane has opportunities for mature volunteers to help with adoptions at PetsMart in Lay- ton on rotating weekends and with pet hotline and animal care weekdays at Bountiful Adoption Center. Country 773-164- 9. Call ; 299-850- 8. American Red Cross, Bonneville chapter will train individuals for most areas of service including disaster services, healthsafety, in- ternational service, etc. Call 0 for further information. Family Friends program matches volunteers age 55 and over to a family raising a child with a disability or chronic illness. Volunteers visit once a week to share their love and experience with the whole family. Call Erika at Easter Seal Society of Utah at Provide glaucoma screenings for Prevent Blindness Utah. Call 0 for more informa- Pam at tion about training. Victims Assistance Program of Davis County needs volunteers during the day to assist victims with court paperwork and to appear in court with victims. Contact Ellen at 627-000- 524-202- 451-430- 1. The Davis County Attorneys Office in Farmington is looking for volunteers to work with victims of domestic violence. If interested, call 451-43- or extension 776-316- 3, 4300 for appointment. Women at least 21 years old, who drive, have no criminal record, and can keep confidentiality, are preferred. Community Nursing Service and Hospice needs people to give their time and talents for the benefit of the homebound, elderly and terminally ill. Call Clearfield Senior Center needs volunteer lapidary instructor Tues776-444- 5. 0 a.m. and days from Meals on Wheels drivers daily from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call Connie at the Heritage Center, Volunteers are needed at South Davis Community Hospital for the oin. home health program, visiting the We kind of lose the realities of homebound patients, and at the heroin sometimes ... as were trying hospital assisting in delivering to educate about cocaine and LSD, meals and helping residents write heroin slips back, Moren says. letters. Call Dee Hailing at People dont understand how dangerous it is. Its more accessible beVolunteers are needed to work cause of a lack of education. in the schools with the students. Connors writings tend to supCall Edrice Christensen at port that theory. Although he knew after 2 p.m. or call the school nearthe drug was powerfully addictive, est you. he had no inkling of the brutal Homeless Children's Foundaphysical pain it inflicts on those tion needs loving, attentive individwho tum their back on it. ' . uals to play and work with infants I blinked and wasnt paying atthrough 5 years of age. Call Venette tention when it snuck up on me. My at I life disappeared and became a of IHC needs volunfiend for heroin. I could not say no, teers Hospice to time with the termispend I could not stop. nally ill in their homes. In his essay, Connors described Training will be offered. For an ugly litany of the consequences more information, call Dana at of his habit: I did not shower. I did I teeth. had urinating not brush my problems. I had defecating probOpportunities with lems - diarrhea, constipation, sex no for drive I had cramps. elderly months and months. I had headMake phone calls to the home-bounaches to kill horses. I began to steal to support this habit. I hurt all over. Help an older person with I had the chills and sweats simultaneously. I had crying spells. I had makeup and nails; conduct an exergrief. I had pain all over I cannot cise class for nursing home residescribe. I began to lose touch with dents. Professionals can share their myself. I began to rot and stink. On top of all this, Connors felt experiences with residents of a care delivery drivers and runners responsible for Angies habit. I feel center; the worst that this happened to are needed for home delivery meals. Families and individuals her, he wrote. needed to provide entertainment, But Angie, who is in drug treatconversation and recreation, etc. ment, wants to take the blame herHostesses needed for senior self. Heroin, she says, let her forget she was the child of a former heroin citizens center. Drivers needed to assist with user, had messed up her marriage and lost custody of her son. doctor appointments, shopping, etc. 8:30-11:3- 773-706- 5. 295-236- 1. 451-12- 363-255- 9. 975-672- 3. the d. . |