Show Service is service no matter how much time you have to give by Mary Ann Southards editor him Maaheri SUN ('enter coordi- nator was described by Sundi Decker as brimming with vivacity warmth and kindness I found this to he true during a recent interview with her When asked what she had in mind for the future she casually replied “As one llcutlcs' song goes: out of college money spent sec no future pay no rent All the money is gone no w here to go" Then she just laughed and said that wasn't actually how she saw her future even though sometimes she wondered if (hat wasn't how it would he Maahcri says even though she is not completely positive of what she will be doing when she leaves CEU in August she hopes to get a position similar to the one she has now only at a different school in a different state She is also g conlooking into (he sultant flcld for higher education She has applied at the University of Utah for its master's program but is undecided in what she will do She says worse come to worse she hopes to travel and have fun In an earlier interview this year she told Decker that her hopes for the year were concentrated on doubling numbers She may not have doubled numbers but Mazaheri has increased the awareness of the SUN Center The total number of volunteers to this date is approximately 444 with a total of 26637S hours in 20 different ser service-learnin- vice projects Even though the number of volunteers is less the total number of hours worked doubled in the past Interim library director moves to full director status in July service it is hard to stay out of service" Maaheri added it is hard to really One of the major projects Maaheri took on during her year at CEU was determine the number of volunteers and hours because there are so many projects and volunteers involved with the SUN Center that a true count may g proestablishing a in this has She successful been gram w endeavor ith Slay C Gunderson being g the first and only not be possible She says that service learning has been great at CEU and her experience with the faculty and staff regarding graduate this year Maaheri feels that the success of the varied service projects has helped make year Maaheri says service learning has been excellent She feels that all the service projects e this year were a success The such national as the food events drive youth service day national river cleanup and the Navajo Spring Break project have all heen very successful service projects diHie rected by students such as Habitat for I lumanity The I lospicc Program The The Escape Club Shelter other and Quigley projects many have also been very successful According to Mauhcri the number of student leaders has doubled in the SUN Center and there is a wider range of diversity in the projects offered “This has enabled the center to reach a wider number of people and even though we were able to reach them last year we were more capable of doing so this year" e The projects sponsored by the SUN C enter this year have encouraged people to get involved with service "because once you arc a pan of one-tim- on-goi- Adopt-A-Ncighh- or one-tim- service-learnin- service-learnin- the administration staff and faculty more aware of the possibilities of service learning “I feel (hut the administration staff and faculty have realized the importance of service learning at (his college It needs to continue and grow and develop like it has at the University of Utah because the U ofg courses fers over S3 ranging from mechanical engineering to global and environmental studies CEU needs to follow the example of other rapidly growing schools" CEU is the first community college g in the state of Utah to offer a service-learnin- service-learnin- g program in which graduates need to complete four service learning classes and l(X) hours of approved service while a student is at CEU The SUN Center is seeking new student leaders and volunteers for next year and arc offering applications for these positions If any students arc interested please contact the center Mazahcri's experience has been a positive one this year and she leaves service-learnin- by Leona Christensen : editor - - For interim library director Barbara Steffee working at the Salt Lake City Library while scraping peanut butter off records and shelving books was a turning point for her life "I was working in real estate and hated it I couldn't apply the pressure necessary to close a sale I applied for a position at the Salt Lake City Library to supplement my income It was a turning point in my life because it taught me that a job could become a profession” Steffee said "When you work a job you put in hours to get a pay check It lakes on a greater meaning when work no longer becomes a job but a way of life" she ' continued "If we don’t adapt to the changing technology we’re dead" said Steffee "With the expansion of the Internet improvements in computer technology and the establishment of the Western Virtual University it is imperative that libraries keep tip with changing technology" She listed her goals for the library as making technology more available for students upgrading existing technology expanding multi media bibliographic instruction teaching more classes involving hands-o- n learning in the library update and upgrade the book collection increasing faculty involve ment in book selection ami spending the $ 1 3000 allocated for books selected ’ v1' by the faculty Before coming to CEU where she worked as the assistant librarian and head of reference she was a cataloging consultant for Ecdes Health Sciences ' ' Library at the University of Utah Although she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah in sociology she never used her degree! Instead Steffee decided that she was a librarian at heart and pursued a master's degree in library science at Brigham ’ ' ' Young University with the following thoughts “If you enjoy service there is a large demand for VISTA Volunteers but you must enjoy being poor” She would also like to remind us that service docs not mean donating one or two hours every week “Service can be every day and a lot of people say they don't have the time but I think that is V " ' I1 s ' ' ' very untrue Everyone has time If you are in a grocery store and you sec an elderly person carrying Ave bags of groceries you can walk over to them and help them That is service Service can be in your home it can be outside your home service is service is New childcare resource director appointed by Miranda Odendahl staff writer Everyone has heard the horror stories about the negligence of many child care facilities The fcarinstilled in many parents about tlic abuses that may occur if their children are left with such a center has many parents wondering exactly what goes on after they leave a child at a daycare facility To combat these fears Celeste Anderson newly appointed to the position of Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) office director will help parents select a facility CCR&R has reon cent ly opened campus and is housed in the Computer Business Building Kacic Keelc was hired as a phone counselor with Phil Brown named executive director The oAice opened in February yet is still in Ilie developing phase Hicy are not open to the public yet but have plans to launch a massive advertising campaign at the slate-licens- ed part-tim- e end of May The office is a branch of a system started in Utah and funded by the Stale Office of Child Care This program has been available in Utah for four years This is a nationwide program however many of the offices receive funding from different areas Utah will third of the state This includes two Native American reservations which facilities they cannot license child-car- e on but arc available for servicing out providers employers and communities to child care planning services and receive federal funds from October of 1996-9- 7 after which the office will have to lobby jhc state for funding providers to training and technical assistance within their childcare business" This definition from the year end report for the Utah Office Pres- ently the services offered through the new CCR&R office will be free of Child of charge yet that may change as funds change Other areas receive finances from state and federal grants or even private donations This office covers a broad spectrum: the seven eastern counties nearly one- - “The CCR&R system in Utah was designed to provide community-base- d child care resource and referral services These interrelated services stri vc to link parents to side the area "We have to service the largest area probably with the least amount of people" she said Care CCR&R Anderson feels best describes the purpose of the office There arc three main details that the CCR&R office in Price desires to accomplish “Our main focus is to be aware of where Utah's children are and of the quality of child care they are receiving” Anderson stated They are in the process of setting up a database of licensed providers The public could contact the office and they would give them three references (not recommenfacilities that are dations) to child-car- e licensed by the slate Classes will be offered to parents on how to choose quality child care "We do some forms of counseling over the phone not as professional psychologists or anything hut more referrals to where they can get help for various problems and educating them on how to choose quality child care" she stated She plans on offering a variety of child-car- e training for the providers in this area Hie second goal i!fin training the providers A variety of classes will be offered through the new office including infant toddler child development nutrition and stress management Tlie locutions of the classes will vary from Price to Blanding Monticcllo to Moah They will not do all the training however they will be involved in the hiring of those who teach the classes The see Day Care on page 9 |