Show C28T AVAILABLE CO?Y (j: Aggie soccer team earns' ninth win of season & ' t" im i " h — B2 v : Program rewards kids £: for cleaning teeth —A3 V Voathor L’oganlUtatX©2003$J50 BridgerlandJ!CDailewspape 6ll9(3l286Mondapct6be3l3t2003 Valloy projects x:- TwIflS in Highs in the upper 50s lows in the upper20s ' ' 's' — PageA12 Bl DALLAS (AP)-T- lung News of the successful separation of Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim oveijoyed frreir parents surgeons and &: caregjvere: 4 “At one point when some- -' a one came up and said you ! ! have two boys the father ' jumped to my neck and he hugged me and he fainted and ! I cared for him He told me aa that he never dreamt of such a moment” said Dr Nasser Abdel Al who was one of the": ' twins’ doctors in Egypt and wias with the femily in Dallas " “H “other on the other f ' hand was crying like every- body else She was Av 15-da- y BALTIMORE (AP)— The first troops to take advantage of the Army’s unprecedented RAR program left Sunday to return to Iraq many saying they felt energized by their two weeks of rest and recuperation ' : “It’ll mate die next six months ’ v ‘ Mch MascaroHerald a Volunteerswork on the roof of the new education building at the Willow Park Zoo in Logan I :: tAV: i Vs Xa h st: a nv-'JLll - " '7? “ more-Wash- -f ' ington International Airport Sept 26 amid con- cems that two weeks with and would be just long : enough to make them' f miserable a£ when the time was tip Many of those iVj&r returning to ‘£'r Return to arms: Army Iraq 0n Sun- Specialist John day thought Crawford fills out des-- atterwisc: n nP Journal : : t K: the ' ' ! ' j CT: who serves with a for-- ward surgical team “So I think this will make the guys feel a whole lot better” - Staff Sgt Jeffery Hannon 32 from Fort Hood Texas said “I tried to cram as much family time as I could son to a couple I took my of football games and I got reacquainted with my daughter” Hannon said his daughter was 4 months old when he left for Iraq last January and was just beginning to call him “Daddy” “It was good to let her know that she still has a Daddy” Hannon said Hannon who serves with the 13th CosCom support unit described his leave as “a bittersweet kind of deal It helped our families to see us again By tire same token we had to leave 1 V ? - again” Sgt First Class Kenneth George 43 said Iraq was his third and most difficult deployment George who served in Desert Storm and Bosnia said it was harder to get adjusted to home life than it will be to readjust to military life He said it took him a couple days to wind down from the constant threat of attack and the trauma of seeing buddies wounded or killed “But as soon as we get back there and hear the gunfire and the mortar fire we’ll snap right back” Many of the troops said they found the public very supportive regardless of how people may have felt about the war They described seeing Wl I lowps rk Zoo Index Classifieds Comics-- Movies — C5 Obituaries C3 Opinion C2 Sports wwwhjnewscom A10 A4 Bl is since die foundation K three years ago about a way his two $ organization could help the city“I of the 25(X)- - foot building was fA education facriityAi But all the time 'spent waiting has tpeweTi$6ow $75000” -- -- r :ilhearS:COmpletlOn A y work with expert Wt' £( R By DavM Nrteon staff writer While savings to the original Parks greatly outwehedby the ” A and Recreation Department grant to money saved: the building willbe impres- and !puy for p Over 20 local contractors have" : a!sive the real benefits of the NUHBA building supply companies commitment are still to come donated to the project since it began Willow Park Zoo Curator Rod a in fall 2001 After settling on the Wilhelm said the new facility will T construction as a way to give back enhance the zoo’s current programs locally Northern Utah Home Buildns Association began recrui- t- va The large classroom being built will a ing help for the community project j allow school scout and private Even though it took some time to groups who often come from as far away as Soda Springs Idaho and acquire materials and people to vol-- t Salt Lake City an increased level of unteer time during the busy con-educational experiences at the zoo-- ' struction season the response was overwhelming Contractors sent employees to vol- unteer hours or construction work -- biren - 1 Logan City Parks and Recreation Department programs often help vi! build community in town but the new Willow Park Zoo education f - facility has turned that around! and ' has let the community do the build-in- g wv- -: ''' t A With Shania Twain playing on a ' small radio at the work site just west of the Willow Park Zoo construe- -' a ' thick pieces tion workers fit of insulation across the bare roof ' before nailing down a layer of ply- wood to finish one of the last major v portions of the project as the build'X ing nears completion this fall The completion is a long time coming Despite the brisk pace the 10 men worked at Friday morning ‘ ch Dallas Texas” " ' a'- tsh cluing theboys tread roan” P0® “ ' ' thanking everybody around V and thanking her faith that i brought her to this great place - y : -- aT : surgery at Children’s Medical: Center Dallas'! : ‘'T Ahmed and Mohaimed who had an intricate Connection of I : blood vessels but separate brains were physically sepa- ::f rated about 26 hours after they : ! a Sheet rock glass electric equipment and roofing insulation have been sold to the zoo at steep discounts or even donated One mason even agreed to install the stone exterior of tire building at no cost “It’s going to be interesting (to total) what we do save the community” said Roy lan Crowshaw former Jockey Bill Shoemaker dies at 72 SAN MARINO Calif (AP) — Hall of Fame jockey Bill Shoemaker who rode four Kentucky Derby winners and was a commanding presence in thoroughbred racing for more than 40 years died Sun- ' Local 'angel ’ answers calls for help “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” — 1 Corinthians 1:18 near Santa ' Anita race- -' track according to longtime friend and trainer Paddy Gallagher Gal- lagher an assistant during Shoemaker’s training career that ended in 1997 said doctors told him Shoemaker died instru- mental in many activities in her church Coray said “She’s a superstar every church needs about 50 of her” said Mike Trail pastor of the her free time but she is By Joe Rowley staff writer The scripture inscribed into a pair of bookends that sit on Deborah Ramser’s desk s&ys a lot about the woman who works there Not only does it divulge something of her religious belief it reveals the motivation behind her good works “She’s our angel on Earth” Cache Christian Center Ramser gives and gives with no strings attached Trail said For example Sandra Emile told of die time when Ramser heard of a woman in CAPS A who need a place to stay Without question she opened her home to the woman and her several children who ranged from toddler to high school age Not only that but Ramser also lent her car to the woman so she could take her children to school Emile said “Deborah didn't know her and she didn’t have any recommendation on her But she knew she was in trouble and she needed a place to stay" Emile said “She never thinks of the downside” While it the chamber it’s Ramser' job to make people ‘ feel welcome in the valley Good Neighbors Tiffani Rudd said “I swear she has a direct connection with God” In the four years that Ramser has worked at the Cache Chamber of Commerce she has proven herself as one of the most amazing people that chamber CEO Bobbie Coray knows Not only does she go beyond her duties at work by volunteering to help the Hispanic Business Association and the Logan Downtown Alliance in See ANGEL on A12 : !:ySee TWINS on'A12 day He was 72 ' Shoemaker died in his sleep at his suburban home co-wor- See RETURN on A12 i iV A- - 1 ::: 3 a ‘ - : ' -- : easier to get used to” said Staff Sgt Jason Whitaker 33 from San Anto-- r nio 'CfofSr The 200 troops put of the mili-- 1 " tary’s largest leave program since die Vietnam War were among die first to " rotate home according to an Army a a v 'y spokesman' Balti- arrived at originally vThey s v Egyptian twins joined at the top of their heads were successfully separated Sunday but face a long recovery after the marathon surgery that " began a day earlier and that took more than a year of plan- - year-ol- d Troops return to Iraq after Sunday morning f wo- of natural causes - He had been paralyzed from the neck down since a car in 1991 accident ' It was the second major death in horse racing tins year Johnny Longden who won tire Triple Oown aboard Count Fleet in 1943 and was the only jockey to ride and train a Ken- tucky Derby winner died in February at 96 Shoemaker broke Longden’s record of 6032 career victo-lies in 1970 and held it until Laffit Pincsy Jr broke Shoe- maker's mark of 8833 wins in ' ' j j 1999 "He was one of the greatest human beings I have ever had the pleasure of knowing in my life’ said retired jockey Chris McCarron now general man- Brant StavenHereid Journal Deborah Ramser's and other who know her pr of Santo Anita "Forget ' say she is an angei and superstar for her acts of kindness about his ability to commun- i- ’ to those she hears need help She says she Is just trying cate with horses his to live the lessons of kindness she learned from Christ's See JOCKEY on A7 teachings i j 3 |