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Show r planned to raise awareness of rural airport financing issues THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - Page 4 Fly-in- Locals attend sexual assault workshop Naomi Helquist, registered of personpersons that committed certain crimes. Eastern Utah AHEC, sponsored in part the Sexual nurse from Monticello and Karolyn Romero, of the College of Eastern Utah - San Juan Campus, attended a Assault Sexual Assault Workshop in Price on August 8. Romero is the sexual assault contact person at CEU-SJ- C. She said, It was good to learn about the right procedures to follow' when there is an assault. The victim needs to be protected and helped through the healing process." Chuck Davis, Administrator for Allen Memorial Hospital, recognized the need in Moab to have more specialized training on sexual assault and evidence gathering. Eastern Utah AHEC was contacted to help sponsor the training that took place at the College of Eastern Utah. Have you ever seen the movie Silence of the Lambs? How about the T.V. show Profiler?" The question was Profiler and asked by currently Provos Chief of Police, Greg Cooper. Unlike the TV show, its not necessary to have psychic ability to be a Ex-F.B.- I. profiler." The behavioral a serial criminal turn into the clues in solving crimes. Profilers are characteristics of educated to use intuition" to fit the behavioral pieces together to come up with a composite of the type able and Medical Investigation Workshop with 75 professionals attending. Nurses, lawT enforcement, mental health personnel, teachers, clergy, and students gathered August 8 at CEU. The goal of the day long seminar wras to train and inform professionals in various aspects of sexual assault, drug facilitated rape, and evidence gathering. Naomi Helquist commented that, Learning to gather evidence afler a sexual assault was very helpful. Right after the course we had a need for the information". EU-AHE- C AuCounty will be buzzing on gust 26 when aviators from throughout the state are scheduled to participate in a Round There will be five of the of all crimes. Grace gave the Utah rape statistics for 1998 as 852 cases. Ms. McCallan rallys, to take place throughout the state. It is part of a statewide effort to heighten aware- an small airports. 2-- City The rally on Saturday will take the aircraft through San Juan County. They will begin at Escalante, travel to Bullfrog, Monument Valley and Bluff enroute to Monticello. They arrive at Monticello at 2 p.m. where they will be hosted by the Monticello Airport Committee. There will be a short ceremony and celebration before the planes begin to leave around 3 p.m. The Airport Committee expects up to 20 planes on Saturday. Retired U.S. Senator Jake Gam, a pilot and aviation buff, is expected to play host to the The rural airports provide critical links in the economy and for medical treatment and emergency sendees. Planes also use Utah airports to pick up checks for clearing at Utah banks and for tourism related purposes. ness about the plight of Utahs pointed out that as alarming as the statistics are, they are only about 3 percent of the actual number of rape cases. Drug facilitated rape is on the increase with alcohol as the drug" of choice for predators on the prowl looking for an easy mark. Detective Heather Stringfellow' from the Salt Lake of the state, the fourth through the south central portion of the state and fifth through the central portion of the state. Robin Rally. under-reporte- d Call-McCall- west Utah. The second rally will cover the southeast portion of the state, the third through the northeast portion The skies over San Juan works. We identify a need in the community and then bring resources to meet that need. Rape has long been recognized as one of the most how s Police Department went over the list of other drugs used to facilitate rape. Topically, a drug is put According to Program Coordinator, Shirley into a victims drink wrhile Coyne, the seminar was a shes distracted and then she success in that it helped meet loses the ability to resist a the immediate needs of the sexual assault. These cases community. Georgia Russell, are extremely difficult to RN at AMH, attended the prosecute because the victim workshop and said, I actually isnt able to testify as to what used the information from the specifically happened. A forensics nurse presenter, class two days after the RN, FNE, course. There was a sexual Su Briner-Brow'a DABFE, DABFN, said that trauma case that was terrible tragedy but thanks to proper gathering of evidence the seminar I knew the after the sexual assault has procedures for gathering of occurred is critical to evidence and I had a prosecution. Nurses are being knowledge base to approach trained around the State of the poor victim. Coyne said, Utah to do the code-This is the perfect example of examines and collect the vital evidence of a crime. EU-AHE- C n, R Organizers hope to catch the attention of legislators and state officials in addition to local residents who are threatened with the loss of airports. Eighteen of Utahs 47 airports are facing extinction, including San Juan County airports in Monticello, Monument Valley, Bullfrog area and Bluff. Event organizers say that the airports are not expendable but are vital to the future of Utah. They say these small rural airports are the portals for their respective areas that link these areas to the state, nation and fly-in- s. international airways systems. They argue that airports provide general sendees for the general population and should therefore be legitimate candidates for modest general funding from the state. They say that a $2 or $3 million per year deficit will result in the closure of Utah airports unless a source for the funds is found. 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