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Show I dUamttailh IB&sStm SUsnmdlsiirdl Thursday. November Jr' r .;o- - ' 17, 1963 Uintah Basin Standard 13 ' Duchesne mayor resigns position ' P'v The new Tribal Health Clinic is located west of thie admins trative offices and south of Bottle Hollow Resort. There are 33 staff positions approved for the clinic. HEALTH CLINIC Currently there are 28 people on staff and recruiting should begin taking place soon. w Tribal The dinie is in a central location with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Ute Tribal offices and is in the heart of the agencies for the reservation, said Breuninger. The newest and most prominent things the clinic offers, according to facilities and Breuninger, are the the laboratory. Breuninger said this is not just a medical dinie. It encompasses all the field components and preventative health. He added that in this fiscal year they are planning to promote preventative health programs. Breuninger sad the dinie is working within the community, with the County Hospital and with the County and State Health Departments and certain State health projects. They are also waking with the Tribal Health Department. x-r- A dedication ceremony for the Indian Health Clink located aonth of Bottle Hollow, will take plaee December 1. at 10:00 a.m. in the Tribal Building Auditorium. The ceremony ' will recognize people that have played a large part in getting this clinic to where it ie today, according to John Breuninmr, Service Unit Director. The dinie ia in full awing now and began operations on October 81. The dental department of the eUnie was in operation two weeks prim1 to the entire efinie opening. has the health programs under one roof. The various aspects of health care were scattered in the past, but physical health, mental health, dental health, and nodal services are all included in the new dinie. linger the brought all Duchesne City Maya Scott Mau-gha- n was expected to give hk resignation to the City Council on Wednesday. Maughan sited two reasons for hk resignation. The first was that he was appointed to office and the new mayor, RoJean Addley, was elected to office and k therefore the peoples choice. The second reason Maughan gave was that there are sane immediate derisions that have to be addressed and made by the Maya and Council that will have long range effects. The new mayor will have to live with these decisions and should, Maughan said, be able to be in on making these decisions. The main decision the new mayor will have to deal with k what to do about a city manager, said Maughan. The Mayor and Council will have to deride whether a new manager will be hired or if a new avenue will be explored. Maughan said there k no reason to 'force the new administration into a situation where they do not want to be. He said he is ready to continue waking with the City and intends to work as cooperatively as possible with RoJean Addley to ensure a smooth turn over in administration! Maughan said he k pleased to have been able to serve the Community and feels that he has been part of some major improvements within the City Government. Maughan said he has input in the Citys new financial stability, has played a part in bringing Duchesne out of an overspent budget into a surplus financial situation. Maughan added that he has also helped build a cooperative and better mayor-counc- il relationship within the city that has been waking in a common direction for the good of the city. He has also played a large part in relocating the Duchesne City offices. Maughan said he feels there will be a smooth transition from one administration to the other. Maughan said he has greatly appreciated the experience of serving Duchesne City but that he would not like to go through the past two years again. He expressed thanks to the Duchesne citizens, the Duchesne Council and the mayors of the nearby communities. holds safely program PTA The Altamont PTA has planned a program making parents aware of the National PTA approved McGruff House Safety Program. The meeting will start at 7:80 p.m. in the Altamont high school auditorium, Thursday, November 17. All concerned parents are invited to attend. A police officer will explain the McGruff house program and explain how we as parents can protect our children. We will also have guest speaker, Ellen Remington, give us all the information on a Community Crime Watch Program. In conjunction with the PTA meeting, the PTA will have films fa our children to view November at the Altamont elementary school, is well as a police officer available to fingerprint new students and pre22-2- schoolers. Remember the meeting 17, at 7:30 auditorium. at the k November high school The clinic is funded by Federal and .,8a to. contracts and .'.grants and by Tribal finding.. He said they are attempting to strengthen the relationship in meeting the needs of the people together. As mentioned before, the clinic has facilities and a laboratory. Other features in the clinic are four dental rooms, each complete with dental machines. There equipment and are five medial examination rooms, a trauma .roan, and a pharmacy. The . x-r-ay clinic houses administrative offices, fidd offices, mental health department, sanitation, community health, nursing supply and maintenance. According to Breuninger, the clinic is approved for a staff of 83. There are presently 28 people on staff He said some positions are not filled and that they will probably be recruiting in the near future. The dink provides ambulatory, out-and is from eight to Satient care,are two open dentists, and three dental assistants on staff There are three physician positions but only two are presently filled. Breuninger said the dink provides medical savin to rural and isolated areas that are not able to recruit physicians. They are still recruiting for the third physicians position. eare is called fa, the If are referred to Duchesne Stients Hospital, to Hospitals in Salt nt TRAUMA ROOM John Breuninger discusses the trauma room of the Ute Indian Clinic. The clinic will be dedicated in Lake, or to a hospital in Phoenix, Arisons. the physicians on staff at the dink take care of patients that are referred to the Duchesne County Hospital. They do OKs have house rights and do rounds at the hospital Operating hows and days fa the dime will be officially announced at a later date, said Breuninger. a ceremony on December 1, at 10:00 a.m. the Tribal Building auditorium. The clinic began operating in October. in Myten classloads status quo of overcrowded The problems classrooms at Myton elementary may or may not be solved to everybodies expectations but they are solved, at least fa this year. Myton elementary school has the largest kindergarten dass in the District with 40 students. A huge 4th wade dass of 89 students comp the problem and teachers, tors, and parents felt that something needed to be done. After a mooting with the Board of Education, Principal Taykr was instructed to come up with some how to solve the suggestions problems. Taykr came up with five possible solutions. The first dealt withspHtting classes in all grades of the school to equaUas the student load. There are presently two aids waking at Myton. Thk proposal would have traded them fer a new part time teachw. The class loads would have been split so that thare would be two sssskns of kindergarten, a first grade with 26 students a first, seeond grade dass of 24, a second grade class of 25. a second, third grade dsss of 24, a third, fourth grade dass of 28 and 28 in both of the fifth and sixth grades. This wss a good idea but it would . have taken lots of changes and teaching assignments to implement thk year, stated Taykr. Maybe it k a way to implement in the future," he said. The second proposal consisted of keeping the aids instead of hiring a new part time teacher and put them with the kindergarten and fourth grade ms. In Kindergarten, 25 students would be with the certified teachw whik the aid would work with 15 of the students in anothw roan, changing tlw students throughout the day. Thk would split the one session kindergarten and leave the othw grades as follows; first grade, 20 and 20, second grade, 25, third grade 25 and a seeondthird grade dass 21, fourth grade, 89 and 28 in the fifth and sixth grades eaeh. The seeond aid would be stationed in the fourth grade and would help by taking 5 to 10 students to anothw room far specialised help. The third proposal would leave kindergarten and kww grades the same u in proposal two but even out the fourth, fifth and sixth grades. This would have only changed about 15 students in the school but was the hardest plan to implement because curriculum requirements made in of-th- e . th tkfiiii gririri fourth proposal dealth with an Individually Guide Educational process where thaw are no grades pw se. There are teachw teams (three of The are responsibility for certain educational concepts. Each teachw team would be responsibk for about 75 students. The fifth proposal was to keep it as it was. Taykr stated that the board told him not to spend any more money to hire a new teacher and to keep tlw two aids, so hs implemented prwosal Na 2 using the aids to take students out of the them) that overcrowded classrooms help. fa specialised Thk allows more individualised time in the kindergarten dass but still allows all of the students to have a a. i credited teachw. Thk wwks about the aame fa the fourth grade also as an aid k with students all day long. Taylor said that students attend the Chapter 1 and Title IV programs throughout the day that also reduces the class loads. Maybe some people are not happy but basically I feel good about what we have done within the bounds that were set, said Taykr. He explained that they were expecting anothw large kindergarten class next yew and when a more exact number k known, they can plan one way or the othw fw a two session kindergarten which could alleviate the problem fw anothw year. He said they already have two first grades thk year and thk would handle the present youngsters as they progress to that grade from kindergar- ten. He said that it k a difficult situation to have too many students for normal size cissses but not enough to afford anothw teachw and that k where they are at in tiw Myton school. 3 LONG DAY The light installers had a long day. Hoist the lights up, cross the road, hook them on, stop the traffic . . But all their hard work will have paid off when the lights are on and the Christmas spirit is awakened in all. |