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Show I f I 1996- - UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. January 23. Page 13 HOW TO GET TO COLLEGE. Okay, maybe it DARE GRADUATES-The- se 6ch grade students from Duchesne Elementary have pledged to keep their lives drug free. Last week the group graduated from the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) course taught by Duchesne County Sheriffs deputy Jess Brown. seems a little early to be thinking DARE program actively fights drugs and violence in schools . you've still got 2 books, the living Parents can help reinforce what the DARE Officer ie teaching by asking their "children what they learned that day, Brown said. And by going over that information with the kids, and encouraging them to learn more. Awareness is important in detecting drug use, one simple way to do this Brown advised ie to "give your kids a hug every day, and take a smell while your doing it" If a child smells like smoke then chances are theyre using, Brown explained. The DARE program is coming next to Roosevelt Middle School. expenses, the sky- rocketing tuition... or was that The point 8 years? is, the big things in life Ercanbrack makes good on bet with I' students BALD EAGLE-T- he top ten sellers from Duchesne High School got to shave the principal,. Etennis Ercanbracks head. Pictured are Jamie. ' Johnson and Melody Moon with the razor. 1 years before the set - col- lege. After all, Basin Association of Governments and the Sheriffe Department At the beginning of the DARE course a work book is given to each child to complete. With that notebook the child receives a letter to be presented to parents explaining that they will be taking the course and what objectives are different ways, discovered how the media uses various techniques to Todays children are facing promote harmful substances, took issues that effect not only future part in activities to increase selfand learned how to happiness but their very existence esteem, as increasing violence and drug combat peer pressure and violence abuse invades their schools ana in their schools. Why are such young children neighborhoods. Concerned parents may wonder what to do, and what being taught about drugs and is being done in schools to combat violence? Brown says that studies show that if intervention is put off the problem. Jess Brown, Drug Abuse until Junior high it is often too Resistance Education Officer late;, kids have already been (DARE) ia working in connection exposed to and some are already with Sheriff Ralph Stansfield of using the "gateway drugs" such as the Duchesne County Sheriffe tobacco alcohol and marijuana. Department to educate 5th and "You never know what benefit 6th grade students in the county on the harm drugs can do to their there will be ... you hope that bodies and how to say "NO." youve touched the kids, but you Duchesne, Myton, and Altamont dont know," Brown expressed. As schools have each completed the a DARE Officer, Brown reports 17 week course and are now working eight hours five days a DARE graduates. Brown says the week to present the DARE i. Funding for the program students gained basic knowledge i provided by federal grants of harmful substances, learned Uintah through how to say "no" to drugs in eight administered By Cheryl Mecham about your kids The principal of Duchesne High School, Dennis Ercanbrack, made a deal with the students; If they could sell $4000 worth of candy have a way of hap- pening before our very eyes. That's bars he would let the top ten sellers shave his head. The students were excited and the money was earned in just a little over a month. During the Christmas assembly the top 10 sellers: Mrs. Connie Mullins, Jessie Searie, Veronica Garner, Erin Allen, Albert Foster, Melody Moon, Brad Burt, Jamie Johnson, and Mr. Steve Aycock. The money will be used for a new marquee to replace the old one on Main Street With the new marquee, the community will be able to see when activities and sports events will be. The marquee will be up and running as soon as possible. There was one extra money earned and that will go towards ng new lockers for the echi why we created Planned Savings I Plus. It's a disci- plined savings plan that regularly shifts money from your checking account to Cfassifieas SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS students of the mwnii at Roosevelt Junior High are pictured left to right: Lacy Larsen, Natalie VanTasscll, Keith McCurdy and Phillip Whiting. fM. r 0 pirT-r- r JANUAHY your assets build, so BLOWOUT! S T ri W f.l your savings. As -- i 996 ULTRA 680 Reg. 6,899 does the interest SKS Now $6,200 (up to 4.89 996 LITE GT 340 Reg. 3,799 Now $3,300 And as your kids 1996 INDY 500 SKS Reg. 5,299 Now $4,600 POLBHISt.ii.ic pf For yean, upland game biologists havs trued rainbow trout eggs for turkeys. Its worked well. Now biologists can capture young birds and transplant them elsewhere. One of the but success stories lies in central Utah. "There were over 100 Rio Grande turkeys in this flock," observed Bruce Giunta, regional wildlife biologist for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. "Most of the turkeys we saw were young birds from this year. Thats great production from thia group." ' Biologists lure these gobblers into the trap area by spreading corn and other grama on the ground under a large net. The birds make their way across open fields during their morning feed much like ants would move over a icnic table searching for scrape, ce there are enough turkeys under the net, but not eo many that they cant be safety handled, a remote switch is flipped, sending the net down over all of the birds. "You can catch 80 to 50 birds at a time when they are clustered under the net," Giunta says. "They will flop around a little bit after the net drops, but in a short time they settle down and they dont get hurt." grow, well, so will VERNAL SPORTS HITTING THE BOOKS --Students of the month for December at Roosevelt Junior High are pictured left to right: Royce Wilkerson, Valorie Winn, Michelle Lemon and Brandon Whiting. their CENTER Country Kitchen Cafe c 3 & uh, the little tyke unclenches your Serving Breakfast, Lunch & Dinners With Daily Lunch Specials Wk Just more. (Whenever Homestyle Cooking Homemade Bread & Rolls - Catering am g. stop by to find out X3 Monday - Saturday 6:00 nest-eg- Randy Carlings Drive-I- n APY). - 9:00 p.m. Sunday 7:00 a.m. West Main, Duchesne 738-273- car keys.) 4.-0- 5 p.rrv. T ito Repair fecnsmissii penhzdil BALL BEARINGS?! New haaaaarfJaal(IMavdapaaTlakM' REPLACE FILTER wsr "Ubricaa Aom WORKS LIKE LIQUID Member FD.I.C. LUBE, CHANGE OIL & Omy rwiMb C It dahaaakadShiBBvWhlBa aphid ak.UaarfS)MahMMaadpaaakil IM lari, Baa aiaaikaahrfahaSha $0095 N1F0L. 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