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Show n T January 6, : 1998- - T Page 9 iBasin Life Uintah Basin Standard Need a Personal Coach? condition and become healthier. Cuch says success is realized when people are able to eqjoy activities again - such as a bronc rider whose shoulder was injured and came to Cuch for strength training, now he's back in the saddle again. Cuch herself works to attain a high level of fitness, and has been challenging her body to work, and work well since she was young. She also practices what she instructs clients to do. She exercises, eats nutritious foods and supplements her diet with vitamins. She has a firm belief that no one should put garbage (junk food) in their body, and her muscle she says comes from good honest work, and not steroids. No matter who you are - a couch potato or weekend athlete, Cuch will work with you for an improved physical condition - which also includes diet. It all works together she says to build a better you. Fitness training for couch potatoes or incredible hulks By Cheryl Mecham Motivation - that ia what Leona Cuch gives to her clients as a certified fitness trainer, a valuable commodity when it comes to an individual's effort to improve their physical Caroline Wood, a Roosevelt an afflicted with multiple sclerosis fit to increase strength in the areas oftheir body where they need it the most. Her plan is for total fitness, as well as muscular fortitude. In the gym Cuch consults her clients in general fitness, sport specific, and strength and toning traincardio-vascul- well-bein- says that the personal trainingCuch offers has made a marked difference in her life. Wood says because the neurological disease causes loss of muscle tone, she must work out three times a week just to keep mobile. My muscles turn to Jello, Wood said, adding, "its a lot ofhard work, but you feel better after. Now I can walk up a flight of stairs. When I first walked in here and watched I thought, do I want to do this? But Leona starts you out low, its like takingbaby steps. Sometimes I have to start over with doing those baby steps, but then I can make it back up to the level 1 was at, Wood explained. Cuch takes clients with varying limitations and provides them with an individualized program custom ar ing. We work the body to strengthen what is weak, we strengthen cartilage, tendons, ligaments and muscles 1 help them to attain their goals. I set a plan and we work it together, Cuch reported. To become a fitness trainer Cuch was required to learn how the skeletal and muscular frame were put together, where muscle were attached and how it moved in harmony with the skeleton. She also learned how the position of the skeleton affected muscles during exercise, and how to increase the bodies stamina and strength using the various pieces of gym equipment. After hours of instruction she completed her course and received certification in Salt Lake City through International Sports Sciences Association last year. She is also a nurses assistant with train- -- ing to take blood pressure and monitor vital signs. Cuch says she became interested four years ago, and in weight-liftin- g was motivated to teach soon after. I made a lot of mistakes, and hurt myself. I decided to find some education and teach myself and other people how to do it right. Now she says she receives complete personal satisfaction when she sees others improve their physical Some Tips For Success Resolved to obtain health and fitness? Wood who suffers from multiple scleroTRICEPS EXERCISE-Caroli- ne Cuch. Here she lifts an 8 pound of the direction sis works under her triceps muscle. to series in of a strengthen repetitions weight their advice, because most resolutions are made in a rush of excitement when the individual feels that Every year at this time resolu- anything is possible. When tions are made to loose weight and the begins to dissipate the energy improve fitness, and in a couple of person realizes that weeks resolve falters and people sacrifice and hard work lay before resume their old habits, why? them - all at once the feeling behind There are many reasons experts the goal change, and at this point say - after all old habits are hard to goals can seem unattainable. The break and replace with new ones of a friend or family memand in the zealous first days after a support ber at this point can be crucial to resolution is made people usually success. try to make too many physical and human behavThose who mental changes all at once. So what ior tell us to study one thing at a change are the answers? until the new action becomes time, First of all, talk over goals with a habit, so it is with changing diet someone who is supportive, and ask and implementing an exercise rou By Cheryl Mecham e, -- Gods Fishermen to be presented Wilford Woodruff: t I WORKING OUT Cuch, daughter of Leona enjoys working out. Here she demonstrates the stair stepper. Jazz and Creative Dance The Uintah Recreation District Community School division and Robin Murray McClellan Dance Academy will be offering the winter session of Jazz and Creative dance classes for girls and boys age 3 years and up. Classes will be held at Discovery Elementary School on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school Classes start Tuesday, Jan. 6. For more information call 781-548- 6. Veterans, Dependents, and Widows The Service Officer from the American Legion will be in our area Tuesday, Jan. 6, 1:30 - 3 p.m., to assist you in understanding and applying for VA benefits, including compensation, pension, hospitalization, education, and other benefits. SUU Open House Uintah Basin high school students interested in attending Southern Utah University are invited to attend an open house Wednesday, Jan. 14 from p.m. at Uintah High School, 1880 W. 500 N. For more information call Sandra Lord (435) 865-801- 5. Attention Quilters! Area quilters will meet Tuesday, Jan. 13, 7 p.m. at the Moon Lake building. Please bring three dark colors and three light colors for a nine patch log cabin. For more information call 722-313- 7. American Legion Post 64 American Legion Post 64 will hold their regular meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. Tree Recycling Chapter will be sponsoring a Christmas tree recycling program in Duchesne. Trees will be picked up from homes within the city limits, on Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 7 - 8 immediately after school. Place your tree at curbside for pickup. Please remove tree stand and any other materials from the tree. If you live outside the dty limits you can take your tree to the Duchesne County Fairgrounds (by the livestock barn) before Thursday, Jan. 8. DHS FFA-HER- O Women's Aglow International Women's Aglow International of Vernal, will hold their monthly meeting Thursday, Jan. 8, 6:30 p.m. Meet at Stella's Kitchen, Vernal. Dinner wiU be served. Featured Speakers include several women sharing their Melanie testimonies. RSVP by Jan. 7, Pat Kathy 789-732- 6, 789-651- "Wilford Woodruff: Gods Fisherman, a one man show featuring Varlo Davenport aa Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of the LDS church, will be presented January 12 at Duchesne High School Auditorium and Jan. 16 and 17 at Union High School Auditorium at 7 0 p.m. The production is sponsored by the Basin West 2000 Fine Arts Council. The play takes place early in the afternoon of July 23, 1847, the day before Brigham Young would ride into the Salt Lake Valley and make his famous, This is the right place, drive on, proclamation. Wilford has settled this ailing Brigham Young down for an afternoon nap and has walked a few rods off so that he can talk to the audience and use his fly rod to get some dinner. Woodruff is supposed to have been the first person to have ever fly fished in the Rocky Mountains. He then launches into the story of his life, answering the question supposedly asked ofhim by the audience, how did the son of a Yankee miller, wind up here? The answers are cast out to - the audience with materials taken from Woodruffs many diaries, speeches and family lore. The photos you see of President .Woodruff show a stoic, very g older man, said Davenport. This play is about the young Wilford Woodruff that moat people are not acquainted with. He was full ofgreat enthusiasm and endless energy, and had some amazing experiences that are shared in the script. Davenport has taught for Utah State University and College of Eastern Utah. For file last six years he has taught at USUs Uintah Basin branch campus in Vernal where he is a theatre instructor and serves as Producing Artistic Director ofThe Outlaw Trail Theatre. Davenport is an alumnus of the SUU Theatre Department and holds an MFA in Acting from the Ohio State University. Hie play was written by James Arrington and Tim Slover. Arrington is a noted playwright, director, producer and actor. His works include the one person play, Heres Brother Brigham and The sober-lookin- tine. For example a person may increase their water consumption until they are drinking the recommended 8 ounce glasses per day, or take a 20 minute brisk walk each day. Normally it takes about 21 days of consistent effort to implement a new habit behavioralists report. One of the most significant steps in improving health is to make positive changes and stick with them. Anyone can reduce caloric intake and exercise for three days - but it takes 60 to 90 days before a marked physical change occurs, before the participant can see and feel significant results. 8-- Farley Family Reunion. Tim Slover is head of the BYU Department of Theater and Films writing program. His two most recent works, March Tale and Joyful Noise have both won significant critical acclaim. In February Mr. Slover was awarded the 1997 Literary Award from the Association of Mormon Letters for Joyful Noise. Advance tickets are available at Gales Office Supply. Tickets will also be available at the door. Prices are $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and students and $25 for a family ticket for up to six persons. Ifyou have any questions, please call Varlo Davenport at 789-610- 0. David Briggs AP Religion Writer As Americans consider their own mortality, they are concerned that God may not forgive them or that they will be cut off from God or a higher power at the time of their death. According to a Gallup Poll on spiritual beliefs and the dying process, nearly nine in 10 people get comfort in the belief that they will be in the loving presence of God or a higher power after death. d Yet, barely more than of the respondents said the clergy could be comforting to them in many ways when they were dying. The survey is a wake-u- p call for the clergy," said George H. Gallup Jr. "Not many see the clergy providing broad spiritual support in their own dying days." The George H. Gallup International Institute, in a study sponsored by the Nathan Cummings Foundation and Fetzer Institute, surveyed 1,200 adults ages 18 and older by telephone in a nationwide random sample in May 1997. When people think about their own death, spiritual concerns are central issues for a large part ofthe population. For example, 89 percent of the respondents said they would be comforted during the dying process by believing they will be in the loving presence of God or a higher power. When they thing about their own death, 56 percent said they were one-thir- nkai4 LJa ! by God and 51 percent worried they might be removed or cut off from God while dying. In contract, only 19 percent worried about having someone go through their possessions after they died and only 13 percent said they were concerned about what will be said about them at their funerals. When asked what kinds of support from another person-oth- er be than medical attention-wou- ld important to them if they were dying, half the respondents said having someone pray for them would be very important. Forty-fou- r percent said it would be very important to have someone help them become spiritually at peace, the same percentage that said it would be very important to have someone pray with them. Thirty-tw- o perednt said it would be very important to have someone read them spiritual or inspiration materials, while only 13 percent said it would be very important to have someone read them something other than religious material. Doctors are expected to give dying patients more than their technical expertise. Two-thirsaid if they were dying, they would want a doctor who cares about them. Two in five respondents said they would want a physician who is spiritually attuned to them. However, only 30 percent said they would expect doctors to be comforting to them in ways other than medical attention if they were fine-tuni- ut remember making temporary changes results in temporary change ... a lifetime of health and fitness requires lifetime effort. Credit Unions reported sound Utah credit unions and credit unions across the country are healthy. Also, the structure of the credit union independent federal regulatory and insurance structure is sound. This information was released in a recent report by the U.S. Treasury. Treasury noted that credit unions are distinguished by the fact that they are member-ownecooperatives governed by volunteer boards. Further, the study highlights the affinity among credit union members and that credit unions strive to help people improve their financial Credit unions in Utah are pleased with the Treasury study, which was inspired by our own Senator Bob Bennett, notes Scott Earl, president of the Utah League of Credit Unions. Earl continued by stating, The report echoes what we've been saying all along, that the structure ofcredit unions benefits consumers, and that credit unions play a vital role in the financial services marketplace. The full text of the Treasury re-port can be accessed through the Union Credit National Asssociations web site (http: www.cuna.org) or for additional information please call the Utah League of Credit Unions at well-bein- Most think deity will be near after death So while an individual works toward a goal it is important that they review their progress weekly and consider possible or revisions. They may ask, Did I work hard enough? Was the goal set too high or too low? What Is this still imare the trade-offs- ? portant to me?" Day to day changes, actually making the journey one step at a time is where success is marked, g. 972-340- 0. Varlo Davenport Somewhat surprisingly, just a slightly higher percentage-3- 6 expect a clergy member to be comforting during the dying process. The Gallup Institute says the study suggests that religious communities should encourage and train more people to pray with the dying, and to appropriately share their beliefs about the afterlife. People value touching, hugs, expressions of love, as well as reminders of Gods love for them, in their final days, the study indicates. Old people getting sick need to count on the faith community to which they have belonged, the institute reported. Too often they cannot do this. Utah launches into income tax telefiling About 50,000 Utahns will find a different kind of booklet in their mailboxes at tax time inviting them to participate in the first year of Utah income tax telefiling. In addition, another 805,000 standard state income tax booklets will begin mailing after the first of the year. Utah again this year will have only one tax form. The long, short and nonresident forms were combined into a single form for the 1995 tax year. Only those who have been preselected are eligible to telefile for 1997. They will receive a special which will walk booklet, the them through the process of filing their state income tax returns ustelephone. ing a touch-ton-e The telefilers will receive more rapid refunds, because all paper handling and data entry is eliminated. The dial-i- n system is available 24 hours a day, every day ofthe - TC-40- week. This first group will be experi enced federal telefilers. To be selected for Utah's inaugural program, tclefilcrs had to be single, full-yeresidents and filing a refund rear turn. They are an elite group: they filed their 1996 returns on time, claimed zero or one exemptions, used the standard deduction and live at the same address as in 1996. To be eligible to telefile, they cannot claim any additional credits that require a separate schedule, and may have made no tax prepayments for 1997 other than withholding. Those with questions should call the Utah State Tax Commission at (801)297-220- 0 within the SaltLake e metro area, or or email the agency at: taxmastertax. state. ut. us. Hearing-impaired callers may call the Tax Commission's Telecommunications Device for the Deaf at toll-fre- |