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Show - page 13 '6-- April 25, 2000 Basin LIFE Uintah Basin Standard rjaeaaKaaiwff:lfafy rizzz.'jzzxt 5 NEW RESOURCES EDUCATION OFFERED Altamont man is off to Africa to participate in aid project The Ngomongo Project is based on principals with a leach of education and them to fish" premise. self-relian- ce By James Willis "What were going to be doing in Ngomongo is build a playground for about 250 kids to go with the new school that has reeentfy been built Wealso hope to tutor them in readingand teach them nutrition, hygiene, as well as communication and problemsolving thills, said Randy Enman, one of the delegates beingient by Geoige Wythe College, as part of a humanitarian-ai- d project Enman lives with his family in a renovated cabin in Upako. "1 think the title says it was built somewhere around 1895; weve house. managed to turn it into a Enman got involved in the college when he returned from Panama. He was doing a tour with the Air Force when his lather became ill and he returned home to a print shop. Through this business he met a woman who told him about a man in Cedar City who did her print work for her. This gentleman was going out of business due to illness, so Enman went down to Cedar City to offer his help. I went into the building next door to the print shop and started looking around, Enman said. They had pictures ofthe Founding Fathers on the wall. I was curious and asked what they did. I gotabrochurv.andfrom working in the print shop 1 noticed a bunch of typos. Enman asked if he could correct the typos lor the school's brochure and have them Randy Enman will be leaving for Ngomongoon reprinted. In eadumge for his services, the college offered him May II to help other volunteers build a play tuition. He graduated with a bachelors degree in education and biblical studies. ground for about 250 kids, and to teach the George Wythe College, located in Cedar City, Utah, does a lot of people ofthe community valuable skills to help things like this. They have sent people to places all over the world. improve the quality of their lives. including Beijing, China, and other communities in Africa. Ngomongo is a slum outside of Nairobi, Kenya. Political problems have increased the burden on the 120,000 inhabitants in recent years asbasic infrastructures such as streets and roads are deteriorating, water supplies have dwindled in availability and quality, and medical care ia severely lacking. Central Dispatch is sponsoring a fund raising effort for Tayia The Ngomongo Project is based on Baca's family. Last week Tayia underwent her Iff surgery for hydrocephof education and principals alus. Her family has no medical insurance. Central District is asking for your with a teach them to fish medical related with bills Donations be can and help Tayla's expenses. goals of the premise. The long-termade at Central Dispatch office 152 East 100 North in Vernal and in her project are to instill in the children a name at any First Security Bank. minimum early childhood education, teach them necessary nutritional needs, and make sure that all the children in the Ngomongo slum, and LDS Single Adults over 3 1 will meet Friday, April 28 for Line Dancing at the six surrounding communities, receive proper medical immunizations. the Ballard Chapel at 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 30 at 7 p m. for a fireside The construction project will reat the Roosevelt East Stake Center. President David Labium will be the sult in four spaciousdasmooms, each or Kathy, Reah. speaker. For questions call Diane, with a capacity for 40 students, a 0 library, a four-roodispensary and medical facility, a reading room, dur- inf room, kitchen; an administration unit, and a woman's training renter. Don't miss your chance for dinner, a floor show and Hnng Its all Another thing that we are doing is happening Friday and Saturday, April 28, 29. and Monday, May I. at 6:30 the women occupational teaching m. p at USU in Roosevelt, courtesy ofStagelight and the UintaJau? Band. skills, said Enman. With the aid of Tickets may be purchased at USU or from spy member ofStagelighL A light another program - Help the Children dinner will be served. - were setting up jobs for the women in the communities. Throughout the day, the Help the Children Academy teaches the children and provides them with a hot, The annual Citywide SpringCleanup Campaign in Roosevelt will be held nourishingmeaL In theewninp, the with Roosevelt divided into two areas as follows: Area 1 -May Womens Training Center provides everything north ofLagooo Street and Area 2 --everything south ofLagoon vocational training and adult literacy Street. Area 1 will have curbside pickup May 8 and Ares 2, May programs. All the school children have been fitted with and issued school uniforms (inboththenewandoldschooIsl.LDS A Preservation Roadshow will be held in Vernal on Friday, April 28. A Charities ha donated I5ewing. knitlecture. Caring for Your Collectibles, will be given at the Uintah County ting, embroidering machine and fabrics that are used in the Women's library at 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, April 29, a drop-i- clinic, Preservation Recommendations and Treatment, will be held at the library from 9 a m. Training Center where tbe uniforms 5 p.m. were made. Medical senricA are being offered to all the school children and to the neighboring communities. Previously, the nearest medical facility was 19 A meeting will be held at the Western Park complex in Vernal on May 3, kilometers away. 7 d discuss to the feasibility oferratingayear-rounat p.m. skating park for At this time most of the resident ice skating, rollerblading and skateboarding. Please attend if you are of Ngomongo live in small shacks or interested. mud huts. To me it seems little ironic that 1 would be going and helping people three-bedroo- Basin m Rritefes Your Help is Needed! self-relian- Single Adults Over 31 722-426- 6; 781-137- 781-669- m A Night Out on the Town! Spring Cleanup 1-- 1-- 9-1- en seniors from the Duchesne County School Districts ere chosen as Sterling Scholar Pictured left to right ire; jay Wood, winner in TraJc and Technical Education; T amaran D c, runner-u- p in Family, Consumer Sciences; Dav id Eckels, runner-u- p in General Scholarship; Joel Gillespie, runner-u- p in in Computer Technology; and Amber Henry, runner-u- p in Computer Technology; Jessica Mitchell, runner-u- p Dance. Not pictured is Luke Smith, runner-u- p in Science. STERLING SCHOLARS-Scv- u innen or runners-u- p. SEVEN STUDENTS AWARDED SCHOLARSHIPS Duchesne District students take Sterling Scholar honors By Cheryl Meehans Duchesne County School District Sterling Scholars brought home several titles during the Northeast Utah Region Sterling Scholar Awards held Tuesday, April 18at Wasatch High in Heber. The competition summed upyears of academic readiness topped off by months of preparation for the event. Jay D. Wood. Union High Trade andTechnical Education, was named first place SterlingScholarduringthe ceremony. Runners-u- p named in the competition are: T amaran K. Dye, Union High. Family and Consumer Science: Joel O. Gillespie, Union High, pro-gra- m Computer Technology; Jessica Mitchell. Altamont. Computer Technology, Amber N. Henry, Altamont, Dance; Luke J. Smith. Duchesne, Science; and David N. Eckels, Union, General Scholarship. Winners received a 5500 scholarship and each runner-u- p woo a 5300 scholarship. Ac well both winners and runners-uhave theirchoiceof scholarships to most Utah universities or college. Duchesne County School District awards eachSterlingScholarwho participates 550 in cash. Duchesne County School District scholars competed against students from 13otherschoob in the northeast region including Dugway, Utah, and Wendover, Nevada. There were 14 categories of competition: music, mathematics, social science, science. p Approximately 1 50 students sat in nervous anticipation in the Wasatch High auditorium. visual aria, computer technology, foreign language, family and consumer acience, trade and technical education, speech and drama. English, buai-nes- s and marketing, dance, and general scholarship. SterlingSchuIar advisors who help students prepare for the competition and support them throughout represented the four high schools in the district. Nancy PercivaL Union High; Teresa Draper. Duchesne: Donna Barton, Altamont, and Reed Turn bow. Tabtona. Tbe Sterling Scholar competition is funded and supported by Deseret News. KSLTclevisionandthe various school districts who participate in the event Sterling Scholar students are selected early in their senior year and compile a portfolio that record their academic history, which includes accomplishments, awards, transcripts and various highlight within their category. Dunngcompetition.judges preview the portfolio. Later in the day the judges conduct an interview segment which al Jovr students to discus current tissues faring society. These interviews vary from student to student in style and content. In the evening a banquet is held to honor the Sterling Scholars. Afterward students may look at one another's portfolios whilethey await the award ceremony. Approximately 150 students sat in nervous anticipation in the Wasatch High auditorium. Kay Baker. Northeastern Region's Chairman ofthe Sterling Scholar committee, conducted the program. Jeff Goodrich of Altamont served as Master of Ceremonies. Goodrich is a well known composer of spiritual music. He has and a Little served as scoutmai-tcLeague Foot ball coach for many ye.irs. Awards wvre presented by Chair man Baker and Assistant Chairman Donna Barton. Top schools during the cv:r;vU-tio- n were Morgan High with five three runners-up- . Tara Cit v. three winners and five niur.t Uintah, three winners and rarer runners-up, Wasatch, one winner and fire runners-up- . Union, one wen r. r. three and South Sumn.::. one runners-up- ; winner and three runru-r- s up These six schools accounted for 3 oft lie 42 awards Other school he pl.ired were Altamont. two runners up. Duchesne, one runner-up- : Dugway. one runner-up- , GrantsviUe.one runner-up- . North Summit, one runner-ur rs-u- p Bring Your Collectibles n Ice Rink? Yes or No? t Car Show Association will hold their High Cbuntry show at Constitution Park in Roosevelt on Saturday, April 29 from 10a.m. 2 p.m. For more information please call Lehi or Joni. Troy Show-n-Shinec- ar or Tina, or Trent or Sandy, 8; 8. St. Helens Gumbo Dinner St. Helens rooking is back, along with the Geizers Band.' If you like our catfish, you will love our chicken and sausage gumbo on Saturday, May 6 at SL Helens Parish Crnter. Roosevelt from 5 8 p.m. There ia a cost Call LaVern for more information. or Joel, 722-336- e in Arizona. Nothing quite as bod a tbs conditions the people in hkountry4wd&ubtanetxoin 722-903- 3 living in thesecondilions, said Enman. I've squatted in southern Utah deserts, and lived ia a hogan-typof mud hut on a friend's property 4 Water Development Meeting There will be a Duchesne County Culinary Water Development conference on Friday. April 28 from 10 a m - 3 p m at the Crossroads Center. 50 East 200 South, in Roosevelt. Ifyou are interested in attending please RSVP by April 28. Call the Duchesne County Area Chamber of Commerce at or or lax to to drang'ubianetxom 7, il Motivational Seminar Ngomongo live in, but it does give me some way to see where they are coming from. Enman got in wolved with this program because he wanted to help improve the living conditions in NgonmgDL I just like the thought of helping. 1 had people help me when 1 was going through some rough times, so 1 decided Id like to return the fa vor by helping someone else that need a HARD WORK PAYS nutkvthc find time the Utah State University Uintah Bam branch campus has had a foil regalia ceremony for college graduation. The guest speaker fry the ceremonies held Li Thursday was Sen. Orrin Hatch(R-Utsh- ), who gave ait inspirational speech to the MuJcnts Other speakers included graduate Janet Tas lor and Josh Hunter. won Along with two members of the George Wythe faculty, Enman and SEE AFRICA on page 23SEE f GRADS TOLD TO CONTINUE LEARNING k-- Dr. Laaater, a world-clasmotivational speaker, will conduct private individual and group therapy seta ions using clinical hypnosis and counseling for weight, stress, smoking, sports, sad personal problems in Vernal on Friday, April 28 at Western Park. For information call (801) 2634X190 68 USU Uintah Basin campus Democratic Convention graduates honored in ceremony s The Democratic Convention will be held Friday, April 28 at 7.30 p m. at tbe Duchesne County Administration Building. 734 N. Center Street, Duchesne. 40-Ye- ar By Class Reunion Union High Schools Reunion will be held July 22 at 10.30 Cl at the Roosevelt Golf Course. 40-Ye- id. Daughters of Utah Pioneers Dsughten of Utah Pioneer will hold their dosing social Monday, May 1 at 1 1 45 a tn. at the Cross Roods Center ia Roosevelt. All members are invited Histories! Markers in Duchesne County will also be cleaned oa ; Monday May 15 for any volunteers. worker, explaining that his parents scrimped and saved to prm.ie him with opportunity, such a seaon tic to the Pittsburgh Symphony lie related how hi mother demanded that hr take violin and lesser., at the time he Mid he never imtigtned how those leiwon would benefit him throughout his life After shun nghiMAivncno- - m as janitor at Brutham Yii;rg University to pay his way through school and later moving h k to Pennsylvania to pursue an education in law. Hatch roumi led the new p ad to seek o;portun!ties for erf uc a tion and growth and never let an opportunity pas them by. He concluded in noting that the endafformal education does not mean the end of Irarmng or growth for an individual. Later in the program I 'BUT branc h campus graduate Jaiiet P. T ayk v and to the JonhK 1 1 inter hen ng : F. f 22 i: Cheryl Mccham Season ofstudies drewtoackwr as 68 of Utah State University's Uintah Baain branch campus graduate were honored for their perseverance and accomplishments in academic subject Thursday evening at the Crossroads Crater in Roosevelt. USU officials, students and their guest joined in the formal graduation activities conducted hv IV Guy W Drntoa, Director of USU finish BranchCampus, marking the f.r. U.& Senator Orrin Hatch admonished graduates to embrace their faith in God as it wilt carry them through life and open doors of opportunity. commencement r arrows on the local brain hcauipu Dr GmyrH Emert, president of Utah State University congratulated tbe broach campus student for their achievement and introduced 1 !S Senator Prrtn G Hatch iR IT hi keynote speaker. Sen. I latch admon-.shethem to . s embrace their faith in God a it w iU tarry ihtm through Ue and itwn d mr of opportunity. Hatch ad that hi faith in the pvprl of JeuChnM has sustained him, upheld him and allowed him toexprnenrejny in his life ke of h;s hur.ibV beginHe v m P!tsburgh.lVnn-sybaninings as the tom cf a rv-ta- ! lathe rnw-;ng.i- a g-- i |