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Show Resources for children needing technical assistance TriCounty Health Department's Children with Special Health Care Needs has received word that the Utah Assistive T echnology Program is sending out scholarship applications for individuals with disabilities and or family members of consumers with a disability to attend the Rocky Mountain Collaboration Conference: Achieving New Heights and Assistive Technology. The conference will be in Denver Colorado, Nov. 9 -- 11. This year the conference has expanded to include collaborationa between Arisons, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Attendees will learn about local and national perspectives on Assistive Technology devices and services. With local andnational presenters, this conference is your handa-on-routo new insights and information including: Today's Assistive Technology Devices end Services Future Trends Changes in Legislation "Case Studies Funding Strategies and Proce- , state-of-the-a- re te FOND FAREWELL-La- st Thursday Marilyn Slcinmctz. a public health Health Department was honored at a special school nurse for e retirement party in her behalf at the Moon Lake Electric building. Well w ishers came to visit Marilyn and thank her for her service to the community. Pictured left to right; Dale and Joni Larsen, Marilyn and Jim Steinmetz. ty open-hous- dures The Arthritis Foundation's guide to alternative therapies Over the years the Arthritis Foundation has been informing the public about research and treatments for arthritis. Historically, when it came to unconventional therapies, the Foundation often took the path of wamingyou about the dangerous ones on the market. Recently, you have told us that you want to know more about complementary and alternative treatments. Your phone calls, letters and emails have tap reseed that you want more information about the unconventional remedies that many of you are already using. According toal998aurvty,neariy halfof all Americans are using some kind ofunconventional therapy. "The Arthritis Foundation's Guide to Alternative Therapies'' is a new book that will help guide you through the most common complementary therapies for arthritis. The intended purpose of this book is to serve as a common-sens- e guide to help you choose wisely among the many alter Technology Assessment Scholarships will be made available on a first come fust aerve basis after July 31. The dead line for scholarship applications will be Oct. 2. For more information contact Rod Pries or visit the Conferit ence web site at http: native treatment options that are available today. Many of the therapies we now call alternative were mainstream medicine well into the 20 century. The book discusses herbs and supplements, meditation, magnets, copper brace lets, Tai Chi, massage, visualisation, yoga, prayer, and acupressure and many other methods of therapy recommended for different forms of arthri-ti- a. StoneridgeUintah Apartments Bedroom 1 Starting At S295monlh 2 Bedroom Alternative therapies may offer tools and remedies that, along with mainstream medicine, can influence your overall health. To order a personal copy of "The Arthritis Foundation's Guide to Alternative Therapies" call the Chapter office at or outside of the Salt Lake City calling area The coat of the book is $24.95 ifyou pick it up at the Chapter office or $29.95 if you order by mail. Starting at S345month VQmMM to IMS Hmmrnm 3 Bedroom Starting at $38(Vmonth 1 VOMMhiMlMM ' 58 E 800 S., Roosevelt 722-41- 65 5f H H ZZSST TTD Vernal businessman launches new students Internet site to aid third-worl- d A new Internet site is helping reverse the cycle of poverty in Latin America.:. Created . by-D- aug Chrwumeen, a Vernal, Utah owner, the amaU-busine- ee site, www.aJmeaucceeeacademy.org, is a clearinghouse for volunteers end small-donowho want to improve the lives of Third-Worl- d students and their children. Christensen was first drawn to Latin America in the mid 1980s by the beauty of the land and its rich archaeological heritage. As he traveled the region, he soon developed a love for the people and a deep sense that something needed to be done to change the dark economic conditions he witnessed there. That "something" is the Alma Success Academy, a nonprofit schol-arshrs ip and training program Christensen founded in 1999 to help Latter-da- y Saint returned missionaries and other young Guatemalans succeed in entrepreneurial ventures or obtain Jobs in (he professions or trades. "Returned missionaries in the family-supportin- g underdeveloped countries often marry soon after their missions, begin families, and are called to serve in positions of responsibility in the church or villager says Chnstensen, "but unless they get help to continue their education and career training, they remain trapped in poverty." And, he adds, "When just feeding one's family is a persons first priority, his or her service in the church or community is limited. Although the needs are great in all Third World countries, the city of Quctxalumango, Guatemala wascho-se- n as the site of ASAa first center because there are sixteen LDSatakee in the area, a strong LD8 Institute program and several universities and trade schools, making it an ideal place to begin a planned large-scalprogram throughout Central and South America. Currently ASA scholarships are making it possible for nearly 200 e HAPPY GUYS-Uni- on High School students are all smiles w hile gis ing the overpass a new paint job w ith aGwgar in theme just time for Homecoming. Union beat Wasatch. 2 7. HOMECOMING ROY ALTY -- Union Homecoming Royalty are : fre$hmrn.T ylerLihum, Stephanie Hem sphv mores, Trever Arnold. Heidi Wakefield; juniors, Ben Mitchell. Cassie Brough; seniors. Ales As ila. Katie Duncan. Not every one is pictured. Football players As ila and Mitchell were in the locker room for halftime pep talk. not do it alone. students to attend regular university or trade programs. Students are alto enrolled in courses such as English, Computer Applications, and Spanish Business Writing, all taught by ASA volunteers. The program is designed d to produce graduates who are to succeed in entrepreneurial pursuits, or who arehighly attractive to employers in an economy that is now growing in the aftermath of the thirty-aixyecivil war that ended in 1996. Among those who are serving as ASA volunteers are current university students, singles, young professionals, widowers and senior couples. Some are serving in North America by forming "Friends of ASA Action Groups," by telling others about the needs ofthe academy . and by making regular donations to the ASA scholarship fund. Others travel to Guatemala to teach for periods ranging from a few weeks to the entire school President Hinckley's words have become an eloquent statement of the Alma Success Academy's mission to i provide a "Udder to success" to those who "cannot do it alone throughout Mexico. Central and South America. "With the help ofmany caring people, sometimes with only small means themselves, ASA is growing to fulfill that mission," said Christensen. Visit the ASA website at http: www.almasucceisacademy.org. pro-pare- Buckle Up and Save A Life! die Jose Obando, ASA's rector in Quatsaltenango, reports that there is a critical need fo volunteers to travel to Guatemala and teach a variety of subjects, especially English, a course that is taught several times daily beginning ear(y each week day morning with the final session ending late in the evening. "Teachers from English ipeaking countries need not speak Spanish because ASA is an English-onl- y environment," he explains. In March, when LDSChurch President Gordon B. 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