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Show UINTAH BASIN, STANDARDJune County fair rules soon available Thinking Out loud Every week without fail the kids in my Sunday Primary das begfor a treat, but they dont get one. Goodioa of any kind are discouraged. Primary leaders do not want teachers using them to bribe children into unnatural reverent behavior or herd them into closing exercises all lathered up on a sugar high. As teachers weve been sdshoutallergiesandlhia- rover land trousers, but once in awhile I give in. So, there I was Sunday morning beating a bunch of Oreo cookies into bite sized pieces with a rolling pin on my kitchen counter. The children had unanimously agreed on dirt with a gummy worm as their next treat. Now dont be alarmed, Im not a potting soil feedmijtyear-oldTake chocolate cake pieces, broken Oreo cookies combined with a dab of Cool Whip to hold it all together and you've got eatable, wonderful, dirt. Stick a gummy worm on top and its gross enough to be kid aonealins After battering the Oreos I checked the bag. Acouple ofpin sized leaks, but the transparent Cheerios bag had done thejob just as the noon-necooking specialist had said it would. I wiped up the cookie dust on the counter, put the rolling pin back in its designated kitchen drawer and ran upstairs for a quick shower while the cake cooled. With 10 minutes to spare before meeting started I whisked into the kitchen and took up a spatula. The cake was decimated in seconds. 1 reached for the cookie bag - then staredin disbelief. Only two inches of Oreos remained. Oh my ...goodness (it was Sunday com-nlete- The Duchesne County Fair schedule of events and fair rubes for enterexhibits, livestock events, ing demolition derby, home arts including photography, sports activities, baby show etc., will be available later this week in area grocery stores throughout the county. The fair will be held in Duchesne For more inforCity, August 20-24-- H 5. the elbows down and havinga sation in my left ear. conver- I was shushing. Reverence was as for from his mind as the topics of the speakers. I could seethat everything was moving in slow motion except him. Finally after 15 minutes and 97th shush ! I told him to visit the water fountain then do 15 laps around the , building. He leapt up and was gone like a Tasmanian dust devil. Thats how it went. A lot ofshushing and 100 yard dashes later he was calm enough to go to Sunday School class. Once home he pulled off his tie, announced he was starving.ateasand-wic- h then napped on the couch. Im surprised he kept his cookies. Such is youth. If it had been me Id of gained 20 pounds then vomited. However, the day and the dirt turned out a -- after all)! What? My young son inquired munching happily in front of his cereal bowl. Cereal bowl? My eyes slid across the counter to see a bowl of milk full of floating Oreos! Youre eating the Oreos? I squealed. Huh? He answered, his brows wrinkling in one of those Chinese Shar-Ppuppy expressions. The cookies! The Oreoslsmashed up for Primary! Knowledge then flooded into his brain faster than a Vulcan mind melt Being 15, he smiled as he stared down into the last cookie pieces floating on top of his milk. I thought it was cereal. It was good. I had two bowls, he confessed, .bemused by his mistaken cookie piggery. He had bragging rights now. Hed eaten nearly an entire package of cookies in ten minutes flat. You are going to be sick! I an' nounced." Taking the bowl to his mouth the last bit of cream filled milk. Obviously, the kid wasnt the least bit concerned. With his top lip covered inamilkmustache that would be the envy of everywhere he went upstairs in search ofa tie, leaving me to shake the last ofthe Oreo's into the cake mumbling it will have to do. Butthe real fon started just about the time the first "Amen was said when bis 75 Oreos late sugar high kicked in. In an instant the kid was with wired, like hed Juan Valdes and his donkey! He was bouncingboth knees, twitching from ei chug-a-lugg- it CLASSIFIED l800-Wr!B67- 9 tS 'gmte-WMt- S ed 19.2001- - Pace 3 NURSING Continued from page 1 Baby- - boomers, who make up a significant part of the health care workforce, areapproachingretuement age. If the current scenario continues, by the year 2020 there will be a 66 percent shortage ofnurses nationally. If you are a nurse, and you want to work, you can get ajob, said LeBaron. He went on to explain that if you are a nurse who wants to travel, the re are opportunities through agency nurs-ingt- o earn up to $5,000 weekly. Agenty nursing refers to nursing placement services thatprovide nureea on a temporary basis to work in areas where there is a critical need. The UintahRaain is better offthan most rural areas in regard to the number of nurses available for the demands of the workplace. ThelUintah Basin Applied Technology Center and Utah State University extension have been tremendous programs to helpinsure that our facility has a stabilised supply of nurses and other health care providers, LeBaron said. Most rural areas have a real challenge because they have to attract people from outside their to fill their positions. We have training programs offered right here in our area. While LeBaron feels passionately about healthcare issues, he admits that the actual experience of testifying in front ofa United States Senate subcommittee was a little anticlimac- was bad, LeBaron tic. My said. He went on to explain that the day he testified was the day before Senator Jim Jeffords, a Republican senator from Vermont, changed his party affiliation to become a member ofthe Independent Party, disrupting the balance of political power in the senate and changing the chairmanships of the committees. All of the senators were running around all over the place, laughed LeBaron. The Senate was in an uproar. I think it was very atypical." He went on to say that most of the senators stuck their heads in the door occasionally, but for the most part, their staffers were the ones listening to the testimonials. Despite the fact that most of the key senators such as Arlan Spector and Ted Kennedy were not on hand to hear the information that LeBaron presented in Washington D.C., he is still hopefhl that Congress will implement changes that could alleviate the issue ofhealthcare personnel shortages. Its a national issue that needs to addressed, he said. that out check mation website, www.duchesnegov.net. Or pick up a copy of the Duchesne County Fair schedule of events and fair rules, and special awards book- - glidelines PINDER Continued from page 1 be on his way to prison right away . He will remain in the Wasatch County jail until Davis rules on a defense motion for a new trial. PaVnes said that motion will be filed this week or next. Sentencing is as follows: First degree felony aggravated burglary of a 6 years to life, concurresidence felony rent; two counts first-degr15 years to aggravated kidnaping life, consecutive; two counts of aggralife vated murder, capital felony with the possibility of parole, consecutive; two counts second-degre- e 1 -felony tampering with evidence 15 years, concurrent; second-degre- e felony possession of an explosive device years, concurrent; two counts of third-degre- e felony abuee desecration ofa dead human body consecutive; second-degre- e felony tampering with evidence caused a rather large tree branch to fall onto this single wide trai ler in Roosevelt MICRO POWER- - A micro-bur- st last Tuesday. There were several areas in Roosevelt, as well as the surrounding communities, which experienced brief power outages due to the wind. ee MEASURE EXPECTED TO PASS Special session to vote on bill to make Applied Tech College 1-- concurrent Pinderhas served just over two and years in Jail. He will be given credit for time served. The judge suspended $50,000 in fines, and approximately $3,600 in restitution for a man who testified agnirmt Pinder at his trial, sayingthat Pinder had no means of paying the By Lezlee E. Whiting penalties. Tanners son, Glen, said he was pleased thejudge ordered consecutive sentences, but said no amount of punishment would ever be enough. Whothedidtomydad,thereiBno amount ofjuatice, there was no amount of punishment that has been too much," he said. Tanner told the court that since the murders he has felt angry apitefol and betrayed, for Pinder having taken my father, my role model, my best friend. Its been hard, very hard, cause he (Rex) was a sweet kid who would do anything for anybody and it made me aad to think he had to suffer so bad, stated Lena Tanner, Rexs mother. Prior to finders three week trial in Heber last July, the Tanner family and prosecuting attorneys opted against seeking the death penalty. Glen Tanner said the family felt that death would have been too easy and wanted to see Pinder spend the rest of 2 YEAR OLD ' his life in prison. Flood had no family representation in any of the court proceedings. Duringsentencingneither Pinder, nor his parents his sole supporters during nis trial and court appearances displayed emotion. Prosecutors said Pinder killed Tanner, a former ranch hand, and Flood, his former book keeper because he was furious with them over stolen business documents he found at Floods home that he believed could have caused him to lose his ranch. The defense maintained that Pinder was at his ranch house the night Tanner and Flood were struck with a baseball bat, abducted, taken to a remote location on Pindar's JJNP ranch and then shot and blown up. They claimed his only culpability in the gruesome crime was faithfully and bonnect to the crime. Valenchia-Rui- z pleaded guilty to his role in the crimes in 1999 and is serving two concurrent terms of five years to life for helping Pinder carry out the murders. He will be eligible for parole in 2018. Valenchia-Rui- z Its really a unique Its pretty well a given that lawmakers will pass a bill enacting legislation to make Applied Technology Centers in Utah, Applied Technology Colleges. Lawmakers will meet in a special session this Wednesday to discus the proposed measure that would grant college status to the slates Applied Technology Centers and create a Degree of Applied Technology that would be transferrable to state colleges and universities. The issue of just who should have custody of applied technology higher education or public education has beenbattedaboutfor years, but came to the forefront during the 2001 Legislation Session with renewed fervor. When lawmakers were unable to reach agreement in the waning hours of the session, it was decided that ifa consensus could be reached later, a special session would be called. Dick Jones, superintendent of the Uintah Basin Applied Technology Center said if the measure is passed. It will bring no noticeable change in services, but will enhance opportunities for applied technology students by allowing them obtain a competenAssociate Degree of Apcy-based plied Technology in certain programs. He estimates it will take about a year before the degree will be offered. Its really a unique type of situation, said Jones. The president of the new Utah College of Applied Technology will be hired by the Board of Regents. The board will also be responsible for determining what degrees are offered, and for coordinating with higher education facilities on the acceptance of the degrees from Applied Technology Colleges, laid Jones. Local governing boards will have control overall other functionsof their respective Applied Technology College. Funding would come directly as a line item from the legislature to regional boards of directors, and should not be impacted by the status change, according to Jones. Public education would continue to he responsible for all applied technology education in the high schools. Rep. Gordon Snow said he believes support for the bill is in place, but would like to sec an amendment or two, added to address concern with the transferability of the Degree of Applied Technol- - type of situation, said Jones. ogy, as well as the institutional creep thatcouldeventually change the focus of an applied technology education. I am concerned for the applied technology education in the future. Any time we make colleges out of applied technology schools, if those colleges proceed to become normal community colleges we have left behind our applied technology students. Thats happened in other parts of the Btateanditskindufanatural process, said Snow. The situation in the Uintah Basin between the UBATC and USU Uintah Basin branch campus is unique Uncooperative workingrela-tionshi- p the two share, along with the limited populaUon they serve. The need to main taindistinctmissionsfor each institution, and continue to work together to enhance the UBATC and USU Uintah Basin branch campus will have to be addressed locally, Snow said. We have two institutions working and working well together. I think as longas wc hare good leaders here, it (the status change) probably won't hare a huge affect, but I can see Uieoretically if both institu-tion- s offered the same degree, or same credit we would be in trouble because we are too small to offer two institutions of higher education. Jones agrees. We dont plan on anything changing with USU other than to enhance it and do more of it. The UBATC is in the smallest populaUon region in the state and if we dont work together all the time, with our limited number of students we dont survive, said Jones. In addition todiscussing the status of ATCs, lawmakers will take a look at a few more bills including a proposal to pay millions to Utahs tobacco lawyers, a measure on how rental properties will be taxed during the 2002 Winter Games, granting vehicle registration for short-terpublic events, removing state tax exempUon on income from municipal bonds issued by h enUties, and requiring the parent to be informed if a child is sick or injured at school, or if a child is expelled, suspended or arrested. Continued from page was determined that he had sustained a basal skull fracture, said Gardner. He was transported by Life Flight to Primary Childrens Medical Center. 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