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Show I PHARMACISTS Continued from page 1 macy, he told county commissioners. In order to meet his tax obligation, Luke said he will have to take out a loan because he haabeen livingoffhis savings and reinvesting his earnings into inventory. According to Luke, a large inventory of drugs is essential in the pharmaceutical business, but the inventory is then considered income and subject to taxation. Luke addressed the commission at their Oct. 26 work meeting and said he fears that as the hospital expands its services, it will infringe on the private business sector even more. He made it clear that he was not appearing before the commission in favor of privatizing the hospital. Im not here to say yea or no to a buy out. I'm in favor of what's best for the community," Luke said. "I dont have problems with competition. I can compete on a level playing field. But the hospital doesnt have to do that because their businesses dont have to pay taxes. it Fora corporation to be .able to run in direct competition with private businesses is just not equitable, said Luke. Commission Chairman Guy Thayne agreed with Luke. "I agree 100 percent. We are creating an unlevel flaying field. But 1 11 probably eet beat ud for savins this. The hoepitahieeds to divest itself of its parts that are in direct competition with the private sector, said Luke. Uintah Basin Medical Center Administrator Brad LeBaron said the hospital pharmacy is a business venture that provides services to patients who receive health care from physicians on staff. We provide healthcare services and sawan opportunity with our pharmacy to improve those services, said LeBaron. I don't think its wrong for us to provide healthcare services. LeBaron said its true that busihosnesses within the pital do not pay taxes, but in lieu of taxes, the hospital provides $900,000 in charity health care annually. According to LeBaron, the hospital aims for a four percent profit margin yearly. It depends on the more profitable business ventures, such as the pharmacy, to subsidize the services that do not pay for themselves. We need other lines ofbusinesses to replace the unprofitable aspects of our services, said LeBaron. Thayne said he believed there is a method for leveling the playing field. it "If it the hospital were a co-ocould be just as successful but it would have to pay taxes, he said. Luke suggested the hospital could sell their pharmacy to a business that could lease the space from the hospital. That new business would then out-patie- nt non-prof- nient. ,r. ,, location but it would be subject to taxation, making a fair situation for other pharmacies in the area. Luke concluded by saying at the very least, new policy needs to be written prohibitingthe Uintah Basin Medical Center from ftituro business ventures which will be in direct competition with the private sector. Commissioner Larry Ross pointed out that other publicly owned hospitals have pharmacies. He made the University of Utah Medical Center a case in point and said one publicly owned hospital should not be treated differently from another. "Now that the hospital is a SOI (C)(3) corporation, it has the abil ity to contract, partnership, and do business beyond what a county-owne- d business can do, said Ross. Luke then asked Ross, Do you feel this is okay then? Ross replied, "I do not at this time feel reel good about the pharmacy at the hospital. I want to see this hospital successful. Your pharmacy Lukes pharmacy is in business because the hospital is in business. But obviously there is some competition there. Commissioners agreed Luke should take his concerns to the hospital board of directors as they are the ones who set hospital policy. FOOD PANTRY Continued from page 1 items that can be included in the Holiday Bag are: rice, jelly, peanut butter, canned vegetables, chili, tuna, macaroni, spam, sugar, flour, spices, and pie fillings. In addition to food items there is an urgent needfor personal care products, such as: bath soap, toothpaste, toilet paper, deodorant, shampoo, and laundry soap; and baby items, such as: diapers, diaper creams, formula and baby cereal. Hand cream is also, a luxury that is appreciated, especially during the upcoming cold months. According to Tate, processed deer and elk are also needed. The Uintah Basin AssociationofGovemmIUts will pay for the processing. Please contact Tate if you have game to donate. The Food Pantry also desperately needs volunteers. Wecan always use volunteers, men or women, said Jett, afood pantry volunteer for about three years.Some of the volunteers are workers. Jett is pleased with the help she gets from this segment ofthe community and is hoping to get more. Volunteeringat the food bank Jett says, "Gets in your blood and makes you feel better about yourself. Ifpeople really knew how valuable this service is andthat there isaneed, maybe they would be more willing to volunteer, said Tate. Tate can use almost any kind of help, and many of the jobs an easy, such as repackagingbulk supplies into a family size container. Tate said an elderly person would be able to do this very well, and a person can volunteer for as litUe as one day a week or two days a month. You may volunteer, pick up applications for assistance, or dropoff items you wish to donate at the food pantry in Roosevelt at 100 East 100 North ), or in Vernal at 345 (phone ). W. Hwy 40, (phone Remember donations ore appreciated and needed all year long. 722-6684- 789-1014- VOTE TODAY Continued from page 1 . unaaateeted) Voters in the Tabiona area should report to the Tabiona Town Council building tocast ballots in the Tabiona and Hanna Water District, Duchesne County School Bond and TabionaTown Council elections; Myton voters go to the Myton City office ( 180 East Main Street) for the municipal and school district bond elections Duchesne precincts land 2will vote at the Duchesne City office for municipal and bond election. Fruitland precinct will vote at their water district office for water district board and the school district bond elections. Pinion Forest Special Service District will vote at the County Administration buildingin special conference North Center Street); Johnson Water District voters will vote at their water district office; and East Duchesne Water District will vote at the old courthouse. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 room 2 (734 p.m. ABUSE Continued from page 1 County. In an abusive home kids become distant and independent for too young. They are held accountable for responsibilities that for exceed their age. Sarah, now 13 years old, says that duringthe five yearsher mother spent with her stepfother she hoped that one day everything would be okay, who she had that her stepfother would stop. become attached to Sarah says she never really talked to her mother about the abuse. "I never felt angry at her, nut really mad at him. I was just really confiiaed about her." To deal with her destructive home life, Sarah chose to excel in school and made sure she did nothing to add to the burden her mother had chosen to An older brother, disgusted by his mother's desire to stay with her abuser, felt she had chosen her band over him and went to live with his fother.Mary says he still refiues to speak to her. According to domestic violence counselors, the different reactions of all three children to the same circumstances "are totally normal. Today, two years after she left her husband, Mary says she is still learning of the damage and despair her children suffered aa she listens tothem UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. November 6. 2001- - Page 3 "You need to talk about it because it helps a lot, urges Sarah. Talk to ARE COMPLEX THE your momor whoever is being abused. Even Megan, who says she still has walls up and is slowly "letting people in, agrees, and urges kids living in a violent home not to shut their family out. "Tell somebody! Lezlee E. Whiting Berve. It's not just women, it's men, Even in retrospect Mary says By women and children said the advotheres no simple answer for women, Advocates for battered women say cate. but there is one thing she does know. Victim advocates say perhaps the "Its not going to stop without intermost difficult part oftheirjob is watchvention. Get help. (See the related why ing as women return to an abusive story in this issue.) swer is so complex, they counter with spouse or boyfriend. Mary, who lived this query, Why doesn't he stop?" with an abusive husband for fiveyears, The biggest misconception is that and now helps women through the domestic violence is a womans issue nightmare she once lived, agrees. "I that it doesnt impact the chilthink that is the hardest part ... to see dren, but that couldn't be farther them go back. from the truth, explained the victims The Duchesne and Uintah County advocate for Duchesne County Victims Advocate office can put vic(victim's advocates asked that their tims in contact with resources to help last names not be used). them leave an abusive home, refer The children,"are just whatcauaed them for counselingand connect them a Vernal woman, who had been batwith financial a id. The Crime Victim's tered for five years, to make the break Reparation Fund will help victims of from her abusive husband. "They (Diabuse with medical and dental bills, vision of Child and Family Services) movingexpenses and property repair told me if you go back, we are taking jtsuch as changing the locks). You can reach the Duchesne County your children,saidMary.Even though she was totally outofit, after endurThe Victims Advocate at ing a brutal beatingandbeingchoked Uintah County Victim'sAdvocatecan unconscious, the ultimatum was just be reached at or contact what she needed to shock her into Central Dispatch. reality. (See related story on front I, Why don't they just leave? ANSWERS 722-082- 789-415- 0, It wasnt until she entered the - A MATTER OF IN EQUITY Jeff of Basin Family Luke, Pharmacy, expressed concerns to county commissioners about the unfair advantage the pharmacy located in the Uintah Basin Medical Center has because it is not subject to taxation. er talk. "It really hurt me deeply that it caused so much pain by staying when there are resources to help get you out, she relates. She knows why she was not strong enough to leave: with one foiled marriage behind her she didnt want a second, there was the stigma of being a single parent, she was financially dependent on her husband and unaware ofresources available, and she felt if she couldjust be a better person, the abuse would stop. She doesnt know why people who were stronger than her neighbors, friends and family, "saw the black eyes and turned their heads." Mary turned to counseling shortly after she made the decision to leave her husband. Today she helps other women who come to the shelter in Vernal. Sarah and Megan havejust begun workinout their issues. Fora year after their mother left the relationship they said they still lived in a constant state of fear, worrying she would go back. As young veterans ofdomestic violence what advice do they have to other children? i Agricultural prices Prices received by Utah formers and ranchers during were up for bailey and alfolfo hay, but the same for other hay, according to the Utah Agricultural Statistics Service. The lamb price for September 2001 was $62 per cwt, down $13 from October 2000. The September 2001 sheep nice, at $25 was unchanged from October of last year. Barley, at $2.07 per bushel, was three cents months price and 18 cents year. Baled alfolfo hay was $98 per ton, $3 higher than last month and $ 16 above last year . Other hay, at $57 per ton, was unchanged from last month, but $5 higher than October 2000. 1 .... OFY The store next door was OUT. There wasnt time to go all over town. I had to get in costume! By the time I arrived home with the car smelling like an Italian Pizzeria my stomach was growling the Monster Mash. After gobbling down a couple of pieces I lit the on the front porch and thats when it happened! It was a Halloween enchantment of some kind. I would only take a moment, just a moment to sit down on the couch to catch my breath before running upstairs to don the horrible garb awaiting me. The doorbell rang, the dog took to barking. I heard big boy feet stomping down the stairs, "Trick or Treat shouted, then Thank you, and whatever mystical magic it was took me far, far, away. The pizza incantation wove a sleeping spell I could not break out of. While trick or treats ters came and went and the Halloween TV specials played out, I laid slumbering like a serene Snow White or a beard-growin- g Rip Vanwinkle. Finally my husband stood me up and propelled me toward the stairs for the bed room. I yawned, he pulled back the covers and I dropped (or so he says). I can't remember. It was the weirdest Halloween on record, a Halloween completely missed, without screams or thrills and our kids too old to drop a bag of loot at our feet with a generous offer to take a piece. But it wasnt all bad either. I did get to dress up and scare someone, even if it was myself. And maybe next year Ill put on some genuine Snow White garb so I really look the part of some half comatose chick who can't stay up to watch Nightmare Theater any mure. jack-o-lante- Frontline updates Somalia report Some of the same U.S. Ranger units and Special Forces now fighting in Afghanistan were invo lved eight years ago in the Somalia firelight in Mogadishu, which left 18 Americans dead. Some call it a peacekeeping mission gone awry. Updated in response to current US. military activity in Afghanistan, Frontline "Ambush in Mogadishu airs on KUED-- 7 Thursday, Nov. 1, at 8 p.m. A dramatic story about the USAJ.N. action in Somalia in 1993, this updated film offers new reporting on charges that Osama bin Laden trained and supported the Somali fighters responsible for the attack-an- d on the lessons learned from the attack by the US. military. On October 3, 1993, elite units of US. Army Rangers and Delta Force were pinned down on the streets of Mogadishu by forces of the Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid. Seventeen hours later, 18 American soldiers were dead and 75 lay wounded. Today, the Rangers and Delta Force are fighting in the perilous territory of Afghanistan. Frontline: Ambush in Mogadishu airs on KUED-- 7 Thursday, Nov. 1, at 8 p.m. The Roman believed wearing a bay leaf wreath would protect them from lightning. Holiday 2001 Uons Club Holly Fair at the Crossroads Senior and Community Center, 50 East 200 "We didn't order any this year, youll have to go next door! of there. Women's Crisis Center in Vernal that Mary learned how many resources were available to help domestic violence victims make the break. While women arent counseled to leave their abuser or end their marriage, they are made aware of the resources to help them and are educated on the statistics. " The statistics are bleak. Women ages 35 to 49 suffer the highest rate of homicide by intimate partners, about 2.1 per 100,000, compared with 1.7 for women ages 25 to 34. Although it is possible for an abuser to change with intervention, it is a rare occurrence. Utah officials say domestic vio, lence cases in the state are climbing. Figures from the Duchesne County Victims Advocate office concur. In 2000, the office served 246 new clients. So far this year, they have responded to the needs of 336 new victims of abuse. About 30 to40 percent of the domestic violence in Duchesne County can be tied directly to drug use, but as the advocate notes, "it can happen in any family, at any time. In the past two years, reports of domestic violence have risen significantly in Duchesne County. Over the past five years, the Victim's Advocate load office in Roosevelt repents a c jncrease nearing 70 percen One victims advocate attributes the rise to the number of women who are becoming aware they can escape the violence. "I think women are coming forward, wanting to get out of it. There's still a lot of confusion about who we Upcoming! November 9 & The store clerk wasnt in costume, but I was scared enough to book it out mid-Octob- er 2001, compared with September 2001, Thinking Out Loud Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays, from the time I was tripping on the hem of a ghostly white sheet with my face mashed inside a Casper mask. I've dressed as Frankensteins Bride, Dracula, the Mummy and a hatchet wielding zombie. Little girls often like to drcss-u- p as gypsy princesses or buttercups. Not this girl, not since my favorite late night program was Nightmare Theater. No, I liked the look of gore on Halloween. I wanted the thrill of having the wits scared out of me, or me scaring the wits out of someone else and I wanted to eat as many miniature chocolate candy bars as I could get my hands on. But, this Halloween was a failure on both counts. Half way through dipping my hands in red pant and transferring the bloody hand prints to an old pair ofjeans (in preparation of the hatchet wielding zombie costume), with green white makeup smeared all over my face and a drizzle of candy flavored vampires blood trailing from nose to upper lip I realized, "Do people at work dress up? This was my first Halloween at my new job. The zombie face peering back at me in the mirror was a work of art. The fake stitches across my worm riddles cheek were just perfect, grey smears around the eyes lent a "been dead for a few weekseiTect, and this zombie was sporting the worst case of casket hair ever envisioned for the living dead. But ... Id better not. I'd have to wait til dark. Im glad I scrubbed up. Folks at work were in fun costumes, nothing more frightening than the Village Feople running around. Ever so often they'd take requests and perform YMCA. No one even looked like the walking dead. After work I stopped to pick up a couple of pizzas for our tnulitional Halloween pizza pigdown. The creepy ceramic candy bowl was stocked with kid candy, hard sour stuff even I wouldnt eat. Id better pick up a bag of the good stuff before I went home. Excuse me, where is your Halloween candy?" I asked the first store clerk. I 1 South, Roosevelt. V November 24 - Santa arrives at the Roosevelt Theatres at 1 1 One Show Sunday 7:30 Twin :00 a.m. November 30 and December I - The Enchanted Forest at the Crossroads Senior and Community Center. Sponsored by the Children's Justice Center. Call the CJC 722-- 5 or the Chamber of 64, Caroline Wilcken 722-50- 0 8 for information. Commerce 1 1 722-459- Monsters Inc XT Disney November 30 - The Roosevelt City Holiday will start at 6:00. 722-50- 0 1 , Call Roger Dart Light Parade Roosevelt City 722-738- 4, or the Chamber of Commerce 7:30 and 9: 15 p.m. 722-459- 8 for information. December I - Duchesne City Parade of Lights. Call Clint Helen Park for information. 738-533- or The One "PG-13- " Jet I.i 9 7:30 and 9:05 p.m. Plans are now underway to organize community Sub for Santa Programs...Help and donations are desperately needed, if you are available to help please call: In Duchesne, Clint or Helen Park (435) In Roosevelt, (435) 722-9- 2 0 1 738-533- 9 The Last Castle "R" Robert Rcdford One Show Only ?:i0p.m. |