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Show C005 0 0 p PRESS ASSOCIATION S- SUITE 4006 V.-LAKE CITy. UT 84101- - UTAH Credit Card: What you use to buy what you can 1 afford tomorrow while you 're still paying for it yekterifiy' C2) Rodeo Club Seepage 500 Kings Peak At the time when most cowboys have died their saddles and turned their horses out to pasture, members of the Uintah Basin High School Rodeo Club and their families are heading to St George. Tuesday November 19, 2002 Roosevelt, Utah Vol. 88, Number 47 www.ubstandard.com 13 TRASHING OUR HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS Connect with your past Garbage dumping along roadways is reaching epidemic proportions Five million new names are made available to genealogy researchers every three months! And, folks can access them right here in Roosevelt Seepage 13 By Phil Johnson Garbage dumping along our state, county, and BLM roads is out of control. Those who dump trash face a fine of from $100 to $1,000. And, they can be sentenced to community service time cleaning up the very roads they trash. Dumpers leave sacks of garbage, beer cans and bottles by the ton, along with fast food containers, and even appliances and furniture. This junk is cast onto private land as well as the road rights-of-waClark Roberta of North Myton Bench complains, I pick up the garbage in and along my property and its back again in two or three days. People who do this must not like living in our beautifril Uintah Basin. All they contribute to the community is garbage. Trash can be a hazard for motorists who swerve to miss objects in the road or items blown or thrown from vehicles. Doug Nielsen, Public Works director for Duchesne County calls it "road hazard debris. Wayne Stevens, law enforcement ranger for the Bureau erf Land Man- y. Quick deliberations Jurors who listened to testimony in a taxes, even the polluters. Mika McArthur, Utah State Department of Transportation Station supervisor in Roosevelt figures it costs from $1,000 to $1,250 to dean up three miles of highway using state crews and equipment. Nielsen estimates it costs the county $150 to $200 to haul away the five tons of trash when volunteer groups collect along a mile of road. What can be done to alleviate this mess? Nielsen urges motorists to simply carry a grocery sack to haul trash home or put it in a convenient garbage can. "Covering debris in truck beds can help, too, he says. Larger items should be taken directly to land fills or trash transfer stations. The cost is $8 Ibr aloadofhousehold garbage at the Uintah County landfill Duchesne Countys Bluebench landfill charges $15 per ton. K&KSanitation of Ballard first-degr- ee felony case drug Uttering our roadways Is a costly problem for all deliberated for just. 19 minutes before returning with their verdicts. Seepage r,. ft - , .s' i-i Involved, Including those who dump the trash. 11 i Family sports stars Jackie Morrill plays volleyball for the University of Utah and Parker Morrill is a quarterback' fof Weber . ' t ' y 4 - $ State. See page 16 agement, says, "Littering is one of the biggest problems I have to deal with. I prosecute a lot of $100 fines plus community service. Horse enthusiast Sue Collier sees trash as a real hazard far her animals. "It is difficult to ride along the roadsides because ofthe broken glass that can cut the horses feet. My friend even had her horse get entangled in an old mattress hidden in the weeds. Roadside garbage costs a lot to pick up. Everyone pays for cleanup through their Some lazy person dumped this old WHO PLANS TO SLEEP HERE? mattress along a scenic section of road and trashed the view. THE VIEW FROM NORTH MYTON BENCH too common along scenic Basin byways. - This kind ofjunk is all NO CURE FOR DISEASE THAT ROBS THE MIND charges only $11 per month for weekly collection in Duchesne and west Uintah counties. Volunteering is another way to help keep waste off area roadways. Families, Bqy Scouts, church groups, schools and others can organize cleanup days. McArthur says the "Adopt-A- - Highway program along state highways is a big help. Volunteers comy mit to cleaning two miles of twiceayear. UDOT provides the garbage bags and hauls frill ones away. The counties also provide bags and hauling for county road volun- right-of-wa- SEE TRASH on page 12 RARELY DIAGNOSED DISORDER Learning to cope with Alzheimer's Parents flounder to By Angela Eddington The Racheles first noticed Ann was acting differently in 1991 when she started to forget simple things, like turning on the oven when cooking, or coming home with the wrong size of clothes she had bought for herself. The day thqy got the sickening realisation that something was seriously wrong was when she carried a hot iron under her arm and questioned why she frit a burning sensation. After and brain scans, Dr. Terry Buxton remarked that Anns symptoms indicated that she had Alzheimers Disease. "I recall one time she was driving the car and Dad said, Remember to stop at that stop sign! But she drove right by it ana my dad asked, why didnt you stop at that sign? She said, T forgot! related her son, Aldon. ys You're going to have to do things that you never dreamed would be possible. Four million Americans suffer from Alzheimers, a deadly brain disease that slowly destroys the mind, memories, and personality. It has been known for decades now that Alzheimers disease riddles the brain with sticky deposits ofaprotein called amyloid beta, commonly referred to as "plaques. Accordingto the American Health Assistance Foundation, scientists are tryingto determine ifthe plaques are a result of the brains overproduction of amyloid beta, or a breakdown in the mechanisms that metabolize the protein and eliminate it from the brain. Alzheimers took a while to completely erase Anns memory. In the process some very frighteningthings happened. As the disease slowly began to manifest itself in 1993, Aldon remembers that when his mother left her sisters home in Price she wandered the streets aimlessly for more than an hour. She was found by a police officer, apparently unfazed. When she returned to her sisters house, she was really excited and said, "A nice policeman gave me a ride! "Often she would leave the house and we would ask, Where are you going?1 She would say, Im going home to Helper, Utah! We had to put special locks on the door to keep her in the house, said Aldon. Ann became bedridden a few years ago and is now completely dependent upon her husband and son, who to put her in a care center because they wanted to make sure she got the care she needed. Each ifay, Anns husband, Orlando, spoon feeds her breakfast, and lunch. She sleeps most of the day, and is attended to each Monday through Friday afternoon by nurses aides from Uintah Basin Home Health and Hospice, who "have given her excellent care over the years, said Aldon. Ann is fed a light supper and is given lota of water to drink during the day. She is able to make noises when die is thirsty or wants some attention, said Aldon. Taking care of their e wife and mother is a job for old Orlando, and old Aldon. They remain at home most of the time, with occasional trips to frill-tim- 49-ye- ar 84-ye- ar SEE ALZHEIMER on page 12 ed FEDERAL CASE Man confesses to stabbing old Fort Duchesne man is being held in the Fort Duchesne jail on Ute Tribe homicide charges in the stabbing death of old A 21-ye- ar 32-ye- ar Blaine Tabbee, also of Fort Duchesne. Accordingto FBI Special Agent John Wright, federal charges are pending against Harlan Wayne No, who is expected to be taken into federal custody soon. Nex allegedly confessed to Bureau oflndian Affairs Police shortly after Tabbeea body was (bund on Saturday morning, Nov. 15 lying on a road in the Foothills Subdivision in Fort Duchesne. The victim had been stabbed numerous times Wright said Nez came to the scene and admitted to the homicide. Wright said that alcohol was involved in the crime. He declined to confirm or deny reports that the homicide was spurred by allegations that Tabbee had allegedly sexually molested a female member of Nez family. "Were not saying one way or the other, said Wright. The case is being investigated jointly by the FBI and BIA law enforcement because the crime occurred on the Ute Indian Reservation, and the victim and suspect are tribal members. . Radicle, right, holds hands with his wife, Ann, who is suffering Alzheimers STILf, IN LOYE-Orlandisease. She is bedridden and is taken care of by family members and Uintah Basin Home Health and Hospice. do fi-o- for help to aid kids n By Susan Collier For maqy families the emotional and financial burden of their childrens emotional and mental ill- s" where families find that viable resources that could help their chilbasis are undren on a long-teravailable. Parents who are responsible and keep their troubled child out of trouble with the law, are often frustrated in their efforts to find help they can afford. What makes the problem moreheartbreakingis that the root of the problem multiple failed synapse connections m they hadn't done helping their troubled teen, resources would nesses is almost unbearable, especially when positive results seem unattainable. The problem is com- pounded in a rural community If U such a good Job & be readily available ... tors diagnosed her with severe cog- nitive impairment and learning disorder. The condition manifests itself in soda! and school situations. Children with this diagnosis are incapable of differentiating between reality and fiction, non-verb- al SEE DISORDER on page 3 in the brain that prevent a child from recognizing good from bad will likely never be cured. The medical condition is sometimes present in children who have suffered head trauma, where born with fetal alcohol syn- drome, or whose mothers abused drugs or had poor nutritional habits during pregnancy. The diagnosis is one that is easily missed fay even the finest medical professionals because it takes a lengthy battery of tests to identify the defect Duchesne County resi- dents Faye and Hank Dan kin (names have been changed) have spent large sums of money in an effort to help their youngest daughter and their other five children eiyoy a normal life, but are unable to obtain the help they need and can afford. The Dankins paid over $1,800 for a neuropsycho- logical evaluation for old Cassy. However, the report offers little hope for a positive outcome, even ifthe family follows the dos and donts d by professionals. In layman's terms Cassy is wired wrong. The doc- - 12-ye- ar th out-line- 'j - HOPELESSNESS The devastating effects of hopelessness dwell in the lives of some Basin families who realize that there is little chance of changing their childs inappropriate and disruptive behaviors. Although they have spent large sums of money and have given up many of their own aspirations their childs behavior remains essentially unchanged. Ii) rural areas they find there is a lack of resources to aid such families. |