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Show A7 WASATCH COUNTY COURIER A Bear of a Mistake PTSA would like to recognize and give special thanks to the following businesses and people for helping or donating to our Jr. High. Day's Market, Smith's Food King. I'll bet a lot of people in the Heber Valley could suggest a New Year’s resolution or two for your paper. You’ve raised a lot of consciousness this last year, for better or worse! Here’s an idea you might actually use: a dictionary. I refer to the headline on the front page of today’s issue: i “Despite Grizzly Details, Pinder’s Motive Remains Unclear.” Is that “grizzly” as in the 210 East Main Midway, UT 84032 Wasatch County’s Source for News (435) 654-2661 books in their stores, the Wasatch Co. Library and all the families who ary classrooms. We would like to thank Knight Hunt at Bear Creek Editor & Publisher Dan Stephens Managing Editor Office Manager Derek Jensen Education Editor Dixie Bishop Paulette Tillman Sports Editor Russ Riggs our teachers CONTRIBUTORS | Sam Allen e Matt Heimburger and staff during our to Tom and Linda Whitaker Advertising Executive Dylan Stephens for Security . Ramona PRESIDENT/CEO Michael J. Kearns and for donating on auction, Dianne Davey _ Circulation/MIS donating a Timberwolf theme picture displayed in our entryway, and for letting us help with the Cowboy Poetry Erin McGuinness Amber Stephens Art Director Books display case for our students. Thanks If your goal is to report things as they really are, please don’t stop at the news. You are educating your readers in more ways than one. You could take their awareness one step further, © whether they know it — or like it — or PRESS ASSOCIATION STAFF WRITERS Kirsten Shaw@ Paul Swenson ¢ Tim Westby Cabinet Co. by L & L for donating a visible example of sources like newspapers. UTAH Country Kitchens for donating soup for the luncheons that we prepare for SEOP conferences. Thanks to Layne Clyde and Larry Rasband at the guage, for that matter? From the very © (435) 654-2531 (f) ® wasatchcountycourier@yahoo.com ASSOCIATE MEMBER donated over 300 books for our advis- learn to spell, or learn the English lan- an atti a acetic Timeber Wolf t-shirts to many, many of our students. Last but not least, thank you to ALL of the many WONDERFUL parents who have given their time, sent baked goods or. treats, or have helped in any way. It is really people like you who care s Thanks for keeping things interest' ing around here. Christie Evans Heber enough to help our students excell. We cannot thank you all enough, just know that your help is GREATLY. appreciated! Thanks Mountain The W.M. Jr. High PISA JrHigh AF ee Wasatch PO Box 1030 Midway, UT 84049 Olde Swiss Square ting us put donation boxes for used think we know what is meant, but please! How do you think some people The WASATCH COUNTY and Chrysalis Hair Designs for let- bear, or “grisly” as in “gruesome?” I not! a > OAKLEY, Utah (AP) - The death of an Alzheimer’s patient who wandered away from an assisted-living center is being investigated by state tee atory for 15 people, including seven Alzheimer’s patients. “It’s been a tragedy for not only the family but also as a personal loss for authorities. most of our staff,” he said. — “Even in the best of facilities, people wander.” KAREN WILCOX, deputies said. Jana Kettering, a executive director, Utah spokeswoman for the| Department of Health, | Chapter of Alzheimer’s said it | appears— Association ep Home or Cabin in the mountains on 1 1/2 wooded acres with winter access. Has 2 stories, 3 bed, 1 the ~ facility’s. license. Another potential option would be a - conditional. license with bath, woodstove, shed. strict state oversight. Turner said this may be a good time for the state to review its regulations — such as against locking _ Great price $125,000 ‘MIDWAY one the patients in. | 5/odrms, 3/baths,close to State Park ,very rus- . tic, river rock fireplace, dormers $475,000. at about the time the day shift vwas tak‘ing over. : “We, understand they. did a bed check at 6:30 a.m.,” she said, adding that Nordahl was in her room for that) oe Wilcox, executive director of the Alzheimer’s Association’s Utah chapter, said caregivers have several options for preventing patents from a ee In: addition to door aise carehead count: © *. 40w6. 303 A 7:30 a.m. bed chetle Eeeticd ‘hat: fe - givers can place locks above the eye the patient was gone, Kettering said. < level of patients. She said Alzheimer’s _Staff members searched the facility, — _ sufferers often do not look up if they are absent-mindedly walking around. and then the surrounding area. . “Even in the best of facilities, peo- ities should be equipped with features such as alarms on the doors to pre- ple wander,” she said. vent patients from wandering offers the “Safe Return” program, which provides patients with an ID outside unnoticed, Kettering said. - State investigators will try to deter- mine whether such safeguards were ~ present and in use Sunday. Scott Turner, owner of the Serenity - Ranch, said staff members were dev_astated by the death. The facility cares The Alzheimer’s bracelet or necklace. she said. ed $600,000 water rights, $400,000 Association If someone notices a person with such ID jewelry wandering aimlessly, the finder can call a toll-free number that will — alert the person’s MIDews, care providers, Dick Baum 654-2216 « 654-5300 Selling Heber Valley Real Estate Since 1966 | COLDWCLL CYT clas PREMIER REALTY ha Alzheimer’s care units in such facil- | me, pr BOP tes: 598,000 i or 20 ACRES te ve tr — \ | revoke _ Good condition.$37,000. a Nordahl may have left In Heber on 100 North. ity had alarms on the doors, he said. found to be at fault, the state could fine the owners and/or tory of walking away from her caregivers, MOBILE HOME ‘97 with 3/bdrms, 2 bath 14x70 is cooperating with the state. The facil- half a mile from the facility. It was believed she died of — autopsy was planned. Nordahl had a his- | klers, redwood deck. $145,000. the circumstances of the incident and “She somehow got by us,” he said. ~ Kettering said if Serenity Ranch is an E 1400 + ft. dbl. gar, sprin- | early Sunday. Her body was found that morning in front of a home less than but TWO STORY TWIN HOME with 3/bdrms, 2.5/baths Turner said the facility is reviewing Summit County sheriff's deputies said Bonnie A. Nordahl, 74, of Kamas walked away from Serenity Ranch in Oakley into near-zero temperatures exposure, ah Alzheimer Patient Wanders es From Center, Dies Of Exposure |