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Show Page 4 CamvusNews Friday, Oct. 26, 2007 USU Extension hosting Utah 4-H Leadership Training Conference BY USU MEDIA RELATIONS USU Extension hosts the 2008 Utah 4-H Teen Leadership Training Conference Oct. 28-30. The conference is open to 9th throughl2th graders from around the state and is coordinated by the state 4-H ambassadors. John Paul Murphy, 4-H youth development specialist with USU Extension, has worked with Teen Leadership Training for more than 20 years. "It is such a treat for me to work with amazing youth from around the state," Murphy said. "What's even more exciting is to see participants walk away with tools to continue building their leadership skills in high school, college and throughout their lives." Registration begins at 6 p.m. on Oct. 28. Sunday night activities include a patriotic program with a flag ceremony by the Army ROTC Color Guard and a service project coordinated by LARGE , Papa's Perfect Pizza!} $6.99 the Utah National Guard Kids Teen Council. Participants will assemble "Hero Packs" that will be sent to children with deployed parents in the National Guard. On Tuesday, Don Olson, Salt Lake City attorney and former state ambassador, will deliver the keynote address. Workshops and breakout sessions will be held throughout the day on Monday and Tuesday. Utah 4-H is active in every county serving urban and rural Utah youth with programs in robotics, leadership, GPS, legislature and more. Its action-oriented, educational program for youth and volunteer leaders is sponsored by USU Cooperative Extension Service. There are more than eight million 4-H members nationally with 98,269 youths participating in Utah in 2006. For more information, visit www.Utah4H.org. Swenson: Local honored nationally [1 continuedfrom page 1 We Make O o u Bake It! TAKE Tv" BAKE PIZZA Mozzarella, Cheddar, & Provolone topped with 1/2 Pepperoni & 1/2 Hawaiian 618 N. Main 755-0808 Not valid with any other offers. 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West building and also a study room on the fourth floor of the Merrill-Cazier Library. Swenson's supporters also have asked the City of Logan to erect a sign at the southern entrance to the northern Utah city, denoting it as May Swenson's birthplace, Kinkead said. Swenson graduated from USU in 1934, and died of a heart attack at age 76. When she had died she had published 11 volumes of poetry and had been awarded many top cultural honors, such as the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship worth $380,000, Crumbley said. Swenson was also was a chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and was granted an honorary doctorate in 1987 from USU. "One of the most remarkable aspects of Swenson's 900-poem legacy is its breadth," Crumbley said. "She wrote about nature, space travel and science, often employing humor and irony. Her poetry, though often poignant, was light rather than dark," he said. Having her portrait in the National Portrait Gallery can only help bring Swenson more respect, Crumbley said. The 1960 portrait, in pastels on paper, is by artist Beauford Delaney, a friend of Swenson's, Kinkead said. The National Portrait Gallery's Web site cited buying the portrait from the poet's literary estate in May of 2005. Swenson was the 21st Utahn in the gallery, either as a portrait subject or artist. -m.l.r@3ggiemail.usu.edu Nuclear: State debates possible plant .^Jr'vl IJ continuedfrom page 1 Buy One Whole Sub of Choice & Two 32 oz. Drinks & Get a Whole PAPA KELSEY'S ?im Sub PIZZA &SUBS, FREE 661N. MAIN 752-3525 currently have a nuclear power plant, but even without a power plant, Utahns are still getting the effect of it from the nuclear waste that is moved to the state each year, she said. "96 percent of the country's low level waste is dumped in the state each year," Kendrick said. "Low level is not low risk. Some of this waste is still so hot it has to be robotically handled." Kendrick said some states have tried to move nuclear waste to Utah on the pretense that it will be moved to Yucca, Nev. when it opens. "40,000 tons of high level nuclear waste was almost moved to Utah," Kendrick said. "They claimed they were going to move it to Yucca after it opened, but it probably won't open so then we would be stuck with it." Not valid wltb other offers Coupon Expires 10/07/07 2530 N 300 E'North Logan*Utah 84341 753-2724 BALL1 CCSTUM Adult Rental Wigs Hats Accessories Btumes Ikdrl Dropped Ceiling Tables & Chairs Columns _ ., _ Ballon Canopies bring in this coupon and receive $5 off your rental over $35,00 JESSICA K E N D R I C K , field organizer for Heal Utah, is working to keep a nuclear plant out of the state. DEBRA HAWKJNS photo Not only does nuclear power create a lot of waste, but it is also very expensive, Kendrick said. "This is expensive power, not cheap power as the public has been led to believe," Kendrick said. "Nuclear power is a high risk investment. More nuclear power plants are started and not finished then started and finished." Some companies have claimed they can make nuclear power more efficiently by recycling the materials, but there is not much they can recycle, Kendrick said. "The amount that can be recycled of a fuel rod is one percent" Kendrick said. "It is like taking the tip of a pop can and recycling that and then throwing the rest of the can away. That can't be called recycling." Kendrick said she and Heal Utah feel the best way to deal with nuclear waste is "you make it, you keep it." "If you are going to get the benefit of a nuclear power plant, don't put another community at risk," Kendrick said. Kendrick said there hasn't been a new nuclear power plant built in America in 20 years and now people are talking about building them again, saying "nuclear power is better and cleaner now." "Nuclear power is coming and asking us for a second chance," Kendrick said. "But I don't think it can be clean without a government crutch and so we need to look for other options." Kendrick said she doesn't want to see Utah residents take the financial fall for a nuclear power plant. "Nuclear power can turn a one billion dollar investment into a one billion dollar liability." Kendrick said if companies are going to start building more nuclear power plants, the companies need to work out the problems first. "We don't want to be the guinea pigs who . have to front the money to work out the kinks in nuclear power," she said. -debrajoy.h@aggiemail.usu.edu |