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Show PANGUITCH • PANGUITCH LAKE • HATCH • BRYCE • TROPIC • ANTIMONY • HENRIEVILLE • CANNONVILLE • ESCALANTE • BOULDER Thursday, February 10, 2011 • Issue # 309 PANGUITCH ADVOCATE TO ATTEND NATIONAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE FORUM Health advocates from Washington, Iron, Beaver and Garfield Counties are headed to Washington, D.C. Feb. 7th to join nearly 3,000 substance abuse prevention and treatment specialists and advocates from throughout the country for Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America's (CADCA) 21st annual National Leadership Forum and Capitol Hill Day. Besides the opportunity to learn the latest strategies to prevent alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, they will also hear from such conference headliners as Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and Howard Koh MD, Ph.D., Assistant Secretary of Health for the U.S. Health and Human Services Department. The coalition also has appointments to brief our state's Congressmen and women and Senators on Capitol Hill and they plan to ask questions of national policymakers, researchers and media at federal town hall meetings. "We are excited to be able to spend a week in our nation's Capitol, learning and honing our prevention skills so our community can be a better place, one that doesn't suffer from the harms of drug and alcohol abuse," says Logan Reid, Certified Prevention Specialist with Southwest Behavioral Health Center, and member of the Beaver County Substance Abuse Coalition. "We've been very successful with our endeavors so far, and we hope to come back reenergized with new strategies under our belt to continue tackling drug use in Southern Utah." Melissa Veater, Certified Prevention Specialist with Southwest Behavioral Health Center and Chair of the Panguitch Prevention Patchwork for Community Mending Coalition points out that the coalition has been busy since its beginning just a few months ago. "We've helped create the website www.southwestprevention.com to act as an educational and informational resource to community members, we've prepared educational and awareness presentations that we plan to administer all over the community, and we've organized a sciencebased coalition that will help us to begin creating community level change and reducing substance abuse here in our community. And we've already started collecting data on a local level to help us better address the substance abuse issues we're facing. "We're excited to send representatives to inform our policy makers of all our community is doing, say's Melissa Veater of the Panguitch Prevention Patchwork for Community Mending Coalition. "It's critical that our lawmakers understand the value of prevention and what it can do on a local level." CADCA's National Leadership Forum is the nation's largest training for substance abuse prevention and treatment professionals and researchers, featuring more than 100 training courses to help community and state leaders prevent and reduce substance abuse and its related problems. CADCA is the national membership FRIDAY SUNNY HIGH: 44 LOW: 21 SATURDAY SUNNY HIGH: 46 LOW: 21 SUNDAY MOSTLY SUNNY HIGH: 45 LOW: 21 MONDAY MOSTLY SUNNY HIGH: 45 LOW: 21 TUESDAY PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH: 46 LOW: 22 WEDNESDA PARTLY CLOUDY organization representing more than 5,000 coalitions and affiliates working to make America's communities safe, healthy and drugfree. CADCA's mission is to strengthen the capacity of community coalitions by providing technical assistance and training, public policy advocacy, media strategies and marketing programs, conferences, and special events. Learn more at: www.cadca.org. For more information about CADCA's National Leadership Forum, visit http://www.cadca.org/ events/forum21. For more information about the Panguitch Prevention Patchwork for Community Mending Coalition visit www.SouthwestPrevention.com , and become a fan of Southwest Prevention on Facebook. "The mission of the Panguitch Prevention Patchwork for Community Mending Coalition is to be an active coalition dedicated to providing the educational support and resources necessary to avoid substance abuse in youth, therefore developing healthy communities though shared knowledge, skills and mutual respect for one another'. BOARD BEGINS DISCUSSION ON BUDGET PRIORITIES The Utah State Board of Education has begun a discussion about how its 1H4, 221 73410thos members would like Nimr. to see the Legislature add back funding it cut from the state's public education base budget earlier this week. dations to make to the LegLawmakers cut more than islature and the governor $257 million, about 11 per- if it came to that. With this cent, from the budget, with in mind, the Board created the intention of replacing four separate categories for at least $91 million, if not further review, all of which more, by the end of the leg- could be revised in subsequent meetings: islative process. Programs the Board does The preliminary ideas the board discussed this not wish to see cut (these afternoon will serve as a are not listed in any specific starting-point for future order): discussions and will help • Regional Service Centers guide Utah State Office of • To and From School Pupil Education staff in their ef- Transportation fort to provide information • K-3 Reading Improvefor the Board to review in ment Program subsequent meetings. The • The Real Value of the Board will revisit this dis- WPU, which includes the cussion on Thursday and Flexible Allocation WPU will continue to do so as the Distribution. final FY 2012 Public Edu- • District Funds for Stucation Budget takes shape dents at Utah College of over the next several weeks Applied Technology The next three lists are of the legislative session. The Board does not want separated into roughly $20 to see funding for public million increments. Again, education decreased at all. this is not a final recommenHowever, given the fact the dation, merely a startingLegislature could decide point for discussions if cuts to make cuts, the Board is are unavoidable and they discussing what recommen- will be reevaluated next week. Here's how they are organized: The first group 111 GOVERNOR'S YOUTH COUNCIL, AMBASSADORS TO THEIR COMMUNITIES This past week, more than 100 high school student and adult leaders gathered in Salt Lake City from around the state for the 2011 Governor's Youth Council Summit. The Utah Governor's Youth Council (GYC) is a statewide networking youth group, which plans and coordinates activities to promote positive lifestyles and help provide Kenzey Veater, President of Panguitch GYC, was solutions to problems facing tochosen along with 2 other day's youth. students to represent the Those in attendance were GYC southwest planning district for this event. Kenzey is student and adult leaders representthe daughter of Jamie and ing 13 Planning Districts throughMonica Veater of Panguitch out the state. Also in attendance and is a Freshmen at Panguitch High School and has were GYC Coalition members and been a member of GYC for college student volunteers from 3 years. Journey Youth Leadership Foundation. Attendees learned leadership skills and were encouraged as "GYC Ambassadors" to return to their communities and make a difference. Activities included gathering at the State Capitol and meeting in the Hall of Governors, touring the Capitol and attending leadership training sessions. Participants also traveled to the Governor's mansion, where dined with the Governor and First Lady of Utah in the upstairs ballroom. Following dinner, the Governor and First Lady spoke to the group and took photos. GYC Summit partners included: Journey Foundation, Diamond Lils, Utah Department of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, Utah Department of Public Safety- Highway Safety Office, Utah State Office of Education, Utah Family Partnership Network and Exit Realty. For more information regarding the Governor's Youth Council, contact Verne Larsen at Larsen.Verne@schools.utah.gov or Craig PoVey at clpovey@utah.gov . For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. Bob Wells HIGH: 45 LOW: 22 r of $20 million is where the Board would like the Legislature to look for cuts first; the second group is what the Legislature should consider if another $20 million cut is deemed necessary; and if that isn't enough, the final group is what the Legislature should consider. The first group of $20 million (these are not listed in any specific order): • Adult Education • USTAR Centers (year round math and science) • Matching Fund for School Nurses • Performance-Based Cornpensation Pilot (teacher merit pay pilot program) • Extended-Year for Special Educators • $1 million from the Utah State Office of Education • The second group of $20 million: • The Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind • The last group of $20 million: • From the School and Institutional Trust Lands fund revenue, not the fund itself. arohyour laved neat (435) 676 2340 &war Watt 24/7 dc,ivermg DPW tifhAI &DAVI Taiwng '741thalutt it ow Sikuuktr SUM Bum io wa to PRECISION CHIMNEY CLEANING & REPAIR "Trust your home toQua4fied Teebs - Not Handymen!" 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