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Show Head Start Set In Tropic, Escalante Tropic and Escalante will participate in the federally funded Head Start program beginning in early September according to Bob Reese, a Head Start specialist from Denver. Some 20 children in Cedar City and another 36 youngsters at "satellite"- centers in Tropic and Escalante and either Parowan or Hurricane will take part in the program. Bob Reese was in Cedar City recently to confirm the funding package. A $90,000 operating budget and another $45,000 "setup" money has been allocated by the Administration for Children, Youth and Families', Head Start Bureau, with funding to be administered through the Southern Utah State College Office of Community Support Services. "We're really enthusiastic about the Head Start Program," said Virginia Higbee, program director. "We were only one of four new programs approved In Region 8, a six-state area." Funding for the multi-county program is actually for a year and a half, Mrs. Higbee said. "Head Start programs are funded on a pretty much continuous basis, not quite as year-to-year as some of our other programs." |