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Show ":.:.:-;"; it - -wzw' ;,; -a - .''. ',.. " " y." " " 4 YA', '4.;.. t. " '-. V ' .'J'';"" ,. ;, . ' f-7A- Sr-i. . A fjf i i ' ' '-' ", .J Z ' v w, , f . r. j , ; ! , ; f t 4 J " ' -.,- v ,v. , : . ' r j I V :.- 5 ' : J-- .... '--J iSV-J - t. ' i - fr ... ,.y , , , A, , fV l V , - : -J The Panguitch High School Chapter of the Future Homamakers of America took more first place wins at recent state competition than any other high school in the state. They will now head to Washington, D.C. in July for nine days of fun, excitement and new competition at nationals. PANGUITCH Students in the Panguitch High School Chapter of the Future Homemakers of America came away with the most first place wins and other top awards when they participated against schools across the stale in the Utah State FHA competition March 23-24 at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City. They will now travel to Washington, D.C. to represent both Garfield County and the state of Utah at the national competition July 7-14. Frankie Burningham and Steven Members include (back row) Marci Decker, Ginger Hatch. Alesha Richards, Steven Hatch, Jesse Hatch and Colin Marshall, (front row) Heather Excell, Christi Nay, Frankie Burningham, Jamie Hatch, Kris Swanger and FHA Advisor Janice B. Hatch. Panguitch High Future Homemakers Take State; Head to Washington. D.C. Hatch took the highest rating "Three Stars" for their Community Project entitled "Stop the Violence" in which their goal was to make a difference, not just talk about problem. prob-lem. They identified people they thought could help them understand the problem and formulate a way to make a difference. By writing letters, let-ters, making telephone calls, preparing and arranging for presentations presen-tations and programs, and by some door-to-door contacts, they developed devel-oped connections with a variety of groups and individuals in a position to affect the laws, programs and education that will impact violence in schools, homes and communities. As a result, the chapter took a second place Community Service Award for its Stop the Violence community activities, a spin-off of the Burningham-Hatch project spearheaded by Kris Swanger and Jamie Hatch. Marci Decker, Ginger Hatch and Alesha Richards entered a team project titled "It's O.K. We Know CPR" in the National Program -Student Body category that captured cap-tured a first place medal. High school students, they determined, make up the majority of care-givers in the Panguitch area and are continually con-tinually faced with safety situations. They identified Cardio-Pulmonary Respiration as one of the most important im-portant life skills and set out to increase in-crease their personal skills in CPR with a goal of proficiency sufficient to teach the skill to others. They concentrated on Infant CPR focusing focus-ing on actual hands-on demonstration. demonstra-tion. The team project by Jesse Hatch and Colin Marshall in the Interpersonal Communication category cate-gory also took a first place win. Titled "Can We Talk," their project focused on family communications, choosing their mothers as the target of developing their new interaction skills in better communications with special activities planned and carried out with their mothers. Final first place honors went to (See Future Homemakers Win At State Competition on Page 4A) Homemakers Win From Page 1 Heather Exccll and Christy Nay for their "Financial Fitness" demonstration demon-stration of employee skills that included in-cluded counting change. Their interviews in-terviews with local employers revealed re-vealed that the six attributes and skills most desired are honesty, personal per-sonal appearance, common sense, communications skills, ability to make change, and attitude. 4 |