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Show to thank them publieally during Utah Foster Parents' Week, Mrs. Phyllis Symond, Social Service Worker, said. During this week, each foster parent will be recognized individually in-dividually by the Iron County Division of Family Services. yp; Rampton designates Foster Parents Week I family care for a planned I period of time for any child when his own family cannot care for him for a temporary or extended period of time, and when adoption is neither desirable nor possible. Over 300,000 children in the United States are being cared for by foster parents. We are fortunate to have the fourteen four-teen existing foster homes in Iron County, and are happy r' The week of May 4-10, 1970 v-lir' has been designated as "Fost- i loo;'- er parents' Week" in Utah by 3tci. Governor Rampton. 'J(i There are fourteeen licensed arl'- foster homes in Iron County b ? at this time. Some of these rltiv. parents have been foster par--no : ents for over twelve years. At .'!)" present, there are 25 children in foster care; over the past ten years, foster parents have f cared for over-85 children 'be-" 'be-" ' tween the ages of a few weeks and 18 years old. The services and contribu-,; contribu-,; tions that these foster parents y give the children and the . ,.n community are impossible to totally enumerate. Foster !? parents are the substitute tiyi parents of these children, at . 1 , the critical times when no ' other family is available to them. Foster family care is a V.B', child welfare service which '" basically provides substitute toil |