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SALT LAKE CITY — Thousands of fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students enjoyed Tuesday afternoon watching the Salt Lake Bees defeat the Albuquerque Isotopes at Spring Mobile Park Stadium, as a part of Prevention Dimensions Kids' Day. The students in attendance also enjoyed an opening ceremony featuring over 400 Utah elementary students.
Utah's Prevention Dimension Program, previously known as the "K-12 Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Prevention Education Program" is the state's own drug education and prevention program, that began with a plea from P.T.A. programs statewide. The Utah Department of Human Services describes the newly improved Prevention Dimensions program on their website, "The lesson objectives are based on increasing protective factors and decreasing risk factors, while adhering to a no-use message for alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, inhalants, and other drugs."
The event, no doubt, was an enjoyable day for the kids in attendance, with the Salt Lake Bees beating the Albuquerque Isotopes 4-1.
Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway and Tunnel to be named as historic landmark
The Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway and Tunnel will be dedicated Friday as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. Open to the public, the ceremony will take place at 2 p.m. at the South Campground Amphitheater in Zion National Park.
American Society of Civil Engineers President Andrew W. Herrmann and Zion National Park Superintendent Jock Whitworth plan to host the dedication of the highway and tunnel. The Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway, travels up Pine Creek Canyon as a leg of state Route 9, through the Navajo sandstone cliffs and east across the slickrock of the plateau.
This route posed a challenge to construction crews, who began work 85 years ago, using methods that would seem almost primitive today, over the course of three years. They fought nature along the way, blasting their way through a sea of slickrock sandstone, and carving up to six hairpin turns out of the canyon floor.
Rachel Adams of American Fork
Paige Anderson of Providence
Skyler Call of Kaysville
Michelle Carlin of West Haven
Allyson Duce of Magna
Rachel Fischer of Springville
Leesa Harvey of West Valley City
Jessica Hulet of Cedar City
Kevin Livingston of Salt Lake City
Lisa Ly of West Valley City
Tiffanie McLean of Lindon
Troy Ogilvie of St. George
Brandy Phillips of Santa Clara
Nathan Powell of South Jordan
Elizabeth Quigley of Kaysville
Megan Rudd of Woods Cross
Brooklyn Sherman of Price
Madison Stark of Park City
Rachel Steele of Orem
Lynden Turner of Salt Lake City
Austin Westley of Sandy
Nothing challenged the construction crew more than battling Zion's sandstone cliffs to build the tunnel, over one mile in length. The tunnel was completed and opened by 1930.
Young cancer survivors throughout Utah receive scholarships
The American Cancer Society is awarding 21 young Utahns a jump-start in college, with a $2,500 scholarship.
The American Cancer Society awarded the scholarship money to students throughout Utah who had been diagnosed with various forms of cancer before age 21, and who had already been accepted to an accredited college and maintained a 2.5 GPA or higher. They felt it was important to award these students the scholarship because of the immense financial strain cancer can put on an affected patients and their families, which often buts higer education lower on the list of priorities.
For more information about the program, call the American Cancer Society, at 1-800-227-2345 or visit www.cancer.org.
