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The Ashley NF is advertising for seasonal Equipment Operators. This is a full-time position working Monday through Thursday from 7:00 am to 5:30 pm with the forest Road Crew for a period up to 6 months. The pay is $21.45/hr. You must apply online through the USAjobs.gov website between January 8 - 16. The vacancy announcement is 18-TEMP-R4EEO-8DT-ME. The position requires the selectee to possess a CDL license

The Ashley NF is advertising for seasonal Laborers. This is a full time position working Monday through Thursday from 7:00 am to 5:30 pm with the forest Road Crew for a period up to 6 months. The pay is $14.14/hr. You must apply online through the USAjobs.gov website between January 11 - 19. The vacancy announcement is 18-TEMP-R4LBR-3DT-ME. Contact Valton Mortenson 435781-5147 vmortenson@ fs.fed.us for additional information. Job Code CMRD0118 PART TIME SWEEPER. For more information go to www.theterraacademy. org

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story has been told throughout the state and the nation recently. It’s a story his mother, Yvonne Gardner, hopes will help prevent the pain she has felt everyday n since Parker passed away in his sleep on Dec. 4, 2016. d This is Yvonne’s second Christmas since the 21-year-old Parker passed away from what doctors originally said was pneumonia related. e “Parker was an 8 innocent victim of prescribed opioid medication and he is not alone,” Yvonne wrote in a letter to the Vernal Express on Dec. 1, 2017. Parker Stewart is certainly not alone in being victimized by a legal killer. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, more than 64,000 Americans died in 2016 from what they term as, “drug overdoses.” One of the obstacles Yvonne Gardner has faced since the tragic

passing of Parker is finding answers that clearly explain what happened to Parker without her son being lumped into the category as a drug overdose. According to Yvonne, Parker was the picture of youthful health, standing at 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 220 pounds. “I think the danger we are seeing is how many deaths you have,” Yvonne Gardner said. “People that overdose every single day, whether they’re taking it legally, or illegally, or abusing it or not. There’s got to be an issue with this drug that’s killing so many people. That’s why we have an epidemic. I don’t think anyone understands how deadly it really is.” According to Y v o n n e G a r d n e r, Parker never struggled with any substance abuse problems and was taking half the recommended dosage of the prescribed Percocet he received after a tonsillectomy procedure performed by Dr. Michael Catten,

an Ears, Nose, and Throat Surgeon for Ashley Regional Medical Center in Vernal. Three days after the procedure, on Dec. 3, 2016, Parker returned to his home and newlywed wife Madilyn and wrapped some Christmas presents prior to calling it an early night, going to bed around 8 p.m. The next morning Madilyn heard Parker snoring about 8 a.m. and decided to let her husband sleep in. By noon that morning, Parker was gone. The family was baffled how Parker could have passed away overnight from what was called pneumonia related. “How could he die overnight from pneumonia?” Yvonne said. “How could any person die of pneumonia overnight?” An autopsy was performed on Parker and some answers slowly followed in the coming months as questions to official explanations started to change. Having an autopsy performed is something Yvonne believes gave the fam-

ily answers that many families might not get, believing that their loved ones passed away from overdoses. Dr. Catten reached out to the Gardner family immediately after Parker’s passing. “That should never have happened,” Dr. Catten told the Deseret News in an article published on Dec. 17. “This was a 21-yearold kid who was not sick.” According to Catten, another patient who he had performed the same procedure on six months earlier had also passed away under similar circumstances within a week after the procedure. “But what you also need to realize is we are killing innocent people with our narcotics,” Catten told the Deseret News. “I think there are parents out there that are suffering from their child dying and it being labeled as an overdose,” Yvonne Gardner said. “They didn’t necessarily overdose, it was just the drug.” Dealing with the death of Parker was

hard enough for the family to deal with, coupled with the the fact they were told by police at first that Parker died of an overdose. “I’m like, ‘no,’” Yvonne said. “You don’t know my son, he didn’t like pain meds and I talked to his wife and she recorded every time she had given him a pill and the pills were in the kitchen and there was more than half of them left.” Parker’s story is one of a larger national epidemic that is earning headlines across the nation and world. On Dec. 21 CBS News reported that, “U.S. deaths from drug overdoses skyrocketed 21 percent last year, and for the second straight year dragged down how long Americans are expected to live.” Parker’s death has triggered a change in how Catten monitors patients after procedures, now sending them home with a pulse oximeter. It’s a change that is believed to have possibly saved several patients already.

It is possible that of all the drugs going around in the United States, the most deadly could be the one prescribed to use after common procedures such as Parker’s. The profit associated with opioid prescriptions annually is astronomical and is certainly one of the motivating factors for drugs such as Percocet being prescribed, despite the risks involved. The Stewart family is hopeful that Parker’s story will bring awareness, ac-

cording to Yvonne, but nothing can erase the pain of losing Parker. “He loved life and he was happy,” Yvonne said. “He was a hard worker and didn’t have any of those issues (addiction) that would have shown me or his wife that he abused those things and it was sad for me that they would think that of my son at that point where I had lost him. But I just knew that there was some other explanation, and I still don’t really have it.”

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NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Naples City Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday January 16, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Meeting Room of the Naples City Offices 1420 E 2850 S, to propose adding definitions for Patio, Deck< porch, and Clear View Triangle to the Naples City Land Use Ordinance.

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