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Students to spend break building homes Northern Utah Habitat for Humanity . Except for a day off for skiing and seeing Utah's sights , the students Ten college students from will work 8 a .m. to 5 p.m. all the University of Wisconsin week and depart Saturday and the State University of afternoon . New York and Courtland are Local churches have voltraveling west for Spring unteered to provide lunch Break - not for the beaches and dinner for the students or Las Vegas, but to spend who will be staying at the their week off in Brigham National Guard Armory for City building homes for peothe week, Mitchel said. ple in need . With the help of another The students are members group of volunteers coming of university chapters of in June, the seven townhousHabitat for Humanity, an es will probably be completorganization dedicated to ed by the end of eliminating this year , Mitchel poverty housing said . by building 'It's fun to be Four families affordable around(college are being evaluhomes. by a family The students students)because ated selection comare part of thousands around the the!/re so willingto mittee for placement in the country who are work.' homes , Mitchel participating in said . One of Habitat's ·collegiate • DoNMITCHEL• these families Challenge 2000," HABITATfOR HUMANITY has 11 children . To be eligible, which encourages the families must high school and be living on 50 college students percent or lower of the cost from across the country and of living in their area and be around the world to spend their break from school help- living in poor quality housing. ing build houses in other Mitchel said one Brigham states. City family who moved into Mike Livsey, vice president a Habitat home was living in of the Utah State University such poor conditions that student chapter of Habitat when their youngest boy was for Humanity and a board asked what he liked best member for the Northern about the new home said he Utah Habitat for Humanity, said eight students from USU had never taken a hot bath before. will be joining the students When an eligible family to work on two of seven moves into a Habitat home, townhouses in progress . they put 500 hours or more "It's a great opportunity." of labor into building their Livsey said. "The Brigham home and other homes, City office is really excited Livsey said . because they'll probably get Habitat sells the home at more done this week than cost, because labor is providthey've done in a long time.· ed by volunteers and pro The students will arrive vides the family with a noSunday afternoon and begin interest loan , work Monday morning, said Livsey said a home in Don Mitchel, director of the LARAGALE Staff Writer
Habitat for Humanity membersfrom USU, the University of Wisconsinand the Stale Universityof New
York and Courtlandwill spend Spring Breakin BrighamCity buildinghomesfor familiesin need.
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USU woman takes crown 1n deaf pageant form . Pearson said competing in the pageant has been a great pioneering spirit of Rachel confidence booster that she Wheeler , a sophomore in You may have walked deaf education at USU, there would recommend it to anypassed a beauty pageant . one. wouldn 't have been a Miss queen today without knowBut despite her success, Deaf Utah this year, said ing it. Marilyn Call, program direcshe said she would rather Delight Pearson, a junior play sports than try for other tor of the Utah Community in pre-physical therapy at titles beyond Miss Deaf Center of the Deaf. Utah State University, was America . She said the Utah named Miss Deaf Utah in Association for the Deaf wasBesides organizing intrathe 2000 Miss Deaf Utah mural sports with her Pageant in Salt Lake City Feb. n't planning to hold the friends, Pearson plays on a pageant this year . 19. deaf softball team that will Wheeler decided to shoulTm not used to all this be competing in a tournader the responsibility of attention," she said about ment against other directing the pageant and being featured in a Northwestern teams this organized a committee of Statesmanarticle. college students around the weekend. A self-professed tom-boy , She is also president of state to help . Starting in she said she didn't think she the American Sign Language January , they put in countwas beauty-pageant material. less hours promoting , fund club at USU and a tutor for "At first it was just a joke." ASL students . raising and planning the she said. "Everyone was like, Pearson is a ·wonderful" pageant. ·you want to do this? OK.' person to take over the ·1 think that it really But all my friends and family responsibility of the title, impressed them (the Utah have been very supportive." Association for the Deaf) that said Camille Call, a senior in Pearson said she didn't Family and Human these young kids Just took finally decide to compete Development at USU, who over," Call said. "It was really until January, so there wasn 't passed the crown to Pearson wonderful." a lot of time for preparation. after being Miss Deaf Utah Pearson was one of four Besides rehearsals, she said since 1998. girls who competed in the every week before the ·rm really impressed by pageant. According to Call, pageant she attended workDelight," she said. ·1 know the pageant was not just shops to work on interviewshe 'll do well in her role. about beauty . ing and other skills that She's really motivated." The girls were judged would help on stage. She said Call is helping Pearson based on private interviews, she was shocked when she prepare to compete in the business wear / platform prewon. Miss Deaf America Pageant sentation, talent perfor"It's something I've never mance, even ing gown compe- in Norfolk , Va., in July. thought of before," she said. The trip is being spontition and an on -stage inter ·1 was like ... me?" sored by the Utah view Walking away with the Association of the Deaf . The Pearson performed a crown and the $500 prize on participants will attend two monologue of a play she Feb. 19 wasn't the only weeks of rehearsals and wrote for the talent competireward for her hard work, workshops before the actual tion, and presented the she said . Even if she hadn 't importance of deaf identity pageant. won, she said the experience Pearson said she is nerand recognition as her platwas one of the best she's LARA GALE
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Delight Pearson took the crownat this year's Miss Deaf Utah pageant.Pearson,a junior, is a pre-physicaltherapymajorat USU.
vous for the national pageant. which will have an audience of 2,000 or more, but she is excited to meet and learn about the accomplishments and lives of the girls she will be competing with, who will come from more than 30 states all across the country. If Pearson wins at the national level, she will become a spokesperson for
the nation's deaf community and will travel regularly to speaking engagements across the country. As Miss Deaf Utah, Pearson said she is very excited about the opportunity to be a role model for the deaf community of Utah . She will speak at schools and community events and hopes to be able to work with deaf children .
Cache Valley usually costs $40,000, and the family usually pays monthly payments as low as $200 . This money goes into a pool to pay for future Habitat homes , he said. Mitchel said the Brigham City chapter has completed 16 houses since they became an affiliate in 1982, and almost every one has been a success story . Family members have been reunited , couples have been able to improve their credit history and lives have been turned arnund by the boost Habitat gfves families, he said. He said he's glad to see college students sacrifice their Spring Break to be a part of something so important. "It's really exciting," he said . ·n ·s fun to be around them because they're so willing to work." The students won't necessarily have any training in construct ion, but that's not important, Mitchel said. Without training, students help with everything from roofing to laying carpet to painting , Mitchel said, and they learn fast and work efficiently. Livsey said even after helping with a few homes , he still doesn't know anything about house building. A supervisor on the site tells him what to do and he does it. he said. The USU student chapter has a bout 150 members, Livsey said. On Saturdays. 10 members usually head to Brigham City to help on one of many projects . Mitchel said college students are an important part of volunteer support because their group effort makes the work go more quickly.
TVstationschoose notto air show on primetime BOISE,Idaho (AP)Southwestern Idaho's NBC affiliate has joined two other NBC affiliates in the state and others around the nation in refusing to broadcast the new animated comedy "God, the Devil and Bob" during prime time. KTVB-TVin Boise has bumped the show from its scheduled 7:30 p.m. Thursday slot because it considers the show inappropriate for children, said President and General Manager Doug Armstrong. KPVIin Pocatello and KTFf in Twin Fallsalso have rejected the program, as has KSLin Salt Lake City.Stations in Tupelo, Miss.;Shreveport, La.;and South Bend, Ind., also have refused to air the show. "Even though it's a cartoon, it's not a kids program," Armstrong said. "It has adult humor and themes, yet the marketing seems geared toward younger kids. Kids and families are our priority so we have asked NBC to schedule the program later in the evening." He cited the midseason replacement's tongue-in-cheek humor and drinking and sexual references. KTVBhas asked the network to air the program Saturday night at midnight, following Saturday Night Live. The network said in a prepared statement that it considers the show entertaining and that it hopes the affiliates eventually will agree to broadcast it