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ahalya456 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:49:32 GMT

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Eye Safety Article

ExcelLehi — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:58:49 GMT

Preventing Eye Injuries

Here in Utah, we are surrounded with abundant activities that can lead to serious eye injuries. While we often don’t think about it until it is too late, there are many simple ways we can all help prevent eye injuries.

Dr. Aaron Smalley of Excel Eye Center, an ophthalmologist (eye M.D.) who practices in Lehi, notes that many eye injuries occur during sports activities or other recreation. According to data from www.GetEyeSmart.org, a public service web site of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, more than 40 percent of eye injuries are related to sports or recreational activities and more than 50 percent of all eye injuries occur in and around the home. Fortunately, wearing appropriate protective eyewear can prevent around 90 percent of all serious eye injuries.

Here are some simple tips on preventing eye injuries, wherever you or your family may go:

Wear appropriate protective eyewear during sporting activities. Everyday sunglasses and prescription glasses can cause severe eye injuries if damaged or broken during sporting activities and should not be worn for sports. For detailed information on types of eyewear appropriate for specific sporting activities, please visit http://www.geteyesmart.org/eyesmart/injuries/eyewear.cfm.

Have at least one pair of ANSI-approved protective eyewear in your home for use during projects and activities that may involve a risk of injury. (ANSI-approved protective eyewear is manufactured to meet the American National Standards Institute eye protection standards.)

Activities around the home that are known to increase the risk for eye injuries include:

Using hazardous products such as oven cleaner and bleach

Cooking foods can that can splatter hot grease or oil

Drilling screws or hammering nails into walls or hard surfaces such as brick or cement where the screws or nails can become projectiles

Using hot objects such as curling irons around the face; inadvertent contact with the user’s eyes can cause serious injury

Mowing the lawn and using a power trimmer or edger

Clipping hedges and bushes

Using any power or hand tools

Working with solvents or other chemicals

Any task that can produce fragments, dust particles or other eye irritants

Securing equipment or loads with bungee cords or similar elastic materials that can snap back suddenly and hit the eye

For all of these activities, it is important to remember that bystanders also face significant risk, particularly children who watch their parents perform routine chores in and around the home. Bystanders should wear eye protection as well or leave the area where the chore is being done.

Follow your eye doctor’s recommendations regarding proper wearing and caring for contact lenses. Improper cleaning, storage and wearing contact lenses may lead to serious eye infections that could cause permanent vision loss. Replace lenses in the recommended time frame and avoid any overnight wear of contacts to minimize the risk of infection. If you think your contact lenses are causing problems, see your eye doctor promptly for an evaluation.

Protect young children from serious eye injuries. Provide adequate supervision and instruction when your children handle potentially dangerous items, such as pencils, scissors, forks and penknives. Avoid projectile toys such as darts, bows and arrows, and missile-firing toys. Do not allow your children to play with non-powder rifles, pellet guns or BB guns. Keep all chemicals and sprays, such as sink cleaners or oven cleaners, out of reach of small children. Do not allow children anywhere near fireworks, especially bottle rockets.

"If someone experiences an eye injury, it’s important to see an ophthalmologist right away," says Dr. Smalley. "Ophthalmologists can help determine the best treatment."

For more information, visit Excel Eye Center online at www.ExcelEyeCenter.com, or contact Dr. Smalley’s office at:

Excel Eye Center of Lehi

(801) 341-6200

220 North 1200 East, Suite 101

Lehi, UT 84043

In Eagle Mtn, pool volunteers stung by council vote

Our Towns Host — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:15:22 GMT

[url=http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/north/eagle-mountain/article_4795e534-ff5c-540d-9f55-068e50877ef5.html]EAGLE MOUNTAIN -- On Thursday, those who proposed an aquatics center in Eagle Mountain were licking their wounds.[/url]

Tension dominated the first meeting of the city's parks and recreation committee, made up of unpaid volunteers who worked for the past year and a half to propose an aquatics center only to see the council vote unanimously against putting the proposal on the November ballot.

For nearly two hours, Councilman Nathan Ochsenhirt apologized repeatedly to unhappy committee members and tried to explain why he and the rest of the council "slapped down" the proposal, as one committee member put it.

What do you think? Should Eagle Mountain build an aquatics center regardless of the current economy? Should the city press for a vote in June?

Developers make promises, talk expenses for Eagle Mtn. expansion

Our Towns Host — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:53:31 GMT

[url=http://heraldextra.com/news/local/north/eagle-mountain/article_dc404810-7d0f-11de-be7f-001cc4c002e0.html]Hoping to build 10,000 homes in Eagle Mountain, developers are wooing the city with big promises even as they lay out the expensive obligations the city would be taking on.
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DAI, the developer hoping to convince the city to add more than 2,700 acres, said they would install an ATV trailhead, 39 miles of trails, 178 acres of open space and a rodeo facility to be built in time for the Pony Express Sesquicentennial next year. Those carrots were dangled in the second of a series of study sessions to consider the so-called Pole Canyon annexation, which includes 117 families living in the White Hills subdivision.

Would you take the bait? Should Eagle Mountain annex the land, take on the responsiblity in hopes that the area will explode with growth?

Eagle Mtn. volunteers rush to save rec center proposal

Our Towns Host — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:30:52 GMT

[url=http://heraldextra.com/news/local/north/eagle-mountain/article_549bd7f1-73f7-5313-b7f5-e977925a2912.html]With financial reality forcing an abrupt change of plans, a group of Eagle Mountain volunteers are sprinting to get a pared-down recreation center on the November ballot.[/url]

Because of state requirements, Eagle Mountain must decide by Aug. 4 whether to put a recreation center bond on the November ballot. When the city learned last week that a rec center half the size of Lehi's would face an annual shortfall of $800,000 for operating expenses alone, Mayor Heather Jackson asked members of the city's volunteer parks and recreation committee to hold an emergency meeting to come up with solutions.

"What we originally proposed is dead," said committee member Chad Thueson during the emergency meeting on Tuesday night.

What do you think the city aught to do about a new rec center?

Should Eagle mountain annex White Hills?

Our Towns Host — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:35:38 GMT

[url=http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/north/eagle-mountain/article_d443f9d9-1a5e-5889-b40c-f32f5ac45153.html]What happens if you add 30,000 people to a city? Moving slowly and deliberately, that is the question Eagle Mountain has set out to investigate.
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Council members agreed in January to consider annexing more than 2,700 acres of Pole Canyon, which includes 117 families living in the White Hills subdivision. Located west of Eagle Mountain between Fairfield and Cedar Fort, White Hills was once supposed to be the beginning of a large city. Today those residents face a failing sewer system and massive expenses. Developers wanting to build many more homes have requested the annexation.

With Eagle Mountain already one of the largest geographic municipalities in Utah, the 2,700 acres of Pole Canyon are slated to one day boast nearly 10,000 homes, occupied by 30,000 people. Even without this land, Eagle Mountain estimates it will serve 200,000 residents when the city is fully built out.

What do you know about White Hills and should Eagle Mountain consider the annexation plan?

Eagle Mountain: No more water shortages

Our Towns Host — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:26:37 GMT

[url=http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/north/eagle-mountain/article_75d5d8e0-a09f-5eff-94b5-0a0ad246081f.html] For the past two summers, catastrophic water-well failures have created water shortages in Eagle Mountain, much to the chagrin of residents.[/url]

This summer, the city wants residents to know that $5 million worth of new backup wells and storage tanks are in place. So while in years past the city has been forced to let grass and landscaping turn brown in parks and medians, those kinds of shortages are now a thing of the past, said city manager John Hendrickson on Wednesday.

"We have no concerns" about water shortages this year, said Chris Trusty, public works director for Eagle Mountain. And residential water restrictions may soon be relaxed too.

"Members of the City Council have asked us to review whether we can remove all restrictions," Hendrickson said. "We will be reviewing that in the next two to four weeks."

Eagle Mtn. considering Ranches golf course takeover

Our Towns Host — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:21:51 GMT

[url=http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/north/eagle-mountain/article_0942306e-4e19-5d32-b327-989ab1705391.html]Eagle Mountain is mulling whether to take over the failing Ranches Golf Course.[/url]
For five months, the city has quietly been negotiating with Ames Construction, which owns the course and would like to turn it over to the city as a donation, "free and clear," said Eagle Mountain city manager John Hendrickson.

In addition to all the golf course property, which includes a restaurant, Ames would also donate $650,000 to the city, as well as a cell phone and wireless Internet tower, lease payments from which will total more than $600,000 over the next decade. The payment money would go to city coffers.

Eagle Mountain mayor is first to run for re-election

Our Towns Host — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:49:45 GMT

[url=http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/north/eagle-mountain/article_14254a74-acf9-5ce9-95c8-d6972bd184ae.html]Eagle Mountain on Wednesday experienced a historic first, and a sign of the times.
For the first time since the city was incorporated on Dec. 3, 1996, a mayor here is running for re-election, rather than -- not to put too fine a point on it -- being run out of town, so to speak[/url].

At 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Mayor Heather Jackson filed her application to run for a second term. If she wins, she could accomplish a second historic feat, potentially becoming the first mayor here to serve a full four-year term. Jackson said her goal as mayor was to put controversy to rest, a goal she feels she has accomplished.