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October 7, 2022 | Vol. 3 Iss. 40
Donated dentistry program celebrates 10 years of giving patients back their smile By Becky Ginos becky.g@davisjournal.com KAYSVILLE—A program that has provided more than $1 million in dental services celebrated 10 years last week of helping those who might not otherwise receive the oral care they need. The Pantry Smiles donated dental program is a partnership between Davis Technical College (DTC), Weber State University (WSU), the Bountiful Community Food Pantry and area dentists and hygienists. “Both Lorna (Koci) and I were on the board of directors for the food pantry,” said Jim Guinn, a dentist who helped start the program. “We saw people with a terrific need come into the food pantry who didn’t have the resources for it (dentistry). We got some money from the Bountiful Food Pantry and some federal and private grants to do this. We never charge money for anything we do.” It’s for people whose household income is less than 150 percent of the Federal Poverty Level, he said. “People who don’t qualify for Medicare or Medicaid are Please see ANNIVERSARY: pg. 3
Couric urges women to get mammograms
TV host Katie Couric said she’s been diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent surgery and radiation treatment this summer to treat the tumor. Couric, who memorably was tested for colon cancer on the Today show in 2000, announced her diagnosis in an essay on her website, saying she hoped it would encourage other women to be tested. “My left breast does feel like I’ve been sunbathing topless, but other than that, I’ve felt fine,” she wrote. Couric’s first husband, Jay Monahan, died of colon cancer in 1998 at age 41 and her sister Emily was 54 when she died of pancreatic cancer in 2001. Given her family history, Couric wrote, “why would I be spared? My reaction went from ‘why me?’ to ‘why not me?’”
DENTAL INSTRUCTORS CELISE HERLIN (RIGHT) and Ashley Wiser work on a practice manikin in one of the dental rooms at Davis Technical College. Pantry Smiles has been donating dental services for 10 years.
Photo by Becky Ginos
Great Salt Lake Causeway berm raised to protect salinity levels
(Editor’s Note—This is one of our continuing series of stories as part of our Davis Journal Water Watchers campaign) Due to the increasing salinity issues related to the shrinking Great Salt Lake, the Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, along with the Division of Water Resources, has modified the breach in the Union Pacific railroad causeway that divides the lake. The breach is a 180-foot section of the causeway that was removed to connect the north and south areas of the Great Salt Lake with an open channel. The decrease of incoming water into the lake has created a salinity issue that has negatively impacted the lake’s ecosystem. “The salinity of Great Salt Lake plays an important role in shaping the lake’s unique ecological, recreational and mineral resource use,” said Laura Vernon, Great Salt Lake Coordinator for the Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands. “Unfortunately, the decrease in freshwater inflows has led to an increase in salinity that is detrimental to these resources.” In recent years, the north arm was causing the salinity level of the south arm to increase. This increase poses an environmental threat to the brine shrimp in the south arm and the migratory birds that feed
NEWS BREAK
Facebook parent company shuts down two fake accounts
Facebook parent company Meta announced it had detected and shut down two separate networks of fake accounts engaged in covert influence operations run from China and Russia. The Chinese network was small and received barely any attention, but it did include some accounts that posed as Americans on both sides of the political spectrum, according to a Meta report. Meta publicly detailed the takedown as it remains on high alert for foreign interference in the U.S. midterm elections, a Meta spokesperson told CNN. Ben Nimmo, Meta’s global threat intelligence lead, told CNN it was the first time the company had seen Chinese accounts targeting Americans in this way. The company has shared details of the Chinese accounts with the FBI, a Meta spokesperson said.
Average employee spends up to 18 hours a week in meetings
CREWS WORK TO RAISE the berm on the Great Salt Lake Causeway. off the shrimp. Engineers from the Division of Water Resources prepared a design to raise the berm in the bottom of the causeway breach by four feet. This would reduce the mixing of the north and south arms. The berm was constructed at the end of July.
The water in the lake’s north arm is heavier than the water in the south due to the lack of freshwater inflows and higher concentrations of salt, so it pushes into the south arm along the bottom of the channel. The less-dense water in the southern arm slides over the heavi-
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er north arm water at the causeway breach. The berm modification is intended to significantly reduce north-to-south flow but still allow south-arm water to flow north. Please see GSL: pg. 2
A new study suggests that not only are pointless meetings making us unhappy at work, but they’re wasting monumental amounts of time and money. Software firm Otter.ai partnered with Dr. Steven Rogelberg – a professor of organizational science at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte – to carry out a survey last summer of 632 workers from 20 different industries. The implications are staggering for all the wasted time and money that pointless meetings add to businesses’ bottom line. Bad meetings are so widespread they have even prompted companies to spring up to tackle meeting overload, while some bosses are calling for as many meetings as possible to be banned altogether. Many cite meeting as a source of employee burnout in the post-pandemic workplace, taking up much more of white-collar workers’ time in a remote environment.
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