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NewsPAGE 8 EDITOR: KATIE ARDMORE | [email protected] MAY 1, 2012

Rexburg welcomes new medical centerBRETT EVANSScroll Staff

Beamount Medical Center,

a new medical complex,

is currently under

construction on the 100

South block o Second East.

Te building will have between ve

and seven doctor’s oces among itsresidents.

Te complex is being developed by the

Hemming Corporation.

Richie Webb, president o Hemming

and part-owner o the project, said

that the complex

is designed with

potential or other

uses.

“We’ve designed

it to have some

exibility to attract

other kinds o uses,

but right now most

o the interest is

rom the medical

community,” Webb

said.

Tis is one o many projects thatHemming Corporation has taken on in

Rexburg.

Among other developments, the

corporation is also building a new

single-student housing community

near Hemming Village on the corner o

Second South and First West.

Val Christensen, building ocial o

the Rexburg Department o Community

Development, said that it will primarily serve as a medical building, but there

may be some space lef in it or other

commercial endeavors.

“We haven’t discussed that yet,”

Christensen said. “It’s something we’ll

probably look at later.”

Webb agreed, saying that there may

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ATV ACCIDENT KILLS MAN;INJURES OTHER, PAGE 9

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“It looked like the four-person ATV crashed into a pile of rocks after going over a hill in the evening.”

be commercial space on the ground

oor or retail or ood service use, but

the primary interest has come rom the

doctors associated with the project.

Four homes on Second East were torndown to make way or the new building.

It will be three stories tall and provide

adequate parking or both tenants and

guests o the estimated 30,000-square-

oot acility.

Te space in which the building is

being built was originally zoned or

residential use, but Christensen said the

zoning was reassigned years ago.

He said that some o the doctorsassociated with the new building bought

property in the area and then applied

to change the zoning to what’s called

“mixed use two” zoning.

Rexburg zoning regulations qualiy

“mixed use two” zoning to be used or

residential and commercial applications,

Courtesy Rendering

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The medical center is a development by theHemming Corporation. The building will belocated near several medical ofces.

This new building will consist of ve to sevendoctor’s ofces. A restaurant/retail store may

also be included on the main oor.

with greater emphasis on commerce.

Tis is distinctive rom the exclusively

light-density residential zoning the lot

used to occupy.

Te new building should be

completed in early 2013, Webb said.

This rendering provides an exterior view of the Beamont Medical Center. The center will becompleted in 2013. Construction started earlier this year, but has been under development forseveral years.

REXBURGMEDICAL

SERVICESRexburg offers avariety of medical services. Rexburg has 18 health careclinics.

Source:www.dexknows.com

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Hunt for Bombs

Bus System

Proposed

• Beamount Medical Center

is owned by Hemming Corporation , which also owns

Hemming Village. Te village

includes shops and restaurants.

• Hemming Corporation

is also building a large new

student housing complex on the

northwest corner o W. Second

South and S. First West .

• Hemming hasn’t announced

yet what health care services

will be provided there. I it’s

like other medical centers

in Rexburg, it could house

anything rom chiropractor to

doctor ofces.

OTHER FACTS

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NewsPAGE 9MAY 1, 2012

ATV accident killsman, injures other

One man died and another was

njured in an accident at the St. Anthony

dunes on April 18.

Gary Clinton Cooper, 70, o Puyallup,

ash was ound dead on the scene.

urke Dean Hanks, 56, o St. Anthony

suered severe injuries and is recovering

n intensive care at the Eastern Idaho

Regional Medical Center.Fremont County Sherri ’s deputies

said estimated that the accident

appened at 8:24 a.m.

Tey said it was hard to uncover

ore details o the accident since the

all came many hours aer the accident

ccurred, and weather conditions

altered the tracks in the sand and the

en’s surroundings.

“It looked like the our-person AVrashed into a pile o rocks aer going

ver a hill in the evening,” Fremont

County Deputy Cody Gudmunson said.

Gudmunson said people shouldn’t

verestimate their abilities when they go

ut on the dunes.

He said AV riders need to exercise

LIZZY PETHERBRIDGE &KATIE ARDMORE

Scroll Staff

caution when going over hills because

it’s hard to see what’s on the other side.

Saint Anthony

Sherri’s Deputy

Brian Loseke

said people getin accidents on

the dunes oen,

but the accidents

aren’t usually atal.

He said there

is a yearly average o about our or fve

atal accidents on the sand dunes. Fatal

accidents are more likely among people

who don’t wear helmets.

“I you all and hit your head, you’regoing to die,” Loseke said.

Loseke said people shouldn’t

ride there i they won’t amiliarize

themselves with the landscape, which

can hold dunes as high as 400 eet.

“You’ve got to pay attention because

it’s dangerous out there,” Loseke said.

BOISE, Idaho (AP)—

Contractors and sta at Boise’s

Gowen Field are working to make

sure the past doesn’t come back to

haunt them.

Using sound waves, digitalmaps and ederal dollars, they are

searching where bombs, grenades

and ammunition were once stored.

wo areas are o special interest:

a large feld along Gowen Road

that until the 1970s, served as a

munitions storage area; and the

grounds around an old Marine

Corps barracks.

Te Idaho National Guard hasMilitary Munitions Response

Programs at military properties

across the state, said Maj. Jim

Hawkes, an environmental

manager at the base.

Te program cleans up ormer

training ranges and munitions

storage areas, making them sae or

other purposes, Hawkes said.

Te process started in the past

decade and gained steam the past

couple o years.

Te old bunkers and munitions

buildings have been torn down.

Capt. ony Vincelli, Idaho Air

Guard spokesman said the ormer

storage area is enced o and

empty.

“You can’t really do anything

with the area until the debris is

cleared up,’’ Vincelli said. “And the

area hasn’t been used in 40 years.’’

A contractor surveyed those

sites with special equipment,

identiying “anomalies’’ that show up as deep red swaths on a high-

tech map.

Most likely, those red splotches

are construction debris, said

Senior Airman Heidi Caye, a base

environmental expert.

“Tat’s what we are hoping it

is,’’ Caye said. “But we have to

make sure.’’

Between now and May 18, thebase’s environmental experts and

a contractor will dig up those

anomalies.

I contractors fnd any grenades,

bombs or other dangerous

materials, the area will be cordoned

o and the explosives destroyed,

Caye said.

“We are not expecting to fnd a

bomb,’’ she said.

Across the airfeld on a uesday

earlier this month, another

contractor was using huge

equipment to demolish and haul

away an old building that had been

used to test jet engines.

Environmental studies showed

that the soil beneath the structure

could be contaminated with jet uel.

Idaho National Guardsearches for old bombs

An ATV accident occurred at the St. Anthony Sand Dunes April 18. The sand dunes cover 10,000acres of land and consist of 72 RV campsites.

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NewsMAY 1, 2012PAGE 10

House votes ‘no’ on increasing rates

A dog stays at the Rexburg animal shelter.Animals are available for adoption at theshelter with fees starting at $75.

LIZZY PETHERBRIDGEScroll Staff

Te House voted against increasing

interest rates on ederal loans April 27.

Under this decision, rates will remain

at 3.4 percent, rather than doubling to 6.8

percent. Tese rates will stay the same

or another year, but they will expire next

year, possibly doubling the rates then.

Beore Congress voted, President

Obama called on college students

across the country to bring attention

to this legislation.

Te rates were set to expire in July.

Interest rates on any new loans would

have become 6.8 percent on July 7.

Obama traveled to University o

North Carolina, University o Coloradoand University o Iowa promising

low interest rates that would ensure

secondary education is attainable.

In a special address to journalists on

college and university campuses, Obama

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asked students to help him spread the

word through social media and other

sources, making this a top priority or

both students and congress.

“We can’t let America become a

shrinking number o people doing

well,” Obama said. “We have to build a

economy where everyone has a air shot.

Tat’s how the middle class gets stronger,

and secondary education is key.”

Aer President Obama nished

speaking he opened the oor or

journalists to ask questions.

Cecilia Muñoz, Assistant to the

President and Director o the White

House Domestic Policy Council

answered questions (along with Roberto

Rodriguez, Special Assistant to the

President or Education Policy, WhiteHouse Domestic Policy Council.)

Munoz said that student loan interest

rate was an area the President takes

seriously and personally, since he had

sufered issues rom student loans during

his college career.

Munoz said that Obama mentioned

his concern in his inaugural speech

and that he would continue to make

lowering student loans a priority or the

ederal government.

“We will continue to press until we

get it done,” Munoz said.

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developed as to whether it will

be benecial or students and the

community.

“Students may nd it aster

to walk to the destination versushaving to wait at the bus stop,”

Jerry Merrill, a member o the city

council, said.

Other concerns have been raised

about the route the bus will take

and the times it will run.

Ely sent a ormal request or

unding to Mayor Rich Woodland.

Te request included an estimated

number o bus users, comprised o the general population, students

and senior citizens.

She also proposed boundary

limits within a 15-mile radius o

Rexburg, including St. Anthony,

Rigby, Sugar City and Menan.

LIZZY PETHERBRIDGEScroll Staff

A new bus system and route have

been proposed by Amanda Ely, arepresentative o arghee Regional

Public ransportation.

Te current service is an on-

demand response system: travelers

are required to call the day beore to

schedule a pick up time and receive

door-to-door service.

It costs $2 to ride each

way. arghee Regional Public

ransportation is seeking unding ora xed schedule and bus route and

hope to receive a total o $518,601 in

unding by scal year 2013.

Some wonder what efect the

bus route will have on the Rexburg

community. Opposing views have

New bus route hasbeen proposedPublic transportation operates using an on-demand system, but funds have been

requested to turn it into a route system. Te route has not yet been mapped out but

would include Rexburg and surrounding areas.

Thesecitiesare

includedi n t h e

proposedbus route

PROPOSED BUS ROUTE

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A discussion turned to conict as

the desire or more attendance at the

eton Flood Museum posed a problem

or the Madison County Library during

the Rexburg City Council meeting heldearlier this month.

Te sites share a parking lot, and

council member Donna Beneld

recognizes that library patrons already

occupy most o the spaces.

Since 1921, the Madison County

Library has provided a nook or Rexburg

residents seeking a quiet place to snuggle

up with a book. ypical or most historic

buildings, the library has had many renovations.

Aer years o uninterrupted service,

the Madison Library was demolished

because o signicant damage rom the

eton Dam Flood in the summer o

1976.

It was rebuilt the ollowing year.

Te most recent renovation was in

2008 in an efort to better accommodate

the parking needs o library patrons. All

that remains o the original structure is

a green marble marker inscribed with a

brie history o the site.

“Since the last expansion, I never

have trouble getting a spot,” said

Emily Sonderegger, a graduate student

studying English at Idaho State.

Sonderegger volunteers as the cashier

in the library bookstore.Te library’s original 800-book

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The library parking lot is shared with the Teton Flood Museum, resulting in limited parking spacesfor both organizations. While the library serves a similar geographical area as Madison schoolDistrict, it’s not afliated with Rexburg, the school district or Madison County.

AINSLEY DESPAINScroll Staff

library collection consisted o purely

community donated books.

Te bookstore allows the present-day community the chance to ollow in

Museum visitors want more parking

the ootsteps o past generations and

continue donating to the library.

Sonderreger said that, like mostlibraries, many o the patrons are young

mothers who come regularly with their

small children.

“Te busiest time is Wednesday and

Tursday mornings,” Sonderegger said.

“Tat’s when we have story time.”

One can nd at the library children

scurrying through the isles, people

attending computer classes and severalhigh school and

college students

busy studying

or exams. One

such high school

student is Emily

Schauerhamer,

a sophomore at

Madison High

School, whosometimes visits

the library.

She said that

she oen nds peace and quiet at her

own school library, but she comes to the

Madison County Library “about once a

month to nd an exciting book.”

Now that Schauerhamer has her

driver’s permit, she is more aware o

space issues in the parking lot.

“Sometimes there are only two or

three spots le in the parking lot,”

she said.

Te limited space has yet to diminish

the hopes o the museum volunteers

though.

“People need to come to the library

because it’s the best place ever,”

Sonderegger said. “Ten again, I am abook addict.”

Senate passes Idaho-backed bill to stop domestic violence

NEWS IN BRIEF

Te United States Senate passed

the Violence against Women Act,

sponsored by Idaho Senator MikeCrapo.

“Te act provides critical services

to victims o violent crime, as well

as agencies and organizations that

provide important aid to those

victims,” Crapo said in his speech

on the senate oor.

Te legislation passed 68-31.

Te Violence against Women

Act is expected to improve ederalprograms addressing abuse.

“While we may not all agree on

the specics o this reauthorization,

all o us agree that we must end

domestic violence, dating violence,

sexual assault and stalking,” Crapo

said.

MADISONCOUNTYLIBRARY

The public library islocated on 73 NorthCenter St. Their hours are 9 a.m.

to 8 p.m. Monday-Friday.

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APRIL 24-27

Editor’s note: All information contained in this section is public record and isaccessible to anyone through the Rexburg Police Department.

• Complaint of BYU-I students unlawfully in an apartment hot tub. Jumped thefence at Stonebrook Apartments.

• Medical assist. 70-year-old womandepressed, possible suicidal tendency.

Taken to hospital.

• Complaint of threats and harassment from an ex-boyfriend.

• 15-year-old runaway apprehended.Missing since 15th. Located while heading for Montana.

• Report of stolen vehicle. Victim located misplaced vehicle.

• Attempted fraud. Subject received afraudulent check for rental property after posting property for rent on Craigslist.

• Threat complaint. Subject left out of a will.

• Hit and run accident in BYU-I Center parking lot. Student from Rochester,Minn., was cited for leaving the scene.

• Damaged property. Power box

damaged by a trailer moving company.

• Theft. Cement forms from Starmont Construction, W. 5th S.

• Complaint of a sex offender hanging around Aspen Village.

• Accident. Vehicle struck a re hydrant in Harvest Heights due to defectivebreaks.

• Drunken driving arrest. 31-year-old female jailed.

• Missing 5-year-old boy. Located a few minutes after the call.

• Unresponsive 17-year-old male.Found lying partially under a vehiclein complainant driveway. Transported to the hospital. Subject had a highconcentration of alcohol in his system,alcohol possibly provided by 18-and

22-year-old males.

• Attempted suicide. Subject, 25-year-old female, sustained non-life-threatening cuts and was taken to hospital.

• Tampering with a motor vehiclecomplaint. Madison High School.

• Theft. Stolen wallet.

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Warm weather can lead to minor oodsKATIE ARDMORE

News Editor

Rexburg residents can expect minor

ooding in the next ew weeks.

A combination o warm

emperatures, melting snow and rainall

ed to ooding in northern Idaho,

ncluding the Coeur d’Alene and St.

oe Rivers, according to Robert Feeley,

ublic inormation ocer or the Idaho

ureau o Homeland Security.

Flooding rom Henry’s Fork River

and the eton River will aect Rexburg

area, said National Weather Service

Forecaster Dan Valle.

Valle said that ooding will occur in

ow-lying arm lands and parks in the

Rexburg area, including the Rexburgature Park.

St. Anthony residents can expect to

xperience ooding near Parkour Salem

oad and on pasture and arm land near

Highway 20.

Valle said ooding normally occurs

in Idaho this time o year because o

melting snow. However, the warm

weather last week has caused more

ooding to occur earlier than usual.Idaho rivers started ooding earlier than normal because of warm temperatures. This year,ooding will affect low-lying lands in St. Anthony and Rexburg.

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) – Police in

Nampa are asking or help in fnding

a 2-year-old girl who may be with her

ather.

Ocers say Joel

Ortiz-Martinez

did not obey a

court order toreturn Italy Phebe

Ortiz to her

mother, America

Soplis, on

April 22.

Te girl was

last seen with her

ather.

He was last seen

driving a silver2000 Mitsubishi

Eclipse with the

Idaho license plate

2CHU675.

Italy Ortiz is 3 eet tall, weighs 30

pounds and has brown eyes and black

hair.

IDAHO

ANNUAL CRIME

RATES

According to www.neighborhoodscout.com , 3,465 violent crimes and 31,286 property crimes arecommitted in Idaho,which makes atotal 34,751 annual crimes and a rate of 22.17% per 1,000residents.

NEWS IN BRIEF

PREPARING FOR A FLOOD

1. Saeguard your possessions

2. Prepare your house

3. Develop a amily emergency plan

4. Build an emergency kit

5. Avoid building in a oodplain

6. Consider installing “check valves”

7. Construct barriers to stop water

Sources: www.oodsmart.gov and www.ready.gov

Police looking for a 2-year-oldIdaho girl

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The Madison County Commission held an open house April 25 for county departments. Thecommission consists of three commissioners, Chairman Kimber Ricks, Jon Weber and Todd Smith.

County commission holds open houseTe sheri ’s oce brought out

equipment to display some o its

resources.

Tere were several police vehicles,

including a prison transport vehicle

and a D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance

Education) truck

Tey also displayed MCSO (Mobile

County Sheri’s Oce) all-terrain

vehicles and a boat or waterway patrol.

Te sheri also described the

Madison County Work Detail, in which

inmates can serve their time by working

on labor details or public projects.

Tese projects have included

trimming bushes, repairing broken

public acilities, cleaning up trash and

setting up or county events.

Te Madison Fire Departmentdisplayed one o their re trucks, a hook

and ladder with its boom ully extended.

Brandon Pope, a reghter-

paramedic and 2007 BYU-Idaho

alumnus, educated the public about the

advanced medical training that Madisonparamedics receive.

Te department recently acquired

the critical care credential, the highest

certication available.

“We have one o the highest levels o

care o any paramedic program in thestate o Idaho,” Pope said.

Paramedics in Madison County carry

between 20 and 30 medications, while

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BRETT EVANSScroll Staff

Te Madison County Commission

eld an open house April 25 at the

County Administration Building in

Rexburg to showcase departments and

esources. Te open house celebrated

ational County Month, which takes

lace during the month o April.

Many county departments were

resent with vehicles, special equipment

and ocials to answer questions and

xplain their purpose in the county.

Sheri Roy Klingler, o the Madison

County Sheri’s Oce, said that the

ounty commissioners, elected ocials

and other department heads decided to

ost the open house so the public couldearn more about the county’s assets.

“oday, the public can come out, have

a look at some o the equipment, talk to

eople here and nd out what we do,”

Klingler said. COUNTY, CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

Passengers aboard thePennsylvania fight commandeered

the plane rom the hijackers and

orced it down, killing everyone on

board, but likely sparing the lives o

those in the airplane’s intended path.

Following the 9/11 attacks, bin

Laden quickly took responsibility or

the terrorism.

Ascribing it to the Muslimprinciple o jihad, or holy war,

he justied his role in the attacks

outlining longtime American

support o the nation o Israel,

among other alleged wrongdoings by

the Western superpower.

Since 9/11, al-Qaeda has taken

responsibility or many other

terrorist attacks, including the 2001

shoe bomb plot, in which convictedterrorist Richard Reid attempted to

smuggle a bomb onto an airplane in

his shoe.

Tey also claimed responsibility

or the Christmas 2009 bombing

in Detroit, Mich., in which Umar

Farouk Abdulmutallab smuggled

explosives in his underwear in anairplane that had landed at Detroit

Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.

Tere have been no terrorist

attacks or which al-Qaeda has taken

responsibility since beore the death

o Osama bin Laden, but that doesn’t

mean that the terrorist organization

has ceased to be a concern.

In a White House press release,the oce o the President o the

United States claims that “Al-Qaeda

is weaker than it’s ever been.”

Still, Rose is cautious.

“Te administration was very

wise in giving bin Laden a Muslim

burial at sea because that will prevent

others rom treating his grave like a

shrine.

However, al-Qaeda is st ill a very real threat,” Rose said.

Rose, who teaches a BYU-I class

ocused on terrorism, went on to

describe the cycle o violence, saying

there’s a possibility that al-Qaeda

may be planning retaliation or the

deaths o bin Laden and al-Awlaki.

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Local businesses and members of thecommunity donated items for the bake sale.This event happens every year.

Customers arrived at the March o

Dimes bake sale held on May 5 in the

old Madison Junior High School gym.

Melissa Voss is the amily team

advisor or the Idaho Falls and Rexburg

chapter o March o Dimes.

Frosted cookies, homemade donuts

and oversize brownies covered several

tables.

“All o this was donated by riends,

amily, neighbors, people rom our ward

— anyone that could help out.”

Te gymnasium was quiet as a ew

patrons perused the merchandise.

Baked goods were not the only items

or sale.Voss worked diligently to network

with other companies who would

donate other products that might

interest those already involved in March

o Dimes.

“I started advertising about three

months ago,” said Voss, who single-

handedly organized the bake sale. “We

had radio ads going on last month, and I

March of Dimes hosts local bake saleput yers up over the last week.”

Light pink tubes o Mary Kay

products were displayed along with

wooden heart ornaments and knitted

hats or premature babies.

“It’s been kind o slow this morning,”

said Sonja Mayeld, an independent

consultant or Mary Kay Beauty. “Te

cold weather hasn’t helped but we are

having un.”

Mayeld was assigned to man a

booth or her boss, who heard about the

und raiser rom Voss.

“First o all, I created an event on

Facebook to get the word out to the

community,” Voss said. “Tat way

companies and other organizations

could see it and decide i they wanted to

participate.”Brightly colored necklaces, large

ower rings line and another booth,

along side ashion headbands, were

donated by Paparazzi $5 Jewelry.

“I became interested in the March o

Dimes when my cousin had a baby three

months early. Since we couldn’t go down

to Salt Lake City or other und raisers, I

wanted to be involved in anything here

in town,” said

Jessica Goudy,

the consultant on

duty.

Te slow

morning did

not deter Voss’

enthusiasm.

“Advertising

doesn’t always

mean people [will

come], but we

are hoping this afernoon brings nicer

weather,” Voss said.

Items that do not sell during the salewill be organized into an online auction.

“Te ood is more complicated,”

Voss said. “I’m not sure what we will

do with it, but we will gure it out afer

everything is over.”

POCAELLO, Idaho (AP) — A

proessor emeritus at Idaho State

University claims he was red

Tursday rom his part-time job in

the campus library afer writing an

opinion piece that was satirically

critical o school president ArthurVailas.

Leonard Hitchcock worked as

an unpaid volunteer or ve years

beore he went on the university

library payroll in January, earning

$11 an hour as acting head o

special collections. He believes his

termination was retribution, he said.

“It strikes me this is a political

reaction by the administration,’’Hitchcock told the Idaho State

Journal.

Hitchcock said he was told he was

being red by librarian Jenny Lynne

Semenza, who was acting under

orders o the university’s interim

provost Barbara Adamcik, he said.

Te provost declined to comment,

university spokesman Mark Levine

said.

“We do not comment on personnel

issues,’’ Levine said.

A column by Hitchcock was

published Sunday in the Idaho StateJournal.

It reerred to Vailas as “King

Arthur’’ and was critical o his

handling o a lengthy dispute with

aculty over shared governance on the

Pocatello campus.

Te state Board o Education voted

last year to dissolve the university’s

previous Faculty Senate, which have

been at loggerheads with Vailas.Te university then elected

new, temporary aculty leaders to

work with Vailas to adopt a new

constitution.

Te provisional Faculty Senate was

due to sunset in April, or upon the

completion o constitution.

ISU professor red fromcampus library job

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MARCH OFDIMES

The March of Dimes

mission is to help pregnant mothershave a successful delivery and toreduce the number of birth defects.

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