Group fights to erase the stigma of AIDS [] Sarah McClellan leads effort in the Top of Utah to break the silence of HIV By CATHY. McKITRICK Standard-Examiner staff GDEN - Sarah McClellan knew a man who died recently from AIDS, but told people he had cancer so they wouldn’t shut him out. “AIDS carries such a stigma. People will open their hearts and wallets for cancer victims, but turn their backs on people with AIDS,” McClellan said. Since 1997 McClellan has — committed herself to breaking the silence on AIDS. As director of the Northern Utah HIV/AIDS Project, McClellan oversees education and outreach. Since May 1996, project facilitators have given more than 200 presentations to over 7,000 people in various sites throughout Northern Utah, From 1B Cooper said. “Certain groups are affected more than others and some of including the Weber County Jail, homeless shelters, the Salvation Army, and the Weber Valley Detention Center. “We target individuals high-risk because of their lifestyles, most of them oe | how it’s spread and how to prevent it.” HIV/AIDS cannot be spread by kissing, mosquito bites, using the same toilet or other types of casual contact. ““This means it’s OK to show compassion and care for people with HIV/AIDS,” McClellan said. The disease, passed on percentage of Hispanics and African-Americans infected with HIV/AIDS in Utah, making up almost 18 percent of the cumulative cases in the state since 1983. at Weber State University, is: vice-chair for the advisory board and has been with the project since its inception. “IT got involved because I believe people aren’t getting the information they need. Once they’re aware of the facts concerning the disease, they can make decisions that will protect themselves and their families,” Department and pays mostly for Adults and teenagers with HIV can enjoy a period with no symptoms that lasts from six months to 10 years, where they look and feel well. look. But one time of unprotected sex can be a death sentence,” McClellan said. Then symptoms begin to appear that also can last several Department, 399-8854, and Planned Parenthood, 479-7721. For more information or to volunteer or make a donation to outreach materials. A limited amount provides stipends for presentation facilitators. HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that The project’s shoestring AIDS or Acquired Immune through the Utah Health Statistics show a disproportionately high advisor and program coordinator Cumulative totals for HIV/AIDS cases in Utah from intercourse, sharing infected can take to avoid the disease,” Cooper said. ; budget comes from grants needles, and from mother to baby during pregnancy or through breast milk, has no cure. through unprotected sexual causes AIDS, can be ideritified through testing three months after the time of infection. Before that time, the individual could test negative even though infected, McClellan said. those individuals are heterosexual women and teenagers. People need to know about preventative measures they Applied Technology Center, serves on the advisory board for the project. “It’s important that the ethnic groups in the community who are it. infected at a higher rate get the information they need about the - Sarah McClellan, director, Northern Utah | disease,” Hernandez said. “It’s a HIV/AIDS Project sensitive topic, and we see people who are in denial about it.” Freddie Cooper, academic spread and how to prevent agesofi2and = : 30,’ McClellan McClellan said. “‘We want to dispel the myths and teach the facts about HIV/AIDS, “We want to dispel the myths and teach the facts © coordinator at the Ogden Weber about HIV/AIDS, how it’s who are between the 1983 to mid-2000 show a total of 2,637 cases. Since 1983, 951 Utah _AIDS victims have died. Pam Hernandez, diversity Deficiency Syndrome, is the final stage of the disease. years, which include tiredness, enlarged lymph glands, weight loss, fever, chronic diarrhea and yeast infections. McClellan said that looks can be deceiving, but the disease is unforgiving. “You can’t tell someone has HIV by how they >» See AIDS/8B HIV testing is given at the Weber/ Morgan Health the Northern Utah HIV/AIDS Project, contact Sarah McClellan at 393-4153. You can reach reporter Cathy McKitrick at 625-4252 or e-mail cmckitrick @standard.net. BLACK HISTORY MONTH YEARS AND COUNTING In prison in winter? Get used to freezing bout a week ago, Ave I outside to play basketball, and it turned out to be a lot colder than what it had looked like through the 2inch-thick piece of glass that serves as my window. We are unable to go back inside until yard time is over, So we were stuck outside for two hours in subfreezing temperatures. I catight a cold and have been sick since. Often, when one prisoner gets sick, so everyone else does, too. It’s the perfect environment to spread illness. Inmates live very close to‘each other. On top of that, many things we use daily are shared by the BENJAMIN HAGER/Standard-Examiner barah McClellan, seen Thursday in Ogden, is the director of the Northern Utah Coalition HIV/AIDS Project, founded in 1996. The nonprofit at first offered ¥iewimple services for clients such as referring them to caseworkers, providing them transportation to clinics that were mostly in Salt Lake City, and offering free IV/AIDS testing and education. Now, it provides clothing vouchers and bus tokens to those in need, and helps felons find places to live and work, but cClellan wants to do more. She maintains, however, thatthe organization needs more funding. sDirector of HIV/AIDS Project addresses needs of Ogden’s underprivileged | This is the third of a four-part series for Black History Month, ighlighting individuals and oices that make a difference in our community all year ’round. his week, we look at an influence in health and social services. By ANDREAS RIVERA Standard-Examiner staff GDEN —Her work started small, but two decades later, Sarah McClellan is still finding more and bigger ways to help meet the needs of the underprivileged in the community. “T never envisioned that I’d be doing this 20 years,” she said. McClellan heads the Northern Utah Coalition HIV/AIDS Project, which started in 1996 after a friend told her about a gap of serices in the Ogden area. “Nobody was doing anything, specifically for people of color and especially African-Americans in the Ogden area,” she said. “African-Americans have been disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS.” McClellan’s group at first offered simple services for clients such as referring them to caseworkers, providing them transportation to clinics that were mostly in Salt Lake City, and offering free HIV/AIDS testing and education. “We usually ask for a $15 donation, but if they don’t have it, we do it anyway because it’s important to get tested,” she said. McClellan said she wants to offer more testing, especially for hepatitis C, but lack of funding as limited the group to testing just for HIV/AIDS. Hepatitis C has been a growing concern, especially because it’s a disease that TODAY’S EVENTS. HE MUSIC MAN’: family-friendly musical full of ughter, fun, romance, betrayal, rgiveness and old-school mor. Come in advance for kets and a seat. 7 p.m. Sky ew High School, 520 S. 250 ast, Smithfield. $5-$28. MOREEVENTS ONLINE www.standard.net GOOD LANDLORD PROGRAM DISCUSSION: The Weber County League of Women Voters sponsors presentation on pros and cons of the rental program. 7 p.m. Pleasant Valley Branch Library, 5568 S. Adams Ave., Washington Terrace. Free. To submit an event for publication, go to www.standard.net, entertainment, calendar and click on Add an Event. can remain undetected for years. As the coalition expanded, McClellan said, she found herself doing more and more. “All of a sudden, I became the catch-all,” she said. The Northern Utah Coalition HIV/AIDS Project offered bus tokens to patients needing to get to their clinic but soon also started offering them to the homeless. It also began giving out clothing vouchers to people in need. “She’s just the kind of woman that, if you have an issué, she always has a resource, especially for the underprivileged,” said the Rev. Lillie Holman of the New Zion Baptist Church. “T’ve referred people to her, to help them get the assistance they need.” McClellan said she helps another large group: recently released felons trying to find a job and a place to live. “If you’re a felon, you can’t hardly find a place to live,” she said. “When they come out of the halfway house, they have to find a place to work.” She keeps a list of places willing to hire and rent to felons so the ex-cons can more easily reintegrate into the community. Even more important is the need to end the school-to-prison pipeline, which disproportionately sends minority students on a track to incarceration with a likelihood of returning when they reoffend, she said. “There’s a lot of different dis- crimination going on in our schools,” she said, adding that, overall, more diversity in schools would go a long way to help. See PROJECT, Page 10A whole community. Of all the places to be sick in my life, I have to say prison is probably the worst, but I guess that’s not saying much. It just so happens to be the worst place for things I am fond of as well, like playing basketball or watching movies. This winter has been especially bad because of the cold weather, because it’s cold indoors, too, at the prison. I sleep with three blankets while wearing sweats and a beanie, so I stay warm enough. The tough part is having to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. Sitting on a stainless-steel toilet on a cold winter night is quite the experience. It’s like jumping into that mountain lake for the first time. I’m ‘ able to use this invigorating experience, rather than coffee, to wake me up. You’d assume men would not always have to deal with that, butif you _ live in a cell, rather than in a dorm setting, standing up to use the toilet isn’t an option — the bottom bunk is See PRISON, Page 10A Feeling overwhelmed Those who lost homes in California wildfires five months ago face personal and logistical hurdles that put recovery years away — if ever STORY 11A | Ulla —— a Boston to Providence, joked Molly Manning, a Rhode Island and Hartford, Manhattan attorney. Connecticut, temperatures “I’m here because they ' on Sunday morning dipped peer-pressured me to come ' to as low as minus-40 — on out today. They basically Mount Washington in New made me feel like I was a Hampshire. wimp unless I came out.” The National Weather Boston reached minus-9, » Service said the temperabreaking the record set in ture in New York City’s 1934 by 6 degrees. It Central Park fell to minusreached minus-16in 1, a record low for the date. Worcester, Massachusetts, The last time it was below breaking the 1979 record of zero in Central Park was in 11 below zero. Providence . January 1994. “T’m dumb enough to do - hit minus-9 and Hartford minus-12, also breaking this,” John Male exclaimed records from 1979. . before starting a 12-mile In Montpelier, Vermont, © park run Sunday morning the overnight temperature “ with two companions. hit minus-19, tying a record “I just always come out, set in 2003. And South Linand I just decided not to do anything differently” — ex- coln, Vermont, recorded 27 below zero. cept to wear a furry tiger Draft From 9A desires on a certain area.” Bishop said the PLI has four clear goals: 1) to conserve areas that need to be conserved (4 million acres); 2) to guarantee consistent recreational access; 3) to set aside areas for economic development (1 million acres); and 4) to give some areas over for state parks and state forests so Utah can demonstrate its management ability. Economic development » includes energy in the form of gas and oil, potash and * other types of mining, graz* ing and tourism, Bishop said. ® “There will be certainty, * the boundaries will be set, they won’t be subject to change,” Bishop said. “The kinds of access will be set and not subject to change so that counties can know where they can zone in the future and businesses know where they can invest in the future.” The PLI will indirectly affect Weber and Davis PeReU OUl Uliities. A Irozen regulator left about 400 customers in Connecticut without natural gas service, and officials believe extreme cold in Vermont broke a utility pole, knocking out service to about 1,500. An emergency generator didn’t kick in for Sheffield Selectboard Chairman Walter Smith, who said he lost a greenhouse full of about 500 orchids. “T’ve got it working now, but it’s too late,” he said. The cold kept many people inside. In a New Jersey bagel shop that’s usually brimming with customers on Sunday mornings, Joe Weir was among a handful of people who sat drinking _ibly rewarding.” For those reasons, Carson called the draft discouraging and disappointing. “We reviewed our pro- | counties, Bishop said, by guaranteeing conservation and recreation opportunities, adding more state parks and state forests, and boosting economic development to benefit the state’s school fund. Summit County Councilwoman Kim Carson said she and the rest of the council respect what Bishop is trying to accomplish. “That’s, why we decided to participate from the getgo. We thought it would be a great thing to be part of.” “T believe we were the only county that had full agreement from all parties involved in the process. We came a long way, and it was a challenge but also incred- posal and looked at where the draft did not comport with what we had presented, and we’ve written a letter and are resubmitting our original proposal along with those areas of inconsistencies in hopes that there will be some changes made.” Bishop described the council’s resubmission as part of the process, saying “that’s what we wanted them to do.” The seven-term incumbent represents Utah’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House and will face Democratic challenger Peter Clemens in November. Clemens, a North Ogden resident and physician, announced in November that he would try to unseat Bishop. Clemens said Bishop is Project From * Utah schools made it harder for stu- » dents to graduate and become productive members of society. McClellan realized there was a bigger problem during her frequent visits to the county jail for HIV/AIDS testing and saw the disproportionate numbers of black and Hispanic in- mates. She would frequently see the same inmates in and out of jail, caught up in the system. “It starts in school,” she said. “Once kids start going to jail, then they don’t get good jobs and fall into more criminal things. If we don’t nip that in the bud, we won’t have an Prison ' From 9A too close to the toilet; therefore, | splashing is unavoidable. I walk about a third of a mile ev| ery morning to work and back for ' meals. On anormal day, I end up | walking a couple of miles outdoors, which wouldn’t be bad if we were dressed for the occasion. The pants we wear every day are light and airy, with an emphasis on ' airy. When it is windy here, which it . is often, you experience an exhilara© tion that’s similar to that of using * stainless-steel toilet. out of touch with those he represents. “Representative Bishop has again demonstrated that he is tone deaf and disinterested in meeting the needs of his constituents, this time as it regards public lands usage and wilderness preservation here in his district,” Clemens said. “In past years, when the Utah congressional delegation was more politically balanced, such legislation would have been more reflective of the interests of all stakeholders, not just those to whom the congressman is beholden. “Mr. Bishop has shown he is incapable of real collaboration and is mostly interested in sticking a fork in the eye of the federal government.” Contact reporter Cathy McKitrick at 801-625-4214 or cmckitrick@stan-. dard.net. Follow her on Twitter at @catmck. having grown up poor herself. A hepatitis C test costs about $20 Standard-Examiner photo Sarah McClellan says she wants the Northern Utah Coalition HIV/AIDS Project to offer more testing, especially for hepatitis C, but lack of funding has limited the group to testing for HIV/AIDS. Hepatitis C has been a growing concern, especially because it’s a disease that can remain undetected for years. equal society.” People, especially Ogden’s underrepresented population, will often turn to her for advice and information on resources. “Sometimes people of color have a Now, mentioning these things sounds a lot like complaining, and the saying, if you don’t like it, don’t come to prison, seems applicable. I have accepted these minor discomforts as part of the whole experience but was recently given another perspective. A couple of us were talking about how incredibly cold it was. A prisoner then shared he is just happy to be able to go outside. He had done eight of his 15 years in maximum security. Not only did he not get to ever go outside when he was in max, but he also could never see the outdoors because there are no windows. I can remember how happy I was to see grass when I was being transferred to prison from the Davis at the hospital, but that money can go a long way for somebody living on the streets or struggling to feed their children, so important things that can affect health fall by the wayside, she said. Weather Service said, up to 3 inches of snow is possible in Philadelphia and 2 inches may hit New York. STANDARD EXAMINER Need some extra hard time talking about certain things with people who don’t look like them,” she said. “Maybe it’s a letter to the courts, and they’re a little embarrassed divulging that to just anybody. I find myself writing a letter to the court, because I don’t know where to send them.” McClellan said she’s empathetic to the needs of the underprivileged, 9A McClellan said she learned from her own grandchildren that minority students are not on equal footing when it comes to discipline and punishments in high school. That view was supported by a 2014 University of Utah College of Law report that states high discipline * rates against minority students in the storm before it heads bf fee. into the warming north“I just came froma east. urch service, and it defiToday, the National nitely wasn’t as packed as it usually is,” saidthe 60| year-old Toms River man. “We have a lot of elderly parishioners, and when the weather gets bad or real cold like this, a lot them choose to stay in and watch a Mass on TV instead of going to church. Can’t say I blame them.” Temperatures were expected to climb before a winter storm already bringing snow to the Midwest moves into the region. The storm was expected to bring 5 inches of snow to parts of Kentucky and up to 6 inches to parts of Tennessee before turning to rain. West Virginia could see up to 9 inches of snow from : Holman said McClellan, as well as being involved at the New Zion Baptist Church, is also involved in African-American, genealogy with the Ogden FamilySearch Library. “She doesn’t sit down on her lau- rels. She loves people, and she’s willing to go that extra mile.” Contact reporter Andreas Rivera at 801-625-4227 or arivera@standard.net. County Jail, where I hadn’t seen the outdoors for six months. The next time I’s outside, the wind will serve as areminder to be thankful. It’s a short walk, and I might as well enjoy it. And compared to some guys in here, my stay here is relatively short. I might as well try to appreciate that fact and be thankful for all I do have. Brian Wood, formerly of Layton, is an inmate at the Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison. He pleaded guilty to nine felony charges for offenses from 2011 to 2014, including counts of burglary, drug possession and prescription fraud. He could spend up to 35 years in prison, depending on parole hearings. spending money? Deliver the news to Northern Utah Being a Standard-Examiner carrier is a great way to earn extra money for youth ~ and adults. Call 801-625-4400 We're seeking Youth and Adult Carriersin the following areas: - OGDEN + NORTH OGDEN | . Advice/TV Puzzles Comics Saturday, July 4, 2015 STAND ARD EXAMINER Rees Ses See es 3 SO A Ogden woman to help with indexing of African-American genealogy By JaNAE FRANCIS © Standard-Examiner staff | Q) | GDEN — For 40 years, Sarah McClellan has been willing to travel to Salt Lake City and to search through sparse records for any traces of her family history. While the going has sometimes been tough, the Ogden resident said knowing her roots has been worth it. A member of the New Zion Baptist Church, over the years, McClellan was excited to learn about an Ogden FamilySearch Li- brary and to become in- volved enough there to even become an instructor at the library, teaching with a focus on AfricanAmerican family history. “Because if you don’t .know where you came from, you don’t know where you are going,” McClellan said of the reason behind her enthusiasm for family history. But McClellan’s efforts and those she teaches are about to get a whole lot easier. FamilySearch, the largest genealogy organization in the world, has announced the upcoming digital release of 4 million Freedmen’s Bureau historical records and the launch of a nationwide volunteer indexing effort. FamilySearch is launching a call to action to index the remaining 4 million records in the bureau collection, using an online indexing tool. The organization is asking each Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints stake to invite members to volunteer to help search the records for data, which will then be compiled into an online searchable database. To sign up and begin helping, visit www.DiscoverFreedmen.org. Information also is available on social media at #DiscoverFreedmen. McClellan will be a part this indexing effort that will involve digitizing the brary. records and she’s excited Having worked on his about what the newly digifamily history on and off tized records will make for 15 years, he was expossible. cited last month to learn ‘ FamilySearch International is working in collabo- about the records now beration with the Smithsonian ing digitized. Red “There is a lot of my inNational Museum of BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner formation I just don’t have African American History Sarah McClellan teaches classes on tracing genealogy with a access to so I’m sure it will and Culture, the Afrofocus on African-American family history at the Ogden help,” he said. American Historical & GeFamilySearch Library. McClellan is working with the LDS He said his most excitnealogical Society and the ing discovery is that he isa Church’s FamilySearch organization on a project to organize California African Amerimillions of records on Civil War-era African-Americans. descendant of Owen can Museum to make these Smaulding, a Negro league records available and acFrom 1865 to 1872, the ically speaking of apprebaseball player in Kansas cessible by taking the raw Bureau opened schools, hension of African-AmeriCity, Missouri in the 1930s, records, extracting the inmanaged hospitals, racans. “I think they are who played alongside formation and indexing tioned food and clothing afraid of what they will Sachel Paige. them to make them easily and even solemnized marfind out. ... They want to “That’s what got me insearchable online. riages. In the process it know but they are hesiterested,” Smoundon said. 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