FYI
Published 9:00 pm Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Healing the Children, a group that brings children from around the world to the United States for medical treatment, needs temporary homes for a teenager from Iran and a child from Iraq.
Saleh Modenpour, 17, has a bone condition that has left him unable to walk. He is undergoing treatment at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. When his surgery is complete, he will likely be able to walk again.
Saleh was staying with a host family before his first surgery in December, but their situation changed and they could no longer care for him.
Healing the Children, www.healingthe children.org, also needs a host family for a 4-year-old boy from Iraq who needs treatment for a bullet wound to the head from the war. He cannot obtain a travel visa until he has a host family.
For more information, contact Rebecca Snyders at rsnyders.htc@ verizon.net.
How will you keep your resolutions?
What’s your New Year’s resolution, and how do you plan to keep it? Whether it’s losing weight or a vow to realize a lifelong dream, we want to hear about it. And if you’ve kept past resolutions, we’d like to know how well you succeeded. Contact Herald writer Sarah Jackson at sjackson@ heraldnet.com or call 425-339-3037 by 5 p.m. Jan. 23.
Families sought with autistic kids
One hundred families with two or more autistic children are needed for a continuing University of Washington study.
The $10.2 million study, designed to find causes of autism, is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. To be eligible, families must have two or more children at least 3 years old who have autism. Eligible children may be of adult age.
Members of the research team will arrange for diagnostic evaluation and testing of children prior to participation in the study. Call 800-994-9701.
Correction
Snohomish County’s population is projected to increase by 42 percent and jobs by 61 percent through 2025. A story on Snohomish County growth that ran on Page B1 Sunday gave incorrect percentages.
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