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Show Emery County Progress Castle Dale, Utah Tuesday November 27, 2001 t 1 B Emery County Lifesty Looking Back Adeila Dee Newland Adeila Dee Newland is half of the valentine couple who bought a farm in Roosevelt, where they, Adeila and Bill lived for four years. When they sold the farm, they bought land in Draper, where they lived for the next 35 years. They raised two children: DeeAnn and Jeff. Before they knew it, they had nine grandchildren and five plus all the mates, which brings their family up to 24 in i all. In the fall of 1951, Dee was a junior at She had gone home to BYU. North Salt Lake for the weekend. As a professional scouter, her father, Ray, took his wife, Nellie, and his four daughters: Adeila, Betty, Mary, and Joan, to a benefit ro- i t r ? deo for the BSA. Bill was riding that night with the Twin Star Riders. As Bill was meeting Dee, he had a date in the stands waitingfor him to ride. As the story goes, Bill and Dee were married the next February. Dee put school aside to raise their family. She later graduated from BYU and taught the 2nd grade in Salt Lake District for 25 years. Her love for children and writing lead her to write class plays and school Christmas plays for most of her teaching years. In 1983, Dee was asked to coauthor Atlas of Utah Learning Resources Activities a book for Utah teachers. Dee has been a guest speaker for different teaching conferences, and was nominated for teacher of the year. In 1989, Bill and Dee moved to Green River where Jeff and DeeAnn and families were already living. Dee has enjoyed substituting at the BookCliff Elementary school and decorating their yard for all occasions. Grandma Dees and Grandpa Bills house is everyones favorite place to be. There is a petting zoo and helping Grandpa with chores. Indoors, there is and fun Grandmas pre-scho- ol games to play and learn from. Mom loves and cares for everyone around us, says her family who love Dee dearly. She always puts others first. H. Scott Robertson Scott Robertson, a Green River Highway Patrol Senior Trooper, recently completed a H. weapons of mass destruction course at the U.S. Justice Departments Center for Doin mestic Preparedness Anniston, Ala Robertson, who is a member of the Utah High Patrol Hazardous Materials Team, participated in the WMD Hazardous Materials Technician Training Course. The course covers the compofour-da- y sition, action, identification, pro- tection from and decontamination of WMD agents that may be used in a terrorist attack. It is one of three courses taught at the CDP. Law enforcement officers, fire fighters, emergency medical Dersonnel. and others undergo anceexplosive, radiological to deal with such communities. In responders also d and dispose of irials. Part of the js working in a agent i environ-3ent- By PATSY STODDARD Staff, Emery County Progress Jay Vetere from Green River was one of the first people hired to work on the Green River Missile Site. Vetere said, I was hired in the fall of 1963. 1 worked in the base fire department. I was involved in fire prevention and also in base security. We would inspect all of the trailers and buildings on the site and make sure everything was kept up safety wise. Things slacked off in the 1970s and four of us remained for a couple of years. I was laid off in March of 1986. The army contracted Jay Vetere, a farmer and rancher, was one of the first employees at the Green River Missile Site. with four companies over the course of time I was there; Bendix EngineerKing is now. There were a lot of ing, Dyna Electron Corporation, land air division, Comarco and Cortez 3. places where you could see it really We had a guard trailer and a good. There was a lot of interest in check-i- n point. We took turns making the site by the local people. The components for the Athena rounds in a pickup to check on things. We checked the fire extinguishers to were assembled on site and there is) were inspectors who watched the make sure they were full. A company would come in and refill them. I was a placement of everything, making sure ii- -v crew Chief. every wire was in the right spot. I On a launch day there would be never did watch them assemble an Athena because it was a dust free between 40 to 60 extra people on site. We always had an extra crew on area and well protected. Several civil .f We to would the launch service employees were able to retire go standby. h; with the time they accumulated on the site and remain behind the bunker A while the missile lifted off and then site. It didnt do us any good though we would always come out to watch because the subcontractors we The buildings where Jay Vetere worked and the site itself now sit once it was in the air. It was fairly worked for kept changing. I was offered a job at White loud. The first launch took place in Sands, but I didnt take it because I February of 1964. If a missile was off to Mountain Home, Idaho but that missiles. didnt want to relocate. I was born target it could be destroyed before it The army hired a lot of locals and didnt pan out. Here at the Green left the corridor. They launched the and raised here in Green River and 100th Athena missile on March 29, River Site at the onset they originally have lived here all my life. In addition people commuted from Moab, Price, 1968. The missiles weighed eight tons Grand Junction and East Carbon. It planned to launch 149 missiles. They to the farm we also raise registered would launch so many in a particular and were 50 feet long. They went on a was a good job. It was good for the Black Angus cattle. My three sons e local economy. We dont have much series. Sometimes they would launch still live here and two of them work flight. They were shot one a week or sometimes two. It just on the farm, but my other son said he straight up on an angle and after they industry down here, mainly tourism. We were on rotating shifts which had gone up far enough they were wasnt a farmer so he became a depended on the weather and what worked out good for me because I turned back down to land at White they had scheduled. The launches police officer. also have a farm where we raise I made some lifelong friends Sands. This was the first overland usually all occurred at night. White Sands would fly in crews on passenwhile working on the site and met a watermelon, hay and com. range. It depended a lot on who owned the payload as to how many lot of people. One couple my wife and Everyone at the site was really ger planes and when the launch was extra people came in. There were over they would fly them out. The I still go and visit. They live out in friendly. The army would bring in the main crews for the launch but some others besides the army involved in missile program here was a highly California now and they still call all successful program. It was a really the time. He was an engineer on the testing. The air force and also private locals were involved. People from all over came to the site to work or to site. It worked out good for me the companies who were testing their busy place. The locals would gather to watch the launches from Geyser visit. The first fire chief was from time I spent at the site. Id like to see products. Many of these products dealt with reentry. The Atlantic Road. It was about six miles away Maryland. There were two fire trucks the city or some industry put the site from the launch site but you could see to good use. The buildings are still in Research Corporation the contractor kept on the site. When the site became inactive a it really plain. You could also see it for the air force was the main good condition and we need some contractor who build and fired the lot of the equipment was to be moved good from the hill where the Burger industry in our area, said Vetere. 0 450-mil- Local author publishes book on Olympics By PATSY STODDARD better Staff, Emery County Progress One day last January I was at my daughter Ruschelles home in Elmo Kathy Larsen is the author of a new book called, Celebrate the Fire Within. This book was inspired by the 2002 Winter Olympics which are on their way to Salt Lake City in Feb. tending the grandkids and was listening to Governor Mike Leavitts state of the state address. He was talking about the Olympics and how he wanted the whole state to be involved. I was excited about the Olympics and wanted to feel a part of them. I hit on the idea of using positive action statements to try to create an excitement that children can be whoever they want to be. They can do anything they want to do. I wanted to teach children to dream to allow them to dream and encourage them to have wonderful dreams. I wanted them to feel it and to experience the power within. Not only in an Olympic year when athletes come together to fulfill their dreams but all of the time. This is a monumental year for parents, grandparents, teachers and librarians to teach and encourage children to dream. To know that with hope and hard work they can be whoever they want to be. They can be champions in their own lives and can make positive choices to help them achieve those dreams. I wrote the first four pages of the book that night in January and the next day my daughter Jessica and all day and by that evening the manuscript was done. It was enthralling, exhilarating and exciting. I showed the book to my brother in American Fork. He said he knew an illustrator. We went to her and she said you need to call a publisher named Kevin Ratigan of North Star Publications. We called him and he said yes he would like to do this so we met with him. He showed us portfolios of different Illustrators and we picked one out. 2002. RECOGNITION 1 Green River resident remembers years of working at missile site er opened in 7584 emergency e gone through Larsen was bom in Price and grew up in Ferron. She attended schpol at Fferron Elementary, South Emery Junior High and Emery High School. Larsen said, We were the fourth graduating class from the new Emery High and it was exciting for us. I have always felt that education was important. I attended Utah State for two years. I married Russ Larsen after spring break of my sophomore year. We have six children Brett and Mindy Larsen of Orem, Ruschelle and Kelly Mortensen of Elmo, Jason Larsen of Castle Dale and Salt Lake City, Jessica and Greg Funk of Clawson, Scott and Janarie Larsen of Castle Dale and Andrew Larsen of Provo. I studied early childhood develop- ment at Utah State. I am a homemaker, grandmother and operated a daycare from my borne for a few years. I have always been passionate about having a positive impact on children. About three years ago I decided I wanted to write childrens books using positive action statements to influence children. You can program yourself and children with repetition accentuating the positive. I wanted to empower children to make choices to enrich their lives and bring them closer to their dreams. I felt a childrens book would help them achieve and feel the power inside themselves to take them toward a life. Kathy Larsen displays Within. Her name is C.B. Decker and she lives in California. When I saw her illustrations I didnt make it past the fourth page because was in tears. She had captured the essence and vision of each verse and had Illustrated it 1 perfectly. has been a long process. My publisher had to have the colors just right and I learned so many things along the way. It Photo by Patsy Stoddard pages from her new book Celebrate the Fire I have submitted two more manuscripts. One is entitled, I Like Me and the other one is about the paralympics which hasnt been titled yet. The Olympic Ideal Is a universal one. You can follow your dreams. Everyone has a lot to offer no matter what their ages are. It is a thrill for me when people like my book. I also Continued on PAGE 8B. |