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Show SUMMER Page 8 2003 The West View A forum for resident histories, stories, and milestones Congrats to a New College Graduate Salt Lake | Community College 2003. As one of the graduates, Kate Rubalcava is happy to hold her Associate of Science Degree in Criminal Justice. Kate is active in the community as Chairwoman of SLC Weed and Seed, columnist in The West View, member of Eastern Star, and employee at the Sorenson Multicultural Center. When she is not so goal oriented, Kate loves to go out with her friends and dance the night away! Congratulations. Katydid, we are very proud of you! © Kate marriages, anniversaries, graduations, and Dad! Review of “Beyond October” By Shawn Dallas Stradley. Poetry. 117 pp. Salt Lake City, Utah. Available at Sam Weller’ , King’s English; -Golden Braid, Jeweled Maidens, and Ken Sander’s. $19.95 symbolic by Esha Blosch When I think of poetry, I imagine a Polaroid picture - a single moment that captures emotion without a visual guide. For me, poetry is good when words and their arrangements induce an image, which in turn, creates an emotion. In his newly published book entitled, Beyond October, Shawn Stradley’s arrangement of words creates a pristine picture. I see Iw Memory of like a focal point under a microscope. He is able to capture the essence of these everyday things - gives them descriptions laced with his own Todd Koester Day ends, standing because heart — and j dreams. I love daddy _—svery alone, ¥ my daddy’s always with me. I know, because he told me so. much, because he’s my shining — : also want my thoughts to be provoked. In some instances, Stradley’s poetry achieved this, but mostly I was left craving a magic carpet ride that would allow my mind to wander somewhere it fe never been before. Stradley writes, “I have lived in the Fair Park Neighborhood for the past nine years. Like most people in the area, I live in a very old house. My poetry speaks a lot to the “West Side”. Not just of Salt Lake, but even ... forgotten areas of [other] cities. | impending black, glows like the dim cigarette embers of sidewalk shadow prostitutes, and looks down oe 7 : through the twilight orange streetlight expanse | Closed-door boxcars carry mysterious cargo. Open-door boxcars reveal their emptiness. | Crib cars full of dark, dull, dim ) of the quietly dilapidating urban-Victorian neighborhood and creates a wish. twilight glimmering on rusted bones rumble slowly towards the fmca ans set in deepening blue, - from Beyond October, by Shawn Dallas Stradley smelice: Love, He’ll be forever in my Hunter, your baby girl Joe E. Lopez April 20, 1941 - May 27, 2000 Poplar Grove Family Copes with Loved One Serving in Iraq Poplar Grove residents Sam Sr. and Catherine Smith are the parents Army of two children Reserve, Sam in the Jr. and Stacy. In March, a few days. before his 37th birthday, Sam Jr.'s 17294 Army Reserve hospital unit was deployed to Iraq. Catherine Smith agreed to speak with me about being the mother of a son in Iraq (Sam Jr.'s family In memory of Joe E. Lopez, a loving, generous husband, dad, grandpa, friend. Remembering your inspiring icon: devoted heart, and New quite Evening star Venus | close over the viaduct walkway. | Sidewalk cracks widen, expand and deepen | as potholes silently form across ten tracks in the leafless night. not I found Out of the City May 18, 1979 - March 3, 2001 I’m interpretation, which enticing. 7 | ! When I read a poem, I not only want a beau- | tiful: image and a clever usage of words, but I the images that he sees like a photograph, and truly they are beautiful. He pulls subtleties from mundane life that, often, a lot of.us don’t see - Rubalcava To Daddy, etc. Picturesque Poetry -announces its graduating class of Love, — including births, deaths, compassionate — soul. _ Missing your laughter, smile and touch. Your prayers for Joe and his family are appreciated. Arrival ‘Cocsiaossi and Sierra Peck also includes his about the heat. He his sense of humor while talking more maintains with her, seriously by congregational members any details about his service in Iraq. | Nathan and Mary miss their father. His absence has been especially hard on Nathan. His junior high teacher was show- ing continuous TV coverage of Iraq for a long as a year. The time of service is indefinite. Catherine writes to her son three times a week and talks ous the war in his classroom situation was until difficult for Nathan. Catherine, like her grandson, also wanted to avoid with him occasionally on’ the © ‘the 24-hour-a-day coverage of phone. She received a splendid — the war in Iraq. Both Catherine Mother's Day bouquet from and Sam She served Sr. on are t-shirts U.S. soil, while Sam Sr. served both in World War II and the Korean War. Their experience mother / father ) of a USA soldier”’. Catherine veterans. affords them some advantage in says Sam Ir. does obtaining information about of their church, Calvary Baptist Church. Sunday dinners with her daughter-in-law and grandchildren are even important to her now. her. more _ In addition to disrupting family life, the war in Iraq has also interrupted Sam Jr.'s job in the media department at Salt Lake ‘Community College and his volunteer hours as KRCL. For seven a DJ for years. he hosted “Sounds of a Party” on -KRCL him. She and Sam Sr. each own military ; with his dad, Sam Sr. He is not reminder of his father's danger- his soldiers’ families. allowed to provide Cathy intervened. The constant sporting their son, although Catherine still does not think highly of the support programs in place for Catherine and Sam Sr. are sustained by the prayers offered wife Cathy and their two children, Nathan,13 and Mary, !1). Sam Smith Jr. could be in _ photo above the phrase “A ( Michael and Pauline Peck on Concord Street are the proud new grandparents of twins, Cocsiaossi and Sierra, born at LDS hospital on oa 8, 2003. not convey much about his life in Iraq except to complain and loved every minute of it. He hopes his job and his volunteer work will be there for him when he returns in approx- imately anonymity one year of from service strange land of Iraq. @ - in the the |