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Show ommunity lews A2 • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 Covering what matters most -N £ W S- Spanish Fork 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Lane Henderson Publisher Steve Hardman Editor Namon Bills Assoc. Editor Jessica Ellsworth. . .Art Director The Spanish Fork News is published each Friday for S37.50 per year in area and $41.50 out of area by J-Mart, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork Utah 84660. Email stories to editor@spforknews.com Email ads to ads@spforknews.com POSTMASTER Send address changes to Spanish Fork News 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, Utah 84660 The entire content of this newspaper is Copyright© 2006 Spanish Fork News. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. DEADLINES Weddings, anniversaries, missionaries, 1st birthdays Monday, 5 p.m. Advertising deadline Monday, 5 p.m. The role of a community newspaper events, it's about local people. The football team may win or lose, but more Elementary are recognized importantly they've banded Hurricanes in the for showing kindness. together in support of Atlantic and earthquakes Kids graduate from high teammate Drew Davis and in the Gulf of Mexico. The school, serve missions, get his family as his father space shuttle Atlantis has married and raise families. battles a brain tumor. These a successful takeoff, and Mom turns 50 and grandpa are the things that matter British Prime Minister Tony passes on at 82. This is the most — this is the role of a Blair visits Palestine. stuff life is made of — this community newspaper. While these are generally is what matters most. Ricky Carlson made accepted as important world These ideas did notthe front page of the News events, they will receive no originate with me. They're two weeks in a row. What's notice in our newspaper. lessons I've learned from so important about Ricky Instead, we'll tell you J.C. and Lane Henderson, Carlson? Is it that he has about a baby turning one, Pam Mendenhall and Steve multiple Special Olympics a young woman leaving Hardman. These people medals to his credit? Not on a mission and a couple have taught me by word really. That's admirable, getting married. and example, what the role noteworthy certainly; but Are world events not of a community newspaper the important thing about Ricky Carlson is that here important? They certainly should be. are, but as a community While professional is a man who is so full of newspaper those events analysts gauge the warunconditional love that he largely fall outside our in Iraq for its political heals the world around him. sphere of interest or ramifications, we'll cover Now that's important. influence. Let the big guns the soldier that returns And if we at the handle the big stories; we home to his family. Spanish Fork News can have important work to do While President Bush communicate something here. visits Salt Lake to speak of that to our readers, Nations rise and fall. at the American Legion then we've succeeded. Wars are won and lost. convention, we'll report on Because that's the role of Politicians gain power and Thad Jensen's remarks. a community newspaper prestige, only to exit stage It's about local events, — covering what matters left shortly thereafter. But but more than about local most. while all of this is going Namon Bills on, a baby has his first ASSOCIATE EDITOR birthday. Children at Salem Courtesy photo EXAMPLE: Ricky Carlson gives one of his famous hugs. Cereal to be found in all shapes and sizes got to be a close second. It There and Back Again is amazing what the cereal companies can do with Shirlene R, Ottesen wheat, com and rice and a lot of imagination. Cold cereal When grocery shopping, comes in all kinds of shapes, do you ever look in other colors and flavors. peoples' carts to see what they I can remember when are buying? I do, and there the choice of cereal at my have been lots of times when home was cooked oatmeal I have been reminded about or corn flakes. We had the something that I needed. One oatmeal in the winter and the thing I have noticed is that corn flakes in the summer. people eat a lot of cereal. It seems that the variety of Everyone reading this has cereals increased when our been down the cereal aisle in children were small. When I a grocery store, but have you had them shopping with me, really looked at all the cereal they were more interested on those shelves? I'm sure about the prize inside the the cereal aisle is the most box rather than the cereal. I popular in the store. Well, don't see any little prizes in maybe the fresh produce the cereal boxes anymore or is, but the cereal aisle has maybe I just haven't paid that much attention recently. I had to let our five children take turns picking out the cereal. As soon as we got home, they would be in the house with the cereal all dumped into a bowl to see what was in the bottom of the box. Cereal comes in all kinds of shapes — round, with a hole in the middle, square, frosted or plain, puffed or not puffed, brown, white, yellow or multi colored. There is also a variety in cooked cereal. You can buy instant oatmeal or take your choice of the others that take two and a half minutes or ten minutes. In the microwave some only take 30 seconds. We like cracked wheat in the winter and it takes a while to cook but it's really good that didn't matter. If it was and fills you up. A dish of put on your plate, you ate cracked wheat with a piece it and were grateful for it. of toast with homemade Nothing was wasted. Today, apricot jam, a poached I see some mothers with r egg and a glass of milk or four and five different boxes orange juice makes for a of cereal in their grocery good, satisfying breakfast. carts. And that's okay. It's Sure beats a sweet roll and just another sign of how times have changed. a big gulp! Oatmeal is an old, old It's nice to have a variety, cereal. My mother grew up but sometimes I find the on it. I heard her remark decision process to be a bit many times about the fact much. It would be good to that if the family didn't eat walk down the cereal aisle all the oatmeal at breakfast and just have to decide time, her mother — who died between oatmeal or corn when she was seven years flakes! old — or her father, would make small patties out of Parting thought for the the leftover oatmeal and fry week: A bargain is something it for supper. She didn't care you don't need at a price you much for fried oatmeal, but can't resist. THE SPANISH FORK ARTS COUNCIL IS PLEASED TO PRESENT THE 2ND ANNUAL Letter to the Editor Saturday, Oct. 7 3:00-11:00pm SF City Park Corner of Center & Main Senior homeowners concerned For performance times and full information, visit www.spanishfonx.org/dept/arls/ To volunteer email. arts@sfcn.org FREE FOOD AND FUN FOR EVERYONE! Chili and scones dinner Children's Activities OverS hours of terrific talent on stage, featuring: • Judy Reimschiissel & the Wows • Trudy Seely • Utah Valley Children's Choir • Nebo Chorale • Geezer (80s Rock & Roll) • SFJr. High Percussion Ensemble • Melodrama directed by Anna Murdock • and much more! Debut of th a Pony & Hay Rides Old-fashioned Photos Scarecrow Contest Awards Hattie the Clown Giant Paint-it-Yourself Mural Caricature Artist COUNTRY DANCE 9:30-11:00 As a very senior citizen, I can Please, State Representatives and wholeheartedly agree with Lowell Senators, give serious consideration to Nelson's letter of Sept. 6, 2006 which the following proposition which should appeared in the Daily Herald. He be fair to all involved: accurately pointed out the problems of Pass a law which will take the amount senior citizens who bought their homes of each year's property taxes and create decades ago at prices which would, a lien against the home which will only today, be unbelievably low. Through no become due and payable if the senior fault of the seniors those homes have owners move out of the home or in the appreciated to ten, twenty, thirty, forty event of the death of the final spouse. At or even more times what they originally that time, the lien would become due and cost. payable by the succeeding owner. If the In addition, the property tax rates heir wished to keep the home he or she have similarly escalated over the years. would have to pay off the accumulated The combination of the appreciation in value of the lien. If the home were the value of the home and the increased sold, the lien would be paid before the tax rate is putting many senior citizens in proceeds of the sale went to the former very real danger of being taxed out of a owner. home which they may well have paid off In this way, senior homeowners would completely years ago. not be faced with the yearly danger of Many of us seniors do not want to losing their homes and the Stale would move at our age and can't afford to do get its 'pound of flesh.' so. On our small fixed incomes we have As presently constituted and enforced, extreme difficulty paying the present property taxes are extremely regressive high property taxes on our homes and and generally menace those least able to are faced with confiscation of that home pay them. if we don't pay the tax. We can't stay and Albeit V. Burns we can't go! Spanish Fork |