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Show " Home Living Review f Page 1 B Lakeside Review Thursday , September 4, 1980 Craguns Unlimited: Teaching Children Responsibility By MARILYN KARRAS I owner-manage- 1 i hard-workin- 5 adults. The Craguns were a family with many of the same problems facing families throughout the area and probably the country. The parents, Marilyn and Gary Cragun, felt their children needed more to fill their time than just play more time and the family needed together to build stronger goal-oriente- d t y The children, Candra, who is 10, items that they could sell Nate, 8, and Corey, 5, had been involved at a booth at the Roy Days celebration in school economics projects since 1978, and realize a profit. One of the values we wanted to with Candra and Nate each taking first Economics Fair. the children was that they have to at the teach Regional prize that Their projects included the production work for the money they receive of toys and other items from scraps and everything costs money, said Mrs. the painting and selling of wooden Cragun. We wanted to teach them how to house numbers which they purchased from a wholesaler. budget money, and you have to have to budget it, she said. The idea for a family business money the children started with nothing So, evolved from the economics projects and a and from the goals and needs deter- but their todetermination made a work. They willingness mined by the parents and children number of trips to the community dump during family meetings. near Cokeville, Wyo., to gather We became Craguns Unlimited aluminum cans. Their grandparents, because we feel we really are Mr. and Mrs. Orson Nate, live in unlimited, said Mrs. Cragun. We all Cokeville, and Mrs. Cragun grew up on n abilities and talents a ranch there where she learned early have the value of work. that we should develop. We sold the cans to a recycling plant At the beginning of this summer the family set as a goal to make a variety of in Ogden to get the capital to buy our high-qualit- Staff Writer ROY Craguns Unlimited is a new business in Roy. And its probably the citys most unusual enterprise. Its young all less than 11 years old deal in the production and sale of attractive sock dolls, wooden toys and house numbers. But its founders deal in something much more important the shaping of children into honest, God-give- PAINT TOOLS in hand, each of the Cragun children works on a family project. The painting of wooden irons, guns and house numbers is part of supplies, Mrs. Cragun said. Nate said he and his brother and sister soon learned which cans were all aluminum and how to smash them for hauling back to Utah. Corey said he still has some trouble with the smashing part. You could hear them for hours outside the house, stomping on those cans, Mrs. Cragun said. The money received from the can sales was used to purchase wooden house numbers made by a friend of the family, paint, wooden guns and irons as well as socks for Candras dolls. The children then spent many hours painting the wooden numbers and the d toys and Candra clothing for her dolls and making the bodies so they from an original pattern wouldnt be like any other sock dolls. When Roy Days rolled around, the family was ready. They exhibited their SALE DATES: THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER Your favorite small a cool and crispy DAIRY Salad. All for QUEEN only $2.19. Get a good deal on a full meal Head for your participating Sun- dae. All for only $1.79. Get a good deal on a full meal. Head for your DAIRY ' 4th, 5th drink. And to top it all off, cool and creamy QUEEN THE FAMILY DISPLAY at Roy Days was the fulfillment of one of the goals the Craguns set at the beginning of the summer. The family members Nate, Marilyn, Corey, Candra and Gary pose with their products. crispy, golden fries drink. And to top it off, a QUEEN, munity. So the family applied to Roy City for a business license. Mr. and Mrs. Cragun and Nate attended the meeting of the It's the best deal meal pure going. Our 100 beef single burger with "More Burger Than A small order of Bun. crispy, golden fries. Your favorite small DAIRY d DAIRY BRAZIER BRAZIER store. QUEEN store. brazier. brazier. vLeVS ay ALL GO TO 816 So. Main, Layton ! i V 4 several weeks ago when their application came up for consideration. We would all have gone, but Corey was not feeling well, and Candra stayed home with him Mrs. Cragun said. The council questioned Nate about the business and he explained exactly what it would entail. That was a step toward the development of assertiveness, a quality Continued on Iuge II Ii City Council hand-stitche- business, one which was started to teach the value of work and respon- sibility to children. From left are Nate, Candra and Corey. It's the best deal meal going. Our 100 pure beef single burger with 'More Burger Than A small order of Bun. articles and found they had enough interested customers that the next step seemed to be to enter the business world as a company. Another value Mr. and Mrs. Cragun wanted their children to learn was to obey all laws of the land and not to try to circumvent the rules of the com- i 4 & 6th |