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Show THE Page 10 OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Volume XIII Issue II November 15, 2005 What this Valley Needs is a Great Mexican That’s No Gentleman— That’s My Husband! Restaurant. . . And Now We Have One! With the huge success of Baja Night on Thursdays, Wolf Creek Resort is proud to introduce The Rusty Cactus beginning Tuesday, November 15. This conversion will transform what has formerly been The Living Room into an authentic Mexican restaurant seven nights a week. This is very exciting news ina valley that has no Mexican ee e had so many guests asking us to selon the Mexican menu to other nights that we decided to oblige. The Valley clearly wants a full-time Mexican restaurant, and we’re fortunate to have our staff with their authentic menus to fulfill this wish,” commented George Moldenhauer, Wolf Creek Resort’s Food & Beverage Director. The Rusty Cactus menu will feature the popular items from Baja Thursdays and some additional new Mexican dishes. It will also retain some of the Living Room Menu favorites for those not in the mood for Mexican food, like Chipotle Barbecued Ribs, Pepper Steak Sandwich, Turkey Burger, Fish & Chips, and Chili Verde Burrito. Prices range from $7.95 to $25.00, and now that the Clubhouse renovations are complete, access is easy! The Rusty Cactus will be open daily from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m., and till 10:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. The Rusty Cactus will be open for business on Tuesday, November 15. Call (801) 745-3737 for reservations, or visit www.wolfcreekresort.com for menus. Huntsville Student Awarded GAAS Scholarship John Metcalf of Huntsville is one of 145 students in the United States and Canads: | to be _ puataed the Global enrolled full-time in a college-level prorar National Automotive Technician Education Foundation accredited automotive technical program. (GAAS) ashes eel annually to Graduate programs and part-time understudents pursuing automotive aftermargraduate programs do not qualify. ket careers. The GAAS scholarship is also unique Metcalf graduated from high school in that recipients can receive two finanwith a 3.67 grade point average and is cial grants: one while in school to assist attending Weber State University this with tuition and an equivalent grant fall. awarded to scholarship recipients who The GAAS scholarship was founded graduate from their program and show in 1996 to ensure a strong future talent proof of employment as a technician in the automotive pa for a t least pool for automotive aftermarket companies and service outlets. The majority of six months after gradua scholarships in 2005 were awarded to GAAS Scholarship “application for 2006 will be available on-line from the students entering automotive vocationaltechnical programs, which will help industry associations who sponsor address the critical shortage of automoGAAS. Applicants can also contact Jobie Dowd of MEMA at 919-549-4800 tive technicians. or visit jdowd@mema.org for applican the nine years of the scholarship, 1,000 students have received aid totaling tions. For more information on the scholarship, or to download and applicaapproximately $1,000,000. The annual tion form, applicants can also go to investment to help develop future afterwww.automotivescholarships.com market industry leaders is primarily The GAAS program is a joint profesfunded through proceeds from the annual sional education effort of the Alliance of lobal Automotive Aftermarket ta Automotive Aftermarket Symposium. This two-day program Associations (ASAAA), Automotive brings together numerous industry execAftermarket Industry Association utives and examines the issues and trends (AAIA), Automotive Service Association affecting the automotive aftermarket (ASA Automotive Warehouse industry and influencing its future. Association (AWDA), GAAS has become the aftermarket’s pre- Distributors Motorist Assurance Program (MAP), mier educational conference. Scholarships are available to students Motor & Equipment Manufacturers (MEMA), Specialty in two-year technical college programs Association Market Association and vocational schools and four-year col(SEEMA), Tire Industry Association lege programs. To be eligible for a GAAS scholarship, applicants must be (TIA), and University of the Aftermarket. ees | LOOKING OUT FOR YOUR NEEDS! ee Joan Woodruff - (801)675-0444 21 Gage oe, 7 ee - Eden Office www.J LIE WHERE YOU PLAY! By Drienie Hattingh had to distance himself mentally from his job that he’s been doing ever since we came I was at Drew’s coffee shop, “catching to America. He invested so much in his up” after visiting Yolandi in Denver when I career and associates that his work had saw a truck pull up at the drive through winbecome such a large part of him do Ww. Johan has worked diligently for 35 years A familiar voice called out, “Hi Drienie!” to ensure a good life for our family; his It was Marcie. I know this likeable woman needs and dreams always came second. He from seeing her at local restaurants. did that in South Africa and after we always seem to run into each other at eating arrived in America 19 years ago. We were establishments. allowed to only bring $8,000 with us. With joke and say, “Not that, we had to start a new life. We made a Should stop ee ike this,” and “We must deposit on an apartment, bought a used car, have lunch sometim bought warm coats for our first real winter, I went up to ic window while Drew and bought some groceries. Then Johan fixed Marcie’s usual. She smiled sort of started working teasingly. “Who is the gentleman I see you Johan has often told me, “Drienie, no with all the time now? Do you have a one is irreplaceable. All that is expected of boyfriend?” you is that you do your job very well; in “What!” I yelled. But something clicked ae you are not important in any other and I exclaimed, “That’s my husband!” ” | did not really believe this. After all, “What!” Marcie said in amazement, “You Tohan was very successful throughout his are married?” career—in South Africa and America. Drew laughed at the funny notion of me Because of his success, we were able to having a boyfriend. ButI was shocked when travel to amazing places all over the world. I realized that for the last three years, I’ve But according to Johan, all the “recognialways been on my own when Marcie saw tion” was sort of patronizing me. I guess if you are casual acquaintances, After working all of his adult life, it was like Marcie and I, it is natural that one would difficult to all of a sudden do nothing. And assume that I wasn’t married. Johan and I he kept on wondering how his people were were rarely seen together in the Valley—not doing on a daily basis and whether they until Johan went on sick leave recently. were attaining their goals. Then the day Since we came to America, Johan’s job came when he no longer had access to the has required lots of traveling. He would be company’s E-mail. He was quiet and penaway at least two weeks a month. Just sive for a long time. He was finally out of when I got used to him being home, he the loop... cut off completely. But the day would be off again. When he came home also came when he started whistling and tired and stressed out, he wasn’t in the humming and working in the garden again. mood for people and eating out. After trips Now he gets up even earlier than when he to places like lowa, Alaska, and the state of worked, not to get to the airport to leave on Washington, he had had his fill of people a business trip, but to take our dog Corrie and restaurant food. on long walks. When his plane would touch down in “You know what?” Johan told me a Salt Lake City, he’d call and say, “I cannot month later, “I’m starting to enjoy this! wait to be home! !” Coming home across What would you say if we buy a trailer and Trappers Loop and looking down on our tour America!” We went to look at trailers Valley between the mountains, he’d exhale and planned some trips but two weeks later a huge sigh of relief as he left behind the Johan asked me, “What would we do in a demands and stress of work, rising above trailer all the time?” the smog and noise of the “real” world. Another week passed. “I have to work Once home, all he wanted to do was relax: again!” Johan said while he paced up and go on walks, work in his garden, read, and own. “I cannot do ‘nothing.’” He said, enjoy some good ol’ home cooking. Our “But this time I can do something that I home in Eden became a refuge from the really want to do. s like a second outside world. chance. I might not be able to drive but I During Johan’s business trips, I was feel like I’m 19 again with my whole future alone at home or out and about in our — of me.’ Valley. I had the Knit Wit Knitting Circle smiled. I never aly ate that a on Wednesday nights and the Eden Writing would retire. And for the Circle on Thursday nights. I’d spend time not see us traveling with « a ‘trailer all over finishing writing assignments and every America for months on end. now and again out to breakfast, Today our children are following their lunch, or dinner—which was when Marcie dreams and Johan and I live in, what we would see me out on my own. But for the sider, paradise. On Thanksgiving, we ‘will last three months, Johan has been on give thanks to God for all our blessings—our extended sick leave. 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