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Show JANUARY 6, 1987 dishing up fow iMt mmI By DONETA GATHERUM FARMINGTON Every child should be raised with the smell of hot bread, states Maxine Reeves, supervisor for the Davis School District School Foods Services. Mrs. Reeves will be retiring at the end of the year after years 1 1 Its quiz service as supervisor and 25 years of service to the Davis District time--Cyclo- ps Its not uncommon for someone to stroll up and say, I dont mean to disturb you, Mr. Cyclops, but how about getting your opinion on a few weighty matters that the boys and I were discussing down at the shop? One of the sidelights of being a newspaper columnist is the reverential treatment one receives from many readers. They think were omniscient (when, in reality, most of us cant even spell the word without a good dictionary). So, to begin the new year, I have collected the questions (along with my answers) most asked during 1986: QUESTION: What should Gov. Bangerter do to solve the states budget crisis? ANSWER: He should have taken the current $1.8 million surplus along with monies from the Utah retirement system and bet all of it on Arizona State to win the Rose Bowl. The governor is a Westerner and he was aware that the Western team has won the Rose Bowl 12 out of the past 13 years. The bet was money in the bank and it would have increased his belief in the lottery, too. And there was one additional benefit: While in Wendover making his bet he would have seen half of his Utah consituents. QUESTION: How do we stop high school students from drinking alcohol? ANSWER: Easy. Have the school teachers assign drinking as homework. Every teacher knows that students will avoid a homework assignment. QUESTION: What is the biggest health problem in Utah? ANSWER: A recent study from a San Francisco researcher states that spreads colds much faster than kissing. That is good news for lovers--an- d bad news for insurance salesmen. QUESTION: Whats the secret of a happy marriage? ANSWER: Two cars--s- o one party can leave and settle down before coming back to patch up any disagreement. QUESTION: We have neighborhood kids spraying graffiti on fences and signs. What is the solution? ANSWER: Pray for snow. Spray paint doesnt come out of cans as well in the winter. QUESTION : If we want to defeat a certain candidate in Davis County, how much money should we plan on spending? ANSWER: None. Just encourage him to run as a Democrat in Davis County. Hell lose. QUESTION: Is swearing ever justified? ANSWER: Only when youre waiting in lines at a U.S. Post Office. QUESTION: Who is the most exciting actor on television today? ANSWER: Mark Eubank. Not even Dustin Hoffman can show as much emotion when uttering lines like Nevada Low and swooping down from the Northwest. QUESTION: What is our states leading industry? ANSWER; Children?"' s ' QUESTION: Who. will win the Super. Bowl? ANSWER: A team representing the National Football League. Bet the mortgage on it! QUESTION: Are you proud of America? ANSWER: Yes--bnot its automobiles. QUESTION: Does our State Legislature ever do anything sensible? ANSWER: Yes. They only meet once each year. Footnote: This year, there are at least two sensible bills filed for legislative consideration. One (by Rep. Rob Bishop) drops the mandatory school age to 16, allowing unruly students to obtain work instead of infecting students who wish to learn. The second (by Bountifuls own Rep. Kim Burningham) offers financial encouragement for school districts to consolidate and save money. The PTA has already come out against one of the measures. Well see whether common sense rears its uncommon head in this legislative session. Hand-shakin- g. hand-shakin- g ut Busselberg returns as Reflex editor Publishers of the Davis County County Clipper and Davis Reflex Journal have announced the promotions of two staff members to new editorship positions. Tom Haraldsen, who has served for the past year as Editor of the has been Davis Reflex-Journa- l, promoted to the corporate level position of Creative Editor for both newspapers. Mr. Haraldsen, who joined the company in 1985, will be responsible for special sections and pages, as well as corporate promotions. He has also for the been named as Sports Department of both newsor papers. result, Tom Busselberg has returned to his previously-hel- d position of Editor of the Mr. Busselberg held that As a Reflex-Journa- l. position until last January. He is also the owner of The Storytellers, a public relations firm. Both Mr. Haraldsen and Mr. Busselberg are 1976 graduates of Brigham Young University, where they worked together on the staff of the student newspaper, The Daily Universe. These promotions will strengthen our corporate effort, as both staff members bring their talents and experiences to our operations, commented Clipper Editor Gary Blodgett. The special sections and pages planned for both papers will give our readers even greater enjoyment in the months ahead. Both promotions took effect on January 1. Davis County Is Our Beat Give News Tips by Calling 295 2251, 544-9133 Reflex-Journ- al Published weekly by Clipper Publishing Co. Inc. 96 South Main, Bountiful, Utah 84010 Weekly newspaper published at Layton, Utah every Tuesday, In the Interest of Davis County and colonies formed by former residents. Address all correspondence to 197 North Mala Laytoa Utah 84041. Subscription rate: 25c per copy, $6.50 per year, mailed In county, $7.50 per year outside. OwnerPubllsher John Stable, Jr. Vice President Lucille S. Stahle J. Howard Stahle Manager Tom Haraldsen Editor 544-913- 3 School Lunch program. The love of cooking and young people is what got Mrs. Reeves started with the school lunch. Her youngest child was six years old. Mrs. Reeves wanted to work outside her home. She had the qualities needed for a school lunch cook. She liked children and she liked cooking. Her first assignment was at the J.L. Taylor Elementary School as a substitute cook. After a year of substituting, Mrs. Reeves was e cook at Centerhired as a ville Elementary. One year later, she was advanced to the unit mana- ger at the new Hannah Holbrook school in Bountiful. At that time, unit managers made their own menus and purchased their own food. She stayed as unit manager until 1971. This was the year her husband died. Mrs. Reeves was very grateful for her job with the food service after her husbands death. It gave her something useful and to do. Since 1971, food full-tim- time-consumi- service has been Mrs. Reeves main interest, aside from her family of four children and 15 grandchildren. Mrs. Reeves next assignment with the school district was that of a field coordinator. She was responsible for the 35 elementary schools in the district. This gave her many added responsibilities including office work and supervision of unit managers. In 1975 Mrs. Reeves became the Director of School Food Services. She is responsible for a staff of 400 400 workers. The turn-ovis very small and usually occurs when someone moves or retires. A These workers are cook starts out on the substitute program, just as Mrs. Reeves did. This list is usually kept at about 50 people. When there is an opening e cook, the person for a must apply and then take a special four-da- y training course that acwith the equipment, them quaints the recipes and the food service system. After a personal interview, the applicant may be hired. Food service workers attend a of her food service workers who deliver 33,000 meals a day to public school children and senior citizens at Viewmont, Layton and Clearfield High Schools and through the well-traine- d. Meals on Wheels program. It is evident that Mrs. Reeves main concern is delivering the best meal possible to the students. She has incorporated many special techniques into the food service program to accomplish this goal. First, all foods are prepared from scratch in the schools. No mixes are used. Next, Mrs. Reeves is conscious of the likes of children. For many years, high school students have had a chocie of daily meals. This program was introduced recently into the junior highs and Mrs. Reeves said it is very possible that elementary students will soon have the opportunity to choose from more than one selection. Another highly successful program that the foods service department has developed is the Offer Vs. Serve concept. Five meals componants are offered each day. A student must take three of the five. Students may take all five. Mrs. Reeves offers a good selection of fresh fruits and vegetables year around and daily. Fresh produce is so important. We need to encourage children to eat and enjoy it, she strongly states. Because of the Offer vs. Serve program, cooking is done in smaller batches. Quick cooking steamers in the schools, enable the cooks to quickly prepare another small batch. This saves money by cutting waste. Mrs. Reeves is very conscious of waste in the school lunch program. Not only does she continually up date the menus to include the things young people enjoy most, she also has developed a standardized recipe file that eliminates guess work on the part of the cooks. Food that isnt used one day can be stored by freezing and it er full-tim- workshop each August to learn better techniques and methods. Another training session for those . MAXINE REEVES is quickly incorporated into future menus. Under Mrs. Reeves direction, the school district purchased a acre food warehouse Freeport Center. All purchasing now is done on a districtwide basis by the truck load. Fresh produce is also purchased. It is one-quart- er in the del-iver- each Tuesday to the schools. Large quantity buying, district warehousing and district refrigeration has made the food service operation very economical and efficient. Another highly successful program is the seven-wee- k cycle menus. This enables the district to purchase many food items nearly a year in advance. This especially applies to canned goods. Recipes, many that have been taken from Mrs. Reeves own recipe file and from the file of other food service cooks, are used in each school. This gives the students the opportunity to taste the best home cooking possible especially in the area of breads, cakes and cookies. Mrs. Reeves is extremely proud interested in becoming managers is held for one week in June. This is ' " taught by Mrs. Reeves and her this three coordinators. Although is a week of training with no pay, -the workshop is always filled. Mrs. Reeves praises the food service workers highly. They are i: all dedicated, hard workers who want to make it better for the kids. ? Ill miss my close association with ... all of them. Under the leadership of Maxine ; Reeves, the Davis District Food ; Service program has met many challenges - fast food restaurants, higher prices, vending machines, elimination of waste and using commodities to the best advantage. They have succeeded. Forty-perceof the high school ;'1 students eat school lunch. Seven- percent of the junior high students participate in the program and 85 percent of the elementary age children have school lunch. This is the only school program -- nt nt ty-fi- that is Mrs. Reeves has achieved her1 goal to serve a Sunday meal ev- - -. p ery day. Retirement will be a great chal-- : lenge for this busy, lady. She has plans to fulfill an LDS mission in the London England Temple for one year. After ' hard-worki- u TV movie boasts local tomch By DONETA GATHERUM When the television was At Mothers Request it was probably shown on KSL-Ttelevision prog-- , the ram in Utah. Curious residents wanted to see if the were careful in telling the local story of a possessive mother who plotted with her son and got him to kill his grandfather, a Salt Lake automotive parts store owner. Since the filming was done in Salt Lake City, many will watch to see what familiar locations were used to develop the story line. Others will tune in because they are fans of the series star, Stephanie Powers. One small group of Davis County residents will watch for another personal reason. They will want to see if they can see themselves in the television movie. Intently, theyll wait for four short, 30 to 45 second scenes that show a ballet studio, a ballet rehearsal, a performance of The Nutcracker and a banquet. They will have to look closely because these people will not be stars placed on center stage. They are background extras, a prop to be moved, used and discarded, one extra said. Extras who worked in the filming of At Mothers Request from Davis County include Megan Ostroski, Brittany Turner, Brittany Cheney, Siri Smoot, Heather Thackeray and Brig Day. They all have had experience in ballet. They were used as dancers for the film. Kate Ostroski and LaRae Thackeray are both dance teachers and mothers of children used as extras. They were used in a banquet scene and in a ballet rehearsal scene as mothers waiting to see if their daughters were selected for the New York Ballet. The story in the movie at this point tells of Frances Schroeders involvement with the New York City Ballet. She wanted to have her daughter belong to this rather exclusive dance school and she wanted her cast in the part of Clara in the Nutcracker. The local young dancers took the parts of dancers with the New York City Ballet. All the extras said this was a great experience. They were treated royally by the film company. This included constant supplies of food and a lavish banquet. Siri Smoot said one of the filming days was Halloween. They were treated to a buffet of candy plus special treats provided by the movie company and by mothers. A special banquet at the Sheraton Hotel featured a candle light r-buffet banquet. This was attended by the young dancers and their mothers. The process of selecting dancers for the ballet scenes was conducted through Conrad and Lola Ludlow from the University of Utah Ballet Department. These outstanding ballet instructors were once with mini-seri- es V most-watche- d screen-write- rs dinne- the New York Ballet. They got in touch with some of the best ballet studios in the area to get young people to audition for the parts. of the Kate Ostroski, , Bountiful School of Ballet, was one instructor contacted. Many of her students were chosen. About 30 young girls tried out. Twelve principles and two alternates were chosen. LaRae Thackeray said more than dancing ability was used in the selection of these extras. The girls had to look young (about nine years old). They had to have long legs, long arms, a small head, a long neck and a short body. Each girl was asked to bring her own dance wear. Those with outfits s and early 80 s from the got to use their own clothing. Others with the latest in ballet fashion had to be fitted with costumes from the costume directors supply. Mrs. Thackeray said, The costume designer explained that careful research went into the movie and everything had to be authentic in style to the period being portrayed in the movie. Stephanie Powers elaborated on this idea in a conversation with Kate Ostroski. This super-sta- r explained that 90 percent of the peoer mid-70- ple watching the made-for-televisi- would know nothing about the story. The films production crew would need to make the portrayal of the story accurate and appealing in order to mini-seri- es keep the viewing audience interested enough to watch the entire series which aired on Channel 5 Jan. 4 and 6. The costumes selected for the adult extras came from the womens own wardrobes. They were asked to bring four outfits with them to the filming. Colors were to be dark because these extras were background, not to be noticed. Again, clothing from the time period and dresses in good taste were used. Another interesting thing about the costuming was the ability the costume designer had to modify clothes immediately. Mrs. Thackeray noticed one girl was put into boys clothing. She cried and became very upset. The costume designer quickly informed her she would learn to do what you are told or be replaced. The girl changed quickly. Alterations were done immediately on the set by a woman who sat at a sewing machine while the rehearsal was going on. The young dancers rehearsed on three different Saturdays. The filming took two days. They were long, trying days that started at 10 a.m. and lasted beyond 10 p.m. The movie production company rented out the Sheraton ballroom and the Capital Theater. The extras had to stay in the hotel until it was time for their filming. When they were needed, the extras were bused from the hotel to the theater. Brittany Cheney said she was surprised at the number of times each short scene was filmed. They took about 12 cuts at different angles. It was interesting to see the way the actors could change their character. They would be happy and normal until it came time for them to be in the scene then their mood would family schedule, Mrs. Day said Yes. Brig missed the rehearsals and went directly into the costume fitting and the filming. He ended up change completely, All the people involved in this: television movie agreed the most exciting part about the whole was the chance they had to see Stephanie Powers. Many ' were amazed at the ability the" make-u- p people had to transform' this beautiful lady into an somewhat unattractive: person. Megan Ostroski was impressed" with the knowledge Stephanie-Powe- rs had about ballet. Heather Thackeray will never forget Stephanie Powers looking at her and saying, Youre a good dancer. Next best to meeting Stephanie f Powers was receiving a pay check.' The two adults who were in the film received $50. The young people ' were hired as dancers. Their salary said. Brittany The young people had to be completely quiet while the filming was done. Background noises and the main dialogue was added after the scene was filmed. Because of the number of times each scene was shot, the dancers had to remember where they stood and the number of steps it took them to get into position. Another interesting thing about the filming was that the children A professional wore no make-uhair dresser was hired to do the hair styles. Brig Day was glad he was a boy the day Clitie Adams called his mother. They need a boy to be in this movie, the dance instructor said, Can Brig do it? Although it meant changing around a tight p. wearing a pair of green knickers-thdidnt fit at all but were altered enough to make them look just at -- right. Brig was one of the fortunate extras to get Stephanie Powers auto- - graph. older--lookin- was $150. g, 9 |