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Show ommunity lews A2 • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008 - N E W S - Spanish Fork 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Lane Henderson Publisher Namon Bills Editor Dana Robinson . . Assoc. Editor The Spanish Fork News is published each Wednesday for $37.50 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 Call us at 794-4964 POSTMASTER Send address changes to Spanish Fork News 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, Utah 84660 The entire content of this newspaper is Copyright© 2008 Spanish Fork News. All rights reserved. No pan of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. DEADLINES Weddings, anniversaries, missionaries, 1st birthdays, articles, photos, letters to the editor Friday, 12 p.m. Display advertising and classified advertising Friday, 12 p.m. Legislative session ends Parting is such sweet sorrow bills heard earlier in the higher education tuition session extended raises and waivers for dependents of REPRESENTATIVE bonuses to a wider range of active duty military personnel The legislative session has educators, increased per-pupil killed in action. come and gone for another spending, and funded many • HB 315 provides a narrow year, and overall the 2008 important programs. I spent definition of exposure, but General Session has been considerable time working allows prosecution of any who intentionally a busy, but successful one. on the equalization formula adult children and Several important issues have to provide a more fair mix for exposes been addressed including the capital outlay levy, giving vulnerable adults to drugs substantive progress in the credit for effort to those areas and drug paraphernalia three main areas of focus as with the highest burden. • HB 384 resolves a recent determined by constituent Nebo School District, as court case by clarifying that surveys: illegal immigration, the 3rd most highly levied wage benefits need not be transportation and education. district in the state, were paid to workers who are able The House passed several unfairly treated under the old to return to work except for bills that were not adopted formula, but with a new, more criminal activity such as by the Senate, but ultimately equitable formula received a being in jail. both passed SB 81, which significant windfall. • HCR 2 - a concurrent requires accountability on the I sponsored or co-spon- resolution declaring February part of employers as well as sored several good bills this 6 as Ronald Reagan Day cutting off some benefits to session including: • HCR 6 - a concurrent illegal immigrants. • HB 32 which established resolution honoring the life Due to a decrease in an affirmative defense for and contributions of Pres. projected revenues for insurance purposes for agri- Gordon B. Hinckley the 2009 fiscal year, the tourism ventures such as • HB 83 which deals with proposed expansion of 1-15 corn mazes, dude ranches, securities fraud through Utah County has pumpkin patches, etc. • HB 158 which allows a tax been scaled back at both ends • HB 177, a consensus credit for military retirement of the proposed route, but bill with the development pay the central corridor between community and the League • HB 256, also known as American Fork and Spanish of Cities and Towns, strikes Jessica's Law Fork is still on track, as is a balance with geologically I am grateful for the commuter rail. As the largest or environmentally sensitive opportunity I have to serve road construction project areas and establishes an and for the great people I have ever undertaken by the state, appeal process been elected to represent. it required an unprecedented • HB 184, a tweak to the State Thank you for the hundreds commitment to resolve the Construction Registry which of emails and phone calls I 1-15 corridor issues and was established 5 years ago have received helping me to handle other transportation to add transparency to the understand how issues affect issues. As those of us who mechanic's lien process you, my friends and neighbors. regularly travel 1-15 know, it • HB 269, the Scott B. Lundell I appreciate the trust you have is needed. Military Survivors' Tuition placed in me and look forward SB 2 and other education Waiver bill which provides to serving you in the future. Rep. Mike Morley Relief Society birthday party 'Round and About Benjamin Kathleen Olsen Sympathy is expressed to Shannon and Daniel Whitelock on the death of Shannon's brother and to Lindon and Joy Reynolds on the death of their son in law, Bruce Ludlow. He died on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008. He was married to former Benjamin resident, Stacy Reynolds Ludlow, and they have one daughter, Nicole. He also has many extended relatives in Benjamin. Funeral services were held on Saturday, March 1, 2008, in Spanish Fork with burial in the Spanish Fork City Cemetery. ••• Our sympathy also goes to Sheron and Rich Bearnson on the death of Sheron's mother, Louise Jensen Thompson, of Mapleton. She died on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008, in Spanish Fork, with her funeral being held on Monday, March 3, 2008, in Mapleton and burial in the Spanish Fork City Cemetery. ••• Emily Mellarag of Sier, Albania, is visiting with Carl and Shirley Shepherd. The Shepherds became acquainted with Emily while serving an LDS mission in Albania. She is a delightful person to visit with and we hope she enjoys her stay in our area. ••• The family of Tim and Liz Jones recently returned from a trip to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, where they enjoyed snorkeling and swimming among other activities including visiting an ecology park, X caret. Those making the trip included Tim and Liz, their children Chelsea, Karson, and Kayson, Shane and Shelly Jensen of Lake Shore, and their children, Shanai and Landon, and Bryson Beckstrom. ••• The entire family of Boyd and Janet Reynolds enjoyed their annual trip to the NASCAR races in Las Vegas. In addition to the races, other things enjoyed included the Sharks' Reef at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, shopping, and enjoying being together as a family. In addition to Boyd and Janet, others who were part of the family outing included Kim and JaNel Reynolds of Benjamin, Allen and Maria Reynolds and family and Burke and Jennifer Reynolds and family, all of Spanish Fork. ••• will take place on Saturday and Sunday, March 15 and 16, 2008. All stake members are encouraged to attend their respective meetings. ••• Benjamin First Ward Relief Society birthday party will be held on Tuesday, March 18, at the Benjamin Church. Relief Society members and their spouses are invited to attend the traditional event that will begin at 6:30 p.m. t \ Spanish Fork West Stake Conference Dirty dishes a blessing There and Back Again Shirlene R. Ottesen Meal time sure rolls around regular, doesn't it! It seems that I just get through with one meal, get things cleared away, dishes washed, etc. and it's time to begin preparations for the next one and isn't it wonderful! I know, there are times when we think, or even say out loud, "Gosh, I sure could save a lot of time and money if we didn't have to eat." It is something that we sort of take for granted and it does take up a good portion of our time, but I \! Covering what matters most, sure wouldn't want to find out what the alternative would be like. It is a blessing to have a job and to be able to spend money on food for our families. It is a blessing to live where we have access to grocery stores that are filled with a variety of foodstuffs. It is a blessing to have a home with a kitchen and a stove to prepare our meals. I remember when our troops went into Iraq, and took over the city of Baghdad. Many of the people in that country didn't know what was going to happen and some of the Kurdish people went into the hills seeking safety. On TV one night, it showed i some of them trying to cope with a minimum of shelter and the women trying to prepare food for their children. They had a small fire going. I couldn't tell what they were cooking, but it didn't look like very much. I remember one woman who was scantily dressed bending over the fire and stirring something in a small kettle while the children looked and waited. And I thought to myself, "I'll never complain again about having to prepare a meal. I have a home, a kitchen with a stove, I have utensils to cook with and money to purchase food.' See DISHES • A3 Life After Birth Janene Baadsgaard When the nurse hands you your soft pink newborn in the delivery room, she might as well say, "Get ready, get set... say goodbye." For loving someone means saying good-bye so many times you almost can't stand it any more. I remember the first time my oldest daughter insisted Janene Baadsgaard she be allowed to walk to school by herself. I didn't want to make her paranoid life. Yet, I'm so glad they and insecure, so I went along make return visits often with the idea. She didn't know with new soft pink babies I secretly followed her, hiding wrapped in flannel for me to behind every bush and tree. hold. Then, all too soon, it is our Years later, after her wedding children's turn to take our reception, I remember collapsing on the couch with hands as we go where they my husband moments after cannot follow. When my she drove away with her new mother-in-law died, I was standing at the hospital bed groom for their honeymoon. My husband turned to me stroking her softfingers.The and asked, "After all that... tables had turned and this time it was her children's they just leave?" I encourage my children's turn to help her go ahead independence — I really do. — without them. "You've been the best Yet I always feel awkwardly mother in the world," all her adrift after they go. I'm children echoed each other never ready and find myself staring at the horizon, as she took her last breaths. wondering where they're "You did a great job. We love you, Mom. It's all right going without me. if you have to go now. We'll Today I watched my daughter, Amy, try on her miss you, but we'll be all wedding gown for a spring right." Truly loving someone marriage. As she turned in the shimmering dressing means letting go — over room lights and looked up and over again. When you at me with her rich brown just can't stand it any more, eyes, I realized she had be- say a prayer and feel the come a stunningly beautiful presence of someone who and elegant woman. In my loved you enough to let mind's eye I saw her looking you go. It doesn't make it up at me in two other flow- any easier ... but if you let ing white dresses, first as an yourself feel everything, the infant on her blessing day at joy and the pain, you will church and then as an eight- know for yourself that when year-old still wet and shiver- you left heaven long ago, ing after her baptism. Where someone cared, someone do the fleeting moments go? wept, someone is missing When did she grow up? Peo- you and is hoping you'll ple always tell you to notice come back home some day. Baadsgaard the firsts —firsttooth, first Janene two-wheeler, and first date; M.O.M. is the author but they forget to tell you of many humorous and to savor the lasts — like the heartwarming books for last time your daughter takes families including Families your hand before she steps Who Laugh . . . Last, On into a new life as someone's the Roller Coaster Called Motherhood, Winter's wife. As I watch my sons and Promise, Financial Freedom daughters leave my home for LDS Families, The LDS one by one, I'm always Mother's Almanac and her surprised by the wave most recent publication 15 of enormously powerful Secrets to a Happy Home emotions that wash over - available at local book me. Loving my children, stores or on-line at www. watching them grow, chart springcreekbooks.com. their own course and sail She can be reached at away has been the most janenebaadsgaard@juno. important privilege of my com. Letters to the Editor Air pollution problem We take pride in our growing city of Spanish Fork. As spring approaches and the grass begins to show through and the mountains show their peaks, you take in a nice breathe of air. Ah, breathe in that pollution. There's nothin1 like fineparticle soot in the morning, right? According to The U.S. Public Interest Group in a report called "Plagued by Pollution" in 2004, Utah had the most fine-particle soot to surpass health-based national standards. In an article by Judy Fahys in the Salt Lake Tribune, it states "[Utah] also had the highest onetime reading, nearly double the level allowed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency." Shocked? I was. I thought at least California would beat us. In a report by Chicago State University called "Dirty Skies," fine-particle soot can cause asthma, heart attacks, and even premature death. Are we doing anything to stop it? How often do you drive? Any more than needed? What do you call a need? Could you cut back? Probably. What can a resident of Spanish Fork do to help air pollution? Let's start by doing the small and simple things, for what we do in our todays will forever affect us in our tomorrows. Kirsten Reimchrissel* Spanish Fork |
