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Show ommunity A2 • WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2008 -NEWS- 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 Sc, Spanish Fork Utah 84660. Email stories to editor@spforkncws. co m Email ads to ads@spf0rknew5.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 part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. THE SPANISH FORK NEWS (USPS 024716) is published weekly for $37.50 per year by J-Mart Publishing, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork, U T 84660. Periodicals Postage Paid at Spanish Fork, UT. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Spanish Fork News, 42 East 300 North, Spanish Fork, UT 84660. DEADLINES Weddings, anniversaries, missionaries, 1st birthdays, articles, photos, letters to the editor Friday, 12 p.m. Display advertising and classified advertising Thursday, 12 p.m. Dawn Van Nosdol Last week we talked about buying and storing deli-meat and I promised you that I would tell you what I do when I buy my big blocks of cheese and bags of mixed vegetables. So let's talk cheese. My family likes cheese - all kinds of cheese. As a matter of fact, at Christmas time, Santa Claus leaves different kinds of cheese for us instead of candy - it's a wonderful thing. My mom used to cut off slices of cheese for our school lunches and I loved it. String cheese was one of the first commercially packaged grab-and-go cheeses, but cheese manufactures have come a long way. I just got back from the grocery store and I am still laughing because of what I saw on the shelves, nicely cut up and packaged, at a very expensive price, exactly what I was going to tell you to do. After seeing it, I feel even more compelled to tell you how to prepare your cheese for everyday use and save Life After Birth Janene Baadsgaard Motherhood is definitely not for wimps. When you're pregnant your body turns into a science fair project, only you're not in charge of the hypothesis, experiment or outcome. The baby gets here and you're sucked on, pooped on, spit on, chewed on and wet on. Then you get kicked, punched, screamed at, disobeyed and run away from. You eat cold meals, wear stained clothes and never get any sleep. When your children are finally old enough to help you, they won't. When they're teenagers they ask you to hide in your bedroom when their friends come over. When they leave for college they only call when they want something. So why in the world do we do it? We choose to be a mother because if we didn 't — children would die or never be born. Society would cease to exist. The world as we know it would come to an end. I know of no other life's work that can make that claim. I firmly believe that those who do the most good in this world are often invisible and receive the least credit. Mothers are like that. They are too busy planting and nourishing to contemplate the eventual harvest. Yet, if we give our whole hearts to the growing season, we will someday reap a return of souls who will feed the world with the love they've known. When governments, financial institutions and you money. I buy a big five-pound block of two or three different types of cheeses (my favorite is mild cheddar, mozzarella and Colby jack) and then I slice off a half inch slice, lay it down and slice it into four equal strips. I continue doing this until the entire chunk of cheese is completely cut up. I set it aside and start on the other flavored cheese and do the exact same thing. Then depending on if I have two or three flavors, I start to package them together in groups of three strips - two colby jack and one mozzarella or two mild cheddar and one colby jack. Mix it up and do whatever combination you like. As far as packaging them, I line them up and roll them up in some plastic wrap. I then put them in an empty plastic gallon container and put them in the fridge. I like to take a roll to work to snack on because it is very satisfying. I also grab a set to cut up in my salad. If I want to shred some cheese for scrambled eggs or another dish, I just take See CHEESE • A3 thousands for generations, we will never undervalue our contribution again. Motherhood frees us to love someone more than ourself and gives a dimension of sacredness to everything we do. Motherhood frees us from selfishness and creates a gentler world where someone is always looking out for the children. Motherhood frees us of from a life of get and offers us a life of give. After years of nurturing, feeding, hugging, reading and cleaning, we will be Janene Baadsgaard granted the ability to love nations fail, mothers offer and the opportunity to be answers — brand new people loved. Our hearts will open to wrapped in flannel. We give the value of another human the world fresh human beings being in ways we do not with novel ideas, unique now comprehend. We ' are talents and answers to age-old transformed as we transcend problems. For we have chosen self. So on those hard days, not to put ourselvesfirst.We choose motherhood again have chosen to be the stewards with greater tenderness, and of a new generation. We have commitment. I promise you chosen to be the moral earth that every sacrifice you make where the rising generation's for your child will contain roots can sink deep in time- your life's greatest meaning, honored values. We have every choice to love, your chosen to offer our time, our life's greatest purpose. Janene Baadsgaard is the talents and everything we have so that our children can grow author of many humorous up knowing there will always and heartwarming books for be a smile in the audience, families including Families forgiving arms to return to and Who Laugh . . . Last, On a push of encouragement when the Roller Coaster Called Motherhood, Winter sPromise, they need to fly. Financial Freedom for IDS No community or nation Families, The LDS Mother's will survive without us. We feed the hungry, clothe the Almanac and her most recent naked and house the homeless. publication 15 Secrets to a It doesn't matter if anyone Happy Home - available at else, including our own spouse local book stores or on-line HYPERUNK "http:!l and children, appreciate us, if at we do. For when we grasp a w ww. springe re ekbooks. glimpse of what it means to be com " wwwspringcreekbooks. a mother and how our actions com. She can be reached at or failure to act will affect janenebaadsgaard@jufw.com. Benjamin Day soon 'Round and About Benjamin Kathleen Olsen Congratulations to Brad Lee Harrison and his new bride Rebecca Ann Boushley. They were married the Mesa Arizona Temple on Saturday, April 19, 2008. A reception honored them that evening in Phoenix, Arizona, and a open house was held in their honor at the Benjamin Church on Saturday, April 26, 2008. Brad is the son of Cloyd and Laurel Harrison of Benjamin. ••• Tyler Anderson, son of Kevin and Annette Anderson and grandson of Clair and Lottie Anderson, graduated from Brigham Young University in the 2008 Spring commencement exercises. Congratulation to Tyler on this achievement. ••• Jeremy Woffinden, son of Lynn and Karma Woffinden, spent a couple of weeks at home following the end of the semester at BYU Idaho. He left on April 30 to go to Juneau, Alaska, where he will be employed for the summer driving a tour bus for visitors in that beautiful area. ••• Ronald and Pat Ivie have a new granddaughter. The little girl was born on April 18, 2008, at St Marks Hospital in Salt Lake City. She is being named McKylie May Ivie. Her parents are Nathan and Stephanie Ivie of Spanish Fork who also have a little boy who is looking forward to being the big brother to McKylie. ••• Afinalreminder of the special Relief Society Enrichment Night that will be held in the Benjamin 1 st Ward on Tuesday, May 13, 2008. The evening will feature a bake off with dishes from Relief Society members and their daughters, mothers, sisters, friends, etc. Relief Society members and their guests, five years and older (last week we reported the lower age limit was 8 and older-note the age change) are invited to this fun evening. The finished bake off products will be the refreshments for the evening. *** A reminder for Benjamin 2nd Ward Relief Society members of temple morning on Wednesday, May 14. Those planning to attend should be at the Benjamin Church at 9 a.m. j '• • " Please let former Benjamin residents know the Benjamin Day will be on Thursday, June 12, 2008 at the Benjamin Park. The activities are under the direction of the Benjamin 2nd Ward Activities Committee with 1st Ward assisting. An evening full of fun activities are being planned. One of the highlights is the naminaof the new Citizen of the Year. Please get your letters of nomination to Verla Richardson who is in charge of this portion of Benjamin Day. Vi Covering what matters most Choosing Motherhood Weather creates Let's talk cheese Ready or Not lews VS food shortages of snow in the mountains which will ease some of our water worries. But, along Shtrlene R. Ottesen with the cold temperatures that we are experiencing Your chuckle for the this season, another issue week: The Lone Ranger is causing some concern. and Tonto were camping If you are a farmer or live in the desert. They set up in the farming area, maybe their tent and fell asleep. you have noticed that the Some hours later, the Lone crops are not growing. The Ranger woke up his faithful grain is having a struggle, friend: "Tonto, look up and the hay is still short and the tell me what you see." Tonto ground temperature is still replies, "Me see millions pretty cold to plant corn. of stars. "What does that We green chop our hay and tell you?" asked the Lone it has been pretty consistent Ranger. Tonto ponders for the past several years that a minute. "Astronomically we are chopping our first speaking, it tell me that there crop hay about May 15. are millions of galaxies Well, that's not going to and potentially billions of be the case this year. The planets. Astrologically, it chopper and trucks are tells me that Saturn is in ready to go, but the crop is Leo. Time wise, it appears to not. be approximately a quarter Weather is playing a past three. Theologically, definite role in the food it's evident the Lord is supply world wide. For all powerful and we are some time now, there have small and insignificant been trends and cycles, but Meteorologically, it seems the experts are saying that it we will have a beautiful day isn't that way anymore. tomorrow. What it tell you, If you are wondering Kemosabe?" about the shortage of The Lone Ranger is wheat, well it's true, there silent for a moment and is a shortage of wheat. It then speaks... "Tonto, you has been a recent topic idiot, someone has stolen of conversation for many our tent!" consumers as we have We may not have nice, watched grocery prices warm Spring weather yet, consistently rise in the past but it's tulip time in Spanish few months. Fork! After what seemed a I was part - of a long and cold winter, it's so conversation just a few days nice to see some color in our ago and a person said, "I'm landscape. The daffodils, not worried. If I have to hyacinth, pansies and tulips pay $3 for a loaf of bread, are all in bloom despite the I will." cold temperatures along That's not the issue. It with those pretty purple won't matter if you can pay flowering plum trees and $3 for a loaf of bread - there the bright forsythia bushes. may not be any to buy. While driving on a street If you have been paying about fifth north and third attention to recent articles east the other day, I looked written about the shortage southward to center street of grain, you know that and beyond, and those there is already trouble in flowering plum trees dotted some countries and serious the streets on both sides and concern about how people they are so pretty. will deal with finding We had a good winter enough food to feed their with a seemingly good layer families. There and Back Again Letter to the Editor Thanks Rocky's! I wanted to share an experience with your readers. I lived in Spanish Fork from 2004-2006. During my stay, I purchased new tires for my wife's car from Rocky's American Car Care Center. I have since moved away from Spanish Fork and now live in Denver, Colo. Today, my wife ran over something in the road and ruined two tires. When I called Rocky's to ask for information about the warranty I had purchased, Rocky himself answered the phone. He immediately looked up my invoice and gave me the information on how to find a local shop who would honor the warranty. He then faxed my information to the local shop. There was a problem with the first copy of the invoice he faxed so he stayed after 6 p.m. to help get things sorted out. He really went out of his way to help me, and I appreciate it. Losing two tires in one day could have been a disaster. Rocky made the whole process smooth and easy. I really appreciated his customer centric attitude, and I wanted to publicly thank him. It is refreshing to get treated so well even from 500 miles away. As far as I'm concerned, Rocky's is the only place to buy tires in Spanish Fork. Thanks from Denver! Steve Stamps Denver, Colo. |