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Show TTT1 Tke Mtmty ckiUm Twm' c make il aii with uMp t WEST VALLEY VIEW - Thursday, Dec. 24, 1981 'Rita Pawcct durngw Him milk (ten (Jewing ckiU-ctby Connie Sample The of Rita children many Franco will have a Merry special Christmas due to the efforts of their cond mother. se- However, these children are lucky enough to know the joy of giving and loving all year long from Rita Franco or Franco as she is affectionately called. Franco is babysitter to many Murray children and tells why she made this her pro- responsibility of marriage and a family, and left her with the young children to raise. She soon found herself with two jobs because, she said, I had too much pride to seek welfare She assistance. remembered and lived by the words of her grandfather telling that even if they were poor, they should still be proud. She recalls living in with Mexico they lived so close to the tracks. All conveniences for the family were outside and they used a coal stove inside. She remembers her grandmother would put a big tub of water on the stove to heat and they would all scrub the wooden floors with lye soap and water until the floors were white. As a young girl, she was taught clean- liness, sharing her taught that the grandparents. Her grandfather, Cabrera, worked for the Union fession. When Francos Pacific, and, when she was five years old, she children were recalls how the trains and their father decid- rocked the house as ed he didnt want the they went by because nine-years-ol- and only way to get ahead in life was to work hard. Franco remarried after moving to the Murray area but still remained a working mother. Her oldest son wanted to become an youngsters. Franco followed that advice with my eyes closed, and fingers crossed, but her present profession began. She notes that all there is to babysitting is to love, feed, clean, and keep children entertained. However, Franco does more than that. She loves childen and each one of them knows She has never had to turn a child away and she has it. Franco kept the pump to their pool cracked. A neighbor child for a weekend and cured him. took it home and welded it. He wouldnt accept pay for the work, because he knew the Franco recalls, I talked to this child about different things and I reassured him that his parents worried and cared about him getting sick and he got over the habit. pool was for the children. Santa comes to the the summer. In the winter, he lights up the entire house at Christmas time. For two years, he stopped putting up lights because older kids took them. But the neighborhood children M married and has two children. Her youngest son, Richard, thirteen, attends Itierview Jr. and is going to be a genius with motors, notes Franco. He can put an electrical appliance together or say, "Sure, sure. In Franco has mothers who cry when they leave their child the first day. When that happens, to wants Many of the mothers Franco of the love the child that much more Franco has cared for more than the children are delighted to see audiences. child-car- Franco admits their lives go on as usual, because, if they have a night out planned, they just go. Sometimes it may mean taking several children with (gHSSD Lady Winn for the Fuller Figure romance flair of A him to college. She did babysitting for approximately two years but after the birth of her third child, she went back out of her home to work. When her baby was old eighteen-month- s and she days. She asked Franco if she could bring the child over so Franco could feed her. Happy ending. Another mother made a trip to the store and bought some tortillas and canned beans. She made her young child a burrito but the young one proNo, mptly replied, thats not the way Franco makes them had been working for three in Mandarin style top. Black with gold piping and button. Queen 6 Sizes $32. 36-4- Fashion Place Mall Downtown Salt Lake iDahles attorney and working was the only way to earn the money to send ! days, she noticed while bathing her son that he had black and blue marks on him. The babysitter had beaten him for some unknown reason. She notified the Division of Family Services and upon investigation they said there wasnt much that could be done and encouraged Franco to tend children for a living as she seemed to have a way with One of her younger children asked her real mother to make tortillas and the mother responded that she didnt know how. The child replied, All Franco does is put flour in a pan, add water, and go like this (and the busy hands showed her) to mix it children at Franco's house every year for the Christmas party. Franco states that God always seems to This year provide. she has made twenty-twrag dolls, several quilts and has bought o them. One particular evening, she and her husband had a night out presents for the and they got quite a children. few stares when they If you could just walked in a restaurant see their faces, .well, with a Korean child, a what can I say? It black child, a white somehow makes it all child and an Italian worthwhile, this child. unusual woman says. The one person My husband and I are both pretty dark Franco doesnt want to but the funny part is put aside is her huswe never noticed what band, Mauro. He sits children we had with with the children if a us till a waitress ask- - parent is late and ed, Oh, are all these Franco cannot be there. The children yours? When Francos love him even more than they do her, she youngest son was she took a claims. Vietnamese child to Mauro lends support tend. Her son looked at in every way possible. the new child for about He added a full enclosa month before mak- ed deck in the back of ing any comment. their home so the little Finally he said, ones can play without "Mom, we love Vu wandering near the even if he has crook- pool, and the older ed eyes. ones are taught Her neighbors never respect for the water. He has made the about the complain children and are usualhome childproof and ly there to help if Franyet manages to keep co needs assistance. the yard immaculate One day the water and full of flowers in d, and the grandchildren were so sad, the lights were on again this year. I Franco notes, went to the mail box about a week ago and there was a Christmas card which read, Dear Mr. and Mrs. Franco, thank you for putting up your lights for the whole to neighborhood enjoy. They are so beautiful. The card was not signed. Franco's day begins at 6:00 a.m. and ends at 10:00 or 10:30 in the evening. She still finds time to bake at least twice a month and sell goodies after church, either burritos, pies or go to law school is now an attorney in the Attorney General's office in Washington, D.C. He is married, and the father of a son. He is a graduate of Murray high and the University of Utah law school. Francos daughter is IN 6 WEEKS Train to become a Travel Agent. Day and Night Classes begin in Franco's no attorney son always told her he would take her to Washington to meet the president of the Christmas ever possible. For here is one individual who lives the real meaning of all United States. Franco would only laugh and Christmas year long. mm S&(M)00 CASH If You Buy A '81 PHOENIX By PONTIAC Before January 5, 1982 at STEPHEN WADE PONTIAC - MAZDA 535 So. Main 364-199- - 1 Salt Lake Open til 9 n D High Fashion pjTrcivel Trade WS Now. tort Clou Nov. 9 Sign Up For ttiii poor. LADIES' Scho01 263-196- 1 5280 Busch COATS 320 West, Suite Park, Murray, Utah 84107 So. May We Most of our big stock of famous brand ladies coats now reduced. Choose from cloth, poplin, and fake furs. Short and long lengths. Wish You a Reg. $3400 to $18000 MmjClmhm ft ft ft ft ft -- ft ft ft ft -- ft and a Wonderful HmUrn! ft ft ft ft ft ft -ft ft ft -ft ft ft ft -- -- i i 1 wei ? SALE January. FURNITURE mCTORY ft ft ft ft ft ft ft in apart YEAR-EN- jfjrkirirkirkirk THE it Perhaps Franco will now know that she brings joy and happiness to many and all those who know and love her wish her the Merriest HAVE A NEW CAREER up. One mother was having trouble with her child climbing out of bed and sleeping by the sliding glass doors. The mother would return him to bed, but the child would be wet from the moisture around the door. time. cakes. And the son, Jimmy Gurule, who wanted to children. e tear beautiful many she has been issued since she first decided to stay and work' instead of leaving her children in the care of others. Rita Franco, with the many licenses for familiar faces in the the Franco home shows many of the facets of the woman's special forty a lucky person Ive been to be chosen to share in the lives of so pro- grams that working mothers cannot and w d children in the twelve years that she has been licensed and the four prior years when she began sitting. "All along, Ive just taken for granted what Christmas plays and while, in the background is a boby quilt she is making. three-hundre- and the children to her family, are Franco responds, wouldnt have to leave her own. The two of them take love. Some of the children she tends circle the table to 'help' as she makes Burritos for them and who "No presents. What can you give someone w ho has all the riches 1 have? Just knowing that 'her kids are happy is enough, but she does ask parents for old toys so her kids can have more for play. children so she This very typical scene from children tended by Franco ask what they can give her for Christmas. had many problem because she knows it is children between the hard for a mother and ages of newborn to a child to be sepseven. arated. One mother called There is even a sign her and told her that on Francos car that her young child reads, Hug a child towouldnt eat and day. She claims that hadnt eaten for three if everyone did that, we wouldnt have such sorrow and unrest in the world today. Francos daughter has two children of her own and when the first was born, she asked to help her mother tend other special September, however, her son called from Washington and asked his mother to come to visit. She flew there, met her new grandson for the first time and got a tour of Washington. Now when she sees Washington on television, she boasts. 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