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Show He5s Slow To Retire Aldin Serves Busy Life In Community BOUNTIFUL - Here's the irony... ALDIN Hayward dislikes clutter. clut-ter. If he's walking'down the street, he'll stop in his tracks to remove an errant can or scrap of paper littering litter-ing the sidewalk. He takes pride in his self-proclaimed distinction of "sweeping more sidewalks and gutters than any other person in Bountiful!" And yet there is clutter in his own home -- at least in one room. It's the room in which he hns stuffed stuf-fed his continually growing stock of plaques and awards, honors and ribbons. Some are crowded on the walls., .others lie-in disarray on an old sofa. "THERE IS only so much room," he laughs. "But I value every ev-ery single one of these honors. I have always tried to live by the beautiful thought 'Is the place better bet-ter off for your having been there? I hope I can give an unqualified yes to that answer when I'm ready to pass on." He's not yet ready to "pass on," but he is 83 years old, an age in which his body has warned him to slow down. That's a very difficult thing for him to do. HIS LIFE has been one continual marathon filled with business achievements, travel and most memorably-civic contributions. Davis County today would be somewhat different had Aldin not moved here as a youth. He is remembered re-membered as an aggressive, results-oriented man who relished any obstacle as a personal challenge. chal-lenge. Like the time he spearheaded the development of the Davis County Golf Course. ..("I wasn't even a golfer, but 1 saw a need for it. As chairman of the Davis County Recreation Re-creation program I found the needed 212 acres and got an option on the land with my own money. Then I offered the option to the county for the golf course. One commissioner opposed the course saying 'Mr. Hayward, in the north end of this county, nobody plays golf.' I answered back, "Commissioner, "Commis-sioner, that is not for you to say. Darn it, let's try it and see who plays golf!") LIKE THE time he was appointed as one of five original members of the State Parks Commission, Com-mission, later serving as its director... direc-tor... ("The legislature only gave us three parks in the beginning, but we took the job seriously. After Continued on page two He?s Slow To Rete Continued from page one only six years, we had 33 State parks with 27 under development.") develop-ment.") Like the time he asked the County Coun-ty Library Board if he could use the vacant library basement for a senior citizen's center. ..("When they hesitated I told them since the library was receiving federal monies I would raise the issues with our legislators. ONE BOARD member said, 'Aldin, you wouldn't go that far would you?' I told them I was se-rious-and we got to use the basement. base-ment. Later we would build the Golden Years Center, and the construction con-struction cost of $404,000 was paid off in only one year.") Like the time he saw a need for the LDS Seminary program at Bountiful High. ..("They didn't have a place to hold classes, so I bought a piece of land and donated it to the church.") LIKE THE time he pioneered the self-service concept in his grocery business. ..("It was a case of educating edu-cating the public that they could get their own product and put it in a basket.") This single-minded drive for achievement was not based on his desire for money. Says Etta, his wife of 58 years, "Aldin never cared about having a whole lot of money. He'd make donations to causes he cared about, but he'd have a hard time buying himself a new set of clothes. He was always tight when it came to spending money on himself." HIS DRIVE, he says, stemmed not money but from his parents. He was born in a log cabin in Circlevil-le Circlevil-le Canyon, the son of hard-working ranchers whom, he says, saw work as "an obligation of survival." (The neighboring ranch harbored the Parker Family, one of whose sons-Butch Cassidy-would receive re-ceive considerably more renoun that Aldin would receive.) After graduating from Davis High and the University of Utah, he and his brother Coy took on a franchise with the O.P. Skaggs grocery operation. They opened stores in Bountiful and Layton and soon the family grocery connection expanded to Idaho and Provo. Later La-ter Coy and Aldin returned to Bountiful to open up "The Hay-ward Hay-ward Market," soon recognized in the industry as doing more business busi-ness per square foot of floor space than any other grocery unit in Utah. AFTER 35 years in the grocery business, the Haywards sold their interests to large chains, and Aldin became increasingly involved in civic causes. The list is long and varied: from a two-time director of the South Davis Chamber of Commerce to a district governor of the Lions Club International. ..from a director of the United Fund to the chairman of a river basin committee. ..from the president of the Associated Service Ser-vice Clubs of Davis County to a chairman of the county crusade of the American Cancer Society... f-rom f-rom numerous finance offices in his church to the chairmanship of the Davis County Bicentennial Committee. AND THE awards and plaques began to accumulate. He was one of only seven Utahns to receive an award from the American Cancer Society. He was named to the Outstanding Out-standing Senior Citizen in his community. com-munity. The Sertoma Club issued him its outstanding service award. The room in his house began to fill up. But much more important than the awards were the people involved, in-volved, he says. "MEETING people and associating asso-ciating with them is the greatest thing in life," he offers. "That's what I'll always remember. I've been lucky in my life in that I've been in a position to try and do goodand when you do that, you meet some very wonderful peupic. Aldin today doesn't "meet" as many people. His hectic pace was slowed three years ago when he suffered a heart attack. ("I used to run my snowblower around eight blocks in our neighborhood. I Was just trying to be a good neighbor And I suffered that heart attackone morning when I was trying to gei the snowblower started. There was eight inches of snow out there, but I ended up in the darn hospital.") SO HE moves slower nowadays His failing eyesight has also trimmed trim-med his ability to drive his automobile, auto-mobile, read the newspaper, or even write letters. But he remains active, attending luncheons several sever-al times per week at the Golden Years Center and serving on the Davis County Council for the Ag-ing. Ag-ing. And he delights in his five daughters, 24 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. In fact, this last' Christmas he purchased stock for his grandchildren. grandchil-dren. "They receive $20 each quarter quar-ter in stock dividends," he says. "And I did it to help them learn the value of saving and investing. Ifj not important how much your clothes cost. A wise man is frugal." THEN HE smiles and says, be mighty happy if, when I die, I go down in my old work shoes. Work-! ing hard never hurt anybody." j |
