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Show Three New Members Are Elected to the Pleasant Grove Library Board r----------------- - , t i V for Utah at the National Association Associ-ation of Mortgage Brokers. He is the branch manager for Bank of England dba ENG Lending in Utah. In addition to his ecclesiastical ecclesi-astical service and his family, John enjoys kayaking, fishing and has a true love for the literature. lit-erature. He will help the city of Pleasant Grove to have a world-class world-class library capable of holding literature, educational programs and technology that will enable our children and adults to go as far as their imagination will allow al-low them Pam Sorensen The Pleasant Grove Library has recently added three new members to its board: Pam Sorensen, So-rensen, Taffy Lovell and John Glen Stevens. Pam was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. After graduating gradu-ating from high school, Pam came to Brigham Young University Uni-versity and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Elemen-tary Education with a minor in Early Childhood Education. Upon completion of her degree, de-gree, she was hired by Alpine School District to teach fourth grade at Hillcrest Elementary. While teaching school, she met and married her husband, West Sorensen. They have been married mar-ried for 34 years and they have three children, two wonderful son-in-laws, and six delightful grandchildren with the seventh on the way. Pam's always been involved in-volved in education whether she was teaching, volunteering volunteer-ing in schools being a private tutor, substituting or writing educational books. Pam has a particular interest in teaching and promoting reading letters. She loves reading, her children love to read and her grandchildren grandchil-dren are developing an interest in reading. She had the wonderful wonder-ful privilege of being raised by a mother who read to her, took her to the library or bookmobile every ev-ery other week, and taught her how fun it was to let her imaginations imagi-nations take her anywhere she wanted to go with a good book. Currently, Pam is working as a teaching assistant at one of the charter schools in Pleasant Grove while taking classes to rectify her teaching certificate. Pam has had her own day care business, threw newspapers and milked cows. She has also been an' office manager for a large international software company com-pany with offices in Denmark, Holland, India, and the United States. Pam's been an assistant assis-tant mortgage broker as well as a front office receptionist for a very busy pediatric office in American Fork. "I'm excited about the opportunity to serve on the Pleasant Grove Library Board as an alternate board member," Pam stated. Taffy Lovell, a Pleasant Grove resident for the past 10 years, is the mother of four children chil-dren who are students at Central and Pleasant Grove Junior High. Her husband is the regional manager with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., so moving was a regular part of their early family life. With each move, Taffy acquired a prized library card and became familiar with many aspects of the libraries. Taffy is a Utah native and a graduate of Mountain Crest High. She taught English in Taiwan where she met Garth, who was also teaching English. They returned to Utah and were married in Salt Lake City before attending Utah Valley Community Com-munity Council where Taffy was active in student government. govern-ment. Currently, she is active in the community with PTA and School Community Council as well as with the youth at her church. Taffy is an avid reader (just ask the librarians). She can be found reading at least five different dif-ferent books at one time. She is an unpublished author who is working on several story ideas for her first published work. Taffy belongs to several writing writ-ing groups like the League of Utah Writers and enjoys learning learn-ing more about her chosen craft. She also can be found editing, critiquing and reviewing books through her blogs. Being on the library board seemed like a natural step in her literary pursuits and she hopes to serve the Pleasant Grove committee through her efforts and time. John Glenn Stevens was born in Heber City, Utah, and has lived in Germany, Romania, Roma-nia, Layton, Utah, Provo, Utah, and Highland, Utah. He moved with his wife, Mindy, and son to Pleasant Grove in December of 2006. Since then they have had another child, their daughter, and have decided that this is the place where they want to plant their roots and raise their family for generations to come. He graduated from Wayne High School and attended Utah Valley State College. John is the president of the Utah Association of Mortgage Brokers and serves as a delegate 4 u JN1--" if ' J La& ....... . Taffy Lovell John Glen Stevens |
