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Show vj, vii uqi y fcyj, l I J W ' g Jenefer Welch "ties one on" to support American soldiers in the Persian Gulf. The Woods Cross native made over 200 ribbons and gave them to residents to hang on doors and windows. Jenefer, who is a member of Woods Cross 2nd Ward, made the decorations for a Laurel service project. Welch's service project h as folks seeing yello w By MARK EDD1NGTON Staff Writer WOODS CROSS A church service project by Jenefer Welch has residents of Woods Cross seeing yellow-lots of it. From City Hall to residential streets, there is a veritable sea of yellow ribbons. Jenefer, 17, is a Laurel in the LDS Church Woods Cross 2nd Ward and decided making yellow ribbons would be a good way to pay tribute to the men and women of the armed forces serving in "Operation Desert Storm." "I never thought we would be involved in a war in my lifetime and when my high school principal and others I knew were called to go over there, I had to do something," she said. Doing something turned out to be more difficult than Jenefer and her mother MaryLou had imagined. They looked everywhere for the ribbon before finding some yellow plastic ribbon at K.D. Crafts, a store in Bountiful. Boun-tiful. Tying the ribbons was something of an ordeal as well. To tie a good bow, Jenefer had her sister Catherine stand with arms outstretched which she said helped her tie each one to perfection. Eventually Catherine tired of this and Jenefer resorted to tying the bows around her feet. Sixty dollars and about two hundred yellow ribbons later, Jenefer went door-to-door to hand out the ornaments or-naments and found out the supply could barely keep up the demand. "A couple of people were teary-eyed. Others said they had been trying unsuccessfully to find a yellow ribbon and wanted to pay for it," she said. Still others were surprised to someone her age would care enough about the soldiers to undertake such a project. "She's just a very special girl who has always been willing to do anything she is asked to do," MaryLou said. Jennifer attributes her patriotism to her father Steven, and her maternal grandfather John Moulton, who saw action in the South Pacific in World War II. Her grandfather grand-father flies the flag 24 hours a day at his home in Heber City, Utah. According to MaryLou, this service project is a continuation con-tinuation of what is fast becoming a legacy of service and achievement for her daughter. Jenefer, who is hearing hear-ing impaired, was recently honored by Woods Cross High School as "Wildcat of the Week." Three years ago she was named the outstanding student at her junior high school by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf. Jenefer plans to attend LDS Business College and would like to become a legal secretary. |