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Show Thursday, September 14, 2006 SPRINGVILLE HERAL D Been There, Done That My granddaughter is cuter than...? Liz Elder . I was babysitting my 21-month-old granddaughter granddaugh-ter last week and I was so pooped I could have died. I just wanted to lie on the couch for 15 minutes and mull over the meaning of life for a second, with my eyes closed, and with perhaps per-haps a snore or two coming com-ing from my lips. Just a little moment of respite, for a second. Please. I asked her to get some toys, partly because I love the way she says "toi-eez" so carefully with her little pursed lips in that soft baby talk with that hint of seriousness they have because every new word is something precious and important, their ticket into the world of advanced communication. communica-tion. Toi-eez. My second favorite word is "tow," like the things that moo, and my third is "tar," like what you drive. She just sort of breathes them out and they stand there in the air-especially since there aren't any sentences that go with them yet. So she ran importantly into the back bedroom, or what used to be a back bedroom when we had kids to fill the house with. It's now my Office, although paying bills and reading e-mail jokes hardly merits an Office. It's also the toy room because the part of me that's addicted to chocolate choc-olate and Diet Coke is also addicted to plastic things that go whir and beep, and imitate real life in bizarre colors. I have teeny vet labs and trucks and trains and houses. One special treat from Best Buy cost me $20, had 100 pieces (really and truly), and took me approximately ap-proximately seven hours to put together. No one plays with it, it's a mountain with bridges and roads and the trucks that come with it get stuck on the roads, but I'm so proud of it. I'll probably prob-ably have it on top of my coffin when I go. There will be the wreath saying, "We Love You, Mom" from the kids, a little rose and gardenia bouquet from my husband, and that plastic mountain with all the little grey plastic plas-tic rocks sticking out from it. So from the Office she brings about 20 toys and proceeds to pile them on top of me and then sit on my face and play with them. And the thing that amazes me the most is that I think she's hilarious. ' Honestly, I can remember remem-ber with my kids thinking think-ing that if I didn't get a nap, I would send them somewhere to play in traffic. With my grand-kids, grand-kids, I find it almost impossible impos-sible to get mad. Part of the deal is that I know they're going to be gone at some point and I will actually be able to get something done. I don't have to deal with no dinner or clean floors or ironed clothes forever. But part of it is that I just can't get over how cute they are. Truly the measure of geezer-hood has got to be how cute you think your grandkids are. I have seen mean people, people who are nasty to drive-through bank tellers and Republicans-people surely no one could find anything wrong with-go all drooly around their grandkids. So tell me about your grandkids. What's the cutest cut-est thing about them? Tell me some stories-my e-mail e-mail is clelder2001yahoo. com. I'd love to hear from you. Items needed for Doll House Festival The Children's Justice Center, a nonprofit organization organi-zation geared toward improving the lives of abused children, is inviting Utah County residents to lend a needed hand to its cause with the eighth annual Doll House Festival fund-raising event October 6-7 at the Tahitian Noni Gardens, 333 River Park Drive at Riv-erwoods, Riv-erwoods, 5200 N. University in Provo. Quality handmade items such as rocking horses, framed pictures, afghans, plaques, soup jars, hand-knit hand-knit sweaters, holiday crafts, baby items, home decorations deco-rations and dozens of other items are urgently needed need-ed for sale at the festival boutique, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days. Proceeds will benefit the Children's Justice Center. Donated items are being accepted anytime. To deliver, de-liver, call the following numbers: Provo, 224-6899, 375-9842 or 418-7745; Spanish Fork: 798-7121. The center provides services as a mediator by recording re-cording and passing on the child's account of events to the necessary authorities in a comfortable home setting without having to recount their stories to multiple mul-tiple sources in different places. At the festival there will also be an auction of donated donat-ed items and a special program. Dinner will be served by the chef's Table on Friday at 7 p.m., Tickets fox the dinner are $100 per parson; call 374-9842. Utah has lowest insurance premiums -T ? fc -y4 iff f The third grade at Art City Elementary attended the storytelling festival last week.They had a great time. They heard stories that they all loved. They would have loved to stay the whole day but unfortunately had to go back to school. Fawn Cowan celebrates 95th birthday Fawn Cowan was born September 12, 1911 in Pay-son, Pay-son, Utah to John M. and Loretta Lewis Cowan. An open house was held in her honor on September 10th in the afternoon at her residence in Springville. There was just over one guest for every year of her life in attendance. An interesting sidelight lliilii : v&yiip'v '::;:v v;s& it , i BmJ Fawn Cowan was that there were 2 others oth-ers in attendance that had reached the age of 95 including in-cluding her husband Angus An-gus Hales who celebrated his birthday on April 15, and her sister-in-law Marian Mar-ian Grosebeck Hales who celebrated her birthday in February. Fawn was educated in Payson, Utah. Fawn married mar-ried Angus Hales of Spanish Span-ish Fork June 30, 1933 and they enjoyed their 73rd anniversary an-niversary last June. Fawn helped her husband hus-band farm and was an excellent homemaker and mother. She also worked at the State Hospital in Provo. She has held many positions posi-tions in the Church or Jesus Je-sus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and is a member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Daughters of the American Revolution, and Aglaian Literary Club. She is weil known for her keen memory and re cital abilities in all organizations orga-nizations she has been involved in-volved with. Fawn and Angus have 6 children: Glade (Farres) Hales, Loretta (Melvin) Ricks, Marilyn (Mark) Bushman, June (Steve) Alvord, J Allen (Kirstin) Hales, and Lynn (Sharon) Hales. They have 34 grandchildren, grand-children, 67 great-grandchildren, and 6 great-greatgrandchildren. We love you, your family. Healthcare consumers in Utah paid the least for health insurance costs in the nation na-tion according to a recently released survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Foun-dation. The report from the non-profit foundation, which focuses on the major healthcare issues facing the nation, ranked states from the most expensive premium premi-um to the least expensive premium in three areas, single employer-based premium, pre-mium, employee-plus-one premium, and family premium. pre-mium. The report, which is based on 2004 data, the most current available, from all fifty states and the District of Columbia, found that in the single person category the average health care premium pre-mium nationally was $3,705. In Utah, which ranks 51st, the premium for the same coverage was $3,034. Alaska Alas-ka led the nation with single annual premium cost of $4,379 per person. Single-plus-one annual premiums averaged $7,056 for the nation as a whole; however, Utah's healthcare annual premium for this category cat-egory was about $1,000 less, at $6,059 per person. Utah had the lowest costs again, ranked 51st in the nation in this category. In family premium, Utah insurance costs were slightly above only North Dakota, Arkansas, and Ha waii, despite more people covered per family in Utah than any other states. In 2004, Utahns paid an annual family premium of $8,654, ranking 48th in this category, cat-egory, with the District of Columbia occupying the top spot at $11,742 per family, per year. "This data substantiates what other recent studies have indicated - that Utah healthcare, when translated into an insurance premium, is an excellent value compared com-pared to the rest of the nation," na-tion," stated Eliana White, president of the Utah Health Insurance Associatioa "We are pleased to see that the comparison reflects well on our industry. Utah health insurance carriers remain dedicated to ensuring Utah consumers consum-ers receive the best quality healthcare in the nation at the most affordable prices," she concluded. mm cks ossisar a m .a an? Does someone you know have an alcohol problem? New Vision, located at Mountain View Hospital in Payson has an emergency medical stabilizationdetoxification stabilizationdetoxifi-cation service for adults and adolescents with drug, alcohol alco-hol and health related issues. The use and abuse of alcohol alco-hol andor other chemicals can disrupt a person's life in many ways. More than 50 of all auto accidents involve alcohol or drugs. The impact of addiction can be far reaching. reach-ing. Cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke, HIVAIDS, hepatitis and lung disease can aD be affected by drug abuse. Some of these effects occur when drugs are used at high doses or after prolonged use, and some may occur after just one use. If you have an questions or would like to schedule a presentation, pre-sentation, please call 801465-7315. 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