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Show Thursday, February 7, 2008 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 17 Been There, Done That: So you have the flu Liz Elder Have you had the flu yet? I came home from the grocery store tonight to find my husband, Clay, sprawled out on the couch in his work jacket and boots. Did he want me to take off his boots? His jacket? His glasses? No. I got him the afghan his mother made us and covered cov-ered him (sigh) and went to a family birthday party. par-ty. Where I found out that my grandson, Ben; my daughter-in-law, Julie; and I had all had the flu ON THE SAME DAY, Saturday, exactly three days after another family fam-ily birthday. While this isn't much of an ad for family parties, it certainly certain-ly speaks to how long it takes to spread a bug. Mike Boswell, our neighbor, definitely doesn't need to have the flu. He just got home from five days of chemo. He has three weeks off and then it's back to the hospital. I brought him some chicken noodle soup from Kneaders in Provo (a quart of soup and a loaf of bakery bread for $10!), my assignment from the ward compassionate compas-sionate service leader, Kristine Black. I was a little embarrassed to be bringing non-homemade soup, but I wasn't sure I wanted to transfer our bugs to Mike. It turns out that Kristine had done the same thing because all three of her sons had been sick all week. Poor Mike, a week's worth of restaurant soups. Actually, Actu-ally, that doesn't sound that bad. Our family had our chance to have "neighborhood "neigh-borhood soup" a few years ago when I had surgery. It was kind of a novel experience, having hav-ing someone else make dinner for you night after night. One of those things you wish for (and could you do the dishes?), but in the event turns out to be a little embarrassing. You don't even begin to know what to say. Grateful Grate-ful doesn't describe the feeling. Humbled, surprised. Insecure about having everyone see you in your pj's. Surprise that everyone had just discovered what a great covered dish Stauffer's lasagna was and I was sure that was going to be on the menu five nights in a row. But actually people just made extra of what they were having for dinner that night. It was pretty interesting inter-esting to see what people ate. Tammy Heaton, who in my personal lifetime I have seen make pioneer pio-neer pancake batter for 250 people for the ward Christmas breakfast because be-cause she didn't want them eating Bisquick, brought us potatoes and gravy. I don't know that this is that unusual, it's just that I expected sprouts and tofu mixed with vegetarian chicken "cutlets," I guess. How nice of her to make comfort com-fort food instead of health food, not that they're always al-ways mutually exclusive. But I love this spirit of neighborliness. It's really re-ally alive, and well, in our small Utah County towns. I couldn't help think about this spirit of neighborliness neigh-borliness last week when there was that thirty-car pile up on 1-15 just south of Payson. Clay's doing a remodel in Payson and he called me around noon to tell me he'd just seen ten semis smashed up when he went to get a hot dog. This was while I was sick and definitely not making sandwiches. He said the highway south of Payson was closed. We were so amazed to read that no one had been killed. Clay had seen a car towed off that was completely smashed together, to-gether, end to end. He didn't think anyone could have survived that. Maybe this is crazy, but my first thought was that it's because we're all trained to take soup to each other. To think of each other first in an emergency. I could see that whole line of people frantically turning their wheels trying to make sure their neighbors were going to be okay. I think no one was killed because everyone was looking out for everyone else. Probably that's crazy. Probably I've lived in Utah too long and I'm no longer in touch with reality. But say what you will about how we never signal when we're going go-ing to change lanes and how hard it is to see over three car seats in the back of a van, I'd rather be in an thirty -car pile up with Utah County drivers looking out for me than anywhere else. We may be distracted, but we're there when it counts. Family is a mixed blessing. bless-ing. You're glad to have one, but it's also like receiving re-ceiving a life sentence for a crime you didn't commit. com-mit. - Richard Pryor - V"- . Art City Elementary has some bright stars this week. They are shinning brightly due to their examples for the other students. The stars this week are Kennia Cerda, Katee Graham, Jarom Leishman, Matthew Bowman, Jennifer Robinson and Madison Johnson. Keep Shinning! III: i Steve James, a talented and inspiring entertainer, came to Westside Elementary last week. It was cold and snowy outside, but in the gym, students and teachers felt the warmth of feeling good inside during the assembly. As part of Westside's Character Education program, Steve James sang and talked about the dangers of drugs, violence, alcohol and crime. Students sang along with James and pledged to say "NO" to all these things. Additionally, the concert promoted healthy choices, encouraged service and good citizenship, instilled self-esteem, provided alternatives to destructive societal influences and celebrated diversity, tolerance and understanding. A special tribute was paid to Westside teachers Michelle Cicotte and Vicki MacDonald, who brought Steve's song, "I'll be Nice" to Ghana, Africa, when they went to work with students there. MY r y 0 DC Til Johnson Tire 409-5621 61 0 N. 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