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Show 0 n Thursday, June 26, 2008 SN1PPITS Helen Beardall The stories today are copied from a column titled "Do You Remember" Remem-ber" written by Maud Hatch Benedict, sent to the Springville Herald and published in the very early forties. She grew up in Springville, married and moved to Ogden. Thought they would be fun to share. August 23, 1941-Do You Remember-"When Aunt Sabina Alleman, who lived on the corner south from Deal Brothers and Mendenhall's store, had a talking magpie? This wonder bird was the marvel of the whole town; the children especially espe-cially loved to stop by the Alleman gate and coax it to talk. It would follow Nellie Nel-lie Starr (who lived with Aunt Sabina and family) to the store. Perking its head one side it hopped along beside Nellie, asking ask-ing in distinct syllables Nellie! Where are you going, go-ing, Nellie? Hello, Hello!" And it would call to Burgess, Bur-gess, "Hello, Burgess!" We do not remember how long the magpie lived, but feel sure its loss would be mourned. And dear Aunt Sabina Alleman is remembered among her flowers. Her garden was a mass of bloom from early crocus cro-cus time to late autumn, when beautiful chrysanthemums chrysan-themums flaunted their perfume and color in the frost weather. We remember seeing these blossoms still standing, long after the leaves had frosted and fallen from GRASS ROOTS Soccer Clinic Youth Soccer Skills for Players age 4 to 8 Ira Allen Sports Park 9am to 10am July 21 - 23 The GRASS ROOTS program ts an introduction to soccer designed for boys and girls from 4 to 8 years old. The program is designed and supervised by our Director of Coaching Richard Stade and Is based on his 25 years of experience in Youth Soccer Player Development. The GRASS ROOTS program will benefit young players who are planning to play on a City Recreation team or for children interested in trying the game out for the first time. Cost: $40player For more information visit vvww.hcstorrn.orggrassroots oremailgrassrootshcstorm.org This Event Proudly Community & WW EES by DiamondBacklnd. Custom Fit & Installed! Protect your Children Sharp looking Add value to your home ) CALL TODAY! 131 9-941 3 or iII4S5-24S04 of Springville History V - the stems. We recalled the gold hoop earrings Aunt Sabina Sa-bina always wore. In those days the ears were pierced for earrings. We do not remember how this was done, but a cork and needle were used. There were no pierce-less earrings then. We really how sweetly gracious Aunt Sabina was; what pleasure she gave her friends and even all children who stopped at her gate. She told us the names of flowers and shrubs, how to cultivate them, and seasons for planting. She had a "way" with flowers. Every foot of her lot was planted to some lovely growing thing. We wonder how she- would feel could she see the spot so long held sacredly as home, now used for a gasoline station! sta-tion! We confess that when this column started last February, many of the people and things we have written about were but a sub-conscious memory. Strange how the mind retains re-tains things of childhood, of which until we concentrated concen-trated on the past, might never have been-thought of again! Like a panorama before be-fore the eyes, the childhood child-hood days come, bit by bit. Sometimes totally unrelated subjects follow like caravans in a parade, making an ever changing but colorful mind picture. If this column is half as interesting to the readers as it is to the writer, it is serving, its purpose, and we are grateful for these Supported by: SPRING VILLE HERALD memories. And now we are remembering some of the English people, friends of our grandmother, grand-mother, Sarah E. Clegg; the dialect, brogue or whatever it was called, of the different Shires of England, like our states, we presume. Grandmother Grandmoth-er dropped all her "aich-es", "aich-es", said "ho" for "oh" and "oh" for "hoe," etc. One day as a child of nine, we were having a dinner party at the home should cause all Utahns to cized nationally for not do-of do-of Uncle Myron and Aunt examine their expectations ing enough to stop polyga- Eliza Boyer. She invited of child protection agencies guests besides us, and and the system that sur-Grandma sur-Grandma and Grandpa rounds them. On what ba-were ba-were an elderly couple sis should the government of English folk who lived step in to protect children next door. After dinner, from abuse and neglect? as the children sat "being In Utah, child protection seen and not heard," as has been calibrated by two was the rule then, we lis- major influences - 1) the tened to our elders talk, massive, still pending 1993 The dear little Eng- class action suit brought lish lady from next door by the National Center for was reading an article in Youth Law claiming that a paper and she read of Utah children were not be-Queen be-Queen Lillian. Her hus- ing protected enough and band spoke up, "My dear, 2) the concerted efforts of are you sure it is Queen parental rights groups in Lillian?" "Of course it the past five years to scale is," she answered, "Ere it isHell, Hi, Hell, Hell, Hi, Hay, Hen-Queen Lillian." Lil-lian." And one day Grandma sent our brother, Thea Hatch, to the store, Among articles she asked hime to get was a yard of black "attyelastic!" Poor Thea was sorely puzzled, "Attvelastic!" He repeat- ed. "What is it?" "Just you ask for attyelastic!" said Grandma firmly. So Thea did, and Mrs. Leiter showed him everything ev-erything on the shelves, but Thea had to admit nothing there resembled "attyelastic." So back he went without whatever attyelastic was. Grandma was provoked at his stupidity; stu-pidity; she brought out her hat, and pointing to the elastic band on it said, "See! This attyelastic!" "Gosh Grandma," said Thea, as he started back to the store, "Why didn't you say you wanted hat lastic?" And on another day, a memory comes of a Norwegian Nor-wegian girl who lived in Springville in the long ago (this is a contribu- tion) but has been gone believe that the govern-f govern-f rom there many years, ment should be extremely In testimony meeting one cautious about interfering day she arose and said, "I in the parent-child relation-know relation-know da gospel iss true, ship. They state that, with but I've been heals my- all other things being equal, self and see odder peo- and if there is a reason-pies reason-pies heals!" able possibility of harm to Thank you Maud for a child, the parent's rights sharing these thoughts of should still be paramount, yesteryears.' Many sto- The result is a whipsaw ries are yet to come in approach. If Utah's DCFS the Snippits column. Please share your stories sto-ries and histories with the Historical Society. Come and visit us at the "old library li-brary building" 200 South and Main Street. Open on Mondays 1 to 4 p.m., or call Glenn Alleman, 489-3969; 489-3969; Roger Nielson, 489-5251; 489-5251; or Helen Beardall, 489-6989; or call the office of-fice at 491-2076. ostfiiii IMMfv . i - - i WMalmt Lka-Michele Church Lisa-Michele Church EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UTAH DEPARTMENT DEPART-MENT OF HUMAN SERVICES The dramatic events surrounding sur-rounding the Texas raid and seizure of 400-plus children points out just how deeply divided the citizens cit-izens of America - including includ-ing Utah - are about child protection. Despite sincere efforts, Utahns still have not figured out what we, as a society, want from our child protection sys- tem. The events in Texas back Utah's child welfare laws and limit intervention in families. The Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) tries to respond to those two contrasting expecta- tions. Protecting children from abuse and neglect is every- one's business, but where do Utahns want the bal ance struck? As a result of the class action lawsuit, Utah's system sys-tem has been managed by a federal court consent decree for a decade. That court action strikes the balance on the side of the child - that is, with all other things being equal, and a reasonable possibility of harm to a child, the federal court would have DCFS remove that child from the home. ' On the other hand, in the wake of the Parker Jensen medical neglect case and other high profile controversies, contro-versies, the Utah legislature legisla-ture has passed laws in every recent session limiting limit-ing the authority of child protection caseworkers to remove children. Utah parental rights advocates leaves a child in a home where the mother is using meth, but there is no proven prov-en harm to a child (yet), the community complains that DCFS does not do enough If Utah's DCFS removes a child because a sibling was sexually abused, but there is no proven harm to her sister (yet), the community complains that DCFS has gone too far. Wtm t '" Si if k child protection igencies? At the present time, the legislative process has moved our laws toward a very limited degree of protection. pro-tection. Yet in the wake of the Texas polygamy raid, Utah's letters to the editor and radio talk shows were filled with citizens praising prais-ing the broad removal of polygamist's children from their mothers, despite what were, due process and civil rights violations. Utah authorities au-thorities have been criti- my related child abuse. In. 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