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Show 16 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, September 18, 2008 4 i.i ' T 1 '.''j)w.'wu...i),xw. .ui.i.iiwnuiti;iu).,)u.iwitJj i.i.iwmiiuuj . 11.11 i 3m0r- s "- ' L ' ' ' 'HITT "lull iiiiln" - jtfct'f ' 'i 7- i 4 ' "V. -y, 4 I v y' . - X. I? - , i 1 8SC- ' - . -u L1 I v7 ' L . I These are the Hobble Creek Elementary School's Students of the Week. They were selected by their teachers for outstanding citizenship during week before last. Pictured, standing, top row, from left are: Kaidon Gould. Jackson Stepp, Hailey Seegmiller, Alyssa Robertson, Michael Huston and Dallon Peterson. Sitting, second row: Spencer E. Young, Jannelyse Allred, Cade Gardanier, Chloe Cook, Kyle Kelly, and Brooke Jenkins. Kneeling: Jackson Williams, Tanner Pyne, Jacob Magleby, Taylor Cherrington, Sami Nobuhara and Savana LeBaron. Sitting, front : Kylie Swenson, Spencer Winward, Akaylea Berry and Kelton McClean. lY'1-- ' ) .... f- v i V fV- J -- .1 A ; v , . I' : f A v . - ,v. , Spelling takes practice as everyone knows and learning those rules like "i" before "e" will be the tools I will take with me. In Ms. Balser's class we do spelling everyday until we all learn to spell the right way. Picture by Aubrey Conrad, 4th grade WnitiM at the reunion It is really hard to figure how teachers can pick just one student to be the Student of the Week at Hobble Creek Elementary School, because there are so many good students. This week's choices are standing, from left, top row. Tom Watson, Alexi Frixione, Tanner Heath, Bridger Bird, Emily Beutler andKathryn Cragun. Sitting: Rebecca Nissen, Spencer L. Young, Ryan Wilkinson, Jeremy Lewis, Kylee Simpson and Dylan Carter. Kneeling: Jaxon Hartvigsen, Malia Twede, Marissa Betts, Calvin Barrett, Jodi Ashton and Abby Hardman. Sitting, bottom row: Madison Henderson, Ben Larsen, Abbie Cannon and Missy Miles. Missing when the picture was taken are Coulter Gill, Ben Bohl, Kelsey Hardman and Mason Sumsion. Liz Elder I said to myself for the first time this weekend: "These are my people." This is after 30 years of marriage, two kids, six step-kids, millions of shared experiences, ups and downs, nights thinking think-ing I was maybe going to get a divorce in the morning morn-ing if I had time after I got the laundry started, breakfast break-fast cleaned up, the cobwebs cob-webs off the ceiling, and something in the crock pot for dinner. (This isn't to imply that I'm the only person in this marriage who's wondered if they could bear the other's oth-er's idiosyncrasies for another an-other five minutes.) This last weekend was my husband's family reunion one a year, relentlessly, re-lentlessly, since the dawn of time. From the day we get the invitation in June, I feel the dark fingers of dread creep around my SCERA to tost Open Mic Karaoke Night Sept. 24 Are you crazy about karaoke? ka-raoke? The SCERA Center for the Arts will host one of their popular Open Mic Nights featuring live vocal and instrumental backup from a professional karaoke ka-raoke band called This Is Your Band. Open Mic Night, part of SCERA's Wednesday Night Live Series, will be held from 7:30-9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 24. Signups Sign-ups begin at 7 p.m. and the order of singers goes in the order of signups. "We decided to put together to-gether some open mic nights because of the suc- ST Don't miss out on this GREAT RATE. For a limited time only, State Farm Bank is offering the following promotional term CD rate. Call me today for more information. r j i CERTIFICATE OF DFPOSTT 18 Month CD 4.35 A.P.Y. Deana Hill State Farm Agent Springviile.UT 84663 Bus: 801-489-9444 ' www.deanahill.com Ban!c i i'urJi Annual Percentage Ytds as of VlWIU Huk wtsiscl In clwiqe without now. MmiiMm balance to op9i an account and tain the stated Apr s SMI Few am! rhatges may tsiturc sump on w axon. A penalty may be inpoHd for a itMfaal now to maturity Certitates automatically tm at maturity at the then current rate to the nut ionjef standard rate Some products andervices not available a all areas cess of our Celebrity vocal competition at the SCEA Shell Outdoor Theatre these past three summers," said Adam J. Robertson, SCERA's President and CEO. "We hope people will come to cheer on their favorite fa-vorite performer." While most karaoke uses a deejay and taped music, SCERA's Open Mic Night is unique because performers perform-ers have the opportunity to have a live band behind be-hind them while they take the role of lead singer. A screen with the words is also available so participants partici-pants can see the words. Vocalists can come early ear-ly and pick their song or check out the more than 600 songs in the band's repertoire at www.thisisy-ourband.com. www.thisisy-ourband.com. The online song list provides the name of the song, the name of the original artist and the key in which the band will play the song. Dave Wilbur, the leader of This Is Your Band, offers of-fers a tip to performers. "For those who want to practice beforehand, just remember that we'll play the 'radio' version of the tune as it was sung by the original artist, the one most people are familiar with." Admission is $5 general admission and may be purchased online at www. scera.org, by calling (801) 225-ARTS, at the SCERA Center from 10am-6pm weekdays and Saturdays from 12Noon-6pm, or at the door 30 minutes prior to the event. For more information, contact SCERA at (801) 225-ARTS. A. man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true, he generally believes be-lieves to be true. -Demosthenes heart. It's not that I don't like the people; they're just different than my idea of family. And it's not just that they do crafts and farm and square dance, although you have to consider that. It's mainly that they all get along. They are comfortable com-fortable with a group mentality. men-tality. My family is intensely devoted to personal individuality. indi-viduality. The way you rise to the top in my family fam-ily is to assert your ability abil-ity to get along without family. We call often to remind each other how different we are and how annoyed we are, but we don't group together except ex-cept at holiday dinners, occasions on which we get mad at how complicated it is to get together for holiday holi-day dinners. I'm not saying this is healthy or right or intelligent, intelli-gent, it's just the way we are. To be honest, part of our family's "gift," so to speak, is a desire to get ahead. I'm reading a book about Genghis Kahn and he used to drive the peasants out of the villages surrounding the cities he was attacking and use their bodies to fill the moats surrounding the city walls. They were crushed as his army advanced, ad-vanced, catapulting boil-. ing pitch and explosives on the townsfolk. That way of thinking is not foreign to me. You'd think that I'd get all teary eyed about belonging be-longing to such a blessed group and, in fact, I was, at first. It's a Little House on the Prairie fantasy come true. All the men are handsome, all the women are chubby, great cooks. Like Aunt Bee It's been interesting to try to figure out what's made me hold back from jumping into the hay pile with these nice people. Fear of losing myself is certainly part of it. Not having enough confidence in who I am to believe that if I give my heart, I'll be SmoIiG Shop Cigarettes, Cigars, Pipes, Loose Tobacco nm spmmi ronn 695 North State Street 84 North 10Q West PnOVO MMICAU FORK 4 1 0 North Freedom Blvd. 1 06 N. West State RaV I Bring in this ad and receive a i FRGG1!' LIGEJTEC2 1 I With a Minimum 15" Purchase I Limit one per customer J able to keep my soul. But it's also fear of being swept away by the size of the thing. There were over a hundred folks the year that KSL came and taped the event at Duchesne Duch-esne campground. Saturday Satur-day night's dance featured my husband's brother and his band. He still plays for three hours Saturday night with the family band and he's 82. The rest of the evening is relatives who are professional profes-sional cowboy musicians and cute little three-year-olds who lip-synch and wiggle onstage like they were born there. Admirable, Admira-ble, but not my family. Or they weren't until I capitulated this weekend. After 30 years, I finally decided it was going to be okay to give in. I like them. I love their ongoing ability to accept my weird-ness. weird-ness. Saturday afternoon I spent four hours hiding on a couch reading (about Genghis Kahn) and napping. nap-ping. We wer.e late that morning and missed the biscuits and gravy they served for breakfast. (Gravy for breakfast! Oh my gosh, why don't you just kill yourself and get it over with.) But no one is ever anything any-thing but accepting of me and my "tude." No one has ever called me a jerk although al-though by now everyone has probably wanted to at least once. And by Sunday I'm always al-ways in love with someone. some-one. Although attendance has dropped closer to seventy sev-enty people these days, there's always someone new I haven't gotten a chance to connect with, and we talk. And suddenly sudden-ly I want to move to Hurricane Hur-ricane and quilt. Don't ever tell anyone on my side of the family fam-ily tree that I'm having a good time. Please. They'll put me in the moat. At the bottom. I'm appliqueing an apron for next year's raffle that I want to finish. v J That means that you can call on me to fill your needs with the coverage you want and at the lowest possible cost. 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