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Show Thursday, October 23, 2008 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 17 in unites Shared Da J. tne American peopl Daniel B. Kline Fear and uncertainty bring people together. Whereas Americans seem to be too competitive to share joy on any grand level, we have an amazing capacity for empathy empa-thy during shared moments of pain. Nothing unites us like a Peggy Ami Rodriguez Peggy Ann Rodriguez, age 56, of Springville, Utah, passed away at Timpano-gos Timpano-gos Regional Hospital in Orem on Oct. 15, 2008. She was born May 28, 1952 in Provo to Domingo Bosquez and LuDean Butler Rodriguez. Rodri-guez. Moving to Springville two years later, Peggy lived the balance of her life there, attending West-side West-side and Grant Elementary Schools, Springville Jr. High and graduating from Springville High School with her diploma in 1971. She briefly attended Utah Technical College, taking clerical courses and later worked as a filing clerk. Most of her working years were spent, as a babysitter, babysit-ter, loving and caring for othersDchildren, whom she came to consider like her own. Peggy was an active member of the L.D.S. faith most of her life, serving 23 years as a Primary Pianist. She always looked forward for-ward to visits from her visiting vis-iting teachers, like Cheryl Huff; home teachers, Mor-rell Mor-rell and Carma Dean; and Relief Society President, Sarah Anderson; and the support from ward members mem-bers bringing food whenever when-ever she struggled with her health. She was bitingly funny and always playful; full of long back slapping hugs; a surprisingly good mimic of people; and had a wonderful won-derful memory, especially for family events. But for anyone who knew her well, and she grew to trust, she was a marvelous story teller, whose mastery of detail was second to none. Her amazing retelling of nightly dreams in captivating captivat-ing image and word was the best example of this untutored un-tutored ability. Peggy kept busy filing weather related newspa-. newspa-. pers and magazine articles to the point of being profiled pro-filed for her hobby by the Provo Daily Herald some 15 years ago. Her deep fascination for tornados and lightening was equaled only by her abiding curiosity curi-osity for drive in theaters, love of cooking home-style meals with family, watching watch-ing classic movies on TCM while eating fresh popped popcorn, and needing to Behind this ear lies an engineering masterpiece 7s 0 Open Ear Technology is the most revolutionary development in hearing care since the introduction of digital hearing aids. Come in for a FREE hearing evaluation and give . them a try with our NO OBLIGATION ROAD TEST ... . .MMMJHIMltaMWlWI national crisis and the current cur-rent economic meltdown . certainly qualifies. Everyone - even those of us with good jobs and reasonable security - faces the possibility of the economy interrupting, or even ruining there lives and none of us wishes that on anyone else. ! - v i Ik lillili,;. It Peggy Ann Rodriguez shop for and buy office supplies for her filing and office organizing needs. Since March 2002 when Peggy was diagnosed with kidney failure, she went to Provo Dialysis Center where Dr. Scott Eppich and his professional and sensitive staff and fellow patients became her community com-munity three times a week. Lagoon days each summer, sum-mer, a Christmas dinner at the Provo Mar riot, and National Kidney Foundation Founda-tion gift certificates were special offerings from her dialysis community that meant so much to her. This , community, with the daily care giving assistance of so many loving workers work-ers from Harmony Home Health, gave Peggy a daily emotional boost. But most of all, Peggy loved her family and always al-ways appreciated their efforts ef-forts to support her. She loved her teasing brothers, she loved watching and going to movies with her family, and she loved family fam-ily gatherings and holidays spent together. Family was her love, and family was her life. Peggy is lovingly survived sur-vived and remembered by her father, Domingo Domin-go Bosquez Rodriguez (Springville); and her siblings, sib-lings, Mary Lynn (Rodriguez) (Rodri-guez) Lee (Springville), Randy Alexander Rodriguez Ro-driguez (St. Paul, MN), Juanita (Rodriguez) Hol-man Hol-man (Pleasant Grove), and Rodney Alan Rodriguez (Los Angeles, CA). She was preceded in death by her mother, LuDean (Butler) (But-ler) Rodriguez; and twin brother and sister, Dwaine and Dawn. Funeral services were held Saturday, Oct. 18, in Springville. Interment was in the Evergreen Cemetery in Springville. Condolences may be sent at www.wheelermortuary. com CUSTOM TECH ROOFING (801) 367-2100 (801) 465-8889 Roof Repairs Re-Roofing Roof Removal ALL Shakes 'Shingles TYPES! Tile ,Rat ,Metal e Normally, we all remain divided by our differences and unable to see just how much we all share. Disaster, however, brings out the best in Americans and somehow causes us to see beyond ourselves. our-selves. Like a community that rallies ral-lies one of its own when he or she gets stricken by disease, as a nation we have rallied around each other. Maybe there's not much we can do for each other, but our national na-tional tone has softened and our empathy for one another has increased. The first time I ever felt this was on the streets of New York in the days immediately immedi-ately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks when the city became engulfed in a shared camaraderie. Something Some-thing terrible had happened, but those of still standing shared a common loss and a common desire to press on. We stood together partly in defiance and partly because be-cause we owed it to those who weren't there any more. Mostly, the petty differences that make regular life stressful stress-ful seemed insignificant and we all felt a part of some,-thing some,-thing bigger. In America's common areas ar-eas - the shops, restaurants, bars and meeting places - it feels like that now. Every single one of us feels the same pain whether it be for ourselves or for someone we know and that breaks down barriers between us. I thought about that early on Sunday morning as I got out of my car in front of the local coffee place, an older black man I had never met called to me and said, "that was a tough loss last night." It took me a minute to realize that I was wearing a Red Sox -shirt and a second longer to see that he was decked out in New York Giants gear. "Not as tough as the last one for us I said," gesturing gestur-ing towards his sweatshirt. We chatted for a few minutes min-utes and our exchange held none of the normal vitriol that a Boston fan and a New York fan would normally exchange ex-change in the no man's land of Connecticut. Just one conversation out of the millions taking place that morning, ours seemed to me as emblematic of the times. With the economic world crashing around us, with people not knowing if they have jobs, homes or money for retirement, everyone every-one softens towards his fellow fel-low man. It's hard to find silver linings lin-ings in the partial collapse of our economy, but anything that brings us together even a little bit can't be all bad. Maybe it takes disaster to remind everyone that no matter how great our differences, differ-ences, we really are not all that different. Daniel B. Kline's work appears in over 100 papers pa-pers weekly. When he is not writing Kline serves as general manager of Time Machine Hobby New England's Eng-land's largest hobby and toy store, www.timema-chinehobby.com. www.timema-chinehobby.com. He can be reached at dannotastep: com or you can see his archive ar-chive at dbkline.com. Custom Tech Roofing $ Roof Removal Service J- - 1 Second graders at Brookside Elementary njoyed a field trip to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point. While at Cornbelly's they took part in many activities including a hay ride, a corn maze and picking a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. Along with going to Cornbelly's the students also spent half the day at the Utah County Fall Farm Field Day. While at the farm, the children learned about agriculture and the role it plays in their lives. They rotated between 14 different stations that touched on such topics as hand washing, the food pyramid, wheat dairy, vegetables, honey production, wool, pork and animals we see on the farm. Through the photographic lens of John Telford Enjoying the outdoors this fall season? Come and be enlightened by the artistic ar-tistic renderings of John Telford's photography as it displays his love for the beautiful wilderness and Utah landscape. The John Telford exhibition exhibi-tion is currently on display at the Springville Museum of Art from Oct. 31 to Nov. 30. The opening reception for this show will be on Nov. 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. This reception is free and open to the public. The museum is delighted to be showcasing such an excellent excel-lent selection of John Telford's Tel-ford's photographic masterpieces. mas-terpieces. Telford, a native of Sandy, San-dy, was born Dec. 4t, 1944. He has been making photographs pho-tographs for over 25 years and is known for his keen perception of color and for his fascination with the outdoors as exemplified in his photos of the landscape and the environment. He now resides in Salt Lake City and is a professor at Brigham Young University. Univer-sity. Early in his life, Telford received some formal training in photography from BYU but he has always al-ways been primarily self-taught. self-taught. He received his MFA from the University of Utah. Prior to receiving receiv-ing his master's degree, he worked for the University of Utah as the supervisor of photography at the Edu Wl .v-V I 1 v .... I t 1 r :.Lr .. .y - jj cation Media Center and also worked for a number of years as the director of the Edison Street Gallery in Salt Lake City for Borge Andersen and Associates. He has taught at Westminister West-minister College, the Salt Lake Art Center, Hill Air Force Base and the Kimball Kim-ball Art Center. Telford's photographs have been widely published, appearing appear-ing in Fortune, Stern, Communication Com-munication Art and People magazines. Telford will be the keynote key-note speaker at the museum's muse-um's monthly Community f Custom, Monuments Large Selection of Colors & Styles -. 725 South 900 East Provo, Utah 374-0580 1 1 X J' ' 'Pl WW'S ' I :SWiiis' tVlF-. : -UU-Ul V villi and Family Night on Nov. 3 at 6 p.m. He will discuss his art, with a fun vocal performance by Poly Esther Es-ther to follow. The evening will conclude with a guided art activity for children. Museum hours are: Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday, 3 to 6 p.m. It is closed Mondays Mon-days and holidays. Admis-. Admis-. sion is free and open to the public. For more information informa-tion about the museum or the exhibition call: 801-489.2727 801-489.2727 or visit www. smofa.org. Qualitplg nil Monuments MM $1,000 minimum 7-month term IRAsare FDIC insured up to $250,000 V l , ' ( I gif, iir idW"ril irf 11 -i --- n " " i mil, m mc i r |