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Show Opo ii Commmimw won Pss 2 Orem-Gcncva Times Wednesday, March 8, 1935 Editorial New Senior Friendship Center set to ko oofstosjdlng community resooree Orem's beautiful new Senior Friendship Center, scheduled to open in March, will be an outstanding community com-munity resource. A use policy was adopted for the facility by the Orem City Council on February 28. The policy was developed by a committee which included in-cluded Mayor Stella Welsh, Councilman Council-man Tim Christensen, Assistant City ' Manager Jim Reams, Recreation Director Jerry Ortiz, and citizens Carl Carlson, John Yancheson, Helen Weeks, and John DePalma. The committee accepted input from service clubs, the senior citizens' organization, and the community as part of its work in developing the use policy. Highlights of the policy include in-clude the following: The Orem Senior Friendship Center is to be used primarily for city senior citizen programs and activities. ac-tivities. The policies support , the general use of the center by the public Use charges were purposely set at low rates to encourage general community use and awareness. Charges for general community use organizations, for example, will range from $10 for the use of a conference con-ference room, to $25 for the multi purpose room and $50 for the kitchen. Rates were set higher for profit-making and non-resident groups. Gate receipt percentages for the city from those using the center for commercial functions were provided for, and set uptake down charges were listed. Provision was made for classification clas-sification of activity types: i.e., senior programs, non-profit organizations, or-ganizations, general community use, non-residents, and profit-making profit-making groups. Reservations for the use of the center will be made through the senior citizen director. Senior Friendship staff will supervise activities at the center. Applications for use of the center cen-ter will be considered if there is no conflict with previously scheduled events. Security deposits will be assessed as-sessed for the use of the multi-purpose room and the kitchen and will be. A recommendation by the committee com-mittee for a review of the policy after one year of operation. In presenting the policy to the council, Ortiz emphasized that community com-munity use of the facility will not pre-empt the senior citizens. Care ful planning and advance scheduling schedul-ing and calendaring will be necessary neces-sary to assure that senior activities receive priority. Some policy points will need to be firmed up, including the issue of how long in advance to permit reservations reser-vations for events, but as Council-woman Council-woman Judy Bell said as she moved to approve' the use policy, "This is pretty good." The thoughtfully prepared use policy should prove to be a guide in helping the new Senior Friendship Center to take its place as a valuable community resource. i To Be Hie Prophet Howard W. Hunter iq071995 From Joseph Smith to Howard W. Hunter spans . A golden cord, unbroken. What celestial plans Are thus fulfilled? What prophecies have. come to pass? How many years ago did Howard face the Lord And pledge to magnify the Gospel all his days? The law, at first, consumed his time. The crucial mass Of jurisprudence brought to Howard bright reward. . His dedication to the Gospel brought him praise. As President, he led the Pasadena Stake in California, where they feared a mighty quake. There was no challenge that he would not undertake! Close harmony was Howard's favored specialty. With violin, piano, drums, his faculty For music, early on, drew others to his band. His prowess with the saxophone was quite renowned.. And served him well in working for his law degree. He practiced law in peace with such a gentle hand; And those he represented, found him most profound: The Prophet, then, bestowed the new Apostle's key. And Howard met the greatest challenge of his soul, And joined the Twelve in witnessing the Savior's role in spreading Gospel truth and light from pole to pole. Three decades and a half, and Howard gave his all In traveling the world and answering the call To bear his testimony of the Christ. In peace He has negotiated issues with the Jews. And now, the Lord has touched his shoulder, once again, To be the Prophet and the Church's centerpiece. His invitations to the table are good news For people, everywhere, to whom they now pertain. Because he knows the cries of kindred dead resound, His pleas for loving Temple worship are not blunter. And yet, his Temple calls are most profound: ' The man who came to be the Prophet Howard w. Hunter! And now, the Nauvoo Bell, esconced on Temple Square, Is heard, again, to toll a sad and mournful prayer, As God's own prophet heeds his last and final call. The people mourn. A void is left against the sky. His shining soul upon a silver tray was lent To bloom and bless. That prophet gave his all In sweetening the call to love and sanctify. (O Lord, we thank Thee for the season he was sent!) Orem-Qenew limes USPS 411-700 Published each Wednesday for $13.00 per year by the Orem- Geneva Times, 546 South State Street, Orem, Utah 84058. Second Class postage paid at Orem, Utah 84057 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Orem-Geneva Times, P.O. Box 65, Orem, Utah 84059 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 1 Year.. ...$13.00 2 Years....$21.00 TELEPHONE NU2SERS DEALINES Editorial Dept....225-1340 News.... 12 Noon. Monday Advertising Dept..225-1340 Classified FAX number. 225-1341 Ads 12 Noon. Monday Home and School: Vital Links By LILY ESKELSEN President, Utah Education Association 2 It's mostly during math when my 6th graders will come up to my desk and say, "My mom showed me a different way to solve that problem." "That's not the way my Dad did my division." If someone shows my students another way to get the right answer, as long as the kids understand the concepts and it works, I never mind. But in some things, I do mind. As a parent, there are some things I want my kids to learn straight from me. I want my lessons les-sons to be the ones they compare everything else against. So, we talk a lot. Tve always been a talker. (My sons' teachers will tell you that the trait did NOT skip a generation.) What we talk about is changes with age theirs and mine. Seventeen years ago I taught my son his ABCs. when he was still in his car seat. We learned our phone number, "Stop, Drop, and Roll" fire safety and all the words to "The Star-Spangled Star-Spangled Banner". Now, there's even more to talk about. Lessons that are so impor tant and so frightening to parents that we put off talking about them because we can't find just the right time and just the right place and just the right words. Lessons that can't wait for everything every-thing to be just right So, well talk about everything from the birds and the bees to drugs to peer pressure to crime. We'll talk about values and morals and right and wrong and wisdom and stupidity. Well talk about respect for ourselves and for those around us. Well talk about consequences. Well talk about people whose lives and health and futures were changed' forever by an act of carelessness, thoughtlessness, or recklessness. Well talk about decisions parents hope their children will never face. Because I know someday some-day they will run into someone who will want to show them a different way to solve their problems. Ways that could forever change their lives. I want them to have learned my way first Letters to the Editor Don't use Social Security to off-set deficit Dear Editor: Following the defeat of the Balanced Budget Amendment in the Senate, Utah's Senator Orrin Hatch came on national television and stated that he did not know of one single senior citizen, not one, who is opposed to the Balanced Budget Amendment. Amend-ment. Over all the years that he has been sponsoring and pushing for this constitutional amendment, I have personally written him about six letters expressing my opposition to a Constitutional Convention and specifically to this amendment , Yes, all citizens want to have Congress reduce the federal deficit and work within a balanced budget Most states accomplish ac-complish this task. ' We did not have a huge federal deficit until President Reagan initiated his trickle-down economy by reducing taxes, but not following up by also reducing federal spending. Since then, the federal deficit has climbed out of sight. During that same period,' Congress has increased their own salary and retirement benefits three times. In fact, they also-have also-have an automatic yearly salary; and retirement benefit built into I the budget. They enjoy many; perks, travel privileges, and pork ' barrel projects, but they are not proposing to cut or eliminate any of their own benefits. Senator Orrin Hatch ad-j mitted on national TV that Con- i gress has been raiding the Social Security Trust Fund. Mr. Hatch also stated that he did not believe that one single senior citizen ; would object to having their So-r rial Security benefit reduced to off-set a balanced budget He also indicated that the Social Security Trust Fund must remain on the table to help reduce the deficit If the Social Security Trust Fund had been exempted from , this balanced budget amend ment, it would have passed easi- iy. Senator Hatch evidently is acquainted ac-quainted with some wealthy senior citizens, who have indicated indi-cated that they would be able to survive a reduction in their Social Security benefit My mother and millions of other senior citizens depend on this small monthly check to meet daily living expenses. Any reduction reduc-tion in this monthly allotment would be detrimental to their health and well-being. A continued use of the Social Security Trust Fund to off-set the federal deficit would be very detrimental to future Social Security recipients. The use of these trust funds to off-set the federal deficit creates more debt, if they in fact intend to repay the trust fund money. If the balanced budget amendment amend-ment to the Constitution ever eventually goes into effect, you will see a wholesale slaughter of all domestic programs. Congress must bite the bullet by reducing government bureaucracy, waste, corruption, pork barrel, subsidy programs to tobacco farmers, Star Wars, space programs, defense, and foreign aid. Quit picking on domestic programs for children, the sick, poor, and elderly. Cutting or eliminating Social Security or Medicare will only increase and promote more welfare programs. Bob Wright 1010 N. 700 W. Orem v 7 spiiliiii! ft VMHMMt lit! Mil. Grandma Hales is watching Grandma Hales wasn't my grandmother. She wasn't my husband's grandmother, either, but she was his neighbor when he was growing grow-ing up in Spanish Fork in the 1950s and early 60s. She was a tiny (under five feet tall) lady, with shock white hair, sparkling eyes, and a spry step, and she was an integral part of the community. She put her husband hus-band on three missions, raised seven children of her own, and still had enough energy left to help raise the neighborhood. Mrs. Hales always knew what was going on. No one had to tell her. She watched. She listened. And she knew. No one called her an "old biddy" or a "butt-insky" or an "old know-it-all". She was Mrs. Hales, or Grandma Hales, and she was universally respected by children and adults alike. You didn't talk back to her or disobey her because you knew that if you did you would be in worse trouble when your mom found out about it What brought her to mind was that my husband read an article the other day lamenting the loss in modern neighborhoods of such characters who wielded a quiet, but firm, hand in raising the neighborhood children to be responsible, law-abiding citizens. Grandma Hales wasn't shy about checking up on you. If you were sitting around in the summer, sum-mer, soaking your feet in the irrigation ir-rigation water or lying in the shade of the chestnut tree, she was likely to catch you and get you started weeding a garden. If it was winter and you were standing stand-ing around without anything productive to do, she knew whose walks needed shoveling and where the nearest shovel was. Anyone older than thirty seems ancient to the young, so the eightyish then ninetyish Mrs. Hales must have looked positively antediluvian to my husband and his friends. No "Neighborhood Watch" groups needed to be organized, because Mrs. Hales was on the job, day and night She presided silently in Curtained Cur-tained quiet over summer "night games" of kick-the-can. Could she have been watching (and laughing) laugh-ing) the night the boys played around the dilapidated apartment apart-ment complex in the vicinity? All kinds of people came and went there at all hours, so the mood was set when a car suddenly backfired and Joel Volsky thought for a moment that he had been shot on the spot Could she have been watching when sides were chosen up for ongoing war games? When "ammunition" "am-munition" ' became horse chestnuts in the fall? When seemingly seem-ingly eternal baseball games of "Yankees" versus "Dodgers" were played until light and energy were gone? I am sure she was watching. Is she watching now, from a blissful, eternal perch? What would Mrs. Hales think of our time when all too often neighbors neigh-bors keep to themselves and are afraid to reprimand anyone else's children or even their own for fear of being accused of "child abuse"? When gang activity and violence make it dangerous to step outside your own door in some places? When juveniles take to the streets to vandalize, steal, or create graffiti because they are 'Wed"? . ' "It takes a whole village to raise a child," says one proverb. It might be a lot easier nowadays if we had a few more Grandma Haleses around to help us do it. Salutes medical social worker Letter to the Editor: As health care needs and choices change daily, more emphasis em-phasis is being placed on cost-containment It is important for us to remember that when we experience ex-perience health-related challenges, challen-ges, we need to have our emotional emotion-al and social needs met as well as physical needs. Elness, disability, and chronic health conditions can be devastating, devas-tating, but there is support available. avail-able. Medical social workers help individuals cope with physical, emotional, and financial life-changing life-changing situations. At Creek- side Home Health Care, teams of professionals, including social workers, encourage sound decision-making for health care solutions. We work to include services ser-vices for the whole patient and not just a medical diagnosis. As your partners in health, we take this opportunity during National Na-tional Social Work Month to salute the medical Bocial workers of Utah County. We express our sincere gratitude for their contributions con-tributions to our lives and communities. com-munities. Mark de St. Aubin, LCSW Director of Social Services Creekside Home Health Care r mil w (cuj (u nini; iiVi inUViU nu mn in ; ! i 31 |