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Show Times Newspaper Wednesday. April 4, 2001 Page 5 7 '- A PlLD1 i in EAT jyfl mft The office at Geneva Elementary sports a "mountain cabin" motif, complete with fireplace and moose head. Geneva Giant artist (continued from front page) whole school, but I just can't get up and down the ladder that much anymore." And all this is being donated. Wagner hasn't accepted any money for the project she even pays for her own paints. "We could never afford to pay even a fraction of the cost of this work," Verhaal said. "Susan has been just incredible to do this for us and Cynthia." Soon, the mural took shape a benevolent giant sitting on a grassy hillside reading. Scattered around him are children who snuggle against his side, sit on his shoes and lie on the hillside as they listen to his story. Also in the picture are animals: a dog pants happily at one boy's feet and wild deer, bears and even skunks come close enough to hear the tale. The tranquil scene dominates the hall and greets students, teachers and visitors alike as they come into the school. "When the kids first saw the mural, they started seeing themselves them-selves in the children in the picture," pic-ture," Dameron said. "That's what we wanted something for them to identify with." After giving the students a little more than a year to enjoy the color and fun of the "giant" mural, mu-ral, as well as other banners, bulletin bul-letin boards and cutouts of the now official school logo, a crop-haired, crop-haired, bushy eyebrowed, very friendly looking giant, Verhaal called Wagner back to the school to continue her work. "It took that long to get me back," she joked. This time, the request was to paint the office, inside and out, and continue the motif around the corner and down the hall opposite the giant mural. "Cynthia wanted something inside in-side the office, so I decided to make it the giant's cabin," Wagner said. "Then I took that to the outside of the cabin and on up into the woods." With the exception of a few finishing fin-ishing touches, such as titles for the books on the sagging shelf over the window, the cabin interior inte-rior is complete. It features a stone fireplace (with roaring fire and a moose head over it), portraits of the giant's parents, a framed imprint of the giant's hand as a kinder-gartner kinder-gartner (he was a VERY large five-year-old), the aforementioned bookshelf, a mouse hole, a mouse, a cat to chase the mouse and many other items one would expect ex-pect to find in a mountain home. "We have kids come in all the time to compare their hands to the giant's," Dameron said. "And as soon as the mouse hole was painted the kids were trying to 'We have an Extensive Credit Program. We can help with a New or Used car and Reestablish your credit. No Hassle 24 hr. Credit Line. (801)492-1870 Or For One-on One Help Call Jake at 492-0100 DOUG & JfJSTITOl I VI I II lifci 523 W. Main, American stick their hands in it." With the office now an inviting home, Wagner moved "outdoors" once again. The front of the cabin sports a mailbox (with a large snail on top of it), a garden and a surrounding surround-ing forest where a moose and a cow eye each other, a family of opossum hang by their tails in the tree, a snake winds around a tree trunk and many other creatures happily reside. The best thing about the creations cre-ations is that the students feel a sense of ownership and pride in the uniqueness of their school. "When we started doing this, we had parents tell us what a bad idea it was," Verhaal recalled. "They warned us that the kids would write on them and scratch them and have them ruined within a couple of months, but that isn't what has happened. Susan paints during school hours and the children stop and ask her what she's doing and they've really re-ally developed a sense of ownership owner-ship about the paintings. The mural has been up for more than a year and there isn't one pencil mark on it." One of the things that Wagner has enjoyed most about working on this project is the interaction with the children. "The children come up and make suggestions and ask questions," ques-tions," she said with a smile. "Like I had decided to do a book shelf, and one little girl suggested that it sag in the middle. That really re-ally gave it character. One time a little girl decided she was going to name all the animals and they became 'moosey, cowey, doggy, owley ..." everything was just the animal with a 'y' on the end. And I've had lots of suggestions as to what titles should go on the books." But an encounter with one small, dirty, Kindergartner stands out among all the others for Wagner. "This one little boy would come and watch all the time," she said. "One time, I was painting a lady-bug lady-bug on the giant's shoe and he asked me what that was. I told him it was a ladybug and he asked if he could name it. I told him he could and he said it should be Zachary. I asked if that was his name and he nodded. So I said we'd call the ladybug Zachary. He gave me the biggest hug and just went away beaming. "That's why I do this seeing how happy it makes the children. That's payment enough." yj 1 UP LEX AT Family Owned &. Operated Fork, Utah Exit 281 801-492-1110 hr fcrmrm KJ I "a LI Mrs. Utah Elaine Pearson speaks to the Orem Rotary Club. Mrs. Utah speaks to Orem Rotary Club Mrs. Utah Elaine Pearson was the guest speaker at the Orem Rotary Ro-tary Club Luncheon and told members that we all must deal with the storms of life. Pearson said, "We all have stress in our daily life and we must learn to deal with our problems or face compounding difficulties." Most of our stress comes from our finances, family and health. The people that are under the greatest stress are young mothers, college freshman and individuals that just retired. However, daily activities put stress on individuals, and we should learn to deal with them. According to Pearson, life is a balancing act and moms are sometimes some-times the worst violators because they think they can do everything, for everybody. People need to keep their mind (mentally), body (physically), and home (spiritually) in balance. Stress management is like spokes in a wheel. All must work together to-gether or the wheel will break down. Pearson suggested we should go back to basics and suggests eight points to deal with stress: S.T.R.E.S.S.E.D. Simplify - say no and plan ahead. Talk about it Recommit to priorities Exercise "sharpens the saw" Sleep enough (7 or 8 hours) Solitude (peace and quiet) Eat healthy Deity Pearson closed by saying one thing that can have a strong effect on our stress it to control our anger. Anger only stresses all individuals that are in the line of anger frustration. f iff 9-. Now on the same team. is 1 v ' 7 A ' 54 1 p f if. V?? 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A 49-year-old woman of Orem, was arrested the morning of March 28 for possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. parapher-nalia. Officer Scott Healy and Sgt. Gordon Smith went to her rented home to stand by and keep the peace at the request of the property owner who was going to check the furnace for a possible leak. Once at the home, Townsend insisted the officers accompany the landlord because she didn't trust him. The officers did as they were asked and went with the landlord land-lord into the woman's bedroom where they found drugs and paraphernalia parapher-nalia laying out in plain sight. She was arrested and booked into the Orem holding facility and later transported to the Utah County Jail. Four tires and rims were stolen sometime last Thursday night from a Chevy S-10 truck parked in a business parking lot in the area of 950 N. State. The truck was left on cinder blocks. A man returned to his apartment Friday afternoon and found an intruder inside. The intruder ran into the bathroom and locked the door behind him and then quickly exited through the bathroom window and fled. The resident called police, but they were unable to locate the suspect. sus-pect. The suspect was described as a white male, medium build, with short red hair, and about 20 years of age. Nothing was taken from the apartment which is located in the area of 100 E. 1200 S. Officers brought a loud party to an end early Saturday morning at an apartment in the area of 1850 S. Terrace Drive. Those responsible for the party said they handed out a few flyers advertising the party at UVSC earlier in the week, but did not anticipate the tremendous number of people who showed up. Officers conservatively estimated about 500 people were at or around the apartment. Only one person was arrested for an alcohol violation. Alcohol was not being served at the party, but because of noise concerns, the party was shut down and the party-goers cooperated cooper-ated with the officers and left the area peacefully. Fire fighters responded to a car on fire in a garage at the home located lo-cated in the area of 800 N. Main. The fire was coming from the engine compartment and did about $2500 damage to the car. The fire was put out before spreading to the garage itself. Sometime over the weekend, someone stole the city street sign (Heather RoadHeather Drive). Business Burglary - Approximately $45,000 worth of computer equipment equip-ment was reported stolen sometime Friday night. The owner of the company com-pany reported the burglary Saturday morning. Thieves had entered the building located in the area of 1800 S. State by prying the front door of the business. There was no active alarm in the business. Once inside the building, the thieves used a hand truck (that was removed from a nearby business) to take three Sony computers, a video camcorder and 20 Cisco Airnet 340 wireless bridges, valued at $1800 each. Information and evidence evi-dence was gathered by officers and the investigation will continue. A 22-year-old Orem woman was taken to Utah Valley Regional Medical Medi-cal Center on Sunday afternoon after sustaining possible head and neck injuries. She had been learning to ride a motorcycle in the University Mall Parking lot and lost control of the bike, running up on the sidewalk, and hitting a wall on the north side of the Mall at about 25-30 miles per hour. Luckily, she had a helmet on and her collision with the wall was a glancing blow rather than a head-on hit. She whs unconscious at the scene but was alert and oriented by the time paramedics left the hospital. 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