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Show Thursday, March 9, 2006 Page 2 0 r e m Geneva Times 5 - n ipvrrj ' pJ& iUthe NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED -4a if! i ,f f ta s I'M JJ; Tl - ; it ' - Up close and personal Jessica Redf ord, 16, of Lewiston, gets hands-on experience at a booth about the science of magnets at the 20th annual Expand Your Horizons conference at UVSC on Saturday. About 1,000 girls met professional pro-fessional women and explored careers in math, science and technology. Rohbock Continued from Page I well-wishers in the Cougar Room at LaVell Edwards Stadium Sta-dium and then wave at fans before a basketball game began in the Marriott Center. Rohbock's no stranger to BYU or Orem. She graduated from Mountain View High School in 1995, then went on to play soccer at BYU. and then for the San Diego Spirit. 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If she didn't have a silver medal hanging around her neck, she could be tempted to dismiss the joyful madness as just a dream. Before the bagel-shaped medal was slung over her neck, she could come and go without a second look, but now there are stares and whispers and public appearances appear-ances where she hears, "Just one more photo," followed by "Now how about one with the kids?" DAILY HERALD PUBLISHINO CO. Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager Chris Peterson 344 2556 DesignerCopy Editor Casey Rogers 344-2570 DesignerCopy Editor Rachel Rybicki 344 2558 DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344 2545 Photographer .; ?Xff . ; ft) It was just a week ago when the world spotlight shined on Rohbock as she found herself standing next to Fleming on the medal stand. "It was awesome standing on the podium. I started to get emotional, but then they started start-ed to play the German national anthem," Rohbock said. Only the national anthem for the gold medal winner is played, so naturally, the competitive com-petitive Rohbock couldn't help but think how close (0.71 of a second) they came to winning gold. "I was pissed." The problem with defining family grew up in a "natural family." In the 1950s and '60s, it seemed like most of us did. At least it was an ideal fam-- fam-- ily as defined by the Sutherland Suther-land Institute, which has created cre-ated a proclamation making the rounds through some Utah communities. Here is what I mean: My father was a man and my mother was a woman. That's one of the defining defin-ing characteristics of a natural family. They were devoted to each other and lived together in relative harmony, dying dy-ing six months apart. They had three children all boys. Not large by standards of our religion (LDS) and the decade (we're all baby boomers), but large enough. My aged grandmother was welcomed wel-comed into our home when, "her joints twisted and her body racked with pain from rheumatoid arthritis, she could no longer care for herself. She died when I was 4, but I've seen pictures, and know that we loved each other. My mother was the "home-maker" and my father was the "home-builder," both comfortable in those roles. Mom cleaned the house routinely, dusting and vacuuming daily. My father owned a small grocery store, and he worked hard. He made a comfortable living, too, until the Safeway moved into town, staying open on Sunday and taking all his business. But we never wanted for much, especially for food. When you own the grocery store, you never go hungry. All three brothers were taught to work early in the family grocery store. I earned 50 cents an hour when I was 12 years old bagging groceries and stamping prices on cans of chicken noodle soup. My parents filled these traditional roles until the sons moved away and Dad had a heart attack. In the early 1970s he sold the store and went to work selling cars part-time while Mom took a job as a teller in the First Security Bank. A family can't get much more "natural" than that, if you go by the Sutherland Institution description descrip-tion found in a document called "Resolution on The Natural Family: A Vision for (name of city)." The group made headlines recently when the Rohbock and Fleming were in first place until they were edged out by the German team of Sandra Kiriasis and Anja Schneiderheinze in their final run. It's something she'll think about during the next four years as she prepares for a gold-medal run in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.' Even though Rohbock missed out on the gold, she couldn't be happier with a silver medal considering con-sidering the circumstances leading lead-ing up to the games. Rohbock ' -Vff Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN CALEB WARNOCKNorth County said she was performing at 85 percent to 90 percent. "I was happy we were just able to compete because we were falling apart at the end," Rohbock said. "Valerie hurt her back two weeks before and couldn't walk for three days, and I felt like I pulled my hamstring. ham-string. "I was pretty nervous on that first run. I thought it's either going to pull and I'll be done, :: or it would hurt and I would be okay. It turns out it was nothing noth-ing a little ibuprofen couldn't take care of." Kanab City Council decided to put the town's name inside those brackets. Not everyone is happy with the decision. . Alpine City Councilman Kent Hastings suggested Alpine adopt the resolution, and he's been criticized as well. You may have seen his letter in this newspaper on Feb. 23, along with the complete text of the one-page resolution. The institute is, by its own definition, "an independent, non-profit, public policy poli-cy group that seeks lasting solutions to community problems by transcending politics as usual." The controversial resolution, which has, in fact, stirred up a political firestorm, fire-storm, is aimed at protecting what it calls "the fundamental unit of society," one which "is entitled to protection in Utah by local and state governments. And we're not just talking about any family, here, but the "natural family," a self-reliant unit with a working father and a stay-at-home mother, moth-er, where aged extended family members are cared for and where the home is "open to a full quiver of children, the source of family continuity and social growth." I can appreciate the sentiment, since that pretty well defines the family I grew up in. The problem is, you don't see that kind of family fam-ily much nowadays. In many homes, one parent par-ent can't make enough to achieve the "material abundance" prized in the resolution or to even make ends meet. So mom goes to work, too. In some homes there's no father or no mother. In some, the grandfather and grandmother are raising rais-ing the children. These are trends the Sutherland Institute wants to reverse, but I don't think they are going about it the right way. Because when you define one family structure as "natural," all other family structures are, by definition, "unnatural" When a city adopts a resolution that says one kind of family is superior to all the others, the others are then identified as being inferior. And that just makes people mad. We don't like being told we aren't as good as the next family. And we sure as heck don't want our kids to be told that. When you start setting groups apart, you naturally natu-rally create conflict. Statue Continued from Page 1 cameras, special lighting or someone to walk and police the area. This is a task that would be pretty easy to accomplish, ac-complish, but it is just shameful." shame-ful." The cemetery was developed devel-oped in 1955 or 1956, and the statue placed on the grounds, Condon said. Carl Berg purchased pur-chased the cemetery in 1976. The statue of Christ has drawn a steady audience of onlookers, Hood said. The statue sits in the center of the cemetery on a 2-foot pedestal and has an estimated value of $50,000. The owners of Timpanogos Memorial Gardens are offering offer-ing an undisclosed reward for any information leading to an arrest of the vandals. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the Orem Department of Public Safety at 229-7083. Hooley Continued from Page 1 three-month personal leave from her place of employment, employ-ment, purchased an airline ticket by credit card and was set to visit the US. "I promised my dad I would get a job in the US and pay off the credit card debt," said Alejandra. Alejandra arrived in Utah in 1997 to find things were different from what she anticipated. an-ticipated. "I found that I couldn't really re-ally speak the language after all," said Alejandra. "I had been taught old English. My second day here I got a job. working at a burger place. I couldn't understand what people ordered, and I had no clue of the money system. I asked the girl working next to me everything. She was kind and helped me. I really felt handicapped for quite awhile, but eventually eventu-ally I caught on and, as I had promised, I paid off the credit card." Within a month Alejandra had purchased a car and was renting with students. : "It was very difficult getting get-ting use to things here," said Alejandra. "But I was living independently. I felt much safer here, and the people are very nice. I decided to stay." i While living in Orem she was invited to a party. She was reluctant to go, but agreed. While there, she noticed no-ticed a tall, handsome man looking at her. "I was very happy when he came over to me and spoke to me in Spanish, although al-though his Spanish wasn't very good," Alejandra said. Jeremy Hooley had been invited to the party by a friend. He had recently been divorced and was living alone and feeling a bit out of place. As he had been working for the past 12 years as a manager at a pallet plant, he had learned to use quite a lot of Spanish, working with Spanish-speaking employees. "I was happy to have the opportunity to speak it outside out-side the work place," said Hooley. "It gave me a good opportunity to meet a beautiful beauti-ful woman." Hooley had been working work-ing nights as a bouncer in a Provo bar. He had a friend who suggested martial arts skills and together they trained in jujitsu and multi-kick multi-kick boxing. Then Hooley heard on the radio about a fighting circuit with prize money. Since he was struggling to keep up on his child support, it sounded like a good opportunity to earn some extra cash. "I lost my first fight by decision," said Jeremy. "I lost my second fight by knockout." knock-out." But since that time, Hooley has lost few fights. He brought home a first place trophy in 2003 for "Utah Valley Val-ley Main Event, Return of the Warrior." He now does the "No Holds Barred" events, which is all out fighting. "If I were free to travel and train more, I could earn really good money in this," said Hooley. baldextraxom YOUR ONLINE SOURCE FOR LOCAL NEWS northcoun |