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Show r Thursday, January 10, 2008 OREM TIMES Page 15 Elder Quest There will be an Elder Quest luncheon on Jan. 16, 12:30 p.m., at Chillon Reception Center, 710 E. Center St., Spanish Fork. Cost for the dinner is $13. Teacher Barbara Wardle will talk and show works of the famous Holland painter, ' Vincent van Gogh. Elder Quest is a life-long learning organization spon- ' sored by UVSC for seniors over 50. For more information call Joan Hahn 423-1072. Elder Quest winter quarter classes are as follows: Writing Your Personal History taught by Helen Weeks, Literature taught by Dale and Margene Shumway with Kay Moon, local author, talking about his book "Leah's Shadow;" Shakespeare for Beginners, Ellaree Howard; The Life and Teachings of Hugh Nibley, Don Norton; Popular Old Movies, Jim Ogren. Also The World and I, Richard Rich-ard Riser; Becoming Our Better Self, Phyllis Hansen; Lessons on the Organ at the Orem Piano Gallery, Rhoda Zobell; Classical Composers Study (Beethoven and Bach), Clel Jensen; Lost Trails, Fred Gowans; "Science: Great Discoveries Review," John Cook; Potpourri for Seniors, David Da-vid Galbraith; Wills and Trusts, Julia Blair; Traveling in Today's World, Joan Hahn; Mental Health Considerations for the Elderly, El-derly, Ted Terry; and Armchair Travel taught by Steven Crook. Orem Senior Friendship Center Senior Citizens are encouraged encour-aged to visit the Orem Senior Friendship Center to meet with friends and enjoy a variety socially enriching experiences and programs. Membership in the Orem Senior Friendship Center organization orga-nization is open to all men and women, 55 years of age and older, and is required to participate partici-pate in any of the Orem Senior Friendship Center classes and other offerings. Cost of the center cen-ter membership is $3 per year or $25 for a lifetime membership. More information on the center is available at 229-7111. The center office at 93 N. 400 East is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Trips and Tours Seniors are allowed only to sign up for themselves and a spouse or a senior-aged friend. Current Orem Senior Friendship Center mem- , ber ships are required for all participants par-ticipants on the tours. Sign-ups " for February tours began Jan. 2. Senior Day Feb. 7 is annual an-nual Senior Day at the state legislature. Bus leaves at 8 a.m. and there is no cost. Living Legends The BYU exhibit "Living Legends" is Feb. 8 with the bus leaving for the campus at 6:45 p.m. The fee is $10. Wendover Turn-around Bus leaves at 8 a.m. Feb. 13 weather permitting. Cost is $8. Pirates of Penzance The bus will leave Feb. 18 at 6:45 p.m. for Valley Center Playhouse to see "Pirates of Penzance." Cost is $5. She Loves Me Hale Center Cen-ter Theater production of "She Loves Me" is on Feb. 28 for seniors. se-niors. Bus leaves at 7 p.m. and cost is $15.50. Driver Safety The Orem Senior Se-nior Friendship Center is hosting the AARP Driver Safety Course on Jan. 23 and Jaa 24, 8 a.m. to noon. Attendance is required both days to get credit for the class and cost is $10. Clinics Gentiva is sponsoring sponsor-ing a blood pressure clinic on Jan. 15, 10:30 a.m. to noon; Hospice Hos-pice for Utah is sponsoring one at the same time on Jan. 17 and Dignity has a clinic on Jan. 18. Transportation Home-bound Home-bound individuals have transportation transpor-tation available to them through United Way by calling 374-9306. Meals are cooked at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center and are furnished by Mountainland Association of Governments. Meals on Wheels Mountainland Moun-tainland Association of Governments Gov-ernments can provide a hot, nutritious meal to those seniors who are homebound as well. Call 229-3802 to be placed on the delivery list. Birthdays On the first Friday Fri-day of each month a Birthday Party is held to honor all Orem Senior Friendship Center members mem-bers who have a birthday in the current month. Come and pick a birthday gift and enjoy ice cream served following lunch. Luncheons The suggested donation for the meal is $2 for 60-plus seniors and $4.90 for those 59 years old and younger. The suggested donation for salads is $2.25 for seniors and $5.65 for those 59 or younger. Mountainland Moun-tainland Association of Governments Gov-ernments and the State of Utah fund the senior lunch program. MENU Friday Swiss steak, mashed potatoes pota-toes and gravy, mixed vegetables, veg-etables, tossed salad, tapioca pudding, white roll. Monday Battered dipped cod, cream peas and new potatoes, grape juice, cherry cream crunch and white roll. Tuesday - Baked chicken leg, mashed potatoes and gravy, whole kernel ker-nel corn, fruit cocktail, chocolate choco-late pudding, white roll. Wednesday ; Beef aroni casserole, broccoli, broc-coli, peaches, apple crisp and whole, wheat roll. Thursday Baked pork steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, peas, cottage cot-tage cheese and pears, rice pudding, white roll. I p -J i' lbXwtlSro en Ih!d ' ; t Just bring in your empty cartridges. -: thin fl ; Special Offer: Nwmber 1 2007 - January 31 2008 EARN DOUBLE POINTS Will Your Family First MSA Extra Awards Carl RatfAtLowAiWO ' '. Fixed APR (oe) 1. Double points on all purchases in November & December 2, Double points on alj balance transfers in January & axt a to BWMtfi sack varm mmmm tor arm rMm www Ww .earning to be a leader Editor's note: This is the third in a series about Bert Gividen of Orem. Basic training train-ing for Gividen ends (after he battles double pneumo nia and terrific headaches), and he declines Officer Training School (which would have meant extending his enlistment a year), i I found myself back at Fort Ord for Leadership School, after which I was advanced in rank to corporal. More : money, anyway. I took one week's furlough, drove my car home, was ordained an elder, el-der, went through the temple, and took the bus back to Fort Lewis. My orders were to prepare to be shipped to Korea Ko-rea for active duty. The ship took us from Seattle Seat-tle to Anchorage, Ala., where we dropped off some of our soldiers. The huge mountains by Anchorage were covered with snow, and they dropped straight down into the ocean. .What a magnificent sight! Then it was across to the Aleutian Islands for refueling and supplies. As we headed out into the Pacjf ic Ocean, I began to understand why our ship was ready to be retired from the fleet of troop ships. This would be its last voyage voy-age and it turned out to be nearly ours. We hit a big storm just as we approached the International Date Line. That bucket of bolts seemed to come apart when we hit that BIG storm! We were forced to stay in our bunks and not allowed out of the deck at all. Try to imagine trying to feed 10,000 men breakfast, lunch and dinner, din-ner, with no one allowed out on the deck. One morning when we entered the mess hall for breakfast, we noticed that the bench seats had all been lifted up so no one could sit at the mess table. So you placed your tray on the stainless steel surface of the table, but as you reached for something, letting your tray go, the ship would pitch and your tray of food would go sailing down the table and off onto the floor. Then we realized why there had been trays, silverware, silver-ware, and food all over floor when we entered. 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It seemed that all we did was get in line, wind through the guts of the ship for three to four hours, eat in the mess hall, and then get back in line for the next meal. I got so sick and tired of my bunk and standing in line that I finally found my way to the crew quarters (off limits), into a stairwell, and onto the deck. And that was the wildest wild-est experience I have ever had in my life. I was the only one out on the deck. The wind was howling howl-ing ferociously, and the ship was hitting waves straight on. The front of the ship would rise so high in the air you thought it was trying to fly. Then the bow would descend into a high wave and water would splash across the bow, washing down the entire ship. I would jump back into a stairwell and close the ddor whenever I saw one of those waves coming. Sometimes the ship would get caught sideways, and as it rolled down into the depth of a wave, the railing would almost touch the water. The next roll in the opposite direction direc-tion would rise so high that I could look over the bridge and see the ocean below me. I've never seen anything so powerful in my life. The ship was just like a cork on the ocean. After about 15 minutes, a crewman spotted me from the inside, came to the door where I was standing, and ordered me below. I'd had enough anyway. I went to my bunk and left my fate in the, hands of the ship's crew and, God. We were in the storm for a week, and the ship took 21 days tp arrive at Sasebo, Japan, where we changed ships and eventually landed in Inchon Harbor, Korea. These excerpts from local veterans are courtesy of the Orem Heritage Committee. Complete stories of the veterans will eventually be put on the Orem City Web site, www. orem. org. Readers aware of any veterans who have written about their military service are asked to arrange t o have these archives in the Veterans History Project, Library of Congress. 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