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Show I Thursday, September 11, 2008 Page 12 OREM TIMES Emily Marlow NORTH COUNTY STAFf At some point in every -one s lives, there is a time when we would like to take time and bottle it like a fine wine. I would like to bottle every second of everyday that 1 spend with my children and my husband. I find no greater reward in life than being a wife and a mother. I watch our children grow daily, and wish I could stop time or at least slow it down. Our children are growing so quickly and I do not want to miss out on a second of the opportunity I have to be a mother. Many times at night, I will sneak into our children's bedrooms, bed-rooms, and just simply watch them sleep. There is nothing more beautiful than chubby rosy cheeks on a baby, or warm breath on your hand from the soon to be young men in your home, or the simple pattern of breathing and the beautiful blonde hair that lays so elegantly on the pillows of the princesses that live in our castle. I know that someday I will miss these quiet moments when it is just my little ones and myself, alone in t he moonlight of their rooms. I would like to sit at the bottom of their beds and hold their feet so that they are unable un-able to grow any bigger. Our oldest son is almost as tall as I am and I remember like it was just yesterday, when he could fit in the palm of my hand. As part of my heart would like to see our children stay small, I know that we must let them grow and become the people that we raise them to be. I just hope that all of our mistakes as parents will be erased in their memories, and the love and the time that we have spent with them will make a difference for the better. bet-ter. I love being a mommy. I wish I could bottle this time and keep it to come back to at any time in the future. But until someone figures out how to do this, I will cherish every second of everyday ev-eryday and know that this time in my life is short lived. I go back often to a thought from my father: "There are only two lasting things we can give our children. One is roots, the other, wings." I am grateful my parents gave me roots and wings and now I will pass that on to our children and cherish today and love every moment of childhood. Raising children is a lot like our veggie gardens. You start out with a seed and end up with a beautiful creation in the end. It takes time, patience, pa-tience, love and care everyday. every-day. And in the end when all of our creations are grown, we would like to bottle them and keep them just the way they are forever. This is hard with children, but easy with our vegetables. To give us more time with our veggies, we can do what is called blanching. Blanching helps to retain the color, flavor fla-vor and texture of vegetables that you would like to freeze. This is such a simple thing, J I" ' " V V - v Tymtra, J; ;;f IHttAWCIAl- f ' . ' ' 'I i ; " 756-5001 ffifc 686 EastllO South. Am. 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Keep them in a single layer. Place in the freezer for 4-6 hours. After frozen, place in a freezer safe Ziploc bag, label la-bel and keep in your freezer for up to one year. Boiling times: Green beans (the best garden gar-den veggie): 3 minutes Corn on the cob: 7 minutes. (You can cut the corn off the cob after placing in cold water, wa-ter, if you desire.) Yellow squash: l-1 ' minutes Carrots: 5 minutes Onions: (cut in half) 6 minutes min-utes Peas: -u minutes Peppers: (cut in half) 3 minutes A blanched veggie that has been blanched for the right amount of time, is a bright color all the way through, and when you cut your veggie veg-gie open in the middle, if the center of the veggie remains the raw, color that you started start-ed with, the veggie may need more blanching time. Try this recipe that you could use all year long, because be-cause you will have "fresh" veggies after you are finished fin-ished blanching. Veggie Vine Dip I 1 eight-ounce package light cream cheese 8-ounce carton nonfat plain yogurt I 1 large handful shredded Cheddar Ched-dar cheese or my favorite colby jack cheese. I I red or green pepper, seeded, and finely diced 1 1 garlic clove, minced OR 1 TBS bottled garlic (This is wonderful! won-derful! You can find it in a bottle in the produce department.) Directions: Beat well. You can keep this dip up to three weeks in the fridge. It is best to let your dip "rest" in the fridge 4-24 hours before serving. It helps to intensify the flavor. Until next week's batter chatter, have fun blanching and make wise choices with your time you never know how much you have left! I would be happy to answer an-swer your cooking questions and share your recipes with our readers, emilymarlowe connect2.com. "I want to know my family will be OK." Life insurance is an important part of your family's financial plan. 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A vehicle license plate was obtained ob-tained by store employees which led officers to contact Thomas at her home, where she was arrested. ar-rested. Thomas told the officers she "needed" the things she tried to take. Thomas has prior convictions convic-tions for shoplifting within the past 10 years making Monday's offense a felony. She was booked into the Utah County jail and is being held without bail pending an appearance before the judge. THEFT OF SERVICES A 32-year-old Cedar Hills man got himself into trouble early Tuesday morning after his car was impounded at an apartment complex by a private towing company. The Cedar Hills man NOTES FROM IRAQ Reflecting on Staff Sgt. Brock Jones I want to tell you a love story, of sorts. Not a common fairy tale, this love story is filled with conflict, war and sadness. It bristles with distance dis-tance and heartache. It is a story sto-ry of discovering unconditional love amidst turmoil and war. When I awoke on Sept. 11, 2001 to a voice on my clock radio ra-dio saying America was under attack, I knew life from that day forward would be different differ-ent somehow. When I watched the second plane fly into the other tower at a sick angle, I knew the current course that I was on had just been erased, and the only remnant of my life was like dust floating in and out of one or two bright beams of light. I sat in the living room of my grandparent's home, trying to force myself away from the television so I could go to work. I was punch-numb those first days following the attacks, as all of America was. It was as if the toxic cloud from the towers' horrific fall had rolled a dark silence over the entire country. For many, myself included, 9-11 Flu shots Flu shots are now available at the Utah County Health Department, 151 S. University Ave, Provo). In addition, the Health Department has scheduled sched-uled several flu clinics throughout through-out Utah County. In the north county area, flu wmiM AS COMPILED BY STAFF. originally appealed to the police department after finding his car had been towed, but was told the matter was civil and he would have to work it out with the towing tow-ing company that contracted parking enforcement with the apartment complex. The car owner decided to take matters into his own hands and circumvent circum-vent the $130 tow fee by breaking into the tow yard and driving off with his car. He was seen by the tow truck driver, who was returning return-ing to the yard and who reported the matter to the police. Officers found the Cedar Hills man northbound north-bound on the freeway and he was stopped. 32-year-old Kyle Fotheringham was cited for theft of services and criminal trespass, both class B misdemeanors. FIRE AT UNIVERSITY MALL Police and Fire fighters responded re-sponded Wednesday night, Sept. 3, at 10:56 p.m. on a reported fire alarm at University Mall. When emergency units arrived, they saw light smoke all the way out to State Street. As they got closer, the smoke was heavy coming from the northeast end of the mall near Mervyns. Work crews caused a crack in the continuity of our lives, creating a chasm separating life before 9-1 1 from life after. In the weeks following the attacks, my eyes would fill with tears at the sight of flag-lined flag-lined streets. I began to feel a need to act, a compulsion to do something more, a mental and spiritual whisper to seek out a new direction. That was seven years ago. Like a ricocheting bullet, the trajectory of my life was altered with the events of 9-11. I decided to join the Army and did so with both excitement and reluctance, compelled by a conviction that it was the right thing, in fact, the only thing for me to do. In the nearly seven years since, I have been to Iraq three times. I have come to understand under-stand why veterans of past wars stand as quickly as their feeble legs will allow when the flag passes on Main Street at the head of the Lehi parade. I know why those same men and women remove their hats to sing the National Anthem as it is played by the high school band before football and bas- now available in Utah County shots will be available at the following locations: Pleasant Grove Senior Citizen Citi-zen Center, Oct. 7 from 2 to 3 p.m. t Orem Senior Citizen Center, Oct. 10 from 9 a.m. to noon. I Lehi Senior Citizen Center, mmm Peaches RaspbeRRi'es Tomatoes Potatoes All GReen Vegetables Local Honey Pink Eye Beans BaRtletf PeaRS were working at the mall late to reassemble a Swiss Family Robinson-type tree in the courtyard area immediately outside the interior in-terior mall entrance to Mervyns. A welder was attempting to weld the metal frame of the tree to a structural beam in the mall when the polyurethane-type material mate-rial inside the tree itself caught fire. Workers on the scene tried in vain to put out the fire with extinguishers. The burning material mate-rial produced massive amounts of dark smoke, setting off the fire alarm. As the fire grew, it set off ceiling sprinklers inside the mall. Between the sprinklers and responding fire crews, the fire was knocked down before doing do-ing much damage by fire. There was fear that smoke and water damage would be significant, but looking at the damage inside the mall would seem to indicate that it may have been much less costly than what was originally feared, if you consider the tremendous tre-mendous amount of inventory in surrounding stores susceptible to smoke damage. A University Mall authority estimated the damage to $1.2 million. Sept. 11, 2001 ketball games. Because of 9-11, I have come to know that same unconditional love of country, and it causes tears to fill my eyes now. when I try to sing the National Anthem. Because of the decisions I have made since September 11, I have come to know love for another human being in its truest tru-est sense. I understand what it is to love and be loved un- , conditionally. Had I not joined the service. I likely would not know the love of my beautiful wife and sweet stepdaughter. Because of 9-11, 1 have come to understand and feel unconditional uncondi-tional love, and it causes my vision vi-sion to blur as I read the words of the letters and e-mails sent to me by the love of my life. I know why veterans shake when visiting the war memorials memo-rials in Washington. D.C. I have witnessed the power of brotherly love over the course of three deployments and six years in the military service. I think about my Army buddies daily. I doubt I would have made it as easily through two prior deployments had it not been for the brothers I was serving with, most of whom Oct. 17 from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Influenza vaccinations cost $23 if paid at the time of service. ser-vice. The UCHD accepts Altius, DMBA, Medicare, Medicaid, PHEP, Select Health and United Unit-ed Health Care plans. The Utah Department of ' o a q a o SICK OF FEELING SICK? Perhaps we can help. Q New medications and treatments are currently I being studied for the following conditions: D I Migraines Q I Atopic dermatitiseczema q I Children with allergies Hay fever i a Volunteers who qualify and participate in a ' clinical research trial receive study-related I medication, lab work and exams, as well as Q financial compensation for time and travel. I We invite you to call or visit our website for I additional information regarding these d investigational research studies SUSPICIOUS FEMALE - Police Po-lice took two similar reports Wednesday, Sept. 3, worthy of passing on to the public. In both instances, people living in homes listed for sale were approached ap-proached by well dressed Caucasian Cauca-sian women stating they wanted to look at the home as a possible buyers. In the first case (area of 800 West and 200 South), the woman was allowed to look through the home and started going through the cupboards. The homeowner reported that before being shown the entire home, the woman suddenly ran from the home and got into a white Cadillac Escalade and left the area. A similar report was made later in the day when a resident in the area 500 West and 300 South reported that a white woman in her late 30s, early 40s, with short, blonde hair and nicely dressed pulled up in a black SUV, possibly a Suburban and knocked on the door asking to look through the house. This woman, also looked through kitchen cupboards and then went upstairs unattended. When she came downstairs, she didn't want to look at any more of the house and left the home. It was later discovered that two books of checks had been taken from the upstairs bedrooms. bed-rooms. Despite the difference in vehicle, the description of the woman appears to be the same in both instances. are alive today, some of whom are not. I have come to believe in the power of unconditional love between friends. And so is told this strange love story. I live amazed that such knowledge, beautiful and real, could be created out of the horror and destruction of September 11. That I discovered discov-ered unconditional love as a result of the most awful act of unconditional hatred is beyond my ability to comprehend. I will often wonder how human beings can be so full of hate as to waste their own lives in the destruction of others, but I will never doubt the power and reality of unconditional love, nor its ability overcome and outshine and outlast even the most difficult and the darkest of days. I Staff Sgt. Brock Jones is a Lehi resident and graduate of Lehi High School. He is with the UXth Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Utah Army National Guard, and attached to the 4th Infantry Division. He is currently serving his third deployment to Iraq since 2003. Health's "Flu Locator" can be used to find a provider near you simply visit www. immunize-utah.org on the Web for providers, locations, hours, etc. For UCHD details, please see www.UtahCoutyHealth. com or call 851-7025. 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