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Show Page 2 Thursday, October 30, 2008 OREM TIMES NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED Woman's collection tells Americas past Reva Bowen NORTH COUNTY STAFF Kathryn Loveless of Orem has a collection collec-tion of newspapers that includes copies announcing the winners of the presidential presiden-tial elections going back to Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. "I thought. Tm going to save that (newspaper),' when I voted for Eisenhower. Eisenhow-er. That was the first election I was old enough to vote. I just continued," Loveless said. The collection has newspapers announcing announc-ing the election wins of Eisenhower. John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, James Earl Carter, Ronald W. Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, and George W. Bush. (Gerald R. Ford, who succeeded Nixon as president after the hitter's resignation resig-nation in the wake of the Watergate scandal, scan-dal, did not win election to the presidency, losing to Carter in 1!J7(.) In addition to the election coverage, Loveless has saved newspapers with accounts of other significant national events, such as astronaut John Glenn's orbiting of the earth: the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle; the assassination of Robert Kennedy; and, more recently, the execution of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Loveless s collection also includes articles ar-ticles detailing historical events in the LDS Church, and local happenings, such as former for-mer Brigham Young University football coach La Veil Edwards's "good-bye" to the community in retiring from his coaching position. , "It's a hobby." Loveless said, "but what do you do with them? How do you display newspapers? So. I have them in a trunk." She said she has begun putting some of the papers in a filing cabinet. Loveless said she has voted in each of the presidential elections since Eisenhower, Eisen-hower, and not always for one party spreading her votes among Democrat, Republican, and Independent party candidates. can-didates. "I haven't liked some of the (candidates) that have gotten in," she said. "I haven't ever voted early, but I always vote. I don't think you can complain unless you vote." Her favorite president among those for whom she has voted is either Reagan or Eisenhower, she said. Loveless laughed as she recalled getting a speeding ticket in 1996 when the election elec-tion returns were coming in showing that Clinton would be re-elected to a second term. "1 was so mad. The policeman who gave me the ticket told me I'd better be careful if I was going to get home safely," she said. After Kathryn's marriage to LaVar Loveless in December of 1950, the couple moved to Orem, where they raised a family fam-ily of four children. (One child died as an infant.) Today, their posterity includes 20 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. Loveless's family has actually shown more interest in her three other collections than in the newspapers, the matriarch acknowledged. She has 300 Santa Clauses, a number of nativity sets, and dozens of small containers of sand she has gathered since 1971 from her travels all over the United States and around the world. It's a hobby, but what do you do with them? How do you display newspapers? So, I have them in a trunk. Kathryn Loveless OREM RESIDENT, NEWSPAPER COLLECTOR Meet Continued from Page I does not list his party affiliation affilia-tion on his signs. "It's a matter of timing," Thompson said. "I have found that in Utah County, some people stop listening when they hear the word Democrat'. I would like them to hear a little more." Thompson emphasized his opposition to gay marriage and to abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. He said he is fiscally fis-cally conservative and opposed to raising taxes. An opponent of school vouchers, Thompson said of education, "We need to target class size particularly the first three grades." Steve Baugh, D-Orem, a former superintendent of the Alpine School District, is challenging incumbent House District 58 Rep. Stephen Sand-strom, Sand-strom, R-Orem, for his seat in the Utah Legislature. Baugh said he and his wife have lived in the same home in Orem for about 36 years, and have raised their eight children in Alpine District schools. Naming education as one of the top concerns of people he has spoken with, Baugh called for increased salaries for teachers, lower class sizes, and "more accountability" for performance. He supports "choice opportunities in education educa-tion within our public school system," mentioning charter and public schools, but said he is not an advocate of school vouchers. "To me, (the use of vouchers) vouch-ers) is a particular use of public funds for a particular, private purpose," Baugh said. Regarding the health care issue, is-sue, he said accessibility should be increased. Baugh also said he favors ethics reform in the state. "I believe our tough times call for strong, proven leadership leader-ship and experience." Baugh said. Rep. Stephen Sandstrom is a graduate of Orem High School and BYU, and has served three terms on the Orem City Council. "Never have I been prouder, or more comfortable with my positions on key issues we face in Utah," Sandstrom said. Stating that he is "against big government forcing itself upon us," and "against raising taxes for social problems that replace personal responsibility," responsibil-ity," Sandstrom said "In sum, I'm against all efforts of state government here in Utah to intrude into the lives of citizens in any way where local government gov-ernment or the individual can do better." Incumbent Alpine School Board member Debbie Taylor and challenger Elaine Rodriguez, Rodri-guez, both who live in Orem, are the candidates for the A6 school board seat. Taylor said student learning is her "number-one focus," and that what she wants for her own and other children is for "a love of learning to be developed devel-oped in their hearts through their education." "We expect the teacher in the classroom to have all the tools possible to make the best decisions for curriculum and for teaching their children what they need to know," she said. Elaine Rodriguez called for more parental and teacher input into the decision-making process of the school board. "I believe that it is time to put the public back in public education," she said. Funding needs to be invested in preparing students for the future jobs and positions in society so-ciety they will hold, Rodriguez said. "It's time that our funds and the money we put into education educa-tion actually make it to our children," she said. Service Continued from Page 1 come an annual autumn activity. Also this year, churches and organizations other than The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were invited to join with the 1 1 LDS wards and two branches participating in the project. Tours were planned for visitors from Provo and Edgemont, and Hoffman said there is a possibility that next year, one of the invited churches will be partnering in the effort. The LDS Church has provided pro-vided some of the materials, but many come from individual individ-ual donations, Hoffman said. At the heart of the neighborhood's neigh-borhood's tradition of service is the work of women who are residents of the Seville Retirement Residence. A group headed up by Norma Wilcox makes items such as dresses, blankets, nightgowns, night-gowns, slippers, T-shirts, jackets, bibs, and booties for charitable causes. Dolls are sewn by the women at the Seville and donated do-nated to Primary Children's Hospital to be used by doctors doc-tors in giving explanations of surgeries or medical procedures proce-dures to the young patients. The dolls are faceless, so that the recipients can fill in their own features if they desire. Every three weeks, a load of completed items from the retirement home is taken to the humanitarian service center cen-ter in Provo. Also valued are the Eagle Scout projects conducted by boys in the area to give ser- " vice. A display at the service event showed pictures of a project organized by Eagle Scout candidate Davey Run-nells. Run-nells. Runnells organized volunteers to cut wood into blocks and sand them. Next, a Girl Scout group was enlisted to do the final sanding and finishing of the 4,300 blocks destined to go in kits to orphanages, or wherever wher-ever the items are needed, Runnells said. The quilts are given to local lo-cal police and paramedics, to be used in traumatic incidents inci-dents like accidents, fire, or crime, to comfort and help children. Hoffman said the humanitarian humani-tarian volunteers enjoy socializing, so-cializing, while at the same time doing something productive. pro-ductive. "They love it," she said. "They love giving back." NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS ' 399 E. Stale St. Pleasant Grove Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 Marc Haddock 443 -3268 North County Editor mhaddock heraldextra com Cathy Allred 443 3262 Lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. Grove callredheraldextra.com Barbara Christiansen 443 3264 American Fork, Alpine, Cedar Hills bchristiansenheraldextra.com Mike Rigert 443 3265 Orem, Vineyard mrigertheraldextra.com Beky Beaton 443-3267 Sports bbeatonheraldextra.com Josh Walker 443 3260 Advertising Account Executive jwalkerheraldextra.com DAILY HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager Megan Carleton 344 -2570 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Allison Davies 344 2570 DesignerCopy Editor Ashley Franscell 344-2585 Photographer Volume 135 Issue 45 Pony Express, an editor of the Lehi Free Press Dairy Herald Edrtran, USPS 309-500. a weekly newspaper published at 399 E State St.. Pleasant Grove. Utah 84063 Periodicals postage pad at Pleasant Grove, Utah 84062 and ataddrtonal mailing offices. Poliialr: Send address changes to North County Newspapers. PO Box 7. American Fork. Utah 84003-0007. Published Thursdays by Lee Publications, whchsarjvisionof Lee Enterprises, Ire. Mmbr: Audit Bureau of Draiations Long lines for early voting, but worth waiting for m - after e took care of some unfinished business Monday, returning to the American Fork Library to vote early. Time was running out for us, since we are planning a trip to visit the grandkids and their parents and will be out of town on Nov. 4. It took an hour and 45 minutes standing in a slow-moving line to get to the polls Monday afternoon, and it seemed a lot longer. It was not unlike waiting for a table at the new Olive Garden restaurant in American Ameri-can Fork, except you had to stand in line because no one was going to call your name. The line snaked through the library's li-brary's rotunda and it seemed as if about 45 minutes you were only minutes away from the voting booths. But that turned out to be a bit of smoke-and- mirror business. Just before reaching the table where voters presented their identification, identifica-tion, the line took a turn to the left and the line detoured into another large meeting room and adding 45 more minutes to the wait. Who knew voting could be such hard work? Those voting early were from all walks of life old and young. There were even a few mothers with their young children, waiting all that time. It's been like that throughout the early voting process. Each night as I drove by the library last week, the library parking lot was full, and the line was just as long. I don't know if the lines will be this long on Tuesday, when the general election is held. There will certainly be more polling places, and more convenient hours from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. instead of just from 3 to 7 p.m. That may help. But the fact that so many people were willing will-ing to spend two hours of their busy day to vote is an indicator that there is a lot of interest inter-est in this election. It's little wonder a record turnout is predicted. Some voters were put off by the long line, but the vast majority came to participate in the process, and they weren't leaving until ill Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN they had marked their ballots and received their "I Voted" stickers. We may be experiencing some troubled times, but we haven't given up yet. It was good to see so many people determined to have a voice in their government. By way of other unfinished business, busi-ness, we introduced our new electric elec-tric automobile the one made by Fisher-Price to a passel of grand-kids grand-kids this weekend. A few weeks ago we purchased the kid-sized replica of a Ford F-150, assembled it and charged up the battery for a night of Indiana Jones- style adventure. Scott, the oldest grandson, drove the younger kids around the yard to a series of simple adventures. The ambiance was enhanced en-hanced with some authentic jungle sounds and many candles lighting their way. Then they all wanted to take the car for a spin. The most fun was watching 5-year-old Al-yson Al-yson go speeding down the sidewalk at 5 mph, her pigtails fluttering in the wind and 3-year-old Fiona at her side. You could hear the squeals of laughter all the way down the road. Several of them were back on Sunday for a second spin, this time in daylight. When Scott was taking an extended ride, one of our neighbors, who had seen me building the car a week earlier, watched with some amusement, shaking his head. His son, Ephraim, was riding his bike. Ephraim had also been there when I was putting put-ting the car together a few weeks earlier. "I wrote about you in the newspaper," I told him. "I know." "You aren't mad at me?" I asked. "It's OK. I have a copy of it in bedroom." "That's the price of having me as a neighbor," neigh-bor," I told him. My other neighbors have already learned that. He was undeterred. "Can I ride in the car now?" he asked. I'd let him, but I just dont think he'd fit. He's a big kid and it's a tiny car. We'd have to pry him out with a crow bar. Seville Continued from Page 1 LDS Church's Orem Seville Branch of the Orem Park Stake for Deseret Industries and the church's humanitarian humanitar-ian program. The volunteers have converted the retirement retire-ment center's activity room into a veritable Santa's workshop where the women sew quilts, baby blankets, and various articles of clothing. cloth-ing. T-shirts, jackets, dresses and trousers are made from approved patterns that have neither buttons nor clasps or zippers, because such items may not be readily available to the people they're going to, Vermillion said. Though the women have varying skills and abilities, every one does what she can, and items get transferred around the center in an assembly as-sembly line process until they are completed for the twice-monthly pickups, said Teresa Hadley, a manager at The Seville. The volunteers work on various handiworks in the activity center or on their own in their individual apartments. "I just feel like even though I'm old and there's lot of things I can't do, there's lot of things I can do," Vermillion Ver-million said. "... I had boys, so I didn't make any dresses. I used to make all my own clothes." Materials such as fabric, batting and thread are donated do-nated by stake members and the church. Velda Peterson, 85, works on two to three quilts per day, and said the volunteers have made nearly 700 blankets blan-kets in the past year. She remembers the story of one poor little girl in a foreign country who had to improvise impro-vise until she received a doll. "(She) wanted a doll so bad she had wrapped up a rock," Peterson said."We're doing this to help children who have been through a disaster." Not all the women's hand-crafted items leave the Beehive State. Special hospital dolls they make are used by doctors at area hospitals to show children undergoing surgery the procedure they're having. Baby blankets are frequently requested by hospitals for newborns and fire and police departments to comfort child victims of tragedy, said Dora Fitch, a volunteer who makes the hair for dolls and sews T-shirts. "Yesterday, we sent 12 to the Nephi hospital," she said. Fitch, 94, said she participates partici-pates because she feels like she's serving others. "I think you need to remember re-member we're all 80-years old or older," she said. Once in a while, the women even hear back from children and families who have received their labors of love. They've gotten thank-you thank-you letters from recipients in Armenia, Mongolia and South Africa. "They were more than thrilled to get them," Fitch said. Hadley said the program offers residents something other than Bingo and card games and is as rewarding for them as it is for the children chil-dren they help. "It gives them purpose and self-esteem," she said. "And they visit in there and it's a good social environment." The Seville is looking into adding woodworking tools for men at the center to sand and paint building blocks so they can also get in on the act. Though the entire stake is involved, Hadley said proudly proud-ly that the Seville Branch turns out the majority of the project's output. "We blow everybody else out of the water," she said with a smile. "There's no comparison. They can try." Contributions The Humanitarian Effort products made by Tha Seville volunteers in the past year I Quilts 560 Balls 1,605 Dolls 1,150 I Stuff animals 1,127 Sock monkeys 376 Jackets 327 Hats 362 I Hospital dolls 289 I Burp clothes 36 I Bibs . Hi i Slippers , 139 Dresses 205 Nightgowns 169 Trousers 450 I T-shirts 82 Soutre: The Seville Retirement Retire-ment Center - |