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Show ORE M TIMES Page 3 Donations Continued from Page 1 The Provo-based organization provides hot meals, shelter and other services to the homeless. "The idea was 'Don't think about what you're going to get (during the holidays) but what you're going to give to others who have less than you do," Johnson said. "It's a good way to get the entire community involved in-volved and build community in the minds of people." Laura Bascom, the volunteer coordinator in Orem's Public Works department, headed up the Share the Season project, now in its second year. Because of the current economic hardships hard-ships on many Americans, they wanted to branch out this year and collect food items as well as grocery store gift cards and other humanitarian items for the Food & Care Coalition. "I just got a big bag of potatoes pota-toes from someone," she said. "It's been a really positive response." re-sponse." Bascom placed three hand-built hand-built and painted scaled-down Christmas collection sleighs at three locations around the city for residents to deposit donation dona-tion items through Friday at 5 p.m. A final pickup will be made during the day on Monday, Mon-day, Dec. 22. They include a sleigh just outside out-side the City Council chambers in the lobby at City Hall near the large Christmas tree, one at the Orem Fitness Center, and a third at the Orem Public Works Building, 1450 W. 550 North. She said the city selects a different nonprofit every year in order to do the maximum amount of good while also helping help-ing create greater awareness about local humanitarian orga nizations. "I felt that not a lot of people are familiar with the Food & Care Coalition," Bascom said. And the donations have been pouring in, she said. Bascom has made daily trips since Dec. 1 to the collection points and has been called back to the City Hall sleigh at least a second time in the same day. "AD I know is the sleigh outside my office is full every day," Johnson said. "It's been great." Bascom said the city has collected col-lected everything from food to toys to stuffed animals. One do nor gifted a fish bowl kit complete com-plete with ornamental rocks and fish food. "I've just gotten really random ran-dom items," she said. "People are just creative." City employees also participate partici-pate in the Sub for Santa program pro-gram but created the Share the Season donation drives to allow employees who couldn't afford to sponsor an entire family and the general public to have a means to contribute in a meaningful mean-ingful way during the holidays, she said. The most needed items are the grocery gift cards, used by the Coal it on to purchase perishable perish-able foods to make hot meals, and non-perishable food items including: canned turkey, beef or pork; spaghetti sauce; beef stew, canned sloppy joe sauce; chicken or beef broth; canned vegetables; and canned pie filling. fill-ing. Other suggest items are personal per-sonal hygiene items, laundry detergent, blankets, sleeping bags, winter coats, baby wipes and diapers, and children's books, games, art supplies and stuffed animals. For more information about Share the Season, contact Thursday, December 18, 2008 Traditions Continued from Page 1 box," and had a "12 days of Christmas" activity wherein the children were allowed to receive a small gift from the box each day as a way of "defraying the build-up" of excitement ex-citement to manageable levels. Examples of the gifts were a pair of socks, a marshmallow Santa, pencils, or a game to share. When a son was away from home on his LDS Church mission, mis-sion, Thurston made arrangements arrange-ments with a woman who was the son's neighbor to surprise the young man with the 12 days tradition. Thurston enjoys creating handmade Christmas cards, but does them in August, when it's too hot to be outside. "I love that. That's a great joy," she said. Orem employees are the beneficiaries of another Thurston Thur-ston tradition making goodies good-ies and delivering them to the city's executive staff. "Christmas is about doing for other people, that's what we have found," Thurston said. In following a tradition of giving help to a family in need, her children have made "more of a memory than with the actual ac-tual Christmas," she said. Councilman Mark Seast-rand Seast-rand said an important tradition tradi-tion for himself and his wife, Shelly, is to collect ornaments associated with the big events and trips of the year, and to add them to a tree that show UCAS Continued from Page 1 ver" for one of the top high schools in math, reading and college readiness. "We have kids in Utah that can be successful if they're given giv-en an opportunity said UCAS principal Clark Baron. Baron said the honor is not a big surprise for the charter school in its fourth year. The school has been continually recognized as a top-performing institution since it opened in 2005. Baron said the rating speaks for the high school's high achievement, where students stu-dents are above-average in I5lltV"-'.UU1li;-P' ll FUNNITURI DIRICT urn I l Mill If 10 It I I I mWNITUWl PIHICT L mm, mmion this ad rca so bokvs cx caterial K0S FEItr.OUS EETALS AKD 12 PE3 TOM FCn . r-- f VVj buy dl types cf Ms-tcU. Sc;1, Autos, Appit-c-ccs, Aluminum, Aluminum Cans, Copper, Erass, Radiators, E'cir.lcss Sfssl end Ccilteriis. cases similar finds from years past. "This goes back to 1982, when we got married," Councilman Coun-cilman Seastrand said. "The tree's getting pretty full now, but it's a lot of fun." The Seastrands have a Christmas Day brunch when they invite both sets of parents over for the meal, which includes in-cludes a traditional Christmas souffle. "We try to go to the Mormon Mor-mon Tabernacle Christmas program when we can get tickets," said Seastrand. "And we have to wait to open presents pres-ents on Christmas morning there are no 'sneak peeks' for us." Seastrand's siblings and their spouses get together for a post-Christmas dinner and white elephant gift exchange. "We've had a lot of family fam-ily movies and snapshots," he said. "I've tried to pull together to-gether a Christmas montage every couple of years. I don't do it every year, because it's so much work." Councilman Dean Dickerson said it is a tradition in his family fam-ily to read "The Polar Express" at Christmas time. "We have hot chocolate, and ring the bells," Dickerson said. "We also enjoy reading the scripture story of Jesus Christ's birth)." The Dickersons try to attend at-tend the Tabernacle Choir concert, and like to walk around Temple Square to see the lights. "We open up one Christmas gift on Christmas Eve," the their ACT scores and graduation gradua-tion rates. "We have great students and unbelievable faculty," he said. UCAS is a unique school on the list, not only because it is a charter school, but also because it does not use some of the achievement measures used by U.S. News and World Report. The study looked at the achievement of high-school student bodies in part through AP and IB test performance. UCAS is a school designed to help students receive an associate's degree through concurrent enrollment at Utah Valley University. "We don't have any of those a-r- i-pia 3 HE mm 2Ji mm STEEL -- councilman said, then added that his family also likes to take cookies and treats to the public safety dispatchers who have to work that night. In Karen McCandless's family, what is estimated to be a 70-year-long tradition, continues strong. The tradition began when a grandmother read a Christmas story from a 1929 women's magazine at a family gathering. Each year, the story is read again. "The men don't participate," the councilwoman said, and new embellishments, including sound effects, are added during dur-ing the retellings for a unique, quirky tradition. As the only family member living away, she gets a report each year on the new additions to the story. The McCandless family reads the Christmas story from the Bible, and pertinent scriptures from the Book of Mormon. "We don't have enough kids to really do a knock-out nativity," nativ-ity," McCandless acknowledged, acknowl-edged, but said her family enjoys en-joys having a nice Christmas Eve dinner with neighbors. Most of Councilwoman Margaret Black's grandchildren grandchil-dren live out of the area, but she draws them closer with a special tradition. "I have a 'grandma tree,'" Black said. "I get an ornament orna-ment for each of the grandchildren, grand-children, and send it to them, then I have matching ornaments orna-ments on my grandma tree. That way, they know Grandma Grand-ma and Grandpa are thinking of them, and they think of us, AP and IB classes because we're on the UVU campus," Baron said. "Instead of offering AP English, we send our kids over to take English 1010." Baron said the school is grouped with other high schools in the ratings, but the Bronze rating does not have quite the same meaning for the school because of its unique curriculum. Baron said it would not be fair to use the rating to say UCAS is better than some local high schools because the schools are not designed de-signed for the same purpose. "We have a different role," he said. Baron said UCAS will likely not make its way to a Gold ! -It-V 1 i w f r t y i mmmm too." Black enjoys sending the grandchildren advent calendars, cal-endars, making homemade bread for her neighbors, and having a Christmas Eve dinner and program at her father's home in Provo. Family Fam-ily members save their pocket change through the year, and in the "Christmas jar" tradition, donate the money anonymously to someone in need. Black's mother passed away three years ago, but the family sings her favorite hymn, "I Believe in Christ," at the program. "We have a large family that includes 17 grandchildren," grandchil-dren," said Mayor Jerry Washburn, "so we try to do what is oriented to the grandchildren grand-children and their talents." The Washburns have a Christmas Eve dinner and program that includes a talent show, reading the scriptural account of the nativity, and reading the classic poem, "The Night Before Christmas". The Washburn celebration also includes what the mayor termed "a full re-enactment of the nativity scene," complete with costumes and props. It is traditional to put a western saddle on one of the men, who assumes the role of a donkey and gives rides to the kids. "Fortunately, all of our children chil-dren live close by, so the family fam-ily is back on Christmas morning, morn-ing, and we have crepes, with all kinds of toppings," Washburn Wash-burn said. "The crepes have been a family tradition for generations from Sweden." rating anytime soon because the ratings use AP tests. However, How-ever, he said he is happy for the school's recognition. "It would make absolutely no sense at all to offer AP classes," he said. "And I'm certainly cer-tainly not going to do that for the ratings." 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