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Show Page 4 OREM TIMES Thursday, December 18, 2008 rticker Warm the Soles With the weather getting colder, many Utah children are faced with the need for warm and reliable footwear to help them make it through the winter win-ter months. For nearly 15 years, Family f irst Federal Credit Union hits helped purchase shoes for children by participating participat-ing in the Utah league of Credit Union's annual Warm the Soles of Kids program. Each year, Utah credit unioas raise money to buy shoes for underprivileged underprivi-leged children throughout the state, and each year Family First Federal Credit Union has been the largest contributor. "The warm of soles program pro-gram is something that our staff and our members feel really re-ally strongly about," said Kate Whittaker, Family First Federal Credit Union assistant to the president. "With the help of our members, we've been able to take this program from only 50 pairs of shoes the first year we participated, to more than 9(X) pairs. That's a lot of kids that will have warm shoes for the winter." This year, Family First Federal Credit Union will help students from 13 Title I schools in the Alpine and Nebo school districts. Title I schwls are those schools that have a high percentage of students coming com-ing from low -income families, where there Ls generally a greater need for the program. Family First accepts donations dona-tions throughout the year for this event, with the majority of money raised coming from annual an-nual programs like the Skip-a-Payment program and discount events Socks for the homeless Socks needed for homeless people, who often don't wear socks during the cold weather (they perhaps don't own any and certainly don't have the means to wash socks). Going without socks often results in blisters, which sometimes become infected. Please donate Katie Smith, Operations Manager; 1543 NORTH SALT LAKE COUNTY: DRAPER MURRAY RIVERTON SANDY UTAH COUNTY: ALPINE AMERICAN FORK HIGHLAND LEHI OREMPROVO PLEASANT GROVE SARATOGA SPRINGS SPANISH FORK Lagoon tickets, where a portion of the processing fee or ticket price goes toward Warm the Soles of Kids; independent donations; do-nations; and the credit union's annual golf tournament. Shoe orders are taken from the schools, and Family First works with Mervyn's department store in Orem to fill those orders. or-ders. Each of the seven Family First branches is responsible for two schools. Employees at the respective branches wrap the shoes and deliver them to the schools where they can then be distributed to those in need. Maverik steps up charity On the morning of Wednesday, Wednes-day, Dec. 10, in the driveway of Maverik Inc.'s Bob Child's home in West Weber, $10,000 worth of turkey certificates intended in-tended for Maverik employees as holiday gifts from the company, com-pany, disappeared along with Child's car. "I was in my car Wednesday morning, ready to leave for work, when I remembered I needed a folder from inside the house. I ran into my house to retrieve it. When I returned, I saw my car pulling out of the driveway. Someone was stealing steal-ing my car along with $10,000 worth of employee certificates inside the car," said Child, executive regional director of Maverik. Child says he has filed a police po-lice report. While the theft is certainly troubling to the company, com-pany, Maverik will honor its holiday offer to its employees by buying new certificates. "We truly appreciate our employees and want them to be rewarded," said Maverik Vice President Brad Call. "We plan on replacing all the stolen certificates. After we found out about the theft, we decided that your unwanted socks: men's, women's and children's sizes. Last year we delivered more than 1,000 pairs of socks to the homeless shelter in Salt Lake City. Let's try to beat that number num-ber this year. Sock Boxes are clearly marked and will be in various locations oh campus, including the library, outside the Behavioral Science Department Depart-ment office, One Stop, The Woodbury Business Building and the English Department. Giving tree Help brighten a child's Christmas. Stop by the Giving Tree located next ri o m Jim Miller, Branch Manager; and Ryan Hunter, OUR BANK IS MOVING INTO SARATOGA SPRINGS. oiled out iocai moving ctav. .. : J" ofer'VAv - We've opened a new branch in Saratoga Springs with people who are very familiar with this great community-because community-because they already live here. So come meet Jim Miller, Branch Manager; Katie Smith, Operations Manager; and Ryan Hunter, Business Development Representative. They'll show you what our big-city banking and small-town service are all about from home loans to commercial funding and everything in between. No need to bring your truck, we've got plenty of help. A Bank of American Fork BIG CITY BANKING - SMALL TOWN SERVICE (800) 815-BANK bankaf.com SARATOGA SPRINGS BRANCH REDWOOD ROAD, SARATOGA SPRINGS, buying new certificates was the right thing to do." Every year, Maverik purchases pur-chases $ 10,000 worth of certificates certifi-cates for employees to redeem for frozen turkeys. As a suggestion, sug-gestion, the company encourages encour-ages its employees to donate these certificates to nonprofit organizations. The majority of employees in past years have chosen to give them away to organizations like The Road Home and the Utah Food Bank. "Stores across the country are encouraged to contact Norbest, the turkey certificate company for the cards, directly if they suspect that a large amount of certificates being redeemed re-deemed are possibly part of the stolen cards, " Child said. Nor-best's Nor-best's phone number is printed on the front side of the card and it is aware of the stolen certificates cer-tificates and their corresponding correspond-ing certificate numbers. "Our employees benefit from these certificates in more ways than one," Call said. "Consistently "Consis-tently more than 90 percent of Maverik employees choose to donate their coupons. This year is especially challenging due to the strained economy and we want to make sure that these coupons get to needy families." Maverik, Inc. is a western-based western-based convenience store and gas station chain with over 190 locations throughout the United States. ISFD offering writing workshop On Jan. 7-9 at the University of Utah University Guest House & Conference Center the Institute In-stitute for Strategic Funding Development will offer a Strategic Stra-tegic Grant Writing Prosposal Workshop. Running from 8:30 a.m.4:30 p.m. each day the workshop is a CFRE-accredited course for 20 contact hours or to Hogi Yogi in the Student Center. Take a dove off the tree and purchase the requested item. Return the item to SC 101 (Volunteer & Service-Learning Center) by Wednesday. Holiday show Holiday Night Live (Blackbox Repertory Reperto-ry Company) will be at 9 p.m. Monday in the Ragan Theater. Tickets are available through Campus Connection, 863-8797. Christmas Entertainment Farley Family Christmas will be showing nightly at 7:30 in the Ragan Theater, Wednes- Business Development Representative. UTAH 84045 20 CFRE continuing education points. Participants completing the ISFD grant writing workshop work-shop will receive the following: a certificate of completion accredited ac-credited by CFRE, grant funding fund-ing CD, bonus fundraising CD, expert grant training instruction instruc-tion from grant industry leaders lead-ers and much more. The Institute for Strategic Funding Development's grant writing workshop is a three-day three-day course designed to teach the basics of grant writing for industry professionals. It provides a comprehensive overview over-view of effective grant development devel-opment techniques, including: finding best fit funding sources, creating innovative programs and planning for funding sus-tainability. sus-tainability. The workshop is great for government, academic, academ-ic, research, health and nonprofit non-profit professionals new to the grant writing world as well for professionals looking to expand their grant writing knowledge. The workshop will provide an intensive and interactive grant proposal development experience, experi-ence, where you will learn the proposal writing process in its entirety and have great confidence confi-dence in writing future proposals. propos-als. As an extra added bonus, you will also be able to develop a draft proposal or have our instructor review one of your existing grant proposals. Educators, nonprofit professionals, profes-sionals, graduate students, administrators and researchers in the sciences and social sciences sci-ences should register as soon as possible. Spaces fills up quickly, which means registration is on a first-come, first serve basis. Tuition for our three-day grant writing workshop is $598 per person, with a $50 discount for early signups (14 business days or more before the workshop). work-shop). Visit online at www. isfdonline.com or give call 877-414-8991 to register. day through Saturday, and Dec. 22. Tickets are available through Campus Connection, 863-8797. Toy drive Sgt. Santa's Toy Drive, for children of deployed de-ployed service members from Utah County, is happening now. Many children in Utah County have one or both parents par-ents protecting our freedoms by currently serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. By donating new, unwrapped toys in these bins, these children will have a brighter Christmas even when Mom or Dad are far away from home during the holidays. Drop bins are located in the Veteran's office (BA-114) and Volunteer and Service-Learning Service-Learning office (SC 101). Other locations are the Aviation Avia-tion Building, Emergency Services Ser-vices Building and the Provo Airport campus. All are accepting ac-cepting gifts through today. H Save y . up to Furnace Tune-up or Green Sticker The July 1st deadline has passed but its not too late to get that 'green sticker' adjustment or a precision tune-up for just $69! ur get both services done for just $129! Sf Drug Tested SATISFACTION , 7 vjUAKAN I ttU (AFsi mum ft - J J Shooting targets veterans unnery training against enemy aircraft air-craft was a pretty standard procedure in World War II and the Korean conflict. An airplane towed a large, round sleeve (2 or 3 feet in diameter by 15 feet long) or banner (4 or 5 feet tall, 20 or 30 feet long). The targets were attached to the tow plane by a small but tough cable, then let out from 1,800 to 2,500 hundred hun-dred feet behind the tow plane. Gunners of all sorts shot at the towed target: fighter pilots, gunners on bombers, antiaircraft anti-aircraft guns on the ground and on ships. The bullets were often dipped in paint, so that when they penetrated the sleeve or banner, they left a colored mark which indicated who had hit the target. Hundreds of veterans have told their stories of shooting at those targets, and finally we've found a veteran whose job it was to let the targets out of the tow planes. Charles "Doc" Edmonds, Ed-monds, a retired veterinarian from Orem, spent three years in a tow-target squadron out of Biggs Air Force Base in Texas. But first let's get him into the Air Force "a story in itself," he says. It's quite story how I got inducted. I graduated from high school in 1946 and began attending the University of Maryland (I'm originally from Baltimore). I came home one weekend and found an "Uncle Sam wants you!" letter in the mail. I did not want to be in the infantry (flying was something that had always excited me as a boy, and I used to build model airplanes). I stayed away from the induction in-duction center till Monday, but went directly down to see the head of the Selective Service office, who happened to be a brigadier general. I walked into his office and said, "Sir, if I'm going to serve my country, coun-try, I do not want to be in the Army. I want to be in the Air Force." He sat back in his chair and said, "Son, today is Friday. If you are not in the Air Force by Monday, your backside will be in the Army." (Only he didn't use the word "backside.") I went right down the hall, signed up for the Air Force, and was taken within a week. I'd even had two years in the ROTC at the University of Maryland, but I was still drafted. draft-ed. I was told that I'd be going to officer candidate school, but then was told, "Let's wait Furnace & AIC Replacement Save $1400-$2700 and save on utility bills for this year and the years ahead with an efficient new system. Great financing also available! Call right now for a FREE, no obligation, in-home Comfort Analysis Background Checked Call Whipple (801)225-2188 Offers expire December 30, 2008 'jigs? ? till we get your paperwork all straightened out, and then we'll send you off to OCS." That never happened. I felt like a sheep being led to the slaughter. We enlistees were gathered together and put on a train. We only knew we were headed to someplace in Texas. We were sent to Lackland AFB, near San Antonio, and basic went fairly smoothly, though some of the instructors tried to scare you half to death. The Air Force picked up on my ROTC experience, so I was made a squad leader. We would have "GI parties," and anybody who's been in the service knows what those are: you carefully clean the barracks, using toothbrushes, wire brushes, or whatever is available. It all had to be spit and polish, or you had to do it over. At one GI party, our barrack bar-rack didn't have enough mops and brooms to do the job, so I said to one of the guys, "Hey, the barrack next to us are out on the drill field right now. Let's go over and 'borrow' their equipment." And that's what we did. Only we didn't borrow it, we stole it. Now they had nothing to clean their barrack with. After basic training, I was sent to Sheppard AFB for testing to see what I was best suited for. The tests showed electronics, though I don't know how that was figured. Our training consisted of four weeks of basic electronics, and then four weeks of advanced, during which we learned to operate electronic equipment on B45s and B47s that would search for an enemy aircraft, show it on an oscilloscope in the cockpit, and enable the co-pilot to lock on the target and fire the guns by remote control. But the system wouldn't work in turbulence or flak, so it was canned. That's when I was sent to Biggs AFB to a tow-target squadron. There were no prerequisites to what I did there it was all on-the-job training. Next week: How to operate a tow-wheel. I Don Norton, is a retired BYU professor of English, the former chairman of the Orem Heritage Commission, and currently a researcher for the Library of Congress's Veterans History Project and BYU's partner program Saints at War. If you have a question or comment on usage, e-mail Don Norton at donnortonbyu.edu or send your questions to 399 E. 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