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Show CASTLE VALLEY TIMES WINTERaTIMES Castle Valley, Utah - Volume 2, Number 12 - A Gift of Love and Caring Once upon a time in the ancient December 15, 1993 - SEASONS GREETINGS Introducing . . . » The Castle Valley Players city of Amore, there lived a girl named Cora. One day her Home Economics teacher wrote these words on the blackboard: Always keep your house in a dying condition. The teacher went on to explain that having your dishes washed, laundry done, beds made, and neat tidy closets was an act of Love and Caring, for if you were killed on the way home from the marketplace, your poor grieving relatives and friends would have to clean up your mess. Cora took careful notes, and when she had her own home she kept it in a dying condition. Later she taught her children to do likewise. The years passed, and Cora went about her busy life of family and friends. Then one day her uncle died and she went to help her childless aunt with the funeral arrangements. When she arrived she discovered her uncle had no Last Will and Testament, even though he had been ill for years. So Next month, when the groundIS frozen and we are snug in our winter houses, it will be time to get out and LAUGH as a community. And laugh you will! Five of our smaller citizens have banded together to form the youngest acting troupe in the valley, the Castle Valley Players: Dashiel and Livi Kulander, Corryn Magie, Heather Nunn, and Katrina Funk. They are hard at work on a play, Sleeping Ugly, an adaptation of an old fairy tale by Jane Yolen. There will also be a world premiere of THE MULE REVIEW, vaudeville so out of the ordinary we can’t tell you any more than that. ADMISSION IS FREE. Mark your calendars for Saturday, January 29th, 11 am, at the LDS branch house. While we are on the subject, why not a community talent show in mid-March? And for the longer term, how about an adult troupe of Castle Valley players? Call‘4646 if interested. —Kaaron Jorgen Ham you could undo the harsh words, unkind thoughts, the destructive actions. So, many years later and many miles from the Home Economics classroom in the ancient city of Amore, Cora continued to live her Life in a In August I sold my home in Castle Valley and moved. The life that I thought would become more centered in Castle Valley had instead become more centered around Salt Lake City. husband’s estate. Cora swore she would never have her husband forced to fill dying condition until she left the earth. This is a fable but true. Keeping What had been trips every other week to Salt Lake City had become weekly your life in a dying condition could be trips, and no reversal of the trend was out endless papers spattered with his a great New Year’s Resolution for likely in the next couple of years. My tears. When she returned home she ’94—and a gift for those you love. —Man‘a Loe life had become too fragmented, and I chose to give up the Castle Valley part. My Castle Valley experience followed a pattern similar to many other valley residents—purchase a lot, construct a small house that was a parttime home, and later enlarge the house to a full—time home. While living in Castle Valley I had the opportunity to work on the town Planning Commission and serve as chair for the last year Cora took the grieving widow from office to office to fill out the necessary papers so she could inherit her made out her Will—for she had learned that to keep her financial affairs in a dying condition was also an act of Love and Caring. Cora’s family was grown up when she heard the news that many people had been killed in an explosion at the counting house. Her first thought was, “I hope they kissed their wives and children goodbye this morning.” That _ night she and her husband vowed they would never part from each other or their family in anger or in indifferent haste. They would keep their love for each other in a dying condition. As Cora’s hair turned gray and she More SUMMING UP on Page 6 POA Board Appoints Bill Riggs In a closed meeting Sunday, experienced sickness and the death of loved ones, she came to realize that all Life should be lived in a dying condition. Every encounter with people, animals, nature, and the universe itself should be as if you would die before Su m m 1 119 U p December 4, POA board members appointed Bill Riggs to fill the board vacancy created by the resignation of _ More POA on Page 9 |
