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Show SECTION 2mhjHmttfi WEDNESDAY. METRO EDITOR I Amie Rose 344-253- NOVEMBER 21. 2007 afosehefaldextra.com Utah families show they care Ashtons Janice Peterson DAILY HERALD Depending on who you ask, a is either something a person needs to survive, or it is an elementary school class. On Monday Zach Carper, of night, Lehi, and other children and families learned about poverty around the world and what can cause it, such as a lack of resources. The Kids Who Care Family Night, organized by Community Action Services in Provo, had its inaugural meeting Monday night with a showing of four families and their children, who ranged in age from toddlers to teenagers. The "Kids Who Care" Family Night runs every Monday from p.m. at Community Action Services through Dec. 17, Reservations are required. Janae Hollenback, food bank communications coordinator for Community Action Services in Provo, said the family night is intended to help children in the valley gain awareness of poverty in the world and in their own com . resource munities. The idea for the activity came from demand from parents. "Lots of parents call and they want some type of service activity to teach their child to be grateful," she said. Families that attended the event participated in a short hunger banquet simulation to show children the hunger levels in different areas of the world. Each person was giv? en a plastic cup with some candy pieces in it. Some people had only two or three candies, while others had 20, like Zachr Jacobj Zach's brother, was quick to try out the economic system he knows, as he had only a few candies. "If you have any stuff left over, I'll buy it from you," he said. "Seriously." Hollenback showed the children a map of the world and described how their portions matched those of other countries. Even in the United States, she said, many people do not have much food. Holding hands, the hungry people in the See CARE, return from LDS mission RevaBowen NORTH COUNTY S - MARK . Now that Alan and Karen Ashton are LDS mission, back from their three-yea- r they're picking and choosing how to spend their free time. The Orem couple was in Toronto, where Alan served as mission president for the Canada Toronto West Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. During the time the Ashtons were gone, 10 grandchildren were born in their family, two new were added to the family, and both Alan and Karen's mothers passed away. Before their mission, Alan was of WordPerfect Corporation, Karen established the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival, and together, the couple launched the nonprofit Thanksgiving JOHNSTON Daily Herald Steve Proff it left and daughter Madison join Shea Goddard and her mother Renee right at "Kids that Care" in the Community Action Services Building in Provo on Monday: Participants took part in a class, were given a tour of the food bank and spent time doing a B3 service activity. Golden wars er J 4 STAFF " J .n'v-r it a Point in Lehi. "Since coming back, we have been very careful about what we want to allocate our time to weve been picking and choosing," Karen said. "The storytelling festival is definitely one for me. That, and Thanksgiving Point. We knew it would be the place where those two valleys (Salt Lake and Utah) would come - ft ...... f " i tt? I' together." A children's museum the Museum of Natural Curiosity is planned and is now in the private donation phase of tundraising. "We're hoping to make it one of the world's greatest children's museums engaging, playful and educational," Karen said, "so that a child who comes will absolutely love their time there and come away having learned." Another Ashton dream is to create some type of family center for storytelling. The center would feature the art record storytellers, collect and archive stories from the local culture and showcase the storytelling collection that has been built with proceeds from the festival. Also, Karen and her son, Brigham, a builder, plan to start a company called "Little Wonders." "The idea is we are not just going to be 'flipping' houses," she explained, "but we're hoping to take homes in a neighborhood that might be tired or have fallen into disrepair, and, if we can, remodel them on a careful budget to make them available at a lower cost to families as a way of keeping neighborhoods beautiful and housing more affordable. ... We want to encourage young families to be back in the center areas of town. The challenge is to maintain life, heritage, and vitality in neighborhoods. ... So that's what it means if you see that Little Wonders sign." Summarizing, Karen said, "That's what's on our plate right now. We have many people calling every day to see if we want to add something, but we think we have enough." The Ashtons are enjoying having most of their family except one branch in Houston within a drive. Alan is teaching trumpet lessons to grandchildren and playing tennis with family members, some of whom are polishing their skills in mixed doubles. The family hopes to be together for Christmas, and after taking time to recharge and reorganize, the Ashtons plan to go on a second mission as a couple. "It was an incredible experience," Karen said. "We need to go out again." year-roun- p i H ' ! CRAIG i DILGERDaily Herald of your business," has her nails painted by Megan Rowe on Tuesday. Baker won the Utah's Ms. Golden Years age crown this September and wearsihe crown proudly every day. "This crown is not comfortable to wear all the time, and yet it is in some contract or something that I'm supposed to wear it," says Baker. "So I'll on purpose forget to wear it, and now they have started making me go back and get it, you can't getaway with forgetting it any more." Lois W. Baker, who's is "none ''.' Prosecutor opposes dismissal of EM mayor's case Jeremy Duda of Eagle Mountain in 2006. His preliminary hearing was held in August, but 4th District Judge David Mortensen wanted to hear The prosecutor in the public more arguments from the atcorruption case against Eagle Mountain Mayor Brian Olsen says torneys before deciding whether there was enough evidence lack of a city policy didn't give Olsen the authority to do what he against Olsen for the case to continue. wanted with taxpayers' money. Yengich submitted a motion to Deputy county attorney Chad dismiss the case earlier this month, Grunander filed a document in court Tuesday arguing that the arguing that there were no written policies in Eagle Mountain case against Olsen should proceed. Olsen is charged with seven dictating how reimbursement counts of misuse of public money, requests were to be handled. As felonies. Grunander mayor, Olsen had the authority to also opposed defense attorney Ron decide how and when reimburse- Yengich's request to have the sev- ments were to be issued, Yengich en charges consolidated into one. wrote, and had "free reign" over Olsen was charged in Janucity money. In his response, Grunander disary and is accused of falsifying puted that Olsen had free reign expense reports for travel reimbursement while serving as mayor ' over city money, arguing that ' third-degre- DAILY HERALD e such a claim goes against Utah law, public policy and common sense. The lack of clear-cu- t policies did not give Olsen the ability to use city money in any way he wished, Grunander wrote. "When Brian Olsen was elected mayor in late 2005 and began serving in that office in 2006, he was not appointed king. He was not given the authority simply to do as he wished with the people's money," Grunander wrote in the brief. "Such an assertion flies in the face of democracy and the basic principles of American government." Olsen has said that payments were made to him in error, and there was no established policy about how to reimburse the city in such situations. Shortly before he was charged, Olsen spoke to city staff about how to reimburse the city for a check he requested in advance for a trip he was unable to make. Grunander said Olsen had no intention of paying back the city until he got caught, and said he cashed checks for expenses he did not incur. Perhaps the most obvious example, Grunander wrote, was a request for mileage reimbursement for a trip to Springdale. Olsen picked up the reimbursement check during the second day of the conference, Grunander said. Yengich declined to comment on the brief. He can now file a reply to that brief before Mortensen hears oral arguments on the case. ' 583-mi- le I Jeremy Duda can be reached 344-256- 1 com. at orjdudaheraldextra. Springville High Boy Scouts honored for saving lives The three were on a Springville High School band trip in Northern California last year swimThree local Boy Scouts are being honored for ming at the beach when Green, Pendleton and two girls were carried off in a rip tide, t acting swiftly to save lives. "Some of the kids got out deeper than they Jeffery Bates, Austin Green and Brian Pendleton qualified for the BSA's Lifesaving Honor thought," said DarreUyn Bates, Jeffery's moth- Medal for "demonstrating unusual heroism and er. Green and Pendleton worked to get their skill or resourcefulness in saving or attempting friends back toward shore, but exhausted, to save life at considerable risk to self." DAILY HERALD , called on Bates who jumped in to help. "As a chaperone, and more especially as a mother, I am deeply grateful for the courage and knowledge and experience Scouting has given these boys so that they knew just what to do when the emergency hit," said Laura Dye, the mother of one of the friends. The boys were recognized at the Springville City Council meeting Tuesday night. Alan and Karen Ashton |