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Show March 25. 1998. THE DAILY HERALD, Provo. Utah Wednesday. C5 Pge REGION Iowa town shiver plays major $art in raising septuplets It might not take a village to raise a singly child, but it almost certainly takes one to raise seven. Just ask the folks in Carlisle, where the care and feeding of the McCaughey septuplets is a community enter-- i prise. 60 About volunteers ,. whpse efforts are coordinated by the Missionary Baptist Church that Bobbi and Kenny rotate in McCaughey attend the McCaughey home through four shifts a day, seven days a t - John Degel, editor of the weekly West Yellowstone News, predicted his community would news in take the coldest-citstride. Last winter was fierc$ even by West Yellowstone swap-pinwith stories comparing it with the legendary winters of thi) 1960s and 1940s, he said. weatK-eThis has been this year, comparatively B&ii Degel speaking," thermometer the as Wednesday, headed toward a forecast higij of 28 degrees. ;j Lake Havasu City residents also spike their talk about the weather with plenty of machisf T : i if '. J!. 24 i r 3 mo. "It's quite warm, yeah," say Gerald Bazaire, who retired Lake Havasu City with wif Sally. "Summer's the best timfc as far as I'm concerned. It goes over 125." "Gerry, it doesn't get thai hot. Not but once or twice a year," interrupts his wife. He admits she's right, but quickly points out that it does reach 120 degrees pretty oftenr "A lot of people leave in the summer," he adds. "That's whea desert we get the real rats out here. Everyone else has fled the ship." ; Of all the cities in the lower 48 states, Lake, Havasu City ... and West Yellowstone last year were the hottest and coldest, respectively, according to a sur- week. JOHN DK.H. The Associated Press vey by David H. Hickcox, direcstudPark Yellowstone to enter the communitor of the environmental Extreme: Cold weather in the winter of 1997 forced bison from Ohio ies at Wesleyan, ty of West Yellowstone,rtMorrt , u..The idea is to ensure that Kenneth, Joel, Brandon, Nathan, Kelsey, Natalie and Alexis get all .the,. help .they need, for as long as they need , University. Lake Havasu City, built next to a reservoir along the Colorado River, draws mps.try; tourists and seniors who toler-- 1 ate the heat for the winter sun-- ; .shine and massive lake. It earned its heat honors by having the nation's peak tempera- . ."We're not so much a village as a family," said the Rev. Robert Brown, pastor of Missionary Baptist. "We are a body of believers ... and this is our; mission right now." It is a mission more direct, more personal and more intense than any other Pastor Brown has been involved in and he comes from a tradition of active ministry. "Jt's not uncommon when jjabies are born to take in meals for two weeks, or when 'people have surgeries, to take inf;meals and help with child care," he said. "But this has more. loomed so much Everything is multiplied by seVfcn. They need continuous care" " They," in this case, includes not just the septuplets, but their parents and sister Mikayla. " In a time commonly as extraordiSalfly hos tile to families, Missionary Baptist has mustered an impressive force to ensure the survival physical and emoall the of tional ; tiire On 76 days in 1997; leaving its competitors in the ",r ""r" dust. ' :' Ronnding the other top five hots spots was Bullhead City, Ariz, with 44 days,' Coolidge, Ariz, with 38 days, Fort Myers, Fla. at 37 days and Casa '' ' closest ' " ' , stan-dards- old-time- " ' ' spots. . roogii life on temp3rafure fringes y Lake Havasu PHOENIX City is hot. How hot? t Too hot to go outside most summer afternoons. In fact, too hot to do much of anything besides head to the lake, slathered in sun block. West Yellowstone, ,Mont. couldn't be more different. It's cold. So cold the locals look forward to days that crack the freezing mark. Arizona is home to four of the five hottest cities in the country, and the West ha8 the lock on the nation's five frostiest Knight Ridder Newspapers , 1 The Associated Press By GWEN FLORIO CARLISLE, Iowa t. H.1 By TIM MOLLOY 111 Grande.'Ariz. with ...S 1" : ' 16. West Yellowstone didn't have quite' the margin of victory, but it led the list' by having the coldest temperatures on 26 days last year. It was followed by Fraser, Colo, at 21 days, Winter Park, Colo, at 19, Alamosa, Colo, with 15 days and Stanley, Idaho with 14. If residents in the communi- ties on the weather fringes can't brag about gentle climates, at least they can boast about their own survival skills. die-har- d ;l - iv- ; ,por-;tray- McCaugheys. ' , ' ' Thus, diapers are changed. Babies are fed, washed and rocked. Mikayla is entertained. Mountains of dirty laundry . vanish, only to reappear clean and neatly folded.; And, once a week, Bobbi, and, Kenny; McCaughey are kicked out of the house for a date. "Bobbi and Kenny are a part of us and we love them dearly," said Pastor Brown "We want to do' everything to help them in the process of raising the chil- dren with extra arms." The effort on behalf of the McCaugheys is especially., poignant in light of the recent birth of septuplets in Saudi Arabia. But those babies remain in the hospital, not because they are too ill to go home, but because their parwho have six other chil- ents cannot care for the dren Babies themselves. "This is so sad to us," said Pastor Brown. "I personally prayed for that family. ... It ; must be so hard for the mother. No matter what culture, a ' mother loves her kids." "In Iowa, it seems as if the all whole town of Carlisle the love residents 3,4C0 McCaugheys. Signs celebrating the babies' arrival still decorate store windows, and the local supermarket sells bumper stJokers touting the town as the septuplets' home. j.Most telling, though, is that ths're is no shortage of volun-teerto do the grunt work asso;.",' dated with seven infants. "."People put a lot of sacrifice' into it," said Pastor Brown. "We; have grandmothers, some col-- ., a" lege-ag- e folks, guys, gals real cross section." So "many people have volunteered that it takes three people to coordinate the schedules, he said. , J'. 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