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Show 2A Emery County Progress Wednesday, August 21, 1985 coumiiw mmG '4' i uv- 'i; - '' ii- - I 7 ir :t I '. .:mJw ' f r - . X School lunch is part of her way of life Mil By ELIZABETH HANSON Staff writer God, family and school lunch o , that is my life, affirms Mary Bea Jones Grange, Emery County District lunch supervisor. - T - ir i ( . . r c i In 1974 she started working four hours a day, in the Huntington Elementary lunch program, was made school manager in 1977, and district supervisor in 1979. She oversees nine schools and one transport Bookcliff Elementary transports lunch to Green River High. A total of 36 workers are involved in the district lunch W $! unit. Mary Bea used to load up a pickup and deliver supplies to each school. Sometimes kindly janitors or lunch personnel would help unload, but she usually did the loading herself. 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She checks applications, makes menus, purchases food, asking for approval of the board when a designated total is reached. As president elect, president and past president of the Utah School Food Association, she has traveled to many workshops, legislative confabs and related seminars. National conventions have been held at Phoenix, Indianapolis, and Philadelphia. Salt Lake City will be host city for the 1988 date. Her activities include meeting the legislators and speaking for the benefits of school lunch. She will be jetting to Washington D.C. in February as USFA officer. She says last year was critical in keeping the funding for paid lunches. People do not realize that a paid lunch is subsidized by the government just as the reduced and free ones are. Through hundreds of personal letters sent to the legislators, the funding was saved for this year at least. School lunch is the only cooked meal some children get because so many mothers work or for other reasons. My lunch ladies tell me they can always tell Mondays because the kids come in starved to death and on Fridays, they eat like they have to fill up for the weekend. The greatest reward the cooks have is being told by the children that they enjoyed the meal. Some kids waste food. They are not aware that they are wasting government money. They could not get the same value at a fast food outlet. Mary Bea says the teachers are doing a good job of teaching nutrition and the superintendent and principals back the school lunch program. Some of her upstate colleagues are envious of such support. Principal Leon Bawden of Huntington Elementary ind National stigated a Lunch Week to accommodate year-roun- 687-927- 5 her purchase recalls. After Dad was badly hurt in the mine and the doctor advised a drier climate we moved to Emery County in 1943, living on an Elmo farm for a time. At age 15, Mary lived with Lydia Strong, the Huntington postmaster, and kept the house. A year later she worked for the summer in Salt Lake as nanny to the children of Alvin G. Pack, the manager of KALL radio. During the winters, she attended North Emery High and million. While the area about historic again assisted Mrs. Strong. During her senior year she married Ferris Ralph Grange on Oct. 8, 1948. They were sealed in the Manti Temple on Dec. 21 of the same year. Because her records had been lost from the moving about, the arrangement was permitted. To them were born 10 Liberty Bell was presentable, other streets were debris strewn and many beautiful buildings defaced by black spray paint. She was accosted by street beggars. The taxis were so filthy she felt like taking a bath being disinfected after riding in one. She was glad to return to clean Huntington. Mary Bea was bom in Mt. Pleasant to Duraine William and Erna Emilia Green Jones on Jan. 4, 1931. She was four when her mother died, leaving four children, the youngest Anna, two days old. The children were farmed out to relatives for about five years. Dad worked for Neal Howard at Huntington. He met Edna Brown, a widow with four boys, and they got married. He couldnt have found us a better mother. She was only 16 years older than I and was more like an older sister. When the two families were united, it was like having several sets of twins. In fact, Mom did have two; one set of boy twins already and later, after marrying Dad, she had girl twins, Joann and Janene, and Billy, Mickey and Doyle. Then we had 13 children in our happy family. and Give Your Child a Bright Beginning at Is Your Advertising Falling Upon Deaf The dad worked at the Sunshine Mine in Kellogg, Idaho. for We lived in Osburne awhile. We also homesteaded in tents. The water ran in one door and out the other during rain storms. We hauled water from the nearby creek, fished and swam and had water fights, our parents joining in the riots, she the large enrollment and prevent pressuring the cooks. Specific grades are given a date during the month to plan the menu, decorate the hall, and bring guests to lunch. All menus must meet guidelines for protein, fruits and vegetables, milk, and bread components. She visits each school often, maintaining healthy rapport with the workers and praising them for the dedication they show and affection they have for the children, or they could not give of themselves as they do. Mary recently returned from a national convention at Philadelphia where she was impressed at the information extended regarding the lunch program but appalled at the condition of the city of 1.9 SUNSHINE PRE-SCHO- Enrollment now being taken. Classes begin September 3. children, Pamela, . Marys sisters children, Bonnie and Daniel Terry, lived with the Granges for nine years. Ferris worked at two jobs to support his family. He was a good provider, says Mary, but she does remember a time when she served beans without salt because they lacked funds for the salt. It is bad luck to borrow salt. A bad accident involved Gale. He was burned Oct. 4, 1961, in a fire at Oil City Service Station, Price. He suffered second, third and deep third degree burns over 65 percent of his body, yet he was home by Christmas. The doctors credited special cream and a power greater than theirs. On Jan. 12, 1972, Dennis was keeping watch at the window, waiting for Daddy to come home so he could raid his lunch box of any leftovers. Ferris made sure there was always something left. Even when a messenger came to the door to say that Ferris had been (Continued on Page 3A) QteCSMteiSKifl (MfflMliDffiBciDijllH? Gfl ltBaBfi)Q5Q2E8i ttEDQiSl335 v v x , V ' ffia, The Sun Advocate, Emery County Progress and Smart Shopper combine to give you 100 of the households in Carbon and Emery County. No other local medium can give you the Total Market Coverage of our area. Our total circulation is 14,300. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the average newspaper is read by 2.74 people. When you run an ad in our three publications, this means you are reaching over 39,000 people. Not only are we the best medium for reaching your prospective customers, but we can do it at a lower cost per thousand than anybody in town. For more information, call your advertising representative EMERY COUNTY Sun Advocate 637-073- 2 Progress 381-243- 1 v , i h- - lm Gale, Michael, Richard, Ralph, Jeffrey, Gordon, Kimberly, Darrin and Dennis. Two of |