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Show 2A Emery County Progress Tuesday, August 18, 1987 Theyre getting acquainted By ELIZABETH HANSON Staff writer There will be two doctors of philosophy in the Ernie Weeks home. Ernie rated his doctorate in educational administration in 1982 from the University of Utah. His lovely wife, Elaine, will receive hers in the elementary education exercises. She proficiency area of reading in April at BYU commencement her prospectus (dissertation study) by meeting with her own committee and research committee for final approval last week. Every Tuesday Elaine drives to Provo to work as research associate for two professors. Last week she took Keli Weeks and then Andrew. Both children are nine years old, and they are visiting along with their siblings, Justin two years old, Jordon, five months and parents Joel and Diane Weeks of Tempe, Ariz. Joel, who holds a masters degree from BYU, is recreation administrator for the large city. Grandmother Weeks cared for the children a few days while their parents had a holiday in Salt Lake City. The family condominium is located in Salt Lake City. Maybe the new superintendent of the Emery School District and wife had family times in mind when they purchased the large 2 story home in Ferron. The four upstairs bedrooms provide plenty of sleeping space. Justin has been out picking raspberries off the bushes, vegetables and a few flowers as he soaks up the fun things to do about the spacious yard. Keli and Andrew have been horseback riding, and both tried milking the cows next door. Grandpa Weeks learned the technique well as a boy growing up in Vernal. My father always kept two or three cows because he believed we boys should have something to do twice a day. The Weeks attended the Castle Valley Pageant, the lamb fry, the talent show, fair exhibits and parade, enjoying everything. They are to hunt fossils at the Wedge, travel to the San Rafael Swinging Bridge, view the Indian writings, and generally explore avout the county. Emery County offers many exciting vistas that the Weeks appreciate with an un- derstanding gained through traveling the world over and in depth. Elaine was bom at Salt Lake City on June 19, 1929. She was reared at Las Vegas by her parents, Azar and Alice Barlow Aldrich. She was reared a cherished, only child, given every advantage and using her opportunities to achieve. High grades were important to her. Yet she found time for being president of the Girls Reserves and was active in speech and drama at Las Vegas High. During her high school days the place to go for the prom dinner was the Last Frontier, El Rancho or Flamingo. The shows were appropriate and the food good. After graduating from Las Vegas High and the University of Nevada at Reno, she began teaching second grade at the Kate Smith School at Sparks. She met a young man from Utah who had served a mission in the area and had returned to work and go to college. They were married Nov. 4, 1953 in the Salt Lake Temple. Ernie was drafted, spending time at Beale Air Force Base and the Aleutian Islands. When Joel was bom Nov. 10, 1954, Elaines parents took her to the hospital. Jo Alice was bom Feb. 17, 1956. The Korean truce was signed and servicemen eligible for college were permitted early discharge. Ernie Weeks was one. The Weeks moved to Fresno, California into veterans housing and Ernie enrolled at Fresno State College. One evening as he lay asleep on the sofa, arm flopped to the floor, he felt a brushing at his fingers. Flipping on the light he spied an army of cockroaches, parading up the living room floor. He grabbed the vacuum and sucked them up. Fumigation was the only solution they found effective. When Jo Alice was ready for kindergarten, Elaine sighed a contract to teach at Fairmont District, an independent school district in the country. Jo Alice went along. The next year Joel came too. The trio had a choice red-head- ed . togetherness. Ernie called her attention to an item in the Church News telling about teachers being placed in Samoa and asked her how she would feel about going. At first she rejected the idea of taking the children to the tropical island. Later as she listened to Elder Paul Dunn talk about Tonga, the enthusiasm of the natives who yearned for leadership and how grateful he was the church members came to the islands for employment and worked in the church on the side, she changed her mind. It hit me like a bolt of lightning. I was needed as a youth leader. I was already stake president of the Young Womens organization, had planned three campouts and was frankly weary of planning campouts. Four days after they arrived in Samoa, both were called to head the Young Men and Young Women organizations. Elaine was involved planning camp in three weeks. The camp director browbeat me into qualifying for the Adventurer level. It rained. We had no tents. We took big old machetes and chopped down branches and limbs to build a cozy, rain proof shelter. They already knew how to lash furniture and to survive in the wilderness better than anyway our literature outlined. Their training efforts bore fruit. In two years, five new stakes were created and nearly everyone of the presidency for the young men and woman had been a member of their board. Ernie had his camera along. When the women said they were going to wash clothes in a stream he sensed an interesting picture. In a few moments he returned, abashed. I didnt know they were going to wash what they were wearing. In Samoa, Joel learned to speak the language fluently. He became fluent in Spanish on a Spanish-speakin-g mission. His was only regret missing out on the athletics offered in a mainland high school. At the close of seven years in Samoa, the Weeks said goodby to the cockroaches and peewee lizards who ate them and traveled about the world for six weeks. Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Italy, Singapore, Thailand, Pakistan, Paharine close to Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, Athens, Paris, Switzerland, Rome, London were a few of the places visited. ERNIES MILK CHOCOLATE FLAKE COOKIES of his office August 17, 1987 for the practice of Adult and Pediatric Urology Treating Disorders of the Urinary System CASTLEVIEW PROFESSIONAL BUILDING Drive, Suite 6, Price, Utah 84501-420- 5 Office Hours Telephone 8 (801 ) by appointment 945 Hospital 637-404- Walton Books 1187 E. Main, Castle Rock Square, 640 Learning Aids Math, Reading, Writing Teaching Supplies Bulleting Boards, Ditto Books, Letters, etc. Books For Relaxation Special Orders if we're out pedalled. In Saudi Arabia Elaine taught five years as reading specialist in the primary grades and as a remedial teacher. I developed my philosophy through experiences with .the children. I believe in the whole ready to add to the recipe. 2. Heat oven to 375 degrees. 3. Cream together (you cannot language approach to reading. Proponents of the whole language theory believe that the positive, secure reinforcement offered in the home as children learn to speak can be recreated in the schools. Find good stories like the Giant Hiccup where they want to learn what happens next. They like predictable stories that tell by the pictures what is coming next. I believe were fragmenting too much. We are so bound up in sounds, letternames, combinations, decoding skills that the children dont get a chance to read in whole text. They get turned off and do not become lifelong readers. Dont try to sound out everything. Show them where the sentence begins and ends, the top and bottom, left to right, what capital letters are. Read to them.' Elaine makes story tapes to thoroughly 5. Mix together and add by sifting: ): Vh C. flour Ya tsp. salt Yz tsp. baking powder 6. Stir in: 2 heaping cups of frozen milk chocolate flakes 2 C. coarsely chopped walnuts send to her grandchildren in Arizona and Japan. Jo Alice married Jack. They are now stationed with the Marines in Japan. Their two sons are Jason and Andrew. Next summer the Weeks are flying to Japan to visit. Japan is one place they have not explored in depth. At the close of the 10 year Saudi Arabia stint, broken by trips back home for seminars, conventions, conferences and sabbatical, Ernie and Elaine six spent months, touring Europe. They bought a Barcelona, Spain, car in their headquarters, and toured as far as Oslo, Norway, making rich contact with 17 countries, festival times, castles, soaking up culture and experience far superior to text books. They sold the car at the end of the adventure. 7. Drop batter onto a greased cookie sheet from a small ice - cream scoop.' 8. Bake 11 to 13 minutes at 375 degrees. 9. Remove cookies from oven and allow to cool for one minute before removing cookies from the cookie sheet with a spatula. Yield: approximately cookies. 35 Prison site selection goes to Gunnison By CHUCK ZEHNDER Managing editor Official word was received by city and county officials in Price Sunday evening that Carbon County had been turned down in its request to become the home of the states new regional County commissioners and Price Mayor Art Martines received telegrams from Neal Stowe of state corrections simply stating the committee decided to make the award to Sanpete County. The telegram said a letter of explanation would follow. State corrections personnel were meeting in Cedar City Monday and made the formal announcement of their decision shortly after 2 p.m. Thelma Jones, executive director of the Carbon County Chamber of Commerce was at that meeting and said officials listed one of the reasons for selecting Sanpete County over Carbon County was the soils at the two sites were quite different amd the Sanpete County site had much better soil for construction. She also said officials said there were more people living in a radius of the Sanpete site and that was a contributing 50-mi- le reason. Im extremely disapCarbon County pointed, Commission Chairman Lee Semken said Monday. Ive got to assume it (the decision to locate in Sanpete County) was a political decision because Carbon County was the only site that fit all the criteria. Commissioner Guido Rachiele echoed the chairmans comments. Im very disappointed terribly disappointed in fact, Rachiele said. He added that many in the county offices were surprised by the decision. Robert Etzel, who led some strong opposition to the facility in the final weeks before a site was selected, said he was grateful for the decision. I hope as a community that next time we go for economic development, we go for an industry that pays not only salaries, but property taxes and sales taxes to make Carbon County a better place in which to live, Etzel said Monday. Etzel said people from state corrections were in the audience at a recent county commission meeting at his request and told him after that meeting of the pending decision. He also said that he had contacted the governors office last week in an attempt to sway the decision away from Carbon County and had contacted each of the three Salt Lake City television stations with his objections. If Carbon County would have received the nod for construction of the facility, Etzel said a group of people in the county had everything ready to roll for a referendum. He said the issue to be on the November ballot would have been whether any area of the county could be zoned for a correctional facility. Waterbars proposed John Niebergall, Ferron District ranger, has announced a proposal to waterbar and seed 13 miles of the non-syste- roads in m National Forest. The roads to be treated Manti-LaS- al are Olsen Canyon, Littles Creek, Old Ridley Ridge, North Tent and Grassy Lake. These roads are not maintained and as a result are deeply rutted. Because of sediment is flowing into this, ad- jacent streams and reservoirs. The roads are in such condition that they have basically closed CERTIFICATE themselves but continue produce sediment. Because of the type of terrain these roads cross, it will not be possible to physically close all parts of these roads. The waterbars are an effective means of preventing water from running down these roads and should discourage traffic. It is planned that this project will begin the end of August. The public may contact Niebergall at the Ferron Ranger District office to make comments on the proposed project. All comments need to be received by Aug. 25, 1987. (384-237- 2) DO YOU HAVE BACK PAIN? National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse have a sports injury from baseball, water skiing, etc.? Do you BACK TO SCHOOL Dictionaries and more At Saudi Arabia Jo Alice met a young Marine, Jack Seybert. Jack became the first convert baptism in Saudia Arabia. Islam is the legal religion and all other church doings are soft over-cream- facility. announces the Opening After several years as teacher and administrator in Fresno schools, meanwhile gaining a masters degree as educational specialist, Ernies mentor asked him if he would be interested in being principal of the Saudi Arabia International School. Joel had completed a mission to Mexico and was enrolling at BYU. Jo Alice was 10. Freeze a large block of milk chocolate prior to use. While still frozen, use a chef knife to 1C. butter (2 sticks) flake of from the chocolate 1 C. granulated sugar block 2 heaping cups of 1 tsp. vanilla chocolate (a variety of sizes is Yz C. brown sugar (firmly ideal). Place the flaked packed) 4. Add: 3 eggs and beat chocolate in the freezer until 1. maximummedium prison Gary R. Goodman, M.D. Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Weeks enjoy their new life in Emery County. starTcinemai t Bring this certificate in for an evaluation to see if chiropractic can help you. The bearer of this CERTIFICATE is entitled to a FREE Chiropractic Screening Examination. Use it yourself or give it to a friend or family member. Either way, just phone us for an appointment for this FREE EXAM! Expires 82887 CARBON CHIROPRACTIC CENTER 39 North 600 East BENII WITCHES Of EASTWICK end Rut. 20 llMMAKTIN ML HANNAH NE ' RUG. 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