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Show t 1 t . I s V f Treasures, or trash by Terri Winder I don't know if writing is a hobby of mine, or not. It is true that I would rather write than cook, or clean house; but writing seems to be more under the heading of full of clothes she had either outgrown, or never wore. One bag was overflowing with garbage: old homework assignments, notes, candy wrappers, used tis- er. I think my kids would I stuck to writing, and let them run the house the way they like it. The rather give : d. never miss any of it. I made the mistake of not tying the tops of the Glad bags before Carolyn saw them. - She noticed her unused stamp collecting album before she saw her wonderfully, clean room. She didn't even comment on the room. When I went into the room later, to return a freshly laundered bedspread, I found on her bed a "will". "To whom it may concern",' it began, "I leave all my dolls to Alexandra. I leave my candy canes to my best friend, Jonnie. Everything else goes to D. I. - since half of it is there already." This should have been the only lesson I needed, but I made another unfortunate mistake with my youngest daughter. When she was two, her grandma gave her y7.jiiiSM!W7r 35 I 4.69 While supplies lest Power Screwdriver Bit Set MM140 1 . 9-P- stood on my doorstep, bearing a Glad bag of outgrown clothes, and a box of toys she said her kids were tired of playing with. (We Discarded never admit its us who get tired of picking up the toys). I eyed the offerings suspiciously, but I was trying to type, and the kids needed a diversion, so I said, "why not". My kids pounced on the toys with delirious enthusiasm. Amid the pandemonium, Alex crawled backwards" from the box with the joy of a sweepstakes . "Look, Mama!" she exclaimed, "my Betsy Wetsy came back to me!" I looked at the doll in wonder. It was missing the eyelashes from one eye. A little finger had been chewed off, and the hair was sticking up PLAYING BLANDING TRIVIA!!! t HMWMI (TOMS Thanksgiving Day, No- vember 22, 1990, will mark the one year anniversary of m f I' 1 ? ' 657-367- 2, ico, at (505) 368-575- 9. Information will .be kept strictly confidential, and the FBI is willing to pay substantial amounts for information that will lead to the arrest and binding over of any subject. , jr m ""A .. V - only $7.50 - money and orders are due by December 7 First semester studentbody officers at Monticello Elementary School. From the left, Lucinda Redd, secretary; Summer Adams, president; staff photo Wendy Barton, vice president; and, Maggie Boyle, historian, Working for ants Not only are ants hard workers, they know how to get other insects to work for them. Ranger Rick magazine reports that aphids suck the sap from plants, producing a sweet liquid called "honeydew". When ants are hungry, they "milk" the aphids by rubbing them with their antennae. In return, the ants protect the aphids from enemies and herd them to new "pastures" to find fresh food. Methane, which is increasing in the atmosphere faster than carbon molecule for molecule, 20 to 30 times the greendioxide, has, house effect of carbon dioxide, says National Geographic. 7 days a week 6 a.m to 8 p.m. 678-277- "Remember been developed to date. No arrests have been made. Anyone with information concerning this murder or. having any knowledge of witnesses to this murder are requested to call the FBI in Montezuma Creek, Utah, at or the Navajo (801) Criminal Investigative Service at Shiprock, New Mex- Youre Invited Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for more information call 5 Jessie Macdonald Hurry and make your order Blanding Year old fatal stabbing still unsolved winner. c. QUANTITIES LIMITED holding the little doll with all the adoration of a new mother. I decided to spend more time writing. 5 Christmas? f MECHANIC dis- Do you know what everyone in Blanding will be doing for jj $ MASTERS of my cleaning days, it appeared. was Alexandra 17-year-- Dis-carde- r. or throw away something than have to worry about it. Once, when our middle daughter was ten, her room was getting to be a collector's paradise. It was knee-dee- p with treasures on the floor, and the corners were piled even higher. I kept warning her that if she didn't clean it up, I would. Finally, I couldn't stand it anymore. I banished her from the room, and then entered it with determination, and several Glad bags in hand. ' Several hours later, I exit-eTwo black bags were Every time I saw the naked waif, it bothered me. On one wildly. V reason why? Most of them take after their dad: they're Collectors. I am a I would a doll she could put in the bathtub with her. Soon it had been so vigorously bathed, and hugged, and loved, that the doll was minus its hair, eyelashes, and one arm. sues, ancient magazines, and other junk. There was I had underestimated the stabbing death of a an additional box full of Alexs devotion to her doll. Whitehorse High School articles that needed to be She searched the house and student. Lorenzo Norman returned to their rightful asked repeatedly, "Wheres Sam was killed on Novemplaces. my Betsy Wetsy?" Her ber 22, 1989. Now, it is important that lovely collection of more exThe Federal Bureau of Inwhen a mother stoops so low pensive dolls, (given to her vestigation (FBI) and Naas to discard her child's by Carolyn), lay in their vajo Criminal Investigahoarded treasures, the child cradle, untouched, while she tive Service have been be unaware of the proceedmourned the loss of her fa- investigating the murder of ings. If they don't see what vorite. the Aneth, Utah, has been removed, there is a Then one day, months native for the past year. good chance that they will later, a fellow Discarder Several suspects have "com- pulsion. Sometimes I give in to it: most often I fight off the urge, so that I can keep the house running smoothrather THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday November 21, 1990 - Page 9, ? Uv . KENNYS N Hiway 191 - Blanding |