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Show 10 BOX Brigham City, Utah Sunday, April 18, 1971 ELDER NEWS, Nurse where youre needed. In the U.S. Army Reserve. Pioneer Memorial: No Place to Wither Away It you think Pioneer Memorial Nursing home is a place to go and wither away ... dont. hasty orientation into activities at the Elder county home delutes any such notion. Many of the folks there are busier than younger When a Box Elder News photographer walked into the place Friday morning, an enthusiastic group ranging in age from 52 to 93, some confined to wheelchairs, were exercising to music and directions from Mary Dawn Huggins who heads activities at the home. They really like it, said Mrs. Huggins afterward. The activities and volunteer department attempts to provide something for everybody. It seems to be working. A Box All Take Part one of the 63 residents reportedly take part in one or more of the varied Every activities. We keep the people busy who want to be busy," Mrs. Huggins explained. Margo Eberhard, home administrator, was quick to point out that we could never get along without community involvement. This was in reference to participation by local churches, Red Cross, Boy Scouts, other volunteers and a wide range of clubs and other organizations who take special programs to Pioneer Memorial. Mrs. Huggins coordinates the activities under her direction, including handicrafts, with those supervised by Donnell Jeppsen who heads volunteer efforts. Volunteers play a big role. For instance, Relief society members from different local LDS wards put up hair every Friday. Junior Red Cross girls spend from 4 to 7 p.m. daily at the home visiting, doing favors and playing individual games with residents. Girls from the LDS Mutual Improvement association, stakes of the area taking turns, perform similar services in addition to conducting bingo games every Saturday afternoon. Provides Programs The LDS seminary provides a program every other Tuesday evening; Red Cross volunteers hold Wednesday bingo games and Boy Scouts working on merit badges also get in on the service act. In addition, Protestant churches present special programs once a month. For example, the Interfaith choir recently performed its traditional Easter cantata. There are a number of other clubs and organizations which periodically take programs to the home. Since the home is organized as an LDS branch, priesthood, Sunday school and sacrament meetings are held each Sunday. And there is Relief society on Mondays and a home evening program held each Thursday. Mary Dawn Huggins leads Pioneer Memorial Nursing home residents through exercises, EXERCISE TIME Bus Trips While the home is a center of activity, residents are not confined there for all their moments of recreation. A group recently joined other senior citizens of the community in a matinee showing of the movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance ft f - j part of the weekly routine which helps to keep them active. Mrs. Huggins heads a variety of other activities. Willard Students I Perform for Perry School Kid. They take bus trips virtually every Friday afternoon and have gone to the canyon for breakfast and picnics in addition to parades, and the circus. . The oldsters even took in the recent Box Elder High school production of Oklahoma. At the home they get involved in making hot pads, wreathes, flowers, clowns, rugs, baby quilts and similar items and they have special occasion parties like at Christmas and on Valentines day, Halloween and St. Patricks day. darts games and They have engage in a variety of other fun things. No sir, Pioneer Memorial is not a place to wither away. They wont let you! Take slock in America. Willard Elementary schools traveling assembly performed for Perry elementary students recently as part of an exchange program during National Library Week. Now fH.I.ntrd The students from Willard put on a puppet show, skits and dances. The show was performed by members of Mrs. Ruth Hardings third grade class. As part of the exchange a Perry school story teller went to Willard. sing-along- Assume mortgage "Jg ,sf . !., . ' - , , 'J'k. & ; s' ... ' Tb t . - w.lh Hw CouikiI fuup.r.l.un CONCRETE Home (I'PI) substantial buyers amounts of money if they assume the existing mortgage on a house in view of todays comparatively high interest rates, according to (Hen F.. Jorgensen, president of Universal C.I.T. Credit Corporation. The company is active in the second mortgage money market. Mortgages on homes purchased several years ago carry a lower interest rate than.. now. prevails in the mortgage market. For homes bought 15 or 20 years ago, the difference is quite substantial. f m nd The - NF.W YORK can Bonds pay a bonus at maturity. tt t publK Iinui) of Ihr save CONCRETE PIPE IRRIGATION and DRAINAGE ALL SIZES 19401WALLtAVENUEFOGDEN m KW,. r. ' ' ' 'f ' ' s I ' . ?r'v Mrs. Huggins helps Mabel Nordstrom with a paper flower she is making for decorations. HANDICRAFT 'fteit;:' ITEM Travelers Spend Money in County isr motor vehicle travelers spent $23,674,500 in Utah during fall quarter and (September, October November) of 1970. Of this total, approximately half ($12,340,300) was spent by Non-reside- ITS HAIR TIME Pioneer Memorial resident May Fridal has her hair fixed by volunteers Shirley Berardy and Ara Richards as Donnell Jeppsen, left, who heads volunteer activities at the home, observes. recreation represents visitors. This a $1.4 million decrease compared to the same period for 1969 even though 150,000 more travelers visited the state during Fall of 1970. Director of Development Services, Milton L. Weilen-manstated, The Utah Travel W30 (mimrMimKWh cIoom Sh Story .on PogJ councils advertising and promotional program have obviously influenced travelers Utah. to visit 8 A 4 1 Getting those 'f m TT omfart ondMonfng 1V K!KW tlllsgTw mMtM travelers to remain longer in the state continues to be our primary problem. Utah Travel Council Director, The Lee Jorgensen, stated, competitive industry of tourism represents a major portion of Utahs total economy, but Utahns must do more to meet the challenge for the tourist dollar. Other figures from the report Utah State Institute for the Study of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism show seven by prepared universitys counties recording motor vehicle traveler penditures in excess of ex$1 Fall 1970. They are: Salt Lake county, $7,433,800 ; Washington, million for OUJdUA Cache, $1,373,100; $1,278,400; Uintah, $1,254,700; Utah, $1,231,100 and Box Elder, $1,041,700. Only nine of Utahs 29 counties failed to show an increase in motor vehicle travelr expenditures over Fall of 1969 while Beaver, Box Elder, Duchesne, Emerv, Tooele, Uintah, Summit, Wasatch and Wayne counties near the 100 had increases percent mark. $1,799,300; Weber, MSfikm mm non-reside- HIRE THE SDc VET (Ctocs&nipfoGiairasai) (?0tIROir t AND YOU HIRE EXPERIENCE :4r'S ms JFsf M 4, ; Nature made summers unbearably hot and winters bitterly cold to test man s strength. Then added pollen and dust to the air as a final exam. If you insist on testing your strength every year, you don't need electric comfort conditioning. Electric comfort conditioning is air conditioning, heating, and electrostatic air purifying, all working together, all year 'round. With electric comfort conditioning, you can select your favorite temperature, and keep it, all year long. Even if Nature has other ideas. This time of year the first step, naturally, is electric air conditioning. 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