| Show 2E Sunday Books May 7 2000 Standard-Examine- Empathy fuels local woman’s book BOOKMARK Items must be submitted to the Standard-Examine- r by noon on the 7 Wednesday prior to publication For information call Trip to Africa inspires Brigham City woman to seek help for those she met 625-421- Signings readings and events The Brigham City Library will host a free lecture by historian Kent Powell at 7 pm Tuesday at the library 26 E Forest in Bngham City Powell from the Utah State Historical Society will give a presentation on ‘Utah’s Ethnic Landscape' and wilt discuss the buildings and historic sites in the Brigham City and Golden Spike National Monument areas This program is funded by the Utah Humanities Council and is open to the public The South Branch Library in Bountiful will be the site of a discussion group focusing on executed murderer Gary Gilmore at 7 pm Wednesday The discussion is part of the Davis County Library’s Bibliotrek series The group will discuss “Shot in the Heart” by Mikal Gilmore (Anchor BooksDoubleday $16) brother of Gary Gilmore and the discussion will be led by L Kay Gillespie a criminal law professor at Weber State University Book discussions in the Bibliotrek series meet on the first Thursday of the month at the North Branch Library 562 S 1000 East in Clearfield and on the second Wednesday of the month at the South Branch Library 725 S Main in Bountiful All programs are free For more information call 451 2322 The Weber County North Branch Library will hold a readingdiscussion program at 7 pm Thursday at the library 475 E 2600 North in North Ogden that will focus on “Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez' by Richard Rodriguez (Bantam Books for 0 $7) The discussion will be led by Tony Spanos Call information Books are available for check out at the location of the start by step Peggy Rogers Bngham City is working her goal of raising million with her new Step book She's earned $5000 so far with "Heart to Heart World’s $10) a Apart” book that’s sole purpose is to raise money for African children who don’t have the means to get an education And she’s hoping to get even closer to her goal Saturday at Rainbow Gardens where she’s holding a book signing from noon to 2 pm Those who attend also will be able to see many of the souvenirs Rogers brought back with her after last year’s trip to Africa - items that include many African animals carved out of different mediums mostly different types of wood and jewelry such as necklaces with each bead hand-carve- d including the clasp Rogers traded most of her belongings when she ran out of money in order to bring home the many mementos she has to display Rogers’ inspiration for the book goes back 20 years when she met a woman from Zambia who was living nearby in University of Utah housing The two became friends and they stayed friends When the woman whom Rogers calls Tansy in her book to protect her identity moved away the two communicated with letters and pictures and Rogers sent a few dollars or items that she thought would be useful when she could because Tansy and her family had so little in Africa even though today they are considered middle class by comparison to their fellow Africans A few years ago Rogers started her own business Peg’s Perennials in Brigham City After two years she was able to save enough money to visit Tansy and her family in South Africa last winter (self-publish- two-mon- 752-880- program one month before the program OTHER EVENTS: WITH FR'EKSS IN AFRICA: Brigham City’s Peggy Rogers (above) poses near a hut in a village she visited while traveling through southern countries in Africa After hertripduringthe winter of 1 999 Rogers said she was inspired by her friends (left) Tansy and her two children daughter Tembeka and son Simba who live in South Africa to write about their lives and try to raise money through the sales of her book for African children who don't have an opportunity for education Rogers said she changed the names of her friends in the book to protect them Photo Visiting Africa “Heart to Heart World’s Apart” is a record of Rogers’ travels in Africa Written like a journal it describes where she stayed how Tansy’s family lives and Rogers’ feelings about being faced with the immense poverty and racism people there face every day The idea for the book came while Rogers was visiting Tansy “I got the idea in Africa but I fought it” she says now She’d never tried to write anything like a book before but she felt very affected by the story of the people she had met “I thought ‘I can’t do this’ but I couldn’t get it off my mind” Rogers said “I kept thinking ‘I’m not adequate to write’ ” But after seeing the poverty and because she loved her friends who lived there Rogers said she just decided she had to do something and using a book she had written to raise funds seemed like the best idea But the path of getting to a published book that could be sold was an interesting one After writing the story Rogers began to think about an editor “I knew I needed an editor” Rogers said admitting that spelling grammar and punctuation aren’t her strong suits “I thought my husband could it” but her husband a math teacher was unsure about how to edit her story One day her husband picked up a hitchhiker He turned out to be new to Utah from England and trying to get to Logan where a friend’s car was waiting for him The man was looking for a job and had a background in editing and when Rogers’ husband told him about her project he said: “This is a story that needs to be told” The two began working on her book soon after Rogers said he sent back her pages covered with notes and as die deadline at Christmas 1999 began to get closer the two worked day and night to finish the book Rogers’ also had help from friends - one of them did the artwork for her book Finding someone to help her actually publish the book was also a struggle Rogers said Most printers wanted around $4 a book to print it and Rogers had decided early on that she didn’t want to go through a publisher because publishers only gave about 5 percent of the profits on each book to the author Printing the books herself cost too much and going through a publisher meant she wouldn’t get much of the profit back Neither was a good option for the children Rogers wanted to help so she started making calls Finally Rogers found a publisher who would let her use his name in contacting a press With the publisher’s recommendation Rogers talked the press into charging her only $130 per book published Her first run: 4000 books She then set up a special fund through the IRS that protected all profits from the sale of the Coming Up WHAT: Book signing with Peggy Rogers WHEN: Noon to 2 pm Saturday WHERE: Rainbow Gardens Gift Shop at the mouth of Ogden Canyon INFORMATION: 621-160- 6 The scholarships The money Rogers’ raises from the sale of her book will be used for the education of children who show promise but have no opportunities Rogers said Tansy’s husband whom Rogers calls Nkosi in her book teaches at the University of Zambia the only university around Rogers is working with people there who will give applications to children in the bush who do attend school through the equivalent of an American 9th grade class ( BARXES&KOSLEO wwwelnstelnbroscom mun utniut i t mMuh ii MM till II t If aai aim ptalllllil Me initial Cm (! i VyN Pick up your copy at the FOR AN CALL EINSTEIN BROS NEAR YOU mu 1711 4 “Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III” by J Canfield MV Hansen & K Kirberger 5 "The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison 6 “A New Song” by Jan Karon 7 "The Hours” by Michael Cunningham 8 “Girt Interrupted” by Susanna Kaysen 9 "The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsoher 10 “Organizing from the Inside Out” by Julie Morgenstern - 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