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Show Thursday, October 24, 1996 Messenger-Enterpris- Page 9 e ARC of Utah gives special Look Back at Ephraim A By Eleanor Madsen recognition to Sanpete residents Part ofjthe Celebration of Utahs Statehood In this Centennial year much has been said and written about those who settled this land, those who labored and sacrificed, made it possible for Utah to gain its statehood. Honor and respect are paid to these pioneer ancestors in many ways. Martha Rae Olsen of Ephraim is one who feels safe and comforted because she has so many reminders of her heritage around her. Martha has spent the past 12 years working diligently to preserve a log cabin that belonged to her Christian great-grandfath- Olsen. She says the preservation is a continuous process, but she has obtained many old things that are joyous reminders of the past. The log cabin, now over 00 years old, is a treasure with many untold stories secured within its thick walls. Martha wonders how the buckshot hole in the ceiling of the front room came to be, what pioneer pastries her grandmother, Geneva, stored in the pie safe cupboard and if Geneva ever had time to read the many wonderful books now cherished in the little bookcase. 1 Martha may write stories about all these treasures one day, but or We teach by example Trooper Terry C. Smith Utah Highway Patrol As I go into the elementary schools to talk to your children, I am always amazed at how much knowledge they possess. If you ask any child from kindergarten to the fifth grade how to safely cross the street, they will tell you that you walk to the crosswalk or the corner to cross the street. They will also tell you that you must look both ways before crossing. If there is not a crosswalk, they will tell you that you still cross at a comer and that you should not cross the street from between parked cars. in schools N Thus police officers and teachers have done a pretty good job of teaching our children. Now lets talk about what they see. As they are driving down By Bawden a year later. the past years have been too busy with long, hard hours of work in the little cabin. Sitting in the comfortable red chair inherited from her mother, Martha contemplates the work she has done. First the wall between the two rooms had to come down. The rooms were used as bedrooms and the space made a spacious living room. The hand-hone- d red pine flooring had to come up, piece by laid and the red piece, a sub-fioand refinished. A pine replaced white pine stairway had to be built to the attic and something had to be done to the wattle-willomud and plaster walls. She was glad she had been able to rock wall the kitchen and plaster and paint the walls and open beamed ceiling in the front room. As she worked, Martha had wondered about the grandparents who had spent their lives in the cabin with their one daughter and four sons, of others who had lived in the house. She wondered if Jens Rosengreen, who bought the land in 1871, had built the house before the land was sold to William Main Street, they watch adults crossing between parked cars. They see them cross c er w here except in the crosswalk. They watch as people continue to drive by and not let anyone cross Main Street -- - even at crosswalks. We are really setting a great example! We are too lazy or in too big of a hurry to walk to the corner so we just run out into traffic. What a great example! Next time you drive dow n Main Street, watch for pedestrian traffic they do have the right of way. Also, if its good enough for our children, it should be good enough for us adults to walk to the corner to cross. We cannot continue to teach one thing and then do another. Our children already have enough things to confuse them. After her grandparents died, Martha knew the house had been rented to newly married couples and to Snow College students and then had stood vacant for many years until she had decided to purchase it. Martha felt so close to the ancestors who had planted five pine trees (only two left now), the pear and apple trees outside her doorway. Those 20 az. apples had a flavor unequaled as they were baked in the oven of the original Monarch wood burning kitchen stove. How she loved the cozy warmth of that stove on these brisk fall Ephraims Sanpete Community Training Center; they, along with Maria Garbe, Lelani Leslie, Sheila Roberts, Brooke Poulson, and 40 part-tim- e employees were honored along with Senator Leonard Blackham of Moroni for their efforts on behalf of people with disabilities. Karen Christensen, a parent who nominated the Training Center for this award stated, The reason I feel this organization should receive this award is...that they are saving parents lives. They are providing much needed respite care and family support but to them it is not just a job. They are so friendly and personal. There are many times they lend a shoulder to cry on, or just let you get things off your chest. They know and love each child individually and Garden Plowing 835-250- 3 FOFSr w HAUNTED DR.FRjGHr 1 24-3- Ifxccpt Sun) ':0Ot 0:OOpm tickets $4:00 lust Cast of the IDt. Pleasant S A1SO ThcumpkmatcH Place. , Q lF sV be at the Ephraim Job service on 0 1 ing legislation sponsored by Sena- support hours. It has been reported to ARC that before funding, they did not have a life; now with family support services, husbands and wives can have a few hours together. Parents can spend time with other family members without worrying about their child with a disability. This time spent with siblings has reduced stress and resentment in these homes. Individuals with disabilities are now able to spend more time outside their homes in social activi- be available to them. The community gains a new and valued member and becomes a natural support system for families. ARC, in recognizing Senator Blackham stated that where once, the system was broken in regard to parents of special needs children in rural Utah, Senator Blackham is clearly one of the first legislators to take steps to fix what is broken. Senator Blackhams advocacy for individuals with disabilities has directly and positively impacted the lives of many families. He has made it possible for families to receive supports needed to not only help keep their families together, but to have a quality life. ARC of Utah recognizes indi- viduals, businesses, volunteers and others who provide service and support to people w ith mental retardation and their families. forming for any event from black-ti- e to concerts in the park. The unique sound of the Lightwood Duo is the result of their varied and eclectic repertoire which includes music by Bach, Bartok, Gershw in, and even Jimi Hendrix. Guitarist Christiansen is a professor and director of guitar studies at Utah State University. He has 15 instructional books currently in print, and is featured on three instructional videos. Clarinetist Nelson is also a music educator and has published several articles on clarinet repertoire. Together, their innovative instrumentation and programming have won them critical acclaim and from Manhattan to Montana. The following Thursday, October 31, the Convocation will be presented by Dr. Duane Jeffery of the Brigham Young University Biology Department, speaking on Evolution: Is It Relevant in the Modern World? funded. wrong way. This is a free service and veterans need not be a member of the American Legion to receive for assistance. 12:00-1:0- tor Blackham. As a result, money was set aside just for rural areas and families received additional n non-disabl- ed The Service Officer from the American Legion, Sait Lake City, will be in your area to assist you in understanding and applying for VA benefits, including compensation, pension, hospitalization, and other benefits. Monday, November 4, 1996 from nized several people from Sanpete County on September 20, 996, at the Holiday Inn in Salt Lake City. Don and Dixie Neilson head up difficult-to-obtai- non-existe- nt Lightwood Duo to be featured t)ct. will still needed. These or services became the springboard for fund- The award given to Sanpete Community Training Center, honored the staff as Professionals of the Year, for outstanding efforts mornings. that have improved the lives of Many people desire new ties, becoming a part of their comhouses, but as Martha looks people with mental retardation. Senator Blackham was honored as munity and gaining skills and exaround at all her heritage enveloped in the old log cabin, she the Legislator of the Year for his periences that would otherwise not knows all the hard work has been efforts with legislative issues in state government. worth the effort. The Sanpete Community TrainPreserving the past for future generations gives a new perspec- ing Center staff attend activities The Snow College Convocative to life. Martha is truly an ex- with students with disabilities so tion on Thursday, October 24, w ill ample of one who honors her heri- they can be with their feature the Lightwood Duo, an tage school peers and truly bereminding all of us of the unfamiliar combination of guitar debt we owe to our ancestors and come friends. By combining fundthe recognition we should give ing and personnel with the and clarinet. Guitarist Mike Christiansen and Clarinetist Eric them, especially in this Centennial Districts Special Education proNelson will play in the Crane Theyear. gram, they helped some students atre at Snow College at 12:30 p.m. get an additional month of sumThe public is welcome. An mer school. will be held in the Their workers spend many evening concert Music Building recital hall at 7 hours in the schools training with p.m., also on Thursday. Also, slow dow'n and take a teachers and learning the IndividuThe name lightwood was look, especially after school. alized Educational Program (IEP) born as the obvious answer to the children on are Young standing goals of the students they serve so What is the opposite of corners w aiting for a chance to run question, they can help these students The Duo performs metal? across the street because all the achieve them. heavy They also substitute in all drivers are either blind or oblivistyles except their opposite, in the Special Education classous to them standing there waitincluding classical, jazz, blues, rooms. Dixieland, ragtime, and cross. to bluegrass. ing Some families in Sanpete Latin jazz. Individually, the strains If you see a pedestrian at the County were so desperate for sercorner, it is your duty as a driver vices for their children they of the guitar and the clarinet are traditional. Combined, the resultto stop and let them cross. They thought they could no longer keep sounds become uniquely have the right of way. them. The Center talked to the ing untraditional, So start sending the right mesproducing a sound families, found out what they described as where cross should powerfully melyou sage needed, and figured out how much low. and how you should. Teach it would cost. Then they made the As veterans of virtually every don't preach. You can't expect system change to meet the famiyour children to cross the right lies needs and got the services performance venue, Christiansen and Nelson are comfortable per- way if you are showing them the ATTENTION ALL VETERANS, DEPENDENTS, AND WIDOWS The Service Officer Tricia Call The Association of Retarded Citizens (ARC) - the oldest association for disabled people recogBy ( p.m. VCJl happy hallouxen Come take a stroll bourn tfy Pumpkin J Path, fun for the "Me famW Only Oct. 28-3- 1 are concerned about parents needs as well. In the last year they have gone from providing services for 17 families to 52 families. Senator Blackham gathered information about childrens disabilities, the services they were receiving and what services were unusual duo performing the classics, jazz, blues, Dixieland, ragtime, Latin and contemporary works has been delighting audiences nationwide. The et guitar-clarin- tree Xonvocdt ion October 24 - 12.30 pm Snow College Snow building jjCK $1.00 ConcerP: October Music 24 College - OO pm Music building CD's on sole SNOW COLLEGE HAS BEEN CELEBRATING FOUNDERS DAY FOR 100 YEARS MM DOUBLE CELEBRATION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER BE A PART OF HISTORY GBQGOTGI?! (kKOiiLsy andse KUg' 31 .iiir, V Itorth Hi! mV II " , ,v,4h First day to see the new Greenwood Student Center Noyes Bldg, doses for Rejuvenation 4:00 - 6:00 pm ov. 5, 1996 5, 1996 rt'r p ji lV u r er ' f-- 4.. , rs .. "" Student Center Sneak Preview 3:00 - 4:00 pm Nov. 5, 1996 |