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Show Senior Calendar Heritage Senior Citizens Center, 562 S. 1000 East, 5 Clearfield, 773-706- A meet the candidates forum is planned Aug. 20 at noon with candidates for local and state offices. Call for luncheon reservations. Appointments are being made for senior care screenings on Aug. and Sept. 9. The foot clinic is Aug. 27. Appointments are necessary. The monthly birthday party is Monday, Aug. 31. Seniors with birthdays this month should call the center to be included in the ce21 lebration. The center will be closed on Monday, Sept 7 for Labor Day. Volunteers are needed for one or two hours a week to call legislators on senior citizen issues. There are two openings in the beginning china painting class on Friday mornings at 8:30. The teacher, Beverly Goodwin, is a certified china painting teacher. The center has a new ceramics teacher. Jan Neilson will be teaching on Mondays at 12:30 p.m. and on Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. The next Wendover trip is Sept. 9. Bingo is played on Wednesday and Fridays at noon. Pinocle is played on Tuesday and Thursday at noon. Autumn Glow Senior Citizens Center, 81 E. Center, Kaysville, 544-123- 5 Teaching writing skills to her class, Bea Espinoza spends time with children in summer school at Clinton Elementary. Workers in Davis Countys summer school for migrant children teach or 544-125- 0 The foot clinic is on the third Thursday of the month. Call for an appointment. A meet the candidates forum is slated Aug. ea Espinoza and several others in the Davis School District who teach the children of migrant workers know exactly what theyre doing. They grew up with a similar life-- ; to these youngstyle and can relate first-han- d sters needs. These children need to know they are im- portant and of worth, said Espinoza, a who has worked with the countys summer school program and its mostly Hispanic students for several years. The program, taught this year at Clinton Elementary, helps the children succeed both in the classroom and the community, say staff members. Sal Fernandez, school recruiter and liaison between the migrant workers and the district, said teachers and tutors have created a warm, and loving atmosphere to promote success. Thats important, he said, especially with who live such transient lives. fhildren migrant children are often pulled out ;of school early and enter late to move with the family when and where there is work, said Fernandez, himself the son of migrant workers. Many of the children fall through the cracks of the regular school system because of the differences in schools, language and lifestyle, said Fernandez, affectionately known as Grandpa to the students. One teacher, Mary Mata, began working in the migrant education program at least 12 years ago because she was bilingual. My friend asked me to take over for her, said Mata. I came into it because I was needed. I could speak both Spanish and English and was hired. Mata also has first-han- d experience in knowing what its like to enter school not speaking English. She was raised by grandparents and said she could have dropped out of school at any time. Had it not been for a caring first-grateacher who helped Mata succeed that year in school, she might not be where she is today. Maybe thats why I teach the little ones, . self-wor- th de want these kids to know they can make a difference in the world around them. I David Doty said Mata. My grandfather didnt think I needed to be in school but he saw that I wanted to be there, so he supported me in my decision because he loved me. Eventually Mata graduated from Weber State College and earned her masters degree at Utah State University. But most migrant children arent that lucky, they say. Most dont receive the kind of help in the regular classroom they need to function at the same level as the other students their age. They are usually about two years behind the other kids, Fernandez said. As a result, about 80 percent of Hispanic youth don't finish high school in Utah. The ' summer school is one way to help curb the high dropout rate and help Hispanic and migrant youth obtain the skills and understanding needed to complete their education. Summer school for the youth ages 3 to 18 is not mandatory but attendance is high nevertheless. Between students, tutors and staff, there are approximately 75 people involved in the program at Clinton Elementary, the school chosen as the base for this year's mi- grant education program. Its hard to give these kids everything they need. We only have 38 days in the summer to help them with the skills they need, said Mata. It helps because the kids want to be here and that makes a difference in the attitude and progress they are able to make, said Mata. Fernandez said the students have a great desire to learn. Many have come from Mexico or Central America where only the very elite and wealthy are educated." . " the welfare Hispanic youth has resulted in the orgroup, ganization of a peer-tutCorazon. Corazon, which means heart in Spanish, was formed less than ; two years ago by Bea Espinoza to help younger members of the mi-- ! or - nority better their education and their lives. Teens involved in the Davis "County group work as tutors in a summer program to educate children of migrant workers. A few years ago, Espinoza, a paraprofessional in the Davis School District, read some statistics in the National Hispanic OB Fernandez, a Layton resident, said his own father was something of an entrepreneur. Our family worked in the fields during the growing season and in the winter he had some other business going. He used the money from the harvest to finance his other activities. We were pulled out of school early and started late. We were always behind in school. We were so poor, I didnt even have a pair of shoes. One of my teachers in school had compassion for my situation and bought me a pair of shoes. It was the first pair I ever had. She made a difference in my life, he said. When he was 17, Fernandez father deserted the poverty-stricke- n family in Phoenix, Ariz. His mother was not able to read or write and the family was destitute. They settled in the area because they didnt have money to go anywhere else. I guess there was enough anger in me that my father would do that to the family that I decided I would be successful in life and get an education, he said. After several delays, he finished high school in Phoenix and graduated from college. Eventually he received his masters degree in theology. Now he is pastor at a bilingual church in Layton. Espinoza, also a Layton resident, also was raised in a migrant-famil- y atmosphere. When I went to school, a teacher called several of us out of class and told us we should go to technical school because we were not college material. Maybe I just had to prove I was, said Espinoza, who obtained a college degree in nursing. She has also been instrumental in obtaining funding and creating and sustaining programs to help Hispanic youth and parents. Mostly they need someone to listen to them, she said. They need to know someone understands and cares about their situation. A lot of the kids call me at home just to talk. When I tell them what I think they should do, they say, That sounds like something my mother or grandmother would say. See SCHOOL on page 10 be Aug. 20 at 6 p.m. in the Kaysville City Bowery. Tickets are $3 at the center. The menu include hot dogs, hamburgers and all the trimmings and ice cream sundaes. There will be bingo, door prizes Magazine that disturbed her greatly. The magazine reported that more than 80 percent of Hispanic youth in Utah drop out of school. Espinoza took her concerns to the Davis County Mental Health Department We need to put our efforts into strengthening these children and keep them out of gangs, said i We need to teach Espinoza. them the importance of staying away from drugs and alcohol. The some positive role j; kids need "models and someone to help them focus on the importance of education. The youth need alter -- self-estee- 1 seek- ing Hispanic youth who were model students. She found about high school in the area has CORAZON on help with math problems, Ivis Perea, Getting some Monica Is tutored Arguello of Layton. 7, by one-on-o- will and entertainment The August birthday party will be Aug. 21 at 11:30 a.m. Seniors with August birthdays should call the center to be included in the celebration. The Alzheimers support group will meet the Monday, Sept. 14. from 3 to 5 p.m. in the conference room at the center. This is the second Monday instead of the first, because the center will be closed on Sept 7 for Labor Day. The center needs volunteers to call legislators on issues important to older people during the 1993 leg and 3. Absentee ballots and mail-i- n registration forms are also available at the center. Those interested in playing in a dance orchestra should notify the center. The orchestra will play for the dances which will begin in the fall. Bridge is played on Thursdays at noon and bingo is played on Fridays. Anyone interested may join. The center will take a group to the Shakespearean Festival Aug. 24 to 26. Call for more information. Humana Hospital Davis-Nort- h Seniors Association, 1600 W. Antelope Drive, Layton, 774-708- 0 Sunday brunch is Aug. 23 and Aug. 30 in the hospital cafeteria. The blood pressure and blood glucose screening clinic is each Wednesday from 8:30 to noon in classroom No. 1. Senior aerobics are on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 a.m. A driving class sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons is Aug. 20 and 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day. Seniors dont have to be a member to take the class. Aug. 28 is golf day at the Davis County Park. Call the seniors association for further information. Menus Davis County Council on Aging luncheons are the same at the county centers and are served at 11:30 a.m. Reservations should be made at least one day in advance by calling Autumn Glow at or Heritage at Wednesday, Aug. 19: Hawaiian baked chicken, parslied buttered rice, steamed broccoli, carrot and raisin salad, cantaloupe, raisin bran muffin and milk. Thursday, Aug. 20: porcupine meatball, parmesan potato wedge, zucchini and tomatoes, sunset Jell-- o salad, applesauce bar, whole544-12- 773-706- 5. wheat roll and milk. Friday, Aug. 21: seafood pie with cheese sauce, OBrien potatoes, cauliflower, marinated cucumber and onion, chilled fruit cup and milk. Monday, Aug. 24: corned beef, parslied potatoes, steamed cabbage, fruit salad, ice cream, dilly roll and milk. Tuesday, Aug. 25: turkey tetra-zinn- i, buttered peas and onions, peach and cranberry salad, pumpkin bar, dinner roll and milk. Purse a real grab bag for all kinds of stuff There is very little that I can count as sacred in my house. My daughter rifles my drawers and socks. My son for filches nail polish for model airplanes and borrows my flashlight, returning it only after the batteries have failed. Even my dear husband is not above usurping a paperback from my nightstand, leaving me to wonder whodunit while he takes off on a business trip. There is, however, one place I can count as beyond the pilfering fingers of my family members. None of them dare enter the dangerous confines of Mothers Purse. The word that best describes my purse is stuff. Im talking about stuff, the noun, and stuff the verb. My purse looks normal enough a classy black leather bag about the size of a toaster. But a peek inside shows this pocketbook is in a book-mark- ed FARMINGTON Cowboy roping demonstrations musical comedy are and a one-aall part of an outdoors western arts fair later this month. The comedy, The Hanging of Sinimin City, will be presented on story-te- lling, ct the outdoor Stories by Kathy Kelly Photos by Robert Regan devcl-S- m pag picnic er 2 HOME LIGHT Sheri Poe Bernard lakeside Review columnist an air of familiarity, is to invoke an unrelenting wrath. My purse is my sacred territory, if only because Im embarrassed to let my children or husband glimpse just how disorganized that part of my life can be. Years ago, I carried a designer purse. Printed on a little metal tag across its front was the brand name: Samsonite." I was in college then, and could toss textbooks and a sack lunch into this bright yellow bag and still have room for all my important stuff. More recently, I carried an enormous bag on one hip and a baby on the other, and people would naturally assume the bag had diapers inside. And it did. But also in- cluded was all my best stuff Ive gotten touchy about my purse only in the last couple of years. My children are grown. Im not in college, and I can no longer justify carrying a purse the size of a small pet carrier. In a time when bigger is definitely not better, I feel Im in the clutches of the fashion industry. Everyone is opting for the diminutive fanny pack, and Im going to be left holding the bag. Fair to have western flavor 15 teenagers interested in helping their peers. The group was organized and began meeting twice a month. At one meeting they were taught how to help others, while the next meeting was an activity to unite the group in friendship and in service to the community. The youth must attend the classes to be eligible to participate in the activities. The group has since expanded. Friends of students in the group are brought in and now the program has extended to different schools. Each junior high and The class by itself. There is no logic to what lies for sewwithin. Sewing needles ing machines. A childs report card from two years ago. About $8 in loose change $3 in pennies. Four months worth of checking account carbons. Eyeglasses with outdated prescription lenses. It is not the fear of poking a finger on a loose needle that keeps family members out (though clearly this is a possibility). They know that to move my purse from a kitchen chair to the floor, or to even touch its shoulder strap with native activities so they need to turn to gangs for acceptance. Mental Health agreed and gave, her funding to begin a program to strengthen the youth. Espinoza was also instrumental in beginning classes for Hispanic families to help educate them in communication, building avoiding alcohol and drug addiction. These classes, Families in Action, run in cycles at various locations in the county. Espinoza then went to the local junior high and high schools at noon. Seniors will election. The next Wendover trip is Aug. 19. Call for reservations. Hispanic youth help peers better their lives, education dont of A Layton womans concern for 18 have the opportunity to interact with candidates for the primary islative session. Seniors not registered to vote in the Sept. 8 primaries can still register in their neighborhoods Sept. 1, 10 . stage at Farmingtons Woodland Park, Aug. 27, 28 and 29 starting at 8 p.m. Directed by Colleen Paddock, the main actors in the production are Cory Wood, Colleen Paddock, Tom Paddock, Terry Benedict, Paul Benedict, Chadlcy Anderson, Deanie Stott, and Bob StotL Event chairperson Terry Benedict said that prioMo the produc tion, which is sponsored by the citys centennial committee, there will be roping demonstrations, cowboy storytelling, group singing, square dancing demonstrations and pony rides for children. Those events start at 6:30 p.m. Admission to the Western Comedy Production Arts Fair is $3 a person or $12 a family. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the city offices, 130 N. Main, or each evening at the park, located south of the old city offices at 286 S. 200 East. People should bring lawn chairs for seating. Call Benedict at 4515192 for more information. |