Show u T--V r i m t h n 'i i i i i1 vm1 1 Page 26 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday November 8 2000 Retired dairy farmer makes village a reality By Ken Ellsworth Scripps Howard News Service Calk’s piddlin' is If it takes a village Norris Calk has his own personal one — a row of Main Street shops that he has built of two gas stations stand with their pumps out front Fire Chief gas is advertised for 21 cents per gallon Premium Or Sky Chief is 23 cents Sadly there is no gas to sell at those prices ' Calk's private village also includes a blacksmith shop a laundry shed with a tub and a washboard a barbershop and a cafi In this place next to Calk’s house in Coleman Kan painter Norman Rockwell would have felt right at home Out back behind the row of stores are more than a dozen pieces of farm equipment most fully functional and designed to be pulled by horses Calk has no horses He can’t explain why he has gone to so much trouble to erect the displays “Finally I just started piddlin’’’ the retired dairyman said life-siz- ed Near-replic- as ed life-siz- ed hand-operat- Over the last 10 years Norris Calk has built a her "I took care she said ' 24-7- " The United States Automobile Association Educational Foundation a nonprofit offshoot of USAA contracts with 15 military commands and bases so far to provide workshops relating to the changes facing career military personnel who are one to six years away from retirement Without the workshopBanellis said it’s easy to let the time go by before retirement without any preparation “We won't let them procras- tinate” she grinned “They have to sit there for the four After her mother's death nearly two years ago Banellis read an ad seeking volunteers to teach retiring career military ' personnel how to' bridge the gap between their military and civilian lives She jumped at the chance competing suc- cessfully against more than 200 other applicants for 20 volunteer positions Banellis was happy to renew her link to the military while maintaining her retirement sta-tdays" As she wrote in her The American Association resume “This was an opportufor Retired Persons originally ran the workshops Two and a nity to return to the military which I loved as well but now half years ago when AARP as a civilian and member of wished to turn over the workthe retirement community" shops USAA Educational Her own experiences at Foundation began gradually retirement motivated her to taking over the program The make it better for those three-yeoverlap was meant to a ensure smooth approaching the change “I did my own transition” changeover and AARP will rite said “I didn't have what I not be part of the program presently provide for the after this year active duty military” While USA'A markets Currently' the armed ser- “everything from car insur- vices provide support to retir- - ance medical insurance "ing personnel through the investments credit cards” - By Scripps Howard News Service indicate their potential risk for unhealthy — and potentially dangerous — behavior according to a Cincinnati doctor who surveyed 2000 students fra a study The study on “school connectedness” published in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics by lead author Dr Andrea Bonny found common characteristic's among young people who feel disconnected from their ' dren : The study conducted in conjunction with the Hamilton County (Ohio) Family and Children First - the bushes” Of course Calk eventually brought the outhouse to Yesterday’s Village Authentic to the end a “LADIES” sign still hangs above the door and the letters “WPA" are crudely pressed into the building’s concrete base Visitors occasionally come by take tour of the photos and take a Calk-le- d village He enjoys that ' "I like to talk” he said and laughed that his wife would agree pm each day with some evening work expected A team of two volunteer facilitators leads each workshop Part of the facilitators' job is to help participants form a coherent group for the learning to succeed “It’s such a comprehensive intense four-da- y workshop Forces planning is not always a practiced part of life And fra many the transition affects not only an individual but also an entire family Spouses are welcomed as workshop participants but often enough they are working and cannot take the time off “We have to rely on the men — it’s mostly men who take They’re off work to learn the course r— to take information back to the families Boy together blending into a comwe drum that in! ‘This is not munity” she described On bases that have contractan independent decision on ed fra the program attendance your part’” is mandatory so attitude The workshop exercises adjustment is also part’ of the help retiring military careerists facilitators’ job to jump-sta- rt the processes “Some of them don’t want needed for a successful to be there They come with changeover to civilian life: their heels kicking They don’t planning communication and see why they need it By the most of all to see the possibilfourth day they’ve found the ities of the new life value in it” said Banellis Once a plan is in place get“We’H introduce ourselves ting on with it isn’t so hard — that we are former military that’s what the military life is We understand where they’re all about: “We understand miscoming from The common sion — that's the crux of our thread is prior military ser- background” asserted Banellis “We know how to proceed vice” For people in the Armed with a job” : - ' All four characteristics are “changeable” ' ' behaviors Bonny said Bonny said the conclusions raise the issue of whether a school nurse can be trained to identi- - fy these students and offer interventions because three of the four factors are ! health-- : related The study also implies that greater involvement in school-sponsorextracurricular activities could help students who feel alienated ed Such feelings put them at greater risk of poor health and unsafe behaviors such as drug abuse violence pregnancy early sexual behavior and mental health issues Bonny a physician at Children’s Hospital Medical Center said acts of school violence around the country have raised the issue of how and maladjusted chilto identify well-adjust- ed - ' ol schools - “My father had the first Grade A county" he said One day on the farm some men from the Works Progress tion- a Depression-er- a work group ' to offered build and a modcame by ern sanitary outhouse for just the $16 cost of the materials It was a fine thing but served only half of the population “It was just for the ladies" Calk recalled “The boys still went out to dairy in the be an' intense experience she said running from 8 am to 4 Educational inch-thic- a facilitator’s manual “I don’t exactly memorize but I know it so well I hardly have to look at it when I go into the classroom” Banellis said an' important Perceived poor health ' Cigarette use the school visits nurse to Increasing Lack of extracurricular activities ' ' How students feel about their school may : 0s various additions to the village The outhouse would work too if it were just sitting over a deep hole Calk grew up on his father's dairy farm near Silver Valley in northern Coleman County kids give danger signs At-ris- k high-sicho- where Calk sold milk cream and butare all still ter up until the mid-197there too And the equipment is still functional as are most of the structures and Program or in another of the culture’s beloved acronyms MilPREP f The result? “We got a draft of our workshop” she exulted k showing an copy Although the job is voluntary flights hotel rooms and meals are paid for “Even though I don’t get paid fra it it is very Banellis said But they do have the opportunity to travel: “We can take a few extra days and use our own money for hotels and meals” A workshop is designed to hours before each workshop where she will present up to eight topics “It could be ‘Useful management of time’ ‘Attitude and role adjustment’ ‘Resume review’ ‘Interviewing techniques” she detailed “as well as case studies of military families and couples and individuals" “It's up to me to initiate my study hours” she said hefting - - retirement year participating in four workshops after extensive training She estimated her preparation time at 15 to 20 ar cream separators and the office 20-pl- us declared Banellis Banellis has been one of the program's facilitators for a - He has been working steadily eight hours a day six days a week for 10 years to create and maintain his “Yesterday’s Village" And he has more building plans — a sheriff's office a jail and a scaffold for the worst of the bad guys Calk’s wife Dora willingly pitches in with the work Calk was bitten by the building bug when a Coleman friend closed his gas station and gave Calk the station’s tall red and white Texaco sign “What the heck” Calk told himself “I’ll just go ahead and build a gas station to go with the sign" He didn't know at the time that several more buildings enough in fact to make a village would rise up beside the gas station But they did Part of Calk’s display is his old dairy building Stalls are still there for the cows The 1950s mechanical milking apparatus the coolers the spark for her enthusiasm for the USAAEF program came from Kathy Rafferty- - its director She described Rafferty as “a dynamite leader retired lieutenant colonel Air Force personnel officer” who had served “proudly for years” Recently she went to San Antonio Texas with 20 other facilitators to brainstorm a rewrite of the workshop manual to be called Military Pre- never speak of it again” us : ed said Banellis the educational foundation bearing the USAA name is a nonprofit organization Considerable effort is made to avoid the appearance of acting as a marketing vehicle for USAA the business organization "We introduce the course as coming from the educational foundation on Day 1 of the workshop and from there bases 17 of her life-siz- ed Military Transition Assistance Program which is available at Family Sendee Centers on all Veteran Continued from Page Scripps Howard photo row of Main Street shops of the dedicated sort students who don’t feel connected to their schools share four common Council-foun- d 'traits:- “If we put extra money into clubs will it make a difference?" she said “We found it doesn’t matter what club ytiu’re in you can be in the geeky club and it’s still protective Kids feel more connected than those who are We do know the two are ' associated” Bonny and a team of evaluators surveyed nearly 2000 students in eight Cincinnati-are- a ' ' public middle and high schools irigraides 7' through 12 for three years The study is an analysis of the first survey from the spring' of 1998 Don’t Miss YourCopy in tbmbmws Herald Journal DFI AIM MOTHS SOARS sHumsoowmaus nmmiwvnsocm 40 010 7200 MAXTOR HO tliMBPC-IURA- M irasm-iMOHi- m CRCATIVtlA$S52XC0 cnuTivsiAMsnin to snwoom spoors stKMQTonouamtM MnmnuMQM turnouts 'YtYt ) MICROSOFT WIM90WS MS 0GAN752-250- v- — 20 'Ssssm&m f r 7 —— f— —————— UkJ |