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Show •••-••• - ••• • - • • • Utah Press Association Arinda Guttierez 1521 East 3900 South Suite 100 AN E D I T I O N O F P R I D E & Salt Lake City, UT 84124 PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID SPANISH FORK. UTAH PERMIT NO. 2 The Spanish Fork News 1 VOL. 2 / NO. 27 I. O C A L L Y O W N E D A N D O P EWEDNESDAY, R A T JULY E D4, 2007 500 SPANISH FORK, UTAH Susan Gardner Local author uses winning strategy Steve Hardman EDITOR Aside from music and teaching, Spanish Fork's Susan Gardner loves to bake. "Homemade goodies make people happy," she said. And like one of her cinnamon rolls, Gardner has found something else that helps make people happy. She shows them how to change their lives for the better. Years ago, Gardner attended a seminar on how to bring about positive change in her life. She was looking for a way to impact not only her own life, but the lives of her children as well. Afterwards, she asked herself, "Did this information meet my values —my family standards." The answer was yes. Gardner began to experiment with her kids, applying the ideas that she learned. One of her sons was a thumbsucker. "I could have forced him," she said. "But coerced changes are temporary. His self-image had to change for him to give up that habit." She said she helped her son positively visualize the change and see himself differently. "It worked so well, I thought, 'I need to share this!'" she said. The Winner's Creed was the result. In 1983, she founded Winner's Unlimited and The Winner's Creed seminar. She later wrote a book with the same name. "It is about self-image; about goal setting; about faith. The power of faith is the moving factor that allows people to make changes in their lives," she said. Gardner said The Winner's Creed "helps others learn to answer the simple question, 'What do you want to have happen?'" A member of the LDS Church, Gardner bases the principles of her seminar and book on the ideas and teachings of her church, including scriptures and conference talks. "These are gospel oriented principles that bring success," she said. "This is definitely nothing original. They are simply things I've heard or seen and put into writing." Gardner has seen lives change when people apply these principles. One student who read the course lost over 30 pounds. "The Winner's Creed weightloss program is very successful," she said. "As people learn how to cultivate and develop faith, they can achieve anything." Sjee AUTHOR • A10 Courtesy photo THE TRUCK STOPS HERE: For a little while, anyway. While at Triple T, this former Spanish Fork City fire truck received sheet metal repairs to its storage bins. Various businesses and individuals worked to prepare the fire truck to be given to Bocoyna, Mexico. Community businesses prepare fire truck for Mexico Steve Hardman EDITOR I magine this — a bright red fire truck, its lights blazing and siren wailing as it weaves through traffic on its way to an emergency. Easy enough, right? A commonplace image in Spanish Fork. There are places, however, that have never seen an engine or a pumper. When a lire breaks out, they rally as neighbors and fight with buckets and hoses. But thanks to the generosity of several local residents, all that will change for one small Mexican town. Brad Tanner, the president of Triple T Heating & Cooling, along with other members of the Spanish Fork business community, purchased a surplus fire truck from Spanish Fork City, repaired it, and will donate it to the needy hamlet this summer. Several years ago, Tanner went to Mexico with Salem resident Joel Bradford as part of Hirsche Smiles, a local humanitarian organization that performs corrective surgeries in Mexico and Guatemala. The group took medical supplies to the village of Bocoyna in the state of Chihuahua. While there, Tanner and Bradford discovered the town's need of a fire truck. "Bocoyna is about the size of Salem," Tanner said. "It sits about 350 miles south of El Paso, Texas. For miles around, they have no See MEXICO • A10 Take caution during fire season Amy Baum STAFF WRITER We keep hearing about how Utah is high on the fire danger list. It was forecasted that this would be one of the worst fire years in recent history. At this moment, there are three fires burning in Utah County alone. Lake Mountain is still burning — it has been since June 24, 2007. A large fire is burning in the mouth of Provo Canyon, and Sandy Beach, at Utah Lake, is burning once again. This makes the fifth fire in that area in the past three weeks. Humans have caused all of these fires. Campfires in unapproved rings, fireworks and recreational shooting are just some of the causes. According to the Utah Forest Service, as of June 27, Utah has fallen victim to 271 wild land fires, burning an estimated 47,653 acres. Of these, 210 fires have been caused by humans, burning about 41,563 acres land — all because of carelessness. To combat the severe fire danger, Utah has issued a burn ban that went into effect on June 25, See FIRE • A10 I Amy Baum / Spanish Fork News SUMMER LANDSCAPE? After fires scorched Utah Lake's Sandy ^each, it looks more like winter than summer. / |