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Show A2 • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2009 ommunity ews Staying healthy - N E W S - Spanish Fork 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Lane Henderson Publisher Namon Bills Editor Dana Robinson . Assoc. Editor The Spanish Fork News is published each Wednesday for $37.50 per year in area and $41.50 out of area by J-Mart, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork Utah 84660. Email stories to editor@spforknews.com Email ads to ads@spforknews.com Call us at 794-4964 POSTMASTER Send address changes to Spanish Fork News 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, Utah 84660 The entire content of this newspaper is Copyright © 2009 Spanish Fork News. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. THE SPANISH FORK NEWS (USPS 024716) is published weekly for $37.50 per year by j Mart Publishing, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork, UT 84660. Periodicals Postage Paid at Spanish Fork, UT. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Spanish Fork News, 42 East 300 North, Spanish Fork, UT 84660. DEADLINES Weddings, anniversaries, missionaries, 1st birthdays, articles, photos, letters to the editor Friday, 12 p.m. bacteria and viruses more areas of entry into our bodies. Ready or Not Another thing that I don't Dawn Van Nosdoi like about alcohol based sanitizers is that they smell Last week we talked a funny (like alcohol) and they little about possibly chang- leave a sticky feeling residue ing the way we greet others behind that is really irritating so as not to pick up or pass - in more ways than one. I prefer the Pure Works® along a pandemic virus; acbrand of sanitizing products tually any type of bacteria because it feels good when or virus. We also talked about the possibility of you put it on and it is perworking out of your home sistent for up to four hours. so that you can stay home It is not alcohol based but and stay well. But not all of uses Quaternary Ammous have that option, some of nium (QUATS) compounds us will still need to physi- as an active ingredient to be cally show up to work and a first aid antiseptic and to socialize with others. What help guard against infection. They even have a One-Step to do then? The biggest advice Disinfectant to use as a surthat medical experts sug- face cleaner. The One-Step gest is to wash your hands Disinfectant has been provseveral times during the en to kill the Avian Flu viday. They also want you rus, salmonella, and many to disinfect your work sta- more viruses and bacterium tion or area daily including: on any surface. This claim phones, door knobs, drink- is supported by the EPA and ing fountains, keyboards, the foam and lotions are chair arm rests and other compliant to FDA regulaheavily touched or high tions. traffic areas. Another Another suggestion product that is to disinfect you. Mostly p e o p l e your hands. A lot of doctors have consuggest that you use the alco- sidered ushol based hand sanitizers, but ing to proI don't much care for them. tect themYes they do work - until selves is a they dry. As we all know, face mask. the minute the alcohol dries, In my rethe sanitizing abilities stop. s e a r c h found Also, alcohol, used consis- I most tently on the skin, will dry that your skin out and actually masks only make cause cracking which gives you feel as though you are protected, but they actually do very little. You need to have at least an N-95 or N99 filter to get any degree of protection. If you are interested in potentially using a mask, you might want to look at an article at www. apreparedhome.com that I found that talked about face masks and the Avian Flu virus. Probably the most effective way to protect yourself is to stay at least seven-feet away from anybody, if possible. They, the people that measure sneezes and coughs, have found that most sneezes and coughs generally travel about six-feet from point of delivery. If you are doing the sneezing and coughing, shame on you - go home and go to bed! Don't go out and share the misery unless you have to, but make sure to wear your mask if you do. Now go wash your hands and make sure you stay hydrated and healthy. The Ready Or Not article is still being posted with a new article weekly at www. apreparedhome. com Covering what matters most Public meeting in Benjamin 'Round and About Benjamin Kathleen Olsen A public meeting will be held for Benjamin and surrounding areas. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss the possibility of incorporating the town of Benjamin. The public hearing will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 18 at the Riverview School, 628 S. Park Drive. Representatives from the Utah County Board of Commissioners and Utah County Attorney's offices will be in attendance to address issues and answer all questions anyone may have. This is an important meeting for residents to have questions and issues answered directly rather than by hearsay. ••• A problem has arisen in the church parking lot in Benjamin. Several parking slots have been set aside for those with handicapped parking stickers or tags to assist them in being able to get into the church or return to their cars. These are plainly marked. However, other cars are being parked in these slots making it necessary for those needing those facilities to park elsewhere and making it very difficult for them to get into the build- ing. Recently, a gentleman needing one of the special parking spots was forced to park farther away from the church and had to cross the still-icy-in-spots parking lot. He made it into the building but after the meetings and in trying to get back to his car, he slipped on ice and fell leaving him bruised and banged up. Please help out with this problem in any way you can. Thanks. ••• Every now and then when we see an act of kindness, we like to mention it. One such act happened a couple of weeks ago. A man in our community celebrated his birthday. A person in that particular ward makes it a point to call everyone on his or her birthday to wish them birthday greetings but this particular man is very hard of hearing and unable to understand just about anything on the telephone. The caller realized this and so took the time to get a birthday card and send it through the mail so he could get his greetings personally. It arrived just in time for his birthday and the thoughtfulness of the sender greatly increased the celebration of the day. ••• i We wish everyone; a Happy Valentine's Day!! Reminiscing the 'good 'ole days' There and Back Again HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING Shirlene R. Ottesen • Service • Furnace Replacements • A/C Add Ons • Green Sticker • Financing OAC WHATEVER bryant IT TAKES M«attng & Cooling Systems Your chuckle for the week: Wilbur: "I'm looking for a good book to read. Can you recommend something?" Librarian: "Would you prefer something light or heavy?" Wilbur: "Oh, it doesn't matter. I have my car with me." In the book that I told you about last week, "We Had Everything But Money", the last section is about how people found ways to have fun without costing money or at least, not a lot of money. Radio was just finding its way into the homes of America and it was a fascinating tm BISTRO •i 9/8 Expressway Lane, Spanish Fork (nestled inswe Primrose Retreat) C/UricH 11 a.m. -'3 p.m. Dinner 5 - 9 t .4 5 Se your Valentines reservatidff 1 •now by calling 798-2858. :- contraption! After purchasing a radio, the entertainment was free and we all had our favorite radio programs. The author of this part of the book stated that "radio was the theatre of the mind." Unlike TV, you had to use your imagination and create your own pictures. "When Fibber McGee opened his closet door and the noisy avalanche that tumbled over him, you decided what was in the closet. For some it was fishing tackle boxes and golf clubs. For others it was perhaps brooms, mops and a vacuum cleaner. In other episodes you decided how big or how small the leading lady was, what color of hair she had and the clothes she wore." The radio shows I remember listening to with my Mom and Dad was Amos and Andy, Lux Radio Theatre, the Lone Ranger, Grand Ole Opry, the Arthur Godftey show and scary ones like Inner Sanctum and The Shadow. Dances were very popular and didn't cost a lot. The major cities in our area all had a main dance hall that was kept very busy. Many young people met while attending dances and later married. The one that was popular in our area was the open air dance hall at Arrowhead in Benjamin. My father wasn't much of a dancer, but I do remember going over to Arrowhead once in a while and parking close enough that we could see some of those dancing and listened to the music of the orchestra. In Spanish Fork, there was the City Pavilion that was built in weren't free, they only cost the late 1800's on the city about ten cents. The Satpark and people used it for urday matinee was a cona variety of gatherings and venient time to go because social activities. Pack's many rural families "went Pavilion was also a popu- to town" on Saturdays and lar place for dances. they would take their chilHere in Palmyra we dren to the theatre and let had what was called the them go to the show while Amusement Hall. It was a they finished their errands in large, rectangular lumber the nearby stores and busibuilding with no interior nesses. My husband told walls. Early settlers re- me that he and his brothmember going to dances ers and friends would ride there on a weekly basis. A their horses to town and tie big pot-bellied stove pro- them up on the fence where vided heat in the winter. It Stone Drug's parking lot is was used for church meet- now while they went to the ings until we got our cur- show. rent church building, but The old Angelus Theit was also used for bas- atre on main street acketball, wrestling match- commodated our city es and dances. The people very well at the time. The of Palmyra would invite lobby had red carpet and friends and family from the walls were lined with Lake Shore one week and posters advertising the the next week, the peo- movies that were comple from here would go ing in the future. I really to Lake Shore. The floor don't remember buying a was made of a soft fir and lot of candy or pop corn so they would sprinkle the in the early days, but I'm floor with corn meal to sure it was added later on. make it slick. A. T. Banks, The balcony gave the paa long time resident, re- trons a unique view of the called that "sometimes it screen and if you went to got so dusty we had dif- the show on a Friday or ficulty seeing." When the Saturday night, the big boys wrestled, they would talk at high school on lay down old rag rug car- Monday was "did you see pet to keep from getting who was sitting with who slivers. When there was in the balcony at the show a dance or a wedding re- the other night?" ception no one stayed Life was so simple then. home. Everyone went to enjoy the "night out." The There was one theatre, one benches were pushed to show and that was it. We the side of the room and didn't have a choice of 16 if some young children different screens in one or babies needed a nap, building! Movies were a coats or quilts were put real bargain because when on the benches while the you bought your ticket you rest of the family enjoyed could stay and see it twice if your Mom said you could. themselves. They didn't make you empMovies were another ty the theatre like they do popular form of enter- now. Yup! Those were the tainment. Although they "good 'ole days!" |
