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Show ommunity ews A2 • WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2009 SPANISH FORK 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Lane Henderson Publisher Namon Bills Editor Dana Robinson . Assoc. Edicor The Spanish Fork News is published each Wednesday for $37.50 per year in area and $41.50 our 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 JMart 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. Covering what matters most Part of the family Life After Birth Jaiiene Baadsgaard I lived next to my best friend Edna for 11 years. This is how I found her. My husband and I had been driving around town for weeks looking for a place to build a new home. We felt drawn to a vacant lot next to a small white frame house on 600 East in Spanish Fork. We stopped the car and knocked on the door of that house to see if the person who lived there knew who owned the lot. A petite white-haired woman opened the door. We introduced ourselves and she told us she owned the lot. Then she looked at us — really looked at us as if she were seeing through our skin into our hearts. After a long, quiet moment she told us she would be happy to sell the lot to us and offered us a fair price. Later we found out from the other neighbors that many people had been trying to buy that lot for years but she wouldn't sell. We never did figure out why she decided to sell it to us, two total strangers. In the next few months we built our new house and moved in. Before long, my children or I were at Edna's house on a daily basis, my husband was tilling her garden, and we became best friends. She helped me through my miscarriage and I helped her through her son's unexpected death. When my children went to visit her, she would play games with them, read them stories and always send them home with a piece of candy. She became their second grandma. When my growing family got too big for our house, we put a for sale sign up in the front yard. Edna told me she cried for days. We bought a larger house up on the bench, but we still invited her to all our birthday parties and holiday celebrations as usual. Some people define family as those who share the same genes. I define family as those who love each other. Edna was family. Later Edna's children decided to put her into a residential facility for senior citizens. Now she had only a small bedroom to call her own. She had help with meals and cleaning but she -wasnltvery Ixappy there. .-, •.''Janene, I. can't. carry on an intelligent conversation with any one who lives here," she told me. "I miss you." I offered to have her come and live with me, but she declined. Before long, Edna was in a nursing home. My family and I went to visit her and bring gifts. After I located her room, I found her resting in bed. Soft evening light streamed into the room from a window above her head and made her face and white hair glow. She looked like an angel. I walked quietly to her bed, knelt on the floor next to her and kissed her on the cheek. She turned and kissed me back. "Oh, Edna, you look like an angel," I whispered in her ear. "Janene, you see me like that because you love me," she answered. She spoke th e truth. Those we love become shining and beautiful to us. It doesn't matter what they look like on the outside because we see the exquisiteness of their soul. "Remember that day when you knocked on my door for the first time?" Edna asked me before we left that day. "God told me you were my angel. That's why I let you build next to me." I spoke at Edna's funeral. I still miss her. Janene Baadsgaard is the author of many books including "15 Secrets to a Happy Home," "Families Who Laugh - Last," "On the Roller Coaster Called Motherhood," "Winter's Promise," "Financial Freedom for LDS Families" and "The LDS Mother's Almanac." Read her past columns at www.janenebaadsgaard.blogspot. com. 2009 Rotary/Chamber Celebrity Pro-Am Golf Tornament SPANISH FORXT Spanis ALEM CHAMBER rf C O M M E R C E ^ ^ . fai otary Fo— Qw 1st Place Rick Ainge Craig Ainge Jan Jorgensen Broden Hughes Jeff Willardson 2nd Place K.C.Rock Jared Neilson (hole in one on 15) Curtis Olsen Tom Sisk Dan Chambers Professionals: Tie for 1st: Russ Madsen and Nic Nelson Tie for 3rd: Roy Christensen and Nic Van Vuuren Putting Contest: Rick Ainge Driving Contest: Hole #2: Longest Drive Ryan Gordon Hole #3: Shortest Drive Clay Creer Hole #4: Closest to the Pin Jared Nielson Hole #5: Closest 2nd Shot Cary Robarge 3rd Place Sheldon Gordon Nic Nelson Lewis Fields Scott Johnson Ken Swenson Hole #7: Closest 2nd Shot Broden Hughes Hole #8: Closest to the Hole Nick Nelson Hole #9: Closest 2nd shot Tyler Kozlowski Hole #10-Longest Drive John Larsen Hole #11: Longest Putt Dave McKee Hole #12: Closest to the Hole Rick Ainge Hole #13: Longest Putt Dave Oyler Hole #14: Closest 2nd Shot Cary Robarge Hole #16: Longest Putt Dennis Bromley Hole #17: Closest to the Hole Tim Braithwaite Hole #18: Longest Drive Reno Mahe Thanks to all of our sponsors Ainge Family Canyon View Medical Group Maceys Stores MHTN Architect-its Mountain Amercia Credit Union Mountain View Hospital MVP Sports Red Rock Orthodontics Spanish Fork City Spanish Fork News Spanish Fork Press Altius Health Plans American First Credit Union New York Life, Curtis Olsen Agent Pepsi Coia SAG's/S&S Takeda Pharmaceuticals Central Bank Emergency Medical Associate Sapa Extrusions (formerly Aicoa) Mike Morley, State Representative Smith Auto Wells Fargo Bank Mike Mikell, Attorney Advanced Spinal Care Dan's Dash-In Kathy Brandon Ken Swenson Ohana Chiropractic Robarge Collision Spanish Fork Nursing and Rehab Stone Drug Western States Insurance DaveEspiin, O.D. 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