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Show A2 • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2009 ommunity ews Guardian of Your Community News If you think it's expensive now 42 East 300 North Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Lane Henderson Publisher Namon Bills Editor Dana Robinson . Assoc. Editor The Sentinel 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. E-mail stories to editor@sfsentinel.com E-mail ads to ads@sfsentinel.com Call us at 801-794-4964 The entire content of this newspaper is Copyright © 2009 The Sentinel. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. THE SENTINEL (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 Sentinel, 42 East 300 North, Spanish Fork, UT 84660. DEADLINES Weddings, anniversaries, missionaries, 1st birthdays, articles, photos, letters to the editor Friday, 12 p.m. Display advertisements, classified ads, Business Index Friday, 12 p.m. Thalian Thalian Club members held their first meeting Sept. 2, 2009 at the Prestwich farm restaurant. President Mary Webster welcomed everyone. There were 16 members and one guest in attendance. Beverly Lewis was the hostess and led the members in the pledge of allegiance and Donna Measom gave the prayer and blessing on the food. Following the luncheon the members shared their hobbies and talents with each other. Many beautiful quilts, dolls, family pictures, hand work & suggestions for books to be read along with a collection of ceramics and other fun memorabilia were shared. We then sang some old fashioned songs led by Donna Measom accompanied by Ruth Leifson. As always we ended the meeting with our own "Thalian Song". cal establishment here in Utah. Early last year we Galloping Geezer discovered that my wife had Gary Davis breast cancer and thanks to the truly wonderful people at the Huntsman Cancer Recently I stopped by Center, she's doing very the post office in a city north of here about 4:30 in well now. A few months ago my the afternoon. There were half a dozen people ahead doctor had reason to suspect of me in line and three that all was not well with employees waiting on cus- my innards and I underwent tomers. All well and good. a series of "procedures." Soon, however, the num- Basically, if it ended in "osber of employees dwin- copy" they did it to me. I had the ever-popular colodled to one and the line noscopy plus the one that of people waiting for help goes down the throat that's snaked around the room called, (I'm not kidding and out the front door. As here), an esophagogastrothe line moved laboriously duodenoscopy, and finally forward, the man in front the small bowel capsule enof me turned and said, "If doscopy. you think this is bad, wait The last one is pretty *til we get government-run amazing. We all have a health care." couple hundred yards of That strikes me as a sa- small intestine, well, several feet anyway. And the lient point. In the last year-and-a- gastro docs can't plumb half I've had considerable the entire length using experience with the medi- their usual roto rooter method, so some really smart person came up with a camera that you swallow that takes pictures of the intestine and relays the image to a small black box that you strap to your body for eight hours or so. A radiologist later watches the intestinal video, which is probably about as riveting as a Keith Olbermann newscast, and determines if you've got a problem. The "PillCam" found a tumor, and surgery is scheduled. It's cancer, but not an aggressive type so the prognosis is good. I can't help but wonder, however, what would' ve happened if some bureaucrat had to give his approval for me to swallow that pill. Would my tumor have been discovered in time? I'm 72 years old, and the sooner I shuffle off this mortal coil, the less money it's going to cost Medicare and Blue Cross or Obamacare. Our hectic lives There and Back Again Shirlene R. Ottesen I mentioned in last week's column that I like the month of September, and I do, but it sure is a spidery, cob-webby, buggy month! Because the temperatures are dropping, the flies are starting to cling to the outside door and then, of course, when we open the door they come in too. Then there are some other little critters that want to get in the house where it's warm and so I have a couple of mouse traps set. Do you know it's hard tofinda plain, old, ordinary kind of mouse trap! I looked in several stores before I found some. They have traps to make a live catch, but to heck with that! I want one where that little bar clamps down over their head and they are gone! I don't like the bar bait because they take a bite and then crawl off somewhere else to die. Sometimes you find them in a timely manner and other times you don't and that isn't good. And then there are the glue traps which sometimes present a problem all their own. I have to tell you about my daughter who lives next door to me. Her hus- cringe until I get it where I band bought the glue traps need it. Sometimes it will and set one on the floor go off just setting the trap by the kitchen cupboard. down and then I have to do Before they went to bed it all over again. Anyway, for the night, their pet cat, the glue traps were new and • Smokey wanted in the so I decided to try them. house because it was the They are simple - you just night last week of that good take them out of the packrain storm complete with aging and put them where thunder and lightening; you want. I slid one under so they let him in. Well, my couch in our family in the middle of the night, room. I used a yard stick they awakened to a ruckus to push it out from under as Smokey came barreling the couch and checked down the hall with his paw on it for a couple of days stuck on the glue trap and and then I finally got him! very unhappy about the It was horrible! He was whole situation. There was struggling so hard to get a slight pause, and then it loose. I couldn't stand to started again as he tried re- pick it up while he was still peatedly to shake the trap alive and I couldn't stand loose. Elizabeth got up and to watch him struggle so I finally caught him. The just pushed it back under glue on those traps must be the couch! I kept checking pretty good because when on him and it was a few she pulled his paw off he days before he died. It was let out an ear- piercing awful. I'll never use one of squeal. She was laughing them again! So much for so hard she could hardly mice. They make such a tell me about all this. They mess. When I know there didn't catch their mouse, at is one in the house, I can't least not yet, and I'm sure stand it until I catch them Smokey will stay clear of in a trap and know that it. I could just visualize all they are dead and gone. the clatter and noise of that Lately it's difficult to poor cat with his foot stuck keep track of the season. in the glue. When shopping at some of I had another experi- our local stores I find that ence with a glue trap. I the pumpkins and autumn hate to set those spring leaves are getting all mixed traps! Each time I put the up with the poinsettias and cheese on the trap and then snowmen. Oh, well. Such bring that spring back I just is our hectic life! Scouts Courtesy photo FALL CAMPOREE: The Blackhawk and Diamond Fork Districts held a Fait Camporee at Camp Jeremiah Johnson Sept. 11-12, 2009. Over 100 scouts and 43 leaders attended the event. Four outdoor scouting skills were taught to the scouts: cooking, orienteering, fire building and GPS. Byron Moos served as chairman for the campmoree. We're told by backers of government run health care that we can add 50 million people to health care rolls, reduce costs, increase competition and not have rationing. I'm no mathematician but does that make sense to you? If a bureaucrat is making the choice between giving the PillCam to a 30-year-old man in his prime who will be paying taxes for three more decades or a geezer who's finished paying taxes, who's going to get the camera and who gets the aspirins? The reason seniors are showing up at town hall meetings in large hostile numbers is because they know what's in the health care bill, and it scares the heck out them. I attended such a meeting recently in Provo where Rep. Jason Chaffetz fielded questions from an overflow crowd at the Covey Center for the Arts. A bus, paid for by the Republican Party and the insurance companies, came by to get me and we were all given AK47's and Death to Obama signs — just kidding. This, however, is the image that some attempt to portray of all town hall protesters. The meeting I attended was orderly and, for the most part, respectful. The only whack job I saw was a displaced hippie yelling that Glenn Beck was a loon. England has socialized medicine and the bureaucracy which runs it is the third largest employer in the world, a bankrupt, unwieldy monster, which simply does not work. We follow that path at our nation's peril. George Will is credited with saying, "If you think health care is expensive now, wait 'til it's free." I wish I'd said that. Geezmail: ipil940@ msn.com Out in Benjamin served in Albania on Saturday evening, Sept. 12, 2009, for a fun evening of reminiscing and cooking favorite foods from AlbaA final reminder to all nia. It was a happy time Relief Society sisters of the full of special memories. ••• General Relief Society ConEarl and Joan Thomsen ference which will be held on Saturday, Sept. 26,2009. have recently been hosts In Spanish Fork West Stake to several visitors at their (which includes both Benja- home. Seth Thomsen, 11 min wards), the stake Relief year old grandson of the Society presidency is invit- Thomsens, camefromMiling the sisters of our stake ilani, Hawaii, and spent a to meet at 5 p.m. for supper couple of weeks here. They followed by viewing the also had missionfieldguests conference at 6 p.m. This - Andrea Arksey of Brandis always an exceptionally son, Manitoba and Claudia Trenbley now of Calgary, lovely evening. Alberta (who served her Benjamin 2nd Ward mission in Utah) stayed for members enjoyed their an- several days seeing sights nual end-of-summer party of our area and visiting with at the Benjamin Park on friends. Nathan and Melissa Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, Thomsen and four children where a large crowd had a came later from their home hot dog roast and pot luck in Twin Falls, Idaho. They supper. Visiting, games and enjoyed letting cousins get the beloved trains which acquainted and play togethkept the little ones occu- er. ••• pied rounded out the eveJust about every week, ning. The party was under someone comments on the the direction of the Activibeautiful flowers that add ties Committee of Second Ward of which Alan and much beauty to the chapel Pat Swenson are chair- each Sunday at church. men. They were assisted by Some wonder who is retheir committee members, sponsible for such a kind Richard and Janet Erikson, service but one which is Ron Jenson, and Greg and so quietly done. Thanks Nancy Balzly plus the train should be directed to Hal engineers, Jim Downey and and Marie Johnson from whose beautiful flower Jim Moon. gardens the flowers are Congratulations to Ja- picked and slipped into son and Angie Marshall place before the First Adamson who were mar- Ward's Sacrament Meeting ried on Saturday, Sept.12, begins and later removed 2009. They were honored after the Sacrament Meetthat evening at a beautiful ing of Second Ward ends. garden reception in Span- This is a service that adds ish Fork and are making greatly to the spirit of our their home in Spanish meetings and it is greatly Fork. Angie is the daugh- appreciated. ••• ter of Vernon and Doris The Frost Fair is comMarshall. ing to the Benjamin 1st Carl and Shirley Shep- Ward on Wednesday, Oct. herd recently had a delight- 7, 2009. This will be held ful evening with special at the Benjamin Park and guests from their mission will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Albania. Irma Benara of There will be three areas Albania, but who is cur- of competition - pumpkins rently studying at LDS (with several categories Business College in Salt biggest, smallest (orange), Lake City, and April Arm- etc.), decorated Jack-o-lanstrong of Cina, Ohio, a terns, and fallflowersand/ former missionary to Al- or weed displays. Supper bania, stayed overnight at will be served and new this the Shepherds and were year will be pinatas for Prijoined by other returned mary age children. All ward missionaries who also members are invited. t If 'Round and About Benjamin Kathleen Olsen |