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Show JOEJARV1S Honored ail Carrier An honor of distinction has been conferred upon a familiar individual to all Woods Cross residents. Joe Jarvis, our loyal mail man, has received the official title of Rural Mail Carrier for the State of Utah for the present year. This honor was bestowed be-stowed on Joe at the State Convention of rural Mail Carriers held last week at the Roadway Inn in Salt Lake city. MR. JARVIS has been a rural mail carrier for twenty years. His territory once covered all of North Salt Lake, Woods Cross, and West 1 Bountiful. Now, with the 1 population growth, he serves 1 all 760 families of Woods Cross City as his daily route. ' He delivers all the mail every 1 day except Sunday. ( Joe, as he is known to everyone in the city, serves 1 and performs many services . I for the local citizens. Besides selling stamps, mailing letters let-ters and doing all types of 1 post office business, he is also 1 a friend to the entire community. com-munity. ' HE IS a superior conversa- ( tionalist, with interests to span many fields. He talks to 1 all the children, waves to 1 everyone as they drive by, , and always honks when something special is 1 delivered to each home, (es- 1 pecially the arrival of letters ( from those away from home). In addition to manning his 1 rolling post office, he is an 1 active spectator in sports, and ( has organized the colt program in the South Davis ' area. 1 JOE STATES that being ( elected to Rural Mail Carrier of the Year is an especially 1 honored position, because 1 sixty-one rural mail carriers ' from the state selected him. Being honored by co- 1 workers is something very special to Joe, who has also . served as State Vice President of the-Rural Mail 1 Carriers in recent years and ( attended a national conven- , ' tion in Richmond, Va. THE JARVIS family lived ( in Woods Cross about 12 ( years, but now live in Boun- tiful. They are parents of four children: Linda is a school ' teacher at Robert Frost ( Junior High in Granger; 1 Mary Lou Thornton is also a teacher, she and her husband ' just became parents of a son, ( making the Jarvis's grand- parents for the first time. The Thorntons live in Blanding. Scott is a student at 1 Weber State College and Alan is a junior at Bountiful High School, rsp 1 |