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Show Search Begins For Mother Of The Year child must be at least 15 years of age. MRS. LARSEN suggests that applicants start early as much effort is required to complete com-plete the nomination forms, called portfolios. According to past nominees, these portfolios port-folios have been appreciated by the mothers, especially the reports done by their children. Utah Mothers Assoc. is an affiliate of the American Mothers Inc. Utah had the great pleasure to act as host for the 1982 National Conference, held in Salt Lake City last April. "The National Assoc. stated that our conference was ithe 'best ever'," Mrs. Larsen stated,, THE UTAH winner will be honored throughout 1983 and will compete at the National Conference in April, 1983 in New York City at the Waldorf-Astoria Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the honor of representing American Mothers for 1983. Nomination forms may be obtained by sending a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope en-velope to Norma C. Larsen, 532 W. 3000 S., Bountiful, Utah 84010 or Linda Ford, 582 S. 350 E., Kaysville, Utah, 84037. A search for Utah Mother of the Year for 1983 opens today, according to an announcement made by Norma C. Larsen, president of the Utah Mothers Association. The deadline for nominations to be returned is Feb. 1, 1983 and the Mother is chosen and announced at an Award Ceremony the middle of March. APPLICANTS may no longer lon-ger be nominated by their families. fami-lies. Formerly, families formed family organizations and sponsored their mother and sometimes they also had a second sponsor. New, a club or organization must act as sponsor; however a family may spearhead the activity and locate a sponsoring organization organiza-tion or a club or clubs to enter their mother. According to Mrs. Larsen, a nominee should be a successful success-ful mother and homemaker, be an active member of a religious body and participate in community com-munity affairs. She must have been married in a legal ceremony cere-mony and embody characteristics character-istics highly regarded in mothers. She must be over 45 years of age and her youngest |