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Show Shades QfdLY "Kjelle y Greene . Shades of Kelly Green is both an issues and answers column featured weekly, in The Davis County Clipper and the Weekly fcjeflex. Kelley is happy to answer your questions, and will also contribute full-length columns on issues and events found in our world and in day-to-day living. We welcome reader questions and hope to create a uniquely Davis County forum herein. Send your ideas and question to: I Clipper Publishing Co. Attn.: Kelley Greene Bountiful. Utah 84010 Send your questions today and watch for Kelley each week. Recently I read this quotation inscribed on a statue in the lobby of the new wing of the University Hospital: "When the pure impulse of the strong, knowledgeable, and wise, to spring to the aid of the vulnerable and frightened, becomes instinctive, possibly the root of the greatest good in mankind is found." In our area, perhaps more than some, we observe, participate in, and even receive many acts of service. Service to those around us has always been encouraged by churches, community commun-ity groups, government, and private business. Instruction is given, with theoretical stituations used to solicit involvement. Many hours are spent discussing effective ways and means of practical application. Volunteers are organized and used by various community groups to render service to hospitals, schools, government operated foundations, and publicly used and owned facilities. Often a call for service will come from a knock on the door by a volunteer worker soliciting funds for one of dozens of chant-able chant-able organizations. Telephone callers request donations to help support public institutions, and nickels, dimes, and quarters are requested from school children and adults alike. Perhaps the most basic kind of service, and the most satisfying satis-fying to the participants, is an immediate, spontaneous one born of an observed need of a single individual. This need may be the result of an accident, illness, or injury, where a person is rendered ren-dered incapable, at least temporarily, of his ability to go about the normal process of everyday living. Such incapacitation also affects his physical surroundings, as well as those with whom he lives. Such times will generally come, at least once, into the life of most individuals. Whether one is the giver or receiver of the service, the results are the same in the lives ot both - happiness and satisfaction at tasks needed and rendered. As a participant, I had recent occasion to witness the effects of just such service in the life of one who had need of the preferred help. My thoughts, as recorded at that time, are as ff?act"ical application. Selfless service. Willing hands. Scrubbing Scrub-bing walls. Washing windows. Pleasant chatter. Cleaning floors. Dusting furniture. Happy laughter. Sparkling dishes. Delicious aromas. Soapy water. Quiet concern. Clean smells. Furniture polish. Mirror reflection. Humming vacuum. Ordered rooms. Cheerful conversation. Folded laundry. Ironed shirts. Fresh bed-linens. Smiling voices. Shining sunbeams. Tidied clutter. Mowing lawn. Weeding garden. Trimming hedge. Preserving Pre-serving produce. Tending children. Satisfied sighs. Aching muscles. mus-cles. Grateful thanks. Satisfying service. Keney Greene (f f Colonial Square 7 298-1593 UfQ Aerobics classes for yt ,v 42 Classes offered per week Mon.-Sat. XTO gH; Introducing New Low Impact Aerobics for f fy3 any ape or level of fitness. f I rk)urs:Fri.6a.m.-11pm. 575 W. 2600 So. j Sat. 7 0 m.-o p.m. 1 |