Leola Rae Dalley Hatch

Leola Rae Dalley Hatch
Leola Rae Dalley Hatch just celebrated her 90th birthday with 93 people.  She was born October 3, 1925 in Minersville, Utah in her grandparent's home.  Her parents, Leland and Zola Dalley, lived in Summit which is north of Cedar City. She is the oldest of five childredn; she had three brothers...
Continue reading
  2272 Views
  0 Comments
2272 Views
0 Comments

Arland LeRoy and Ilean Hazel

Arland LeRoy and Ilean Hazel
"Meet you at the roller skating rink."  Arland LeRoy and Ilean Hazel did just that.  They met at the Roller Skating Rink at the Spanish Fork City Park. Arland was born on January 8, 1926 in the family home in Salem, located on the corner of 100 East and Hazel Drive....
Continue reading
  2076 Views
  0 Comments
2076 Views
0 Comments

Max and Mava Walters

Max and Mava Walters
Max and Mava Walters are our Senior Spotlight for July.  Mava was born in Salt Lake City on July 15, 1942, but her family moved to Salem when she was six months old, so she is an original "Salem" girl.  Her parents were Wilford and Virgie Hunt.  Max was born in...
Continue reading
  2399 Views
  0 Comments
2399 Views
0 Comments

LaRae Ficklin

LaRae Ficklin
A senior, small in stature with a big heart, is LaRae Ficklin.  She was born at home in February, 1930 in Leland, Utah (now part of Spanish Fork) to LeRoy and Twila Mae Allen Isaac.  She loved growing up in Leland.  She was 15 yeras old during WWII and she remembers...
Continue reading
  2645 Views
  0 Comments
2645 Views
0 Comments

Missionary Spotlight - Glen Scholl

Missionary Spotlight - Glen Scholl
Glen Scholl and Judith Anne Jones were married in the St. George Temple in 1965. They met while attending the College of Southern Utah.  After graduating from college, Judy began teaching school in Norwalk, while Glen attended college at California State, Fullerton.  He transferred to the University of Utah and graduated...
Continue reading
  2154 Views
  2 Comments
2154 Views
2 Comments

Missionary Spotlight-Alan Loveland

  Alan and Ellen Loveland live in Orem. They have been married 14 years. Alan is a retired building contractor, having had businesses in Alaska, Idaho and Utah. Ellen retired From UVU as a Professor in the School of Business teaching legal studies. She is also a lawyer on inactive status....
Continue reading
  1876 Views
  0 Comments
1876 Views
0 Comments

LaVera James

LaVera James
LaVera James--what a special friend to have.  She was born on April 1942 to Ernest and Hazel Dansie Davis.  She was the second oldest in her family with an older sister, two younger sisters and two younger brothers.  She has lived in Salem all her life.  She lives next door to...
Continue reading
  1971 Views
  1 Comment
1971 Views
1 Comment

Ray Zukowski viewing the past 75 years

Ray Zukowski viewing the past 75 years
Being born the first son of the first son of John Vincent Zukowski, gave me that special privilege of being heir to the families throne... and prince Raymond knew he would be king someday, or at least he tried to make his younger brother know he was dealing with royalty. My...
Continue reading
  2302 Views
  0 Comments
2302 Views
0 Comments

A Teacher’s Devastating Remark

             Writing this story hopefully will help me to finally overcome the injury to my inner “creative child”.  Who would have thought that a casual comment could have caused so much pain!  This happened in 1958—my senior year at Sacred Heart Academy.  The teacher was Sister Mary Columba, a nun...
Continue reading
  1997 Views
  2 Comments
1997 Views
2 Comments

On Getting Arrested

On Getting Arrested
On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   On Getting Arrested   This chronicle comes so many years after the fact, that the Footloose Forester was not sure that he would ever write it into his memoirs.  At the time, and for many...
Continue reading
  2303 Views
  0 Comments
2303 Views
0 Comments

Who Will Be The One To Record Your Legacy?

The Legacy Untold Is Like A Book Unread By Tom Cormier and Dick Pellek   You and I will leave a legacy whether we want to, or not. Everyone who passed on has already left theirs. Some are rich in history and personal accomplishments; and others are obscure or even unknown....
Continue reading
  1797 Views
  1 Comment
1797 Views
1 Comment

The Subway

xxxxx
Continue reading
  298 Views
  0 Comments
298 Views
0 Comments

Dolie, The Traveler

Dolie, The Traveler
  On the road...again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Dolie and Her Adventures   There is no getting around the fact that the pets in the life of the Footloose Forester provided thousands of pleasant memories. Some people say that you can love a...
Continue reading
  2758 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
2758 Views
0 Comments

Cape Verde Has Wonderful People And Many Pleasant Memories

Cape Verde Has Wonderful People And Many Pleasant Memories
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia        Chronicles of a Footloose Forester         By Dick Pellek     C is Cape Verde A three-year sojourn to the windblown islands of Cape Verde came shortly after a 20-word telegram of a job offer was accepted by telephone,...
Continue reading
  2538 Views
  0 Comments
2538 Views
0 Comments

Tea Plants On The Caspian Shore

Tea Plants On The Caspian Shore
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   I for Iran Some of the nastiest tasting tea in the world can be sipped on the shores of the Caspian Sea, right where the tea bushes grow. Of course, the Iranians are proud of...
Continue reading
  3012 Views
  0 Comments
3012 Views
0 Comments

Paramount Ranch

Paramount Ranch
We had hiked all around this area but never over to the ranch, so today we thought we would do something different. So many films and TV series have been filmed here. The entire Ranch was burned down in the 2018 Woolsey fire. Some of these buildings were built in the...
Continue reading
  265 Views
  0 Comments
265 Views
0 Comments

Tesla Model S P85

Tesla Model S P85
Ever since I laid eyes on Tesla's converted Lotus sports car at the L.A. Auto Show, I was hooked. It took seeing a 2013 model outside a Chinese foot massage for me to order my own. Picking it up in early 2014 for $113,000, I was the proud owner of the...
Continue reading
  278 Views
  0 Comments
278 Views
0 Comments

Devils Punchbowl

Devils Punchbowl
This is a very special area out on the Pear Blossom Highway, and has some unique rock formations. However it is a very long drive from the valley to get out here. We had wanted to hike up to the chair, but once we saw the amazing rocks, we spent the...
Continue reading
  285 Views
  0 Comments
285 Views
0 Comments

One of my phobias in life

Ever since a child, I have had a phobia of snakes. I as a child would have nightmares that I was in a pit of snakes and they were crawling all over me biting me. The fear has stayed with me my entire life, though when I now encounter a snake...
Continue reading
  1699 Views
  0 Comments
1699 Views
0 Comments

Rev. Henry Clay Dayhoff, Martha Ann Dayhoff, William Henry Dayhoff and Charles Spivey Dayhoff Their Story

Rev. Henry Clay Dayhoff, Martha Ann Dayhoff, William Henry Dayhoff and Charles Spivey Dayhoff Their Story   Henry Clay Dayhoff was born to parents Joshua Owen Dayhoff and Catherine Beale( Poole) Dayhoff in 1844 in Boonsboro, Washington Co. Maryland. In the census of 1850 he was living with his parents and...
Continue reading
  2484 Views
  0 Comments
2484 Views
0 Comments