To start 2016 off we’d like to spotlight Charley and Virginia Twitchell. Charley was born April 30, 1927 in Delta, Utah to Joshua Lafayette and Annis Bea Snider Twitchell. He is the fifth child of six children; two girls and four boys. They were living in Torrey, Utah in 1934 when...
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Herman Hendrik Thiessens was born January 1, 1919 at 1051 Downington Avenue in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was the second son born to Herman Thiessens and Henderika Folkers. He was given an LDS Blessing May 2, 1920 by LeGrande Richards at Sugar House Ward, Granite Stake. Five years later, the...
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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...
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"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....
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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...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek An Indelicate Subject Sometimes it takes the stimulus of an ignorant post or meme on the Internet to finally push the Footloose Forester over the edge. As repugnant and as repulsive as the subject matter...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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