Midvale May 2016

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Hillcrest Concert Choir Invited To Sing On National Program

By Julie Slama | julie@mycityjournals.com

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Singing back-up for local artist Alex Boye, Hillcrest High concert choir rehearsed for two months before recording in January for the television program, “Celebrate America,” which gives students an opportunity to showcase their music on local PBS stations. — RaNae Dalgleish

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Christians United Choir Performs Easter Cantata in Midvale

By Amanda Butler | amanda@mycityjournals.com

The Christians United Choir performed in Midvale on March 20. – Morgan Bowerman

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n March 20, the Christians United Choir performed an Easter cantata at the Midvale North Stake Center, located at 97 West 7500 South. The performance included several people who live in Midvale and the surrounding areas, as well as many new choir members.

“The cantata is called ‘Jesus is The Christ: the Gospels in Anthem: A Sacred Cantata’ by composer Greg McDougal,” Morgan Bowerman, who conducted the performance, said. “The cantata tells the story of the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and is told via choral, soloist and narration using almost exclusively text from the Bible.”

Allen Darrington accompanied the choir on the organ, with Karen Peterson on the piano. Brian Bowman and Ailao Patane provided narration.

“My husband and I have been producing this for the last eight years,” Jenelle Klingler said. “The composer, Greg McDougle, lives in Murray. We have performed the cantata in Midvale for the past five years. We had the privilege of Greg McDougle himself conducting it for a few years, and now are very blessed to have Morgan at the helm.”

“This is actually my first year conducting the choir,” Bowerman said. “I have lived in Midvale for about a year and a half now, and I didn’t know about the cantata last year until it was already underway.”

The choir performance was free to the public, with a suggested

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e have some exciting events coming up in May that we wanted you to be aware of. On the 5th of May, we are having our Cinco de Mayo party. We will have Mexican food and great entertainment by James Romero, who is well known by the community. Please invite your friends to come. We will have a signup sheet for the meal so we can get an idea of how much food to order. Call us at 385-468-3350 if you think you might be attending.

Also, on Friday, May 20, we will be holding our very first health fair. We will have door prizes for all who visit every booth and get an initial. There will be at least 15 different vendors coming that will have great information, blood pressures pumps and much more. Our health fair will be from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Come participate and stay for lunch.

donation of a can of food in lieu of admission. “We donated about 100 cans to the food bank,” Bowerman said.

“This cantata has been performed for over 25 years now, originating in Southern California,” Klingler said. “It is now performed around the country, as well as overseas.”

Klingler provided additional background information about the performance. “Locally, it has been performed in Libby Gardner Hall, with Carol Mikita narrating, as well as the Assembly Hall, Tuacahn in St. George, Cedar City and many other churches around the [Salt Lake] Valley.”

The Christians United Choir also performed a few select numbers from the cantata as part of the program at the Centenary Methodist Church on April 3. In addition, the choir performed two numbers in the Interfaith Music Festival held by the Sandy Arts guild at the St. Thomas More Catholic Parish in Cottonwood Heights on April 17.

The Christians United Choir is an interfaith group whose purpose is to celebrate and testify of the life of Jesus Christ, with a desire to promote friendly relations between all religions.

The choir always welcomes new members, regardless of experience.

Any interested singers, conductors and musicians are welcome to join.

Visit http://christiansunitedchoir.org for more information. l

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Friday, May 20th – Health Fair. 11-12:30pm. We have over 20 different vendors coming to this event. Be sure to share this info with all your friends. There will also be door prizes.

Wednesday, May 25th – National Senior Health Day. Event will be held at the Viridian Center in West Jordan from 12:30pm-5pm. They will have Fitness and Educational Workshops, Fitness Walk, Pickleball, Zumba and much more!

Friday, May 27th – Memorial Day Celebration with entertainment at 11:00 a.m.

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CERT Training Prepares Midvale Citizens to Assist in Emergencies

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everal Midvale residents graduated from the city’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training program in March. Participants learned about fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, disaster medical operations and psychological impacts from a disaster.

This spring’s CERT basic training class was held for three hours each Thursday night from March 3 through March 25 at Midvale City Hall. The course was sponsored by the Midvale Emergency Manager’s office and provided by the Unified Fire Authority.

“I would like Midvale to be the model city in the state for emergency management and community resilience on every level of community culture,” Jesse Valenzuela, Emergency Manager for Midvale said.

Valenzuela, who has a professional background as a firefighter and arson investigator, as well as extensive experience working for the Department of Homeland Security, wanted to create a high-quality CERT program as part of Midvale’s overall emergency management program.

The classes were taught by experienced professional firefighters and paramedics. Each week, the CERT trainees learned new skills, including triage, first aid, rescue methods, search techniques and fire extinguisher use.

As part of their training, CERT members received a disaster preparedness kit that included first aid gear, a vest, work gloves, a helmet and other personal protective equipment.

At the end of the course, program participants took a final exam, followed by a live multi-casualty disaster simulation that tested the practical skills they learned during their training.

Upon successfully completing the course, the trainees received a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recognized certificate of completion. Program graduates were encouraged to enhance their education

by attending continuing education programs offered by the city.

“My goal when I got grant funding from the state was to try and build a cadre of trained CERT people a little differently,” Valenzuela said. “I wanted to make this more of a semi-professional volunteer. I wanted some individuals that were pretty much clearly committed, and knew what they were doing.”

Valenzuela estimated that 80 people have been through the CERT training during the two and a half years he has been with the city. He would like to get 150 to 200 people trained.

After receiving classroom and practical training, CERT members are able to help others in their neighborhood or workplace following an event when professional responders are not immediately available to help. Trained CERT members are able to direct untrained volunteers during the initial phase of an emergency.

CERT members also are encouraged to support emergency response agencies by taking a more active role in emergency preparedness projects in their community, as well as assisting with community events.

“One complaint I heard from people was that once they got their training, they never do anything,” Valenzuela said. “I wanted to eliminate that. I got together with the police and suggested using the CERT members to assist us at parades and then do park patrols during the concert series. They really stand out in the park at night.”

Classes are held in the spring and fall, though accommodations can be made for large groups. The course cost is $30.00 per registrant and reimbursement is available for Midvale residents. For more information, contact Jesse Valenzuela at 801-567-7269 or jessev@ midvale.com.

Registration is also available online at http://www.unifiedfire.org/services/registration/ default.asp?e=6&t=68486.65, and pre-payment is not required. l

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Community Choir Performs Handel’s ‘Messiah’ for Easter

By Amanda Butler | amanda@mycityjournals.com

The Midvale Community Messiah choir. –Joe Morley

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he Midvale Community Messiah is a group of musicians who have been performing Handel’s “Messiah” for over 25 years. Their most recent performance was held on March 20 at Union High School in celebration of the Easter holiday.

The “Messiah” is an oratorio, a musical story that includes an orchestra, choir and soloists. It was composed by George Friedric Handel in 1741 in just 24 days, and has been performed throughout the world ever since then. The oratorio tells the story of the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as written in the King James Bible. It has been performed in Midvale since 1984, and the majority of the choir is from the Midvale area.

“It started with just a chorus and a pianist and an organist at first,” Jan Litster, one of the choir’s directors, said. “Then we added some strings to it the next year or two years later.

Now we have usually between about 65–85 singers and about a 35-piece orchestra.”

As the choir grew, it was necessary to find space for the larger group, as well as a larger audience.

“We started doing it at one of the LDS stake centers and then they expanded it to Hillcrest High, and we’ve kind of gone back and forth with it since then,” Litster said.

The choir also added director positions.

“We’ve gone from having one director to a couple of direc-

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tors to even three directors these last few years, to give as many people as would like to an opportunity to participate,” Litster said. “Linda Mansfield was the first director of the choir and she was involved for many, many years. I’ve been off and on doing some of the directing since the second year.”

“The full oratorio is over two and a half hours,” Litster said. “We do about one and a half hours worth — we don’t

“We invite anybody who would like to come and join us to come and sing with us, especially from the Midvale area.”

do the full ‘Messiah.’ We usually do about eight or nine choruses — the most well known is the ‘Hallelujah’ chorus. Then we have several soloists that are chosen from members of the choir.”

Litster estimated that 500–600 people attended the performance this year, which was the choir’s first time performing the

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“Messiah” at Easter.

“We’ve always done it at Christmas. This year we decided to try something a little different and do it at Easter,” Litster said. “I think we’re planning on doing it again at Easter next year because we felt like it really worked out well — people weren’t as crazy busy. The ‘Messiah’ was originally written to be performed at Easter, not Christmas.”

Another change this year was the addition of images to go along with the music.

“Something we did this year that we’ve never done, which was a real nice addition, I thought, was we prepared a slide presentation that went along with the message of the numbers the choir were singing,” Litster said. “So we did that with pictures of the birth, life and resurrection of the savior.”

Though the choir will not be performing again this year, they are always happy to welcome new members.

“We invite anybody who would like to come and join us to come and sing with us, especially from the Midvale area,” Litster said. “We have eight one-and-a-half-hour rehearsals for the eight weeks before the performance. We have a full orchestra with it.”

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Hillcrest Concert Choir Invited to Sing On National Program

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t was sophomore Teagan Lloyd’s first visit to a television recording studio, when Hillcrest High School’s concert choir was invited to record songs at KBYU as part of a national program.

“I thought it was really cool to be invited to sing on a television special,” she said. “We got to not only see the studio, but were immersed in it as we recorded our songs.”

On Jan. 21, Hillcrest sang “Move Mountains,” which Tim Janis wrote, and “Calling America,” written by Alex Boye, for the program, “Celebrate America.” The program is a team effort with public television and music educators across the nation, designed to give students the opportunity to showcase their music programs on local PBS broadcasts and encourage them in their musical aspirations. More than 40,000 students across the country have participated in the program.

Choir director RaNae Dalgleish received the phone call inviting them to perform in November. Hillcrest was one of 13 choirs to be invited to the special.

“I thought this was a really fun opportunity for our students to not only have a chance to be part of this program, but see a professional and record in a studio,” she said. “We recorded with Alex Boye, who is one of my favorite artists, so it was a chance for the students to meet him as well.”

The choir rehearsed over the next couple months and in two hours and three takes, the 80-member choir of sophomores through seniors recorded two songs. The show was broadcast March 11 and March 19 on KBYU. Teagan’s favorite was “Calling America,” since it was more upbeat.

“It was really cool to be introduced to his music. There was a more modern pop beat with African influence. We stood on choir risers and were so excited to sing the songs that you could feel the energy. We also got a tour of the studio and that was cool, especially since Studio C is filmed on the same set, and so many choir members love that show,” she said.

Janis was impressed with the talent of Hillcrest’s choir.

“Contributing to community through the arts

has always been a big part of public television’s contribution to the community,” Janis said. “I am genuinely overwhelmed by the incredible talent and professionalism each music educator brought to the table. The students of Hillcrest High School demonstrated tremendous dedication in the preparation of their performance. They’re an undeniable musical force and a shining example of the commitment of today’s youth when encouraged to pursue the arts.”

While having the concert choir rehearse for this television special, Hillcrest’s 32-member junior and senior vocal ensemble performed two Christmas songs live on television in December.

“It was a different kind of experience, but it was still a way that I hope both choirs had an eyeopening, professional experiences. The concert choir had a chance to sing back-up and record with a popular artist while the vocal ensemble had just one chance to perform their best. They were both great experiences and they got to learn so much about other music and opportunities, I’d jump on them in a heart beat if given another chance,” Dalgleish said.

In late March, the concert choir performed Gabriel Faure’s “Requiem” at the Libby Gardner Hall at the University of Utah with the Salt Lake Choral Artists’ Youth Honor Choir.

This was days before Hillcrest concert choir and vocal ensemble took part of a five-day tour in early April to Boston, where they competed in the National Competition Heritage Festival, and attending the Boston Pops Orchestra. Their tour also included seeing the Freedom Trail, a harbor cruise and seeing “Matilda” and “Finding Neverland” on Broadway in New York City.

“It’s a nationally acclaimed music festival, which attracts high quality groups from across the country. We’ve won first at the festival when it was in New York and Seattle and been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall,” Dalgleish said.

The choir program will conclude for the year with its 7 p.m., May 17 spring concert at the school’s auditorium, 7350 South 900 East in Midvale. In addition to performances by these choirs, there will be songs by the 45-member non-audition mixed choir and a girls’ audition choir which consists of 32 members. l

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Hillcrest Robotics Team Wins Award For Creativity

By Julie Slama | julie@mycityjournals.com

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sing spare parts, some bent and some that didn’t line up, Hillcrest High grabbed the “Creativity Award” at a recent robotics regional competition. About 45 schools participated in the regional contest.

The Creativity Award was given to the school for a “robot design that was developed outside the box,” Hillcrest coach Clief Castleton said.

They received it at9 the FIRST — For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology — robotic competition. In January, students learned the contest mission, which this year was called “Stronghold,” a medieval theme. Hillcrest students spent about two months of late nights and Saturdays gearing for the March 17-19 competition.

Through the FIRST robotics competition, teams of students build and program robots to perform prescribed tasks against a field of competitors. In this year’s competition, two alliances are on a quest to breach their opponents’ fortifications, weaken their tower with boulders and capture the opposing tower. Robots score points by breaching opponents’ defenses and scoring boulders through goals in the opposing tower.

Students have a chance to learn from professional engineer consultants, use robotic software and hardware and have a chance to qualify for college scholarships. Area businesses sponsor the Hillcrest’s 57-member team, of which 24 took part in the regional contest.

While the team trophy remains on display in the school robotics lab, the team gave the plaque it received to its design team lead, senior Dale Schlachter, who helped develop the creative approach to this year’s robot, Castleton said.

“We ended up using bits and pieces from all three robots we’ve

had in the past, with several pieces bent, parts not lining up, having it drive horizontally and using surgical tubing to pull in the ball. The team solved problems in creative ways,” he said.

Castleton said that his team’s robot, nicknamed “Harv-e” after the school mascot Harvey the Husky, was the only robot to able to do all the challenges that involved 12 obstacles on the field.

The team advanced to the semi-finals when “all of a sudden, our robot stopped, but the part kept going.”

However, the robot is just part of the competition that evaluates character, professionalism, community service, business plan, community involvement and cooperation.

In the past, the team has received the Entrepreneur Award for its sustainable business plan and the Rookie All-Star award which allowed the team to advance to compete at the world championships.

Castleton also has received the Outstanding Volunteer Award.

Castleton is quick to point out that without the support of many professionals and businesses, the students would lack mentors and support.

“The base parts and registration for regionals alone is $5,000. We use about $1,200 in parts and could use up to $4,000, so it’s beyond selling candy-bars and wrapping paper. We need the expertise of those in the industry and we appreciate the support of our community,” he said.

Joining Castleton is math teacher Matt Snyder, who is the team’s assistant coach. Mentors include Dan Confer, of Comcast, and Kevin Merritt, of Ultradent Dental.

This was freshman Saey Kamtekar’s first year competing.

“I had competed in sixth grade in FIRST Lego League robotics and was curious, but thought it would be a whole much of nerds so

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On Jan. 30, Hillcrest High and Academy for Math, Engineering and Science shared a robot build day in preparation for the March 17-19 regional competition. — Hillcrest High School Robotics Team

I didn’t expect much when I first walked in the door,” she said. “I realized this was way cooler and bigger than Lego League. I’ve made some of my best friends and learned and how to build and design like an engineer. I was showed the drill press and at first, it was intimidating. Now I just put on the safety glasses and know I can build something from scratch.”

Saey said she has learned what a chassis is and what are pneumatic tires.

“I’d Google at lunch and come back and realize I could be part of this. I’ve learned that I can take things apart and see how they work. From there, I’ve learned how to assemble new parts,” she said.

Sophomore Ben Pratt is a programmer on the robotics team.

“We talked with our design team to learn what they wanted and told them what we could do and got our creative juices going,” said Ben, who wants a career in the robotics field. “We created it together.

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Three of Hillcrest’s top competitors sail over the hurdles neck-and-neck.

Hillcrest is notorious for their consistent group of winning hurdlers.

ith the State Competition less than a month away, the Hillcrest High School track and field team is putting in the hard work and dedication needed to find success.

“The season is going OK so far,” head coach Scott Stuki said. “I think both our boys and girls teams will have a chance to compete at State again this year.”

Hillcrest has won every home meet they’ve had this year and for past two seasons, the Huskies have claimed the Region 6 championship title.

“We have different strengths, but our girl hurdlers are going to be really strong and I think our boys four-by-100 is going to do well, too,” Stuki said. “We have a couple jumpers that I think are also going to do well.”

The Huskies have about 140 members making up the track and field team this year, making 2016 the biggest Hillcrest High School team in recent history.

“We don’t really cut people,” Stuki said. “People cut themselves.”

While each season begins with a record number of students, 13 years of being head coach has taught Stuki that not all members who come out for the team will commit throughout the entire season.

With Hillcrest’s distance runners practicing twice a day and logging more than 50 miles each week, and other disciplines putting in over 10 hours of practice weekly, committing to the track and field team takes a certain type of dedication, commitment and drive that not all high school student have.

“Though it’s a cultural thing, track and field is also so different,” Stuki said. “The events are so different that we get a lot of different kids.”

The large team is lead by eight coaches, with each coach overseeing a different discipline of the team. What makes this year unique, too, is that the team has a substantial amount of juniors, which helps improve the overall depth of the group.

“We’ve got solid talent this year,” Stuki said. “I’ve got a great pole-vaulter on the girl’s side who will probably win

State. We just have really solid kids. I know that we have others who will make it to State and make the finals in State, but with the strong competition, they are going to have to work really hard to win.”

Sending as many members of their team to the State competition on May 20 is an overarching goal for the Huskies.

“We focus on the same things every year,” Stuki said.

“Our first goal is win region, and our second goal is to get as many kids to State and we can. Even the years that we don’t make our goal of winning region, we can still get kids to State.”

The Huskies are notorious for having a strong showing in the hurdles. Though they graduated the girl’s two-time state champion hurdler last year, Stuki still feels like his hurdling group will be strong contenders in both the region and state competitions.

“Over the past couple decades, we’ve had a strong tradition of hurdles,” Stuki said. “We try to identify the kids that could be good in hurdles and kind of push them there.

That’s our biggest strength.”

Stuki also has high hopes for several leading members of the distance group, as well as the pole-vaulting and relay groups. And as the Huskies enter the final weeks of their season, they prepare for the tough competitions in the region championships and state meet, like Murray, Skyline, and Olympus.

“Winning all of our home meets has been good,” Stuki said. “But the highlights always come through the years when we have team success and get kids qualified for state and then hopefully getting to place that trophy in the case. For me though, the biggest things are seeing improvements from kids, kids setting personal records, and then when we start having team success and getting kids to state, that’s always a highlight.”

The Huskies will be attending the State Meet at BYU on May 20-21. l

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Replenish (the compost) and Replenish the Earth Products (the company) were created by Connie Cannon in 1994 in the driveway of her home. She wanted to create a compost/mulch that would be high in nutrients, low in salts, as well as dark and rich in appearance. After seeking counsel from Peter Lassig, who had been the head landscape architect at Temple Square for over 40 years, she came up with the superior formula and blend for Replenish Compost. Mixing it together in her driveway, she would have her children put the compost in bags and sell it in their neighborhood.

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As our customer, we have your best interest in mind.”

The Cannons sold the company 10 years later to the current owners, Mike Nitz and Greg Bettinson. After purchasing the company in 2004, Mike and Greg gave it a new name—Replenish Landscape Garden Products—to better describe what the business was all about. They also moved the business from West Valley City to its current location in Murray, at 4660 South 200 West. Over the past 12 years, they have grown the business by expanding the variety of landscape materials offered and expanding their customer base to cover the entire Wasatch Front.

“There are a number of options when it comes to landscape materials, but they are not all created equal,” explained Greg. “We believe that in Replenish Compost we have the finest and most versatile compost available, period. To complement our signature Replenish Compost product, we have made it our focus to develop, or find, the very best soil blends, barks, mulches and other materials available in the industry. Quality is what we sell!”

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an you believe it? Summer is almost here, that time of year where kids take a break from their structured routine and turn to the adults in their lives for entertainment ideas.

What will you do to help your kids enjoy their time off? One only need to turn to Pinterest and Youtube to find dozens of Millennial Mama experts sharing all kinds of amazing ideas for summer fun. Turn an old rain gutter into a river, paint with flyswatters or, there’s always the old standby of making rainbow unicorn poop slime, (Google it) that’s not to be confused with rainbow unicorn puke slime. You’ll want to save that for another day.

Parenting has become very precious to the digital generation. The pressure to have the perfect house, perfect marriage and perfect children seems to be stronger than ever.

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Holy Crap! I get shaky hands, a sick panicky feeling and a stress rash just thinking about it. Staring at twelve long and unobstructed weeks trying to figure out how to keep the kids entertained so they won’t sleep too late, lose brain cells and ruin their vision playing computer games, or utter those dreaded words “Mom, I’m bored”. How can a parent these days possibly balance it all?

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Prior to the digital drama of today it never occurred to our moms to entertain kids non-stop, fund expensive summer activities or endeavor to create stimulating and crafty projects for brain development. Our mom’s simply said “get your butts outside” and we did. We built forts from broken branches, made city roads in the dirt for our matchbox cars, choreographed dance routines, made up songs and rode our bikes. It’s these very activities that allowed our minds to develop coping skills, learn for ourselves to be creatvie and dream the seemingly impossible. What better gift and life skills can you give a child than the ability to imagine, dream and build for them selves?

This summer save yourself the fret and stress of building a bowling ally with coconuts or a carwash with PVC pipe and give them a pool noodle and pack of plastic cups from the dollar store and the gift of figuring out what do with them on their own. If we don’t remove easy entertainment from our children’s lives they will never learn the skills to create and l invent on their own.

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rom the moment I was born, my mom looked for ways to make my life miserable. Admittedly, I don’t remember anything before the age of 4, but I’m sure her pattern of behavior extended back to my birth.

For instance, my mom insisted I play with my little sister, even though my little sister was a demon who wailed like a banshee whenever I pinched her. Mom had this harebrained scheme that being forced to play with my siblings would make us friends. (Okay, she was right on that one. My siblings are pretty cool.)

But here’s another example of my mom’s ruthless conduct. After school I could only watch TV for ONE HOUR. That’s all. Once my 60 minutes of Zoom and School House Rock was over, I had to engage my mind with something “enlightening.”

Mom would force me to listen to classical music or make me memorize a poem she taped on the fridge. (I still randomly recite “The Highwayman.”) And there were books she required me to read like “Jane Eyre” or the Nancy Drew series. She even made me write book reports.

“But it’s Saturday! School’s over!” I exclaimed when she handed me the illustrated book of Shakespeare.

“Learning is never over,” she’d reply.

Now I can’t go anywhere without a book. Gee. Thanks, mom.

When Atari hit the market, mom made it perfectly clear we would not be getting a game console. She told me video games would rot my brain, then she had the nerve to send me OUTSIDE where I had to resort to bike riding, playing baseball in the street or shooting hoops with the neighbors.

(Eventually she caved and bought a game system, but even then there were strict usage guidelines.)

Mom was a homework Nazi. She’d drill me on times tables (which I still hate) and spelling (which I admit comes in handy at times) and she insisted on attending every single parent teacher conference, just to embarrass me.

Attendance at dinner was mandatory. Mom had read somewhere that family dinner time was vastly important and would lead to the decline of society if families didn’t eat their meatloaf together. She force fed me vegetables from her garden, peaches from her tree and raspberries from the bushes in the backyard.

And there was no fluffy Wonder Bread for my lunches.

Instead, I had to consume peanut butter sandwiches made with home-baked bread that was denser than granite, but kept me full for several days. It doubled as a blunt object if a boy was chasing me at recess.

When it came to dessert, she was heartless. Even though I begged her to purchase Oreo cookies or Chips Ahoy (because no one else in the universe had to gag down homemade

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As Mother’s Day approaches, I grudgingly acknowledge that once in a while my mom probably wasn’t trying to make my life miserable. But for all her nefarious efforts, all I learned from her was to love my family, enjoy learning, get outside, eat real cookies and get dressed up for special occasions. Gee. Thanks, Mom. l

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