Vintage Vignette: A not so “fast” Fast Sunday
As a small boy I quickly learned how good home-made meals could taste after fasting and being deprived of breakfast. It took me quite a while to understand what the spiritual blessings of the...
Vintage Vignette: To the memory of Doug Grant
I think we all do this when we pick up a newspaper. At least most of us do. That is...read the obituaries to see if someone we know has passed away. After I read...
Vintage Vignette: Don’t Take My Turkeys
I snuggled as deep as possible into my old war-surplus sleeping bag on a very cold and windy November night in the Fall of 1957. Dad told me to stay in my sleeping bag...
Jim Crittenden and Phil Oyler – Two remarkable Lehi coaches
Both Jim Crittenden and Phil Oyler came to Lehi High School fresh out of BYU to coach men’s sports and teach scholastic coursework. For over a decade in the 1950s and 60s, they led...
Vintage Vignette: “Take that gun dad!”
When mom and dad sold their 340-acre farm on the Lehi north bench in 1957, they used the proceeds of the sale to buy a house, a new car, and a semi-truck with a...
Retirement Roundup: Three essentials to retiring in five years or less
John and Linda both sat and looked at each other and couldn’t believe the information that I had just shared with them…the same look I have seen many times in my office before.
Many Americans...
Lehi Real Estate View: Lehi’s population growth
I’m excited to write an article for the Lehi Free Press about real estate in our city. It combines two things that I care deeply about, the Lehi Free Press and Real Estate. Growing up...
“Turning about to trust” Lee Caldwell
Lehi’s Lee Caldwell can be described in one word, trusting. For 30 years he has been the Executive Director and CEO of Stillwater Academy, in South Jordan, a school that provides one of a...
How to be a better teacher, learner, and friend: The “SLANT” philosophy
In a recent visit with my cousin, he shared with me the “SLANT” philosophy of achieving academic excellence. I saw the brilliance and the simplicity of it and wanted to share it with you....
Susan Says: Is domestic violence an anger management problem?
The definition of domestic violence: (also called intimate partner violence (IPV), domestic abuse or relationship abuse) is a pattern of behaviors used by one partner to maintain power and control over another partner in...
