<div><br>In 1968, my dad was administrator of Crestview Terrace Nursing Home. He gave me a job in the laundry, mangling cotton sheets for a whole 25 cents an hour! It was wicked, hot work, but at least I had a radio. I worked about 4 hours a day. To this day, my favorite Stephen King story, is The Mangler. *laugh* </div>
<div> </div><div>The next year, he purchased Paradise Villa Nursing Home, now Aspen Park... The summer of 1969, I had the thrill of washing windows, inside and out. What I remember the most about washing those windows, was as soon as they were done, it would rain. Just a touch of rain, and a puff of dust, to muck up my hard work... and it was start all over again!<br>
</div><div>The next year, I graduated to housekeeper. Boy, did the promotion puff my head! My second week, my prideful bubble was burst, when after bragging to Dad how I'd cleaned 10 rooms before noon. He said "Daughter, everyone of these people is some body's grandma, grandpa, sister, brother. This is their home now. You are not to rush in and out of rooms, but visit with each person, as if they were your grandma, or grandpa." It was then I realized how horrible it must be to live in a small room for the rest of one's life... I made so many friends, and to this day, am enthralled when elders recite their history.</div>
<div> </div><div>By 9th grade, I was promoted to laundry assistant, working under Bernice Foster. The laundry was a humbling experience. Half my paycheck went into the bank, the other half was spent at Myklebusts on clothing. For the fruits of my labor, I was voted "Best Dressed" at MJHS. </div>
<div> </div><div>All of my siblings worked in the nursing home. So our employees could be with their family, we worked holidays, and weekends... we worked wherever we were needed when a department was short of help. </div>
<div> </div><div>Dad taught us a work ethic, passed from the four of us, to his 13 grandchildren, and four great-granddaughters. </div><div> </div><div>Yep, dad broke labor laws, and I am glad he did. None of us would be who we are today, had it not been for lessons learned in the halls of Paradise Villa.</div>
<div> </div><div>Janesta Carcich</div><div> </div><div> </div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Jay Borden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jborden@datawedge.com">jborden@datawedge.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Indeed…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I grew up in Nebraska… where every kid knows the process of “detassling corn”…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">When I was 13, I spent the summer shucking and detassling corn … as did a whole host of other kids. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The next summer, I knew I didn’t want to do that again… so I asked the local farmers if they wanted their barns re-painted. For the next two summers, I painted barns for uber-cheap over the summer… making more than I would have detassling corn, but keeping the price low enough so that the farmers couldn’t refuse the good deal… and made enough money by the next summer to purchase my first car and pay for all of my insurance (which was the condition my parents set forth for owning the car).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">If I can do that, I’m sure some other kids can handle working in the library or mopping a floor.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Jay<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Hansen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 01, 2011 8:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> Gary Crabtree<br><b>Cc:</b> Moscow Vision 2020; Penni Cyr<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Say What?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="MsoNormal">To hell with child labor laws, right?<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Seeya round town, Moscow.<u></u><u></u></p></div>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Tom Hansen<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Moscow, Idaho<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div>
<div><p class="MsoNormal">"If not us, who?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">If not now, when?"<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
- Unknown<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="MsoNormal"><br>On Dec 1, 2011, at 7:51 PM, "Gary Crabtree" <<a href="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com" target="_blank">jampot@roadrunner.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Sounds as though the man is putting forward the radical conservative concept of "the part time, after school job." What a heartless bastard.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">g</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p style="background: whitesmoke;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <a title="thansen@moscow.com" href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">Tom Hansen</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p style="background: whitesmoke;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Thursday, December 01, 2011 6:07 PM<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p style="background: whitesmoke;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">To:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <a title="vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">Moscow Vision 2020</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p style="background: whitesmoke;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Cc:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <a title="cpenni@gmail.com" href="mailto:cpenni@gmail.com" target="_blank">Penni Cyr</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p style="background: whitesmoke;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> [Vision2020] Say What?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">"A very poor neighborhood. You have kids that who are under law required to go to school. They have no money. They have no habit of work. What if you paid them part-time in the afternoon to sit in the clerical office, and greet people when they came in? What if you paid them to work as an assistant librarian? </span></span> <u></u><u></u></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br><br></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Let me get down to the janitor thing, and these letters are written that janitorial work is really hard and really dangerous and this and that. Fine. So what if they became assistant janitors and their job was to mop the floor and clean the bathroom. And you pay them."</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br><br></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (December 1, 2011)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br>
<br></span><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gsc9ElmJEs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gsc9ElmJEs</a><u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">-----------------------------<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Seeya round town, Moscow.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Tom Hansen<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Moscow, Idaho<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">"If not us, who?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">If not now, when?"<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
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