Sunday Randomness #471 : From Bagger to Checker to Dept. Support Staff

I enjoyed working at Dan's Foods for many years through high school and college and a little beyond.  I started as a bagger when Dan's was on the west side of 2300 East, moved with them over to the east side when they took over the Smith's store, went down to the 9th store for a bit, and returned to the previous store.  I started back at a time where we had some customers with accounts that they would settle up once a month and paying with credit/debit cards was not a thing.

 I was there for the transition from ten key checking to scanners.  In fact, the 9th East store never got scanners-it was all ten key and we had to memorize all the codes and key in all the prices.  I had both good and mediocre managers, good co-workers, and great hours.  Dan's didn't pay that well compared to the other grocery stores at the time but they were the best at giving employees workable hours.

We also use to sell small quantities of staples like a single cube of butter, a six-pack of eggs, small packages of flour, sugar, baking soda, and baking powder.  Dan's also used to have big sales during canning season with bottles, fruit fresh, pickling cucumbers, fresh local fruits and vegetables, and other supplies for great prices.  They also had baking sales during the holidays with everything from spices to staples to candied fruit on sale.  That's when I use to stock up on a lot of things.

I worked most of my time in the front end although I did work in hardware some and bakery once.  It was interesting to see the changes when I'd come home for the holidays or summer from school and go back to work at Dan's.

     The Customer Service counter changed a number of times during my tenure.

I still miss Snelgrove's ice cream.  Red Button ice cream is a new company here in Utah and they have a Canadian Vanilla flavor that's close to the old Snelgrove's flavor.  Plus they have a malted chocolate which is chocolate ice cream with a marshmallow swirl that we really like.  Their sherberts are also very good along with other flavors.
 http://www.redbuttoncreamery.com/ice-cream-flavor-list/

  Most of the store was blocked off-especially over by the produce section.  I didn't get any pictures over there because that whole half of the store was cordoned off.

  Sorry for the blurriness of the photos.  I did ask if I could take photos and that I was an old employee.  No one was certain if I could take them or not so I tried to hurry and just get as many as I could take.

Now the Rite Aid across the street has also closed.  Life is always full of changes.

  Even the little dry cleaning business had to go.  They tell us that Dan's is soon to be replaced with JoAnn's Fabric and DownEast Basics.

Sunday Randomness #21 : Spotting Sequential Signage

https://www.facebook.com/ParentsEmpowered/videos/10152806561649644/
(This billboard placement was near a local restaurant and gas station.)

Sunday Randomness #51: Library programs and cat chin scratching

I just don't think the instrument petting zoo would give one the same experience as petting a soft purry Jack-Jack.  Hedgehog is giving a demonstration of the way our cat likes his chin scratched.  From the bottom picture you can see he's not as fond of head scratching v. chin scratching.  (When he really likes something he squints his eyes-it's very cute-and he starts a deep purr.)

Kudos though to Riverton Music for a clever idea that certainly caught the attention of our patrons.  For more information about Riverton Music you can visit their website at: https://www.rivertonmusic.com/

Sunday Randomness #202 : Have you voted in the primary yet?

For my fellow voters in Utah: please get your primary vote in by June 25th if you have a ballot.  Here's a parody video to help educate the newer generations about suffrage, votes, and voting for women:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6qKVBciAw


For more about Rep. Burns:  http://www.teachtnhistory.org/File/Harry_T._Burn_Top_10.pdf
(It really is worth the read-especially the two telegrams at the end.)  I also like his quote of freeing women from political slavery.

"I desire to resent in the name of honesty and justice the veiled intimidation and accusation regarding my vote on the Suffrage Amendment as indicated in certain statements, and it is my sincere belief that those responsible for their existence know that there is not a scintilla of truth in them. I want to state that I changed my vote in favor of ratification first because I believe in full suffrage as a right; second, I believe we had a moral and legal right to ratify; third, I knew that a mother’s advice is always safest for a boy to follow and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification; fourth, I appreciated the fact that an opportunity such as seldom comes to a mortal man to free seventeen million women from political slavery was mine; fifth, I desired that my party in both State and nation might say that it was a republican from the East mountains of Tennessee, the purest Anglo-Saxon section in the world, who made national woman suffrage possible at this date, not for personal glory but for the glory of his party."  Representative Harry T. Burns

Sunday Randomness #129 : Utah has changeable weather

This is from March 4, 2018.  Just a reminder of the previous weather season.

Book Group Post 5: April continues 560's - 580's and in May we talked about JP family books

In April we talked about the following books in the 560's to 580's section of the library:

• Once Upon a Mastodon: All About Prehistoric Mammals by Worth
• Cactus Hotel by Guiberson
• Plants Can't Sit Still by Hirsch
• Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Bang
• Because of An Acorn by Schaefer
• Dinosaur Tracks by Zoehfeld
• The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families by Roth

We had an ecosystem organization chart handout and bags of chips.

Then in the May book group we listened to the audio version of A Day In the Life of Marlon Bundo by Twiss and we discussed these other books about families:

• Families, Families, Families by Lang
• Nighty Night! by Wild
• The Family Book by Parr
• And Tango Makes Three by Richardson
• I Love It When You Smile by McBratney

There are so many other wonderful family books-some other suggestions that I've received include the following titles: Zak's Safari, The Relatives Came, Owl Babies, Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?, One Big Family, Over the Moon, Froggy's Baby Sister, My Family Tree and Me, Two Is Enough, and many others.

And, I wanted to share this link from Real Simple for some fun family activities from cooking together to making a time capsule: https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/family/family-activities