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NEW COMIC: JED & KIRBY by Tristan Davis
Ryan’s Lions: Giving a Gift of Courage During Hard Times
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By Student Merit Academy
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nybody can make a difference no matter what their age. This was proved by Ryan Allred who started a service organization at age 16. In 2008 for his eagle project, Allred started the Ryan’s Lions organization. It is a service organization that believes at some point in everyone’s life they will face a trial and will need courage. Ryan’s Lions gives a little stuffed lion away to people who need some comfort and courage. A reason for giving a lion to somebody may be because the person (or a loved one) has a medical condition, a loved one who recently passed away, or some type of trial or a difficult time in their life. Some volunteers from Ryan’s Lions came in to talk to our ASK class. The
By Shelly Davis Mother of Tristan
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esterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There’s so little hope for advancement.” So said cartoonist Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts and volunteers that came and hospital or crisis center. inspiration for 12-year-old talked to us told us about They have a website with Spanish Fork homeschooler their fundraisers and gave us information about how to Tristan Davis, son of David a Ryan’s lion. We are going purchase a Ryan’s Lions and and Shelly Davis. Tristan is to look for someone that has how to track where your lion the creator of Jed & Kirby, a need and then we will pass goes if you want to know. which will be appearing along the lion. They each Also on the website are regularly in Serve Daily. have a collar that says inspiring stories of courage With Jed & Kirby, Tristan “courage, hope, love, about people who have combines his love of dogs empathy”. When you received Ryan’s Lions. To and cartooning. He’s loved purchase a Ryan’s Lion it find out more go to dogs for as long as he can enables the Ryan’s Lions www.RyansLion.org. remember, but his interest in organization to donate a cartooning began when he second Ryan’s Lion to a was 10 and he started his collection of Sunday comics. After reading each one, he pressed it flat into a box. The stack has grown considerably since then. Tristan did more than just read the comics. He studied their style of drawing and their method of eliciting laughs with a three- or four-panel mini story. He
Local company builds boat for disabled vets and others
Comic Strip Cartoonist: Tristan Davis
kept drawing him and improving him and named him Jed,” said Tristan. “I also love dogs so I wanted him to have a puppy.” His imagination and steady practice led to the creation of his own comic strip Jed & Kirby. “Jed is a goofy guy,” said Tristan. “He sometimes just wants peace and quiet away from his energetic dog. But most of the time he wants to play with his dog all day long because he thinks he is the cutest puppy on earth, although he hates to use up eight bags of dog food a
day.” Kirby the dog is an integral part of the strip. “Kirby loves to play!” said Tristan. “He always wants
Photo: Family Photo
some company around him. He’s a hungry dog and is always ready to have a big, juicy, tender steak. Although Jed and Kirby sometimes don’t get along, they love each other and have good times together.” Many of the strips have been inspired by Tristan’s own dog, a Jack Russell terrier-Chihuahua mix named Skippy. Tristan’s goal with his cartooning is to make people laugh. “Everyone deserves to laugh at least once a day,” he says. He hopes readers will join his growing number of Jed & Kirby fans.
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and in Hand Outdoors LLC, a Spanish Fork based nonprofit company, recently completed building a boat specifically designed to accommodate wounded warriors, disabled individuals and others that are wheelchair bound. Team leader, Captain Steve Henline explained.”Last spring Cary Robarge, Matt Barber and I were discussing doing something that would have a positive impact on our community’s veterans, especially those who had been injured in combat. Since we all have a great love for the outdoors and Cary and I have a outfitting and guided fishing business on Lake Powell we decided to form a nonprofit company that would provide guided fishing and other marine activities at no charge to those individuals as a way to say thank you to those that have paid such a great price for our country.” From that meeting, Hand in Hand Outdoors LLc was born.
created several characters of his own and practiced drawing them. “I especially liked this one character so I
Unable to purchase a boat that would specifically accommodate wheelchairs, Steve decided to build a boat. Word soon spread as to their ambitious project. Kenneth Vaughn of Chairbound Hunters, a Springville based nonprofit that provides opportunity for wheelchair bound hunters, teamed with Captain Henline and provided partial funding and advice on how the boat would best fit the needs of those in wheelchairs. Others in the community stepped forward to provide materials and special skills necessary to construct the boat, all
sharing a common goal; To help those who might never have the opportunity to be on the water fishing and boating and enjoying the great outdoors due to physical limitations. “We soon realized that we would be able to accommodate not only wounded warriors, but many others in the community that suffer disabilities” states Matt Barber. It was decided that the boat, named Freedoms Dream, would be slipped at Utah Lake State Park in Provo to provide access to the many individuals along
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By Karl Jensen Jensen Christmas Trees
In 1958 a young Karl Jensen accompanied his father Budd Jensen into the mountains surrounding the small mining community of Clear Creek, Utah where they would hike through the snow to chop by axe see HAND, page 3 Christmas Trees. Their
Adam, Erik, Carol, Patty (the dog) and Karl
work would commence on Thanksgiving Day. By evening they would have harvested 10-12 beautiful mountain fir trees. The trees were sold from the Jensen home to neighbors and others for $3-$5/tree. Many exciting and memorable trips into the
mountains transpired through the following years. The word spread around Springville about the quality fresh Christmas trees one could purchase from the Jensen’s. In 1974 Karl and his wife Carol assumed management of the seasonal tree business. Carrying on the see JENSEN, page 4