[Vision2020] Say What?

[Tom Hansen]

As excellently written as Janesta's reflection is, my commentary concerned child labor laws . . . to which parents do not apply.  For if parents were susceptible to child labor laws, our court system would be tied up for infinite generations.

True.  I do feel fortunate having been raised by an Iowa farm boy WW2 combat veteran, whose ethics you couldn't cut with a torch, and an Angelena (a Los Angeles-born woman), whose kindness and generosity could melt the polar ice-cap.  The only major challenges I faced at home were discussing politics with my Dad and why it was better that the Dodgers let Duke Snider retire to my Mom.  And let's not even get into my sisters.  It's hard to believe we were all born from the same parents.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown

On Dec 2, 2011, at 10:43 AM, "Bill London" <london at moscow.com> wrote:

> I enjoy reading V2020 for many reasons (advance notice of events and issues, forwarded cartoons and commentary, community dialog, helping find lost puppies, etc)....but I especially enjoy V2020 for heart-felt prose, like Janesta’s below.......................thanks BL
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> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:06 PM
> To: Jay Borden
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> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?
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> 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*
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> 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!
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Dad taught us a work ethic, passed from the four of us, to his 13 grandchildren, and four great-granddaughters.
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> 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.
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> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Jay Borden <jborden at datawedge.com> wrote:
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> I grew up in Nebraska… where every kid knows the process of “detassling corn”…
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> When I was 13, I spent the summer shucking and detassling corn … as did a whole host of other kids. 
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> 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).
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> If I can do that, I’m sure some other kids can handle working in the library or mopping a floor.
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> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Tom    Hansen
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 8:54 PM
> To: Gary Crabtree
> Cc: Moscow Vision 2020; Penni Cyr
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?
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> To hell with child labor laws, right?
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
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> Tom Hansen
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> - Unknown
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> On Dec 1, 2011, at 7:51 PM, "Gary Crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:
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> Sounds as though the man is putting forward the radical conservative concept of "the part time, after school job." What a heartless bastard.
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> "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?
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> 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."
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> - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (December 1, 2011)
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gsc9ElmJEs
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> Tom Hansen
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