Taylor Wanket heads to BYU

Taylor Wanket worked for AT&T Cingular Wireless for this past year working 45 hours a week selling cell phones to families and local businesses in San Diego. He also worked at Red Robin Restaurant as a waiter to save all his money to pay for his tuition and a deposit on his apartment.

Brigham Young University is a great college, on a nice campus and doesn't have a problem with kids partying and doing drugs. Taylor plans to major in business and BYU is known for its business school. It is supported by his church which helps lower the cost of his tuition. Most of the kids who go there are Mormon so it helps to have a spiritual support system because they have the similar goals and beliefs.

They have a really good men's and women's volleyball team, which is Taylor's sport of choice. Taylor played three years of volleyball at St. Augustine High School in San Diego. He also played volleyball at Moonlight Beach in San Diego all summer long for the past few years. He seems very passionate about the sport.

Taylor has made arrangements to live in a four-bedroom apartment with three other boys in Provo, Utah. He has been hired by Sprint to sell cell phones as a retail sales consultant. His first semester he will be taking classes in calculus, cooking in the home, political science, principals of biology, health science, information systems 101 and 102 and the Book of Mormon. Wow, that sound like an awful lot of homework to me.

Taylor stopped here on his way to Provo for a week. By the way, did I say that Taylor is our middle son? He made it here in time to go with us to the Fernley Super Moto races for the weekend. They were so much fun, they even had road racing sidecars there. We are very proud of the path he has chosen and wish him much success.

Mountain lion update

I received a phone call from Johnson Lane resident Linda who lives at Sylvia and Stephanie. She said she believes the mountain lion came in her yard and ate three 20-pound ducks she's had for more than five years, one other duck and some chickens. She didn't see or hear anything and only found a leg left at the scene of the crime.

Be on the look out when you are out and about, it's better to be safe.

-- Lisa Welch is a Johnson Lane resident and can be reached at 267-9350.