Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times
GARDEN CITY, Utah.
May 10, 2017. A large crowd
honored Garden City’s newest U.S. Citizen, Sam Casillas at a dinner hosted by
the Garden City Firefighters. Casillas came
from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico to work with Bryce Huefner for the summer in
2006. He spoke no English at that time,
but he was competent and a hard worker and earned the respect of his employer,
friends and coworkers. He married
Jennifer Negus of Garden City in 2008 and they have 2 children, Dominique and
EmmaLee. Casillas not only worked at his
job, but he volunteered for the Garden City Fire Department and worked many
hours on some very complicated fires.
He
joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is a very faithful
home teacher and Sunday school teacher.
He has worked to help young people who needed help learning Spanish as
he learned to speak English.
At the celebration people stood and told how he
had helped them move, or done volunteer work for a project. Everyone praised his cheerful work ethic and
neighborliness. 
Casillas stood and thanked the friends and neighbors who
were celebrating with him and talked about how welcoming, loving and supportive
this community had been and that the people of the town were now his second
family. He said that he was very proud
to be a citizen.
He had a “green card” which allowed him to work in the
United States, but two years ago he began the complicated process of becoming a
US Citizen. Asked about how difficult
the citizenship test was he replied that it was not hard because he had studied
so much. On May 10, 2017 he was sworn in
Salt Lake City.
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