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Show i Newspapers are at hand all the time. When you want to look up a movie, the date of that upcoming concert, the time of the ball game, etc., it is right there. Newspapers have been used to wrap things in for years and this will not be possible when all of the newspapers are gone. You can cut out pictures from newspapers and save them in a scrapbook, and there are many of those around from days gone by. Of course, you can copy the pictures or articles from the internet, too, but it is just not the same. And you certainly cannot use the internet to wrap the garbage in, although some may think there is quite a lot of garbage on the internet, too. Soon there may not be shelves of magazines or books at the stores because you can read them or get them on the internet and not even have to purchase them. Libraries, if any are left, will be filled with books generated on line, but not in hand where you can by Marcella Walker Back in 1973 I went to a Pleasant Grove City Council meeting as part of the Valley View PTA to ask for more sidewalks for the children attending that school. As a result of that I became a reporter for the Provo Daily Herald covering Pleasant Grove news. I had a degree in journalism from BYU and a lot of love for news writing. Brett Bezzant bought the Pleasant Grove Review from Jack Pace in about 1980 and he asked me to be the city editor. I served in that position until about 1999 when I retired as editor of the Review but stayed on as a writer. This experience that I had as city editor of the Review was exceptionally fun and I loved it. It was the best of both worlds. I could be a news reporter part time and a mother and wife the rest of the time. When I retired as a writer for The Review in about 2004, we had' plans to go on a mission and we did two of those and loved them both. Then our son, Calvin, who had purchased PG Printers from Jack Pace, decided to start up a weekly newspaper. Many people had told him how much they missed the Pleasant Grove Review and so he tried the venture. At this point, this old news writer was called to duty again as a news reporter and it has been a great experience. In many ways it is too bad that with the internet and all that goes with it, the country's newspapers are disappearing. Some of America's largest newspapers from the past are dwindling down to fewer and fewer readers. Newspapers have stayed alive over all these years because of peoples' desire to know what is going in their town and in the nation and in the world. But now there is the internet and all that goes with it and many people read the news on their computer rather than in a newspaper. That is sad. pick it up and read it anytime you want. News writing has been one of the funnest things I have ever done and I will love it forever. When I graduated from BYU with a degree in Journalism, I was thrilled and went right out to a job writing ads for radio at KBOI in Boise. Since then there has been work in the News Bureau at "BLAB" continued on Page 5 "Blab" continued from Page 2 are changing, but our ability to speak person to person can continue on. What do you say, Pleasant Grove and Lindon? Let us hear from you! BYU, writing Pleasant Grove and Lindon news for The Daily Herald, writing Pleasant Grove and Lindon news for The Pleasant Grove Review and more recently for Timpanogos Times. I have loved being involved in what was going in the community and I would not trade it for the world. In the world of communication many things |