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Show ". wry aw LIMITS Tell what you like Farmington City gets ready for Festival Days Saturday in the Park theme for this years Program encourages Clearfield residents to own parks Cooking By BRYON SAXTON UP Standard Examiner Davts Bureau CLEARFIELD - A broken swing or graffiti on the picnic bowery are just a few of the problems Clearfield residents can address with the new PGE Park Program. Tracy Heun, Parks and Recreation director, said a program that began July 1 is designed to give residents ownership of their nine city parks while giving her staff another set of eyes. I think it may open our eyes to something, she said. The program allows residents to evaluate the cards marked with the reparks on index-size- d turn address of the recreation office, 40 S. 125 East. On Monday the recreation department will move into City Hall, 140 E. Center Street, while the citys new $10.5 million City Hall and Justice Center to house the citys administrative offices is being built. Heun said she has already received by mail one response from the park evaluation program. She said residents living in a neighborhood near Steed Park have asked the city to designate one of the two walking trails around the park for skating use. Heun said residents believe that would prevent walkers and skaters from having to confront one another on the walkways. She said this suggestion, along with any others to be made, will be reviewed by the parks and recreation commission at the monthly meeting. 1 leun is hoping all the input they receive will be as reasonable, and within their budget, as the first suggestion received. Some things people recommend to us may not be feasible, she said of those expecting the city to go on a park shopping spree. Heun said the idea of the program is to provide residents an avenue to be heard by the com- - some fun IN CLEARFIELD: Evangeline Stash, 13, lives in Bluff, Utah, yet she and her family came to Clearfield to sell Navajo tacos in Fisher Park dunng the Pride Days celebration on Saturday. MELANIE CONNER Standard-Examine- r in-li- rx is the Farmington Festival Days Celebration to be held Saturday all day long in Farmington Park. This years organizers envision an summer gathering where family and friends gather for the day to relax, reminisce and just have a good time in general, enjoying the day together. The day will begin early with the annual Fun Run, followed by the traditional Festival Breakfast from 7 to 9.30 at the bowery. The parade down Main Street at 9 a m. will launch a steady stream of activities that last the entire day and into the evening. We hope that families will bring lawn chairs, blankets ahd enjoy the entire day in the park getting reacquainted with friends and neighbors," said Bob Hasenyager, of this years event. With all the events on schedule for the day,' participants should be able to do as much or as little as they please. There will be a wide range of activities tor everyone," according to Bart Hill, the other Kids of all ages, teenagers and adults will all find something of interest." LAYTON Two residences annexed into city A small annexation and rezone gave the city two residences that were once part of Davis County's Greenlawn See PARKS2 subdivision. Interested in taking up a collection? program aims to get children interested in Library Community theaters Singing in the Rain set slashed in park collecting By SUSAN TANNER HOLMES Standard Examiner correspondent -- Farmington Thats what the youths its a fun . COPY By SUSAN TANNER HOLMES Standard Examner correspondent of TARMINGTON - The show will go on despite extensive and in the Davis County summer reading program learned about collecting as they listened to four members of the library staff talk about what they enjoy collecting. I began collecting toys and Disney characters when I was 8," said Jcanie Wright, childrens librarian for the North Branch. When I was little, my allowance wasn't very big and so these small tos were all I could afford." Wright showed the children more than 50 examples of the characters, action figures and dolls she had collected through the years. Some still had the tags on. "This Jetson doll is worth more w uh the tags and boxes, but it's not as fun to play with," she said. Sometimes the boxes are just too big to keep and sometimes you just can't stand it and you want to play with the toy," said Wright as she showed an old Woody Woodpecker puppet and a Minnie Mouse doll that looked like a mole without ears. The Minnie doll is one of the oldest toys in her collection. She also showed the children a thimblc-typ- c cup that had Minnie Mouse painted on the outside. Shed purchased it from an antique store. I usually don't get things I dont like. I tell my family and friends what I want for Christmas and birthdays. Some of the things I've collected Ive gotten in the kids meals from fast food restaurants," she said. Show will go on despite vandalism RONALD W ERLX&CH Standard Damrver AFFECTION: Brad Mauer desenbes his game collection to children at the Davis County Libary as part of a summer pogram sponsored by the library. Maurer has been collecting games since 1 977. COLLECTION She showed the children a packaged toy she'd gotten in Japan. Shed left it m the original packaging because sometimes the foreign toys in the original packaging are worth more. The fantasy game collections and games collected by Brad Mauer, branch librarian at the South Branch, caught the imagination of many of the young people. Tve always been excited about the conflict between good and evil. 1 guess thats a part of me that never grew up," he said. Mauer showed the children game boards that change and are connected differently each time you play the game, 10- - and dice games, card games, one game that used four differ 20-sid- ed ent boards and books that let the game players use their imagination and participate in creating their own game by role playing. Ive been collecting games for over 20 years, he said. I have a whole closet full of games and they arc a lot of fun to play. Many of the games take four to hours to complete. You want to collect something that is fun for you and that you really enjoy, said Mauer. "Collect something you can use, something you can take out and play with and have fun with." Janet Rigby, library secretary, showed Davis County Library Director Pete Giacoma's collection of snow globes. Snow globes have figures or scenes inside six a rounded dome that is filled with water. The globe is then turned upside down to mix the snow" so it falls on the scene. "The earliest globes were made in the 1840s and the entire process was done under water. said Rigby. The snow in the beginning was made from bone, wax and ceramic pieces. Now the snow is made from plastic. Some of the globes have gelatin in the water to make it thicker so the snow falls slower. Others use a sparkle snow, or beige snows," she said. One of Giacoma's globes was made in 1915 and the paint was coming o(T the organ grinder so the water was very cloudy. See COLLECT, 2 costly vandalism to the scenery of the Singing in the Rain" community theater production. The performances are scheduled for 1 riday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Vandals apparently entered Woodland Park sometime Monday night between midnight and 7 am. and used knives to slash the recently finished scenery. Scenery had been left in place on the open-ai- r stage. The blow was felt the hardest by those who had given up their entire I ourth of July weekend to build the scenery. "We were all down here the whole weekend over the 1 ourth painting and putting up the scenery, said Jo Ann Callahan, director and Performing Arts Committee chairwoman. "It's so hard because by this lime everyone is so tired and exhausted and there just isn't time to redo," she said. This is the first time we have ever had any vandalism at Woodland Park. We've never had a problem. We've left costumes and props and everything out. This was strictly vandalism, the vandals just come to destroy." said Callahan. Much of the scenery for this year's production was designed and made from scrim material. The material is very expensive and the damage is estimated at $200 to $100. The productions are run on a shoestring budget, with all players, See SHOW, 2 h The Olsen and Moss families held out for years, keeping their homes at 110 and 124 S. 1200 West (Angel Street). They remained in the county even though they were paying double for water utilities after the city put in a new water line, Community Development Director Scott Carter said. Finally the time was right, Carter said, as the city council voted to bring the two homes -just under a half acre of land -into the city borders at Thursday's meeting. Youths invited to Soccerfest The annual AYSO area 9R Soccerfest will be held on Aug 1 at Layton Central Davis Junior High School soccer fields. Registration will be at 8 a m. sharp. Each boy and girl ranging m ages from 8 to 18 will be given a and play on a team tor three games. Also included is lunch of pizza and a drink and chances to win prizes. The cost is $10 per person Volunteers are needed to coach and referee. Slots will fill up quickly Contact your own area regional commissioner of AYSO soccer or call Laura Traum at 771-876- 9 Coming Saturday City development After weighing the costs and safety issues, developer Neil Wall decided it was worth the trouble to develop a hillside subdivision in the city instead of Davis County Read about it in the next Lakeside Review |