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Show Pleasant Grove Library 112512 $ 1 PER ISSUE 30 East Center Street Pleasant Grove. UT 84062 8 VOLUME 3 NUMBER 096 WEDNESDAY, July 20, 201 1 www.timptimes.com AT A GLANCE PACE 2 LIFESTYLE PG. Blab Life's Moments Thoughts From The Garden. . . "1847" PAGE 3 OBITUARIES SCOUTING Scout Expo LIFESTYLE Three if by Jimrher SOCIAL Senior News rV. PAGE 4 SOCIAL Casual Critic ANNIVERSARY : PAGE 5 SOCIAL ; "Funeral Potatoes" to Perform Sunday :. CITY July Beautification Awards Announced Cedar Hills Set to Kick Off Tot Soccer Lindon Days Dash 5K and Kids Fun Run PAGE 6 PUBLIC SAFETY PG Police Beat Lindon Police Beat CITY Lindon City's "Night Out Against Crime" Family Festival 5K Run ; Raises Thousands PAGE 7 CITY Cedar Hills Votes No for Opt-o- ut Recycling Lindon Days Set to Begin on July 31 City Recorder Recog-nized for 20 Years of Service PG. City Calendar Concerts in the Park PAGE 8 SPORTS PG Cardinals Sink Lehi Red Sox Summer Swim Team 4 , '" ' t ' ' i i " i; 1 a i i i j .... ; 'v . TIT lilCil WMI mil UihJIhM lAJLiiiiHu m umuml " J f" '' ' , f;,-n- -, " .,..s.. .. ,. - K my!.:.. w - i r", ' .. ....,,. - -- r fi- - i , t ; ..... - .... j. r , i v 1 1 p . !.. ' r ; r- -f, i , , - . .... .".'!... ... Tl.'1" i'icu.'tnl 1 1: Ni",'. -- .p;iper xd "s . umi.i.ii,i.!!im,v :it tv; ?. -.- - , ' j-r- - i r . ; ; i..v;-- - ; hi i rrf'M . . , r-- ' i j ' j SS ..... ,r " 4 Cm Taylor This is not the article I ex-pected, or wanted to write, but the cold, hard facts are now staring us all in the face. And I include the community in "us" because that is what the paper has always been about. When Calvin and Angie Walker made the plunge and brought back a local paper to Pleasant Grove, they didn't know why, they just knew they should. Timpanogos Times, pat-terned after the Pleasant Grove Review in 1945, is a service to the community. Timpanogos Times provides information which cannot be found on the internet, TV, radio or other daily papers. While Timpanogos Times has sustained itself through sub-scriptions and minimal adver-tising, the demands of making it a money-producin- g venture have taken their toll. In addition to his full-tim- e job running PG Printers, Cal-vin, along with wife Angie, spend countless hours putting together each weekJy addition in order to make the Monday night deadline for printing. This often includes working weekends and late into the night to make everything fit and flow. Love for the paper is strong, but the need for technical and marketingadvertising support is imperative. As the promised help in these areas failed to materialize, the Walker's have been put in a tight spot, which leaves them little choice. Could the paper be a vi-able, profitable enterprise? "Absolutely," said Walker as he enumerates the positive aspects of a venture that, if it was his only occupation, would be fun, rewarding and worth the effort. Therein lies the dilemma - he can't do it all. Thus the call for someone, who has the time and desire, to take over what could be a great business. It is also a sad commen-tary that after nearly two years a majority of PG citizens don't know there is a newspaper in town. It isn't from lack of receiving free issues during this time, nor from businesses making them available for pur-chase, and I hesitate to think of our citizens as apathetic, but the poor support for the paper seems indicative of our busy, non-sto- p lives. The Walker's vision to revive the feci and value of a source of purely local news has been appreciated by those who realize the information and stories gleaned from the Times is what keeps us connected to each other. You might read it first in the larger papers, but the version in a local paper per-sonalizes and literally 'brings it home'. You'll also never see the sports and school coverage in the bigger rags. The Utah Press Association has expressed interest in the Times becoming a member of the association and a state wide recognized newspaper. The Pleasant Grove Re-view was a vital, beloved part of this town for many years, and its demise was mourned by thousands. We know its death was not d, but its relevance in the community was While the Timpanogos Times has been a new adventure for PG Printers, newspapers have been printed out of this historic edifice since 1942. Photo courtesy of Timpanogos Times seen as too competitive and was slowly, but methodically killed off. However, The Timpanogos Times, which could be force to be reckoned with, is dying from lack of a vital sustenance - ads. If there is a doctor in the area, please come to its rescue. Calvin and Angie express appreciation to those who have subscribed and support-ed them via advertising and submitting stories of interest. They are most grateful for their writers who contribute their time and skills, some of which at no charge, because of their belief in the need for a lo-cal paper. Anyone interested in pur-chasing the paper can contact Calvin at the Timpanogos Times, 801-785- -3 1 1 1 or Bezzants Part of Pleasant Grove's Pioneer Heritage by Geri Taylor As we celebrate the ar-rival of the first pioneers in the Salt Lake valley, we especially remember the ancestors who settled the Pleasant Grove area. The story of one brave pioneer is excerpted from a history writ-ten by Ruth Bezzant and found in the DUP "Stories of our An-cestors." At the tender age of ten, Mark Bezzant had already expe-rienced the persecution against his religion as he observed his father, the Branch President of Cogan Hill, Wales, conduct street meetings. On occasion they had been pelted with rot-ten eggs, but that didn't stop his father from sharing his beliefs with fellow countrymen. As Christmas 1861 ap-proached, Mark and his seven-year-o- ld brother, Samuel, could hardly contain their excitement as they anticipated the great ad-venture they would have the fol-lowing Spring. Their grandpar-ents, Samuel and Ann Sevier, had sailed to America the previ-ous year, and soon Mark and his family would follow, to a place called Pleasant Grove. Matthew and Ann Bezzant had buried a three-month-o- ld daughter in 1858, and had fi-nally been blessed with another child, Emma, in April of 1861. With little money to pay the passage for five people, Mat-thew had applied to receive help from the Perpetual Emigration Fund, and the family were now awaiting their turn to join their parents in Utah. The thrill of the upcoming journey was soon crushed when Mark's little sister got sick and died on January 29. His mother died the following day from the effects of consumption and per-haps the great sorrow of losing two precious babies. One can only imagine the grief this fami-ly felt as wife, mother, and baby were laid to rest. Reality is a cruel master, arjd Matthew felt he had to stay in Wales a while longer to settle their financial obligations. If they didn't sail at their appointed time, they would lose the funding offered through the PEF, so father Matthew informed Mark he would need to make the trip alone. He asked his son if he was afraid to travel on the ship without him, and after a long pause the young boy an-swered, "No, father, I know that Heavenly Father will be with me and that Grandfather Samuel will be waiting for me at the end of the trip until you can come." Matthew prom-ised: "And I will come." Arrangements were made for Mark to travel to America with a family of eight named Chivers, and on May 14, 1862 they sailed out of Liverpool, England on the ship "William Tapscott." The six-we- voyage was uneventful until they passed Newfoundland and were caught in a violent storm that kept the passengers in the hold for three days. This was the first time Mark was afraid, but he poured out his heart to his Heavenly Fa-ther and soon he felt the calm he prayed for. He was among the many passengers who rode in an open cattle car from New York to St. Joseph, Missouri, con-stantly needing to be on guard to put out sparks from the wood-burnin- g engine so their clothes didn't catch on fire. They then sailed up the Missouri River to Florence, Nebraska where they joined the Horton D. Haight wagon company for the journey to Zion. Journal entries from pas-senger Isabel le Price, stated the company consisted of fifty-tw- o wagons and about sixty tents. There were not so many wagons as was expected and so they were too crowded for com-fort. There were fifteen people to each wagon and twelve to each tent, and by the time their trunks, bedding and provisions were packed, there was no room for anyone to ride, except the small children. Every ten days or so, they would camp for half a day to do washing and baking and it became a "fine holiday for the men and boys, in fact for all the youngsters." Once the children went exploring and in the distance could see a clump of trees, a rarity on the plains. They saw something red in one of the trees and soon discovered a dead Indian, wrapped roughly in his blanket and tied securely to the branches. Beside him were his bow and arrows, a tomahawk and some corn in a bag. While some of the children were scared and ran back, Mark was probably one of the older children who investigated this intriguing sight. On his eleventh birthday, August 0, the camp cooked him a special commeal cake and sang songs to honor him. As the words "All is Well, All is Well," floated through the camp, he knew they were true. The journey was not yet finished, but "All was Well." When the company arrived in Salt Lake on October 19, a mes-senger was sent to Pleasant Grove to notify Mark's grandfather of his arrival. During the four days it took the messenger to deliver the note and for his grandpa to walk to Salt Lake, he stayed with the Musser family, which gave him the first comfort since his mother and baby sister had died. It was a happy reunion when Grandpa Sevier finally arrived and the two set out for Mark's new home in Pleasant Grove, where he lived the rest of his life. His father and brother finally made their way to America to the joy of a mje pio-neer. The Bezzants have been a stalwart family in the commu-nity and can be proud of their pioneer heritage. 'pleasant grove WEATHER Today ' Partly Cloudy Thursday H-- L-- Sunny Friday H-- L-- Partly Cloudy Saturday H - 90 L - 60 Sunny Sunday Partly Cloudy V J |