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Show comment Citizen Wednesday, June 8, 1988 Page 2 Graduates will need lofty Graduating seniors from deal of impressive talk as they sat through commencement rites this past weekend. Each shared his or her moment in the spotlight as a name was read, and the graduate marched in front of the crowd to receive a diploma. It is a rite of passage performed across our nation during these weeks as school ends and young adults break away from the artificial social structure provided by the school system and enter the real world. And for that, all of the past week's rhetoric may serve as an inspiration to urge students to do their best, for graduation speeches are filled with great ideas and lofty idealism. Every death touches each one of us I met Darrel Fidler's kids before I met Darrel. My family and I had just moved to Spanish Fork from Kearns, so I could take the Job of the Future at BYU - and in less than a week, I was the scoutmaster. scoutmas-ter. Thebishop, whohad afine sense of irony, noticed I had held the post in my old ward and, figuring I hadn't suffered long enough, decided de-cided to give me a few more years in the Great Outdoors. The first meeting with the kids was not very successful - you have to grow on 12-year-old boys, and give them time to learn how far they can push before you've had enough. I could take a lot of pushing, push-ing, and after a few months we were getting along fine. Darrel had a boy in the troop. With nine children, five boys and four girls, one of Dan-el's kids was always in the troop. And you couldn't be in the area long before you got to know Darrel. As a ultra-conservative John Birch Society type, Darrel's politics an d mine were about as far apart as you can get in Utah County. He'd even considered running for the County Commission on the American Ameri-can Party ticket. Like most fanatics, he had all kinds of plans, andhe wasn't afraid to let anyone and everyone know what they were. He was troubled with health problems and a personality that tended to set most people back a bit. His house, just around the corner cor-ner from mine, was filled with home-made innovations designed to make life simpler - but not all of them were designed very well, and gave the home the appearance of still being under construction from the inside out. It seemed like a dozen bicycles hung from the rafters of his carport, car-port, and just as many kids seemed to be riding bikes along the sidewalk side-walk in front of the Fidler's home every day. So much so, that it was often easier to go an extra half-block half-block to get from one part of our How to get the headaches you In all the years that I've suffered from migraine headaches, I've never figured out how not to have them or how to get rid of them once they arrive. There's not a medication that I know of that can stop the pounding or the nausea or the pain once the tingling and aura starts, though there are some I've considered once or twice that are probably illegal However, it occured to me the other day when a friend of mine had her first migraine that I do know a thing or two about how to cause one. There is a standardized plan to follow if you really want or need to have a headache. Yell at other people and small children. The gritting of the teeth and the exertion involved in mean shouting tenses the neck muscles and boom headache on the move. Or you can starve yourself for a while and then take a big dose of sugar in the form of a candy bar, a Twinkie or a soft drink. That'll do it quite well. When I was in high school and in the Honeybees, marching in a parade pa-rade and jerkingmy head from side to side with a snappy toss would always do it. Now I can do the same thing Mayor wants other cities share of American Fork City is again demanding payment for shortfalls in the equity accounts for the Tri-CityGolf Tri-CityGolf Course. Mayor Kent Evans said, "The shortfalls and equities should have been paid long ago." American Fork, Pleasant Grove and Lehi built the course in a joint effort. Evans reported for an example ex-ample that Lehi has had a shortfall of $11,000 since the time of construction. con-struction. The original agreement was one for construction, not for operation. area hieh school heard a creat the editor's column By MARC HADDOCK tract-home subdivision to the other. I had a hard time dealing vith Darrel on a personal level, because I didn't agree with most of what he said, or the way he said it. That didn't stop the Power-That-Be from making us home teaching partners. With total respect let me say here that I have never learned to enjoy this particular service within my church. I am not social enough to come up with good small talk, and I don't like being obligated to making monthly visits to people I normally wouldn't choose to visit. Darrel, on the other hand, had no compunctions about visiting anybody, and had enough to say on any subject to keep a conversation, albeit a one-sided one, going for well over an hour. For the first time in my life, I felt useful as a home teacher. I was a buffer between my partner and our long-suffering families, cutting things off when the conversation became too long or too far out of reality. And although no one said any tidbits Copyright Sharon Morrey By SHARON MORREY talking on the phone for an hour at a stretch while trying to keep an eye on what the little kids are doing out back. Lose a night's sleep worrying over something major or fretting over something small or getting all excited about something wonderful that's about to happen. Be suddenly and rudely awakened. awak-ened. Telephone calls at six a.m. for your son about early morning band practice can do it. Grind your teeth. Once my den J' golf course costs Since then, American Fork City initiated a new agreement for the operation of the course. Evans said that the other two mayors have agreed to the proposal after requesting some changes, but the city councils have yet to adopt it. Councilman Crosby Mecham suggested that the city write a letter let-ter to the other cities, giving a 30-day 30-day period in which to propose a constructive plan for payment. Evans said that if payment is not made, American Fork would It will be needed. Graduates of classes of '89, '90 and so on, will face some of the greatest challenges ever witnessed by human kind. The legacy of unfathomable indebtedness, ecological damage and nuclear fear which is being handed to the future leaders of our world will require faith, idealism, and hard work if our world is to ever reach economic stability, a healthy balance in nature and true, lasting peace. It will take time to find out if they are up to challenges we are leaving them. Education can only do so much. High school level classes now probe into areas that were considered college-level material a thing to me, I could see a look of relief in the eyes of some of the people we visited when I would head things off and head us on our way. For the first time, I became a stellar home teacher principally because Darrel was diligent about anything he did. Early each month I would get a call, and we would arrange to make our visits. We became something of a legend leg-end in the Elders' Quorum, although al-though I never attended quorum meeting because I was working with the scout-aged kids. Month after month we reported a hundred percent home teaching as we built up a record which had never been equaled in the ward. Month after month I disputed,interrupted and altered a discussion to keep things on a more down-to-earth level. At first I worried, because I figured fig-ured everyone would think I got along with Darrel - and for a time I wasn't sure that was a reputation I would be comfortable with. Then I found, much to my surprise, sur-prise, that I did get along with Darrel just fine, thank you. We didn't agree on much, but we were able to handle our disputes with a minimal amount of trouble. I was easy going enough to keep him from getting on my nerves, he was single-minded enough not to notice that he tended to get on the nerves of some other folks. Darrel lost his job, and month after month I would hear tales t, about the variety store he had: -. operated in California and his years on the road as a truck driver. And I would listen to his politics for a time before I started to dispute most of what he said leading to some lively conversations in front of some of people we had been assigned as-signed to befriend. Our success was a matter of chemistry. It was also our undoing. As often happens, some well-meaning well-meaning individual figured the tist told me he could cure me of my headaches forever and ever if I'd just pay him $1000 to realign my jaw. That way I wouldn't grind my teeth during the nights and I'd be headache-free. The problem with that solution is I'd get a headache over spending all that money to get rid of just a single cause. When there are so many out there. Such as watching a rotating mirror ball at a Gold and Green Ball. The aura effect of a visiting migraine is so much the same that your brain accepts the data and supplies the requested headache. Staring into a glare. This works on a ski slope on a bright day (ask my daughter, whom I've blessed with inherited headache tendencies tenden-cies lor in the summer when you're driving under a hot sun. Heat can have a lot to do with getting a headache. It brings one on. If I lived in Phoenix or St. George year-round I'd have a head ache year-round. Concentrate on something tiny and unreadable for about two hours time. A wavering computer screen can do it. In the third grade, I remember distinctly the blurring numbers dancing before me on the look into the possibilities of some legal action. City Budget officer Carl Wanlass reported that the dollar amounts have been audited by three separate firms since 1975 and they all agreed the monies were owed. "I have been accused of wanting to destroy the golf course," said Evans. "That is the furthest from my mind. I can't think of a better use for that land. The golf course agreement puts in place things which are now debatable." ideals, determination the Class of '88, and the coming best way to exploit our incredible record was to split us up, and then benefit as our combined enthusiasm enthusi-asm was doubled. As often happens, it didn't work. With ordinary people as my companions, I felt I had little to offer to my assigned families. My perfect record ended the month Darrel and I were split up. I've never been able to generate the enthusiasm to reach that level of performance since. And I suspect Darrel had just as hard a time finding someone willing to go out with him month after month. But during our months as partners, part-ners, I had come to get a picture of the man few people had taken the timeof discover. Darrel had to grow on you, and some people don't like to be grown on. We moved from Spanish Fork over five years ago, when I started working for this illustrious publication, publi-cation, and kept in touch with our old neighborhood only superficially. superfi-cially. I had heard about his divorce after a couple of years of unemploy-. ment. I had picked up one of his boys once and given him a ride. My wife had found Darrel needing a lift, and talked to him at length (the only way Darrel know how to talk) about a variety of subjects. He wasn't always in good health, but he was only 10 years older than I, and it was a surprise to read his obituary in newspaper and learn he had been killed when he was hit by a carc.i J I'm not sure I ever understood the man. I certainly didn't count him among my close friends - but I was closer to him than most, for a time. Lives are lost everyday, it is one of the few parts of life that affects us all. But in our modern world, we are individually touched by death only from time to time. It helps us remember that each life is precious, and each passing is a cause for a sense of loss. want pages of my math test. I couldn't figure out then why I couldn't see the whole page at once. But I figured it out soon enough and soon began to devise ways to protect myself. As a carhop, I used to trick my head by slurping up an ice cold slush as fast as I could drink it whenever I'd get the signal that a headache was on the way. I didn't avoid the headache but the cold freeze effect on my nerve endings speeded up the aura process. That way I'd clear up my vision and just have the pounding duringmy shift. I try to not be driving during the aura since cars disappear and reappear re-appear again before my eyes. When the numbness tingles in my face, I know the headache coming is major. When it's just in myfingers, I know I can still accomplish accom-plish simple tasks like laundry and dishes. When it's all over my body I just close up shop and go to bed. Right now I'm planning on having hav-ing a headache because there's one other surefire method by which to bring one on that I forgot to mention men-tion thus far have the local schools let the kids out for the summer. to pay Evans noted that the golf course was making money. "I don't expect anything out of it other than it carries itself. They are receiving as many benefits as we are, but they don't have money tied up in it." Evans also said that there were some tradeoffs he was willing to make. "I feel so strongly about the golf course agreement I would be willing will-ing to waive any fees American Fork would get from the driving range property." generation ago. For a motivated student, the opportunities to learn in high school, and in college, are greater than any time in the past, as our knowledge is extended into all areas of learning. But high school graduation is a true rite of passage, a point at which most parents and others are willing to consider young man or woman an adult - and willing to give him or her a chance to perform on an adult level. Congratulations to the Class of '88. Pay heed to the heady words of optimism and challenge your classmates spoke to you last week. Given the challenges of today's world, you'll need all that, and more. End of pig was start of the show I am a few months late in writing about our neighbors, the Burtons. As a boy, our family lived in a little Welsh village that went by the strange name of Old Furnace. Our house was joined with the Burtons . and it was so close we could hear Mrs. Burton through the walls. Mr. Burton, or Emrys as he was called, was a small man, short and weighing about 10 stone (140 pounds), and quiet and reserved. But Blodwen Burton, there was a woman for you. Big and buxsom with a voice that could wake the dead. Like the old woman that lived in the shoe, she had so many children, hut she knew what to do. Because when she spoke to them they obeyed and if they hesitated she helped them move with a slap on the backside with a hand that would be the envy of any boxer. But. back to Emrys Burton. In the early spring he would bring home a small pig that was deposited in a dilapidated pen at the bottom of the garden. For food, this pig was sustained by other peoples' leavings. Neighbors from round about all brought their table scraps for pig. My mother, being a kindly soul, saved her table scraps for him. Potato peelings, cabbage leaves and other scraps she would boil and even add a little flour. Old pig loved this, and when mother approached vviih this steaming dish, the pig would give out with squeals of pleasure. , - The summer months rolled away, ;iii(l then it was autumn. November was the month that pig was' sc heduled to be made into pork. We were awakened on Saturday morning by the squeals of the pig. It was Blodwen who wielded the knife that ended pig's life. By now we kids were out watching the fun. PG Players will present "Kate" The ever popular musical comedy com-edy "Kiss Me Kate" will be presented pre-sented by the Pleasant Grove Players Play-ers to celebrate the local Strawberry Straw-berry Days celebration on June 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25, and 27 at 8 p.m. at the Pleasant Grove High School auditorium. Previously they have produced "You Can't Take It With You," "Camelot," "Bull In A China Shop," and "Finian's Rainbow." This is the story of a theatrical company's problems in producing Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," complete with several stormy romances, gangsters, and other complications. It is one of Cole Porter's finest musicals with memorable songs like "Another Op'nin', Another Show," "Wunder-bar," "Wunder-bar," "We Open in Venice," "Tom, Dick, or Harry," and "Kiss Me Kate." 20 graduate from Mother's High June 1 marked a milestone in the life of 20 women in the Alpine School District the completion of their high school diploma. ' Thegroupweregraduatesofthe districts Mothers' High program, and included women from 17 to 44 years of age, with a total of more than 30 children between them. For Betty Lowe, the commencement commence-ment meant not only the achieving of her own dream after 27 12 years away, but also the graduation of two of her daughters. "I've probably learned more in the past nine months than I have ever learned all my life in school," Mrs. Lowe, who spoke at the ceremonies cere-monies said. "I hope this is just the beginning for all of us," she said. She expressed ex-pressed her appreciation for the school program and to her family for their support. browsing ' , 'A 51 By TOM GRIFFITHS W Blodwen rolled up a newspaper, lit it and burned the hair from pig's body. The air was filled with the smell of scorched hair. She then opened the body and pulled out the entrails. She severed the bladder from whatever it was attached to and tossed it to one of the boys. He would blow it up and play with it. Then came the part that was stinky but fun to watch. Blodwen would attach one end of the entrail to to an outside tap and wash out the yards of tubing. The aroma from this part of the operation was nose-holding nose-holding to say the least. These entrails would be braided, cut into pieces and boiled. They would become chitterlings and would be eaten by the family. In appreciation for mother's contribution to the feeding of pig, Blodwen sent a package of chitterlings chit-terlings over with one of the kids. Father waited until it was dark and then took the chitterlings to the bottom of the garden and buried them. This ended the drama of pig. Another spring will come and the drama re-enacted once again. The leads are played by Janiel Miller as "Kate," Winner of the Utah Valley Theater Guild award for best actress in "Finian's Rainbow"; Rain-bow"; Kevin Halliday at "Petruchio"; Michelle Palmer as "Bianca"; and Justin Dinehart as "Lucentio." All are seasoned actors in musical theatre. The show is produced for Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove City by Keith Chris-teson; Chris-teson; direction and music by C. Michael Perry; choreographed by Elaine Hansen; and costumes by Kathleen Reed; and orchestra by David Fullmer. Tickets will be available at the door for $4 for adults, $3 for Senior Citizens and children, and $14 for Group rates may be arranged by contacting Keith Christeson, 785-2922. 785-2922. ating daughters and also a com mencement speaker, said she also expressed thanks to those "who stood behind me to help me make it here tonight." Her husband, David Gibson, spoke of the achievements of his wife and other graduates. "Ifs something that they wanted to do. to be here, to make this evening, possible." Becky Wakefield called graduation gradu-ation "a first step in a new beginning begin-ning and in a great future." Anything, she said, is possible with work and determination. . Kristy Sirkel agreed, saying graduation was proof of their ability abil-ity to succeed. . "Now is the time to look at our dreams for the future and to take inventory of what we want to do with our lives," she said. |
