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Show am Grose Res iew Lone Peak Edition - Thursday. October 3. 2002 - Page 2 Opinion New ttuh P! tt: UVSC choice will aid many The announcement la.st week that Utah Valley State College would be adding wrestling to its intercollegiate athletic programs came as welcome news to a whole lot of people, whether they are wrestling fans or not. The decision was the la.st piece of the puzzle required to allow UVSC to apply for provisional .status at the NCAA Division 1 level, the top competitive bracket for intercollegiate sports. The school has been accepted, triggering trigger-ing a seven-year, phasing-in process that is already underway. Attaining Div. 1 status is only a small part of the school's overall over-all plan to move toward being a full-fledged state college. The first few four-year degree programs pro-grams there were started only a few years ago, but the number has continued to multiply ever since. Though once a small technical school in the not-too-distant past, UVSC has become a vibrant institution serving more than 20,000 students, thousands of whom call north Utah County home. Anything that adds to UVSC's programs, whether in academics or athletics, expands the close-to-home opportunities available to local students. For that reason alone, the decision to add wrestling will have community-wide community-wide ripple effects. As for members of the wrestling community, it's personal person-al to them. When BYU became the last in-state school to discontinue discon-tinue its wrestling program a few years back, a group of wrestling boosters formed the Utah Amateur Ama-teur Wrestling Foundation to try to bring college-level wrestling back to the state. Their tireless efforts and financial assistance have now yielded the results that everyone had hoped for. Every high school wrestling program in the state will benefit from the increased visibility of the sport, and students stu-dents will have a great opportunity opportu-nity to learn from outstanding collegiate wrrestlers as they visit to compete here. There are more than 3,500 prep wrestlers in Utah, including hundreds from our local schools. Many residents don't realize the quality of wrestlers in the state, but two of 10 NCAA champions last year were from Utah, and two more earned Ail-American status. There have been a number of state champions or runners-up produced by north county schools just in the past five seasons, but they have had to attend college out-of-state to wrestle or stop wrestling altogether. Now they will have the chance to take a shot at competing in front of their hometown supporters. We applaud UVSC's decision, not only because it will benefit local wrestlers, but also because it will ultimately provide greater opportunities for the entire range of students. Extending our sphere of influence Glade Berry is strumming his guitar. His smooth tenor voice carries car-ries out over the quiet twilight in the church park. Having roots in Lehi and Cedar Fort, Glade shares with a small gathering of neighbors some of the songs he sings at West Canyon during hunting season. It's a bit of Lehi history, an oral sharing of the beauty found in the surrounding mountains when camping with friends and family. He tacitly provides insight into old Lehi, a generation ago He is one of a few very talented people in our LDS ward and our ward is only one of approximately 90 wards in the Lehi area. I figure our ward doesn't hold a monopoly on talent, so I guess there must be at least 270 such talented people hiding out there. A generation ago, there was only a handful of church congregations congre-gations with one LDS stake, the Lehi Stake. Everyone knew everyone. Listening to Glade sing, I think of Bud Hutchings and his big band sound. Often at work, I'll listen lis-ten to his CD. There is Lran Perry Christofferson with her "Keeping Sheep" CD and there is Cindy Yates just across the street, with her "All that I Am" CD that I also enjoy. These few are just a small smattering of Lehi City's exceptionally excep-tionally talented citizens who have touched hearts and inspired others. Many of them have gained statewide, nationwide and international inter-national recognition. As I watched Manu Harris turn and direct the congregation Saturday Sat-urday at the General Relief Society Soci-ety Conference being broadcast worldwide and later on KBYU, I thought, "That's our Manu!" Throughout the world, people of Lehi City are touching others by their example and by sharing their talents. ft:.pjr.;r.U Not all of the talent is necessarily neces-sarily musical. Linda and Rick Turner are two such residents who may sing well, but also have a tenacity to lead well. They have led the way in promoting Family Week and have become examples of character and strength to not only their neighbors neigh-bors and friends, but to entire communities. Leaders in other family organizations, organi-zations, including the United Families International chair, have noticed their endeavors. The Turners are a reminder to the rest of us that our sphere of influence is not just limited to our immediate family, it extends globally. glob-ally. On the front cover of the "Sportzaken Kwartaal" magazine, June 2002, is the painting of the Lehi train depot by Lehi artist Neldon Bullock. The words "Lehi" and "Carl Mellor" jump out of page 56 among the unrecognizable unrecogniz-able printed Dutch. A photo of Carl Mellor standing in front of his Historic Lehi Hotel is a companion page to a photo layout of the Salt Lake LDS Temple, Tem-ple, the Salt Lake City Gateway and other Salt Lake City landmarks. land-marks. Lehi faces and Lehi voices around the world join in to share the joy in sustaining home-style standards, values and excellence. It has not gone unnoticed. We may not be small enough to know everyone in our own town anymore, but we can still cheer on our neighbors, those who touch our hearts and strive to make our world a better place to live in. Cathy Allred can be reached at callred&neu-utah.com. Lessons of the past still apply Mv 24-year-old daughter happens hap-pens to be taking an American history class this semester. While she was in town with us this weekend, she was working on some essays for her unit on the counterculture of the 1960s. She had me review her work with her, and asked me some very interesting interest-ing questions about this period. It sure brought me face-to-face with some uncomfortable truths. First, that I'm so old now that the era I grew up in is a unit in a history his-tory class and not even remotely remote-ly near the end. Second, that my children don't have the slightest idea what a tumultuous time that was to be young, or how death hung over us constantly. They don't know the reality of facing down armed troops or sitting sit-ting with your friends with your heart in the pit of your stomach while they opened their draft notices. They don't know what it's like to hear (and see) casualty reports on the evening news every day. No single-person murders in their lifetimes have produced the shock that followed John F. Kennedy's assassination. They don't have seared in their memories images of Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy and a Kent State stu- t dent lying in pools of blood. This generation has been somewhat some-what desensitized to violence and gore because they see so much of it in the media now, but in those days, such depictions were reserved only for the most horrific of events. The images stayed with you, the way this generation will always recall the airplanes hitting the World Trade towers. My daughter asked me about Woodstock. I didn't go, but I saw all five hours of the documentary movies that were produced on the event soon afterwards, and I knew people who had been there. The history' book didn't begin to catch the true impact of that "concert" on all of us, but truthfully, I don't know how any book could. It wasn't was-n't just an event; it was an experience. experi-ence. She asked me about drugs, and I told her the truth - that it was impossible to avoid being around them, at least in the midwest and the east where I was. Not everyone every-one used them, but they were used around everyone in plain sight. Pills were ingested as a. candy, and it wasnt unusual to see kids in the h U school whose pupil, WeweIW ed, you couldn't tpll i. J ,t n tneir eves werp The stink of burning nuri; was in the K-,tV,. ' j "uuuuums and U behind i ve"ins and f, . rooms everv duv Dieacners during football and around driv r i , ioou joints on any given Pushers pnnlrl Kq t. i IUUUQ on Ctroot P(rr.n 1 1 S . vuxwci cum playground S0 Perhaps the thing that caut W me the most concern, how was my daughter's very sketffi understanding of what the cr rights movement was about ! what things were really likely minorities and women before th fr fight began. She was surprised learn of my involvement in th -'tl struggle, but she shouldn't hL been. ," It's my fault she didn't kni', and it's an oversight I intend correct. It's been said that tho v E who fail to learn from history j '! condemned to repeat it. With . perspective that nearly a half-ce tury has afforded me, I'm going make sure that my children a taught the lessons of the pastj V' we can all work toward a betl future. 'C I AFs citizens continue tradition Friday evening I had my faith in humanity not restored, but confirmed. con-firmed. I had to hurry to get to the American Fork High School homecoming home-coming parade. I jumped in my car, selected my route, and drove to what I thought would be a good parking place to wait for the parade to get to me. I had brought my book so I could keep busy while I was watching my rear view mirror for signs of the parade. When the people in lawn chairs in the driveway nearby asked me to move my car a few feet forward, I put the key in the ignition, but got no response. There was no grinding, whirring, or whatever kinds of noises. The car is fairly new to us, so we haven't had much experience with it to know its history of parts replacement. Not that it would have helped me much, since I have an obvious lack of mechanical mechani-cal aptitude. I got out of the car and told the people I would be happy to move, but I couldn't. They appeared as dumbfounded as I was, since I had just gotten out of a "healthy" car.' It had been running just a minute or two before. A quick inspection by one of the residents showed the battery was probably bad. There had been absolutely no sign of trouble, so I was puzzled. I told them I was also relieved since we were planning on driving that car to Arizona in two weeks. My husband was marching in the parade, and was then scheduled sched-uled to take the car home. I would walk home and meet him later. We joked how we would get the message to him. We would each hold up a poster with a part of a message. "Car dead." "People here" "Will give" "You a jump." Gib ith That would work, wouldn't it? $ They made me feel right ;n0I home, offering me not only a m tening ear, but a chair and sot ,rK popcorn with which to watch ty parade. I knew Steve would i; g well cared for when he returned j,e the car later. !yy I just didn't know how well. .,ay When the alumni band pass-jy me, I ran alongside him to gi pe him the message about the car. 1 ase nodded and I thought all was we I went to the reception betwa the parade and the game, to ta-"' pictures of alumni reminisci) and sharing old times. On arriving home, I learned the people were not as nice as I h thought - they were even better. One of the battery posts w badly corroded and broke o making jumper cables an impes bility. They went the extra m and drove him to the store to get new battery, even helping hi install it. Isn't this a great place to live E-mail Barbara Christians, at bchristiansennewutah.com Reader's Forum Thanks to Alumni Band Editor: Thanks to all those who participated in the Alumni Band in the AFHS Homecoming Parade. Your spirited music was a great way to honor the . centennial celebration celebra-tion of American Fork High School. Thanks to the Bank of American Fork, our financial sponsor. We appreciate the support of three high school band directors: John Miller (AF), Diane Soelberg (Timpanogos) and Paul Lemon (Orem) for lending us instruments. instru-ments. Thanks to our enthusiastic drum major, Jay Allen. Bobbi Packer's help with instruments was greatly appreciated. Ross Durrant Thanks for help with Harris Family Fun Day Editor: Thanks to all those who volunteered and helped in any way with the Harris Family Fun Day held last Saturday. Special thanks Kristy Petru, Lee Kim Holmes, Ty Mario Holmes, Darel and RaeLyn Thomas and Brandon and Holden Thomas. Entertainment during the day was provided by the Lehi High Jazz Band, Bob Dillman, to and and Butch and Connie Grace, the Lehi Legacy Center gymnasts, Roc Entertainment, Enter-tainment, Inc., and www.rocktheplanet.com. Thanks to those who made donations: Lehi Candle Shop, Yates Travel Trav-el Trailers, Happy Trailer Trail-er Tack and Gift, Durfey cleaners, A.C.S. Systems, Scrooge and Marleys, Tyson Anthony Salon, Hogi Yogi, Amway Products, Prod-ucts, Geneva Rock, Platinum Plat-inum Concrete and Curbing, Porters, One Man Band, Subway, Cleaning Cottage, Beverly Bever-ly Clayton, Carolyn Clark, Cynthia Hinkley, Harley Holmes. Also Aloha Creations, Lehi Roller Mills, High Country Granite and Marble, Haws Floral, Hutchs, Kohlers, Arctic Circle, McDonalds, Lehi Bakery, Dominos Pi Pioneer Party, Bank American Fork, Albei sons, Great Clips, Ne York Burrito, Jiffy LJ Papa Murphys, Holl wood Video, Reams, Pa Building Supply, Ma ick, K&SAuto,UhiBa; ber Stylist. This event was a su ,4 cess! Thank you, thai -you for all the supp. given. We couldn't bj done it without you. n weather was scary no and then, but eventual it cooperated. We're already forward to next jei Thanks for helping make a difference. 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