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Show Comment Itcvicw - Wednesday, April 4, 1990 I'ago 2 If you travel Byways, Utah has some of th most nic scenery around. And to pro mote that, the state is promoting some of the Uhh traveU-d state high ways, as Scenic Byways and Scenic Backways through Utah. It's a good ide.i. The designations work like this. Byways are developed roads, state highways that are paved and suitable for all kinds of vehicles Provo Canyon is one of the Scenic Sce-nic Byways for example. Scenic Backways, for the most part, can be traveled by passenger vehicles, but weather and season may be a factor. The Alpine Loop and the Pony Express Trail have been designated as two of Utah Scenic Backways. There are 27 designated Byways, and 58 Backways, which says something about the stateof Utah's highways, I think. Hog Hollow road did not make it onto the Backways list, largely, I think, because of the pits in the road that are large enough to swallow swal-low a family station wagon. But the Wedge Overlook, in Emery County, did make it as a Back way, and rightly so. The Wedge is close to Castle Dale, where I was editor of the Emery County Progress for two years, and I took several trips to the Wedge, and beyond into the San Rafael Swell. The roads were dirt, and you didn't go there if it looked like it might rain. But in Emery County rain wasn't much of a problem. You just needed to be sure you washed the car after the drive over these Backways. The state has worked to make sure the driver will krw what kind of road he cr she is a' empt-ing. empt-ing. The new Byways and Back- 'Y' should honor scholarship committments By MARCELLA WALKER There has been a lot of talk lately about the basketball program at BYU since a couple of players have announced that they were told their scholarships would not be offered to them for next season. I don't have any idea, what all thjn&gng ptrts of this announce-;' mnt are about, and there has not been much explanation at this point from the university. But on the surface it would appear that an injustice has been done here. These boys accepted a scholarship scholar-ship to BYU believing that it was for four years or they would not have accepted it in the first place. Some of those young men were recruited by several schools and had they known that their scholarships scholar-ships would not be honored for four years, they would undoubtedly have gone elsewhere to begin with. BYU's honor code that all students stu-dents must sign is well known. Don't coaches have an honor code that they are required to adhere to, also? Perhaps the boys in question are not as good as some of the other players at this point in time. Some redshirted before they went on their missions. They haven't played hardly any varsity in three years. Is BYU of all places going to punish them for going on their missions? Someone asked me the other day if this was a common practice in other colleges. I don't know, but I doubt it. Schools which did not honor their scholarship commitments would soon be shunned by the vast majority major-ity of athletes, I should think. What will this new twist io to BYU's recruiting program? BYU has had a bit of a problem in year's past to get the cream of the crop in players, mainly because black play- For many elderly, only home is the one that lives inside them The home that lives within them is inside and, for many of our elderly, eld-erly, is the only home they have left," Deanna Edwards, well-known area performer, told those attending attend-ing a two-day conference on Caring for the Elderly held at American Fork Hospital. Edwards said that sense of home must be protected and nurtured if the elderly are to feel good about themselves. vHow would you feel if you couldnt go home anymore," she asked. She said in today's world, it isn't okay to "grow old or to be sic or to die. We are afraid to do that - ,: "We're a pain-denying society so we're sometimes afraid that it's not all right to grow old." She said during her ' tours throughout the country she finds the editor's column By MARC HADDOCK ways will be so designated on the Official Utah Highway Map, so the driver will know there are other routes available. And the highway signs that will mark these routes are distinctive. The Byways sign depicts Utah's red rock country and snowcapped mountains on a blue background. The Backways sign depicts an off-road off-road tire on a brown background. That gives you some idea as to the nature of the Byways and Back-ways. Back-ways. I've always enjoyed going off the beaten path -- just for the sake of seeing something new. And I was surprised at how many of the Byways I had driven, and how many of the ' Backways I had traversed in an automobile that had no business being on those roads. I was also pleased to see that the stretch of H igh way 6 between Price and Green River received no distinction dis-tinction of any kind. That's only appropriate, since it is probably blab t:t ers were reluctant to come to a majority white school. This past year was a good e for the BYU basketball team. 7 jy were co-champions of the con er-ence er-ence and were not picked to come in higher than sixth. No one ever said that BYU had an exceptional amount of talent this year, although Marty Haws, Andy Toolson and Kevin Santiago were no slouches, and look how good they did. I hope BYU is not looking to sacrifice all integrity just to have a winning basketball season year after year. There is more to college than basketball. Many young men, and young women, develop their skills and native abilities so that they can qualify for a good scholarship to further their education. Not all have plans to play pro ball and make millions because they know that is unrealistic. They just know that their athletic ability can make it possible for them to get a that everyone she visits "wants to go home." "Without a sense of home, people feel lost, out of control and lose hope," she said. They need to have part of home brought to them (when in a care center or hospitals) through pictures, favorite things, and felting fel-ting them share their memories. Ms. Edwards told her audience "Love is the basis of the work that we do. Love gives the heart a reason rea-son for living life today." ' Sharing the experience of admitting ad-mitting her "angry, Norwegian" mother into a Logan care facility, - she said her mother met and fell in : love with a 9 1-year-old cattle rancher named Slim. Until Slim died, hef mother was content in the nursing home, but after he was no longer with her, the became unhappy with the food, the caregivers, the routine and her life. take your own phone the most boring piece of highway scenery this side of the Mississippi. There is one thing the unsuspecting unsus-pecting travelt-r ought to know about Utah's Byways -- something I learned from first hand experience only a few months ago. We had driven to St. George for the Utah Press Association's annual an-nual convention - and had made the trip in short order, thanks to I-15. I-15. Frankly, however, 1-15 is undistinguished undis-tinguished when it comes to scenery, scen-ery, although Sharon and I did drive into Kolob Canyon in Zion National Park for a little visual relief. If you are headed south, I would recommend recom-mend this five-mile drivejust south of Cedar City. It's one of the new Scenic Byways. We decided to take in more of the park on the way back, and drove through Zion proper on the way home (Highway 9 from 1-15 to Mt. Carmel is also a Scenic Byway), By-way), planning on driving through Panguitch and Richfield. It didn't look all that much further on the map. With a new Official Utah Highway Map we would have even seen that the first part was even part of a Utah Scenic Byway - all the way to Panguitch. But we also would have seen that after Panguitch, Highway 89 doesn't get scenic again until you hit Logan Canyon - and that's a long stretch. The trip through Zion was delightful. de-lightful. The road to Mt. Carmel was fun. Orderville was a curiosity. curios-ity. But Panguitch was still a long ways off. We got there about the time we were supposed to get home -- and I wanted my kids to know all was wen, ind we would be really late. four-year scholarship so that they can pt tr " education they will badly neeu in thtir future. Let me tell you that I know from . ' rsonal experience that college is ? y expensive. Students need st .olarships to help them get j through a lit Lie easier. ' "-SSJfcS AH 'oT-niy children have crone to they were ,fiot four yeaT scholaiv? snips in any case, mey aia neip a lot and our youngest has had hers for two years at S-cw by keeping h' lesun uey all when they went to college how long their scholarships scholar-ships were good for. They banked on that and made their decisions on where to go to school based upon thrt. If I was the parent of a student athlete who had been led to believe that he had a four-year scholarship rnd at the end of one or two years he was told, "Sorry, we are not going to let you keep your scholarship," scholar-ship," I would be very upset. In fact, when all the facts are made known and everyone has had their say, if it appears that these young men received a raw deal, then I think the administration or Cougar Club should do something about it. As much as I love BYU (I am an alumnus) and its athletic programs, and everyone knows what a dyed in the wool fan I am, I cannot sit back and accept all this as if nothing has happened. I feel strongly that if those boys were told when they signed with BYU that they had four year scholarships, schol-arships, then this should be honored hon-ored Whan they have used up their eligibility, or left of their own volition, voli-tion, then those scholarships would be made available to the players who the coaches want to have in the program. But not until then. in general. Her life deteriorated. "Home is not a place, it is where love is," she said. Asking what audience members remembered of their own home, she said it is "my bed, my pillow, the fam iliari ty of my surroundings. There is a sense of safety there. "The smells of home cooking, the fragrance of home is unique. She said in her travels she tries to bring a sense of home to the elderly. "My major purpose is to protect and nurture somebody else's home and identity" . i'j ; v .: . She told of an angry patient she discovered in a hospital in Wisconsin. Wiscon-sin. A Montana rancher, who had always planned on dying "with his boots on like a man" but now found himself "in a hospital, in a bed, in a gown.". , .'T-t y ,. . ; She promised him she would go home for him since he couldnt and Si) we stopped at a Panguitch pay telephone and tried to make a call and reverse the charges. "I'm sorry, sir," the operator told me ns I tried to get through, "but there is only n young child there and she isn't old enough to okay accepting the charges." "i )f course there's a young child there," I argued. That's exactly why I'm calling. The big people are on this end of the line." Never argue with The Phone Company. It was going to be a long ride home. I left Panguitch a little angry, looking for another pay phone. We came across one an hour later in Circleville. I cashed a check at a store recorded in my check book as Station, and took five dollars in quarters to the pay phone. I I didn't work at all, and ate two of my quarters in the process. We drove on to Kingston. The single pay phone in that fine community didn't work at all. I left in a shower of gravel, swearing revenge on all pay phones everywhere if I ever got the chance. I finally made the call in Richfield Rich-field - about three hours after we shouldhave been home-and about three hours after we left the land scenery and entered the territory of telephone frustration. A few words of advice for the traveler If you are in southern Utah -take your own telephone. And when you strike off the beaten path in search of scenery, get one of these new Official Utah Highway Maps. Then stay away from anything that doesn't say "scenic" something or other, or that isn't preceded by an "I-," as in 1-70. Me, I'm going to buy a bumper sticker that says "Byway or Bust." As I said at the outset, there are two sides to every issue and I hope that there is a good and logical reason for this apparent injustice. Until such time as there is an honest explanation, I hope that someone in charge takes a second look, at this issue and what mes- 3 anrm RVTT mflv ho un Airier tn t tinu. Vve come to BYU.' Meeting to orient Miss P.G. hopefuls Allyoung women who wouldlike to compete for the title of Miss Pleasant Grove are invited to attend at-tend an orientation meeting on Saturday, Apr. 7, at 3 p.m. in the auditorium of the new library building. build-ing. Their mothers are also invited to attend. Explanation of the rules and other pertinent information regarding the Strawberry Days Pageant will be given at that time. - 'The pageant will be held Saturday, Satur-day, Apr. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pleasant Grove High School auditorium. audi-torium. Contestants must be between the ages of 18 (at least seniors in high school) and 26 years of age and never have been married. They must live within the Pleasant Grove, Lindon at Cedar Hills area. For further information call LorraineMohtgomery at 785-4523, or Anita Hardy at 785-342 1. she still "visits that Montana ranch" in her. heart every time she flies over the state. , She then told of the old man who placed a want ad to "find one family , to share Thanksgiving with. FD bring the turkey." . . t Joe"she said, highlighted the need people everywhere feel, the ; need to feel part of life. "Folks don't kiss old people anymore," she quoted another patient pa-tient as saying. "Love is what gives a quality of life," she continued. "Love js both , giving and receiving. If you all you ?f do is give and never receive, it isnt "the same, f - - ' : "Isn't it wonderful we have the opportunity every day to be students stu-dents as our patients teach us to -, live," she asked.. ; .v. v I She said people heed to touch, to be touched; to hold and be held; - Staff member Allen Pulley takes down information from Sherrie Harding that will help determine which roles she might play in Pageant's upcoming production. Pageant casts for 1990 show Utah Pageant of the Arts is looking look-ing for 200 cast members who can step into a set and recreate a masterpiece mas-terpiece or contemporary work of art. Tryouts will be held at the new Pageant Center, 1225 East Main, Lehi, April 5, 6 and 7, according to director David O. Brockbank. The Pageant recently completed a move from the old American Fork Junior High School, where they have been headquartered for the past 15 years. Prospective cast members are invited to come for an interview and have their oiograpKtake'n!in the special Pageant phofobth ffom" to 7 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and from 9 a.m. through 3 p.m. on Saturdaya. Applicants are asked to wear shorts or jeans and a t-shirt. Cast members of all ages will be needed for the show, Brockbank said, from boys and girls of age five up to teens and adult men and women. The 1990 Pageant season will be June 18 through July 21, with performances per-formances presently nightly except Sundays and July 4. As usual, all performances will be at the American Ameri-can Fork High School. This marks the 18th year for the Pageant, which has become widely known for the unique "livingpictures" production. Allcastmembers are volunteers, but successful applicants will receive re-ceive complimentary tickets to the production, a cast photograph, a Police caution not to leave valuables in car Pleasant Grove Police Chief Mike Ferre again cautioned residents to not leave any valuables in their car, even if it is locked. , A very large number of vehicle thefts have been reported in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove in the past year. Thieves will break the window to get in if it is locked. .- ; . In a large number of instances the car has had a purse or wallet left in it while the driver is away. This past week someone used a Slim Jim to enter a car which was parked at the church at 500 N. 700 East and took a purse with a wallet containing"$60 in cash. - This car even had en alarm which went off but the purse was still taken. , . ' : Thats same day a wallet and its contents were taken from a car parked at 800 N; 840 East. A window win-dow was broken with a rock to gain , access to the vehicle. ; Damage to the window and the wallet and contents was valued at $178. ?.:vi ' 'Public Works Director Frank Mills said that a portable radio was. taken from his city truck while it was parked at Pleasant Grove Junior High. ' The radio was valued at $350." A 55-year-old m ale was arrested for retail theft at Nortons this week. He was suspected of taking a package pack-age of cigarettes valued at $1.50. Det. Cody: Cullimore made the arrest. ' - , Timp Industries in Lindon reported re-ported a burglary which had occurred oc-curred between March 22 and March 23. Entry ' was made through a window which had been broken out About $200 in cash was taken. There are na suspects. . j f 1 . j A . ' I . . . t 4 . ""X -0 ,p , - , t ( j : - ' . ' ! I I-.'". '.1 1 rj L 'i H ; : 3-- :f Av - rr' 1 :'( I " ! I souvenir program, a cast party and other amenities in appreciation for their contribution to the production. produc-tion. '; , A second production will be showcased show-cased as part of the 'Center Stage" performing arts series at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. Ricks dates are Sept. 14-22. The cooperative coopera-tive production marks the first Pageant "touring" engagement; Selections for the 1990 Amei can Fork season include a powerful new Norman Rockwell painting, "Saying Grace," which first appeared 'as" . Saturday Evening Post in liyVlUWC() .fVJLy imjfyj j Eugene Iverd; TBreezing Up," by Winslow Homer; "Tristan's Fare- ' well," and a trio of paintings to celebrate the centennial of the death of Vincent Van Gogh. Sculpture works to be re-created on stage include "Minerva and Chariot," by Emmanuel Fremiet; "Protection," by Mario Moshi; "Sculptured Hyacinths" (fountains); "Bacchanale,"by MalvinaHoffman; "Handcart Pioneers," by Torlief Knaphus; plus a charming collection collec-tion of porcelains from Lladro, Hummel, Dresden and Royal Doul-ton Doul-ton - and a host of other art works. Cast members traditionally come from throughout the Wasatch Front, with several families making their Pageant participation an annual event f Officer John Lloyd reported that a woman and her baby received minor injuries Monday in an accident acci-dent at 100 West near BJ's Short-stop. Short-stop. ' T'- :-l ' The officer said that Jennifer L. Winters was attempting alefthand turn from BJ's when a bee flew into the car. As she tried to get ridof the bee, she apparently lost control of the car and it hit a ditch and a water main. The driver sustained some facial fa-cial cuts in the accident and her baby in the back seat received a bump on the head when an unsecured unse-cured radio speaker fell. , 2 , They were treated at the scene by Pleasant Grave Ambulance crews but did not require transport to the hospital. i Damage to the car was set at ! $1,500 and there was $50 damage . to the water main. In a one car accident on Saturday, Satur-day, a vehicle driven by Shawn Smith hit a pile of dirt near 200 S. 1500 East and overturned. ' The driver was not injured but there was about $5,000 damage to his vehicle. " v- : r. . " . .Valley Center; " Playhouse . In Itattr-tht-(ow)4 Mow Plajinp JL "Stop Soundmg Like a Woman" ; (from the 1930'$) fri SaL, Moil, 739 al. Ends May 14, Ret. Admfcsioi $3X3 with this ad 2 for $7 or Family $15 780 N. 2C0 E., lindon 224-5310 |