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Show '6 TIMPANOGOS TIMES - March27,2013 ' A : - . ' - - rCWM Making a Difference by Being "Positively Beautiful" Tt' li ' V. k, m ' 'A , a;a i ' v. f Ml by Marissa Moncayo One year ago, Alyson Johnson was crowned Miss Pleasant Grove. Throughout her reign as queen she has devoted time and work towards her platform "Positively Beautiful," helping youth groups to increase self-estee- m and Alyson was born in Mesa, Arizona and began tap dancing at the age of three. By the time she was five she was competing in numerous duets, trios, and production numbers. After moving to Utah, she quickly immersed herself in jazz and lyrical dancing. She loves spending time with her family and friends, as well as exercising, reading, and cooking. She graduated from Pleasant Grove High School in 2012, where for three years she was a member of the dance company and drill team serving as captain as a senior. Aly is currently attending Brigham Young University where she is studying Human Development with hopes to become a social worker or a family therapist. Her platform is very personal as she shared her own personal experience with lowered self-estee- m and Aly suffered a knee surgery her junior year in high school that put her out of dancing and physical activity for three months. Aly said, "I went through many physical, mental and emotional trials on my road to recovery and my self-estee- m took a major hit. I was unable to use my body the same way I was used to prior to surgery. I distanced myself from friends because I wasn't confident in my personality, and I wasn't comfortable with my body shape. I was constantly tearing myself down for the little things and comparing myself to the world's advertised "perfect body". My past is what drives me to empower others to develop a more positive self-estee- My platform, "Positively Beautiful" comes straight from my heart because it is my personal story." There are many statistics that prove this is a problem in today's society. At the age of thirteen, 53 of girls are unhappy with their body type. That number jumps to 78 by the time girls reach seventeen. In today's society we are constantly bombarded with advertisements involving diet-relat- products and the media's idea of the "perfect body". Over the course ofa lifetime, individuals spend countless hours talking negatively about themselves, building a badly tainted image of themselves. This issue affects hot only those in our state but also people all over the world. "Through my ambition to help others develop I have been able to make presentations to youth and young adults throughout Utah County. I have also partnered with a new program entitled "My Beauty Biography" to create awareness in young women of self perception. There are currently journals building throughout the United States and India where women can draw a picture or write a few words about how they view their personal beauty. The end goal is to publish all of these anonymous entries into a book that will empower girls everywhere and let them know they're not alone," Alyson Johnson reaffirmed, as she continues to work towards this goal and promote what she believes in through her platform. Miss Pleasant Grove 2012, Alyson Johnson, helps to teach youth to increase self-estee-m and "Scouting" continued from Page 3 complained they were given gear to carry. On November 29, 1911 the Young Men Mutual Improvement Association (YMMIA) Board of-ficially recognized Scouting. The March 1912 issue of the Improve-ment Era magazine printed the first article on how to implement Scout-ing in the LDS church. Thomas Wood served as the scoutmaster of Troop 1 for 15 years. One of his scouts wrote, "We climbed every peak in the Salt Lake Valley, with special emphasis on doing a good turn daily. We did a lot of shoveling coal and chop-ping wood." The scouting move-ment became very popular among Mormons. It was seen as the cure for the "softening up" civilization was working on the youth. On June 13, 1913 the LDS Church officially signed on as the first organization in the United States to support scouting. That same year BSA officially started registering scouts. Yearly dues were 25 cents per boy. By 1925 there were 1 million scouts in the United States. In 1928 the LDS Church officially declared Scout-ing to be the activity program for deacons and teachers. Cubbing was adopted in 1952 for the young-er boys. The first pinewood derby was held in 1953. In 1959 Explor-ing was adopted for the priest age boys and in 1972 Varsity Scout-ing was started for the teacher age boys. When BSA celebrated 100 years since its founding in 1910, the LDS Church scouting statistics were impressive. While the Church was the first to adopt scouting it is now the largest organization in the United States to support Scouting. The Church sponsored 10,345 Cub Scout packs, 19,285 Boy Scout troops and 8,298 Venturing (Exploring) Crews. Almost a half million Mormon boys were registered in a scouting pro-gram. The LDS church had started the Young Men Improvement As-sociation in 1875 in hopes of giving boys spiritual and cultural things to do with their leisure time. Athletics was an important part of the pro- - gram. They later found that 94 of the boys who reached the ranks of Eagle went on LDS missions. Scouting was a good fit. Its val-ues matched well with those of the ' - church. Thomas Monson said,' "It is impossible to measure the great good which has come from this or-ganization during the past century. I believe in Scouting. I believe in the goals of the organization. I believe in the power of scouting to bless and enrich lives for good." His predecessor, Gordon B. Hinckley said, "I love the Scouting movement. If every boy in America knew and observed the Scout Oath we would do away with most of the jails and prisons in this country. This program builds boys." Local Business Wins "Cupcake Wars" by Mary Burgin This is very exciting stuff Pleasant Grove's own Alisha Nuttall, owner of Cravings Cupcakes downtown, has won $10,000 and national recognition by winning Cupcake Wars on the Food Network! "I have wanted to own my own bakery since I was a little girl," said Nuttall. She said she started experimenting with various recipes, formulating her own ideas with experience. She became a licensed home bakery, and sold the cupcakes at her twin sister Angie Wilson's restaurant in American Fork "Alisha" continued on Page 7 " 4 - W A, A .. : a. - ; J ' x .' ' 1 " """V -. :. ..,.. - ' . ' ' ,. , " ,'- V- - - 7 " ; ' 'A A' - . .,. - tni - Strawberry Days Events Scheduled For June 17-2- 3 by Mary Burgin "Berried Treasure," will be the official theme for Straw-berry Days June 16 through ' 22, 2013. The Strawberry Days Committee, headed up by Betty Memmott, have announced the upcoming events for the cel-ebration. The Concert in the Park will be held on Sunday, June 1 6 on the east side of the Community Cen-ter at 547 Locust Ave. Monday evening the swimming pool will have a free family swim. The popular Children's Art & Photo contest will be held at the Community Cen-ter from Tuesday, June 18, to Saturday, June 22. Artwork is due at the center on Fri-day, June 14. Ribbons will be awarded on Wednesday. This year photos and art work can be framed, matted, or just en-tered without any framing or matting. The annual free concert will be held at Veteran's Me-morial Park on Tuesday, June 18, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, will see several activities, including the baby contest, the boutique, relay races, children's parade, and the downtown carnival. The 19th is also the first night of the PRCA Rodeo. Muttin' Bustin' will start at 7:30 p.m. with the main rodeo starting at 8 p.m. The rodeo runs through Saturday, June 22. The boutique will continue on Thursday, along with DUP tours of the Old Bell School, and the Princess Parties. Huck Finn, the Pet Show, Pie Eating contest and 4 on 4 volleyball will be held on Friday, June 21, at Battlecreek Park. Saturday will be busy with the Men's Tennis tourney as well as the Guns and Hoses 5k walk run. The Mammoth Parade will start at 10 a.m. in front of the high school on 200 South. A car show will be held next to One Man Band and Ace Hardware from 1 1 to 4 p.m. Grand Marshals for this year's festivities are Anne Fisher and Jeniel Fugal. "PGHS" continued from Page 4 off their Presence and Poise in Evening Wear, worth 20 of their total score. Aly Johnson then took her last walk as reign-ing Miss Pleasant Grove. Before announcing the winners, Matthew Marchbanks sang the wonderful song, "Bring Him Home," from Les Miserables. Although called two days before the pageant to emcee, Matt pulled the song off beautifully, leaving audi-ence members in awe. The contestants were brought back, on stage where the winners were announced. "PGHS" continued on Page 9 nffl ,,,, .., ''4A ' p'"' i " r i j. j r" i 1 j - Cedar Hills Council Considers Second Amendment Resolution ing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on long-standing prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and govern-ment buildings, or laws im-posing conditions and quali-fications on the commercial sale of arms." Mayor Gary Gygi invited Augustus to make a motion to adopt the resolution. There was no second. Jackman said he would like some further discussion. The mayor said the motion had died, and Jackman said he might be willing to reconsider his ob-jections if the resolution were reworked. Zappala agreed. Augustus said he would be glad to take comments from other council members, and resubmit the resolution, so . the council approved a mo-tion from Jackman to contin-ue the item. 1 by Harlow Clark On March 19 Cedar Hills Council Member Trent Au-gustus presented to the City Council a "Resolution for Cedar Hills in Support of Pro-tecting the Fundamental Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms, as Secured under the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution." Discussion of the reso-lution focused on the strong wording, particularly in this paragraph, "the City of Cedar Hills within its lawful pow-ers will take any and all ac-tion necessary to protect and defend its citizens' Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms." Council Member Jen-ne- y Rees said it was such a strongly worded resolu-tion she didn't feel comfort-able with it even though she agreed. She also said she felt uncomfortable speaking for the whole city. Council Member Scott Jackman said, "I'm not con-vinced our Second Amend-ment rights are in danger," and asked why the Second and not the First, or the Third. Augustus replied that he'd happily work on resolu-tions for each amendment in the Bill of Rights. Council Member Daniel Zappala said the resolution presented "a one-side- d view of case history as relates to the Constitution," and read from Justice Antonin Scalia's decision in the 2008 case Dis-trict of Columbia vs. Heller, which affirmed the right to bear arms as an individual right, and which the resolu-tion cites. Zappala emphasized that Scalia is the Supreme Court's most conservative justice. "Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not un-limited," Scalia wrote. Zappala quoted Scalia's example of the limits, "Noth- - Ferris Wheel Coming to Family Festival by Harlow Clark City Manager David Bun-ker told the Cedar Hills City Council, March 19, that he had signed a Contract that day with a carnival cofnpany to bring 12 rides, including a ferris wheel, to Family Festival. He also said he and Rec-reation Director Greg Gordon have been talking to Macey's about providing food for the movie night, and Macey's has been very pleasant to work with, offering a price about half what the city spent last year. Bunker said when they asked about a salad Macey's said they'd throw in a salad at no charge. Council Member Stephanie Martinez, a cookie connoisseur active in Girl Scouts, wanted to make sure the cookies Macey's would serve were good. "I don't want to be embarrassed at what I serve," she said, adding she didn't want to harp on the cookies, but last year's cookies were "crap cookies." |