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Show ! September 11, 2013 IMPQGOS . IHMES - 5 :.,.-- : ; i Ji. U tm P.G. Players Present "Harvey" This Fall Pleasant Grove Players will be performing the charming, fun fantasy, "Harvey," by Mary Chase October 1 1 through 28 on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday evenings at 7:30 p.m. There will also be a Saturday matinee on October 26 at 3 p.m. "Harvey" will be presented in the Keith Christeson Theater on the first floor of the Pleasant Grove Library at 30 East Center Street. "Harvey" tells the story of Elwood P. Dowd (played by James Stewart in the movie version), a happy, gentle philosopher who enjoys nothing more than sharing life's small pleasures with others. He also happens to have an invisible friend named Harvey who is a giant white rabbit. Dowd's sister and her daughter try to have him committed to avoid family embarrassment, but as the play unfolds it is not always easy to tell who is "crazy" and who is "normal" at the Dowd mansion or the Chumley's Rest sanitarium. "Harvey" is directed by Howard and Kathryn Little. Howard stated, "It's the characters in this play that make it so fun. Of course the premise of the play itself is set up for comedy, but it is the personalities and interaction that drive this play. So come, pay attention, and plan on laughing a lot." Tickets are $10 for adults and $9 for students and seniors ($ 1 less for the matinee.) Seating is reserved and tickets may be purchased online at pgplayers. com! The box office will be open for current and future sales on performance nights from 6:30 p.m to 7:30 p.m. This production is supported by a grant from the Pleasant Grove Arts Commission. Please no babes-in-ar- or children under five. For more information, call visit us on the web at pgplayers.com. i PLEASANT GROVE AAYERS I .WTn ; PRESENTS JXM ! J-r'- -QV MARY CHASE; i an i I i DIRECTED BY: ! , Vi ( HOWARD 6. KATHBYH ; O U r i LITTLE l V n I (MMMm 00 4iB - - - "Bliss " continuedfront Page 3 you couldn't go swimming un-- til the beans were done, So, when we recently moved into the house that we live in, we knew that at one point we wanted a garden. This year wasn't going to be the year. I got caught up in an unexpected job layoff in January and strug-- gled to land a new position. Fi- - nances were tight and we didn't know if we could afford a gar-den this year. It's my experience that the first few years you pay the garden. It's only after that when the garden starts to pay you. It was June when we finally decided one day that we would simply do the best we could. We had the land. The garden would get watered by the lawn sprin klers anyway. And we had seed left over from previous years. So, we got the kids out with shovels and hoes and we cut the sod off our garden spot and used it to make a wall around the gar-den. We turned over the dirt with shovels. I built some es to string wire on for pole beans. We planted beans, peas, lettuce, carrots, watermelon, corn, a few tomato plants, and one zucchini plant. (Okay, we actually planted two, but with eight kids at home we knew we'd eat that much.) And then we prayed over our garden and waited to see what our efforts would yield. We were pleasantly sur-prised when despite not roto-tillin- g, and no fertilizer, and just some regular watering, the plants started to grow. Because of our late, start we're not sure we'll get any of the watermelon, but the beans are ready. We've eaten peas, and squash from our garden. But, we've been surprised at the reaction of the neighbors. We live in a great neighborhood and we get along with everyone, but the garden became a bit of a landmark. Neighbors com-mented that "You Bliss's seem to be able to grow anything." As I mentioned, people in the com-munity would bring it up, "I no-ticed your beans are starting to grow." And one other thing hap-pened, our kids got a reputation. Because the garden is in such a prominent spot, when we were out cutting the sod, or planting, or weeding, people driving by would notice not only the garden, but our kids out there working. Since my wife and I both grew up tak-ing care of gardens, we didn't think anything of having our kids out working in the garden on a Saturday. But, some of our neighbors were impressed that the kids were out there. It led to several summer jobs as people invited my teenagers over to their houses to do yard work, or cleaning or occasionally gar-dening. Just as our garden was an accidental example to people around us, our family has been the same way. We have thir-teen children. While that's a big family even by Utah standards, what makes us stand out is the fact that ten of our children are adopted. We've adopted from all over the world, so we have white kids, Black kids and Asian kids. And like the garden, we never set out to be an example and our family almost didn't happen this way. Twenty-fiv- e years ago when we got married, we certainly didn't plan on hav-ing this family. Like all young couples considering marriage, we talk-ed about kids. Corning from "Bliss" continued on Page 6 . Pleasant Grove Spanish Fork Holladay Opening October 16th see our website for showtimes ' i 7 f n n f fn Fn fn r Fn 77 (F w Inl I Elm pull mi II! j THEATRES . t-- . AJ' () SO 1 POPCORN 912 IV GARDEN DR X PLEASANT GROVE usitu Y VOTED BEST MOVIE THEATER FOR FAMILIES |