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Show Page Eight - The Springville Herald - July 27, 1994 Student to study in Germany Andrea Dobson, daughter of Margie Dobson and Dennis Dobson of Springville, is going to spend a half year studying in Germany as a foreign exchange student through EF Foundation. Andrea is very excited to be able to have the opportunity to study in Germany and learn about a different culture and learn German first hand. When she returns home she will be able to converse in German very well. She will be an excellent representative repre-sentative of America, Utah and Springville and certainly her family. When she returns home she will have a greater appreciation apprecia-tion for Germany and the German people. While Andrea is in Germany, her family here in Springville will be hosting a boy from Norway Nor-way and getting to know and learn about his home country. If you are between the ages of 15-18, have an A average in school, like to travel and would like to live in a different culture and expand our world, contact Evelyn Vincent, local International Internation-al Exchange Coordinator for EF at 798-2632. Interviews are now being given if you would like to spend a year of half-year in Germany, France, England, New Zealand or Australia. Some countries fill up fast so to be assured of the country of your choice, apply 5k ' 4 Andrea Dobson now. If you would like to host a student for the next school year, 1995-96, applications are being taken for host families. School slots are limited, so be applying early, you are assured to be able to extend your love and home to a student who would like to share your world. For either hosting or being an exchange student, call Evelyn today. Foreign exchange students to study in Springville Chong-Won Lim, a foreign exchange student through EF Foundation, who is from Germany, Germa-ny, is going to be living in Springville Spr-ingville this year with the Keith and RevaBeth Russell family. His family is from Korea, but he has lived in Germany most of his life. He is interested in Tae-Kwon-Do, tennis and dancing. He also plays the piano and has sung in a choir for one nine years. He has one brother who is 17. In America he will have one brother and two sisters. Shondra, his sister here spent part of her summer in Japan living with a host family and experiencing what it is like to live in a foreign country. Thomas Stensland who is from Norway, will be spending his year in America with Margie Dobson and her family. Thomas likes soccer, volleyball, tennis and skiing. He would like to learn how to play American football and other American sports that are not played in Norway. He has four brothers at home, one of them is his twin. While he is here in the US his host sister, Andrea, will be spending part of her year in Germany as an exchange ex-change student. If you are interested in either hosting or being an exchange student for the coming year, contact Evelyn Vincent, local International Exchange Coordinator Coordina-tor for the EF at 798-2632. Applications Ap-plications are being taken now for the year of 1995-96. School slots are limited and to insure you of having a slot for the next year apply now. 1 v Chong-Won Lim 1 v Thomas Stensland Cracklin' good Keep feet dry It's a myth than cracking your knuckles causes arthritis, experts say. In fact, cracking your knuckles won't cause enlarged joints or any other problems, either, according to the Inform health news letter. The cracking sound simply comes from a bubble of gas popping, The bubble forms when a momentary vacuum is created in the joint. The joint immediately fills with dissolved gas, which forms a bubble and immediately pops. Athlete's foot is a fungus that can be caused by your feet not being dry enough, particulary in a swimming-pool or summer workout situation. If you want to get your feet really dry after exercising and showering, first towel them off and then apply rubbing alcohol from a squeeze botde or pump spray, the isopropyl alcohol will dissolve the water, causing it to evaporate rapidly, according to Running and FitNews. Lrt 4 5 Fair sponsors essay contest Utah County children, ages 12 and under, are invited to write and essay of 150 words or less entitled "Why my Grandmother or Grandfather Should Reign . Over the Utah County Fair" First prize will be $50, second prize, $35 and third prize $25. Entries of special interest will be published and read at the fair. Entries should be mailed to "Grandparents Contest," Utah County Fair, 51 S. University Ave., Provo UT 84601. Ten finalists will be chosen from the entries received, and the winner will be chosen by a panel of judges at the official contest, August 11 at 11 a.m. during the fair. A special senior citizen's breakfast will be served from "8 until 10 a.m. cooked by Charlie Hardman of Orem. Other events during the day include a "Look Alike Contest," a "Record Holder's Contest," line dancing and grandparents with special talents. Fair officials are looking for grandmothers who look like Katherine Hepburn, Betty Grable, Lucille Bail, Marilyn Monroe or Hillary Clinton. Look alike grandfathers might resemble Elvis, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Phil Donahue or President Clinton. Clin-ton. To enter send a photo to the "Look Alike Contest," Utah County Fair, 51 S. University Ave., Provo, UT 84601. Winners will be honored at the fair. For more information, or to recommend a grandparent for the talent show, call Judy Nattress, 768-8214, or Renitta Revill, 768-8574. 768-8574. Senior news The Springville-Mapleton Senior Citizens Center will open again Monday, August 1, for dinner and activities. The seniors clinic will be held August 10 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Call for an appointment for blood sugar test, toe nails clipped or ears checked. Blood pressure will be taken Wednesday, August 3 from 10 to 12 a.m. Seniors are invited to the center to enjoy the noon lunch or for quilting, cards or pool. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure-which is: Try to please everybody. Herbert Bayard Swope Tift Mormon : trail Most ;iIUNES LANDSCAPING 5 $ Provo City Beautification Award Winner 4) K We Install: 1 waterfalls NIWPv 'P00 Lll 1Li .DAtoininfT Wollc Sprinkler & Repairs nj 1 M A I N T E N A Net A N D S C A P I All Work Guaranteed! CALL RICK AT 489-8305 Expericienced Help Wanted Im "Jllllilll! II mill ) Uimiilllllllll IIIHHUI hill' F By Stanley R. Kimball June 27, 1844, 150 years ago, was a pivotal date for members ot ' The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the day the Church's first prophet and president, Joseph Smith, was , killed by a mob in Carthage, I Illinois. This was the day the portended the end of the midwestern orientation of Mormonism. Since 1830, the .Church had been forged largely in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. ? its several headquarters and the first four sacured temples and temple sites had all been in the Midwest. The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers were the saints' most important arteries of immigration and commerce. The death of Smith was supposed to have fatally weakened this misunderstood and often persecuted religion. The martyred prophet, however, became more powerful in death than in life. If his visions could not be fully realized in Illinois, there was the Mountain West, a place where Mormons could be free to practice their religion in peace. The West served as a refuge , in the young republic. Going west was as American as apple pie. up to 300,000 did so in the mid-nineteenth mid-nineteenth century. And so in 1847 the Mormons set their faces ' in that direction and became the only group of people who really did not want to go west, who did not go for land, furs, gold, health, adventure, or a new idenity. They went for freedon. They further differed from many other peoples going west in that they moved as villages on wheels made up of a cross-section of humanity. They made their trails going east as well as west. They made improvements for others who would follow and they used no professional guides. They also believed in living prophets who revealed God's will and followed a strict chain of command, maintaing group and trail discipline. And because of this discipline, they are generally considered to have been the most organized and successful of all of the people who went west. Their exodus led to the creation of the Mormon Trail which, with the Oregon and California trails, became one of the three great Main Streets of the Old West. Mormons moved westward not for personal gain. They believed they were a chosen people who had a real mission in life. They wanted to build the kingdom of God on earth and the West attracted them as a place where they could be left alone to do just that. The trail was sketched out by others and they made a road out of it. This became a road along which more than 70,000 of their faith walked to their new Zion in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake amidst the everlasting hills. But there was a price. Some 6,000 gave their last full measure in building their Kingdom of God. As Wallace Stegner has noted, "They earned the right to ; place their name on the trail. . . " The trail experience was a-great a-great event, a rite of passage, not only in the lives of the pioneers, but also in the minds of their -descendants. Hundreds of their colonies -gave much of the Far West a Mormon stamp it yet bears. By irrigating the Great Basin, they brought to pass Isaiah's vision of the desert blossoming as the rose, they also contributed much to the Great Reconnaissance of the West and played a unique role tin the realiztion of the American dream of "going west" Although the faithful were driven from civilzation to sundown, they did not disappear beyond the horizon for long. Slowly, in relative isolation, dedicated to the memory of their founding prophet, and led by Brigham Young, a new Moses, they fourished, and now number nearly nine million wouldwide. Latter-day Saints today are proud of their heritage. They are members of such organizations as the Mormon Trail Association and the Sons and Daughters of Utah Pioneers. This pround heritage is a vital part of the Latter-day Saint identity. July 24th is a worldwide day of celebrating in commemoration of the arrival of the pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley. And June 27, 1844, is rememberded as the day the Saints looked to the west and followed the sun. m 1 v ,jaseae I . r Tn v tv rr 1 cv ' A group of citizens are shown above at the some other spot than the Springville Museum of 1 dedication of the modern sculpture that was Art. It sits at the entrance of the park and is 8 placed in the Springville Arts Park. Part of the red metal. The artist who sculpted it is Frank . Sculptures to Live By program in the city, it is Riggs of Ivins, Utah. , ; the tenth piece to be placed in the community at NOTICE OF TAX INCREASE The Nebo School District has proposed to increase its property tax revenue from $1 1 .190.899 to $13.100.585 or 17.1 and to increase its total budget from $59.404.075 to $63.387.733 or 6.7 The proposed increase in property tax revenues will come from the following sources: (a) $1.118.478 of the proposed increase will come from an increase in the property tax rate from .008280 to 009022 and (b) $791.217 of the proposed increase will come from natural increases in the value of the tax base due to natural growth. A home valued at $75,000 in Nebo School District which based on last year's property tax rate and budget paid $415.91 in property taxes would pay the following: . (1) $439.16 if Nebo School District does not budget an increase in property tax revenue exclusive of new growth; and (2) $460.12 if the proposed increase in property tax revenues exclusive of new growth is adopted. All concerned citizens are invited to a public hearing on the tax increase to be held on August 10. 1994 at 6;QQ p,m in the Office of the Board of EH.itinn. 350 South Main. Spanish Fork. Utah 84660 . 'Approximately $630,000 of this increase is the result of new voter approved debt. |