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Show vTTT ..ii . . i m m AW 11 UTAH PRESS ASSOC 307 U 200 S 31 Dtc 99 1 tt " 1 i " J Volume One Hundred Three by Laurel Brady ; Being named Grand Marshalls of this year's July 24 Celebration and Parade is an honor longtime Mapleton residents Russell and Beverly Walker are reluctant to accept. "We feel very honored to be considered, but we're just little folks," they protested Little folks who've done a lot, as they've served diligently in many capacities for their country, city church and neighbors for many decades. Russell was born in Lehi and grew up in Starr, near Nephi, where Beverly was born and raised. He enlisted in-the Marine Corps in 1942 during World War lygiltas to flag raising and program Friday in Mapleton by Laurel Brady This year's July 24 Annual Flag Raising Ceremony will begin at 6:30 a.m. at the Mapleton Mapl-eton Memorial Park and include a special performance: Following the traditional city-wide wake up call by the Mapleton Fire Department Depart-ment at 6 a.m., Duane and Sharon Sha-ron Hiatt and the Hiatt Family will present "Songs and Scenes from Mormon History. " Thomas, Joshua, Lucy and Maren Hiatt will join their parents in singing and telling the story of the Mormon Mor-mon pioneers' trek to the Great Basin and the establishment of cities there. ' "We love these old songs and stories," Duane explains. "They capture the spirit of the people, their humor, their courage and faith." According to Hiatt, folk songs and stories were the common com-mon heritage of many people living in this area, but today, much of this legacy is being forgotten. "Part of our purpose in presenting these songs and stories is to keep them alive. They are an important part of our heritage." heri-tage." , ', Hiatt is Director of Editorial and Media Productions for the Division of Continuing Education at Brigham Young University, where he produces and directs television and other mediated learning programs for the largest university related continuing education program in America. For fourteen years, he wrote "The Spoken Word," and also authored a television special commemorating sixty years of broadcasting by the Mormon O II, and fought in the Asiatic and Pacific theaters,' seeing action during some of the war's bitterest battles: Guadalcanal, Okinawa and Eishima. . The couple married in 1946, in the Salt Lake Temple, after which they lived for a time in San Diego';" then moved to Salt Lake City,- then Provo. They eventually settled in Mapleton more than 38 years ago. "We moved out here to teach our kids how to work," they explain. "It was a wonderful place to grow up. The kids roamed in the fields and had opportunities to work in the pea patches and picking cherries." Tabernacle Choir. He is the author of "Overcoming Personal Loss" and of the Primary song "Follow The Prophet." He has been a magazine columnist and a correspondent for the Associated Press. . Hiatt has also been a professional profes-sional entertainer, for sixteen years performing in the musical and comedy group "The Three D's," which recorded for Capitol Records. He lectures and performs per-forms on the subjects of personal development, western folk history and folk songs and Abraham Lincoln. Under his direction, America's Freedom. Festival at . Provo received the George Washington Wash-ington Honorary Award. Hiatt has received awards from organizations such as the New York Advertising Club, the San Francisco Advertising Club, the National University Teleconferencing Teleco-nferencing Network and Freedoms Free-doms Foundation at . Valley Forge. He is listed in Who's Who in American Writers and Poets. Who's Who in Media and Communications.-Who's Who in Entertainment, Who's Who in the West and Personalities of the West and Midwest. He has a Master's Degree from BYU and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi. Sharon Hiatt graduated from BYU with a degree in music education. She toured England and Europe as a member of the , A Capella Choir, has performed per-formed in musical theater and taught piano. She was a special education teacher in the Alpine School District and the Utah State Training School. C? .M i J, 11 r . 1 Vs&f i ii nil SPRINGVILLE, UTAH 84663 - July 22, 1998 The family kept a garden, fruit trees and at various times raised I beef and pigs on their property in the northwest part of town. The Walker's six children are now scattered around, with sons Wesley and Gregory in Salt Lake; daughter Ann living in Lodi, CA; David in Albuquer-' que, NM; and Bradford in Wilmington, Wilm-ington, NC. Mapleton residents, however, are most familiar with son Mark and his wife, Leslie, who live here in Mapleton. There are twenty-seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Russell worked for nearly thirty years at BYU, retiring in 1988 as a department head over Recycling Center The 7ard waste recycling center closed Saturday, July 18, at 5 p.m. and will re-open when the construction is completed. com-pleted. For the convenience of city residents, lawn clippings only, may be deposited at the city compound located at 909 E. 400 South, Monday through Friday, except holidays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please, no other yard waste may be disposed dis-posed of at that site. Wildflowers and birds Experts from the Division of Wildlife Resources, USDA Forest For-est Service, Utah Native Plant Society and Utah County Birders Association will guide participants partici-pants on a two-hour wildflowers identification hike, in the Albion Basin area near Alta, on Saturday, Satur-day, Aug. 1. If any neotropical songbirds cooperate, the experts will be available to identify them, too. Participants will meet at 9 a.m. at the Park-n-Ride lot, at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon east of Salt Lake City. Those interested in participating participat-ing may sign up by calling Scott Root at the Division's Springville office, at (801) 489-5678. The event is free. The division divi-sion will, however, offer participants partici-pants an opportunity to purchase a Wildlife Heritage Certificate and Wildlife Habitat Authorization, Authoriza-tion, both of which help fund non game and habitat improvement projects ir Utah. Area citizens are invited to tion there. Start the day at the SALT LAKE CITY, UT lowed by a pancake breakfast at many activities all day at the Mapieion cuj and crafts displays, activity booths, entertainment and lunch "I1 si m the air conditioning and mechanical mechani-cal siiop. Beverly is a registered nurse and worked during the early years of their marriage in Salt Lake City. To help send sons on missions, she later worked at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. Both have served extensively, in community and church capacities. capaci-ties. Both have held positions on ward and stake levels in most auxiliaries. Russell has been everything from Aaronic Priesthood Priest-hood quorum president to bishop and high cuncil member. Beverly has worked in Primary, Relief Society and Sunday School, serving as Relief Society president presi-dent on both the stake and ward level. She also worked in the PTA and taught Red Cross classes class-es for years. Russell has served as stake Patriarch for the past sixteen years, and is assisted by Beverly, who transcribes the blessings he pronounces. The couple currently are workers at the Provo Temple. A few years ago, they served a mission in Lima, Peru, beginning as proselytizing prose-lytizing and administrative missionaries, mis-sionaries, then later being transferred trans-ferred to a temple assignment when the threat of terrorist problems prob-lems arose. One of the highlights of their years in Mapleton occurred while Russell served as LDS bishop during the time the second chapel in Mapleton (on 1000 West) was a twin j U Interwest Construction are building the new addition to the Springville Museum of Art, and one of their hard hats found a place on the head of a statue of a small boy in front of the museum. Museum staff and volunteers are getting excited now that the new wing is taking shape. The addition will double the space for exhibiting the museum's collection and include enjoy SUITE 5005 S 84101 Price 500 a Russell and built and dedicated. "There were only two wards when we moved here. It was part of the Kolob Stake," he remembers. They also recall the building of the city office building and remember having some part in nearly every July 24 parade for about three decades. The city has grown tremen h, h ri stu.u ms SfKiVAHH Mi Si I MM AM It jT , V -,. . ft r . , r 4 mm AC- m '2 .115 Y A ' ' V " and dessert bar. 1 44 JSwfc Number Twenty-Nine .r n Beverly Walker dously in the years the couple has lived here.. "We've seen so many orchards and fields disappear," they observed, but added the families that have moved into town are wonderful, "We love Mapleton, and we are grateful to be associated with all the wonderful wonder-ful people here. " A R T k i ' ; h v f J j - a special children's gallery, auditorium and study collection area. The children's area is significant in that the museum conducts a large education program, has several children's exhibits including the All-State Utah High School exhibit and the Crayola DreamMakers show. Over 40,000 students visit the museum each year. 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