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Show Sln2D'dui)IiDG Review Wednesday, April 8, 1992 - Page J Editorial Voters must okay May 28 bond issue Patrons in the Alpine School District Dis-trict must approve the $30 million bond issue that will be presented to the public on April 28. Furthermore, they must also approve ap-prove the two mill voted leeway that will pay the operation costs of the two new junior high school that will be built with the bond money. That is, they must approve both issues if our local public schools are going to keep pace with the ever-growing needs of our students. There is no argument that many of our junior high schools are more-than-overcrowded. Some of these schools designed for around 1200 students now house nearly 2000 -with portable units used to take care of the spillage. In fact, the school district has been quite creative in meeting the needs of this growingpopulation - with flexible schedules and productivity models designed to do more with existing facilities. fa-cilities. But existing facilities can only handle so much. Portable classrooms can't provide added space in the school media center, cen-ter, nor can they adequately provide laboratory space. And lunchrooms designed for smaller studentbodies must develop convoluted schedules to feed all of the kids who file through the cafeteria each day. Despite all these methods, the school district has reached its limit in creating creat-ing space where none exists. Now we What's in the People are asking, "So what is a squib? Is it some kind of cheese?" It happens that the story behind squibs and crackers is about a column Ions. Isn't that convenient? I agonized over the name of this column; it was as tortuous as naming a baby. For two weeks I penciled puns, emoted epithets, epi-thets, and talked titles until everybody ftiiiahanfl mnm aiatara annta VMa frianria checker at the grocery store, and editor) was so tired of affected appellations being bounced off them they didn't care what the heck I called it. My daughter Amber voted for "The Ge- with. "Penning Thoughts," and editor Marc insisted "Going Crackers" was apropos. But everything was too serious or too silly, too preachy or too punny. It had to be just right, an anything-goes-yet-literary sort of name. Qne day, driving along in a stupor of namelessnee s, an old folktale from my childhood child-hood came to mind. It floated back to me from the quiet afternoons we kids lay on a quilt listening to our small collection of records on the stereo. We Could recite this one by heart. a gin once weni to uie iair to nire nerseii for a servant. At last a funny-looking old gentleman engaged her, and took her home to his house. When she got there, he told her that he had something to teach her, for that in his house he had his own names for things. He said to her: "What will you call me?" "Masterormister,orwhateveryou please sir," says she. He said, "You must call me 'master of all masters.' And what would you call this?" pointing to his bed. "Bed or couch, or whatever you please, sir." "No, that's my 'barnacle.' And what do you call these?" said he pointing to his pantaloons. "Breeches or trousers, or whatever you please, sir." . ..... ' . ' . "You must call them 'squibs and crackers.' crack-ers.' And what wouldyou call her?" pointing to the cat Once again, we go along with Once there was a movie comedy called . "Bananas." . I remember little of the plot except that it involved the overthrow of a Latin American dictator. And that when the old dictator was out and the new dictator was in, the new dictator made a speech, thanked those who had supported him and then an-' nounced his own agenda for running the country. . . For one thing, Everybody in the country, coun-try, now and henceforth, would wear his undershorts ON THE OUTSIDEr Americans, too, have lost some of the qualities that helped free them from tyranny tyr-anny - foremost among them: skepticism. skepti-cism. The knee-jerk reluctance to follow a mis-leader or to accept any new idea based simply on its newness. an elaetkmyT,heaKhj skepticism is particularly pod medicine. One span a time some pwernment leaders gat trGjer ever eocttaSa. And one cf thea must bare sciJ, xo want to tzm tow CHILLI psc'- re? must build more space. The two new junior high schools proposed by the Alpine School District for this April 28 election may not be the best solution for the district's crowding problems - but it is a solution solu-tion which will do the most with the money involved, and which will be most politically acceptable to a majority major-ity of the Alpine District's patrons. In proposing a school for the Highland-Alpine area, and another for North Orem residents, the district has chosen locations that would relieve stress in most of the district's junior high schools - particularly American Fork and Canyon View Jr. Highs, which are bursing at the seems. The proposal will also resolve the overcrowding problem where it most affects the students. The junior high school-years are important ones, when adolescents need individual attention and understanding. That's pretty tough in a school where students are virtually virtu-ally hanging out the windows. The district can only do so much with the present facilities - now it is time to expand those facilities. And that means voting "Yes" on both ballot issues. Residents of the Alpine District have demonstrated their commitment to the value of families. Now it's time to demonstrate our commitment to educating edu-cating those families as well. Thatmeansvotingforboththebond issue and the voted leeway on April 28. name Squibs & Cracftorc By JANICE GRAHAM "Cat or kit, or whatever you please, sir "YoumustcaUherVhite-facedsimminy And this now," showing the fire, "what would you call this?" "Fire or flame, or whatever you please, sir." "You must call it 'hot cockalorum and what this?" he went on pointing to the water. "Water or wet, or whatever you please, sir." "No, 'pondalorum' is its name. And what do you call all this?" asked he as he pointed to the house. "House or cottage, or whatever you please, sir." "You must call it "high topper mountain."" moun-tain."" That very night the servant woke her master up in a fright and said (you say this part very fast): "Master of all masters, get out of your barnacle and put on your squib and crackers for white-faced simminy has got a spark of hot cockalorum on its tail and unless you get some pondalorum high topper top-per mountain will be all on hot cockalorum." When I looked up "squib" in a few dictionaries, dictio-naries, like master of all masters, Iknew I had found the proper name for my column: squib n 1 : a small or broken firecracker 2: a short piece of writing in a newspaper, newspa-per, mainly used to take up space. There it is, Squibs and Crackers, with its origins, definitions, and any other allusions you care tomake.Ilikehowitfits with what my editor told me. When you write a weekly column some will be good and some are bound to be duds. : , I am left, as always, hoping this is a cracker, and not a squib. PanuD fJOL'JO. eitflLesAselee TIsms Syndicate You want me to prove to you that 'government 'govern-ment of, by and for the people' can be manipulated because people are lemmings lem-mings who will agree to anything?" '. He said, "Just for a demonstration,' what wildly outlandish, utterly senseless thing would you like me to order them to dor And they thought about it ' Somebody repeated his words: "wildly outlandish, utterly senseless-." Well lefs see. V ' "Get their ladies to wear short skirts and low heels?" mm a jjfflfll There s no time to see movies anymore I watched the Academy Awards ths other night and I certainly dont know why I did. The only person that got an award that I have ever seen in a movie was Jack Palance, and that was a long time ago when he always played a menacing bad guy. We never get to movies. There is not enough time. And we seerato never remember remem-ber to get videos of these more recent movies. mov-ies. We never find time to get videos of anything. The kids do once in a while. When the dollar movie came to town, I was so excited and I thought I'd be able to ' get to every change of movie and see all the , shows. I haven't been in over a year. When I was young we saw every change . of movie. When I was even younger than that, we used to go to the old Paramount Theater in Ogden on Saturday afternoons. We got to see the main feature, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, or the Lone Ranger, the serial, tons of cartoons and another feature. It was an all afternoon deal to go to the movie. If it was summer, Mom gaveuseach 15 cents ten cents for the movie and five cents for popcorn or candy. One time my brother ate so many Sen Sen that he got sick. I usually got Dots, Milk Duds, or a Sugar Daddy because they lasted longer. In the winter, she gave us 25 cents. The extra money was for five cents each way on the city bus. In the summer we walked and it was quite a long way. Kids would never walk that far anymore. When I was in high school and college we went to about every change of movie and loved them all. It was in the days of musicals, musi-cals, which we loved. We often would stay and see them through twice. That was in the days when the theater employees did not clear out the theater after every showing. show-ing. Some people could spend all day in the movie and not get run out until midnight when the theater closed for the evening. At BYU, we would walk from our apartments, apart-ments, wherever they might be, but usually Springtime is It is a beautiful time of year in Pleasant Grove, London and Manila. As one approaches ap-proaches the area from the west. orchards can be seen in full bloom. Tall evergreens, planted by early settlers, accentuate the heartofthecommunity.Tuhpsaiwmbloom. Lawns like thoseatAndy Wall's and Harvey Rawlinson'shomeslookhlcebeautifulgreen velvet Children who see beauty in all things bring in bouquets of dandelions to cheer mom. The hay and winter wheat fields emerge in various shades of green to greet the world. Spring means lots of things to lots of people. It means lots of sneezing for some. For others, anything but yard work is fun. , . It is a time for studentbody elections. For, lots of youngmen like Danny Schconover it isatimetobeginbaSebanagain.ForDanny's dad, Paul Schconover, it is a time to get the ball diamonds ready for not just the boys but for lots of girls. It is also a time to remember. - . For Paul Schoonover it might mean a time to remember his first days playing little league ball for Jack Taylor and Kenny Adam son, who coached the championship Cardinals. Now Paul's son plays for a very good Utah Valley Community College ball team. t - Spring for Paul and Carolyn Jacobs is lambing season. Each family has their springtime traditions. For Pleasant Grove, it is time to pick a new Strawberry Days Queen, and the excitement ex-citement is building. Just last week the committee met at Glenda Carter's lovely homeon Battlecreek Drive to talk about the scholarship pageant. pag-eant. The reigningqueen, Nanette Pearson, was present. She just radiated as she told the committee about her upcoming plans to represent Pleasant Grove in state competition. competi-tion. She has worked very hard to prepare herself for the keen competition and she deserves the support of the entire community, commu-nity, and we should be doing more to support sup-port these young ladies. . At the present time, the queen is given a . very modest scholarship compared to what other communities are doing. LouMelendex gives the most to the scholarship fund. The -attendants get nothing for schooling. Other . communities have been much more generous. gener-ous. Now is a good time to change all of this. On May 9, a new royalty will be chosen. For one year these girls will represent this community in many forums, not he least of dumb idea No, that would be too easy. Then the discussion leader had an-, an-, other drink and boasted, "I will bet you that on my command every man, woman ' and child in the country would agree to turn back the clock. For no reason at all, if I say so, every man,, woman and child will turn the clock back one hour. "Well call it daylight-saving time to make the lemmings think they are 'saving' 'sav-ing' something and you will see!" . And he issued his silly edict A handful of farmers complained that their dairy cows might not cooperate-Some cooperate-Some airlines and railroads briefly ; objected to having their schedules snafued-. - ' But these objectives were brief at best . and barely noted. And the people were conditioned for no -reason at all to turn their clocks forward an hour every spring. And later in the year they would be told, "Now turn them backward an hour." And they did that too. So this weekend - once ajsin, uncomplaining we went Tacnsa." ? BDGE3 By MARCELLA WALKER they were either in Heritage Halls or that general area, clear down to the Academy and Paramount andoccasionally the Uinta. Rumors were that there were mice that ran over your feet at the Uinta and so we didnt go there too often but when I did there were no mice that ran over our feet. We did go there to see "Lady Chatterls Lover" and we crouched down in the seats so that no one would see that we were attending such a risque movie. It would probably be only rated PG now but in those days it was a scandal. ; We never missed a movie, though, and watching the Academy Awards was a"must see." In fact, in one apartment we had when I was a junior, we did not have a television, so the landlord invited us up to their front room to watch it because they knew how we hated to miss it. In those days, we had seen the movies so we had already decided who would win and which movie was best and we just liked to compare notes with the Academy. N o w , the closest I get to any of these movies and the stars is what I read in the newspaper or the ads I see on TV on occasion or what the critics pick up on the early morning news programs. Most of the stars who won, I have heard of. Some I had seen before on TV or on clips of the movie but some I had never seen and some of the nominated movies I had not even heard of. How that happens I do not know. . I waspullingfor"Beauty andTheBeast" beautiful in PGOIpDG, P0fiGO(2G & PoDoey By E. MARK BEZZANT which is right here in Pleasant Grove on Strawberry Days. They will appear in numerous nu-merous parades and go out before many , important civic and church leaders telling them about our community and our celebration. celebra-tion. At the end of the year, the queen represents us at the state level. The entry fee for that competition alone is $400. It is a beautiful sight to see these queens coming down the road on the float either precededorfollowedbyafirstclassband.lt says something about our community and its collective will and character. One cant attend a concert in the shade of the downtown park without thinking of the character, of those who planted those trees' or the mighty evergreens that still graceourcommunityortheothertreesthat line our roadways, or give shade to our property. As one turns south off Battlecreek Drive onto Loader Avenue and then up Nathaniel Drive, there is much history to be recalled both in the names and places. The history District responds Editor, There have been allegations printed in several newspapers in recent days suggesting suggest-ing that the Alpine School District is trying to hoodwink local citizens by holding the upcoming bond and leeway elections on April 28 rather than with the general elections elec-tions in November. - Before I respond to the charges, let me say that I respect the right of those who choose to vote against the bond and leeway : and those who choose to voice their opinions in print Schools belong to the taxpayers. In fact, education is the only place where citizens actually have a direct voice in taxation. taxa-tion. It's no wonder that when patrons get the chance to vote against a tax increase they become involved. Even the cynicism is understandable in light of some of the cur- rent governmental boondoggles and outright out-right deception. v : But Alpine District's Board of Education was being neither deceptive nor sneaky when it set the bondleeway vote for April . 28. Please consider the following facts: , 1. Under state statute, if the election is Llorc cchools needed to Editor I am a fifth grader at Lindon Elementary." Elemen-tary." I think the schools in Utah ounty (and everywhere else) are getting way too crowded. When there are too many kids in a class you dont get as much attention and you might need help when you cant get it Gnclai:, drinldn chculd bo iII::;:J Editor: ItraaysveakinccTe.IiciyUttT4toc.ait I think that smoking and drinking should but it k word it LL'a u the csst LZssit be cainst the law. It mifht make you feeL- thins earCi. Coat wsts it r pod at Crst but it can kill, too. It kills N almost Opecpleevery day, two every hour. ; -JtnmVshm because my children and grmndchildren have , sen it and they said it was excellent In fact, some of them have seen it more than once. PmhaMv nanv f unit ral that artfol that was in one of the magazine sections of some newspapers in which a professional movie critic expressed his displeasure with most of the movies which had been nomi nated.;' ,K . 4 The quarrel was not with the actors or their roles, but it was the sick story themes ? that' were bothering him. If they were as bad as they sound with depressing subjects, cannibalism, gruesome murders, homosexu-: homosexu-: ality, and other subjects, then he had reason rea-son to complain. Back when I did get to see movies on a regular basis, they were uplifting and enjoyable. en-joyable. You wanted to stay and see them again. ! Sometimes they brought tears to your eyes during the story, but by the end you were usually happy. We would go home from the show with big dreams of romance r which were engendered by the movie. . But I really am eager to see "Beauty and the Beast" It will be romantic, wholesome, and non-stressful. My husband says that he only likes movies that are fun, light and non-stressful because he says he has enough problems of his own without taking on every one's in the movies besides. 1 Of course, then he goes home and channel chan-nel flips from station to station to find all : the knock down, drag out fights that he can find. It doesn't matter if it is a cowboy show, a war show, or a cop show, as long as it has a fight he will watch it. When the romance comes on he changes the channel. Me? I only like the romance. I dont like the fights. And all that is from a person who does not want to see someone else's troubles. Is a fight trouble or not? ' PL Grove speaks of the Loader family and the place where they, like many others, raised straw-, berries. The Wests, Millers and the Tomlinsons were in the same area. These folks and others like them dug up sagebrush, sage-brush, picked up rocks and planted strawberries. straw-berries. They wore out their shoes and steel hoes that were made at Fugal's Blacksmith Shop, working the rocky soil. As a result they made this the Strawberry City. People like the Smiths have kept the , tradition going. Every year you can count on Smith Drug having a float in the local nanda tflnata ami iwtt. iViAan an A thaw tnVn a tot m nine w ouucu tarn omiuw aw uib Lund of people who believe in savins back to . : and building the community in which they live, you will notice that they just remodeled remod-eled the inside of the their store so they can better serve their customers. Many others do the same thing in different ways but the principle is the same. ; Baseball, spring flowers and a Strawberry Straw-berry Queen in May. It just can't get any better than that, unless of course you think ' of a bowl of strawberries and cream in the shade of the downtown park, beneath one of those trees the pioneers planted. Strawberry Days, a tradition as American Ameri-can as God, mother, country and strawberry straw-berry pie. I think we could even find a place -for President Bush on a float The way things are going, he might just like to see some friendly faces and have a bowl of berriesinthepark.Whileherehecouldgive an award to a great American named Ruth, who serves our senior citizens. What do you say, Mr. President? to allegations 'held after May 2, the district cannot receive local voted leeway support until the following follow-ing year. 2. Interest rates are now at their lowest level in years. Waiting six months could cost local taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars over the long run. 3. Holdingtheelection now will allow the district to begin planning and construction of the twonew junior high schools (if passed) six months earher. This wiU begin to ease overcrowding six months sooner. . 4. Inflation could have a negative impact on the cost of construction over the next six months. The truth is the Board of Education acted wisely and in the best interest of the peoplemsettingtheelectkmforApril28.In addition, the district is doing everything in its power to insure that all patrons are aware of the special election so that the final vote will reflect the will of the people. . -Michael L. Robinson Public Information OCSesr - - ' Alpine School District solve overcrowdinT because your teacher is busy. A solution to this problem is the city . could build at least five more schools, three ' elementary, one junior hih and one fcii school. I think that would solve the problem. prob-lem. - .' " ' -Jenny Jackson |