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Show Thumby, February 5, 2009 NEWS A fj D NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED PlIASANT GROVE REVIEW Knights and damsels invade Library Lori Young Julian IVasant ( ir we Library wm invaded by knight and dirndls dirn-dls cm Jan 22. i wit "Af; r School Activity iVf-d" or A SAP. for sbrt 1 he library has U-c-n offering thfse free monthly activities, according to storyteller Urida Urthers, during the school year fur tlx- past several years, ami eai h month's activity has something to do with tht- rvi-day rvi-day it s centered around Next month's activity, for instance, will be "Hed Rash" and the activities will have to do w ith Valentines Ifctv "We offer ASAP in September. Septem-ber. Octorer and Novemirt-r, take a break during December, Decem-ber, tlien pick it up for January. Janu-ary. February. March. April and May." said Bet hers "We then switch to the summer reading program, a couple of years ago it was '( Jet a Clue at your library' w here there are stories, activities and crafts offered for kids centered around a theme." She said the kids really seem to enjoy the program. About W) children, ages ranging from kindergarteners kindergarten-ers to sixth graders, gathered in the basement of the library where they heard a story read to them while everyone was arriving. In the first activity, they played "War" with oversized playing cards where they w ere divided into tw o lines, and the first child in eac h line faced off, showing their face card to the other child. If your card was higher, you not only got to stay in your line, but you "won" the other child as well, continuing until one line had conquered the other. The children were then split up into smaller groups and sent off to do different dif-ferent activities in different parts of the library. A group was sent to the Bailey, Bai-ley, where knights traditionally tradition-ally train, and played a version of "Blind Man's Bluff" with most of the children were in a circle forming the castle walls. Two children were then blind- Want the lowdown on ifi Rick Albrocht Insur Agcy Inc R;cl As&fecht. Agent American hrt. UT W0C3 Bus 801-756-3500 Sue lm Vwxm roar rjran orem pleasant grove alpine C5 v .IS 'Tib, "' JEAMAE JEFFRIES Nortt Cou"ty Children, "knights and "damsels," were senf to the "bailey" where knights traditionally train for one of the activities at the city library's Knights and Damsels event. folded in the center. Incoming knights in order to find a plastic plas-tic sword. After finding the sword, they would touch the other knight and thus win the battle. The children standing as the walls would stamp their feet w henever a knight got to close to a wall, or would yell out encouragements to the handicapped handi-capped knights in the center, things like, "keep going", or "turn around." So many were so helpful, that the children in the middle would often sit still in effort to make sense of all the voices. The knights discovered that the hardest part wasn't trying to find their sword or their opponent, but rather trying to avoid the temptation to just peek through the blindfold. Children were then gathered into the James C. Christ ensen Amphitheater to hear stories read to the by Bethers. She read "Falling For Repunzel." She then read "Paperback Princess" by Robert Munsch, The story Is about Princess Elizabeth and tells how she outsmarts a dragon to rescue her fiance Prince Ronald and then discovers he wasn't the prince for her. 9 J I Slate Farm gives more discounts to more covers than anyone else. 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The group gathered into the great hall as one big group again, and were served refreshments re-freshments of crazy bread and dips and had water to drink. The knights and damsels were then released to their parents. Activities are offered each month, usually on the third Thursday, and are printed on the calendars available at the front desk of the library, where you can also sign up to attend the free activities. "We have about 60 kids this time, and we'll have that many for each month for ASAP," ' ' llllti o, . iHCI (,. i . . 1 1 t mil -i ' '' i '" i- , . r AM PADIO The Key to life is Jesus , , - - - - NOW with Full Streaming ! Audio m the Web "mwi HTTP:WWW.KEYY.COM JlilSJILIIJBIiWUJliilU, Focus on the Fsmih Or. James Dobson m 12 Noon 1 550 pa Family life Today Dr. Oenras Rairtey M-F6ajn.&Sat6ajn.&9pjn. MoneyLife. . Chuck Bentfey M 630 p.m i Sat 630 im. S 9J0 pjn. Complete program schedule and listener comment opportunitv on our web site or Dhone us for a conv of our schedule! KEYY will not add pi 1450 Bethers said "Once we get to the summer activity, we get around 300 children that come. We also offer iTeens for teenagers on the first and third Tuesdays of each month." You are welcome to an end any of these activities, and more information infor-mation about each is offered at the front desk of the library. NEWS BRIEFS Little Hoopsters Clinic This introduction to basketball clinic is for children in kindergarten kinder-garten and first grade. Each week, basic skills of basketball will be taught. Registration begins on Feb. 1 and will run until Feb. 20. Clinic dates are March 7, 14, 21 and 28. Resident fee is $22 and nonresident non-resident fee is $33. The fee includes a T-shirt. Register at the Pleasant Grove Community Commu-nity Center. Spanish Story Time Spanish Span-ish Story Time is held every Friday at 10:30 a.m. at the Pleasant Grove Library. This is a free program; no registration registra-tion is required. All ages are welcome. Stories, finger plays and songs are presented in Spanish and in English. , citj Christ ) qa - Actontum in Odyitty It 6fl0 pjn I Sat I am 1 S pjn Doom GitcMfs Una Saturdays 730 im J 7:30 p m. CJH Storytimt M-flpjn. your name to any mailing lists. jEn Espahol! ii Community Bank 7 Life's needs. Life's bank." iTf micoMiauaiTTsaiiK con Go early, way early to enjoy the experience n n many f yu II I I try to go on a date ' I nieht on Fridays? I I""! I Tha a pretty II II PPu'ar ,ninS 10 do U U and it is good for a couple to get away from the kids, or if you are older like us and have no little children, it is just good to get out of the house for a while. People like to go out to eat or to a movie, or a ball game, or a play, or another interest they might have. This is all fine and good but unless you find a restaurant early, like by 5 p.m., you are bound to have to wait in line and it can be quite a long line by the time you get there. Of course there are restaurants restau-rants and then there are RESTAURANTS. RES-TAURANTS. The latter are the ones with the really long lines. We went to a popular restaurant res-taurant recently and it wasn't even a Friday night. We got there at about 5:30 p.m. and there was already a long line. We had already rejected another popular restaurant because the waiting line was out the door but we decided to wait this one out. We watched the people come and go as we sat there and the line kept getting longer and longer behind us. Finally they called our name and we were seated. After we ordered it took a while to get our meal but when we did it was delicious. While we waited we did a lot of "people watching," which is fun to do in a place like that where there are all kinds of people nearby. We were also seated in a place where I could see the people coming into the restau- Tax Continued from Page 1 tax, although a significant portion por-tion does. Other cities have more retail stores than Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove does, from which they garner sales tax. According Accord-ing to Mills, Macey's Food and Drug store in Pleasant Grove is the city's largest sales tax contributor. Despite the food tax worry, Mills is optimistic about the city's budget. The city has experienced ex-perienced no layoffs and has IVIIEM YOU HIRE JUST TURN OUT Educated 'Tested licensed 'Trained b your tax preparer really Qualified? Was their training a 3 day tax course? Retying on software to do aH their thinking? Hire a Professional! Over 12 years of Individual And Corporate Tax Experience! Masters in Accoorrtino! CM US ClfftTf 9E03IB GOD 933CSB Marcella Walker RG. BLAB rant. I was shocked to see that the line waiting to be seated had dwindled down to almost nothing. Finally there was no one waiting in line at alL I guess it was one of those times when a whole bunch of people all had a desire to eat at that restaurant at about the same time, in the middle of the week, and when they were seated that was all there was. But getting back to Friday nights, one night we went to several places and could not find one that did not have a long line. I was disappointed but we finally ended up at a restaurant we had not been to before. We got right in at that one. The moral of the story is to get to your favorite restaurant really early on Fridays or take pot luck! I Marcella Walker, retired Pleasant Grove Review city editor, can be reached at jcwalker2&$aol. com. not had to take away any programs, pro-grams, as other communities have had to do in the wake of the current economic situation. Recently, Mills asked each city department director to tighten budgets if possible, without affecting services to the public. "They made adjustments adjust-ments of about 7 percent," said Mills, noting that most of the adjustments came from supplies sup-plies and equipment budgets. "We may have to dip into our rainy day fund, but we're going to be in good shape at the end of the year," Mills said. A CPA TIHIIGS OK! YC'J cm -1 iJ n 1) s J IV7 I ( N V i I I M I" Nf |