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Show UNIVERSAL lUCnCFJLKTTG- COrv . 41 PISRPOITT AVI:. Every resident of the Orem area is an equal owner of SCERA. Orem City and Alpine School District share in financing the SCERA Recreation Program. VoL 37, No. 21 Thursday, May 25, 1967 PRICE TEN CENTS Children's Recreation Classes Slated SgygVA STEEL PLANT-jp HUB OF UTAH'S J ' SAMPLE COPY ILLUMINATING THE PROBLEMS. THE PEOPLE. THE ISSUES OF OUR TWB. Contributions Help Finance Construction By Scera Of Needed Community Recreation Facilities Here One of America's most unique organizations organiza-tions is Sharon's Community Educational Recreational Association, better-known as SCERA to many long time residents of Orem, but not so well known to the many hundreds of families who have moved here dupiy the past several years. The SCERA Theatre, of course, is perhaps per-haps the most beautiful and distinctive building build-ing in the entire county, but too few people actually realize what is behind that building build-ing in the way of people and ideas. SCERA IS a non-profit community-owned organization. There is no stock or shares, so no individual receives a penny of profit. It is incorporated under the laws of the State of Utah as a charitable organization. An elected, non-paid board of directors serves for a three-year term. The term of office is rotated so some board members are elected each year at the annual meeting, held on the third Tuesday of September. Any resident of the Orem area 21 years of age and over can become a candidate for membership on the board. THE BOARD appoints the manager and the secretary-treasurer. All other help is selected select-ed by the manager. There are more than fifty volunteer workers who serve one night each week as cashiers, doormen, house-managers, house-managers, ushers, candy girls, fountain girls and cleaning boys. This is a contributed service. ser-vice. The primary objective of SCERA is to provide recreational and educational programs pro-grams for the community. All of the profits pro-fits which accrue to the organization must be used either to sponsor active, organized recreation, or to build additional facilities. FOR MANY YEARS, SCERA paid the total cost of the community recreation program 7 but in recent years, both Orem City and the , Alpine School District, have financed, through SCERA sponsorship, a large part of the active ac-tive recreation programs, thus freeingSCERA funds to provide more needed community facilities. fa-cilities. The recreation budget for 1966 was $27,418.29. . With accumulated funds, mostly from theatre the-atre and swimming pool operations, SCERA has purchased 25 acres of land near the theatre, 700 feet of which fronts on State Street. 9 Men Represent Entire Community On Scera Board Guiding the affairs of Sharon's Community Educational and Recreational Rec-reational Association (SCERA) are nine men who comprise the SCERA Board of Directors. Those include Con Brady, president; Rex Blake, vice president, presi-dent, and directors, S. Grant Stevenson, Woodruff Jensen, Le-Grand Le-Grand Jarman, ElwoodSundberg, Con Brady, Paul Washburn, Ralph Benson, and. Clyde E. Weeks, M. Dover Hunt is manager of the organization, and Richard E. Carruth is secretary-treasurer. To obtain community representation repre-sentation the Orem area has been divided into eight areas. Each year board members are elected from three of these areas for a three-year term. The ninth position posi-tion on the Board is filled by a member elected at large. The SCERA Board of Directors included: S. H. Blake, president; Victor C. Anderson, manager; Arthur V. Watkins, Raymond Partridge, Spencer Sharp Gillespie Gilles-pie and Charles H. Davis. The SCERA Theatre is staffed with a complement of over 70 dedicated workers who contribute their time and energies one evening even-ing each week. Businessmen and housewives serve in such positions posi-tions as house managers, doormen, door-men, cashiers, ushers, snackbar attendants and fountain girls. Professional men devote many free hours each month to the solving of the various problems encountered by the SCERA organization. This includes all legal counsel, engineering services, ser-vices, auditing of records and others. TAB Certified Teachers To Instruct In Scera Program Instruction in the Scera swimming swim-ming program will be given by certified American Red Cross Water and Safety instructors. American RedCrossSwimming C ertificates will be awarded to all who qualify. All boys and girls are urged to register in the regular Children's Program the first week. Special swim classes in addition to the Children'sProgramwillbe offered. All those desiring to register for the special classes must register at the Scera Theatre office. Fees must be paid at the time of registration. The special classes clas-ses will consist of ten lessons and will be taught twice a week. Fees are $4.00 for those under 14 years of age. 14 years and older is $6.00. These classes are organized organi-zed on a first come, first serve basis. As soon as the classes are filled the classes will be closed. Handicraft For Boys Is Popular Summer Activity Boy's handicraft will provide the opportunity for boys to do work with wood, plastics, leather, copper, cop-per, ceramics or any other project pro-ject which can be completed with simple tools in short work periods. Boys have a chance to work with files, saws, hammers, sand paper and paint under the supervision super-vision of Max Prestwich. Projects are selected with the idea in mind of not costing very much. Participants will be expected ex-pected to pay for their own projects pro-jects A display of the articles made in this and the girls' handicraft will be exhibited in the Scera lounge towards the end of the program. The class has always been one of the most popular ones offered in the children's program. 11 improvements on the land include a modern, olympic-sized swimming pool, a deep well capable of pumping three second-feet of water, 20 acres landscaped for park use with automatic auto-matic sprinkling system, a paved par king lot, library building and some apartments. With this land purchase and improvements, $472,203,15 has been expended on this project pro-ject to date. Of this amount, the sum of $273,847.24 has been paid by SCERA, and the sum of $62,860.29 has been contributed by local residents under the 75? per month city utility donation program. THIS LEAVES a balance due to be paid of $135,495.42 on notes and bonds. For nearly six years, many residents have contributed to this project, largely through the 75? per month program. In 1961 they contributed $6,916.11, and in 1962 they gave $14,339.58. In 1963 the sum of $13,817.80 was given, and in 1964 the amount of $11,-202.00 $11,-202.00 was contributed. In 1965 the amount contributed droped to $9,160.00, and in 1966 a total of $7,425.00 was given. According to Rex Blake, president of the SCERA Board, the further development of the parkJepends to a large extent on the continued con-tinued participation of many people in the 75? a njpnth program. HE tRGED all those families who are presently 'signed up for SCERA to continue their 75? a month contributions so that development de-velopment of the park facilities can continue. con-tinue. Mr. Blake said that in most communities, parSs and swimming pools are financed by Rroperty taxes, whereas all the capital improvements im-provements built by SCERA have been entirely en-tirely financed by theatre profits and contributions con-tributions from the people. THE NEXT planned project is a picnic pavilion, and an indoor phase of the swimming pool. Plans are now being formulated for the design of the picnic pavilion, and the indoor in-door pool phase will come later. As the SCERA Summer Recreation Programs Pro-grams get underway this year, those residents resi-dents who are not now signed up for SCERA" would do well to consider joining with their neighbors who are investing 75? a month in their community-owned association which is paying rich dividends to everyone who lives here. I ( i ' i M. DOVER HUNT. . . SCERA Manager, is the guiding light of the community's recreational and cultural center. Serving in his 16th year as manager of SCERA, he has guided the development de-velopment of the theatre, swimming swim-ming pool and park. SAFETY RULES CITED TO PREVENT DROWNINGS With the approach of summer, and irrigation days already here, the Orem Police Department exhorts ex-horts parents and citizens to prevent a drowning tragedy by following a few safety rules: 1. Warn young children of the danger of water in ditches, pools, etc. z. Contact the police department depart-ment as soon as a small child is discovered missing. 3. Organize a neighborhood patrol pa-trol whereby parents will contact each other and a child will be removed if seen in a dangerous situation. 4. Call police immediately for a rescusitator in case of suspected suspec-ted drowning; always keep the police number posted by your phone. 5. Notify the police if a strange child is around. Police and auxil- ANYONE for a swim? These girls are anxious and ready to take their first dive of the season into the SCERA olympic-sizeswimmingpool. The opening of the pool this week-end is ex Who Is Eligible To Enroll In Summer Program 1. The Children's Program in cludes children who have been in attendance in elementary grades from first to sixth during the school year 1965-66. Children who have attended junior high schools are not eligible for the program. 2. Monday, June 12 is the date set for the opening of the Orem- Scera children's summer recre ation program. The program will run 9 weeks to August 11 with no acitivity on July 4th or July 24th. 3. Children will register for the program at 8:45 on the morning of the day their areas are assigned. They will meet in the Lincoln Junior high gymnasium and enter from the west door. Monday is not the day for every child to register: only those children assigned to Monday's groups. i. Children must select three out of the five classes offered and must participate in the entire morning program which will run from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Each class is of one hour duration. 5. Classes offered for the girls are: handicraft, dancing, swimming, swim-ming, storytelling, and sports. For the boys: handicraft, swim ming, sports and storytelling. 6. If children fail to participate in program the first week they can still sign up any week thereafter. there-after. Families holding swimming passes should feel free to send their children to participate in the other activities. 7. Children with the exception of those who live adiacent to the Lincoln Junior high area will De provided with bus transportation transpor-tation to and from the Lincoln Junior high at a cost of 5? per day. Unless picked uDbvDarents." children who ride the bus in the morning will be exDected to eo home on the bus. 8. Swimming rates will be 25? per day and each child is to furnish fur-nish his own suit and towel. 9. The children's program is not a church program; the areas coincide with LDS wards for convenience con-venience only. All children who live in the Orem, Edgemont, Pleasant View, Grandview, Lake-view Lake-view and Vineyard areas are encouraged en-couraged to participate. Residents Resi-dents of these areas are the owners of Scera. Take The Bus, Sign Up For Three Classes On Same Day Each Week Grades 1-2 9 a.m.10 a.m. Handicraft 10 a.m.--lla.m.Girls'Dancing Boys' Sports 11 a.m. 12 noon, Swimming Grades 3-4 9 a.m. 10 a.m. Girls' Dancing, Danc-ing, Boys' Sports 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Swimming 11 a.m.12 noon Handicraft Grades 5-6 9 a.m.10 a.m. Swimming 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Handicraft 11 a.m.12 noon Girls' Danc ing, Boys' Sports For the girls there will be a story telling and a sports class which can be substituted for any of the above classes. For the boys a story telling class can be substituted for any of the above classes. BUS SCHEDULE MONDAY: Children from the Orem 6th, Orem 11th, Orem 16th, Orem 17th, Orem 23rd, Orem 30 ward areas or those within walking distance dis-tance of Lincoln Jr. High will participate. Bus will pick up at 8th North and 4th East at 8:25 a.m., thence West toEli's Market, thence West toState, thenceNorth to Windsor Ward, thence Weston 16th North to 950 West, thence South on 950 West to 12th North, thence East to State Street and South to Licoln Jr. High. TUESDAY: Children from the Orem 1st Orem 2nd, Orem 7th, Orem 10th, Orem 18th, Orem 26th ward areas will participate. Bus will pick up children at Park's Cafe corner, starting at 8:10 a.m. thence along Canyon Road to 4th East, and thence to Jr. High. Bus will then come back to Safeway's corner at approximately 8:30 a.m. and travel East to Vermont Chapel and continue along 4th North to 8th East thenceSouthto8thSouth, thence to Jr. High. WEDNESDAY: Children from the Orem 3rd, Orem 8th, Orem 9th, Orem 21st, Orem 24th, Orem 28th ward areas will participate. Bus will start picking up children at Orem 2nd (Vermont) Chapel at 8:10 a.m. thence travel West to Safeway's corner, then across highway 91 and travel West to Scott's Market, Mar-ket, thence back to Jr. High. The second bus run will start at S cott's Market at approximate pected to attract record crowds to the popular facility. Shown making the plunge are, left, to right: Debby Carruth, Pat Duncan, Nan Story, Carole Nelson, Betty Oveson and Janeal Bylund. ly 8:30 a.m. and travel South, along 800 West to 4th South, thence East to Lincoln Jr. High. THURSDAY: Children from the Edgemont Wards, Orem 5th, Orem 20th, Orem 22nd, Orem 27th 'ward areas will participate. Bus will start picking up at Highway 78 and railroad crossing in the river bottoms at approximately 8:10 a.m. and proceed North to Highway High-way 189 (Canyon Road) thence South along Canyon Road to old Edgemont Chapel site. Bus will then proceed West across the river bottoms and back to the Lincoln Junior High School. Bus will make second run going West on 8th South to Sunny Lane and out on Cherry Drive to 8th South, thence East on 8th South to 150 West to 12th South, thence to Main Street, thence South along Main Street to 16th South, thence East on 16th South, thence East on 16th South to Highway 91 and to Lincoln Jr. High. FRIDAY: Children from the Orem 4th, Orem 12th, Orem 13th, Orem 14th, Orem 15th, Orem 19th, Otf.m 25th, Orem 29th, Orem, 31st. Orem 32nd. Orem 3Jrd, Laeview, Vineyard, Provo 17th Provo 20th, Provo 21st ward areas will participate. Bus will start run at corner of 8th East and 8th South at approximately 8:15 a.m. thence South to Orem 12-19 ward chapel, thence to 16th South, thence West along 16th South and across Hignway yi and South to LG.A. Foodsaver Market. The bus will then go West on 18th South to 4th East thence North past 14-15 ward chapel to 16th South, thence West along 16th South to Main Street, thence South to 20thSouth, thence along lower road to Lakeview Ward to Center Street, thence East to 8th West, thence South to 4th South, thence East to Highway 91 and Lincoln Jr. High. If children are unable to come on the day assigned, they may come on the day most convenient for them; however, they must provide their own transportation. Anyone desiring information about the assigned areas or bus schedule in addition to that contained con-tained In todays special edition, may contact Haws Baum, 225-4339. Scera-Community Program Expands Supervised summer recreational recreation-al activity for grade school children child-ren of the Orem area conducted by Sharon's community Educational Education-al Recreational Association will get underway Monday, June 12, according to Parlell G.Peterson, SCERA Recreation Director. This year, for the first time, a 10 per cent savings is being offered of-fered to those who register prior to June 12. Pre-registration is now underway at theSCERAThe-atre theSCERAThe-atre office daily from 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Each child enrolled in the program pro-gram attends classes one day a week, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p. m. The foUowing classes will be given. (Each child should enroll in three classes): Swimming, handicraft, sports, dancing and story telling. Bus trasportation will be pro vided at 5? per round trip. Swimming Swim-ming costs 25? per lesson, or $2.00for nine weeks (Nine lessons) Scera Tennis Program Attracts Over 700 Youths For Instruction Back again as director and instructor in-structor of the Scera Tennis Program will be Keith Trane.He will also have to help him this year two excellent instructors. Margaret Greenwood who will work with the girls and instruct at the three Lincoln courts. Margaret Mar-garet has had lots of experience as a player and coach and will teach at B.Y.U. this fall. Sima Ninolic wiU teach at the Orem Jr. High courts, an ex-ceUent ex-ceUent instructor and at the present pres-ent time the assistant tennis coach at B.Y.U. Sima played for B.Y.U. last year when they won the conference championship. Instruction this year wiU be at the Lincoln Junior High School, Orem Junior High School and Orem High School courts. A program has been set up to include all boys from the 4th grade to the 7th grade and all girls from the 5th grade to the 7th grades who would like to learn to play tennis. Mr. Trane has given aU elementary ele-mentary schools in the Orem area an opportunity to participate in this fine program. Instruction on the courts will be for three groups during the summer. A. Beginners 1st year. B. Intermediate, 2 years or more. C. Advanced, 2 years or more. The summer program will be L2 "T We . r I. W. F my ' m m M M BATTER UP! Yes, that's Vaughan Austin at bat, and Parlell Peterson serving as catch. Mr. Austin is supervisor for the boys' softball program this year, and Mr. Peterson is the longtime long-time general director of the SCERA Recreation Program. Family Like To Swim? Get Pass For All Season Many Local families are taking advantage of the season swimming ticket at the SCERA Swimming Pool which is available now at the SCERA office. Cost of the family ticket for the season is $42, which entitles the entire family to swim during public swimming hours. Families who are signed up on Summer Play To Meet Needs if fee is paid before June 12. One make-up lesson is allowed. Recognized nationally as having hav-ing the highest per capita participation par-ticipation of any recreation program pro-gram in the nation, SCERA summer sum-mer offerings include, in addition to the children's program: men's basebaU, boys' Softball, men's softball, tennis for boys and girls, gymnastics for girls and boys, competitive swimming and diving, basketball and volleyball. An important factor in the successor suc-cessor of the SCERA program is the superior qualifications and experience ex-perience of the recreation staff. Mr. Peterson, who holds a Masters Mas-ters Degree in Recreation, has headed the program for many years. Other supervisors and instructors instruc-tors are mainly seasoned recreation recrea-tion people well-qualified to direct the wholesome activities of the thousands of young people who enroll. en-roll. gin June 1 and will run through Aug. 15. All school courts will be open to the public from 5 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. and from 12 noon until 8 p.m. Open all hours Saturday and Sunday. At the present time classes will be taught as follows: High School, Lincoln Jr. High and Orem Jr. High. 6:30 a.m. to'8 a.m. Advanced players. 8 a.m. to 11a.m. beginners and advanced beginners. Again this year Scera will have teams of boys and girls who will play matches with, Lehi American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Orem, Provo, Springville, Juab and Manti. These leagues are set up by the Central Utah Tennis association associa-tion which Scera is a member. These leagues consist of a junior jun-ior league for boys and girls from 15-18 years, and a little league from 8 yrs to 15 yrs of age. In 1966 Scera won first place in the following leagues. Lincoln 1st place boys little league. Lincoln 1st place girls little league Orem 1st place boys jr. league Orem 2nd place girls jr. league Mr. Trane feels that the success suc-cess of our High School and Jr. High tennis teams comes from the See-1 Program. Swimming Pool Opens Saturday The SCERA swimming pool will open Saturday, May 27, at 10 a.m. it was announced today. The pool will be open weekdays from 1:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. the SCERA 75? per month program pro-gram for the SCERA Development Program can obtain the season ticket for just $32.00 mr.. |