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Show Orem-Geneva Times Wednesday, January 11, 1989 Page 9 LDS Church cites milestones & Irs, tr i " a n Liiiimwim Wade Griffiths called to Madrid Mission Elder Wade Griffiths has been called to serve in the Madrid Spain Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will enter the Missionary Training Center January 25, 1989. A missionary farewell honoring his call will be held Sunday, January 15, 1989 at 1 p.m. at the Hillcrest 5th Ward Chapel, 1035 South 800 East, Orem. Wade is the son of Kathy and Jim Griffiths of Orem. He is a graduate of Orem High School where he served as student body president and was active in sports. He recently attended Utah State University. There will be an open house at the Griffith's home, 846 East 950 South Circle, Orem, from 5 to 8 p.m. that evening. Friends and family are invited in-vited to attend both events. Rick Richardson to serve in Korea Pusan Elder Rick Richardson, son of Ann Richardson of Orem and Jerry Richardson of St. George, has received receiv-ed his call to serve in the Korea Pusan Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will enter the Missionary Training Center on January 18, 1989. A farewell service in his honor will be held Sunday, January 15, at 11 am at the Orem 41st Ward, 200 East and 600 North. An open house will be held at the McKay Allred home, 439 N. 150 E., Orem. 55Alive Mature Driving Course AARP's 55Alive Mature Driving course will be offered again on Monday Mon-day and Tuesday, January 16 and 17, at the Eldred Center, 270 West 500 North, Provo, at 1 p.m. both days. This defensive driving course for persons ages 55 and older requires attendance at-tendance at two 4-hour sessions and 1 small fee. SMITH CORONIX TOMORROWS TECHNOLOGY AT YOUR TOUCH. ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITER XL 1500... With Complete Correction System Reg. $179.00 .139 ' "Full line memory correction. WordEraser removes entire word with tap of a key. Exclusive easy-to-load Correcting Cassette and (fight Ribbon System? Built-in handle and protective cover. Choose from the fine family of Smith Corona typewriters and personal word processors. 324 West Center Provo 374-0725 Brad Griffiths to serve in Sao Paulo South Elder Brad Griffiths, son of Kathy and Jim Griffiths of Orem, has been called to serve as a missionary in the Sao Paulo South Brazil Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will enter the Missionary Training Center January 18, 1989. He will be honored at a missionary mis-sionary farewell, Sunday, January 15, 1989 at 1 pjn. at the Hillcrest 5th Ward Chapel at 1035 South 800 East, Orem. Brad is a graduate of Orem High School where he was active in student government and sports. He has attended at-tended the University of Utah and Utah Valley Community College. There will be an open house at the Griffith's home, 846 East 950 South Circle, Orem, from 5 to 8 p.m. that evening. Friends and family are invited in-vited to attend both events. j M j Robert Olson to serve misson in Okayama, Japan Elder Robert L. O. Olson (Bob Elliott) has been called to serve in the Japan Okayama Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bob is the son of Lauralee Elliott of Orem and Dr. Lome H. Olson of British Columbia, Canada. Elder Olson will speak at a farewell sacrament service on Sunday, Sun-day, January 15, 1989 at 8:30 a.m. in the Northridge 1st Ward Chapel, 1674 North 200 West, Orem. Friends are welcome to join the Elliott Family for an open house that day from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at their home located at 1606 North Mountain Oaks Drive (1600 North 800 East), Orem. Bob will enter the Missionary Training Center on Wednesday, January 18, 1989. Kenneth Ramage named 'Crew Chief of Quarter' Air Force Tech. Sgt. Kenneth B. Ramage, son of Richard W. and Patty Pat-ty M. Ramage of Boise, Idaho, has been named crew chief of the quarter. Ramage is a tactical aircraft maintenance technician with the 405th Aircraft Generation Squadron at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. The selection was based on the individual's in-dividual's exemplary duty performance, perfor-mance, job knowledge, leadership qualities, significant self-improvement and other accomplishments. His wife, Rebecca, is the daughter of Wilson L. and Patty Daily Dai-ly of Orem, Utah. In 1974, he graduated from Sugar-Salem Sugar-Salem High School, Sugar City, Idaho, and received an associate degree in 1987 from the Community College of the Air Force. igM) 1 tj? I Plumtree Center 375-5667 J ($1 ALL SEATS ALL SHOWS) iron EAGif ii ' nl-Saw (PQ 5:25-7:409:45 I f .YOUNG GUNS (R) "m5 ) f DIE HARD ' 11:30-1:504:15 J (R) 7:009:45 i i. TUCKER (PG) 12:202:457:20 Y . COCKTAIL (R) iflO-KXX) J CHILD PLAY (R) J 5:301000 S TDS(TO-13) 12001:45-3:30 7:30-1200 J BIG Il1:1:20-3:10-5ai (PG) 70020 , J . HIGH SPIRITS 11:301:15-3004:45 1 (PG-13) 7:109:10 I ROGER RABBIT . 11:40-1:303:20 1 (PG) 5:15-7:19:30 J Gregg Bahr homecoming January 15 Gregg Bahr, son of Alan and Connie Con-nie Bahr, has returned from serving in the England Coventry Mission. He will report his mission Sunday, January 15, at 9 a.m. in the Aspen 4th Ward chapel, 1546 North 1100 West. Friends and family are invited. School District offers free English classes Free English as a Second Language classes are being offered ' by Alpine School District for residents 18 years of age or older. This course concentrates on survival English that helps an adult to function more independently in-dependently in the community. Conversational Con-versational skills are taught so students can go shopping, to the bank, to the post office, to the doctor and seek other essential services in the community. An intermediate level course is also offered that will strengthen students' vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and overall ability to communicate in English. The course offers open entry registration which means a student can register and begin at any time. The classes meet on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights from 6 to 8 : 30 p.m. These are held in room 107 at Mountain View High School, 645 W. Center St. in Orem. All students should bring their Resident Alien cards with them to register. For more information, call Linda at 756-7832. AARP meeting January 12th The regular meeting of the American Association of Retired Persons Per-sons (AARP) in the Eldred Center, Provo, January 12, will feature Stanley Adams, manager of Retirement Operations Opera-tions of Mountain Fuel Supply Co. He will be assisted by David Wilson of the Winterization Board of Mountain Fuel, who will discuss "Keeping Warm," Jan Partlow of the Social Services H.EAT. Program, and Chloe Manning, representing Outreach and Red Cross. The public is invited. OJHS spotlight CINDY SAWYER By Kristy Rollins Cindy Sawyer was born in Panguitch, Utah. She grew up in Hatch and Cedar City. She went to kindergarten kinder-garten in Panguitch. Then Miss Sawyer went to Cedar City elementary through high school. She men went to Southern Utah State College where she graduated in 1983 and certified to teach in 1984. Miss Sawyer has taught at Orem Jr. for four years. When she first started, she taught English and Spanish. Now she teaches Spanish and she loves it. Miss Sawyer loves reading and watching TV or old videos. Her favorite color is orange, but she wears blues, browns, and greens a lot. Miss Sawyer's favorite foods are junk food, pizza, Mexican food, guacamole, chips, burritos, and refritos. Her favorite pastime is the same as her hobbies, reading and watching videos. Miss Sawyer's most embarassing experience was when she was teaching a woman to pray in Spanish and she got her verbs mixed up. I told her, "When we pray, we close our arms and cross our eyes." Miss Sawyer hates eating menu-do, menu-do, being broke, but generally speaking, speak-ing, she doesn't get bothered easily. Miss Sawyer isnt married, has no children, and has no pets (her goldfish died). GREG BEVERIDGE By Kim Crosby Greg Beveridge was born in Provo Pro-vo and raised in Pleasant Grove. He went to Pleasant Grove Jr. High and High School He's starting his third year at OJH. He teaches 7th General Math, Algebra, and Geometry. ay a (HIGHEST RATING) VlfTffi "UNMISTAKABLY m mi mm mm mm .w -t .ammmmm II HO?" 3TkH The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints experienced steady growth during 1988 and by the end of 1989 worldwide membership should be approaching the seven million mark. Official year-end statistics for 1988 will not be announced until the Church's annual general conference in April. However, growth over the past few years has averaged approximately approx-imately a quarter-million members a year, and if official statistics eventually even-tually show that trend has continued for the past year, membership will have increased from 6.4 million at the beginning of the year to somewhere between 6.6 and 6.7 million at the end of 1988. Meanwhile, the church has grown from 1,666 stakes a year ago to 1,707 at the close of 1988, and there are now some 16,500 congregations in the world, up more than 500 during the year. The number of full-time missionaries mis-sionaries increased from 34,750 a year ago to just over 36,000 today, and the ' tmber of missions has grown from ..jo to 221. Among the major non-statistical milestones during 1988: Advanced high school studies invites students worldwide The Advanced High School Studies Program offered by Brigham Young University's Department of Computer Science is accepting applications ap-plications from outstanding high school juniors worldwide to participate par-ticipate in an intensive computer course. The 200 students accepted into the program will receive full-tuition scholarships for a two-week hands-on computer course Aug. 7 through Aug. 18 at BYU. For more information, write to AHSSP, '89, Department of Computer Science, 230 TMCB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602; or call (801)378-3027. Applications will be accepted ac-cepted until June 1. Applicants must be high school juniors in the top 10 percent of their class who have completed second-year second-year algebra before the program begins. In addition, they should take the PSAT or ACT before April. No , previous computer experience is necessary. BYU has offered the Advanced High School Studies Program since 1983, and 95 percent of its participants respond positively to the extraordinarily extraor-dinarily demanding course. on teachers He enjoys huntingfishing, tennis, motorcycles, and music. His favorite colors are green and blue. His favorite foods are steak, fruit pies, and seafood. In his freetjme he likes to read and listen to music. He claims he's never been embarrasssed, but do we believe him? He can't stand confusion and noise. He has a wife from Arizona, and two kids: Tyler (4) and Samuel (2). He's beem married for five years. SHARON K. SMITH By Andrea Pierce Miss Sharon K. Smith was born in Munich, Germany and raised in England and San Bernardino, California. Califor-nia. She went to San Bernardino Valley College, California State University, Fullerton and is still attending BYU working on her PhD. She has taught eight years at Orem Junior High. She teaches World StudiesGeorgraphy, U.S. History and Student Council. Her favorite hobbies are football games, walking, reading, listening to music, and tennis. Blue and peach are her favorite colors. Steak and York peppermint patties are her favorite foods. Her favorite pastimes are traveling, reading and watching the Cosby Show and Masterpiece Theatre. Her most interesting experience was traveling to Israel and the Soviet Union her most embarrassing experience was wiping out in front of the ENTIRE male population of her high school. Some things she really can't stand are swearing, fish, peas, and rude people. peo-ple. Miss Smith is single and has no children. She has two brothers, a sister, a mom, a dog, two sisters-in-law, two nieces and two cats. SIX-TRACK miCOtBY STEREO I & '.'.m SCKM WUKKSl G tWMM MM HOWS KIMIIM K VIMIKMIMOTUWf SHOWING NIGHTLY AT 7:00 & 8:45 SAT MAT AT 12:45. 2:30 . 4:15y Sorry No Passes - The German Democratic Republic announced that it will allow Latter-day Saint missionaries into the country and also will allow members who reside in the DDR to serve as missionaries outside that country. - The Hungarian People's Republic granted legal recognition to the Church. - The first all-black stake of the Church was organized in Nigeria. - President Marion G. Romney of the Council of Twelve Apostles and former member of the First Presidency, Presiden-cy, died at the age of 90 and was succeeded suc-ceeded by President Howard W. Hunter. - Elder Richard G. Scott was called to be a member of the Council $55,000 grant to benefit unemployed Utah veterans A $55,000 grant has been awarded award-ed by the U.S. Department of Labor to help 250 unemployed Utah veterans through programs designed to provide pro-vide outreach, counseling, job search workshop and placement services. The grant to the Utah Office of Job Training, Salt Lake City, was made available under Title VI-C of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The program will benefit Vietnam-era, recently separated and service-connected disabled veterans with services targeted to veterans who are homeless, according to J. Dale Madsen, director of the Veterans Employment and Training Service Collision repair training at Community College Automobile owners often find themselves at the mercy of the auto collision repair technician and with the sweeping new changes in new automobiles this reliance will only increase. "The consumer is caught between bet-ween a rock and a hard spot," said Wayne Jones, Utah State Chairman of the Inter-Industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair (I-CAR). "Consumers "Con-sumers must select a shop with the trained people to resotre an automobile auto-mobile to pre-crash condition and an insurance carrier with educated adjusters ad-justers who know the correct procedures." pro-cedures." The Collision Repair department "at Utah Valley community College (UVCC) will be sponsoring I-CAR classes for repairmen and insurance professionals. The classes are held every Wednesday night, February 1 through March 22, 1989. The eight sessions provide in-depth in-depth and comprehensive hands on training into the new collision repair procedures, from mig welding to color col-or matching. "The classes are designed to teach quality techniques aimed to restoring a car to pre-crash condition," condi-tion," said Jones. "Because of the technical changes in the uni-body construction, con-struction, where the panels are an integral in-tegral part of a car's strength, repairs iff ft DON'T MISS the "official" video history Harlem Globetrotters; 6 Decades of Magic NOW AVAILABLE from Fries Home Video iKSL WELCOMES THE 'STV TO UTAH FOR TWO MONDAY, JAN. 16 7:30 PM THE SALT PALACE, SALT LAKE CITY TICKETS: $10 and $9. reserved; $2 per ticket discount for boys and girls 12 and under and senior citizens. On sale at the Salt Palace Box Office and all Smith's TIX locations. FOR INFORMATION AND PHONE CHARGES (VisaMastercard service charge) CALL 363-7681 or TOLL-FREE 1-800-888-SHOW TUESDAY, JAN. 17 - 7:30 PM MARRIOTT CENTER, PROVO TICKETS: $10 and $9. reserved: $2 per ticket discount for boys and girls 12 and under and senior citizens. On sale at the Box Office and Smith's Tix locations. PHONE CHARGES 378-BYU1 or363-BYU1 llrom Salt Lake City): Visa Mastercard accepted; $2 per -order service charge Just the Ticket to Stuff a Special Christmas Stocking! of Twelve Apostles, filling a vacancy caused by President Romney's death. - Michaelene P. Grassli was called call-ed to general president of the Primary, worldwide children's organization of the Church. - The Church observed its 75th anniversary as an official sponsoring of Scouting. - The Mormon Tabernacle Choir represented the United States at Australia's bicentennial observance. - Salt Lake City's Temple Square, with is historic building, its visitors centers, statuary and gardens, recorded an all-time record number of visitors for one year, surpassing sur-passing the four-million mark in mid-December. (VETS) in Salt Lake City. "The Labor Department is working work-ing closely with state and local organizations to develop effective ways to cope with the problem of veteran unemployment," Madsen said. "We want to see that verterans still without jobs receive the training and placement services they need." The goal of JTPA, which became effective Oct. 1, 1983, is to move trainees into permanent, self-sustaining self-sustaining employment. Eighty percent per-cent of the funds available under title ti-tle IV-C have been made available to state and local organizations on a matching fund basis. by qualified technicians are important." import-ant." I-CAR is a national non-profit organization made up of auto manufacturers, manu-facturers, collision repair shops, insurance in-surance companies and other related organizations. These groups have joined together with the purpose of improving quality, safety and efficiency. effi-ciency. For more information, contact Don Pendergrass or Terry Nichols at 226-5000, extension 360. Lakeridge Ledger By Deena Houston News Reporter The boys and the girls both won their last week's basketball games over Pleasant Grove. Congratulations! Congratula-tions! The scores were, for the boys, 54-53, for the girls 30-28. This week they will play Canyon View-so good luck!! The 9th grade night dance was held on Dec. 21st. It was a load of fun for all those who went. The end of the term and the end of the 1st semester is this Friday, so be sure to get all your late work in and get good grades. The Citizens of the Week are : 7th -Chad Peterson; 8th - Russell Hortin; 9th - Kim Heaps. MAGICIANS OF BASKETBALL LAUGH-PACKED GAMES! AND GROUP ORDERS: |