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Show 0 PO 2 Oreo-Geneva Tines Wedncsdsy, August 23, 1C33 Editorial Passing of icons reveals insights on "religion" in America The passing this month of two popular heroes in the American culture - baseball legend Mickey Mantle and rock star Jerry Garcia Gar-cia of the Grateful Dead reveals insights into the status of "religion" in America. It would not be too bold to assert that for many, the "worship" "wor-ship" of sports figures and rock musicians has taken on the qualities of a religion, replacing, (or filling in for, in some people's lives) the more traditional forms of worship in American society. Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle, 63, died August 13 at Baylor tm Back to School It was time for my children and young adults to go back to school. We all knew it. Around August 1, the 13-year-old was actually asking about summer school classes and making declarations like, "I want to go back r hool. I need to go back to f: .j." (I told him I was going to him on tape so I could play these words back come November or so.) Their boredom had driven them to do some peculiar things, like drawing messages ("Clean me") in the dust on the water : heater in the laundry room. , They were tired of sleep-covers, sleep-covers, tired of chores and babysitting assignments, tired of TV. Events of the summer had included a couple of them going to camp. When I saw one of the campers before he had a chance to take a shower and change clothes, I decided that if the Crayola Crayon Company ever has another contest for descriptive descrip-tive crayon names, I'm going to submit "Scout camp black" mothers everywhere will understand under-stand what I mean. We had seen two sets of wisdom wis-dom teeth make their departure during the summer. At times, there have been so many teeth coming and going in the family, I have wondered about installing install-ing a revolving door for the tooth fairy. Warm-weather activities like bike riding, roller-blading, swimming, having water balloon wars, and picnicking have lost some of the appeal they had at the first of the summer. So it was with some relief that we took out a second mortgage on the house 17ITMIN WALKING TO CENTRAL OREM, NEAR EVERYTHING, REC, PARK, SHOPPING, MARKETS M4C5 TOTAL PAYMENT, $218,000, SELLER TO PAY $1000 CLOSING COST Fantastic value, 6 bedroom, 3 12 bath, nearly new, moms master suite, formal diningroom, wood fUInkruJ Inmlbl mam muuh Ih mmiu mi eivnjj Mrlna llalw fl TnHull imuia, wail II wuKnj kuiiiij twin, iimii IV yiww, 'Payment based - REAL ESTATE U Orem-Qmtva Vimes USPS 411-700 Published each Wednesday for $13.00 per year by the Orem-Geneva Orem-Geneva Times, 546 South State Street, Orem, Utah 84058. Second Class postage paid at Orem, Utah 84057 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Orem-Geneva Times, P.O. 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Experience has taught me that we are basically exchanging one set of challenges (boredom, staying up too late at night, etc.) for another set (waking up on time, being prepared with homework, etc.), but I am always glad to replace the casual style of summer with the structure of the school year. Of course, next spring I will be glad to make the opposite trade. With the start of school in late summer there comes, like magic, a chill in the night air that hints of the full-blown autumn to come. Silence creeps into many neighborhoods and wraps them in a bl anket of hush. And after the last bus has gone, I have sat in the house, feeling the strange kind of empty that comes with the quiet. Reflecting, I realize that each new year brings progress , but also the loss of precious moments that can never be recaptured. Back to school. I watch my children and other people's children and I remember. I remember plaid dresses, petticoats, pet-ticoats, and new sweaters. I remember saddle shoes that rubbed until they blistered the feet, and trips back and forth to school, walking along roads without sidewalks. There is the evocative memory of the smell of ripening peaches as I turned into my driveway. I think of playground games, and jacks and hopscotch and thermoses and metal lunchboxes. I guess, for all of us, it is "back to school" if notin reality, in the memory of our own time and place. MOST ANYTHING. wvw yaiayo. hwi 1 1 tronjt iwvuj n on 6 fixed 2-1 buydown payed by seller Cicsl cr Hu!cn . 785-01 07224-81 42376-9275 223-8357227-1 677 r 6f TELEPHONE NUTTERS Editorial Dept.. ..225-1340 Advertising Dept.225-1340 FAX number. 225-1341 8th on baseball's all-time home run list (536 homers); participation participa-tion in 12 World Series; and a sterling year, 1956, when he led the American League in batting average, home runs, and RBIs. Like other high-profile athletes, ath-letes, it is safe to say that Mantle maintained a following of fans who "worshipped" him, in a sense. Jerry Garcia's comatose body was found before dawn Wednesday, August 9, during a routine bed check at the drug rehabilitation facility near Forest Knolls, California, where Unique Reunion Draws 95-Year Old Back to "Y" High The B.Y. High School reunion, set for this weekend (Aug. 17-20), is not just another high school class reunion. This reunion calls together all alumni, alum-ni, teachers, employers and partners, since the school's inception in-ception in 1870. True, the organizers or-ganizers don't expect too many to attend whose graduation dates before 1927, but George H. Brimhall is travelingby car from his home in New York to attend the festivities and will be the honored guest at the Saturday night get-together at the BYU Wilkinson Ballroom. This event will draw about 500 people, highlighting a cross-section of careers from across thea country. The 95-year old Brimhall is the son of George H. Brimhall, president of BYU, 1902-21. Known as "the beloved president," presi-dent," he started the devotional assemblies at B.Y. High that merged into the larger assemblies- traditionally attended by college students at the Smith Fieldhouse. The reunion's special guest went to the Academy from first grade through high school, UVRMC offers weight management programs for adults and youth An eight-week course at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center has been designed to offer adults and youth a long-term long-term solution to weight loss. The class meets once a week and is $75, (which is below cost). This includes percent body fat testing at the beginning and end of the program. An additional $24 can be earned back through exercise,- keeping food intake records, and class attendance. Adult classes begin September 12 and 14 and will be held from Seer a Cont. from kindergarten through high school. "How do they do it in a week?" This is the question most often asked of the Touring Team that visits each community. com-munity. With auditions held only five days before the public premiere, the answer is intensive inten-sive rehearsals designed to be both fun and challenging. "It's amazing what can be done in only five days with enthusiastic en-thusiastic performers and lots of hard work," Nielsen says. Two members of the MCT summer tour team, Katie Evertz and Gregory Owen, will arrive at SCERA to put the show together and perform the roles of Queen Beatrice, Queen Bee and The Minstrel. Katie Evertz is in her third season with Missoula Children's Theatre and plans to finish her degree in Theatre upon completion comple-tion of this year's tour. Gregory owen has been with Missoula Children's Theatre for four years, after attending Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and touring Europe as a singer. Missoula Children's Theatre got its beginning in 1970 when James Caron, en route to a friend's wedding, had his car ( the guitarist had checked in for treatment. Close friends and associates as-sociates acknowledged that, like Mantle's, Garcia's physical ailments ail-ments had been caused, in part, by his substance abuse. The musician, 53, had reportedly been in the drugtreatment center to fight a continuing problem with heroine addiction. A spokesman spokes-man listed the cause of death as a heart attack. Garcia's death was mourned by more than one generation of fans. Thousands of Grateful Dead devotees, called "Deadheads" "Dead-heads" literally .followed the graduated from BYU, and on to a career in electronics. (B.Y. High began as the Tim-panogos Tim-panogos Branch of the University Univer-sity of Deseret in 1870. In 1875, it was reorganized as part of the Brigham Young Academy. Classes Clas-ses were first held in the ZCMI warehouse at 600 South and University Avenue and later on the lower campus where classes clas-ses were taught until 1968, when the school was closed.) The reunion activities begin Friday evening at Bridal Veil Falls for a family picnic. Saturday Satur-day morning a breakfast will be held at BYU's Cougar Eat, where Mrs. Philo T. Farnsworth will talk about her late husband, another B.Y. High alumnus, who went on to success as one of the founders of television. (This Saturday would have been his 89th birthday). The reunion wil conclude Sunday afternoon at the BYU 6th Stake Center for a final get-together. get-together. For more information, contact con-tact Suzy Calder Liechty, 374-1749 374-1749 or the BYU Alumni Records Office, 378-6740. ' 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday evenings on the third floor in dining rooms 3 and 4 at UVRMC. The kids classes begin Tuesday, Tues-day, September 12, from 7-8:30 p.m. in dining rooms 3 and 4 at UVRMC. Classes for teens begin Thursday, September 14, from 7-8:30 p.m., also in dining rooms 3 and 4. . For more information or to register, call 373-7850 ext. 2442. from pg.l break down in Montana. While waiting for repairs, he and a friend saw an audition notice for "Man of La Mancha." On a lark, they tried out and won the lead roles. Caron fell in love with Montana and decided to stay. His ambition as an actor found a voice through founding a local children's theatre. In its first years, MCT was no different than many groups. But in 1974, when Caron was scheduled to perform "Snow White" 450 miles across the state, he was reluctant to travel with seven young co-stars. co-stars. He asked school officials in Miles City, where he was scheduled to perform, if they thought some local children would like to play the dwarves. For More information, call SCERA at 225-2569 10-5 weekdays. week-days. .'. ' t ' :. i group around the country as they performed concerts. An Aug. 21 People magazine report was filled with religious references and allusions al-lusions concerning Garcia: "...he was a riveting figure onstage, a benevolent Buddha whose face beamed with merriment and sometimes sorrow as crystalline notes floated and soared and burst from the custom-made guitar that he seemed to play not with his hands, but his heart," read the article. San Francisco poet Hugh Romney, also known as "Wavy Gravy", was quoted in People as A World of IDocKs for CltMreiV New Children's Library Cpens August 26, 1995 J. M A world of books for children now appears .l" To meet their needs for many fruitful years. ' t-The t-The raft of readers, sharing younger ages, Shall now discover many million pages, Provided, now, for them, among the stacks, Where they can come to read and just relax. The Orem Children's Library extends A welcome to a myriad of friends! ' From small beginnings-acorn to the oak-The oak-The Orem Library, one day, awoke To find it had a certain crucial need To germinate a very special seed: As children multiplied, they needed space Where stories and their readers could embrace. The Orem Children's Library would show Through many years the urgent need to grow! For younger readers need some quiet nooks, Where they can cultivate their favorite books. And story-tellers, with some tales to tell, Require a special space to weave their spell. For reading, like a flower, starts to bloom When children's books may grow within a room. : The Orem Children's Library would gleam, As just the futile fabric of a dream! But many friends with vision and with means, Unselfishly, bequeathed, behind the scenes, The dollars and the drive to make it real: A library that kids can touch and feel. That shining dome of mortar and of bricks Transcends die paltry pall of politics! The Orem Children's Library invites The children, now, through countless days and nights! On Saturday the children will be proud . To share that bonny building with the crowd. The Public Opening and special tours' Will show the children "This is truly yours ! " How many stories shall the children read Within these walls where books refresh and feed! The Orem Children's Library shall bless The kids who read to certain their success. The lessons they will learn at story time May even keep them from a life of crime. The credit for that building, many share; And Orem ch ildren shall be happy there! A world of books for children now appears To meet their needs for many fruitful years! saying, "It's not just music, it's a religion. The beauty of the Grateful Grate-ful Dead was their relationship with their fans. They just take this great big ball of love and bounce it out to the fans, and the fans bounce it back and each time itjustget8 bigger." A wise man once said that you can tell the ideals of a nation na-tion by its advertisements. If it is equally true that you can tell the ideals of a nation by its heroes, the passing of two popular culture icons gives the country cause for introspection in 1995. 4V "K |