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Show - i. k. l A U v Downtown Provo Annual Sidewalk Sals. See tabloid inside. t Enter Tha Times Crossword Puzzle for a chance to Win a Cruise. See inside for details. 500 Per Issue Orem's Locally Owned Weekly Newspaper WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2000 538 South State Street, Orem, UT 84058 (801)225-1340 70th yearNumber 29 2000, The Orem-Geneva Times Oram- q"P jJiyH g Center Street reconstruction to begin by closing two sections S taker Paving was awarded the bid to reconstruct Center Street from 1200 West to the Provo City boundary on the East end. They have begun immediate im-mediate preparations and plan on starting reconstruction work on July 26. From 1200 West to State Street Center Street will be com- i pletely reconstructed including new road base in three phases of work detail. From State Street to the Provo City boundary bound-ary Center Street will only be resurfaced. Two work crews will work on East Center and West Center at the same time to speed up the reconstruction process. Phase 1 of reconstruction will require the closure of the street from 400 West to 800 West and from 400 East to 800 East. Local Lo-cal traffic will be able to get thru but detours will be set up for regular traffic. The section of 400 East to 800 West will also be widened to the standard of the rest of Center Street; additionally, addition-ally, on-street parking will still be retained int his section. The section of 400 West to 800 West will be closed for three weeks and is scheduled to reopen by "August 21. " ' V"" Phase 2 of reconstruction will : be from 400 West to 400 East. There will be one lane of traffic each way. Phase 3 will involve the tail ends of Center from 800 West to 1200 West and from 800 East to the Provo City boundary. bound-ary. This phase will also be open to one lane of traffic in each direction. di-rection. Please contact Chad Hendry at 229-7194 for further information Smothers Brothers to Return to SCERA for Comedy, Yo-Yo's and Music (Orem, Utah) There is no doubt the Smothers Brothers have made a spectacular career out of sibling rivalry. Tom and Dick Smothers exploded on television tele-vision and the concert circuit 35 years with a routine based on Tom's complaint, "Mom always liked you best," and ever since have been lovingly sparring with each other on stages worldwide. What has kept them fresh for more than three decades is their widely acknowledged comic timing, tim-ing, funny folk music, their uncanny un-canny ability to remain topical and their improvisational skills. s A THE SMOTHERS r t-STjjr rlW, Mm Cw 7 Kr Jf Olive Walker embraces E.G. (Sarge) Nelson as he arrives at j the Orem Cemetery for the 25th annual memorial ride of the j Sundowners motorcycle club honoring her son, Mike. i Sundowners honor i fallen comrade By Patricia Knoell Times Reporter . It's been 25 years since the accident that took his life, but the memories of "Big Mike" remain re-main fresh for his mother, Olive. Ol-ive. While it's not surprising that a mother would treasure thoughts of a beloved only son, the fact that brothers Kenneth (Gramps) and E.C. (Sarge) Nelson and many members of the Sundowners motorcycle club The brothers appeared .at the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre two years ago to an enthusiastic enthusias-tic and sitting-room-only crowd and will make a return appearance appear-ance under the stars on Wednesday, Wednes-day, Aug. 2 at 8 p.m. Tickets are available for $18 from 10-5 weekdays at SCERA, 745 South State Street in Orem or by calling call-ing (801) 225-2569 or 225-ARTS. "These guys really are legends," leg-ends," says Norm Nielsen, SCERA President. "They were unique in the 1960s and they're still unique. On their last visit, I was chatting with Tommy BROTHERS 7 viCuA-eiwa i iiu'liyf (Slling '2"25ri340- 'Oiily $1 also remember honor the memory of Michael Brady Walker. - ' It started 25 years ago, after 23-year-old Mike on a ride with the group near Golden, Colo., early July of 1975 hit some loose gravel and skidded into the path of an oncoming car. His girlfriend who was riding with him was killed instantly and he died before help arrived. His body was brought home Continued on page 8 backstage, asking if they'd like to come back, and Tommy said to wait at least a couple of years so they would have a new act. I was really impressed that they cared about what they gave to the audience and wouldn't come right back just for the money. Their shows are always fresh." Audiences who caught The Smothers Brothers in 1998 will see a whole new comedy act for SCERA's millennium year. The brothers' show will include a large screen video presentation a nostalgic look back at their career complete with witty commentary. com-mentary. Although popular as funny folk singers when they began their act in the early 1960s, their future did not look promising prom-ising when they were tapped to be a mid-season replacement that was to go head-to-head against the then formidable "Bonanza" "Bo-nanza" in 1967. They appealed to a younger audience, however, and their show was a hit. Although Al-though censorship issues eventually even-tually drove them off the air Tommy was not even allowed to t say "watercloset" they remained re-mained popular. Theirs is a blend of tw.o clas- -sic vaudeville elements. Tom is-; the comic, who overcame hisK shyness as a child by being the class clown and creating chaos -. when there was none before.. Dick is the straight man who Continued oa page 8 Oram's Ados helps Eiids f When Mark Gudmunsen rolls up to home plate in his wheelchair, wheel-chair, you immediately know that this is a different sort of T-Ball T-Ball game. Twelve-year-old Mark, who has Cerebral Palsy, needs a bit of help to play ball. His friend Jamie helps his frail hands grasp the aluminum bat, she helps him swing and hit the ball, then pushes him in his chair toward first base. But the huge grin that crosses Mark's face is his very own and it's a grin that would light up an entire baseball stadium. sta-dium. The Orem Recreation Adaptive T-Ball League, now in it's third year, is fun not only for the dif-ferently-abled youngsters who play, but for the entire family. "There's high family involvement." involve-ment." Michael Eisenstat, parent par-ent and coach, said. "The parents, par-ents, everyone is out there." There are spectators, lining the field, standing, and sitting on blankets. There are "helpers" "help-ers" in the middle of the playing field, ready to help the players catch and throw balls, travel around the bases, and congratulate congratu-late them when they make a ; home run. The Eisenstat's able-bodied able-bodied six-year-old son, Jacob, plays in the outfield and helps shag Continued on page 4 Local youth to compete in AQHYA show American Quarter Horse enthusiast, en-thusiast, Candice Collard of Orem, will be competing in the 29th Annual American Quarter Horse Youth Association World Championship Show & Convention Conven-tion in Fort Worth, Texas, August Au-gust 4-12. This will be her 4th consecutive year. Collard will be among 2,000 youths, ages 18 and under, from the United States, Canada and several countries participating in the show. She will compete with her American -Quarter Horse, Won Choice Alibi, a 9-year-old sorrel mare in barrels, poles, and stake race. She will also show her brother's mare, On Higher Ground, in the 2-year-old halter mare class. The AQHYA World Championship Champion-ship Show is an invitational event which serves as a showcase show-case for top American Quarter Horse youth exhibitors, so competition com-petition promises to be intense and exciting. Young competitors vying for 30 world championship titles, as well as prizes must have earned a predetermined number of points at American Quarter Horse Association-approved shows between May 1, 1999 and April 30, 2000, or be one of two entries in each event nominated to represent each provincial Quarter Horse youth association. Collard is the 16-year-old daughter of Glade and Jan Collard Col-lard of Orem and is a junior at Mountain View High School. Other horse-related activities ; include National Barrel Horse Association and South Utah County High School Rodeo Association. As-sociation. . hroughou? Site county i p : - v.it. 2 t - - i.f f 8 0.:- 1 i0Jr Reed Blatter runs past a volunteer on his way to first base during Orem Recreation Adaptive T-Ball action. America's oldest living Boy Scout, George E. Freestone, will celebrate his 102nd birthday Friday, July 28, 2000 in Provo, Utah. While here he will cut the ribbon for a new Boy Scout Museum which will bear his name. ... When George was a child, he made the trip from his hometown of Safford to Bisbee, Arizona -in a covered wagon. It took four days. The Freestone family moved to Los Angeles when George was nine years old, and it was there that he became a Boy Scout. "I became a Scout in 1910, the first year Scouting came to America. George Freestone, who is still active with Tempe, Arizona , Troop 74, smiles at the attention his oldest living Boy Scout title brought him. "I just acquired it by living a long time," he said. He recalls his mother paying $4 for his first uniform, which included a Canadian Mountie-style Mountie-style hat, shirt, breeches and leggings. George remembers the Wright brothers first flight. Trying to emulate the brothers, eh built and crashed a home-built glider in a Los Angeles park. Among his Scouting memories are watching a show Buffalo Bill , Cody put on for his. troop and shaking the hand of Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb. He still loves to put on his uniform and meet with Eoy Scout troops. They think it's , great to meet someone his age,"s aid Freestone's wife, Mazie. ; Freestone, who. has lived in , Tempe since 1962, still tries to : live by the Boy Scout oath, eh-j eh-j Couragement he often shares ' with younger Scouts. "The oath r i 3 .-4 .VI 'V t Boy Scout OilO? they take is part of living right and helping other people," he said. "Try to live a good clean life, and they will I've a long life." The Boy Scout Museum is owned and operated by the Crandall Historical Printing Museum and is located adjacent to the Printing Museum at 257 East Center Street in Provo. Brent F. Ashworth, Provo attorney, at-torney, and the owner of one of the nations largest private collections col-lections of historical documents is the museum's director and curator. Mr. Ashworth purchased pur-chased much of te long running Boy Scout Museum owned by Al Gaudio, who retired in 1997. Also, Brent and his family have been collecting Scout memorabilia memora-bilia since the LDS Church became be-came the first church sponsor of Boy Scouts in America in 1913. Brent's grandfather Paul P. Ashworth was on that original LDS Scout Committee, and his father Dell S. Ashworth was an early Eagle Scout. Some of the unique Ashworth displays include an original 1910 "period one" uniform and other Scout clothing, every edition of the Boy Scout handbooks since 1910, scores of rare Scout medals med-als and hundreds of unique Scout and World Jamboree items. The public is invited to attend the rand Opening and Ribbon cutting Ceremony at the museum mu-seum 257 East Center Street. 11 a.m. Friday July 28, 2000. Eagle Scouts attending the grand opening celebration will receive a personalized certificate . signed by George Freestone and is suitable for framing. The mi"-seum mi"-seum will operate daily without charge to the public. Ipef Year!: PY l '''' |