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Show TIMES Submit a Guest Editorial or Opinion at our office, located locat-ed at 538 South State in Orem. Deadlines are Monday 10:00 a.m. All submissions are subject to editing for length, and The Orem-Geneva Times reserves the right to publish or not to publish a submission. &Opinioii Page A2 Thursday, August 22, 2002 T Editorial T " T " " " COMMENTARY City council meetings should not be erapfy City council meetings are a time for city leaders and residents to talk about community com-munity needs. But although they are intended to be partners in this process, someone is missing, miss-ing, and it isn't hard to figure out who. When our reporters attend these meetings, meet-ings, they see very few residents. Most of the people that come only come because they have to make presentations to the council. This is disheartening, when one considers the intention and the potential of city council meetings. From a newspaper's perspective, city council meetings get to the root community communi-ty issues. Much power lies in city councils. Members vote on issues every meeting that affect residents. We believe more residents res-idents could influence their cities for good if they attended. If residents want to influence the world around them, their communities are good places to start. City councils represent government at its smallest. City council meetings are more user-friendly user-friendly than state legislative sessions. Each meeting has a time set aside for public pub-lic comment, and residents do not have to travel far to attend. Laws can pass more easily in city council coun-cil meetings than in other government bodies because communities are more homogeneous than states or nations. Besides avenues to influence change, city council meetings are also valuable during election time. Some people say it is easier to vote the right person into office than to change another person's mind after he of she is elected. City council meetings are good places to learn about city candidates andor their opponents because residents can often see them in action. , Finally, attending city council meetings can increase understanding. Sometimes city officials must make difficult decisions, in which residents' rights are compromised. compro-mised. Residents may not always agree with their decisions, but at least they may understand the pressures, city officials must face. ' - . When no one attends these meetings besides the leaders who organize them, community needs cannot be met. Council members may think residents do not care about how they vote. And if residents do not care, why should they care about representing rep-resenting them? In the long run, it is better for communities commu-nities and families to attend city council meetings and learn about issues firsthand. Utah Valley Elder Quest of the Center for Lifelong Learning at Utah Valley State College is composed of some 200 local senior citizens, many of whom are involved in recalling and writing down weir memories and life experiences, such as the one presented here. Our Elder Quest Memories By William B. Howard Wtitiny: fritting, Jtt 5fk Qap When I was in grade school and high school, English, writing and spelling were my least favorite subjects, so I wrote as little lit-tle as possible. Events since then have The Orem-Geneva Times 538 South State Street Orcm, UT 84058 published by The Daily Ikrald, A 1'iilili-r Newspaper Subscriptions & Delivery Service 375-5I03 News & Advertising 225-1 340 Fat 225-1 34 1 htnai I oreml i mes (o nelwnrld.com USPS 41 1-700. Published Thursdays by Pulitzer Newspapers, Inc., 538 South State Street, Orem, Utah 84058. Periodicals postage paid at Orem, Utah 84059. Postmaster: Send address changes to P.O. Box 65, Orem, UT 84059. 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Weeks Jr. Robert King Scott Sumner TitTaney Kenison Tiffaney Kenison Sydney Sumner Brent Sumner Phil Patten Daniel Cobar Steve Goodwin Josh Romero Robert Kint Jack Sumner All the above changed the picture. My senior year of high school, I took an English course called Word Derivation. We had a very good teacher, so it improved my spelling, vocabulary and interest in words. In college I had a course on technical writing writ-ing that served me well in my engineering work. A journalism class taught me to write for the newspaper, and I have had a few articles printed. During W.W.II, I was away from home and my sweetheart, Ellaree, fro many years. The only thing that kept my morale up, was letters from home and Ellaree. I soon figured out that to get letters, I had to write some. So I wrote Ellaree, nearly every day, and she wrote me daily. While I was in combat our letters were censored and there wasn't much I could say but I wrote anyway. I wrote my parents about once a week. During combat, letters were written on V-mail and micro filmed for transmitting. They were reprinted on one-half one-half scale. I got in the habit of writing and have written most of the letters for our family ever since retiring. At a Conference at BYU on the holocaust, holo-caust, they invited me to tell my story. I wrote it, and that started me writing more than just letters. Dean Hughes was publishing pub-lishing a book on world war II, and asked me to contribute. I wrote some of my wartime military experiences, along with some of my personal experiences, during those times. My stories were printed as a chapter in the book. I got a computer with a Word Writing program on it and learned to use it. That was a huge step forward toward writing my own and my family histories, that I had intended to do someday. Now, I have taken the Elder Quest Writing class for two years. Bob Peterson led the first class and Helen Weeks the second. These classes have greatly increased my interest in writing. writ-ing. I am not sure if my skill has improved but it has become a lot easier. Hearing others oth-ers read has given me ideas to write about. In the last three years I have written over fifty papers, from one to six pages long, to add to my personal history. My personal per-sonal history is chronological events of my life and is about one hundred pages. The new stories will fill in the gaps for details and make it more interesting to read. Poultry I Recipe iMGRePieMTS- 1 WSP 1 SCOOP iMSiDeRKNoNLeD6e 10UNCeoHl)BRS I THING. Because of the increase of news stories & advertising submitted to the OremLindon Times, our deadline for news & advertising is 1 0:00 a.m. Monday. Items need to be brought to the OremLindon Times at . 538 South State Street, Orem. Entries may be edited for length and content. If you have any questions please call our office at 225-1340 Timpanogos Green cut & irici ft,. America's Largest Grizzly Bear: Killed 79 Years Ago, August 22, 1 923 There are no graves of grizzly bears as large As Old Ephraim who chose to chase and charge. The mighty maverick of the Logan hills, His reputation hailed his hunting skills. Vivacious and voracious, as a cub, That grizzly was his mothers cherished child. She taught him, well, the way to filch a fish In mountain streams. She showed him how to rub His back against a stolid stump: as wild A creature anyone might want to wish. Ephraim was the boldest of his bunch. He even squandered squirrels for his lunch! Th e grandeur of the grizzly knows no bounds; His ears become attuned to forest sounds. The circling of a hawk that holds his eye Portends delicious dinners darting by. The salmon or the trout that tries to splash Is all a grizzly needs to lap his lunch. The movement of a marmot in the brush Proclaims a meal. In just a fluent flash The growing bear makes dinner of his hunch, And jams his jaws in quite a cruel crush. Old Ephaim was the tallest of the tall. His ten-foot stature towered over all! It mattered not how much the grizzly ate The weeks before he hid to hibernate. The fat that filled his hale and hairy hide, For months sustained the giant, grown inside. In Spring the growing grizzly slunk from sleep. The hollow hunger of his stomach groaned, And sent him out, considerably thinner, To find a meal. The bleatings of some sheep Produced a growl. A shameful shephard moaned And fled, as Ephraim killed and ate his dinner. Ow Ephraim trumpeted his tender lamb: That Cache Foresfs terrible 'f am!" Magnificent in stature and in mien, He was the greatest grizzly ever seen. Eleven times, he bit a 12-inch log, Transforming it into a capsuled cog. Defenseless sheep were bounty for the bear, And Ephraim wrongly robbed his royal share. A dozen years, he roamed the forest wallows: That predator of all its hidden hollows; uruThe bld bchemoth of the bear, most feared. When someone sought to shoot him, many cheered. Frank Clark, in August, Nineteen twenty-three, With dog and gun, made grizzly history! He found the forest king, entrapped and chained, Advancing toward him, growling: ten-feet tall! Enraged, and quite precariously pained, The bear took Franks six bullets, all in all. . ,Trie Logan grizzly era saw its end, As sheep herders, regaled their trusty friend. That massive grizzly skull is on display In Logan's university, today. The rest of Ephraim, which they could save, Was buried in a Logan Canyon grave Stone monument that rose eleven feet, Made Ephraim's memorial complete. ' Throughout America, that bear is billed: The largest grizzly monster ever killed' m a last time EPhraim was still alive and free Was August twenty-second, Nineteen twenty-three' CelebrationAnnouncement Charges Wedding announcements and other celebrations with picture .....$10.00 without picture pree Missionary announcements with picture . . -$5 00 without picture pree With placement of announcements, the customer may receive up to five free copies of that issue. 1 IPOOR C( n 1 hi. Aii toMhwAfcJIlMlhtoihMfeta |