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Show -Wednesday, March 21, 2001 - Page 2 Pleasant Grove ReviewLindon New Utah! Opinion Scouting Last Saturday, hundreds of Boy Scouts went door-to-door delivering empty plastic bags throughout the north Utah County area. They will return this Saturday, Satur-day, hoping to collect those same bags filled with cans and boxes of non-perishable food. The food will then be loaded on truck after truck driven by members of the National Guard who are also donated their time. Those bags will then be delivered to the pantries of the Utah Valley Regional Food Bank. This worthy effort by the Utah National Parks Council and the Utah National Guard helps feed hundreds of needy children and adults in Utah, Summit and Wasatch Counties. You can help by filling your bags and having them ready when the Scouts make their rounds Saturday morning. This year, the Scouts are hoping hop-ing to collect 350,000 pounds of food that's enough to help serve over 800,000 meals, and represents an increase of 50,000 pounds over last year's drive. Working together, this is a goal that can be met. Donations for the food bank are plentiful during the Christmas Christ-mas season, but tend to dry up once this holiday has passed. The March "Scouting for Food" drive has become a tradition to shore up dwindling supplies at We adjust to The controversy surrounding the high school boundary change issue in Alpine School District took me back to my high school days. When I was in tenth grade, we had to stay at the junior high school because the Ogden High School was too crowded. It had over 2,000 students that year. This made the junior high too crowded, also, and the seventh graders had to stay in the elementary ele-mentary schools as a result. The school district did allow all the tenth graders who lived east of Jackson Ave. to go to high school, but not those, who lived below Jackson. Those of us who had to stay at the junior high were extremely upset, as were some parents, because the tenth graders at the high school received privileges that we did not get. They could go to night dances, ball games, they had more choices of classes, they could belong to clubs, school newspaper, school magazine, yearbook staff, swimming classes and much more. Tenth graders at the junior high were limited to the activities allowed for that school. We did get to have a night dance or two and we did get to go to ball games between the other junior highs in town. There were four. We were allowed to have a pep club, of which I was a member. But still it was not the same as going to the high school. When I was a junior in high school, the school district began building a new high school, Ben Lomond High. When I began my senior year, they divided Ogden High School and about half of the students, those from the north side of town, were sent to the new high school. When school ended the spring of our junior year, we had cried and hugged the students stu-dents we would be losing to the new high school. We talked of how we would miss each other and it was very emotional. In Ogden, our deadly rival had been Weber High for years and years. We vowed it would stay the same. We would not be rivals with our good friends at the new Ben Lomond High. Ha! That did not last long. I remember going to basketball games that winter when we played Ben Lomond and it was suddenly a rivalry. Maybe it was not as strong a Pleasant Grove Review NewUtah! (ISSN No. 1521-6861) (U.S.P.S. No. 435-780) A member of NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION for Food the Regional Food Bank, ensuring ensur-ing there is enough food for those who are in need throughout through-out the summer. If you received a "Scouting for Food" bag, fill it with care. Include items you and your family fam-ily enjoy. If you didn't get one of the specially-labeled plastic bags, fill up one you brought home from the grocery store, and have it ready to give to the Scouts who will soon be coming to your door. The Scouts will begin their rounds Saturday at 9 a.m. You can also take donations to the Food Bank warehouse located at 815 S. Freedom Boulevard throughout the year. Either way, you will be helping help-ing someone who is hungry, and often that someone is a child. Supporting the "Scouting for Food" drive this Saturday is a great way to give of what we have to those who don't have, helping them often in a time of great personal need. It is also a wonderful opportunity oppor-tunity to teach the young men involved the gathering of the food the importance of helping those who are in need and giving giv-ing back to their community. This is one program where everybody can win, but your help is needed. Be a part of this great community tradition by donating to the "Scouting for Food" drive Saturday morning. changes rivalry as that which we had with Weber, but it was a rivalry all the same. Those who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints are used to having ward boundaries change, some quite frequently. It is difficult to not meet with these people you have grown to love over the years anymore. It is especially difficult for teenagers. My first experience with this was when I was about 15 or 16 and they divided ;the Mount Ogden Seventeenth Ward for the first time. We were all devastated. devastat-ed. We had gone to church together togeth-er since we began Primary. How could they separate us like that? It was awful. Well, needless to say, we survived sur-vived the division of Ogden High School and we survived the division divi-sion of the good old Seventeenth Ward and we were never the worse for wear. And, of course, we still saw our old friends from church at the high school once in a while. But it was never the same. In the last few years, we have' been assigned to one ward, and then another, and then back again until now we have friends in all the wards. But, even though we live in a small town like Pleasant Grove, and there are only a few grocery stores where we surely should see friends once in a while, we still rarely see many of our old friends from the other wards. Once a ward is divided it seems like you never see those people and you might as well be in another world. But it really doesn't matter too much. You make new friends, you get new assignments, and the world keeps going around. Over time, the same thing will happen with the new high school boundary alignments and what now seems like a terrible thing may turn out in the end to be a blessing. Have faith! Published weekly by x Tie T 59 West Main American Fork, Utah 84003 1 mS?" yifk Pleasant Grove Two weeks ago at the Pleasant Grove City Council meeting, the mayor signed a proclamation endorsing his support for the Three-Step Three-Step Disaster Preparedness Program Pro-gram and the ALERT, Amateur Liaison Disaster Radio Team. At that meeting, Dawn Hadfield, program coordinator, and her husband, hus-band, Lynn spoke to the council for a few minutes about what they have been doing. I was veiy impressed, especially when Dawn pulled out a map of the city with little red dots all over it. She explained that she had divided the city up into small districts, and if a district had a red dot in it, that meant the neighborhood neighbor-hood was organized ano prepared for a disaster. Not , all the districts had red dots on them. The Hadfields should be commended com-mended for their interest and commitment com-mitment to community disaster preparedness. pre-paredness. They must volunteer many hours in doing what they do. You don't often see people giving up so much of their time and effort for the city. We don't like to think of emergencies emer-gencies or disasters happening. My family lived in southern California for several years when I was growing grow-ing up. I remember our big thing was earthquake preparedness. One night our family made emergency buckets for each person. We put food, supplies, a change of clothes and shoes, and an emergency blanket blan-ket in each bucket. They we put the Annleigh will Annleigh McManis came through our office front door eight or nine years ago and asked for a summer internship one of the requirements require-ments for a communications degree from BYU. It was the beginning of what would be an ever-after relationship with New Utah!, a relationship that was cut short by her untimely death. We learned Monday that Annleigh was found dead in her Spanish Fork home Friday afternoon. after-noon. The cause of death has not yet been determined. Funeral services were pending when this was written. writ-ten. She was in her mid-30's. We saw her last two weeks ago when she visited the office with her baby, Robert. His birth seemed to have a calming influence on his mother, who had experienced her share of ups and downs over the years. Finally, it .seemed, she was starting to get comfortable with herself, her-self, and she seemed very confident about her future. She was looking forward to getting get-ting back to Cedar Hills city council meetings, where she could resume her career as a journalist a career that was more a hobby she financed with jobs that started with WordPerfect Word-Perfect and moved on to a series of computer-related businesses after WordPerfect left its Utah Valley workers high and dry. She always referred to herself as a journalist, both in her training and personality. During the months of her internship, she covered a variety vari-ety of stories. After that ended, she asked if she could stay covering Highland city council as a part-time correspondent. She covered Highland for several years, and then became our Cedar Hills reporter. She adopted both communities as second hometowns, even though she lived in Spanish Avoid contention Editor: I have read and listened to the many emotional conflicts this issue has aroused. Being LDS, an out-of-stater, I have felt sad and discourage how so many LDS people can act with contention. Yet, these same people claim to be Christian. I agree that the school board created cre-ated this problem when the original boundaries were set for the new Lone Peak High School. Even then part of American Fork families were in the Lone Peak boundary. But even with a problem, people still can learn to love one another, treat each other with kindness and to live a Christ-like life. I see no difference dif-ference in the actions of these people Telephone Numbers Deadlines Advertising & Circulation 756-7669 News 756-5273 Publisher Brett Bezzant Managing Edi'or .... t.'arc Haddock Ciiy Editor Kadi Poyfair Subscription price S24 per year Periodicals Postage Paid at American Fork. Utah POSTMASTER: send address change to 59 West Main. American Fork. Utah 84003 Classified Advertising Display Advertising . News Missinar'es Wedd,"9S Letters to the Editor . SPr,s ; Community Calendar 0b'luaries will be ready for an emergency buckets in the garage so we would be able to get to them quickly if there was ever an earthquake and we had to evacuate our home. With the recent Y2K scare that we all went through recently, my thoughts were again turned to disaster dis-aster preparedness. We had our supply sup-ply of food and water and other-things other-things ready, just in case. Its sad to hear that once Y2K came and went without incident, many people stopped worrying about food storage and emergency preparedness. That's why I've been so happy to see the Three-Step program grow in Pleasant Grove. The community will be prepared if something terrible were to happen. Dawn said they try to have quarterly quar-terly meetings for residents in the community to attend. Recently Fire Chief Mark Hales spoke about fuel storage and fire dangers in the home. In April, Lynn Hadfield said there would be an ALERT meeting. At the city council meeting he said there were possibly 196 ham radio operators in Pleasant Grove and Lindon. He is trying to organize and train the operators to identify situations, situa-tions, how to properly pass along information and how to prioritize emergencies during a disaster. In be missed by newspaper fami I J Fork. Her reporting, like her life, was inconsistent. Some weeks her stories sto-ries would be well-written and complete. com-plete. Other weeks, we had to edit the stories a little more closely. She even made the news once, when the then-mayor of Highland called her a Buffalo girl. Annleigh had returned from a vacation to Buffalo, N.Y, sporting a sweatshirt bearing the name of that city, and the mayor thought he was being funny. It was an unfortunate epithet for a large woman, and Annleigh was large. A reporter for another newspaper reported the perceived slight. Annleigh found the episode amusing. She loved her dogs, and let us use one when the American Fork Arts Council produced "Annie." It was Annleigh's dog, Rudy, who appeared on stage as Sandy. Annleigh was proud of her puppy and his starring role. Like most of us, her personal life was sometimes bumpy. She would often call when I was working late and she needed someone to talk to. Many nights she would open up as she talked about a personal tragedy, a broken relationship (of which she had many), or some of her ongoing health problems (which were also plentiful). Despite the roller coaster ride of a life she led, she always seemed to come out of the depths with a positive outlook and hope for the future. Reader's Forum than I have seen all over the U.S. Many families have moved to new locations and their children have gone to new schools. Even within my own family this has occurred. But to place one above the other m the standard of living is vvrong. Didn't Christ teach the oppo-site? oppo-site? We are one community, though we seem to fight with each other between cities. We are one people I would hope that as individuals and as families we will change our attitudes atti-tudes and have a heart more full of love, greater charity, more kindness more peace. Even a greater leader of our day has asked us to live this wav. If not ,a afrf'd of what might become of u, - It is difficult for children to make adjustments, but remain optimistic . . .Tuesday, noon . . Monday. 5 p m Monday. 2 p m Monday. 2 p m Monday. 2 p m . .Monday 10 a.m. . .Monday. 10 am. . .Monday. 10 am Tuesday, 11 am ; , UMie Ieuers to the editor. All letters must , hn u,S name (Printed AND signed) and a telephon ber. We reserve the right to edit letters for clarity, ' t'n, taste and length. Letters are welcome on any tPlC Hj3WTO REACH US By Mail P.O. Box 7, American UT 84003 In Person fht pvpnt. of a Hisnctn i kii - ''JiLL UnAn l could be down and the ham could become a valuable rPe The Three-Sr.pn offering first aid kits for resid H " vival Solutions has nut. trJ' or,rl fVmr non k 51 only $35. In addition, a ,J liCU1 yJ ( noicrVihni'hnnH nrpnaro).. t,.. r. cuiiess st. preparedness ideas. sir -inrlnrlp in trip hnnlrW . menting a neighborhood plan J storage, first aid, and food L''1 along with recipes. The booklet be purchased for only $3. t;; Think of the benefit to the tt ' munity if every house was equiw with a first aid kit and everviJ! , had a knowledge of basic emergen ui umciciite ui uie event of afcl ter. i ve neara it oeen said til' "iu-j' piepaiea as V(, neighbor is. If they don't have 1WU "tiu-x ciueigency Stmnl. ouuicu, wicii w-icy win need ni help if something were to hnnn,, The mayor and city council esrj daily Freeman Andersen wCa been a supporter of the program along, snouia be commended J their support of these efforts to 2 paic me tuiiimujuiy. ine riadfiei ; 0 ;j.ing tame . nuieun , 'Child! LRa pation m at least some aspect emergency preparedness. I think definitely worth it. Sometimes she would miss deadline, but lately her work h v feet in iaad : aperie iatolo a hands i child ::w fossi uetui inuie Luusisieiii, ana nerattj tude was upbeat. Baby Robert was surprise, and not a welcome on when she first learned she was pr nant. But Annleigh talked with hf ecclesiastical leaders, and spenl some time on personal introsped tion, and decided that she wasrea to become a mother. Before the baby was bora. ::eparat at ga Sai-ing talked to her a couple of times, 4 she was genuinely excited about til- .a-goer. upcoming birth. When she visits l".i2tnCE our offices with him, she was veil- aetoge r and n obviously proud of her son as her personal progress. She lookel Liisrdisp good, she sounded great. We exped .svorite a Sites, : in the 11 Km is c - after wl ;7 a; a pa ed her to be back at work in Cedi- Hills in a week or two. When a co-worker from her ra job e-mailed us Monday and gavei the news, we were astonished. Poii are still not saying anything at the. death, other than to confiim that Annleigh's body was found by friend Friday in her Spanish Foil home and they didnt find cumstances "suspicious." The bam is okay. The state medical examine performed an autopsy but tb results won't be available for a fei iaejinn -i Senii sweek ' each 1 '4il 9 weeks. That's all thev will say. Outside of her family, it's M Annleigh's relationship with 4 npwsnanpr ffnnilv is nnfi ofherm4 - j l Jr'-W me enduring. For us, the loss hit narJ" -a the partly Decause it was su uuca- partlv because it came at a when Annleigh seemed to be getti a firm oTin nn her life. She to seemed penuinelv happy, with clear idea of where she wanted m ; 0 ,,1 It seems like a rotten time for ne, die, although I am not qualified' judge the timing of such tilings, j We can replace the reporter u..t v 1q Annfcl Liuii, uul we i;cui t icpicv. We will miss her very much. and look forward to things tocoi? Open letter Editor: This is an open letter to Prows Family: ... I am so very sorry about loss, I just ran onto it here onj Internet. Please accept my alej;; on this and know how special) are to me. A lot of years havepy-and havepy-and our lives have changed. just lost my husband on Vf- ( this year. I hope we can 1 hno - other again and be V".,,, friends we once were. God blf3----all. Love to vou and yours. , Bonnie Greenup;, received va e' Jbe Beginni :lirj sceive hitialh i l'ill s 'Si - ' Fork By Fax 756-5274 By E-Mail Idi 59 W. Main, American Fork editornewuirf"-v K |