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Show Pleasant Grove ReviewLindon New Utah! - Wednesday, May 30, 2001 - Page 2 Opinion Advice to High school graduation is seen by many as one of the final checkpoints on the journey jour-ney from childhood to adulthood. adult-hood. Graduates are not considered con-sidered children anymore, but are expected to be responsible for their actions and to make adult decisions. That is one of the rewards for persevering through 13 years of public education. And the fact is, most graduates are prepared to accept that challenge. chal-lenge. For a few, it may take a little longer. Over the course of this week, lots of advice will be handed out to the graduates by the commencement speakers, speak-ers, school administrators and school district officials. There will be many words of encouragement encour-agement and optimism. Somewhere Some-where along the way, the graduates grad-uates will be told that their potential is unlimited and their destiny is in their hands. That is all very true. However, graduates should carefully consider the first decision they make after receiving their diplomas how they spend their graduation gradua-tion night. In years past, it was popular popu-lar for graduating seniors to spend their first night as "adults" participating in activ Goodbye Mr. Glade, and thanks I read the obituary last week for the first employer I had afer I graduated from BYU and it brought back a flood of memories. memo-ries. It was the obituary for Earl J. Glade, Jr. When I graduated from BYU with a degree in journalism, a short bio and picture of each graduate was published in a newspaper which was sent to those involved in journalism throughout the area. Prior to graduation I had not applied for any jobs as my parents par-ents wanted me to go with them to visit relatives in Missouri before I began by job search. Upon our return there was a letter let-ter for me from Earl J. Glade, Jr., who was the station manager manag-er at KBOI Radio and Television in Boise, Idaho. In the letter he said he had read about me in the BYU in-house in-house newspaper he had received and asked if I would be interested in a job as a copy writer for KBOI. He suggested that he would like to schedule a job interview at the KBOI sister station, KSL, so that I did not have to drive to Boise. I had the interview in Salt Lake City at KSL, and it must have been favorable because Mr. Glade wrote that he would like to offer me the job. I could hardly hard-ly believe that I had been able to get a job without having to pound the sidewalks as we had been led to believe we would need to do. My mom drove me to Boise at the appointed time. She checked us into a hotel for the night and then we began our search for a place for me to live. We found a woman who offered board and room at a reasonable price and was within walking distance from KBOI. The lady was very excited to have a person from "her favorite" station living in her home. Later, when I brought some of the employees from the station to visit her, she' was speechless. She really enjoyed it. When Mom left to go home, I was scared to death. Being left all alone in a strange town was frightening but at the same time I was excited about the prospect of this first post-graduate job. Working at KBOI was a wonderful won-derful experience for me. Mr. Glade was a great man. He was the son of Earl J. Glade who had Pleasant Grove Review NewUtah! (ISSN No. 1521-6861) (U.S.P.S. No. 435-7S0) 59 West Main American Fork, Utah 84003 graduates ities that included alcohol and drugs. Local schools have moved away from that trend by sponsoring all-night parties for the graduates, with enough food and activities to encourage encour-age most of the students to avoid parties that involve the use of illegal substances. It's been a good move for the students, for the schools, and for the communities. These high school activities deserve the support of the students stu-dents and the parents, who are called on to help foot the bill for food and entertainment. entertain-ment. Parents should encourage their graduates to attend. Students Stu-dents should consider this a great opportunity to rub shoulders with their classmates class-mates one last time. It is, by all counts, a far better bet-ter alternative to the graduation gradua-tion parties of years past that featured a keg of beer as the centerpiece of the celebration, and often resulted in tragedy for one or more of the celebrating cele-brating young adults. High school graduation is a wonderful tradition and a great rite of passage. We encourage all our graduates to celebrate it safely, and offer our congratulations to the members of the Class of 2001. been with KSL for a very long time. Mr. Glade, Jr. was a Mormon Mor-mon and was extremely nice to work for. He was patient and understanding with me. Writing radio commercials was not an easy job and I had a lot to learn. That fall was the general election and he assigned all of us in radio and TV to go to the various hotels where the candidates candi-dates were waiting the results so we could get interviews. This was a very exciting experience and later that night we had a party which he sponsored. From the very beginning, I had great respect for this knowledgeable man. He was like a father figure and although he was extremely busy, he always had time to talk to us. Another LDS girl worked at the station as the switchboard switch-board operator and receptionist. We became close friends and her parents kind of adopted me. She was the only child at home and her parents included me when they went on little jaunts,' out to dinner, etc. It became my home away from home and her mom became my "Other Mother." Mr. Glade kind of took us Mormon girls under his wing, probably knowing we were both naive and not very brave. When the time came from me to get married and leave KBOI, it was like leaving a big happy family. When I told Mr. Glade I was leaving to be married, he was very understanding. It had been a wonderful experience for me. So when I read the obituary last week I returned in my mind to Boise, Idaho in the summer of 1958, when as a young woman I took my first job in my field out in the big world. I remembered a man who was willing to gamble gam-ble on a new graduate, starting her on a long road of happy memories in journalism. The memories he created for me in Boise as a fledgling writer will stay wi; a me always. Goojbye, Mr. Glade. I will remember you! A member of NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION Late meetings, I have too many things I want to write about this week. Usually my problem is I have nothing to write about. Anyway, please forgive for-give me this week for jumping around from subject to subject, . but I really wanted to talk about some of things I did last week. First, the Pleasant Grove planning commission meeting went way to late last week. I left the meeting at 1:15 a.m. Can anyone really make intelligent decisions that late at night? And what about the public legal notice that was published that said the planning commission was going to meet on Thursday, May 24. If the meeting goes past midnight, isn't that then May 25? I realize there were two big agenda items, however I think anything past midnight, or even 11 p.m. is going on too late. The planning commissioners are volunteers, vol-unteers, they have jobs to go to the next day. I know I wasn't a very happy camper when my little lit-tle two-year-old woke me up at 6:30 a.m. the next morning! My advice is give a time limit to the public comments and end the meeting at a reasonable hour. The commission decided to hold a special meeting in two weeks to continue discussing the Gateway Zoning Ordinance, which they didn't even get to the other night. They should have made that decision at 11:30 instead of after 1 a.m. Friday night, even though I was still very tired from the early morning planning commission meeting, my husband and I went with some of our friends to a parenting par-enting seminar by Dr. James Jones at the Pleasant Grove Jr. High. Dr. Jones travels around the country giving free seminars. We thoroughly enjoyed the evening, although we didn't get out of there until after 10 p.m. Dr. Jones taught us that we A tale of two This is a tale of two graduates. gradu-ates. When Meghan decided she would break with tradition and become a Lone Peak Knight rather than an American Fork Caveman, she did so with the best of intentions. She followed her heart and her friends to the shiny new halls of a beautiful new high school. She thought the shiny new school would offer her more opportunities. She wasn't the only American Fork high school student to think like that. Many others felt the same way. Thursday night she will be one of more than 600 graduates of Lone Peak at the Marriott Center. She will also be among the last remaining students who live outside the Lone Peak boundaries who have that option, since the Alpine School District closed the school to outside out-side enrollment. And we'll be there as each one of those names is read, and as each student makes that once-in-a-lifetime walk that denotes this particular rite of passage. The next day, Friday afternoon, after-noon, we'll do it all over again as Kari makes that same walk, this time with her classmates from American Fork High School. She followed her heart and her friends to the same school attended by all of her brothers and sisters, as well as her stepbrother step-brother and step-sisters except one. She thought American Ameri-can Fork would offer her more Thanks to Mills Editor: I would like to publicly express my appreciation to a very fine person and city administrator, admin-istrator, Frank Mills. In a situation situa-tion that put my father, who Telephone Numbers Circulation 375-5103 News & Advertising 756-7669 Publisher Brett Bezzant Managing Editor Marc Haddock City Editor Karli Poyfair Subscription price S26x per year Periodicals Postage Paid at American Fork. Utah POSTMASTER: send address change to 59 West Main. American Fork. Utah 84003 Deadlines Classified Advertising . . .Tuesday, noon Display Advertising . . . .Monday. 5 p.m. News Monday. 2 p.m. Missionaries Monday. 2 p.m. Weddings -Monday. 2 p.m. Letters to the Editor . . .Monday. 10 a.m. sPrts Monday. 10 a.m. Community Calendar . .Monday. 10 a.m. 0b""ares Tuesday. 11 am parenting and Little Miss Lind can't really control our children. He said the traditional parenting model we have all been taught, that our job as parents is to force our kids to do what we know is best is false. He said instead of constantly yelling at or nagging our children, parents should concentrate con-centrate on creating a positive environment to motivate children chil-dren to do what we want. He said the way to motivate children is to give unconditional love, use choice and consequence and to create needs. Dr. Jones was very entertaining entertain-ing and used lots of real life examples from his life as a parent par-ent raising four children. Everyone Every-one in the audience seemed to also enjoy the program. My husband hus-band and I learned a lot, and maybe when I'm not so tired, I will try to implement some of his ideas. Last Saturday night I had the opportunity to attend the Little Miss Lindon Pageant. (And no, I still had not caught up on my sleep!) I really enjoyed watching the pageant, and I had no idea which one of the 25 young girls should be crowned Little Miss Lindon. Usually I can predict these things, but there were so many good contestants to chose from. It was heartbreaking to me though at the end when only five girls were selected, four as attendants and one as the queen. You could tell how crushed some of them were because they had tried so hard. Despite starting 25 minutes late, the show really ran quite smoothly. The talent portion was very long, but each girl was lim- graduates opportunities, in part because of a smaller student body. Friday afternoon she will be one of the more than 300 graduates gradu-ates of American Fork at the Marriott Center. And we will be there as each one of those names is read, and each students stu-dents makes that once-in-a-life-time walk. This is nothing new for either Sharon or myself. As newspaper reporters we attend high school graduations every year. However, Howev-er, we don't sit through the awarding of each diploma every time. In addition, it seems like we've attended a college graduation gradu-ation each year for the past several sev-eral years as well. But high school is a little closer clos-er to home. And we think both of our graduates will welcome this walk. Both are good students. Both have worked hard. Both have found that things didn't get easier eas-ier that last semester. There was no chance for senioritis to set in here. Meghan was on the ballroom dance team for three years. That meant early morning practices prac-tices almost the entire year. She has worked hard to keep up her resides in Pleasant Grove, in a difficult situation, Mills helped us out when we were told repeatedly that Pleasant Grove City did not have to do a thing. Mills went with the spirit of the law instead of the letter of the law and resolved the situa- By Mail P.O. Reader's Forum J Box 7, American Fork UT 84003 In Person 59 W. Main, American Fork on ited to two minutes and A ' entered and exited quickK,,' really, you couldn't cut Jr H the talents, and there wer f amazing girls. I don't kn could have gotten un ; sour oift in C -I an nnnionco ha- t luutnf " iron "llculwasii0 " and sang a song or danced 2 took a lot of courage at Amy Worthington, Miss pw( Miss Lindon performed Littl. a son. !. tsuuerny JKasses ' which ulous, but of course made me because her dad came un ft with her and gave her a kkf, also enjoyed the Little Miss don theme song, which is "n , Heaven for Lindon Girls 7r the tune of "Thank HeC g Little Girls." Alan SnS that sonir nnH it- . ml song because all ml I was also very impressed with -last year s queen, Ashlyn McCur dy She was poised and confided and talented and I can guaranty we 11 see more of her in the . to come. ; If I could have changed anv-thing anv-thing about the Dasreant it,..u , iers S 0 have been to limit the talent numbers of last year's royalty A v' group number would have been great, but instead each of the five girls performed a different tali ' ' ent, and not that they were bad in fact, they were great, but when there are 25 contestants and each one of them is going to; : perform a talent, it just gets to be a little too much. Also the slide : show of last year's royalty was a'Z- little too long. But other than those minor, observations, the Little Miss Lin- J don Pageant was really a lot of fun and very well done. Terry,1 :CI1JUI Marchbanks and Teresa McClel-''taU lan should be commended for1, f miff intr rm cnnVi a pIqooit nrt-iJ''1 and providing such a great learn- r ii "r ;j Libra ing experience ior tnese younj girls. 'sdby ;intai i3on :e tour -include :j Jem i of $3 GPA as well, and will wear goll: a m cords when she graduates o." , Thursday. She also had to mafc,,, up a history class on the side, 'c which meant working ...m,. packets through the Alpine UiMt and Learning Center, when shi. wasn't working at Hollywood mis Video or competing for ballroom.; pa dance, or singing with thuj, Chamber Choir, or doing any of part the other myriad activities in -esentii which she had been involved. -:as, Kari was involved in drama cations and choir, and was in several a will ; school plays, which meant hours a next of rehearsal after school and oa,:; the Saturdays. She had to make up -:e team some English credits on the- side, which meant working with packets through the Alpine Life- and Learning Center. She didjjgjl this when she wasn't working atS Wynnsong theaters. j.:ssiv Just, tn add some excitement, Di she was made a manager the last month of her high school. i-i i- ,i,nrknf Jiofll! -ever. career wnicn meant "-- r-almost r-almost full-time hours "Jr preparing for her AP art hisW-: exam and other finals. Rut K-f Vi imnncf women na, limsnect wen, despite w i,iDc rV of sleep demanding teachers. Both (JJAn what they thought was M.W . .i . . v,n tribes-' JP- ana men woikbu nai" - tl-cessful tl-cessful at it. iiJ':'" car Ana as uiey "r ., diplomas and move on M lege, we'll be cheering them rv 1 r-orrT-ot is we havew-1 tnrougn ivvu g nk monies and almost 1,000 ates to do it. tion. In a period ot s there is great distrust ton cians, it is nice to worK man of integrity. Frank Mills, thanks ag' Scott Roudab'; -to We welcome letters to the editor. 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