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Show Pleasant Grove ReviewLindon New Utah! - Wednesday, August 29, 2001 - Page 2 Opinion Bringing the fair north The on-again, off-again Utah County Fair may be coming to north Utah County in the next year or two. It would be a good move that could revitalize an event which has been in the doldrums dol-drums for decades. Attendance for the fair has been waning for years. In fact, this year, the County opted to cancel the event in favor of a series of smaller county events held in conjunction with city celebrations cel-ebrations that was the last we heard about it. One of the problems, of course, has been the changing demographics of the county, which has moved far away from the rural, family-farm based economy which once dominated the area. The other problem has been location. And here is where north Utah County can now enter the picture with the addition addi-tion of an ever-growing Thanksgiving Thanks-giving Point. For years, the fair was held at the Spanish Fork fairgrounds. fair-grounds. It was a good location for some purposes. Certainly, the southern part of the county has maintained a rural flavor, and the Spanish Fork fairgrounds fair-grounds has ample room for all of the events one would associate associ-ate with a county fair livestock live-stock shows, rodeos, performers, home arts demonstrations and such. However, when Spanish Fork raised the rent for the fair, the Utah County commission decided decid-ed to take the event elsewhere. Unfortunately, there wasn't anywhere any-where suitable to go. For the past few years, the fair has been held at the McKay Events Center at UVSC. The price was right, but the center is unsuitable for a county fair. The A trip home gives perspective We have a way of looking at things differently depending on where we're standing at the time. Things seem to have a way of changing, or is it we who are doing the changing? I spent last week taking my kids to California, to visit friends, to swim in the ocean, to tour San Francisco. Our destination desti-nation seemed like paradise, separated from home by miles and miles of that dreaded desolate deso-late desert called Nevada. As a kid and as a teen coming out here to school from the San Francisco area, Nevada was thought of as something to be endured, a land of desolation with absolutely no redeeming features of its own. In reality, it wasn't like that. Nevada was quite interesting. We stopped and marveled at the expanses of salt flats (which are really in western Utah). We walked around on them, feeling the stiffness and hardness of salt crunching beneath our feet. As we continued west through Nevada, we admired the ragged mountain ranges; the solitary splendor of Pilot Peak, jutting into the sky from a wide valley. Along the highway, west of Winnemucca, we saw steam rising ris-ing from the ground. There is a lot of geothermal activity in Nevada, some of it being harnessed har-nessed to provide energy. We stayed in a nice little town my friends and I had once dubbed "the armpit of the West." We chatted with some kind and interesting folks before retiring for the night. Nevada was not so bad, quite nice in places. Sure, there's lots of rocky, dry land. There are some green valleys, too. It all depends on your perspective. I looked for interesting things to show my kids, and I found them. Some changes in perspective come as more of a shock rather than a pleasant surprise. One of our destinations was my old hometown. I hadn't been there for over 20 years and things had Pleasant Grove Review NewUtah! (ISSN No. 1521-6861) (U.S.P.S. No. 435-780) 59 West Main American Fork, Utah 84003 asphalt parking lot limited livestock live-stock exhibitions to a small petting pet-ting zoo. The gymnasium hosted the many commercial exhibits that come with the fair, and not much more. There were a few exhibits of vegetables, home arts and such, but not much. The event lacked atmosphere and attendance. Small wonder it was eliminated this year. Now two main sites are vying to become the home of a reincarnated reincar-nated Utah County Fair. Spanish Span-ish Fork is trying to woo the county back to the fairgrounds, and Thanksgiving Point is in the process of building a facility that could host a very nice Utah County Fair. Our vote goes to Thanksgiving Point. The Lehi resort has a lot to offer fair-goers already, with Utah's best golf course, the Thanksgiving Gardens, a 10-acre 10-acre animal park and the largest dinosaur museum in the world. And more is coming. In the plans for next year are a 1,000-seat performance center in the shape of a giant barn which will host a Western review during the 2002 Olympic Games, and then remain for other uses. Also planned for the future is a 36-acre gated fairgrounds, fair-grounds, a large pavilion and a performing arts center. Once these items are in place, Thanksgiving Point will be a great place to hold a fair, with ample parking, easy access from the freeway and a proven track record at hosting large numbers of people. As county officials look to bringing back the event, we would encourage them to look north. A move to Lehi and Thanksgiving Point could be a key one in resuscitating the now defunct Utah County Fair. really changed. Talk about taking tak-ing on a new perspective. This sleepy suburban village was now a sprawling city. Narrow, winding roads at the edge of town that formerly led to the dry and hilly "boonies" now were busy four-lane thoroughfares. thorough-fares. The rolling-hilled "boonies" were filled with homes and condominiums. We drove a winding road up a hillside to see my old house. The hill was steep when I was a kid, and it still is steep. My kids were awed I really did have quite a steep uphill walk when I came -home from school. Thank goodness for a few things that never change. The house was small. I remembered it as being sort of big. What I found most difficult to deal with was the postage-stamp postage-stamp size lot that the house sat on. The back yard of my childhood, child-hood, of my childish games, plans, and adventures, was so tiny! I guess there's quite a change in viewing perspective between the ages of 5 or 15 and 45. When I left the San Francisco area to attend school in Provo in the '70s, I thought of Provo as a provincial town. Now it seems to me to be a large city. Sure, Provo has grown a lot in the last 25 years. But I've grown, too. I've changed. Spending a few years in the truly tiny town of Moab brought about a change of perspective. per-spective. Provo seems big now. As we slowly drove down the hill from visiting the neighborhood neighbor-hood of my childhood, my kids were talking together. One said, "Someday we'll be bringing our kids to see our house in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove and telling them what it use to be like." I'm sure they will. And I'm sure they'll see things quite differently, dif-ferently, too, in 20-some years. A member ot NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION Full time pool manager was needed The city finally has a full-time pool manager. On the recommendation recommenda-tion of the new leisure services director, Deon Giles, the city council approved the pool position last week. It's kind of been a roller coaster spring and summer for Todd Klarich, the manager. First, he was hired on full-time on a temporary basis. Then when time came to finalize final-ize next year's budget, the city decided decid-ed not to approve the position until a new leisure services director was hired and could make a decision. The concern was that it was a seasonal pool, why should the city pay a full-time salary to someone to manage the pool? Todd has been to many council meetings and I have heard him explain all the many things that must be done during the off-season to keep the pool rxinning smoothly during the peak season. Todd also warned the council that the pool would begin to show signs of wear and tear soon, and that without someone keeping up on the maintenance, the city's million dollar dol-lar facility could be threatened. I've always agreed that Pleasant Grove needed a full-time pool manager man-ager and was a bit surprised that it Education Week, Joseph Smith and the JST- Parti p As often as possible, I try to take advantage of the many opportunities opportuni-ties we have in this area to continue my education, particularly religious education. BYLPs Education Week, originally created as a training tool for church leaders, has always been one of the best of these types of opportunities. Some of the finest speakers, teachers and scholars contribute con-tribute to what is usually a marvelous mar-velous experience. I had the opportunity to attend a class taught by Jeffrey Marsh on the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible. Due to an unhealthy climate of suspicion and mistrust between the LDS and Reorganized LDS churches that lasted almost 150 years, this important branch of Joseph Smith's calling was generally shunned by Latter-day Saints until almost the end of the 1970s. However, due to the lifelong work of Robert J. Matthews and others, we now have an entire generation of Latter-day Saints who have grown up with the new LDS scriptures, including footnotes and an appendix that together make up about one third of the actual changes made by Joseph Smith. Like our reverence for the Holy Bible and many other LDS doctrines, doc-trines, I'm afraid the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) is often misunderstood misunder-stood by our friends of other faiths. Although many other Christian religions reli-gions now use more recent translations, transla-tions, Latter-day Saints still claim Stand to, PI. Grove Editor: Many veterans will remember times in their service when they were on patrol or in a defensive, position, when danger was believed to be imminent, the last watch of the night, in the hour before dawn would arouse his fellows with "Stand to." This was the warning to prepare for possible attack. There are many people in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove preparing to run for city office. I applaud those who are doing so in an attitude of public service. I fear there are some doing so for selfish reasons, for pride or possible gain. Is outside money going to determine who is elected? How can we keep our local political leaders from being bought by outside out-side interests or from letting the outcome be determined by the strength of a persons own fortune? We have a problem. No one will solve it for us. We will face very difficult times ahead. We need to be united, not fractured into 15 or 20 different parties. We have gone on as we have for generations and it has been OK. The City has functioned moderately well. We have tolerated the expenses, expens-es, the inefficiencies and the waste so long as no more was asked of us and we were allowed to mind our own business and not be bothered. I speak to you as one who is on Telephone Numbers Circulation 375-5103 News & Advertising 755-7669 Publisher Brett Bezzant Managing Editor Marc Haddock City Editor Karli Poyfair Subscription price S26 ' 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 pm Letters to the Editor . . .Monday. 10 a.m. Sports Monday. 10 a.m. Community Calendar . .Monday. 10 am Obituaries Tuesday. 11 am. took the city council so long to finally final-ly approve the position on a permanent perma-nent basis. Todd will be given some recreation recre-ation assignments to keep him busy during the off-season and I'm sure he'll be an asset to that department. However, if the choice was between having a full-time manager or each season hiring a part-time pool manager, man-ager, who would probably be different differ-ent every year, and who probably wouldn't be able to keep up on maintenance, the city is definitely smarter to go with a full time manager, man-ager, despite the added cost of the full time salary. And just maybe the pool won't always be just a seasonal operation. The issue comes up every now and then and I would just like to add my opinion that I think a year-round pool would be a great asset to the community. I heard that the issue of a bubble was recently discussed by a Lindon resident at a city council the King James Version as their official offi-cial Bible. As a witness to Joseph Smith's unparalleled gift as a translator, the 49 scholars commissioned by King James, the best linguists the world, had yet produced, translated the Bible at the rate of about one page per day; Joseph Smith translated the entire Book of Mormon in a little over 60 working days a rate of 8 pages per day. In addition to that, he would always begin precisely where he left off, without asking his scribe to read from the previous day's work. Taking all of his work into account, Joseph Smith could easily be called the greatest translator the world has every known. By the same token, he has produced more pages of scripture than any other person. In one of Marsh's lectures, he said that, while speaking in Salt Lake City, one of the attorneys who successfully suc-cessfully sued the tobacco companies was asked about the legal theory on which he based the case. Essentially, Reader's Forum the last watch of the night. "Stand to." Arouse yourselves. Everything is about to change. I believe we shall have to participate in our governing gov-erning much more than we have done so far. It is time to check your resources, communicate with friends and your families. Counsel with your spouse. If you lose your income, how will you live? I fear we are about to lose first our wealth and then our liberty. How will our city operate with no money? How will we take care of our responsibilities? How will we take care of our poor? How will we educate our children? We have been spoiled with unbelievable wealth for generations. That is ending now. We have enjoyed the goodwill of the media and those in power. That will end also. What you will do, I don't know, but at least I can give the warning: "Stand to." Jack Otto IRS is unfair Editor: President Bush is taking on Internal Revenue Service reform. That is truly commendable and desperately des-perately needed in this state. These are things we have experienced in our dealings with the IRS. 1. We had trouble knowing how to prepare Schedule C so we asked for help like it says they will give in We welcome letters L.t' auu iui a lldlllt; Milieu niiu oiym- -.I q r jtV. Pu ber Wp rpprxo thp rinht tn edit letters for cw ; c. tion, taste and length. H n By Mail P.O. Box 7, American UT 84003 In Person 59 W. Main, American meeting TVip uumuct purchasing a hTu? f to nut over t.hP PW,. a bubh f If Lindon would do tha T'iH ant Grove would let Linri dents use the pool for the 1 fee, mstead of the hiehpm dei11 dent fee. gtler non-resi. Lindon residents needacce, a pool. A year-round pool ! 0 also benefit the high set 2 team, which currently ha t ,! to American Fork and pav t d their indoor pool during suHw season. I think other JSgj the community would also ; being able to swim during the J ant Grove wnnlrl V. .nleas. City officials Probably w T"WOrrh right,. Plpasnnt n Pi.. ,5"V vith the fith new freeway interchange, but these new dpvplnnmflntfl ..jii uuievara andfc tith 111 wm wVn-lo mt f a. ana j. c v cuuc iur rj)g 1 Mf.. . I ;;cl a -.3 should be used to nav ki. ., bonds used to pay for the road 2 interchange, after awhile the ci can start thinking of other way, i spend the revenue. A bubble for ft! pool would be an excellent way tl use the money and benefit the com munity. the answer was conspiracy. Officers or me toDacco companies not onlv'; knew of the dangers but conspired to i continue jeopardizing the health of ! their customers. The 'Word of Wisdom" (see D&C ! W.L-4) which, among other thiim f warns against the use of tobacco, was revealed to Joseph Smith: "In consequence of evils and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of conspiring men in the last days..." Two sections earlier and almost 30 fie a years in advance, Joseph Smith pre- p s cisely predicted where and howthej'ai Civil War would begin. Marsh's class included dozens of JST corrections to the King James text that are now seen as obvious translation errors. For example, Ga 24:2 and 9 make it appear that swears an oath by putting your h under the thigh of the person to whom you are making the promise. ". ye In Hebrew the difference between ,;.;forj the word for "thigh" and "hand" is a .cj j. jot similar to the difference ..y ' between the number "7" and a capi-, tal "T." According to the JST come- m tion, one swears an oath by joining hands rather than wnat mignt uxu) t. be considered a very risky way to A finai iirfare. tad nf 'm b touch someone. Beyond corrections, Joseph Smith also added or restored lost scriptural texts. Some of these have since been largely verified by the discovery of j. heretofore unknown anciem nuiu-y ., scripts such as the Dead sea a More next time... 'Harlem to k fti .J, and arran s blii :;ever, -tastu ae an the handbook instead we got a pre-audit. ., , 2. 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