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Show -am Grove Reveu LinJon Edition New Utah - Thursday. July IS. 2002 - Page 2 Opinion Everyone has pioneer ancestr) Particularly with so many newcomers to the state and area, there needs to be great care taken not to divide the population into those with "Pioneer "Pio-neer stock" and those without. Despite the enormous contribution contri-bution to society provided by the pioneers of 1847, there have been so many other such pioneers pio-neers throughout history. Whether they are from wars ranging from the American to the Hungarian revolution, pioneers pio-neers who endured physical hardships of any frontier, or those who demonstrated any of a number of different types of bravery to confront their own dragons to slay, there have been pioneers throughout the world, and throughout history. It would be difficult to find anyone without pioneer ancestry ances-try of one kind or another. A pioneer is a person instrumental instru-mental in the growth of something, some-thing, particularly in its early stages. That definition applies to a broad spectrum of brave individuals indi-viduals from all ages. Utah's Pioneer Day may commemorate a certain band of those indomitable people, but extends to the spirit of pioneering itself. Let us remember that and include all our friends and neighbors as we commemorate the early Utah pioneers this July 24. Librarians work miracles with summer proJ Next week is Pioneer Day in Utah. Kvcn in surrounding states, the local holiday receives some attention. Kach year as the stories of both triumph and tragedy are told and retold, it brings to life the sacrifices given by so many for a cause dear to their hearts. What they sowed has been reaped by countless others in succeeding generations down to today. Pausing to ponder their tales of tribulation makes life more meaningful and perhaps gives guidance for our own futures. If their goals were so important for them, it gives us reason to believe that we have sufficient motivation to enthusiastically and diligently pursue the goals of our own hearts and heads. It gives valuable perspective to step back and take a look at someone's life and see how it has affected your own. Having that long-range viewpoint view-point helps us select our own paths with more care. A hundred hun-dred years from today, someone may be scrutinizing our choices. May they do so with appreciation apprecia-tion and respect for our idealism. ideal-ism. As we celebrate this holiday next week, let us remember the past with a look to the future. There is one other aspect for us to remember. What's a newspaper to do? So, what do you hold in your hands? A newspaper. A weekly newspaper with weddings wed-dings and funerals, missionary departures and returns, birthdays birth-days and death days. It also has some news about the city council and perhaps a little lit-tle news about the library and the police. It's a weekly, though, so it doesn't carry some of the stuff the dailies carry. If you are subscribing sub-scribing to a daily, we hope it is to The Daily Herald in Provo, but our surveyors tell us that it is not likely that you subscribe to any other paper. ; Why is that? Years ago Paul Simon wrote a song in which he said "I can gather gath-er all the news I need on the weather report." It wasn't a very encouraging thought to a journalist. But, like it or not, the role of the journalist in our society is changing. When I first entered the business, busi-ness, in 1967, we practiced what is now called "prescriptive" journalism. jour-nalism. That's the kind of journalism where we tell you what's good for you. We think the city bond hearing hear-ing is important so we put it on the front page with a large headline head-line and a picture or graphic, because we knew that would make you read it. That's out the window now. There are too many other things clamoring for your attention. The Internet, the radio, the Walkman, television, magazines, billboards, flyers and inserts. There are even ads on the tops of buses so you can see them from tall buildings, looking down, for Pete's sake. So now many of us are practicing practic-ing what is called "prescriptive" journalism. That means vou tell m- www imiii..MJJii in j in i in iiib hi. num. j mum THMtlBBBir TMlBBBWiWii YbW us what you DON'T want to see, and we don't print that. Does that sound as backward to anyone else as it sounds to me? That, I think, is where weeklies week-lies come in to play. We don't face the pressure of meeting daily deadlines or covering cover-ing huge areas with disparate towns and communities. We can tell you, though, what Paul Harvey used to call "the rest of the news." We have covered, for instance, the strange and sad story of the arrest of a prominent judge from our midst. Our reporter has known his mother for years. The insight she can bring to telling the more human parts of the story of Judge Ray Harding, Jr., will help you, as the reader of the weekly, understand more completely what is going on. Because it is so much more than just a man being arrested. That's why this newspaper is not like the conventional dailies. It's that way by design. We want to be your paper. We want you to read it and feel comfortable about the information informa-tion that's in it - not that it should make you comfortable, but the news should not be distant dis-tant to you. To a large part, Lehi news circulates cir-culates to Lehi readers, while American Fork news circulates to American Fork readers, Pleasant Grove news reach PG readers, and so forth. We are part of the community in which you live, and we intend to stay that way. John Gholdston can be reached at jghoIdstonSneivutah.com. With five children to entertain this summer. I enrolled them in the library's summer reading program. The first day of the program. I spent several minutes trying to find a parking space, and finally found one near city hall, which didn't seem to be a good sign. As I shepherded my children into the library I could hardly believe how many children seemed to be wandering around and was grateful for the signs directing each of my children to a different spot in the library. My two older children were in the loft, my eight year old was in a group near the windows and my kindergartner and preschooler were downstairs. We settled the older children, trying not to disturb an adult reading group which was trying to meet, as well as patrons who were just trying to find a book through the jungle of children. It was starting to feel a little overwhelming over-whelming to me. Heading downstairs, we were met by people coming up with costumes on. We soon found out that the Youth Theater was rehearsing their play in the Little Theater-the reading program was next door. We steered into the kitchen area where several tables were set with crafts and the library lady was getting ready to start with about 30 children. chil-dren. The preschool class was the same, just in the next room. Now you would think this would be a madhouse for the reading program, pro-gram, but the library ladies seemed calm and composed as they read, played and helped the children make their crafts. Their calmness seem to permeate perme-ate the adults in the room and I relaxed. My preschooler loved the stories sto-ries and songs, and then we went over to the craft table. I was surprised sur-prised that there was a craft for each child, with so many children. chil-dren. Most of the city libraries in our county don't do the crafts anymore any-more because it's too -much trouble trou-ble or too expensive. Our library runs the crafts as well as fingerplays, puppets, songs and the-like, for a $5 registration regis-tration fee and despite the fact that there is extremely limited space in our building. With all these little extras, it's no wonder that nuve , children are Peasant Grove p only can these cre S workers think of VJ """'in caster mte cm (Iron .l ,. "lev iv euuugn to fun, to put everyone My children are gram with drawings, and their craft efcs ... lOY- Prizes f.:; Proud'.v S UD at V, April Harmer. and h'V staff, deserve the m' : one in Pleasant Grov ' With the explode Pleasant Grove, and number of children 0-" ans say they work'hl".V turn anyone awavho: join the programs. Considering the fac, library was built for an"" of 13,000 people and eV ly have 24,000 people ' librarians do is nothing''-amazing. nothing''-amazing. So at this hot and biL year I would like to 'c-thanks 'c-thanks to April Hariri those who work at the lit-. You've done our coir-proud. coir-proud. Thank you for af time and effort spent in 6-ing 6-ing and entertaining dren, not only this suniir, all year. Life with families means the unexpected I went home one recent afternoon after-noon to enjoy what I thought would be a quiet, contemplative lunch hour in my empty house. Instead, when I got there, I found it full of people. Such is life with families. Our oldest was over with the grandkids because she had to take one of them to a nearby doctor's doc-tor's appointment. It has been very convenient for her to stash her other children at our place when she goes, so this day, she left them with Aunt Sarah who usually spends Monday Mon-day at her sister's house helping because her parents work the same shift that day. Partway through the stay, here came Uncle Mike with his friends in tow. He'd been at one of their homes playing, and now they were coming to enjoy what we have to offer at our place. The result: when I walked in the door, I was greeted by an atmosphere of convivial bedlam. So, the population went instantly to 10 times more than I was expecting when I drove out of the office parking lot, with a decibel deci-bel and clutter level to match. Sometimes, it's the opposite. During the school year, there were a few occasions when I came home from a late game at night expecting expect-ing to find a full house, and not only was nobody home, there wasn't was-n't a shred of evidence to suggest where any one of them might be -- although dirty dishes and socks plus backpacks thrown about certainly cer-tainly strongly suggested that someone had been there. Those are the moments when I think the penal tracking system (you know, the one where they wear something around the ankle) could be usefully employed in my service. So far I've only threatened, but one of these days, I might just get one. I've written here before about how quiet it's gotten since our big boys left, but whether that's really real-ly true or not kind of depends on the day. Some of the younger one's friends still come around on occasion, occa-sion, and the older boy's good buddies bud-dies start coming home in just a matter of weeks, so the cydt to start up all over again, a! until they all go off in pur; their life's dreams. By then, the youngest i be well into their own te cycles, so it might not turn be much of a break after al! Even when they're done actual residence, I someta think we'll be suffering : from "empty nest" syndrom; The thing about having ch is, once their exhausted p. have finally managed to I; them into life, they have a tt cy to multiply and come bad Our grandchildren are al' starting to have occasion-belong occasion-belong on grandma and gra: calendar, and we have ye; such events to go for our or This is not a compla:: young friend of mine who i-ing i-ing a mission wrote me nc: ago about how different the-concept the-concept of families is once? outside of Utah, and hoT-he hoT-he was for the very large & family he's a part of. We don't have anyvhtf their numbers yet, but ma;-; few decades we will ... would be just fine with rot Reader's Forum Rewarding large water users Editor: It is is a year of deep drought. Predicted shortages of water for farmers, animals, and even local outdoor usage. Some farms and ranches in the southern portion of the state have already given up. The only way to have a picture book yard, worthy of recognition by the Bautification Committee, is to use up lots and lots of water. So, why do we give 'Yard of the Month" awards to people that are using extraordinary amounts of water to achieve beautiful lush green yards? The one I see each morning on my walk is three times as large as an ordinary front yard, is watered two, maybe three times a week for hours on end, and is of course absolutely gorgeous. It is also consuming great quantities of an unrenewable resource. But, gosh, they have a really nice sign affirming their blatant disregard for the rest of the community. On the one hand the city is suggesting sug-gesting conservation of water; on the other hand a city committee is awarding those that think that it applies to everyone but them. The Beautification Committee should rethink its priorities. Kathy Gagon (Received via e-mail) Thanks to the EMTs Editor: On June 15, while mowing the lawn, I suffered a heart C-it C-it hadn't been for the t Trent Hall, who called then did CPR-theE" the ambulance crew I have made it. . My wife said she'd people move so fast and lyand with such expert; did. They literally sa: and I want to thank everyone of them. . The citizens of can be very proud of t- ; ambulance crew and It's very comforting to they are so well train; they are there to help n.- them. , Again, a big thank-'- who helped me. : New Utah American Fork Citizen. Pleasant Grove Renew. Lehi Free Press. Lindon New Utah. Lone Peak New Utah 59 W. Main American Fork. UT S4003 An edition of The Daily Herald, a Pulitzer. Inc. newspaper USPS 01S-5S0 (ISSN: 1 52 l-6S45 NEWSSTAND PRICE: 50 cents SUBSCRIPTION RATE: 1 year - S26 (in county) $35 (out of county ) (Thursday and Sunday plus Holiday deliveries) Holiday deli cries include delivery the week of Easter. Memorial. Independence. Pioneer. 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