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Show Pleasant Grove Review New Utah - Thursday. November 2S. 2002 - Pase 5 i ,: . Y IT r rjj I ft b- je Happy Hobos chapter of the Good Sam's Club celebrated its 25th 11 PTSA hears legislators' opinions Happy Hobos' Cfeeleb anniversary. rafe anniver By Kalyn Secretan The Happy Hobos chap-- chap-- r fV.o Crnnd Sam's Club f UA Lntly celebrated its 25th yversary. Irnrtv-nne members gath- rjd at the Carson Cabin in jshland for the event jder the direction of Dar-.np Dar-.np Pace, chapter presi- Int. The group honored human and Edna Mae JcBride from Salt Lake ity. They are tne omy two out of the original group iat started the Happy obos chapter. The Good Sam's State resident Bill Ore and his fife also attended the vent. i The group enjoyed a big Inner, little hobos on a lollipop lol-lipop and a large decorated hday cake. The group ijoyed a program and ies. The Happy Hobos get igether every month year iiind. This past summer ley enjoyed four camp- its. There .are about 265 id Sam's Chapters with out 11,000 members tionwide. The Happy participate in the ational Cleanup Day, and leir project for 2002 was to lopt the local Kiwanis 'irk in Pleasant Grove. On ! ie national appointed Sat- jjv rday in May, club members ' rrived at the pavilion here they began digging, i w iking, picking up, washing ibles, cleaning off the con- fte and rolling hazardous '23 kcks down the hill into the Teck. All 20 couples arrived the clean-up and they Winued to clean up the j .. tfk on a monthly basis. The club recently -" wived a letter of thanks om Mayor Jim Danklef adDeon Giles, the Leisure H rvices director. It stated, J' Our Kiwanis and Discov- Parks are much nicer d cleaner as a result of pwork the Happy Hobos on an ongoing basis. Not f.v does it bring beauty to 'J F but it saves us a " Nt amount of time and jnty which can be used in fter critical areas. You (1P the city to function Knout excessive tax bur-Pi." i -"ici aiso expressed PPreciation to the Happy ! for their efforts to Ve labels to help the Dan erson School, make hats and lap robes for f needy, to give food to those less fortunate and for their clean-up project at Mutual Dell. The Club has ongoing projects to collect soup labels for the Peterson School to help pay for playground play-ground equipment. Many of the members knit stocking caps for the third world countries while at their camp-outs and at home. More than 320 hats have been sent and the group also crochets leper bandages. bandag-es. They made lap quilts all year and 50 have been distributed dis-tributed to different care centers. They also make JiryBuiiding Corp. XlO' 7.295 tS.X54 x 12' 12.475 '-.J2'1 3' 20.665 N" Qlr financing optionst Slates locators! yson, UT favors for holidays and fill them with candy, they are taken to care centers and given to the American Fork Women's Center for new mothers on Mother's Day. "We feel that the Happy Hobos are a top-notch, very active group and a great example of what Good Sam's stands for," Pace said. "We spend many hours and days in serving others. We love the opportunities that it gives us to meet other Good Sam's chapters. It also gives us opportunities to have many friends across this great land." By Kalyn Secretan PTSA Day with the legislator's and the Parent Teacher Association was a big event the third week in November at Calamity Jane's in Orem. It was a gathering with about 170 participants partic-ipants sponsored by the PTSA Legislators. Alpine School District Personnel, school principals, school board members, regional and council PTSA leaders and presidents from the Region Nine PTSA made up of the Alpine School all mingled together for the special day. Regional PTSA director, Gainell Rogers, welcomed the guests, Superintendent Vern Henshaw, Legislators, John Dougal, David Cox, Jim Ferron, Mike Thompson, Brad Winn, John Valentine and Margaret Dayton. The newly elected school board members, Donna Barnes, Crissy Hanneman and Keith Swain were welcomed along with board members Jodee Sundberg, Marilyn Kofford, Guy Fugal, Andrea Forsyth and Jim Evans. Regional PTSA leaders attended a ribbon cutting event for the new PTSA house in September and Gainell presented avideo with some of the happenings. The new facility is the David O.McKay PTSA State Office Building. The David O. McKay home was obtained by the PTSA in 1951, and has served the organization for many years. With the sale of the building, the PTSA was able to purchase the new offices where meetings can be held. The PTSA slogan is "Speak Up, Speak Up and Be Heard." Henshaw expressed appreciation for the PTSA bringing the education family together. togeth-er. He feels one of the greatest things that takes place is what happens between a student stu-dent and their teacher in class each day. School Board President Jodee Sundberg introduced the new board members and announced this would be Marilyn Kofford's last board meeting. "She has done a lot for the child," Sundberg Sund-berg said. She went on to say, "We should all work together to make things happen, give all children equal access to knowledge. Ninety-seven percent of the children are educated educat-ed in public education. It is critical and vital to take care of the other three percent. We should not try to find ways to take money from public education." Representative Cox said sometimes we don't discuss history enough. About 1647 the Pilgrims passed a law requiring all communities com-munities with 50 families to build a school. Representative Thompson said that when he looks at the issues he looks at the Constitution, Consti-tution, of the people, by the people and for the people. He is not in favor of too many tests in the classroom, schools should use the data they have. Representative Winn thanked the PTSA for their service, the board and teachers to work with the funding they have. He appreciates appre-ciates parents getting involved. As a teacher and vice president at Utah Valley State College, Col-lege, he said, "The masses have access to a good education." He believes there are disadvantages dis-advantages in the system and is in favor of experimenting with new ideas. Representative Ferron discussed all the budget , cuts and the legislators returned again and again to trim the budget. Funding has been cut the past two years, revenue has not increased at the rate projected. Even the rainy day fund is basically gone, the problem is the economy is not up and education has lost revenue. Legislator Valentine said Utah has a demographic issue with 21 per thousand while the national average is 14 per thousand. thou-sand. The task force has been working hard with recommendations and some of the recommendations rec-ommendations are controversial. Legislators and school personnel were scattered among the tables to allow PTSA members to get acquainted, ask questions and express concerns. Mary Yna Heart tt ill i!ws Alpine Credit Union is now serving all of Utah County, and do we have a deal for you! Vehicle loans as low as. Cx.vr-w. Ay w This offer is good for model years 1995 to 2003 with up to 60 month financing. 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