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Show Aaron Card: Pageant Narrator Continued from front page children Mrs. Card "felt an urging to reach out and care for orphan children." Together the Cards now have 18, ten of their own and eight adopted. "They are all boys but 14," said Aaron who smiled as he spoke. Mothers Day and Fathers Day have extra meaning for the Cards. Counting all their own and adopted children, a total of 30 call the Cards 'mom and dad.' The other 12 are Indian placement students and foster children. They also have 19 grandchildren. Facts like these would prompt any parent to remark, "I don't know how you do it." The Cards responded in unison, "We don't know either." Currently living at home are eight teenagers. Can you imagine the organization it takes to get them off to school each morning and the wisdom of Solomon needed to solve the "it's my turn in the bathroom" problems? Just before our interview, the TheLehiFFee 13 of them, sat down to that each child has an area of the yard breakfast where two dozen eggs, a to keep up. She also pointed with pride gallon of milk and a loaf of bread to her small coop of chickens that " literally disappeared. produce seven eggs a day . There is a distinct international Having Aaron home during the flavor to the eight adopted Cards: a summer seemed to be a real treat for Navajo, one Mexican, one all the family. Mrs. Card said "it was Polynesian, three Koreans and twin like heaven on earth" to have him Cards, boys from Guatemala who came to Aaron and Bonnie last year. From that "poor reader" of his Canadian days, Aaron developed skills that led to a three year experience in Samoa setting up a reading program in a high school. From 1965 to 1968, Mr. and Mrs. Card, along with nine children, lived in a "different culture." "It was an experience that helped our children become more tolerant," says Bonnie. lot The Cards live on a with 24 fruit trees, grapes, and a well-keand necessary garden. As we sat in the shade of two evergreens and a pair of Delicious apple trees, Mrs. Card pointed out pt You Better Believe It home for the first time in his teaching career. Aaron taught in the public schools for 24 years, spent five years in the LDS Seminary program as a teacher and principal and he now serves as the Assistant Administrator for the Utah Valley seminaries. This year, at the age of 60, he gave up the variety of summer jobs he has worked at to' spend one summer at home, although he says he is not sure how they'll make out financially. After several years of donated work ' for the Pageant Of The Arts, Aaron now receives a few hundred dollars for his 29 nights of work. According to both Aaron and Mrs. Spencer, "the secret of the Pageant's success is the volunteer workers." More than 500 showed up for casting night in February and three separate; casts put on the production with each group working ten nights. During nightly productions, Aaron is frequently called on to fill time when something goes wrong backstage. Occasionally he ad libs a little humor, but his boss, Mrs. Spencer, keeps a close watch on him even though his wife says, "after all, he is a 'Card'!" The Pageant is becoming well known throughout Utah and in the West. Last year it played to a total audience of 25,000 who came from 15 states and three foreign countries. It takes countless hours and literally hundreds of people to make it such a success. Certainly Aaron Card, a man who left a career in radio to do "something of greater service to mankind" has, along with his wife Bonnie, made his mark in both areas. By Betty Fowier Sidewalk Sales Are Special Have you ever been to a sidewalk sale on Lehi's Main Street? If you haven't you've missed really something special. For years mothers have taught their children the art of saying "please" and "thank you" not to mention waiting your turn and first come first served. Then something happens at a sale and all the best laid examples of mice and men go out the window. What would the children say if they saw their sedate and serene mothers at a sidewalk sale??? At a certain corner store on Main I saw a group of ladies emerge from a van, form a team of three and then you should have seen them! One aggressive gal stood her ground at the $1.98 table, and the one with the longest arms grabbed up an armful of merchandise and staggered over to a third who was waiting in the wings with a garbage bag. They dumped the stuff in the bag, then went through it at their leisure. Picking and choosing, laughing and talking. When they'd made their selections they returned Donor Pledges Due Saturday Everyone who has secured pledges for the Cystic Fibrosis n should bring their sponsor sheets to the American Fork McDonalds at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. The n will begin promptly at 9 a.m. The y Jaycees will be present to direct activities and see that all participants have a fun and safe ride. A local police officer will escort bicyclers to n the course located in a secluded area south of town. n The is not a race for speed or distance, but an effort to raise badly needed research money for Cystic Fibrosis. Prizes including a new bicycle from y Schwinn and a $50 sleeping bag from Cash's Western Auto will be awarded to the individuals raising the most money for Cystic Fibrosis. All participants will end their ride with a free drink courtesy of McDonalds. For information call Curt Brink-ma- n at or Brett Bezzant at or or Bill Cox at ext. 263 or Bike-A-Tho- Bike-A-Tho- Tri-Cit- Bike-A-Tho- Bike-A-Tho- the unwanted goods to the bargain table gloating over their good fortune! I just took another survey at another July sale in Lehi. It was most interesting. The store had cleverly e rack near the placed a door. The rack had metal legs that tripped you as you entered and golly you stumbled onto the bargains even as you entered the portals! There right in front of my eyes was a dollar table. Can you believe it? Something for a dollar in these days of inflation and deprivation? , There were flare leg jeans being snatched up right and left. There were straw hats (I bought two) and scarves (I purchased three) and underwear with strong elastic in the half-pric- legs (I bought several pair). Then I stopped and thought. What in heck am I going to do with bloomers? Oh well you might be in an accident. The hat I can use at ball games, all the better to hide your face in when you yell at the umpires. But...the flare leg jeans? There were darling ice cream dishes marked down, so I bought ten; Oh yes, the doctor had just said, "No more than 1200 calories a day for you Mrs. Fowler." I put the ice cream dishes back where they belonged in the first place. Shucks. I picked them back up and marched over to the check stand and had the puzzled clerk wrap them up. A blue and white quilted, skirted, bedspread? And, for only $9.99? I grabbed it before that snooty lady . Winch Your Language By DON NORTON Assistant Professor of English Brigham Young University A couple of years ago, my son was criticizing something an adult had said. "Never mind," I told him. "She was ignorant, not unfair." "She's not ignurnt (ignorant), Dad," my son replied. "She's nice! " He didn't know the ordinary meaning of the word ignorant, only the Utah meaning - "rude, obnoxious." This use of ignurnt (it occurs in some parts of Southern Idaho also) leads, I understand, to another Utah-ism- : "Oh for ignurnt? Ohfordumb! Oh for neat!" (oh for rhymes with gopher). Elsewhere, you cut, skip or ditch classes at school, or you play hookey. In Utah, you slough (slough?) school. There are many Utah localisms (words peculiar to a town or valley), but not a Utahns say 'you bet,' along with many great many more general Utah-ismother westerners; borrow pit (barrow pit, bar pit, etc.) is a term peculiar to rural Great Basin (it's the term to describe the pit from which one borrows dirt to create a grade). Then there are the countless Mormonisms: We'd like to welcome you out; the obselete stake house, testial (a strictly Mormon word), sacrament, endowment, recommend, etc. These are major Utah linguistic export. By the way, only Mormons appear to fold their arms while they pray - a Primary or Junior Sunday School tradition. If you think you have a genuine Utah-isphone or write to this newspaper. Good items to forbid. I'd A-- 2 ge be donated for the Jayceette and American Fork Hospital. For more information and drop off locations: Call 756-649- 1 or 768-875- SMITH DRUG 2 We 3 24 W. Main Am. Fork fill prescriptions for: E.H.C. almost forgotten to check the material table! Woe is me, people had been there before me. But, there was a peachy georgette piece that would look great for a sexy negligee.. .and a brocade I swear I'd seen there a few years before - but beautiful, and some faded flannel that would be just right for a winter bathrobe. What bargains. I didn't matter that I'd have to clear out the drawers and closets of the bargains that I'd bought two or three years ago! The children's bargains proved my A stupendous array of undoing. dresses, tank tops, swim suits, shoes, off. I grabbed an armall at one-haful just like I'd seen those ladies do the other day on Main Street, took them to a quiet corner, made my choices and contemplated how darling my grandchildren were going to look soon. The poor little deprived things. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I laid out all my outstanding bargains, studied the cast-off- s from out of closets and drawers, sighed deeply, made myself a cold drink, and rested. I'd just remembered another sale '" that I must go to tomorrow. 1981-Pa- Jaycee rummage sale. Proceeds go to help furnish and decorate the Pediatrics Ward of the new back of me had a chance to do me out of it. I knew just where I'd put it. In the basement bedroom which was decorated in a darling green and orange color scheme. Heavens July 9. Press-Thursda- y, (Educators Health Care) D.M.B.A. (Deseret Mutual Benefit Assoc.) P.C.S. (State Employees Health Fund) lf Open Daily 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Closed Sunday "THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER" COLORING CONTEST! s. 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