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Show rre rress - inursoay. june to. Police Qiief s Comer Several of the Comity Softball teams have been playing in the Strawberry Days Fastpitch softball tournament in Pleasant Grove, and I'm one of the hundreds of fans who've enjoyed the action. There has been more fireworks in that tourney than you could ever imagine. The lightning struck a power pole, flames licked and crackled across the huge wires, people fled the scene, there were oooos and aaaaahs as nature's fireworks display gathered momentum in the evening sky. There were also a few moments of fireworks on the ground. Players lost their cool, fans hollered to high heaven, popcorn, corn dogs and root beer smells rent the air, and umpires with their extravagant gestures were a sight to see. Some of the games went into extra innings and some were halted after five. Softball fans vary in age from crochety old men to bawling babies; from little but loud elderly ladies to precocious young lads telling off the umps. I get so excited I daresn't even eat for fear I'll swallow something whole. I swallowed a Kraft caramel once without even removing the cellophane wrapper. Roberta Larsen gave me the chew at a basketball game and I couldn't handle yelling and eating at the same time. The results were disastrous. I had to go home and recover from choking on that darn caramel. A now avoid anything but ice. And, I tossed some of that down the neck of a crochety old man sitting in front of me. He was cheering for the wrong team. One of the players on The Stingers hit a home run, the ball bounced ten feet over the fence and the umpire called it a ground rule double. Wow! The coach and the players were such good sports. It's too bad that gray- - ro the I haired lady sitting in the stands didn't act her age too. She didn't and that caused more fireworks between her and the crochety old man. She jumped down off the stands, a five foot jump, (she could never do that again) stomped around until she'd recovered her cool, then returned to her seat. Of course she was mad. The kid that hit the homer was her own son! People get so carried away with the games they forget they've brought their kids with them. A cute young mother that I know was so engrosed with the play of her husband, Guy, that she lost her young son for two hours. He turned up down in the rest rooms, unharmed. Well, that could be more fun for him than a ball game I'll have to admit. There are so many handsome young men and so many cute chicks at those games! You can tell when they're in love and when they're newlyweds. They go around with their arms around each other. After they've been married a year or two, they become pretty blase about the whole thing. Then you go a few generations beyond youth and there they are back holding hands again. Take Heber and Iona, Doria and Glen, and countless other young-at-hearomantics. The evenings are cool, sometimes windy, and folks huddle together in blankets to keep warm. lady I was talking about doesn't need a blanket, she gets hot under the collar quite often, and so far hasn't required coverups to get all heated up. Just give her an erring sky, a ump, a June brilliantly lit softball diamond, with 18 athletes in action, and the cockles of her heart defy the chill in the air. She's a mother, a grandmother, a homemaker, a cook, but more than that, she's a softball fan! Just ask the folks who go to watch her ! - ed the same sophisticated' philosophies, would fall prey. 1 wonder what kind of protections sonia has had over the years. June 26th - Saturday Early Morning Breakfast Wines Park Bike Race - Steve Carlton, 768-344- 8 5,000 Meter Race Brent Fox Games from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. will be held east of the junior high school. They include races, greased pole climb, greased pig chase, moon walk, dunking booth, watermelon bust, money in straw, water polo by fire department, pie eating and much 68-3789 From The Front star-studd- Sonia Johnson Is Misguided to was riding a bicycle. Here in Lehi I saw a youngster ride out in front of traffic in a crosswalk just the other day. After our discussions, I'm sure he realizes he was wrong. But how much blame would the parents have placed on the driver of the vehicle on Main Street, had their son been hit? Wouldn't it be better for the youngster to have been trained to push his bicycle across the street in the crosswalk and to enjoy the legal protection given a pedestrian rather than dart across on a bicycle without any legal protection at all. As a parent I to have had to pay for damage to a vehicle which resulted from one of mv vounesters zoomine down the sidewalk as a neighbor was Soma's latest decision has eternal complications and should be viewed with deep soberness. To toss it off as a "temper tantrum" is reckless and shows a great lack of incite. What if we all join the press and turn our backs on Sonia? Who then is left to grasp her hand pull her back? Ah, and what of Soma's children? When we turn our back on Sonia we turn it on a generation and more. I weep for her. I'd grasp her hand and pull her back anytime. Lynn Merrill City Council Sets Budget Continued from page 1 year will see the Police Department getting the largest slice of the city's financial pie. The Police Department has been allocated $269,950 for operations in the coming year. Other large expenditures include administration costs of $196,700 and a cost of $254,100 for maintaining city streets. The city also plans on spending $170,000 on its debt service. The city will spend $9,800 on maintaining the local court; Building costs of $$44,100; city inspection costs will total $37,300; a Fire Department budget of $61,550; and Animal Control costs totaling $25,650. The remaining funds allotted for the 1982-8- 3 fiscal year include $32,150 for the Lehi Ambulance Association, Garbage pickup costs of $112,800, Parks work totaling $28,600, City Recreation budget of $42,900, the ' backing out of his driveway. The vehicle was struck in the side, denting a door and breaking the window. We were lucky though the youngster escaped with minor cuts and bruises If the youngster had been a little faster, she could just as easily have ridden behind the vehicle and have been run over. Many are the incidents I've been called upon to record in the past "Bicycle vs. Automobile. Generally with serious or fatal injuries to the bicyclist. Sadly to, in most cases the bicyclist was at fault. Let us all as drivers resolve to be more mindful of our impulsive youngsters, who are enjoying vacation and not run into them. As parents let us make sure our youngsters know safety rules and practice them when out on their bicycles. then-summ- er Legion Sets more fun. Genealogy Open House Lehi Stake Center Cultural Arts and Hobby show Lehi Civic Center Miniature Parade Lehi Roundup Rodeo Times of events will follow next week. Watch for them. June 25th Friday Cultural Arts and Hobby Show Civic Center Genealogy Open House Lehi Stake Center Miniature Parade Lehi Roundup Rodeo -- EEDETGDM Dear Editor: I write in regards to last weeks comment concerning Sonia Johnson. It's my feeling that your editorial was not objective and indeed even reckless. Let me try to explain. I AM NOT in sympathy with Soma's "cause." But I have watched the activities of Sonia (and others like her) for several years. I can tell you she is neither 'stupid' nor a 'fool.' She is however a very intelligent articulate woman who has lost her way. I wonder if many of us, subjected Stock Parade Lehi Roundup Rodeo 768-344- 8 rt That-grayhair- I'm sure the man would not drive his car in such a manner; then again maybe he did; perhaps thats why he Lehi Roundup Begins June 24 Lehi's Roundup Celebration will get underway on June 24. The famous Miniature Parade will be held on Friday evening with all floats and winners announced in Saturday's parade. Due to problems over the past few years there wili be no "Anything Goes" category in the parade this year. That means there will be no bikes, go carts, motorcycles or other entries of similar nature. Very few fund raising projects have been registered as yet. Scout Troops, ward auxiliaries, clubs and other groups are missing an opportunity to make some good money. Call to register for concessions. This year's celebration includes: Jue 24 Thursday Genealogy Open House- Lehi Stake Center Free Swim - Lehi Pool ea B miliam Gibbs course the youngster had not to strike the old man and was remorseful and his parents probably remembered the incident even longer than the youngster as they helped pay a share of the hospital bills. This problem could have been avoided so easily though, just by having the youngster form good safety habits and not be riding on the sidewalk. Youngsters aren't the only ones who are careless on bicycles though. People fail to realize that when mounted on a bicycle they give up their pedestrian right of way and are subject to most of the rules pertaining to motor vehicles. I observed a gentleman just last week run a signal in Orem on a bicycle in a crosswalk and just narrowly missed being struck by two automobiles going down State Street. School is out, with it comes the fun time for our youngsters. Bicycling, swimming, horseback riding, fishing, joy riding and just lots of fun things; not to mention a little work. It is also a time for more exposure to life's hazards by our young people. A time tobe out doing instead of confinement to the class rooms. Farm and industrial accidents take their toll of youngsters each year. So lets be careful and reduce as many of these hazards as possible. One of the fun things I would like to address today, is bicycling : I notice many of our youngsters riding on the sidewalks downtown. This creates a greater hazard than most people realize I knew an elderly gentleman who stepped out of a store and was struck by a youngster on a bicycle. This Senior Citizen was hospitalized for several weeks. Of nwz-rag- Garage Sale on Saturday An American Legion Garage Sale will be held Saturday, June 12, at the Bakery Parking Lot from 9:30 to 2:30 p.m. The Legion will also conduct a rolling pin sales campaign m- planned to get underway mediately. All funds earned will go toward the purchase of new flags for Main; Street. Report Cards Are Ready For Students Like it or Not door-to-do- Buchanan Call Report cards for the past year's classes at Lehi High School are now available, it was reported by Principal Neil C. Christensen. Students desiring to pick their report cards up may do so today or tomorrow (Thursday or Friday), June 10 and 11, between 7:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. lEelji Wxtt & Associates 225-022- 4 Financial Planning Estate Planning Life and Health Insurance ' Employee Benefits Group Health, Life, Disability Keogh, I.R.A., Pensions Buy Sell Insurance press 32 West Main, Lehi, Utah 84043 Published each Thursday by Newtah, Inc. Telephone Numbers Advertising & Circulation . News Library budget of $36,500, Cemetery costs totaling $76,200, operation of the city swimming pool costing $53,100 and miscelaneous items amounting to $32,000. Revenues in the Water Fund are expected to be $293,200 and expenditures to amount to $295,500. This leaves a deficit in the Water Fund of 3 Subscription price $9.50 per year Second class postage paid at Lehi Post Office U.S. P S. No. 309-50- 0 Clive J. 390 Postmaster Stud address chant's to o. Box 7. Anirncan Furk. i:tah B4IKH W. Buchanan 800 N. Suite 217 Orem, Utah 84057 P $2,300. The Sewer Fund projected at revenues and $265,000 are ex- This penditures to be $265,150. amounts to a deficit of $150. in the Sewer Fund. The city will make up the previously mentioned deficits with a surplus in the Electric Fund. The expected revenue in the Electric Fund is $1,251,000 and expenditures will total $1,236,800 resulting in a fund surplus of $14,200. 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