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Show Free Press Wednesday, August 20, 1986 Page 2 First day of school is time for caution by motorists Monday marks the first day for the 1986-8- 7 For Lehi's entire iunior hi eh. this school vear will be an end and a beginning the end of classes in the old school and high junior high school, and a beginning of classes at the new facility which is nearing completion on Cedar Hollow Road. For those entering high school, this school year is major step towards preparing for the future - either for education at a a college education, career-orientevocational college or any of several other alternatives. school year. The first day of school is a time of beginnings. It's a time for getting reacquainted with old friends and becoming familiar with a new teacher. For kindergartners, this first school day is the beginning of a journey that leads to high school and graduation. It is the first step away from home and towards independence. For seventh graders, this year will be an initiation into the rigors of secondary education with several teachers instead of one, and a variety of possible class 12-ye- ar --- . be For this year's high school seniors, the So, drivers, please be on the look out for those little ones whose minds are more on school than on you. Help make the first day, and all the school days that will follow, safe days. school rmove be will will most one a last year through year com with little thought to endings until the tear-fille- d . 1986-8- careful. As hundreds of children set out for that first day this Monday morning, they will be thinking of many things. But they probably won't be as concerned with traffic safety as they should be. d - topics. mencement exercises held in the spring. That first day of school is many things to many people. But to local motorists, it should mean one thing - 7 ! Organization trouble Building's demise creates memories It doesn't last The trouble with getting organized it doesn't last. You can spend days and weeks plotting a plan; whip it out, sort it is ... through and line things up just so. Then children and various husbands can undo all you've done in two seconds flat. I find it extremely frustrating. Take last week's organizational effort - I decided the toys were room. the family overtaking Something had to be done to save the room. 1 got a bunch of little bags and sorted. I put toys too broken to play with in one bag. I put toys that were once loved but now forgotten in another for charity. I put toys that could be loved again if they were put up for a few weeks in another. I cut down the amount of debris considerably. I even found the bottom to the toy box. I lined up all the blocks, put the dresses on the dolls, the puzzle pieces into the puzzles. All the little cars were parked around the edges of the toy box. The stuffed animals were herded into the middle. There was a place for the train set and a place for the track. I could close the lid and everything. It looked so nice that I was enc7 ; V ouraged and forged on. I went upstairs to my son's room where we have toy shelves. I organized there; xylophone to the left, record player to the right. You could say it's the end of an 'era, but that's not entirely accurate. The real end of the era occurred : when the Second Ward moved out of Books in the bookrack. Guns in the holster. I was cooking. It took up most of the morning. 1 know that because precisely at 11:30 the doorbell rang. The news had gone out. The neighborhood tykes knew I was finished. My son's friends were calling. They came in all excited to see the toys arranged so nicely on the shelves and began to play. They got down the record player, they began to bang on the xylophone. They wanted to make a little city and set up a little hut. their own building into the beautiful new church down by the high school. But, now the old building is gone, that's the end of another era. That purplish brick building has gone by the wayside, and now when we glance over that way, we see nothing but a smooth dirt surface with nothing to remind us of what used to be. As long as the building was there I'd see prettily dressed people, from tots to ancients, strolling across the lawns to enter the church. I'd hear children giving minute talks, and garishly dressed young men and women I had to leave the room. climbing from the backs of pickup I had to go sit on my hands to keep trucks loaded with homemade from grabbing at their little throats. scenery on roadshow night. And friends kept coming. I'd see row upon row of Friends came from far and wide to . Evans' golden topped meat Dorothy pies, all help. The toy box downstairs was lined up to sell at bazaars. promptly emptied and spread, I'd see Virginia Gurney's puzzle pieces strung across the floor, crocheted purses and the Strasburg little cars in the way of unsuspecting Girl's embroidered pillow cases. toes. I'd see patchwork quilts made by Upstairs the shelves were soon the Relief Society sisters, many of back to themselves, not a toy upon them pieced with pieces from Mrs. them. Crabb's favorite coat that was acThey worked diligently, feverishly cidentally torn into patchwork and without pausing. squares. Before the sun set, it was done. I'd hear choruses leaVby famous All was again in disarray. ward singers like Armond Webb, Everything looked much as it had and Alta Ash. before except now I had a couple of I'd remember Mothers Day bags of toys I could give away. when, for years, Sister programs r- - A couple of bags of liny little toys Crabb took the plant for having the that would soon be all over my "house most children. 4 f $jf again if I kept them overnight. VI And, I'd see Ken Singleton, I think I'll give them to the boys Worlton President and Ferrin next door. as Gurney bishops who begged their is sweet. Revenge ward families to obey the com-- " " These are among the findings of a statewide public opinion survey conducted for the Consumer Power Association by the professional polling firm Dan Jones & Associates. Intel-mountai- Jones interviewed 400 customers of Utah Power and Light Company and 400 customers of municipal electric utilities and rural electric cooperatives to gauge their awareness of the differences in mind-pictur- By BETTY FOWLER mandments. I'd see Gary Jolley leave the Chapel to placate his little son who'd become restless during a meeting. I'd see my Jim reciting a talk when his head just barely showed above the pulpit, his talk was on Faith, and his teacher, Ethel Webb, told him he should memorize the words. He looked like such a young man to be expounding that important gospel principle. I remember an appreciative congregation oooh and aaahhh over Stan Wanlass's background scenery i for the road show. It was an im-- ;, f mense field showing people picking cotton. We tried to roll it up and save it but no one knows where it is now. It was magnificent! I can still hear Russ Gray's and new-comer- s, rs . earth-movin- ' i ownership structure of electric utilities in Utah and to measure their perceptions of electric rates, quality of service and efficiency of different utility systems. Consumer-owne- d utilities serve 25 percent of Utah's population, while UP&L serves the remaining 75 percent. Jones found that the large majority of UP&L customers, or 72 percent, believe their electric bill is too high. On the other hand, nearly half of the public power customers, or 45 percent, think the price they pay for their electric service is about right. As an indicator of consumer awareness about rate differences with other utilities in the state, d (34 Jones found that customers UP&L of percent) one-thir- believe their electric bills are higher than average, while exactly the same percentage of public power customers said they thought their electric rates were lower than other utilities in the state. Fifty-eigpercent of the UP&L ratepayers said they believe consumer-owned utilities have lower rates; 68 percent of the public power customers believe consumer-owne- d systems charge lower rates. Only 21 percent of the UP&L customers and 18 percent of the public power customers thought private utility companies have lower rates. The poll revealed that public power customer are more apt (53 percent) to think electric utilities are efficient and well-ru- n than percent). In fact, UP&L customers are inclined to say the electric utility is poorly-ru- n and wastes a lot of money (35 percent) more often than public power customers. Both groups of ratepayers appear to be satisfied with the service they receive from their electric company. The large majority (85 percent public . power, 86 percent UP&L) claim their electric service rates at least "good" to "excellent." Asked which kind of utility they prefer being served by, 64 percent of the public power customers and 54 percent of the UP&L customers would choose a consumer-owne- d utility. (70 Approximately UP&L customers (32 the public power percent customers and '.' 61 percent of UP&L's ratepayers) believe consumer-owned utilities give consumers a greater voice in how the utility is run than privately-owne- d utilities. ICPA Public Relations Manager Alene E. Bentley said the poll pointed up areas in which public power utilities should concentrate their education efforts. Chief among them is to increase identity of consumer-owne- d systems among their ratepayers since many individuals do not know who their electric supplier is. the editor's column to be. Election eve used to be a fascinating time to be involved in gathering the news - even though most other people were home cursing the television set for interrupting a favorite program to report an election update. But to be there as the election date came in, and watch the figures change and trends deyelop - and to By MARC HADDOCK know you were one of the first to know - that was fun. The experience was The courthouse was packed with Never mind that covering the election meant long hours waiting people. ' for that last election district to There were reporters from lot of and radio a and several newspapers report in, hasty figuring without pocket calculators. Never stations. Many local candidates mind that most reporters opted to were there, tensely watching as the stay home. The ones who were on the results came in. The atmosphere was electric as leads changed in the scene got the big reward - they were close races, or it became apparent there. ' That first election I covered for that one candidates was developing an Insurmountable lead. BYU's Daily Universe was in 1974. There were no computers, and the The big race was between Jake Garn and Wayne Owens. I "volunteered", reporters were called on from lime to spend election night at the County to time to help compile the unofficial i Courthouse in Provo where the ' election ' results with , adding 'election results were tallied. machines. (Nobody else would do it, and I could During lulls in the counting, we would interview winning of losing use the brownie points.) The idea was to get the results in candidates, try to analyze why certain candidates were winning or the next morning's newspaper, along with a news wire story losing, or work on stories based on election results. trends in the voting, rather than detailing state-wid- e f Published weekly except . semi-weekl- y for Thanksgiving and Christmas by Newtah, Inc. 32 West Main Lehi, Utah 84043 Telephone Numbers 9 Advertising & Circulation. 3 News Brett R. Bezzant Publisher. . . Marc Haddock Editors Betty Fowler Subscription price $16" per year Second class postage paid at . Lehi Post Office Postmasler: Send address changes lo American Fork. Utah 84003 P.O. Box 7. r two-thir- It used to be the weeklies were all published on Thursday. That gave everybody time to get the results in the same week as the election. But too many major advertisers want their ads to go out on Wednesday. As a result, most weekly newspapers - ours included - now publish on Wednesday. And there's just not enough time in our production schedule to get the election results in the paper early Wednesday morning and deliver the newspapers to the post office that same morning. In other words, we can't report the election results until next week -seven days after you've heard all you want to hear about candidates and things. Oh, we can do things the big papers can't do, like break down local votes into voting districts so you can see if your neighbors agreed with you. But let's face it, it will be ' old news. And none of our reporters will have to stay up to get the information. A computer printout will - be available Wednesday morning : with all that information printed in neat columns and rows. It's hard to remember an election over the past 12 years where I haven't waited up for the results so I could gel them in the paper - but not this year. transferred elecThis year I'll be home with you, tronically to the waiting masses. ,. watching my favorite program on It's just n6t the same. television and cursing the news For weekly papers, deadlines have also taken the suspenso out of reporter for interrupting with an election update. election day. using actual figures, so it wouldn't be so hard to write the story when it was all over. The last voting district came in well after midnight and then I went home and banged out a story on my old typewriter and drove to the newsroom to deliver the copy for inclusion in the morning paper. I got to bed between 3 and 4 a.m., and then it took a while to calm down enough to go to sleep. It was a busy night, and the work was hard. But I'd had a ball. Computers and deadlines have '"" changed all that. All of the work of tallying those precincts is done by computers, succinctly, accurately and quickly -much more quickly than the legions of reporters could do it. Now rather than get involved in all that action, everyone just stands the election around watching returns on computer monitors or television screens perking up a little bit as new district results are added to the tallies. The suspense is still there, but the atmosphere is gone. No longer are there people united in a mass effort to add up the numbers to determine the voters' collective will. That all takes place behind closed doors in the County Clerk's office -with the results rather ISSN No. 8750-466- 9 U.S.P.S. No. 309-50- 0 of Elections used to be exciting news event There is something about being on the scene of a news event that makes the newspaper profession fun. That's true of high profile court cases and fires and all the other things that make news. And it's true about election time - at least it used es power is cheaper Consumer-owne- d Utahns believe consumer-owne- d electric utilities have lower rates .than privately owned utilities and if they had a choice, a majority say they would rather be served by a municipal electric utility or rural electric cooperative. you better believe it I know that Ray Crowell took some' Mary Jo Forestier's interpretation of road show roles: Mary Jo was the pictures. Let's hope he kept the distressed heroine, and Russ was negatives. Ray, you ean now make a fortune. People will want pictures of a t' supposed to be playing saxophone. the old building for family and We'll always remember Sandra Peterson's rendition of "Suddenly personal histories, journals and There's a Valley" and Kathryn genealogy records. My neighbors and I used up boxes, Dorton's "Indian Love Call." of Kleenex and many hankies as we As the bulldozer knocked in the walls of the old building, it was as if watched our old building disappear. We didn't mean to cry. Our tears each crumbling brick held of Sunday School lessons, were a natural reflex that happens and Mutual talks, Primary when, for whatever reasons, we're emotionally involved with the programs. The church held memory pictures passing of someone or something. The building was built when a of when LaVern Sly went downstairs to capture the Scouts for dance prominent citizen S.I. Goodwin was practices, and when some Boy bishop. Bishop Goodwin made his Scouts, practicing their knots, tied farewells many years ago, but the their buddies so tightly the ties building that was erected during his nearly choked and a stranger had to stint as bishop, has remained as a monument to the people of his time be recruited to untie the knots. The Christmases, Easter Sundays, who contributed money, time and work to carry on the belief's of their the many announcements that affected our lives through all those collective hearts. And, our hearts will not forget now years. The building was reminder of the that the physical evidence of their and the faith is gone. babies blessings, weddings, and People will identify with that banquets, missionary farewells and corner for years to come. Folks out for a Sunday drive will drive past homecomings. Many of us associate an important event in our lives with and say, "Hey, that's where the old a church calling or release. Talents Second Ward church used to be." of many ward members were Neighbors who felt their own recognized and utilized because of homes shake , and vibrate to the ward assignments. rythm "of the bulldozers, feel the loss, That's all that's left now. even now when all is quiet, and the g Memories. The building is gone. rumbles have also Let's hope that the sacrifices made become history. , to build and maintain that building We'll probably have new neighwill continue for another bors. But no matter who they are and what they do,' they won't have magnificent era starting now. "J If you always intended to get a the impact on bur lives that the last picture of the old Second Ward tieighbor had. It's up to us I guess. too folks. After We'd better be the ones to make a building, you're late, all, it stood there since 1928. What lasting impression. We've had the were you waiting for? best example - haven't we? liu You and your spouse are invited to a special FREE seminar at American Fork Hospital "Coping during S T lUyUTT Thursday, Aug. 28, 7-9:- p.m. 00 "A layoff can cause extremely high levels of frustration and stress within families. 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