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Show Comment Editorial Roundup owes a lot to Lehi vounteerism The annual Lehi Roundup Celebration is successful year after year because almost every citizen in the community becomes involved. Individual effort on the part of the Civic Improvement Association, float builders, members of the Parade and Special Events Committee, and many more people, young and old, combine their expertise and talents to pull off a great celebration every year. The rodeo and roundup celebration has continued for 54 years, through rain, shine, healthy economy or depression times. Weather has usually cooperated, not because of merely happenstance, but because the original members of the CIA studied, plotted, and planned until they knew that the last weekend June was usually a good bet. Very few storms had been recorded during those final days in June. Almanacs, diaries, and weather history books verified their theory, and they've stuck with it through the years. Mother Nature is the mother of all successful rodeos, and Lehi knew it. Those pioneer planners knew a good thing when they saw it. The studying paid off in a big way. The same theory has been the formula for bur successful celebra- tion down through the years. Study, prepare from the information gained in the studies, and involve as many people as you can. Your celebration will then be successful. Members of the CIA, float builders and all the other volunteer workers don't see a paycheck for their efforts. But they have a wonderful time knowing they've helped to make another Roundup a fun, financially responsible, frolic for everyone. Children see their parents work each year, doing all they can do to make the Lehi Roundup a wonderful occasion. Kids see a wonderful example of volunteerism and they realize that soon it will be their turn. They're anxiously waiting, and so another generation of involvement continues down through the years. Dreams can point way to the future Do you believe in dreams? I don't mean everyday dreams i (3 Hey, if anyone ever says anything uncomplimentary about Lehi after this week, I'll personally throttle them. No town in Utah has a Miss pageant like ours. This year, again, it was something to behold. Sheer class all the way. And if there could be eight more beautiful and talented contestants you'd have to go to Timbuktu to find them. Any one- of them could have been queen easy. The judges must have had trouble - big time -to choose the eventual winner. Then, there's the wonderful beginning of our Lehi Roundup Week. The picnic in the park! How great! Then, there's more to come - each day planned to be wonderful. There are class reunions, poetry reading programs, a barbecue, the wonderful parades, a miniature one on Friday at 6 and again Saturday at 10, then the Stock Parade on Thursday evening. What more could we want? Besides all that there was the first annual Lehi Song Writers Concert at the West Stake Center Sunday evening. I sat there with my heart pounding, so impressive were our talented You wouldn't have believed it! Then there was our own Danaca Palmer acting as emcee. She alone was worth com- - ms By TOM GRIFFITHS g things in a drawer at the hospital, would mother please get them for the family? Mother went to the hospital and in a drawer in the room the neighbor had occupied she found several items. The woman's wedding ring, a pair of spectacles and some money. These things were given to the husband. He gave mother the spectacles as a keepsake. They were in the family for many years. On another occasion the Elder who had baptized Mam and Dad into the LDS Church was transferred to the northern part of England. About two months later Mother woke up in the night turned on the light and woke father. She told me that Elder so and so had come to say goodbye as he was leaving. She looked at the clock and noted the time. The next day they received a telegram thatsaid the Elder had died at the time mother had looked at the clock. Now, dear reader, I don't expect you to believe these things but they are sacred in our family. Don't ridicule dreams. They may have a message for you or your family. - - -- song-writer- s. i v 1 i l By BETTY FOWLER ing to see! But, Christine Wilkey, Dick Covington and Mary Shurtz Bennett all wrote songs of such merit. Some were performed by the composers, others were sung by guest art Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco. I left a good patch of skin in Park City -- near the top of the Alpine Slide. But, really, the accident is easy to ex- plain. Explanation No. 1: The Alpine Slide goes fast. The heavier you are the faster it goes. In the search for speed, gravity is my ally. But in this case, it was my downfall, so to speak. Explanation No. 2: My father, a natural athlete, was always quick to point out that I inherited my athletic prowess from my mother. Especially after he watched me play basketball, or baseball, or football, or golf, or any other sport that required a basic sense of coordination, i My strongest sport was track, where I did well running middle distances. As long as I spit my gum out before the race began. in spectacular (I did finish one quarter-mil- e fashion, sprawling across the finish line and skidding in the cinders scraping both legs and both arms. I finished third, but I thought the front of me finished first my feet were just way behind.) Explanation No. 3: J am but days away from my 40th birthday. " Regardless of your age, the Alpine Slide is a treat a kind of summer-tim- e bobsled ride down the slopes of Park City's famous ski slope on a plastic sled. Park City is always pleasant. Fve skied there often, and always found the town to be picturesque and the mountain beautiful, if The Editor's Column By MARC HADDOCK with The kids enjoyed the ride up chances to look around at the wild flowers and the plentiful squirrels and even a weasel here and there. But the ride down is better. The track is made of fiberglass, and is banked at the curves. And it is quite long. Two tracks run side by side. The sleds aren't big and you can't steer them. The one control is a lever. You push it forward and you go faster. You pull back to brake. It's that simple. Saturday's excursion to Park City was a family affair, and my daughter Meghan and I went down together. This is a crowded proposition. The sleds aren't too ' big any Way and I take up a lot of room . But we managed, and I kept the sled at speeds I knew Meghan would find comfortable. But after lunch, Meghan decided she could handle the sled alone. She did fine. Too bad the same couldn't be said for me. You see, given the choice of going fast or cold. In summer, the whole mountain looks slow, I usually go fast. Given the choice of different being safe or sorry, well ... plush and pleasant. You get to the slide by riding the same When you get to the top of the Alpine chairlift that takes you skiing - and we Slide there is a big sign that reads in bold found the lift was almost worth the price of letters: YOU CAN GET HURT ON THIS SLIDE. admission. ill - -- cor-pora- te . - or Lee Greenwood. Lehi has the most talented individuals per population than any other city in Utah! I know that for a fact. You know that little song sung by Meadowlarks on a sunny spring morning, it applies to Lehi all the way. It goes something like this: "Lehi is a Pretty Little Town...." I love it. '' But you don't really look at that because you are examining the Alpine Slidesnakingdown themountain accounting your thrills before you crash. And I'd ridden the thing before. I'd even fallen out before - last spring. It was my very first solo ride on the Alpine Slide and I just hit one turn wrong and as the sled came out of the curve, I came out of slide - falling backwards, off balance and out of kilter. Momentum carried my sled and I down the slide a little way before we stopped skidding. (My daddy would have winced and made some comment about my mother's athletic prowess.) But I was wearing a sweatshirt which absorbed most of the friction. I just hopped back in the sled and started going as fast as I could so the guy behind me wouldn't catch up and see what I had done. Saturday's accident was almost identical. It was the same curve, the same speed and same fall. My only mistake was I left my sweatshirt home. So I left a good part of the skin on my elbow somewhere along the slide. I got up, quickly assessed the damage, determined nothingwas permanently damaged, hopped back in the sled and started going as fast as I could so the guy behind me wouldn't catch up and see what I had done. After that it was smooth sailing."1 SJit Oh, there were a few uncertain moments. You don't get coordinated all of a sudden when you reach almost 40, and I'm told it's downhill from there by folks who -- -- f should know. But downhill is what the Alpine Slide is all about. A few tips for the new riders watch those turns at the top of the slide, but when you get to the big turns, push the lever all the way forward. That is the best part of the ride. - 1 Letter to the editor Reservists were big part of Desert Storm success Editor: Operation Desert Storm will probably go down in history as one of our most successful military efforts ever. That was due in large part to the participation of the U.S. Army Reserve. Beginning in August 1990, thousands of Army Reservists were called upon to perform the missions for which they had been trained. By now the whole country is aware of the tremendous contributions they made to the United States' Operation Desert Storm effort. Their success was, in turn, made possible by the generous support of the American people. First, and perhaps most important, was the support by the communities of the Army Reservists who were activated. wide-rangin- Local g communities were particularly If anyjuniorexecutivein the ranks has an innovative idea, however worthy, he has first to sell it through echelons of supervision to where more time and effort ' is spent on "internal marketing" than on "external marketing." Entrenched managers, approaching retirement, dare not make mistakes. That can compound constipation eventuating in paralysis. 1991 Los Angeles Further, if the CEO has to fight for his Times Syndicate life every quarter, he is likely to show an improved bottom line at the expense essential research and development of fuinstitution such as Sears struggling to and death. ture expansion. survive and a grand organization such as But along the way there' are treatIBM top heavy and teetering, it suggests' Noteworthy exceptions prove the rule: for corporations Jsfor us that Roger Smith at GM and Bob Galvin at ments to we'd attention better pay perhaps can extend the life span! Motorola. lifecycles (cq). As surely as the human body loses An individual or an organization can "First the infant, mewling and puking stretch the years of peak performance by agility, the corporation loses flexibility in its mother's arms..." unless each responds with remedial exerThe Adizes theory traces a corporation's recognizing early symptoms of atrophy cise. and responding appropriately. evolution as follows: With improved medicine, sanitation, Reading Adizes' book, "Corporate First courtship, conception and incan recognize the nutrition and exercise, we are adding to anybody Lifecycles," fancy... the human life span 16 weeks every 24 Adolescence merging ito the prime onset of senility, when the bureaucracy becomes so constipated leaders couldn't months. time... lead if they wanted to. Then we have the stable, established, Industry's best bet for extending its Executive decisions must first be filsimilar previgorous years involves prospering organization. tered through a legion of lawyers whose scription. For corporate executives to read But next comes "aristocracy"... job security is best protected by saying "Corporate Lifecycles Is a good place to Then early bureaucracy... "no" to everything. start. And ultimately suffocating bureaucracy Paul Harvey News T 3 Jeff Kirkpatrick and Cindy Yates combined for an original song dedicated to Jeff s grandmother, called "Death Came Walking." It was beautiful as sung by Jade, a group comprised of Jeff, Wendy Revill and Kent Christiansen. Annette Harris held the audience spellbound as she sang her own "Somebody's Waitin." Jeff Sermon wrote a beautiful song entitled "Building Bridges to the Heart" Kim Gunnel, a member of BYU's Young Ambassadors, sang the song for Jeff. Beautifully, I might add. Then, all the songwriters joined in the finale, "You Have a Friend in Me," written by Susan Jeffery. It was wonderful. Susan, you should send that one to Kenny Rogers Alpine slide claims a hunk of hide U.S. business in a 'dying' cycle Scripture, Shakespeare and the most modern medical science confirm the inevitable life cycles of all living organisms. They are born, grow, age and die. Dr. Ichak Adizes is convinced that corporations have this same predictable behavioral pattern. As modern medicine seeks to diagnose and treat the human condition, extending our vigorous middle years, Adizes believes thatcorporations must intelligently manage change or prematurely perish. When one sees a venerable American ists. Another special addition was a piano selection composed and played by John Jay Harris. Wow! What a talent - browsing that we all have, such as inheriting some money, or winning a new car, etc., but a dream that comes in the night with a significant message for you alone yet might affect the lives of others. Let me cite an example. When I was a little boy in Wales, an explosion occurred in one of the coal mines. Several hundred men and boys were killed. The night before the explosion a girl whose father worked in the mine had a dream; she saw the explosion and the resulting deaths. She woke her father and told him of the dream but he shrugged it off and believed it the working of a childish mind. However, the next morning sherepeated the dream in such detail that he believed her and stayed home from work and saved his life. The words of this dream were made into a song and is well known in the village where I lived. Time has dimmed the words and the music but some of it still comes back to me. "Don't go down the mine Dad, if you do you'll make me cry. "For somethingis goingtohappen today, so don't go down the mine. Go tell my dream to your mate's love, for true as the stars that shine, "Something is going to happen today, so Daddy don't go down the mine." We had a few incidents in our family that was hard to explain. It happened to my mother who was quite a spiritual woman. We had a neighbor lady who was critically ill. She and mother were quite close friends. The neighbor was taken to the hospital and while there she died. A few nights later she appeared to mother in a dream. She told Mother she had left some Miss Lehi contestants were all winners you better believe it upper-echelo- n " supportive of hometown units as they deployed. Without that, the activation would have been much harder to accomplish. But our Army Reservists went with the blessings and good wishes of the American people. We all realize just how important that is. Without a doubt, one of the most significant factors in informing the public was the news medica coverage of reserve activations. Overall, both the print and the electronic media presented a fair picture of the issues and activities surrounding the mobilization. As a result, the public saw how well prepared Army Reservists were and learned how important they were to the total Army effort. The understanding that our Army Reservists have received from their employers has been most encouraging. No one likes to lose a valuable employee suddenly for an extended and indefinite period of time, especially in times of economic uncertainty, but the response of the great majority of employers has been very positive. And many companies went beyond the requirements of the law and generously extended additional benefits to their Reservists. As a result, Army Reservists were able to deploy without worrying abou t their job security. Now, as they are returning, we are seeing that support continue as employers are welcoming them back into the work force. And finally, the families ofour reservists deserve special recognition. They bore the emotional, financial and physical burdens of their soldiers' absence. They supported their soldiers and that made a real difference. Once again,Army Reservists have shown themselves to be dedicated to serving their country. They sacrificed their time, they were separated from their families, and many lost income when they were activated. They needed your support and they got it. On behalf of our fine Army Reserve soldiers, I am privileged to thank all of you whose support made it all possible. --William F.Ward Major General U.S. Army Chief, Army Reserve - Students can pick who takes senior photos Editor: Yearbook photographs can be confusing to this years high school seniors, class of 1992. High school students have always had a choice to go anywhere they want for quality portraits they can hang in their homes and give out to friends. Many students choose to get their yearbook photo done with the contract photographer, then go to a studio for their senior portrait. Someone has been calling local seniors and bullying them into thinking they have no choice. There is nothing illegal about choosing a different photographer, it is called free enternriw.? However, students need permission from some schools to allow photographs in their year"non-contrac- t" book. Please,letyourschoolyearbookadvisors know your feelings about how important your yearbook photograph is. -- Rachelle Bennett Former high school student Policy on letters to the editor We welcome letters to the editor. All letter should be typewritten and double spaced. Letter must also be signed, and must Include the writer' name and telephone number. Please send letter to Editor, Newtah News Group, P.O. 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