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Show "S A2 THE DAILY HERALD. Provo, Utah, Monday, October 5, 1998 .Lest junior high spoils your fun, get it all out of your system on Halloween It's October. And tonight is a full moon. All over America, folks are getting freaked out by Halloween. Not just because trick is getting genuinely spooky, with all the legends true and false of nasty things slipped into candy, but because of the more sinister nature of the occasion. People with investment in this kind of thing are uncovering the pagan roots of the cele- bration, from the ancient Celtic Samhain to the medieval carnivals of fools. It's the night gone haywire before the high holy day of All Saints. People have a right to be freaked out. In fact, they have a responsi-- , bility to be freaked out. Rut I -' ' . ; Halloween still needs to exist. Knowing full well the risks of such a celebration, still I speak in defense of the depraved. WE NEED HALLOWEEN. Halloween is the limbic system of holidays. It cleans out all the wicked mischief that accumulates in the deepest part of our minds all year, allowing us to hug our demons so they don't bite us on the backside in the form of, say, road rage, or postal work. Halloween comes along right before things get REALLY cold, and lets us dress up as someor aren't thing we aren't and surface on the usually, wreak havoc, specifically unholy havoc. It's not a "good" UTAH VALLEY BRIEFING American Fork Those interested in coaching adult basketball league attend a meeting 7 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Fitness Center, upstairs in the nursery, 454 N. Center St. Call Tom Hunter at for information. Players must live in the city, Pleasant Grove, Lehi, Lindon, Cedar Hills, Alpine, Highland or be an American Fork High School graduate. The Monday night games will start Nov. 756-039- , 0 23. Eagle Mountain Applications are being accepted to fill former Councilman Robert Bateman's seat until Oct. 21. The Town Council appointed Bateman Thursday to replace former Mayor Debbie Hooge. The council will select Bateman's replacement at 7 p.m. on Oct. 27. Eureka The old Jeep Patrol building will be reshingled soon, but the Mammoth Road Shed might need to be totally replaced. The county commission is trying to decide what to do about the building, which needs repairs that could cost as much as $10,000. The commission gave approval for roof repairs to the Jeep Patrol building, which will only run around $400. The commission wil' decide later what to do with the road shed. Goshen ; ; ; Elementary school teachers, staff and representatives from the public will meet at Brigham Young University today and Tuesday for a Strategic Planning Session. Lehi Utah County Health Department flu vaccination and pneumonia clinic will be held p.m. on Thursday at the City Senior Center, 12 N. Center St. The flu vaccination is $8 and pneumonia, $15. Medicare Plan B clients will not need to pay for the vacci-- : nations if they bring their card with them. A 3 Pleasant Grove Friends of the Pleasant Grove Library have adopted a new logo for the library. The logo is a heart with the words "Pleasant Grove City Library The Heart of Our Community," forming a circle around the heart. Friends of the library are in the process of forming adult and youth activities sponsored by the library. Provo Utah County Republican Women will be hearing from Pollster Dan Jones at today's meeting. Jones conducted his first poll for the Salt Lake mayoral race in 1959. Since that time, his business has employgrown to 17 ees and 65 workers, many of whom conduct telephone polls in the afternoon and evening. Utah County Republican Women meet in the Ballroom of the Historic Court House on University Avenue and Center Street in Provo. The meeting starts at noon. A light luncheon will be served and visitors are welfull-tim- e ' ' come. For more information concerning the club, call Barbara or Pearl Packard at 9 at Rex-Hartze- ll 225-152- Salem Duane A. Hill, Ralph Hughes, and Val G. Richards of Salem were awarded the prestigious Silver Beaver Award for their service to the Boy Scouts of America. The award is the highest given for scouting on a council level, and comes without solicitation to those chosen. Honorees were selected from nominations by a Special Awards Committee appointed by the Council president. Spanish Fork Several zone changes were approved by the City Council, although with conditions attached. Three of the changes involved properties in the area of 1400 East, and those developers will be required to sign development agreements with the city to finalize the zone Mapleton changes. Another zone change Get your "Mapleton Utah was granted for Park Side The Best Little City in Estates with 37 lots on 1100 America" shirt or sweater at East. An adjacent irrigation the city offices. Nature's ditch will need to be piped or Artistic Designs donated the abandoned and a basketball clothing as part of an ongoing court will be constructed in a to raise funds for planned retention basin. , effort ; Thermal Imaging Cameras. One hundred percent of the Springville ' proceeds will go for this cause. High school students are The machine embroidered invited to join the Springville feature Maple Museum of Art's Junior Art shirts Mountain and the park gaze- Guild. Associated with the bo. Guild, Junior Art Guild members perform service activities for the museum, Orem will hit Council The City taking phone calls, answering council The road Tuesday. the questions, manning the front desk and other tasks. They will go down to Carterville to observe also tour artists' studios and 4:30 at Road p.m. ; : other galleries. For more inforhow blocking off the street at resiaffected mation, contact the museum at 800 South has or call Wendy Carr at dents. ; : Hafen-Dalli- n 489-272- 7 489-423- Payson i ! . flu vaccination clinic will p.m. at the senior be today center, 439 W. Center St. The cost is $8 for flu shots and $15 for pneumonia shots. A 3 Woodland Hills There is an opening for town clerk. Apply before Friday. For more information call 423-143- Us. Zina Petersen holiday; in fact, "holy day" is the last thing it is; it is a carnival: a day or night to recognize and free up the "cam-- " thing, the flesh thing, the meat eating, hormone-driven- , WHEN I WAS a kid, Halloween was second only to Christmas as a holiday to look forward to. Then I turned 12. Junior high changes things. Homework got very important. Staying home to distribute candy to the tiny-to- t robots and ballerinas and cowboys and Disney figures became the responsibility of the "big kids," and the fun went out of it. Or at least, the overt, fun went out of it. adult-sanctione- d shadowiddarkside thing More sophisticated by the minute, my sister and my friends and I would celebrate Halloween much more shiftily now. We would steal out especially on those Halloween nights during election years to do more than collect cavities. We took paint and brushes, toilet paper, Oreos, sometimes OK, never eggs, but we eggs thought about it and did our innocent worst. Every lawn poster for a Republican candidate got a big sinister black dripping overlay in the shape of a Donkey; every Democrat got an elephant. We hiked up to the expensive neighborhoods and chose houses with the biggest trees to vandalize with toilet paper and wet Kleenex. And then we went home and put it all up for another year. One night of 365, within the controlled boundaries of a night gone out of control, Halloween allows us to look our inner spooks in the face and say, "Yep, that's me, the one wants to act out and act up, the one who is capable, in my heart of darkness, of being a criminal." I bet if you did a study, you'd find that a big percentage of disgruntled, AK postal workers had to stay home every Halloween after g they turned 12, passing out candy to the little kids. Zina Petersen is a professor of English at BYU. Poll shows 2nd District race heating up By The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY A recent poll shows Republican incumbent Merrill Cook holding a slim lead over Democratic challenger Lily Eskelsen in the 2nd District congressional race with about one month until District Rep. Chris Cannon, who has no Democratic opponent, has 68 percent support compared to Independent American Will Christensen's 7 percent and Libertarian Kitty Burton's 5 percent support. Narrowing margin Jones found the 2nd District race has tightened slightly since the last newspaper survey sional duels that remains conducted in June. Then Cook uncertain, according to a copy- led Eskelsen 46 percent to 34 right survey published in percent. Now the difference Sunday's Deseret News. among all 2nd District resiIn the other major congresdents is 44 percent to 36 persional races, Sen. Bob Bennett, cent, with Cook in the lead and leads Democrat Scott 16 percent undecided. Leckman 57 percent to 19 perJones found that among cent; 1st District Rep. Jim adults who said they are regisleads tered to vote, Cook's lead drops Hansen, Democrat Scott Beierlein, 59 way down 43 percent for percent to 19 percent; and 3rd Cook to 41 percent for election day. n The race is the only one of four congresCook-Eskelse- Eskelsen, with 10 percent undecided. Jones conducts polling for Cook and has sometimes done polling for other candidates and political parties. Jones conducted last week's survey for the newspaper and KSL. The polls for 1st, 2nd and 3rd District races each had a 5.7 percent margin of error, while the statewide senate poll's margin of error was 3.3 percent. Also in the statewide poll of 931 adults, Jones found Proposition 5 favored by 50 percent, while 25 percent don't like it. The proposition calls for a constitutional change that would require any citizen initiative dealing with hunting and fishing to have a vote of the people for passage. two-third- s Jones support, Despite warned that those questioned in the survey were confused by the ballot proposition's wording. "And people who are confused tend to vote no" at the polls, he said. Political disgust Jones, who has been polling Utah's electorate for more than 20 years, said that if the election were held last week turnout would not be a lackluster 35 percent. "People are really angry at the political system," he said, referring to the general disgust over President Clinton's troubles and pending impeachment proceedings. "Whether that will result in people coming out to vote or mean they'll stay away in droves, we'll have to see." e part-tim- 225-091- inside us that makes us less than gods so we can spend the rest of the year being more than animals. For one night a year, for Halloween, Animal Natures R LDS Church joins fight against gay marriage By The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY The LDS Church has donated $500,000 to an initiative cam- paign designed to stamp out same-semarriage in Alaska. The donation, made last week to the Alaska Family Coalition, will be used to boost a television, radio and print advertising campaign urging voters to approve Proposition 2 on the Nov. 3 ballot. Before the donation from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints, the coalition had raised just $100,000. The measure is a proposed constitutional amendment that would provide the legal definition of marriage as being between one man and one x y woman. It arose out of a lawsuit brought against the state by Jay Brause and Gene Dugan, two Anchorage men who filed suit in state court challeng ing the state's 1966 marriage law. The law states that same-se- x marriages from other states or countries are void in Alaska relationand that same-seships may not be recognized as entitled to the benefits of marx riage. Superior Court Judge Peter A. Michalski refused to dismiss the suit in February, issuing a decision that was similar to that handed down by a circuit court judge in a comparable Hawaii case. The LDS Church was active in opposing efforts to legalize same-semarriage there as x well. As a result of the court ruling, Alaska's Republican-controllelegislature in May voted to put the proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot. d Kristina Johannes, spokeswoman for the coalition, said the donation will substantially boost efforts to establish the traditional family as the only legal marriage union in that state. She said the coalition is a grass-rootorganization made up of members from different denominations as well as some with no religious affiliation. "Each of us (organizers) has been working with our own churches trying to gather the financial support we felt we would need," Johannes said. Several members of the LDS Church are involved in the s coalition, including one who is on the steering committee. Mike Otterson, a spokesman for the LDS Church, said the donation came from the church's Corporation of the President, rather than from any foundation or regional organi- zation. The Alaska Family Coalition was formed the day after the Civil Liberties Union sued the state in July, seeking to cancel Proposition 2 from i the ballot. "We definitely think we'll win, but we want to win big," Johannes said. Some 600 individuals have contributed to the campaign, and the Campaign for Working Families made a $50,000 donation, she said. THE DULY HERALD I P.O. 5SS North Freedom Boulevard Bo 717, Provo, Utah 8403-071- Classified Advertising Retail Advertisint Subscriptions and deliver; service .' Newsroom For Departments not listed above 0 5 3 J73-50-5 FAX J73-54- Jdeanfa berildeitri.com USPS Published (ISSN: daily Monday through I'Yiday evening; Saturday and Sunday morning by Pulitzer Community Newspapers, Inc.. 1555 North I'reedom Boulevard, Provo, Utah 81604. Periodicals postage paid at Provo, Utah. POSTMASTER: Send add ress changes to: The Daily Herald. P.O. Box 717. Provo, Utah 84603-071- Established August 1, 1873. 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