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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday November 27, 1996 - Page 14 am thankful for cookies with lots of chocolate chips and no raisins!" The game may include a "I am few revelations: thankful my friend came to play and so I got out of cleaning my room." "I'm thankful I'm going to get a CD player for my birthday." The Thankful Game fits any size, works with any number of children, and is as useful while traveling as at bedtime, as exemplified "When I'm worried, and I I count my blessings instead of sheep, and I fall asleep counting my blessings," Bing Crosby croons in the movie White Christmas, "I think about a nursery and I picture curly heads. And one by one I count them as they slumber in their beds... And I fall my counting asleep blessings." I don't know with which child it began, but somewhere along the way I must have been tired of telling the Drama students at Montisame bedtime stories, and cello High School are busy we began a new ritual. preparing for the high school "Let's play the "Thankful production of Victor Hugos Game", I said. "First of all famous tale Les Miserable. I'll tell you something I'm Under the direction of Centhankful for, then you tell tennial School volunteers me something you're thankTharla Holyoak and Dee ful for." Jackson, and drama teacher Down through the years Jody Bailey, this wonderful and down through the childstory comes to life. One of ren, the game has always the world's great literary started out predictably, classics, Les Mis sold out its rather like our too often rote first edition the day it went prayers: "I'm thankful for on sale in 1862. Since then it my family"; "I'm thankful for has never been out of print. food to eat"; "I'm thankful It has also been filmed for a house to live in". countless times and is curAnd then, as we get past rently the subject of a smash the obvious and the child is hit international still quite awake, something The MHS production is a special begins to happen. newer, version We start thinking really adapted from the novel by about what we thinking playwright Tim Kelly. Under are thankful for. two hours, its the story of "I'm thankful for my eyes," Jean Valjean a child might say. (Cory Schafer), and his re"I'm thankful your eyes are lentless pursuit by law and such a pretty color," I try to order police inspector elaborate, "and it is as nice Javert (Jared Kilgrow). for others to look at them as Special emphasis has been it is for you to look out of placed on many small roles them." and female characters - the "I'm thankful for my toes." tragic Fantine (Emmy Pat"I'm thankful you have ten terson) and her daughter toes, so we can play 'This litCosette (Janell Randall), the tle piggy went to market' wretched Monsieur and two times!" Madame Thenardier (Brent And then we get sideGoodwine and Maggie tracked for awhile as we Boyle), the lovelorn Eponine play with toes and giggle (Sheila Alvarez) - among together. others. Oftentimes I will be surFilled with fascinating viprised by a child's imaginagnettes of 19th Century tion and thoughtfulness: "I France, the script boasts a am thankful for the moon to shine in my window", or, "I Is it too soon to can't sleep, by a teenager's comment: "I'm thankful we're almost to our destination!" What started out as a bedtime whimsy has become a cherished family tradition with endless possibilities. For as Gloria Gather said, "There is something in every season, in every day, to cele- brate with thanksgiving." take the time to identify our blessAll we have to do is ings. "I am thankful for the Thankful Game." Les Miserables December non-music- - - a. al ct -- NORTHERN NEWS by William Pierca The ongoing effort to urbanize rural America has manifested itself in La Sal recently. At least that is the opinion of some residents. Others view a proposed culinary water system as a needed proposition to the benefit of the community. At a community meeting called to discuss and judge feelings concerning such a system, Jim Blankenagal presented a preliminary engineers estimate of costs Monticello High to present pop-oper- it 9-- 10 brilliant cast of characters weave an exciting tapestry of humankind at its best and worst. The play is scheduled for performance on Monday and Tuesday nights, December 9 and 10, at 7:00 p.m. in the Monticello who High School auditorium. For ticket information, call the school at Tickets will also be sold at the door both nights of the performance. 5. for such a system. The estimate was prepared by Sunrise Engineering. The total cost for a culinary water system to service 80 homes is in the area of $1.25 million. Water would come from Coyote Springs on the south slope of the La Sal Mountains. The such a system. Funding the development of culinary water could come from a number of sources. Self participation fee would include a hook-u- p each from to $1,250 up individual serviced by the The water. remainder could come from grants and loans from the Community Impact Board or Rural and Economic Development. An Ad Hoc committee was formed to investigate com- munity feelings and answer a number of questions concerning the project. Those include the type of service district, the area of the district, is the proposed service area too large or too small? How, or by what means will residents in the district be required to hook up to the water? There are a lot of questions to be answered, and as Jim put it, this project may not be an act of love to some involved. water rights are currently owned by La Sal Livestock. 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