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Show tEfe tEtmeg-fflefo- g 5 Page Nephi, Utah - STATE BRIEFS... Reuben and Leona Mangelson honored for 97th and 91st birthdays at family party March of Dimes March of Dimes will host the Annual Mothers March Seminar at Provos East Bay Inn, Saturday, November 6, 1993. Mothers March will take place January 17 through 22, 1994. For more information, call Heuben and Leona Mangel-so- n were the honored guests at a family dinner on Sunday, October 31st. The family gathered at the Levan City Hall to celebrate their birthdays. Reuben turned 97 on October 30th, and Leona will turn 91 on November 18th. Family members present, for the special event, were Reubens children Golden, Romaine of Levan, and Lois of. Nephi. ' Leona has four children: Clyde, Helen, Barbara, and Leona. They have 19 grandchildren, 50 and 1 great-grandchildre- n, Celebrating birthdays, Leona and Reuben Mangelson. Standing are Reubens children Romaine, Golden, and Lois. . Wednesday, November 3, 1993 379-242- 4. The Gift of Christmas The Promised Valley Playhouse holiday production, The Gift of Christmas, will run November 26 through December 23. Tickets are available at the box office, or by phone 364-569- 6. "Dont Waste Utah The Utah Department of Transportation and Fotheringham & Associates recently filmed a sequel commercial to the Dont r Waste Utah campaign at the Joshua Tree Forest outside St. George, Utah. The new commercial will begin airing on television in April 1994. anti-litte- Nauvoo Semester Program Brigham Young University is offering a new program which gives students the opportunity to spend a winter semester in Nauvoo, Illinois, to begin January 26, 1994, and will continue l. For more information, call BYU Travel through 6 or at Study mid-Apri378-394- Cedar Post and Firewood d at BLM Salt Cutting permits will be available free A Lake District. map is provided, however more detailed maps are available for a fee. For more information, call the District Office at year-roun- 977-430- ; Tuition rates for 1994-9- 5 at BYU Spring Summer to go down - Tuition rates for the 1994-9- 5 at Brigham Young will include a 27 University cut for undergraduate stuschool year dents who attend SpringSummer terms. The change is in line with President Rex E. Lees ex- pressed desire to allow many more students to attend BYU ; without raising the 27, enrollment ceiling. By encouraging SpringSummer enrollment, the university can issue degrees sooner and free 000-stude- nt more positions for incoming freshmen, Lee said. 5 Rates for FallWinter will be $1,170 per semester for undergraduates, $1,370 for advanced-standin- g (graduate) students and $2,200 for Law School and Graduate School of Management students. 94-9- SpringSummer 95 rates will be $400 per term for undergraduates, $685 for gradu- ate students and $1,100 for law and graduate management students. The $400 charge for V?'- - Fremont Indian State Park During the month of November, oils on leather, the work of Dave Coburn of Monroe, will be featured in an Art Show in the lobby of the park visitor center. For more information, call 527-463- undergraduates is $150 per term lower than the 1993-9- 4 rates (a 27.3 cut). The new FallWinter rates, as approved recently by the BYU Board of Trustees, reflect a 6.4 increase for undergraduates, 6.2 for graduate students and 4.8 for law and management students. As in the past, tuition for students who are not members of the LDS Church will be 50 higher than for members. ' 1. "Iron Mission Days Pioneer craftspeople and mountain men will share how-to- s as the Iron Mission State Park joins with Cedar City in celebrating the towns 142nd birthday. For more information, call 586-929- 0. Utah Veterans Memorial Veterans Day Observance, November 11th, from 2 to 3:15 p.m. A verbal and musical tribute to our countries veterans. The event coincides with Salt Lake Countys annual Veterans Day parade. Admission is free. For more information, call 254-903- 6. County Leaders to Meet More than 300 elected county officers will convene in St. 2 to develop policies and discuss George oh November methods to improve county government and services to Utahns. & Sister Stephanie Judd, daughter of Richard and Judy Judd of Provo, formerly of Nephi, hhi bee&l called " to theNebraskai'-OmahMissions Her 0. 10-1- "The Real Jurassic Park a With help from Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton and a host of scientific experts, NOVA, on KUED Channel 7, investigates what it would take to recreate the terrifying creatures of 65 million years age, on The Real Jurassic Park, airing Tuesday, November 9th at 7 p.m. farewell will be November 14, 1993, at 11:30 a.m., in the Grandview 9th Ward, 1555 North 1350 West. She will enter the MTC on December 8th. , PAT Thursday The personal ancestral class (PAF) will be held this Thurs- day, November 4th, at the DUP Building, at 7:30 p.m. Since there are only 15 com- -' puters available, you must register for the class. The fee will be $8.00 for a quarter. This is offered for all people who are interested in this pro0 or gram. Call 623-204- 623-084- 0. The first monument in Washington, D.C., memorializing womens military service will be dedicated on Veterans Day, November 11th. The sculptor, Glenna Goodacre, created the larger-than-lif- e sculpture in honor of women veterans of Vietnam. The statue who stares down at a soldiers helmet, a nurse seated on a woman includes: a kneeling another a of pile sandbags cradling wounded soldier whose eyes are bandaged, and woman in fatigues, standing, her gaze turned hopefully toward the sky. About 11,000 American military women, average age about 24, served in Vietnam during the war. All were volunteers, 90 were nurses. Girl Scouts give Hugs prior to Halloween Did you receive a hug" from a Girl Scout last Thursday? If 12-ye- ar you were working at, or visit- ing one of the Main Street businesses or public buildings, you may have been hugged". Since the girls had just been to school, in costume, celebrating Halloween, they decided to spend their Girl Scout meeting visiting Main Street and do a little reverse Monument to women in the military will be dedicated on Veteran s Day, this November 11th in Washington trick-or-treat- -; ing". The girls gave out hugs, Hersheys Hugs that is, to people at work and other who were visiting or just on the , " By JoyAschenbach National Geographic News Service . , the statue," says Diane Carlson Evans, who led the decade-lon- g battle for a womens The Vietnamese baby has memorial. e bronze disappeared from the bronzed ' The of American the arms " Army sculpture in the round includes three other figures: a nurse. sidewalk. . No political statements are nurse seated on a pile of sandOctober 31st is a special day allowed at the Vietnam Veterfor Girl Scouts. It is the birthbags cradling a wounded solGorans Memorial on the Mall in dier whose eyes are bandaged day anniversary of Juliet and another woman in fadon Low, the founder of Girl Washington. is of so as "I had the if in baby thought America; tigues, standing, her gaze Scouting the'" of find casualties of to turned a the to the hopefully toward the girls part important Glenna to show the sky. sculptor spirit war, says special way The womens memorial, to be of scouting to others. Goodacre, touching a tiny ' Juliet Gordon Low was bom model of the infant that was dedicated on Veterans Day, eliminated from her original November 11th, will be the on October 31, 1860, in Savannah, Georgia. After learning design for the Vietnam wom- first monument in the nations about scouting from Lord ens statue. capital honoring womens miliBaden Powell on a visit to Instead, a kneeling woman tary service. From its first public showing stares down at a soldiers helLondon, England, she returned met You see despair in the on the State Capitol grounds to America and began Girl empty helmet" Goodacre says in Santa Fe, the statue went Scouting on March 12,1912. on a whistle-sto- p tour across her Santa Fe studio. in If you didnt get "hugged" The kneeling woman has the nation to more than 20 this year, better luck next , become the heart and soul of cities in 14 states. , . larger-than-lif- ' C-cx- U for your club or company party. We can accommodae. groups from 2 to 200. There are veterans all over the United States who will never get to Washington, and the grass roots is what made this statue happen, says Evans, a former captain in the Call at Vung Tau and Pleiku in 1968 and 1969. The powers ev- Lins black granite wall, eight are womens. All, eight were nurses: seven Army, one Air all-ma- le 12-ye- ar 3 2087 South Main, Nephi, Utah erything to stop us. The wall of names Could have stood alone. It was complete, Evans explains. But when I first saw a picture of the sculpture there, to me, someone was missing. Our statue will complete the Vietnam Memorial" About 11,000 American milage itary women-avera- ge about 24served in Vietnam war. All during the 90 were volunteers, percent were nurses. Of the 58,191 names inscribed on the Maya 623-263- Cedar Hollow Restaurant Army Nurse Corps who served that be in Washington did now fo make reservations Force. . But because they were not men in combat, women veterans say, they have been treated as if they never went to war. So they engaged in their own combat after the original Vietnam Memorial was expanded beyond the wall bronze to include a heroic-siz- e statue of three infantrymen, installed in 1984. Inside Goodacres handsome studio, nestled in the dusty high desert in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the battlefields and rice fields of Vietnam seem a million worlds adobe-styl- e Please turn to page 6... |