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Show t' ' ' , , , , Wednesday, January 31, 1996 tDje Ctmes-ZXefa- Page Nephi, Utah s 3 administrative costs, but this ultimately benefits girls becouncil I Girl Scout cookie Chord) Nevs. . . sales are now on Nephi North Stake will hold Stake Standards night on February 4th The Nephi North Stake will be ents are invited to come. The special guest speaker will Night for all Young Women and be Eli Herring. Mr. Herring is a Young Men Sunday, February former BYU football player who 4th. Stake Standards Night will chose not to play in the NFL bebegin at 7:00 p.m. at the Nephi cause of his religious standards. 4th 5th LDS Ward Church. Par- - He is an Eagle Scout who served having their Stake Standards Centennial article The Girl Scout cookie sale prod Amerigram is a can tradition. Early on, troops baked their own cookies and sold them to support their activities. Then there were events such as a LDS Mission to Argentina. He the council wide Cookie Day is married and has one daughin Bridgeport, Conter who is almost 2 years old. He necticut, in 1923, where girls is majoring in math education from the entire community and will graduate this year from baked and sold a total of 3,260 Brigham Young University. cookies at 250 a dozen. By the end of World War II, Girl Scout cookies were commercially produced and sold all around the country. Since that time, Girl Scouting has been heavily subsidized by the cookie sale. Camps are built and maintained, special activities supported, and travelships to major Girl Scout events are serving soup and pies behind the scenes and Lou Ann, along with underwritten by cookie money. Mike Cowan, gave her unique Girls who might not otherwise be extalents of humor and organiza- able to enjoy the Girl Scoutshelhomeless in girls perience tion in narrating the program at ters and migrant labor camps, the evenings entertainment. We now enter a year of cele- for example and girls from othunder-serve- d population bration and work on such activi- er of this ties as the wagon train trek groups are beneficiariesevent. traditional fundraising of back the roads the through There are 331 Girl Scout counr in Nephi state with a in the United States and cils being planned by Dale Worwood, each one manages their own and many recreational activities cookie sale program. Only two under the direction of Iris Tolley. A homecoming celebration is be- bakeries are sanctioned by Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. to bake Girl ing arranged by Clark Greenhal-g- Scout cookies. Cookies sold in and Calvin Neilsen; special are baked in Louisville, tours, parades and programs for Utah the Twenty Fourth of July in all Kentucky. In 1996 the Utah Girl Scout cities; Silverado Days in Eureka Council expects to sell over one theand, particularly, our chosen boxes of cookies. All cookmillion atre legacy project, directed by Keith Rawlinson, that will live ie money stays right here in our council jurisdiction. This is the on after the celebration ends. eighth straight year the Utah To make the year-lon- g birthGirl Scout Council has been able day party a success, we must all to hold down inflation, offering donate our time, talents and Girl Scout cookies for only $2.50 exhas Jones Donna money. box. pressed her desire to assist the per people outside of Girl Many Centennial committee in raising have questions about funds to transform the old high Scouting cookie sale. Its important for the school auditorium to a theatre for the performing arts. These us to emphasize tl t this is a seasonal program ctivity in projects are our new frontiers. which girls volunt; ly particiancesJacob Thalmans Just as tors fought many battles in leav- pate for approxi itely two weeks a year, and t t the reve ing the old country to settle in homesteads build and their Utah and establish communities of law and order, they also organized bands, choruses and dance and theater groups. The Centennial time-honore- fund-rais- er Local celebrations were great The first week of the celebration of the Utah Statehood Centennial was filled with exciting, activities due to the efforts of many volunteers. You never outgrow the ability to serve and it is through service that we see good things happen. Many of you will remember one of the projects in the preparation for the centennial year called Faces of Utah. We were all asked to write a few words ' well-plann- about thirty minutes I can have saddled and be in the horse my foothills. I can ride all day or I can take my fishing pole to fish, or my gun to hunt rabbits. I am glad my Great Great too. In Grandparents were brave enough to cross the ocean and come across the plains to settle in Utah and tough enough to build homes and set up farms and ranches with only the things that were available to them back What living in Utah then. me. The following is My Grandmother lives on the the essay Jacob H. Thalman same homestead those Grandwrote as a student at Juab High parents set up a long time ago. School. It is a good place and I know they My Great Great Grandpar- would be proud of; how it looks, ents, all of them, came across the today still in the shadow of Mt. means to cause volunteers and girls need the important support services professional staff provides. The true value of the cookie sale program rests on what it does for girls. From participation in the cookie sale, girls often receive their first practical education in finance, marketing, and communications. They are given an active part in helping to sup- nues from the sale benefit girls directly. Girl Scouts in our council jurisdiction benefit in many ways because of our successful cookie sale program. We manage for the mission to inspire girls with the highest ideals of character, conduct, patriotism, and service that they may become happy and resourceful citizens. Cookie sales support local activities year round, from special workshops to day trips to award banquets. The fee paid by Girl Scout participants meets only part of the actual direct costs. The rest is paid with council funds. Its true that part of the cookie sale proceeds are used for h ocean on a ship. Most of them Nebo. from a little island off the coast Jacob knows about volunteerof England called the Isle of Man. ing first hand. His mother is Lou They joined a wagon train when Ann Thalman and his grandthey reached the states and mother is Donna Jones. These eventually they settled in Nephi, are two citizens of Nephi who are Utah. They came here hoping always willing to help when that with hard work they would something needs to be done in be able to get some land they the community. Remember that could call their own. They came Ute Stampede parade several without hardly any money, but a years ago, when Donna arranged lot of faith. Things were happen- for all of the past queens of the ing in the United States and they celebration to ride on the floats were willing to take a chance for and the parade announcer, her a better life in a new country. late husband Harold, said someThey worked hard clearing the thing complimentary about each land, hauling water for frufT fjuleen? She has many original trees, building their homes and ideas and is always willing to getting the livestock herds grow- share them and participate in making the idea become the reing so they could survive here. They had joined the Latter-Da- y ality. Donna and Lou Ann have loveSaint Church in England. Because of that, Utah is where ly singing voices and they are the committee solicits your help. they decided to settle. My Grand- choice of many when we are ar- Contact a committee member. mother' tells me they were ranging funeral services and oth- Everyone can do something. amazed with the mountains. The er programs and need some good place they picked to homestead music. They were both on hand had a great view of Mt. Nebo out to help make the Centennial of their front door. I appreciate week activities the success they how close I live to the mountains were. Donna was in the kitchen d Satellite Starting At About Mini-Dis- h TV A Dollar A Day No Equipment To Buy No Equipment To Maintain Digital Quality Picture and Sound Worry Free Warranty Up To 95 Channels Call Today Or Call Your Local PRIMESTAR Retailer Service, selection, packaging, pricing .ind locations are subject to change. "ABC. CBS. NBC. 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