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Show mrm 22 Copper Days Special Edition 1990 : r v My brother Gordon and I watch helplessly as the old box elder trees are hewn to the ground. The unpardonable sin The ore train, making a trip down Bingham Canyon to the mills at Magna & Garfield. In the footsteps of the master sspose ya been a wonderin How I got t be so smart, Well, while some folks was a reasonin I wuz feelin with m heart Cause the good Lord never cared much For a scowlin kinda face, Or them folks all high and mighty With their fancy, prideful ways Yep,- they do alotta braggin Bout how they care s much, I Your family video store expanded our store ver 4,000 titles to choose from) We have 2S0H 000 8225 West 3500 South - But when yer needin true compassion Why theyre always outta touch But Im not a pointin fingers Cause I know that its a sin, What Im meanin is we oughtta care And help out now and then So the thing Im tryin t say is r That there aint no other way, To show we really care enough To journey home some day Cause money aint the answer And I spose it never was, But with love and understanding We can rally to The Cause Then in the footsteps of The Master We can walk with souls contrite, Lightin candles in the darkness And spreadin hope by doin right I s' Peel Funeral Home F. DEE PEEL BRINT D. PEEL Dignified Personal Service Phone 250-262- 4 8525 West 2700 South Magna , Utah they began cuttmg away at our sacred grove. Treehouses, carefully laid out in the crotch of the old trees, came Being a kid growing up in Magna tumbling down with a crash, exposing was a wonderful experience filled with a ghastly view ... the church. memories that still bring waves of And there we stood, utterly nostalgia flooding back every time devastated by the carnage and helpless some good ol boy kind of event lift a finger to save our hangout to comes to mind. where we had wiled away many a sumBut then there were those dark, irmoments as well, like the mers day seated on the bank of the ditch, feet emersed in the cool, day they set to choppin down the old rigation that churned over the ditchs water box elders just west of our home on gray bottom. 8400 West. That, folks, in my mind, stony Well, thats the day I decided no just was an unpardonable sin. Yep, thats the day I almost left the fold of Mor- god would allow such a heartless thing to transpire. And if they thought I was mon fellowship. All us kids were shocked when the going to set one foot inside that diabolical place, theyd better think heavy equipment showed up and commenced to gouging holes in the alfalfa again. After all, we had laid claim to field that had served as our ball dia- the place first. I dont know why or when I changmond. Many a tattered baseball with ed my mind. I suppose someone must horsehide a flappin had disappeared into the outfield never to reappear ... that have done some persuadin because I was just part of the game. But ex- finally relented. But that doesnt make what those cavating in our field ... now that grownups did right ... the good Lord was foul play for certain. willin or not. And, even now, if you Well, needless to say, there wasnt a kid around our neighborhood who asked me what I think about the whole didnt object to this blatant grownup episode, youd get the same response. It was a sin, pure and simple ... one tactic. What did it matter that they kind that of. thejnprdonable planned to build a new areJfamouLfor. I grownups guess they Mormon church over1 the top of first the heard said not how never Lord good base. The way I remember it, nobody little offend And them there ones. to thought to ask us... the kids. n offensive than more chop-piaint nothing Well, that was a dark day indeed. to build down a treehouse ... just And then, as if to add insult to injury , will But churchhouse. a then,, grownups about the time they began finishing up in tell God moves you mysterious ways the church, along came that band of and aint that just how it always ... tree choppers. We could hardly bear to watch as seems to turn out? by W. Kent Goble Magna Times Feature Writer red-bricke- d; -- Maybe then the poor and needy And them souls that know despair, Wont be feelin lost and lonely Cause they know we really care So lets put aside our feelins And that selfish sorta stuff, And do a bit o carin Since we still aint done enough Then one day well share the promise Of true joy and wealth untold,' As we stroll together Down them heavenly streets o gold. in-ar- m IF NO ANSWER , CALL 250-214- 6 by W. Kent Goble The old mallets used to pass above Coonville on their way to the mills. Joseph and Clyde Coon helped build the B & G spur to Hercules. Photo courtesy Evelyn Goble 1986 Chevrolet Suburban Silverado Dualair, tiltcruise, PW, locks, cassette, 6.2 diesel 11?9g)70 on Nobody Treats . 882-3- 1 Tooele: mi 48 Ml You Betted CHEVROLET OLDSMOBILE CEO 23 South Main Tooele, Utah Salt Lake: 531-815- 7 |