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Show Page Two - The Pyramid - August 21, 1996 A. Commentary JPEJVNYS Hi Merrill Ogden & Calvin Hobbes the sale of them to buy "meat" at the grocery store. All except for "Maaa." It theyve had the help of older siblings or mom and dad). But The concert this year is Diamond Rio. It will be outside at the grandstands in the fairgrounds. I gather that the As Ive traveled up and down A.C. at Snow College has the county. Ive noticed some been too hot the past few awesome yards and gardens. years. Perhaps the outside location will be cooler and There are some beautiful resolve the problem. Someone sults from a lot of hard work. I some that said that the fire department suspect Actually, Sanpeters are neglecting their could be on hand to hose down real jobs in order to impress the audience if needed. If that their friends and relatives with happens, well need to find a their green thumbery. No one, sponsor for the resultant wet contest. however, wants to truly admit how much work goes into Im going to the carnival these gardens of Eden. again this year. Im going to "Aw shucks, says Phil, 1 take another crack at getting just pull a few weeds now and Diane to ride the Ferris Wheel then and Wanda waters once in with me. Ill solemnly promise a while. What this means is not to rock the car when we that Wanda weeds and waters get to the top of the wheel. Ill also buy her a candy apple. eight days a week. And Phil-h- e focuses on furtive furrowing Calvin, who seems to have and fertilizing to the point of fallen off the face of the earth forgetting that he has a family. as far as this column is conMoney is no object when it cerned, will likely be at the conies to equipment, seed, fair and carnival. Where there is a rodeo and females of the sprays and "doo dads." in is that farmer "Mommy, species in Wrangler jeans, the back yard my daddy?" Calvin will be there. "Yes Susie, hes your daddy, Thats my ramblings for this but he isnt a farmer. He is August. Savor the rest of this just pretending to be one. Hell Sanpete summer. Enjoy your come back and be part of the yards and gardens. Share the family in September when lack harvest, (and not just the zucFrost comes to visit." chini) See you at the fair. And, Many Sanpeters have been oh yes, if youve got Dutch picking tomatoes for a week or oven recipes youve been two or three. I picked the first meaning to send to me. Do it! ones from my garden this past (Merrill Ogden co The Pyraweek. This means two things. mid - Mt. Pleasant, UT Number one: tomato sandwich84647)... Merrill es will be a staple of my diet for the next few weeks. Number two: summer is on the downhill. Believe it or not, our kids will be in school very soon. The educators will be pouring knowledge into the heads of our youth and earning every penny of their paychecks. The three favorite reasons for being a teacher are fading again for 2 another year. (1 June, July, 3 August) Sanpete high school football teams are into the grueling workouts preparing for the gridiron wars. Tryouts are underway for high school volleyball. The county fair is. upon us. The posters are up all around. The fairbook has been published and can be had for the asking in many area businesses or at the courthouse. I love fair time. I enjoy strolling through the livestock barns and watching the animals being Ronald R. Ivory groomed for show. Im interested in seeing the entries in the exhibit hall. Call me weird, but Im curious to see who entered that zucchini squash on the paper plate with the blue ribbon. Summer is winding down Sanpete's Leading Newspaper THE PyRflmiD (USPS 365-58- 0) Published Weekly at Mt. Pleasant Utah, 84647 49 West Main Street Telephone: FAX: 462-213- 462-245- 4 9 Publisher Craig Conover Penny Hamilton Managing Editor Cheryl Brewer Office Manager Deanna Pate Copy Editor Andrea Lloyd Photographer Staff Writer SUBSCRIPTION RATES Raising our kids with lambs Bruce Allred Bruce Allred wins trap shoot, in horseshoe pitching RICHFIEL- D- Bruce Allred, a former Mt. Pleasant resident, won the World Class Championship of horseshoe pitching held recently in Gillette, WY. Allred won with a record of 13 wins and two loses tying with Ed Vander, Sloat, WY. After a pitch off, Allred won with a score of 29 to 15. While pitching in the tournament, Allred pitched two matches at 40 percent ringer, with the highest ringer percentage in his division with 26 12 percent, which will put him in the historical record Book of the World Ace. On his way to Gillette, Allred stopped in Butte, MT, where the Western Zone Trap Shooting Event was being held. Allred began his winning trend by taking the doubles event with a 96 out of 100, finishing with 196 out of 200 for the Western Zone Class C Singles Championship. Lions Club seeks applications for scholarships EPHRAI- MScholarship applifor the Snow College 1996-9- 7 academic school year are being taken by Ephraim Lions Club. Scholarships are available for graduates of Gunnison Valley High School, North Sanpete High School and Manti High School. The Lions Club is looking for dedicated students with a genuine need for financial assistance to further their education. Interested persons may contact Kathryn Peterson, Lions Club 2 no later president, at than Sept. 1. cations 283-463- Ivory elected to Study shows new office in babies have a Search and Rescue sense of beauty MT. PLEASANAt the T- SALT LAKE CIT- Y- In a series of groundbreaking experiments, psychologist Judith Langlois of the University of Texas, Austin, has shown that even infants share a sense of whats attractive. Langlois placed 3- - to babies in front of a screen and showed them pairs of facial photographs. Each pair included one considered attractive by adult judges and another considered unattractive. Langlois found that the infants gazed significantly longer at attractive faces. The pattern holds true for photos of blacks, whites, males and females and even other babies. "These kids dont read Vogue or watch TV," Langlois says. "They havent been touched by the media. Yet they make the same judgments as adults." statewide convention of the Utah Search and Rescue held this month here, Ronald Ivory of Fountain Green was elected as purchasing agent of the state Search and Rescue. He is currently serving as secretary for Sanpete Countys Search and Rescue and is captain of the repelling team. He is the first member of Search and Rescue from Fountain Green since its organization 25 years ago. Ivory is also licensed with the State of Utah insurance board in property and casualty, health, life and securities. They say loves like the measlthe worse when it comes late in life. Douglas Jerrold es-all -- If you want to raise a good kid, give him a responsibility at an early age, preferably one that has four legs and needs to be fed. It also helps if the is marketable responsibility and doesnt stay long enough to develop an emotional attachment with the family. There used to be an old saying (and Ill probably draw some fire from readers on this one cause I cant remember just how it went). It has to do with the kind of "responsibilities" a kid can ride. It goes something like this: "If you want a kid to be stubborn, buy him a mule: if you want him to be mean, buy him a Shetland pony; if you want him to learn him a responsibility buy horse." Im a horse person, so I cant argue with that kind of philosophy, but Id have to opt for a smaller (and safer) animal if 1 really wanted to get the most mileage out of this a sheep. A picture of Fountain Greens Lamb Day Show participants crossed my desk last week. Now theres a crop of kids that any family or community can be proud of. Theyve successfully put the routine to the test, and theyre all winners. Theyve probably learned well the feeding principal enough that they could teach the next crop of kids (even if ne-say year-5per copy $23 per year outside Sanpete County 0t CORRESPONDENTS HELP WANTED Moroni City t Monti, Bruce Jennings 835-382- 4 436-857- 0 Wales, Chester Mathel Anderson Moroni, Barbara Gordon 436-876- 0 Ftn. Green, Jessie Oldroyd 445-342- 2 Snow College Reporter, Ray Truitt Dean O'Driscoll 445-332- 6 POSTMASTER: Send change of address to The Pyramid, 49 West Main Street, Mt. Pleasant, UT 84647. Periodical postage paid at Mt. Pleasant, UT and additional mailing offices. . is hiring a Full Time Water Superintendent must be willing to live within Moroni City limits. Pick up applications at City 436-835- Hall-3- 6 9 Application Deadline 96. No. Center He was a bummer, an orphan. Our oldest son was mother and father to him. He went from the bottle and milk replacer stage to hay and grain under Matts faithful nurturing. The lamb didnt really start out having a name, he just got so used to seeing his boy master coming with the groceries that he'd call out to him. His "maaa sounded like he was saying Matts name. And when Matt started to return the greeting in lamb talk (all words in lamb talk sound like "maaa), the name stuck. Maaa became a fat lamb, then a yearling, and finally a wether, but prime his namesake could not part with him. And the thought of eating a sheep that thought he was a person and even rode (upon occasion) in the front seat of the family car left the entire family on the verge of becoming vegetarian. Maaa had crossed the fine line between food chain and pet. Were it not for a poacher who viewed Maaa (then a FAT mutton) as an easier prize than a deer one hunting season, that particular exercise in responsibility might still be with us today. He was with us long enough, however, to teach a number of principles to our eldest. Along with tenderness, which would someday prove to be a great asset for Matt the father, Maaa taught our son responsibility. These valuable lessons were taught amid a framework of memories in the best classroom of What better opportunity can you give a youth. sheep. Bessie or Thats two-year-o- ld four-year-o- ld Miss Piggy or.... why we didnt name those responsibilities whose inevitable future belonged in the food chain. And if we did, they were taken to the auction, and we used the money from all-lif- e. ifif Activities begin at NS high school N Sanpete bus routes outlined by district MT. PLEASANT Regular bus schedules will begin with the first day of school, Monday, Aug. 26. Parents approximate needing times of arrival should contact the individual driver or the district office. Individual routes include: Curtis Coates, bus 89, Fairview, Mt. Pleasant; Ron Shelley, bus 941, Mountainville, Fair-vieMt. Pleasant; Dean Jensen, bus 91, Mt. Pleasant, Spring City, Moroni; Jean Nielson, Spring City, Mt. Pleasant; Lynda Lott, bus 88, Wales Chester, Moroni; Keith Sorensen, bus 86, Moroni, Chester, Wales, Mt. Pleasant; Jackie Keller, bus 914, Fairview, Indianola, Mt. Pleasant, Moroni; Leslie Arnoldson, bus 912, Spring City; Ben Jenkins, bus 921, Mt. Pleasant, Mountainville; Sonja Orton, bus 911, Fairview, Indianola, Milburn; Butch JohanConnie Lamb, sen, Mil-bur- n, MT. PLEASAN- T- There will bus 942, Wales, Freedom, Jerusalem, Fountain Green, Moroni; Unknown, bus 913, Mountainville, Fairview; and Herb Chandler, bus 82, high school, Ephraim. Karen Kowalski, district administrator over busing states, "If new students cannot locate the appropriate bus stop by asking neighbors, please call the district office. Elementary students are eligible for busing if they live one and a half miles from school; secondary students are eligible if they live two miles from school." be a red and white games for North Sanpete High School at 5 and 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 23, at the school. Following the games will be a dance for the high school students. Tuesday, Aug. 27, will be the start of election week for the ninth graders. All high school students are in to participate encouraged school activities, according to high school Principal Courtney Syme. Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. John F. Kennedy pre-scho- best riding and best deal is happening now. But if you want to ride a new. 1996 Polaris SLX personal watercraft for up to $1,200 less, you'll have to hurry in today, because this offer and quantities are limited. . MFT. SUGG. SAVE IIP TO SALE PRICE MODEL MSRP Summers (In Advance) $20 per wasnt a normal pets name, but then Maaa wasnt a normal es routi- ty raising a show lamb involves a lot more than keeping a lambs belly full. To be really successful a kid must learn the precepts of grooming and training. While the white silky wool of a show lamb adds to its appeal, it doesnt magically happen. Nor is it easy to get a rambunctious young sheep to stand still or accept the restraint of a leash. Then theres the responsibility part when all the kids hard physical (and emotional) work pays off (literally) and the end result-- a beautiful well behaved lamb-goon to fill the measure of its creation as lamb chops or mutton roasts or... (you get the picture). often inResponsibility volves sacrifice. Its a tough lesson, but is there any better way or time to learn? When the three Hamilton kids were growing up, we had our share of learning experiences, and several of them were sheep. We learned a simple way to avoid the trauma of final separation between kid and animal when it came time for., whatever. Dont name it! When an animal gets a name, it bonds. It becomes a member of the family. "What are we having for dinner?" a kid would ask. "Meat." would be the reply. "What kind of meat?" Now the kid wasnt interested in a grocery lesson; it was a quiz to make sure they weren't eating SLX Gundry, Mt. Pleasant, made his and the courses first Aug. 8 at Skyline Mountain Resort. It happened on Hole 4, with a par 3. Gun-dr- y drove the ball 130 yards with a nine iron. 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