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Show 6A Irntry County Progress Castle Da'e, U!ah Tuesday March 6,j001 Emery County CENE n ijt r wsp UFI it , WW- 7 S ' T 'ERH i. . Tn i , I ' AH Vi i IHU'OM it Maryla Adams rosi- Mania Adams, a honored as is of .lino, (lent' being Citizen of tlio Week. She is married to .lack Adams and is the mother of inn. and Lynn Lane Adams, l.isa Adams and has five (perfect) grand life-lon- g I children. Mania sas horn on July 1, 11)17, in Standardville, I 'tali, (now a ghost town) to Carl and Verne Mortonson, parof I )ennis. Elroy. Maryla, Rirki, Vance. Man ia laughingly claims and to have the middle child syndrome. Mania attended both North Em- erv High School and Emery High School, two years at each school and in 1 d game show Battle t V Emery County students flex their mental muscles on local TV game show By PATSY STODDARD Staff, Emery County Progress Many students from Emery County participated in The Battle of Wits game show in Price on Feb. 20. John Serfustini, station H at that time and umpiring where needed. She was also involved in bringing back womens softball, which she also played. Maryla wus very strict about not allowing bad language or poor sportsmanship, whether coaching, . County-base- I. Man la has always been concerned and helpful to youth; she found pure joy in being involved with them, nieces, nephews, friend's and neighborhood kids, and youth throughout all of Emery County. She coached many diflerent ages in spoils. It was a known fact that her bigold Intcrna- tional station wagon was always full of kids w bother going to a spook al- -i ley on Halloween (with Maryla all dressed up, scan ), or to a ball game, dragging main, church activities, or just taking them to do something fun. I br many years, she w as a leader and church camps. Evat both ery one knew that most of the kids at camp were going to end up at Mania's camp. They were introduced to an awesome mixture of learning, active fun, good morals, honesty, and the importance of friendship. She was the scout master, scout leader, and den mother, all at once, in Elmo, so the boys tit that time wouldnt miss out on scouts. Several y ou th with sad home lives have Iteen welcome in Maiyla's home where her love and concern made life easier for them. One thing that is obvious, wherever Mania is, there is a group laughing and enjoying the fun, infectious atmosphere she creates. She always makes being around her a joy. Many times she has made the statement, If life hands you lemons, dont whine about it, make lemonade!" Maryla loved sports and was very athletic. She especially loved to coach or umpire. She was Emery Countys first papered umpire. She held many umpire classes to help other women learn the rules and get registered. She drove anywhere in Carbon and Emery Counties, many times all by herself, to umpire where needed. She was know n in both counties for her integrity and honesty both as an umpire and as a coach. She always taught the youth she coached, It is better to lose honestly than to w in a game by cheat ing! And Mary la really loved to w in! Maryla started the very popular women's volleyball league. Women are still enjoy ing this well organized league that has given hundreds of women the opportunity to get out and enjoy themselves. She brought in coaches from BYl' to teach the first teams how to play the game correctly and w hat the rules were. She organized girl's softball for ages 12 to IS and then realized a younger girls league w as needed, so she helped organize and coach a younger league to have somethingfor the little girls while the Ixiys had little league. She was coaching two teams , appeared on the Carbon Battle of ents graduated Photos by Patsy Stoddard , The Bombs face off against the Mutiny, two teams of students from Emery County who recently of Wits. umpiring, or playing. She took her girls teams and her womens team to tournaments out of the urea to experience something new Continued on PAGE 7A. manager and news director is the creator, announcer, and prepares the questions for the show. Serfustini said, We have 32 teams competing and each time a team wins they advance to the next round. The show started in November and we expect to have the finals around the end of the school year. CEU has donated three full tuition scholarships to the winners of the high school competition and the junior high winners will receive graphic calculators. Emery Telcom is the underwriter for the Battle of Wits program. , Its been fun achieving my goal of giv- ing recognition to academic achievers. So much emphasis is placed on sports; I wanted to give students a chance to be recognized for excelling academically. Serfustini said you cant study for the show. I tions so they arent too difficult so everyone has a chance to get them right. I also use some current event questions. Half of the teams who have competed have been from Emery County. Channel 9 is not broadcast in Emery County but those students participating can purchase the tape of the show on which they appear. All participants receive a Battle of Wits and a certificate of participation. We rebroadcast sports programming and we have four newscasts each day with local news. We also run commercials. This game show has given us the chance to get some students on TV, he said. The Emery teams participating on this night were: Clemo- - Dereck Brotherson, e Bruce Clement, Kendall Bird. The Hanson, Jasha Hinkins and Shala Pitchforth. Mutiny- - Luke Stoddard, Tyrel irt Bombs-Natale- Brady, Paul Arnold. pull ques- tions out of my childrens text The Phat books, the vocabu- Merrell, Luke Peacock. The Archons-Jerem- y lary Ones-Robb- ie Jensen, Blake questions come from the Gilbert, James Owen, Leo newspaper, and Deeke Lister helps me with the sports questions. He is a sports buff. We try to keep the ques Carbon. The Bombs won the team called Mutiny, and the Phat Ones won their match against the Archons. The winningteams will continue on until they are defeated or become the champions in their division. Wright. The Clemo team was victorious in their competition against a team from The Phat Ones. The Archons. BITS OF HISTORY Something Old, Something New By SYLVIA NELSON think Im finally getting hyped up about the impending 2002 Winter Olympics. We all may as well. They are coming, so make the best of them and enjoy all the news of them while they are in our neighborhood - our state, and get on the band wagon. Ill even be glad to take two cheap seats tickets to the figure or pairs skating, or the luge or bobsled events if you have extras. Oh, well, nice I thought! While reading one of my articles on winter, my husband, Glenn, started talking about skiingon barrel staves. Barrel Staves? I hadnt heard or thought about those for years. Kids nowadays hardly know what a barrel is. (A metal container that oil came in, hammered into a drum that they saw in a TV documentary about Jamaica, right?) Bet theyve never heard of barrel staves (Look it up on the Internet. Like, go to www.history.com or something, dude, it might be there - maybe). Barrels (casks) were made of wooden strips (staves) wider in the middle than at the ends making the barrel bulge out. These were held tightly together with a metal or iron band to form a barrel shaped container with a round wooden top and bottom (heads). A spigot was put into a hole (bung) in the top or side to allow stored liquids to be used when needed. Barrel makers are called coopers. Metal cooperage has become an important major industry. Many things wereare stored in barrels: molasses, grease for wagon wheels, coal oil for lamps, chemicals, paints, oil, and also, whiskey, beer, and wine is still aged in huge wooden casks. Barrels are usually 2 gallon in size, depending if liquid 31-4- or dry measure. More information is in your grandmothers set of Book of Knowledge encyclopedias if your mom didnt toss them out with the rest of the antiques. The history I read on skiing didnt mention skiing on barrel staves but did state that the first skiers In Northern Europe and Asia used large animal bones. The first barrel stave skiers simply wrapped a leather strap under the stave and over their boots and tried it out. But the bump underneath made by the strap balled up the snow and it wasn't smooth running at all. So, the strap was nailed on the upper side of the stave, and that was better. Then later, a ring was cut out of an old rubber inner tube, put on over and above the ankle, then youd insert your toe into the leather strap, stretch the inner tube down under your toe that was in the strap. This held your foot more securely. When you fell, this also kept the ski attached to your foot so you didnt have to chase it down the hill. This was a forerunner of the safety gear modified to such precision on modem skis today. This is what my husband and many kids of yesteryear learned to ski on. The barrel staves curved up at both ends allowing for some tricky maneuvers, spinning round and round while moving down hill. If you werent careful, you could end up going down hill backwards much faster than you might want to. Many spills went into this learning experience, but the kids who learned on barrel staves became expert skiers on real skis in a hurry. Documented in my Emery County history books are treks over the mountains to see relatives in Sanpete valley, that were completed by bravo, strong, young men that took many days. Im assuming they used a form of snow shoe as no particular gear is mentioned. Men used to chock the water shed areas, reservoirs, and dams in Huntington Canyon, a job done by Phincas Cook and Alton Alger in 1936 and 37. They would pack in t i on horses through the Left Hand Fork into Ralston Reservoir and set up their camp there. They made snow' shoes and also a sleigh to pull along behind them-- . selves with the supplies needed to repair holes in the dams, and also release water sometimes to break the ice on the canals below. I couldnt find anything about downhill skiing in Emery County. It would be interesting to know who were the first to cross country ski in Emery County and if it was for business (like checking snow levels, trapping animals, or reporting weather?) or for pleasure as many fami-lies do now. Even the skis that my husband handed me to learn on had leather straps and were really antique in 1958. Wish Id saved them for a wall decoration - that would have been how I could use them best. I am way klutzy on skis. I think a new Winter Olympics chal- lenge event would be skiing on barrel staves. Anyone have an old barrel? Per-haps some hot doggers" would volun- teer to do an exhibition event. My husband has decided he wants to try snowboarding. Hes borrowed a nice fancy board from his younger buddy, Kent. Im charging up the to record this historic event. Go for it, honey, we have good insurance! . , I I 1 1 H . . cum-eord- ti POOl pB I |