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Show ndav,'s CLIPPER TODAY B5 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1999 Lifestyles Kan Jj mmiislim Family celebrates birth of ice cream cone BY VERA O. BARKER Clipper Today Correspondent Start a family tradition On his way home from husband work, my noticed the letters mowed into the Stevens familys front lawn. It could only mean one thing. They had celebrated yet another Bob Day? Although no one in the Stevens family is named Bob, still they gather and pay homage to the name. They watch the movie, What about Bob?, bob s, for apples, grill go fishing with bobbers, and do other activities related, no matter how remotely, to Bob. Family traditions, such as the Stevens Bob Day offer opportunities to have fun, create memories, share love and build strong bonds between family members. And traditions needn't be elaborate. When it came time to dismantle our bed and load it onto the moving truck, there, between the mattress and box spring, was a small yellow package of fish bouillon. How did it get there? Simple. My mother did it On our fust shopping trip after getting married, my husband and I were wandering down the soup aisle when he spotted a package of fish bouillon. Fish bouillon. Ugh! Who would ever use fish bouillon? No one that we knew. But we bought it anyway, wrapped it, and gave it to my mother as a gag gift for Christmas. Within days it found its way into my school bag. The next time I was at Moms, I slipped it in among her cassette tapes. A month later it turned up in my closet. Back and forth the fish bouillon goes. Hidden in Moms glove box. Stashed under Amanda's car seat. Like an extended game of tag, I B shish-ka-bob- never know when it will turn up, and Ill be it. (Dont look now. Mom, but the bouillon is in your court) Many traditional family activities are related to holidays, but anytime is a great time to start a family tradition. Here are some ideas: A monthly date with your kids. Each month on your childs birthday number, take them on a date. Go out to dinner, to the park, or for a treat. If its not possible to take them out, make them feel special at home. Cook their favorite dinner. Play their favorite game. Tell them why you think theyre great. Turkey for the baby. Whenever a baby is bom to a close friend or family member, buy a frozen turkey the same size as the babys birth weight. Give it frozen or, better yet, have it dressed and ready for when the new mother gets home from the hospital. Eat dessert first. Whenever Mom makes her signature dessert (at our house its raspberry pie), eat it before dinner. Repeat the phrase, Life is short. Eat dessert first. Hold a house party. Every year on the anniversary of the day you moved into your home, throw the house a birthday party. Clean it up, fix anything broken, and buy something special to help make and keep it lovely What are some ways you celebrate as a family? Christie Hansen plans to periodically print contributions from other parents in the trenches Please write and share your family traditions, parenting joys, concerns and at gripes with her by christiehansenusa.net or care of this publication. - KAYSVILLE Children, teenagers and grownups eating ice cream cones, playing games and enjoying the fall weather filled Hods Hollow Park. Gordon Christensen, with sons Aron and Kent scooped up free cones for everyone - as many as they could eat The occasion was the 96th birthday of the ice cream cone. The Christensens delivered 60 invitations around the neighborhood announcing the event this year. It all began one September day 13 years ago. Christensen, and his family went to the base library and were surprised to find the library offering free ice cream cones. The library was celebrating the ice cream cones birthday The family went home, talked about it and decided to make it a family tradition. Every year since then they have treated friends, neighbors and strangers to ice cream cones. Its something the kids remember? Christensen said. In the late 1800s, an Italian immigrant, Italo Marchiony, began selling lemon ice from a pushcart in New York City Success led to a fleet of pushcarts and Marchiony soon developed a cone to hold the treat. At first the cones were made of paper and later of pastry. In September of 1903, he applied for a patent for his mold to make an ice cream cone. The patent was issued in December of the same year It wasnt until the New York World's Fair in 1905, however, that the ice cream cone really took off as Americas favorite summer treat Ice cream itself is much older. It was served in the Roman Empire, in BY VERA O. BARKER Clipper Today Correspondent of the ice cream cone by treating Marv Lynchard China and India. At first it was called iced cream (like iced tea) but later shortened to ice cream. Since Americans consume 15 quarts per capita every year, it is appropriate that the first recorded writing about ice cream, in 1744, was written by an American. He wrote about fine ice cream, strawberries and milk. The local celebration has been held in front of the Christensen home in past years. This year they moved to Hods Hollow Park. I got too hot scooping ice cream in the sun last i -P- 15-2- 9 liie SR-7- 1 is a fragile craft, Sullivan stated. It only weighs 60,000 pounds. It can hold 80,000 pounds of fuel. We would not fill the fuel tank before take off. It was just too heavy It required 30,000 pounds of fuel to take off, then we would refuel in the aii? The plane was made of titanium - or attacked by dogs each year. De Wayne and Melba Thome walk with Christensen in the mornings. Acquaintances of the Christensens Florida and Texas have also taken up the tradition in then neighborhoods. Christensen has approached the post office department about making a commemorative stamp for the 100 year celebrauon. "We served about 200 cones this year? Christensen said. "I plan to do this until the ice cream cone is 100 years old. if I'm still around. in 3 C1G THE ULTIMATE CD and plastic. The US didnt have enough titanium, so they bought some from the Soviet Union. Black paint allowed it to fly 75 degrees cooler and also helped it to evade radar. Authorized President by Eisenhower, the plane was built by the Skunk Works of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. At the time it cost $3 million to build and another $3 million for the electronic hardware. It was designed before computers with a slide rule. Eldon Heslop, who worked as a Lockheed engineer spoke of the secrecy of the project The FBI knew more about me than I did. If you met a off the job, you acted like you didn't know him. My wife didnt know where I was. She had a secret phone number to call if she needed me. We flew all over Asia. The Chinese tried their best to shoot us down. Some came pretty close, but none succeeded. Once we had to dig shrapnel out of a bearing. When President Kennedy was in 1963, Lyndon assassinated Johnson didnt know about the plane He later ordered the plane to be made public The only ones we were keeping it secret from were the American people, said Sullivan. The Soviet Union knew all about It allows you to add money at any time. Opportunities to withdraw without penalty. It pays high market rates. er it. for Clipper Today contest 29-O- ct candy, cookies, drinks and games. Christensen also provided children with handouts about dog safety, since many thousands of children in the United States and Canada are bitten Sarge is always figuring out some-dung- ? De Wayne said. I made him a trade, though. I brought him two cucumbers. feet up. Circus ticket winners named Nine winners in BOUNTIFUL the Clipper Coloring Contest have been announced for tickets to the Ringling Bros, and Bamum & Bailey Circus at the Delta Center in Salt 3. Lake City on Sept Coloring contest winners include: Category one, 4 to 6 year olds Madsen, first Kailey place, Farmington; second place, Breanna Bowden, Layton; third place, Alex Birkes, Clearfield. Category two, 7 to 8 year olds yeai? Christensen said, so I decided to come to the park this year? They do this every single year? one child asked. This is my fourth cone? another said. Besides ice cream cones, there was I V 110,000 square miles of earths surface in one hour. It could photograph a golf ball on the green from 80,000 ilots, engineers and others who worked on the SR-7- 1 strategic reconnaissance spy plane (Blackbird) swarmed around the museum last Saturday. They spent the day telling their stories and showing their videos. Col. James Sullivan spoke about his flight which set the world speed record from New York to London on September 1, 1974. The flight actually began from Beale Air Force Base, California. They passed the radar gate in New York at 80,000 feet, going more than 2,000 miles an hour. The actual time between New York and London was 1 hour 54 minutes and 56 seconds. They covered 3.488 miles at an average speed of l,817miles per hour. The plane stood on public display at Famborough England for the first time outside the United States. Setting records was nothing new It holds the worlds for the SR-7record for sustained horizontal flight at 85,068 feet (more than 15 miles) and the speed record of 2,194 miles per hour on a 5 kilometer straight course, (faster than a 30-0-6 bullet). During the 1960s it was one of Americas best kept secrets. It was used during the Yom Kipper war between Israel, Egypt and Syria, during the Vietnam conflict and throughout the cold war. The SR-7- 1 was one of the nations most successful weapons in intelligence gathering. Col. Sullivan told of flying the SR-7- 1 out of Okinawa . We flew over Vietnam and North Korea. We would refuel over Thailand and return. In those two passes we could photograph the whole country? The spy plane could photograph KAYSVILLE RESIDENT, Gordon Christensen celebrates the 96th birthday all the Kaysville kids to all the ice cream cones they can eat. Photo by SIXTY-SIX-YEAR-OL-D r Old 'Blackbirds' gather at Air Force Museum HILL AIR FORCE BASE X) first place, Emily Goldberg, Layton; second place Michael Walker, Clinton; third place, Brooklyn Bown, Layton. Category three, 9 to 10 year olds first place, Kevin McFall, Centerville; second place, Connor Andertson, Layton; and third place, Terrin Little, Sunset All first place winners received five tickets to the circus, second place winners received three tickets and third place winners received two i The mild-manner- ed CD has changed. Typically. 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