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Show '' 4 i' K V. iv, r V . ,r tt ,uV. A.ik yi r V Hr'f'r ' '? V V. mi1' V . - . ..,-- 4 r. Paqe IB North Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, September 26, 1984 98, Credits Work in, Beautiful Yard ife, JUJPY BLACKNER Review correspondent SOUTH WEBER Work ont hurt ya. If it did I wouldnt be'.here today, said Jack T. Pip- resident of South tirf, Weber, Ive worked my way with! a shovel, a hoe, a hammer and a rake. Ive made mine the hard way. 'Pippin and his wife, Myrle Kendall Pippin, spend their daylight hours working mwd the house. Pippin does all th?;,yarl work himself and has turned each bush and branch into detailed works of art. ? C . Utah from Tennessee and Ken- tucky the train traveled so slow you could get out and walk be-side it," said Pippin, I helped build the railroad down this can- yon, the Weber canal and the old Bamburger tracks and we did all the work back then with horses and hand tools. worked my way around the yard, Now the hedges are getting a little tall beyond my reach. oottom working with my hands and I worked myself all the way to the top if you can call this the top. - aromas. Pieces enchanting flower pot. Insulators for the base are antiques from old power lines and the lava rocks around the bottom are from Grace, Idaho. Pippin was born in 1886 in a small town near Las Vegas, Nev. He spent his early life in Utah and moved to South Weber in 1944. He retired from 50 years of service with the Riverdale branch of the Utah Power and Light Company where he first began trimming hedges. I went to, work one day and my boss handed me a pair of hedge sheers and told me to go to of an old hay rake stuck ih ra: pipe with old truck lights dangling from the end make an . J 5' 'n J ?raf,d . , we f?,r . : . . y When my parents migrated to 'd tmer 'Pnfa ck todav elfere yu, T', jtiLr0U PCP 6 WORKING long hours in his yard keeps Jack T. Pippin, 98, busy and productive. "1 t vll f . ij , d " ' , i" " - . c Jf t hV( .ti , .(4 .v r - y 7 v. - V La l r i . ;v , i. ' , 1 . V x..JL : V: .r- - is TUT cl ... ; wv mm& dD33? cnnee Gent? Ir.. 4 . 4- |