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Show &03a7"0lrtt0 Lake Slt city, Utah 84UC Serving Smithfield, Lewiston, Richmond end Other North Cache Communities VOL. XII, NO. 32r THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1976, SMITHFIELD, UTAH, 845335 Area Families Host Youths Japanese Six families in the Smith-fiel- d area are hosting 7 year old students from Ja15-1- pan. The program is Japanese Homes tay 1 sponsored by Foreign Study League. The students have been studying English and this gives them broad experience upon which they can base their judgments of the culture of the United States and intensive experiences in using the English language. f. ; MRS. RALPH HOLT window curtain brought and her ion, Neil, 11, hold up a to them by their Japanese guest Masao Kawasaki, who explains some material. of the figures on the Citizea Photo Thirty eight Japanese students are living with Cache Valley families for three weeks. The students meet each weekday morning for school and tours learning about our postal system, government, industry, recreation, home life, etc. Some afternoons and evenings the families and students join together for special Ayami Nakamura is staying with the DeMar Hansen family in Amalga. The fol- are living in Smithfield: Keiko Atari with the Darwin Cannell family, Eiichi Oyama with the Roo bert Chambers family, Aoki with the Ralph dark family, Keiko Hirai with"'Ihe Blaylock 'Johnson family, and Masao Kawasaki with the Ralph Holt family. sponsored jointly by the USU program and the La bo Just putting a different sound to a word can make all the difference, said Mrs. Holt. When he came he gave us a gift of many different teas. He asked me if I was a mummy. At first, I thought he asked me if I was a mother, she laughed 4-- H International Exchange Foundation. Last year 55 Utah lived with Japanese families for a month and in 1974, 55 youths from Japan visited Utah. Goal of the exchange program, according to USU supervisor Gerald Olson, is to provide an opportunity for young people of two different cultures to establish relationships. Through people-to-peopencounters, we hope young people can learn to know and 4-- H After trying to translate each others meaning of the word I realized he was asking if I was a Mormon. le appreciate other cultures, Masao is so gracious, says Mrs. Holt, he is a joy to have as a guest. They enjoy American items. Last ,and that friendships will be established. he added. youths visited here, potato peelers were the big things to HOLT, 19. Neil and Masao hold up several pennants brought from Masaos native lano. ex- In the past, the Japanese participants have eagerly accepted the American way of life and the American food. But they have shared many of their own culture such as paper activities folding and folk dances with their host families. The exchange program will end August 27. Lions Plan One thing the Holts noted was the way Masao enjoyed reading the labels on American items. Work Project The Richmond Lions will hold their first meeting on August 11. It will be a work project upjiigh Creek. Canyon starting at 5 p.m. at the Lions campsite.- ? The parking lot will be rograveled and some work done on the roads and trails. The forest service will furnish the materials and supervise the work. ' - ponsored pro-- party, sponsored each year by the Richmond City officials and Lions Club, will be .held, on Friday, 13, .at the City Park. - The youths and their host families are: Hiroyo Noguchi, 16, with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jensen, Trenton; Koguchi, 13, with Mr. and Mrs. Ken Munk, Smith-filNoriko Sekiguchi, 15, At-su- with Mr. and Mrs. Jay Nelson, Logan; Kazuho 15, with Mr. and Mrs. Clay Nielsen, 101 South 300 East, Smithfield. The exchange program is It will start at 6 p.m. with games, races, contests, etc. for the young people. Lunch will be served at 7 p.m. and a program will follow the dinner. d; Yo-shid- a, NANCY preparation for the change. Richmond take back home. This year," she said, its Levi pants. No-buk- Communication proves to be a problem, but a funny problem solved by short phrases and lots of sign language. ex- change program for the past two years agree enthusiastically that the goals have been met. All of the Japanese participants have been enrolled in English speaking classes in year when the Japanese lowing students Masao lives in Nagoya, a city of 2 million people. He has enjoyed camping with the Holt family. He likes all sports and modern music and plans to be an engineer. Participants in the ' The box lunch will be served at 8 p.m. All Lion members are invited to be in attendance to participate in the evenings activities. The Annual summer Everyone in the community is invited. Committees from the Lions Club will be appointed to supervise and plan the evenings activities assisted by the City Officials. Meeting Set Citizen Photo Funk Family Attends August 1 1 All incoming sophmores and their parents in the Sty View High attendance area are invited to attend an New Mexico Conference orientation 11 meeting August at 8:00 in the High School auditorium. The purpose of President and Mrs. Dennis Funk and children Craig, Kent, Bobby, Becky, Kristine and Lisa, represented Smithfield Stake recently at the Mormon Leadership Conference at the Philmont Boy Scout Ranch in Cimmar-on- , New Mexico. Approximately 120 Stake Presidents, Counselors to Stake Presidents, and High Councilors and their families were in attendance where the priesthood leaders were given instruction about participated in various activities. Craig and Kent were Mountain Men and spent the week 'hiking and camping in various parts of the 137,000 acre ranch. They climbed the Mt. Baldy which is 12,441 ft. high. Bobby participated with the Blazer scouts in hiking and camping during the day, but returned to camping headquarters each evening. Becky, Kristine and Lisa participated with children of their own age group under the supervision of Philmont Staff members. Rebecca enjoyed historic tours of the area and attended special meetings for the sisters with Bp. and Sister Brown and Bp. and Sister Peterson, and Sister Shum-wa- y of the Primary Board. In addition a full ward program was carried out stuincluding Pi unary, Relief this is to acquaint the with and their dents parents Society, Aaronic Priesthood requireActivity Night, Priesthood the high school procedmeeting, Sunday School, ments, policies andwho have Sacrament meeting and ures. New students moved to the Sky View just Home Family Evening. area, transfer students and The families lived in tent their parents are also encities which accomodated couraged to attend this mee-inThe new students are two persons per tent. Meals were served at the Training required to register at the school August 11. 12 and 13 Center cafeteria. This proved to be an exciting and very from 8:30 to 3:30. Counselors g. educational experience the entire family. for scouting as it .relates to the Aaronic Priesthood gram. Battalion Marches pro- Bishop H. Burke Peterson. 1st Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric presided over the conference. Other faculty members included Bp. Victor L. Brown Presiding Bishop of the Church, Rulon D. Craven, Director of the Aaronic Priesthood, Ross J. Taylor, Director of Mormon Relationships Boy Scouts of America, Naomi M. Shum-waGeneral President of the Primary and members of the Aaronic Priesthood Committee and Primary Board. Shortly after the arrival Bishop Peterson called the group together and organized them into a ward with In Parade The Cache Valley Mormon Battalion Co. D took part in the Preston Parade Saturday afternoon. The flag bearers marched first with Merlin Kendrick, Bruce Allen, Dwane Carlson and Warren Hansen. Major Wesley Reese and his group, all iauniform, 1st Lt. Roland Mortensen, 1st Lt. Quinten Thomas, 1st Lt. Darrus Allred, Wilbom Ken- y. approximately 600 members. President Funk served in the Sunday School Presi- JANKl. HOLT, 4. models the beautiful handmade kimono Maxaos mother made for her. Masao brought many beautiful gifts from his homeland to his host family. She Is holding two Citizen Photo lovely wooden dolls. dency and Rebecca was called to be a Primary teacher. While the priesthood leaders were in conference sessions, family members will be available to help in any way if it is necessary. drick, and Laland Cottle. SMITIIFIF.LD'S CITY HEALTH Day float the Prrslon parade held last week. rrrrivrd first place 4 In thr city division during Also marching were officers from the national staff, Utah Commander, Elmer Jones. |