Show ?L:if'e£ ilv --a Tii iiiwwMiilnwffr -- — - rnnriftiiTimTT - mrifriiii fiff 1 r“ — n — t1— j rf-- r rvT-iym- ro MiwiiwiMWiii imhio WMHliiNBir nra-- gw I " Crossword 10 Win at Bridge 11 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday October 14 1996 It’s (still) that time F of year Or How to waste a lunch hour Cache Valley style The first week of October in By Gina Wickwar Vermont is the The problem: I work in North laigan but live on the southeast bench This plus the recent autumnal spate of road repairs and cable trenching southern unbearably beautiful American time can and place spell trouble Consider last week when 1 tried to gel home Charles at lunchtime to walk my dogs I do this every day and usually have no trouble Hut last week it turned out to be quite a challenge especially since I have only an hour and I had to drop off some dry cleaning along the way Kuralt Both roads exiting south from the parking lot where I work were being upgraded so I had to go through a far Eastern exit to the north and continue cast before hitting Second Last to turn back south Bad luck got behind a school bus which crawled along asthmatically slopping every fifteen yards or so to disgorge small bands of little learners who then I sauntered slowly (very) across the street to their waiting mothers Live minutes later I inched across 1400 North only to be faced with a major road repair operation that had closed off a critical stretch of Second Last was rerouted off to the east on a several-blocdetour until I came to a 1 k i through street that let me go south all the way to Tenth North By now approximately II minutes had gone by since I left my office which was still in sight I cautiously turned west on Tenth North then hung a left on Third liast only to confront yet another working mad crew Third Last here wasn’t actually closed hut the crew was helping a front-en- d turn a loader to make a painful enterprise as it turned out entailing much hand signaling whistles and OSIIA-inspire- d backup beeping all the while blocking the street for several minutes I glanced at my watch At this rate I would make it to my driveway just in time to head back immediately to work Things started looking up however I managed to make it all the way south on Third Last (with only one stop and a North where I turned yield) to west and then south back on to Second Last I scooted into the dry cleaner’s By JR Allred for The Herald Journal The driver taking us lo the airport needled us a little “You folks have me confused” he began as we headed up Wdlsville Canyon “The fall colors are beautiful on the trees the weather is warm and you’re going to Boston to see leaves?” lie had a point foliage was approaching its peak in the northern Utah mountains We were enjoying patches of Utah color as we left to fly to Boston and drive through the New England states But we weren’t confused putting our viewing of Utah’s and New England's colors only a few hours apart gave us unprecedented opportunity lo com 180-degr- I & i pare — and enjoy — the two Besides colored leaves were only a part of our trip If you add in the historical sites the museums the Maine coastline and a clam and lobster feast a visit to New England makes perfectly gx)d sense any time Still a paragraph from Charles Kuralt’s America made us eager for our new experience: "The first week of October in southern Vermont” the veteran CBS On the Road newsman wrote ‘‘is the unbearably beautiful American lime and place Brilliant yellow hills slope down to glowing green meadows Every sugar maple along every country lane in scarlet and gold” I recalled the first time I drove birch-cover- ed Photos courtesy of JR Allred Joseph Smith's birthplace in Sharon offers a peaceful retreat some of those Vermont roads years ago saw dairy cattle grazing the pastures and thought how it reminded me of Cache Valley and lleber Valley back in Utah On this trip we were a little early for the great masses of color Kuralt wrote of but as we drove north through Vermont nearly lo the Canadian border more of the green gave way lo orange Little spirts of color punctuated the serene green of Joseph Smith’s birth place near Sharon Vermont 'J'hc peaceful quiet of the site has been my main impression both times I have visited Sharon “How do you compare the culms here and in the W'asatch Mountains''" I asked some of our USU emeriti traveling companions Along with the similarities there arc Mime differences wc decided In New England the hills and valleys See COM)K on Page 16 swung out onto Second Last again crossed Fourth North and limped along Second Last until I came to Center Hue I momentarily allowed myself a image ol a ham sandwich diying before I turned left aimed at the Last Iknch and immediately came to face to t face with a set of barricades that looked i i like they’d been rescued from the Bastille In addition to the blipping orange Hashers there were numerous ed flag-drap- diamond-shape- d mesh signs indie aling that Center was closed from somewhere (unspecified) near Merlin Olsen Park to vimcwhcrc (unspecified) f irihs-east I along with several other disgruntled drivers by now aching with hunger and no doubt ihinking evil thoughts were skillfully maneuvered r over to First South while dodging loaders and (lag perglade rs front-ensons Creeping east along First South at the M minute we were sent north through the fe need alleyway of the 7th and 23rd Wards f hurch (really!) Some cars with other destinations turned off but I straggled up Mountain Road only to encounter more orange mesh flags notifying residents lhal our yards and roads slate would lx under a of siege for cable trenching beginning about Halloween and ending around the Winter Solstice (hough mere yards fioni home it still look me about four minutes to traverse the salim course of trailers and ihc gazillion Ingervdl-Kantones set up to divert ears from the side f the road and inn irto the middle fivt fie! of the street I whipped Hit of the tar and into the Jotai i lapsed nme 34 minutes semi-permane- nt d tv S WICKWAR on Page 16 PP offers help for ‘facts of life’ discussions Kathy Najimy from the movie Sister Act and the pop trio Betty contribute to the entertaining soundtrack In the Talking About Sex video four families discuss puberty relationships abstinence pregnancy sexual orientation and contraception Also included in the kit are a comprehensive resource guide lor parents and an activity hook for Lids Endorsers of the Talking about Sex project include the National Education Association Advocates for Youth YWCA author Judy Blumc and actor In honor of the 2 1st anniversary of National Family Sexuality Education Month Panned Parenthood Association of Utah announces the release of its new educational home video kit Tallin about Sex: A Guide for Tumihes The Talking About Sex kit provides and families with an entertaining look at human sexuality according to a press release The centeranimated piece of the kit is a video that mixes information animation and humor to initiate discussions between parents and their kids Actor te Whoopi Goldberg Talking about Sex: A Guide for Families can be purchased at Planned Parenthood locations throughout the state for $30 or rented for $3 Over 30 other health and youth service agencies nationwide will take pari in National Family Sexuality Education Month including the American Federation of Teachers Boys and Girls (Tub ol America the Children's Defense Fund the American Academy of Pediatrics the National Urban league the YMCA and the YWCA Parents may also wish in in one of Planned I'atcinljooif s — liieni-Chil- Workshops designed to parenls and their kids to open the lines of communicaiimi and iilk honestly about human scxualits In I'CC Planned Parenthood atliliiics conducted more than 4000 programs l r cMmmi parents Workshops Mill In- laid local!) 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