Show Page 16— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday March 16 1998 Letters prove there are those who ByJameaJ KtoaMck Seventeen yean have pasted since I began writing this weekly column The mail from readers remains as fascinating as even Let me than some ncent letten with you "Weathermen here in Greenville (SC) recently have reported on two conditions nothing is wrong with saying tint a night is unseasonable in balmy South Carolina A retired teacher in Valley Village Calif wrote to complain about what she believed was a misuse of “myriad" A (ports writer had criticized a basketball team for “a myriad of mistakes" when the team had “fewer than five minutes to five minutes to play” for the remaining were not five discrete elements of 60 seconds each They constituted a solid element In the same way we have that do not exist: 'calm winds' and play" I can't find fault with “myriad of miunseasonably arid weather' The former stakes" for myriad is both noun and is of course an oxymoron The latter The word is rooted in both adjective falls in one of your creatively named catGreek and Latin Long ago it meant egories As alternatives weathermen might say that 'the air is still' for die first situation and for the last simply that it is ‘unusually cold weather for our area”' I responded with a note of disagree- ment Nothing is wrong with "calm winds" In my observation winds come in degrees just as quality comes in degrees — light winds moderate winds strong winds gale winds and in South Carolina senatorial winds As for "unseasonable" weather surely Ralph Smith Camp meets at 1:30 pm Thursday at the home of Elaine Watkins Paula Scott is Lesson by Verna co-host- Nyman and history by BonnaLue Pack Brigham Young Camp meets Thursday March 19 at the Bluebird Pioneer Room 1 pjn The lesson will be by Karma Nelson history by Elaine Seeholzer Hostesses will be Ian Preston Dora Larsen Florence Wangs-gaar- d Annuel Faye Stucki and Spencer Seagull Camp will meet at 1 pm Thursday in the 5th18th Ward Relief Society room The Even so I would have used lesson will be given by Margaret Kartchner and the history by Ten Purser: Col-bo- the home of Beth Anderson The history will be given by Valene Fuhriman and the history will be given by a special guest Thomas Turbot Camp will meet at 1 pm Thursday at the Coppermill The lesson will be given by Faye Davis and die tory by Joanne Lundberg his- given by Daniel H Wells Camp will meet at 1 pm Thursday at the home of Sandra Bradshaw The City building The lesson will be given by Shirley Larson and die history by Delores Larsen Stead 70 day before For information or reservations call 6 or stop by 240 N 100 East Logan We are offering a new meal option Soft meals arc available for congregate and Meals on Wheels Call the Center ifyou are interested in tins new option 752-945- AARP will provide Jidp with taxesat the Center Tuesday through Friday No appointment necessary Call for dates and times Pinochle players are needed The group meets at 1 pm Thursdays We are planning a trip to the Hill AFB and BrowningRR museums on March 26 There will also be a lunchCache Valley shopping spree on April 28 Call for reservations for these trips Our next tour will be to the Black HillsMl Rush-moJune 15 thru 19 Call die Center for additional details Tuesday: Coffee social at 10 am exercises at 11 re am and ceramics Lunch will be pork cutlet mixed veggies and dessert ban Wednesday: Line dancing at 9 am Spanish class at 10 am ceramics bridge and tango at 1 pm Lunch will be corn chowder pea salad and gingerbread Thursday: Exercises at 11 am cribbage ceramics and pinochle at 1 pm Lunch will be hot sliced beef cucumber salad and strawberry shortcake Friday: Line dancing at 9 am bridge and tango and a musical dance featuring the Oldies but Goodies at 1 pm Lunch will be chicken friend steak beets and a cookie rrum Seniors Hyrum Senior Citizens Center is open from 9 pm Monday through Friday The center has pool tables exercise equipment ceramics quilting and other ongoing activities The center encourages visits from folks who live in Hyrum or the surrounding communities There is an ongoing display of Ted Kindred's collection of antiques For more information or if you need transportation to : to 2 iliil ora! any activities call 245-35We will be holding our Mens Lunch from 10 am to 12:30 pm Thursday March 19 Wb will be having mini classes lunch Please make sure that you sign up This lunch is free On Tuesday March 31 we will be holding a Health Fair sponsored by Logan Regional Hospital Some of die things that will be offered are: Mood sugar and cholesterol $17 please sign up for this test hearing screening foot clinic Medicare help nutrition information This Health Fair will start at 3-- Wednesday: Program and lunch at noon the cost is $350 and die menu is — g— At 12:30 Cather- classes Mvaifcao mi Marriage Problems in a marriage come straight from what we aw at home Doebler laid t "When we get into crisis we revert bad: to the situation from which we came” he said “We don’t think it — it just happens” Our role growing up has a lot to do with who we marry and how we deal with situations in the marriage' ' “Oldest (children) expect more of oldeets and babies in the fami- stabilize (a marriage)” he said "ft can never be the lame after an affair ft shouldn’t be the same there’s something else tint needs to be resolved fint she said Being aware of your spouse’s physical needa is important Money said but being aware of emotional needa is equally crucial That's die fifth item on his list for building a strong marriage- “An 'emotional marriage puts because there waa something wrong You don’t have an affair for no reason" ' Money says chronic anger ia die leading cause of divorce — symptoms are a coolness in die marriage a distance die spouses with accept and because fheirtuerthey differ bout are not addressed sod com--1 promised Give the marriage attention and deal with anger right away to keep die marriage ly are balnea forever’’ he said “When oldest (children) marry (tidests those matrhgea am more learn-to-liv- tion respect appreciation and partnership” he said “Maintaining these tilings keeps a marriage relational” ' ff a marriage has a strong foundation there are few problems couples can’t overcome Elliott aid depending on the couple’s from being polluted with conflict he said Disagreement over finance! build up lingering anger in many marriages said Elliott often leading to divorce Discuss it as soon as it comes up ahe said belief systems and values “Say a betrayal an adulterous affair in marriage” ahe said “Some people will be very butt sity with an open major bat minoring in folk dance many couples don’t ever discuss it at aR conflktuaL “When babies tiiarxy who makes die decisions? Neither — they hive kids and the ' oldest kid will start malting decisions at about age 2 That child learns really quickly how to be in VW MOVE HOTUNE 7534(44 EBP DD UtfTSUMMBpi MUMAGOOrcr 1 7iia mo FLUBBERra ' Smithfield Seniors AlLUXnSECStlM In Digital Sound TOMORROW NEVBDESfws MO fotnanoRroonpMs lM-nan7- North Logan Seniors Tues- flung am at die North Logan Lions Building Line dancing is at 9 am Tuesday and Thursday the meanMlor urn MUTMltM MMMIUMSlHWAr ra-- n MV M0 IMS IMS SMJS—M1M0 M0 M0 M0 IMS I ' -- Valentine’s Band day at 9 - THE RAINMAKER f now nan TOOL M0 563-684- Noth Logan Senior Citizens will meet on $zSS ALL SEATS IMS1 sp7snnra HNQWWHAI10U 10-1- leynM " fcM© YsreeHs tub heaYenly creatures The British girl group All Saints Is out to knock the Spice Girls off their platform shoes But in the nicest possible way Check out this week’s react for the latest W SIS DOVE OTTO m on this new sensation MWMMMM MrtWNMailllMATtMMP pa-i-e DtfyatUO MS MS IM1M0 S40 S40 M0 and reading After high school Angela plans to attend Brigham Young Univer- “It’s a pretty radical way to resolved” Couples who have a troubled sex life usually find mb Tm WBDmia Susan Her hobbies and interests inrliiA tMptiii clogging playing the piano affairs are it shakes the marriage “loose” and forces both partners to deal with the problems That doesn’t mean he recommends having an affine ine Bailey will be giving us an Irish Program It will be devastating but Please call in advance if you will be coming for depending on their belief system! their values or whatever lunch will work hard to even work Thursday: Lunch at noon the cost is $125 they through that Other couples Ceramics at 12:30 The mens liuich is from 2 when that happens they cannot Friday: Lunch and Bingo games at 12 pm the cost for lunch is $175 Bingo starts at 1130 pm If tolerate it and they go right to die divorce lawyer" you have any white elephants we could use them for Doebler ia convinced that our bingo prizes affairs arc simply a chance to stabilize a marriage that’s in trouble A spouse might choose to have The Smithfield Seniors will serve lunch at 1 pm an affur rather than deal with the Wednesday spaghetti Call Diane Haslam for a problems in the marriage he said 7 reservation at A program will be at 1 Vi When it’s found out as moat SMM—M1M- - MS M0 Ml MO Ml -r J muni In Thh Ikon Main coundL Angela Dansie daughter of Mike and Joyce P Dansie of is a senior at West Side include anything active especial-tin- g Dayton School High and working cm her ly She is active in Business Pro rsam Onl itoo LDS seminary Her hobbies and interests MorAroMOMs MMNNMMWIIAriMSM TAMCro-- i senior class secretary and on die A Dansie and taking night more effort had time into validaWe are planning a trip to Branson This trip will be from Dec 8 Give us a call if you would tike to join us this year: Tbesday: Blood pressure and Mood sugar clinic from 10 am to noon Joseph McMurdie and Robert Thunell will be helping us with out income taxes this year We will be running our appointments from 9:30 am to noon This service is only for seniors Lunch at noon die cost is $125 Pinochle at 12:30 America ' ' of is fessionals occupa-tionscoinputei- B Continued from Page 9 The Cache County Senior Citizen Center is open from 8 am to 4:30 pm weekdays Lunch is served at noon Reservations must be made by 4 pm the : rn She is active 1 deeply about the English language They hate to see it abused and they love to see it used well scrapbook She has eqjoyed skiing which she learned to do tins ' year: After high school Jamie (dans to attend a vocational school She is applying for a scholarship at BATC to study office Rlver Heights Camp will in school work Mendon Camp will meet at Letters from readers long ago convinced me of one thing: People care Phrase Origins William and Maty Mor Campus pm Thursday at the Mendon porting evidence My thought for what it may be worth is that every language has its phrase for casual parting The Italians say “dao" the French say "a bientot” we tend to say "take care” Do readers have nominations in Spanish Russian or any other tongue? no longer arguable Are there other words of conflicting meaning? Letters would be welcome A gentlewoman in Charleston SC inquires about "so long” as a phrase of farewell Where did the phrase come from? The authorities are as puzzled as I am In their Dictionary or Word and senior at South meet at 1 pm today in the River Heights City building The lesson will be given by Joyce Millet is "actually of English origin” Could well be but Mencken offered no sup- the sense from the context "To cleave” is another tricker In one sense it’s to embrace in another to split If we ’teas” a document we read it either hastily or minutely take your choice A case at law that is moot may still be arguable or be Jamie A William Hyde Camp will daughter meet at 1:30 pjn Thursday at die of Julie Reisher Elizabeth Mathews Camp Hyde Park Civic Centex The lesis a will meet at 1 pm Thursday at son will be Lama Ras-- of Logan Cache Seniors io words that cany opposite meanings It usually means “to authorize” but it may also mean “to penalize” We have to get J Colbom Janee Walker Senior notes am The trouble with “to sanction” is that it leu than $50 lesson will be given by Orene - is one of a mere handful of English Michael Murphy officiated the ceremony" I too object A minister in my view may officiate AT a wedding but to say that Father Murphy officiated the ceremony is to fashion a clumsy sentence I know that Webster's sanctions the transitive verb but I still don’t like it What about "to sanction"? A gentleman in Columbus Ohio had an irk to expound: "When 'sanction' was first used it had only one meaning which was related to than er far alarm” rather than fewer than $30 in a bank account A reader in Clinton NC wrote to complain of the use of “officiate" as a transitive verb as in "The Rev 10000 but the original meaning has gone the way of the original mining of “decimate" In the sense of countless or innumerable we now may write of "myriad mistakes" or “a myriad of mistakes" The sports writer technically had the ratebook on his side in "fewer than five minutes to play” Minutes are and the genoal rule is to employ “fewer" for countable things as in “fewer than 100 spectators were on hand at the end" ris hazard a guess that "to long" derives from some such thought as "I hope it won't be so long before we meet again” Ah hmmm Merriam-Webstdates “so long” from 1830 but says its origin is unknown ILL Mencken gave it a try in "The American language" He thought it may be related to the German "so lange" and the Yiddish “Sholom" but he adds that authorization or approval I believe the use of it to mean a penalty or punishment has come into being in my ufctime But seeing it used now as a verb form to mean ‘fined’ followed by the phrase 'a anctionable scheme' struck me as StSS TWbjqht n NVtfSsOS MS ISM Ml M0 MO StOS MS lltOO Marshall run US MMM0 IMS BMW— IMP MS IMS Enjoy specialty cooked corned DankCitym DMyMMS Dinner will be served IObOO BMW— MMS MS IBM Qooo Will Huorrwa MVMMS1MS i 9 LIVE ENTERTAINMENT From 8-- 9 pm Tuesday SL Pafridris Day fifawtuMbwg It Gcts ro-iAi Good As MMS IMS MV 12-- n SMS— M SMS MS IMS Ac beef & cabbage dinner e ry 39 West Main Richmond IV pm react Is now Included with the newspapers delivered to the middle school and high school classrooms participating In Tbs Herald JowrmuTs Newspaper In Education program react from the publishers of PARADE magazine la the first news magazine for young people 7b learn more about react and the Newspaper In Education program contact Chris EripinpUns at Ths Bsrald 1 or email at hjnieOtynewscom JossmsL 752-212- - a ' |