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Show TV W December 22. 1998- - Pape 13 Basin LIFE Uintah Basin Standard "A Look a At Some Of Our FavoriteHoliday Traditions" ' n A CV I ARTA ROSS We have a family Christmas party with a big dinner. Santa Claus comes to the kids, and that is all we have time for. mU s - k 9 TRUCKERS CHRISTMAS- -! have driven a truck for almost every Christmas. Ive only celebrated two Christmases at home in 22 years, comments Doyle Moose Winn, right. His wife is Jean Winn, left. Whafs your favorite holiday tradition? By Mary Wertz For some children, it could be the annual snowball fight with all the couains, maybe ita unwrapping presents or Christmas caroling. For some ita the joy of sitting in a candle-lit church remembering the birth ofChriah Maybe if a simply the smell ofa Christmas tree, or the trek up to the mountains to pick your familys tree. For others it is the chance to see family and friends and some eqjoy the feasting that often goes along with the holidays. Children are usu ally very happy to get a break from school, and adults time off of work. Some folks like to go out and bang pots and pans together on midnight of Dec. 31, to welcome in the New Year. Many go to parties, and kiss each other at the stroke of midnight. Whatever it is many people shared what their favorite holiday traditions are with the Uintah Basin Standard staff this year. We hope you see some faces you recognise and whatever your favorite tradition is, eiyoy. is what makes the holidays memorable for these East Elementary SOME OF OUR FAVORITE THINGS-Th- is students. Kristen Winterton, enjoys making Christmas cookies, Jessica Morgan likes to give presents. Jordan Larsen says eating and opening presents top his list and Beau Justice enjoys snowboarding. BRENDA HAYES"The last couple of years we have been going to a cabin in Daniels Canyon forChrist: mas. All of our family is back east, and so the cabin is our little retreat. iw'4n These 3 elementary students are having a good time during the Parade of Trees. HOLIDAY TRADITIONS Mitch Hales, left, likes to decorate and open presents. Keaton Barr, center, likes to decorate the tree with candy canes and spend time with his family. Jessica Rasmussen, right, likes to make angels and help her mom. r,v - ,V ;' Looking at what made headlines in years past... Just out of curiosity, (and because news is slow this time of year), we took a look back at what was making the headlines during the Christmas season in 1988, 1973 and 1 948. See how many of these stories you remember. Ten years ago, Bottle Hollow a New Years JSve dance. Tribal members filed suit against the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, and a new post office was planned for White rocks. The Ute Tribe also began a Tomato Greenhouse Project. Property was purchased and construction begun on the new University ofUtah Center in Roosevelt. The Duchesne County School Board voted to expand Union High School, and the Union High Baseball team won first in state. Hundreds of thousands of acres burned in wildfires especially in the Whiterocks and Flaming Gorge areas. At the movies Ernest Saves Christmas; My Stepmother is an Alien; and Gorillas in the Mist were playing; Twenty-fiv- e years ago in 1973 as the energy crisis loomed over the United States, 13 million barrels of oil were produced in he Uintah Basin. The Swett Ranch was added to the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. New traffic lights were approved for Roosevelt, and the Roosevelt Golf Course was brand new. . The Chamber of Commerce hired a staff and moved into an office. The fifth annual fourth ofJuly Pow Wow was held in Fort Duchesne, where a new community building was also dedicated. A 17" color television sold for $398; and a black and white for $148. The Roosevelt Theater offered showings ofShalako' featuring Sean Connery; and Zaehariah which was billed as the first electric western. Fifty years ago in 1948 foreign news noted that Communists were ousted from the French cabinet; Russia seizes control of Hungary and the U.S. forbids shipments of arms to Palestine. In the U.S. there was a nylon stocking shortage. Locally, a proposal for the Flaming Gorge Dam took a full page of the paper along with a proposal for the Central Utah Water and Power Project. The Uintah Motor Company held a parade and dance featuring the music of Tex Ross and his Rhythm Wranglers to unveil the 1948 Studehaker. At the Uintah Theater 'Calendar Girl; Escape Me Never featuring Errol Flynn was playing, along with a Donald Duck Cartoon. Best selling records 50 years ago include the Jingle Bells Polka by the Modernairres and Benny Goodmans Mission to Moscow. Wings Store near Fort Duchesne sold little girl's skirts and dresses for only $1. PARADE OFTREES-Samant- ha Stanley and Jeremy Atkin enjoy parading around and looking at all the trees. Both like; to open presents and decorate the tree during the holidays. I t, like tnrwn presents! Of course this is Brandy Percivals and Karlie Morris' favorite holiday tradition. ITS THE GIFTS-- We A FUN TIME-ShaThacker, left, who is pictured with Adale DeHart, says, We just get together with our family, have dinner and a Christmas party. We open presents and have fun. nna ITS ALWAYS A FAVORITE TRADITION to open presents. Say Desirae Clark and Jerome. ;opyLi THE KING IS BORN Helen Hall, a volunteer Pink Lady at Uintah Basin Medical Center, says her favorite part of the holidays is remembering the "birth of Christ, and family." t z |