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Show Friends Come Easy Here , Says Netherlands Miss For Ingrid de Puy, here from the Netherlands as an exchange student, the Christmas holidays mean skating. Where, she wonders, will the skating be this Christmas? But in this respect she may not be alone in her wonderment, although for Americans, unlike the Dutch, skiing rather than skating is the winter sport. If Ingrid cant go skating during the holidays, she can go dancing, or to the high school basketball games and wrestling matches. For she has acquired a taste for these typically American activities. They are fun, too, she says. Ingrid lives with the Max Aycock family in Ephraim. She likes the family. They are very near to one another, she says, and she thinks this is an American trait. It is one of the things she likes most about America the nearness of people. Maybe, she says, it really isnt an American trait, but simply a Utah trait or a smalltown trait. She also likes it here because it is easy to make friends. she People are so open, says. They take you in I need accept you. I am shy scwim to be drawn out. This is for me a the good experience the school, the comthe openness. It is a munity a feeling I cant feeling describe. Ingrid isnt quite so sure about another kind of openness in America the wide open so is "It very big here, spaces. she says, a big country. That was my first impression of America when I got off the bigness, big cars, big plane buildings. She likes The Netherlands for its centuries long traditions, but also for its smallness. You can she says. You see it all, dont have to travel far everything is next door. Ingrid came to America as a Youth for Understanding exchange student. Her parents in Waddinxween, a city of 22,000 out in the country where s, there are lots of canals and a few lakes have an American student exchange living with them. Her name is Jannice Smith and her home is in & to wanted the see America. She came to Utah she is a Latter-da- y ra real wisk-- k because Saint I wanted to live in an she says, community, with an LDS family. I wanted to see the temple, but I didnt want to live in Salt Lake City because it is too big. She misses her family: her father, a civil engineer; her mother, a housewife; her two brothers, both older, who are engineering students. She will be glad to be with them again, next summer. But she is grateful, tod, for the Aycocks. she They have made me, says, a part of their family. She has had no trouble fitting into Manti High School LDS art. She came to America, she says, partly from curiosity. In Europe we get our image of arranging a satisfactory schedule, coping with the language change. I had five years of English in my homeland, she explains. English is like a second language. Art is her favorite subject. She is also enrolled in Model United Nations. What country will she represent as a America from books and Colors Ingrid de Puy dons ice skates sports. in anticipation of enjoying one of her home country's favorite 1 delegate? The Netherlands. I feel she very fortunate, says. In a way, I have seen been able to participate in the best of two worlds. K) A Christmas Offering O Lay Array Acd bid Any Dicyclo For Christmas by Christian D. Chaffin Editor, Wildlife Report Christmas is a time for giving gifts to those you love. It is a time to think of meaningful events, gratitude and joy. It is a period of the year when we stop coai o I'Jo Also Uavo A Foil Lino Cl Accossorios Avcilcblo For Yocr Ditydos. contemplate that which we have and that which we would like to accomplish. I was impressed recently, just a few short days before Christmas and the New Year, with something I'd like to share something with which we should each be concerned and ?hold near to our outdoor hearts: The sun was just beginning to cast a hint of light on the eastern sky, highlighting the craggy peaks and casting .shadows in the wooded draws as we climbed into our trucks and left camp. Our object was to photograph wildlife in northern Utah, near Hardware to 0 axooBVDaus a doty -cmytom roease We Repair All Makes OfUttd o All At Southern Utch's Dicydo Center. 31 tfauc Dec. Regular Prices UJocOcasEiovs Townc Theatre oc::::isc:i, otah - EphrtSn Ranch. short half-hou- r tour on n roads took bumpy, , us to the middle elevations and that was surprising; travel, was easy due to the mild winter and lack of snow. The early April-typ- e weather was beautiful, crisp and invigorating, mild and pleasant. The outdoor scent filled my lungs. Rounding a corner, after ; climbing a brief upgrade in the hill, we looked into a small , hidden valley and saw what could only be described as one jof the most exciting, memor- A rock-strew- 1 ) : 1 LOju A I convert. Jerome, Idaho. Ingrid and Jannice have met and hope to spend some time together in America next summer. Ingrid also hopes to see something more of this country before she goes home. Another hope is that she can perhaps return in the fall and attend an American college. I like the Netherlands and the United States equally, she says, but I would like to come back, partly for the feeling I cant describe, partly for the education. I want to major in ILcrgo Solccflion! Most Models she explains. television, ivicooci lyci : ABMOURICMG IMF (DUD) PMSTY FOBS YOU. Jl g views an able, outdoorsman could ask to see. There before us on the level spot among the peaks stood a herd of elk cows and calves whistling back and forth, young heart-touchin- bulls bugling in In recognition of the true meaning of this greatest holiday, let us all the early morning calm, the whole group journey in spirit to Bethlehem. nervously testing the air, sensing our presence. Shutters clicked as we attempted to record on film the magesty of those magnificent animals, living as they were intended to live, in their natural setting among the rocky outcroppings spotted with mountain meadows and aspen groves. The thrill of it all was gift enough to bring fulfillment ot heart. It was any nature-lover- s the very best kind of early Christmas present. It was also the inspiration fora New Years resolution that could last a lifetime: May my efforts, however humble, be added to those that will maintain the rights and opportunities in future years for everyone to be inspi?cd by ,the .sight, of magesiic elk.l thigh, in Rocky Mountain meadows. Dotfte'b TtancUu-an-e SfoonZittcy foocU i EPHRAIM Bay, Rent, or Sell With a Classified I ) Please accept this invitation to come to the GRAND OLD PARTY Thank You Ball Senator Jake Gam, Senator Orrin Hatch, Congressman Dan Marriott and all other elected Republican office holders of Utah have planned an exciting evening of entertainment, light refreshments and dancing ... one way of saying Thank You for your vote and support during the last election. General Chairman: the Honorable David Kennedy, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Capitol Rotunda, January 7, 1977, 7:30 pm. Semi-forma- l. Everyone welcome. All political persuasions. 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