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Show (Community lews B2-FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2006 - N E W S - Spanish Fork 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Lane Henderson. . . .Publisher Sceve Hardman Editor Jessica Ellsworth. . . Paginator Namon Bills Paginator The Spanish Fork News is published each Friday for $37.50 per year in area and $41.50 our of area by JMart, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork Utah 84660. Email stories to editor@spforknews.com Email ads to ads@spforknews.com POSTMASTER Send address changes to Spanish Fork News 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, Utah 84660 The entire content of this newspaper is Copyright© 2006 Spanish Fork News. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be rcproducd in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. DEADLINES Weddings, anniversaries, missionaries, 1st birthdays Monday, 5 p.m. Advertising deadline Monday, 5 p.m. Memorial Day: An expression of love Lane Henderson Memorial Day began as a memorial for Civil War veterans. It has become both a National Decoration Day of family graves, and the holiday that opens the summer season. It is celebrated with backyard barbecues, outdoor picnics and parades. In order to obtain freedom for all Americans, our country was forced to endure a civil war. Through the tragedy of those times, America was able to truly become the United States of America. We lost more American lives in the Civil War than any other war in history. All throughout time, brave men and women have been called upon to protect the very core of this great nation. They have sacrificed their comfort, their time, and even their lives. For a soldier to lay down his or her life in the protection of another is one of the great expressions of love. In the beginning, Memorial Day was referred to Decoration Day. It was the day set aside to honor those individuals who died during our nation's Civil War by decorating their graves. The soldiers who were lost were remembered on Decoration Day, May 30, 1868. To this end, we now celebrate these brave soldiers' ultimate sacrifice on Memorial Day. One of the great leaders Namon Bills / Spanish Fork News HONOR: Community members spects. of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln, fully realized the gravity of the situation our nation was facing. He sanctified the lives of those lost in the Civil • CAR CARE PRODUCTS • LIGHT BARS • BED COVERS • WINGS O Z GRAND OPENING o o o X m en oc ULJ LU f— CO o CO CO UJ > to CO O ccessones 570 South Main, Spanish Fork 794-2300 a O a rn o a: o —I O CO 10, 2006 CO —i rn rn i— —i to o Come in before the 10th and enter to win | one of ihree greal prizes: z z • J e t of Nerf Bars 'LED Under Car Kit 4 pc. Seat Cover Set co CO 'FREE food and drinks ALL DAY from: UJ a m n O z to UJ X u honor deceased loved ones on Memorial Day by decorating headstones and paying their reWar through his words when he offered the Gettysburg Address. "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Sir Water Scott penned these immortal words; Soldier, rest, thy warfare o'er. Dream of fighting fields no more. Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking. Morn of toil, nor night of waking. The custom of placing flowers upon graves is an old one, and exists in many countries. The Greeks had rites called zoai, which were performed over each new Whatever the flower, wherever the grave, placing of flowers upon graves has always seemed the natural thing to do. grave. If the flowers took root and blossomed on the graves, it meant the souls were sending back the message that they had found happiness. The Roman festival, called Parentalia, or Day of the Fathers, lasted for eight days in February. Violets and roses were the special flowers used. Whatever the flower, wherever the grave, placing rj rn co UNDER CAR LIGHTING • FLOOR MATS • LIGHT BARS • BED COVERS of flowers upon graves has always seemed the natural thing to do. During this Memorial Day holiday, may we all strive to add our feelings to those of Abraham Lincoln and Sir Walter Scott, and remember all those who have died in defense of the freedoms we enjoy every day. The importance of water that the water could get through. Cement ditches were started sometime in the early 60s. The government was an It has begun! The irrigation season on important partner in this project by doing the the farms has started again. For the next five surveying and paying a major percentage of months farmers will work 24-7 because they the cost of the cement. The farmers provided are either getting ready to water, they already the land and the pad for the ditches. This have the water, or they just turned the water to was a major step because the cement ditches not only helped to save water, but they were the next land owner. Irrigation calls are somewhat like being much easier to clean and keep free of weeds. a doctor on call. They come at any and all Cement gaps and better headgates also helped hours of the day or night. It doesn't matter if to control the water. it's your birthday, a Sunday, if you're sick, or But it still takes a lot of work to irrigate the you just don't feel like watering - they come crops. A farmer soon learns how to regulate nonetheless. the water on a certain field - when he needs to Don't get me wrong! We are thankful for turn the water off so that the water gets to the the water because if we didn't have it, this end of the field, but not wasting any by letting valley would look much different than it looks it go too long. today. There would be no green fields holding Corn is the hardest because we have to the promise of a plentiful supply of food for make sure the water gets down every row. If people, and feed for animals. the land is leveled right it goes much easier; if The Salt Lake Valley would not have not it takes some shoveling to make the water "blossomed as a rose" if the early pioneer go where it's needed. We do what is called settlers had not dug ditches and canals to flood irrigation, but sprinklers are great for divert water from the nearby canyons. Before hilly farms. Moving sprinkler pipe is a lot of they took time to build comfortable shelter work, too. It's work no matter what, but we are for their families, they knew it was crucial for them to bring water to the land so they could grateful for the water that makes it possible plant crops which would provide food for the for the crops to mature so we have a harvest in the fall. And we're most grateful for the early coming winter. I can't imagine what it must have been like settlers who had the vision in 1902 to create for those early settlers to dig all those ditches the Strawberry Valley Irrigation Project. This using crude implements pulled by teams of very complex project was completed in 1913 horses and, no doubt, a lot of it was done and because of it, we are here today. with shovels. They had no big machinery to do such backbreaking work. Cleaning dirt Parting thought for the week; No one 'is ditches was always a big part of spring work, listening until you make a mistake. and it was hard cleaning debris and weeds so There and Back Again Shirlene Ottesen ens its doors to UJ Covering what matters most |