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Show Community ews A2 • WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2009 SPANISH FORK Gaining a new perspective on rodeo 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Lane Henderson. . . . .Publisher Namon Bills Editor Dana Robinson . Assoc. Editor The Spanish Fork News is published each Wednesday for $37.50 per year in area and $41.50 out of area by J-Mart, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork Utah 84660. E-mail stories to editor@spforknews.com E-mail ads to ads@spforknews.com Call us at 794-4964 POSTMASTER Send address changes to Spanish Fork News 280 North Main Sr. Spanish Fork, Utah 84660 The entire content of this newspaper is Copyright © 2009 Spanish Fork News. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. THE SPANISH FORK NEWS (USPS 024716) is published weekly for $37.50 per year by JMart Publishing, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork, UT 84660. Periodicals Postage Paid at Spanish Fork, UT. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Spanish Fork News, 42 East 300 North, Spanish Fork, UT 84660. DEADLINES Weddings, anniversaries, missionaries, 1st birthdays, articles, photos, letters to the editor Friday, 12 p.m. I I I I I | | Newsprint Musings Namon Bills Perspective is an interesting thing. When I was in seventh grade, I picked up the trumpet. I thought I was pretty good, because, after all, I was first chair. Later that same year, my family was listening to a classical trumpet recording. They asked me if I could play that high. I assured them that I could. (Remember, trumpet players are 90 percent ego and 10 percent spit. Plus, I was 13.) My ever-supportive family was incredulous, so I went to the piano to figure out just what note that was. I quickly gained some perspective as to the difference between a professional musician and the first-chair trumpet in the seventh grade band. I recently gained some less painful perspective (based on observing others instead of through my own experience) as I attended the Utah High School State Finals Rodeo in Heber City. I watched the best in the state compete for the chance to go to nationals. Not being a cowboy myself, I can't ever have a complete appreciation of the various sports involved in rodeo. However, I don't think I need the actual ex- perience to understand that eight seconds can be an eternity while trying to stay on the back of a wildly bucking animal. My first experience covering rodeo was last year at the Fiesta Days PRCA Rodeo. Watching our high school cowboys compete in Heber gave me some added perspective and appreciation for the caliber of rodeo we enjoy during Fiesta Days. In the round of bull riding I watched at the state high school finals, nobody made it the full eight seconds. By comparison, most of the bull riders in Fiesta Days go the full eight seconds. Many of the high school steer wrestlers were unable to throw their steers. I now understand that seeing Clint Robinson wrestle a steer is watching an artist at work. Of course, Robinson's a lot bigger than those high school kids. But that's exactly the point. My newfound rodeo perspective comes in recognizing the difference between Utah high school's best and the best that pro rodeo has to offer. Utah's high school kids are among the best in the nation, but they just don't compare to the PRCA. And that's OK. They're not supposed to. The point is that in Spanish Fork we have one chance a year to see world-class athletes at the I I I I I Bring in tbut coupon and each person in your group I or family may each get a Large ice cream cone for 25$ I PLU# 838. Expires July 21, 2009. I Large ice cream cone 25c eac 795 North State Rd. 198 Salem 801.723.0500 NOW OPEN SALEM HILLH : : BRENT WARREN : ::^n Come in and experience your nejy community pharmacy. 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Fiesta Days Rodeo this year, Take it from me, it doesn't get any better than this. Remembrance of our ancestors on the 24th ing, Wilford Woodruff left the main camp with his carriage and horses to go after President Young and Shirlene R. Ottesen Brother Albert Rock wood. Elder Woodruff found both Your chuckle for the week: Morris, an 82-year the president and Brother old man, went to the doc- Rockwood much improved tor to get a physical. A in their health and they few days later, the doctor thought they could ride in saw Morris walking down the carriage it being the the street with a gorgeous easiest riding vehicle in young woman on his arm. the pioneer camp. All the A couple of days later, the wagons, eight in number, doctor spoke to Morris and also left the encampment said, "You're really doing and drove to the main camp great, aren't you?" Morris near Cache Cave. The ride replied, "Just doing what seemed to refresh the sick you said, Doc: Get a hot brethren." Erastus Snow, describmamma and be cheerful." ing the travels down Echo The doctor said, "I didn't say that. I said, 'You've got Canyon, wrote: "Our dea heart murmur; be care- scent was very rapid all day, while the top of the ful.'" One hundred and sixty bluffs seemed to maintain two years ago today (July the same level. Down this 15), Orson Pratt's advance narrow vale runs a small company resumed the stream fed by the springs journey from the mouth of of the valley which we had Echo Canyon where they to cross every half mile. had camped over night, go- The extreme heights on eiing down the Weber River ther side of this evening's and crossing the stream encampment are probably near the present site of not less than 1500 feet and Henefer, Utah. The follow- the valley about one-third ing interesting accounts of of a mile wide on an averwhere our pioneer ances- age." William Clayton retors were traveling on this date in 1847 is taken from counts: "There was a very a book called "Day by Day singular echo in this raWith the Utah Pioneers." vine; the rattling of wagIt is a chronological re- ons resembled carpenters cord of the trek across the hammering at boards inplains by Andrew Jenson, side the highest rocks. The Assistant L.D.S. Church report of a rifle resembled a sharp crack of thunder Historian. Orson Pratt wrote: "The and echoes from rock to main pioneer camp was rock for some time. The near the Cache Cave at the lowing of cattle and brayhead of Echo Canyon. The ing of mules seemed to morning was pleasant, but be answered beyond the cloudy. Early in the morn- mountains. Music, espe- There and Back Again cially brass instruments had a very pleasing effect and resembled a person standing inside the rock imitating every note. The echo, the high rocks on the north, high mountains on the south with the narrow ravine for a road, formed a scenery at once romantic and more interesting than I have ever witnessed." I have only traveled Echo Canyon a few times, but it is an interesting place as we try to picture all the wagons making their way to the Salt Lake Valley. As we make preparations to celebrate Utah's Pioneer Day, I encourage all of you to take a few minutes out of your busy life and really think about those early settlers and what they did for us and what our lives would have been like bad they decided not to come to this valley. Many of us living here today are descendants of those early settlers and if we all tine tuned our genealogical research, we would probably be quite surprised to find out who we are related to even at the present time! Up until about 10 years ago, Spanish Fork was considered a small town. We really did know almost everyone. And for those of you who have moved here since that time, you missed knowing a lot of great people! As we contemplate the legacy left by our ancestors may we live our lives in great respect and reverence for all their effort and sacrifices in our behalf. |