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Show donate the flag and now we need the pole. If you would be interested or would like to donate 500.00 we would have the Grand Old Flag. The final project is the restoring of the Bell and the Pioneer Museum It needs to be restored so that it can be rund with ease or even automatically on these great days. and America's history and heritage for all ages. We wanted wan-ted the best collection of any library in the valley dealing with us. Now they are in and we would like to invite your and your family to join us on December 30 to salute America and dedicate this great selection of books. Once again we will be ringing the bell in the old school house to celebrate in the final days our two hundredth hun-dredth birthday. Of course we will have a birthday cake and all the trimmings and a special treat for those who come. Uncle Sam or George Washington will be there to sign your own copy of the Bill of Rights. Those who voted this year will be given a special certificate with a seal that they can frame. A seal will be given each year to those who go to the polls that they can place on the certificate. cer-tificate. One of the great things will be the oportunity to give. Your family, if they would like, can donate a book or set of books we don't yet have dealing with our past, present, and future. The books will be marked as donations by your family that will live forever. You may want to donate a book in memory of a loved one who gave her or his life for this great land. You may even want to use as a family Christmas Project. As a special part of our Bicentennial, everyone is encouraged en-couraged to write their history of Pleasant Grove especially Senior Citizens. These histories will be placed in a secure place to be used by generations to come. Next week we'll have more on this. Yes, this will be a celebration of celebrations only in a deeply moving kind of way. It will be for many the last of the Centennial celebrations One of the last opportunities of dedication to a land choice above all other lands. There will be just one thing missed: the flag pole and the permanent ringing of the bell that will come to be known as the Freedom Bell. That is right. The one thing the Bicentennial board turned down was our request for a flag pole where we could fly the American flag. Kent Prestwich said he would Bicentennial Gets Money, Collects Books on America When we were first informed infor-med that there would be money available for a Bicentennial Bicen-tennial project we considered many things. At first we talked of restoring old , buildings and related physical structures like many i cities were planning. Even some that were not so related to any historical place or thing. Then the thought came: why not build a salute to the land we love and the beliefs we love by collecting a treasure of books on America and all she is to us. So we began to establish the most comprehensive list of books we could find on America. Jack West, Jr. who later became a city councilman, was in charge of the Bicentennial Bicen-tennial project and deserves the credit for much. He spen-ts spen-ts hours and hours compiling a list of books in conjunction with our librarian, Dot Smith, and the two came up with over five hundred of the best books they could find dealing with the government, law, |