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Show Don Fenton Gets Friend of Month Award for Dec. Don Fenton, son of Don and June Fenton of Pleasant Grove and Morgan Mitchell, have been jointly awarded the Friend of the Month Award. "We're well matched, states Don of he and his little lit-tle friend. "We both like movies, bowling, hiking, and having fun." They both felt their outing to Lagoon was a particularly fun part of their list of activites. Don has been in the program for 3 years serving as Pleasant Grove Friends Program vice-president vice-president last year and the president for the Utah County Coun-ty wide District this year. He has three officers serving with him on the district level. They are: Shannon Ward, Activites Director; Tonia Rushan, Public Relations Director; and Kathy Chase, Secretary. Don and Morgan have been matched mat-ched in the program for two years. Don originally got involved in-volved in the program when his friends told him about it, suggesting he join. "It sounded soun-ded like a really neat program," he reminisces. "I really like working with children." The Friends program officers of-ficers and staff seek to match high school and college students with elementary age children on a one-to-one basis. Continual follow-up training, and advisement is given the students by appropriate officers of-ficers and a State Board of Directors which consist of: William Marek, James Bergera, John Gourley, Kent Sundberg, Julie Mackay, Reed Bradford and Larry Layton. |