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Show PG SSluh Marcella Walker The new Youth City Council was sworn in Tuesday night by Mayor W. Cornell Haynie -- and this is the beginning of something special. No place on earth is blessed with finer young people than right here in Plesant Grove. Since they are tomorrow's leaders it is only fair that they be given the opportunity now to give input to the city leaders. The new youth mayor and coun-cilmen coun-cilmen will have the opportunity to work side by side with their counterparts coun-terparts on the regular council. They can have their own meetings, loo, and plan projects lo practice their leadership skills. In other areas where this has been done, it is a great success and the young people love it. I would expect that in the next months and years the residents of -. Pleasant Grove will benefit greatly from the participation of the youlh in city government. Besides, it gives the youth a chance to practice some skills. One never knows what budding senator, congressman, secretary of slate or even president lurks in the shadows of today waiting for their time in the sun. Prestige has come to this town in recent years through our youth. I'm speaking of Cloggers West and the school's A Cappella Choir and Chamber Choir which have traveled the United Slates bringing acclaim lo this small town. I'm sure there are many other youth organizations here which do great and wonderful things. Sometimes, with the gang wars in the east, drug abuse throughout the U.S., teenage alcoholism and other social problems, we tend lo forget the accomplished kids, the ones who do (heir best and put their best fool forward. When Laura Mosher was asked to help with the Youth City Council elections at the high school, with the help of Counselor E. Mark Bezzant, she complied readily. She also had good help to carry the ball and make the campaign a success. These are the kinds of kids we have in Pleasant Grove. They whitewash a "G" on the mountain so we can all be proud of it. They follow through on service projects to help the elderly or the ailing. They toilet-paper the houses of friends and even adults whom they like. They get jobs lo earn money to go on band trips, choir trips, and Clogger trips. They give you a smile and it makes you feel good. They giggle at anything ; and it makes you giggle, too. The boys sit on "stud row" at the high school and eye the girls, and it reminds us of when we were young. They know more than we did when we were their age. Why is that? They like things from the 50's which helps to close the generation gap, if there is such a thing. They are beginning to dance together again, traditional dance posture, instead of swinging about not knowing who their partner is or, perhaps, even caring who it is. Girls like lo be girls and boys like lo be boys and they don't look as much alike as they did a number of years ago. Even hair styles are getting shorter and believe me, it looks sooo-ooooo nice. Girls seem to wear dresses more often lo school and they look feminine and sweet. It is a good thing we live in P.G. Thai is where it is at. That is where the good times are and as John Gourley says, "The greatest kids in the world are right here." |