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Show - - a . .... Review - Wednesday, December 28, 1983 - Page 2( (dDmmm(Bmt J Christmas one of the best ever By MAKCKLIJV WALKKR I think it was the best Christmas we have had for a lonfj time. It seemed like everyone tfot about everything that they wanted and we had the whole family home for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The shopping was finished just under the wire. This year was the worst for shopping that 1 have ever experienced. It was not that the 'stores didn't have what I needed or that the crowds were too hud. Itwas just that there was not enough time. Time! That is the worst barrier of all. The weather didn't help. It wasn't really exciting to go out in freezing rain and snow to shop. Staying home at the heartliside was much more pleasant. We had to wake the kids up at 8 "a.m. Christmas morning so that we could get through with all the fun before attending church at 10 a.m. Our kids have always been good about sleeping on Christmas morning. We have never had any of those 2 a.m. or 4 a.m. wakers. This is nice 'cause Santa sometimes gets to bed very late and likes to sleep for a while. Mrs. Santa has the hardest time sleeping because of the anticipation of whether anyone will like what they got and because of looking forward to happy looks on their faces. more about the day. nKtobith Cal had toldugiK ethinKforCKn. fend hodcS S ever i Sanjf intended U S pair of loop earnS with ea not be found when E ' somewhere so it ' 1 and that place Z otT ' WI iJ- - Christmas. ai I wonder if Santa 01 problem at other hZS m does at ours. ih Christmas was nice. U paused long " enough to ? real meaning of ' .Now we have New YeS ' " forward to. Wt fr season wonderful, '. Happy New Year yo2 ' and may it be a pJj happy one for you all. ' ei; There is a point that you reach sometime in tlx; afternoon on Christmas Eve day when you say to yourself you don't give a hang if everything gets finished or not and you sit down and take a deep breath and kind of let the restof theday go by. That is what I did. It was the neatest feeling in the world. The night before 1 had lain awake for a long time worrying alxut what wasn't done and how I was going to get it done and how we were going to pay for all this, etc. It didn't, look so bad the' next morning and we managed to get most of it all done early. In our neighborhood we exchanged plates of goodies each year. Some of the talented neighbors crochet some very nice things which they give to us and which can be used year after year. I never come up with anything like that. I never have any good ideas. I appreciate their talents but worry very much about my own. The goodies I intended to bake never got done but we did get a treat out to the neighbors, anyway. (It was lought.) I try to lx! very careful when I shop. I watch for spots on clothes or missing buttons, etc. I really gxfed it this year with Mie getting a beautiful sweater with a dirt spot on the shoulder and a coat with a snap broken. I could hardly lx:lieve it. Santa did play one trick. Sabrina had wanted a ccx;katiel (bird) for Christmas. We told her it was difficult for Santa to bring live animals, but this did not sway her determination. While shopping at Trolley Square in Salt Ijke one day we found a small toy parrot in a cage. We bought this and on Christmas morning she woke to find not a live bird but a toy one. She looked at the little stuffed bird in its cage and barely glanced at her other things before turning a mournful face and saying, "It isn't real. I'm going back to bed." Then her dad suggested she go to our room and bring back my robe. Of course, in the bedroom she found the live cocatiel and we heard no Look for more and more in '84 For North Utah County, 1984 is shaping up to be a year of excesses. Here are some predictions of what there will be too much of during the new year : --Too much water. Utah Lake is already overflowing, and this winter is starting out wetter than last year's Record breaker, so in 19&4 we can expect more of the same. Local communities should prepare for more flooding, more damage around the lake shore and more long nights as the spring run-of- f gets underway. --Too many students. The Alpine School District s schools are already bursting at the seams. Solutions will have to be found to house the growing student population as more and more children enter the school roomj doors. Those solutions will require flexibility on the part of local parents, students and teachers as new schedules are proposed to handle the increase. --Too much money spent on the nursing home. Con-struction costs of remodeling the old Hospital have already exceeded the $300,000 bonded for by the residents of American Fork. Local residents shouldn't be surprised if that bill continues to climb for some time. j --Too many court battles with the Central Utah Project. Lawyers will make a killing on the CUP-Timpanog- os Agency conflict during 1984, as the Timp Agency's law suit goes to the Utah Supreme Court. At the same time, Bureau of Reclamation officials will be carrying on condemnation proceedings to get permission to cross the water and sewer lines of cities like Pleasant Grove, Highland and American Fork, since those cities have vowed not to hand over the easements voluntarily. It's a battle the cities can't win but are committed to fight. --Too much money spent for telephone service. The breakup of American Telephone and Telegraph is going to mean bigger telephone bills as long distance rates will no longer be inflated to subsidize local service. Expect in-creases in fuel and power bills as well. --Too many taxes. Governor Scott Matheson is already proposing a state budget that will call for the largest tax hike in the state's history, a lot of it to increase funds for education. The Republican legislature probably won't approve Matheson's proposal, but can be expected to come up with a proposal of its own that will also call for tax in-creases. ' Locally we can expect a request for approval of a voted leeway to increase funds for the Alpine School District -- approval of that will mean an increase in property taxes . An old saw claims that more is better. Considering the prospects for 1984, that might not prove to be true. Resolutions are fine for the other guy By MARC HADDOCK With Christmas over, everyone thoughts turn to the tradition! practice of making resolutions fc the new year. Well, frankly the practice ha never been a very popular one with me. In fact, I've found it to discouraging. In the first place, I break any resolution within a day or two of making it. It's disheartening, to say the least. And not the positive kind of experience that builds character. Let's say I make a resolution not to yell at my children. Well, that's fine, but as I prepare to make my list of resolutions, starting with that very one, I find that there are no , more pens invthe house - oaly ' pencitewjtji broken ends. The pencil sharpener is gone as well. And who took all the pens? You can bet it was those darned kids, who spend all their vacation time playing school and losing my writing instruments. Remembering my resolution, I walk quietly and patiently down to the older girls' bedroom in th( basement where the five little Haddocks have gathered for another lesson. "Allright, who took all the pens?" "What pens?" askes Shannan, "I ar not to be cleared). It should ? resolve to make a sweep throught lh driveway while passing down i pu street. -- Brett Bezzant, the publishers : this fine newspaper, should rai ( to increase his editor's salary. --My wife should resolve to or, send me to the store with a haul' i of coupons, exact change, and i j . c of items the store doesn'l ki, G stocked, but that she is expectinja rt to bring home so she can fix dims co --Randy Johnson should resofc .. di never stop a Red Chevy Vega ,pr speeding, because it might be Ml !M would be well if he could alscx , ar the word along to the rest i a v force to do the same. in --John Hall, a close friend dot .litu ' should resolve to stop beating hi .ii ac games of strategy every time h on play. w The list could go on and on. Asp Tr can see, I've found the casywj: an make resolutions -- just make It a for someone else. su I've kept my list personal, b. ico that's the way resolutions urn s foi to be. If you have any, send thaw -- foi and I'll be happy to pass Ihemaki 'all Just leave me out of them. Lita ex ' said, I think resolutions are mm long as they are for someone else innocent in word and deed (as always.) "You always say I do everything," accuses Erin. "You like everybody better than me." Seth just keeps on playing with a truck in the corner, ignoring me. The baby is standing in the middle of the room with ink all over her face. And Adrienne, who usually is the culprit in these cases, runs out of the room and heads for parts unknown, yelling, "I'm not toiling you because you'll get mad." She's right. In fact, I'm mad already. And I run down the hall chasing her. "Get back here, you little squirt (or words to that affect) and tell me what you've done with the pens," I yell - and there I go. You see, my resolution didn't even last long enough to write it down. So this year, I'm not making any resolutions for myself. Instead, I thought I'd come up with resolutions for other people, since I have a lot easier time telling other people what they ought to doanyway. So here goes: --The Alpine School District should resolve to hold no meetings that last longer than one hour, but force themselves to do all the work they do in their regular three hour meetings. Furthermore, all board members should take broadcasting lessons, the kind they give for radio an-nouncers. If they can learn to eliminate all that dead air space, it will cut the meetings down im-mensely any way. --Sharon Morrey should resolve to give in to temptation and get used to word processing again (See her Tidbits column). It's funner to give in, Sharon. Trust me. --The Utah Legislature should resolve not to meet. Ever. Please! --American Fork City should resolve to buy one more snow plow and put my street at the head of that plow's list of places to plow last (as. opposed to the list of streets that are made.) Holiday accidents keep police busy 500 S., Pleasant Grove, and Kenneth Poulson, 910 N. 100 W., Pleasant Grove, resulted in damage of $1,000 to the Poulson car and $50 to the Sigman car. There were no injuries. An accident with injuries was reported by Officer Prestwich. The injured were transported to American Fork Hospital. The extend of the injuries was not listed. Involved were Darhl Nielsen, 101 E. 600 N., Orem, whose car received $50 damage, and Dennis Powell, 155 N. 200 E., Alpine, whose car had $800 damage. Three accidents in 45 minutes on Dec. 23 kept Pleasant Grove police officer Tom Prestwich on the run. Seven accidents were reported in Pleasant Grove over the long weekend. Snow packed roads were the cause of several accidents. Craig Nelson, 1584 Battlecreek. was traveling slowly on 1400 E. when his car slid into a parked car owned by Thomas Wood, 515 S. Main. Damage to the Nelson car was listed at $500 and $400 to the Wood vehicle. Cars driven by Todd Fulton, 613 N. 860 W., Orem and Karen Burton, Ephraim, Ut., collided head on on 1800 N. The accident occurred when Burton slid and overcorrected. Damage to the Fulton car was $2,000 and $2,500 damage was sustained by the Burton vehicle. An accident involving vehicles driven by Margaret Sigman, 441 E. tne accident occurred at 1UU n,. and U114. A car driven by Petelo Mafoa, 851 W. 600 S., Provo, went out of control and struck a fire hydrant at 2600 N. 900 W. Damage to the car was set at $300 and there was $800 to the fire hydrant owned by Manila Water Co. Illc City alters cemetery fee ordinance SC( 1 Pleasant Grove City Council approved an ordinance change for cemetery fees at a recent meeting. Because of confusion of who is a resident and who is not, the council agreed that the cost of a cemetery lot will be $100 for anyone, resident or non-reside- The grave opening and closing fees will be $100, $215 for non-residents, $35 for infant residents and $110 for infant The definition of a resident will be anyone who has lived in the city for 31 days prior to use of the grave site. This does not include those living in a nursing home unless they have been residents of the city for the proper amount of time prior to entering the nursing home. An individual who has lived in Pleasant Grove most of his or her life but has lived away for one reason or another just prior to use of the grave is also considered::' a resident. . Ar The sexton had told the ct-- to that restructuring of thefees be considered because al the purchase it is diffucult to dete-r-f residency, but at death line- - C0( easier to do so. .,um Beware of phone calls, Lindon police warn By GWEN PETERSON The Lindon City Police have been informed that someone is making phone calls in the area stating that they are taking a survey. The questions they ask seem to point to the fact that they are trying to find out if there is a male in the house and if there are guns or video's in the home. "I don't know if they are trying to spook a chosen few, or if they are trying to find out what houses have these things," said Police Chief wym wgm mmm n - ? I leon Laws. He encourages anyone receiving such a call to call the police so they can give extra protection to your home. He said he would like to help anyone with this problem and of course he is there to help deter any possible crime. 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