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Show December 27, 1984 - Page 2 S v Keviiew - Thursday, cnmmsmt j Reminiscing over New Years past p.g. blab i By MARCELLA VVALKKR Now that Christmas is over and all of the hustle and bustle that attends it, and we are relaxing after all the feverish activity, it is time to prepare for the New Year. There is a five-stak- e dance for the high school age kids on Monday night. The junior high age will find some fun somewhere. Lots of the young adults will be going to parties and lots of the adults will be also. Some stay home and watch their husbands go to sleep in their chair while they are watching TV and they wish the New Year in by themselves. Sound familiar? While I sit there watching the lighted ball fall at the stroke of midnight on Times Square in New York City which they show every year on TV, and I'm thinking, "All this actually happened two hours ago in New York and all those revelers have probably gone home to bed by now, and I'm sitting here alone watching it as if it were happening right now", I reminisce, on New Years long past. The first New. Year's Eve I can really remember is when I' was about 11 or 12 and Mom and Dad let us stay up to see the old year out and the new year in. We sat at the card table and played games and Mom had bought cheese and crackers and pop for us to snack on. We thought it was pretty great. I remember we tried to con her into letting us drink coffee so that we the more fun it was. Too bad, Mom always made us get home at a certain time. In movies the hero always kissed the heroine at midnight on New Year's Eve and all the other couples kissed, too. That seemed like it should be the way things were done and some of the parties I went to it did happen, but at many of them it didn't either. I don't think the boys ever paid much attention to that part of the movie or else they just didn't take the hint. Real life is never as romantic as the movies. (At least it wasn't when I was a girl. Now the movies are too much like real life and who needs to live it and see it, too.) The highlight of my New Year's Eve parties was when I was about 20 and a bunch of us went with dates to the Rainbow Rendevous (later called The Terrace) in Salt Lake City. They had a real live orchestra and tons of people. Most of the women were dressed to the teeth and the men were likewise. So was our crowd. I wore the beautiful changeable green taffeta skirt Mom had made me. I wore a beige top trimmed in gold and silver braid. It was very nice. They had lots of hats, confetti, balloons, and noise. I remember you could hardly hear yourself think, let alone hear what anyone was saying to you. You needed to push and shove to get through to the dancing floor. V When the floorshow to starts stand and try to setl $ crowd. I saw little of htth There were more rsho "S chairs and tables by a?'e 'J," WhenwedidfindatablP 0ngsht pretty good beca 'l i, ft. beng on my feet in hih I n ilil K longtime. . for , ju! Because the dance crowded, we didmSl anything. When midnigM "1 was very exciting ,K fell like snow, the balt0 down, and people ani( "AuldLangSyne." edan(N I was very impressed It u like' in the men kissed their pannerV1 f date kissed me and so drtfKnmi- ':J1, guys in the crowd Because we had to drivf. h, , Ogden when c it was over 10 , u when we got home I went to bed and relived hTeS1 in my mind. eening It was a special eveni , remember it well. lng There have been nice New Year, Eves smce then. The parties been nice and the people terrifi- - k that one New Year'sve mind every time I'm sitting , alone, watchmg the old year oul a3 the new year in while my ho sleeps on his chair. 5 I am grateful he stays in the At least he is there in body ItC0I be worse. He could go to bed Have a very Happy New Yearanj ' may 1985 be the best year you ha had yet. Here's to you ' I ' would stay awake to not miss a single thing. It was very difficult to stay awake that late. That became a ritual and we would play games and wait for the new year to come. Guy Lombardo always played "Auld Lang Syne" at midnight on the TV and probably -- ven cm the radio, but I can't remember that for sure. As we got older there were church dances and some of my friends even had parties. We had confetti, balloons, hats, lots of good food and fun. It was fun staying up late (by now it was not so hard to stay up and nothing was needed to help keep us awake) and the later we stayed up Looking Back News from pages past 30 years ago Dec. 17, 1954 S. (Christensen, local building contractor, was appointed a member of the Pleasant Grove City Council at a meeting held Monday night. He will complete the unex-pired term of Councilman Ed Roberts, who assumed the office of Mayor on Dec. 15. Mr. Christensen has been actively interested in civic affairs since he came to Pleasant Grove 13 years ago. He is currently president of the City Activities Association. He is a member of the Fire Department and the Auxiliary Police, past president of the Lions Club, a director of the Tibbie Fork Summer Homes Association and Pleasant Grove's representative on the Provo Elks' Club Charity Committee. Donna 0. Ash was appointed principal of the new elementary school in Pleasant Grove at the meeting of the Board of Education of Alpine School District Wed-nesday. Mrs. Ash will serve as principal of the Geneva School in Orem during the time that Thorit Hebertson, principal, is serving in the state legislature. Following that assignment she will begin im-mediately to work with Calvin Walker, principal of the Central School, in effecting the division of the population of the two schools in Pleasant Grove, and consulting with other members of the school staff regarding the school plant and its function in the future. The new school, called the Grovecrest, will not be opened until the beginning of the school year in the fall of 1955. There are some minor items to be completed. ; . "Richard and Fresher Milk for the families of the Pleasant Grove Area" is the slogan of the Adams Dairy, another of Pleasant Grove's new modern enterprises. According to K. Adams, owner and manager of toe new facility, the milk from his 3$ registered Holsteins will be available in Pleasant Grove and vicinity beginning Dec. 22. At the monthly Lindon City Council meeting the members voted to support the Board of Health on the Mobile unit that will be here on April 11. Arrangements will be made for the unit to locate at the Lindon Ward. Further information will be distributed in the future. Beulah Gillman met with the council and presented this program and received 100 percent cooperation. All persons are urged to support this worthwhile program and attend the unit on this specif ied. . day. Police officer Oliver K. Johnson met with the council and received the needed inforamtion on the dog tax. The ordinance governing dogs in Lindon was read and it was decided to post the requirements in three public places for the rqeuired three weeks and then take the necessary legal steps. All dog owners are required by this or-dinance to contact the city for licenses. It is advisable that all dog owners take the time to read these posted notices so that they will be informed as to their obligations in this matter. The new dog tags are now being ordered and will be available after the first of the year. The council members voted to place Reif Wadley and Joseph Christiansen on the Municipal Water Board. They will work with two representatives from Pleasant Grove and apply for an aqueduct hook-u- The "Standing Room Only" sign was out last Sunday night at the Timpanogos Stake House. A capacity audience was thrilled time and time again with the per-formance of some 100 youthful musicians, as they sang and played music traditionally associated with the Christmas season. Perhaps the most favorable reception was accorded the A Cappella Choir in their unac-companied renditions. It's one thing to sing with a piano or orchestra to hold the vocalists on key; but in A Cappella performance the singers are on their own. The excellent selections of the large group Sunday night was the evident result of good training and cooperation. 31 years ago Dec. 4, 1953 Dr. Leroy J. Robertson, head of the music department of the University of Utah, former resident of Pleasant Grove, and now known world-wid- e for some of his musical compositions, will be the guest speaker Sunday evening, Dec. 6, at the Timpanogos Stake Tabernacle. Under the direction of Stake Sunday School Superintendent Ray S. Merrill, with the music department of the stake and wards assisting, the evening will be devoted to the singing of LDS hymns and learning of their authors and composers. Dr. Robertson will speak on the in-fluence of good music in our churches and will also furnish a special musical number. The mystery woman, found dead by three local boys last Sunday in the Pleasant Grove ball park ticket office, has been identified as Esther lone Filkel Ballinger, 41, employed briefly in Provo as a waitress about a year ago. She apparently died of malnutrition and exposure. Pleasant Grove was host to the Park City basketball team last Wednesday in the second pre-seas-game of the year. Our team really showed how basketball should be played when they gave us a victory of 44 to 38. This gave a good preview of things to come, we hope. Let's all get out to support our team and see them bring in the victory. . - AyYAyw v, . ''i ' .- - - t i ;7,T Jim xvt ft - t . . i - wai ; . I'- - f ' :!est r i i ; , - , 4 !m " il ked """-- - ' ;;wt - . ' ! Eagles Christmas charities JoAnn Farley, left, wraps packages for families the Eagles helped for Christmas while Aerie alSla Worthy President Larry Stagg, center, and Owen Farley, fe get ready to load up the gifts. ;;llmt( pec The Eagles aid needy families He said that many people were involved in the work of preparing, gathering, wrapping gifts and making donations. He noted that his committee made $1,900 to go toward the kids Christmas Charities through parties and donations. In addition to Mr. Farley the other chairpersons for the annual Christmas project were his wife, JoAnn, and Goldie and Ray Druce. Each year the local Eagles Aerie chooses several families for whom they provide Christmas. This project is one of many service programs sponsored by the Eagles during the year. The Pleasant Grove Eagles Aerie 3372 have assisted several families through their annual Christmas Charities program, according to Owen Farley, chairman. In addition to providing Christmas for the families the organization also donated second hand clothes, toys and games joined with the Provo Aerie in presenting these items to the patients at the Utah State Hospital. . Mr. Farley said that the" Christ-mas Charities program had lots of toys donated by Show Biz Pizza and Allen's grocery store sold the Eagles the groceries at their cost. C letters to the editor J The year PG died town" needs some pride and some help and I'm too old to climb lad-ders - so Pleasant Grove, please "rest in Peace," for you are still too young to die this way ! -- Lucille J. Carter P.S. Don't anyone blame Doug Bezzant and his associate. They are only two in a group of many men employed by the city. Dear Editor: 1984 - the year Pleasant Grove died. In the years I remember in this beautiful city, I can't recall such an feeling. One small block of "Main Street" and it was just like going thru the "Black Forest." Six red candles? No lights? I do appreciate the struggle and efforts of the Youth Council to erect a "permanent tree," but what about just putting color and trim on the beauties in front of the city hall, and why can one merchant fill the sidewalk with merchandise that outshines a fendor in India, and not one in-centive to stay in town to purchase Christmas food and gifts. I truly expect to see the one block of my town bulldozed and covered next year - because it is being ignored, people make U turns, back up and turn completely aroundto head out of town!!! Strange. Twenty-fiv- e years ago "a repeat from the Citizen," 2 complete blocks of town were brilliantly decorated. One other year, we were complimented for "leaving the decorations up till summer." I suppose I will be cussed and discussed for my remarks, but "my 20 YEARS AGO-- You Never Heard of McDonald's 15 YEARS AG- O-You Never Heard of Toyota ; 5 YEARS AG- O- 5 You Never Heard of Apple Computer 3 YEARS AG- O-You Never Heard of 1 Hour Photo 2 MINUTES AG- O-You Never Heard of KIS Vi HOUR PHOTO We are the World leader in the photo finishing industry. i Our equipment requires less than 15 ft. sq-and no previous experience. We train, install, supply and maintain. $ Equipment start up is less than $2,00u. You can earn $35,000 Average Net. j Time is running ouf! ' So if you're a dreamer, go to the next a But if you're a doer with a Retail Outiei, ;i ACT NOW!! i g,. Call: collect h (801) 485-609- 8 School board lays down grievance policy for parents A policy of encouraging parents of students in the Alpine School District to resolve grievances about school programs and policies at the level closest to the problem has been adopted by the Alpine Board of Education. The action took place last week during the board's business session held at district headquarters in American Fork. The policy also calls for specific "grievance procedures" to be established for patrons to use in resolving unresolved problems. "These procedures shall provide for appeal up to and including the Board of Education whose decision shall be final," according to the policy. "The purpose of the newly adopted policy is to insure that all grievances are treated in a cour-teous and fair manner," said Alpine Superintendent Dr. Clark Cox. "Under this procedure, grievances should come to the attention of the people closest to the problem: first to the teacher if it's a classroom issue, and then to the principal, from there to the district ad-ministration, and finally to the Alpine Board of Education if necessary. Hopefully, the majority of problems can be handled at the local school level, but we want patrons to know that there is a formal procedure for addressing unresolved problems." Pleasant (krone iScuieiu U.S.P.S. No. 0 11 South Main Pleasant Grove, Utah 84062 Published weekly except for Thanksgiving r and Christmas by Newtah. Inc. Telephone Numbers Advertising & Circulation. 9 News 3 Publisher Brett R. Bezzant Editors Marc Haddock Marcella Walker Subscription price $12" per year Second class postage paid at Pleasant Grove Post Office Postnas:er: Send address changes to P.O. box 7, American Fork. Utah MOQ3 |