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Show v Review - Wednesday, March 6, 1985 - Page Awards or lack of them mean something female tj.g. blab spectators, of whith 1 rea lly one of the best. I'll never be listed in Who's UTm America because who cares' I'm too old for Young Moth the Year or even Mrs. America h a good thing I'm too old becai don't have any of the 0T qualifications either, and savins v too old saves a lot 0 1 barrassment. kids have never even given one of those little ugly statues thar inscribed "World's Best Mother"! know there is a message in ik somewhere. eri I did get kind of an award theoiL night. The assistant principal at j high school helped me to a chairs, at midcourt on the balcony au n game. I cheered welif ' the Vikings from that seat. When you spend as much tin,... the high school as I do, the ministration begins to offer 1 deeds of kindness in lieu of pUr! me on salary. Thanks for the loo, sir. m For all these reasons, and ma, more like them, I am not likely recieve a deluge of awards inn, lifetime, so please feel free to cot'' see the ones the Review won. tjjj personal pride in them, even like might have had something to do with it all. leader for a When I was a junior Girl Scout troop, the girls gave me a beautiful pair of light blue White Stag pedal pushers. It was for my birthday but they said it was an award for helping them out. Hr many of you can remember what color of pedal pushers you got when you were 18? life has not So as you can see, my been one filled with awards. No when the wonder I was so thrilled with six neat Review came up awards. other award I There was one received once. The Utah Press Women presented me with one for my column, The P.G. Blab, a few That was a real honor. years ago. There are some awards I have resigned myself that I have no hope of getting. One is the Mother of the Year award. I don't have organized boxes for each child in the laundry room to win me that honor. The Homemaker of the Year award does not go to people who put the sugar bowl in the fridge because their mind is wandering off on something else. The Oscar will never be mine because the best acting I do is when I smile and say I'll be happy to accept another PTA job. Sportswoman of the Year awards only go to female athletes and not By MAIU KI.I.A WAI.KKR You are all invited to come down to the Review office any Monday or Friday and let us show off for you. We have several new decorations on our wall, six to be exact, as a result of the annual Utah Press Association convention held recently. When the Review walked away with so many nice awards, the editor was floating so far above the ground it was unreal. Anyone who comes to the office will be regaled with all the details, so don't miss your opportunity. (Besides they help to cover up the ancient paint, cracks and dirt on the walls.) During the past four and one-ha- lf years that this reporter has been working for the Review, we have only brought home one or two awards each year. It has been discouraging, if nothing else, to see our sister newspapers rack up some pretty high faluting awards while we received token recognition. This writer knew all along that our newspaper was great, but the state didn't recognize it until this year. It was wonderful. Some people are born to receive great rewards. Others, like me, go along at second place all their lives. I won a certificate when I was just a girl for having the fattest doll in the doll show at the local park even took a program. My mom picture of me, all my dolls bundled in my arms, with my glasses slip-ping down my nose. It was a memorable shot. I still have the certificate. The Girls Scouts of America gave me a special award after I had been in scouts for 10 years. It was kind of unusual because by the time I had been in for 10 years I was 18 years old and not many girls stick to scouting that long. I did. What are costs of USTS moves? Where does north Utah County fit in the gradual dismantling of the Utah State Training School? With the state following a Master Plan aimed at getting residents out of the institution and into the community, this is the question that has largely gone ignored. Certainly, the welfare of the Training School residents should be the foremost concern of all involved. And if group homes in the community will improve the quality of life for these individuals, then it is an alternative that must be considered and used. But the fact is the Utah State Training School is a major employer for the north Utah County area. What happens at the school affects local economies. We are told the training school will be maintained only for residents who need constant care or who are bor-derline criminals - with an eventual reduction of the current resident population by one half it's present size. There is enough funding to move 64 residents into the communities now -- - and the state is hoping for enough to move 50 more. And those residents won't be the last to move out. Community care for the retarded is the growing trend. If it will benefit those individuals, it is a move that should be applauded. But the local communities deserve to know the costs of such actions so they can adjust and make provisions to take up the slack that the waning Utah State Training School is expected to create. This game I could have done without them I the editor's column when we are forced to confront reality, and big-tim- e professional basketball, head on for the first time. When the car stalled on the freeway exit in Salt Lake City, it simply seemed to be saying, "You asked for this evening -- - and you're going to get it." After we got the car started, I started looking for the U. It's been a long time since I spent much time in that part of Salt Lake - and it took a few minutes. Also, I've never attended a sporting event there, and I don't know the best way to approach the school. So I took the route that seemed easiest, and most obvious. So did everybody else. As we crawled along in the snarled traffic towards the Special Events Center, several people inspected the interior of my station wagon - just me and five little girls. And we worried about getting there in time. (We missed the first quarter.) We worried about getting tickets. (We did, but they were for standing room.) We worried about making it to the bathroom in time for one of the team members -- - at least I worried. The other girls kept making her giggle, just hoping something would gi ve. After an extensive auto tour of the U of U campus, we found parking a long, long way from the SEC. The poor kids were worn out by the time we reached the Center. That's when we learned we would have to stand to watch the game. But I hadn't come this far to go back home. So I made stand. And in the long run, everyifc ' turned out all right. It seems U little girls spend more time moviiu ! around than sitting at basketball ' games anyway. i Throughout the second period they ' stood in line to buy drinks, or the were in the bathroom. (It is ' contagious.) During halftime, the girls wrt roaming the corridors of the center, ' looking for boys and girls ibii especially boys) they knewwhoab played on Jr. Jazz teams. All their friends, it seemed, had J seats. They had coaches who km ! the ways of the world, who got their s tickets earlier in the week, or wht went early enough to get seats. And we all knew whose fault it was thai we ended up standing, rather that sitting-min- e. But they forgave me. The last hall . of the game was worth the effort. 1 Most of the girls got interested in the game, ... saw ' some spectacular basketball plays and were rooting loudly for the Jazz as they lost tin game in the final minutes. On the way home I told them the story of the Great Purple Ape, we ' laughed and had fun. Then most them dozed off to the mellow tunes on the radio - I picked the station. All in all, it was a memorable ( experience. And the best memories are like that. j They are not so great when the) are happening. But you can always look back on t he experience fondly. ' And next year, I'll know enough to get our seats early. l Under normal circumstances, a professional basketball game is the place you'd least expect to find someone like me. Frankly, I'd rather spend the evening browsing through the new books at the library. It's not that I don't like basketball. Taking the pictures at a local high j school game is fun, and exciting. I even watched the last two of the three overtimes of the BYU-Uta- h battle Saturday. But the thoughts of attending a professional game didn't really excite me. Maybe the fact that I was going to be taking five little girls (third and fourth graders) to the game had something to do with that. There should have been some kind of warning issued for those who signed up to coach Jr. Jazz basketball, something telling us that the job would require us to fill our cars with giggly girls and take them to a Utah Jazz basketball game. I signed up to coach my daughter's Jr. Jazz team because I wanted to be sure the team had a coach, not because of my great skill on the hardboards, nor because of my vast knowledge of the game. But I didn't know I was signing up for this. Now, lest anyone confuse me with your standard sexist pig, let me explain that it hasn't been long since I was a scoutmaster filling my car up with 12- - and boys and heading for the hills for a camping expedition. I would have rather spent the evening in the library then, too. By MARC HADDOCK (There's not a lot of difference in the way nine-year-o- girls and boys act.) But the game was a freebie, a bonus for signing up with the local Jr. Jazz program. We had coupons we could redeem for tickets at the University of Utah Special Events --Center, where the Jazz would play the Houston Rockets. Besides, one of the 10 team members anxious to see a real basketball game was my daughter. I didn't have chance. Friday evening started going sour when one of the girls saidshe'd heard on the radio that tickets for the game had been sold out. I couldn't believe that. The Jazz management wouldn't do that to a group of little girls, I thought. That shows you how much I know about professional sports organizations! How unwise we can be in the ways of the world. How much we can learn People, Politics & Policy Capital improvements : pool, parks, city shops By E. MARK BEZZANT I hope that you enjoyed the eye witness account of the Battle Creek fight as told by Polly Prestwich's great grandfather John Brown. I congratulate the historical society on their efforts to collect more history about Pleasant Grove! They deserve our best support. I want to also congratulate Mrs. Owen Bingham for her public spiritedness when she donated that beautiful piano to the Pageant of the Arts. The Binghams have given a great deal of public service over the years. Congratulations to Brett Bezzant and his staff for the recent awards they won at the journalists' con-vention. Marcella Walker, deserves a bouquet for her first place award on the police articles she did last year. For the last two weeks I in-terrupted the articles dealing with what I think should happen in relation to what are termed capital improvement projects. During that police building. These people have served the citizens of this com-munity very well! Subslantions in Lindon and Manila can be built later. The home base should be a fine new building in Pleasant Grove. This is one of our most critical needs. The first response program outlined at the city council meeting makes a lot of sense. If the ambulance and fire department were located in a new facility which would better serve the citizens of Pleasant Grove, the city services could expand to the back of the present city hall where folks could come to pay their bills. The city hall should not be moved to the police building, only to be moved again. It is offensive to me to think the city hall would be in the basement of any department. That is like the tail wagging the dog. The library should stay where it is until a civic center can be designed and taken to the people for ap-proval, which would include a permanent home for the library, break a committee has reported to the city council as to their recommendations dealing with several of Pleasant Groves needs, at least on a short-ter- basis. Now my point of view. First, the swimming pool. Rather than put a bubble on the existing pool for year round use we ought to push for a year round pool to be built in conjuntion with the ad-ditions which must surely be made to the high school. in the next 10 years, as the school population increases. A year round facility would be a tremendous asset to the entire community. The city should move ahead to select a suitable park sight in the northern section of the city. While funds are not plentiful I believe there are many public minded folks in that area who would give us a lease with an option to buy. The park once designed can be developed in phases. We should not neglect the further development of the Anderson Park. No funds should be spent developing a park site in Manila that will not be permanent. The city shops should be relocated to a site that will be large enough to accommodate the increasing demands of the city. The fire and ambulance should be combined together in a single building near to or adjoining the city hall, senior citizens and the cultural arts. We need a first class library facility. The civic building should be built with the same stone look as the old King home or The Bungalow. I would rather see us put the $100,000 or so we would spend remodeling and "making do" toward permanent solutions. The city shops could be funded from the sale of existing facilities and capital improvement monies and built in phases. The fire and ambulance facility could be partly paid for by the sale of the existing building and the remainder could be bonded for, along with the civic center. None of this should be a half hearted attempt to get by. All of the facilities should be professionally planned with input from a broad range of citizens and employees. Once designed, I wouldn't rule out a lot of volunteer help to bring things about. We have a rare opportunity to really do something nice. It will take everyone working together. While we are doing it let's not forget our number one priority is to improve the roads. The first sign of spring seems to be those doggone pot holes. Hopefully Grant Fowles and crew won't have much more snow to push. My children and others appreciate the crew not plowing and cindering Hilton Hill. Police investigate phone harassment Pleasant Grove Police officers report that there have been a large number of harassing phone calls reported to the department in recent weeks. Investigation of these reports is continuing. Russell Alldredge, 1645 E. Cherokee, told officers that during the night of Feb. 23 he heard a loud noise. The next morning he found that a car traveling from the east had hit his mailbox. The damage was estimated at $50. Officer Lonnie Wilson reported that there are no suspects in the incident at this lime. Jim Jones, no address given, reported that a roll bar had been taken from a car parked in front of Chicken Time in Pleasant Grove. The rollbar was valued at $150. There are no suspects. Officer Tom Prestwich is investigating. An accident occurred on Wed-nesday, Feb. 27, when a car driven by Tracy Farnsworth, 402 S. 1400 East, Pleasant Grove, slid on ice at 411 E. State Road, went out of control off the road and hit a utility pole. There were no injuries but damage to the 1973 Pinto was estimated at $2,000. Investigating the accident was Officer Cody Cullimore. Officer Wilson arrested two male adults in Lindon for driving under the influence of alcohol. r- -. mm . V . 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Inc. a Telephone Numbers 8 Advertising & Circulation. j News Publisher Brett R. Bezzanl a Editors MarcHaddoc Marcella Walker Subscription price $12" per year Second class postage paid " at Pleasant Grove Post Office Postmaster: Send address changesn P.O. Bux7.AmeneanKork.UUhW Looking Back From Jan. 4, 1945 Today the Pleasant Grove Vikings basketball squad will begin their league games with a contest against the Provo Buirdogs. The Bulldogs are probably the strongest op-ponent Pleasant Grove will come up against this season. While some losses are expected we believe Pleasant Grove has a much stronger team than last year. The Pleasant Grove Girls Basketball team will play the Lehi girls Thursday, Jan. 4, 1945 on the Pleasant Grove floor. The girls have ' been doing very well this year and we hope their success may continue. Pleasant Grove won its last preseason game Friday with Park City, 27-1- High scoresmen-we- re Eugene Hilton with Clute and Red Louder coming next. We hope Pleasant Grove will be as successful in their league games as they were in the n ones. At Allen's Market Utah beet sugar was 67 cents for 10 pounds, large package Oxydol was 23 cents, large package of Quaker Oats was 26 cents, Shillings coffee was 32 cents per pound, saltines were 31 cents for a two pound package, shredded Ralston was 12 cents, and Skippy peanut butter was 32 cents for one pound. |