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Show Young Women to launch balloons Sat. More than 1,000 LDS Young Women in the Pleasant Grove-Lindon Grove-Lindon area will launch helium-filled helium-filled balloons Saturday morning as part of a world-wide celebration. The event will begin at 8:30 a.m. at Pleasant Grove High School. The theme is "The Rising Generation." The purpose of the Young Women Worldwide Celebration is to provide every LDS young woman with the opportunity to express her feelings concerning the Church and the Young Women Values, and to send a personal message of hope, commitment com-mitment and faith to the world. Each girl will have prepared in advance a written message to attach to her balloon. Stake leaders from all five stakes will be in attendance and the local mayors have been invited to attend. Regional Representative Leon Walker will preside at the local celebration. Each stake , will use a different colored ,. .balloon representing, the Young Women Values! It is anticipated that, world-wide, about 300,000 young women will participate in this event. The balloons are expected to be airborne for 24 to 30 hours and some flights of 1,000 to 3,000 miles would not be uncommon, depending on wind, weather and temperature. |