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Show - v Review -- Wednesday, January 15, 1986 -- Page 2 , - c&mm&nt j older when. . , You know you're getting extra space required for fa( in that ear. p.g. blab I rvr cent it does not For the most part except when SePwhisperstotat; and I sometimes word. But it means turninglp thradio .. bit more and turning up the TV a little. members of the family like Some to sit next to the TV and turn, down so low that at first 1.always think completely deaf. When .1 turned up a little I can hear fine and I don't feel that it is really un-comfortable for the others to have .1 XweTer.Tfind myself hesitating it turned up. I about asking to have imagine that those with hand.caps may feel that way, too. I have been blessed to have a very special friend who is deaf, Cindy Wilson. I have always enjoyed talking with her but I have not, and probably will not (hopefully) ever understand what it is like for her to not be able to hear. My hearing is not that bad. But it is enough for me to begin to have a little understanding for those who have much worse problems. During the last city council meeting, Councilman Dave Faux said that a resident had asked him about the city providing some handicapped parking stalls on Main Street. The council bandied this about a while and talked about the dicapped parking. They talked about the ramp curb at the corner by the Post OffJ and that, fortunately there are rw1 M' many in Pleasant Grove who sWoi the ramp or need handicap tjnd parking. They were in a qua' a0n, about what to do and have not ye' Gill' made a decision. g. Councilman Lloyd Ash recall City that other city council members it U'en other cities have sometimes spent; city day in a wheelchair to learn firs pete hand about some of the problems 5 De"1 the handicapped. It has helped icia our city council would also like to! help out in some way. $ All this brought home to methi cont all of us have some kind of a hai conc dicap. Maybe it is having to Wea,)oni glasses, having diminished hearing the losing a finger in an accident, noi22r having an IQ as high as the nextgUj Tli being lame in a leg from polio orthe losing a limb in the war. Maybe sjools' are hampered by an inferiorit,City complex, or feelings of inadequacy Mi poor health, or a hundred and o! other things. Through it all I have learned onJ thing. Do not ridicule those who havt I, a serious handicap. We all have handicaps to one degree or another. And like the sign in the office says,! A "Thank you for not smoking pi cussing, smelling bad, being uglyoijiiss acting stupid." oca Kga TV ByMARCEU.AWAI.KKR Have you ever stopped to think, when you see the parking stalls for the handicapped, thai all of us are handicapped to some degree or another? Of course, fortunately, most of us are not handicapped to the point we should need a special parking place, but we do have handicaps. As we grow older this becomes more and more apparent. It seems to me that when I awake in the mornings, more and more often I feel a bit of the old arthritis. The elbow does not bend as easily, the fingers don't want to straighten out as well, the hip has a gel-alon-and the shoulders have a tendency to ache. It does not last long and it goes away soon but "age"is beginning to knock at the door. The bits and pieces begin to wear out. Wearing glasses is a handicap and if you don't think so, ask all the teenagers, all the ball players and all those with any degree of vanita at all. I have worn glasses since the fifth grade and they are as much a part of me as my hands. However, I have to have a thing on my drivers license that says I am restricted to wearing adequate corrective lens. How about you? That is a bit of a handicap whether you want to believe it or not. Several years ago I noticed a diminished hearing in my left year. An ear doctor diagnosed that I had oliosclerosis (or something that sounds relatively like that). He said my hearing in that ear would only gel worse and recommended that an artificial stapes be put in my ear. This was done in a relatively easy and painless procedure (if you don't mind being dizzy and throwing up because your equilibrium apparatus is disturbed for a time). After the operation a hearing test was done and it showed that my hearing was not 100 per cent. It was about like 65 He wrestled cookies by himself ihec grassroots j i, Z ' Copyright 1985 Becky Grass Johnson I grew up in a family of six girls. Having no brothers, I didn't know much about boys except that they usually had dirty fingernails and they liked gooey things with more than four legs. Boys seemed only to be good for making the Sunday School teacher cry and for collecting strange odds and ends that nobody else wanted. Then I grew older and boys started looking a little differently. I never understood the tran-sformation. All I know is that the snotty neighbor boy who used to throw girls in the ditch after Primary, suddenly became a hunk who dragged Main in a sleek, red Firebird. The day came when I found my Prince Charming, and after riding off into the sunset in his Volkswagon, we started a family of our own. Lo and behold, our first- r born was a son. Hubby was on cloud nine. I was estatic beyond relief. But deep in my heart, I wasn't sure I knew anything about raising a boy. He survived the first years in spite of me and seemed to naturally My son is working on his Bear Badge now, and so far we haven't tracked a single buffalo. (I guess we get to the good stuff later.) One of our biggest adventures together was the day he had to fulfill a cooking requirement. That's right. This nine-year-o- boy actually had to bake oatmeal cookies! I knew that short of tying myself up in the closet, I'd be hovering over him like a mother hen, and most likely I'd end up making them. I mustered all the self-contr- I had and swore not to step foot into the kitchen. Before I banished myself, I left the following tips: Never lick the beaters while they are still going. Don't cook the oatmeal before you add it to the cookies. When the recipe calls for "soda," we're not talking Pepsi Free. The baker is responsible to clean all batter-flip- s off the wallpaper and ceiling. Then I turned him loose. I nervously listened in the next room to the whir of the beaters and the clanging of cookie sheets. Suddenly I became aware of an odor coming from the kitchen which defies description. )W: I had forgotten to remind my senjrou that one should always check Ihtjf k oven before turning it on. (We lost ajie good set of Tinker Toys that waylijiis The extra pieces of French toast A from breakfast were now charihui coaled hockey pucks. This washier blessing in disguise because nowwcom know that our smoke alarm works! (jegi After the air cleared, anothereqi aroma began to fill the house. IiRef was the promising smell thisele something wonderful was baking to r My boy, whose face and shirt wen M covered with flour, turned out sowmer of the best oatmeal cookies IY.be ever tasted. I'll never know if itwime; the dirty fingernails or some othtthis secret ingredient. He wouldn't tell Bier He said the hard part of makir,;like cookies wasn't picking out the Ik " pieces of eggshell, or twisting k spatula from the beaters, but nlkwi0 fighting off his little sisters with iP wooden spoon in a race to lick bowl. After all, a little spoon ti spoon combat is good preparation for later... when we wrestle tk' timber wolf. by BECKI GRASS JOHNSON pick up on the dirty fingernails and "tormenting the girls" routine. I looked forward to the big day when he would start scouting. I could hardly wait to help him earn merit badges. We'd skin a mountain lion together. We'd learn to track buffalo. I'd teach him to identify every weed in the garden. I'd be the best friend a cub scout could hope for. Proposed change is a good one A group of dedicated private citizens, working for no compensation other than the satisfaction of doing what needs to be done, has put together a proposal to change county government that deserves the consideration of every Utah County voter. The county's current commission form of government was mandated by Utah's constitution in the 1890's -- - and stayed that way by law until a dozen years ago, when the constitution was rewritten to give counties some say in the way their government was run. That change came after it was seen that the three commission form of government was adequate for small counties -- - but for larger counties, there is a better way. . . And Utah County is not the only one in the state in-terested in seeing some changes made. Salt Lake County residents are being asked to change that county government as well this year. Late last year, Utah County's three commissioners admitted that there may be a need for some changes, and even went so far as to appoint a group of citizens to make an extensive review of the way county business was done. That group has never met. In the meantime, the Citizens Interested in Utah Government have gotten to business - meeting up to twice a week drafting the proposed county charter they will present to the county commission today. The charter calls for a revolution in the way county business is handled, with a seven member part-tim- e county council to serve as the legislative branch of the government and an appointed county administrative officer to serve as the executive county authority. It mandates regional representation - with five regionally elected council members. There will be no more reliance on any so-call- ed "Gentleman's Agreement" which will never be honored by the more populated center of the county. It turns county government service into just that -- service, with a total of $30,000 paid to the council each year, as opposed to the highly paid three commissioner form, which encourages professional politicians rather than concerned citizens to conduct the public's business. Yet, with an appointed administrator, it also allows for professionalism in public office. The 45-pa- charter provides for a smooth transition from one government form to another, so voters can decide whether they want to make the change when they go to the polls in November, and if they approve the change, in January the county will go forward under the new council. : The proposal has been carefully thought out, and solves the problems of the current commission form of county government. It provides for the checks and balances that are missing from the commission by its nature. But it will require the interest of local voters to get the proposal placed on the ballot. The current county commissioners are not open to proposals that will in effect eliminate their high-payin- g jobs. The petition calling for an election on the proposed charter will require the signature of 15,000 registered voters - and those signatures must be collected in time to find persons interested in running for council seats that will be filled if the proposal passes, and that will not exist if it fails. If north Utah County wants representation in county government, local voters should sign the petition and support the proposed charter. It's a move that will put the voice of the people back in county government. Citizens' government superior to bureaucracy li represent the people and be Is likely to seek the office fa monetary reasons. The con missioners, that is two of them, Miner and Anderson, volet themselves a 27 percent raise las! year. That raised their salaries $45 thousand a year, plus the used a car, plus medical benefits. Pte some are not working full time a! the job. Now maybe you can sei why 12 people wanted the job. fact it was understood that co-mmissioners only had to work thrs days a week. I'll take a government of citizerfi anytime over a government i beauracrats who think more of their, salaries than the people they sent! Our legislature is part-tim- Our city council is part-tim- e. Our maye is part time. Our school board i part-tim- e. Lets make our corf commissioners part time! Yourf f; be seeing petitions coming out it on the ballot next fall. After all, this is supposed to be government of the people, by people, and for the people. Isn't it? by E. MARK BEZZANT Last Thursday night some of Pleasant Grove's Republican faithful joined Republicans from throughout Utah County to nominate three Republicans to fill the seat of Jeril Wilson, who is resigning as county commissioner to serve in the legislature. He will be filling the seat vacated by Joe Jenkins who was elected as Provo's new mayor last November. The gathering of Republican faithful took place at Provo High in what is called a central committee meeting. Ross Bratt, Ganiel Fugal, Don Crump, Alex Hunt, Mrs. Benjamin and myself were a few of the Republicans from this area in attendance. From a field of 12 candidates the several hundred Republicans listened to over an hour nominating, seconding and acceptance speeches. Each candidate had only three minutes to present his case to the delegates at the convention. Needless to say that there were a myriad of phone calls, en-dorsements and lobby efforts that went on prior to the Thursday night meeting. Mayor Holdaway went on record witht he other Mayors from the northern end of the county to support Bob Warnick from American Fork. There seemed to be a general feeling of concern, from those in the Southern and Northern parts of the county, that the com-mission seats should be divided between the north central and south portions of the county as it had for years. As it presently stands there is no representative from the Northern part of the county but two from the central part of the county and one from the Southern part. Those from the South felt that it would not be long before they lost their representation too, and hence there was strong feelings to return to the gentlemens agreement that had existed for years to have one from each of the three areas of the county. It was not until O Neil Miner totally disregarded that agreement that the system broke down. With that sentiment, it is no wonder that Bob Warnick from American Fork was the top vote getter followed by Bill Arseneau and Brent Morris, both from the Provo-Ore- area. In all fairness, Bob Warnick gave by far the best presentation at the Thursday n ight meeting, and did an impressive job presenting his case to the delegates prior to the meeting. Bill Arseneau had some big en-dorsements from the likes of Representative Jim Moss and Raylene Ireland who had just served as the county Republican Chairman. Brent Morris was nominated by the outgoing com-missioner himself. Bill Arseneau is presently the director of. surplus property in the state. The county commissioners must now choose from Warnick, Ar-seneau and Morris, within 30 days, or the choice will be the Governor's. In the meantime there is in-creasing support to change the form of government in the county, from full time commissioners to part time council much like all the cities in the county have. A full time administrator would then he hired to administer the policy set by the council as most all the cities do. Supporters of the council form of government argue that part-tim- e council members will better Delinquent tax list available at office Copies of the Utah County Delinquent Property Tax List are now available at the American Fork Office of this newspaper. In accordance with Utah law, the Utah County Treasurer is required to give public notice of all unpaid property taxes in at least one paid circulation newspaper of record in the county. This year the public notice was published in the Orem-Genev- a Times, however, approximately 50 copies are available at this newspaper office, 59 West Main, American Fork. Three generations of model trains Continued from front page display. It was the highlight of Ken's Christmas each year to see that display. Ken got his first train when he was five years old. His dad got a large layout on a table when Ken was about eight. Ken's father, S. Ken-neth Robbins, Sr., still has a big layout at his home in Salt Lake City. Ken built a train layout that covered one-thir- d of the basement when he first got married. He and his wife, Juanita, quickly had five little boys and those little boys did not want to stay out of the train set. They would take pieces out to the sand pile and out in the yard and raised the wrath of their father each time they did. He has had a train layout in the basement of every house he has lived in. When the kids were smaller and had to sleep in the bedroom he now uses for his layout, he made it so that it could be hung on the wall out of the way at bedtime. Now there are only three of eight children living at home and so Ken now has an entire room, 27' by 14', to house his magnificent hobby. Ken, who holds a PH.D in Educational Psychology, said that the most satisfaction is in the building and creating of the model railroad with its towns, scenery and stations. He enjoys taking natural things of the earth and bringing them into the display He will use rocks, leaves, twigs, etc. to add to his layouts. He explained that this latest project is kind of the fulfillment of some of his dreams. Before he begins to build the layout he draws out on paper the way he wants the design to be. Then he builds a model using balsa wood to create the scale and bench work and putting everything where he wants it. He uses nylon filament to form the railroad track design. Now he uses the HO guage but he also has the 10 guage. In the recently completed layout, Ken has included a model of the Open Pit Bingham Copper Mine and has trains on the different levels of the mine. He went to the actual mine and picked up rocks which he has used to fill the train cars and to place about the area. He has included Geneva Steel Mill in the layout and he drafted his wife, an artist, to paint the Steel Plant with Timpanogos in the background. In some instances, the background of the layout may be a mural but in other places it has been painted by his wife. Ken has constructed mountains, tunnels, trestles, lakes and rivers on his layout. Miniature towns with stores, post office, homes and, of course, a railway station dot the layout. Trees, flowers, switching devices train signals and even a round house have a place on the layout. Miniature automobiles wait at the train crossing and even a statue of Brigham Young can be seen. Ken took the apparatus from a lazy susan, hooked it up to elec-tricity and it makes a perfect tur-naround for the train at the roun-dhouse. Ken has used indirect and direct lighting to illuminate the layout. Lights shine from the windows of the tiny buildings. Ken has used about 400 feet of track on this latest layout. He estimates he has spent about 750 hours a year on the project. Ken's dream is to inherit his father's layout one day and fill an entire basement with a train layout He would like to use all different guages and types of trains. His favorite engine is the Hudson Locomotive. It was one on the New York Central Railroad. Ken said that many of the engines that his father owns are now collectors items. The hobbyist said that after spending a day at work at BYU where he works as assistant director of Education Weeks and teaches religion classes, he enjoys three or four spending hours in the evening working on the train. He said it makes him feel refreshed He added that the creative building adds something which is meaningful and brings joy and satisfaction to him. Ken is a Boy Scout merit badge counselor for model railroading So far only one of Ken's seven sons, Curtis, has shown an interest in continuing the tradition of model trains, Ken said. 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