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Show 'S 7 40 S .H5GB SONS BOOKBlNDrpv5 'J i ROILROOD STREET INC- - R SPRiNGP0RT MI 49284 Vol.8, No. 19 Wednesday, May 14, 1986 50 cents a single copy City Council approves new building codes Fred Christensen, community development director, presented several codes relating to the building department to the Pleasant Grove City Council Tuesday night, all but one of which were approved. Those included were the Utah Plumbing code, its appendixes, and the swimming pool, spa and hot tub codes; building inspector to be known as building and deputy building officials; energy codes outlining the minimum insulation standards from the Utah Energy Code; and the administrative code that goes with the National Elec-trical Code. ; Other ordinances approved in-cluded a statement that when two codes conflict the more restictive of the codes applies; 1985 Uniform Building Code and appendixes; 1985 Mechanical Code; deletion of the Fallout Shelter and Gas Codes from the city ordinance as they are covered elsewhere; and the 1980 Standard Specifications Ordinance. The ordinance concerned with the damage bond for city improvements was held for further consideration. In other action, the city council met the newest police officer, John Lloyd, who was introduced by the police chief. The council discussed the possibility of building a city road north from 200 South just below the canal over the Bureau of Reclamation right-of-wa- y for the J-- 4 Aqueduct. Mayor David Holdaway said this could be an access street. He said there is no residential construction planned olong the street for the foreseeable future as it is presently an orhard. The trees have been removed for installation of the pipeline and trees cannot be planted directly over the pipeline. However, it is alright to built a road over the right-of-wa- The mayor said that perhaps the city would have to fence along the sides of the roadway to keep those walking through the area from taking fruit from the orchard. See City Council Page 3 s - x v " r xs, " x 1 x f- -- " fc U ' x V , ' X I ! , ? ; ,Vfi x. s k j" I x i jjawberry Days Rodeo Royalty are, L-- Angela Nielson, second attendant; Queen Jl'istin Honey; Pam Evans, first attendant; and Julie Morgan, alternate. strawberry Days odeo royalty ready ristin Haney, 17, of Hooper, h, will be the 1986 Strawberry s Rodeo Queen. Her attendants Pam Evans, 18, from West )ian and Angela Nielson, 19, of asant Grove.. jlie Morgan, 17, of Provo is the mate. he queen was chosen in a com-tio- n held Saturday night at the asant Grove Rodeo Arena, enteen girls vied for the title, ting it one of the best Strawberry 'S Rodeo Queen contests in ;ral years. -- Mraine Montgomery of the --iwberry Days Committee said the competition was keen as all h girls were excellent hor-ome-jhe queen and her court will reign over the three nights of the Pleasant Grove Strawberry Days Rodeo on June 19, 20 and 21 and will assist with the horsepulling contest and other related events. Kristin is the daughter of Art and Gerri Haney. She has been riding horses for 12 years and is a member of the National High School Rodeo Association. She attends Roy High School where she is a member of the Royalaire Drill Team. She has won various queen titles including Miss High School Rocieo Utah for 1985. - Besides riding horses, Kristin enjoys water and snow skiing and dancing. She said she is very proud to represent Pleasant Grove Strawberry Days Rodeo as their queen. Pam is the daughter of Robert and Doris Evans. She graduated from West Jordan High School. She is currently teaching and plans to attend the University of Utah in the fall majoring in Public Relations. She enjoys water skiing, snowmobiling, and working with handicapped children. Angela is the daughter of Tim and Deanna Nielson. She is a 1984 graduate of Pleasant Grove High School. She took fist place on th.e, region Horsemanship t earner.; "had the number one 4-- horse' in Utah County in 1985. Her hobbies are drawing and riding her horse, Piney. She has had five years of riding and enjoys volleyball. V""" x s - x v, y,s xCx x A W , ' 1 ! v. ! x x? Cw jr AAf r - - ' i v v?' 3 v x, x xVO-1-; t y x X X X f X ? i $ xJS . yy7 '," j Sparkles. . . Students put finishing touches on the "G" Saturday by weaving white aluminum strips into steel mesh. Snow had to be removed from the "G" before the aluminum work could be completed. Valen Blackburn, Kerry VanDyke, Teresa Bird and Tammy Thurgood are among those shown working. Photo by Kurt Montgomery. Graduation exercises evealed for May 30 'leasant Grove High School iduation exercises will be held iday, May 30, at 7 p.m. in the :asant Grove High School boy's XI. The program is under the direc-- n of the Senior Class Officers, frk Bronson, president; Melissa nnett, vice president; Heather 'vis, secretary; and Joe Bond, nior class advisor. Aleene S. wley is general faculty chairman commencement. Jessica Draper is valedictorian, 'e is a National Merit Winner and a falist for the Ezra Taft Benson holarship. Lisa Miller is tutatarian. She is a Sterling and recipient of the arner-Lambe- rt Schlarship and (ustee Scholarship to BYU. Theme for the program is "Never Ve up! Never, never, never." The 'elude and processional will be ayed by the Pleasant Grove High Wol Band, under the direction of pon Honey. The invocation will be by Dean Lundell and Heidi Johnsen will lead in the Pledge of Allegiance. Prin-cipal Tom Carlile will give the welcome and Mark Bronson will conduct the services. Lisa Miller, salutatorian, will speak on "Overcoming the Intertia Syndrome;" Lila Fugal's subject is "Life is Not a Spectator Sport - Live it!;" and Jason Lemon will discuss "Success Comes to Those Willing to Work for it." "'Rising Up to Our Own Ex-pectations" is the theme of Lisa Hollis' talk. Susan Southam will then sing, "May You Always." Erika Kimball's subject will be "Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Off, and Start All Over Again;" and Greg Keetch will address the sub-ject, "Ships are Safe in a Harbor." Valedictorian Jessica Draper will talk on "Life is a Lot Like Multiplication Tables." Remarks will be given by Gary Keetch, Alpine District ad-ministrator and David C. Harvey, of the Alpine School Board. A tribute will be given by Melissa Bennett. The senior class officers will in-troduce the graduates and Mr. Harvey will present the diplomas. Background organ music will be played by Terry Tucker. The A Cappella Choir will sing "Battle Hymn of the Republic," directed by Terry Tucker and ac-companied by Lisa Hollis. - The benediction will be given by Kurtis Montgomery and the band will play the recessional. The speakers and those giving the prayers and Pledge of Allegiance are in the top three percent of the senior class, a position earned by, their, combined GPA and. ACT scores. Members of the National Honor Society among the graduating class are Angela Bone, Robyn Christensen, Heather Davis, Jessica Draper, Debra Fisher, Rosalie Garrett, Lisa Hollis, Heidi Johnsen, Gregory Keetch, Erika Kimball, Benka Kofford, Jason Lemon, Dean See Honor Society Page 3 Jociety usually ignores needs of the bereaved ditor's note: Henry Wads worth fellow wrote: "When she had sed, it seemed like the ceasing of uisite music." Death is our imon denominator, and yet ny of us spend months or years ing to understand the loss of a ed one. A group of classes at the erican Fork Hospital, while no e for that loss, are designed to p. This is the first of tw irticles cussing those classes and the :ess of mourning. By SHARON MORREY 'here's no magic cure in the reavement Classes offered by the lerican Fork Hospital, no instant ve for the pain of loss or quick nedy for the tremendous hurt one l feel when someone beloved dies, rhe "facilitator" of the classes, yllis Hansen, a Medical Social irker with Intermountain Health re Services, is quite upfront about it. 'I don't have a magic .and for n," she says. "I left it in the car." "Go get it, we'll wait," quips one group member. Hansen smiles at that as she ex-plains that the purpose of therapy groups like these is to learn and become educated about dealing with grief. "There's a vast desert out there," she adds. "We also need to educate our families and friends, those who mean well but don't know how to help." And so the task is laid out for the members of the "group" --- strangers who share a common bond of pain: one has lost a newborn baby, another lost a little girl, one man's wife died unexpectedly after routine surgery, another's spouse died of cancer. One woman has come because suddenly the last child has married and she is only now having to face being alone, six years after the death of her husband. There's an assortment of ages, personalities and problems. "This is a self-hel- p group. We will talk. We will discuss. There will be hand-out- s to help you. I will help you," says Hansen, "You are here because you need to be here. "Everyone here is carrying their unique load of pain. Everyone's situation is different. No one person can totally understand the other person's loss because each is unique. But there are similarities. " "One of those is that it takes time. And working through the pain in indeed hard work. It takes un-derstanding. "As human beings we strive for predictibility in our lives, a certain amount of rhythm. Grief is loss, an interruption in that rhythm. We are each trying to regain that which was lost, to put things right again." Hansen points out that the loss and pain from a death can cause intense physical side-effect- rashes, migraine headaches, stomach-aches, constipation, sleeplessness as well as emotional troubles; apathy, anger, confusion, depression, withdrawal. "Like one who has suffered a physical amputation, seemingly simple tasks for a while become major challenges." A person suffering loss can lose interest in life's activities, feel drawn to the past, find it difficult to make the smallest decisions. One may suffer flashbacks to a happier time, ache to stay at the gravesite, wish to "join the dead." A whole range of emotional responses can occur. In the bereavement circle, the suffering gain "permission" to feel emotion and express whatever they may be feeling: bitterness, despair, jealousy, guilt. It's been proven that the stress level goes down when a person unloads his aggravation. "Kept inside ourselves the worries run vicious circles of confusion around us," offers Hansen from one of her handouts to the class. Through the process of dealing with the death of a child, a husband, wife or parent, Hansen points that growth occurs even if it seems to be an unwanted growth at the time. Dealing with the grief becomes a coping skill. "If you don't learn how to process grief, you can suffer physically as well as emotionally," she suggests. She invites the grieving to view pain as a friend. "Those who grieve have loved," she points out. "In a very real way, whenever we choose to love someone, we are also choosing to be hurt." People who have worked through grief become more sensitive to other people's pain and know things "not" to say in times of grief. They gain a measure of empathy. They learn to weed out the "awful kindnesses" that sometimes hurt more than help. (An example: "Aren't you glad you can have another baby? It's good that she didn't suffer.") New friendships and family bonds may develop that did not exist before. While American society tends to expect mourning to be finished in ten days to two weeks, Hansen stresses that it is more realistic to expect the grief process to take up to an entire year or more, depending on the circumstances of the death and the personalities involved. (At the end of about 18 months, if there's no significant improvement in the grieving, she suggests a bereaved daughter or son or husband or wife seek private short-ter-therapy.) "Every situation is totally dif-ferent, every person is unique. There are no set timetables to follow, no deadlines to meet. While .there are certain common stages to grief, no one's pattern is exactly like anyone else's. "What is the same is that we all have to deal with it eventually." Next week: Working through the stages of grief. |