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Show Plaudits to Parks Dept., Happy B-Day Jer p.g. blah Kent arranged to take Jer to his school that night and picked him up when it was through. That way we had control of all the time elements involved. When he walked into the house there was a large bunch of friends and co-workers. I had worked really re-ally hard to make the party a success suc-cess and it was. He was really surprised and it was all worth the hard work involved. in-volved. Surprise parties are one of the funnest things in the world and if the victim is innocent and naive enough it can turn out great. Jer is gifted at hiding his emotions. emo-tions. He is a lot like Coach La Veil Edwards at BYU who never changes expression and you'd never be able to tell if BYU was winning or losing just by watching his face. But he gets this little quirk pulling at the side of his mouth and you know he is enjoying himself. Even though there was a royal mess to clean up when everyone left Saturday night, it was well worth it. We had a ball. Thank goodness his sisters aren't around for every birthday though. I'm not sure we would all hold up. By MARCELLA WALKER First of all, I want to make it clear that we did not in any way criticize the Pleasant Grove Parks Dept. about that pile of rubbish at Kiwanis Park that we pictured in last week's Review. We knew that it would have already have been removed by the parks department if at all possible. They do a wonderful job of keeping our city looking great. In fact, in today's paper there is an article about all thebeautification awards the city has received. What we were condemning is the people who put the trash there in the first place. We understand the police have been trying to Find out who dumped it there and get them to clean it up. The police have apparently found out who did it but the people have moved away so they cannot get them to clean it up. The trash will be, or already has been, removed. The last people in the world that I would want to discredit is our Parks Dept. They do a marvelous job and I mean it. Last week was my husband's birthday. It came midweek and I told the kids that we would celebrate cele-brate his birthday on Saturday evening with a barbecue. In the meantime, his two sisters from Arizona came to visit and we invited them, too. The kids had told me to keep Dad out of the house until at least 5 p.m. They did not tell me why and I did not ask. When we arrived, the house was all decorated with signs and crepe paper and balloons, and it was full of people and then more people came and it was a blast. They sat Jer down in a chair and wrapped him in an old woman's shawl and put a silk scarf around his head and gave him a balloon which read, "We are mourning the passing of your youth!" They passed around Kleenex so that everyone could mourn. They gave him a black T-shirt which said something about now being a senior citizen. (He is only 52.) Then they gave him a cake with a nearly bare native girl on it. I think he was overwhelmed. Because we had expected a fail-crowd fail-crowd to celebrate his birthday at this barbecue, I had bought food for quite a few. Well, so had his sisters. We had about 20 pounds of hamburger, (or more), scads of hamburger buns, hot dogs, hot dog buns, all kinds of chips, lots of relishes, salads, about seven pies, enough cake for an army, and ice cream besides. As you can guess, it all turned out wonderful and we had a very nice time. All his sisters were there and two of his four brothers. The sisters had purchased T-shirts T-shirts for all six of them and for their mother and they all had messages on them and everyone got a chuckle out of that. One of Jer's sister's-in-law came in her witch costume. It was hard to figure out at first who it was with . partisan panel of judges who were I all senior citizens and even they ' laughed themselves silly so he shouldn't call them, they would call him. Another time he got a postcard in the mail from Hawaii with a topless native girl sitting on the beach. The first thing he said after he saw the postcard was, "Is Jill in Hawaii?" She was. Before she left Saturday, Jill said that she would go visit any neighbors we would like her to visit. Jer sent her to see Bruce Chad-wick Chad-wick next door. She really set this college professor back on his heels as he did not know her from Adam and she purported to be his former girlfriend. Needless to say, everyone got a kick out of the whole thing. This was probably the best birthday party Jer has ever had. His sisters are crazy and can think up more mischief than you'd every believe. Never trust Delia at all, especially if Mary Jean and Nancy are around. What one doesn't think up, one of the others will. It all made me reminisce about one time in about 1964 when I had a surprise party for Jer. His brother, the one who is now married mar-ried to the witch mentioned above, helped me with it. ; Jer was teaching night school a couple of nights a week in addition to his regular job as a computer programmer in Salt Lake City. the long grotesque nose, green skin, long bony fingers with scarlet nails, and black hat and black robes. The little ones were scared to death until she befriended them and our oldest granddaughter even agreed to give this old witch a hug. She always has teased Jer and this was no exception. She really gave him a bad time. One time she sent him a letter which was supposed (and seemed to really be) from Cosmopolitan saying that they thanked him for sending the pictures of himself for their centerfold but that everyone had laughed so hard that they had turned the photos over to a non- |