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Show Review - Wednesday, August 23, 1989 - Page 2 Pleasant Grove High School plans recognition program who have either no absences, or no tardies. A certificate will be pre-sented, and a letter sent home. Their picture will be displayed in the lobby and free food coupons awarded. For those with no absences or tardies, a pizza party will be held in their honor. Membership in the Most Im-proved Club is reserved" for stu-dents who have raised their GPA one-ha- lf grade (.5) or better from one term to the next. A certificate will be given, a letter sent home, names displayed on the electronic sign, picture in the school lobby and coupons for Honor Roll certin Presented each 4 students whohavo ,ert:'' GPA or better j givenacertificate7,e"ts,.' names displayed' gn, and Hardee?,1 free cheeseburger porist Every week ' the sh, room for the g$Sk things as guessing thSV blue jelly beans in a the combined weight oA etc., and awards wi ilthef8t-t-the winners pre A primary goal at Pleasant Grove High School during this upcoming school year will be to give special recognition to as many students and teachers as possible. One of the new programs will be a Student of the Day in which a different student will be selected each day and their picture will be displayed in the lobby, their name will be on the electronic sign, and they will receive a coupon for a free meal. Viking Praise Coupons will be given by teachers to students right in class when they do something SDecial. Their names will be put into a box in the office and on the last day of every month the student council will draw out five lucky winners. Prizes will be donated by local merchants and names will be an-nounced over the P.A. system. On each student's or faculty member's birthday they will be invited to come down to the office where they will be presented a birthdaycard, a Vikingsucker, and have their name displayed on the electronic sign. Beginning in October, students will be asked a trivia question during the morning announcements. Five winners each day will receive free food from local merchants. A stu-dent can win only once each week. Royal Viking awards will be presented to six students each month, two from each class, and will be based on school spirit, citi-zenship, and academic performance. A letter will be sent to the stu-dent's home, a nice certificate will be awarded, their name will be on the marquee in front of the school, an article will be in the newspaper, and their picture will be displayed in the school lobby. A coupon for a free dinner will be awarded. The Extra Mile Club is a Teacher of the Month award which will be given to a staff member who con-sistently demonstrates a willing-ness to go the extra mile on behalf of the students. A nice certificate will be awarded, along with their picture displayed in the lobby and a delicious dinner given. Students with straight "A's" will be honored each quarter with a certificate, a letter sent home, their picture on display in the lobby, and names on the electronic sign. Free food coupons will be awarded. Membership in the Blue and White Club is reserved for students High school, community to miss E. Mark Bezzant p.ff. blab t i when she was only a sophomore, even though the class was sup-posed to be limited to juniors and seniors. Her love of that class and her respect for Mr. Jackman kept her going in the health field and today she is nearly finished with her degree as a registered nurse. Mark was always dressed in his football jersey on game days, even with his nice shirt and tie under-neath. His enthusiasm rubbed off on students and parents alike. You couldn't help be up for the games or other PGHS activities if Mark was around. I hopeNorth Sanpete High School realizes what kind of a principal it is getting. He will build those stu-dents up until they think they can beat the 4-- schools in anything. If they lack community support, it won't be for long because Mark will take care of that. If they do not have an active PTSA, they will soon because Mark will back it all the way. If they do not have an excellent Advanced Placement program they will very quickly because Mark encourages all students to do their best. If they are not sending a high percentage of the students off to college, they will in the near future because Mark will see to that. By MARCELLA WALKER Every once in a while someone comes along who has a good influ-ence on a lot of young people and who the young people really look up to. Such a person is E. Mark Bez-zant, acounselor at Pleasant Grove High School for many years, and formerly an economics and debate teacher there. Bill Delaney, principal of Pleas-ant Grove High School, has an-nounced that Mark will be leaving PGHS to become principal at North Sanpete High School in Mt. Pleas-ant. It is with mixed emotions that I mention this. We are all very h appy for Mark because he will be able to use the skills he has recently ac-quired in graduate study at BYU to become a principal. But we will miss him greatly as the spirited staff member that he has been at PGHS. My children who had him for a counselor at the high school en-joyed him immensely. He always had time to talk to them. He gave them good advice on their future education. He suggested classes which fit in with their interests and I will never forget what he did tohelp our nephew from Arizona who came up to go to school at UVCC and found that without a high school diploma A former City Councilman, Mark has contributed generously to civic improvement over the years. He is a landscape designer and has spent much of his spare time creating a little more beauty around for his clients. For the past few years he has written a column for the Pleasant Grove Review. It has covered a broad spectrum of subjects and given generous insight on many subjects. One of the things which has im-pressed me most in his columns has been his notes of appreciation about residents of the community who have done an outstanding job in some way. He is a thoughtful person, a great teacher and an excellent counselor. Our loss is certainly Mt. Pleasant's gain. I haven't had a chance to talk to Mark as we always seem to miss each other and I don't know if he will be moving his family to Mt. Pleasant or what his plans are. Whatever the case, we will miss him around here and I hope he will always remember he is a Viking at heart. We wish him the very best and want him to know how much he was appreciated here. Good luck and God bless, Mark. (Will you still be able to send us your column each week?) he was not going to be able to get much of a job. The boy decided he needed to go back to school, and, although he was not much of a scholar to begin with, Mark worked with that kid and got him into work release and one thing and another until that guy graduated. His parents and both of us were extremely grateful. I remember when our daughter was very interested in a career in health. She talked to Mark about it and he arranged for her to take one of Mr. Jackman's health classes Barbershop Chorus to give final summer concer The final concert of the Pleasant Grove Summer Concerts-in- - the-Par- k will be held Sunday, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m. in the Downtown Park, 200 S. Main St. The concluding performance will be made by the Utah Valley Bar-bershop Chorus, an award winning group which has brought great enjoyment to the concert series in the past few years. This Barbershop Chorus has performed throughout the United States, especially west of the Mis-sissippi, and have won many awards for their music. All of those who enjoy the close harmony of barbershop singing will want to attend this concert. Bring your family, your lawn chairs and blankets and enjoy an hour of fine music. This concert series has been i sponsored by the Pleasant f. Arts Council, Utah Arts r and National Endowment Arts. We ' their ,eourage parents t, children to be ey use the playground if.. at the park during the that it does not disturb tL formers. ,! The Pleasant Grove Arts (V cil would like to thank all ' faithful citizens who haveatte-- the concerts this summer invite everyone back again r year for another fine seriesofo-cert-in the park. Those who have served on y Art's Council's Music Comno are Chairman Ida Mae Christ. Anne Fisher, Elton and Beth Stan Johnson, and Karen Bla Aspen Elementary to hold open house Aug. 29 All patrons of Aspen Elemen-tary are cordially invited to attend an Open House on Tuesday, Aug. 29. Those with last names A- M will be asked to come from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. and L - Z from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Come and meet your teachers and visit your classrooms. . You will be abla to purchase your lunch tickets at thistimeu In conjunction with the Oje House there will be a short PTi meeting that will be of inters:: all. Become involved andki what's doing on, especially dc this year of change to at Aspen Elementary. Join pta! I like the kid, but why must we camp? By MARC HADDOCK The editor is on vacation, so this is a repeat of one of his most popular columns. We loaded our gear in the back of the car, made sure we were dressed for the occasion as grubby as possible and headed for the can-yon. .. It was the annual father's and son's outing, and for the first time, my son and I were heading for the hills. .. We hadn't gone before because I had insisted I would not sleep out with anybody who might wet the bed, er, sleeping bag. It had been my only excuse, until now. .. Now I could see no way out. I was very sneaky when it came to this fathers-and-son- s business. I had three daughters before any boys came along. Not that I h ave anything against boys. In fact, I think they are great. But a certain segment of our society equates boys and camping. And while I can put up with the boy part of the deal with no reserva-tions, camping is another matter. I put up with camping with several reservations preferably one at the nearest Holiday Inn. Oh, I know, there is supposed to be something magical about sleep-ing out under the stars, getting back to nature, retreating from society to a place where men are men and women are back home, where you can spit and cuss with-out having to look around to see who will see you or hear you, where relief is just a tree away. But I have a hard time remem-bering one camping experience that wasn't uncomfortable, if not pain-ful. My early scouting days were counter-productiv- I remember camping out up Home Canyon, my first overnighter, dur-ing a rain storm. Somebody used a flare to light the morning fire so it would dry out the wood enough to burn. My pants were frozen stiff. I times. (Let's face it. Most boys do awful things to food when they get it near a fire.) I avoided most of the classes, which taught me things I didn't want to know, with the exception of the rifle range, where I pretended the target was the scout leader who had talked me into this peculiar form of self-impos- torture and fired my way to a Marksman rank-ing. Going home was the best thing that happened in any camping trip ' but after scout camp it was the greatest moment of my life. (Until I went home the next year. I didn't know how they talked me into doing that twice.) .. We arrived at Mutual Dell, the site ofour father's and son's outing, to find something marvelous. The improvements at the Dell made last year are impressive -- - with family camps and wilderness camps. .. But the lodge looked wonderful, with enough indoor bunks to handle all of us twice over. .. We ate dinner at real tables, and cooked our hamburgers on char-coal grills not as sophisticated as an electric or gas range, but better than an open fire by a long shot. .. The only problem came when both my son and I wanted the third hamburger. (My eats more than I do on most occasions). But I had solved that by putting all the things Dad likes on the burger, rendering the meat inedible for the more refined tastes ofSeth, my son. .. When Iput him to bed that night in the top bunk next to his best friend, Darren, I felt like this par-ticular outing was going to be more positive than my first. I've had to camp out plenty, but I've never liked it except for the weekend Scott, Brent and I spent at Joe's Gap just getting away from everybody. At 15, it was good to get away where you could cuss and spit and do all that other stuff. And there were no adults to mess things up. Just us. After that, I pretty well stayed out of a sleeping bag until some misguided soul asked me to be a scoutmaster, and I, an even more misguided soul, said yes. Then it was more sleepless nights and too much food cooked by boys who had been allowed too close to an open fire. I would come home hungry and tired, just as I did when I was 12, but now my back would hurt as well. Age and camping don't mix. After five years of Scouting, I was given my marching orders, sent packing, so to speak. I vowed I would never spend another night on the ground unless a nuclear holocaust destroyed civilization as we know it and I had no choice or I had to go on a father's and son's outing, whichever came first. The night passed quite peace-fully. Only Darren and his dad shared our room. All the noisy teen-agers were somewhere else - wher-ever the radio was blaring away. .. Breakfast was indoors, and was cooked by adults who knew how to handle a spatula. .. The older kids and their dads were playing Softball, so Seth and Darren and I went on a hike, with the boys leading the way as I fol-lowed and made grownup sugges-tions which they cheerfully ignored. .. We made friends with some squirrels. .. We hunted for dead branches to make hiking staffs. .. We climbed to the top of the mountain (at least it looked like the top to a couple of 6 year olds) and then explored our way back again. .. And on the way home Seth drank a whole can ofpop (it was a good thing he hadn't done that just be-fore going to bed) and we looked for tree tunnels in American Fork Canyon and talked about what a good time we'd had. .. When we got home I decided I still hate camping, but this father's and son's stuff, that's all right. couldn't find my socks. I had been cold all night only to wake up to cold clothes and a flare instead of a fire. And there was nothing to do except camp - pitch a tent, go to sleep, get up too early, eat an awful breakfast, and then go home to comfort, real food and a bed that didn't feel like it had been made out of boulders. Going home was great, but the camping was no fun. That first experience set the tone for most future camping expedi-tions. The grownups made us spend the night in Paris Canyon, near Minnetonka Cave, at Bloomington Lake all were less than satisfac-tory. Scout camp was the worst -- - a whole week on the rocks, under the stars, with no sleep and no fun. I hid out during the day to avoid the swimming classes. (Okay, so I was a wimp. But I still had not mastered the basic techniques of swimming - I couldn't even dog paddle. And that high mountain lake at Camp Little Lemhi was cold enough to give a polar bear second thoughts.) I made myself scarce during meal Museum Board of Trustees asks I Lehi City for some financial help After trying to sustain and mainr tain the running of the Hutchings Museum every since its beginnings, the Board of Trustees of the non-profit corporation of the John Hutch-ings Museum has asked Lehi City to take over some of the financial responsibility for the museum. The Hutchings family has been subsidizing the museum with fi-nancial support as well as time and labor, but find they can no longer accept this burden of responsibil-ity. Funds used to help in the main--tenanc- e and day-to-da- y running of the museum come from admission fees and small donations received from time to time. These sources do not provide enough income to cover upkeep, maintenance and sr costs. The city has paidheating, and electricity expenses, been citizens who haven tributed voluntary labor, and board of trustees is deeply gift-- for this help, but, more fkc-- j stability is needed to carry 011 cording to Sterling Merrell r: Richard Allen, members of thefe City council members the issue in an upcc' meeting. There will be amende to the Articles of Incorporate the John Hutchings Museums.-- , allow for Lehi City Mayor five Lehi citizens, as fourHutchingsfamilymemte the nine-memb- Board of t tees which governs museum at Letter to the Editor: Public thanks given to ai who helped with triathlon 55 triathletes who raced. A' ished. . This race will only 8( number if we can continue ; on races with such quaW all of J only be done with heeisn'tafiner! (askDaveTaylorandhi you mised the first two g. miss the third. I pred.ct ant Grove Triathlon wone of the top races 0 Thanks again to an- Dickerson Editor: I would like to publicly thank all who were involved with the second annual triathlon Saturday. I feel it was a great success, and eveyrone had a great time. The race could have never been of such quality without the help of all the volun-ter- s and sponsors. I hesitate to list some of those who helped for fear of leaving someone out, but special thanks need to go to many people, so I'll take the chance. Thank you to Utah Valley Bi-cycle for our grand prize (a $175 trainer), Pleasant Grove City, Sandy Apostol (shirts), Dr. David Dicker-so- n (managed bike course), Karen Dickerson (refreshments), Beth Kortman (volunteers), Lance Lemon (collected sponsors' donations), Police Department (traffic control), the Pleasant Grove Review (adver-tising and covering our race), Nancy Kelley, Robert Conder. The biggest thank you of all goes to my wife, Danielle. She took all of the registration andtimingrespon-sibilitie- s for me. Thank you to all the many race day volunteers and all those who I failed to mention (I'm sure there are many). We have a great tradition start-ing. Some of Utah's finest triath-lette- s were here Saturday. We had Bittner elected to State Handicapped Board Carol J. Bittner has been cho-sen as president-elec- t of the Utah State Board of Education Advisory Committee on the Handicapped (USBEACH) for 1990-91- . The committee serves as advi-sory to the State Board of Educa-tion on matters related to the handi-capped. Ms. Bittner is currently princi- - pal of the educational program of the Utah State Training School. She has also been assigned to the administrative staff for special education for Alpine School Dis-trict and worked as a speech thera-pist for a number of years. She holds a Masters Degree in Commu-nicative Disorders from the Brigham Young University and an Adminis trative Certificate from University of Utah. Chosen as "Handicapped Em-ployee of the Year" in 1974, shewas presented with an award for the State of Utah by then Governor Scott Matheson. As a member of the White House Committee on the Handicapped, she attended a con-ference in Washington D.C. where recommendations related to the needs of handicapped individuals were formulated as recommended policies an d presented to the White House. As president-elec- t of USBEACH, Ms. Bittner will provide guidance to the committee who works in special education in utah, as well as make recommendations to the board of education. fUaBant Grout ISSNN0 " US.P.S. No. 4357 ' pushedw"J by N and Christmas Pleasant Grove, lt Advertising 4 Circulate News Publisher --Vg Editors Marcel1 119" I" Subscription paXl Second class t at Pleasant PO Bol.m'(- - |