Vintage Vignette: A 1960 “Five Dollar Bill” and a 12-year-old boy in Lehi
Dad handed me a five-dollar bill one Saturday in the Summer of 1960. I was twelve and had worked with bronze turkeys in Cedar Valley since school let out two months earlier. I expected...
Vintage Vignette: She’s not my mother
I planted my toe at the foul lane to cut off the opposing player who had a trickle of blood on his lip. We were old rivals but good friends. I smiled at him...
Vintage Vignette: A Swallowed Lizard and a Lehi Football Story
The Fall football schedule in early September of 1972 included an “away game” for the Lehi Pioneers at Uintah High School in Vernal. Halfway into the trip, the team bus took a brief detour,...
1929: Mom’s Favorite Christmas Memory
During the Great Depression (1929-1933) holiday meals were different than today’s fare at most tables. It was a rare luxury to have enough bread and butter, vegetables, a meat dish, and a dessert to...
Vintage Vignette: Don’t Take My Turkeys
I snuggled as deep as possible into my old war-surplus sleeping bag on a very cold and windy November night in the Fall of 1957. Dad told me to stay in my sleeping bag...
Vintage Vignette: Paper boys never go to jail
It was 5:00 a.m. New Year’s morning 1959. There was a howling blizzard freezing the darkness. Blinding snowflakes prevented me from being able to see more than thirty feet ahead of me as I...
Letters to the Editor: Peck Park
Dear Editor,
I am so grateful at last to have a meaningful forum to address the citizens of Lehi concerning the Peck Park Property from the perspective of the one who was there and did...
Beguyled: Don’t fear the mechanic
Keeping your car running well is really not black magic. Here’s how to make your car last 200,000 miles. You CAN do all of this yourself, or if you choose to use a service...
Vintage Vignette: “Take that gun dad!”
When mom and dad sold their 340-acre farm on the Lehi north bench in 1957, they used the proceeds of the sale to buy a house, a new car, and a semi-truck with a...
Susan Says: Surviving back to school anxiety and stress
It’s that time of year again and the start of school can bring excitement and anticipation, as well as anxiety, fear, and psycho-somatic complaints in children. Our culture has evolved in a way that...
