NO SEW: The Utah County Fair folks are having a tough time finding a chairperson for the home arts department. Their news release reads "Desperately seeking Susie Homemaker." It goes on to plead with the public to send somebody to them who's willing to take on the major responsibility of organizing volunteers and "stuff" for this event - from beans to wedding dresses.
"With this being a centennial year our theme is 100 years of progress," continues the release. "The home arts department is the one area that will show the progress we have made."Hmm. Yeah. We agree the fact that nobody wants the job is a pretty good example of the progress we've made in the past 100 years. Some of us have apparently learned to "Just Say No"!
All that jazz: During last Tuesday's Alpine City Council meeting, a critical Jazz game was also in progress. Councilman Don Watkins had a radio in one ear and the City Council business in the other. He was not alone. And his periodic updates on the Jazz were much appreciated.
But most of the others wearing earphones weren't being expected to deal with city issues at the same time that Karl Malone would've been dunking a basketball.
Hope somebody checks his votes for that night. Didn't he vote to approve annexing Alpine to Bountiful?
Hometown: It's mildly amusing to us that the Miss Orem Send Off event held very recently was staged in Lehi at the Colonial House.
Not that the Colonial House isn't a fine institution and Lehi isn't a nice place, but shouldn't Miss Orem be sent off from Orem or some such place? Just a thought.
Just one column's opinion: It's a sign of the '90s when you see the moms out strolling their babies - on the bike path in the sunshine - on high speed roller blades.
Speed bump: Unhappy at having to be there and largely part of a stubborn crowd hauled in to attend traffic school in lieu of getting points on the driving record, one of us nevertheless learned a couple of things in class.
People don't like getting tickets (no, that's not the new fact) but they remember the tickets they get and where and why. The memories serve as invisible silent reminders forevermore. Warnings tend to get dismissed by the brain and the deed is oft repeated.
People tend to fear the murderer when they should be afraid of the inattentive "honest citizen" motorist. According to the stats, they're the ones doing the majority of the maiming and killing in Utah County.
Let's make that perfectly clear: The Bob Moore advertised on the Consolidated Realty sign posted on the old Signetics lot is not the Bob Moore who works in development services for Orem City.
Apparently more than a few folks have found the sign advertising "Pads available" a conflict of interest for a guy who has input into the decisions made every day that affect real estate and developers.
We checked with Moore, who said, "The name's mine but it isn't me!"
Hair ball: Seen on the window of a Provo hair salon, "Life's a bleach and then you dye."
License plate o' the week: "IFXSMLES" An orthodontist perhaps? Maybe a plastic surgeon.