Pleasant Grove Strawberry Days June 12-18, 2011
Lifelong Pleasant Grove couple named Grand Marshals By Angie Walker, Timpanogos Times Paul and Lee Ann Schoonover are very excited and honored to be the Grand Marshals for Strawberry Days 2011. They have always been proud to call Pleasant Grove their home. Lee Ann grew up in Lindon going to Pleasant Grove High School where she was a cheerleader and homecoming queen, graduating in 1966. For years Lee Ann helped with the Strawberry Days Rodeo Queen Pageant and the Strawberry Days Pageant. She was in charge of the tea, a hostess and in charge of advertisement and publicity. She had the opportunity of taking the royalty to different cities council meetings, to radio stations such as KSOP, to the governor’s office and to the Church Office Building of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where they met then-President Gordon B. Hinckley. Each of them took him a case of strawberries. The Strawberry Days Parade was always a highlight at the Schoonover home. Lee Ann would make her family matching shirts for the parade. Paul was always a good sport even when he had to wear a shirt with big red strawberries and a huge collar! For more than 20 years, Lee Ann taught city tennis lessons and was the tennis coach at the Pleasant Grove Junior High School and at Pleasant Grove High. She loved every minute! She has always been a huge support to Paul, who for most of their marriage has had three jobs. Paul grew up in Pleasant Grove. His family owned all the property where Pleasant Grove High School sits and the Alpine School District purchased it from them. Growing up he remembers going down to the Strawberry Days Monte Young Carnival. He and some buddies would ask for a job helping at the carnival and they would get paid with firecrackers instead of money. He remembers that the rides were a nickel, you could play the Crane Game for a nickel, possibly winning silver dollars, and he also remembers winning live ducks if you threw a nickel in a bottle. Paul graduated from Pleasant Grove High in 1965 where he played tennis, golf and baseball. As seniors they were in charge of white washing the “G� on the mountainside. Paul is currently teaching fifth grade at Valley View Elementary School. He has been teaching for 36 years. For 20 years Paul taught city summer tennis lessons and was the boys’ tennis coach at the high school. He was over the Utah County Tennis
Paul and Lee Ann Schoonover are 2011’s Grand Marshals for Pleasant Grove Strawberry Days.
Association and Youth League. He and Lee Ann started the Strawberry Days Tennis Tournament. In the late 1970s, Paul was in charge of the city basketball programs. For 31 years he was over the Bantum League for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders. He supervised and referred thousands of men’s basketball games while Lee Ann and the kids kept score and time. In the early 1980s Paul took over the City Flag
Football program, which he organized and ran for 25 years. He operated three concession stands, employing many local kids. For 25 years he prepared all the city baseball fields including the Little League, Pony League, softball and high school baseball fields. He has influenced thousands of kids through the years, teaching not only a trade but life lessons along the way.
Look inside for a full schedule of events for this year’s festival
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