Springville Times 01/04/19

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JANUARY 04 - 10, 2019

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VOLUME 4 ISSUE 1

SPORTS

ENTERTAINMENT Movie Review: ‘Vice’ ....see page 7

Kids experience nature at Camp Turner’s Wintercamp ....see page 2

Springville mayor reflects on 2018, looking forward to 2019

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Host SGI girls win Emerlind Holiday tournament ....see page 10

New Year on the slopes

Photo by Kellen M. Quigley At the end of December, Springville Mayor William Krebs sat down with the Springville Times to discuss how 2018 was for the village and what to look forward to in 2019.

By Kellen M. Quigley With the new year officially here, the village of Springville is ready for a productive and exciting 2019. But while there’s plenty in the works for the upcoming months, 2018

was an important year for the community with projects from both civic and cultural groups paving the way for a bigger and better Springville. “As far as the village government goes, we See Looking Forward page 2

Photo by Alex Simmons Decked out in matching winter gear, two girls celebrate the new year by hitting the slopes at Kissing Bridge on the first day of 2019. Gallery continued on page 4.

Wishing all a happy and healthy 2019 By Kellen M. Quigley

planted. In ancient Rome, the With the new year reform-minded emperor now underway, we at the Julius Caesar tinkered with Springville Times offer the calendar and established wishes to all for a happy Jan. 1 as the beginning of and healthy 2019. the new year circa 46 B.C. No doubt many of us Named for Janus, the have made resolutions to two-faced god whose spirit improve something in our inhabited doorways and lives, as the New Year’s arches, January had special tradition goes. significance for the Romans. Although we have pretty Believing that Janus set traditions in the United symbolically looked back States on how to ring in the into the previous year and new year, the global history ahead into the future, the of the annual celebration is Romans offered sacrifices to a fascinating one. the deity and made promises The ancient Babylonians of ethical conduct for the are said to have been the coming year. first people to make New In ancient Persia, the Year’s resolutions, some natives traditionally 4,000 years ago. gave New Year's gifts of According to History. eggs, which symbolized com, they were also the productiveness. first to hold recorded For early Christians, the celebrations in honor of first day of the new year the new year — though became the traditional for them the year began occasion for thinking about not in January but midone’s past mistakes and March when the crops were resolving to do and be better

renaming of Longacre Square to Times Square. The celebration involved a street festival that lasted all day, which ended in a show of fireworks. More than 200,000 people were in attendance. A few years later,

the first ball dropping celebration atop One Times Square was held on Dec. 31, 1907. In 1942 and 1943, the ball lowering was suspended due to the wartime dimout. The crowds who still gathered

in Times Square celebrated with a minute of silence followed by chimes ringing out from an amplifier truck parked at One Times Square. The original New Year's

See 2019 page 6

The Ferrin Harness Shops BY JOLENE HAWKINS

Looking back to the days when you could hear the jingling of harnesses and the clopping of the team of horses, and the creak of the carriage or wagon behind them, as they drove down Main Street. Like cars, the street would have many wagons, as well as horses … so, what happened when the horse needed new shoes or the reins came loose from the bit, or a wheel needed to be replaced or the wagon repaired? You would take it to your local blacksmith shop for repair. We had a shop in town that was still in operation in 1957, and that was Fred Ferrin Harness Shop. A blacksmith/harness shop was to horses and buggy what a garage is today to the automobile. In 1871, Clark Ferrin (Fred’s father) went into partnership with A.W. Blackmor. Clark eventually purchased full ownership of the

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Brendan Esposito/AAP Image via AP Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour during the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Sydney, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018. The event is one of the biggest celebrations to ring in the new year, as well as one of the first to occur just a couple hours from the International Date Line.

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in the future. In 1740, the English clergyman John Wesley, founder of Methodism, created the Covenant Renewal Service, most commonly held on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. Also known as watch night services, they included readings from Scriptures and hymn singing and served as a spiritual alternative to the raucous celebrations usually held to celebrate the coming of the new year. For millions of Americans, the new year is celebrated by watching the ball drop at Times Square in New York City. The first rooftop celebration atop One Times Square took place in 1904 and was produced by The New York Times to inaugurate their new headquarters in Times Square and celebrate the

shop, but had a rather turbulent history to his shop as in the fact that it seems to have bad luck follow it. At three separate times the harness shop caught fire. The first time in 1879 was when the Opera House, along with half a block on one side of the street, was burned. Back then, most businesses shared a common wall, which made the fire spread from one to another store fast, making it hard to put out. An amusing anecdote of the conflagration occurred as Fred, who was only two years old at the time, was tossed prayerfully on a pillow from the upstairs window where they lived of the building where the harness shop was to the ground below for his safety. Most of the contents of the harness shop and residence were saved. Clark Ferrin was able to collect $500 for the building and $200 for the stock that was a loss from the insurance company, Aetna. See A Look Back page 5

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