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Show Volume Ninety-two Springville City will commemorate com-memorate Arbor Day this Friday at 1:15 p.m. with a program to be held at the Sage Creek Elementary School. The city and the Springville Shade Tree Commission have long been very active in preserving trees and planting new ones within our community and this year at the Arbor Day ceremonies the city will be presented with the eighth Tree City USA Award. Mayor Ken Creer will accept this award for the city. The public is invited to the program Friday. Councilman Pete Roundy will conduct it and Nebo School Board member Bonnie Palmer will give the invocation. Two musical numbers will be given by the students at the Sage Creek School. One of the teachers at the school has written words and music for an Arbor Day song that will be sung. A tree has been donated to the Mapleton to get new zip code number Van H. Washburn, Springville postmaster, has received information in-formation on two projects concerning con-cerning this local postal area, one on a zip code change and one on the location of the new post office. After several requests over the past few years, the postal service has approved a separate zip code for Mapleton City. Starting on July 1, 1987, Mapleton will change from having the same zip code as Springville. The new number for Mapleton will be 84664. This change, after it is fully implemented by local and national mailers, will result in better service and fewer errors in delivery of the mail to Mapleton residents. Notice has been received that the postal service has purchased the former Lincoln School property and Art City Chamber Choir concert tonight The Art City Chamber Choir will sing its annual spring concert tonight, Wednesday, April 22, at 8 p.m. at the Springville Art Museum. Featured new work will be the Laudate Dominum by Mozart. Soloist in this exquisite work from the Solemn Vespers will be Doreen Kurr of Ephraim, Utah. Miss Kurr is no stranger to Springville audiences as she has performed frequently on the museum concert series. Additional works, include favorites of the choir including Sibelius' On Great Lone Hills, Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine, and Rutter's Gaelic Blessing. The opening work will be the Missa Brevis by J. S. Bach. This piece, which will be performed with strings and flutes, is being repeated from last years spring concert. The concert lasts only an hour and would be suitable for children over eight. school by the city and will be featured on the program. The speaker will be Jeri Winger. Mrs. Winger is the past International In-ternational President of the Federated Women's Clubs and a Springville native. She is presently working with Utah State University in their Community Progress pregram in the state. She will talk to the students about how valuable trees are, : ' ,J v - . . After the program at the school, those wishing to will go to the Evergreen Cemetery where the Juniper trees there will be dedicated as a Heritage Tree Grove. The Juniper trees in the cemetery were found here when the pioneers came in 1850. There are 126 of them remaining in the cemetery and most are over 25 feet tall. A plaque will be placed at the spot naming it a "Pioneer Native Juniper Grove". The Heritage Tree Program has been going on in Springville for it will be the site of the new Springville Post Office. It is anticipated an-ticipated that construction will start late this summer and be completed in the spring of 1989. This should be a good location for the new post office, according to Washburn. It is centrally located and close to the city offices and other businesses. It is on the east side of Main Street which makes it convenient con-venient for the majority of Springville residents. The new building will have many more customer lock boxes, especially of larger sizes to accomodate ac-comodate businesses. There will also be on site parking for customers and employees. And there will be an on site drive-through lane with mail collection boxes on the driver's side. Doreen Kurr 'i , i SPRINGVILLE, UTAH 84663 - April 22, 1987 several years. It was the Springville Shade Tree Commission, under the direction of Margaret Conover, . chairman, who initiated the Heritage Tree Bill in the Utah Legislature. Since that time 13 trees in the city have been named Heritage Trees. "We need more trees in our cities to lend beauty and serenity to our daily "lives," said Stuart Udall, former Secretary of the Interior and National Arbor Day Foundation Honorary Trustee. Jeri Winger Arbor Day program set in Alapfefon Arbor Day will be celebrated in Mapleton on Friday, April 24 with a special program to be held at the Mapleton City School according to Orpha Dee Johnson, Mapleton Shade Tree Commission chairman. The public is invited to the festivities at 1 p.m. at the school. At that time students will sing and present a reading of "Trees of the Fragrant Forest." Two trees will be planted, a Freedom Tree and a Liberty Tree, in commemoration of the constitution. A copy of the Bill of Rights will be presented to the school and prizes will be awarded to third grade students who are the winners of the poster contest on trees. Central Bank is offering the prizes. Chamber April luncheon set The April Chamber of Commerce luncheon will be held on Thursday, April 30, at 12 noon at the Mountain Springs Travel Center. The speaker for the event will be Charlie Thompson from the Fish and Game. Mr. Thompson will be talking about the Strawberry Reservoir and will tell about the plans they have for the future of the lake. Reservations can be made by calling Sandra at 489-4681. "1 L.jf, u i , '- f hi - ,f":": r F ' , f - I I r ; ( 1 t?x- ' h-' 4 v " ' r . l'- if h . . . , ' i I r.r- vr ; - A J" , ':- r, k; , r (':.f r if J 4 . These little ones and scores of other kids turned out Christmas this year when they woke up Sunday Saturday for the Rotary Club's Annual Easter Egg morning to a snow storm and four inches of the white Hunt at the Springville High School. 9,600 candy eggs stuff on the ground! After temperatures in the 80's on plus prizes were hidden for the youngsters to find. Friday, the return of winter was not welcome. Local residents wondered if Easter got mixed up with Photo by Charles Lowery SttS graduate, college dean to speak at annuof art meeting The annual meeting of the members of the Springville Museum of Art will be held on Saturday, April 25, at 7 p.m. at the art museum. The public is invited to attend and hear the speaker for the evening James A. Mason, Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications at Brigham Young University. A highlight of the evening will be the presentation of a painting to the museum by the Mack Whitney family to note the 50th anniversary of the building of the museum building. Mack Whitney was the superintendent of construction when the building was built and his children chose to remember him through this generous donation to the permanent collection at the museum. The annual report of the happenings hap-penings of the past year at the museum will be given by Art Board President LouGene Carter and the 1987 Art Queen and her attendants will unviel the April Salon purchase painting. Refreshments will be served. Results of the elections for two positions on the Art Board of Trustees will be announced that evening. Running for those seats are Yvonne Johnson, Grant Richins, John Jacobson and Bruce Smith. Mr. James Mason is former chairman of the Music Department at B YU and since his appointment as dean he served as the national president of the Music Educators National Conference in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Springville High School and received his bachelor and master degrees from Brigham Young University and his Price 50' i doctoral degree from Arizona State University. He has served as a consultant and clinician throughout the United States and has been visiting professor at Indiana University, Northwestern University, Univer-sity, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory, College-Conservatory, and the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Mason has been active in the International Fine Arts Deans Council and the International Society of Music Education. In 1980, he delivered a keynote address in Warsaw at the ISME Conference. He has also lectured at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. During the past two decades, he has worked with a number of national committees in developing more effective programs in music. These have included White House Conferences, Comprehensive Musicianship Programs, the Manhattanville Music Curriculum Project, and the National Assessment for Educational Progress. Dr. Mason was the chairman for the "National Symposium Sym-posium on the Applications of Psychology to the Teaching and Learning of Music." He has served as editor of The Instrumentalist magazine, Orchestra Or-chestra News, and the "Research News" column of the journal of Research in Music Education. He was the co-founder and first president of the Utah Valley Symphony Sym-phony Orchestra and former conductor con-ductor of the Utah Valley Youth Orchestra. In addition to his many assignments, assign-ments, he has served on the board of Directors of the National Music Council in New York City, the Number Sixteen r a i f If (t '" Executive Committee of the Music Educators National Conference in Washington, D.C, the American Music Conference in Chicago, and the Presser Foundation in Philadelphia. He presently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition. During the past several years Dean Mason has devoted much effort to launching a major fund-raising fund-raising effort for a BYU Museum ot Fine Arts that he recently announced an-nounced at President's Club meeting. James A. 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