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Show IT 'H - j- 1 The Springville High School Swim Team are ready for their region competition next week and the state championship meet Feb. 11 and 12. Both the boys and girls teams have done well this year and pian to bring home lots of trophies. Members of the team are, front, left to right: Shilo Morgan, Carrie Ray- Noel, Jessica Marett, Emily Ivie, Lacy Dallimore, Emily Bird, Volume One Hundred Five Ten stores in Springville had their beer licenses reinstated at a special city council meeting Thursday evening. The businesses business-es were 10 of 13 that failed a compliance check in December. Springville police routinely send in decoys-persons under age 21 -to purchase beer, but in the past only one or two have failed the check by selling beer to a minor. So when ten sold, measures mea-sures had to be taken to stop it. In a second sting operation, two of those ten sold again. Those who sold beer to minors mi-nors were employees at two of the Maverick stores, the Circle C Top Stop, Allen's Super Save ) " i 4 An I J t II 'l x i f ' if t " t ' r 5 . . 4 A- ) This sculpture by Springville artist Gary Price will grace two monuments that are being erected in Iceland to remember those Icelandic pecp'e who joined the LDS Church and immigrated to Speuish Fork. The Icelandic Association in Spanish Fork are donating the statnes that win be placed at the spot where many of the immigrants were baptized and at the aew Icelandic Immigration Center being built by the government there. The dedications will take place this summer. 4 t 4 f V 1 it Market, Maxi Mart Texaco, Quick Stop, Brookside Gas, Kicks 66, Chevron on North Main and Chevron West. The ten stores were given 60 days to provide the city recorder with a copy of their alcoholtobacco alco-holtobacco selling policy that they give to employees, pay a $300 fee, provide a copy of their training program certified by the police and provide evidence that their employees have been trained in an approved program or they will Jose their licenses again. The employee who sold beer to a minor at each of the ten stores has to appear in court and w miw1 P'O r - ' Jp.-f: 2 .CBT. gjQj CJ CJSQj, M w k) w "; s Kirsten Frossard and Heather jDodson. Row two: Scott Hamil- ton, Andrea Deming, Kieren rothero, Katerina Workman, Holly Soares, Natalie Miles, aylee Charlton, Rachel Snow, Hillary Dellamas, Tammy Launtzen and Ken Clark. Row three: Reed Davis, Trent Clifton, Melissa Thompson, Renee Horschou- er, Heidi Soares, Ashley Taylor Jenny Augustus, Carol Call aud SPRINGVILLE, UTAH pay a fine. The businesses lost their licenses for a few days and could not sell beer. Several of the business owners were upset because of their loss of revenue during that time. Council members had to remind them that the issue was selling beer to minors not loss ofjeve-nue. ofjeve-nue. Other owners were glad for the compliance check because it impressed upon their employees the seriousness of the offense. Some of the stores already use special software that requires entering the birthdate of the buyer. Some fired the employee who sold to the undercover minor. mi-nor. Others removed beer advertisements adver-tisements from their windows. The owner of the Chevron on North Main talked about starting a pay bonus of $250 for those employees who do not sell beer to minors. Members of the city council are talking about tightening the beer ordinance. They already J. Brent Haymond of Springville Spring-ville is a former mayor of this community and former member of the Utah House of Representatives. Representa-tives. He holds another title that is unique. He is the Vice Consul of Iceland. Brent's grandmother, Jonina Gudmundsdottir, came from Iceland to Utah in 1886 after joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was part of the original 371 immigrants who came between 1855 and 1914 and setded in Spanish Fork. Because of his Icelandic heritage, Haymond was appointed to be the honorary consul in December of 1996 to handle all the affairs of the Icelandic Ice-landic government in the mountain moun-tain states. The emigrants came from the southwest part of Iceland and from the Westman Islands and were the only people who left Iceland because of religious reasons. Twenty-percent of the Icelandic population emigrated to North America because of lack of food and economics during the same period of time. All of those people and their progenitors will be honored in Iceland with the building of a Historical Village, known as the Icelandic Emigration Center at Hofsos, Iceland. The purpose of the center is to preserve a living image of Iceland at the time of the major emigrations to North America and to honor the Mormon Mor-mon immigrants who settled in Spanish Fork. The government of Iceland a: - 1 84663 - January 1 9, 2000 voted to do away with selling at' the drive-up windows at businesses. business-es. They now feel that persons as young as 16 should not be selling alcohol. The three businesses who passed the compliance check and Volunteers needed at Art Museum The Springville Museum of Art is seeking volunteers to help at the reception desk of the museum. muse-um. A particular need is for Sundays from 3 to 6 p.m. The volunteer would help by answering answer-ing phone calls and being at the reception desk helping direct visiting patrons to galleries and concerts in the museum. If interested, inter-ested, please ca!l the museum at 489-2727. will spend $1 million over a five-year five-year period to fund the development develop-ment of the Icelandic Emigration Center. In the first year, $200,-000 $200,-000 will be allocated to build a Mormon museum that will tell of the events of their conversion and what lead to the emigration to Utah, along with displays on the early experiences in Spanish Fork and the Icelandic families of today. A genealogical center will also be part of the Mormon Museum. It will be a clearing house for information and family records for North Americans seeking their roots in Iceland and also for Icelanders seeking their relatives in North America. The genealogy research center will include an Icelandic genealogical genea-logical web site, using the Utah Icelandic data base of 135,000 names, to be added to by input from Icelanders all over the world. When Brent Haymond was notified that the Icelandic government govern-ment had approved the museum, he and members of the Utah Icelandic Association, based in Spanish Fork, got busy on their part of ihe project, that of placing two monuments in Iceland honoring honor-ing their ancestors. Ttey commissioned com-missioned Springville sculptor Gary Price to do two identical sculptures, "Messenger," to be placed on large pedestals at two locations in Iceland. The bronze sculpture features an angel that is seven feet in height and was created by Price in memory of bis mother. The 5 iS GSQr. C3Ji " r- t t - fl-. , ,-r C fcr SBK fc Wesley Johnson. Row four: Coach Anber Knecht, Rob Merrill, Alan Buzbee, Tanner Folster, Coach Summer Folster, Rasty Snow, Matt Walser, Nick Augustus and Assistant Christy Buzbee. Not pictured are Sierra Skabelund, Colter Griffel and Andrew Nielsen. Price 50i did not sell beer to minors are Reams Market, Flying J Truck Stop and 7-Eleven. Chevron Mapleton Youth Council needs new members Mapleton City is seeking youth, 9th thru 12th grades, to serve on the 2000 Youth Council. Cou-ncil. Applications can be picked up at the Mapleton City Offices, 8:30 to 5 p.m., the counseling centers at the jr. high and high school. Applications Applica-tions need to be completed and turned into the Mapleton City Office in a sealed envelope by Monday, January 31, 2000 at 5 p.m. The council meets twice a month to plan service activities, activi-ties, such as working with the Springville Youth Council on ' angel will stand on top of a monument mon-ument that will have the following follow-ing inscription: "And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm...." Ezekiel 20:34, along with the names of the 371 who immigrated. On June 28, 2000 one of the monuments will be dedicated on Westman Island near Heimaey. This is where many Icelanders lived and were converted to the LDS Church. It was also the gathering place for their departure depar-ture to Utah. The monument will be on a hill overlooking the ocean, a beautiful golf course and a pond where many were baptized. bap-tized. Then on July 2, the first ever LDS Chapel in Iceland will be dedicated. And on July 5, the museum at Hofsos will be dedicated dedi-cated along with the second "Messenger" monument. David Ashby, president of the Icelandic Association, and Lil Shephard, past-president, have been working for three years to strengthen the Utah Icelander's ties with the country and complete com-plete this millennium project. They will lead a tour group of 60 people from Utah to participate in the celebration. It all started with the 1997 visit of Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson to Spanish Fork. He said while he was here, "We are all Icelanders no matter where we live on earth." He also acknowledged some of the negative nega-tive events that happened during wmmmmm '"77 4 T3 yf "c1 r - , V i . Number Three Sunroc (formerly Utah Service) does not sell alcohol in their convenience store. the Art City Days Parade, sponsoring a Make-A-DitTer-ence Day project, helping out with the Pioneer Days celebration celebra-tion and city library, to mention men-tion a few. Council members go to city council meetings to observe how the city government govern-ment is run. Being on the council gives good experience in leadership and taking responsibility. re-sponsibility. The council position is for one year. Any questions you might have should be directed to Mrs. Robyn Card, advisor, at 489-6123 after 5 p.m. the time that the 371 Icelanders emigrated to Utah and asked for forgiveness. Since Grimsson's visit, there has been a flurry of activity and people coming to Utah from Iceland wanting to know about those who settled Spanish Fork-and Fork-and why Utah? Because of the Icelandic Association's Asso-ciation's efforts with the people in Iceland and their friendship with President Grimsson and Prime Minister David Oddsson, the government there decided to build the museum and genealogical genealogi-cal research center to tell the story of the Mormon emigrants. "The LDS Church wil! give professional support so that the history that has been preserved by the association will be present-. ed in correct form and in a pro-, fessional manner," said Hay-' mond. For over 50 years, the Genea-' logical Department of the LDS Church. Icelandic Section, in Salt Lake City researched and accu-'. mulated over 40,000 family", group sheets. For the past four years, Bliss Anderson has linked the names together. Anyone who has a family in the database could be linked back as far as 34 generations, gener-ations, which is A. D. 700. According to Haymond, the association wants to also set up an Icelandic Museum in Spanish Fork to house an exhibition of Icelandic history similar to the exhibit thai will be in Iceland. They are seeking donations for this project. DR COPY |