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Show BUILDING COMMUNITY IN OREM AND VINEYARD Uremic . THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2007 50 CENTS 3 f UUMpjnVl'MlP EDITION BUSINESS: Kids look great in like-new clothing TOWfJ HALL: New UVSC library right on target SPORTS: UVSC's Nelson wins Utah State Am 5lp Schools D1N0SM0RZZZ KEEPING COUNTY KIDS AWAKE Alternate pesticide sparing produce Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFF Orem residents in neighborhoods being treated to wipe out a Japanese beetle infestation now have an option to casting their home garden produce into the garbage bin this summer. The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, the state agency administering the three-year, $400,OO0-per-year pesticide spraying program to eradicate the beetle in Orem, has made available upon request an optional pesticide for produce, said department spokesman Larry Lewis. Known under its commercial name Sevin, or by its trade name Carbryl, the commonly used pesticide can be applied to harvested vegetables and fruit and nut trees. After a specified waiting period, usually 3 to 7 days, the produce can be consumed. Though not as long lasting or effective at killing beetles as the Merit pesticide being sprayed on turf and foliage in the 10-block by 10-block area of west -central Orem by See PESTICIDE, Page 2 f Folks in beetle treatment areas get fresh veggies Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFF Thanks to an unlikely coalition coali-tion comprised of inmates from the Utah County Jail, a Provo food bank, and Orem neighborhood volunteers and gardeners, residents in the city's Japanese beetle treatment area who depend on home gardens to feed their families won't go hungry. The city was alerted to the problem of the beetles last August and this summer crews have been spraying pesticides to eradicate the destructive pests. Yet concerns were raised by residents who depend on their home gardens for sustenance when state agriculture ag-riculture officials asked people living in the treatment area to discontinue vegetable gardens for the next few years. Qty officials including Joyce Johnson, John-son, director of Orem's Neighborhoods Neighbor-hoods in Action organization, immedt ately went to work looking at options to furnish residents with access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Their solution Orem's Share the Harvest program which distributes the items through the Community Action Services Food Bank in Provo. Generous contributions to the community commu-nity cornucopia are also being made through the inmates' garden at the Utah County Jail and ordinary Orem residents who simply have extra garden gar-den items to share. See HARVEST, Page 2 fit-- -: f MICHAEL RIGERTNorth County Bill Rouse is the Lakeview-area chairman of Orem's Neighborhoods in Action organization. Oire to mm etecttkMi Reva Bowen NHUIHOIJNIYSIAII With a field of 13 candidates competing for three four-year term City Council seats, Orem will have a municipal primary election on Sept. 11 this year. Those filing to run by Monday's deadline included: Margaret Black, Steve Hemingway, Heming-way, Carl Hernandez, Duane Jacobs, Edward Lalone, Ron McDonald, Mark Seastrand, Tom Fifita Sitake, Brent Sumner, Derek Whetten, Michael Whimpey, Gary Wise, and Dan Wright. The three open seats are those currently held by Black, Seastrand, and Les Campbell. Campbell Camp-bell is finishing out a second four-year term and opted not to run for reelection. In confirming his decision to the Orem Times in June, Campbell said, "1 do not consider myself my-self to be irreplaceable. There are many, many good people in this community who could do service to the community as a City Council member, and I would hope that we would have lots and lots of applicants." Seastrand and Black both came to their positions posi-tions by appointment of the City Council. Seastrand Seast-rand was designated to fill the seat held by the late Doug Forsyth, who died in December of 2005, and Black was chosen in January of this year to take the place of Stephen Sandstrom, who was elected to the state legislature. The voting methods for September's primary and the general election Nov. 6 will be different, differ-ent, said Orem city recorder Donna Weaver. For the primary, the system will be paper ballots with a centralized optical scan count. However, the final election will be conducted See PRIMARY, Page 2 LomniunityBnefing VINEYARD ELECTION - Candidates have filed in Vineyard and its time to get ready for the election. Two council seats are up for election, and four people have filed their candidacy candi-dacy for the positions. Nathan Riley and Sean Fernandez, who both hold council seats right now, have both filed to rerun for their positions. posi-tions. Tyler Bergen and Melanie Dean have also filed as candidates for the council seats. There will be no primary election for Vineyard, but there will be a general election on Nov. 6. OREM CHILD KILLED IN CAR BACKING ACCIDENT - A 23-year old Orem boy was killed Sunday afternoon after-noon when his mother inadvertently backed a car into him. Elliot Gonzalez-Cejudo was on the sidewalk near the family's residence at 62 E. 300 North when his mother was backing the car up on the street at 12:26 as the family was preparing to leave for church. Orem police Lt. Doug Edwards said the car's driver-side door was open and door knocked the little boy underneath under-neath the car. Meaning to press the brake, the mother mistakenly stepped on the gas pedal when she saw her son. His parents par-ents rushed him to Orem Community Hospital where he was pronounced dead. OREM MAN, 94 YEARS OF AGE, ESCAPES HOUSE FIRE - Trying to cook a frozen dinner in his microwave, Leslie Healy escaped unarmed Tuesday morning after a fire started in his home. Healy saw smoke coming from his bathroom bath-room and ran to a neighbor's home. Lt. Doug Edwards of Orem's Public Safety Department said the direct cause of the fire is still under investigation but indicated that the bathroom and the microwave share a wall. Damage to the home is estimated at $30,000-40,000. CUNIC BEING RENAMED IN HONOR HON-OR OF OREM MAN - Intermountain Healthcare renamed the Utah Valley Family Medicine Center, 475 W. 940 North, Provo, on Wednesday in honor of Orem resident and developer Merrill Gappmayer. A volunteer trustee for IHC for more than 30 years and a nationally recognized recog-nized health care advocate, Gappmayer has labored for the past three decades to ensure excellent health care not only in Utah Valley but throughout the nation. na-tion. He was recognized as Modern Healthcare magazine's National Trustee of the Year Award in 1996 and given the II 'Xtf-'Kn- ' Ji ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald Leslie Healy, 93, center comforts his daughter and other friends and family after his house caught on fire Tuesday. American Hospital Association's National Na-tional Trustee of the Year Award in 2005. HONORING THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE WWII EXHIBIT AT OREM PUBUC LIBRARY - The summer exhibit of Orem veterans who served in uniform during World War II and their loved ones who supported them on the home front wraps up July 20 and 27. On Friday, July 20, at 7 p.m., media expert Dave Koralewski will present "Music of the 1940s" as he takes patrons pa-trons back to the days of the Glenn Miller Mill-er Band and Bing Crosby. The presentation presenta-tion will be in the media auditorium in the library's north wing basement. On Friday, July 27, at 7 p.m. a free screening of Brigham Young University's Univer-sity's "Saints at War" will also be pre sented in the media auditorium. VINEYARD LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTRACT - Mayor Randy Farn-worth Farn-worth said that the town has come to a handshake agreement with the Utah County Sheriff's Office for its police services. The agreement entails patrol services, ser-vices, collecting revenue off tickets given at the lake, having a sheriff's representative meet with Vineyard at its town meetings, and having 911 calls go through county dispatchers, who will then relay emergency calls to Orem. EARLY DEADLINES - The deadline for turning in wedding, anniversary, missionary and other celebrations for publication on July 26 in the North County Newspapers is Friday at 3 p.m. Early deadline for public notices will be Monday at 10 a.m.; for obituaries and classified ads it is Monday at 11 a.m. Celebrations may be submitted via e-mail e-mail at jesplin' heraldextra.com. 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