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Show 'TTTTTTTTTTTT WWW WW Page 2 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Thursday, February 16, 2006 NEWS AND NOTES 0 1 BreeAnn Miller, rf American Fork, Miss Teen Barbara Christiansen lint-Ann Miller knows alxwt (halite. So murh so. in fact, that slie is working to help other teenagers teenag-ers adapt to changes they may I' facing. She lias tx-cn named Miss Teen American Fork International, Intern-ational, based on an essay she submitted called "Divorce and Blended Families You're Not Alone." BreeAnn will represent the city in the Miss Teen Utah International In-ternational Pageant at Skyline High School May 13. She chose "You're Not Alone" as her platform. "I feel very passionate about this subject because my parents par-ents divorced six years ago." she said. "The changes that I faced were very difficult. I want to share with other children chil-dren of divorce and blended families my feelings and experiences. ex-periences. I would like to let them know that it's OK to be different and that it's not their fault." NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS ' 3Y) E State St Pieavnt Grove Kirk Parkinson 756 7G69 I kv PrevdP't 'Pijblsher trvuKmsoetf' her a'ckMtacom Marc Haddock ?bc:mo Ni7h G;'Y Edtor mh,Moc aeaioxxtra com Cathy Allred 756 7669 Lehi. Samiga Spnngs. PI Grove caU'edSherakJextra com Barbara Christiansen 756-7669 American Fork. Alpine, Cedar Hi,"s bcrinstiansenheraideMra com Chris Peterson 344 2556 Orem, Vineyard cpeterson0hefaldetra com Beky Beaton 756 7669 Spots bbeaton8heraldextra com i.vriiwnixisigsgga Lane Dubois 756-7669 Advertising Account E tecvtrve. lduboisSheayextta com NEWSSTAND PRICE: $0.50 SUBSCRIPTION RATE 1 yar (in Utah County) - $46 80. Sunday, Thursday and holiday delrvenes (which includes the week of Easter plus Memorial, Independence Pioneer Labor, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day). 1 yearloutsxk Utah County) - SS 20 I yar (in Utah County - Thursday only) - $10 40 UW1M0(1SSW . Wicmv, Wjr.f!rt uar 8003 TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED r s I fius entered (ie Miss 7'een International competition. American Fork helps kids cope with divorce BreeAnn was 12 when her parents divorced. She went from being in a traditional family fam-ily to being with a single mother raising five children and visits with her father every other weekend. She moved to a new city (American Fork) and a new school, and had to leave good friends behind. "It was hard on the kids and I decided to do it so that other kids wouldn't feel as alone and could cope," she said. BreeAnn has suggestions for children, parents and acquaintances to help those through the trials. She has gone to an orientation orienta-tion in Sandy where she met the other contestants. They will all participate in the St. Patrick's Day parade at the Gateway Mall on March 18. BreeAnn is working as a nanny and attending East Shore High School in Orem, from which she is will graduate gradu-ate soon. She will go on to cosmetology school in West Jordan. She is considering going go-ing to college to study psychology psychol-ogy and may become a child counselor. Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILY HERALD PUBLiaaiMo oo. Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager Chris Peterson 344 2556 OesignerCopy Editor Casey Rogers 344 2570 DesynerCopy Editor Rachel Rybicki 344 -2558 Des'gnerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344 2545 Photographer 1 At the pageant, she will compete com-pete in several categories. Forty percent of the points come from an interview, her essay and platform; 20 percent from fun fashion wear, 20 from aerobic fitness wear, and 20 percent for grace, poise and elegance in formal wear. When she's not studying, being be-ing a nanny, or preparing for the competition, she may be found learning to snowboard. She has also enjoyed dance, including in-cluding jazz, ballet and tap. CI W NOTES I Irrigation water for rent American Fork City is again renting irrigation water. The cost is $20 per share for the full 2006 season for American Ameri-can Fork water. For Pleasant Grove water, the price Ls S25 per share. There will also be an additional addition-al $3 notice fee per person on the first share rented for each location. Those interested in renting the water shares should come to Valentines " or Valentine's Day, I , j gave my wife a box of her favorite choco- ! lates and the new II f Divo CD. 1 I got a ladder. Actually, the ladder was a most thoughtful gift, since I suffer from acrophobia ac-rophobia a fear of heights. Actually, we are supposed to be afraid of high places. That, and a fear of noises, are the two fears that are considered natural natu-ral and necessary. But acrophobia takes that fear to the next level, where you are so afraid of high places that you basically stop functioning. While a normal fear of high places is good acrophobia just makes things worse. And it can be experiences almost any place that's high. Like in a skyscraper where you have no chance of falling, or watching "King Kong," where the giant gorilla has a great chance of falling, but you are well grounded in a theater seat. Sharon loves to tease me about my condition. When we were in Las Vegas once, she took me to the Stratosphere tower, all the way to the top, and then dared me to ride the Big Shot, which is just like Lagoon's Rocket, only it starts on the top of the Stratosphere, so you are really high before you let this ride shoot you skyward at 45 miles per hour. Heck, I got weak knees in the observation deck. So she used my ticket as well as hers to take two rides. Bully for her, I say. I just don't do that because, be-cause, well, it just doesn't look fua 'Nuff said. She also teases me because I avoid the roof of the house. That's not because I'm chicken, but our roof has a very steep pitch well beyond the tolerance of most human beings, if you ask me. And I'm not going up there, even if it means having to pay people to prep our swamp cooler every spring and put it to bed every falL Better them than me, I say. A lot of people get hurt hanging Christmas lights. I think a guy in Salt Lake even died late fir 7 the city administrative offices, 51 E. Main Street, until March 17. They should know who they take the water from and who takes it from them. I Family History open house and fireside The American Fork Family History Center will have an open house Feb. 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and a fireside Feb. 19, at 6 p.m. The open house will be at the Alpine Tabernacle, 110 E. Main. Classes include Organization and research logs, the latest in British research, tools for family fam-ily history questions, family history consultants, immigration, immigra-tion, writing life histories, Scottish Scot-tish research, Scandinavian research, re-search, Ancestry.com and PAF insight. At the Sunday evening fireside, Scott R. Woodward will speak. It will be at 6 p.m. at the American Fork West LDS Stake, 688 W. 500 North. Woodward is the chief scientific sci-entific officer for the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation Founda-tion and the Principal Investigator Investiga-tor for the Molecular Genealogy Research Project. ladder eases big fear - it Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN ing until the pressure to hang lights became greater than my sense of self preservation. preserva-tion. As it was, I was teetering on the brink of disaster, often leaning against the building for stability when the ladder started to shift. Last year, that was the middle of December. It was a little late, but I figure if they are up by Dec. 24, that's what is important. And then I let them hang. All through January and into February, I resisted the urge to bring them down because I didn't want to die. But that was fixed Saturday when Sharon bought me a new ladder. It wasn't a Little Giant ladder, which will run you more than $300 even though there shouldn't be any shipping charge since they are made in Springville. Someone's got to pay for the television ads. When you only use a ladder twice a year $300 is a bundle. But it's sturdy, and it adjusts in many nifty ways, and it's a pretty neat toy. So the first thing I did was play with the ladder and then take down the lights. Now it's safely stored in the garage, waiting for next December. I'm certain my wife wouldn't give me such a thoughtful gift and expect something more, like cleaning out the rain gutters, or pruning the cherry tree, or washing those windows in the dormers, or .... JEREMY HARMONNorth County His research interests include in-clude the reconstruction of ancient and modern genealogies gene-alogies using DNA techniques with samples from all over the world, the trading of human population movements by following fol-lowing gene migrations and the DNA analysis of ancient manuscripts including the Dead Sea Scrolls. There will be DNA sampling after the fireside. Those who wish to participate should bring a GEDCOM disk covering at least four generations. I Pancakes and Politics The American Fork Chamber of Commerce will present a second sec-ond "Pancakes and Politics" Saturday at 9 a.m. It will be in classroom 1 of American Fork Hospital, 170 N. 1100 East, which is sponsoring the event and providing a free breakfast for those in attendance. atten-dance. Local officials and members of the state legislature and senate sen-ate have been invited to attend and answer questions from their constituents. last year. He was drunk and fell off the roof three or four times in the process, pro-cess, but that just shows how dangerous danger-ous it is. When carried out on our old aluminum alumi-num ladder, however, it becomes an extreme sport. The ladder was probably prob-ably very utilitarian in its day, but by the time I got to know it, it was covered cov-ered with paint, teetering, and lacked one of the side supports. It was the side support that proved most troublesome. The ladder wobbles even when there is secure footing, especially on the left side. And since I had to stand on the second-to-top rung to hang the lights (that's one rung higher than recommended), I usually resisted the temptation to start rlimh. Cemetery Continued from Page 1 etery and the fitness center. Cemetery personnel passed out questionnaires to property owners in the vicinity. "The response came back that they were not in favor," Garrett said. "Only one said we should go ahead." City officials had been negotiating ne-gotiating for purchase of other oth-er properties in the vicinity, but those have fallen through, Garrett said He said the cemetery has about 25 acres and would need to double to handle the future needs. "We need to get at least 25 to 30 acres right now to cover us for the next hundred years," he said. A computer program the city has purchased is making record keeping easier and more accurate, Garrett said Transferring information to the program has also identified identi-fied empty lots. "We have located around 150 lots that weren't claimed," he said. "The old records didn't bring that to view. We are still in the process of updating all the records. The new program shows the buried bur-ied person, location, parents, spouse, and veteran information. informa-tion. We are in the process of making sure that is right." Garrett asked that anyone who knows of a parcel of land which the city could purchase contact him at 763-3095. Taylor Continued from Page 2 Through March 18, he is playing in "The Full Monty" in Park City. "It is a busy life, but I wouldn't want it any other way," he said. "I live on the stress and adrenaline and the notop pace." He is already planning his contribution, not only to the American Fork theater scene, but to the national. "My goal is to change the face of American musical theater - to make my mark," he said "I would love to write my own musical," he said "I would like to do things a little differently. I know that people have their favorites, classics they love to see. I would like to take a different look at things." For American Fork, his goals include putting on four productions a year, with one being a dinner-theater. "I would like the community commu-nity to know that what we produce here will be good quality theater," he said "It will be something they can bring their families to, and be tasteful For the first show, the council will put on "The Spitfire Grill" in April "It is a show about redemption, forgiveness and being truly proud of where you come from. I want American Fork to really be receptive to the show. The music is wonderful." wonder-ful." Auditions for "The Spitfire Spit-fire Grill" will beat the American Fork Public Library, Li-brary, 64 S. 100 East. They will be held on Fridays from 4-6 p.m. in the community room., and Saturdays from lOa.m.-noon in the conference confer-ence room. Fees Continued from Page 2 share no more, no less," Burningham told the council in a work session Feb. 9. He said the firm broke the city into two service areas north and south. The dividing divid-ing line is the freeway. The study takes into consideration con-sideration the level of service that current residents receive, then calculates the cost of maintaining that same level for future residents. By dividing divid-ing by the number of additional addi-tional households, that creates the proposed impact fee. That is the maximum allowable amount; cities may choose to lower their charges. Director of Public Works Howard Dennev sueest i that the other cities the fee was compared to may have had their road impact fee in place for several years and their figures were artnaitv fm low for the current market. Burningham agreed to do additional studv and mm. back to the city with another proposal. American Fork alroaHv charges fees for water, sewer, sew-er, storm water and parks. POOR |