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Show I I l I IM jJHl tu n Thursday, August 21, 2008 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Page 3 Chambers cross county line for joint meeting ffVV rn. V . ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald Don Peterson had his piano tuning tools returned to him after they were missing 10 months after he accidentally left them on the top of his car in November after a job. Missing tools found intact nine months later Janice Peterson DAILY HERALD After losing his piano tools in November, 83-year-old Don Peterson can safely say today that there are good people in the world. Nine months after his tools disappeared, they returned to Peterson on Tuesday, having never been touched. "Basically, people are good," he said. After tuning a piano in a home near 1190 East and 1040 South in Orem on Nov. 7, Peterson Pe-terson loaded some tools into his car and drove away, leaving leav-ing his tuning kit on the side of the road. The kit containing contain-ing a tuner, tuning hammers and various others tools is worth about $2,500, and tuning tun-ing pianos is his only means of income. He said he didn't realize his kit was missing until he arrived ar-rived home in Highland, 20 minutes away from where he left the kit. When he returned to the site, the tools were gone. At the time, Peterson did not know if city crews working nearby had taken them accidentally, acci-dentally, or if perhaps a child had taken the strange-looking set. He even briefly wondered if someone had taken them to sell, but he didn't think they would have been much use. "They open it, they say 'What is this?'" Peterson said at the time. "It wouldn't do anyone any-one any good. They couldn't sell it anywhere." Lindon resident Kim Tomlin-son Tomlin-son was in Orem golfing that day and in a hurry to get to a job for his tile company. He said he saw the tool case and didn't see anyone around they belonged to, so he picked them up and took them to his shop. "When I got back to my shop, I set them out, and they kind of got buried," he said. Tomlinson said he briefly looked inside the case, but hadn't seen Peterson's name inside. Tomlinson forgot about the tools until he was cleaning his shop nine months later. He then noticed the case again, and this time some compartments compart-ments opened inside, one of which contained Peterson's contact information. "I just feel bad that I didn't get them back to him before he bought new ones," Tomlinson said. Shauna Tomlinson, Kim's wife, said she had never had any idea what was in the case until the tools were returned. She said she was glad Peterson got them back, and she only wishes it had happened sooner. "We were just always so busy, neither one of us took the time to look in the case," she said. When he called Peterson, Peter-son, Tomlinson said the man was excited to get his tools back, but he had not expected they would return. He had decided de-cided a child must have picked them up, and not knowing what they were, they were discarded and buried in a basement base-ment somewhere. "It sounded like he kind of gave up on them," Tomlinson said. Peterson said he is very happy he was able to get his tools back, and he said Tomlinson Tomlin-son is a "very nice man." While waiting for the tools to turn up, he had borrowed a set from Brigham Young University. He used the borrowed tools until he was able to afford a new set of his own. After a few months, he finally gave up on ever getting his tuning tools back. At one point, Peterson said he got a call from the Timpanogos IDS Temple about something of his that had been turned in. Excited, he got dressed and hurried to the temple to hopefully claim his tools. "And guess what it was?" he said. "My ballpoint pen." 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The Southwest Valley Chamber is an 11-year-old chamber that includes the Her-riman, Her-riman, Bluffdale and Riverton areas. Lehi, American Fork and Draper have held joint meetings since 2004. Draper Chamber of Commerce Com-merce President William Rappleye was instrumental in organizing the initial tri-chamber tri-chamber events. "Small chambers are sometimes some-times overlooked," Rappleye said. "By combining three chambers we would develop a little bit more clout, so that was the intent. "The secondary reason why is because we really wanted to get our members to see that the Point of the Mountain is not a blockade. ... There has always been that division. We are trying to break that mental men-tal perception." Rappleye has a vision of cooperation and strength through the multi-chamber association. as-sociation. "The long-term vision is, hopefully, at some point we can use this as a lobbying power at the state Legislature so these smaller communities that are emerging can have a voice for their communities," he said. He said consideration hasn't been given to a combined chamber with city chapters. "I think, under certain circumstances, if you do that you still have to maintain that individual chamber," Rappleye Rappl-eye said. "If you dilute that by calling it, say, the Point of the Mountain Chamber, it can be self-destruct ive. ... I believe we have to have individual offices of-fices with the cities." The meeting on Wednesday is more of an entertainment event than a business meeting. meet-ing. The four chambers will meet for a light dinner and listen lis-ten to guest speakers: former Miss Utah Kathy Loveless and former Utah Jazz player Mark Eaton. While no official business will take place, the meeting creates a means for collaboration. collabora-tion. "The quick return is the networking opportunities as you get together with different differ-ent cities, different associations," associa-tions," said Heather Miller, Lehi Area Chamber of Commerce Com-merce president. "We're hoping hop-ing this will grow to different chambers." She said they are hoping for a relaxing evening of fun with an opportunity to talk about ideas and to network. All the chambers involved represent cities of approximately approxi-mately the same size in commercial com-mercial growth. "We have a lot in common, we have a lot more smaller businesses than large," Rappleye Rap-pleye said. "Each year we've tried to bring interesting speakers in there so they can bring a spouse or significant other and enjoy the event." All considered, a great tradition has been started, Rappleye said, and he looks forward to a sustained relationship rela-tionship with the other chambers cham-bers involved. 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