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Show e ? By PEBBt OLSON Editor A new Magna royalty was crowned Friday at Cyprus High School a Miss Magna and attendance. Cyprus Junior Lisa Creighton won the title of Miss Magna. She will reign over Magna special events and represent the city in various events throughout the Salt Lake Valley during the coming year. Creighton, 17, showed her ease in front of an audience through entertaining the pageant audience with a comedic monologue during the talent portion of the show. She demonstrated her physical strengths by demonstrating Fitness in rock climbing gear, and her poise during the evening gown competition h wearing a silver formal. "I'm excited, the pageant was just so much fun," Creighton said after being floor-lengt- crowned. "I love these girls, I can just imagine everything we're going to do. Crowned as fust attendant was Megan Sears, a at Brockbank elemenSecond attendant school. tary was Emily Pike, a senior at Cyprus High School. For the first time the pageant selected a Miss Congeniality, who will participate in all the activities ninth-grad- er and service projects with the Miss Magna royalty. Named Miss Congeniality was Jerie Nieser. Miss Magna will become involved in a variety of service project, helping Magn&Fact and its families and other community groups throughout the year. Creighton said that she is anxious to begin helping out and letting people outside the community know that Magna is a good place to be from. "I want to be somebody that people in Magna won't forget, Creighton said. "I love Magna because you don't see cities like this anywhere else- - It's a nice little community." In addition to taking AP classes as Cyprus, Creighton is the morning anchor of the Cyprus daily morning news show. She also job shadows at Channel 2 News and is the graphic designer for Creighton Mountaineering. Pnotos by Cwtshi Olson The new Miss Magna, Lisa Creighton, center was crowned Friday with first attendant Megan Sears and second attendant Emily Pike. The three wilt represent Magna throughout the year. CHIP opens enrollment for children Residents doing their part in conserving water Utah's Children's health Insurance Program will hold open enrollment June All eligible Utah children who apply during this time period will be accepted. Applications are now available and will be accepted beginning June 3. Families may also apply online beginning June 3. The open enrollment period will be the first opportunity in 2002 for many of Utah's working families to obtain health care coverage for their children. CFIIFs continual enrollment was capped last year. CHIP is the state health insurance plan for children whose families cannot afford private health insurance. Because of the natural "graduation" of enrollees, CHIP has the capacity to enroll more children who are currently without health insurance. In addition, families are required to psy premiums of approximately $l5-$2- 5 every three months so CHIP can sc. ? as many children as possible. "CHIP has made a difference in the lives of thou 4. two-we- ek low-co- st sands of Utah Children," said Jacalyn Leavitt. '1 am pleased that we are able to'--" offer this valuable health care benefit to families who would otherwise go without insurance. This program helps parents and their children when they need it mosL The CHIP program has helped nearly 50,000 children since 1998 when the uninsured rate was 8.5 percent. CHIP influenced die rate to drop to 6.8 percent in 2001. Without CHIP, the rate could be as high as 1 1 per- cent Families may call the CHIP information line at to receive a mailed application or to find a Utah Department of Health eligibility office in their area. Beginning June 3 and ending June 4, families will be able to apply online at www.utahchip.org. 1 Magna WWI Memorial Dedicated Members of the MagnaJGarfieid VFW cedicated the new WWI memorial at Memorial Square Monday morning during a Memorial Day service featuring the VFW honor guard. Contributing to the erection of the monument were contributors Tommy Martine7 of AIM-On- e Construction, Nolan Fackell of Harper Concrete and the Eagles Service Club. ASM-Sur- o, In order to be enrolled, applications must be submitted dunnguK: open enrollment period. Families must meet eligibility guidelines based on family size and income. Children under the ages of 19, who are U.S. citizens or legal residents and who are not currently covered by health insurance may qualif- V By DEBBI OLSON Editor With, the fourth year of drought, water along the Wasatch front could become a rare commodity. In order to keep a tighter yFor example, a family of control on water usage in the state. Governor Michael Leavitt has challenged Utahans to reduce water consumption by 25 percent. "The situation is that precipitation is down and the snowpack is gone," sad Bart Forsyth, spokesman for the Jordan Valley Water Conservatory District "Normally the peak run off occurs June 1. Its all gone this year and soil conditions air just awful." Forsyth said that even if next winter is a normal precipitation year, it will take the state several years to recover from four years of drought conditions. However, studies done in Nevada and California indicated that it takes more than just educating the population about water conservation to achieve maximum conservation efforts. . "We have to go beyond the Education process to keyboard. He has composed meet the goal the Governor music and has produced a has set to conserve our CD that includes an eclectic water," said West Valley electric mix of songs that he Councilwoman Margaret composed. Peterson, who also sits on In addition to performing the Jordan Valley Water with the West Valley Conservation board. "Utah Symphony Kartchner plays uses more water per capita bass guitar and sings for than any other state in the local rock band West We have to come up Creature house and is also a 'with a philosophy we agree part of the String Zing string on." trio. String Zing has perThe Magna Water District formed for Mitt Romney, has set watering limits askthe Australian Winter ing residents to water lawns Olympic Team, the Princess every other day with no Diana Dresses for Humanity watering on Sundays. exhibit and the Dahli Lama. "We had an percent The West Valley reduction in production last Symphony season finale month." said Ed Hansen, concert will begin at 8 p.m. district manager of Magna Tickets are S3 and may be Water. "We have a 98 percent participation in our vol purchased at the door. Soloist to shine in symphony finale The West Valley Symphony vill present Season Finale Concert Saturday, June 1 at the Granger High School Auditorium. The Symphony, under the direction of Stephen Baker, will perform works of John Williams, Tschaikowsky and Dvorak's New World Symphony. The concert will also feature two members of the Orchestra in solo performances. Fluiist Christina Worden will solo m Flute Concerto in G Major by Pergolesi. Worden has been playing the flute since she was 10 years-ol- d. '1 fell in love with the copy! flute when I was three years old," Worden said. "I was d fiicnd watching a I while her sat on practice bed, and I promptly announced to my parents that I had decided that I was going to play the flute." However, her mother tried to start her in violin lessons instead. "I was not happy about that and made it perfectly clear that 1 did not want to play the v iolin 1 wanted to play the flute," Worden said. "My mom said that I put my hands behind my back and would not even touch that violin." Worden began playing with the West Valley Symphony in February. She teen-age- -- is currently studying flute with teacher Karen Perkins. Soloing with the Symphony in Concerto Fes1 Cello No. 1 Op 33 will be Eric S. Kartchner, a native of Taylorsville. Kartchner took an interest in musK when he was 1 with the intention years-ol- a that he would play viola, but ended up going to the wrong class and as a result began playing cello. He said it was "the best mistake" he ever . made. He has played with the the Granite Youth Symphony and the Jordan Youth Symphony. Through the years he also learned to play the bass guitar, piano, guitar and electric 1 unteer program of residents not watering on Sundays." Residents are also encouraged to only water between 6 p.m. and 10 a.m. to reduce the amount of water that will evaporate in the heat. The 25 percent reduction requested by Leavitt is expected to save the state billions of dollars in future water development costs. Currently it is estimated that each resident uses approximately 100,000 gallons of water each year. "Proper design and a drip irrigation system is not more expensive than a traditional lawn landscape. All we're suggesting is that you pick your plants a little better," Forsyth said. "Landscape designed to conserve water could save up to 80 percent of water conservation. My guess is that if we don't start conserving water now, the cost of water will be dou- bling in the next few years." Several cities in the Salt Lake Valley have have adopted measures to reduce water consumption or are in the process of creating new water conservation ordinances. Hansen is in support of encouraging residents and businesses to begin using water conserving landscaping, especially on parking strips that are typically difficult to keep green. "Most of the water goes into the gutter," Hansen said. Hansen said he is impressed with the responsibility Magna residents have taken to do their part in conserving water by watering their landscaping less. 1 1 "We shouldn't sell the public short," Hansen said. "They have stepped up in Magna to do what has been asked of them." -- t |