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Show AN EDITION OF T IX E - ' A. V mum YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2006 50 CENTS T0WH HALL: Senior volunteers love to serve community SCHOOLS: Orem Junior High School releases honor roll SPORTS: Timpanogos softball gets no hits, still wins ' P? Business JEWELRY STORE IS A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH tsrtetaoll pipene Alan Choate DAILY HERALD A 20-inch pipeline will run from Lehi to Vineyard to provide natural gas to a power plant under construction con-struction in Vineyard. Quest ar Gas got the approval Tuesday for the new gas pipeline it will need for a power plant which is already under construction but they also were rapped on the knuckles by Utah County commis sioners for the way the application was handled. "Don't be so derelict next time in your duty to have true public input," said Commissioner Steve White, shortly before he and commission com-mission chairman Larry Ellertson voted to approve the pipeline. "I expect Quest ar or Utah Power or any other public utility ... to come before the body in a timely fashion during the planning, and not during dur-ing the execution," White said. Commissioners spent a fair amount of time discussing the pipeline because of its potential impact on farmland and because not everyone was convinced Que-star Que-star had chosen the most appropriate appropri-ate route. The route sought by Questar and approved Tuesday takes the pipeline pipe-line across farmland owned by the Christensen family. Allen and Niel Christensen lobbied lob-bied commissioners to require Que star to install the pipe somewhere else, preferably along existing roads or road rights of way. Digging a trench for a pipeline reshuffles re-shuffles layers of soil so that water doesn't flow properly, which in turn hurts crops, they said. "You can't put it back in the way it came out," Allen Christensen said. Andreas Kammereck, a water engineer hired by Questar, dis- See PIPE, Page 2 CRUNCH RUSH MARIO RulZDaily Herald Two cars hit Jim's Family Restaurant in Orem after the two cars collided on State Street Tuesday. Two passengers were transported to the hospital for minor injuries sustained during the accident. Accident injures four, crushes restaurant Anna Chang-Yen and Katie Ashton DAILY HERALD Two cars crashed through the front of an Orem restaurant just before the lunch rush hour on April 18. A Ford Explorer was traveling south on State Street near 1500 South in Orem when a northbound Kia Optima made a left turn into the SUV's path. The two cars sailed over the curb and hit the east side . of the Jim's Family Restaurant building, just missing the front door. Orem Police Officer James Vance said two people inside the restaurant were injured by flying debris. One woman was knocked out of the booth she was sitting at and fell onto the floor, but wasn't seriously injured, Murphy said. A passenger in the Explorer was surprised by the path he said he saw the Optima take. "They started to turn but we thought, 'Well, they're probably going to go after us,' " said Gary Metcalf of West Jordan, a passenger in the front seat of the Explorer. "But they just kept right on coming." The driver and passenger in the Optima, a couple in their 70s, were transported to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, said Orem Police Lt. Phil Murphy. The husband, who was on the passenger side, had an injured leg and the wife had minor injuries. Jeff Burke, owner of Tele-Dynamics Tele-Dynamics Communications based in Salt Lake City, was at the wheel of the company vehicle when the cars collided. "It happened so quick I never hit my brakes," he said. "There was absolutely not time to do anything," said Metcalf. "There's not even a skid mark on the road." See ACCIDENT, Page 2 They started to turn but we thought, 'Well, they're probably prob-ably going to go after us.'" Gary Metcalf PASSENGER IN THE EXPLORER MAG employee retires after 32 years of service Reva Bowen NORTH COUNTY STAFF Gayla Muir, an Orem native who has served her community commu-nity in many ways, is retiring after 32 years of working for Mountainland Association of Governments. An open house will be held in Muir's honor from 2 to 4 p.m. on April 27 at the MAG offices on the southwest corner cor-ner of 800 North and 600 East in Orem. "I never dreamed I would stay and retire with Mountainland Moun-tainland when I first started," Muir said. For 22 years, Muir worked for the association as an accountant. For the last 10 years, she has "been director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program "?SVP), overseeing the effc , ts o. 1,400-1,500 senior volunteers in three counties Utah, Summit, and Wasatch. "I made the switch because of my volunteer background and my passion for seniors," Muir said, explaining that her father was one of the first See MUIR, Page 2 (ill AzJ Gayla Muir WWW.HARKTHEHERALD.COMNORTHCOUNTY 1 CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE i j n Briefing THREE KILLED IN MONTANA ACCIDENT - An Orem father and his two sons were killed Monday night in Montana when their car collided with a semitrailer. Reben Gurule, 52, Christian Gurule, 26, and Andre Gurule, 24, were driving south on U.S. Highway 191. The 2002 white Saturn slid out of control in the slushy road conditions, sliding in front of a semitrailer traveling north. All three were pronounce deai at the scene, said Jake Boltz, a supervisor with the Montana Highway Patrol Pa-trol Communications Center. An investigating officer said speed was not a factor, Boltz said, but rather it was bad weather conditions. The accident happened between Bozeman and Big Sky Montana in Gallatin Canyon at 6:55 p.m. The road the Gurules were traveling on was a narrow two-lane highway that often does not have a shoulder area. In January there was a fatal accident on the same stretch of road, Boltz said. JEREMY HARMONDaily HetaW Artifacts, like this pair of dishes, were excavated from the site of Camp Floyd. BYU has offered to donate the items oavk to Camp Floyd. ARTIFACTS COME HOME - Camp FloydStagecoach - Inn State Park is taking possession of artifacts unearthed from the original Camp Floyd site by BYU archeology students two decades ago. The cramped BYU Museum of Peoples and Cultures had been storing about 220 boxes of pottery shards, wood fragments, weapons, glass bottles, coprolites fossilized excrement and cow bones. The artifacts will not be put on display until the park has a new visitors' center and museum. Trotter said. Officials Of-ficials said they hope the state will earmark $250,000 or more toward a 2,000-square-foot museum, and are looking look-ing to buy part of the original camp site to put the museum mu-seum on. The discovery of arsenic on some of the land has slowed the process. UVSC SERVICE DAY SATURDAY - Utah Valley State College's Center for Service and Learning is hosting host-ing the ninth annual Bare Necessities Service Day Saturday Satur-day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the UVSC Grande Ballroom. Volunteers are needed to help tie more than 150 quilts and compile personal hygiene kits for local agencies. Items for the personal hygiene kits can also be donated donat-ed through Friday to the Center for Service and Learning in Sorensen Center, room 101. Such items must be unused un-used and include packaged Chap Stick, floss, hairbrushes and one-gallon ziplock bags, among others. For specific details on what items are accepted, contact the Center for Service and Learning. "The service day started because of a community initiative ini-tiative and every year it's a community effort, driven by community members," said Alexis Palmer, UVSC coordinator coordi-nator for the Center for Service and Learning. "It's a good partnership between the community and UVSC, it's not just one person and it's so exciting to see cross-campus and community support." WOMEN INJURED IN ACCIDENT - Two Orem worn en were flown to separate hospitals after a semitrailer rear-ended their vehicle on Interstate 15 on Tuesday morning. The victim's car was traveling behind a semitrailer heading southbound on 1-15 near the University Parkway Park-way exit around 10:20 a.m. when the truck slowed. The truck slowed down for a barbecue grill that fell off from another vehicle and the victim subsequently slowed her vehicle. A second semitrailer was traveling too close to her vehicle ve-hicle and rear-ended the victim's red passenger car, said Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Jeff Nigbur. The driver, in her mid-30s, suffered some broken bones and her passenger, in her late 50s, suffered some lacerations from broken glass, Nigbur said The women were flown by medical helicopter to separate hospitals, one to Timpanogos Regional Hospital and the other to the University of Jtah hospital in Salt Lake City. The women's condition had been critical but was downgraded later, Nigbur said. - From staff reports in. 61055 00050' Name. GENE HARVEY CHEVROLET; Width; C9p9.01; Depth: 1.25 in; Color: Process color; Comment: Full Color-Earn; Ojm to (M of Utah County: Once a member, always a mrmbn -no matter inhere you go. H COPY |