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Show Thursday, September 21, 2006 Fagt2 OREM TIMES NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU Council Reva Bowen An ordinance designed to give authority to the city manager man-ager and the City Council in responding to natural or man-made man-made disasters, and to outline other emergency procedures in the city, was approved by the Orem City Council on Tuesday. Jason Rose, assistant city attorney, at-torney, said the ordinance was written to mirror state law, and the powers delegated in a state emergency. Under the law, the city manager has the authority to establish an emergency operations center; make emergency emer-gency procurements; evacuate people; and issue any orders or rules necessary to protect life or property. The City Council Is authorized autho-rized to conduct its affairs somewhere other than its regular regu-lar place of business; suspend local ordinances; reorganize its members; impose a curfew; and delegate authority. There was some discussion in the meeting about the provision provi-sion for the council to "reorganize "reorga-nize its members." Mayor Jerry Jer-ry Washburn inquired about the meaning of the phrase. Rose said the phrase is "intentionally "in-tentionally vague to give the City Council flexibility" in an emergency situation. City Attorney Paul Johnson said he and Rose had no qualms about removing the phrase from the ordinance, but it was Water Tank Continued from Page 1 er with the Central Utah Water Coaservancy District, said the substantial water storage provides pro-vides the district with operational opera-tional storage to help meets its water quality regulations. The 10 million gallons also serves as an emergency reserve re-serve should there be a problem prob-lem with the district's nearby Utah Vallev Water Treatment Cemetery Continued from Page I percent ." The 5 percent annual increase figure is used in the report's charts to estimate lot sales and calculate when the kits will be sold out. Two different scenarios were used to forecast how long the existing cemetery could meet the city's needs, accord NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS 399 E Slate St Pleasant Grove Kirk Parkinson 443 3250 Vice PresidentPublisher kpardmsonftheraldextra com Marc Haddock 443 3268 North County Editor mhaddockheraldextra com i.Hi'i.wf.TKssaaa Cathy Allred 443 3262 Lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. Grove callredheraldextra com Barbara Christiansen 443 3264 American Fori., Alpine, Cedar Hills bchnstiansen heraldextra com Mike Rigert 443 3265 Orem, Vineyard mrigertheralc)extra com Beky Beaton 443 3267 Sports bbeatonheraldextra.com Josh Walker 443 3260 Advertising Account Executive walker heraldextra com Volume 134 Own Tmes DHv Herald edition USPS 411-700 a (( newspaper published at 399 E. State St.. Pleasant Gn. 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OREM BRIEFS I Youth Council sworn in Seventeen members of the Orem Youth City Council for the 2006-07 school year took the oath of office Tuesday at the regular meeting of the Orem City Council. Plant, which can treat up to 80 million gallons of water a day, he said. The majority of the water in Orem's reservoirs comes from the Provo River with a small portion coming from natural springs and surface water, Tschirki said. Several diversion points in the river remove the water and transport it to the district's water treatment plant, before its is transmitted into the reserves. re-serves. Orem uses 95 percent ing to the report. Lots will be sold out by the year 2017 under Scenario One, which uses all of the current cemetery sections, and factors in the 5 percent annual an-nual increase in lot sales. Scenario Two does not include in-clude the sale of lots in sections "G" and "K" located between be-tween the lower road and the Murdock Canal. It is estimated that lots will sell out five years earlier by 2012. Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILY EBltLD POBLiaHIMO CO. Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager Erin Stewart 344 2558 Proeot Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Mamie Lovstedt 344-2570 DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344- 2585 3 Photographer Issue 39 Give us a call at 756-7669 INFORMED AND 'INVOLVED City Recorder Donna Weaver Weav-er administered the oath to Jamie Gee, Youth City Council recorder, who in turn administered adminis-tered the oath to her peers. The council is open to students stu-dents in grades nine through 12, and meets on the second and fourth Thursdays at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers. Members receive leadership training and are involved in community service projects. They also study city government, govern-ment, services, and issues. I Council tours library re of the water treated at the plant while Provo uses only about 5 percent, he said. The tank is constructed out of reinforced concrete with 30 concrete wall sections comprising compris-ing the exterior wall and 164 mammoth columns to support the roof. It will be subdivided into six concrete vaults for valving, metering and overflow. over-flow. The structure's footings, foundations, tank drainage system, 18 wall sections and the majority of the support To extend the life of the cemetery, cem-etery, city officials have the option of utilizing the cemetery property to the south of the canal land that has been in temporary use as soccer fields and a track. Potential lots on the south property are estimated at about 11,460. Combining those lots with the cemetery sections from Scenario One, lot sales could continue until 2034. How Children caught in the middle A few years ago I accompanied Caleb Warnock to interview a couple who lived in Santaquin in a mobile home with their three children. The husband was a migrant farm worker who was forced to live in a substandard trailer because promised migrant housing had never been completed. com-pleted. I went along as a translator of sorts. I learned my Spanish in Mexico in the earty 1970s, and after 30 years it was a bit rusty, but Caleb figured it would be better than nothing. It turned out he didn't need me. The serior and senora we were meeting with didn't speak any English, but they had one of their children there to help. I was just a kind of secondary translator who heied keep the discussion on track. I have no idea if these people had the appropriate appro-priate documents or not. At the time, the immigration immi-gration debate had not reached the fever pitch we are experiencing now. But this is what impressed im-pressed me about that experience: It was clear this man and woman were enduring hardships to come to the United States and work the fields. Their income was poor. Their housing was substandard by any measure in this country. They were just getting along. In their native Mexico they probably would have been living in even poorer housing. When I lived there I saw people living in mud shacks with dirt floors and no running water or electricity. electric-ity. The work probably wouldn't have paid as well provided they could find work, but food and housing would not have cost as much, either. While we were talking to them, the rest of their children began to come home, and it became be-came clear why they had come to this country. Their children were benefiting from their parents' par-ents' sacrifice. Each child could speak English without an accent. ac-cent. Each was enrolled in public school and each was doing wel The oldest daughter had a job and was probably earning more per hour than her father. The other children would follow. The family's struggles weren't over, but the children would dearly have better tools to meet the challenges of life than their parents did. modeling project Looking at the cavernous interior of the south section of the Orem Public Library, which has been undergoing extensive remodeling remodel-ing since late May, it is hard to imagine the facility being ready to reopen in 60 to 90 days, but that is the expected time frame for the library to be back in service, said Mayor Jerry Washburn. Washburn, members of the Orem City Council, and city staff toured the project prior to the start of the Tuesday City Council meeting. Roger Laws of contractors C & A Construction conducted the tour, pointing out the seismic seis-mic upgrades, rebuilt lights, and various challenges encountered encoun-tered during the remodeling process. I Adult basketball registration registra-tion The Orem Recreation Department will begin registration registra-tion for Men's and Womei's adult basketball on Monday. Registration will be at the Orem Fitness Center, 580 W. 165 South. You can also register regis-ter online at www.orem.org. Cost for the Men's program is $585 per team which includes two tournaments and league play. Cost for the Women's is $400 per team which includes league play and tournament. For more information please contact 229-7158. I Metropolitan Water Board gives report Orem Public columns have been finished, Tschirki said. The new reservoir will be hydraulicalry connected to an existing 15 million gallon water storage tank just to its west. Lambson said the joint water reservoir project is most likely the largest of its type in Utah. There are other larger water storage tanks in the state, he said, but they are rectangular shaped and aren't as high as the Oremdistrict tank. Drum-shaped, the new tank ever, if the city wants to have a 50-year cushion or time line, an additional 25 acres would need to be purchased, according accord-ing to the report. Contacted by telephone, Chesnut said he does not know at this point if a 25-acre cemetery cem-etery expansion would involve surrounding properties, or a separate cemetery elsewhere in the city. No undeveloped adjacent ad-jacent land is available. Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN ji Works Director Bruce Chesnut appeared before the Orem City Council Tuesday with members mem-bers of the Metropolitan Water Board to give a report. Chesnut said there is a "close working relationship between the board and the city." While members of the board are appointed ap-pointed by the City Council, the board operates independently, under its own by-laws. "The board acts independently indepen-dently from the city, for the city," Chesnut said. The main purpose of the board is to "acquire water rights for the City of Orem," and their work has "positioned our city very well," Chesnut said. With a current population of 90,000, Chesnut estimated the city has enough water rights to sustain a population of 120,000, depending on the "type of development" the city sees in the future. Since Orem enacted impact fees that require developers to either pay the fees or provide water shares, the city has collected col-lected $4.5 million to purchase additional water rights, but has been given "zero" water shares, Chesnut said. "I think we have the best water in the state," said Jack Jones, a long-time member of the Metropolitan Water Board. Chesnut said the city has water use and conservation plans in place, so residents "will not have to worry about the quality and quantity" of the resource. will have a 25-mile long tension ten-sion cable wrapped around its concrete outer wall not only reinforcing the concrete but making the structure seismi-caJJy seismi-caJJy sound "It actually sucks it all in an inch," Lambson said. "They build a lot of this type in California" Cali-fornia" With the limited space constraints con-straints of the site, this is the highest capacity water reservoir reser-voir that could be built on the property's footprint, he said. Chesnut acknowledged that expanding the cemetery "might not be a high priority right now" for the City Council Coun-cil "We're good until 2034," he said. Chesnut noted that such a venture would also be quite costly, due to "the value of property based on where we can purchase," and that there are "not a lot of large tracts (of land) available" in Orem. They arent the only ones. About 10 years ago, the science teacher at Shelley Elementary asked me to come and judge one science project. The girl who carried out the project had only recently moved to the country coun-try and she spoke very little English, so I was asked to help out with my less-than-perfect command of the language. At the time, she was an anomaly. AH that has changed This past week I've taken photographs photo-graphs in two different elementary schools in Orem where Hispanic students stu-dents made up more than one-third of the students. In one of those, almost half of the students are Hispanic In one school, the administration was giving out awards to students for their positive accomplishments in a monthly assembly. Proud parents sat in the audience. Some of those parents speak little or no English, but their children speak it as well as anyone else in their class and they were thrilled to get the recognition. In another school, children were tying red ribbons on the fence spelling out 'Just say no." I took a photograph of Candela, a first grader who spelled her name for me in perfect English. When I pronounced it with a Spanish accent, she flashed me a grin, but it was clear she could handle the English language just fine. I dont pretend to have any answers to the immigration im-migration debate that is currently taking place. The issues are far too complicated for my poor brain. But I can see the human faces behind the struggle, and the young faces behind those faces. This is the engine that drives parents to leave their home and seek a better life. I saw some of those young faces in the last week, and learned a little about how our schools are dealing with children who speak English as a second language mainly by teaching them English and treating them as children. It's a good plan. In the end what wiD matter is not how much win these children change our schools, but how much win our schools, and our society in general, change these children. - If the past is any guide, it will probably make them Americans. Service Continued from Page 1 enough room to hold all their finished products. Rolls and rolls of yarn are piled on the shelves. On the corkboard in the room is a list titled "Current "Cur-rent Needs" with a list of items Humanitarian Services "I like to serve," Fitch, 92, says, "and I don't care where it is." Every year the Seville residents keep track of how much they complete to mark their progress and set new goals. In the past year, the residents completed an impressive 4,727 projects including 461 quilts, 1,744 balls, 624 dolls, 826 animals, 109 jackets, 563 hats, 20 bandages, ban-dages, 16 gowns, 226 booties, 108 burp cloths and 30 sheets and receiving blankets. While everyone is welcome wel-come to help and many often do, there are a handful of women who are regularly found in the humanitarian room Everyone can pick what they'd like to do. They each have different skills and usually work on certain aspects as-pects of each project like an assembly line, an effort that takes a lot of teamwork. "I'm the scrapper," says Ethna Larson, 85, who always al-ways cuts fabric and stuffs animals and balls. "I'm legally le-gally blind so I can't see, but I can do those two things. I've worked all my life, and I don't know how to stop. I sure can't sit around." Erma Nelson, 88, uses her spare time to put stuffing into small fabric-made balls. The Seville started the regular humanitarian work several years ago as an activity activ-ity to help those in need and keep the residents happy and busy. Norma Wilcox, 84, who acts as supervisor and the driving force behind the project, was instrumental in getting the project started and works tirelessly to keep it going. "We wanted to have something some-thing to do," Wilcox says. "The first year they brought quilts, and we tied them From then on, we did it alL and it's just grown." Seville management has also recognized the impact the service projects have made. Cheryl Nyman, a manager man-ager with husband Greg, said the work the residents do has really mushroomed over the years and is a tribute to this industrious generation. "I think it's an amazing service effort," Nyman says. "The whole project is a tribute trib-ute to the people who survived sur-vived wars and the depression depres-sion they don't waste a thing ... They're the epitome of America's finest." After the residents complete com-plete projects, they are delivered deliv-ered to local organizations or to the IDS Humanitarian Services. Ann Wilcox, who volunteers at the Humanitarian Humanitar-ian Services, has seen the many boxes and bags of donations from the Seville. She says she's grateful for their willingness to work on whatever project is needed, not just the ones that are fast and easy. "They bring so much, and they're such sweet ladies," she says. Each resident may serve for different reasons but each would agree they all do it because they recognize they still have the time and talents to provide an invaluable invalu-able service. "There are lots of people who just sit around and wait for the next meal, and that would make me go bananas," says Haymond, a former nurse and mother of eight. "There's something for everybody ev-erybody if they will do it." "I FEEL LIKE A FISH WITH NO WATER." I -JACOB. AGE 5 l-866-NO-ATTACKS EVEN OMf ATT ACS IS ONE TOO MANY. ft POOR |