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Show Pag2 Thursday, July 10, 2008 0 R E M TIMES NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU v. Otrem banns smoking on ciSy piropeiriy Reva Bowen NORTH COUNTY STAFF Orem joined a growing trend in the state Tuesday by approving an ordinance to prohibit pro-hibit smoking outdoors on city-owned city-owned property or at "mass gatherings" defined as an outdoor assembly of 25 people or more. The Utah Legislature has adopted studies by the Federal Fed-eral Environmental Protection Rezone Continued from Page 1 signed by the developers and the city. On Tuesday, the council voted to send the matter back to developers to have them determine de-termine if it would be possible to realign four units on the south as single family homes facing 1885 North. The council is also considering eliminating eliminat-ing or modifying fencing on Digital Continued from Page 1 designed to help library patrons pa-trons understand the tools and resources available. Lori Stevens, a library division divi-sion manager over programs, said because the Orem library's mission is to bring people and information together, one of the by products of that aim is that people discover new things about themselves. "It's the same thing with family history," she said. "People learn about their past, where they came from and it kind of gives them an idea of where they're going." Family history, she said, is the second highest most searched topic on the Internet. Ellis Island Continued from Page I and crucial documents of American government were one part of the event. Everyone was given a written writ-ten test to complete. Some tests were simplified for children, chil-dren, while adults took a more accurate version of the actual citizenship test. Once the test was scored and passed, then each individual NorthCounty 399 E. 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"We favor policies that support sup-port smoke-free ordinances," said Jen Tischler, an educator with the Utah County Health Department. Tischler said the county may "do something streamlined" for uniformity instead of seeing the process that side to mitigate what neighbors charged would be a compound effect if the entire project was fenced off. Area residents who had not spoken at the public hearing two weeks ago were invited to give their comments Tuesday. Tues-day. "1 know the project doesn't fit the feel of that neighborhood because I live there," said Steven Olson Wayne Barney said there were "zero reasons" presented Mario Schuldt. president of his Orem-based Lif eStory Productions Pro-ductions that develops family history software and training, will present the workshop series that gives a step-by-step approach to knowing how to get started in digital family history without getting lost or intimidated, "What happens with a lot of Baby Boomers and younger generations is that grandma or grandpa passes away and here's all this stuff, thousands of pictures in an old trunk. They open h and say 'I can't do this," and that's the end of it ..." he said. "We've developed a whole system to scan, organize, orga-nize, index and share it so this stuff becomes meaningful and tells stories. It's not just an archive ar-chive of images." had the opportunity to take the Oath of Citizenship. Each person per-son who completed these tasks received a certificate of citizenship, citizen-ship, a passport and a pamphlet of the rights and liberties that are part of living in America. Ashlee Thompson, age 5, of Pleasant Grove, was impressed with the event. "At the park we watched a play and we got our picture pic-ture taken by the flags," she said. "It taught us about the America'n flag and the Statue DAILY IIIftLD roBLttaivo oo. 3 Jennette Esplin 756-7669 Office Manager Kira Johrtson 344-2558 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Allison Dams 344-2570 DesignerCopy Editor Ashley Frartscell 344-2585 Photographer tout 23 MM -JL INFORMED AND continue to go city by city. "This is being done with regard to a concern for public pub-lic health," said Mayor Jerry Washburn "We are not trying to legislate behavior, morals, or values." Exceptions to the ban can be approved by the city's director of recreation and could include property owned by the city but leased to the SCERA, such as the SCERA Outdoor Shell Theater. as to why the City Council, as stewards of the community, would change the zoning from low density residential to PRD. "This is absolutely in contradiction contra-diction to everything around it," Barney said "I'm vehemently vehe-mently opposed to it." But Councihvomen Karen McCandless and Margaret Black cited the city's General Plan and the PRD ordinance itself, which allow for PRDs to be created to provide diversify Based on 200-page guidebook guide-book (httpheritagecollector. corrVGuidebook'Ouidebook. htm) Schuldt wrote to accompany ac-company his digital media archfririgforgaruzingsharing software, the workshops also provide patrons with valuable insights and tips he learned through trial and error. "Getting Started," will be presented July 14 at 1 pm. and Jury 16, at 7 p.m. will show patrons the best and most easy place for family historians to begin. "Scanning for Great Results," is aimed at helping people to get the best possible scans of images while saving time. It will be held Jury 21 at I pm and July 22 at 7 p.m. Finally, Fi-nally, "Working with Sound," a class to teach patrons how to convert cassette tape record of Liberty . I'm glad that I'm in America." Periodically throughout the day, there was also a grand program of song and dance written and directed by Scott Swain that relived some important impor-tant earlier dates in American history. Performers were dressed in colonial attire, including buckles and bows, as they portrayed por-trayed the hopes and sacrifices of early Americans and the Founding Fathers. Lost in the A.E labyrinth " few years ago we Li bought a game of Laby-lf Laby-lf rinth Jr. for the grand- U 1 kids just one piece in our ongoing campaign U uto make ours the fun-nest fun-nest home ever. The game is built around a board that slides to and fro, so that the path your pieces must take is constantly changing. Now I feel like I'm having a Labyrinth Laby-rinth experience every time I drive MpfP home, thanks to American Fork's lllOlw decision to build a pressurized irri- HsddOCk At some point over the next three yean, every street in town will be THE EDITOR'S torn up, pipe wiS be laid and the COLUMN pipe will be buried again. The process pro-cess goes fairly quickly. Every night new streets are dug up, new detour signs are set up, and the path from here to there changes, again. And we are all rats in constantly changing maze, just trying to get to the cheese, which never moves. I understand the concept of extending the life of our municipal water supply by using untreated un-treated water on our lawns and gardens. And ' I know it's probably the only way these communities com-munities are going to be abie to continue to grow. I just wish the process had started several sev-eral years ago, before we had so many streets to dig up and so many connections to make. And the real fun" is fust starttag. The dry will bring this water to your yard at some point over the next three years, including includ-ing digging a Ene from the new pipe onto your property. Once that fine is available, cuSnary water rates wiB go up way up. So far up, that t w3 encourage almost everyone to activate acti-vate their pressurized irrigation connection. A coiriection guide provided by the dry lays out a six -step connection process that might have come from IKEA. Especially f you are horne4rrpwement challenged Eke me. (To be f air, they also list several plunders who can do the work for you.) One thing the dry wants is to make sure no one cross connects the cu&iary and secondary INVOLVED During discussion, the City Council did not foresee smoking smok-ing being allowed in the Shell audience, but could see an exception ex-ception being made for backstage back-stage crews that come to town with performers. Assistant city attorney Mike Barker said the smoking issue is-sue had led the city to look at its ordinance and to do some "housekeeping" along with addressing ad-dressing the issue. Changes include expanding in housing In order to meet the needs of all residents. Homes in PRDs are limited in height to 27 feet and have common landscaping appealing to "empty -nest ers," retirees, and others who might not want the upkeep of a large home and yard. The PRD ordinance provides a way for this type of housing to go in throughout the city, in regular neighborhoods. neighbor-hoods. Mayor Jerry Washburn summarized the City Council's ings to digital audio files and how to record, edit and preserve pre-serve audio histories. Schuldt said if approached in the wrong way or without with-out direction, digital family history can be intimidating, overwhelming and stressful But if taken in easy steps at workshops, it can be fun and rewarding. "It's kind of negative but I tell people, 'Let's say you found out you have a terminal illness, you have 6 months to live. What 10 things that are important would you want to pass on to your posterity?," he said. "It can be anything. The grand kids want to know how you met, your courtship, things you would do . I trick myself by just getting started." Louise Wallace, director of This event of Ellis Island was to inspire and educate the masses mass-es of what it really means to be a true American, Swain said "A great deal of work and editing went into the program just to get it down to a 45-min-ute presentation. We started doing the Freedom Free-dom Foundation in the schools to help students understand the ideology, principles, and really remember what it means to live in America as a citizen" Swain said future school a ban on alcoholic beverages to city-owned property, not just city parks; restricting motor vehicles in parks to roadways provided; and clarifying that the only animals people may bring into a park are dogs on leashes. "I want to know how we went from smoking in public parks to banning horses," Mayor Washburn said, as the agenda item was first presented. struggle in trying to meet the purposes of the PRD ordinance ordi-nance while at the same time facing a "not in my backyard" sentiment wherever the PRDs are proposed. "I'm frustrated. I'm very frustrated," Washburn said. Bob Lett, who identified himself as one of the current cur-rent owners of the property, said the land has been in his family for 50 years and has been farmed by him and his brother. the Orem Public Library, said the library's many family history his-tory resources, including access ac-cess to three of the top online family history database search engines (Ancestry.com, Heri-tageQuest, Heri-tageQuest, and World Vital Records) is an important component com-ponent of its nonfiction collection collec-tion and services. And the tools an resources aren't solely for family history, but also apply to history research In general "There's a tremendous amount of information for history his-tory buffs," she said. "It's just amazing." For more information about the Digital Family History series or the library's family history tools, collections and resources, contact the Orem Public Library online at http LT3.orem.org or call 229-7050. presentations will include the National Treasure Quest f or youths ages 14-18 to compete in Freedom Bowls. More information in-formation about that activity can be found online at www, rootsoffreedom.com. Volunteer Mark Hunt managed man-aged a booth which was set up to teach how America's government gov-ernment and laws were established estab-lished and how citizens could maintain their freedoms. The Daily Herald Boy Scouts of America, Orem City water systems. First, you must turn off the valve easy enough, I do this every winter, then you have to cut and cap the old line from the valve to the rest of the sprinkler system. This is not so easy, as it involves in-volves a lot of digging. (I know because my valve wore cut two years and we had to dig 1 up and replace it. In the process we nicked the main line, causing I to geyser like Old FafehfuL Once repairs were made we had to have 8 pkenber go through the house cleaning grit out of water fines, replacing gaskets, and repairing the toilets. We also had to repair cur water softener valve, so a simple do-t -yourself town sprinkler repair tumea into a rainy expensive enterprise. Capping the old fine is not enough. You must then fill the pipe that accesses the stop-and-w aste valve with concrete so you are never, ev er tempted to use it again. Finally, you can connect your existing sprinkler system to the new water Cne, and include a new filter. If you are smart, because the PI water is not as dean as culinary water, and debris in the pipes could damage your valves and sprinklers. (See above.) As of the trenches that make this connection connec-tion must left open unti a dry empbyee inspects in-spects the new line. Every home wffl have an dependent inspection, and that wffl mean a lot of work for the Pressurized Irrigation po-Ece. po-Ece. It boggles the mind It aS looks very complicated to me, but then, Tra a simple man. Fortunately my home is b the test part of town to be connected so I wont have to worry about tl tha until 2C10. St2l 1 dont think most people iiriderstand that the faconvea.ueitue we are expcifewing as we try to find today's route home is just the first step to a long and incorn-enient project, albeit a necessary one. In the end wel have a fine system that H ensure enough drinking water for everyone and enough to keep our yards green, as wet Getting there, however, wil prove to be a bumpy ride indeed Model Continued from Page 1 provo Temple, the Nauvoo Illinois Temple and the Manti Temple. Each one is individually hand-cast from resin and then hand-painted with enamels. Ricardo Hernandez Hernan-dez even designed a special mailing box to protect the delicate art works if they're turned upside down during shipping, said his wife Bernie Soto Hernandez. "Ant ares is one of the largest stars," said daughter Nancy Hernandez, 27, who along with older brother Ricardo Hernandez Jr., also participates in the Hernandez Hernan-dez family enterprise, "My dad likes to think large ... (or small," depending on the project he's involved in The supernova Ant ares Includes the constellation Scorpio, her father's Zodiac siga a coincidence coin-cidence he didn't realize until after selecting the name. A modern-day Renaissance Renais-sance man of sorts, Ricardo Hernandez, trained in architecture archi-tecture at the University of Mexico in Mexico City, also paints, draws and sculpts. After his family emigrated to Utah 16 years ago and couldn't find the right furniture furni-ture for their Orem home, he build an entire set of living room furniture based on the familiar Mission style that's a staple back home. He began making scale models at a 13-year-old boy with his uncle in their small town outside of Mexico City. After attending university, Ricardo Hernandez designed commercial building mock ups, signs, products and arts for an advertising company. He also did work for the Springville Art Museum and other area businesses including in-cluding creating the faces for robotic toys prior to starting his scale model LDS temple business. Five years ago, Bernie Hernandez sat down with her husband and knowing of his considerable artistic skills and love of making scale models, suggested he make models of the LDS temples. "He was born to be an artist," art-ist," Nancy Hernandez said To assemble a custom blueprint for his scale models, mod-els, Hernandez travels with his family to each temple and does exhaustive research including snapping photos of the structures from every angle possible and taking physical measurements. He then returns to his home-based home-based workshop where he drafts up designs and reduces each temple's dimensions dimen-sions to a size that will fit on a hand-made B-inch by 5-inch mahogany base. "It's exactly like visiting the temple," Ricardo Hernandez Her-nandez said of his scale replicas. rep-licas. "We know the temples more than any other people." Each reproduction takes about 3 to 4 days to finish and the family has received permission and copyrights from the LDS Church to design de-sign and sell the scale models. mod-els. The most popular are the Salt Lake Temple, followed by the Nauvoo Temple and then the Manti Temple. They plan to add the Mesa Arizona Ari-zona Temple and St George Temple next year along with figurines of Jesus Christ and others from church history. "We put attention Into every ev-ery single detail, that's why I takes so long," Ricardo Hernandez said "It's like a picture in 3-D." Though there's other makers of scale model LDS temples cut there, Ricardo Hernandez says the accuracy, accura-cy, quality and beauty of his artworks is unmatched Business is picking up, but it's a niche market, mostly LDS church members who want to get something extra special for a wedding or wedding anniversary, he said They recently bunched a new Web site where clients can see the photos of the models online at www .ant ar-eBsca5emodek.com. ar-eBsca5emodek.com. Because the family cant survive fmanci&Ily on Antares Scale Models fust yet, they have other employment to suppie-ment suppie-ment their incomes. But Nancy Hernandez said I'l not about the money, but her father's love of his art and an opportunity for the famSy to share sonwthfog that inspiring and sacred to them with others. Just workircathecimode5s brings a more peaceful and spiritual ttaoiphere into their home, she tail Tha s ha pastaon," Nancy Nan-cy Hernandez said |