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Show I Page 2 0 R E M TIMES Thursday, August 21, 2008 Thi NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU P.G. man Cathy Allred NORTH COUNT f 5TAFF U.S. Navy Capt. Richard Guernsey of Pleasant Grove wants to bring an Iraqi friend home. f le and his coworkers call the man "Jim" rather than by his real name to protect his life and the lives of his wife and three young children. The man works as a translator for American soldiers in Iraq. CBS News published a report in February 2007 that there are close to 10,000 translators in Iraq, but only 50 special visas to the U.S. have been available each year for them. Since the article was released, re-leased, legislation was passed creating a Special Visa Immigration Immi-gration program allowing more allied Iraqis a way to escape a certain death if they stay in their country. There are some high costs involved in-volved in moving to the United States, from $10,000 to $15,000. Jim is saving about $500 a month, hall his monthly salary, for the moving process but he won't be able to save enough by Arts Continued from Page I Muir stated. "She said, 'I'm so glad you're doing this. I'm a work -at -home mom, and I don't have a place to display my work.'" Kirk IX'I leer, president of the Timpanogos Woodturners Association, was one of the exhibitors, and said he grew up in Orem and got his start at Lincoln Jr. High in shop classes. Pens, oil vials, salad bowls, and pepper mills are just a few of the one-of-a-kind items Del leer creates. Each of DeHecr's items has a story behind it. For example, exam-ple, wood from a storm-damaged tree that was removed from his daughter-in-law's grandparents' home was used to make some poplar bowls. The daughter-in-law played in the tree as a child, and now that the tree is gone, has her memories preserved in the art objects made by Del leer. Diane Asay, an Orem resident resi-dent for 30 years who teaches art at Brigham Young University, Univer-sity, brought some of her wa-tercolor wa-tercolor pieces to Monday's show. "I am a member of the Orem Arts Council," Asav NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS 399 E. State St. Pleasant Grove Marc Haddock 443 3268 North County Editor mhaddockheraldextra.com Cathy Allred 443 3262 Lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. Grove callredheraldextra.com Barbara Christiansen 443-3264 American Fork, Alpine, Cedar Hills bchristiansenheraldextra.com Mike Rigert 443 3265 Orem, Vineyard mrigertheraldextra.com Beky Beaton 443 3267 Sports bbeaton heraldextra .com Josh Walker 443 3260 Advertising Account Executive jwalkerheraldextra.com Volume 135 Orem Times Daily Herald Edton. USPS 411-700 a weekly newspaper published at 399 E State St., Pleasant Grave. Utah 84063. Periodical;, postage paid at Pleasant Grove. Utah 84062 and at additional mailing offices Postmaster: Send address changes to Orem Times. PO Box 65, Orem. Utah 84059-0065, Published thursdavs by Lee Publications, which is a division of Lee Enterprises, Inc Membr: Aud't Bureau of Circulations wants to Bringing Jim Home Where: ny Zions Bank What: The Jim Donation Account Number: Account 560385999 Needed: $10,000 to $15,000 the time the Special Visa Immigration Immi-gration process is complete in 8-10 months. Capt. Guernsey has turned to his friends, coworkers and family for help bringing Jim to the U.S. "While I will be helping as much as I can, more help is needed," Guernsey said. Director of the Iraqi Strategic Support Cell, part of the Multinational Multi-national Force-Iraq, Guernsey has opened a donation account at Zions Bank. Anyone can donate do-nate at any Zions Bank branch at " The Jim Donation Account," number 5()0:5X5!)!I!). Guernsey has seen people like Jim killed because they risk explained, "and I thought I might as well participate and gel some exposure. In my work on the council, I try to represent the view that we need more venues for artists." One of Asay's specialties is capturing in her painting the translucence, colors, and personalities of glass bottles, which remind her of people with their various colors, sizes, and shapes. Shinano Miyazawa, a junior ju-nior at Mountain View High School, drew a lot of attention at the show with his 3-D and 2-D art. By drawing with pen and pencils, he turns recycled paper and cardboard into objects such as battleships, airplanes, robots, and cell phones. Miyazawa said that when he was a child he did not have a lot of toys to play with, so he drew flat ones on paper. That start eventually led to his 3-D art. Through trial and error, Miyazawa has refined his creations cre-ations to the point that the cell phones have been mistaken for real ones. "1 have fooled the teachers, and some students, stu-dents, too," he said. "It was really fun to talk with all the artisans and get this arranged," said Muir. Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILY HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Jennette Esplin 756-7669 Office Manager Megan Carleton 344-2558 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Allison Davies 344-2570 DesignerCopy Editor Ashley Franscell 344-2585 Photographer Issue 35 INFORMED AND bring Iraqi translator to U.S. Courtesy Jim and his family are hoping to be able to move to the United States before they are killed by Iraqi insurgents because of Jim's work with rebuilding his country. working for the U.S. government. govern-ment. "He's got a great family, he's helped me tremendously," Guernsey said. "Our team works very closely with the Ministry of Defense and several other ministries. Without him it would be very difficult to do our job." UCAS Continued from Page 1 and Provo school districts. UCAS principal Clark Baron welcomed students, parents, government leaders and faculty fac-ulty and board members to a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony and tour of the building Monday Mon-day afternoon. "We are thrilled to have it," he said. Previously, students met in a cramped commons arealunchroom arealunch-room space in the educational building. With the new activity center, those spaces have been remodeled into a classroom, study area and an expanded office. Baron said. "The study arealibrary is small, but with a new $47 million library just across the way, we don't need our stacks of books." he said. The running joke at the school was that all a student had to do to get to his next destination between class periods peri-ods was hold to up his elbows horizontally. Under the support of the wall-to-wall throngs, the student would be transported down the narrow main corridor cor-ridor without even having to take a step, Baron said. "It will alleviate the crowd Can the county fair fe went to the Utah County Fair Saturday Sat-urday looking for an answer to the on-going question can this fair be saved? It's been an ongoing struggle to re-establish the county fair as a place people want to spend an afternoon after-noon or an evening, and it seemed like the fair's return to Spanish Fork deserved a closer look. It's kind of a come-full-circle year for the fair, which, for several years, was running on empty. Up until about 10 years ago, the fair had a permanent home at the Spanish Fork Fairgrounds, but there was a falling out between the county, which owned the fair, and Spanish Fork, which owned the fairgrounds. I used to attend as a matter of course, looking look-ing for local entries that had done well that might be the basis for a story. But that last year, the fairgrounds was rundown, the fair was hot and dirty and there was an overabundance over-abundance of commercial vendors and not enough fair-type entries such as home-grown vegetables, canned peaches and custom-built dollhouses. After the break-up between the fair and Spanish Fork, the event underwent various permutations. After a brief hiatus, an abbreviated Utah County Fair was held at UVU's McKay Events Center. It had the advantage of being in a central location, and the disadvantage of being be-ing at the McKay Events Center, where there were no provisions for animals, limited space for displays and no fair-type atmosphere to speak of. If the fair at Spanish Fork had lost some of its charm, the Orem fair had almost none at all. The second year, fair organizers brought in a small petting zoo, so there would be some animals, but they were housed in a pen on the hot parking lot, and instead of being intriguing, intrigu-ing, you just felt sorry for the poor animals. With the events center filled with commercial com-mercial booths, there was no place for a large concert or other event to anchor the fair, and interest continued to wane. Five years ago the fair continued moving i INVOLVED Jim's works as a translator and cultural advisor for Guernsey's Guern-sey's ISSC team. He is a Sunni, a Iraqi minority. "Iraqi national translators, commonly referred to as 'terps.' have been targeted by many armed and insurgent groups, to include Al-Qaeda in Iraq," said Rachid Ayouni, stra ing in our hallways," said UCAS student services counselor coun-selor Carl Nielson. "It will help overall with 360 students in a small area." In addition to serving as a commons area complete with furniture and computer stations for students to hang out, study or just relax, the activity center will serve breakfast and lunch from its kitchen, Baron said. Physical education classes will be held in the afternoons, and the facility is fully equipped for athletic events, school dances and UCAS student assemblies. UCAS put away $700,000 in state Legislature-appropriated funds in 2004 to build the new facility and $500,000 from legislation leg-islation for UVU's transition to a university last month. The difference was generated by UCAS banking away computer purchase program and sponsorship spon-sorship money and the school making do with existing hardware. hard-ware. Baron said. "The building is now up and paid for," he said. "Really, it's been in the plans since Day 1." Baron credited former UVU president William Sederburg and state Rep. Rebecca Lock-hart, Lock-hart, R-Provo, who attended Monday's event, with seeing the potential UCAS offers students and backing legisla Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN HI tegic consultant for the Multinational Multi-national Force-Iraq. Both Jim, Ayouni and Guernsey Guern-sey interact with senior officials in the Iraqi government, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry Min-istry of Interior, the Ministry of Industry, and 17 other ministries. min-istries. Ayouni said people like Jim are so key in rebuilding Iraq, vital to helping "commanders navigate cultural terrains," that they are sought by insurgents, found and killed. Guernsey said Jim's family lives in what is called the Red Zone and Jim commutes everyday every-day to the Green Zone, a more secure part of the city. Everyday that goes by, it gets more and more dangerous for Jim and others like him, he said. "I can honestly say, as much as I know Rich, he surprised me when I learned that he had set up an account to help Jim and his family," Ayouni said of Guernsey. "Rich is a great friend, family man, Navy officer offi-cer ... Above all, he has and still is making a difference with the Iraqis." tion that made the school and funding for the activity center possible. Decked out in his new black UCAS Student Council jacket, senior class president Bridger Maxwell and his friends approved ap-proved of the new facility. "I'm loving it," he said. "Finally "Fi-nally we have a place that can fit the whole student body." Though students will continue con-tinue to go across the street to UVU for classes and to study, UCAS senior Mary Miller said the new activity building will help reduce a portion of the continual mass exodus of students stu-dents across the street to UVU. "There was a lot of jaywalking," jaywalk-ing," she said. Created four years ago as one of six early college high schools in Utah affiliated with institutions of higher learning, learn-ing, UCAS students hail from across Utah County and beyond. be-yond. Coursework is centered around the sciences, math and engineering, and students have the option of earning college col-lege credit by attending UVU courses. In the past two years, 80 percent per-cent of UCAS graduates have received tuition-free associate degrees to complement their high school diplomas, Baron said. be saved? north, this time to Thanksgiving Point, which had created its Electric Park as a venue for the fair. The idea was simple. Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing Point would host the fair, and bear much of the cost of putting on the event. In return, the fair would expose a lot of Utah County residents resi-dents to Thanksgiving Point. The animals were back, albeit al-beit in the homogenized setting of Thanksgiving Point's Farm Country. Coun-try. But Thanksgiving Point didn't permit the kind of carnival that makes a great fair, with rides that border on the edge of being safe, and an obviously rigged midway. They tried hard, but it was too sanitized to qualify as an interest ing fair. So we went to this year's fair to see what Pleasant Grove's Carol and Jay Harmer, who were asked by the county to direct the fair, had come up with. This is what we found. It looked like a fair. Admission was free, so anyone could walk around and look at stuff. The display barn was M of interesting stuff: lots of 4-H displays, dis-plays, homegrown onions, and the best Lego display I've ever seen outside of Legoland. The carnival and midway were appropriately appropri-ately seedy, I dont mean this as a criticism. The fairs of my youth always featured a traveling trav-eling carnival that was ... suspect. It was part of the fun. The commercial booths were there, but they didnt overpower the event. It smelled like a fair. There weren't a lot of animals, but many steers, including the grand champion, were on display along with sheep, goats and chickens of various types. Adding to the charm, the folks directing traffic did so from the back of a horse. And there was enough dirt to make you fell like you'd taken a trip to the country. It played like a fair. Well, it had a demolition derby. Many fairs have a big country music concert or a rodeo. But the demolition derby, which is redneck entertainment en-tertainment at its best, is probably the easiest of all these events to organize. If the Utah County Fair is going to be saved, Festival Continued from Page I from the festival. It's a purist pur-ist act of service and love of story and what story does for the community, individuals individu-als and families ... So we love having her back." Though the art form continues con-tinues to grow in popularity thanks in part to the festival's emergence as America's second sec-ond largest of the kind after the National Storytelling Festival Fes-tival in Tennessee, each year the three-day event's drama, humor, and humanity draws more new fans, she said. "It's so fun to watch someone who's never been exposed to the festival coming com-ing for the very first time," Ashton said. Among the professional national tellers highlighted at this year's festival are Rex Ellis, a former Smithsonian Institute chairman and the current vice president at Colonial Colo-nial Williamsburg, along with favorites Gay Ducey and Bill Harley. Also featuring national tellers tell-ers Victoria Burnett, Carmen Deedy, Kevin Kling, Motoko, Jay O'Callahan, Susan Reed, and Antonio Rocha , this year's storytellers may be the event's most diverse and talented tal-ented group yet, Low said. "What a presence in talent, depth and variety," she said. Along with Storytelling Committee members, Low helps select lineups well in advance ad-vance of the August festival and Midwinter Conference in February by traveling to hear tellers live and listening to their CDs. "My kids are already asking when I'm in the car auditioning storytellers' CDs (I have a 10-year-old daughter daugh-ter and 14-year-old son) 'So which of the people on the CDs do we get to hear this summer?'," she said. "They hear a name and squeal with delight." Though in the past the festival fes-tival has mixed in Utah and Western region storytellers to complement the national tellers and get them exposure honing their craft, festival organizers have received an overwhelming number of auditions au-ditions from tellers across the country that organizers had to make a change this year. Festival organizers have simply tried to pick the best tellers for audiences to enjoy, Low said. But not to leave out local tellers, a new Utah Tells segment including Utah tellers Cherie Davis and Emily Em-ily and Wes Whitby has been created for Saturday's performances perfor-mances during the 12:30-1:30 p.m. lunch break. "We want to help create stages and forums for Utah and regional tellers," Low said. To enhance the summer storytelling experience, the festival also adds a full selection selec-tion of local musicians, entertainment, enter-tainment, puppeteers and restaurant res-taurant food booths. Featured musicians this year include Joshua Creek, The Accords, Sassafras Folk String Band, Stevens Party, Fire on the Mountain, and many others. The opening night event, "Look Who's Talking," features fea-tures short performances by all guest performers on Thursday, Aug. 28, at 7 p.m. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. with music performances by Joshua Josh-ua Creek. Evening programs at the SCERA Outdoor Shell Theater include "My Favorite Favor-ite Stories," on Friday, Aug. 29, at 8 p.m and "Laughin' Night," on Saturday, Aug. 30, at 8 p.m. "People have forgotten how fun it is to listen to a really-great really-great story. Our lives our so full of media and that's exciting. excit-ing. But the wonderful, intimate inti-mate form of entertainment in a story is so satisfying," Ashton said. "It's a form of entertainment that you paint a picture on the screen of your mind." IF you go What: The 19th Annual Timpanogos Storytelling Festival When: Aug. 28-30 (see online schedule for artists and performance times) Where: Mt. Timpanogos Park in Provo Canyon. Thursday workshops are held at the Orem Public Library and "My Favorite Stories" and "Laughin' Night" are at the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theater. Food Vendors: Costa Vida, Magleby's Fresh, Rhodes Rho-des Rolls, Tucanos, and Wallby's. Tickets, schedules and information: in-formation: Online at www. timpfest.org, by phone at 229-7436, in person at the Orem Public Library, 58 N. State Street in Orem, or at the festival. ( N G I f i |