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Her ! audience watches, spellbound, as she spins the ball on one finger, then sends it rolling up and down her arms. Reiss visited Vineyard Elementary Elemen-tary School last week to deliver a two-fold message to students: Be a team player, and work hard in school. Reiss' participation in the firsi year of the new women's professional profes-sional league was "an incredible experience," she said, "the best of my career so far." Originally from New York, the Starzz guard said she loves Utah and enjoys spend 1 - SCOTT HOWELL newspaper of general circulation in Utah County.' Copies of the list are available at the Times office, 538 South State Street in Orem, during regular business hours (Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 5:30 p.m.) for the asking. ing time both here and in Los Angeles. "It's beautiful out here," she said of the state, "and there are great people." The Starzz will open their three-month 1998 season on June 11, according to Scott Miller, director di-rector of public and community relations for the team, who accompanied accom-panied the player on her trip to Orem. Reiss said the team will play 30 games this year two more than last year because of the addition of two new teams to the league -- the Detroit Shock and the Washington Mystics. Miller and Reiss immediately involved the students in each of two sessions held in the school gym, selecting volunteers to work together in trying to make baskets. bas-kets. Participants from the younger grades worked in teams of two, with one player shooting and one player retrieving balls. The upper grades had one player blindfolded, while the teammate retrieved balls and gave verbal assistance in directing shots. Miller told the children that, as the games proved, teamwork is very important. He explained that by REVA BOWEN City Editor Scott Howell, Utah Senate minority mi-nority leader, was in Orem last week to address a Utah County ; Democratic Party Central Committee Com-mittee meeting, and told local leaders that the concept of "When : in Rome, think like the Romans," , needs to be reflected in party phi- , ; losophy in order for Democrats to get the support they require in Utah. . Howell said ecclesiastical preju- f dices must be forgotten. "We live in "Rome'," he declared, referring . to Utah's predominantly LDS cul- i ture. (Howell himself is LDS.) Republicans have been good at painting Democrats as "abortion- ' ists" and "gay rights lovers", according ac-cording to the state senator, while ,'' ..he said he-does not know anyone-"' who is an abortionist, or anyone (except a few on the far left) who would vote for same-sex marriages. mar-riages. The true priority for Democrats, he asserted, is protecting pro-tecting and taking care of families. fami-lies. Serious thought and introspection introspec-tion led Howell to a decision on December 26. "This party is going go-ing to change," he vowed then. The choice for Democrats, he said, is to win the "emotional and psychological psy-chological battles" while remaining remain-ing the political losers, Or to try for genuine victory. Howell went to his party's executive ex-ecutive committee and told them the party should stand for assuring assur-ing civil rights for gays, but the Starzz lost 21 games last year, but they still played as a team. He encouraged the students to practice teamwork in the classroom, class-room, then he introduced Reiss. Reiss asked the children two questions: "How many of you wake up every day and love to come to school?" and "How many of you wake up every day and love to play sports?" The Starzz player had many hands raised in the audience for each of the questions, which she said is unusual as she goes around speaking to groups. It is typical for students to love to play sports, but to not like school as well. Reiss shared her own childhood experiences. She said she was a B student throughout most of grade school, until she met her sixth grade teacher, "Mr. T.", a person who became her second father, a role model and mentor, and who still works with her today to-day as her personal coach. Mr. T. promised to teach her how to play basketball, but he insisted that she prove herself by bringing up her grades in school. When Reiss calls for the ball, Orem and Mountain View survived the quarter finals Monday in the 5A girls tournament, with the Tigers defeating Layton 55-47 and the Bruins defeated West Jordan 60-50, Both teams advance to the final four tonight with Mountain View playing Skyline and Orem will battle Bingham, The tournament is being be-ing played at the Salt Lake Community College, Ifc lte Mmm should not support same-sex marriages. mar-riages. He also said the position of permitting abortion in cases of rape, incest, or health and life of the mother provides a lot of room for "choice". The executive committee, pro-choice pro-choice factions, and gays were "taken back" by these departures from former party stands, and some gays have subsequently withdrawn their support from the Democrats. But Howell has been "furiously" recruiting Democrats with less radical views on the "moral issues" to run for office, and almost every spot for the state senate race is filled. Democrats are hoping to get a candidate to run for the seat of Sen. LeRay McAllister, R-Orem. The state senator from District 15 is not running for re-election this year, "We can win LeRay McAllister's seat," Howell said, at the same time observing that it will take "guts and courage". The 1998 election will be "the most important in the history of the state, since statehood", according ac-cording to Howell. One reason is that the officials elected will be "the ones welcoming the world to the state of Utah for the 2002 Olympics". Should they be from the "far right", or reflect a more "socialized world" in terms of helping each other? Howell asked. The Class of 1998 will also be responsible for doing reapportionment reapportion-ment setting political districts, he said. The minority leader noted that . in building support, he has met the academic goals Mr. T. outlined out-lined for her, he lived up to his pledge to teach her everything he could about basketball. "If it weren't for this man," Reiss said, "I wouldn't be where I am today." She advised the students stu-dents to be team players by helping help-ing each other out so everyone can do their best. Reiss also told the students that they can be successful in life by working hard in school. She went on to graduate at the top of her class in high school, and in the top 5 of her class at the University of Virginia. The player still works hard at what she does, practicing six to eight hours a day to excel at her sport. Reiss took time to answer questions ques-tions from the audience, revealing reveal-ing the following facts: Her favorite NBA players are John Stockton and Karl Malone, along with L.A.'s Kobe Bryant. The Jazz is her favorite NBA team. Although she now associates with celebrities like Karl Malone, Janet Jackson, Jim Carey, and Whitney Houston, Reiss best friends are people who have been her friends since childhood. achieved "phenomenal success from sources you would not believe." be-lieve." There are many individuals, individu-als, including religious leaders, who accept, as Howell does, the idea that political competition builds a better product. "The real winners are the citizens of the state of Utah," he said. "You should be as proud as anyone any-one to be a Democrat," Howell told the group, noting that Democrats have not raised taxes, haven't "embarrassed" the state with proposed pro-posed English-only legislation, and haven't wasted time designating desig-nating a state "fruit, rock, and fossil". Howell said a recent Dan Jones poll found that Democrats are more trusted in the state in pro- Deadline nears on essay contest Friday, February 27, at 4 p.m. is the deadline for young contestants contes-tants to submit essays in the Times contest, "My Most Magical Disney Memory". The 50-words-or-less essays and an accompanying accompany-ing entry form (found in today's paper) should be brought to the office at 538 South State Street in Orem no later than that time. Contestants must be in elementary elemen-tary school. Seven lucky winners Utah Starzz basketball star Tammi Reiss demonstrates skill with the ball at recent appearance in Orem moting education, the environment, environ-ment, and the common good of man. He said the party has led out in trying to do away with "the regressive tax on food." Republicans Republi-cans are vulnerable in part because of cost over-runs on 1-15 reconstruction. "Thank you for "hanging in'," Howell told the leaders. "We're small, but I'll tell you what we're going to grow, because people are 'fed up' (with the Republican Re-publican monopoly). We can win and you'll be part of the winning party." Caucus meetings are set for Tuesday, March 24, from 7 to 8 p.m. The State Democratic Party Convention will be Saturday, May 2, at Skyline High School in Salt Lake City. will receive five tickets each to "Walt Disney's World on Ice Toy Story", soon to play at the Delta Center March 18-23. 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