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Show OURTOWNS oD DailySHerald WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2006 METRO EDITOR | Joe Pyrah - 344-2586 - jpyrah@heraldextra.com Lehi Armory team showsoff skills Highland student wins 5100,000 scholarship Internationalvisitors view National Guard team’s rapid-response program Cathy Allred_ NORTH COUNTY STAFF training, equipment andpersonnelto. It was difficult to tell who was the star attraction at the Lehi Armory during Tuesday's two-hour demonstration — the visiting dignitaries or the Utah National Guard 85th Weapons of MassDestruction Civil Shongwe, memberof the Royal Swaziland Police Service,said of the 85th assist local first responders during a chemical, biological, nuclear on explosives event. “It’s great,” Sgt. Henry “Lucky” Civil Support Team,“It’s good that youhavethis. It makesthecities feel Support Team. safe and at home.” Shongwe's tiny landlocked country is surrounded mentorganizations. They spoke population of 1,173,900. Shongweis touring the United The foreign guests wereeither heads of security or law enforcesiSwati, Serbian, Estonian, Romanian, Norwegian and Urdu,but they needed nointerpreter for the English presentations. They'vevisited Oklahoma City to see counterterrorism systems, toured Washington,D.C. — visiting the Departmentof Justice and the FBI. At the Lehi Armory, the 85th Civil Support Team soldiers werehosting the group to show the program’s rapid-responsecapabili- ties for a hazardous material incident andto show how they use their on three sides by South Africa has a States for three weekswith the other dignitaries as part of an Interna- tional Visitor Leadership Program sponsored bythe U.S. Bureau of Edu- cational and Cultural Affairs. More than 135,000 international guests haveparticipated in the program sinceits inception in 1940. This isn’t the first time the team has hosted wWsitors and demonstrated its capabilities, and it won't be the last. Next week they doing a stadium exerciseat the E Center in West Val- JEREMY HARMON/Daily Herald * Riffat Mikhtar Raja, of Pakistan, left, and Sgt. Henry “Lucky” Shongwe,of Swaziland speak with Maj. Benjamin Morris of the 85th Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team as foreign law enforcement and security personnelvisited the Lehi Armory for training demonstrations Tuesday. ley City. Trainingis an intricate part of team capabilities, said Maj. Benja- min Morris. The federally funded 22-person team is uniqueto the National Guard. Certified by the Secretary of De- fense,it's on call 24/7 and is made up of both Air and Army Guard See ARMORY, D3 American Fork High senior takestop prize in Intel Science Talent Search THE ASSOCIATED PRESS She was in shock. That’s how self-described proud father Stephen Babb described his daughter's reaction when she found out she won a $100,000 college scholarship. ShannonBabb of Highland won the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search on Tuesday after spending years analyzing how to protect water duly by improving environmental buffers and changing daily behavior. Babb, who attends American Fork High School, studied the Spanish Fork River drainage system to assess the effects of human and animal behavior. The 18-year-old concluded that pollution runoff can be reduced by fortifying and rene the banks along the river, reducing animal grazing in those areas,directing runoff into settling ponds and educating people about how to discard household chemicals, Sone Babbsaid Shannonhas been ing Utah Lake for more than four ae andSpanish Fork River for about three. She has improved significantly since the oeseveral years ago whenshestarted using her baby-sitting moriey to buy test kits to measure the water. “It been just genuinely fun to watch her as she has foundherinterest and pursued it and just py her heart andsoul into it,” he said. Shannon's educational goal is to pursue an environmental science degree at Utah State University, which has an excellent ~ program, Stephen said. He was less surprised with Tuesday's result than she was. “Myfirst impression was ‘well, of course,’ ” he said. Over the competition's 65-year history, winners havegone on to earn more than 100 of the world’s most coveted honors, including six Nobel Prizes. Intel has sponsored the event since 1998. Yi Sun,17, of The Harker Schoolin San Jose, Calif, took secondplace and a $75,000 scholarship. Yuan “Chelsea” Zhang,also 17, of Montgomery Blair High Schoolin Rockville, Md., won the $50,000 third-place scholarship. Anotherthree dozen students won scholarships ranging from $5,000 to $25,000. Almost 1,600 students entered the competition. : » Daily Herald reporterHeidi Toth contributedto this story. ustin Klein, center, watches Jeff Sorensen bui MATT SMITH/Daily Herald his structure,left, as Skippy Jessop watcheshis structurefall to the table during tallest- building competition at UVSC on Tuesday. The competition was part of a promotion for a Habitat for Humanity house that UVSC will be involved in.The collegeis trying to raise $65,000 for the construction, which will begin in the spring of 2007. Anyone can contribute money to the project by sponsoring a squareinch of space for $0.50 at the Center for Service and Learning at UVSC. Once the construction begins, UVSC will need 45-60 volunteers a week for about five months. Cedar Hills votes to bondfor public works building Caleb Warnock DAILY HERALD Cedar Hills will bofrow upto $1.5 million to construct @ public works building. Council members voted unanimously in a recent meeting to authorize the city to issue the bond, which will be repaidby.property taxes. Cedar HillsMayor Mike McGee said vostde th he didn’t think the city wouldiise the entire $1.5 million He didn't know how muchthe bond will raise property taxes because he’s not sure how much the bond be. building will allow the city “to lish basic such as “in mind my mindthis is the bestlocation. I'm convinced it is the leastof the evils. Nobody wants a public works building anywhere, but you've got to have it somewhere.” — Jim P Cedar Hills City Council member cerns about the building, saying it may be too cheap'andcould bring down their property values. “The city has proposed to build the tayon Canyon Rod er ty etc., in a more timely andcost éffective manner,” according to the city’s I exterion ideal stig does not fit in with the current neighborhood and in my opinion it would look ON Ata Sonic hearingaring beforebeforet! the vote, several residents voiced congreat with stucco,” said resident Jim Perry. “Brick would probably be evenbetter, though probably a little more expensive. Whatever is done, I do hope it fits in with the existing neighborhood because my house is justbelow‘it, and the site is also visible from the golf course.” Architectural designer Tony Baros, who is working on a design proposal for the city, said he felt, residents have a “miscon¢ about the materials the city will use to construct the building. The office portion of the building will be part brick facade with stucco above,he said. “For the sakeofthe city, the garage portion ‘was done as a metal building,” he said.“It is cost effective. As designed, building materials will cost the city about $830,000, phus another $40,000 for landscaping, he said, noting “these numbers are very rough andthis has not gone out to bid. ee tried to balance economy Combes Jim Perry said ma- terials and landscaping could be debated for hours — and the city is not prepared to movethe building to another,less visible location. “In my mindthis is the best location,” he said, noting the city had studied and rejected a half dozen other sites. “I’m convinced it is the least of the evils. Nobody wants a public works building anywhere, but von ve dos to Have& smevitiece._ 2 iswom to ensure the citing Y s in tl 'simage, aeoy Manager Konra ride ee day one wesaid we want this to be the nicest public works building with the nicest Becocopng, that we ay andthey have wor! hard to makeit a really nice project for us.” The city is asking residents to vieroe conus the Free seminar teaches ways to spotfraud MichaelRigert DAILY HERALD If you've got money — any amount — you could be a victim of fraud. That's the messageofficials with the Utah Division of Securities to get’ across to Utah County residents when they present a free “Avoid Becoming a Victim of Fraud” seminar Saturday at noon at the Provo Marriott. showgh geared towardsenior citizens, th Davis-Schmidt, a securities examiner with the Utah Division of Securities, said Saturday’s seminar is knowledge everyone can benefit from. Accorditig to the Division, Utahns lose an estimated million a year in et scams.In recent years a Tooele man used ' asecurities Ponzi scheme to rob a group of ves of approximately $9 million, she Closer to home,an estimated 900 BYU worldwide, said Clark Caras, a Utah See FRAUD, D3 |