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Show WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2009 • A9 Guardian of Your Community News Woodland Hills water system complications Hilarie Orman STAFF WRITER Courtesy photo SERVICE WITH A SMILE: Katie Chase and her two toddlers deliver Meals-on-Wheels. Volunteers feed homebound senior citizens Elizabeth Merrell MEALS ON WHEELS The old saying, "If you want something done, ask busy people to do it," may be true. Working mothers volunteer more than any other group, according to the July 2009, report on civic engagement from the Corporation for National and Community Service, and women are more likely than men to volunteer, with working mothers volunteering at the' highest rate. In Spanish Fork, Katie Chase, a mother of two toddlers (Scout age two, and Lincoln age 4), delivers Meals-on-Wheels to homebound seniors each Wednesday. Starting at the Spanish Fork Parks and Recreation Building, the Chase family loads their van with nine lunchtime meals. "My children don't have grandparents nearby, so I wanted them to learn the joy of interacting with seniors in our community," Chase said, Scout helps carry the cooler. Lincoln carries a basket and Katie Ph.D. a licensed clinical slings the thermal bag over psychologist and author of her shoulder. It all fits easily "Evolution of the Soul." "Volunteering, as a famin their car. At the first stop, the 94- ily, can teach many positive year-olct "grandma" was lessons. When we contribute our time and effort, it still in bed. "Checking to make sure helps us to feel better about our seniors are safe is just ourselves, teaches a stronas important as delivering a ger work ethic, contributes to learning about the meal," Chase said. According to Chase, world around us, results in Meals-on-Wheels vol- us meeting different people unteers do three simple and forming different relationships, and provides things. "We deliver meals, we confidence-building expericheck on the seniors to ence in a variety of different make sure they are safe, and job tasks," Fisher said. we say a kind word. They Mountainland Associamay not talk to anyone .else tion of Governments is the all day." Utah County sponsor of the The second stop takes Meals-on-Wheels program. a few minutes longer as "Our volunteer program Chase collects a new recipe is thriving and successful for "bubble" pizza. in Utah County because our "She likes to share reci- community is filled with pes with me," Chase ex- caring, contributing people who understand the concept plained. Lincoln and Scout have of charity. Our volunteers learned to climb in the car and are teaching their children buckle their own car-seats. to be sensitive to the needs They take turns carrying the and feelings of others, "said Erin Dyreng MAG Nutrifood basket into each house. The family unit can be a tion Program Manager. very strong cohesive team, "Strong communities are according to Erik A. Fisher, built with strong families." The water system in Woodland Hills is all about gravity. Last week, Bob Fisher, city council member and guru of the water system explained the challenges of supplying water to a small area on a mountainside. The city will be fixing some of its potential hazards in the next few months, but others are part of a long set of deferred maintenance. "This system would cost $10 million to replace," Fisher said. Pointing to detailed drawings of the city streets, pipes, valves and elevation contour lines, he noted that at many places in the city the water pressure is 50 pounds per square inch (psi), while within a half mile, the pressure is 150 psi. The city is peppered with pressure reducing valves (PRVs) that hold the water at bay between elevation changes. Along Woodland Hills Drive the lowest PRV before the mailboxes is quite a distance uphill, and this is what leads to reported high water pressure at the LDS church nearby. Although the city considered placing a concrete vault there, in preparation for an eventual PRV, that work was postponed. Those attentive to the road work done in June and July saw large concrete structures being placed in the roadbed. Fisher said that those are gravel filled sumps to mitigate water runoff along the road. The water system has a booster station that directs water from the Maple Canyon well to the city's upper storage tanks and to the gravity-fed lines along Maple Drive and out to Woodland Hills Drive. Last year Fisher was surprised to find several problems in the booster station "The check valve failed, and the flow meter for the gravity lines is broken," he said. Moreover, the original fittings are rated for a system under much less pressure than the 330 psi that the city's topography imposes. The cause of that error has never been resolved. Public works director Jack Marshall is working with engineer Bruce Hall to order replacement parts, and in the fall when the city's water use falls off in cooler weather, they will begin replacing what is broken and inadequate. Making changes to the central part of the city's water supply has some risks, and they will test the ability of the system to operate with one pump while the other is disconnected. Fiesta Days Quilt Show •z# j=>* &*„&<*" ^4,^-;.i M.-W 4 - > £ * X •• "•• 4 "' * . "v '©•*-;.•_ ,- : '^; ^ ^ / ^ " V v? -.* - r "'•• • £ £<£^ 4 > ^ ^ ^ ^ "•'• , •< -.- r .^^^-^,1 *'^-% ^ •e^*. *Cfc Historical book reviewed Local history enthusiast Roger B. Nielson has produced another publication regarding Utah's frontier period. This effort is entitled "Utah's Black Hawk Veterans". Much has been written in pioneer histories, journals and diaries about that particular Indian War but very few details have been recorded about exactly who served, when they served, where they served and how long they served. This new publication will answer all those questions. The Utah Territorial legislature compiled an exact listing of vet- erans in the various militia companies involved in the war, their wartime expenses, along with verified names of individual members, and submitted the document to the US Congress in 1868, requesting compensation for expenses incurred during the war. The request was never funded by Congress..All expenses were therefore borne by the territory and the individual veterans. The State of Utah honored the veterans in 1906 by presenting individually named medals to all surviving veterans or their families. Pensions for ser- vices rendered were awarded beginning about 1918. The book is hardbound, 473 pages, with special hand-stitched binding for durability. Copies will soon be available from the following sources: Confetti Antiques in Spanish Fork, the Camp Floyd Museum at Fairfield, the BYU Bookstore, the Ft. Douglas Military Museum in Salt Lake City, Rosebud Antiques in Pleasant Grove, the Hutchings Museum in Lehi and directly from the author, 801-489-5251. Only 100 numbered copies have been printed. ,4-3>J^Ji:^.>* fe5 •<;* ; f ;^-^-: >w <•& *< i^K TlH»! -v-^^v. • * e ^ ^ < ; Courtesy photos GRANDMA'S APRON: Lisa Beckstrom Dunn won the $75 viewers' choice prize at the 9th Annual Fiesta Day's Quilt Show. "Grandma's Apron" was a tribute to her grandmother, Elizabeth Argyle Beckstrom, who she fondly remembers wearing an apron, the pockets filled with eggs she had gathered or bottles to feed baby lambs, or crochet hooks, or fresh produce from the garden. Her apron was used to dry tears and wipe little noses. Lisa's quilt was made out of 30's reproduction fabrics and was accompanied by an old fashioned apron she made. Local school counselor recognized by Cambridge Linette J. Jarrell, retired school counselor.for Nebo School District, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in education and counseling. As a middle school counselor for the Nebo School District, Mrs. Jarrell acted as her school's Counseling Department Chairman, conducting private and group counseling, as well as creating teaching units for presentation at teachers' requests. Her additional responsibilities included counseling with teachers and parents, managing interventions, guiding students academically toward career choices, administering state counselor curriculum management and implementation, working on district and school planning committees, and acting as an advocate for students. As a post-retirement position, Mrs. Jarrell returned to her elementary school roots, serving as part-time counselor and values lessons creator/instructor. Her future plans include writing children's books in conjunction with her artist/ illustrator husband. Prior to becoming a school counselor, Ms. Jarrell worked as a kindergarten and first-grade teacher, a district psychologist, and an elementciry school music and drama teacher. She re-' ceived her Master's Degree in Education Counseling and Guidance from Brigham Young University in Utah. LOVE IS IN BLOOM: Sharon Miya took home the second-place viewers' choice award of $25, donated by the Utah State Quilt Guild. Sharon pieced the quilt titled "Love is in Bloom." Her sister Mary Kathryn Hail did the hard embroidery. It was a wedding gift to Mary Kathryn's daughter Kara Hall Anderson. |