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Show SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, October 12, 2006 Comments ArtMuseumisa treasure in our community Editor For the past year I have been a volunteer at the Springville Museum of Art. I had visited the museum muse-um several times and was impressed by the grand building with its spacious, well-lit galleries, lovely patterned tile floors and its amazing collection of art-something art-something for everyones taste. This remarkable facility compares favorably with many large city galleries. And to find it in a lovely small town in Utah! As a volunteer, I have learned why this museum is so remarkable. It is the fine, dedicated staff, to whom no detail is too small to address. The brochures are "slick" and informative. informa-tive. Every show, family fam-ily night meeting, training, show openings, the Art Vote for those who support Jessica's Law Editor: It is high time we the public, not ask but Demand that legislation be passed to protect our children from sexual predators. Our state has known and dragged its feet in passing pass-ing Jessica's Law in Utah, year after year they (our state government) promise to pass some sort of law unknown to the public but never have. When Mark Lunsf ord came to Utah he was totally total-ly ignored by our government govern-ment and our media gave yery little information when he did arrive. Utah is standing still. Do Not vote for anyone that will not support Jessica's Law in Utah. Jessica's Law will (1) increase in-crease the penalty for lewd and lascivious molestation of a child to life in prison or a split sentence of a mandatory man-datory minimum 25-year prison term, followed by lifetime supervision with electronic monitoring. (2) Increase, from 20 to 30 years, the period of time a sexual predator is allowed to petition to have the sexual sex-ual predator designation removed. (3) Increase sexual predatoroffender pred-atoroffender registration and reporting requirements. require-ments. (4) Sexual predators preda-tors who murder their victims now qualify for the death penalty in capital cases. (5) Designate failing to re-register as sexual offenderpredator of-fenderpredator or harboring harbor-ing or assisting a sexual predatoroffender a third Springville Herald 269 E. 400 South Springville, UT 84663 An edition of The Daily Herald a Lee Enterprises, Inc. Newspaper. Subscriptions & Delivery Service ....375-5103 News & Advertising .489-5651 Fax...... .489-7021 E-mail . .artcltYavpro.com Springville Herald, Daily Herald edition (USPS 513-060) a weekly newspaper published at 269 E. 400 S. Springville. Utah 84663. Periodicals Postage Paid at Springville, Utah 84663 and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Springville Herald, 269 E. 400 S. Springville, Utah 84663 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations News We welcome news tips. Call 489-5651 to report a news tip or if you have a comment or questions. We welcome letters to the editor. All letters must Include the authors name ( printed and signed) and a telephone number. We reserve the right to edit letters for clarity, punctuation, taste and length. Letters are welcome on any topic i fr Ball, Children's Art experiences experi-ences are done with precision preci-sion and grace. Over all the activities, Mr. Vern Swanson, the energetic and tireless curator, cura-tor, is there, with his assistant, assis-tant, Natalie Petersen, and office manager, Dawn Jensen, Jen-sen, who are very "hands on" along with the rest of the tireless dedicated office of-fice staff. . Mr. Swanson is very much'in demand as he appraises ap-praises art work, travels abroad to collect art, does docent tours and can even be found carrying chairs to set up for some activity. His knowledge of art history his-tory and all phases of visual vi-sual art genre is amazing. This facility and its staff conduct the various shows throughout the year, i.e., the Spring Salon featuring Utah artists, the state-wide degree felony. (6) Require those already convicted of sex crimes to have electronic monitoring for the remainder of their probation (I would say life) (7) Require all county misdemeanor probation officials of-ficials to search the sexual offender registry when a new offender is assigned to them. If we don't act fast we will have sexual predatorsoffenders preda-torsoffenders running (which they already are) to live in Utah. Start a petition pe-tition drive for signatures. Let our leaders know how much we love our children in Utah. Our Great State of Utah will not' be so great if we vote for people to represent repre-sent us who have no clue on how to protect our children. chil-dren. Be a smart voter, find out who's representing you and ask if they support Jessica's Jes-sica's Law and if they so no, ask what they plan on doing to keep predatorsoffenders predatorsof-fenders doing what they do so well and that is harming the most vulnerable, our children! There is nothing they can say that can replace Jessica's Jessi-ca's Law. It will even keep the predators that exist in our schools and government govern-ment on the straight and narrow. Just reading what to expect from Jessica's Law they will think twice. Vote smart. Think of our children. They can't vote and remain vulnerable in Utah. Sandi Boley Orem October il m& I (1 :05) 4:35 8:30 (1:20) 4:00 (1 :35) 4:05 (1:00) 3:50 CsHHn'4: (1:15) 4:30 2E (1:30) 4:15 7:10 9:35 COME EXPERIENCE THX SOUND IN EVERY THEATER! 465-8500 Order and print tickets online at www.stadiumcinemas.com No discount passes. All auditoriums are THX certified! Cinemas open all day every day except for 9:00 Sunday showings Early Matinee Sunday, Saturday & Thursday onlyl High School Art, the Quilt Show and Spiritual and Religious Exhibit in the winter and other special exhibits. There is always something going on for the community and the whole state. The permanent collection in the upper galleiies features fea-tures some Utah artists and the Russian art is amazing. The museum is a great resource for the schools through the outreach program pro-gram and through many other programs to serve the citizens of Utah. This. is truly a Utah treasure! trea-sure! Peggy Sullivan Springville Red Ribbon Night Tuesday, Oct 17 Editor Red Ribbon Month is here again! Have you seen the banner hanging above Springville's Main Street asking for your support in fighting youth drug abuse, or the red ribbons tied, on the trees of Springville and Mapleton's Main Streets? Youthnet and the Spring-villeMapleton Spring-villeMapleton PTA Council are sponsoring the 10th annual an-nual Red Ribbon Night on Tuesday, Oct. 17, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the SHS Auditorium. Audito-rium. Each October this meeting calls attention to the need for citizens to be aware of the dangers of youth substance sub-stance abuse and addiction. We invite all parents, grandparents, grand-parents, teens and interested interest-ed citizens to attend. Our speaker will be Michelle Mi-chelle Amerman, who will speak on "The New Face of Drugs." Elementary age children have become a new target for illegal drugs and parents of younger children are especially encouraged to attend. This year, Red Ribbon Night is part of the PTA Youthnet community Forums Fo-rums four monthly meetings, meet-ings, designed to educate parents, youth and the community com-munity on the many risks Mapleton Police Report Mapleton Police had 34 calls with 10 of them for animal problems from September Sep-tember 19 to 26. Two female fe-male juveniles were cited for trespassing, and one vehicle was broken into and several items taken. From September 26 to October 3, Mapleton Police had 53 calls with 13 of them for animals. Barry Steed, 102 S. Aspen Dr., Mapleton, was cited "The place to watch a moviel" Stadium seating THX sound "Exit 248 in Payson, 633 So. 950 West 13-19 2i 7:00 9:30 131 H i 6:50 9:30 6:35 9:25 '2r 7:05 9:20 Police investigate suspicious item left in vehicle Shortly after 6 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 6, Springville Police responded to a call of a possible pipe bomb placed in the rear seat of a woman's wom-an's vehicle. When officers arrived, they observed what appeared to be a piece of galvanized pipe with plastic end caps in the car. The Utah County Bomb Squad was notified and responded re-sponded to the scene. The item was secured and taken tak-en by the bomb squad for examination. Bomb technicians techni-cians x-rayed the device before be-fore dismantling was done. The device contained several sev-eral pennies and a white, past-like substance. Further investigation is currently being conducted to identify the substance. youth face. Last month our presentation was from the Utah State Attorney General's Gener-al's Office on Internet safety. safe-ty. In November the topic will be pornography. Several teachers at the Springville and Mapleton secondary schools offer extra ex-tra credit for their students who attend. SHS is offering credit for 1 detention for students who attend and an additional credit if a parent attends with the student. Please make plans to attend at-tend Red Ribbon Night. More and More families in our community have been affected deeply by youth drug abuse. Many youth who became addicted in their teens are now in their twenties and struggle every day to stay -clean, employed, stay married, raise their children, etc. Many others paid the ultimate ulti-mate price for the addictioa They lie in the Springville and Evergreen Cemeteries, having left behind grieving families who still can't believe be-lieve it happened to them. The tools of prevention need to be learned by every f amily-before the choice is made by our youth to try drugs. Marianne Stephens for a dog running at large. Ryan Bret Anderson, 4155 W. 6400 South, Lake Shore, was arrested for an outstanding out-standing warrant. Ashley Ann Remund, 1801 E. 400 North, Mapleton, Maple-ton, was arrested for two warrants. Erika Quist, 110 E. 200 South, Salem, was arrested for a warrant. There was a two-car accident ac-cident without injuries at 400 E. 1200 North. THE PROFESSIONALS... A 'K;7- ' 1 AiA-A waeWietiaMAitHiftMiiiaiUHBBBBB Chad Braithwatte, Randy Brailsford, Kevin Lyman, Bryan Brattsford, and Robert Cloward ...READY TO SERVE YOU. ASK ABOUT OUR LARGE INVENTORY OF NEW FORDS AND PRE-OWNED CARS! .,rtMSTOCOft,.. SfeSSSSSefeSJf)' Oldeat BSsnHVH SPANISH FORK NEPHI &3'i If 25S4 North 2M East 131 South Main tmM Si5Ffi5&l& minus. mnnmi .vm editorial The New Face of Drugs... what can parents do? I think my teen maybe using drugs. What do I do? My child is using drugs or alcohol. What do I do? ' What is the most dangerous drug on the street today? How do you tell if someone is'using drugs? How can I protect my children and family so I can avoid the problem altogether? Is my family at risk? - Is drug awareness enough? How can I protect my family? What do I need to know about drugs? What if my child is on drugs? These are just some of the questions parents ask when confronted with the fact or possibility that their kids are using drugs. The drugtalLorg website says that, "Today's world of drugs is much different than the world that most parents grew up in. Consequently, there are thousands of parents par-ents who teach their kids what they know and believe that their family is safe. They then wake-up one day to discover that their child is deeply addicted, often an addiction ad-diction that is driven by a drug their parents never even considered as a threat." The dilemma is that parents are seldom given up-to-date information about the threats their children face and never given the activities and tools needed to genuinely protect their family. Parents and young people can get some of that information infor-mation on Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m. at Springville High School at the PTAYouthnet sponsored Community' Forum. Fo-rum. All parents and their children are invited to attend this one-hour meeting. ' The subject to be discussed by an expert will be "The New Face of Drugs." Go their website www.drugtalk. org for lots of valuable information. In order to strengthen and protect your family from today's to-day's ever-changing world of drugs, it is vital that you: 1. Understand today's drug fundamentals and stay on top of evolving trends. 2. Recognize the survival skills mastered by drug users. us-ers. 3. Develop in-home drug detection strategies. You can integrate the core drug comprehension principles prin-ciples through the following in-home activities: 1. Each week - perform a mental activity check on your child's activities. 2. Each month perform a drug safety check in your home and family's environment. 3. Each quarter - perform a one-on-one check of your child's safety and well-being. DrugTALK's HomeFree programs include compelling, mind-opening and hearthanging drug comprehension tools and resources that will help you: 1. Learn and teach your family about today's drugs and leading trends. ' 1 ' 2. Know what, when and how to talk about drugs as a family. 3. Recognize how young people mask substance use and abuse. ? 4. Identify potential flags of abuse in your family. Parents need to respond, not react, to the discovery of drug use by someone you love. Sign up for Equal Pay Plan , Citizens of Springville may sign up for the Equal Pay Plan to pay for their utilities. Those wishing to pay in this manner can do so in May and October. The deadline is October 25. 1 You must have lived at the same location in Springville for one year or more, with the utility bill in your name. And you must have a completely current, zero balance, on your utility account when signing up. To sign up, fill out the coupon in your current utility util-ity bill or go to the utility office in the City Building and sign up. Your signature is needed to start the process. The Equal Pay amount must be paid each month when due or you may lose your privilege and become be-come subject to shut-off. 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