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Show Lff ft ru u I. s . I FFA Compound at High School Volume Eighty-Nine flow Strawberry Water Users Association President J. Ross Nielson cut the ribbon Saturday at festivities acknowledging the operation of new power facilities at theSWUA Power Plant at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon. Two new hydro generators are now in operation at the plant, each with a capacity of 1750 kilowats. With the refurbished number 3 generator nearby, the Spanish Fork plant is capable of producing 3,860 kilowatts now. Dignitaries on hand for the ribbon cutting with President Nielson included in-cluded SWUA Vice President Lamar V. Crandall, SWUA Power Superintendent Monte Taylor, SWUA Director and Plant Inspector Blair Hamilton, SWUA Manager and Secretary Treasurer Milton V. Senator Eldon Money will be the speaker at the Chamber of Commerce Luncheon on Thursday, Thur-sday, February 23, at 12:30. The luncheon will be held at Bart's Catering, 544 South Main. Reservations may be made at the Chamber office by calling Sandra, 489-4681. All citizens are invited to attend. Senator Money is our representative in the Utah State Legislature and will talk about the recent session and upcoming special session. New slogan for Chamber needed The Springville Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a contest. They would like someone to come up with a slogan that will encourage people to shop in Springville. Anyone interested in entering the Chamber Slogan Contest, should mail or hand deliver their entry to the Chamber of Commerce office at 175 South Main. The deadline is April 15th. The new slogan should be six words or less and will be used on posters, bags, doors to businesses or anywhere it would be appropriate. The winner will receive a $50.00 Savings Bond. 1 wniiiiiiiiiirii)iiiini(iiii- mi nmi , I ; iriir 3f "rt f fT ? - r", i w:-"W:Wv:i!v.sfc:.:W':':'M,:--v:: S;-v-:.- bGTO n liJ Theobald, President Jay Bingham of Bingham Engineering, President Bill Covin of Hydro West, SWUA Director Thomas F. Larson, Springville Mayor Brent Haymond, General Project Engineer Ken Fonnesbeck, and Engineer Ray Hixson. General Contractor for the project was Water Power Co. and Bingham Engineering, while the turbines, generator and switch gear was placed by Hydro West, under the direction of Electrical Engineer Bill Holveck. Walt Limb Construction installed the penstocks for the new structure along with concrete work, and the steel fabrication for the penstocks was done by Pittsburgh Des Moines, both local companies. Jerry Westman was the masonry contractor, Wayne Miller was in charge of carpentry, and John Mendenhall Plumbing was the plumbing contractor. Alan Jarvis Welding and Knoxley and Sons Welding handled welding chores for the project, and Geneva Rock Products supplied the concrete. con-crete. Steel reinforcing was supplied by Clydco Co. and Barney Inc. Goble Sompson built the hydro rake-intake, rake-intake, J. Lee Butler built the roof on the new structure, and Ideal Machine Works served as machinists for the project. The new generators replaced two that had been in operation since 1906 and had produced an estimated half billion kilowatt hours of power in the seventy-seven years of their existence. Manager Milton Theobald said he Springville Herald receives honors at press convention The annual Utah State Press Association met for their winter convention last week at St. George. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Conover and Mrs. Margaret Conover, all representing The Springville Herald, attended that three day meet. At the annual Past President's Breakfast, tribute was paid to the late Harrison Conover, former publisher of the Springville Herald. Mr. Conover was a past president and on the board of directors for many years of the state press organization. The awards dinner was held Saturday night and this newspaper received three awards. A first place plaque was won for Best Feature Story in 1983. That'was the special edition The Springville Herald printed on the Thistle disaster. It was a very popular section and had to be reprinted because of the demand for copies. A second award was won for the columns that were written last summer by Chris Tabaz. Chris edited the paper for the summer between semesters at Columbia University in New York. Chris was a graduate of Springville High and became interested in newspapering while working part time after school at the Herald. He then was editor of the year book his senior year. The third award was for Best Advertising Campaign. This was a third place award won for a campaign cam-paign that the paper conducted in 1983. SPRING VILLE, UTAH 84663 - hoped the old generating plant, just east of the new plant, can somehow be used as a museum. He's thinking of approaching the Utah State Historical Society with a proposal. The two new generators will allow peaking capability and dramatically increase the power-producing potential of Strawberry's water. The two old generators, combined with the number three generator, which has just been refurbished, produced a total of 1510 kilowatts, compared with the 3,860 capacity of the new facility. Operating officer, Craig Davidson, David-son, noted that the computer metering system produces a readout in fifteen minute intervals and is constantly monitering the power being used by Payson, Salem, Springville, the two stations in Spanish Fork, and the entire SWUA load. The system meters the total Mebo adopts new emergency plan By Michael Olson Nebo School District has adopted an emergency preparedness plan which will facilitate working with the Red Cross and other groups in case of such emergencies as flooding, earthquake, or fire. Phillip Argyle, District Director of Operations, recommended the adoption last week at regular board meeting. He noted that schools offer the most readily available facilitieb for taking care of large numbers o; people; therefore, it is especially important for the schools to be ready to accommodate them. He said the plan would include choosing several schools as base facilities, then the Red Cross would provide training. He said the comprehensive policy would define responsibilities of individuals within the school district. "We were very impressed with what happened in Spanish Fork last year," he noted, speaking of the cooperative effort that took place All state high school show joins Rockwell art For the first time in its 46-year history, the Springville Museum of Art is showing two major collections simultaneously. The display of 31 original Norman Rockwell paintings which opened January 7 was joined on February 17 by the annual Utah All State High School Art Show. "We've never had two shows of this size at the same time before," said museum director Vern Swanson. "I'm really glad they're on at the same time." Swanson said the Rockwell show will be of particular interest to the high school students participating in this years competition because of the narrative style Rockwell used in his illustrations. "High school students are interested in the same style that Rockwelll used," said Swanson, "but with different subjects sub-jects and approach. High school age youth have a tendancy to really like Rockwell's work." 1 hniary 22. VM n o)l MOSS' amount of power being used at any time and keeps a running total of the kilowatt hours for the current hilling period. Davidson emphasized that the new plant would provide the most efficient ef-ficient use of water used for power and would use the latest technology to keep the peak power usage from outside sources as low as possihlp thus saving money for Strawberry's rower customers. Strawberry also plans to rebuild the power facility located in Payson Canyon, where a hydro plant that ince produced 400 kilowatts now produces 300. The refurbishing wiil restore the higher capacity. The plant in Payson was originally built in 1941. In the new red brick building housing the turbines and the switch panel, along with the roar of power generation, a plaque is on the wall. It lists September, 1983, as con- during the early stages of the Thistle Mud Slide, when it was feared that a wall of water could come crashing down Spanish Fork Canyon. At that time, Larsen Elementary was selected as a base for taking care of any who might be threatened by the flooding. Those working in the school were given special training at the time. In formulating the plan, Argyle said the district looked at a model prepared by a California School district that had survived an earthquake. ear-thquake. Other models were investigated in-vestigated as well, but the California district had put together a rather comprehensive one after its catastrophic experience. "After our near catastrophe last year," said Argyle, "we woke up to what was really needed. We realize now that the school district has facilities available to allow temporary tem-porary housing and we need to be prepared." Sherrill Sandberg, assistant museum director, agreed. "The impact will be great," she said. "The students will be able to see their own work and then go upstairs and compare them to Rockwell's. 1 think it will be really motivating to them." Both Swanson and Sandberg agreed that the judging was very tough this year, allowing only the best works to be displayed. "I want a show that's really prestigious," said Sandberg, who did the majority of work in arranging for sponsors and awards. "You'll see the pieces here first and then traveling around for the other awards given. "It's really professionally oriented," she continued. "We want to have just the excellent works here. Why celebrate anything less . than excellence?" 'rice 3(1' struction date along with all the current directorship of SWUA Besides those mentioned above are W. Howard Riley, Clair O. Anderson, An-derson, William G. Brown, Glen Hawkins, Orlo B. Larson, Reed Rindlisbacher, G. Stewart Schaerrer. Marion Sorensen, Glendon Taylor, Gerald W. Thomas, and Ray S. Whiting. Enter the mystery profile contest now If you haven't entered the Profile Contest that is being sponsored by several Springville merchants, you should do so today. The amount of profile bucks that can be won is growing. Last week's winner missed the number of clues by one, so $20.00 in profile bucks were added to the pile of $32.00 to make $52.00 in profile bucks that can be won this week by the person who guesses the mystery profile. Sixteen local merchants along with the paper are sponsoring the contest which requires guessing each week who the mystery profile is for that week. Full rules are listed on the ad along with a picture of the mystery person. All participating merchants are also listed on this advertisement. Entries are to be deposited at the merchant whose ad has the heavy border each week. The contests will run from Wednesday through Monday. The winner will be chosen from the entries each week and will receive 12 mystery dollars which can be redeemed at any of the participating merchants for goods or services offered by that merchant. mer-chant. Clues concerning the mystery person for the week have also been hidden in the advertisements of the participating merchants uid if the winner has the correct amount of clues in that week's contest then he will win an additional 20 dollars in mystery dollars. If the total is incorrect in-correct then that twenty dollars will be carried forward into next week's contest. Guess the mystery profile this week and win $52.00 in profile bucks to spend in Springville with participating par-ticipating merchants. Police report Six incidences of vehicle burglary head the police log this week. Those reporting their cars or trucks had been broken into and items taken were: Jack Howell, 630 South 800 East, Brad Nusink, 1644 South Main, Leslie Shipp, 360 South 200 West, Dan Chatterton, 561 Buckley Avenue, Chris Nelson, of Spanish Fork and Dana Kinney, 129 South 500 West. Items taken from these vehicles in almost all cases were car stereos tapes and speakers. Tools were also taken. Ernest Boyer, 629 Brookside Drive reported vandalism to his home. The cars driven by John Murdock, 705 South 200 East, and Lisa Mc Cammon, 50 North 400 West, collided. Number Eight ' "i Vsf 4s Last weeks winner of the Profile Contest was Lena DeRose. Lena said that she had entered both weeks and was happy to have been drawn out of the lot. "She guessed the profile who was Don Terry, the manager of Christensen's Department store. Lena guessed 12 clues, but there were only eleven. The clues are buried somewhere in the ads of the participating merchants and each clue is in an area by itself. Lena received 12 profile bucks. Norma Averett was the winner of the Profile Contest for the first week the contest ran. She was unavailable to have her picture taken to run last week. Norma guessed the mystery profile who was police chief Leland Bowers. She also guessed the correct number of clues which were 11. She won $32 profile bucks to be spent in the participating stores. Mapleton City schedules use of park facilities The Mapleton City office will take reservations for the city park pavillions for the 1984 season beginning March 1. Residents of Mapleton may reserve the pavillions from March 1 to March 7. Starting March 8, both residents and non-residents can reserve the park pavillions. The charge tor the pavillions is $15.00 for residents and $25.00 for non-residents. 3 |