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Show Page Eight - The Springville Herald - July 10, 1991 Mayor invites citizens to attend World Folkfest by Shan N.S. Nakamoto Springville's World Folkfest begins its sixth annual festival this weekend on Saturday, July 13. The week-long, European-style European-style festival will feature folk dancers from around the world, along with their art and culture. Folk dancing groups from at least six countries will be represented repre-sented at the festival. These groups include the Soviet Union, Mexico, Thailand.lndia, USAand Poland. The folkfest is a great opportunity oppor-tunity for everyone to get a taste of different cultures," said Mayor Delora Bcrtclscn. The mayor said she is pleased Springville is able to bring dancers from around the world to see what America is like. She also invites everyone in Springville to attend the week-long events. "I'm proud of America and Springville, and so I enjoy sharing our hometown with people from other counties," Bcriclsen said. "The folk dancers from the various vari-ous countries are very talented and eager to share what they know with others." There will be something for everyone to enjoy at the folkfest said Teddy Anderson, Springville Arts Director. Ethnic food and art booths will be part of the festivities festivi-ties and there will be 20 costumes on display from various regions of the Soviet Union along with some religious art she said. Colleen Drollingcr, a member t8,1"lj8": These little girls will reign as the queens for the Mapleton Pioneer Days celebration July 24. They were chosen from the eight LDS Wards in the community. They are, back, left to right, Mary Elizabeth Bawden, 1st Ward; Heather Wiscombe, 9th Ward; and Chelsie Christensen, 6th Ward. Front, Sharah Larsen, 2nd Ward; Ashley Francis, 8th Ward; Holly Robertson, 4th Ward; Suzette Morgan, 3rd Ward; and Natalie Palmer, 5th Ward. The theme for the upcoming celebration and parade is "Freedom in the West, Then and Now." Contrary subdivision approved by Roger J. Sturm an In a split vote of 3 to 2, the Mapleton Cily Council approved the Murray Subdivision Final plan. The vote was unusual for this council who often vote unanimously. unani-mously. Mayor Prcdmorc said that he felt a disservice has been done to the city by approving the plot plan. He stated that the vote had been more in interest of current residents and did not take into considciation future citizens. Councilman Doyle Hatfield said Crohn's Disease Most everyone's had a nervous stomach at one time or another. Perhaps before a big test, a speech or another important event, one may experience an occasional bout of diarrhea, cramps and a general ill feeling. But more than 27 million Americans Am-ericans constantly suffer from an incurable nervous stomach called Crohn's Disease. Crohn's Disease is a chronic inflammation of the digestive system and can affect any area of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus. However, it most often occurs in the ilium, the lowest part of the small intestine. Anyone can develop the disease, dis-ease, but the highest risk group is those aged 12 to 40, with 10 percent per-cent of the patients under 18. It occurs in both sexes and may be hereditary. Patient's- experience cramps, persistent diarrhea, fever, weight loss, rectal bleeding, and hemorrhoids hemor-rhoids due to inflamed patches in the digestive tract Inflammation is the normal response of our immune system to protect the body from bacteria. Several kinds of inflammatory cells move to attack the invading bacteria and release chemicals to attract more bacteria-fighting cells. Doctors aren't sure what causes Crohn's, but the major consensus is that this anti-bacteria activity grows out of control and of the folkfest board, said she hopes the people of Springville will get involved in the folkfest experience. She said the folkfest will be an "all-around great family program as well as a great educational educa-tional experience." The friendships made with folk dancers are also a part of the folkfest experience for several Springville residents. This will be the fourth year Barry Cluff and family will house folk dancers. In previous years they have been hosts to folk dancers danc-ers from Turkey and Greece. This year they are scheduled to have folk dancers from the Soviet Union. Un-ion. Cluff said it is interesting to house people from different countries. coun-tries. Although it is difficult at first because of language differences, differ-ences, he said they have been able to see new cultures and make new friends. The worst part of the experience is when it comes co-mes time to say goodbye to their newly-made friends. Opening ceremonies and a reception arc scheduled to occur at 3 p.m. on Saturday at the Springville Museum of Art, At 5 p.m. the opening Grand Folk Parade will begin at the art museum muse-um and end at city hall. Following the parade, the opening folk dance performance will begin at 8 p.m. at the newly-finished newly-finished outside stage at the Spring Acres Arts and Recreation Park. he did not agree; the planning commission has looked at all aspects. Councilman Ron Hitchcock Hitch-cock felt that the council only did what the Planning Commission wanted. One of the major considerations consider-ations of the plan had been the narrowing of Maple Street on the Master Plan from 66 feet to 60 feet. Many k " residents felt that if and when the street was ever widened, it would adversely affect the size of their property. attacks normal cells as well. As the dangerous cycle continues, blood flow increases to the area, making it red, painful and Swollen. Swol-len. These inflamed patches can grow constantly worse or mysteriously mysteri-ously come and go. They may also remain in one area or spread throughout the digestive tract. These encroaching patches can cause extremely painful sores affecting all layers of the digestive lining. If you suspect you may have Crohn's, consult your physician. physi-cian. Mt View Hospital offers a free physician referral service. Please call 465-9201 extension 190 or 113 for help in locating a physician. phy-sician. A doctor may place the patient on anti-inflammatory drugs, painkillers, and antidiarrhe-al antidiarrhe-al drugs which arc most often issued to treat the disorder. To prevent fiber from getting caught in the sores causing further inflammation, in-flammation, low fiber diets are recommended. Surgery may be required when the patches and scar tissue from repeated attacks block the intestines. intes-tines. Depending on the severity of the disease, the blocked intestine intes-tine may be cleared or sections of the intestine may be removed. Surgery docs not cure the disease, and 40 percent of the patients who have surgery will need it again. SMS Band food booth at Folkfest The Springville High School Marching Band will again have a food booth at the site of the World Folkfest According to Scth Wintcrton, chairman of the fundraiser, fund-raiser, The band concession has been a popular one at past folk-fests folk-fests and is a grand moncyraiscr for the SHS Band program. Citizens attending the World Folkfest arc invited to come early, stake out their scats with a blanket blan-ket or something and enjoy dinner from the band booth. The food will be offered for sale each evening eve-ning of the festival. Join Mapleton parade My 24 The City of Mapleton invites everyone to plan to attend the annual pioneer day celebration July 24 in Mapleton. The celebration celebra-tion parade will begin at 9 a.m. at 800 North Main and end at the elementary school. Lineup is at 8:30 a.m. "Freedom in the West, Then and Now" is the theme of the Earadc which will be headed by oc Snow carrying the American flag. Parade grand marshalls will be Ira and Jen Allen. Anyone can join the parade lineup, but no motor cycles or ATVs unless they are pulling a float Throwing candy, squirt guns and fire hoses are not allowed. For more information call Leslie Shepherd, 489-7408. Season passes for County Fair The 1991 Utah Valley County Fair season passes go on sale Tuesday and will be available through Saturday at all Utah County 7-11 Stores. The four-day pass is an "I love Utah Valley" button which can be pinned on. These passes arc valid for admission to all events and entertainment enter-tainment at the fair and are also good for free parking. The price is $2 for adults and $1 for chil- drenrThis year's fair is almost free," says Fair Promoter Greg Mockett, "We want everyone to be able to afford it. At the same time, the fair needs to be self-sustaining, self-sustaining, and selling passes is a great way to accomplish this." ; To encourage potential fair-goers fair-goers and other to purchase the four-day pass during this week's "Fair Deals!" promotion, the fair has built a value-added package worth several times the price of the pass. Local merchants and food vendors have volunteered to provide unlimited offers to anyone wearing a fair button while in their establishments from July 9 through August 17 when the fair ends. "The message on the face of the button best characterizes the spirit of this year's fair, the spirit of love, the spirit of harmony and the spirit of recognition," says Brain Utlcy, the lair director. The current list of "Fain Deals!" is available at 7-11 Stores, and additional "Fair Deals!" will be announced on K96 FM, the official radio station of the Utah ; Valley County Fair. Special Fair Deals will be! available at the Pic Pizzaria, Los Hcrmanos, Carousel Ice Cream! Parlor, Cascade Fairways, Bridal j veil Falls, Kinko's Copies and SPA Fitness. For other Fair! Deals, keep your radio dial turned to K96 FM. Low-fat fireworks Hot summer days, cool cve-, cve-, nings, picnics and barbecues naturally natu-rally go together; but, high fat diets and good health don't. Fortunately, For-tunately, summer cooking lends itself to low-fat eating. However, eating lean docs not imply giving up all your favorite foods. In fact, there are many low-fat ways to prepare the same foods you already al-ready enjoy. Try some of these methods and see how easy it is to make tasty, tempting, low-fat meals. Before cooking, trim as much fat as possible from meat and remove the skin from poultry. For extra flavor, use herbs, spices, lemon juice, vinegar, fruit juices, broths in place of fat Roast meat over coals on a rack or spit, instead of frying. Substitute low-fat yogurt for sour cream in dip recipes. Prepare salads, such as macaroni maca-roni and potato, with low-fat mayonnaise may-onnaise or mix low-fat yogurt with mayonnaise. . j r. - I ', ' 1J- - .:. 1 . ' f i" ) , !r?;,' - 1'!jf t fl J ; - i H i o v, - - K - j . r-A ' Nil " J I The Springville World Folkfest Board of Directors are shown above. They are, from left, Colleen Dro! linger, office director, Joella Wolfgramm, secretary; Brent Haymond, directorconsultant; Sara Newman, general director, Alvin Harward, directorchairman; Teddy Anderson, director-Arts Commissionco-chairman; Craig Conover, lightingsound; light-ingsound; and Martin Conover, directorprogram. Art exhibit, booths and entertainment part of annual World Folkfest A picture may paint a thousand thou-sand words, but in the case of "Spirit of the Westa celebration of the arts," several pictures will travel to Springville next week, July 16-20, as part of a 56-piece mobile art collection and in connection con-nection with the World Folkfest This is an art gallery on wheels. Springville citizens are used to fine art and they are invited invit-ed to see the talent of three western west-ern states packed into museum-quality museum-quality semi-trailers. The collection, including painting, paint-ing, sculpture and multimedia pieces arc on display in a mobile museum for a 20-week, 18-stdp tour of Idaho, Utah and eastern Washington. The show will be in Springville during the folkdance festival and will also bring a 365 foot outdoor stage where there will be free performances by different per Tax increase to earthquake-proof schools The Salt Lake City Board of Education has decided to go ahead without voter approval on a $100 million plan to retrofit or replace all buildings in the district. This action was taken despite a Dan Jones Survey which indicated that over 70 of respondents said a referendum election should be held. School board members feel they have studied the issue enough, and need to move immediately imme-diately on the 20 year plan to protect Salt Lake children from a possible earthquake. This represents repre-sents a reversal from the initial ; assurance that voters would have the opportunity to approveOor ; reject the largest tax increase in Salt Lake School history. The tax i rate hike of .001 to fund the plan ; would impact a $100,000 property r as follows: home $67, locally as- sessed business $95, centrally : assessed business $100. ; Taxpayers throughout the state ; should take notice of this issue. Many school districts throughout Legion potluck dinner tonight The Springville American Legion and Auxiliary are having i their annual canyon pot'nek party tonight at 7 p.m. at the Veteran's Pavilion in Kelly's Grove. I All members and guests are ; invited to attend. Please bring 1 your dishes and a potluck dish for the dinner. Anyone needing a ride can call Kicth or Marva Davis, 489-6017 or Charmian Taylor, 489-6676. Choose cold cuts low in fat such as turkey, chicken and lean boiled ham. Use fresh fruits and vegetables vegeta-bles abundantly. For more information contact your local health department or Rosemary Thackeray at 538-6120. sons and groups during the week. Local performing groups can call the Folkfest office, 489-3657 to arrange a time do display their talents. In addition to the art exhibit and talent display, there will also be craft booth space available next to the art display that week. Local crafters can call 489-3657 to arrange for booth space. "Highlighting "High-lighting America" will be the theme of these activities. The traveling art show was the brainchild of the long-range planning plan-ning committee of the Idaho Commission on the Arts. Last year, west One Bank, Idaho agreed to sponsor the unique exhibit in celebration of the Idaho Centennial in 1990. Nearly 100,000 people visited the gallery. This year's tour includes an expanded ex-panded territory, appearing at festivals and events from May through September. the state have identified seismic retrofitting as a critical need and arc currently, pursuing similar studies to those conducted in salt Lake. If school boards choose to approve funding for seismic retrofitting retro-fitting as Salt Lake has done, and construction costs throughout the state are similar to those projected project-ed in Salt Lake City, Utah taxpayers taxpay-ers would be required to pay as much as $1.5 billion without any public referendum vote on the matter. Currently, Utah citizens are not given the right to refer such tax issues to a vote of the people. This is a right for which the Taxpayers Association is fighting fight-ing in the courts for the citizens of Utah, but until then, your only chance to be heard is at the scheduled sche-duled public hearings. SGusii Hotel Water Park East Center Street, Prove- 1-800-824-4193 1 SD3Gp a Swim $795 MINrVflCflTION Includes one night stay and four Water The Farther You Drive, The More You Save! I Simply praMnt thh coupon and proof ol addran ((driver's llcantt, activity card, ate.) and taval Offar oood am dav durlna 10S1 Mason. Limited to I.D, cardholders and Immediate family. SAVE $5.00 (after 5:00 p.m.) ; with any 9-or 15-oz. bag See your local grocery store for details KIDS 2 FORI (Ages 4-9) Coupons available at all Also on the board are Fritz Boyer, directorpublicity direc-torpublicity and protocol; Marti Weaver, directorfood direc-torfood services and receptions and Marilyn Parry, directorfinancial. The group has been working for months on this year's festival which starts Saturday at the new Arts Park. Photo by Marcia Conover ? LaRell Johnson honored by City Council D. LaRell Johnson was given a certificate of appreciation for his many years of dedicated service to the city of Springville at the regular regu-lar council meeting last Tuesday evening at City Hall. Mr. Johnson has as given of his time and talents to the city for almost 50 years includingdonating many of the beautiful benches and other pieces of furniture presently at the art building. He also crafted the solid wood doors that are found there. He was given the certificate as he resigns as chairman of the historicalsociety. ; In other business, the city will raise charges to businesses for garbage collection who presently weigh their garbage to $23 per ton and $50 per collection. A resolution reflecting this charge will be discussed at the next council coun-cil meeting. Councilman Smith noted that Strong Construction Company has proposed that the city compound be moved to the site of the Strong- Construction Company and that the land where the compound is : located now, be sold for development as a subdivision. No prices were discussed. dis-cussed. The council discussed the matter mat-ter and also talked about moving the compound to the Whitehead Utility Plant site. Work is still progressing on the roof of the old Carnegie Library building. The idea of placing the building on the Federal Register of Historic Buildings was discussed. dis-cussed. Were this to happen the building could qualify for federal restoration grants. The word "bicycle" is a combination combi-nation of a Latin and a Greek root: bis is Latin for twice and kylos is Greek for circle. About $450 million worth of pickles and pickle products is made each year. Peais RG87f : From (some restrictions apply) Park passes, additional persons extra 1 Drive this far to Sava thla much Seven Paaka Reeort on an all-day Water Pars (ages 10-SS) paas I I 4S-S0mllae Over M mile 12.50 Off (3.00 Off Not vad with any other discount otter. |