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Show ! I UT-H STATE PRESS 31 Der 99 4t7 t 300 S ' : ' : ' . T'T! S'LT L cm, l;t B4in -' " r'p- CjfMwf 1 r fCt 1 ' .M.i .. J" ... 1 -v. v" . Or rK. Volume Ninety-Seven On Mon., Jan 13, members of the House of Representatives of the 49th Legislature met in General Gen-eral Session. The session will last until February 27. Approximately 1,200 bills will be introduced during the 45-day session. The House of Representatives wasted no time in passing legislation. legisla-tion. On Thursday, three bills which were considered significant in fighting gang violence and crime were passed. House Bill No. 85, strengthened the judicial code by increasing the penalty against graffiti defacement andor criminal mischief. The bill provides pro-vides for joint liability of minor and parent for the minor's intentional inten-tional damage, or destruction of property. The bill does provide exceptions to the joint liability Historic Hafen home has new occupants by Bob Weston Mark and Jeanne Shipley have leased with option to buy, the Hafen home located at 1002 South Main Street, Springville. The Hafen home was designed by Alberto Treganza in the Swiss Chalet style as a studio and residence resi-dence for the artist John Hafen (1856-1910). Hafen is best known Aileen Clyde to speak at Women's Conference All women, 18 years and older, are invited to attend the Springville-Mapleton LDS Women's Wo-men's Conference on Sat., Jan. 25 at 9:30 a.m. in the Hobble Creek Stake center. The theme for the conference is "A Celebration Celebra-tion of Sisterhood; From Eve to You". The conference will run from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. with a light luncheon and talent display from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Music will be provided by the Musettes. The conference will feature two distinguished guest speakers, Aileen H. Clyde, Relief Society General Presidency, and Dr. Steven C. Walker, Professor of English at Brigham Young University. Uni-versity. Sister Clyde was called to serve as second counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency in March 1990. She received her BA degree in English from BYU, has taught English there and. has taken graduate courses at BYU and the U of U. She is married to Hal M. Clyde and they have three married sons and 10 grandchildren. grandchil-dren. Clyde has served in several positions in the LDS Church and has been active in community affairs. Dr. Steven C. Walker earned his BS and MA Degrees at BYU and his Am and Ph.D. Degrees at Pi orfW rfr ...... . clause. The House also passed House Bill No. 95. Stronger penalties will be placed upon drive-by shooting. An increase in number of incidence in Utah made this a necessary piece of legislation. And finally, House Bill No. 109, will prohibit possession of weapons weap-ons on or about school property. But, more importantly, the penalty penal-ty for such an offense was increased. in-creased. The bill represents an objective to upgrade penalties. Sending a clear message for the need to stop crime and violence. On a local note, Representative Representa-tive Brent Haymond is sponsoring legislation through the committee process: House Bill No. 78, which requires a mandatory educational edu-cational course on children's as the co-founder of the Springville Spring-ville Art Museum. The Shipley family moved to their new home in November and have begun renovating the house which is listed on the Utah Register Regis-ter of Historic Places. The Shipleys moved from Rancho Cucamonga, CA two years ago, and lived in Provo Harvard University. He has published pub-lished more than 95 articles and books and has received several honors and awards for teaching and service from BYU, national societies and the community. Walker is married to Ardith Walker and they have three children. chil-dren. He currently serves as the Gospel Doctrine instructor in his ward. Women are invited to come and enjoy this special event and "celebrate sisterhood." t, Yk Aileen Clyde The "Shack Crew" as they are referred to at the Springville Herald are shown reading last week's newspaper, something they say they don't always get around to. They are too busy getting the newspapers ready each week for the paper carriers and to be put in the mail. They do lots of stuffing, addressing and counting each week. All high school students, they are, from left, Brandon Burrows, Neil Foster, Jason Allen, Jon Foster and Luke Moore. Neil has learned to run the presses at Art City Publishing and the other four are kept busy after school each day doing lots of jobs around the printing business. : T" n SPRINGVILLE, UTAH 84663 - January 22, 1992 needs for divorcing parents and House Bill NO. 79, which would establish a mandatory mediation pilot program for divorce where it relates to child custody and visitation. The latter bill has been approved ap-proved by the Human Services Committee and passed to the floor of the House of Representatives. Representa-tives. The purpose of the bill is to reduce the contention on the issues relating to children in a divorce proceeding. Both House Bills No. 78 and 79 will be funded fund-ed by the parties to the divorce with the exception of the indigent. indi-gent. Other states that have passed this type of legislation have found a very positive impact on the reduction of trauma to children being involved in the while searching a home. They are theater people, Mark is a special needs educator in performing arts and Jeanne is a past winner of the Cash Box New Female Vocalist and Best New Female Country Singer awards. They hadwindow on seen advertisements for the house describing it as a fixer-upper and their expectations were not high. However, when they looked at the property, Mark knew "This was it". Their goal is to renovate the house to reflect a turn-of-the-century flavor and create a nice usfl iir by Bob Weston The first data from the new Springville Air Quality Monitoring Monitor-ing Station is being analyzed by the Utah Division of Air Quality. Robert Dalley, Manager of the Air Monitoring Section, said data collected from Dec. 17 to Jan. 8 is undergoing a quality assurance audit. Preliminary data indicates that peak CO (Carbon Monoxide) levels in Springville during the December inversion were 50 lower than North Provo. The highest eight-hour average for Springville was 6 ppm (parts per million) on Dec. 17 compared with 14 ppm for North Provo. The Springville Air quality Monitoring Moni-toring Station is located in the parking lot of the former IGA Supercenter, 110 South Main Street. Its primary function is to measure CO levels in the effort to meet the National Ambient Air A0 divorce. House Bill No. 107, which Haymond is also sponsoring is designed to provide for automatic replenishing of the Industrial Assistance Fund. The Industrial Assistance Fund was set up in 1991 to assist new businesses or current businesses in the State of Utah and provide at least $10 million for new businesses in the state for the next five years. The replenishment would come from the credits earned through the business activity of those assisted out of the fund. This fund would be very helpful in bringing new businesses to Utah County, to meet the crisis of the 1 ,000 jobs being lost at Signetics if the bill is passed. Representative Haymond was family home said Jeanne. The Crandall family, former owners of the house, have provided provid-ed the original blueprints to help the project. The prints show a dark room, indicating that Hafen had an interest in photography. Further evidence of Hafen's interest in photography are the window panes, which are believed be-lieved to be glass negatives that Hafen scraped clean. Structurally, the house is sound, but according to Shipley, the entire interior needed refurbishment. refur-bishment. They will retain as Continued on page 2 Quality Standard set by the Clean Air Act of 1990. The two key measurements are CO content in ppm for an average hour and an eight-hour moving average. The highest acceptable values are 35 ppm for an average hour and nine ppm for an eight hour average. Research indicated increasing negative physiological effects for humans when CO content exceeds the standard. The station is one of four in Utah County used to identify areas that do not meet the required re-quired standards and provide data for future action to improve air quality. Dalley said the largest contributors to poor air quality in Utah Valley are Geneva Steel, the Brigham Young University Central Cen-tral Heating Plant, Pacific States Iron Pipe Co. and incomplete or inefficient combustion from automobiles auto-mobiles and wood-burning stoves. iH'lnirdl instrumental in adding an amendment amend-ment to House Bill No. 12, which originally allowed hospitals to notify credit bureaus of delinquent delin-quent bills of retirees, even though Medicare had not sent the money to them. Through negotiations negotia-tions those working on the bill were able to stop any credit activity on retirees until 60-days after the notification of responsibility responsi-bility of all insurance companies of the retiree. This will help with the problems that are currently plaguing the medicare program and the medical service to the citizens of the state. The preliminary budgets have been received by each of the appropriation committees and the budget that has been announced by Governor Bangerter is a bal Nebo School Board meeting at Jr. High tonight 6 p.m. The Nebo School District Board of Education has scheduled an area school board meeting at the Springville Junior High School on Wed., Jan. 22 at 6 p.m. The board has scheduled a series of area meetings to accommodate accom-modate residents and to address local issues in the various geographic geo-graphic areas of the district. The Springville area meeting has been set to serve the residents of Springville Spr-ingville and Mapleton region. A sign-up sheet will be made 0( i of :i '' ' 1 Richard P. Klason, Utah State Forester, presents Margaret Conover with the 1992 Citizens Award given annually by the Utah State Forestry Department for her many years as chairman chair-man of the Shade Tree Commission of Springville. During her long tenure of office the shade tree commission of this city planted over 4000 trees and encouraged the planting of many more trees in the city. She was also involved in the passage of the heritage tree legislation for the state setting up the heritage tree program in the state. Price 50 Number Four anced budget with no new taxes according to Haymond. It provides pro-vides for growth in some areas but mostly a status-quo position. There is a surplus of $30-60 million from past budgets depending depend-ing upon the final forecast of revenue due the first week of February. Haymond said, "The State of Utah is one of only nine states that currently has a balanced budget. Many of the states who are having serious financial problems prob-lems can be tracked to the entitlement entitle-ment programs of the federal government. Hopefully, the federal feder-al government will address these issues so as to assist states in meeting their fiscal responsibility." responsibili-ty." available and individuals who desire to discuss concerns or views with the board will each be given five minutes. The meeting agenda will include reports on exemplary programs being conducted con-ducted in the Springville area schools. The board feels that it is important that area meetings be conducted to allow residents the opportunity to share their concerns con-cerns or suggestions. 4 |