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Show i ii ii ) o i I i i cr r v v.. 1 These Springville Middle School students of Dennis Lundgreen have excelled in math and one in keyboarding. Marni Oisen, left, set the school record of 96 wpm in keyboarding. Next to her, Shellie Siddoway and Rich Martin were named top math students in the second term. Dallas Torgersen, 8th place; Bret Thorpe, 7th place; Clifton Mortensen, 6th place; Alex Swan, 5th place; all in math. The next four, Andrew Vernon, 4th place; Scott Huff, 3rd place; Daniel Jenson, 2nd place; and Devin Averett, 1st place, will go to the state math contest The middle school math students have been state champions twice in the past X 1 If" f V 5 r,c 39 ji -- s 64101 Mi fl . : ft mi 1 3f ! ' w : : V r ."CAN V 'D n !ZIIIII--,,'.i 1 A, A " a M 1 fl iv Volume One Hundred Two SPRINGVILLE, UTAH $4663 - January 22, 1997 Price 500 Number Four nn 1 DWi DQ i n Bid ( puueinj For the second time in as many years, the Utah Families Foundation selected the Springville Spring-ville Museum of Art as one of the charities to receive a portion of the funds generated by the annual Utah Charities Golf Challenge, Chal-lenge, an event hosted by Senator Orrin Hatch and his wife, Elaine. In 1995 the Utah Families Foundation awarded the museum $20,000, and in 1996 they granted grant-ed the museum $25,000, for a total contribution of $45,000 to date. This money was given in recognition of the museum's proactive pro-active efforts to expand the creative cre-ative horizons of Utah's children. This year, 1997, the Utah Families Foundation has invited the Art Museum to apply for a similar grant. The Utah Families Foundation received approval in 1993 to function as a non-profit corporation corpora-tion and was established exclusively exclu-sively for educational, charitable. Public invited scientific and literary purposes. The mission of the corporation is to assist, financially and otherwise, other-wise, Utah families and individuals individu-als who are parentless or who face the difficulties of homeless-ness, homeless-ness, poverty, unemployment, hungerrtltness, abuse, hospitalization hospital-ization and cultural or educational illiteracy. As part of the Art Museum's Centennial Wing Project, the new wing will contain a children's gallery, another gallery for art geared to children, a didactic gallery for art education and will provide other educational areas. The museum is the center for the Statewide Art Partnership of Utah educators sponsoring several sever-al Evenings for Educators during the year. They will also host, for the second time, the Crayola Dream Makers exhibition of Children's art (Kindergarten through grade 6) in November of this year. The museum is visited annually annual-ly by an estimated 140.000 persons, per-sons, 40,000 of whom are children chil-dren from all of Utah's 40 school districts. They have for years sponsored the All-State High School Art Exhibit of Utah, a Nebo District Children's exhibit and a children's an exhibit at Christmas time. The Springville Museum of Art is Utah's most venerable art museum and protects the most significant collection of Utah art. a collection established in 1903. Fundamental to the museum's success are its humanities, cultural cultur-al and art education programs. The museum is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1993. in recognition of Utah's Centennial, the museum's Board of Trustees approved construction of a new wing and necessary renovation of the exist- ing historic facility to meet all accreditation standards, access for persons with physical disabili-, disabili-, ties and current building codes. ' , The Utah Families Foundation Board of Directors and Senator and Mrs. Hatch are excited by tiie prospects of another successful success-ful year in 1997. "The potential to again assist numerous needy Utah families is encouraging. The Utah Families Foundation is grateful for all efforts to serve the families of our great state." said Sheri Sorensen. director of the foundation. If there are business or private donors in Springville who wish to support the purposes of the Utah Families Foundation or participate partici-pate in the Utah Charities Golf Challenge, they may contact Fritz Boyer, development director at the Art Museum, by calling 489-2727. 489-2727. He will advise the foundation founda-tion of your interest. Historical lecture on Mormon Oandscane Dr. Edward A. Geary, professor profes-sor of English and director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University Uni-versity will present the opening lecture of the Springville Historical Histori-cal Society's 1997 lecture series. The lecture will be held this evening, January 22, at the Springville Spr-ingville Civic Center, 50 S. Main at 7 p.m. The meeting is free of charge. Dr. Edward A. Geary is a native of Huntington, Utah. He was educated at North Emery High School, Carbon College, Brigham Young University and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has been a member mem-ber of the BYU faculty since 1968 and is currently a professor of English and director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies. Professor Geary is the author of several books and essays on Utah and the West including "Goodbye to Poplar-haven" Poplar-haven" (1985), "The Proper Edge of the Sky" (1992), and "A History His-tory of Emery County" (19). This evenings discussion will be on the "Mormon Landscape" a slide lecture explaining the adaptation adap-tation of LDS pioneers and especially espe-cially converts from many lands to the landscape and natural environment of the desert west. In commenting on this subject. Dr. Leonard J. Arrington stated "By the end of the century they (the Mormons) have provided the basis of support for a half million people in an area long and widely regarded as uninhabitable. And Mormon agriculture and industry, stimulated by an activist church, supplied the burgeoning economies econo-mies of Colorado. Montana, Idaho and Nevada. " This meeting, with Dr. Geary's Gea-ry's knowledge of the subject and photographic slides, should prove very stimulating for all those who are interested in Mormon pioneer history. y t y" ' '-''va f rF'jf I r 1 t 1 V ii :; - 'hI A j' J -K 2 Citizens are invited to attend the opening lecture of the Springville Historical Society tonight, January 22, at 7 p.m. in the Springville Spring-ville Civic Center, 50 S. Main. Dr. Edward A. Geary will speak on the Mormon Landscape and show slides about the LDS pioneers and especially those w ho came from other lands and made their home in the desert. The photo above is of the Christian Otteson children and farm in Huntington, Utah in 1898. The meeting is free of charge. Photo courtesy of Rcll G. Francis. SPRINGVILLE MUSEUM OF ART CENTENNIAL WING PROJECT A new Children's Gallery at the Springville Museum of Art is something several groups have been interested in donating to. Part of the new wing project, the space set aside for educating children will be a welcome addition to the museum. The Utah Families Foundation awarded the museum $20,000 in 1995 and $25,000 in 1996 for the Children's Gallery. Credit repair fraud is increasing rapidly You see the advertisements on TV, in newspapers and on the Internet. "Credit problems? No problem!" "We can erase your bad credit, 100 guaranteed." "Create a new credit identity-legally." identity-legally." The truth is. no one can legally legal-ly remove accurate and timely negative information in your file that you dispute as inaccurate or incomplete. There is no charge for this. Everything a credit repair clinic can do for you legally, legal-ly, you can do for yourself at little or no cost. According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, you are entitled to a free copy of your credit report if you've been denied credit within the last 30 days. You can also dispute mistakes or outdated items for free. Ask the credit reporting agency for a dispute form or submit your dispute in writing, along with any supporting support-ing documentation. If you decide to respond to a credit repair offer, the Better Business Bureau suggests you beware of companies that: do not tell you your legal rights and what you can do-legally-for free; recommend that you not contact a credit bureau directly; want you to pay for credit repair services before any services servic-es arc provided; or advise you to dispute all information in your credit report or take any action that seems illegal, such as creating a new credit identity by obtaining a federal employer identification number to use instead of a social security number. If you follow illegal advice and commit fraud, you may be subject to prosecution. prosecu-tion. It's a federal crime to make false statements on a loan or credit application, to misrepresent your Social Security Number and to obtain an Employer Identification Identifica-tion Number from the Internal Revenue Service under false pretenses. Parents encouraged to attend meeting The second in a scries of three meetings on drug abuse and prevention will be held tonight. Wednesday, January 22. at 7 p.m. at the Springville Jr. High School. All parents and interested adults are invited invit-ed to attend. Because the number of youths using drugs in Springville Spring-ville and Mapleton has increased, in-creased, the PTA is sponsoring these meetings to help adults deal with the problem. At tonight's meeting, the subject of recognizing substance sub-stance abuse in our youth will be talked about by the drug recognition expert from Utah County and a authority from the Springville Police Department. Depart-ment. The meeting is free. |