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Show Page Ten - The Springville Herald - January 22, 1997 leviiin Avorett wins ma&ED congest Home cheaper when you do finish work Devin Averett will captain the Springville Middle School Math Team as they try to three-peat as ; state math champions. Springville Middle School won the State Math Contest at the University of Utah both in 1995 where they had the highest score of all 155 schools competing, and again they repeated as state champs in 1996. Devin set a school record by winning all four school contests. Back in November he won the American Junior High School Mathematics Examination Contest which is a national contest held on the same day throughout the United States. Then in December Devin won the Mathcounts Sprint Road Competition. In January he followed up by sweeping the Target and Team round honors with record breaking scores. Daniel Jensen took second place in all four rounds. He was followed by Scott Huff and Andrew An-drew Vernon. These four young men will make up the first team. They will represent the school on February 8 as they compete against other schools at UVSC in the Regional Mathcounts Contest. The top three schools and top ten individuals will qualify for state Mathcounts in March and receive and invite to the state engineers ward banquet to be honored with the top engineers from around the state. Later in May the state winners win trips to Washington D.C. to compete for huge scholarships in the national Mathcounts contest. The seventh graders will be challenging about a dozen eighth grade teams at regionals. In the past the Springville Middle Student Stu-dent Team has been the only all-seventh all-seventh grade team to qualify for state. Under the coaching of Dennis Lundgreen they have qualified for state nine times. The second team will consist of Alex Swan, Clifton Morten-sen, Morten-sen, Bret Thorp and Dallas Tor-gersesn Tor-gersesn as they finished from fifth to eighth place respectively. The last two qualifying members of the team will be Rich Martain and Brandon Moss the ninth and tenth place finishers. They will take the top eight students to defend their state math title in April to either Utah State University or the University of Utah. This time they will be able to compete against students on their own grade level. ; ; : . y.' On Thanksgiving Day last year, eleven-year-old Eric Vance found a wallet lying in a Maple-ton Maple-ton road while walking near his home. Eric turned the wallet in to the Mapleton Police Department. Depart-ment. The wallet, containing over 60 dollars in cash, some credit cards and ski passes, was returned to the owner in California. Cali-fornia. Eric thought that was the end of the story. Until last week when Officer John Jackson Jack-son presented Eric with a gift scent from the wallet's owner to Eric to show his appreciation. Eric and his mother were brought to the police department depart-ment where Jackson and Police Chief Bret Barney presented the gift, congratulated Eric on his honesty and thanked him for the fine example he set for area residents. Photo by Laurel Brady. People who have purchased new homes through Prestige Properties' Equity Builder program pro-gram have found they not only saved money, but also found new friends as neighbor helped neighbor neigh-bor complete their home. Under the program started by Chris Child, owner of Prestige Properties, buyers can save their down payment by doing an equal amount of work in completing their home. That includes such tasks as painting, carpeting, installing vinyl flooring, shingles and yard sprinkler systems. Child supplies all materials and provides pro-vides a skilled craftsman to teach the new home buyers how to complete each task. But it soon became apparent in his Lynnbrook community that the project was also building more than houses. It was also building lasting friendships as neighbor helped neighbor complete com-plete each home. "We found a bonding you don't normally experience in a new neighborhood," said Brian Holman, who moved in last October. "We developed a bond as we helped each other because we were all in this situation of using sweat equity to get into a house," he said. "We're now friends with a lot of neighbors now even more so than in our previous neighborhood," he said. "People were very supportive of everyone else," noted his wife, Julie. "They were willing to lend tools, supplies and advise," she said. "It was a very supportive atmosphere. By the time we moved in we had made quite a few friends. " The only out-of-pocket cash the purchase required was a small security deposit and closing costs, she said. "It was very worth doing. All of us are glad we did it and we'll never have to do it again because of the equity we made," she added. Susan Hyers and Millie Wel-ker Wel-ker shared that experience. "From the time all the neighbors neigh-bors met each other they had an inslant bonding because we had the home in common. We were the Year off Right! (& (1 teid 1 iilOiiiil ffi 6 APR, 6,12 W $500 min $100,000 mux Available at all eight Central Bank locations in Utah Valley (Qo) II i .. I Li L: "That's M7 Bank!" 375-1000 t EQUAL MUMM LENDER Payson, 182 North Main Spanish Fork, North Main American Fork, 1 75 East Main Mapleton, 385 North Main Springville, 202 South Main Provo, 75 North University Avenue Riverside Plaza, 1300 North State Street Orem, 41 5 North State MEMBER JSC all doing the same kind of work on our homes," Hyers said. "People sought each other out to see how they were handling their projects and getting advise from neighbors who had already been through it." , For many of them it was their first home and they were excited about completing and making new friends, she added. "Most of us are about the same age," she said. "We had a neighbor up the street who helped out a lot," said Welker. "She showed us how to do the sprinkling system and the carpeting, plumbing and electrical work." The major work of building a new home has been completed when Child turns the project over to new buyers. Only the finishing needs to be done. Finishing your own home also has other benefits besides saving the down payment. "There's not anything I can't fix," said Holman. Hol-man. Child's efforts in helping people work off the expensive out-of-pocket cash outlays in getting into a new home has earned Lynnbrook the title of Community of the Year which was awarded by the National Builders Advisory. A model home is open daily except Sundays on 1 120 East and about 640 North in Spanish Fork. For information, call 801-798-2633 or 377-0809. f - k'in I nu 1 ri&o I Mr saw asssi Brian and Julie Holman and their two boys relax in their new Spanish Fork home they completed themselves under Prestige Properties Equity Builder program. 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