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Show I f w ' w 1 ' " U '1- - 3 ii Volume One Hundred Two by Laurel Brady Mapleton City's residents and public works crews will benefit for years" from the-vigoipus and unusual volunteer - efforts of a local mom, her two children and Boy Scout Troop 127. Laura Brink, daughter, Callie and son. Colter, devoted the full week of a recent vacation to tramp through snowbanks, mud and icy fields, gathering information for use in a computerized data base that will serve the city in emergencies as well as during day-to-day operations. opera-tions. "We now have a data set no one else in the county has," Councilwoman Charlee Hanna explained. "This data is worth thousands of dollars and cost us zero, thanks to this family and the Scouts. And we have the opportunity to make it last for years. All we have to do is update up-date it and keep it current." SMS sdutats in COeUCGG't The latest concert of , the "Music Series" sponsored by the Springville Arts Commission will be held this Sunday, February 9, at the Springville Museum of Art. The concert will feature outstanding musicians who attend the Springville High School and will begin at S p.m. The public is invited, and admission is free. The program will feature the following: A clarinet ensemble; vocal solos by Lauralyn Lowe and Timothy Merrill; Yukari Kumatoriya at the piano; Ted t A "Z C A CP Part of the Ladies 12 singing group at Springville High School are shown here practicing for their part on the Sunday concert at the Springville Museum of Art. Everyone is invited to the free concert Sunday at 5 p.m. The outstanding musicians at the high school will take part on the program. Shown above are: back, from left, Audrey Foltz, Allison Duncan, Marium Curtis and Taunya Clifton. Front, Kara Knight, Raylene Hernandez and Audrea Bake. The data gathered by Mrs. Brink and the teenagers has been downloaded into AroView, a computer system recently , ob- tained by the city. AroView is desktop Geographical Information Software that merges GIS data and auto-CAD information composed com-posed of pictures into one spatial database. The result? "All of a sudden you have power you can't even imagine," according to Brink. AroView software is recognized recog-nized by cities as a powerful tool, useful for viewing an area's geographical and mapped data. It allows users to make queries about land features, routes, structures struc-tures and infrastructure, and resources such as springs, mines and wells. It can also display topographic and seismic information, informa-tion, recorded earthquake epicenters, epi-centers, and allows viewing of aerial photography with overlays of buildings, subdivision, land mmmj Greg Anderson, Marimba; "XVI" mixed vocal ensemble; clarinet solo by Brian Crosby; Ladies 12, vocal ensemble; flute solo, Elena Findley; Kristen Pickering, playing play-ing french horn; and the English Handbell Choir. "Many awards have been won by these outstanding performers, and the music will be the very best. This is a concert you will not want to miss!" said Darlene Day who arranges the concerts for the Arts Commission. O SPRINGVILLE, UTAH parcels, etc. While the software is a remarkable re-markable tool, it unfortunately doesn't come with an individual city's unique database intact. Users can spend big dollars and hundreds of man hours gathering data to download. With its limited limit-ed tax base, such a project would be a financial stretch or even impossibility for Mapleton. But Mrs. Brink, who is employed by Utah County, has an extensive background in geology, mapping and computer programming. She also runs the GIS users group for the state. In her eyes, the financial finan-cial obstacle became an opportunity. opportu-nity. Having essentially built the county's system from the ground up, and aware of its value in streamlining routine as well as emergency operations, she wanted want-ed to share her expertise with Mapleton. And, with a 14-year-old son looking for an Eagle Project, and a daughter needing a Laurel Project, the solution seemed obvious. Technology intimidates many people. But when city officials heard her idea, they embraced it enthusiastically. When complete, it will give the city "software and data most cities in the nation don't have," Laura explains enthusiastically. "It's so exciting. Instead of being scared of it, they're going with it. It's going to be incredible." incredi-ble." Enlisting the aid of Colter's Scout Troop, as well as officials from government agencies, Laura set to work helping plan a six-month six-month project to capture GPS point data. She arranged to acquire ac-quire the GIS software from Celebration of m PsreiiSs Invited to Hwr. lestaF Parents in Springville and ; Mapleton are invited to the fourth lecture in the series. In Celebration Celebra-tion of Families, Thursday,1 February 6, at 7 p.m. in the Jr. High School auditorium. Dr. Terrance D. Olson, a professor of family sciences at Brigham Young University, will speak on "Parents, Students, Community and Citizenship." Who can deny the need for families in which citizenship is taught and moral behavior demonstrated? dem-onstrated? said Olson. "The word citizenship has such strong political politi-cal overtones that sometimes we fail to see the broad meaning of; citizenship and how it applies to everyday behavior in school, the I 4 f ' Congratulations to the Springville High School Swim Teams who won the Region Eight Championship! Members of the team are: front, left to right, Tim Heaps, Janelle Lee, Shellie Bird, Brett Butler, Joel Eves, Summer Folster and Nick Augustus. Row two, Callie Brink, Tonya Clifton, Michelle Weight, Bryce Prior, Deven Johnson, Amanda Augustus, Tiffany Allen and Ashley Campbell. Row tlhree, Coach Jenifer Benson, Deven Caywood, Clay Kappas, John Bird, JD Griff el, Andrew Averett, Brett Caywood, Thayne Jasperson, Stephen Workman and Coach Jennifer Moore. Row four, Jennie Kappas, Sara Beesley, Lori Haines, Erin Huke, Tammy Lauritzen, Andrea Deming, Kelsey Larsen, Sierra Skabelund, Brooke Densley and Haley Miller. Not pictured is Misty Robinson. 84663 - February 5, 1997 Laura Brink Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., in Redlands, CA who donated AroView programming program-ming to the city. Laura installed and configured the program onto the city's computer system, then loaded data obtained from a 1994 flyover, as well as data brought in from the county's GIS system. Then the training... and fun... began. be-gan. With the help of Jeff Michel-sen, Michel-sen, GIS Coordinator for Moun-tainland Moun-tainland Association of Governments, Govern-ments, Laura arranged for the loan of two Trimble GPS receivers receiv-ers to use for one week. Along with Michelsen, Laura helped develop a data dictionary that continued on page 3 Families community and on our highways," high-ways," he said. Not only is every parent invited to attend the lecture, but each parent is invited to consider how the quality of life in our communities could be enhanced if good citizenship were a priority during the coming year. In "Building a Community of Citizens," Michael S. Joyce said that, "The citizenship-as-voting notion can be a profoundly impoverished im-poverished understanding of that activity. There is another, more traditional and far more encompassing encom-passing view-one that regards citizenship as an individual's active participation in that vast CD S i Ml Vf t' fjj$ im Jti J CREED HAYHOKD 336 S 1200 E SALT LAKE CITY, UT 01 Jan 98 S 84102 kl r Price 50e" .1 4W - m- --T- t.. ft 1 A Mapleton City worker assists a boy scout in the use of a Trimble Pro XL unit, one of several that were used to collect satellite generated locational data in Mapleton. Scout Troop 127 was trained to do the data collection by Mapleton resident Laura Brink assisted by her son and daughter. The group took a week to cover Mapleton collecting the computerized data that will be so helpful to the city in emergencies and day-to-day operation. Girls State An invitation is extended to all girls who are juniors at Springville Spr-ingville High School and their parents to attend a tea to explain Girls State. The tea will be held February 10, at 3 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Center, 65 E. 200 South, Springville. Girls State is an opportunity for young women to learn more about the inner workings of our democratic form of government from city to national. Girls State will be held at Southern Utah realm of human affairs known as civil society." Mr. Olson's professional work has addressed the quality of life in families and the moral meanings mean-ings of family relationships cross generations. He and Chris Wallace's ANCHOR CharacterCitizenship Charac-terCitizenship curriculum became be-came an approved demonstration curriculum for five years in adolescent pregnancy prevention from 1982-87. This curriculum invites adolescents to see that every act in the present moment is an act for or against the next generation. . ' ' i Olson served on the committee commit-tee which set national standards Ml Q Number Six y h 4 1", Li Tea University in Cedar City, June 9 to 14. and is sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. The Girls State Citizens from last year will be present at the tea to answer questions about the program and to give more information. infor-mation. They hope to see a lot of junior girls and parents in attendance. atten-dance. If you have questions about the program, especially if you cannot attend the tea, contact Girls State Vice-Chairman Valerie Val-erie White at 489-7625. 1 for the certification of Family Life Educators. He also served as vice-chair of the Education Section Sec-tion of the National Council on Family Relations, a professional organization of scholars. He is a clinical member of the American Association for Marital and Family Fam-ily Therapy. He has written on family conflict and family wholeness, on the philosophy of family life education and has testified before the U.S. House and Senate committees com-mittees addressing the strength of family. This past year he presented present-ed papers to meetings of the International Year of the Family in Perth. Asutralia and Salt Lake. FOORCOPY! |