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Show Page Four - The Springville Herald - July 21, 1999 ayor's Message M My Fellow Citizens: It has been awhile since I wrote a "Mayor's "Ma-yor's Message" so today I am just going to write some bits and pieces. 1 . Art City days was a great success. Thanks to all of those involved. 2. World Folkfest, ditto! Kudos to all those that organized and pitched in. A special thanks to our host families. 3. There are many homeowners homeown-ers that are sprucing up their yards. I really appreciate their efforts. Civic pride is something that can become contagious. 4. Troy Fitzgerald has come aboard as our full time city attorney. attor-ney. He is a welcome addition. Troy has helped the city considerably consid-erably over the past year as he has been serving as our part-time city attorney. 5. Cameron Gunter has been advanced to the position of city administrator. We welcome Cam and his great work ethic at this new position. 6. Bill Childs has been promoted pro-moted to head the streets department. depart-ment. Bill is becoming very Hearing Aug. 11 comfortable with this position. We are pleased with the work he is doing. 7. Randy Drummond has been hired as our city engineer. We welcome him back. Randy worked for the City several years ago. His work has already had a positive impact on the City. 8. Ben Oakey, as most already al-ready know, has been promoted to the position of public works director. Bert is doing a great job in this position. 9. Some have asked what the city is doing just south of the Whitehead Power Plant. The answer is that we are only hauling haul-ing in some fill dirt that is being removed up on the canyon road project. This is valuable fill and is costing the city pennies on the dollar to haul it and store it for future use. 10. Again, thanks to all of those who worked so long and hard to make the Art City Days and the Folkfest successful. A special thanks to Keri Gordon and Teddy Anderson. To all of you volunteers and host families I say, once again, thank you! Mo to decide tax increase Property owners in Nebo School District might be asked to pay an additional $14.52 in taxes this coming year. This amount would be based on a home valued at $100,000. Business owners would be asked to pay an additional addi-tional $26.40 for their business. Or the district may ask taxpayers tax-payers to consider increases of $20.02 per home and $36.40 per business next year. But these proposed tax increases are not as high as the June predictions. The Nebo School Board will meet for a tax hearing on August 1 1 . Anyone wanting to protest or agree with the increase should plan to attend that meeting. Nebo students get less money than any other students in the state, so leaders are hoping for the increase. Nebo spends $3,336 annually per student compared to Alpine School District who spends $3,-433. $3,-433. Nebo would need $2 million annually to meet Alpine. Nebo approved a tentative budget June 22 that included a proposed increase of $' 7. 1 1 for a home and $31.10 for a business. Utah Taxpayers Association President Howard Stephenson met with the board at that time and said that increases of $35 per $100,000 home and $51 per business were expected. Artist's Guild to meet soon The Utah Valley Artists Guild will feature Christopher Graves who will give an oil portrait painting demonstration ' at its meeting July 28. Members and the public are invited to attend the lecture. Graves has had one-man shows at BYU and in Salt Lake City. Most of his work is done on large oil canvases. He also works in printmaking with both lithography and intaglio imagery. In addition to his painting, he also worked in graphic design in the Utah area for 12 years. This fall he will move his family to Grand Rapids, Michigan where he will begin teaching design and art at Kendall College of Art and Design. He was born in New York City, but was raised in Alpine. Utah. He has received both his bachelor's and master's degree in painting and drawing from BYU. Guild meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. the last Wednesday of each month at the Workshop at Provo Art and Frame, 201 W. Center, Provo. ' M M M l If If It II II If If M M M $ i .5 LA Help us move! ALLMANART 925 South 1950 West Springville -491-0240 We are relocating and will be selling our print and art inventory at a reduced price rather than move it. The custom framing and fine art will still be available at the new location after August 1. Savings up to 50 Sale ends July 28 r ''rWflmi 1 The Palmyra Chapter of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers held their annual steak fry social and tied a quilt to be used as a fundraiser for chapter projects. Some of the Springville members that helped on the quilt are, from left, bottom: Velma Christensen, Julia Golding, Keith Davis, Bill Eldridge and Mildred Eldridge. Standing: John Davies, Irwin Curtis, Nola Bird and Marva Davis. Kali Brauer Ana Squizzato" Exchange students coming to SHS this fall Three wonderful families are excited and looking forward to hosting foreign exchange students from EF Foundation. They will be arriving within ihe next two weeks. Roger and Karen Olson are hosting Kati Brauer who is from the Saxon area of Germany. She. has a little brother in Germany and will have, 10 brothers and sisters here in America. ... j She likes to swim, play volleyball, vol-leyball, does martial arts and likes to camp and hike. Kati also enjoys listening and drawing and painting. Ana Squizzato, who is from the Compinos area of Brazil, will be hosted by Robert and Julie Haupt. Ana has a 16-year-old sister at home. The Haupts have three little girls who are very excited to have a big sister. .' While here, Ana hopes to be able to play on the soccer team. Her other interests include swimming, swim-ming, aerobics, dance, comput ers, listening to music and reading. read-ing. Parma, Italy is home for Sara Bolognesi. Volleyball, dance, aerobics, computers, listening to music and reading are things that Sara likes to do. She would like to learn to snowboard while she is here. ; In Italy Sara has an older sister. In America in the Sheffer and Yvette Clark family she will have two brothers and two sisters. sis-ters. Kati, Ana and Sara are excited excit-ed to be able to live in the U.S. and Springville. They are excited to learn about our school system, a new culture, to make new friends and be come part of a new family. Please make these girls feel welcome and say hello. If you would like to know more about hosting or being an exchange students, contact Evelyn Eve-lyn Vincent, the local EF representative, repre-sentative, at 798-6901. lli Library Manage anger Corner by Pat Bartlett We get a vacation at the end of the week here at the library, so please don't plan to come by on Friday and Saturday, July 23 and 24, cause we just won't be there. Instead, celebrate Pioneer Day at one of your favorite pioneer celebrations along the Wasatch Front. Spanish Fork has a great Fiesta Days with a parade, carnival carni-val and rodeo, and of course Mapleton City has its own celebration cele-bration with all the trimmings. After you have celebrated over the week-end, I hope you will join me at the library on Monday, July 26, at 1 1 a.m. to hear some fun stories of Now and Then. I will be in the children's! wing of the library and will look forward to seeing you there and sharing a story with you. Of course I will have my friend "Goose" there with me, so don't stand us up. Utah Valley State CollegeCenter Col-legeCenter for Personal and Career Development is offering an Anger Management Class beginning August 3 through September 23. Held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. Anger Management is a course thai gives people the skills needed to handle angry feelings appropriately allowing them to make appropriate life decisions.' Fee waivers and scaled payments pay-ments are available for low income in-come individuals. For information informa-tion please call 764-7580. The oldest U.S. President was Ronald Reagan, who was 69 years, 349 days old when he took office. The Spinal Column by Dr. Darren B. Obrey For over 500 years anatomists have been dissecting the human body. One might think that over such a time span, every structure would be known and well documented. docu-mented. Not true. Doctors at the University of Maryland at Baltimore Balti-more discovered a physical connection con-nection between the muscular system and the central nervous system that had never been described de-scribed in the medical literature. It is believed that the. findings may explain the relationship between headaches and muscle tension. It was found by accident. Anatomists were studying the muscles involved with chewing on a human cadaver (dead body). They were dissecting at unusual angles when they noticed that the deep upper musculature of the neck was connected to the dura. The dura is a membranous sack that covers and protects the brain and spinal cord. The specific connection was located only off the rectus capitis posterior minor (RCPM) muscle. The anatomists found that this connection occurred in every cadaver they dissected, using the same angle of dissection. Their discovery has since been confirmed con-firmed by other anatomists and the National Library of Medicine's Medicin-e's Visible Human Project. This particular organization takes cadavers and super freezes them. They cut the cadaver into 5,000 13 millimeter thick slices. Each slice is then photographed using MRI. The images are then digitally digi-tally transferred to a computer which reassembles them in 3D form. This newly discovered tissue is very visible using this technique. It is postulated that the function func-tion of the new found tissue is to resist the inward folding of the dura. An inward buckling of the dura could compromise the flow of cerebral spinal fluid contained within the dural sack, which nourishes and protects the brain and spinal cord. ' Furthermore, muscle tension in the neck from stress, trauma or postural imbalances, may increase the tension or forces on this muscular connection, creating creat-ing a hypersensitive dural sack. It is already known that the dural sack is a very sensitive structure. It is believed that many headaches head-aches are caused from structures in the neck. This new study further solidifies this belief. The clinical significance of this study is very exciting, especially espe-cially for Chiropractors. Clinical trials have long shown that spinal manipulation has been effective at relieving neck tension, increasing normal function of the joints of the spine, and improving overall postural balance. In the U.S., over 90 of all spinal manipulations manipula-tions are performed by chiropractors. chiroprac-tors. The muscle-dura connection may represent-at least in pantile pan-tile underlying anatomic basis for the effectiveness of 'this treatment. treat-ment. Doctor Obrey owns and operates oper-ates the Obrey Chiropractic Clinic in Springville located at 230 E. 400 South. For questions about this article, chiropractic or to schedule an appointment, please call 489-9230. 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Child Rd. 7noo-oo Spanish Fork Vo-ZOOO www.PrestigeHome.com Summer Fun Fest at the The Villa Playhouse ThearRe 254 South Main Street, Springville For reservations call 489-3088 The Miracle Worker, ends July 31 The Farley Family Reunion - Aug 6, 7 & 9 PoUyanna - The Musical, Aug. 20-Sept. 25 I Present this coupon for $1 off admission price to 1 The Miracle Worker , i I Mnnriav Frirlav ft atnrriau auoninne nc I..K. 01 I M r - m J3TsLJ J I POOR |