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Show Page Two - The Springville Herald EDITORIAL Plan now for 2002 Another World Folkfest has come to a close in Springville, and many citizens were disappointed when they waited until Saturday to attend the closing performance and it had to be cancelled due to the wind and rain. Only more disappointed were the Board of Directors of the Folkfest and the participants. The week following July 4 was chosen for the festival years ago because it is traditionally the driest week of the summer. And it has been until this year. Storms threatened almost every day of the week but didn't prevent the performance until Saturday. But even with the dark clouds, thunder, lightening, pouring rain and gusts of wind, the people kept coming, driving into the parking lot. purchasing tickets, waiting in their vehicles or sitting under umbrellas in the wet weather. If you haven't attended the Springville World Folkfest, you would not understand why people still came in the rain. When you come to the festival you get hooked. It is fun, exciting and a very pleasant way to spend a summer evening or two in our community.. There are people who drive long distances to attend the Folkfest. They come again next year and the next. They love it. The Folkfest is dancing, music, beautiful costumes and a culture exchange that you just wouldn't find unless you traveled to another country. Those who volunteer as host families to house the musicians and dancers do so because they love the experience of forming new friendships, the cultural exchange, their love for other people, to teach their children about others and for the fun time their family has every year. Those who come to perform always like it here. They are treated warmly and welcomed into the homes as members of the family. They don't want to leave, and they want to come again, as many of them have. Thanks to all those who were able to come this year and perform. Some of the groups had visa problems and weren't able to get to Springville. We hope they will try again next year. And thank you to all those who work so long and hard to put on this festival and to the host families who open their homes and their hearts. In 2002, Springville will welcome the world to our community July 6-13. Plan now to attend, to help, to host. And hope for a week of sunshine! Taxpayers and animals forgotten The recent announcement that Hogle Zoo would not be moving in the near future, a move with a potential $120 million price tag, seems like good news. However, there are plans to renovate the existing zoo, plans that could cost $90 million or more. Now there is a push on to obtain legislative approval to increase the ZAP (Zoos, Arts and Parks) sales tax or a higher tax on restaurant meals. Consider the following: ' .' - Since 1994, the Hogle Zoo budget has increased from $4.4 to $10.5 million. Taxpayers fund $1.9 million in ZAP tax and nearly $1.6 in money from the state to the Hogle Zooa total of $3.5 million. - Employee salaries have increased 39, marketing and public relations have increased nearly 300, while animal care has decreased by 51. - Consulting expenses have gone up since 1995 from $32,000 a year to over $400,000 a year. - $5.8 million spent to create Phase I, a new entrance and plaza. Reconstruction of animal facilities is part of Phase II. - Conclusion: Push for a sales tax increase to fund capital improvements to animal facilities in the upcoming 2002 legislative session. - Taxpayer Concern: If the animals haven't been getting the new tax money, who has? Ms air Editor: Recently, the Daily Herald published an article featuring the efforts of a local mother to ban a store ad that was in appropriate. Paula Houghton, a Utah State Official, was in support of this effort. It was mentioned that the Utah State code classifies it as a Class-A Class-A Misdemeanor to display provocative pro-vocative or lewd pictures for commercial gain. I agree. These ads are becoming all too common place these days. I would disagree with the (USPS 513-060) Published Weekly by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Springville, Utah Publisher Martin W. Conover Editor ...Patricia Conover Periodical Postage Paid in Springville. UT 84663 Postmaster send change of address notice to: The Springville Herald, 161 S. Main, Springville. UT 84663 Subscriptions in Advance per year $20 Out of County Subscriptions per year $23 Per Copy 500 delivered by carrrier, per month $2 Member Utah Press Association - July 18, 2001 wrong statement that the ads spoken of are "nowhere near" the definition of pornography. Inappropriate store displays are a problem. Byron Evans Springville Eighty-one percent of teenagers teenag-ers read at least one newspaper a week. Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. af-fords. -Samuel Johnson Reflections on the Folkfest: a personal glimpse from a first-time host family by Rosemary Bennett It is 4 p.m.. Sunday after. I need to take a nap (I had four hours of sleep before the day began!), but there's too much on my mind. This busy and wonderful wonder-ful week merits some written attention. Dannin and Hadar, our guests from Israel, stayed with us for nine days. This morning I took them back to the Art Shop in Springville where all the host families and the Israelis said their "good-byes." A week ago Thursday, we were all at the Art Shop, but the scene was different. Two groups of people stayed on opposite sides of the room, mostly, while paperwork lingered on for nearly and hour and a half. Some of us crossed the invisible boundary and intermingled. There were polite smiles exchanged and awkward introduction (we stumbled stum-bled over their Hebrew names). And there was the heat, the fatigue (our guests had been traveling for 24 hours and their bodies functioned on Israeli time--nine hours ahead of our own!). And there was the frustration of waiting, and there was the heat of one of our particularly sweltry summer evenings. I used my Folkfest sign stapled sta-pled to a wooden stake to fan a group of them. They smiled-whether smiled-whether grateful or amused, or both, I don't know. When I returned my dancers to the same place this morning, the air smacked of the freshness of a new day, though the temperature temper-ature already reached 66 by 8 a.m. We were "no more strangers strang-ers and foreigners, but fellow citizens" in the family of man. We mingled freely, hugged generously, gen-erously, jointly wept and smiled spontaneously. In nine days our lives had become intertwined, a handful of Springville, Mapleton and Spanish Span-ish Fork families and forty-some Springville police report The Springville Police Department Depart-ment responded to 304 incidents last week. Fifty-three of the calls were animal related. One animal bite was reported involving a 3-year-old. Springville police arrested Brett Lynn Bulow. 235 S. 700 West, Payson, on an outstanding warrant. Police stopped Bulow for driving with his license plate covered. Jesse Roger Giles, 385 E. 600 North, Mapleton, was arrested after trying to access a closed account at a local bank. Giles was riding a bicycle through the drive-up window when he saw the police car. While talking to police, Giles repeatedly ignored requests that he keep his hands out of his pockets. He was. searched and arrested for posses- sion of drug paraphernalia. ' Chad Michael Groneman, 39 E. 200 North, Springville, was arrested after police received an anonymous tip that Groneman was going to Salt Lake to buy drugs. Police stopped his car and found him in possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia. t Charges are pending against Donald Lee Newman Sr., and Traci Newman, 15 W. 900 North 17, Orem, for theft. The New-Oman's are suspected of stealing furnishings from a Springville' apartment where they used tof live. Julio Alberto Patrone, 573 N.' 920 East, Spanish Fork, was arrested for stealing from Wal-f Mart. Patrone is an ex-employee' of the store. - ' Craig D. Poulsen, 360 W.i 400 North 61, Springville, was arrested for theft and unlawful detention of his ex-wife. While: intoxicated Poulsen had siphoned gasoline from his ex-wife's truck, i. Charges of telephone harass-1 ment are pending against Brooke Ann Quintana, 1086 N. 1200 West, Orem. Quintana is charged with leaving obscene and threatening threat-ening messages on an answering 1 machine. Police turned Margarito Val-dovinos, Val-dovinos, 540 N. Main, Payson, to INS after they stopped him for driving with no license plates, no insurance and no driver's license. David Ray Hergenreder, 460 E. Center, Springville, was taken into protective custody. Hergen-, reder was intoxicated at the time he called police and was threatening threaten-ing to kill himself. Two male Springville juvenile's juve-nile's were arrested for posses- Israeli dancers, musicians and directors. It was sweet. Even last night as we gathered, gath-ered, one final time, at Brad and Debbie Wilkinson's home in Spanish Fork, I made new friends-like Neta and Inbal. Inbal had permission to leave the Israeli Israe-li Army temporarily to perform; she's having a hard time bracing herself for "real life" upon her return. Neta will return to the University of Rishon LeZion, forgoing the rest of the group's tour to New York and Toronto. Their's were among the faces I sought out specifically this morning. morn-ing. Amir, one of the adult leaders, lead-ers, sought me out and while warmly shaking my hand and resting his other hand upon my shoulder, extended an invitation for me and my family to visit in Israel. "We can return your kindness," he affirmed. His host, Diane Hakes (the American group leader) said Amir kept so occupied with his obligations he had not time for sight-seeingyet he managed to take her boys fishing, leaving her with an unexpected, and much appreciated appreciat-ed afternoon all to herself. My own guests treated us to a typical Israeli meal, complete with falafel. They were the perfect per-fect house guests-easy to please, pleasant, helpful and good cooks! They caught on surprisingly quick to our American board games, like "Catch Phrase," when they teamed up with my children. Both girls were wonderful! wonder-ful! I had requested boys (my daughters' idea!), but Dannin and Hadar ended up in our home, and we connected well from the beginning. And, I got acquainted with Debbie Wilkinson, who ended up with "my" boys, Yoav and Amit. So, I got much more than I had asked for: two delightful 16 year old girls in my home, new COMMENT PAGE Thank ym host families! Dear Folkfest Host Families: Please let us use this public forum to thank you for all of your hard work mis past week! As host families, you have done more than share beds and meals with the performers who have been your guests this week. You have demonstrated warm, genuine genu-ine hospitality and given your guests a view of Americans that is different from what they hear reported in the news or that they see portrayed in television sitcoms. sit-coms. And, we are so grateful for what you have done! We know you have disrupted your normal schedules to act as host families. We understand that you have had to sacrifice some privacy and some housework and even some sleep. Your willingness willing-ness to make those sacrifices is essential to the success of the Folkfest. The Springville Work Folkfest could not continue without with-out its volunteer workforce and the host families themselves are the backbone of. that volunteer organization. Old World Monkeys-those found in Africa and Asia-have 32 teeth as do human beings. New World Monkeys of Central and South America have 36 teeth. sion of alcohol by minors. One was taken into custody on a pickup pick-up order. A female Spanish Fork juvenile juve-nile was arrested on a pick-up order and for possession of tobacco tobac-co by a minor. Police are investigating reports re-ports of possible sexual abuse of a child. The child's mother believes be-lieves that her daughter might have been abused by her ex-husband ex-husband and a neighbor. Stolen items included; a CD player from a truck; CDs from a Jeep and a Mercedes; a CD player from a parked car; a radar detector and a minicassette recorder re-corder from a minivan; a wallet from a car; a purse that was left in a car in an open garage; a U-Haul U-Haul dolly; a purse that was left in a shopping cart; $36 in gas; a lawn mower; frozen lasagna from a semi-trailer; an Isuzu Rodeo that was lent to a friend who had served time for car theft. friends in the Wilkinson family and other host families, and the close association of the two boys. Debbie and Brad took my girls boating, along with their Israeli boys, and I took the foursome to Salt Lake City later in the week. We- shared some thoughtful conversation on our trip to SLC. We talked about their Jewish beliefs, about the holocaust and movies like "Life Is Beautiful" (a personal favorite) and "Schind-ler's "Schind-ler's List" (too painful for me to ever attempt), and about human nature. My dear young friends really didn't want to tour Temple Square or the L.D.S. Conference Center, but they albeit briefly for Debbie and me. who convinced con-vinced them that doing so was simply an essential part of the Utah experience! Upon leaving Temple Square to enter Crossroads Mall (the real destination, in their minds), Yoav said to me, "I hop you under-stand-because we are from Israel we don't spend much time at Temple Square, but we want to do a lot of shopping before we go back!" I needed that flash of insight! After all. they were not only Israelis, but teenagers! Last night at Debbie's, I gave the boys a post card from Salt Lake City with a panoramic view-muck like the one we saw from the Conference Center-along Center-along with a brief note on the back. They seemed so pleased-and pleased-and it was such a small thing! This morning I received affectionate affec-tionate embraces from them and words of friendship. Yoav wants badly to return to the United States. He has three years of the Israeli Army waiting for him. I feel a sadness when I think of him as a soldier-that is true for all these young boys. Orun, another young friend, has an especially sweet and wholesome whol-esome nature. I met him on the . So, savor your memories. Find places to display the treasures trea-sures left by your guests, and get those photos developed! We hope becoming close to someone who lives so far away and whose culture is so different from ours, has enriched your families. We hear the hosts for Belgium got in lost of swimming and hiking and outdoor fun. Those who hosted Israel and Greece have trips to Salt Lake to remember. The dancers fiom New Zealand were champion shoppers and loved mall hopping. The Philippines performers sand danced for their hosts. And, there were boating outings, tours of BYU, picnics in the canyon and other special activities. 1 We hope your whole family enjoyed the time you spent involved in-volved in the Folkfest. Weren't the performances themselves wonderful? And, we'll never forget that last big "blow out" on Saturday night! For those in the community who couldn't host this time, we hope you'll volunteer another Mapleton police report The Mapleton Police Department Depart-ment responded to 53 incidents last week. Sixteen of the incidents inci-dents were animal related. Mapleton police assisted the Springville Police Department in arresting Lori Anne Poulsen, 890 N. 100 West, Spanish Fork, on charges of domestic violence. A Mapleton resident reported receiving a bill for more than $2,000 in cellular phone charges. The phone account had been set up in the resident's name without the resident's knowledge. A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea. -George B. Shaw A cynic is a man who when he smells the flowers, looks around for a coffin. H.L. Mencken first day-and he has remembered my name ever since. "Rosemary," "Rose-mary," he said, "sweet, like chocolate!" Apparently I share my name with a chocolate in Israel. Orun came up to me during the "everybody dance" party following Monday's performance, and said, "Thank you so much for everything. Everyone is so good to us. I love it here!" For mat moment, I represented our community and happily received and returned the gratitude. This morning, he greeted me with the same sincerity and a bitter-sweet look in his face. Difficult good byes are the price we pay for such wonderful experience expe-rience together. I told Orun, "You will all hold a special place in our hearts and saying so comforted me, as well. Before they all boarded the bus, we Americans (Utahns!) gather together, faced our dear friends, and sang "God Be With You 'til We Meet Again." Love, kindness, mutual respect and affection hung in the air like welcome rain clouds about to burst. Inbal had observed the night before, "you accept us for who we arc-not because we are Jews or something else, but just for who we are..." This "good bye" was not the end. Our lives are changed forever forev-er because of what we have shared together-two groups of people from opposite sides of the earth, existing almost in different worlds. Our lives came together, literally in a dance, and we are different now; we are enriched by one another. We take pieces of each other back into our "normal" "nor-mal" lives. I treasure all the moments spent in the company of my new friends. Thank you for the World Folkfest. I look forward to the adventure next year! year. For those who did host, and loved it, remember to call early and sign up. for your favorite country next year! We know we had disappointed hosts whose guests didn't ever arrive. Thanks for your patience and we hope you try again. One more big "thank you" to all the hosts; every year die-hard hosts, would-be hosts, pas, present pres-ent and future hosts! Carol Lifferth Debra Wells Folkfest Housing SHS Hockey Team needs your support Editor: The Springville High School Hockey Team is entering into their second year of being an organized hockey team and they are excited about the upcoming season. In Utah, high school hockey is a club sport, an approved extra auricular activity at most Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Weber county high school. However, the Utah High School Activities Association does not recognize nor sanction the sport of hockey. . These teams do not receive any financial support from the schools, and must therefore pay their own way. Your generosity is essential to 'the continuation of this very I successful amateur sports pro-'gram pro-'gram and is greatly appreciated. Beyond the obvious benefits received from you donation, it also qualifies as a contribution to a Non-Profit organization and is therefore tax deductible. We will be calling on you citizens and parents in Springville and Mapleton, over the next two weeks, to help with the sponsorship sponsor-ship in behalf of the local Springville Spring-ville High School Hockey team. Thank you for your continuing continu-ing support. Eldon Stonehocker r Trustee Springville Ice Hockey |