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Show Page Two - The Springville Herald - October 9, 2002 WW Oo,H(Plfi(SO,0,0,DgOuil Mir EDITORIAB A question by a neighbor got me to thinking about neighborhoods neighbor-hoods and neighbors today. I was ask if we had a problem with window peekers? No. At least we didn't think that we had. It seems the neighbors on two sides of us had noticed people lurking about and had called the police on several occasions. Where were we? We didn't know of the problem nor had we been aware that the police had been called. Police will tell you that a large percentage of crime in the city is solved by the help of nosy neighbors. Are you a nosy neighbor who observes what is going on in your neighborhood, or do you just go about your day without looking? Police depend on the vigilance of neighbors to both stop and resolve the most common types of criminal activity like robberies, thefts and breakins. It used to be that neighbors just took care of neighbors. But things have changed. In lots of cases, we do not know who our neighbors are or much about them. People used to visit more and get to know each other. Our busy lives have put a halt to much of the "back fence" visiting. Often most people in a neighborhood work and so they don't get to know one another. People aren't as close as they used to be. But if are going to keep the crime rate down in our neighborhoods, we need to be friendlier and a little nosy. Springville Police-charged five young teens last week with stealing bicycles and taking the parts off of them and putting them on other bikes. They had done this to lots of bicycles. Police recovered ten of them. Where were the neighbors? Where were their parents that these kids were able to do all this without anyone knowing? The sad thing is that they hadn't been in trouble before. Do we still have Neighborhood Watch working in our community? commu-nity? Those groups were formed in neighborhoods to encourage nosiness-to encourage people to watch out for one another. Do you tell your neighbors when you will be out of town or gone for a time? Let's all be a little nosier and watch out for each other a little more. Business Mllinace welcomes ideas The next meeting of the Springville Spri-ngville Downtown Business Alliance will be on Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the Russian Room at the Springville Museum of Art. The group have considered Articles Arti-cles of Incorporation and are moving forward with plans to improve the downtown area. At their second meeting in September, Daniel Bolz of the Incredible Journey Arts Foundation Founda-tion proposed a formal titletheme foT Springville's Main Street to serve as a guideline for building and zoning issues. The group will further consider the proposal at their meeting this month. Joyce Nolte of the Springville Planning Commission showed photographs illustrating projects accomplished by a Downtown Business Partnership in the City of Poway, California. Located on the outskirts of San Diego, she explained the approach that had been adopted by the business group in Poway. "At the time the proposals were first formulated in 1983, Poway had not been in a position to be financially associated with the projects," said Nolte. But over a 15-year time frame, the business group, working in partnership part-nership with the city, had been successful in promoting and implementing a wide range of community projects. The business alliance is corn-mined corn-mined to a well thought out and well researched plan for the long-term long-term economic viability for the Main Street corridor. They feel that now is the time for citizens to speak out and voice their opinions and ideas at the meetings. primjiriUf Hrralfi (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 50C delivered by camier, per month $2 Member Utah Press Association Many ideas have been presented pre-sented as to how citizens would like to see Springville's downtown down-town develop over the next 20 years such as: an Antique Mall; Performing Arts Center; Historic Old Town atmosphere; sidewalk dining; specialty shops; art center where artists live, work and sell their art; four-star hotel on south freeway exit; brick or faux brick sidewalks and crosswalks; "old' style street lighting; benches throughout area; median along Main Street with trees, shrubs, berms etc.; angled on street parking; parking terraces; capitalize capital-ize on Art City theme; more quality green spaces; live, outdoor out-door music entertainment events; full occupancy of all buildings; fine dining or dinner theatre; annual Arts Festival. Springville Police report Springville Police have charged five male juveniles, one 12, two 13 and two 15 -year-olds, with theft and possession of stolen goods. The five had been stealing bicycles, taking the parts off and putting them on other bikes. Police recovered 10 stolen bikes that had been altered. The boys have been referred to Peer Court and will have to make restitution. Police had 274 calls last week including 37 that were related to animals. Paula Bischoff. 3923 N. 300 West, Provo, was arrested for DUI. no insurance, no taillight, Editor: I believe the fundamental question America must ask its self, why does everyone dislike us so much? Another good question ques-tion is, what happened to the ideals of the Christian doctrine that our nation was founded on? Perhaps people dislike us because we do not apply these doctrines while thinking we are on the moral high ground? A good start may be applying the principle of doing good to those that hate and persecute us". In this way we lead by example, not rhetoric. In the long run I believe this will win the war against our "enemies." I believe Israeli, Palestinian conflict shows us that to retaliate in violence only led to more violence and conflict. In light of the most recent events here in the U.S., it seems so much more important to help people in their basic needs. Rather Rath-er than retribution, I believe in contribution. I would like to take this opportunity to point out to the editor and your readers a very simple solution to solve a couple of the greatest problems our world is faced with, hunger' and deforestation. Basically this "solution" is to produce fertilizers from undeveloped undevel-oped gas deposits to assist developing devel-oping nations feed their people. This simple solution has simply sim-ply eluded the "powers that be." Anyone familiar with exploration of oil and gas in third world countries is aware of the huge undeveloped deposits of natural gas. Further when gas is produced pro-duced along with the oil in these countries it is almost always burned as a waste byproduct. What is just crazy in my opinion is that with all this natural gas either being wasted or undevel- possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. Two male juveniles escaped from the O&A in Springville and were caught and returned to custody. Charles Tracy Camara, 1434 Willowbrook Dr., Provo, was charged with theft. Tommy Cross, 467 E. 100 North, Spanish Span-ish Fork, was arrested for shoplifting shop-lifting at Wal-Mart. Garrett Wayne Fredlund, 877 S. Artistic Circle, Springville, was arrested for an outstanding warrant. Kenneth Dylan Gray, 592 E. 400 North, Genola, was arrested for theft of jewelry at Wal-Mart. A juvenile with him was charged with shoplifting. Two male juveniles were released to their parents after being caught with marijuana at the Jr. High. Travis N. Liefson, 58 N. 200 East, Spanish Fork, was arrested for a warrant. Isaac Robert Lifferth, 524 S. 300 East, Springville, was arrested arrest-ed for two warrants and possession posses-sion of a prescription drug without with-out a prescription. Gordon A. Lyman, 1375 W. 500 North, Provo, was arrested for a warrant. war-rant. Shane Loren Messick, 360 W. 400 North 17, Springville, was charged with assault and theft. Donny D. Oliver, 355 N. Main, Salem, was arrested for a warrant. war-rant. Kevin Terry Painter, 515 E. 1000 South, Springville, was charged with giving false information infor-mation to police. Shane Rising, 1525 S. 400 East 42, Springville, Spring-ville, was charged with having an open container of alcohol. Beverly Simpson, 333 W. 200 Wouth 2, Springville, was charged with prescription forgery. forg-ery. A woman reported that a man exposed himself to her near the church on Canyon Road. There were several cases of criminal mischief. A window was shot with a BB gun; persons clogged the drain in the boy's bathroom at the middle school and turned the water on flooding the room; a mailbox was damaged dam-aged along with a Halloween decoration when someone hit the box; air was let out of a tire; someone switched power at a meter in the night; and a Violin was damaged at the middle school. Thefts included a cell phone, gloves and owner's manual from a vehicle parked at Wal-Mart; TV, VCR and computer monitor from a storage unit; cell phone from a locker at SHS; four tires from a Jeep at SHS; three calls for gasoline skips; silver ring and mood ring from a locker at SHS; front headlight from a Jeep; backpack containing jewelry and makeup from SHS; concrete statue of a girl and boy under an umbrella from a yard; checks . from a truck that are now being . cashed; tailgate from a truck. oped, the local people have no access to natural gas. - Even more crazy is that often the poor in these countries have no electricity or fertilizer for their crops and often subject to reoccurring famines. The natural gas can easily produce bom fertilizer and electricity. . Oil companies exploring for oil have discovered these natural gas deposits primarily in the last 50 years. Insofar that no large commercial markets for gas has existed in most developing nations; na-tions; oil companies simply abandoned aban-doned these finds. We have identified over 2,500 undeveloped undevel-oped gas deposits worldwide. In addition, supplies can be obtain from natura gas that is generally burned off ("flared") by oil companies com-panies because it is a by-produce of oil producing operations and has no large commercial value. Most people would be surprised sur-prised to learn that a very large portion of the world's natural gas production is simply allowed to either be burned or sometimes vented to the atmosphere. One other potential gas source is the huge methane gas supplies that exist in almost every nation worldwide from coal seams that are generally not economic anchor anch-or too deep underground to be mined. It should be noted that much of the above mentioned gas could be developed commercially. The primary reason that much of this gas remaias unutilized is because it is a small-scale enterprise. International oil companies need large projects to justify development; develop-ment; with their extensive "overhead" "over-head" they generally have no interest in a small-scale project even if they could turn i profit. - In many areas of the world COMMENT Editor: , The past summer my son signed up for a baseball team and was looking forward to having tons of fun. He was thrilled to be able to pitch, something he has wanted to do. He was pretty good though he needed to do a lot of practicing. He pitched the majority majori-ty of all the games. The team he played on was small, barely enough to even have a team, and he always crossed his fmgers that all the players would show so they wouldn't have to forfeit the game. He wasn't worried about losing a game but didn't want to give it away. My son is a good sport and plays to have fun. He says it isn't all about winning or losing. He knows that there are those who try their best and are dedicated and then he knows those who could care less. He gets frustrated frustrat-ed because he would like to be able to show his talents with his seriousness to the game. His coach this year didn't seem to show much dedication to the kids. Not sure why he even signed up to coach. At practices be didn't seem to teach them anything new. There was no organization when it came to any aspects of the game. There weren't were-n't any practices once the games started though my son mentioned that they needed more practices in between the games. The kids didn't get treats after each game due to lack of communication, commu-nication, the coach never notified parents of a schedule or when to bring treats. . . apleton Police report Mapleton Police had 49 calls last week, with 12 of them animal ani-mal related. 4 Jesse J. Alvey, 283 N. 300 East, Mapleton, was arrested for haying an open container of alcohol in his vehicle while driving. driv-ing. Vernon Michael Eggen, 1331 W. 2800 South. Mapleton, was, arrested for theft or property proper-ty J possession of stolen property, possession of drug paraphernalia aixTan outstanding warrant. SLori Laird, 920 S. 800 East, Springville, was arrested for a warrant. Arthur and Charlotte Bouvier were both charged with the "green revolution" has enabled en-abled countries in this last century centu-ry to increase their crop yields seven fold.This has been accomplished accom-plished primarily by the use of the introduction of high yield plant varieties, pest control and fertilizers. With the implementation implementa-tion of these farming techniques many countries previously unable to feed their population have become net exporters of food. This "green revolution" simply sim-ply lets farmers grow more food on less land thereby preserving land in its natural state such as forests that would originally be cleared for expanded farming acreage. The main key ingredient is fertilizer, which is generally cost prohibitive partly because it must be imported from . other countries. However many of these "hungry nations" have considerable undeveloped natural gas deposits that are the main component to produce fertilizer. In addition, gas can be utilized uti-lized for use as fuel and to create electricity in developing countries. coun-tries. Specifically bottle gas can be provided to the indigenous" poor especially where deforestation deforesta-tion is occurring because of the current lack of fuel. Gas could also be utilized to run small power plants that will create electrify to ares where no power is available. In most of the oil fields in developing countries huge volumes vol-umes of associated natural gas is simply burned to the atmosphere while local people near these oilfields have no supplies of either gas or electricity. To cook their food and heat their homes they must burn wood if available thus resulting in deforestation. Even in developed nations such as Russia almost all the associated natural gas is simply Picture day was really bad, I even got upset and thought how inconsiderate of this coach not to even show up. There were only three kids that came. If the coach would have been there maybe he could have called the others. He showed up for the game that was to follow the pictures, and I told him, thanks for the wasting of my hour. He had totally forgot that pictures were scheduled and said it shouldn't have been scheduled before a game. I was shocked and said, well who wants to wait around after a game when they are all hot and sweaty? I would have rather my son have his picture taken without the sweat and the flushed face. He didn't care about it. When the season ended, the team did win the last two games and my son pitched them both, but they didn't make tournament of course. My son hoped he would have been drafted by another team as a fill in, but didn't. I almost thought the coach was being great when he told the team they were going to see a Provo Angels game and that they would be called out on the field with the person sharing their position. My son was excited, thinking he would get to go out with the Angel's pitcher or even with the other pitcher from his team since they shared, but he was let down and didn't get to go on the field with the Angels' pitcher though he pitched the -majority of -the games not to domestic violenceassault after officers were called to a family fight. A bicycle was recovered at the jr. high that had been stolen from a home in Mapleton. Camping Camp-ing equipment was stolen from a church. Missing are a tent, a propane lantern and a propane tank with accessories. Equipment valued at over $3000 was taken from the Mapleton Map-leton Public Works Shop. Some checks were taken from a home. Please call police if you see anything suspicious or have other information, 491-8048 or 489-9668. 489-9668. A male adult was taken to a treatment facility for a possible overdose, and a 19-year-old female was taken to the hospital for consuming a large amount of medications. vented to the atmosphere. Further, Fur-ther, in many offshore oil fields in developed nations the associated associat-ed natural gas in "burned off." It is obvious that this is not only a waste of natural resources but also very damaging to die environment. envi-ronment. I These destructive practices are unnecessary, one problem could be used to solve the other while creating incredible benefits to mankind and the environment. Quite simply the flared natural gas could be used to produce fertilizer that could be used by farmers in developing nations to increase these yield on the existing exist-ing farm land negating the need to clear more land. It is also well known that natural gas can be processed into methanol, which can be directly used as a clean burning fuel in place of gasoline. This "wasted gas" in developing nations could be converted to methanol to solve the air pollution problems. In addition, recent advances in technology has resulted in processes pro-cesses to directly convert natural gas into gasoline, diesel and other petroleum-based products. The bottom line is that wasted gas resources could be used to perhaps save millions from starvation, star-vation, reduce deforestation and environmental degradation. It seems so simple, "what goes around, comes around." In helping help-ing others we help ourselves. Feel free to contact us at http:-www.ciglobal.compfaindex.htm http:-www.ciglobal.compfaindex.htm or http:www.dnai.com-pfa Thank you for your kind attention on this serious issue. William Divine President Petroleum Foundation Of America, Inc. PAG mention the last two only winning win-ning games. The other one from his team wasn't even at the first few games they played, we didn't even know he was part of the team. . That was one of the big let downs for my son. He was pretty bummed, having put all his dedication dedi-cation into the games and got nothing for it. He did have a good time watching the Provo Angels play. After the game the team was gotag to be able to get then-baseballs then-baseballs signed by the players, however, the Angels were going on the road that next morning and wouldn't be out of the locker room and ready to sign the kids baseballs until late, so the coach said they would leave the balls and when the Angels returned in a week that he would pick them up. Of course the highlight of it all would have been actually seeing the team sing the balls and to talk to them, but the kids were happy to be able to get a ball signed. That was August 6, 2002, the night they gave their baseballs to be signed. After a couple of weeks my son called up the coach to find out about bis baseball and coach basically said he didn't have them. The Provo Angels are now done with this season and two months after going to the game, we still haven't heard from the coach nor seen a signed baseball. Another big bummer! Why take a group of kids to a game and get them worked up, give them a souvenir to keep and basically take it away from them? I wonder just how many of those kids are as upset as my son or if their parents feel the same as I do? There wasn't any dedication on the coach's part, none. Pure lack of feelings towards these kids. A sure fire way to lose the trust from kids I don't want to mention names because I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings as my son's were. 1 hope that this coach, if he does coach again, will take more time for the kids and show mem the trust they deserve. They deserve to have a great time playing ball and shouldn't be let down by anyone. Hope next year is a better one for my son and those who may have felt the same way we did this year. Name Withheld Spridgvilk E |