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Show " ' w 3 STF. 4006 --f W ZOO R RTr ,,.-,, 1 "WO UT 84101-1277 wr-,u., u-r , CITY, r rvfvf ' A ' U m m.m mm m m m m a . r Vf K I f I X II V. X. Walking through the first floor galleries of the Spring-ville Spring-ville Museum of Art, Associate Associ-ate Director Natalie Petersen smiles, "There is no other exhibition like this in Utah," she observes. "These students have turned out amazing work and should be proud of themselves." them-selves." Her comments reflect the quality of work in the 32nd annual All-State Utah High School Exhibition, opening at the museum on Friday, Feb. 20. Springville to test internet options by Martin Conover Springville City could be in the Internet "wholesale" "whole-sale" business if plans of Matt Hancock work out. He made a presentation to city council members at the recent budget retreat held at the golf course club house. Hancock, department head of generation at the Whitehead Power Plant, presented a plan in which the city would use the recently re-cently purchased fiber optic system which was the back bone of the old AirSwitch company. The city paid $37,000 to purchase the fiber-optic system from AirSwitch in December of 2002. Hancock explained that hooking up four or five "nodes" on the system, which then broadcast out to Internet Service Provider's (ISP) customers,- would result re-sult in a city-wide wireless Internet network. It would give access to the Internet to customer's purchasing computer cards available at local electronic stores. He also explained that for areas of the city not accessible to the fiberoptic system, such as in the west fields, the existing power lines can be used. Hancock wants to set up a "test node" in the east part of the city to see if the system sys-tem actually will work and Main street to be topic at lecture series "The Historical Preservation Preserva-tion of Plat A" and "Downtown "Down-town Main Street Redesigning" Redesign-ing" will be the topics of discussion for the February lecture at the Springville Historical His-torical Society 2004 Lecture Series. The meeting will be held in the Conference Room at the Springville Civic Center Cen-ter on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m. Exciting things are hap rt Ui : ;i ; This photo was on a postcard, printed in Germany, and circulated in the 1800s. It shows Springville's Main Street looking west to 200 South. There were not yet buildings next to Central Bank. Buildings were built there later and are at the present time being restored in an effort to upgrade the downtown area. Those plans will be discussed at the Wednesday, Feb. 25, meeting of the Springville Historical Society to be held at the Civic Center at 7 p.m. Everyone in invited to attend. Photo by George E. Anderson YOUR TOWN, YOUR This year over 780 works were submitted from 75 high schools throughout the state to be juried for exhibition. Of these, 296 works were selected se-lected to be a part of the show, which will be open for viewing at the museum from February 20-March 28. This year eight jurors took on the grueling task of selecting the accepted entries and winners. Jurors included Laura Durham, Judith Mehr, Robert Nickleson, Ben Behu- what some of the problems with the system might be. They are planning to do this test this spring. He also explained that more than one ISP could use the system at the same time allowing for competition on the system. Also available with the system is a device which measures use of the system by the ISPs and will bill them each month for their use. The city, Hancock explained, ex-plained, can gain access to the Internet by one of three possibilities which include the county, Qwest or from the Spanish Fork American Fork systems. Presently the system is being used by Keith Anderson Ander-son who is using the old AirSwitch Air-Switch system with the old hook-ups to provide Internet access to some people in the community. Should the tests work out well then the city can go forward for-ward by securing ISPs who in turn can sell service to citizens of the city. The city cannot direcdy sell service to its citizens because of state law. This type of operation would not require a relative high cost to the city and would get the system in operation much faster than trying to make coaxial hookups hook-ups to all of the homes in the city. pening in Springville. Have you noticed the new and beautiful beau-tiful store fronts adorning the buildings on the west side of Main Street? The up grades to the facades of the stores have added some pizazz to the appearances ap-pearances of these lovely old structures. They are truly inviting to each eye, and it is hoped that through this upgrade, up-grade, you will be enticed to shop in these stores. TP? ill T. 1 C NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER VOL 108 19 FEBRUARY 2004 NO. 8 50 CENTS mm nin, Trevor Lovell, Michael Bingham, Virgil Jacobsen and Andrew Smith. The works accepted into this year's show are a reflection reflec-tion of the high standards and expectations that we see every year with this exhibition. "The students are challenging themselves them-selves with their artwork," comments museum associate curator Ruth Allred. "There are more figure drawing than in year past, which only shows that the talent of these students is steadily increasing. In addition, the students have demonstrated that they are unafraid un-afraid to explore new media and subject matter with their work. Of the accepted works, 22 Awards of Merit were given and 10 Awards of Excellence. Excel-lence. Four students received Master's Awards and one student's work was accepted to receive the Director's Award. Congressional Awards were bestowed on 21 works. Winners of the show will travel to the Capitol Building February 19 to be congratu-Continued congratu-Continued on Page 8 by Martin Conover Springville will get a new ambulance in about 130 days after the city council voted to accept the bid of $97,075 from Medtec Ambulance' in Tuesday evening's regular council meeting at city hall. The council was also told that the city will receive a $25,000 grant from the State to help with the ambulance purchase. The council was also told that there is $95,000 in the present budget for purchase of the ambulance and $2,500 in the general fund budget to stock the ambulance. The old ambulance will be kept for the present time to act as a spare incase either of the other ambulances are out of service due to mechanical problems. Nebo Power plant Doug Hunter, head official of the Utah Association of Municipal Mu-nicipal Power Systems, met with the council to discuss the new power plant in Payson. Now is the time to stop, shop and visit with the proprietors pro-prietors of the downtown merchants. The group involved with re-designing of the area are: Pres. Jeff Mills, Ext. Dir. Daniel Bolz, Chairman of the Design Committee Tony Pickering, Pick-ering, Promotional Chairman Allen Hughes and B. Smith, chairman of the Business Growth Committee. t p&retas t A r ' l u I mWm Sis . . - ft- ..... .-W- K Timpanogos High School student Stuart Burgess took this phto titled, "A Century of Flight," and received an Award of Merit in the All-State Utah High School Exhibition that opens Friday, Feb. 20, at the Springville Museum of Art. Paintings, drawing; sculpture and photography pho-tography are all part of the student show. Everyone is encouraged to visit the art museum and see the quality of work high school students are doing. s Springville has purchased a "portion -of the plant and mayor Boyer and power department manager Cal Baxter wanted the new council to better understand under-stand what the Payson facility will mean to the city. Hunter explained that the plant is basically two operations opera-tions in one. A gas turbine engine connected to a generator genera-tor which operates on natural gas similar to a jet engine is one part of the operation and the exhaust from this engine is then diverted to a heat ex Paimmcj mmtlat gsrsge sale, how sit M Museum' by Caleb Warnock Staff Writer A rare, century-old painting paint-ing of Provo Canyon has been purchased by the Springville These men comprise the Springville Downtown Business Busi-ness Alliance or SDBA and are working with UDOT to bring about changes that will make street parking more user friendly. The Springville Preservation Preserva-tion Committee has recently acquired a grant from the National Na-tional Parks Service enabling those who wish to preserve old structures in the Plat A area of our town with certain monies if they wish to upgrade homes. This acquisition process has been in the making for many months and was approved January 28 of this year. The Brookside Subdivision Subdivi-sion which was created over 50 years ago, qualifies for upgrades to a certain extent, according to Bruce Bennett and monies are being sought to help the home owners in this unique area. Bennett, of the Springville Preservation Committee, and Bolz of the SDBA along with some of his partners, will be featured fea-tured speakers for the lecture. Come and hear and see what is being done to beautify and upgrade up-grade Springville. Please bring your friends and neighbors. All should have a great interest in this special project. t . L ; fl new ambulaiiiG changer which heats water into steam and runs a steam electric, generator. Running the two generators genera-tors together makes both very efficient and a good use of the natural gas fuel. Also Hunter explained that the plant can start up and shut down relatively easily in comparison com-parison with a coal fired plant and thus will be run only when the current price of power or scarcity of power makes it economically advantageous to do so. Museum of Art after being rescued from a garage sale. "Approaching Bridal Veil Falls," by Wallsburg, Utah, oil painter Joseph Kerby is now on display to the public in the museum. The painting will become a part of the museum's permanent collection. Vern Swanson, director of the Springville Museum of Art, said the painting was spotted by a "picker," someone some-one who is familiar with the art world and visits garage sales and antique shops looking for unrecognized or under-valued paintings. The picker, named John Pilcher, brought the painting to Swanson last fall. Swanson would not comment com-ment on the price the museum r I " S & .f t.sus jji Springville Museum of Art Director Vern Swanson is shown here with an oil painting depicting Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon. It was painted by early Utah artist Joseph Kirby about 1900. The painting was found at a garage sale by someone who recognized the value of it and eventually was purchased by the museum and restored. It also gives its owners the advantage of being able to buy interuptable power at the cheapest possible price. In Springville 's case this converts to over 18 megawatts. Hunter said that the plant will be in service by June 17, 2004, and will generate over 100 megawatts of power. IPP3 Talking about the new addition to the Intermountain Power Project third unit near Delta which UAMPS is plan-Continued plan-Continued on Page 8 paid for the work, saying only, that the find was so rare that the museum "paid up." "I've got to tell you that I got really excited when I saw it," he said. "I can't tell you how much we paid for it, but we paid the full amount, with cash and trade. We knew we had a good one." Pilcher, who lives in Salt Lake City, said he began "picking" art after he retired. "Art is something I have discovered late in life, but it interests me a great deal," he said. "If I had my life to live over, I would devote it to art. I go to thrift stores and garage sales because that is about the only place I can afford to buy Continued on Page 8 i 1 v |
