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Show SSmiilems nominated March 4, 2004 - The Springville Herald - Page Five i fl for national soMmftip Bradley Chandler and Jeremy Dye, SHS seniors and members of the SHS chapter of the National Honor Hon-or Society, have been nominated nomi-nated to compete in the National Honor Society scholarship sponsored by, the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). Ann Anderson, SHS principal announced the nomination, which places Chandler and Dye in the national competition. Two hundred national NHS winners win-ners will be chosen this spring to receive $1,000 college scholarships. Principal Anderson further fur-ther noted that, "We are proud of both of these fine young men. Bradley has served as our talented and dependable student webmaster webmas-ter for our school web page; and he has done an excellent job with this important responsibility. re-sponsibility. Jeremy is a hard worker and willing helper who is honest, motivated and diligent in all of is pursuits, serving as a wonderful example exam-ple to his peers. We appreci Getting ready: Utah guardsman train by Pfc. Aimee Felix ; 161 soldiers standing on I frozen grass at 4:45 a.m., form up to begin training for a completely different environment. envi-ronment. "Essayonce," they roar and fall in. This French term is the 116th Engineers, Combat Support Equipment Company motto. It means, "We will try". This Utah National Guard unit arrived and began training at Fort Carson, Colorado, January 4, 2004. The soldiers are training for deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The unit is technically Training focuses ion needed skills The training received in ! Utah and Fort Carson by the ' 1 16th Combat Support Engi-! Engi-! neers was specifically de-; de-; signed to focus on the skills ' needed for survival and mission accomplishment in Iraq. Tasks such as weapons qualification and convoy operations were trained extensively, to name a few. The two day convoy operation event hosted by the 1145th Field Artillery and the 29 1st Training Brigade at Camp Red Devil in Fort Carson gave the 116th soldiers sol-diers opportunities to interact with villagers, riot control situations and essential convoy con-voy operations. The unit also pulled security secu-rity for two gates, completed some road grading for the "local villages" and received realistic casualty treatment and evacuation training. One of the highlights of the exercise was a company mission to extract a villager known to be sympathetic to coalition forces from a hostile hos-tile village. 1 Earlier that day he had facilitated the escape of two American prisoners and helped them cross friendly lines. They were anxious to look after his safety and glean whatever intelligence they could from the man. Camp Red Devil was a huge success in exposing the 116th soldiers to possible situations they could encounter encoun-ter in Iraq. From Camp Red Devil, the unit convoyed to another bivouac site for three days of convoy operations and training train-ing including a day of live fire convoy opeations. One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. -Benedict Spinoza The first free American school for the deaf was founded by Thomas H. Gal- laudet in Hartford, Connecticut Connecti-cut in 1817. ate their contributions to SHS and the communities of both Springville and Mapleton. " High school National Honor Society chapters from across the country were eligible to nominate two senior high members to compete. Nominees were selected based on the basis of their leadership skills, participation partic-ipation in service organization organiza-tion and clubs; achievements in the arts and sciences; employment experience; and academic record. They also were required to write an essay. "Students nominated for the NHS scholarship not only demonstrate academic excellence, excel-lence, but also excellence in service, leadership, character and citizenship-traits that are more important now than ever before," said Gerald N. Tirozzi, executive director, NASSP. "I am always impressed im-pressed by the high caliber of students like Chandler and Dye, and NASSP is proud to recognize them. " In' recognizing leadership in co cunicular activities as well as academic perfor proficient and the goal now is to make its tactical and survival skills equal to that proficiency, said 1st Sgt. Craig Haskell, 116th Engineers Engi-neers CSE, While these soldiers may not encounter one-on-one combat situations or be tasked to conduct raids or inspections, soldiers should be prepared for anything, said Capt. Derrick Quinlan, company commander. As engineers, they will mainly be working on airfield air-field and rotary repairs, but "We want to bring them back alive, so we're now focusing hd feta.-"- ,,,,...:-. - ml During field training exercises, the soldiers of the 116th learned crowd control techniques and other skills in preparation for their deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 116th Engineers, formerly headquarted in Springville, Spring-ville, departed for the Middle East in early February. After a few days in Kuwait, an advanced party departed for Iraq on February 17 to start the process of integrating integrat-ing the company with an active component battlion. The remaining members of the company will follow soon. mm? 633JCDG That means that you can call on me to fill your insurance needs with the coverage you want and at the lowest possible cost. Farmers Insurance Group specializes special-izes in Auto. Fire, Life and Com- mercial insurance and is famous (801)489-8000 for fast, fair, friendly claims service. ser-vice. I'd like to meet you. Why not give me a call today. I think you'll be glad you did. mance, the NHS scholarship recognized the importance of a well-rounded education. Co curricular activities are an essential part of the school curriculum. The National Honor Society (NHS) and the Na-. tional Junior Honor Society (NJHS) are the nation's premier organizations recognizing recog-nizing outstanding middle level and high school students stu-dents who demonstrate excellence excel-lence in the areas of scholarship, scholar-ship, leadership, service and character. NHS and NJHS are proudly sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). The NASSP, the preeminent preemi-nent organization and national nation-al voice for middle level and high school leaders, also sponsors the National Association Associ-ation of student Councils (NASC), which promotes and provides leadership development develop-ment opportunities to prepare and empower students to serve their schools and communities. on their combat skills", said Haskell. Training has consisted of basic soldier skills, weapons' qualifications, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, how to conduct vehicle inspections, how to conduct raids, crowd control and learning basic rules of engagement. The soldiers are eager to "get on the ground" in Iraq, said Quinlan. "These are exceptionally professional soldiers with an exceptionally high morale", said Haskell. This story appeared in the Fort Carson, Colorado, newspaper the Mountaineer. . . - Karen Snow 25 East 200 South Springville, UT 3 to 1 m&mm mm It was the people 3, the city staff 2, at Tuesday nights council meeting at city hall when the council voted on restoring commercial status to Ilene Coffman's property at 57 East 400 North. After a very lengthy 45 minute discussion of the issues involved in changing back the Coffman property by head of the planning department Fred Aegerter, and then a long council discussion, reason prevailed and the ground located east of the medical clinic on 400 North was commercial. Part of the ground had been zoned commercial up until last July when the council coun-cil decided to make all of the ground residential. However, in Tuesday night's discussion, it came out that many years ago the whole piece of ground had . been used for commercial purposes. The action of the council, which showed the new council coun-cil members Strong, Burt and Bird voting in favor and Carr and Knight voting in opposition, opposi-tion, only advances a long standing trend along Main Street which allows businesses business-es to exist on the east and west streets all along this corridor. The action also did not run counter to the planning commission which had actually actu-ally voted 3 to 3 on the issue themselves and were undecided unde-cided as to what to do about rezoning the property. The action of the council also' told who controls the vote on the council at this time. In a separate action by the council Aegerter, the city planner, was at a loss of words to explain why one developer on 1600 South can put in residential units along the street on the east side of the Dry Creek sub-station and another developer on the ( .-.r. 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Animal control shelter It seems that the county animal control shelter is costing the county, who built the facility, a lot of "heart burn" and they want the south county . cities to purchase pur-chase the facility. However, the south county coun-ty cities at balking at the issue because of the "opulent" "opu-lent" character of the facility which at the present time is costing $46 to $51 per animal. ani-mal. The north county cities have decided so far, to not participate in the facility because they can use a facility facili-ty in Orem for less money. Orem city is talking about doing away with their facility and selling the ground which is making the north county cities nervous about what to do with their animals. All of this discussion was discussed in the work session so no action was taken by the city, but raises questions about what will happen in the future. Parks The small piece of ground near the new LDS church at about 200 West and 500 North seems to be closer to becoming a small park for residents in that area. The city seems ready to perhaps purchase the ground from the church which seems ready to perhaps sell the property to the city for a reasonable price. Fencing, liability issues, and care of the ground also Family Locations Main Office 175 East 200 South Orem, UT 84058 Vineyard Branch 99 North Geneva Road Orem, UT 84057 Pleasant Grove Branch 366 East State Road Pleasant Grove, UT 84062 Springville Branch 1750 West 645 South Springville, UT 84663 The Springville Herald is going to move! need to be worked out, but reports indicate that all parties par-ties involved in the ground are talking and not to many objections are surfacing at this time. It was also reported that the engineering for a parking lot at Holdaway Park is finished and work can start on that project when the weather breaks this spring. Water pipe problems Copper in the water in some areas of the city has been an issue for some months. However, the city has been trying to get a test on samples sent to the state about a year ago and these tests have not been forthcoming. forthcom-ing. It seems that the results of the tests have come back and do not show that copper in the water is a problem. Councilman Burt did put forth an idea during work session that there is perhaps a very low grade electric "field" in the ground in the areas which are having a corrosion problem caused by underground power lines. He also suggested that better . "grounding" of the copper water pipes be accomplished ac-complished to solve the problem. In any case he went on to explain, "this was the problem prob-lem and answer at the new LDS church building in Hunter Valley. Other business Claudia Jensen met with the council and reported that the SCORES program in the Maxum Building is going very well. They has an average of 26 middle school and junior high students involved in the program last year and up to 51 students involved this year. She also noted that the students are better behaved this year and the program is help students to raise their grades. FcTStt (801)225-6080 (801) 224-7618 (801) 785-6647 (801)491-4270 |