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Show Thursday, June 9, 2005 SPRINGVILLE HERALD II Happy Hobos cleanup The Happy Hobos, part of the national good Sams Club, volunteered their service ser-vice to Springville City this year. Alan Curtis of the Parks & Recreation Department requested the local Happy Hobos to participate in a service project in May to help clean trash along Springville's entrance highways high-ways and weed the new grass along South Main in Springville. Under the direction of Joyce Phillips, president of the Good Sam's Chapter, they participate in various service projects each year, which is part of a national clean-up effort. The group participated in a service project where they cleaned and painted at the Kiwanis Park in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove last year. Members of the Good Sam's Club throughout the United States and Canada participated in the 9th annual annu-al Good Sam International Cleanup Day in May. Over the past nine years, hundreds of chapters have cleaned state, provincial and national parks, highways high-ways and locales across the continent. The Happy Hobos belong to the Good Sams Club, which is the largest recreational recre-ational vehicle club in the ' world. There are 28 chapters of Good Sam Club members throughout Utah. They are under the direction of Bernie Voorhees, state director. di-rector. Each chapter has approximately approxi-mately 20 rigs in its membership. mem-bership. Today, the primary goal of the Good Sams Club remains re-mains the same as it was in the beginning. To make RV travel safer and more enjoyable and to save members money through club-endorsed benefits ben-efits and services. The Good Sam Club was started 37 years ago when a small group of owners banded together and placed Good Samaritan bumper stickers on their vehicles so fellow members would know they could get help on the road from each other. It was customary for RV owners to carry spare parts TheKKUy will be hopping at our Friday, June 17lh it 3 Visit our newly remodeled, dedicated orthopedic center on the second floor. From the beds and chairs to the atmosphere, orthopedic patients will be able to recover easier in our new center. Cpoin us for the Open House for flee screenings cholesterol screenings blood pressure readings blood sugar checks foot exams body fat composition readings These members of the Happy Hobos, part of the national Good Sam Club, spent time in Springville in May cleaning up the highway sentrances to the city, they participate in a project like this every year. Thank you to all these senior volunteers for the work they did! This photo shows some of the Happy Hobos weeding along the entrance to Springville on South Main where the new landscaping was put in last year. with them, as well as to have the expertise to install them. Good Samaritan was shortened to Good Sam, the present name of the club. Curtis praised the Happy Hobos for the quantity and quality of the work performed per-formed for Springville City. The Happy Hobos consists con-sists of RV'ers from Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, Lindon, Springville, Mapleton and Mt. Pleasant. Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. - Cynthia Nelms C ome celebrate the opening of the Orthopedic Specialty Center at Mountain View Hospital. Orthopedic Specialty Center at Mountain View Hospital w MountainStar Healthcare iS--- 1000 East 100 North Payson 465-7000 www.mvhpayson.com areas in Springville , 7 - r- New Divorce Mediation Law takes effect in the state of Utah Divorce is a reality and has enormous psychological, emotional and financial costs. Paul Harvey recently noted that in the United States the average divorce takes 18 months of legal work and costs $14,000. Results are often unsatisfactory unsatis-factory to the parties involved in-volved and especially to the to 7 p.m. and information k grip tests -k back strength evaluations -k foot care information -k diabetes education k orthopedics education k refreshments children. Children are vulnerable vulner-able and easily damaged in the divorce process. Utah House Bill 4 went into effect May 2, 2005. The bill sponsored b y House District 2 Rep. Ben Ferry, R-Corrine, requires divorcing couples to participate in mediation. If mediation fails, they may still have their divorce adjudicated adjudicat-ed before a judge but they must provide documentation that mediation was attempted. attempt-ed. The law provides that before be-fore divorce papers can be filed with the court clerk, evidence ev-idence of mediation must be filed. Students and scholars of family life point to mediation as a less hurtful and less expensive ex-pensive process with good results. The anticipation is that it will reduce the overload over-load on the Utah courts and give better service to divorcing divorc-ing families. Assistant Utah State Court Administrator Richard Schwermer commented on the new law: "Ultimately, will this save us time? We sure hope so," Referring to the University of Virginia study which helped guide the new legislature, he said: "All in all the kids fared better, there was less conflict and the court system saw less repeat re-peat enforcement business (as a result of mandatory mediation)." Mediation is an informal process wherein an impartial HEATING & AIR Sales, Factory Authorized Dealer 'r I 1 G1 1 R MAW Fim-a-Mm toddy at Arts Park The annual Fun-a-Rama for kids will be held today, Thursday, June 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Arts Park, 620 S. 1350 East, (just northeast of Springville High School). It will include rides, games, food and activities ac-tivities for children ages 3 to 12. Admission is $5 and will allow access to all rides and activities within the park. There will be lots of inflatable rides, games, rock-climbing rock-climbing wall, train, giant Twister game and face painting. paint-ing. Please dress your kids in long pants if they want to play on the inflatable rides, as the inflatables can get very hot in the sun. Tne Springville Youth Council will be selling concession conces-sion items during the day. The event is sponsored by Partyland and Springville City. Seniors displaying their worlds of art A group of Springville and Mapleton senior citizens has been taking art classes at the Springville Senior Citizens Center from painter Donald F. Allan. Now, their work will be displayed for the public pub-lic to see. Works by these art students stu-dents will be displayed during dur-ing an art exhibit on Friday and Saturday, June 10 and 11. The exhibit is being held in conjunction with the 2005 Art City Days celebration. The exhibit will be presented present-ed at the Springville Senior Citizens Center, 73 E. 200 South, on June 10 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and on June 11 from noon to 6 p.m. Between 50 and 75 works, mostly oil third party facilitates disputing disput-ing parties in finding mutually mutual-ly satisfactory solutions to their differences. The two parties resolve their conflicts as to the terms of the divorce regarding children, property, proper-ty, etc. They resolve disputes quickly without the expense and delay of formal litigation. litiga-tion. ' The mediation process can be accomplished in a matter of a few days and usually costs less than 10 of the average av-erage divorce. More significantly, signifi-cantly, the emotional and psychological damages are less than in a traditional court battle, especially in regard re-gard to the children of divorce. di-vorce. In some cases parties have turned to conciliatory mediation media-tion and the couple remains married with a new determination determi-nation and understanding as to the value of their marriage. mar-riage. Frequently, in the process of communicating, understanding comes to the individuals and they transform trans-form their perspectives. "Face to face one tries to find one's better nature-because one can see the soul." (Quote from Andre Codresu in commenting com-menting upon the value of mediation.) Mediation is neither therapy thera-py nor a "day in court." Mediation Me-diation provides a safe environment envi-ronment for the parties to air their differences. The objective objec-tive is to reach a mutually agreeable resolution. CONDITIONING Service & Installation Pre-Season Special Up to abate 10 years parts & labor on select furnaces & air conditioners. 6 or 12 Months Interest-Free. OAC. WHATEVER IT TAKES paintings, will be displayed. The seniors meet weekly to learn from Allan, a resident resi-dent of Mapleton. A former students at Brigham Young University, Allan spent his artistic career in New York City before returning to Utah. Allan's work has been recognized rec-ognized by the National Academy or Art. He currently current-ly exhibits and sells his works at Repartee Gallery and Brownstone Gallery in Provo; Southam Gallery in Salt Lake City; Coda Galleries Gal-leries in Palm Deseret, Calif., and New York City, New York; and other galleries in New Mexico, New York, Florida, Utah and California. "Mediators are not judges," according to Dr. Sherman A. Beck of Mountain Moun-tain States Mediation Services, Ser-vices, who provided mediation media-tion throughout the State of Utah. Their role is to manage the process through which parties resolve their conflict. This is accomplished with assurance as-surance of Dignity, Trust, Neutrality and Fairness through the entire process. The mediator is trained to facilitate communication and to maintain a balance of power pow-er between the parties. Ninety Nine-ty percent of tne mediation cases result in a binding written writ-ten agreement which becomes be-comes an official court document. docu-ment. Interested parties may contact the Utah State Court Administration and see the mediator's roster of those who are certified in the State of Utah. On the Internet please see: other Internet sources that are helpful are: www.findmediation.com: www.divorceq.com: www. sear chamediator-commediator-uthtmlDi-vorce. receives new angiography system SALT LAKE CITY- The University of Utah Hospital and Clinics just became one-of-four medical centers nationwide na-tionwide using an angiography angiogra-phy system that allows radiologists radi-ologists to view 3-D images from inside arteries, capillaries, capillar-ies, and veins in the Drain and elsewhere in the body. The $2.4 million system shows real-time images as interventional in-terventional radiologists and other physicians remove blood clots, administer clot-busting clot-busting drugs, examine aneurysms in the brain or aorta, and perform other procedures. The scanner even allows physicians to see a 3-D view of the inside of an aneurysm. Another big advantage of the system is that it exposes patients to just half the radiation radia-tion dose of most scanners. The new technology will play an important role in University Hospital's Brain Attack team, which provides rapid, round-the-clock response re-sponse when stroke victims are brought into the hospital. The. scanner's images will also prove useful in numerous numer-ous other areas of medicine, too. y |