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Show AN EDITION OF T 1 r .. r drT lotc-oi ii M ii ii ii 1 1 1 1 it ii 1 1 1 1 ii . rl eccUOUT un"nrT ATION SALT LAKE CITY, UT YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2006 50 CENTS VOL. 113 NO. 16 RED DEVIL DIGEST ART CLASS OFFERS EXCITMENT FOR SHS STUDENTS - See page 10 Q vl E GENERAL MEWS CONOMICSU MMT MAYOR GENE MANGUM MEETS WITH GOVENOR JON HUNTSMAN JR. DURING THE NEBO ECONOMIC SUMMIT - See page 8 Super Ball XL-celebrating XL-celebrating 40 years of art, fun For 40 years the Art Ball has ushered ush-ered in the start of the Springville Museum of Art's Spring . Salon, Utah's premiere annual art exhibition. exhibi-tion. This year's Ball will be held on Saturday, Apr. 29, from 7-11 p.m. $ Mark and Wendy Fullmer, this year's Art Ball Committee Chairs, explained the theme, "With Super Bowl XL (40) we thought it a great opportunity to spotlight some of the diverse interests inter-ests of the artist athletes in our state-and state-and to take a fun, different track for the Art Ball in 2006." During the evening guests may view the galleries, enjoy music provided provid-ed by the Wasatch Bones trombone group, and dine on finely -catered gourmet cuisine. The highlight of the evening will be the crowning of this year's Art Royalty. cTfn SUPER DALL 3L h il UWy: I .i tern V Tw'V I -saWpM liill h ! j A 1 ,v ; ; r i A: V r , 2 As in years past, the evening will culminate cul-minate with the James O'Neil Miner Band. They will be performing a broad range of musical styles allowing guests See ART BALL on page 3 These 12 young women, all 11th and 12th grade students at Springville High School, competed Saturday at the Art Queen Brunch for an opportunity to be one of the 2006 Art Royalty. They had previously been judged on their applications appli-cations and were judged Saturday on talent presentations and an interview with members of the Art Board at the Springville Museum of Art. The winners will be announced at the Art Ball on Saturday, Apr. 29. Those competing are, front from left: Melanie Kirschbaum, daughter of Scott and Trudy Kirschbaum; Jennith Lucas, daughter of Warren and Bonnie Lucas; Sara Beach, daughter of Richard and Buffie Beach; Erica Brown, daughter of Carl and Eleisa Brown; and Mia Wells, daughter of Earle and Debra Wells. Back: Alina Donnelly, daughter of Ken and Melanie Donnelly; Ashley Ash-ley Brown, daughter of James and Cathy Brown; Kylie Moore, daughter of David and Karolyn Moore; Hilary Jensen, daughter of Gary and Ela Jensen; Melinda McClain, daughter of Bert and Carolyn McClain; Bethany Burr, daughter of Kevin and Brenda Burr; and Jessica Bodily, daughter of Kurt and Sheryl Bodily. George Weight to be featured speaker at historical lecture The Springville Historical Society lecture for the month of April will be held on Wednesday, April 26, at 7 p.m. in the conference center room at the Springville City Building, 50 S. Main. George Weight will present stories and history concermng his greatgrandfather great-grandfather Frederick Weight, an early Springville pioneer who gave much to the community through his music abilities. Weight exhibited great talent both with singing and leading music at a very young age, and this gift was shared with others throughout his entire en-tire life. As he grew older, he took various jobs to earn a living and also married a lovely English girl, and after joining the LDS Church, the couple made their way to America. His wife be-. came ill on the ship and never fully recovered, re-covered, and not long after arriving in the Great Salt Lake Valley, she Eassed away, leaving him with a little oy to look after and care for. He worked at the Public Works, which was an arm of the LDS Church, for about three or four years, and helped dig the foundation for the Salt Lake Temple and also cut stone for the building. While working in Salt Lake, Weight made acquaintance with John Jones, who was a musician, and together they played at parties, thus providing a few more dollars for a very poor and destitute young man. On occasion they were even provided a dinner, of which he was so very grateful for. He played for Brigham Young's parties at the Social Haft and was one of the first to start theatricals theatri-cals in Salt Lake. Weight later moved his family to Springville in 1856 and was almost upon arrival appointed choir leader of the Springville Branch. He held this office for 25 years. He took ud the trade of plas tering and plastered hundreds hun-dreds of homes in Springville and surrounding surround-ing areas, worked on the old mud wall that was built around the city of Springville, and was involved in-volved in the building of roads in the town as well as into the canyons east of town. He witnessed the rise of Hobble Creek in 1861 or 62 and noticed the waters were very destructive, with lots of banks caving away to the powerful pow-erful force of the water, with buildings build-ings destroyed and great property loss. Weight made many instruments such as dulcimers, a violin-cello and a bass viol as well as toy wagons for his children, organs and many household furniture items. Springville today is grateful for the fine example of hard work and perfection per-fection that Frederick Weight shared with the townspeople and for the instruments in-struments he created, of which some are on display at the DUP Museum located lo-cated in the Carnegie library building at 180 S. Main. Bring your neighbors and your friends and enjoy a very informative lecture about the life and times of Frederick Weight, one of Springville's great pioneer citizens. Mapleton considers new fire truck Martin Conover SPRINGVILLE HERALD Mapleton City will purchase a new pumper tire truck in the next fiscal year if everything works out and the money becomes be-comes available as expected. This was talked about at the city council meeting last week. With the increased growth to the city, and the condition of the present equipment, the council was told by the fire chief that it is necessary that the city invest in the new equipment. "The old pumper truck has served its purpose and needs to be retired after long use and many repairs," he said. The new truck will cost $180,000 and will be purchased pur-chased in the new fiscal year. The city also entered into an agreement with Robert Perry and his company, Basin and Range Drilling Company, to purchase a new culinary water wa-ter well, if it is successful, at about 1600 West and 100 South in the city. Perry is willing will-ing to drill the well on the basis ba-sis that if he hits water the city will purchase it. Under the agreement, the city will purchase the well for $500,000 and also pay $175,000 for the land on which the it sits. Perry will also guarantee guar-antee that the well will produce pro-duce at least 1000 gallons per minute of good water. The city will provide a well house, pump and infrastructure to incorporate in-corporate the well into the city's water system It will fall upon Perry to take the risk of finding water and all of the problems associated associ-ated with drilling of a well. See MAPLETON COUNCIL on page 2 Frederick Weight Bj- V m r L - V ftt I :; -I'i ' I 'f mii hi iT i ''fin ' Plans are being made by the Hobble Creek Ladies Golf Association for their opening social on Wednesday, Apr. 26, at 6:30 p.m. at the Hobble Creek Club House. All women who want to join the group are invited to attend. Make reservations by calling JoyeWimmer, 489-5530, or Rose Roberts, 373-6925. The ladies will start playing May 2. !l 4 f AN J d"8 61055"0O05 IMl1 HAUia & aBRVcg, l Wm A |