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Show 12 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, Kay 25, 2006 National radio personality to host Springville Talent Festival Rick Koerber, radio talk show host who is on the air daily across the nation, will emcee this year's Springville Community Talent Festival-at Festival-at the Spring Acres Arts Park, Saturday, June 3, at 7 p.m. Koerber, the Founder and CEO of the Franklin-Squires Franklin-Squires company, is heard locally lo-cally on KTALK radio 630 week-day mornings. The Talent Festival is an annual Art City Days event sponsored by the Springville Arts Commission. Free to the public, the festival features some of the brightest young talent from SpringvilleMapleton in dance, vocal, intrumental and piano performance. The festival also invites selected guest artists to appear. Koerber, who lives in Springville with his wife and two children, says he is honored hon-ored to help showcase the talented young people at the festival. Koerber comes from a diverse di-verse business and personal background, which he credits cred-its for his passion and drive for furthering the core values val-ues of his business enterpris es. Before formally taking his current position with FranklinSquires, he followed an intense path of learning and achievement-which most recently included serving serv-ing as Vice President of Operations Op-erations & Business Development Develop-ment for one of the nation's prominent seminar and training train-ing companies. On his radio show, and at the many seminars he presents, pre-sents, Koerber, stresses the importance of self-reliance, economic independence and financial freedom. Utilizing these principles, in less than KB (?R011 Take the guess work out of car shopping. Come try Cars-Mart One Price Smart Price! 1 71 5 W. 500 S. Springville, UT 801 -806-9500 five years he has turned his company into a nationally recognized organization dedicated ded-icated to helping people achieve success by teaching them how to apply principles of prosperity in daily life. "At the begining of this new millennium," Koerber writes,. "After a century of liberating technological advances, ad-vances, the largest sections of our population are in bondage to debt; engulfed in financial mismanagement; and feeling the despair of lives lived without the 'real' opportunities to pursue the dreams and hopes of a free life!" He believes that "at the dawn of this new information informa-tion age, we have become aware of our potential to accomplish ac-complish what in previous generations was unthinkable; unthink-able; yet, for a large majority of those within the reach of humanity's newfound potential, poten-tial, we have taken critical steps backwards; steps away from true self-reliance, away from economic independence, indepen-dence, and giant steps away from true financial freedom. These are the principles upon which the 'American Dream' were based, and these are the principles to which we must return if we are to live lives of peace and prosperity. A whole universe of new discovery dis-covery is literally at the fingertips fin-gertips of mankind. However, Howev-er, the secrets of this new universe are only accessible to those who can transcend the consumer paradigm of scarcity, greed and selfish pride." "This menacing way of thinking," he warns, "though not entirely new to western civilization, has grown as a noxious weed strangling our SftjiejPtePriiiijJiit. 1 I ' ; '...'.".'. '..V'''". :,".) :-5:.o' Ssi00iiih'i s, Ssw" W 0 Rick Koerber society over the last century. Nevertheless, the choice of how the average individual will 'live their life is still a choice that can be made. The conditions for such a choice are heating to the boiling point where each family must make a simple yet trying try-ing decision between freedom free-dom or bondage, liberty or captivity. The compelling question over the next decade will not be about money. Instead it will be related re-lated to an ancient 'key' increasingly in-creasingly lost to the current generation. Those who have eyes to see will be asking, 'Where is the key and what must I do to unlock the path to live free and independently?'" independent-ly?'" Koeber quotes a line from an unknown author, "It's one thing to have hope for a bet ter future. It's quite another to actually board a vehicle that can take you there." His central principles are based on time-proven principles, princi-ples, "For there to be true social so-cial progress in this regard, the core values of self-reliance, economic independence indepen-dence and financial freedom must be rescued from the fast talking schemers and the 'Get Rich Quick & Easy' pitchmen of consumerism. These values are at the core of a free and powerful society. soci-ety. Reaching those plateaus do not have to be lifelong pursuits - though certainly worthy of such dedication. Instead, they can each be obtained, ob-tained, implemented and lived as the foundation upon which a whole society of likeminded individuals and families can build." 1 t fit -VS q 4 fa V j urn mf f i n 1; MM jm? i. w arc i ft, , ? r .I k s BfTft i if"' I Sage Creek Elementary School kindergarten students participated in a graduation program for their parents and families on Friday, May 19. Students sang songs and participated in speaking parts to show parents par-ents some of the things that they had learned each month of the year. They reminded all in attendance that all we ever really to need to know about life we learn in kindergarten UDOT opens Utah County Carpool Lanes The Utah Department of Transportation opened Utah's newest stretch of car-pool car-pool lanes from the Alpine Interchange to University Parkwayon May 19. Carpool lanes in Salt Lake County have been carrying more than twice as many people with half the number of vehicles during afternoon commutes. Other benefits from carpooling include: Saving up to 15 to 20 minutes min-utes during heavy commutes Saving money on gas Saving miles on cars "Utah County residents can look forward to decreased congestion and faster commute com-mute times on 1-15 with the new carpool lanes," said UDOT Executive Director John Njord. "We encourage motorists to find a co-worker, neighbor or family member mem-ber to carpool with during the peak travel times." Construction on the project began in June 2005 and with its completion Utah motorists mo-torists have access to the longest stretch of continuous carpool lanes in the country. The 38-mile carpool lanes extend ex-tend from 600 North in Salt Lake City to University Parkway in Orem. The pro ject was completed ahead of schedule and under budget. "The contractor on this project, Wadsworth Brothers, Broth-ers, did a great job of delivering deliver-ing a high quality project early ear-ly to the driving public." UDOT Region Three Director Direc-tor Dave Nazare said. Drivers can anticipate a further reduction in travel times when the carpool lanes on 1-15 are converted to Ex- Eress Lanes in early Septem-er. Septem-er. To maintain the value of carpooling, those eligible to use the carpool lanes may use the Express Lanes for free while only 600 solo drivers dri-vers will be able to pay a $50 monthly fee to use the lanes. The Express Lanes will relieve re-lieve congestion in general purpose lanes and increase overall traffic speed during rush hour by up to 10 mph without negatively impacting impact-ing travel time in the carpool lanes. Commuters can find a car-pool car-pool by visiting www.udot.utah.gov and clicking on "Find a carpool." Vehicles with more than one passenger, buses, motorcycles motorcy-cles and clean fuel vehicles are eligible to drive in the carpoollanes. |