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Show SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, July 20, 2006 Comments Alan Curtis deserves praise Editor It is with pleasure that I take this opportunity to publicly express my sincere appreciation to Alan Curtis for all that he has accomplished accom-plished as the Recreation Director for Springville City. Our daughter was reading read-ing Craig Conover's excellent excel-lent article in the Springville Spring-ville Herald depicting ' Alan's quality service, and she asked, "Who is going to replace Alan Curtis?" I told her I didn't know, but it would probably take three or four good men to do all that he did! When my husband served on the city council and also as an administrator administra-tor for Springville High School, he had the good fortune for-tune to work with Alan He would often mention what outstanding work ethics and people skills that Alan possesses. He continued his high regard for this exceptional ex-ceptional man, and always considered him a valued friend and a great contributor contribu-tor to our city. Alan's wife, Carol, is also worthy of praise. Her musical mu-sical contributions are a source of pleasure, as her beautiful singing voice adds so much to any program or festivity that she is involved with. Her kind, thoughtful ways combine with Alan's in helping to build a better community for each of us to live in. How good it is to know them. Together they are truly "Citizens of the Year" and their attributes are invaluable invalu-able to the City of Springville. Spring-ville. May this new chapter chap-ter of retirement be a rich blessing for both of them. Peggy Roundy and Family Springville People have hd plenty of warning Editor: In his 500-page memoirs, published by Random House in 2002, Rockefeller took a defiant de-fiant swipe at critics who have opposed his one-world agenda. In Chapter 27, entitled "Proud Internationalist," he wrote: "For more that a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-pub-lizied incidents such as my encounter with (Fidel) Castro to attack the Rockefeller family fam-ily for the inordinate influence influ-ence they claim we wield over American political and economic eco-nomic institutions. Some even claim we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political politi-cal and economic structure '-one '-one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty and I am proud of it." Of course, the "integrated" global structure Bilderberger conferees envision necessitates necessi-tates many very radical transformations, trans-formations, such as getting rid of our Bill of Rights, along with the U.S. Constitution and its intricate checks and balances. Anyone reading an unauthorized unauthor-ized history of the Rockefeller family, which I have, knows that they are a very conspiratorial conspira-torial family. The Rockefellers have always al-ways kept their combination secret until recently so I assume as-sume that David feels it is all right to reveal our awful situation, situ-ation, that we are now slaves of the New World Order, because he is certain on our captivity; If this is so, the IDS people only have themselves to blame. They had plenty of warning. Gordon Norman Sprngville Toll roads in Utah? Editor: Utah Taxpayers, hang on to your wallet! If Utah goes the toll road direction, we the taxpayers will fund the road as per usual. But, there are states and cities in the US that are selling toll roads to foreign owners! So the bottom line is that we pay for the toll road, the State owns it and could possibly pos-sibly sell it to the top bidder, bid-der, whomever they may be, without our say-so. Then the owner may raise the toll without any input from the people who funded the road in the first place. Thus, if the legislators we elected to represent us get itchy, we, the public, pub-lic, better let them know . that the next-term, more enlightened Senators and Representatives will replace re-place them. Simply, if toll roads are a must, let's keep the control and pricing of the tolls under un-der our control, not some foreign bidder who is only out to make money that not will stay in our State. Leo J Lee Springville EOTORIAL Mapleton Police report Mapleton Police arrested Christian Collins, 1462 E. Springdale Dr., Provo, for an outstanding warrant. Arnold Ar-nold Terry, P. O. Box, Fair-view, Fair-view, was cited for possession posses-sion of tobacco by a minor. Roger Comstock, 318 S. Main, Mapleton, was cited for a dog running at large. A male juvenile was arrest ed for possession of marijuana mari-juana in a drug-free zone. A female juvenile was cited for curfew violation A necklace was found in the new city building and is being held at the police station sta-tion Police had 54 calls last week with nine of them for animal problems. Things happen with willingvolunteers! The Springville World Folkfest concluded Saturday evening eve-ning with an exciting performance by six dance groups, the final gift exchange and fireworks! It was a beautiful, warm, fun evening. And it all happened because of willing volunteers in our community. For 21 years many people have worked very hard to bring the folkdance festival to Springville. It is a major effort to contact dance groups from all over the world and then make arrangements for them to come here. And when they do, it becomes the responsibility of another group of volunteers to find host families for the guests. The host family volunteers pretty much put their lives on hold for a week and take care of their guests. They feed them, house them, take them to and from the festival each day and show them what this area of the world is like, thhey learn about each other's culture and form a bond of friendship during dur-ing the week. There are volunteers who set and take down tents for the dance groups to use as dressing rooms; 'and there are volunteers volun-teers who host the hospitality tent for the dancers and musicians. musi-cians. Volunteers decorate the stage, sell tickets, do publicity, make signs, prepare information packets, organize parking, sell scones and a host of other duties. It takes a lot of work to put on the World Folkfest. Then there are the willing people in the community who come to the aid of those who need help while they are visiting our city. Like the Utah County Search and Rescue who hiked up the mountain to get two people from Poland who were stranded there. Several doctors in the community offered their services during the week when a few of the visitors had problems. And the Springville Police and are always on hand to help with any problems at the festival site. What would we do without with-out willing people? Why do people volunteer for the World Folkfest? Because they love it. They love getting to know the visitors and interacting inter-acting with them. They love to help make this a great event in our community. It has become progressively harder to get dance groups to come to participate in the World Folkfest. Since 911, Homeland Home-land Security has really been careful about granting visas. This year, four countries were refused visas even though they had their airline tickets purchased and were ready to come. The dance group from India were on their way and heard of the bombings in their city and returned home. Volunteers are already looking forward to the 2007 Springville Spring-ville World Folkfest. We hope you will be there-volunteering or attending-making it another memorable event in our community. n nO jLl 3 v t ' I 610 H. Llaia Springville, UT 04663 n of nrr A A rvriHjrHct ran A if 7 .. H M w jr w m Locally Owned p i i 5u Uuvlivs or -A .7 Ot tilt I I v f Get Johnson's NO FLAT TIRES for your Bikes and Wheelbarrows! Includes: Checking Temperature, Checking Pressures & Visual Inspection of AC System Reward offered Springville Police are offering of-fering a reward of $100 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who robbed the 7-11 in Springville on the morning morn-ing of July 4th. If you have any information, informa-tion, please call 489-9421 and ask for Sgt. Dave Foster. Fos-ter. Jr. High needs volunteers The Springville Jr High PTA is in need of volunteers. With school approaching very fast, we would like to have our board complete. If you are interested in serving in this great association, associ-ation, please call Dianne Singleton Sin-gleton at 489-3973. Thank you so much and Operated! ! LUBE & OIL ; Ar SERVICE! CHANGE iHrXraviw I tJ With Coupon f ' I t- I TIRE BALANCE ! COOLANT FLUSH $Mg!kM -MOTOR OIL FREON i r All 4 Tires - Passenger Cars Only I I I I EvnireiHulvin-2006. ITS 401 ' J LIGHT TRUCKS $29.95 J mnws: Expires July 3 1, 2006 -JTS 402 J Expires July 3 1, 2006 -JTS 403 . Expires July 31, 2006 JTS 404 ' -' ..'if WJ RUES t nnwi ri iiumiii Springville Herald 269 E. 400 South Springville, UT 84663 An edition of The Daily Herald, a Pulitzer, Inc. 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