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Show Thursday, November 23, 2006 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 7 Citizens invited to "Ceremony of Carols" by the Christmas Chorus The Christmas Chorus invites in-vites you to their 27th Annual An-nual Perf omance of Benjamin Benja-min Britten's "Ceremony of Carols" directed by Martha Mar-tha Sargent of Springville. The concerts will be held for families and children under 8 years on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 1:30 p.m. and for ddults and children 8 years and older on Sunday, Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Utah State Hospital Chapel, 1300 E. Center Street, Provo. Admission is free. Donations Dona-tions are appreciated. The Christmas Chorus had its beginning in February Feb-ruary of 1980. A group of women at a party were talking about Christmas music, and someone mentioned men-tioned Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols." She was sorry that she didn't hear it performed in the valley, because she thought it should be part of the traditional tra-ditional Christmas music. "Let's do it ourselves," someone said. Martha Sargent Sar-gent offered to conduct, someone else offered to organize it, and the plan was set. They would invite friends who could learn quickly, so that we didn't need too many rehearsals, and perform at the State Hospital chapel, where one of the women's husband was serving in the LDS bishopric. It was very soon decided to use authentic Middle English pronunciation, to give the text its original origi-nal sound, an expert was consulted, and the work was begun. After the first performance, everyone had enjoyed themselves so much that they decid Flu shots should be available The Utah County Health Department (UCHD) is expecting to be able to administer ad-minister flu shots again on Monday, November 27th. "We are expecting another an-other shipment of flu vaccine vac-cine shortly," said Lynn Flinders, Family Health Services Ser-vices Division director. "We have been waiting with great anticipation, and appreciate ap-preciate the community's patience." The UCHDhm! been receiving re-ceiving "ii)ctenHT.!:i!" shipments ship-ments of vaccine. ;nui li.id temporarily run out on November No-vember 1st. "We have had lots of people calling," said US Air Force awards Kitco Defense new contract Kitco Defense of Springville Spring-ville announced today that the US Air Force has awarded award-ed them the contract for the Advanced Concept Ejection Seat (ACES) II Ejection Seat upgrade for the F-15, F-16, F-22, and BIB bomber. The contract is valued at $3.7 millioa Kitco Defense will provide manufacturing supply chain integration services as kits for each ACES seat configuration. configu-ration. Delivery is scheduled to begin this year. Their highly trained specialists spe-cialists deliver a steady an. ade &PawrT Title Loans on ATVs, Cars, Motorcycles JewiyDiaromjS'Rolei &!& Silver New Wholesale Jeweliy Computers Name Brand Tods 444 W. Center Provo 374-8076 HOURS If 9am-6pm M-F Sat 9am-3pm . ed to do it again the next year, and the tradition was launched. In the early years, the choir performed a few additional ad-ditional pieces, besides the Britten, and some solos and small groups filled out the program. Later on, the choir performed the whole program, presenting other oth-er sacred and Christmas music to complement the "Ceremony of Carols." No one except the director direc-tor has now performed in the choir all 26 years, but many have participated for 10 or 15 years or more, in a tradition that has become be-come part of the Christmas celebration for many of us. Because the choir meets for only two months, to prepare the concert for Christmas, many are able to participate who could not commit to a year-round choir. They have been fortunate fortu-nate to have a wonderful wonder-ful harpist, Janet Bensing Peterson, play with them for nearly 20 years, and to have excellent pianists to rehearse and perform with us. They are grateful for audience au-dience members who have come to love this music as we do, and who return every ev-ery year, as well as new audience members, introduced intro-duced to the "Ceremony" for the first time. Sargent has directed the Christmas Chorus for 27 years. Conducting this choir was one of the main motivations for her to return re-turn to BYU in 1985 to earn a Master of Music degree in choral conducting. (She had earlier received a BA Flinders. "There has been a great interest." Flu shots are $23. The health department accepts ac-cepts cash, checks, Altius, CHIP, Medicare, Medicaid, PEHP, Select Health, and United Health Care. "Influenza is a highly contagious, and often serious seri-ous illness," said Dr. Joseph Miner, UCHD director. "Flu accounts for over 200,000 hospitalizations every year, and around ,'!0,(KM) deaths. I mmunta! u m is a kev fns to pi event the spread of infection." in-fection." "It is important for everyone ev-eryone to know it is not too flow of parts - on time from stocking facilities throughout through-out the world. Kitco Defense is located in Springville. For more information visit www.kitcodefense.com. Advertising Sales Representative Immediate opening for a full-time Advertising Sales Representative. Aggressive, motivated salesperson to sell newspaper and on-line advertising for our community newspapers in South County Utah. Good compensation package with excellent benefits. Fax resume to: (801)489-7021 Or send to: 269 East 400 South Springville, UT 84663 ; i in music education.) While at BYU, she conducted the Women's Chorus for two years, and sang in Concert Choir and BYU Singers. Since 1989, Sargent has also conducted the Utah Baroque Ensemble, a select mixed choir which specializes special-izes in the performance of early sacred music. Martha Mar-tha taught music at the Meridian School for eight years, and teaches private oboe lessons to junior high and high school students in the valley. She has been principal oboist in the Utah Valley Symphony for over 25 years. She and her husband, composer David Sargent, have five children and three grandchildren. Utah's population surpasses 2.6 million Utah's population reached 2,615,129 persons per-sons in 2006, according to the Utah Population Estimates Committee. This 2.7 percent increase from 2005 represents an increase of 67,740 persons, per-sons, approximately the population of St. George. Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. lauded the new estimate as consistent consis-tent with Utah's continued contin-ued competitive position in the nation. "This year's estimate reflects what we already know: Utah remains a growing and dynamic state and a great place in which to live and do business. busi-ness. I am pleased that it continues to add to our economic vitality." again Nov. 27 late to get a flu shot," continues con-tinues Dr. Miner. "Seasonal activity has been mild to this point, so getting your flu shot now can help individuals indi-viduals prevent getting the flu." Dr. Miner also adds that the even if a person has had the flu, the influenza influ-enza vaccination protects against several strains of flu. "You might have had one strain, but the flu shot will protect against the others oth-ers as we!!." The Utah County 1 feallh Department is located at 151 S. University Avenue in Provo, and the Immunization Immu-nization Clinic open most week days from 8am to 4:30pm. Wednesdays the clinic is open late until 7 p.m., and Thursday morning morn-ing it opens at 9 a.m. The UCHD will continue to give flu shots as supplies last. For more details on influenza in-fluenza vaccinations, please call 851-2222 or visit www. UtahCountyHealth.org. . V .rrcyj -,;7r; 3 "-x f , I I "W - - - I ' ' I V - r-- Ji r , n - i 1 Mapleton Elementary School chooses students each week who are working hard to "Be Their Personal Best". They are pleased to recognize the following students this week for their effort to make the school a great place to be. Congratulations to the following, front, left to right: Autumn Faust, Nathan Blaney, Jaret Boyer, Cody Simpson, Cassidy Harris, Ryan Denison and Andy Hanks. Middle: Jaimee Paletta, Hayden Gibb, Cameron Starkey, Lewis Hickman, Kasey Kulkarni, Tanner Dayton and Hanna Campbell. Back: Mattison Wood, Ian Stonehocker, Jacob Payne and Devin Talbot Utah's growth in 2006 continued the trend of large number of births compared to relatively few deaths. The state's natural increase in-crease was 39,010, which is the number of births minus deaths. Utah once again saw record re-cord number of births of 52,368. In addition, Utah also had a record number of deaths of 13,358. The record high number num-ber of births resumed a trend of yearly record births that started in 1997 but was broken in 2005. The Committee also estimated es-timated net in-migration to Utah to be 28,730 in 2006. The number of immigrants im-migrants to Utah did not surpass the record amount of 40,647 in 2005; however the number num-ber represents 42.4 percent per-cent of Utah's population growth. Robert Spendlove, the Chair of the Utah Population Popula-tion Estimates Committee, Commit-tee, commented about this year's in-migration estimate for Utah, "Though 2006 showed lower in-migration numbers num-bers than last year's record, Utah's high in-migration in-migration continues to reflect a healthy, sustainable sustain-able economy I ha! is at f ! art n ' ti-'.j i i i w slalf Ut ah con I inurs i o rank as one of the tast-est tast-est growing states m the C R E I I 96 E. Center Springville 489-3603 i 1 7 nation in employment growth. And with the dramatic increases in residential construction, all while housing prices in the state remain below national averages, Utah continues to be an attractive attrac-tive alternative to more expensive locations in other parts of the country. coun-try. The most rapid regional region-al growth rates occurred in counties on or adjacent to the Wasatch Front and in the southwest corner of the state. The populations in Washington, Wasatch, Iron, Morgan, Tooele and Utah counties are all expanding rapidly. These counties enjoy close proximity to urban services, but still provide many desirable characteristics charac-teristics found in a suburban subur-ban setting. Washington and Iron in southwestern Utah, where the urban cities of St. George and Cedar City are located, experienced expe-rienced rapid growth in 2006. Washington County Hey Guys! 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While the overall state population and the population popu-lation of many counties in the state increased in 2006, Emery County and Daggett County experienced expe-rienced population loss during 2006. N I ON www.phcu.coop , W 0 tJ |