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Show Thursday, January 4, 2007 16 SHS, Oakridge students present pageant SPRINGVILLE HERALD Onpec: 20 in the Springville Junior High School auditorium, Springville High School's Student Council teamed up with Oakridge School to present a Christmas pageant titled "Twas-a Christmas to Remember." Remem-ber." ; - i The original script was written by student council coun-cil historians Bethany Burr and Holly Sumsion. Each student council member shared a role with one of the handicapped' handi-capped' students of Oakridge School. Using pre-recorded push button but-ton hand sets, even student-who struggle with verbal skills participated in speaking parts. After many practices and the making of cos- tumes and the set, the j two groups were ready to perform. Roles included the Grinch, Frosty, Jack Frost, Rudolph and his reindeer friends, elves, and, of course, there was a visit from Santa. The cast sang and danced to familiar carols played by student council coun-cil member Sean Alsop. With almost 400 guests in attendance, including the family members of all the students, a large and receptive audience added to the festive feel of the night. Tearfully and with lots of hugs, the student stu-dent council parted that night with their character charac-ter counterparts from Oakridge having felt the true Christmas spirit. r - st A C LYDE COM PAN y 35 E. 400 S. - Springville 491-2600 GARDEN - LUMBER HARDWARE PLUMBING ELECTRICAL AUTOMOTIVE PAINT -TOOLS AH your home hardware needs! .sSAp!',.,:,. - Jfc-r .tfT". j v :. -1 Springville High School student council members teamed up with students from Oakridge School recently to present an original Christmas pageant titled "Twas a Christmas to Remember." Creative thinking is today's to-day's most prized, profit-producing profit-producing possession for an individual, corporation or country. - Robert P. Crawford Nature gave a person two ends, one to sit on and one to think with. 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Greenbelts in and around urban areas have probably not saved any lives, but they are important impor-tant nonetheless to the ecological eco-logical health of any given region. The various plants and trees in greenbelts serve as organic sponges for various forms of pollution, pol-lution, and as storehouses of carbon dioxide to help offset global warming. "Trees are an important part of the city infrastructure," infrastruc-ture," says Gary Moll of American Forests. Because Be-cause of the many benefits bene-fits trees provide to cities, Moll likes to refer to them as the "ultimate urban multi-taskers." Greenbelts are also important to help urban dwellers feel more connected con-nected to nature. Dr. S.C. , Sharma of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in India believes that all cities should "earmark "ear-mark certain areas for the development of greenbelts to bring life and color to the cement concrete jungle and a healthy environment environ-ment to the urbanities." 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The concept has also caught on in Canada, with the cities of Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver adopting similar mandates for the creation of greenbelts green-belts to combat sprawl. Urban greenbelts can also be found in and around larger cities in Australia, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The green belt concept has even spread to rural ru-ral areas, such as in East Africa. Womens' rights and environmental activist ac-tivist Wangari Maathai launched the Green Belt Movement in Kenya in 1977 as a grassropts tree-planting tree-planting program to address ad-dress the challenges of deforestation, soil erosion and lack of water there. To date, her organization has overseen the planting of 40 million trees across Africa. Af-rica. In 2004 Maathai was the first environmentalist to be awarded the prestigious presti-gious Nobel Peace Prize. Why "peace"? 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