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Show ... . YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, 007 50 CENTS VOL 119 NO 5 SCHOOLS irrAV ft Sit- - .,A-l50i. TASK FORCE STUDIES MUSIC IN NEBO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS - See page 8 Volunteers build new home for Mapleton resident Christi C. Babbitt - STAFF WRITER It will take a month instead of a week and there are no television cameras, but the house will be just as new as those built on television's tele-vision's popular show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." In the spirit of the show, which features a design team that builds a new home for a needy family in seven days, a group of Mapleton residents joined with others last week to demolish the home of one of their neighbors and construct a new one. The home is being built for Donna Curtis, who until last week lived in a tiny one-bedroom, approximately 100-year-old home at 1600 W. 1170 North, Mapleton, along with her son and two grandchildren." The family is now living elsewhere while volunteers vol-unteers pour cement and build walls. Just before the home is completed, com-pleted, the family will be sent for a week-long vacation at Disneyland Disney-land - thanks to an anonymous donor - then brought back in early ear-ly March when their new house will be revealed. "They deserve it," said Ja 3 n. 1 u Vern Swanson, right, Director of the Springville Museum of Art, is shown here helping some children with their art projects at last month's Community & Family Night The museum sponsors this event the first Monday of every month. It includes guest artists, entertaiment and a children's art project Motorcycles and Irish Dance at Community & Family Night The February Community & Family Night will be held Mori-day, Mori-day, Feb. 5, at 6 p.m. at the Springville Museum of Art. Citizens Citi-zens are invited to bring their children to this fun and informative informa-tive evening. The guest artist will be Jeff Decker, sculptor, of Springville, who will present and speak on his creative sculpture featuring "Man and Machine" at the museum. mu-seum. Aside from being a serious motorcycle rider, Decker has chosen the iron horse as his sculptural subject matter. He said he was exposed to vintage cob Wolseyj Curtis's next door neighbor, on Saturday as he helped a crew of men frame walls at the house site. Curtis has always been one to take in family fam-ily members when they needed help, Wolsey said. "She's got so little here, but she gives what she can," he said. Heading up the construction effort ef-fort are Stuart Hamilton, bishop of Curtis's Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ward, and Chris Shurian, president of Classic Clas-sic Construction Services. Hamilton Ham-ilton said he got to know Curtis through having her grandson on his baseball team and first visited her home after being assigned through the ward to serve as her home teacher. "I didn't have to go much father fa-ther than the living room to notice no-tice that she was in dire need of something," Hamilton said. The home was about 600 square feet with a small room in the basement that housed the water heater and furnace. A hole had been cut in the main floor's ceiling to create access to the attic, which was being used as a makeshift bedroom, he said. See NEW HOME IN MAPLETON on page 8 ! J I ::' f - i ' motorcycle racing since before he could walk. Decker spent two years working work-ing at a foundry where he mastered mas-tered each step of the lost wax process. He not only sculpts his own pieces, but molds, wax chases, casts and contributes to the patina process of each piece. The synergy between his love for vintage racing and his passion pas-sion for art are married beautifully. beauti-fully. "The lost wax process is unpredictable," un-predictable," said Decker, "just like the images I try to capture." See COMMUNITY & FAMILY NIGHT on page 8 it GUARANTEED BEST PRICE! See Dealer mt Details I, Ml ' - t J vex-'' sl " ' , ' "' ' - Photo by Christi C. BabbittThe Springville Herald A crew of men was busy Saturday framing a new home for Mapleton resident Donna Curtis. Mapleton residents and other volunteers have come together to demolish Curtis's old home and build her a new one in the spirit of television's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." Bruce Meridenhall honored for service in Mapleton Mapleton resident Bruce Meridenhall Meri-denhall was honored Thursday at the Sons of the Utah Pioneers meeting in Mapleton. He has been the driving force behind the Mapleton Heritage Museum for many years. Mendenhall has been the director di-rector of the museum since 1994 when it was first located in the Morris Bird home. He applied for and received numerous grants that have substantially helped to restore the home. "Bruce has donated numerous numer-ous time period artifacts to the museum and assisted in soliciting solicit-ing many other donations. Over the past decade, he has been instrumental in-strumental in gathering pictures ,and histories of early Mapleton settlers as well as those of individuals indi-viduals who have served in the military," said Keith Stirling, city councilman. "Presently, we have several hundred pictures that we are attempting to fully identify so that names and events can be indexed." in-dexed." When Gen Whiting served on the Mapleton City Council, she work to get the Morris Bird home and use it as a museum. Bruce took over as director when the home was obtained and served until last October when his health would not permit it. Whiting is the new director. An avid hiker, Mendenhall has hiked the mountains of Utah, Colorado, Col-orado, Wyoming and Montana. He was active in scouting and spent many days hiking the trails with his "boys." He is also a Sil I "61055 "00050" ENJOY COLLABORATION OF THE e nvCl ARTS AT SHS wisaKawi .... i ver Beaver recipient. Some of his former scouts said that Mendenhall was a real mountain moun-tain man, with legs of steel! They also mentioned how full his mind was of stories about events and people of this area. "At Bruce's recommendation, I read the autobiography of Frank Bruce Mendenhall loves history, and he has showed that love in Mapleton as he has given service to the Mapleton Heritage Museum. He was honored last week for all that he has done. He shown here with his wife, Phyllis. Next to Springvlib Vsi-f.krt V , '.; VAA7.im:rtprice2U to .ccm ' TONIGHT - See page 16 . . '-i:-, too, C. Robertson," said Stirling. "I can understand why Bruce was impressed with this individual" Robertson's family grew up in Oregon and Idaho in the late 1800's. Frank moved to Salt Lake City in the earlytoOO's and to Mapleton Ma-pleton in the early 1940's. 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