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Show T Thursday, September 13, 2007 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 19 Healthcare company wins prizes m several paraaes The 2007 summer parade season went out with a bang for Traditions Health Care, Inc., the parent company of four local nursing and rehabilitation reha-bilitation centers, who won their third parade award in the Payson Onion Days Celebration for the "Best of Theme''. The administrators of Pay-son Pay-son Nursing and Rehab, Art City Nursing and Rehab, Hobble Creek Nursing and Country View Manor, all Traditions' facilities, thought it would be fun to build a float that their residents could ride on in the parades. It did not take long to decided de-cided on the theme of "Life's Memories" for the float and the building began. Mike Wing, maintenance supervisor at Payson Nursing Nurs-ing and Rehab jumped right . ? ST ? Vjitt ... -,.,..'- . -7 x This float built by Traditions Health Care Inc. won several awards this summer in local parades including "Best of Theme" in the Art City Days Parade. k mil mummulm L 1151,11 SPIfflM- Come see the new store! SAME RELIABLE SERVICE! VAX 'Shepherd's CARPET & FURNITURE Fax 798-0460 m HOMEYMOOJM JfTTERS? Ml Dlrfy Jo Punsfers Saving Aiarriagcs since 193 170 .North Main Spanish Fori Lingerie fi NoveFfies 2 yr 24,000 mile warranty AUA.SIxertified technicians Voted best in Utah County Clean Jriendly and Happy.' into the building of the float while Melanie Roylance, administrator ad-ministrator at Hobble Creek Nursing; and Jason Giatris, Payson Nursing and Rehab aclministrator; oversaw the design, chose colors and shared their blood seat and yes, tears. The finished product was a 40-foot flat-bed trailer with a ten- foot tall open scrap-book scrap-book at the back showcasing showcas-ing photos of several of the residents at different stages in their lives. Residents were also able to take turns riding on the float dressed as various favorite memories, memo-ries, a soldier, a gardener, a fisherman, a farmer or a grandparent. Traditions participated in six parades throughout the county and garnered the "Best of Theme" award in the Art City Days Parade and the Payson Onion Days Parade Pa-rade and also won the "Mayor's "May-or's Choice" in the Salem City Parade. Traditions Health Care, Inc thanks Top-It Top-It for the use of the flat bed trailer as well as all of the citizens on the parade routes who cheered for their residents. resi-dents. '- 1 :4 77 E. Industrial Dr. Spanish Fork, UT 798-8777 1 r 9 . f Sixth Gear: 2008 Scion xD: A zippy alternative Daniel Souza STAFF WRITER Revealed at the 2007 Chicago Chi-cago auto show, Toyota's sub company Scion hopes to captivate urban-minded drivers with a smaller, gas-sipper, gas-sipper, better-looking-than-the-xB subcompact. 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It is known that it is a lot easier to cause cancer in mice than in people. Also, none of the studies had control groups to determine the normal rate of tumors in those mice. Studies have not been documented on dogs. Millions Mil-lions of dogs have been microchipped with no reported report-ed cancer problems. Also, many studies have shown that microchipping is the most effective way to help find a pet Recently, Judge Dean and Rosie Olsen of Springviile told me how their daughter's family had lost their dog in Ogden about a year ago. They were heartbroken. Then, just a couple of weeks ago, they received a call from sorrieone in Richfield. Their long, lost pet had been identified and they were all reunited because of a microchip. ... , ' coupon ?- j ( i :r $5C front of the center console for holding portable music players or cell phones, an upper and lower glove box, and driver's side change box. 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Connectivity is achieved by simply plugging the iPod into a port via a connector cable, providing outstanding outstand-ing sound quality through the car's stereo system and constant power to the iPod. Music is controlled through the head unit and the steering steer-ing wheel audio control buttons. but-tons. Scion also provided a mini-jack port that allows users to listen to non-iPod MP3 players through the xD's Pioneer speakers. The xD's optional premium premi-um audio system adds one more feature to the stan-. stan-. dard head unit, the ability to download "skins" to play on the organic electroluminescent electrolumi-nescent (OEL) screen. Customers Cus-tomers can download images, imag-es, four-second video clips and eight-second movies from Pioneer's website. In The Pet Dish Microchips and Cancer n, u-.mM rt-.wS.-4 rt w n I IOI UIU fcqIU fc. W MT. 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