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Show ViVCi fV 1 WN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2008 50 CENTS VOL. 120 NO. 8 GENERAL NEWS GENERAL NEWS n lit v"- i t r f i ii ii . ""v, 2oittt "My SUNDAY CONCERT L at museum -see page 5 f 1 INTERFAITH SERVICE DAY A GREAT SUCCESS - See page 4 riavnouse presents co G eorse wasni ngcon S lept Here Having trouble finding something some-thing good to watch on television? televi-sion? Feeling a little nostalgic for the good old-fashioned comedies com-edies of yesteryear? Springville Playhouse has the cure. "George Washington Slept Here," a play written in the 1940's by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, is currently being performed in the theater under the Springville Library Li-brary each Monday, Friday and Saturday evening through Mar. 8th. ' Wonderfully acted on a terrific set in the intimate surroundings of the Springville Playhouse, you'll find an evening's entertainment enter-tainment you'll remember long after the memories of this week's episode of "American Idol" have faded into oblivion. "George Washington Slept Here" was one of the most successful comedies produced on Broadway during the war years of the 1940's. The plot is timeless and the brilliant performances by the ' Springville Playhouse cast stand , right alongside those of Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan who starred in the movie version a few years after its stage run. You owe it to yourself and those you bring along to enjoy this excellent ex-cellent play. Open house forMapleton Irrigation Pond Project Mapleton Gty hopes to soon begin be-gin reconstruction of the original Mapleton Reservoir as an essential element of a citywide pressurized irrigation and water conservation system. To obtain the necessary funding, the city hopes to utilize a combination of grants and low-interest loans. Toward that end, the city will hold an open house on Wednesday, Wednes-day, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. All residents resi-dents are encouraged to attend. The city has constructed a model of the pond which is currently on display at the Community Center, and welcomes questions and com ments both prior to and during the open house The 10-acre pond is located at the base of the mountain between Maple Street, Aspen Grove and Dogwood Drive. Capacity is intended in-tended to be 108 acre-feet of water, and is intended to be stocked as an urban fishery. Water for the irrigation irri-gation pond will be supplied from the following sources: Maple Canyon, Can-yon, Hobble Creek and the city's Well 1, and eventually the newly piped Mapleton CanaL See POND PROJECT on page 2 Director Jake Suazo and producer pro-ducer Lisa Kuhni have assembled an excellent cast of veteran performers, per-formers, including Mark Pugh as Mr. Kimber, Page Petrucka as Annabelle, Elwon Bakly as Newton, Britni Gibbs as Madge, Kacey Spadafora as Steve, Min-dy Min-dy McKinnon as Katie, Maureen Eastwood as Mrs. Douglas, Pete Widtfeldt as Clayton Evans, Heidi Hei-di Cochran as Rena Leslie, Matthew Mat-thew Walker as Raymond, L.D. Weller as Uncle Stanley, Mike McKinnon as Leggett, Lizzie Si-monson Si-monson as Tammy, Shey Reynolds Reyn-olds as Sue, Lauren Widtfeldt as Miss Wilcox and Arlene McGregor Mc-Gregor as Mrs. Prescott. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. The house opens at 7 p.m. and all seats are general admission. admis-sion. Tickets are sold at the door and are $8 with a $1 discount for seniors and students. Additional information is available from Daryl Tucker of the Springville Playhouse Board at 427-9318. 1 1 I t LI n V' Li" " H6 EniOV a ntaht Of lauahs St the Sorinaville Plavhouse traduction nf "Genrne Wachinntnn Slant Hr" thic vuaoW Performances will be on Monday, Friday and Saturday through March 8 starting at 7:30 p.m. The Playhouse is located beheaththelibrary at the Springville City Building. , estler RusS Lyman STAFF WRITER Their names were Casey Smith and Phil Boyef. Those were the two wrestlers Jason Chamberlain Chamber-lain of Spfingville lost to during , his high school wrestling career. The list of the Springville senior's victories is significantly longer. Last Friday night in the 4A state championship finals at UVSQ Chamberlain culminated i "'if 5 ; ; , . MARIO RUIZStaff Photographer Springville's Jason Chamberlain holds down Monticello's Aaron Butler during the Utah High School All Star Classic at the ' McKay Events Center at UVSC Tuesday, January 15, 2003. one of the greatest wrestling careers ca-reers in Utah high school history with a dominating 23-8 win over Pine View's Matt McDonald for his fourth state championship, a feat accomplished by only a handful of wrestlers in state history. his-tory. ; Chamberlain was named as 4A's outstanding wrestler in the lower weights following his state-record 191st win, a win that he savored a little longer than most of the previous 190. Instead of quickly pinning his opponent, Chamberlain took his time in taking McDonald down, letting him up, then repeating. Although he didn't get the pin, there was never any doubt as to what the result would be. "It was about like our other match we had early on this year," Chamberlain said after beating the 40-3 McDonald for the second sec-ond time this year. "He wrestled more physical, but I stuck to my game plan and wrestled how I always wrestle." And by wrestling how he always al-ways wrestles, he won like he always wins and accomplished a dream that he and almost every , other wrestler has had of becom- . See JASON CHAMSERLAIN on page 3 ) Historical Society lecture Wednesday A history of S.O.S. Drug store will be presented by Kendall Old-royd Old-royd on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 7 . p.m. at the Springville Civic Center, Cen-ter, 50 S.Maia S.O.S. Drug Company has quite an illustrative history. It started """'1 in 1890 by an immigrant from Denmark and was known as the Peterson Drug. It then was sold to T. R. Kelly in 1859 and became Springville Drug. In 1909 it was sold to D, R. (Jimmy) Wightman and became Wightman Drug. n Selly Olsen Selly then became the owner and renamed it S.O.S. Drug. Roland Oldroyd bought the store in 1956 and it has remained at the same location with the same name ever since. Kendall 1 Oldroyd said that his father could . not afford to change the name at c the time and just left it. ? ' There are interesting and fun stories pertaining to this store and the drug dispensers. Oldroyd See HISTORICAL SOCIETY on page 2 , si. it J i 4 0 4, , At v( |