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Show Thursday, May 22, 2008 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Spring Historical Society kture Millie Schulz, a Spring-ville Spring-ville citizen will be the featured fea-tured speaker for the May meeting of the Springville Historical on Wednesday, May 28, at 7 p.m. in the Springville City Offices Conference room. The topic top-ic of her discussion will be what some have called the "mystery house," located on South Main. ' This stately, two and one-half story home at one time was the center of many social activities held by members of the LDS Church 2nd Ward that was located across the street north of the home and torn down last year. Parties, dining and dances were held on the second floor, The 2008 Editor: After a long effort and hard work, the House of Representatives and Senate overwhelmingly passed an historic new farm bill! The 2008 Farm Bill makes real gains in subsidy reform in the new Average Crop Revenue Rev-enue Election (ACRE) program and provides desperately needed new funds for conservation, nutrition, and healthy and local foods. AFT's work with Congress, the administration admin-istration and partners to make sure both farmers and consumers are better served by a new bill has paid off, thanks to support from people like you. And although the bill does not include all the reforms we would like to see, there is no question it is decisively better than the alterna Musette help Continued from page 1 added over the years. The Musettes present two concerts each year. As a service, they also perform either as a whole chorus or in smaller groups at many parties, funerals and other church and civic functions -throughout the valley and beyond. All for free. Starting with just 16 members, the Musettes grew in number over the years, as large as 55 at one time. Currently the numbers num-bers are down to 30. They would like to in DY15 2MB was ( t 81 So. MainrStSprinnville J ........ 2 U - and even a few. romances started in this home. The home was built by Jabez Durf ee and his wife, Celestia Curtis, daughter of Enos Curtis and Ruth Franklin Curits (a relative oa Benjamin Franklin) in 1869, and it is stated that the basement, which has a rock foundation, was built by Thomas Child, an early Springville stone mason. The walls are constructed of adobe brick of which the clay used is of grayish hue, and the outside walls are constructed of brick. The building has since been stuccoed to save the deteriorating brick. The home was located on 20 acres of ground Farm Bfll tive an extension of current cur-rent policies. Included in the new bill is the ACRE program, an important element that represents a fundamental reform in how U.S. commodity com-modity programs operatereducing oper-atereducing market distortions, cutting direct payments, reducing loan deficiency payment rates, and freeing up funding for other priorities. This historic his-toric change allows producers pro-ducers to choose a market-oriented, risk management manage-ment tool that adjusts with market prices and pays farmers only when they need it when they suffer a real loss in revenue. We know many farmers farm-ers want this choice and we expect nearly 100 million mil-lion acres to be enrolled in the program because it provides better protection vite women of any age who have a sincere love for singing, and who have even a small background back-ground in choral music to join with them. It is not a requirement to have a solo voice or to reside in Springville Spring-ville or Mapleton. They do require commitment and willingness to memorize the music parts and lyrics. Please call co-directors Linda Cluff , 489-6394; and Mary Jo Taylor, 489-3314; or outgoing president Kathy Llewellyn, 830-1551, for further details. snu IIP TO I $200! mm n tut with fruit trees planted round about and a large garden. It got water from Dry Creek located south of the home. An early photo showed large trees in front of the home and steps to gain entrance. When the railroad came to town down Main Street, part of the frpnt property of the home tyas taken. A deed to the property located locat-ed just south of the Durf ee home listed Moses Child as the owner, of whom the lecture last month featured. fea-tured. The home was bought and sold many times thhrough the years, one owner being Loren Harm-er Harm-er who had four wives, but passes congress! while freeing up money for other priorities such as nutrition and conservation. conserva-tion. You should be proud of the other improvements in the bill that you supported sup-ported and called for including: in-cluding: increased funding and policy improvements for the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (FRPP) that permanently permanent-ly protects our nation's working farms and ranches. ranch-es. With over one million acres of our best farm and ranchland being lost each year, it is critical to protect pro-tect this strategic American Ameri-can resource. In addition, Congress responded to the enormous enor-mous need for more conservation con-servation funding, better efficiencies in current working lands programs and several new options including: Increased funding and policy improvements for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to improve im-prove our environment; Increased funding and policy improvements for the Conservation Stewardship Steward-ship Program to reward farmers for stewardship; Funding for Wetland Reserve and Grassland Reserve Programs to protect pro-tect our water and expand wildlife habitat; A new conservation loan program to leverage additional funding for, agriculture ag-riculture conservation; A new cooperative conservation program to more effectively address the nation's natural resource re-source concerns; A new Chesapeake Bay program to help farmers improve water quality in Little Giant Continued from page 1 lutions recently secured the exclusive exclu-sive rights to LiteWave Technology(tm), which is the same secret military technology used in several military aircraft in development. devel-opment. The RevolutionXE also sports patent -pending features, including the MAG4TM Hinge with-magnetic with-magnetic palm buttons for easy tool access and new, easy-to-use Rock LocksTM for quick adjustment. The company's new Velocity Ve-locity brand presents a UJ If jJUXJIJUJJU Wednesday they did not all live in the home. The home was purchased by Ralph and Millie Schulz in 1974 from John Norton, and they have spent years trying to restore it to its original state. At one time it was converted to two apartments with a division divi-sion down the middle of the house that was since removed. Millie's grandmother, Sarah Annie Durfee, was born in the home, and Millie Mil-lie was drawn to it even though she didn't know this until she had lived there for a few years. Come Wednesday and fine out more about the "mystery house." one of the nation's premier watersheds; and Extension of the tax credit for donated easements ease-ments resulting in more land being protected for the future. The bill also includes significant advances in AFT's priorities of supporting sup-porting and expanding access ac-cess to healthy and local foods, which will help address ad-dress growing diet-related health concerns, food security se-curity and infrastructure needs. This bill expands the commitment to important im-portant farmers' market programs, Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development Develop-ment program, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable (SNACK) program, and the Community Com-munity Food Security Program. Pro-gram. Just as important, it allows schools flexibility to give preference to local farmers in supplying food for the school food programs. pro-grams. This should help support urban-edge farmers farm-ers and ranchers across the nation. With the 2008 Farm Bill, we've come a long way in setting new policies poli-cies that will benefit producers, pro-ducers, consumers and our working farmland. Is there more work to be done? Are more reforms needed? Yes but together, togeth-er, we've laid some historic his-toric and very important groundwork' in federal agriculture and food policy. pol-icy. We anticipate the bill being vetoed by the President Presi-dent next week: please stand by to help support a veto override. We cannot can-not afford to lose all we've gained in the bill. Ralph Grossi President American Farmland Trust line of premium climbing products engineered with professionals in mind. The Velocity line will offer features fea-tures like aircraft-grade aluminum with anodized armor, extra heavy duty OSHA and ANSI ratings, and trade-specific accessories. accesso-ries. "We think pros want the very best, and when it comes to professional climbing equipment for any trade," adds Art Wing. "Velocity simply will be the very best." These new developments have Little Giant Solutions u Unite 4 Julie Julie Sheffield Thurman Thur-man of Orem, formerly of Springville, is 44 years old and was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months ago. She has begun be-gun her difficult journey of chemo treatments for a very aggressive cancer that will include radiation and a full mastectomy. Because Thurman's insurance in-surance will only cover a portion of the cost, her sisters have organized a "Unite 4 Julie Day" that will include a 40lus family fam-ily garage sale and raffle drawing for great prizes on Saturday, May 31, at 122 E. Center in Springville. There will be hundreds of items to choose from. The sale will go from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will also be items for a silent auction. The raffle drawing will be at 1 p.m. The prizes include a grand prize of a 5-day Green River Rafting Trip for six, an IPod Shuffle, basketball bas-ketball signed by Deron Williams, BYU basketball signed by the players, $200 Target Gift Cards, family fami-ly photo shoot, Ruby river gift cards, dinner for two at the Melting Pot, Hale Center Theater tickets and more. Raffle tickets can be purchased from Tiffany Per-rero Per-rero Ashman at 4914033, Jami Livingston Welch, 319-3733, or Ann Paxton, 787-7361. Tickets are $1 for one, $5 for seven and $10 for 15. The silent auction will include several homemade quilts, paintings, clock, hotel nights, etc. You can visit www.unite4julie.blogspot.com to view the items available at the auction. They will be selling hot dogs, chips, break, drinks, snow cones, donuts and treats at the garage sale. Several craft vbendors will also be selling new items. If you have any items to donate to the garage sale contact one of the three above. The three sisters of Thurman are asking the community com-munity to help. "Any amount you can give will be appreciated. An account has been set up in behalf of Julie's medical expenses at Wells Farge Bank - Julie Sheffield Thurman Cancer Fund," said Paxton. This is the second time Thurman's family has been through cancer reatments. Her son, Christopher, has been a cancer survivor for over 12 years. He is a happy and fun 16-year old. Springville Youth Football Camp in Aug. Springville Youth Football Camp will be held August 5-8 at Springville High Schotol.The camp will be run by the new Springville. High School Football Foot-ball Coach Scott Mitchell. Times will be: 6th grade 1 to 2:30 p.m.; 7th grade 2:30 to 4 p.m.; 8th grade 4 to 5:30 p.m.; and 9th grade 7 to Cost is $35 for everyone. For more information vis it the website www.spring villeyouthfootball.com. poised to become a new kind of ladder company. Ryan Moss adds, "We will continue to build on our heritage of quality and innovation, in-novation, but with a focus on providing the best possible pos-sible climbing solution to our partners and customers." custom-ers." 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