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Show 16 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, June 19, 2008 U.S. Congressman Chris Cannon meets with Mayor Gene Mangum and Springville City Council who wanted to honor him because of his work in securing $17,000,000 which proved to be the seed money and the beginning of the 400 South reconstruction project which will begin next month. Cannon secured in money for the single point bridge which will cross 1-15. After that Intermountain Power Agency committed to $8,000,000 to help with the bridge over the lower tracks and the vote to increase the sales tax contributed to the rest of the money needed to finish the road to Main Street. The council also reported that the state will let the bid for the whole project to Wardsworth, Staker Parsons construction companies for the bridge and road construction project. It was reported that Clyde Co. was the next higher bid. 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If you can't wait for a full load, use the right water wa-ter level to match the size of the load. When washing clothes by hand, the water should not be left running. Fill a laundry tub with water, and re-use wash and rinse water as much as possible. Likewise with the dishes. Outdoors Water your lawn early in the morning or at night to avoid excess evaporation. evapora-tion. Similarly, do not water wa-ter your lawn on windy days as it can also help to avoid excess evaporation. Don't follow a fixed watering schedule. Water when the grass or plants show signs of needing it. Over watering is bad for plants and lawns. It promotes shallow root growth, making your lawn less hardy, to determine if your lawn needs to be watered, wa-tered, simply walk across the grass. If you leave footprints, foot-prints, it's time to water. Cover swimming pools to minimize the loss of water due to evaporation. Also install a more efficient water saving filter. 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There are many easy, free ways for parents to participate in fun educational educa-tional activities with their children, many of which can be found no further than the family computer. Parents needn't be experts ex-perts in technology to help guide their children in the use of new media. With this in mind, the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) teamed up with former First Lady of Iowa Christie Vilsack and the Verizon Foundation to create cre-ate "The Verizon Tech Savvy Sav-vy Awards," a national program pro-gram designed to demystify demys-tify technology for parents so they can use technology to build learning skills with their children. The NCFL worked with winners of The Verizon Tech Savvy Awards to develop some tips parents can use this summer to maintain and improve their learning, as well as help them add new technology skills: School Web sites Many schools use free online services that parents and students can access to track students' grades and communicate with instructors. instruc-tors. These sites provide a convenient way for families fami-lies to remain connected to their child's academic progress, regardless of work schedules and child-care child-care issues. Mainstream Web sites Families can take advantage advan-tage of free Web sites offering of-fering activities to explore the world around them. For instance, Google offers many fun ways to practice and encourage literacy and technology skills. Use the site to start a blog, write emails, chat, create a family fam-ily calendar, get maps and more. And an area of the Don't miss out on this GREAT RATE. 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