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Show T'l1" rrfrf EDITION YOUR TOWN. YOUR NETGHRORS. YOUR NEWSPAPER NOVEMBER 20! irtW V . . - . . -r '. -.J ... r Y 1 ' 4 GENERAL NEWS 1 f I i' 3 FORMER SHS TEACHER TO CELEBRATE 90 YEARS - See page 4 fraru" vbuL R3 ttj Viihi. ana i. SHS CHEERLEADERS RECEIVE TOP HONORS - See page 13 tudents, teachers honorei service in local forest for Christi C. Babbitt SPRINGVILLE HERALD After contributing more than 13,000 hours of service to the Diamond Fork Youth Forest, fourth-grade students and teachers teach-ers at Sage Creek Elementary School were honored with an award Monday from the Forest Service. The Volunteer arid Partnership Program Award was presented to Sage Creek's fourth-grade teachers by Brian Ferebee, forest for-est supervisor for the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, during a faculty meeting after school Monday. Each year, the regional forester over the Utah, Nevada, southwest Wyoming and southern Idaho region takes nominations for this and six other oth-er awards. : Ferebee said three of the seven awards went to Utah groups this year, and Sage Creek was the only school to receive one. "Sage Creek has done a fabulous fabu-lous job in one of our core missions mis-sions of getting kids in the woods," Ferebee said. "It really is a great partnership." The school has been involved with the Diamond Fork Youth Forest in Diamond Fork Canyon since 2004. Students have helped plant 1,200 plants, including riparian ri-parian shrubs to help improve the habitat along Diamond Creek. Teachers and students have volunteered vol-unteered their time to help construct con-struct more than 1.5 miles of the Diamond Fork Youth Forest Discovery Dis-covery Trail, improving public access to the land. Students also developed eight panels with artwork, text and poetry about various habitats to ? provide visitors with information informa-tion about the area. Sage Creek Principal Natalie Call said the partnership began with a field trip. Part of Utah's fourth-grade curriculum includes learning about Utah history and habitats, and Sage Creek students stu-dents went to the forest to gain first-hand experience. While there, they realized there was a lot they could do to help. Volunteer work is part of the annual field trip now, and some students involve their parents in volunteer work outside of school hours. Since its beginning, the work has involved more than 450 students stu-dents and the field trip is one of the cherished experience of students' stu-dents' elementary school experience, experi-ence, Call said. "(Students) have learned to appreciate nature, I think, and they've learned to protect it," Call said. u 1 . ' y f m,Mmmp. .. It - Fr4 . X. y:p V.. ftviKj: 4 S X : Sage Creek Elementary School fourth-grade teachers and their students were honored on Monday for their service to the Diamond Fork Youth Forest Since 2004, teachers and students have contributed more than 13,000 hours of service to the forest. Pictured above are, from left: Sage Creek fourth-grade teachers Michelle Hadley, Shareka Hall, Sheila Robbins and Shellie Graves and Forest Supervisor Brian Ferebee of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest t' W4J 4 "'I'l fit' I - p. jfot lads'1 13 Springville City workers were out on Monday putting up the City's Christmas decorations. Devin Jensen is shown here hanging one of the flags on the light poles along Main Street Newspaper deadline early next week Due to the Thanksgiving holiday holi-day Nov. 27, next week's issue of the Springville Herald will come out a day early, Wednesday, Wednes-day, Nov. 26. Deadline for any news items for next week only will be Saturday, Nov. 22, at 5 p.m. Our new office is at 230 E. 400 South, just across the street from where we have been for the past five years. We now have a drop box at the new location lo-cation for anyone who wants to bring news items to the office when we are not open. It is located lo-cated on the outside "employee only" door. You can't miss it. You can e-mail your news items to' artcityavpro.com, FAX to 489-7021, or mail to the new location, 230 E. 400 South. Call us at 489-5651. The Springville Herald welcomes wel-comes letters-to-the-editor. They must be sighed with address and phone number of the author. We cannot publish any letters without with-out a name. I 6 "l,61Q55"00Q5 Q"8 f a W ''iff Springville native releases book: 'How Americans View Mormonism ' As a result of Proposition 8 in California and Mitt Romney's recent candidacy for presidency, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has received unprecedented national publicity and scrutiny. Now comes an insightful and fascinating book, a study of how Americans view Mormonism and what LDS members mem-bers can do to improve understanding and acceptance of the church. The book's author is Dr. Gary Lawrence, a prominent pollster, Springville native and LDS Church member who lives in Santa Ana, Calif ornia, with his wife, Jan. Lawrence grew up in the Brookside area of Springville and is the son of the late Jimmy and Mary Ann Lawrence. He is a 1959 graduate of Springville High School. Lawrence conducted an in-depth national study measuring attitudes at-titudes toward the Mormon Church, and found the church has a serious image problem. The book documents, in great detail, the attitudes and perceptions about the church, but it also goes beyond be-yond that to outline seven steps Mormons can take to improve understanding and acceptance of the church. ; ' : He puts it bluntly in his preface, "Mormons have a problem; the misconceptions, distortions and untruths being told about Mormonism have slowed its growth; and the average member is best positioned to turn things around." Simple ignorance is often blamed for Mormonism's negative image, but Lawrence concludes it is also driven by fear - fear See LOCAL AUTHOR on page 3 .a- ...... ' "' I ' '' - -- Dr. Gary Lawrence Dates changed to attract more dancers to festival In order to attract more groups from around the world, the Springville World Folkfest has changed its 2009 dates to Tuesday July 28 - Saturday Aug. 1 and shortened its length from six to five performances. The change will allow the Folkfest to work closely with Bountiful's Summerfest International, Inter-national, a festival of folk dance and art held annually in Davis County during August. By placing plac-ing the Folkfest dates nearer to the Bountiful event, the Folkfest and Summerfest can offer dance groups the option of attending the Springville Folkfest and then immediately traveling to Bountiful Bounti-ful for its festival "It is very expensive for these groups to travel to Springville n Vi and we are often asked if there are any other festivals they can participate in while they are here," said Donna Breckenridge, See SPRINGVILLE WORLD FOLKFEST on page 3 u |