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Show Orem-Geneva Times" -May22,1980 IT ' ' " I f ;";.:' t, . j : i, ' 'S' A"' ft i t I,- Cinderbritches, the Orem Fire Department's clown, is making the rounds of Orem schools to teach children about fire prevention. Orem Fire Clown Teaches Highway costs Safety At Local SchOOlS Show Increase It now costs inree dollars and ninety-six cents to build the same amount of highway that one dollar would have purchased in 19(57. This grim news was revealed to the Utah Department of Transportation in a quarterly report prepared by Jerry D. Fenn, UDOT's Standards and Special .Studies Engineer. In an effort to estab lish construction costs trends UDOT uses a three year period from 1966 to 1968 as a base of 100. Each quarter new trend lines are established to evaluate the overall effect of inflation on road construction. con-struction. The biggest increase has been in bitumen, the petroleum based material used to make asphalt. Bitumen has jumped 496 since the base years. These same inflationary infla-tionary trends are also Cinderbritches, the Orem Fire Department's fire clown, is teaching fire safety skills to local school children. The idea of using the clown to teach children about fire originated with the clown himself, Boyd Johnson. Mr. Johnson is a professional, all-around Orem firefighter who developed his "clowning skills" by appearing at birthday parties and other social events before he became a fireman. As he was building a small motorized firetruck for his own children, he realized that young people can often relate very well to the antics of a clown. He discovered that as the children open up their hearts to ' welcome in the clown, they also tend to open up their minds and become very teachable. He presented the clown idea to the Orem Fire Department and was excited to find that it was exactly what the departme .t was looking for. Orem Fire Marshall Larry Ballard, explained that the department had accepted the National Fire Protection Pro-tection Association's "Learn Not To Burn" curriculum, and had been searching for the most effective way to introduce and perpetuate the program. He said the program consist of 25 different lessons which have been written by educators and which are designed to be used by teachers on the elementary school leve? he Orem Fire Department provides each of the local elementary schools with a notebook containing the "Learn Not To Burn" curriculum materials, and arranges with the school to have Cinderbritches make a special guest appearance to get the program started. Mr. Ballard said, "We're trying to get away from big assemblies where the students don't really learn a lot. We prefer to have Cinderbritches teach smaller groups of two or three different classes of second or third graders." "We try to have Cinderbritches get them interested and then we can teach them things they will-remember," he said. The Fire Department's elementary education program pro-gram has been accepted by Orem principals and the Alpine School District and is currently being intro- Orem Community Calendar Compiled by Orem Chamber of Commerce SUNDAY MONDAY I TUESDAYTWEDNESDAY 4 11 MOTHWS DAY 12 Monday, May 19 12:00 noon Kiwanis Club VICTORIA DAY CANADA Monday, May 26 Memorial Day MfMOSIAI DAY OSSfRVfO 6 15 27 Tuesday, May 27 12:00 noon Education Committee Chamber Office 1 14 Wednesday, May 21 12::00noon Rotary Club Chuck-A-Rama Wednesday, May 28 12:00 noon Rotary Club Chuck-a-Rama Additional Dates To Remember THURSDAY 15 ASCENSION DAY Thursday, May 22 12:00 noon Sertoma Old Dan Tucker's Thursday, May 29 12:00 noon Parade Committee Chamber Office FRIDAY 18 av Seminary Graduation & Dance Orem High School HO Friday, May 30 12:00 noon Hospitality Committee Chamber Ulnce MfMOft'Al DAY KADIflONAl SATURDAY 18 17 ARMtD fORCfS DAY Saturday, May 24 4:00 p.m. "Gigot" Public Library Saturday, May 24 1 Thursday, May 22 4:00 p.m. Movie "Gigot" Orem Library No Charge Friday, May 23 4:00 p.m. "Gigot" Public Library 7:00-11:00 p.m. Yearbook Signing Party Orem High School Tuesday, May 27 7:00 p.m. City Council Meeting City Center Tuesday, May 27 8:00 p.m. Baccalaureate Service Orem High School Thursday, May 29 8:00 p.m. Orem High Graduation Marriott Center affecting highway maintenance main-tenance operations. The cost of asphalt for maintenance main-tenance has risen 50 since last year. Inflated steel prices have driven up guardrail replacement and sign installation costs. Increased equipment and fuel costs has inflated the price of gravel, a vital element of all road main- duced on a trial basis to prepare for full-scale operation next year. With the help of the fireman in the bright purple shirt, rainbow hair, yellow pants and gigantic shoes, young Orem students are learning how to tell if fire is on the other side of a bedroom door and what to do if it is, as well as other valuable skills which could very well save lives in an emergency. Although Cinderbritches and the Orem Fire Marshall Mar-shall are doing what they can to educate youngsters, young-sters, this program will be sustained by the efforts of the regular elementary school teachers, and hopefully, hope-fully, supporting parents. tenance and construction. These inflated costs coupled with declining revenues have pushed roadbuilders into a wscal squeeze play . . . and there is no relief in sight. UDOT's revenues have already dropped 15 below budget projections and 7 below last years revenues. Local governments govern-ments are caught in the same bind and several will be hard pressed to do much more than patch chuckholes until construction construc-tion costs moderate. Cor Inspection Sticker tleeded The Safety Inspection Division of the Utah Highway High-way Patrol wishes to clarify clar-ify some problems which have been associated with companies replacing vehicle ve-hicle windshields. Some companies have mistakenly mistak-enly cut a corner of the old glass holding the safe instructed the motorists to use that to prove the vehicle is properly inspected, in-spected, or they have taped the old sticker to the new windshild, or just given the sticker to the motorist. Whenever a windshield is replaced a new safety inspection sticker must be attached to the windshild. wind-shild. The old sticker is no longer valid and ean not be reattached. It is ty inspection sticker and necessary to apply a new sticker to the newly installed in-stalled windshield. This can be supplied through some twenty-seven glass inspection stations or by presenting the 'Affidavit of Inspection to any other certified inspection station. sta-tion. Utah law. prescribes that the maximum cost for such sticker replacement can not exceed one dollar. It is not necessary to inspect in-spect the vehicle again prior to receiving this replacement re-placement sticker as long as the old sticker was valid. val-id. Inspections performed on all vehicles are valid ior one year ironuneume they successfully pass inspection. in-spection. Replacement stickers do not extend this expiration period. .3i DOfJT RISK LOSS OR THEFT OF CHECKS! 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