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Show 7 ate-; ' ' i r i I i r -J X ' ProvoOrem Chamber of Commerce Newsletter r ,-? n if Lee Ann Moorman is Presi-" dent of Phone Directories Co. Inc., in Orem, and was recently installed as a new General Board member of the Provo Orem Chamber of Commerce in January, 2000. At Phone Directories Co., (PDC) Lee Ann assisted in the development of a custom in-house in-house database application, designed de-signed specifically for telephone directory publishing. This has been one of the reasons for PDC's $50 million in 1999 sales revenue. This software is now being marketed to other publishers pub-lishers and continues to be an additional revenue source. Lee Ann has helped lead PDC to a ranking of 69 as one of Utah's top 100 fastest growing companies, and has received the Summit Award from the Prove Orem Chamber of Commerce and Intermountain Health Care for the best employee health and wellness program in Utah County. In November, Lee Ann was honored as one of Utah Business Magazines 50 most powerful women in the State of Utah. Lee Ann is a firm believer that a great company is one that Lee Ann Moorman, President of Phone Directories Co., Inc. encourages personal best, with success hinging upon individual efforts and satisfaction. satis-faction. Originally from Fresno, California, Lee Ann attended Brigham Young University, pursuing her career in business busi-ness management. The mother of four children and grandmother of one, Lee Ann is an avid gardener, emphasizing empha-sizing in the ancient art of Bonsai. ,,-yV Yr' r -V,r; ' Senator John Valentine delivered & "Summary of th& 2000 Legislative Session" at the Prove Orem Chamber of Commerce's Friday Forum on March 10. legislators speak to Provo rem Chamber Forum BY: AMY POOLE PROVO Utah Legislators Representative Jeff Alexander and Senator John Valentine delivered de-livered a "Summary of the 2000 Legislative Session" at the Provo Orem Chamber of Commerce's Friday Forum on March 10. Rep. Jeff Alexander said education edu-cation and all of its ramifications a key issue deliberated in the legislative leg-islative session and will continue to be at the forefront of discussion discus-sion in the future. More business involvement in education, the need for more representation rep-resentation of school districts in the legislative session and school budgets were discussed this year, Alexander said. Funding for education edu-cation was raised from $45 million mil-lion last year to $132 million this year. Next year, funding for higher education will be addressed. ad-dressed. Senator John Valentine said this year's session was great in dealing with mandates of small businesses, taxation, ATC, higher education and the Olympics. Valentine was pleased with the tobacco settlement because fewer people are spending money on tobacco and more money is going into prevention. Four main is sues were discussed at the legislature. legis-lature. The first issue and a huge priority, was the prevention of tobacco with a $4 million increase in funding. The second issue was that the legislators followed through with the termination of the sick tax. The third issue was the $2 million spent towards getting get-ting people off drugs. The fourth issue was the spending on cancer research. Thirty-two bills dealt with the issue of gun control and was the lightest year in dealing with taxation, taxa-tion, with only a couple of fees added. "One of the bills proposed was that people who are purchasing guns are required to get a background back-ground check for mental illness so that it won't be as easy to plead insanity in court," Valentine said. Other concerns to Senator Valentine Val-entine are how to pay for police and garbage collectors are questions ques-tions of concern. The Web site for information about agendas of all meetings, full texts of ail bills and amendments of the 2000 legislative session can be accessed at www.le.state.ut.us. Chapel at UVRMC ready for use After nearly four months of construction, Utah Valley Regional Re-gional Medical Center is opening the doors to its new non-denominational Chapel in an effort to meet the spiritual needs of its patients, pa-tients, visitors, staff members and volunteers. "Everyone has shown tremendous tremen-dous support and interest throughout this entire project. It's turned into a wonderful facility fa-cility where people of all faiths can come to meditate and pray," said Alden Brown, chaplain for Intermountain Health Care's Utah County hospitals. ittWrmw "UVRMC has taken many steps over the past two years to increase the spiritual services available to its patients and visitors. visi-tors. Each of the efforts has come as a response to the growing awareness that people in the midst of a medical challenge find great benefit in being able to call upon the strength of their faith,'' said Chaplain Brown. Work began on the project in November 1999 after the hospital's Cashier and Gift Shop were relocated into the new West Building, freeing up space for the Chapel. A Chaplain's office, a care management office, pastoral care volunteers' office and two surgery consultation rooms have also bee created in addition to the Chapel. 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