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Show - uMirmitiimim-timiiriti- in.. Hin niji in rviiiiii ji" iiiiiin 1111 nmwrT--'"- "-'i" ' mw Times Newspaper Wednesday, August 2, 2000 American Fork Canyon mine site closed Uinta National Forest officials have closed the Pacific Mien tailings tail-ings in the North Fork of American Fork Canyon, effective immediately. The tailings cover approximately 3 acres of National Na-tional Fores system lands and contain concentrations of heavy metals. These concentrations are damaging to the environment environ-ment and potentially hazardous to human health and welfare. The site will be closed to all public use and remain closed until final reclamation of the site is completed and the threat of additional releases of hazardous substances from this site no longer exist. The closure could be in effect for up to three years. The Pacific Mine site consists of one mine tailings pile, two horizontal tunnels which have been closed, and remnants of improvements constructed by miners. The tailings pile is releasing re-leasing hazardous materials into the environment through wind and water erosion accelerated acceler-ated by heavy motorized recreation recre-ation use of the site. Closure of the tailings pile will result in a reduction in the amount of heavy metals being released into the surrounding environment and the North Fork of American Ameri-can Fork River. There are over 100 historic mine sites in the American Fork Orem High sets volleyball camp Orem High coach Stacy Salmans will hold varsity and junior varsity volleyball tryouts Aug 7-10 at the Orem High gym. The Tigers took third place in the state 5A volleyball tournament tourna-ment last year and should be among the top in the state again this year. Tryouts run from 9 a.m. to noon and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. daily and are open to all girls who will be entering grades 9 through 12 for the 2000-2001 school year. Salmans will be adding a new twist to this year's tryouts a freshman-sophomore camp that will run concurrently with the varsity tryouts. The camp will be open to 8th-10th graders. Feshman-sophomore tryouts will be held Aug. 28-Sept. 2 from 3:30-6 p.m. daily. The first varsity match for Orem will be Aug. 25. For more information contact Salmans at 785-0870 or check the web page at http:,7 eteamz.comoremvhall. Blood donors needed for Eagle Scout project For his Eagle Scout project, Steven Monson of Pleasant Grove Troop 846 is sponsoring a blood drive for the American Red Cross. The blood drive will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hard Disk Cafe, 600-699 E. Technology Way, on the Novell campus in Orem. (Novell is located on 1600 North 800 East). Blood is used in many ways for accident victims, for organ or-gan transplants, for cancer treatment, for premature babies, for burn victims, for orthopedic and many live-saving surgeries. Your help is urgently needed. Here in Utah, every eight minutes, min-utes, someone needs blood and 350 pints are needed daily. Right now, during the summertime, the needed blood supply is very low due to a lack of doners. Won't you please help? It only takes about one hour of your time to give this gift of life to someone in need. To schedule an appointment time, call the Red Cross directly at 1-800-434-3251, ext. 1041 Mining District. Using water quality, soils, and aquatic organism organ-ism data, Uinta Nal.onal Forest For-est personnel have identified the pacific Mine as the site contributing contrib-uting the most contamination to the river and posing a significant hazard to the general public. Regional Forester Jack Blackwell ordered the closure of the site to public use in a Time Critical Removal Memorandum sign.-d June 8, 2000. F,nt ranees to the site will be closed with guardrail barriers and signs posted to notify the public of the reason for this closure. clo-sure. That work should begin in August, 2000. Interested individuals indi-viduals may review the administrative admin-istrative record for Pacific Mine containing the data, analysis, and other documents which support sup-port this action. The file will be available after August 8, 2000 at the Forest Supervisors' Office, 88 West 100 North, Provo; the Pleasant Grove District Ranger's Office, 390 North 100 East, Pleasant Grove; or at the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Library, 30 East Center, Cen-ter, Pleasant Grove, during regular business hours. Comments and questions should be directed to Ted Fitzgerald, Uinta National Forest For-est Supervisor's Office, 801-342-5100. Utah doubles volleyball team makes pros Pleasant Grove high girls volleyball vol-leyball coach Mike Daniel and his partner, Salt Lake resident Jake Gibb have qualified for the Association of Volleyball Professionals Profes-sionals (AVP). They placed third in the qualifying quali-fying event held in Belmar, New Jersey on July 20, which gave them the 27,h seed in the main tournament held the next two days. Last week, they made history by becoming the first time a Utah team has qualified for an AVP event when they made the field as the 31 4 seed in an AVP event in Muskegon, Michigan. They placed 17,h in that event, their first in the 12-city nationwide nation-wide tour. The AVP is to volleyball what the NBA is to basketball or the NFL to football. The game is played in the sand with just two players. The court has the same dimensions and the net the same height as for regulation six-on-six indoor volleyball for the highschool, college and international interna-tional game. Some of the players play-ers on the tour include Olympian Karch Kiraly, Adam Johnson, Mike Whitmarsh, Todd Rogers and Dan I Ioldren. Most of the teams on the tour are from Southern California. Daniel (31) was the top rated outdoor player in UOVA (Utah Outdoor Volleyball Association) from 199 1-19. I le is the former coach of the Utah Predators women's professional volleyball team and currently coaches at Pleasant Grove High School. He works full time for Verio Web Hosting and is married with four children. Gibb (24) has been playing volleyball for only four years and is currently the top rated player in the UOVA. He is a student at the University of Utah and is engaged to be married mar-ried in August. The next stops on the tour are Virginia Beach, Seal Beach and Manhattan Beach. Before King George (V of England Eng-land ordered a set of boot mada to fit each of his feet, shoes were designed to be worn on either foot Lauren Richards shines with Junior National Volleyball Team The best young volleyball players play-ers in the nation were showcased show-cased last week at the World Volleyball Tournament in Salt Lake City. The tournament was divided into two categories, Junior (19 and under) and Youth (14 and under). The junior tournament was dominated by the Junior National Na-tional Team, which featured Timpanogos High School star Lauren Richards. The national squad swept through the tournament, defeating defeat-ing two collegiate teams, two high performance Utah club teams and a squad from British Columbia. "They were just incredible," Orem High coach Stacey Salmans, who was one of the coaches of the Collegiate Blue squad, said of the national team. "They jumped that much higher and were that much quicker than any other team there." Salman's Blue squad made the finals against the Junior National Na-tional Team, which won the match by a score of 25-17, 20-25, 20-25, 25-22, 25-15. The tournament was played under international rules rally scoring for all games, let serves and each game except a known deciding game played to 25 points. Known deciding games (the fifth of a five-game match and the third of a three-game three-game match) are played to 15. The Youth tournament featured fea-tured three national teams, two high performance teams that included several Utah County girls and a squad from the Ohio Valley region. Richards and the Junior National Na-tional Team will continue training train-ing in Salt Lake City at the International In-ternational Volleyball Training Center this week before leaving to play in Cuba later this month. More evening programs in the canyon for August Timpanogos Cave National Monument, in conjunction with the Uinta National Forest, and Sundance Resort continues its free summer evening program series. Three National Park Service Ser-vice Rangers give lively and entertaining en-tertaining programs as they share some familiar campfire songs, relive the heritage of the canyon, and enlighten visitors about bats. This weekend's programs pro-grams are sure to dazzle audience audi-ence members by showing them just how intriguing and fun the past and the present can be. All programs are free to the public not including a $3 entrance fee into American Fork Canyon. Topics change each weekend. For more information, please call Timpanogos Cave National Monument at (801) 756-5238. Friday, August 4, 2000. 7-8 p.m. Timpanogos Cave Visitor Center, American Fork Canyon "Feathered Friends" - Can you identify the birds in your backyard? back-yard? Learn how from Ranger Jenny Hatch, as well as discovering discov-ering some ways you can make your backyard a bird paradise. Saturday, August 5, 2000. 7-8 p.m. Granite flat Campground, American Fork Canyon "The Heritage of Timpanogos" -Travel on a journey through time with Ranger Anna Davis to discover the rich history of this area. Learn about the many people who played a part in forming the past and how they are helping shape the future. Monday, August 7, 2000. 6:30-7:30 6:30-7:30 p.m. Sundance Resort, Creekside Amphitheater "Batty about Bats" - In this program presented by Ranger Roberta Jacobmeyer you will learn about the exciting world of bats. Find out what makes these creatures of the night so special to us all. Orem youth flag football The Orem Recreation Department Depart-ment will be offering a uth flag football league this fall. This program is open to boys and girls and will have the following follow-ing divisions: 3-4 graders, 5-6 graders, and 7-8 graders. Registration will be accepted at the Orem Fitness Center from now until August 19, Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 12.00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Each team will play 7 games beginning September Sep-tember 9 and the ree is $20 which includes a team t-shirt. Volunteer coaches are needed for this program! For additional information,' call the Orem Fitness Fit-ness Center at 229-7154. Orem youth cheerleaders The Orem Recreation Department Depart-ment will be offering a youth cheerleading program in conjunction con-junction with the flag football program. Participants will be grouped into the following divisions: divi-sions: 3-4 graders and 5-6 graders, grad-ers, and placed on squads according accord-ing to schools. Games are played on Saturdays, beginning September Sep-tember 9. Cheerleaders will have a 4-day clinic before the football season begins. Registration will be accepted at the Orem Fitness Center from now until August 19, Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The registration reg-istration fee is $20 and includes a T-shirt and pom-poms. Volunteer team moms are needed for this program! For additional information, call the Orem Fitness Center at 229-7154. i i. """V , A. - -" J - tJi I j f ! M lrf ' A ... "P it hi WaPS' If you're in the market for a car, come in and talk to us about our low, low interest rates. We can help make that new car more affordable with a 7.9 interest rate for up to 60 months on selected vehicles. Call Today for Details. Main Office 1510 North State Orem, UT 84057 Phone 225-0256 A KX AT we jf jL&tj& iMirnii" r rrr"-rn nf imsma wrririi m "i.i ,r.--r ,.i - ..J CREDIT UNION Rates on Loans Mountain View girls basketball team undefeated at Chicago Nike Challenge Mountain View's girl's basketball basket-ball team went undefeated at the Nike National Challenge with last week. The Bruins defeated Washington Washing-ton DC Beltway 41-26, the Michigan Belles 45-32, the California Cali-fornia Storm 45-24 and the Minnesota Min-nesota North Tartans 46-26 in pool play. After forfeiting two Sunday games, the squad defeated de-feated the Indiana Force 55-47 in a consolation of game of the championship bracket. Center Danielle Cheesman, who will be a senior this year, was the leading scorer for Mountain View in four of the five games and was the second leading lead-ing scorer in the fifth. She recorded re-corded 12 against Michigan, 10 against California, 17 against Minnesota and 12 against Washington Wash-ington Four Bruin players scored in double figures against Michigan, with Brittany Tressler logging 11 and Heather Hansen and M. Gillespie with 10 each. Sophomore-to-be Hansen recorded re-corded 10 points against Califor- Mountain View sets ninth grade football camp Mountain View coach Randy Rehrer wold like to invite all ninth graders who will be attending at-tending Mountain View High School next year to attend a football foot-ball camp Aug. 7-1 1 from 10 a.m. to noon. Cost for the camp is $40 and registration will be on Monday behind the school. Up to 60 months Qfora Limited Time Eligibility and Membership Required. South Orem Office 351 East 800 South Orem; UT 84058 Phone 224-6637 WWW.ALPINECU.COM PTNF ' ' " .iii ii m J X Danielle Cheesman was the leading scorer for Mountain View in four of the five games and was the second leading scorer in the fifth, nia, 11 against Minnesota and a team-best 13 against Washington. Washing-ton. Tressler had 12 against Minnesota and 11 in the final game. Gillespie matched Tressler with 11 against Indiana. "We leave Chicago with a 5-0 record against America's best all-star teams and that's pretty . good," Mountain View coach Dave Houle said. Cholesterol screening Cholesterol screenings are available the second Tuesday of each month at Orem Community Hospital, 331 North 400 West. The cholesterol screenings are $5 and will be held in the hospital's Education Center from 10 a.m. until noon. The next screening will be held August Au-gust 8. 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