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Show SENIORS Activities for Seniors See Page 7 Clwmher of Commerce Section Inside Geneva Newspaper Since 19 JO 50C Per Issue 538 South State Street, Orem, UT 84058 : SOI i 225 1340 71st yearNumber 11 2001, The Orem-Geneva Times WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2001 OREM LIBRARY CTiec ft Out Yourself See poge 2 0 w n.i UDOT advisory: ramp closures at University Parkway V The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) advises motorists motor-ists of exteaded ramp closures on University Parkway (1200 South). As of Wednesday, March 21, construction crews will close the on ramp to southbound 1-15 for approximately 40 days to begin construction con-struction on the ramp. . Beginning Monday, March 26, construction crews will close the off ramp from southbound 1-15 for approximately 40 days to start rebuilding re-building the ramp. ... UQOT advises motorists to use alternate routes to access areas surrounding University Parkway. Please use the following alternate freeway interchanges: 1600 North, 800 North or Orem Center Street. From these points, motorists can access north and south streets such as State Street (Hwy. 89), 1200 West in Orem or Geneve Road. However, University Parkway and the northbound on and off-ramp? off-ramp? will remain open to traffic accessing the area. Signs and message boards will be in place to help traffic move throughout the area. The Stained Glass Windows at StJMary's St. Mary's has without a doubt the most beautiful stained glass windows in Utah County. On each side of the nave -this is where the congregation sits - are six separate panes based on biblical subjects. Three are Old Testaments events -The Selling of Joseph into slavery, The Faith of Abraham showing him preparing pre-paring to sacrifice his son and the Findiag of Moses. The New Testament subjects are Stilling the Tempest, Healing the Leper, Changing Water to Wine, The Good Shepherd, The Prodigal Son, The Good Samaritan, Lazarus and Dives, the Pharasee and the Publican and finally the Sower. ' The Reverend John Howes was the Rector from 1937 to 1949 and it was during this period that these windows were installed. ' It is said that Father Howes ordered the windows for one side of the Nave without much planning by the congregation but as soon as he got the money pledged to pay for them, he ordered the ones for the other side It is believed that these windows were made in France and that when the last two were received, they needed repair. This is verified by the fact that the two windows on the east side have a small glass insert at the bottom which says "A, Michaud, .ChicascQ. Therftiido record of How much the windows cost, but an expert Has estimated thai ihey are probably oRH as much, as the rest of the building. In addition to these side windows which were installed about sixty years ago, there are ' : , several smaller ones that were given to St. Mary's in memory of loved one3. In 1963 four windows were installed at the back of the nave. They depict The Annunciation, the Nativity, The Presentation, and The Crucifixion. Toward the front of the church in the choir are three small windows. Two of them show heavenly heav-enly choirs and the third an Easter Lily which is often used as a symbol of Christ's Resurrection. At the very front on each side of the altar are windows showing Mary holding Jesus and Saint John. Two windows have been installed in the past year, one in the hallway leading to the church and the other in the door to the church from the hallway The have been given one in memory of Bob and Ann Peper and the other in memory of Elly Weissert who was the beloved wife of Father Dick Weissert . Visitors are more than welcome to come and see our beauti- Continued on page 8 Scouting for Food underway The Boy Scouts of America, Utah National Parks Council, will continue to wage a war against hunger on Saturday, March 24, as it teams up with the Utah Valley Regional Food Bank, a program of Community Action, for its annual food drive "Scouting for Food." Scouts delivered empty bags to local houses on March 17. This Saturday, they will return to retrieve the bags. Residents are asked to fill the bags with non-perishable food. Throughout the day, the scouts will collect then donate tons of food to the Utah Valley Regional Food Bank. The scouts will help load the food directly to pallets and into Army National Guard trucks that will deliver the food to the Food Bank. All donated food stays in Utah, Wasatch and Summit counties. Last year, nearly 300,000 pounds of food was collected in the one-day one-day drive (a 50 percent increase over the previous year). This year, the Food Bank is aiming to collect 350.000 pounds of food enough to aid in serving over 800.0000 meals this coming year. With the help of the community, this is an attainable goal, according to Paul Sabey, Senior District Executive of the Squaw Peak District. ' "With one in five Utah children under the age of 12 living in hunger, generous donations are needed," Sabey said, Utah County residents who do not receive bags are still encouraged encour-aged to donate food. Donations are accepted any time at the Food Bank warehouse, located 815 South Freedom Boulevard in Prcvo. For donation questions, or to inquire concerning volunteer opportunities, oppor-tunities, call Gwen Vance at (801) 373-8200. Rev. Theresa Larson to speak on missionary experiences Orem City Church is pleased to present Rev. Theresa Larson, missionary to Acapuico, Mexico. Ma. L:arson will be speaking at the LaQuinta Inn, 521 West University Uni-versity Parkway, Orem, April 6-8, 7 p.m. each evening. Ms. Larson is a graduate of Rhema Bible Institute and has started a church and school in Acapuico. The messages will be bi-lingual, English and Spanish. The public is welcome. For more information, informa-tion, caD Pastor Daniei Spear, 356-2361, or Gene Short, 764-0077. Subscribe tome Orem-Geneva Times by calling irmy a w mm mm wm mm vm mm BY REVA BOWEN Times Reporter Crews are working hard to complete com-plete the remodeling of the Orem Main Post Office on Center Street by tax day April 16 this year (since April 15 is a Sunday) but Postmaster Ken Jorgenson believes be-lieves the completion date will be closer to May 1st, and has contingency contin-gency plans in place to get all those last-minute tax returns appropriately appropri-ately postmarked. Jorgenson plans to have a postal clerk stationed at the building under un-der some kind of a "Taxes Only" banner to hasten the processing of the tax returns. Because Mondays are always an extra busy day, the postmaster is considering implementing imple-menting the special station as early as Friday, April 13th. The relatively undisturbed exterior exte-rior of the Orem Main Post Office, the second busiest window office in the state, belies the extensive remodeling re-modeling project going on inside. The south side main doors have been closed, and patrons directed to a west side entrance, obtaining service from four clerks at temporary tempo-rary stations to the north. Jorgenson said all of the post office boxes are being replaced, and the Orem Main will have 168 more Orem High BY PATRICIA KNOELL Times Reporter After Ashley Lewis graduated from Orem High School in 1997, she headed to Cedar City to attend Southern Utah University. While there, she and her friend, Kristy Henderson, got to talking. "We started discussing how we just take education for granted around here," Lewis recalled. "And we got to thinking about how many people don't have the chance at any education and wondering how we maybe could help." That idea, coupled with Lewis' long-held dream of going to Africa, soon became a full-blown service project that will culminate this summer with a trip to that far-off continent where she and a group of friends will help build the first high school that will be a part Project Reach the Children an ongoing operation of Mapleton's Nelson families (Rick, Vicki and Kindee). "They (the Nelson's) take groups over twice a year to build schools and help the people in Kenya," Lewis said. "I found their organization on the Internet when I was looking for a way to get my project going "They already have a couple of schools that go through eighth grade, but they had no high schools. So this will be an all-girls high school in Molo, Kenya." Because this will be the first c ( 'i it Ilk- (From front right), Orem Unified Studies students Emily Hatch, Katie Sorensen and Bryanne Ogden join teacher Cheryl Lewis, and Africa group leaders Ashley Lewis and Chris Mertlich in painting cars to donate to children world-wide as part of their fund-raising efforts to help build a high school in Africa. ice resiio boxes than before, for a total of customer's box so the package can and an island with an elect runic 2,000. For the first time, the post be picked up. stale. Jorgenson lobbied to get ;i office will have parcel lockers. At the front of the building, special heating and air condition-When condition-When a package is delivered to the there will be a self-service lobby lockers, a locker key is left in the with vending machines, mail drops, Continued on page 8 I ; Orem Postmaster Ken Jorgenson looks over blueprints for the Orem Main Post Office remodeling remodel-ing project. Most of the changes will be to the interior of the building, with the main change outside being new signage. graduate spearheads Africa project high school that Reach the Children Chil-dren has built, Lewis' group is starting from scratch to get the materials needed to supply the new school. The young people at Southern South-ern Utah came up with a unique way of gathering the text books, writing materials, science implements, imple-ments, and other things that high schools need they decided to earn money through offering free service. "We didn't want to just help people in Africa, we wanted to do service right here where we live as well," Lewis said. "So we got pledges from people to donate so much per hour of service kind of like a service-a-thon. So far, we've done about 200 hours of service ser-vice and we just wired $5000 to Kenya to start work on the school." The Nelson's will go to Kenya first and pour the foundation for the school so that when Lewis and her group arrive they will probably prob-ably leave the U.S. on May 31 they can start right in building the school. As is tradition with most of the Nelson's Africa excursions, the trip Lewis' group is making will include in-clude an opportunity to climb Africa's famous Mt. Kilimanjaro. Scaling the 20,000 foot volcano is a part of this trip that Lewis finds both exciting and a bit intimidating. intimidat-ing. "I'm looking forward to it," she said, smiling a bit nervously. "We've all been working out a lot I"3 4 2 J ; ,1.,;.i.B"- '1 --r f and trying to prepare for the climb." In the meantime, Cedar City, Orem and other local communities are benefitting from the many service ser-vice projects these students have been participating in. "We've done everything from cleaning in the canyons to working in senior homes and ail the money we've raised goes straight to the school," Lewis said, her eyes shining shin-ing with enthusiasm. Lewis' project, both on a local and international level, is impressive. impres-sive. So much so, that it earned SUU's state Campus Compact award for service projects. Each year, one student-led servicelearning servicelearn-ing project on each college campus in the state earns this state award. The campus winners will be honored hon-ored at the State Capital on April 3 and a state winner will he selected from that group for national honors. hon-ors. One local organization that has captured the imagination and many hours of service from Lewis' group is an organization known as the Happy Factory. The Happy Factory was began in Cedar City by a retiree who decided to take up woodwork. "He initially wanted to start selling sell-ing his work," said Cheryl Lewis Ashley's mother and an instructor in the Unified Studies program at Orem High School. "But he dec ided instead to make wooden cars and toys and donate them to needy chil- 44 ii 225-1340 - Only $16. per Year! 9 mmues S . - h dren. There are several I lappv Factories Fac-tories around the- state now.' As part of her community service ser-vice work, Ashley started working with Happy Factory and she decided de-cided to use her friends hack at Orem High to help her. She contracted con-tracted with the founder of the Happy Factory to make more than 100 wooden cars which she brought up to Orem with her during Si t spring break. She then delivered those cars to her mother's Unified Studies class and helped create a project that would work as credit for several of the subjects covered in this combined cience. Knglish. social studies and fine ait- high school course. "First, she gave a presentation to the class about Africa and tin-needs tin-needs there." Mrs Lewis said "That was a .social -t tidn - cm-ivim Then, we started painting th"-cai. which is a 11 tic arts proji-ct. then they'll write reports for their Knglish Kn-glish credits." So, on March 12. the Unified Studies class at Orem spent the day finding out about Africa and painting paint-ing toy cars that will bring smiles to faces of children all over the world And, beginning on May 31, Ashley Lewis and some of her friends will begin to bring smiles to many high si hunl-age girls in Africa Volunteer with Concept Key Concept Key, a program which provides care tor school-age chil dren during sumn, r and after school, invites individuals to serve as mentors and tutors. Concept Key is designed to be a secure environment for children and youth who would otherwise In-left In-left at home unsupervised. Through the assistance of ( Nm cept Key, kids are able to participate partici-pate in learning activities and unprovided un-provided with tutors during the summer and after school hours. The children involved with Concept Con-cept Key are given access to a wide range of educational activities, while preventing them from at-risk at-risk situations. For further information regarding regard-ing these and other volunteer opportunities op-portunities available in Utah County, contact the United Way Volunteer Center weekdays from 8 a m to 5 p m. at 374-8108. ' 2 V'- JxT'-fku -til m im. -a m :. v. " -k . . . .&. ft -. t f OOR COPV i |