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Show ,tr i ""ff ( ' " i , . yyi lf $200 MILLON SCHOOL BOND Here 's What People Are Saying See page 2 SPRING FASH Fashion Show Highlights See Page 6 rem Orem 's Weekly Newspaper Since 1930 500 Per Issue 538 South State Street, Orem. IT 840.rh (8011 225-13411 Careers & Education Section Inside 71st yearNumber 12 2001, The Orem Geneva Times Geneva WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2001 l,-- yinLllBiiiMli "t1 o jj Orem woman name d Utah's "Vounq Moth er of the Year BY REVA BOWEN Times Reporter Anne Workman, an Orem mother of five children, has been named Utah's "Young Mother of the Year" by the organization American Mothers, Inc., and is now eligible to represent the state at the national convention, to be held in Portland at the end of April. Anne received the honor February Febru-ary 24 at the Joseph Smith Memorial Memo-rial Building in Salt Lake City, after af-ter a selection process that involved candidates from American Mothers Moth-ers chapters submitting a portfolio, portfo-lio, giving a short speech, and being be-ing interviewed by judges, who then made the decision. Anne is a member of the Utah Valley chapter of the organization; there are 34 chapters in Utah. The stated purpose of American Mothers, Moth-ers, Inc. is to be "a dedicated force to strengthen the moral and spiritual spiri-tual foundations of the family and the home." But the group is far from being a "Perfect Mothers Club", which others may join if they think they are perfect mothers, moth-ers, too. "There would be zero members of a Perfect Mothers Club!" Anne quipped. The "Young Mother of the Year" is chosen from among the ranks of the American Mothers membership, member-ship, but the organization also sponsors the well-known "Mother of the Year" program. Community organizations and groups submit nominees for the "Mother of the Year". A national mother and young mother will be named at the April convention. Anne and her husband, Eric, a BYU graduate student working on an MBA, are the parents of Laura, 10; Rachel, 8; Katey, 5; Samuel, 3; and Sara Elisabeth, nearly 8 months. The Workmans came to Orem by way of Hawaii. Eric was the director of marketing at the Polynesian Cultural Center there before they moved to Orem in July of 2000 so he could attend the university. uni-versity. Anne, the daughter of Lance and Londa Chase, was raised in Laie, where her parents both taught at BYU Hawaii. She met her future husband the day after he returned from his mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he came to attend school. The Workmans were married in 1989. After their marriage, the young couple continued their educations, were both active in student government, govern-ment, worked, and started their family. Anne said a strong support system which included family and fellow married students made such a balancing act possible. The Workmans also lived in Japan Ja-pan for three years. They were living liv-ing in Osaka when the large earthquake earth-quake struck in 1995. Living in Japan was "an adventure", Anne said, including coping with a very different medical system as she gave birth to her third child. Anne earned a B.A. in English and a secondary education teaching teach-ing certificate and taught freshman fresh-man English at BYU Hawaii and English as a second language both there and in Japan. But whatever-she whatever-she and her husband have done as students or in their employment or professional lives, one of them has always been at home with the children. chil-dren. "We felt strongly about that," ountain View wins national title in girls basketball BY PATRICIA KNOELL Times Reporter It's unprecedented. Never has one high school coach won national championships in two different sports in the same school year. Until now, that is. Mountain View High School's Dave Houle accomplished that feat last Thursday when ESPN.com High School sports representative Jeff Goodman called the school and, with the student body gathered gath-ered in the gym listening in, said the fateful words, "I just want to let everyone know that we've chosen cho-sen Mountain View as the number one team in our final poll." Last fall, Houle's boy's cross country team won the national championship in that sport. As the words died away, the well-filled well-filled gymnasium erupted in a sea of cheers and shouts as the students stu-dents roared their approval of the announcement. The call was the culmination of a two-week roller coaster ride that saw the Bruins ranked No. 1 by ESPN after they won state 5A title with a 61-19 blowout of defending state champion Kearns. Knowing his team was finished playing for the year and knowing that it is highly unusual to drop a team in a poll when it hasn't played, Houle felt there was a good chance his charges would end the season in the top spot. However, last week, that changed when second-ranked Highland Ranch won its state title with a close victory. Even though that squad had not played in the Nike Tournament of Champions a preseason tournament that is widely considered to be the one that will determine which teams are considered for the national title that win vaulted the other squad ahead of Mountain View. "Right after they put Highland Ranch ahead of us I. was as sad as could be, because we had come so close," Houle said during a press conference following the announcement. an-nouncement. "Shortly after that announcement, ESPN called the top four teams in their poll and asked for their schedules. I told them that I felt we had played the toughest schedule in the country because of who we played and what we did in the Nike Tournament. They said they were aware of that, but needed to verify some things." The voters on that particular poll must have liked what they saw once they put the strength of schedule into the mix, because when the final poll was announced, it was Mountain View on top. The other major high school poll, USA Today has Mountain View second to Narbonne, Calif., a team to which the Bruins lost a close decision at the Nike tournament, but had gone on to lose four games during the season. Houle said he had also been informed that the Bruins will be ranked first in Scholastic Scho-lastic Sports America magazine. "I hope that with our first in ESPN, our second in USA Today, plus the Scholastic Sports one, we'll get the consensus national championship," he said. Because ESPN's No. 2, High-Continued High-Continued on page 10 f. ... 1 ' I J I ope t ' fir WYri XT ' Student Body President Brad Herbert greets students, while girls' basketball coaches, Laura Romo, Dave Houle and Debra Barlow, wait for the phone call that will officially announce that Mountain View High School has finished first in the ESPN.com high school basketball poll. Anne said. She is "grateful" to currently cur-rently be a stay-at-home mom, having found that with children, there is "plenty, plenty, plenty to completely absorb your mind, body, and creativity." Anne regards the young mother honor as "kind of job" the opportunity to represent the young mothers of the state and to talk about the ideals of motherhood. If she has a "platform", "plat-form", it is to offer encouragement and reassurance to others in a responsibility that sometimes doesn't have a lot of support along the way. "No one can say who is 'the best mother'," Anne declared. de-clared. "We're still in the throes of it child-rearing, child-rearing, and we don't know how it's going to turn out.. .We're all learning learn-ing the hard way, and we need to enjoy it." Anne said she doesn't know any more than anyone else about mothering, "but I do believe what older people tell me. I believe my mom, my grandmother, and my mom's friends. If they say, for example, to be sure to love my children and enjoy them while t hey are little because they grow up so fast, I believe them 1 do want to Continued on page 8 I l X t 1 1 r f I - 0--V SB,- "0 Anne Workman enjoys a moment with her baby, Sara Klisahclh. The Orem-Geneva Orem-Geneva Times to debut American Profile magazine on April 4 National magazine supplement celebrates hometown life. NASHVILLE American Profile, Pro-file, a full-color national magazine with regionalized editorial content, celebrating the interests, values and events of life in America's hometowns, will debut in the Continued on page 8 SCERA Shell announces auditions for "Hello, Dolly" The SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre The-atre announces auditions for its summer 2001 production of the musical "Hello, Dolly!", directed by Jerry Elison and playing June 14-25 on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sat-urdays, and Mondays. All parts are open, including Dolly. Auditions will be held Thursday, April 12, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. and on Saturday, April 14, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon in Room Bl in the SCERA Center, 745 South State Street, Orem. Men and women ages 16 and older are invited to audition for the ten lead and 25 ensemble roles, and should prepare 16 measures mea-sures of a Broadway-style song. An accompanist andor boom box will be provided. For more information, contact SCERA at 225-2569 or 225-ARTS between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays. Orem unveils $60 million 001-2002 budget The Orem City Council was presented with its first glimpse of a proposed S60 million fiscal year 2001-2002 budget in a work session ses-sion held March 20. The council voted to accept the budget lor study, and to set a schedule for upcoming hearings and work sessions. ses-sions. The next budget work session will be held April 17 at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of the City Center. An open house, which provides the opportunity for the public to meet informally with city officials and staff to discuss the budget, will be on Anril 25 at 6 p.m. at the new Public Safety building on Center Street. On May 1, public hearings will be held in the Council Chambers beginning at 6:15 p.m. before the final adoption of the general city budget and related budgets for the Redevelopment Agency, the Municipal Building Authority, and the Street Lighting Special Services District. During the budgeting process, the council will he asked to decide de-cide whether or not to add six new staff positions --- three I'uhlic Safety Department officers, plus one Public Works technician for each of the parks, water distribution, and storm sewer divisions The city is not proposing to increase the franchise fee, water, sewer, and storm water monthly fees; or the solid waste and recycling recy-cling fee. However, a $1 per month fee proposed to he added on cellular telephones, a fee comparable, according to stall, to the franchise fee assessed to land-use telephone service The $ 1 month cellular telephone fee will be dedicated to financing I'uhlic Safety needs, including personnel and the purchase of vital sell -contained breathing units (SCBAs) for the Fire Division The proposed budget calls for increased water impact lees, paid as part of the building permit. Increased revenue will he used to purchase water rights at the current higher level. 1.400 per acre foot. The cost of water rights was $8W) per ai re toot when the water impact fee was first implemented The council will also be asked this year to consider strategies for adopting a street maintenance plan. The Public W.u ks Department Depart-ment estimates that the cost to bring all of the mads in ( It em up to an "excellent" grade standard would be $l.ri .) million But if the condition of all of the streets were at that level ol .pialit v, maintenance main-tenance would be only $800,000 per year, and the city would save many more dollars in road replacement costs One option may Into In-to limit the future use of Class "C" road funds, or gas tax rev enues, to maintenance projects, with major road widemngs or improvements im-provements to be paid by some other means Orem City Manager Jim Reams noted that there has been a 27 health insurance increase this year, but the city is trying to negotiate that down to under 10. He called the health insurance bargaining "one of the toughest negotiations we do" The city follows the salary increase recommendations given by HAY Management Consultants, which this year is an average 3 4' increase. The independent consultants base the recommendations on surveys of other cities. Reams noted that if the city postpones giving necessary salary increases, it becomes less competitive and more susceptible to losing los-ing employees. upscripe to me urem--reneva limes dv camng i-id4U - uniy no. per Year! OOR COPY |