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Show Times Newspaper Wednesday, June 20, 2001 Page 5 U W lira OHM WHAT A good society embraces the ideals ide-als of citizenship, community, and civility. This summer The Utah Humanities Council (UHC) joins several Utah County sponsoring organizations in presenting its Questar rates to remain stable The result of Questar Gas's semi-annual gas-cost adjustment or "pass-through" filing will mean no change to the typical residential residen-tial customer. If the filing is approved ap-proved by the Utah Public Service Commission (PSC), the natural gas bill for the typical residential ,. customer using 115 decatherms per year will remain stable at about $75 a month (if customers are on Questar's monthly Equal Payment Plan). Gas-cost-adjustments or "pass-through" "pass-through" filings enable the company com-pany to adjust rates at least twice each year to reflect changes in gas-supply costs. Because pur-chased-gas costs have decreased from the extremely high levels last winter, Questar anticipates customers will be able to rely on stable gas prices for the next six months. As a result of last winter's high prices, Questar Gas's balancing account went nearly $60 million dollars into debt to secure natural gas for customers. cus-tomers. Unless there is a dramatic increase in wholesale gas costs, Questar should be able to recover the majority of the $60 million shortfall without increasing prices. In spite of last winter's high market prices, Questar Gas was able to limit the size of the increase in-crease customers paid this past winter. This is because about half the natural gas Questar provides comes from company-owned wells and is delivered to customers at "cost-of-service" pricing. Last winter, company-owned gas cost 60 percent less than the average price paid for gas purchased from outside suppliers saving customers custom-ers more than $87 million or about $125 per customer. Customers can further stabilize their bills by participating in Questar's Equal Payment Plan (EPP). With EPP, customers' estimated es-timated annual natural gas usage is divided into 12 equal payments to help customers budget their . monthly bills. Customers may sign up for EPP any time during the year, but enrolling en-rolling during June or July generally gen-erally results in the lowest monthly payment because the EPP year runs from June to June. More information about EPP will be sent in customer bills during June. W0 We want the scoop on what's happening in Town Call in News Tips: 225-1340 OKLT TELEPHONE TICKET fYSTEH ft UTAH Fr Una Tidws nr nurn AiMit 16 SO ft Scraart $4 Qfi S3 bvyafi tumns StoMng Ma ft pjn 0cm Oo Ofjart OaKy 1 5 Hew b9 EMM &m Dt Doliftfe 2 ,ts) fb Fast I The Furious Swonffisb (n Tomb Raider pe-si) Atlantis (ret Evolution (K-ii) Moulin Rouge ps-ii) Pearl Harbor (r-ij) Shrek rc) For ttie period of 62201 - 62801 program "The Good Society -Searching for What Unites Us". The Center for the Study of Ethics Eth-ics at UVSC, Provo Community Church, Tree of Life Lutheran Church, and Utah Valley Unitarian Unitar-ian Universalist Fellowship have put together a program of speakers speak-ers and "front porch discussions". "The front porch is a powerful metaphor to discuss how this nation na-tion can once again make commu- The seventh of 13 really great reasons to switch to the Bank of American Fork. Makes organizing your Alpine Highland Lehi American Fork Pleasant Grove 0rem lM 7770 rr. n b nitj... by being together, by sharing, shar-ing, and most important of all, by communicating with each other, as human beings," writes Patrick Overton from Rebuilding the Front Porch of America. Traditionally, Tradi-tionally, the front porch has been a gathering place for neighbors and friends to talk about issues that matter to our communities and to our lives. UHC and the sponsoring organizations celebrate cel-ebrate this time-honored tradi t t . jr -LI l 4irW cut tion by providing the opportunity to hear and talk about contemporary contempo-rary issues through a series of presentations and facilitated public pub-lic discussions. The program will cover four topics addressed by well known speakers. The Common Good and American Society: An Overview of the Issue by Larry Echohawk, BYU Law, will be on June 24; American Politics and the Common Com-mon Good by Gary Daynes, BYU u u financial records a snap! - ..." LSXfif' r ' Spanish Fork -Draper WWW.bankaf.com History, on July 8; Mass Media and the Erosion of Social Trust and Civic Action by Lori Stevens, UVSC Research and Media Library, Li-brary, on July 22; and Our Families: Fami-lies: the First Good Society? Or Too Troubled to Help? by Jean Lown, USU, Dept. of Human Environments, En-vironments, on August 5. Each will be followed a week after the presentation by a public, discussion. discus-sion. The discussion facilitators in Utah's strongest bank. clude Myla Dutton, Director of Community Action; David Heldenbrand, Elaine Englehardt, and Clark Swenson of UVSC. The program is free and open to the public. It will be held at Provo Community Church, 175 N. University Uni-versity Ave., at 4:00 PM each Sunday Sun-day from June 24th through August Au-gust 12' For further information call 489-4000. or UHC at 801-359-9670. Iti- ft DDwj la U ! o tit PncMr Ej Sfmnmf fwt mmj i b t new in ww -mmn rr ' Nc Pisses or hearts m Net Mwes fcr tt W 2 mos |