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Show Times Newspaper Thursday, May 30, 2002 PageA5 Principle of service would work a 12-hour shift on one side of the site, then go around to the other side for another 12-hour shift. Virtually all of the rescue workers, Dr. Heaps noted, said they "knew someone in there". They were working for those they knew, and thousands they did not know. At a nearby high school, a respite center was set up to attend to the needs of those working the 12-hour shifts. Dr. Heaps talked with some of the individuals helping at the center cen-ter about their 9-11 experiences. experi-ences. Some were "right there", on the 7th floor, in the school gym, and observed the whole tragedy. As the evacuation evacua-tion proceeded, people looked and saw the collapse of the towers and the huge dust storm chasing evacuees. When asked why they were working at the respite center, volunteers told Dr. Heaps they noticed the needs of others, were grateful they were alive, felt compassion, and wanted to help. Dr. Heaps told of an experience experi-ence he had doing counseling with other mental health workers when a hurricane hit Albany, Georgia, and sent 30,000 people from their homes to emergency shelters. He was contacted by a shelter manager who was concerned about a woman who had been lying on a cot for three days "Paint Your Heart Out" Neighborhood Housing Services of Provo (NHS) is seeking enthusiastic volunteers to participate in their annual day of service entitled "Paint Your Heart Out" on Saturday, June 1, 2002, beginning with breakfast at 8:00 a.m. at the north playground of Joaquin Elementary School, located at 550 North 600 East, Provo. To celebrate the beginning of National Neighborworks Week (http:www.nw.org), volunteers will paint the exterior of seven home sin the Joaquin neighborhood. neighbor-hood. Each year hundreds of people gather for this fun event. Breakfast, a snack and lunch will be provided. Volunteers also receive a free t-shirt t-shirt and water bottle. All supplies sup-plies and equipment will be provided by NHS. Volunteers should wear work clothes and sun hats. The homes are painted paint-ed free of charge to homeowners homeown-ers and for discounted paint costs for landlords. Most of the homeowners are lower income individuals andor senior citizens. citi-zens. Following the painting there will be live entertainment and prize giveaways. Local businesses busi-nesses have donated $6000 in prizes. For more information, contact Janet Knudsen at (801) 375-5820 ext. 104 or at (801) 377-1310. Be a summer volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club. The Boys and Girls Club of Utah County begins their summer programs June 3. During the summer, the Club is open from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. and serves children chil-dren ages 5-14. Volunteers opportunities are numerous and include activities such as helping children read, planning educational and recreational activities, helping out with field trips and enjoying a variety of summer activities with the kids. To find out more about volunteering with the Boys and Girls Club, contact Shanni Call at 370-4615. Mentor Youth with One to One. Project Vision: One to One is a program of Community Action Services which promotes self-sufficiency for individuals, families and youth. Currently, 25 youths are oh the waiting list, ready and anxious to be involved in this program. All they need now is a volunteer mentor. A mentor is defined as a wise and trusted ((WAV in ' WH8 copVl. without moving. Dr. Heaps said that when he arrived at the shelter, it was obvious who the manager was concerned about. The woman had a wool blanket pulled over her, and was lying curled up on the cot. Ordinarily, in these disaster counseling situations, Dr. Heaps said he dispenses with formalities, introduces himself as "Rich", and works with people peo-ple as he finds them. In this case, he knelt down, looked at the woman eye-to-eye, introduced intro-duced himself as "Dr. Heaps" to establish credibility, and asked her to move with him to another spot an attempt to orient the woman to reality again. Dr. Heaps asked the 33-year-old woman to tell him about herself She was living alone in a house she had just purchased and furnished. When the word first came to evacuate, she did not think much about it. The homes in her area were built up on elevated ele-vated yards because of frequent, fre-quent, lighter floods that tended to occur. When she did leave her home, she walked down the street and out to safety in water that was to her ankles. A voice came into the woman's head, asking her, "What about your neighbors?" She thought, "I'm sure they're fine, and safe." The voice came a second time, then a third, so counselor, guide or teacher. Mentors model positive life and leadership skills to at risk youth and demonstrate good citizenship. The program is designed with friendship as the focus, so the youth and mentors can develop a relationship of trust. Volunteers are asked to submit to a background check have reliable transportation, proof of auto insurance and commit one and a half hours per week for a one year period. To become a mentor, contact Rachel White at 400-5760 or 373-8200. Volunteer at the Family Support and Treatment Council In the May 28 meeting of the Orem City Council, the group considered several zoning zon-ing issues, including a controversial contro-versial rezone proposal, approved a number of consent con-sent items, and granted a conditional use permit for the outdoor swimming pool the city intends to build at 651 South State. The Joshua Heights Rezone, a proposal to rezone property at 298 West 1600 North from the low density residential R8 to the infill R5 zone, was denied by the council coun-cil in a 4-3 vote. Out of town, but participating in the meeting meet-ing by telephone, Councilwoman Judy Bell made the motion to deny the rezone, a motion that was seconded by Councilman Stephen Sandstrom. Mayor Jerry Washburn . and Councilman Dean Dickerson voted with Bell and Sandstrom to deny the rezone. Councilmembers Karen McCandless, Les Campbell, and Shiree Thurston voted against the motion to deny. Applicant Ben Probst had requested the zoning change, and proposed dividing the property into two lots. Lot 1, on the north, would had an existing home and accessory structure, and Lot 2 would have a new home built on it. The proposed rezone came with a recommendation for approval from the Orem Planning Commission, and background materials stated that city staff had no planning plan-ning or engineering concerns with the application. However, several neighbors neigh-bors spoke out against the rezone, including Vance Marvin, 1647 . North 280 West, who presented a 74-sig-nature petition against the proposal. Those opposing the rezone argued that the development devel-opment proposal would put the woman thought, "Oh, all right," and went back to check on her neighbors. She found the elderly couple huddled together in their house afraid to go out into the water. "Let me help," she told them, and escorted the lady to safety in water to their hips, and the gentleman in safety in water to their shoulders. shoul-ders. "Wow!" Dr. Heaps reported that he told the woman. "It seems you were a hero to that couple." The woman smiled and responded, "I never thought about that. I guess maybe I was." "Now we need to find what you can do to be a hero to yourself," your-self," Dr. Heaps continued, working with the woman from that point of understanding. Dr. Heaps related other incidents of counseling with victims who had performed heroically under stress, then encouraged the Kiwanians to exercise gratitude, attentive empathy, and selfless sacrifice sacri-fice in all of their acts of service. serv-ice. The evening also featured community singing, plus two musical numbers a vocal solo, "Thanks Be to God", by Orval Skousen, accompanied by his wife, Vonda, and a whistlingvocal number by Dick Hodson, "111 Walk With God," accompanied by Esther Center. The primary focus of the Family Support and Treatment Center is to prevent and treat child abuse. One of the services of the Center is the Crisis Respite Nursery. Volunteer opportunities in the nursery include, playing with the children, reading to them, helping them do arts and crafts and just spending one on one time with them. Volunteers help the children feel special and loved. T?learn more, con-' tact Terri Jones at 229-1181.n , For further information regarding these and other volunteer vol-unteer opportunities, call 374-8108. looks at zoning, other issues two driveways too close to a corner, would threaten the integrity of the neighborhood, neighbor-hood, and would contribute to a traffic and safety problem on 280 West. Development Services Director Stan Sainsbury said the city engineers had looked at the plan, and because it would take an access from 1600 North and move it to 280 West, believed the design would actually increase safety safe-ty in the area. Probst said he would agree to sign a development devel-opment agreement on setbacks set-backs for the new home. But Bell said she had been on the site three times doing traffic counts, and "It is dangerous dan-gerous just the way it is." She asserted that it is not good planning to put R5 zoning on corner lots. Corner lots are not infill, she stated, particularly particu-larly when there is already development on them. Councilman Sandstrom said he was concerned that the city is beginning to see more and more R8 to R5 rezoning applications, with parcels that are not hardship or infill cases, for which the R5 was designed, being divided. divid-ed. In voting with the majority of the council to deny the rezone, Mayor Washburn said he thinks the council needs to revisit the R5 zoning ordinance, ordi-nance, and possibly make some adjustments. A public hearing on the Jeppson Student Housing Overlay proposal, an application applica-tion to place the . student housing overlay zone on R8 property at 1550 South Sandhill Road, was continued to June 4 at 6:15 p.m. at the request of the applicant. The council discussed the open space zones that were part of the 1999 Lakeview Area Citizen's Committee recommendations to provide for land use needs in the Continued from front page Heaton. Caterer for the event was Kori Downing, who put together togeth-er a creative menu with aptly-named aptly-named dishes such as "Minister's Delight", "Garden of Eden Salad", and "Angelfood Heaven". The closing prayer was offered by Charles Hines, pastor pas-tor of the Orem Community Church. Oirem City Cemetery Memorial Day mmMr- h Mm, H w , V V w ' ?srv- ,, 'Sri'- w' 'h" ' Utv( NT r".'W These 818 white crosses nad American flags were erected at week in tribute to the deceased veterans of the Armed Forces, in many military conflicts around the world. Lakeview area. Currently, the city code has just one open space zone, the OS5, which allows a density den-sity of one dwelling unit per five acres. The city is looking at amending the code to include development standards stan-dards for two additional open space zones the OS1, allowing density of one dwelling unit per one acre, and the ROS, which would permit a density of up to 2.5 dwelling units per acre if open space is also preserved in a development. Council discussion centered cen-tered on how best to preserve open space while granting a reasonable density. Councilman Sandstrom remarked that because the area is running out of open space, available open space should not be "maximized" in use, but preserved as much as possible. Some councilmembers coun-cilmembers felt it might be wise to increase the required percentages of open space in granting density bonuses. The council decided to ask city staff to "do the math", and bring examples of development devel-opment scenarios to consider as the issue is revisited on July 2. Consent items dealing with the ZAP (Zoo, Arts, and Parks) Tax, International Fire Code, an animal shelter services agreement, and upcoming public hearings were all approved by the council. The council passed a resolution reso-lution supporting the ZAP Tax in Orem and Utah County. What that means is that Orem is officially encouraging the Utah County commissioners to place the issue on the November 2002 ballot for a vote of the public. The ZAP Tax is a local sales and use tax of 0.1 that would be used to fund local parks, Kids On Continued from front page attending the event was invited invit-ed to speak. Winn said he appreciates "the idea of the community helping one another", anoth-er", and thanked the organization organiza-tion for what it does. In reference to funding issues, Thompson said, "I know the work that you do. We support you. We will do what we can." V tin IV ,:J ' ".'; i- :, .W.. . .L.: i 1" - - vv; v V ..ut.-.. . .. i t..JA .. - recreation, and cultural projects. proj-ects. If approved, the tax would come with a sunset clause, which would require that county residents vote again to authorize it after ten years. Councilwoman Bell said a "lot of effort" had been put in by a lot of people to offer the ZAP Tax to the state. She said it is a "great way" to earmark ear-mark funds, and stated that she "wholeheartedly" supports sup-ports it, moving for approval of the resolution. The motion was seconded by Councilman Les Campbell, and the council coun-cil vote was unanimously in favor. A second consent item on the agenda was an ordinance to adopt the International Fire Code 2000 Edition "as the standard for design and construction" in the city. The council approved amending the city code to include the update. An agreement between Orem and American Fork for the latter city's use of animal shelter services was approved. Under the terms of the agreement, American Fork pays Orem a monthly fee of $860, based on Orem's current charge of $17.28 per animal delivered to the shelter. shel-ter. The per animal charge is adjusted annually, based on the cost of shelter operations. ' American Fork also agrees to pay Orem $5,000 per year for three years. The $15,000 is American Fork's share of the cost of a shelter expansion. expan-sion. The final consent item involved setting a number of public hearings fore June 25, 2002. The hearings are held in the City Council Chambers of the City Center. At 6:15 p.m., the council is slated to consider city code dealing with non-residential fences, student housing proj the Move Valentine said Kids On the Move represents a partnership partner-ship that provides a "safety net" in the community. Representative Winn asked how the organization got the name "Kids On the Move". Hahne said that David Braithwaite, a physical therapist, thera-pist, came up with the title, which was intended to denote movement, hope, and progress. .' it" :r .' '. "' . - 1 - - - ' u .. .. .'. : ! ...-VV . j , V 4 1 ' - rnoto Dy Clyde t. Weeks, Jr. the Orem City Cemetery this who have served their country ect size, and multif'ymily exceptions. At 6:30 p.m., the Blatter Rezone, a proposal to change the zoning of property at 1009 South 450 East fr om low density R8 to infill K5, is scheduled for discussion. As a final agenda item May 28, the council granted a conditional use permit for construction of the new city pool at the site of the old SCERA pool. John Branson, architect for the project, said the same elements of the pool that were originally planned for a site to the north were "rearranged and adapted" to fit the new site. Mayor Washburn said he has had a chance to examine the plans quite a hit, and believes there will be an excellent traffic How and visual integrity with an attractive design. Functionally, he said, the new plan is "probably better." Councilman Les Campbell expressed a "lingering concern" con-cern" he has about noise from the pool interfering with productions pro-ductions at the nearby SCERA Shell. City Manager Jim Reams encouraged a "wait and see" approach. The emphasis now, Reams said, is on building the pool. Issues such as pool hours which could be a way of working with the SCERA if there is a noise problem can be worked out later, he said. Recreation Director Jerry Ortiz said the pool amenities are not any closer to the Shell on the new site than they would have been on the location loca-tion to the north. Campbell said he just did not want SCERA coming to Orem at some point and saying say-ing that the city had promised prom-ised that the pool would not create a conflict. The council voted unanimously unani-mously to approve the conditional condi-tional use permit. |