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Show P age A6 Thursday, July 10, 2003 Times Newspaper OREM FLAG CITY COUNCIL ; Continued from front page 1976, three Bicentennial projects had been identified nd undertaken. Sculptor Frank Riggs was commissioned commis-sioned to fashion a sculpture, entitled "1776-1976." Made from 3-inch corten steel plate, donated by the Geneva Steel Plant, the design represented repre-sented many ideas, with many individual interpretations. interpreta-tions. . First erected at the north-West north-West corner of the Orem City Center, the "1776-1976" sculpture was later re-located to the SCERA Park. ; An Orem History project was undertaken and a contest con-test was held to design an Official Orem City Flag. The project was initiated by Wesley Sherwood of the Sharon West Stake, and directed by John Cross, and his wife, Violet, who was chair of the design committee. commit-tee. The Crosses had long been interested in flags, and Mrs. Cross had been a commercial Hag maker and designer in Southern Utah. Other members mem-bers of the design committee who chose the winning design, included Barry L. liartlett, assistant Orem City Manager; Reverend James L. Wilson of the Evangelical Free Church; Delia Clark, representing the Business and Professional Women's Club; and former Orem Mayor Winston M. Crawford. r Fifty-eight talented, creative cre-ative people, one of whom was only six years old, entered the "Design-a-flag-for-Orem City" contest. One design was chosen to be made into Orem City's official flag. The winner was Keith Christensen, a free-lance commercial artist, living at 124 West 1700 South. He was originally from Canada, where he had studied at the Ontario College of Art. He received the contest prize of $100 at the June 14th Flag Day celebration, when the winning flag was presented to Orem City. Also at the ceremony, receiving certificates for honorable hon-orable mention for their entries in the contest, were Ernel Anderson, Rebecca Carr Armstrong, Lois J. Baum, Elbert J. Eastmond, Jr., Mike Everts, William Gerber, Barbara Honeycutt, Paul A. Jacob, Betty Lou Lee and Bliss William Tew. Each of the 58 designs entered in the contest were displayed to the public. On July 13, 1976, the Orem City Council enacted Ordinance No. 301, providing i for, adopting and describing the Official Flag for Orem, Utah, and setting forth the proper use, display and care thereof. Colored white, green and blue, the Orem Flag shall be a rectangular flag, proportioned propor-tioned two to three, divided horizontally into five stripes alternating green and blue. The first stripe, green, occupies occu-pies over half of the width, the bottom edge being raggy. to affix the second stripe blue, which is must more than one-sixth of the width and represents mountain tops. The third stripe, green, being one-eighteenth of the width. The fourth stripe, blue, being just less than one-tenth one-tenth of the width. The fifth and last stripe, green, being one-ninth of the width. Charged on the hoist, center, cen-ter, with a complete circle, while one-ninth total width, a tree with round hole, its base affixed to bottom of circle, the whole occupying four and six-tenths six-tenths of total width of the flag. The actual design of the Orem Flag is also included in the Orem ordinance. Explaining the symbolism of the Orem Flag, Keith Christensen said the tree represents the many kinds of growth in the land, and the letter "O" stands for Orem. The other colors in the flag were intended to represent the quality of life enjoyed in the city. Green was chosen to represent rep-resent the fertility of the area. Blue represents the mountains and the lake. White stands for the mountain moun-tain snows and spring blossoms. blos-soms. In actually fashioning the Orem Flag, it took John and Violet Cross over 28 hours to scale up the original design and make a pattern for the cloth. The actual sewing and facing took Mrs. Cross about 20 hours to complete. "It was difficult, but quite rewarding for me to make the first city flag to be raised up the City Center flag pole," Cross said at the time. She estimated that the new Orem Flag was her 215th creation. Orem Mayor James E. Mangum accepted the new flag from John Cross, chairman chair-man of the Flag Committee at the early morning ceremony, ceremo-ny, and it became the first city in Utah to fly its own flag, along with the Bicentennial flag. The three new fiberglass flag poles were dedicated by Gareth Seastrand, Orem Bicentennial Chairman. In June, 1976, a full-color copy of the new Orem Flag was reproduced on the Orem City Bicentennial Happenings Newsletter and sent in the mail to each family fami-ly in the city. It was suggested suggest-ed that residents clip the new Orem City Flag from the page and display it from windows win-dows of their home. Continued from front page is "highly impacted" by the high school traffic, and that the "no parking" signs are not always seen by drivers because of the direction the signs are placed. Seipert also said the homes on 400 East from 200 to 280 South are in a "different situation", and face many more traffic risks because of student drop-offs and pick-ups, and because of the vehicles exiting from the west side of the parking park-ing lot. She said she was glad to hear that the parking permits per-mits were not a "done deal", and recommended her area be kept as a "no parking" zone during school hours. Lynn Whiting, 124 South 400 East, said he was definitely definite-ly in favor of having the permit area established because he was tired of getting tickets for parking in front of his own home, including one ticket that was issued on a day that school was not in session. City Attorney Paul Johnson told the council that Mr. Whiting's situation illustrated the problem with the existing signs, which do not, in Johnson's opinion, give "fair and adequate notice" to those looking to park in controlled areas. "The status quo from a legal perspective is not great," Johnson stated. Councilman Stephen Sandstrom reminded residents that they themselves would control visitor parking in front of their homes because they would be the ones giving out the permits. Kay Reynolds, who lives on the corner of 400 East and 200 South, said her family has started to get tickets, and objected to not being able to park in front of her own home or have her children visit. Jerry Reynolds, who gave the same address, said that institutionally, insti-tutionally, the 30-year-old "no parking" rule has made sense, and most high school students do park in the school's parking lot. He added that he would like to have control over the permits, also noting that a well-marked, wide pedestrian crossing on 400 East is "virtually "virtu-ally ignored by the public." Mayor Washburn said the permits can be time specific as to days and hours. He said the council is not trying to impose their will, but trying to relieve the impact of traffic in the area. To residents who might be ambivalent about the permit per-mit area, it might seem as if the council was imposing if a wholesale change were made. Councilman Sandstrom made a motion to establish the permit area on 400 East between 100 South and the corner of 200 South, extending over to 300 East, which would affect nine homes. He added that the designated times for the permit area to be in effect would be 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays, from August 15 - June 1, and that each home would be allowed up to two visitor permits. Under Sandstrom's motion, approved in a 7-0 council vote, areas where residents were mainly opposed to or ambivalent ambiva-lent about having the parking permits would maintain the status quo. In other business, the council coun-cil heard a detailed report from representatives of DynamicCity on the feasibility studies related to UTOPIA, the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency. Orem is one of a number of cities looking to band together to create public telecommunications telecommuni-cations infrastructures that would offer video, voice, and data services through service providers aligned with UTOPIA. The conclusion of the complex com-plex feasibility presentation was that UTOPIA has a high probability of success, and that Orem could be a contributor to that success. The next step, according to City Manager Jim Reams, who represents Orem on the UTOPIA board, is to move forward for-ward with the assumption that UTOPIA will have support from member cities. Reams acknowledged that financing is "very complicated at this point", and a variety of scenarios scenar-ios are being examined by the board and its financial advisors. advi-sors. The council approved four agenda items as consent items. By resolution, the council authorized the installation and maintenance of stop signs at specific locations in the city: 700 West 640 North, southbound; south-bound; 730 West 600 North, eastbound; 600 North Beverly Ave., westbound; 500 West 600 North, eastbound; 500 West 600 North, westbound; 500 West 500 North, westbound; 450 West 600 North, northbound; north-bound; 280 West 580 North, northbound; and 300 West 450 North, eastbound. In the second consent item, the council approved a resolution resolu-tion and Interlocal Cooperation Agreement allowing allow-ing Orem to continue participation partici-pation as a member of the Utah County Major Crimes Task Force. In a third item, approval was given for selling 216 square feet of property to the State of Utah for construction of a security entrance to the court building at 97 East Center Street. The fourth item was approving a motion to set a public hearing on another proposed pro-posed residential permit parking park-ing area on 400 North between 720 and 780 West. The hearing will be held on August 5, 2003, at 6:15 p.m. A continued council discussion discus-sion on speed limits, originally set for July 8, was postponed to the August 5 council meeting. "LES MISERABLES Continued from front page Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. The Shell is located in the center of Orem's SCERA Park. Tickets are $9 adults and $5 children (ages 3-11) and are available in advance from 10-5 weekdays at SCERA, 745 South State in Orem or by calling (801) 225-2569 225-2569 or 225-ARTS. Tickets will also be available at the Shell gate one hour prior to the show on performance nights. Seating is on a sloped grassy hill, so patrons may bring blankets or rent a chair for $1. To do justice to the powerful classic, SCERA went to great lengths to find the perfect per-fect people to make the show as majestic as people expect it to be. A statewide audition call found Caleb Parry, who drives down daily from Layton to star as Jean Valjean, and of whom director Jayne Luke says makes her own daily drive from Salt Lake City "worth every minute. He is amazing." The familiar story centers around the life of Jean Valjean, a poor man sent to prison for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's starving children. Released from jail, he is originally more animal than man. Yet when a priest buys Valjean's soul for God in an act of incredible mercy, Valjean starts a life of redemption. He continues this honorable honor-able journey, despite being continually pursued pur-sued by the obsessed police inspector Javert. "It is a profound lesson on justice and mercy," says Dr. Marden Pond, musical director direc-tor and conductor of show's live orchestra. "Even more important than the music is Victor Hugo's profound story. Some of the sentiments in the songs cling and stay with you forever." "The classic is a brilliant statement about the power of the human spirit," adds Jayne Luke, the director. "As I read through the script, I realized how much it deals with human themes." It is about destitution, injustice, poverty, revenge, war, death and ultimately, redemption, forgiveness and love." Luke continues, "Everyone refers to the play as "Les Mis," yet the full title "Les Miserables" means "the miserables." We are dealing with desperate people who have to do whatever it takes to keep themselves and their families alive. The question I had to ask myself was "How can these high school teenagers even understand how powerful pow-erful the emotions are within such issues?" "Well, if I've learned anything in my 52 years, it's that children experience their own sense of tragedy. It may be that someone to whom they are very close had died, or they've had cancer, or experienced abuse," she says. "Even in a region that is called "Happy Valley," you find children with great issues of not being enough: not good enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough. I'm learning that these kids have great reserves from which they can pull off the powerful emotion this show needs and deserves." Pond adds he is impressed by the layers Jayne Luke adds to the show every time she meets with the cast. "We spent the first two weeks doing the music, and it was fun to see that element of the show come together," he says. "Then I've watched Jayne place the staging on top of that. With each rehearsal she adds new levels lev-els of meaning." As she explains it, "I'm doing "Les Miserables" very raw. "I knew this being community theatre, I didn't have $400,000 for a set, period costumes and a turntable, so 1 & 2 Bedroom with Full Kitchen & Balcony Washer & Dryer in each UNIT Educational and Cultural Activities Chauffeured Transportation S torac;f. Space Onsite Beauty & Barbershop Computer Lab & Library Summafield Retirement Community pw minium i in 1. 1 iiji hi jji.whii mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmxm j, lyuini mwiw V t g I v. v b mi Maid Service Now Open Call 434-75&1 to 6cleclule a vlA 'd io our 7fcu fleiiremeni Community I'm directing the students as children who come onto a stage, see costumes and props and decide to dress up and do a play about very adult themes. They could portray them even if they don't understand every word coming out of their mouths." What they do understand, however, is passion. " We had more than 100 young people peo-ple come out for auditions. It was an open audition, and I didn't know any of them. But most could sing the entire score and all the parts, and many of these young people at 16 and 17 could sing this difficult music very well and do it fervently. Their passion will shine through, and as in life, it's the passion that sees us through." Starring in "Les Miserables School Edition" is Caleb Parry as Jean Valjean. Other key characters include Adam Walton as police inspector Javert; Marissa Smith as young Cosette; Denika Spann as the older Cosette; Heidi Magill as Fantine; Megan Durrant as Eponine, Dillan Conrad as Gavroche; and Riley Soter as Marius. Assisting Luke and Pond is Michelle Foote as Stage Manager. I m : rx . f - (clockwise from top) Heidi Magill (Fantine), Megan Durrant (Eponine), Riley Soter (Marius), Denika Spann (Cosette) and Caleb Parry (Jean Valjean) star in SCERA's production produc-tion of the musical masterpiece LES MISERABLES MISER-ABLES SCHOOL EDITION. 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