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Show Page 2 OREM GENEVA TIMES Thursday, March 31, 2005 r 1773 r3 I. i i . . . B 1 NEWS AND NOTES CITY COUNCIL Three Orem City Council spots also up for grabs Clyde E. Weeks, Jr. This year, Orcm's biennial muni( ip;il election will see eon-tests eon-tests to fill the post of (rem mayor, as well as three seats on the City ouritil. At the end of 2005, the four-year four-year terms of Mayor Jerry C. Washburn and Council Members Mem-bers Ivan iJickerson, Karen M f landless, and Shiree Thurston Thur-ston will expire. Holdover Council members include Douglas R. Forsyth, l.es Campbell, ; and Stephen E. Sandstrom I he deadline for candidate filings is Aug 15, according to City Recorder Donna Weaver. I o date none of those whose terms are expiring have publicly pub-licly announced their intentioas to r un for re-election. In announcing the details of this year's municipal election, Weaver stressed the importance impor-tance of every eligible citizen being registered to vote. "In a municipal election you must re register when you move even if you only moved from one Orem Address to another," she said. In order to register to vote in Utah, a terson must be a citizen of the United States, have resided re-sided in Utah for .'50 days before tlie election, be at least 18 years old, on or lefore the election, and not be a convicted felon, currently incarcerated for com- Park Continued from Page t I estiva! organizers needed. "We tried to be sensitive," Ortiz said, but he also added that the Festival was not the city's only consideration while planning the park. "The f estival is only three days," he said. Nevertheless, organizers of the Festival Festi-val are excited to move into the new fa-cilities fa-cilities for this year's storytelling event. "I am ecstatic about the park," said Janet Low, the Festival's cxrdinator. "It really allows us to expand our program." 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The General Election will be ing to Low, organizers hope to expand the festival into both sites in the coming years. "Festival attendance continues to grow," Low said. "We maxed out our current site." The Festival's requests for the new park included six performance areas where the storytellers could gather their audiences, which the park architects filled by giving each pavilion a grassy area nearby. The park also meets many of the Festival's Fes-tival's logistic needs, including a left turn lane on the busy canyon road where drivers often come down the mountain at high speeds. The park has enough parking for 150 cars, including the 75 spots in the unfinished unfin-ished overflow parking, but this will not be enough to meet the Festival's needs. Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILY HERALD PUBLIBHIMQ OO. Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager Heather Justesen 756-7669 Receptionist John Taylor 756 7669 Graphic Designer Mark LaRocco 344 2570 DesignerCopy Editor Rachel Ryfaicki 344 -2558 DesignerCopy Editor Kent Davis 756-7669 Photo Technician seait peinis tahns $b the audience at UVSC during a discussion on Social Security on held on Nov. 8. Because of a recent change in the election laws, starting near the end of September voters can mark their ballots early whether or not they expect to be absent on the election dates. LOCAL NOTES I Local honor Bowen to be honored Reva Bowen, who Most storytelling aficionados will still need to park elsewhere and shuttle into Mount Timpanogos Park during the festivaL According to Low, the Festival will have to improve the shuttle system in order to accommodate the additional patrons pa-trons the new park will hold. Low is uncertain about the impact the new location will have on the FestivaL but she assumes attendance change because be-cause of the park. "I think change always brings an impact," im-pact," Low said. "It allows for additional growth. People will see how much space we do have." Although the planners considered many of the Festival's needs, the city hopes to use the park beyond the three days in August it will be filled with sto Mortar round miss ast Wednesday we all learned about something new to add to our list of things we may have to worry about: Howitzer shells landing on or J! n near our homes. By now, most people know about the bizarre events that led to that happening in the back yard of the Connors family who live Pleasant Grove. The home lies high on the mountainside mountain-side along the last row of houses before be-fore residential development gives way to the natural slope. But it is still hard to imagine that artillery ar-tillery launched with seven bags of gunpowder instead of the standard five actually overshot the hillside where it was intended to explode and trigger an avalanche, instead clearing the hilltop and then dropping down the other side on a collision course with densely populated popu-lated north Utah County. According to the Utah Department of Transportation, that's something that has never happened since they started using artillery rounds to knock down avalanches. As it happened, no one was hurt. As it happened, miracles do happen. It's a miracle the round missed any buildings, although the shrapnel and concussion from the blast did destroy a shed. There are homes all along the road where the Connorses live, and if the shell had been fired in a slightly different direction, di-rection, the results could have been much, much worse. It's a miracle the round landed inside a fenced back yard. That fence kept much of the shrapnel from shooting out into the street, although some did damage a neighbor's car. It's a miracle the shrapnel that tore into the Connors's home didn't hurt someone inside the house. The exterior wall was riddled with small holes created by small bits of flying metal Rooms were penetrated, windows shattered But outside of some emotional trauma, apparently no people were injured The entire series of events strains the limits of believability, unless one happens to be a believer. You hear about this kind of thing. Parts of an aircraft falling off the plane and crashing to the MATT SMITHNorth County has covered Orem City for the Orem Geneva Times for the last 12 years, will receive the Orem Women's Club's 2005 Legacy Award Saturday at 12:30 p.m. Bowen has worked for the Times since 1993, and has held the position of city editor and reporter. She has covered countless stories about Orem and its residents, everything from city council meetings, school events, municipal elec- Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN S 75 J r.'i I 4C.Ht..Jl ) . yJ L yn V 7 A I Reva Bowen was picked to receive the Orem Women's Club's 2005 Legacy Award on Saturday. tions and the Orem Summerfest to New Year's babies and the Miss Orem pageant. Saturday's events is Orem Women's annual Spring Luncheon, Lun-cheon, fashion show and fundraiser. fund-raiser. All proceeds will aid some worthy cause in this community. This year's theme is "Singing Into the World of Fashion" and is a singing fashion show with fashions provided by "Talbots" of the shop in Riverwoods. Everyone is invited. Entertainment Entertain-ment will include vocalist Larry Nielson with Janet Todd, international interna-tional accordion artist, accompanying. accompa-nying. Nielson was studio singer on the Carol Burnett show and the Sonny and Cher Show. The tickets are $20. Anyone wishing more information or to purchase tickets may call the events chairman, Jody Ren-strom Ren-strom 224-5310. rytellers and their devotees. According to Ortiz, the city has already had many requests to reserve the park for wedding wed-ding receptions and company parties during the summer months. Low agrees that the park will be a great benefit to the city beyond the Festival's annual use. "I think that the city was incredibly forward thinking," she said. She hopes the park will help "people take a breather breath-er from their hum-drum lives." Although the park is already used and appreciated by the bikers and rollerblad-ers rollerblad-ers passing by on the Provo River Parkway, Park-way, the park has not had its official ribbon cutting yet. Ortiz said the city plans to hold that event in May when the spring weather is more consistent. a miracle ground Mysterious substances falling from the sky. Meteorites come crashing through the roof and make a hole in the sofa. A brief search of the Internet found an entire list of items that have been reported to have fallen in a mysterious mysteri-ous or unexpected fashion, everything from something called "angel hair" to rocks, snakes, starfish and small, green peaches. One man was even reportedly killed with a six-foot chunk of ice when it fell from out of nowhere and landed on him. Books have been written about stuff like this, usually with the word "unexplained" or "weird" in the title. The thing is, like an errant Howitzer sheU, we really don't have to worry about this kind of thing happening oftea More often than not, we have greater great-er concerns with the silent bombshells that tear apart our lives. There are many. A friend of mine recently found her life torn apart by a quiet piece of microscopic artillery known as cancer. Unlike a cannon shell, this enemy en-emy works from within, using one's own body as a weapon against itself. The culprit was found early, but not early enough to avoid a long and unpleasant series of treatments that kill the disease by attacking the parts of the body that are now producing the diseased dis-eased cells. Still, miracles are at work. More than 20 years ago, I watched this same disease destroy my mother in a matter of two years, even though the doctors moved quickly using extreme measures to eradicate all traces of the invader when it was first found Nowadays, the surgery is less invasive. The chemotherapy and radiation, while uncomfortable, uncomfort-able, is much less intrusive. And the prognosis is much more hopeful When the Howitzer round fell in Pleasant Grove last week, the miracles were evident as soon as the blast subsided It's good to know, when dealing with the silent bombshells of life, those kinds of miracles are still at work, and there is ample reason to hope. Gun locks Continued from Page I semiautomatic and bolt-action rifles as well as semiautomatic semiautomat-ic and pump shotguns. Even if a gun owner has a safe, Ashmore says the locks are useful to secure firearms while being transported or between uses. While visiting the store, Orem resident Scott Jensen picked up a couple of the locks to use for those reasons. "I always walked by in the past," Jensen said "Now it's about being responsible," due to the number of children and families in his neighborhood For those concerned about privacy, Project Childsafe doesn't take any personal information about the person receiving the lock or any . firearms owned by the person. per-son. The only question asked by Ashmore on Friday was "What type of gun do you have?" And that was only to make sure the lock would work with the particular firearm. Ashmore said any leftover locks would be available at the store, or those interested in obtaining locks could pick them up at their local police departments for free. Law enforcement agencies providing the locks follow the same procedures. The Utah Division of Wildlife Wild-life Resources, Utah law enforcement agencies and the National Shooting Sports Foundation all teamed up to help provide the locks. Project Childsafe will distribute dis-tribute 233,000 locks throughout through-out Utah this year and a total of 12 million throughout the country. Last year, 20 million of the safety kits were distributed distrib-uted in the United States. Pageant Continued rom Page 1 who will pass along her title Saturday. "What I try to do is pick a theme that matches the outgoing queen," Sandstrom said. "It was picked for her." The biggest change to the pageant this year will be a casual ca-sual wear competition. This competition will be a model walk, just like the swimsuit competition and the evening wear competition, and will take place before the talent portion. Kimberry Harris, one of the pageant's organizers, orga-nizers, said the casual wear addition came in response to changes made in the national Miss America pageant. The contestants chose what outfit they wear in order to show their personality. Sarah Egbert, one of the contestants, just chose her casual wear outfit based on what she thought represented represent-ed her well. "I felt like it was my personality," per-sonality," she said. Saturday's show will end two months of work and association as-sociation for the pageant's contestants. Since the end of January, contestants have spent three hours together every Thursday in workshops preparing for the pageant. The workshops initially focus on the production number, the introductory dance the contestants con-testants do, but the majority of the workshop time is spent teaching the contestants interview inter-view skills. Sandstrom hopes the contestants walk away from the workshops with more abilities than succeeding in a beauty pageant. "We strive to teach them who they are," Sandstrom said. The contestants also must bring a service platform to the pageant, which prepares them to serve the community if they win. "The royalty are very much involved with the community," com-munity," Harris said. The platforms this year include service ideas as diverse di-verse as preventing eating disorders, improving literacy and increasing patriotism in children. This award's recipient recipi-ent will also be announced Saturday. The 11 competitors will perform per-form a talent. Although most sing, some dance and some play the piano. Alison Paulsen wiD perform a cello piece, and Lyndi Weight plans to perform a chra-eographed ait piece. The other contestants include in-clude Brittney Harper and Tania Ormsby, who will perform dances, and Stephanie Stepha-nie Millard Tiffany Millard and Gina Peterson, who wiD perform piano pieces. Contestants Contes-tants planning vocal numbers are Kelia Joy Hyer, Khristen Millecam, Sarah Egbert, and Chrissy Keller. POOR |