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Show AM EDITION Or T II E :-T L0TC018 i!" " I AT I ON 1 ' t 100 YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER. THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2005 50 CENTS TOWN HALL: Eagle project gives students place to sit BUSINESS: Blue Sheep handles variety of print jobs SPORTS: A season of ups and downs: spring sport review BRIAN WAGNERNorth County Crosses of remembrance London Edgington, 1 7, of Timpanogos High School, helps install crosses as part of his summer Boys State opportunity. Orem Youth Council also helped with the cross planting. Last year the Orem American Legion Post 72 took over the job of maintaining, installing and memorializing Orem veterans through a display of 997 crosses, which they placed at Orem City Cemetery on May 26. School's Out GRADUATES SPEAK AND INSPIRE At least 100,000 visitors expected Reva Bowen NORIH I OUNTY SI Ail An estimated 100,000 people came to Summerfest activities last year, said committee member Brent Sumner, and planners expect at least that many or more to participate in Orem's annual city celebration June 10 and 11. Most events are located in or around City Center Park at 250 East Center Street. Summerfest events actually begin Monday with the tennis tournament, which continues through June 11. Games are played on the courts by the Orem Recreation Recre-ation Center at 600 West and 165 South. Contact Mark Lindsay at 229-7158 for more information or to register. A 5K run will begin (and end) at the Orem City Center, Cen-ter, 75 E. 100 North, on June 1 1 at 8 a.m. Pi 'registration 'registra-tion is $15, or $18 on the day of the race, and includes a T-shirt. Preregistration is done in person through June 10 at the Orem Fire Division, 95 East Center. To register on race day, go to the starting location from 7 to 7:45 a.m. At the heart of Summerfest are the activities in the park games and midway rides, a free golf chipping course, "Taste of Orem" food sampling, and booths to browse through that feature a wide variety of arts, crafts and information. The park activities begin June 10, from 2 to 10 p.m., See SUMMERFEST, Page 2 Fame grows for messaging king Duane Hilton NORTH COUNTY STAFF Ben Cook has been a guest on "The Tonight Show" and several news programs, pro-grams, has been interviewed by The Associated Press, and has even seen a story about himself in The Boston Globe. Cook, who will be a Timpanogos High . senior in the fall, is getting all the attention at-tention because he broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest text message mes-sage last year. Texting involves sending a message over a cell phone. "I think I have a little bit of natural ability for (texting)," Cook said. "I really didn't sit there and practice it for hours on end." Texting has -opened a lot of experiences experienc-es to Cook. But nothing comes close to "The Tonight Show," which he appeared on in April, he said. He met Jay Leno and other celebrities celebri-ties and was on national television. Lend made a joke about him not dressing up. The funny thing was, Cook said, is he was told what to wear in rehearsal. Cook probably wouldn't have appeared ap-peared on "The Tonight Show'.if he had not punched this tongue twister into his phone: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocen-trus Pygocen-trus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human." The phrase is the standard used in competitions, and he has punched it hundreds hun-dreds of times, Cook said. "It was best to have it memorized before you went into the (competition)," Cook said. "Because it's a little harder when you have to look. At this point, I could probably do the whole thing without with-out looking." Cook's friend, Dave Stoddard, introduced intro-duced Cook to texting. He broke the original Guinness World Record of 59 seconds. But Cook clocked in at 57.75 seconds, sec-onds, a little faster than Stoddard's time. Both of them send several messages a day. Stoddard sent 13 during the See MESSENGER, Page 2 If . . ' $l - i: v ,Xi y i At 17, Orem's Ben Cook is maybe the fastest cell ph American. In October, he broke the world record BRIAN WAGNER 'North County one text messuging for text messaging. Lehi EXPANDED EMERGENCY SERVICES - Lehi city is taking the first step toward a full-time firefighting and emergency medical service by adding four full-time full-time personnel and building a $400,000 addition. "I'm just excited, it's going to be a big step in the service level to people in the community," said Fire Chief Dale Ekins. If the City Council approves the municipality's proposed pro-posed tentative 2005-2006 fiscal budget, Ekins would move or hire cross-trained firefighters and EMTs to full-time status, enabling the department to provide 12-hour 12-hour full-time fire and EMS coverage. A 4,000-square-foot addition to the fire station is also in the works. American Fork DENSITY CHANGE REQUESTED - Developers often stand knocking at American Fork's door, asking for higher density than the city has historically been willing to give. One of the most recent is Steve Maddox, who made a presentation during a work session of the City Council, Coun-cil, seeking new zoning for 10 acres which would be annexed to the community's south side. Maddox said his proposal would be similar to a new multiple-housing development built near Macey's in Pleasant Grove. CommunityBriefing Alpine 4 J pasture," a statement fronrthe Appaloosa Youth Association As-sociation read. "The effects were stunning and very colorful to all who judged the confest." Caden will receive a $250 savings bond and his artwork will be published in the November issue of The Appaloosa Journal, an international magazine for breeders. Highland JEREMY HARMONNorth County Caden Jones, JO, recently won first place in the Appaloosa Youth Association's youth art contest. YOUNG ARTISTIC TALENT - For the second year in a row, 10-year-old Alpine resident Caden Jones has placed first in the Appaloosa Youth Association's Annual An-nual Youth Art contest. "Caden created an exceptional colored pencil drawing draw-ing of an Appaloosa mare and her foal grazing in a HIGHLAND HOLLOW -The 40 hilly acres to be developed de-veloped on the Lehi border with Highland presented unique problems to the Highland Planning Commission Commis-sion on May 23. Prospective development was recommended recom-mended to the City Council. Additional conditions were added to the recommendation recom-mendation for final approval of Highland Hollow. The property on 10400 North' and 7000 West formerly owned by Johnnie Iverson will soon be developed as an open space subdivision with 49 homes. Pleasant Grove CONCERTS IN THE PARK OPEN -The Pleasant Grove summer 2005 Concerts in the Park season opens Sunday with the Pleasant Grove Orchestra performing per-forming "Broadway Hits." The orchestra will perform selections from a variety of Broadway plays, including "Oklahoma," "West Side WWW.HARICTHEHERALD.COMNORTHCOUfnY CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE Story," "Guys and Dolls," "Porgy and Bess," and "The King and I." The free concert will take place on the east lawn of the Pleasant Grove Recreation Center, on the corner of 100 East and 200 South at 7:30 p.m. liindon SIGN RESTRICTIONS - Lindon will have no flashing flash-ing signs and definitely no dancing skeletons, say city zoning and planning commissioners, alluding in part to a certain car wash sign in Orem. At their May 25 meeting, the commissioners discussed possible recommendations for the City Council to consider as Changes to the city's sign ordinance. "We don't want Lindon to look like Las Vegas," said Commissioner Marilyn Simister. Eagle Mountain BLACKHAWK HEADLINES PX DAYS - Black Hawk, a country and western band, will be the star attraction at-traction for the Pony Express Days on Saturday, playing play-ing at the new Silver Lake Amphitheater in The Ranches, Ranch-es, 7920 N. Silver Lake Parkway, Eagle Mountain. The concert begins at 7 p.m. Tickets can be pre purchased pur-chased through Smith Tix for $5 online at www.smith-stix.com, www.smith-stix.com, by phone at 1-800 888 TIXX, or at the gate. From staff reports MRLj alpine IM Buui7A?io fo Hesideots qi? Utas Soul: You can now enjoy membership with ALPINE CREDIT UNION OREM AMERICAN FORK LEHI CREDIT UNION rmw 7 yftt ; Call for details 225-0256 Membership and Eligibility Required POOR COPY |