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Show Thursday, June 2, 2005 Page 2 NEWS AND NOTES Eagle project meets needs of first - Scott Brady builds and donates kivas for Aspen Elementary classrooms Linda Butler V,MMl ',!AM As Kagle Scout candidate Scott Brady worked on his project, building two kivas for Aspen Klementary first-grade (Tassr(X)ms, he added qualities such as "ingenious," "dedicated," and "hard-wor king" to the 12 existing ex-isting points of the Scout l-aw. Scott and fellow Scouts in 1 roop 4H0 of Orem spent two long weekends and more than 2X) hours creating and building gathering areas, or kivas, for the young students. A classroom kiva, said first-grade first-grade teacher Brooke Duncan, is a meeting area for students. "We use it for story time, for class meetings," she said. "If we're not at our desks, we're sitting on the kiva." The school had only one kiva in one classroom, said principal Sherrie llolhrook. These carpeted, car-peted, two-step seating areas make excellent gathering areas, ar-eas, and are in high demand by teachers who work with young children. "Tliey keep the children centralized cen-tralized and they're not sitting on a dirty floor," said Holbrook. "Unfortunately, kivas are also very expensive," she said. That's where Scott came in. IXiring one afternoon, Scott and his parents came and measured mea-sured the school's existing kiva. From the measurements, plaas were carefully drawn and Scott had supplies donated by four kx al businesses Burton lumber, ( Jgden's Carpet Outlet of Orem, Alfred's Ace Hardware Hard-ware and Stock Building Supply. Under the supervision of Scoutmaster Ken Call, Scott and other members of his Scout tnxp spent the two weekends measuring, cutting, nailing, and stapling the two kivas together, -ach kiva consists of three parts that form the shape of an "L." The two steps are carpeted for durability and comfort. There are storage shelves on the back of the seatsteps. Each leg is about 12 feet long, and the structure can comfortably seat about 25 children. The kivas were delivered during the last week of school and both students and teachers were thrilled. "This is incredible," incred-ible," said first-grade teacher Kristen Cottrell. "We are so grateful for all of Scott's hard work. I'm so impressed. It's just like Christmas." It was, indeed, hard work. "I'm very grateful for all the NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS 59 WVv.t Mam American f ork Kirk Parkinson 756 7669 Vice PresidenVF'ubhsher fcpart insonheraldextra com Marc Haddock 756 7669 North County I ditor rnhaddcxi heraldextra corn Cathy Allred 766 669 Lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. Grove calltedSSheraldextra corn Barbara Christiansen 756 7669 American Fork. 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Scott is the son of Ann Saxton and Mark Brady, CITY NOTES I Memorial event delayed Orem City's Heritage Commission Commis-sion and the Orem American Legion Post 72 will hold a flag exchange ceremony on Monday Mon-day at 5 p.m. It will fx? at the Veterans Memorial at the east end of the Orem City Cemetery, The event was postponed due to inclement weather on Memorial Memo-rial Day. The flag exchange will include in-clude an American flag and five service flags representing the branches of the military. Those involved will include Eagle Scouts who did projects relating to the veterans crosses, Boys and Girls State youth for this year, Heritage Commission members and American Legion members. I Summer Day Camp offered The Orem Recreation Department Depart-ment will be offering a summer day camp for children ages 5-11 and another one for children ages 4-6. This program Is Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for three weeks. The cost is $92 and children need to bring a lunch every day. Junior Youth Parks, for ages 4-6, Is a program that will keep the children busy with crafts, sports, games, and supervised free time. This program ruas Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon for three weeks and costs $47. Sessions for both programs are being offered June 6- 23, July 5-21, and July 25-Aug. 11. Register online at www.orem. org or at the Orem Fitness Center. Cen-ter. For info, call the Orem Fitness Fit-ness Center at 229-7455. I Interlocal agreement The Orem City Council on May 24 adopted an interlocal agreement agree-ment formally establishing the purposes of the Utah County Council of Governments (COG), an organization that has met for many years to discuss regional re-gional issues of mutual concern. The county and each munici Phone: 756 7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILY BEliLD PUBLISHING CO. QZH2 Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager John Taylor 756 669 Graphic Designer Landon Obon 344-2558 DesignerCopy Editor Mark LaRocco 344 2570 DesignerCopy Editor Leah L Culler 344-256 1 DesignerCopy Editor Kent Davis 756 7669 PtKto Technician jV ll -fx ''4 ' ------ - - isatJJSl. L.. ': L... Rain or shine Damans Sullivan of Eagle Mountain pushes her 2-year-old daughter Madison on a swing while at a family reunion at Orem's City Center Park on Monday. Despite rain, Memorial Day activities still took place throughout Orem. pality in the county have one representative on the council, usually a county commissioner and mayors. I Commercial driveways A minimum width of 24 feet for commercial driveways was one of the clarifications in the city ordinance on commercial driveways approved by the Orem City Council May 24. The city engineer is authorized to approve requests for extra Why we ' ' he brave souls out decorating ' graves on Monday morning ' ' found it was an umbrella-only activity. Pouring rain made f it difficult to make the an- ' ' nual rounds from tombstone to tombstone, leaving a flower, or a bouquet of flowers. The weather also may have kept some people home from the morning ceremonies planned at several local cemeteries and veterans' memorials. Once the weather cleared up in the late afternoon, more people showed up, flowers in hand. But it seemed to me that the numbers and the ages of those who visited the grave sites of loved ones is an indication indica-tion that this is a tradition that is not being passed down like it used to be. For various reasons, many of us . are becoming more interested in the holiday part of the Memorial Day weekend than we are in the memorial part. In the process, we are losing touch with an important part of our past. I remember as a child being dragged from cemetery to cemetery by my father fa-ther and mother, the car trunk full of flowers to be used to decorate the various places where their parents and grandparents had been buried. The cemeteries were small ones, and they were found in towas that were also quite small, located on the Idaho side of Bear Lake Valley. Both cemeteries date back to the 1860s, when Brigham Young sent Mormon pioneers, mostly from Great Britain, to settle in the area. Both have a sense of remoteness similar to the Cedar Fort and Fairfield cemeteries. The towns haven't grown much over the past several decades, de-cades, leaving the cemeteries apart from the rest of the community. For my parents, visiting the graves of their parents and grandparents was a sacred obligation. obliga-tion. It was also an opportunity to visit with the living. Mom would always run into someone she knew at the cemetery. She had grown up with driveways, based on analyzing the requests on a case-for-case basis, using the standards in the ordinance and documenting findings and recommendations. Applicants may appeal any decision of the city engineer to the City Council. I Self understanding lecture series -- The Sterling G. Ellsworth Ells-worth Lecture Series on "Self Understanding" will be presented present-ed next Wednesday and Thurs have Memorial Day Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN graders MATT SMITHNorth County day from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Room 167 of the Utah National Guard Building at UVSC, 987 S. Geneva Road. Topics will include: "Techniques "Tech-niques for turning negatives into positives," "Negative thought detection and positive thought selection," and "How to porn proof and heal yourself and family." Tuition is $15 for those who preregister or $20 at the door. To preregister call 319-9290 or 489-6142. most of the people in the nearby community, and we were related to a good many of them. Since both of my parents had eight siblings, you could pretty much count on running into aunts and uncles and cousins at the cemetery on Memorial Day. Once the adults got to talking, this became tough duty for the young children. Cemeteries were intriguing for the first few moments, but the novelty wore off long before the adults ran out of words. Still, the experience lives with me so much that a few years ago, when I visited Bloomington during a trip that took me through Bear Lake Valley, I was able to go directly to the grave site of my grandfather and his two wives (consecutive, not concurrent), even though I hadn't driven that road in 30 years. Maybe our mobility is one of the reasons rea-sons the Memorial Day ritual of decorating deco-rating graves is fading. It would take about eight hours of driving or more for me to carry on the tradition my parents par-ents hoped to pass on to me. But many people just don't seem to bother anymore, and Memorial Day is being taken over by activities like camping and boating, instead of remembering. re-membering. Local veterans groups, like the VFW and the American Legion, are to be commended for keeping keep-ing the Memorial Day tradition alive. Veterans like Ned Veater in American Fork, Blackie Harris in Lehi and Bert Gividen in Orem go to extraordinary lengths to see that the day is marked and the sacrifices of soldiers and sailors who died preserving our freedom are remembered. But just like the crowds placing flowers on graves, the numbers of the veterans who encourage us to remember our war dead on Memorial Day are dwindling. Most of them performed per-formed their military service 60 years ago during dur-ing World War II. Will someone take their place? Or will Memorial Memo-rial Day continue this gentle slide from being a day of remembrance to becoming one more day of recreation? Summerfest Continued from Page 1 and continue June 11 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. "People will enjoy seeing what's available," Sumner said. Free entertainment in the park Is another big draw, and the June 10 schedule spotlights the Sunshine Generation, Gen-eration, an international chil- p.m.; Elite Irish Step Dancers, 5:30 p.m.; Timp Top Cloggers, 6 p.m.; Fiddlesticks, a family musical group, 6:30 p.m.; and Thunderbuck Ram, a rock band specializing in music from the '60s and '70s, at 7 p.m. All performances will be at the large pavilion in City Center Park. The free concerts continue at the same location June 11, beginning at 11 a.m. when Tamarak, a band made up of local high school students, performs. They will be followed fol-lowed by Music Express, a children's performing group, at 11:30; the Rocky Mountain Express Cloggers at noon; Center Stage Performing Arts Studio at 12:30 p.m.; The Dance Club, 1 p.m.; Tap Pros, 1:30; and Muestras Rakes, a children's group doing traditional tra-ditional f olkloric dances and games of Latin America, 2:15. Baby contest winners will be presented June 11 at 3 p.m. in the large pavilion. There are numerous judging categories catego-ries and a judging time schedule sched-ule for the contest. For more information, call the Summerfest Summer-fest Baby Contest Hot Line at 229-7027 (option 7). The Miss Orem royalty, including Miss Orem Brittney Harper and attendants Alison Ali-son Poulsen, Chrissy Keller, Khristen Millecam, and Tiffany Tif-fany Millard, will make an appearance at the large pavilion pavil-ion on June 11 at 3:30 p.m. The park entertainment winds up with a performance by the Ben Stokes Band Saturday Sat-urday at 4 p.m. Other events include the Old West Dutch Oven Cook-off, Cook-off, June 11 at noon in the park. There will be two categories cat-egories for judging adults and 18 years and younger. Judging at 3 p.m. will be followed by free samples offered of-fered at 3:30 p.m., then the announcement of winners. The Orem Rotary Club will provide a community breakfast break-fast on June 11 from 7 to 10 a.m. at the City Center Park Rotary Pavilion at 250 East Center. Cost is $3 per person or $15 per family. Free children's crafts and games will be available at the large pavilion from noon to 1:30 p.m. on June 11. The popular children's parade, with the theme, "It's a Kid's World," will be at 7 p.m. Participants should meet at 6:45 p.m. at 400 East Center. Cen-ter. Children participating are invited to wear costumes, decorate bicycles and wagons, wag-ons, and receive a cold treat at the end of the parade. Also beginning at 7 p.m., the Summerfest parade, featuring grand marshals Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert and family, fam-ily, will trace its route from 400 South and 800 East, north on 800 East to Center Street, then west on Center to the Smith's parking lot. There should be no parking along the parade route after 4 p.m. Punctuating the two-day event with a flourish will be the fireworks display June 11 at 10 p.m. at the park. "The fireworks have always al-ways been great, and they've added more this year," Sumner Sum-ner said. "It should be a fun time for all ages, and we'd love for everyone to come out." Messenger Continued from Page 1 half -hour interview for this article. Cook said he sends 30 to 50 a day. "It's actually not that much," Cook said. "One conversation con-versation with one friend can be 15 messages." Cricket Communications sponsored the competition Cook and Stoddard entered. Now Cook has a contract with Cricket and has done some commercials for them. One of the commercials has appeared in local theaters before movies, and it had a picture of Stoddard in it, too, Cook said. Cook recorded a commercial for radio but has not heard it on the air yet. But all the fun may soon come to a halt. "I heard a rumor that some guy in the U.K. beat the record," re-cord," Cook said. "I have no idea if it's true." v POO I II I I 11 nBl-Wt Hiri Tu n tin |