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Show lnr. m7 AN l " 1 YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2005 50 CENTS TOWN HALL: CARE committee works to promote RAP SCHOOLS: Garden tour to help disadvantaged students SPORTS: Bruin football to face test at Orem , ; ate V. it- P '""t? v.. - BUSINESS TATTOO ARTISTS OPEN MUSIC CAFE FOR CHARITY Celebrations include a gala, parade, music, dancing and guest speakers Reva Bowen NOK1H COUNTY MAf I Orem High School, the grande dame of Orem's three high schools, is celebrating her 50th anniversary next week as part of Homecoming 2005, and alumni have been issued a special invitation to participate in the upcoming events by Val Hale, chairman of the celebration committee. com-mittee. The festivities begin Sept. 15 in the McKay Events Center on the Utah Valley State College campus. At 6 p.m. there will be a silent auction to raise money to restore the school's Steinway piano. It is estimated that repair costs will be $18,000, but once repaired, the piano will be worth $75,000. Anyone wanting to donate items for the auction can contact Hale at val. ha'e comcast.net . Following the auction, there will be a gala at the same location, at 7 p.m. This event Ls free to the public and all Orem High alumni, faculty and staff are invited. The gala will feature some of the OHS graduates who have achieved prominence on the local, state or national leveL There will be music furnished by Kurt Best or, 1 Gib-boas, Gib-boas, Felicia Soreason and others; dancing by Mandi McKinley, a member of the UVSC world cham pionship ballroom dance team; and remarks by Utah Lieutenant Governor Gov-ernor Gary Herbert, Orem Mayor Jerry Washburn and NFL all-pro tight end Chad Lewis. Lmcee will be Lloyd Newell, known as "the voice" of the Mormon Mor-mon Tabernacle Choir. " I his will lie a casual evening," said Annette Newsorn, another Ol !S graduate who Ls currently the student council advisor at the school and a celebration committee memlx.-r. "It's not meant to lx? formal for-mal but it will be a lot of fun." See ANNIVERSARY, Page 2 Jf CJ Pa i FRANK BOTTNorih County "Well, I am not too sure where this old toy truck came from maybe one of my children, which means it is at least SO years old," said 87 year-old Arden Rowley of Orem. "Ihave been collecting cJl sorts of things over the years from toys to old farm equipment, and by the way thus county has tons of old farm stuff," said Rowley as he moves through his garage of old items. Below, Rowley looks at his collection of items from his past. Rowley's got his own Smithsonian 87-year-old Orem man collects a lifetime of personal treasures b facta Jamie Lynn Custer NORTH COUNTY SWI rden Rowley is a volunteer vol-unteer at the Orem Heritage Museum. He has also donated a , number of items that re displayed there. For example, Rowley donated a pair of harnesses that were used by his father on the 14-acre family farm family near 400 West and 700 South. That's just one item from ah ecletic collection Rowley began accumulating kng before Gareth Seastrand began to spearhead spear-head the museum. "I don't really know where I got them all," Rowley said. "I've just been hanging onto things over the years." Rowley is more than liappy to guide a tour through his own col-lectioa col-lectioa Many of the items he has hung on peg board in his garage has a story. Others just seem to have gathered with no explanation at alL There is the cultivatorcorn planter, a piece of forming equipment equip-ment actually used by his father on the farm over 80 years ago. Rowley was almost a New Year's baby, born Dec. 31, 1918, in Oakley, Idaho, to David and Clara Steiner-Rowley. Shortly after that, the family moved to Burley, Idaho. In the year 1924, the Rowley family fam-ily moved to Orem. David purchased the farm w'here they lived and raised eight childrea The original homestead with the garage and root cellar and huge maple trees planted by his father are obscured within the new neigriborhood that has sprung up around it over the decades. "It's a little difficult to see from here, but that place holds a lot of wonderf ul memories for me," said Rowley. The groomed and green stretches stretch-es of lawn were once cultivated fields of corn and other crops. They were worked with the equipment equip-ment that his father had used, now hanging on the wall. Later, when Arden purchased some of the farm from his father and built his own home in 1942, fie, too, used the same cultivator to work the fields. There is also a homemade sickle type of UxA that he made and used, hanging in it's place next to the cultivator. ALso on the garage wall is a wtxxien milking stool and the metal bucket that coupled it. which Rowley used when he milked the cow on the farm. He takes from the wall a large, old and very rusted straining ladle. He demoastrates as he tells of it's early days "1 his is what you used when you cooked outdoors and you wanted to skim off the top of the stuf f in the pot." Rowley's arm circles in big stirring motions as he talks. "1 don't even know what you would call this." There is a smaller, more modern soup ladle and t lie aluminum cook-ware cook-ware that must have accompanied it on many camp outs. Right above that is a pair of child's roller skates, the kind that came from months of saving Gold Strike Stamps evidence evi-dence of the seven children Rovvley and his wif e raised here. The key isn't there anymore. There is the shoe-last, that Rowley's father used to sole shoes. 1 ianging on the wall not too distant dis-tant from the new grinding tool ls the old grind stone that use to set where the new one is bolted to the See COLLECTOR, Page 2 L VWiW.HARKTHEHERALD.COMfJORTHCOUNTY CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE i ,0mm! !' 3riefing Pleasant Grove CITY TO CELEBRATE 155 YEARS - Pleasant Grove will celebrate its 155th birthday this Saturday with the an nual Heritage Festival events taking place all throughout the day on Main Street from Center Street to 200 South. "It has been wonderful to see so many community organizations pull together in order to help provide an opportunity for citizens to learn of the city's unique back ground and flavor," saio Event Organizer and City Coun cil member Cindy Boyd. This year's Heritage Festival will feature two new addi tions to the annual celebration - a farmer's market and a new primary location in the city's historic downtown. Cedar Hills LAND TRANSFER SOLVES TRASH PROBLEM - One Cedar Hills resident said he sick of looking at the vacant, dirty lot next to his property and is ready to do something about it. The only problem is it is in another city. Stephen Lee went to the Cedar Hills City Council recently re-cently and showed them pictures of the constr uction cast offs and trash left in the lot. He a' ked them to trade some Cedar Hills open space on the hillside above the golf course for the Highland owned triangular shaped lot near his house He then would buy that piece from Cedar Hills and landscape it. Highland City Manager Barry Edwards said Sept. 2 that Highland has approved the swap. "Now we're ust approving the deed, and verifying the piece of property they're giving us is the right one," Edwards said. American Fork CITY PREPARES TO FINANCE SECONDARY WATER SYSTEM - The American Fork City Council has taken a next step toward improving the city's future water supply. Members directed the city's finance officer Cathy Jensen to bring them information about financing a pres surized irrigation system through revenue bonds. These would not require voter approval. It has been several years since the council adopted the concept of pressurized irrigation, voting to include it into the general plan, the policy which sets policy for the future. However, no provisions had been made to finance the program. Lehi l V' Pis v ,-V XtA. 4 'Jul' Li A-Ji BRIAN WAGNERUorlii Courtly Danny Russon, 13, of Lehi has Yx'en drawing since he was two, so to take on drawing and XJinling the dinosaur nxtmui the John iutchmgs Must'um of Nuturul History as his eagle scout project seemed ideal YOUNG ARTIST CREATES DINOSAUR MURAL Danny Russon turned in an art entry for the Roundup Week Art Show Contest at the John Hutchings Museum and soon found himself taking on a much larger project - Jurassic size. Danny is creating a mural in the John Hutchings Musem that spans time through the Cambrian, Creta-cious, Creta-cious, Jurassic and Triassic periods. Danny started his project, which includes animal and dinosaur tracks down the hall, in June and is nearing completion. Visitors to the museum on 55 N. Center St. can seethe mural and stenciling art during regular business busi-ness hours. Eagle Mountain NEIGHBORHOOD TOY DRIVE GETS BIG RESPONSE RE-SPONSE What started out as a neighborhood toy drive for Hurricane Katrina child evacuees at Camp Williams Wil-liams has resulted in an overwhelming outpouring from surrounding communities. Donations of clothing, quilts, blankets, toys and more are stacked three feet deep filling the James and Diana Boley's front room of their Eagle Mountain home after Diana Boley arranged for one drop off site in Lehi and another in the Eagie Mountain town center. The result has been more than she anticipated. The drive became more than a toy collection. The Boleys had a sorting party on Tuesday evening to prepare the items for transporting to Camp Williams - From staff reports cdj ALPINE 4 ii liiuifAf ion Residents of Utah ouu You can now enjoy membership with ALPINE CREDIT UNION OREM AMERICAN FORK LEHI Y Call for details 225-0256 Mwrifowttfiip nod EligibjJiiy Required COPY ii i 4.1 m 'ntflfnWHftLj |