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Show if mm 1 m Thursday, April 27, 2006 Page 2 OREM GENEVA TIMES ' -t.tlW" 'W '"1 JEWS AND rj 0 T E S TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED (iwanis Club makes annual Arbor Day tree donation Reva Bowen An annual rile of spring for the ( )rem (ioldi-n "K" Kiwanis Club is'donating and planting a new tree in the citv around Arbor Day The service club did not disappoint this vear, adding the Polar King variety of a I)eodora cedar If) the arboretum souih of the Orem Senif)r friendship ( 'riter, ira light, drizzling rain Monday. "We're happy to have planted our 24th tree, I think it is," said kichard Hodson, (ifilden "K" president Urban foresterhorticulturist Marry Sheide, who supervised the planting, said the new tree will be "unique" and "unusual" in Orem. "Normally, it is hard to grow cedars here, because they are not cold-weather, hardv trees." Sheide said "This variety should be okay.. There are not a lot in Orem. but they are pretty, pret-ty, with a 'nodding head' at t hie top." The City of Orem will celebrate Arbor Day on I riday, April 2H. at 10:.'t(l a.m. at Bonneville Momentary School, 1245 N. H(I0 West, where the students will participate par-ticipate in n program Sheide and Councilman 1 ean Dicker-son Dicker-son are scheduled to speak, and Orem will be receiving the "Tree City, U.S.A." Award from the National Arbor Day f oundation Seven trees one for each grade will be planted on school grounds At Monday's planting, Golden "K" secretary sec-retary Myron I nizier said, "We feel like it's a very fine contribution to the city and parks helping to provide shade and beauty in our arboretum in Orem. We all get a lot of enjoyment and satisfaction satis-faction out of our assisting as Kiwanians in city service projects." The club memlers also run a refreshment refresh-ment stand at the city ball fields south of the Fitiyss Center. Proo-ds from that business, and from operating a scone bfoth at the Summer-l-est celebration in June, go to helping the youth of the community. I razier said For example, last year, the club spent more than $2,500 to purchase coats for needy children at three local elementary schools. The new tree joins an urban forest of about 5.000 trees belonging to the city. Sheide said a W) percent -completed inventory shows the trees are worth S'A -84 million. "It's nice to have a healthy forest in the citv." Sheide said. K yx f Mj 1 , -Zs C" " . -i iNi '-i'A MATT SMITHDaily Herald Members of the Orem Golden K Kiwanis Club cover the roots of a tree with dirt while planting it in Orem 's City Center Park on Monday morning. OREM BRIEFS I Tentative budgets accepted The Orem City Council, acting in its roles as board of directors for the Redevelopment Redevel-opment Agency. Municipal Building Authority, and Special Service Lighting District, accepted the tentative 2006-07 budgets for those three entities as part of its work April 25. Public hearings before the adoption of final budgets were set for June 13. beginning at fi:25 p.m. for the RDA, and continuing at fi:.'5 for the MBA and 6:45 lor the SSLD. The hearings will follow, in order, the hearing for the main city budget, set for 6:15 that night. A $2.8 million RDA budget is associated associ-ated mainly with projects related to University Uni-versity Parkway, said Jim Reams, chief executive officer of the agency. As CM) of the MBA. Reams explained that the building authority is a debt service ser-vice mechanism allowed by state law? Orem has used the MBA to purchase Nielsen's Grove, to expand the city cemetery, cem-etery, to finance the children's library, and to obtain city-wide street lighting. The first three bonds were combined into one, with the city-wide street lighting light-ing a separate matter. The 2006-07 tentative MBA budget is just more than $1.4 million. Revenues for the SSLD, "a separate legal le-gal entity from the city that has the statutory stat-utory ability to provide street lighting services within the City of Orem," according ac-cording to the tentative budget booklet, come from a $.125 per month utility bill assessment, and a share of the franchise tax. The 2006-07 budget is projected as $1,318,000'. "We believe this will allow enough funding for the replacement of lights as lighting service districts expire." ex-pire." said Reams, also CEO of the SSLD. As pre-existing lighting districts in the city expire, those areas are brought into the city-wide lighting system that is now complete. I Girls' fastpitch softball registration The city's Recreation Department is accepting late registration for the girls fast pitch softball program at the Orem Fitness Center, 580 W. 165 South. Cost for Girls Softball is $52 (non-residents will be charged an additional $10). This program is for girls in third through 12th grades with team divisions divi-sions being 34, 5-6, 7-8 and 9-12 grades. Games begin the week of May 22 and will be played on weekday evenings, from 4:30-10:30 p.m. and possibly some Saturdays. Volunteer coaches are needed for this program. For additional information, please call the Orem Fitness Center at 229-7455. ' Park C 'of 1 1 muctJ jrom I'ugc I three-room home .lenni Prince-Mahoney, a prf-fessionul prf-fessionul archeologist with JBR Environmental Consultants and a current member of the Historic Histor-ic Preservation Advisory Com mission, has been involved with the archeologieal dig that took place on the site when the foundation foun-dation of the Nielsen home was unearthed during the park construction, con-struction, and with the museum preparations. There has been "a concerted effort," Prince-Mahoney Prince-Mahoney said, to integrate plants and trees into the park that would have been useS by Jergen NieLsen. Although there Ls not yet an official schedule for the museum, volunteers are being recruited to staff the facility. Prince-Mahoney said the west room is dedicated to a history of Jorgen Nielsen's family; fam-ily; the main room on the east focuses on the park history; and the north room covers Lakev-iew Lakev-iew and Orem history. In the main room are reproductions of the original Nielsen's Grove advertisement ad-vertisement and statuary used in the pioneer park. "1 think it's coming together," Prince-Mahoney said of the museum. "It has a lot of potential to be improved im-proved as time goes by and we get additional information as volunteers collect more history and integrate it." Of Nielsen's Grove, Prince-Mahoney said, "I think it's a nice little park. It captures the area history and provides a place to recreate. It's also unusual. It's not your everyday park or museum it has a different angle to it." NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS ' E fwte Jit Pleasant Grew- Phone: 7W.-76G9 Fax: 756- 5274 Kirk Parkinson Via f'ifiifUvil'ii!)li';htv i'!Vir!&?K'Mld!'ta corn Marc Haddock ;(. imt North County ;U.n mhaddorl (PfheiHl'ietra corn Kids, a great reason to celebrate Cathy Alfred tm, 7cm Lchi. S'lmtogn Spnnca,. P! Gkw cal!rec'tw),iea!''tevtra corf Barbara Christiansen ii nm Amern.an Fori. 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Ktu o' Circulation', hey are celebrating el Dia del Nino at Sharon Elementary this week. We don't recognize recog-nize Children's Day in Utah, but w hen I lived in Mexico many, many years ago, Children's Day was a big deal. There it is the kid's equivalent of Mother's Day or Father's Day. which we do celebrate. Heck, we are even encouraged to celebrate Grandparents Day, especially by the companies that want to sell us Grandparents' Day greeting cards. But I had tf lfKk on the Internet to find out it Is the first Sunday after Labor Day. As a card-carrying grandparent, however. 1 can vouch that grandpar ents get tf celebrate twice every time their grandkids come to visit once when they arrive, and then again when they go home. Children's Day, however, has never caught on in the United States, even though it is an international interna-tional event celebrated in more than 100 nations, and it Ls the result of a resolution passed in the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1954. In Mexico. Children's Day is celebrated on April 30. School was canceled and the kids participated par-ticipated in games and cultural events. Sharon Elementary will be celebr ating the event in Mexican style on Friday, and while the kids won't get out of school, several activities are planned, including games, songs, pinatas, a Maria-chi Maria-chi band and a dinner of taniales, rice and beans. The event will take the place of the school's Cin-co Cin-co de Mayo celebration. School officials thought the Dia del Nino celebration would be more inclusive, inclu-sive, since May 5 Ls strictly a Mexican holiday, but Children's Day has an international flavor. My wife told me that in Utah, every day is Children's Day. I'm not sure we care about our children more than anyone else, but sometimes it seems as if they get plenty of attention. And the fact that we have plenty of children probably adds to that. We have been paying a lot of attention to our children lately. One Alpine City Council member was pushing push-ing for the city to pass the "Resolution for the Natural Family," a declaration that defined the Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN "natural family" as your basic Ozzie and Harriet relationship, only with more kids a "full quiver" of 'em, to be exact. A group of Pleasant Grove residents were pushing for the city fo pass a Child Appropriate Standard resolution designed to make certain that children were not put in contact with inappropriate inappro-priate material while going about their kid business. In both cases the members of the respective city councils decided that city government the domain of water wa-ter delivery, road repairs and sewage treatment was the wrong venue to attempt to carry out these efforts at social engineering. The fact is, our kids, for the most part, have it pretty good. In many parts of the world, life is hard for children. It's hard in Mexico, where poverty is rampant and many families don't even have a father. That's a fact of life in many of the countries where Children's Day is celebrated. Recognizing this, the United Nations established estab-lished a Declaration of the Rights of the Child shortly after proclaiming Children's Day. Among those things are the inherent rights to the opportunity oppor-tunity to develop physically, mentally and spiritually, spiritu-ally, the right to a name and a nationality, and the right to enough food, adequate housing, a chance to play and receive good medical services. Unfortunately in many parts of the world, children chil-dren are denied these rights regularly, but they are still dear to their parents, and a testament that life endures through good times and bad. Saturday in Smithf ield, we gathered with our daughter, Erin, and her husband, Brian, to celebrate cel-ebrate their daughter. Unable to have children of their own, Erin and Brian'invhed Ellie into their family when she was 4 days old. That was in September, Sep-tember, and during the past several months their lives have been transformed, and so has ours. It's a miracle what children do for us. They change us. They have the power to take self -centered, simple-minded human beings and transform trans-form them into parents. We're not perfect, but for the most part, we are better than we were. April 30 might be a great day to let them know how much we appreciate them. Budget Continued from Page 1 upgrades, and 25 cents will go to pay for Jordanelle Reservoir water rights. The city manager anticipates that there will be a 25-cent annual an-nual increase in the future to continue to pay for the Jor-daneUe Jor-daneUe water rights. A 50-cent-per-month decrease de-crease in the cost of a first can charge for solid waste pick-up off sets a 50-cent per month increase suggested for the sewer fund. The tentative budget calls for the addition of personnel person-nel to respond to service demands from growth in the city. Requested are an additional ad-ditional 911 dispatcher and a records secretary for the Public Safety Department, as well as an additional full-time employee at the cemetery. A part-time public relations position and Administrative Services Department secretary secre-tary may be worked into the final budget. An average increase of 4 percent is provided in the budget for full-time employees' employ-ees' compensation, and an 8 percent increase for health insurance benefits. The budget outlines $880,000 for road overlays to supplement ongoing road maintenance. Funding of $600,000 is to be added to last year's $1.8 million for renovation of the original library building, for a total of $2.4 million for the project. Other recommended projects proj-ects include: renovation of Fire Station 2, $400,000; additional funding for the new Public Works facility, $400,000; replacing street lights in expired districts, $300,000; UTOPIA trust funds (bond guarantee), $250,000; and intersection signal at 1200 West 400 South, $250,000. Funds from the one-tenth of one percent Cultural Arts and Recreation Enhancement tax, assessed by the city beginning be-ginning April 1, 2006, will be allocated by the Orem City Council after a study on the use of the funds is completed. Unfunded "challenges for the future" include the relocation relo-cation of the city attorney's offices from the 4th Circuit Court building when the lease expires in six years, and the construction and staffing of an additional fire station. Rohbock Continued from Page 1 said with a laugh. She is part of the Guard's Outstanding Athlete program, pro-gram, which Brig. Gen. Bruce Frandsen said allows soldiers who have a specific athletic ability to develop it further and participate in the Olympics Olym-pics and other competitions. Rohbock is participating in the Guard's "Great Race" team this summer with a National Guardsman turned Olympian. "I FEEL LIKE A FISH WITH NO WATER." -JACOB. AGE 5 DESCRIBING ASTHMA r Vou know haw to ream to their aBthme attacks. Hare' how to prevent them l-866-NO-ATTACKS f VEM OWE ATTACK IS OWE TOD MAMV Ear mare information log onto www.noattaoks.org or call your doctor. Visit the obituaries online to sign a Guest Book or send flowers. 'Xf See the obituary section at www.hCTaldextra.com POOR C( |
