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Show OREM GENEVA TIMES Thursday. June 1, 2006 $ ! ; Page 2 NEWS AND rjOTES Tom boy crowned Orem's pageant queen Reva Bowen Newly -crowned Miss Orem Ashley Boulter said she was so shy growing up that she would pay her little brothers to make phone calls for her. That and her athletics-oriented "torn boy" background made her decision to enter the world of programs and pageants a definite surprise to her family and friends. "If you had told me four years ago that Ashley would have ever done this, I probably would have laughed at you," said her mother, TruAnn Boulter. "But we're excited for her to represent repre-sent (Jrem. She loves (ktm." Ashley's father is Rock Boulter. Ashley hits experience representing repre-senting her city and state. In 2004, she was selected as Orem's Junior Miss lYogram representative, represen-tative, and went on to be named Utah's Junior Miss in 2005 and finished in the top 15 nationally. She credits the Junior Miss Program Pro-gram with helping her become more outgoing. "I'm no longer shy," Ashley said. "I've learned to have an opinion. It's been quite a journey, jour-ney, tageants and programs have changed my life." Serving along with Boulter in the Miss Orem royalty are: Naomi Bridges, first attendant, daughter of Kuthanne and Joel Bridges; BreAnne Tipijets, second sec-ond attendant, daughter of Wendy Wen-dy and Mark Tippets; Danielle Murphy, third attendant, daughter daugh-ter of Dianne and Dan Murphy; and Tiffany Millard, fourth attendant, at-tendant, daughter of Donna and Kenneth Millard. for her pageant talent num-tT, num-tT, Ashley performed a violin solo, "Zigeunerweisen," by composer Sara Sate. She just completed her freshman year at Bngham Young University, where she is majoring in violin performance and is a member of the Hiilliarmonic Orchestra. She hopes to earn a master's degree to teach violin at the university level, and to perform profession- Fundraiser Continued from Page 1 students meeting their reading goals Emergency preparedness kits for each classroom were also recent purchases. With the funds generated by the walk-a-thon, Ashcraft hopes the IT A can continue current programs and activities for kids while still saving for other needs. "We're desperately in need of some new playground equipment." equip-ment." she said NorthCounty WSPAPERS Yf) 'jUu.. j . 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Inc Mambar: Audn Buraau erf Orcutatuns TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED Winners of the Miss Orem pageant are, left to right, third attendant Danielle Murphy, second attendant Ashley Boulter, first attendant Naomi Bridges and fourth attendant Tiff any Millard. ally. Ashley's background in music mu-sic ties in with her advocacy platform and service involvement involve-ment promoting music education in the schools. From January to April of this year, she volunteered weekly at a middle school in Provo, interacting interact-ing with students and seeing firsthand "the joy they receive from music." Ashley has given presentations presenta-tions to teachers and future teachers on the benefits of music education, which she said include in-clude increased math and reading read-ing skilLs, better rote memory, District Continued from Page 1 eled buildings. "As is always the case in these situations, citizens who have been here a long time end up subsidizing new schools, usually that they do not benefit ben-efit from," Carpenter said. Councilman Eric Anthony attributed the sudden popularity popular-ity of the idea to years of pent-up pent-up frustration at difficulties within the huge Alpine School Phone: 756-7GG9 Fax: 756-5274 DilLT HERALD PUBLISHING OO. Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager Chris Peterson 344 2556 DesignerCopy Editor Casey Rogers 344 -2570 DesignerCopy Editor Rachel Rybicki 344 2558 DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344 2545 Photographer Off '( 111 -v, i' 1 1 if r -1 h improved hand-eye coordination, coordina-tion, and greater self-confidence. At BYU, Boulter lived in the dorms and followed a rigorous schedule of class time, studying, practicing, attending orchestra, working at the bookstore, doing do-ing homework, and practicing some more. She also found time to play intramural soccer and basketball, and to have a social life. "You make time for fun," she smiled. Roommates would tease her because she was sometimes up at 2:30 a.m. exercising doing pilates or jumping rope in the kitchen. "I don't sleep much," District, which encompasses all of Utah County, from Orem north to the Salt Lake County line and serves about 70,000 students. The number of people peo-ple who have contacted him in favor of the idea is indicative of that, he said. "On the other hand, most of the citizens who contacted me also had already drawn their own conclusions that they wanted to be part of a new school district," he said. "I think it's something that's been going on for quite a Last year's . he gift was intended t r for my wife, but it has a L ended up being for I ?; the birds. 'f' Sharon's birthday comes in the spring. I always want to surprise her, but that is very difficult. Either she has given me covert directions, very subtle hints a couple of months earlier, or she doesn't really care. I get points for picking up the hints. But I get bigger points if I can surprise. sur-prise. Last year, I surprised her with a bird feeder for our back yard. Over the last year, we've learned a bit about the art of feeding freeloading birds. I started with a combination seed that I thought looked pretty. We filled the feeder, hung it up, and, for days, nothing happened. Then an occasional bird would drop by. I'd been hoping for so much more. Then my son-in-law, who is from England where I guess people care more about birds, told me to get rid of the combination seed and fill the feeder with black oil sunflower seeds. That, he said, is what the birds liked the best. He was right. The bird diner was fairly busy last autumn, and very busy in the winter. At times we counted count-ed upwards of 20 birds in our backyard all vying vy-ing for a fat-filled sunflower seed. Even during heavy snow storms, the bird feeder had customers most of them small and gray, although some (the males) had red heads and throats. After a little research on the Internet, we learned this was the Cassin's Finch. They are fairly common. We also attracted a few large, blue and gray birds with black beaks, which we found out are the Western Scrub-Jay. The Scrub-Jays would come in one at a time, soaring into the back yard and scaring away all the other birds, and then land on the bird feeder even though they were too large. After eating a couple of seeds, the bird would soar off again, and the smaller birds would go back to eating. We liked the jays, even though they were bul- she admitted. "I was always the first one up and last to go to bed." If she does have an unscheduled unsched-uled moment, Ashley enjoys hiking, playing sports, or taking a book outside to read. She especially espe-cially likes "the classics" and authors Jane Austen and Alexandre Alex-andre Dumas. The Miss Orem royalty will be a part of the upcoming Summer-fest Summer-fest celebration performing in the large pavilion at City Center Park at about 3:30 on Saturday, June 10, then riding on a float in the parade that evening a dream come true for Ashley. while." That kind of decision-making is a luxury the city officials of-ficials don't have, he warned, which is why they need to withhold all judgments until the feasibility study is completed. com-pleted. The residents may be able to jump ahead of the study; the council cannot. "I think adding facts to a process is critical so we're not simply driven by emotional bias that can come and go depending on the flavor of the month," he said. "These facts gift keeps Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMM W JENNIFER CHRISTENSENNorth County BreAnne Tippets, Miss Orem "Ever since I was a little girl, I have seen Miss Orem on the floats with the girls wearing beautiful dresses and looking like princesses. It was always my dream,"' she said. CjTY BRIEFS I Debtors Anonymous to meet The Orem Chapter of Debtors Debt-ors Anonymous meets from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at the Seville at 325 West Center Street in Orem each Sunday evening. For more information, contact Sue at 225-4303. 225-4303. will really help us to make a sound decision that will impact us for 30 to 40 years, maybe." Lindon is the first city to formally get on board with Orem. Orem's council voted last week to do the feasibility feasibil-ity study, two weeks after residents filled the council chambers asking the city to consider a law passed in the 2006 legislative session allowing al-lowing cities to create school districts, not just counties as previously allowed. on giving lies. They left for the winter, and have been back only a few times. I'm sure we'll see more of them. We've had other birds, even an odd pigeon now and then. But the finches have been the mainstay. Right now they are emptying the feeder almost twice a day, and at any time there are 10 to 20 birds hanging out. Watching them compete with each other for space in the feeder is a source of daily enjoyment. You know you are hooked when you buy birdseed bird-seed by the 40-pound bag from IFA. We took the new interest on the road for Memorial Day, driving 90 miles north to Brigham City to visit the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. Beky Beaton, our sports editor, had recommended the trip, and it seemed like a good way to spend part of our holiday. We were amazed. The 74,000-acre refuge, which was created 75 years ago, is on the north end of Willard Bay, but we didn't expect to find so much fresh water, and so many birds. In about an hour and a half, we saw flocks of pelicans and pairs of herons, and watched a bird dive-bomb into the water looking for fish. All in all, during a very brief visit, we counted 20 different kinds of birds. We did not get to see the new Wildlife Education Educa-tion Center, which was opened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service earlier this year because it was closed for the holiday. But we did venture into the refuge on the gravel road there, and made the 12-mile auto tour loop that takes you into the refuge. Along with a handful of other visitors, we made the slow loop, stopping when we wanted to spend more time looking. There are a couple of observation obser-vation platforms available as well. It was a great day trip, and a good way to see birds in the wild. Next time we're taking the bikes, lunch, a camera, a birding book and a grandkid or two. New adventures come at us from the oddest places some times. What was at first a gift of whimsy has become a source of daily enjoyment. enjoy-ment. You can't score many more points than that. Luke Continued from Page 1 Dee Winterton said you can do I both," she said. "I said Wow, I j can dance and sing at the same time.' I was pretty naive" K Luke briefly attended Brigham Young University before heading to New York City to hone her artistry in various off-Broadway productions, pro-ductions, or what she refers to as the "university of hard knocks." Yet she returned to Utah each summer to participate partici-pate in the Sundance Summer Theater, a professional association as-sociation she maintained for 27 years as an actress, choreographer chore-ographer and artistic director. She finished her bachelor's degree at BYU before earning a master's degree in musical theater direction from the University Uni-versity of Utah. For more than four decades, Luke, 55, who lives in Salt Lake City, has been involved in nearly five theater productions produc-tions a year including stints at the SCERA Center for the Arts and the Hale Center Theater The-ater Orem. She's also worked with the Salt Lake Acting Company and Pioneer Theater Company. "Two hundred plays is a really re-ally interesting way to explore life," she said. "Sometimes it is a lot of fun, but not always." Luke says her favorite role was playing Anita in "West Side Story," a part she's played five times. She considers consid-ers Tennessee Williams her favorite American playwright, and though she's performed many of the female roles in his plays, she has yet to land the lead role in Williams's "The Glass Menagerie." "Before I die I want to play Amanda," Luke said. Williams's poignant and well-crafted female characters have always appealed to Luke. "He defines women so completely," com-pletely," she said In February, Luke was honored as the recipient of the SCERA Center for the Arts's 2006 Star Award for Theater. Though she was unable to attend at-tend the awards banquet due to a production commitment, the SCERA Center filmed her acceptance speech "1 thought it was really cool that was articulate," she said. Adam Robertson, president of the SCERA Center, said the awards committee felt with all Luke's work at the Sundance Summer Theater and on stage in Utah and Salt Lake counties, "she was certainly deserving and worthy of that recogni-tioa" recogni-tioa" Though several individuals were recommended for the accolade, ac-colade, Luke "was the one that kind of stuck out in everyone's minds," Robertson said Jerry Elison, longtime Orem High drama teacher, received SCERA's overall 2006 Star Award and is a close friend of Luke. He said they met through Winterton when they were both involved in a production at Lagoon decades ago. "She is very talented a wonderful won-derful performer and a great person," he said Elison admires Luke's organizational orga-nizational skills, creativity and her empathy and compassion for others. "She's very aware of people and their concerns and feelings," feel-ings," he said Luke says Elison has been her greatest influence in the performing arts and calls him her "Mr. Orem Theater." "He always reminds me that the best theater is theater done out of love," she said Apparently the lesson was well-taught. Aside from her performances, gardening and adoration of former Utah Jazz guard John Stockton (he and Tennessee Williams share the same March 26 birthday, she says), Luke has taken her ability abil-ity to entertain and put smiles on people's faces to a different differ-ent stage. She and two friends perform plays at senior centers cen-ters and retirement homes for those who for various reasons can no longer get out to the theater. The short plays focus on issues of elderly residents and are very funny, Luke said "I always felt strongly that that generation loved live theater," the-ater," she said "I wanted to take it to them." Though Utah County is no longer home, Luke savors opportunities op-portunities like the Hale Center Cen-ter Theater Orem's production of The Spitfire Grill" to come back to entertain performing arts patrons in Happy Valley, "I've always felt the people of Utah County are wonderful wonder-ful audiences who love the live arts and support it generously," gener-ously," she said The Spitfire Grill runs through July 10 at the Hale Center Theater Orem. i j I , I. hi K t QOR |