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Show AN E D Z ,-r 1 YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 2006 50 CENTS TOWN HALL: Volunteers clean up resident's house SCHOOLS: flrera students attend Girls' Stale SPORTS: Owlz to kick oil another baseball season ft" BUSINESS RIDING LESSONS IN A NAY-BORLY FASHION CM mwmi approves $74 mil loom tadget Reva Bowen NORTH COUNTY STAFF The cost of a road a year-and-a-half ago is not the same as the cost of a road today. That was one of the issues facing the Orem City Council, which approved a $74 million Fiscal Year 2006-07 budget Tuesday. In a final budget presentation, Orem City Manager Jim Reams told the council that because of large increases in the prices of asphalt and contractor labor, the cost of road construction and reconstruction in the city is 33 percent more today than a year and a half ago. To meet the city's road bond obligations for projects like the Sandhill Road and 1600 North reconstructions, officials are turning to a $2 million supplement supple-ment from an estimated $4.1 million in excess funds from Fiscal Year 2006, plus another $900,000 in gas tax money to make up the gap. Orem's fiscally conservative policies, which include deliber ately underestimating revenues, have made the increased road money appropriations possible, Reams said. He recommended that the balance of the unanticipated unantici-pated revenues go to one-time projects, so that if there is an economic reversal, the city will not face layoffs and supply problems. Other proposed uses of onetime one-time money approved in the final fi-nal budget were: funding to renovate ren-ovate Fire Station 2, $400,000; See BUDGET, Page 2 Jt i2 U ROBB COSTELLO North County Travis Hodson, 18, at home in Orem on Tuesday, with one of the cars he made for his Eagle Project. Teen honored for his service to improve lives of children Michael Rigert DAILY HERALD Travis Hodson of Orem is 18, an Eagle Scout and just graduated from Timpanogos High School. Oh yeah, and he likes to help people. Hodson was one of 11 Utah kids recently honored by Kohl's department stores through its Kids Who Care scholarship program. Along with 1,500 other children nationwide, Hodson was recognized for his volunteer efforts with a $50 gift card and eligibility to win up to $5,000 in college scholarships. Last Christmas, Hodson led dozens of volunteers as part of his Eagle Scout project to finish wooden toy cars to be sent to needy children in Honduras. Suzanne Hodson said her son was seeking a cause that would help other kids when he heard about the cars constructed by Cedar City-based non-profit toy makers The Happy Factory from a friend. "He was trying to find something he felt good about," she said. Though The Happy Factory built the cars, Hodson trained the volunteers, including Scouts and the women's wom-en's organization from his LDS Church congregation to sand, stain and varnish the toys before shipping them and blankets to South America. See SERVICE, Page 2 Gunman scenario played out at Timp High Katie Schmitt DAILY HERALD The first shots that rang out in the Timpanogos High School hallway were followed by students' stu-dents' screams. The gunman gun-man emptied his weapon and reloaded, leaving the gun casings cas-ings on the ground around him. Provo, Orem and Brigham Young University SWAT team members moved in. This was the first time the team practiced an active ac-tive gunman training exercise in a school with students present. Students ran through the halls yelling out where they thought the shooter had gone. Some students were on the ground, calling for help. "Hands up. Get your hands up," SWAT members yelled to everyone every-one who approached. Students stopped and raised their hands, showing they were unarmed. They were patted down and told to exit the building as fast as they could. Methodically checking the classrooms, class-rooms, the team moved around the school in groups. A student crouched on the floor as they approached ap-proached his hiding place. As the SWAT team members shouted for him to show his hands he kept repeating, "He's back that way. Back that way." Then when gun shots sounded from a classroom, they moved as one to investigate. "Our suspect is down." Orem police Sgt John McCombs said the consolidated group called Metro SWAT trains once a month and it did this exercise because of national trends. "We've worked within schools before but never with students present," McCombs said. "We wanted to create a more realistic X. a- MARIO RUIZDaily Herald An officer pats down a student during a training exercise at Timpanogos High School Wednesday. Training for a coalition of Provo, Orem and BYU SWAT teams used the High School and students to train for an emergency school shooting situation. school environment." Students didn't mind volunteering. volun-teering. About 20 students were present to act as either wounded victims or frightened students running run-ning from a shooter. "It was pretty hectic," said Jeremy Jer-emy Hall, a sophomore at Timpanogos Tim-panogos High next year. "I was surprised when he came right out of the bathroom when 1 was only a few feet away and shot twice." Mike Browning, assistant principal at Timpanogos, said students are checked by teachers for weapons, and students themselves them-selves are encouraged to report anything suspicion. "When you have 1.500 students, stu-dents, it makes it a challenge to be everywhere at one time," Browning said. "I would hope something like this didn't happen but that's why we train." Browning said if a situation happened, teachers are instructed instruct-ed to lock down the classroom and not let anyone in. But parent s are a different story. "In this day and age when everyone ev-eryone has a cefl phone you might have parents responding faster than we are," McCombs said "It's always a concern." Browning said they work closely with the PTSA to prepare parents. "We want to let the parents know we are concerned and we do have training here," Browning said. CommuoityBriefing CONSTRUCTION UPDATES ON OREM'S WEB SITE - Citizens who are computer-savvy now have an "in1" .to access information on construction projects proj-ects taking place in Orem. City engineer Ed Gifford gave a presentation at the June 13 Orem City f Council meeting on the city's posting of construction updates on res internet weD site www.orem.org. Gifford saidithat the Internet postings are a. "quick way" for citizens to get infor- mation on construction around the city or a capital improvement project going on in their neighborhood. He also said each project has a manager man-ager or designer, and individuals can e-mail their concerns to those overseeing the projects. "We're trying to give the quick answers an-swers people want," Gifford said. OREM JR. MISS PAGEANT JUNE 22 "This Is My Time to Shine" will be the theme as 11 young women from high schools in Orem take the stage at Utah Valley State College's Ragan Theatre June 22 at 7 p.m. for the Junior Miss Scholarship Program. Tickets may be purchased at the door or from the contestants. con-testants. This year's contestants include: Michelle Mi-chelle Peterson, daughter of Terry and Sherry Peterson; Tawny Christensen, daughter of Will and Kristen Christensen; Heather Hansen, daughter of Gayle Hansen and the late Steve Hansen; Julia McDougal, daughter of David and Karrie McDougal; Jennica Ostler, daughter of Brad Ostler; Jennifer Farmer, daughter of Larry and Katie Farmer; (Crystal Millard, Mil-lard, daughter of Ken and Donna Millard; Dominique (Nikki) Stay, daughter of Tim and Dalita Stay; Staisha Stratton, daughter daugh-ter of Keven and Laurie Stratton; Rachael Andersen, daughter of David and Kerry Andersen; and Vanessa Martins, daughter daugh-ter of Ori and Monica Martins. Last year's co-winners, Ashley Sargeant, Dulce (Betty) Boucher, and Re becca Bowen, will be featured in Thursday Thurs-day night's program, along with Ashley Boulter, Orem's Junior Miss in 2004 who went on to claim the state title in 2005. Boulter was also recently named Miss Orem. OREM MULLS UPDATES TO CITY NOISE ORDINANCE - After residents-complaints residents-complaints of noise from early morning construction and loud music the Orem City Council is looking at tweaking its noise law. The council discussed proposed changes at a recent meeting. Mike Larson, chief of the department of public safety in Orem, said most complaints com-plaints he receives are because of construction con-struction noise before 7 a.m. and loud music from neighbors. The ordinance now states that construction con-struction work in or adjacent to a residential residen-tial area between 10:30 p.m. and 7 a.m. is considered disturbing the peace. Several options are being studied, in cluding changing the type of noise ordinance. ordi-nance. Three types were discussed. The first is based on a reasonable person per-son standard. This ordinance is flexible but has no specific limit on noise. Another option is the decibel standard, stan-dard, which has an exact decibel level enforced. If noise reaches above the decibel level, officers could be called in to restore the peace. The final option would be a hybrid of the two in the same ordinance. ROAD WIDEN1NGS STIR UP LINDON RESIDENTS Several Lindon residents lashed out during the city council meeting meet-ing June 6 in what City Recorder Debbie Cullimore called "one of the most atypical, atypi-cal, and emotional meetings the council had ever held." At issue was the list of city streets that would received priority funding for widening wid-ening in the upcoming city budget. The proposed budget for fiscal year 2006- 2007 was the subject of a public hearing at the meeting. Council members will consider the list in public hearing on Tuesday, June 20, where the budget will be finalized. Interested residents can attend the meeting in the Lindon City Center Council Coun-cil Chambers at 100 N. State St. at 7 p.m. Residents also argued whether the streets should be equipped with curb and gutter instead of simply being widened. In last week's public hearing, Council member Toby Bath repeatedly stated that the road that would receive the most priority for reconstruction would be 200 East but several of the half dozen residents who attended the meeting disagreed dis-agreed with that choice. l61055 0005011'1 8 rr ans ?--rW .iJsvr- 'Wit 9 Tir Mi u |