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Show BUILDING COMMUNITY IN OREM AND VINEYARD Orem EDITION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2006 50 CENTS Times SCHOOLS: Elementary kids love to recycle TOVVflHALL: Drem tells a wild tale SPORTS: Qwlz begin road to third championship BUSINESS LOWE'S DONATES TREES, SWEAT TO SCHOOL ixixi JJXuA wk 1 -JK-. - '- " - v7 i f i 1 S L.Z c Utah National Guard Li Col. Greg Hadfield, lift, commander of the 141st Military Intelligence Battalion, has his blood drawn by his brother, Spc. Scott Hadfield of the Utah National Guard Medical Command, during readiness processing at Camp Williams. 0 now National Guard unit based in Orem prepares for tour in Iraq Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAff Nearly three months from now, elements of the Utah Army National Guard's 141st Military Intelligence Battalioa based in Orem, will be boots on the ground in Baghdad, Iraq. . Forty soldiers with the 141st, whose specialty is linguistics related military intelligence, are preparing to leave Utah in early September for three months of stateside advanced training before be-fore traveling to Iraq, said Maj. Hank Mclntire, spokesman for the Utah National Guard. Two of the linguistic experts being deployed to Iraq, Sgt. Ryan Haynes and Pfc. Andrew Murray, reside in Orem, Mclntire said. All 40 soldiers went through soldier readiness processing essentially making sure each Guardsman's medical, financial and legal affairs are in order on Aug. 26 at Camp Williams near Lehi. Lt. CoL Greg Hadfield, commander com-mander of the 141st since June, has previously been to Afghanistan Afghani-stan and just finished a four-year stint in Washington, D.C., at the Pentagon. His unit specializes in foreign languages, including 15 to 20 Middle Eastern, Pacific Rim and Eastern European tongues. "We're going to support the collection of intelligence currently going on in Iraq." he said. "We'll be attached to the multinational forces ... right in Baghdad." With the three months of advanced ad-vanced training and 12 months in Iraq, it's anticipated the troops' total deployment time will be 15 months. The initial 40 soldiers will form the vanguard of the battal- See IRAQ, Page 2 Women a pivotal part of Oram's fire crew Orem cracks down on speedsters by impounding their wheels Katie Ashton DAIiVHfftALD An ordinance enacted In Orem on May I to cut down on illegal street racing may be catching some lead-footed motor mo-tor wis off guard. Not only are police citing suspected speedsters, but un- -der the new law, they're also r impounding their cars. h Just ask 22-year-old Amber Evans who was driving down State Street on a Saturday night when someone abruptly cut her off. Upset, Evans said she began to speed up, to nearly 20 mph over the speed limit. Then, not only was she pulled over, but she was left standing on the side of the road as an Orem police po-lice officer impounded her car. Evans, who says she wasn't racing anyone when she was stopped Aug. 26, was driving her then-boyfriend'i car. After the vehicle was towed away, See SPEED, Page 2 Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTYSTAFF Flourishing in an occupation once dominated by men, female firefighters with the Orem Fire Division are every bit as enthusiastic enthusi-astic about their jobs as their male counterparts, Alaina Burg, 25, returned lust last week to Fire Station 3 after giving birth to her first baby, a girl earlier this summer. Just securing a spot with Orem was quite a feat for Burg, now a 5-year veteran of the division. She was the first full-time firefighterparamedic fire-fighterparamedic hired by the city. "It was fun,' she said. "I think they had a harder time than I did." A native of Payson, Burg initially initial-ly became enthralled with emergency emer-gency medicine through a neighbor neigh-bor who taught EMT classes. She volunteered to be a mock patient for the courses and was hooked Angela Kohl 32, one of Burg's co-workers, took another route into firefighting. Hired as an Orem emergency dispatcher In 1996, she went on mandatory ride-alongs with firefighters and realized she was working in the wrong field. "I knew I wanted to get out there on the floor and take care of things wfrh my hands," Kohl said. Orem firefighters must be certified certi-fied in both firefighting and as iwi4WWiilliW8l I nnr iO IE MIKE fUQERTNorth County Newspapers Angela Kohl used to work as a dispatcher, but decided she wanted to be a firefighter instead. paramedics. She earned her EMT and fire certifications and worked with the city for four years in fire prevention and as a paramedic prior to becoming a firefighter paramedic a year and a half ago. Kohl thrives on the spontaneity and fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants feeling that's inherent with the job. "It's never boring, never the same," she said. Burg calls it an adrenaline rush. She enjoys using her three years of training to help save people and adds that the schedule isn't bad either. ei-ther. Fire division staff only work 10 days a month, but the days are 24 hour shifts, and they work 240 hours a month compared to a typical typi-cal 160 hours. "I like the four days off every five days," Burg said. Yet both women were emphatic See FIREFIGHTERS, Page 2 Community Briefing GOLF TOURNAMENT RAISES FUNDS FOR TORI A charity golf tournament brought many people together to help a 16-year-old Orem girl and her family on Friday. Guaranteed Financial and HomeNet Real Estate Inc. held their fourth annual charity golf tournament at South Mountain Golf Club in Draper. Each year, the tournament helps a different charity. char-ity. This year all of the proceeds from the tournament will be donated do-nated to the Tori Schmanski Fund. Tori Schmanski, 16, sustained a traumatic brain injury on June 19, 2005. The vehicle that she was riding in with her sister Whitney and two cousins rolled two and a half times, landing upside down in a canal. Everyone except Tori was able to swim out of the vehicle. After 10-15 minutes underwater, an EMT team removed Tori. She was hospitalized for nine months, before going home in March. "The tournament was a success," said Erick Caver, owner of Guaranteed Financial. The event raised $7,000-$9,000 for the fund. According to Caver, this was a meaningful project to him because he has known Tori since she was 4 years old. A Web site, www.pray4Tori.com, was set up just after the accident by her father. The Web site contains daily updates, pictures, and communication between friends, family, and others. The site currently has more than 1,000 registered users. Other ways to donate to the Tori Schmanski fund Include logging onto the Web site and hitting the donations tab. From there, T-shirts, candles, stickers, and bracelets may be purchased. Donations can also be made at any Mountain America Credit Union in her name, Laura Giles Tori Schmanski 6 I 1 1 'I Friends gather around a poster for Tori Schmanski UNIVERSITY PARKWAY TO BE RESTRICTED Starting at 8 p.m. Saturday through 6 a.m. Monday, University Parkway will be restricted to one lane in each direction, from the freeway interchange to Geneva Ge-neva Road while construction crews work on the highway high-way bridge over the Union Pacific Railroad. Motorists should expect moderate travel delays. WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP - "Sugar and spice and everything nice?" Maybe not. Dr. Clyde C. Robinson will be the guest speaker for the September meeting of Women in Leadership. His topic will be MearV Is in the Sandbox. He will also address cyber bullywg. The meeting will be held Sept. 14 at the Provo Marriott, Mar-riott, 101 W. 100 North, and will begin with networking at 11:30 a.m. and the general meeting at noon. A soup and salad buffet is available for $8 and new members and guests are always welcome. Robinson is an associate professor of human development devel-opment at BYU where he has been teaching and doing research since 1990. Women in Leadership was established estab-lished in 1993 as a nonpartisan forum which explores current issues, and supports and prepares women for leadership in volunteer, appointed or elected positions on community, county or state levels. BARNES BULLETS LOOKING TO RELOCATE TO MONA - Barnes Bullets is looking to relocate in Mona, Juab County. The Lindon-based bullet manufacturer manu-facturer recently purchased 29 acres east of the freeway free-way in Mona. The business is proposing to bring 125 jobs to Juab County. Some of those jobs will go to workers already employed who will either travel to or move to Juab. And other new jobs will be open for county residents. Randy Brooks, owner and operator of Barnes Bullets, Bul-lets, has met with Mona City Council in an open meeting meet-ing to discuss the possibility of relocating to the area. Since that favorable meeting. Brooks and his wife have continued to work toward the goal of moving the plant to the area. In addition to manufacturing projectiles for bullets, the company has a contract with Thiokol to manufacture manu-facture bullets for the military. Barnes Bullets owners have indicated they plan to expand production from 100 million bullets to 300 million bullets a year. 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