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Show BUILDING COMMUNITY IN OREM AND VINEYARD OremuMFS "A."' -PT L0T-C-016 StJi! I4TIQN 1 Fi sir. ioo 'JT 34124-1501 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2006 50 CENTS SCHOOLS: Local students make the honor roll TOWN HALL: Windsor Elem. celebrates 50 years SPORTS: Wolverine basketball poised to start Business BRING SOME MAGIC TO YOUR PAPER CRAFTS ondr trannspeMDODD fax pass Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFF Based on initial results from Tuesday's General Gen-eral Election, it appears there was widespread voter support for the Alpine School District's $230 million bond to pay for new schools. About two-thirds of voters in the Alpine School District cast their ballots in favor of the measure which will fund the construction and remodeling of district schools. . In Orem, an estimated $26 million will rebuild re-build Orem High School, $5.2 million will be used for an addition to Lakeridge Junior High School, $1.5 million will fund a renovation to Orem Junior High School, and $ 1 million will give Mountain View High School a new gymnasium. gym-nasium. Alpine Superintendent Vera Henshaw said the public's positive response to the school construction con-struction bond demonstrates continued support for public education. "The main thing it means is that the quality qual-ity of education for the student will be able to continue in the Alpine School District," he said. "Obviously we are very pleased with the support sup-port of our patrons. They've been supportive in the past and they continue to be." Doubt overshadowed the outcome of the bond in recent months when an Orem group called Friends of the Orem School District supporting sup-porting a split from the Alpine district made waves asserting the district was unresponsive to needs of district patrons in the city. Though the secession-minded group failed to get a measure on the Nov. 7 ballot asking voters whether Orem should form its own city school district, it actively campaigned in the last two weeks to defeat the bond. Dennis Lisonbee with Friends of the Orem School District said voters have spoken yet he believes the group's short campaign impacted the results. See ELECTION, Page 2 It's a happiness you can't describe. You are just so happy to see the smile on their face and see how grateful they are." , Marianne Acerson. KAREN'S DAUGHTER 2 Utah sisters taking Oprah s challenge Nikki Bohne NORTH COUNTY STAFF ne thousand dollars can go a long way, especially in Utah County. As audience members mem-bers on the Oprah show, two Utah sisters Karen Acerson and Ellen James received $1,000, a camera and a challenge to go home and make a difference in their community. Inspired by these two women, the Utah Valley community acted upon Oprah's challenge and became be-came eager to serve their neighbors neigh-bors and friends. In just one . week Oprah's money expanded from $1,000 dollars to approximately approxi-mately $9,300 including $1,000 from Tahitian Noni, a $2,800 chair lift, an all-you-can-eat meal for 20 at the Pizza Factory, season tickets tick-ets to Thanksgiving Point, materials materi-als to remodel a bathroom from Whitewater and more. ' ; "It was really hard to spend Oprah's money, because everyone wanted to donate," Acerson said. Acerson and James were required to film the progress of the projects proj-ects for Oprah's challenge. Their tape was sent in Monday and could possibly air on the Oprah show in a few weeks. '. Five families were the benefactors benefac-tors of Oprah's challenge. Two women with physical disabilities were given a chair lift from Peterson Peter-son Medical to help them get up and down the stairs. A family of 20 children, many of whom are adopted and a few who suffer from disabilities, had an all-you-can-eat meal at Pizza Factory, movie tickets, and re-. ceived money for Christmas presents. pres-ents. Five hundred dollars was given to Roseanne Gunther, who heads up many service projects including includ-ing a humanitarian project in Africa. Af-rica. This money will assist in her weekly efforts to make clothes, quilts and other projects for those in third world countries. One household, in which the father fa-ther is serving in Iraq, will finally get to finish building their stairs. And Vasanti Dusara will have a shower for her two handicapped childrea The Dusaras were "heart-attacked" by the Acerson and Jones families, who placed paper hearts on the family's front lawn Sunday afternooa A large crowd was gathered to watch as she received her gifts meals, towels, a few hundred dollars for Christmas, movie tickets tick-ets and a new bathroom. . Dusara's daughter, Salani, was born handicapped and her son Mehul was hit by a car while crossing State Street. Salini received re-ceived some clothes and socks and Mehul, a die-hard Cougar fan, received BYU paraphernalia to wear at the football games. i r F t t c ft , if?. in Vs.! JEREMY HARMONDaily Herald Karen Acerson recently received $1000 and a video camera from the Oprah Winfrey show along with the challenge to do something positive in her community. Since that time, Acerson has received See SISTERS, Page 2 donations from local people to help with her project. Library branch closing as remodel nears finish Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFF With the $1.8 million remodel of the Orem Public Library nearing completion, library officials will be dismantling the temporary University Uni-versity Mall branch over the next few weeks and returning collections collec-tions to the main library. '. For the past six months, the Orem library's south wing, including includ-ing its mezzanine, main floor and basement levels, have undergone a major modernization and seismic seis-mic refit. When the south wing reopens in January, it will have a new brighter interior featuring new ceilings, lighting and seating. The building was basically gutted. The beautiful brick is still there, but top to bottom, every thing else is new," said Louise Wallace, the library's director. In order to keep the collections housed in the south wing available to the public during the construction, construc-tion, which began on Memorial Day, library staff and scores of volunteers moved the books to the branch set up at the University Univer-sity MaL For that reason alone it was worth operating the library's temporary satellite location, Wallace Wal-lace said. Staffers and volunteers began moving some of the materials from the branch back to the main library earlier this week. The branch's last day will be Monday. Construction on the library remodel re-model is expected to be finished in mid- to late December. "It was very successful in that it gave us a place to put that part of the collection," she said. "Otherwise "Oth-erwise it would have had to go in deep storage." Meg Spencer, acting manager at the Orem library's University Mall branch, said the non-traditional location helped introduce the library to new audiences; 441 new library cards were issued at the branch between June and October. An estimated 12,287 patrons visited the mall branch in its brief run, during which there were 7,500 material checkouts. Patrons at the branch enjoyed a summer filled with special programs, book readings and performing arts presentations. pre-sentations. "It was great to explain to them what we're doing and what we're about," she said. The Orem library branch didn't break any usage records in its short existence, but it wasn't intended in-tended to. If anything, Wallace said library li-brary staff learned there likely won't ever be a future permanent branch of the library in brick-and-mortar form. Much more likely is an electronic branch where the library's collections and materials materi-als can be accessed by the public online. "I'm convinced the best option op-tion is to create a library without walls," she said, adding that the experience with the temporary branch "sort of confirmed" future expansion ideas staff have See LIBRARY, Page 2 Community Briefing CATHY ALLREDNorth County The election encoder would not reset the election card so voters could vote earlier on Tuesday. The election machine would only allow one vote per card unless it was reset. ALLOCATING FUNDS TO CARE - Sailing the uncharted un-charted waters of allocating the new CARE (Cultural Arts and Recreation Enrichment) tax funds is a challenging chal-lenging voyage the Orem City Council has begun. "This is daunting, because it is so new to us," said Mayor Jerry Washburn at the conclusion of a five-hour five-hour City Council retreat Nov. 7, during which issues related to the allocation process were discussed and the city's Cultural Arts Strategic Plan reviewed. "We have never done anything like this before." Earlier in the meeting, held in a conference room In the newly-remodeled Fitness Center, City Manager Jim Reams told the council members he did not think they would get the answers to all of their questions until they have actually gone through their first allocation alloca-tion process. The one-tenth of one percent sales and use tax increase was approved by a majority of Orem voters a year ago, and went into effect on April 1 of this year. It is estimated the tax will bring in about $1.6 million annually an-nually during the eight-year time period it is in effect By law, the funds are to be used for publicly-owned recreational and cultural facilities and private nonprofit non-profit cultural organizations in Orem. City Council members hammered out a preliminary prelimi-nary time line Tuesday, as well as a list of tasks for themselves. The group plans to meet separately with both the Cultural Arts Advisory Commission, who put together the Cultural Arts Strategic Plan, and the Recreation Rec-reation Advisory Commission, to counsel with both bodies and inform them of council plans. Consensus seemed to be that the City Council itself it-self will accept and review applications for CARE tax funds, and will appoint a Cultural Arts Council to replace re-place the Cultural Arts Advisory Commission. The Cultural Arts Council may be asked to assist in determining criteria to be used in the application and allocation process, and has a list of other duties outlined out-lined in the strategic plan. The City Council ultimately decides how the funds are dispersed. Tentative dates for the allocation process include: Feb. 27, adopt an application plan; March 1, begin receiving applications; April 1, deadline to submit applications; month of April, council work sessions to review applications; May 1, allocation process concludes; con-cludes; May 8, final public nearing on CARE tax distribution; distri-bution; and July 1, fund appropriations begin. "It's going to be a lot of work," said Mayor Washburn. Wash-burn. Reva Bowen, North County POLITICAL MOVIE DISCUSSION AND "FABLE-HAVEN" "FABLE-HAVEN" AUTHOR VISIT THIS MONTH AT OREM PUBLIC LIBRARY - With November being a month of politicians anrt votes, the library welcomes Brigham Young University professor Dean Duncan will lead a discussion on "Politicized Films" Friday at 7 p.m. in the media auditorium. On Tuesday, Nov. 14, Brandon Mull, author of the new fantasy novel "Fablehaven" will meet with fans in the media auditorium at 7 p.m. THE BIG FIX The Big Fix on Tour, a mobile spay and neuter clinic, will be serving the north Utah County Coun-ty area on Nov. 21 at the North Utah Valley Animal Shelter, 193 N. 2000 West, Lindon. Operated on a first come, first served basis, intake begins at 8 a.m. until openings are full. Microchipping and vaccinations are available to anyone while the veterinarian vet-erinarian is on the premises with a $5 processing fee for vaccinations only. Vaccinations are $10 for rabies, $10 for cat leukemia, $10 for cat distemper, $10 for dog distemper, $20 for dog microchip and $12 for cat microchip. More information on the Best Friends Animal Ani-mal Society-sponsored program is available at www. utahpets.org or by calling 1-866-PETS FIX. 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