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Show 1 Page 2 0 R E M TIMES Thursday, November 9, 2006 i imnimliiiiTIi i NEWS -AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU BIRTHDAY BASH 14. S Shane Fisher competes in the pie - Mr, i'isher was not the winner Students, Reva Bowen M'j!'!m ' OIINTY SIAfl Hundreds of current and former students, parents, staff members, teachers, and administrators admin-istrators turned out Tuesday night to celebrate the 50th anniversary an-niversary of Orem's Windsor Klementary Sch(xl. Keynote speaker was Orem native and former Brigham Young University football coach liVell Edwards, whose father, Philo T. Edwards, then a schxl board vice-president, was one of the speakers at the Election Continued from Page 1 "I think it would have passed at a higher rate," he said. Voters also overwhelming approved a quarter-cent sales tax increase that will help finance fi-nance commuter rail and road construction in Utah County. With all precincts reporting. NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS ' 399 F. 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Ofm, Utah 84(K9-oub6 Putshed I hufjdey by Lee PuDkcaiio. which a (vxi ol Lee riWfpftte, Inc Member: Audit Bureau ol Ctrcmalionfl ,A MELISSA FARQODaily Herald eating contest at Windsor Elementary School's "5(Vs" party in Orem on Monday. Windsor is celebrating it's 50th anniversary. of the pie content but said, "anything to embarrass my kids would be great." community celebrate Windsor's 50th Windsor dedicatory services held exactly 50 years ago, on Nov. 7, 1956. Edwards said that one of the strengths of the local schools is the degree of community involvement in-volvement they enjoy. He said he and his wife, Patti, served a church mission in New York, and one of their assignments was to work with an elementary elementa-ry sch(xl in Manhattan, where the issue of how to increase community participation was paramount. "The strength of Windsor for the next 50 years is going support for the tax hike totaled 69 percent for the levy that is expected to raise $1.6 billion through 2040. Utah County Commissioner Steve White, who easily won his reelection bid by defeating challenger Joseph Brierley, said the measure's time had come. "Four years ago, it would've failed by the same margin it Phone: 7D6-7669 Fax:756-5274 V D4ILT HERALD PUBLISHIMO OO. Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager Erin Stewart 344 2558 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Julia Fullmer 3442570 DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344 2585 Photographer Issue 45 4r$t INFORMED AND' v of to be measured by the community com-munity involvement," Edwards said, encouraging audience members to build on the tradition tradi-tion established in the past. "Tradition is not something you get easily. You have to work for it." Edwards also said one of the best traits that can be passed on to students is "a great attitude." at-titude." "The key to success in any endeavor is not how fast we run or how smart we are, but what we do with what we have how we think, and the passed by," he said. "It took us getting to complete gridlock on 1-15, requiring us to add that fourth lane, showing what that result would do." In state legislative races, Margaret Dayton won reelection reelec-tion in state Senate District 15 by a landslide by garnering nearly 69 percent of the vote. Dayton said she will continue contin-ue to support the Constitution -' ' ''. ".'',''' " ' Times change, but should we? It's not that many years ago that the sight of a young man carrying a shotgun to a friend's house the day before be-fore the pheasant hunt wouldn't have raised an eyebrow. After all, there was plentiful pheasant pheas-ant hunting nearby, both to the north (now Traverse Ridge, SunCrest and IM Flash Technologies) and to the west in Cedar Valley (now Eagle Mountain), and the hunt was a way of life in Lehi and other communities. That world is gone. Now the sight of a young man carrying car-rying a rifle evokes the horrors of Columbine, and the recent shootings at a small school in peaceful Lancaster County, Penn., where five Amish girls died seaselessly. Now that sight mobilizes the SWAT team, the most potent unit of the local police department, and locks down schools, disrupting disrupt-ing the lives of the children inside and their parents waiting anxiously outside as officers carrying rifles and, wearing body armor, put countless hours of training to use, only to learn they are tracking a dumb kid who thought he could carry his shotgun to his friend's house without a fuss. But none of the parents were crying "over-reaction." "over-reaction." The cliche of the day was simple: "Better safe than sorry." In fact, that's become a mantra of sorts. Last year I had a most unusual call from a mother concerned about a junior high school honor roll. She wasn't calling to see if the honor roll had appeared in the newspaper. She just wanted to make sure her daughter's name was removed from the list before it appeared in public. "Everybody who needs to know she is on the honor roll already knows," she told me. "I just don't want someone out there to learn her name." It was as if she thought some sexual predator preda-tor was going to peruse the pages of the Lehi Free Press or the Pleasant Grove Review, latch onto the honor roll and then pick a name out of the hundred-plus printed there and then find out where that girl lived and prey upon her. INVOLVED attitude we have," said the former for-mer coach, "We can't always control what happens to us, but we can control our attitude about it." Sharing their memories were long-time Windsor secretary secre-tary Peggy Jorgenson and former for-mer principals Stephen Cher-rington Cher-rington and Gareth Seastrand. Dr. Mark Pew, the current principal, gave a history of the school. Boy Scout Troops 59627 participated in the posting of the colors. Windsor second and third graders sang a patriotic and conservative values such as limited government and family-friendly policies. "I will continue with the same agenda that I have had in the House for the past two years," she said. In local state House races, Orem City Councilman Stephen Ste-phen Sandstrom handily bested Edward McGarr in District 58 with 71 percent of the vote. Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN Sh r' J medley, and sixth graders sang rock and roll hits from the 1950s. A "Windsor Through the Years" video presentation was shown. Monday night approximately approxi-mately 1,000 people attended a 1950s-era sock hop at the school that was also part of the 50th birthday celebration. "It's very evident," said Dr. Pew in closing remarks, "that Windsor is a group of people. That's what brings us together." In House District 59, Lorie Fowlke won a landslide victory against challenger Russ Zimmerman Zim-merman with nearly 85 percent of the vote while Brad Daw " defeated opponents Edward Lalone and Scott Swain with 73 percent of the vote. Keith Grover eliminated challengers challeng-ers Susan Chasson and Steve Saunders in House District 61 with 67 percent of the vote. I wanted to tell the woman that if her daughter was going to be victimized, odds are very good that she already knows the person who might do it. Instead I told her I would expunge her daughter's name from our very public list and left it at that. I've been running honor rolls in weekly newspapers since 1976, and no one's ever asked to have a name taken off the list before, but better safe than sorry, I guess. It isn't just our schools either. Just this week a group has recommended recom-mended that parents not announce the birth of a baby. No more pink paper storks posted on the front door proclaiming "It's a girL" Those announcements are just an invitation for someone to knock on your door, talk their way into your living room and steal your baby. Laws that limit access to medical information have already killed the baby lists that used to be a popular part of our newspapers. Now you can't make private announcements either. I know babies are stolen, and young women are victimized and disturbed people take guns into schools where they wreak mayhem. And I know we need to protect ourselves from these people. But it's sad to see that the people who will do these kinds of things have us so fearful that we have to lock our doors, hide the existence of our children from the public and not share the news of a new baby with our neighbors. In the last few weeks we've had bomb threats phoned in to the Macey's in Pleasant Grove, Orem City Hall and the Utah Valley Regional Re-gional Medical Center. In each case, these were false alarms they almost always are. In these cases the authorities have no choice but to take the threat seriously. The same is true when someone is seen toting a rifle near a school. But there's a point where being "Better safe than sorry" might not be better, after all. Especially Es-pecially if it leaves us cowering in our family rooms with the shades drawn. Library Continued from Page 1 previously discussed Due to short construction delays resulting from asbestos asbes-tos removal and retrofitting a building that's over 40 years old, Richard Manning, assistant city manager and the project's manager, said the city has had to dip into the remodel's built-in contingency contin-gency fund, which totals 10 percent of the overall project. Construction crews are working on the ceiling grid, finishing installation of the new elevator and preparing to put in the new light fixtures, fix-tures, he said. "It's coming right along, but it's still very much a construction con-struction site," Manning said. When completed, the Orem library's nonfiction collection will be contained in the main and mezzanine levels of the south wing, while the entire fiction collection col-lection will be housed in the remodeled basement level. The main floor will also have a room dedicated for use by library and community book discussion groups. The south wing's oak study tables will have data and power inputs for laptop computers. Internet usage, which has been unavailable during the construction phase, will also be restored. "I think the public will be very happy with the new south wing and especially our children's collection users us-ers will be happy with the new open space of the beautiful beauti-ful wing," Wallace said. "I think everyone is looking forward to that." One of the busiest libraries in the nation, the Orem Public Library has 95,000 card holders hold-ers and has an annual cir- , culation of 1.2 million items. The library has a total collection collec-tion of 280,000 books, maps and multimedia and has an annual collection acquisition budget of $284,000. Groups or individuals interested in volunteering their time to help move or reorganize library materials Nov. 20-22 and other dates in November and December should contact library Volunteer Vol-unteer coordinator Sharon Kresge at 229-7388. Sisters Continued from Page 1 "I would be a pompom girl if I didn't have so much hair on my legs," said Me-hul. Me-hul. Neighbors and friends of the Dusaras said one of the most admirable traits of this family is their positive attitude, despite their afflictions. afflic-tions. "I am so impressed with the Dusara family," said Karen Heiss, a friend of both the Dusaras and Ac-ersons, Ac-ersons, "Vasanti never complains, even though her situation is difficult." Karen Heiss and her husband hus-band Reid, who have written writ-ten a book about the Dusara family, have made several attempts to improve the life of this family and are excited ex-cited to finally have the opportunity op-portunity to take action. "I am glad to be able to do something in a big way," Heiss said. "Thanks to Oprah's challenge they will have a shower and other neighbors and friends are going to make it possible to redo their entire bathroom." These service projects not only changed the lives of the recipients of the donations, dona-tions, but those who participated partici-pated as well. "It is like no other thing you can ever feel," said Marianne Acerson, Karen's daughter. "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." Acerson learned a similar lesson. "I don't think it has " changed how I feel, but " it has reaffirmed that my Heavenly Father watches over everything and that he uses us to make miracles happen," Acerson said. "It has opened my eyes to how so many people struggle with so many challenges ' and it has been fun to realize real-ize how generous the community com-munity is." Acerson received the Watkins Community. Service Award from the Provo-Orem Chamber of -Commerce recently for her work as president of the Timpanogos Storytelling FestivaL C POOR |