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Show OREM TIMES Thursday, January 4. 2007 NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU 90 - year Caleb Warnock DAILY HE RALE; The son of Nebraska homesteaders home-steaders who had 1 1 children and lived in a sod home, Charles William Laing was forced to quit high school in 1933 to help keep his family solvent during the Great Depression. De-pression. For three-quarters of a century, cen-tury, Laing regretted being a drop out. On Friday, with a surprise visit from dozens of family members, he became a graduate. Organized by his family and the directors of the Seville retirement home, 90-year-old Laing was presented a specially made diploma from Bridgeport High School in Nebraska. Orem city manager Jim Reams, acting on behalf of Mayor Jerry Washburn, made the presentation. "Whoa!" said Laing, weeping weep-ing as he received his framed diploma. "That is something I have wanted all my life. You leave me at a loss for words. If I had know this was going to happen, I would have gotten a cleaner handkerchief." Laing said he was six weeks into the 1 1th grade, and 17 years old, when his classmates began leaving school to join President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps camps. Upon learning he would be paid $5 a month and more importantly, $25 a month would be sent directly to his parents Laing left school to work cutting fire roads through South Dakota's Black Forest for more than a year. "That was quite a thing back then," he said of the pay. Stem cell Continued from Page 1 Stem Cell Research Foundation Founda-tion Web site. Hematopoietic, or adult, stem cells are found in bone marrow and umbilical cord blood, and are less controversial con-troversial because they do not require the destruction of an embryo. Federal funding for stem cell research is scarce. For many Americans this is cause to vote for a specific candidate. For the Schmanskis, it is cause to fry thousands of miles. Tim and Maria must take Tori to Hang-zhou Hang-zhou because the treatment they seek for her is not available avail-able in the United States, where funding isn't widely available. Doctors at the Beike Clinic will inject Tori with 50 million stem cells over the course of 32 NorthCounty MIWSPAPIRS ' 399 E. State St. Pleasant Grove Marc Haddock 443-3268 North County Editor mhaddockheraldextra.com Cathy Allred 443 3262 Lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. 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MmfaL Audit Bureau of Circulations Got news? - old Orem man receives diploma fi ymfm It r YJ V " .-iisvV" ) I a 1 -V-- ll L L I William Charles "Bill" Laing, 90, thanks The Seville Dec. 29 at before moving to Bountiful to "With $5 1 could go to the show for 10 cents and buy a little candy bar for 5 cents." Over the next few years, Laing worked on a ranch and at various gas stations, eventually eventu-ally becoming co-owner of a Conoco station with a friend. When "the war clouds" of World War II started, he and his friend sold the gas station and moved to California to work building war planes. Five times Laing was exempted ex-empted from the draft because his work was considered so important to the war effort. In the midst of the war, he met his wife and married her three months later. The couple had their first two children before the end of the war, always al-ways fearing Laing would be drafted. days. Each dose of 10 million patients are given four to five days between injections will be injected into her upper spine, close to the brain stem, Tim said. The stem cells will be differentiated, which means that doctors have programmed them to become specific types of cells. In this case, they will become brain cells. The Schmanskis chose to use adult stem cells instead of the embryonic variety, but the decision was medical, not ethical. ethi-cal. Embryonic stem cells have more potential for treatment, Tim said, but carry greater risk. When embryonic stem cells are used on adults, tumors can form. Tim feels more research re-search is needed. Right now, Tori's abilities are limited. She can make a noise if she wants something, but she cannot tell her parents Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILY BBB1LD PUBLISHING! 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Laing's son, John, said his father often spoke of the importance im-portance of education, and all the children were familiar with the heartache their father felt from dropping out. "We always knew it was so difficult for him," John Charles Laing said. "Financially, he what that something is. She can swallow tiny amounts of food, but still must use the feeding tube in her stomach. Tim and Maria give her medicine medi-cine to prevent seizures. "She's 100 percent dependent depen-dent on us," Tim said. But there are signs of hope. Tim and Maria say she recognizes recog-nizes family and friends. They ask her questions and hold up flash cards with different answers an-swers on them. Tori can look at the card she believes is correct and nod. She even recognizes words from her three years of French classes, Maria said. Tim and Maria study with Tori using an "I spy" book, telling tell-ing Tori what objects they spy and letting her look and nod at the correct item. "She's still a typical teenager and if she doesn't want to participate par-ticipate sometimes she'll just Reserved theater seating works About 10 years ago, while we were visiting England to pick up our daughter from her mission in Scotland, Scot-land, Sharon and I decided to go to a movie in London. We selected a theater near Pica-dilly Pica-dilly Circus and went to buy our tickets, tick-ets, only to find that we weren't just buying a ticket to the show, but for a reserved seat. We were shown a diagram of the seating in the theater just like they do for a live theater performance. Also like live theaters, ticket prices varied. Better seats cost more. I can't remember the movie now, although I think it was a British film starring a pre-Titanic Kate Winslet. I remember the movie-going expe rience, and how satisfying it was to know where you would sit before you entered the semi-darTi theater. Also, the theater listed two starting times for the movie. The first indicated when the trailers for new movies would begin; the second listed when the movie would actually start. Also listed was the time when the movie would end. It all seemed designed for the moviegoer's convenience, and it seemed like a good idea for all movie theaters. Last week we repeated part of the experience experi-ence in Salt Lake City when we went to Jordan Commons see "Dream Girls," a movie adapted from a Broadway musical and based very loosely on the story of Diana Ross and the Supremes. Despite the recent proliferation of first-run movie theaters in Utah County I count more than 50 from Thanksgiving Point to the Provo Towne Centre Mall the movie wasn't playing locally. This is the third time we had to go to Salt Lake to see a movie early in its run the other two were "March of the Penguins" and "The Queen," which is the best movie I saw in 2006. I don't know if "The Queen" ever got south of the Point of the Mountain. I find that odd, given the number of theaters, but this is a rant for another day. When we got to the theater, the ticket line was long. It moved fairly quickly, but it was slowed down by the fact that for INVOLVED had no choice but to go help earn the family living." Laing and his wife, Grace, have lived in Orem for more than 40 years, where they raised seven children. COMMUNITY BRIEFS I New county officers sworn in Four new Utah County officials took the oath of office Tuesday, kicking off the terms to which they were elected in November. They are Gary Anderson, An-derson, county commissioner; Jeff Buhman, county attorney; Robert Kirk, treasurer; and Bryan Thompson, clerkauditor. clerkaudi-tor. Re-elected officials also close her eyes and turn her head," Tim said. Tori is now 16 years old. The anxious parents have been in contact with others who have undergone stem cell treatment. They are awaiting word from the parents of an Orlando, Fla.-area teenager who is also undergoing the treatment at the Beike Clinic. Much like Tori, that boy suffered suf-fered brain damage after a near drowning. "They're saying he's more alert. He has more body movement," move-ment," said Tori's grandmother, grandmoth-er, Sandy. The Schmanskis' insurance does not cover the $20,000 cost of the treatment, nor the thousands thou-sands of dollars their flights, food and room and board in China will cost. Fortunately for Tim and Maria, they have raised about $50,000 from Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN lit were sworn in, including Recorder Randy Covington, Assessor Kris Poulson, Sheriff Jim Tracy and Commissioner Steve White. After the ceremony, Commissioner Com-missioner Larry Ellertson recognized the officials whose terms ended Dec. 31. I Delinquent tax list Utah County posted about 13,000 delinquent de-linquent property tax notices Friday and for a few hours, the list included Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert's home in Orem. By late Friday afternoon, however, a "this property is not delinquent" message had been posted for the Herberts' property. Herbert and his wife, Jeanette, thought they had paid taxes on all their properties and were surprised to hear they were on the delinquent delin-quent list, said Herbert spokesman spokes-man Joe Demma. The Utah County Treasurer's Treasur-er's Office said the tax bill and the penalty were paid Friday. The county collects property taxes on behalf of 46 taxing entities, including school districts, dis-tricts, cities, special service districts and redevelopment agencies in Utah County. There are about 142,000 parcels par-cels of property in the county, and in 2005 property tax collections col-lections totaled $233 million. Delinquent notices can be looked up online by going to www.utahcountyonline.com and following a link at the bottom bot-tom of the page. Notices also have been mailed to property owners. Those with late notices have until Jan. 16 to pay the balance and the penalty without having hav-ing to pay interest. charity events and their Web site, www.pray4tori.com. The plane tickets they must be business class, because Tori cannot bend her legs were donated, leaving the Schmanskis Schman-skis with about $35,000 in expenses. If the treatment works, Tim said they would consider using it again. But if there is a next time, he hopes it will be in the United States. The Schmanskis want to see more federal funding fund-ing for stem cell research, and Tim is hopeful that a Democrat-controlled Congress will be able to provide that. "If we could spend some federal fed-eral money, get some research on that front, I think it'll be more revolutionary than antibiotics an-tibiotics in the 1900s or organ transplants," Tim said. "It is the next revolution in medical treatment." some movies, patrons were shown a diagram of the theater on the computer com-puter screen and asked to select their seats. Apparently the theaters at Jordan Commons just started this practice for movies in its digital theaters. It has been doing so for a while in the IMAX theater. For the regular theaters, you still go and buy your ticket and then try and find the best seat you can. There weren't a lot of seats left when we bought our tickets, but we still got reasonable seats and didn't have to hunt up and down when we got to the theater. It was great. There was no waiting wait-ing in line. You didn't have to ask anyone if they were saving a seat. Nobody threatened to punch anybody else in the nose if they didn't move. You can either purchase your seats at the theater or on the Internet, where you can choose your seats as well. Making the purchase pur-chase online costs 75 cents more per ticket. This civilized method of securing not just a ticket, but a specific seat for a movie is a stark contrast to experiences in recent years with movies like "Pirates of the Carribean," the "Lord of the Rings" movies or many others. Sharon and I got to the theater well in advance ad-vance for the last Harry Potter movie and found ourselves waiting in line for almost an hour for marginal seats. Theaters must find some advantage to this method. Perhaps the front row won't sell out if people know they must either sit there or wait for a later show time. Or maybe they sell more popcorn if people peo-ple have to wait in the lobby for 30 minutes to an hour before they start seating people. But it's not very convenient for the patron, who must arrive early, stand uncomfortably in long lines and then roam the theater trying to find a seat that isn't "saved," even if saving seats is not allowed by the theater. So kudos to Larry Miller for providing the option in some of his theaters. It would be great if others would follow his lead and do so before "Spider-Man III" opens in July. Priorities Continued from Page 1 State Street and 800 North. Though residential and commercial com-mercial growth has moderated, moderat-ed, Orem will continue to see building with the Midtown Village mixed used project and the North Gate development develop-ment off of 800 North, he said. "I think the continued concern con-cern is to stay ahead of the growth, not from Orem, but in the valley and how it impacts im-pacts Orem," Washburn said. "We may not be growing much but we're still impacted by the increased traffic and congestion we feel." The city wants to stay ahead of the transportation curve, he said, and that's why residents supported the $14 million road bond in 2004. In the arts and culture department, the Orem City Council with input from the newly created Orem Arts Council will decide how to carve up the estimated $1.6 million of annual revenue generated by the voter approved ap-proved Cultural Arts and Recreation Enrichment (CARE) tax. The one-tenth of 1 percent sales tax will help fund cultural arts and entertainment enter-tainment projects in Orem. "We will begin taking applications in February and March and making allocations al-locations in April and May," Washburn said. "That will be a big adventure for us." Residents, he said, have shown consistent and continual contin-ual support for the arts and recreation. "I think a strong voice has been expressed by residents with the CARE tax, and the expectation that those tax dollars result in better cultural arts and recreation facilities," Washburn said. "We want to work to make that happen." In November 2007, a yet-to-be-named National Basketball Bas-ketball Association Developmental Develop-mental League team will call Utah Valley State College's McKay Events Center home, becoming the second professional profes-sional sports franchise in Orem. The Orem Owlz, a Pioneer League affiliate of the Anaheim Angels major league baseball team, have called the ballpark at UVSC home since 2005. "It's really a very unique facility we have at the college, col-lege, and we look forward to the NBA development league team and that another big-time big-time sports opportunity will be available," Washburn said. In the public safety sector, the mayor said the city will place a renewed emphasis on maintaining friendly, attractive attrac-tive neighborhoods by cracking crack-ing down on unsightly junk, inoperable vehicles and other violations of city code. As a member of the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency or UTOPIA, Orem has contractors contrac-tors who will continue installing in-stalling a city-wide fiber optic op-tic network that can provide Internet, cable TV and phone service to residents and businesses. busi-nesses. UTOPIA'S installation in Orem is about one year behind be-hind schedule but Washburn anticipates it would be completed com-pleted in 2008. "It's important we continue con-tinue to provide that infrastructure infra-structure so the community, individuals and commercial businesses can be competitive," competi-tive," he said. "So much of our community is connected to the high-tech industry, much of it done from private residences, so we're pushing to get that done." "I FEEL LIKE A FISH WITH NO WATER." -JACOB. AGE 5 DESCRIBING ASTHMA You know how to road 10 their asthma attack. Hara'a how to prevent thorn. l-866-NO-ATTACKS EVEN ONE ATTACK IS ONE TOO MANY. ar eall your doctor. oFJft POOR C |