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Show BUILDING COMMUNITY IN OREM AND VINEYARD Orenw M EDITION THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 2007 50 CENTS SCHOOLS: SPORTS: TEACHING EXCELLENCE . " . s,t !:$&fc I Z V- ' 'Vi' ; v hm ,f, . .;;; u COBB CONDIEDaily Herald Terry Tucker, a choral and clogging instructor at Pleasant Grove High School for nearly 30 years, has been heartened in his fight with cancer by former students. Former arts students mobilize to aid father-like mentor Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFF For nearly three decades, recently retired Pleasant Grove High School faculty member Terry Tucker encouraged en-couraged and challenged his choral students and doggers dog-gers to achieve excellence. UDOT TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS ON 800 NORTH PROJECT - The Utah Department of Transportation advises motorists of the following restrictions on 800 North in Orem: Jan. 24-25 Wednesday and Thursday, Thurs-day, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.. State Street will be restricted to two lanes in each direction in the area of 800 North for utility work. At the intersection inter-section of 800 North and State Street, all left-turn lanes will be closed. Local motorists will need to use other signalized signal-ized intersections at 1200 West and 800 West or 400 East or 800 East. Motorists Motor-ists on 1-15 should use the following interchanges at 1600 North and Center Street. Motorists should expect moderate moder-ate travel delays. Jan. 29-Feb. 14 Crews will start installing in-stalling a new water and gas line along 800 North in the area between 400 West to State Street. Motorists will be restricted to one lane in each direction between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. Travel delays should be minimal. For more information and ongoing project updates, visit the Orem 800 North Web site (www.udot.utah.gov orem800north) or contact the 800 North Public Information Team at (801 ) 360-4944. 360-4944. Schedules are subject to change due to inclement weather, equipment problems or emergency situations. Home, Auto, & Personal Loans Open to all of Utah County: Ona a member, always a member -no matter where you go. . R Copy L T ii il i "ft 1 -iff i ifflimi f f ifri School district adopts online writing TOWN HALL: 8-story building coming to 1 Orem girls take possession Now, dozens of Tucker's former devotees are rallying around their high school mentor as he faces perhaps per-haps one of the greatest battles of his life. In October, Tucker, 65, of Orem was diagnosed with a severe form of kidney cancer too advanced for chemotherapy che-motherapy or radiation treatments. Doctors gave him six months to live. World renowned architect, Frank Gehry, Thanksgiving Point on Friday. TWO MEMBERS ADDED TO CULTURAL CUL-TURAL ARTS COUNCIL - Two new members have been added to Orem's Cultural Arts Council, after the city's ordinance was amended January 23 to include permanent seats on the council coun-cil for a representative from SCERA, and from the Hale Center Theater. The rf iff i irrK .rff n iff miffi. rlf - it unff -rrlf jijf iC jflim rtf idf jfffi XJ K.J i 0 o -riPV : of top spot "It's spread beyond the kidneys and it's terminal," Tucker said. "I'm just incredibly tired ... (but) I'll beat six months." Though zapped of much of his signature vim and vigor, Tucker remains re-mains active and defiantly optimistic about his situation. He still plays keyboard key-board in a local band called Bluegrass Thunder and keeps his strength up by Briefing COBB CONDIEDaily Herald speaks during a luncheon at change brings the total membership on the volunteer board from 11 to 13. Appointments were approved for Adam Robertson, president and CEO of SCERA, and Anne Swenson, of the Hale Center Theater. mwl'ipjfc ntT nrtffjn mff nft .jnffi mfi wrfnitf h rtH gilimi j ,nf gffif . inrtmilC. doing circuits on his treadmill. The Vikings' former choral music director, chorus teacher and later, clogging instructor, got hooked on music at a young age, but nearly by accident, he said. "I was sick when I was a boy and my mother bought me a piano," See TUCKER, Page 2 FRANK GEHRY TO DESIGN LEHI PROJECT Internationally renowned architect Frank Gehry will be designing design-ing an 85-acre commercial, residential center in the bowl southeast of Point of the Mountain and northwest of Traverse Mountain. The property was once a welfare farm for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Focusing on healthy lifestyle living, the design will include a wakeboard lake, restaurants, a 12,000 seat convention con-vention center, high-end retail shops, residential units and a five-star hotel. Brandt Andersen, CEO and founder of Code Ventures, made the announcement announce-ment Jan. 19 at Thanksgiving Point during a private luncheon. The majority owner of the NBA Development League for Utah, Andersen is financing the Lehi project. He said he plans to present a mock up of the master plan to the city on Jan. 31. T1MPANOGOS REQUESTS PERMISSION PERMIS-SION TO DISPLAY PORTABLE T" Timpanogos High School students will soon find out if it is easier to get permission or forgiveness, as a group of student leaders petitioned the Orem City Council Jan. 23 to allow students to set up a portable "T" on city-owned land in the foothills above the school on special occasions, such as homecoming. homecom-ing. nT, .gKjufi iitrf i mat ,mi mjn irf u lilfli i iijiip'.rtli'l!j Inside today ALPINE SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL EDITION Orem adopts CARE Program policies Reva Bowen NOklH ( OUN1Y SI Af F The City of Orem took another step Tuesday in the process of implementing and dispersing the new Culturai Arts and Recreation Enrichment (CARE) tax by adopting adopt-ing the official policies and procedures proce-dures for what is now known as the CARE Program. Louise Wallace, Orem's library director who has also had responsibilities re-sponsibilities as the city's liaison in cultural arts matters, told the Orem City Council that the draft of the policies and procedures was prepared with direction from the city's legal department, and that the draft incorporates the requirements require-ments of state law, as well as "best practices" from around the state and elsewhere. The CARE tax, a local sales and use tax of one-tenth of one percent, was approved by a majority of Orem voters in November of 2005 as a way to give more financial support to recreational and cultural arts facilities and cultural organizations organiza-tions in the city. The tax went into effect April 1, 2006, is expected to generate $1.6-$1. 8 million annually, and will remain in place for eight years. "This represents a tremendous amount of work," said Mayor Jerry Washburn of the multi-page policies document. "Page by page, we (the City Council) do have an See CARE, Page 2 Taylor Johnson, senior class vice president and the spokesman for the group, said the illegal use of the land has been a problem in the past, and city officials recommended the appearance before the City Council for the students to state their case. Johnson acknowledged that, despite warnings, students have been willing in the past to take a chance of getting into trouble, in order to display the letter. An existing trail would be used to set up the large letter on a chosen site. Johnson cited a biologist as saying no harm would be done to the environment environ-ment by "something so temporary." Students setting up the letter would park in the parking lot by the shooting range, and Johnson said 10 people can do the job in 20-30 minutes. The letter is made of a weather-proof, durable, but light material that is staked like a tent. The letter would remain for three days at the most the day before an event, the day of the event, and the day after, when it would be taken down. 055 00050' (OlJitilNlfltilfi |