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Show Thursday, March 15, 2007 Page 2 OREM TIMES " H i if 1 ih Ih ' NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU Miss Orem presents music education Reva Bowen NOHH ' (, JV t MA" For those wanting to show their support for music education educa-tion programs in (Bern's elementary el-ementary schools, Orem High School Is the place to be Friday night. MLss Orem Ashley Boulter has assembled a team of well-known well-known performers to join her in a music education benefit concert at the high school at 7 p.m. Friday. Joining Boulter in performing perform-ing will be artists Jericho Road, Alex Boye, Mindy Gledhill, and the Northndge Flementary Chorus and Orchestra. All proceeds from the concert con-cert will go to Orem elementary schools for their music programs. pro-grams. Those purchasing tickets tick-ets can designate which school is to receive the money, Boulter said, and although there is no set price for the tickets, there is a suggested minimum of $8. The tickets are available at the door, at Northridge Elementary Bike tour Continued from Page 1 officers. Sgts. Gordon Smith and Randy Crowther were invited by a friend with the Oakland, Calif., police department to join in the annual 300-mile bicycle ride in remembrance of law enforcement officers across the nation killed in the line of duty. The tour kicks off May 9 in Newark, N.J., continues to 911's Ground Zero in Manhattan, Man-hattan, and concludes at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, Wash-ington, DC. Smith and Crowther are riding in honor of Roosevelt police Chief Cecil Gurr, who was shot and killed in July Deep lots Continued from Page 1 under the city's ordinance, Sainsbury said, because of difficulties dif-ficulties with addresses, and issues like having sewer lines extend onto private property. The Public Safety Department has challenges accessing the lots to respond to calls for service. 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Audit Bureau of Cicuietions School, or by calling the Boulter residence, 226-1578. The reigning Miss Orem is an accomplished violinist, and volunteers once a week at Northridge, helping with its established and award-winning orchestra program, and at Bonneville Elementary, with its fledgling program. Boulter's community service platform is titled, "Music Is Instrumental." In-strumental." Besides volunteering volunteer-ing her time and talent in local elementary schools, Boulter has been an advocate for music programs pro-grams in the schools. Her platform plat-form focuses, she said, on how children receive great benefits from music, which can be a "vital "vi-tal aspect" of their growth. Prior to being named Miss Oem, Boulter was the City of Orem's representative to Utah's Jr. Miss program, where she was the state winner. win-ner. She went on to finish among the top contestants nationally, na-tionally, and credits her music training with helping her to become be-come the person she is today. 2001 while responding to a domestic do-mestic violence call, and Lehi police Officer Joseph Adams, who was killed August 2001 after stopping a drunk driving suspect. In 2005, 155 police officers were killed in the U.S. in the line of duty, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Of-ficers Memorial Fund (www. nleomf.com) Gurr left behind his wife and four children and Adams was survived by his wife and seven-month old son. Both officers were well-aquainted well-aquainted with Adams, who lived in Orem and initially worked for the Orem Department Depart-ment of Public Safety as a police cadet before accepting a position with the Lehi police department. "I knew him very well," One of the biggest complaints com-plaints staff receives about deep lots, Sainsbury said, is that people buy into a subdivision subdivi-sion with the thought that the surrounding property in the same subdivision is fully developed. devel-oped. The first suggestion was to disallow new deep lots in existing subdivisions. A second proposed change was to prohibit deep lots in cul-de-sacs, because of the nature of a cul-de-sac, which already has less street frontage than other neighborhoods, and, consequently, con-sequently, less parking. Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILY HBKALD rUlLIIHIXO oo. Jennette Esplin 756-7669 Office Manager Erin Stewart 344 2558 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Julia Fullmer 344 2570 DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344-2585 Photographer Issue 62 INFORMED AND Boulter recruited the slate of performers for the benefit concert, con-cert, and is excited about the opportunity to aid the schools' music programs. "I think it will be a great concert," she said. CITY NOTES I Transportation Commission members appointed The first members of a new Orem volunteer commission the Transportation Advisory Commission Com-mission were approved for appointment by the Orem City Council March 13. The commission members are: Derek Whetten, Brad Woods, Michael Colledge, Matthew Mat-thew Young, Darrell Cook, Mark Sergeant, and Gary Weight. I Bond refinancing It took the Orem City Council just moments mo-ments March 13 to make the decision to save what Orem City Manager Jim Reams estimated es-timated would be $10,000 to $15,000 per year in payments. Crowther said. "I have pictures pic-tures of when he was a cadet sitting in my car." Smith said the long-distance ride not only honors the Beehive Bee-hive State's fallen, but also those they left behind. "We understand that at any time this could be us, that our families might need support," he said. "We want the families of Officer Adams and Chief Gurr to know we haven't forgotten them. We haven't forgotten what they've done for us." The tour's cyclists have to pay their own expenses on the tour which include airfare, hotel, food, uniforms, equipment equip-ment and the price of shipping their bikes. They also have to raise $1,700 each which goes toward the event's costs and the remainder of which is dis- A third suggestion was to increase the size of a deep lot to 125 percent of the minimum lot size in the city's residential zones so there will be less of a "crowded, cramped-in feel." Another frequent complaint about deep lot developments, Sainsbury said, is the lack of privacy residents feel when a deep lot goes in next door and the new residents are able to look down from their home into the neighbor's yard. The council decided to limit deep lot homes in the residential residen-tial R8 and denser zones to a Small students telling tall tales Most of the time, telling stories in school can get you in trouble. But for the past several weeks, young storytellers have been doing do-ing just that in their classrooms and schools in hopes of earning a spot telling tell-ing tales at the Timpanogos Storytelling Storytell-ing Festival in Orem on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1. Having the festival in our backyard has paid off big time for our young yarn-spinners. Last year, of the 26 youth tellers featured at the festival, 23 came from schools in the Alpine School District. Friday I had the chance to help judge the finals for the storytellers from grades 4-6 at The Ranches Academy Acad-emy in Eagle Mountain. I had a great time. The people organizing the festival called our office looking for Caleb Warnock, who works for the Daily Herald, to do the judging, but he couldn't make it. They were looking for judges from outside the area, and Caleb has written many stories about Eagle Mountain, so his name was familiar to them. But he knew I was interested in the festival, and in storytelling as an activity, so he passed my name along. The problem was I have two grandsons at the school, a second-grader and a kindergartner. The request came on a Friday, and I didn't get to talk to the organizer until Monday, but I didn't think it would be a problem. prob-lem. As far as I knew, they had no interest in telling tell-ing stories, until the grandkids came over Sunday Sun-day and Scott announced that he had won his class's storytelling competition, and would be telling in front of the school on Thursday. He hadn't planned on rjerforming until the day before the class competition, and had to get special dispensation because he entered after the deadline. He was going to tell "Where the Wild Things Are," Maurice Sendak's wonderful won-derful story of childhood defiance and redemption. redemp-tion. He had heard the book since he was little, and he had seen the play when it was in Alpine two years ago, where he had bonded after the INVOLVED i i 4 ' 11 Photo courtesy Ashley Boulter Ashley Boulter, shown here with a group of students from the Northridge Elementary Orchestra, has organized a concert which will include, in addition to the orchestra, well-known local performers. The council approved a bond refinancing proposal for the $12 million in sales tax revenue bonds that were issued in 2002 for various recreation and Police unity tour What: Help send Sgts. Smith and Qrowther to bicycle memorial tour, a non-profit organization that honors fallen police officers and their families How: Make a donation payable to Police Unity Tour and submit it to Sgt. Randy CrowtherSgt. Gprdon Smith, Orem Dept. of Public Safety, 95 E. Center St., Orem, Utah 84058 For more information: Contact Sgt. Randy Crowther at 229-7252 or by e-mail at rgcrowtherorem.org. Links: www.policeunitytour.com, www.unitytournorcal.com bursed by the memorial fund to families of slain officers. Of the required $3,400 to participate Smith and Crowther are $2,500 short. If they don't raise the balance by May 1, they will be unable to participate (see side bar for donation information). For Smith, who has been to the Washington, D.C., memo single story, with a two-story limit in the less dense R 12 and R20 zones. Height restrictions were maintained. Requiring the buildable area of a deep lot to be at least 40 feet wide was another change made by the council, which also opted to increase side yard setbacks for a deep lot to 15 feet when adjacent to a subdivision, subdi-vision, and to 12 feet within the same subdivision. The council also voted to allow a regular lot with street frontage to use a private drive as an access without penalizing Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN program TVS iV - an 1 V Yj$rK i i A- r " open space projects, including includ-ing the SCERA Park Pools, Mt. Timpanogos and Nielsen's Grove Parks, and the City Center Cen-ter baseball diamonds. rial twice, the highlight of the Police Unity Tour will be arriving ar-riving in the nation's capital on their bikes and seeing the families whose loved ones names are being added to the memorial's Wall of Honor. "What we're giving is minimal," mini-mal," he said. "Three hundred miles is nothing compared to what those families did." the number of deep lots allowed. al-lowed. To encourage deep lots to be orderly and squared up, rather than "gerrymandered," there is a requirement to have a 20-26-foot -wide stem at least 80 feet long. The changes are not expected to eliminate deep lot development in the city. "I think we will get three-fourths three-fourths of the ones we could get, still," Sainsbury said. He noted that the changes will "have the effect of reducing deep lots, but still allow some to develop." performance with the young actor who played Max. They were about the same age. It took a bit of coaxing, but Scott told the story to us, with plenty of action, and lots of emotion. It was a hoot. I called up Monday to excuse myself from judging, and found out I was invited to the competition for older kids. With the conflict of interest in-terest eliminated, I agreed to drive out Friday and give the 11 tellers my utmost attention. The Ranches Academy is a charter school not really part of the Alpine School District. But Laurie Reese, who organized the event, said the district was gracious enough to let the winners from the Ranches Academy participate in the district-wide district-wide competition. This is the first time in its three-year Jystory the school has participated. It didn't show. We heard a tall tale about a carnival adventure, adven-ture, and the story of the Three Little Pigs as told by the wolf, who wasn't big and bad, but had a cold and sneezed a lot enough in fact to blow down a house made of straw or sticks. There was a story that may have been true about an errant golf ball that caused havoc in the neighborhood, and one girl related a story about getting lost on Mt. Timpanogos with some storytellers after last year's festival. This story was true. The winning story was about a little girl who climbed the backstop on the school baseball field another tall tale, written by the teller. Why storytelling? Reese said the act of writing writ-ing or adapting a story, memorizing it and then performing it is a powerful way to teach language lan-guage arts. I believe her, and I'm not the only one. This scene of elementary school children getting up in front of their peers and telling stories has been repeated throughout the area over the past few weeks. It's one of the best examples of what this nationally na-tionally recognized festival has done to elevate the community. As far as I'm concerned, the more storytellers we have, the better. Soldier Continued from Page 1 7-year-old Belgian Tervuren named Dak, as the reason he's still alive. "He actually saved my life," Sgt. Fowler, clad in his digital camouflage Army uniform and wearing black gloves to protect his hands, told students during an afternoon af-ternoon assembly at Foothill Elementary School in Orem 1 on Monday. "He took all the shrapnel." Though he suffered second- and third-degree burns over 54 percent of his body and since then has undergone under-gone a continual series of painful skin graft surgeries surger-ies and rehabilitation, Sgt. Fowler remains remarkably cheerful and optimistic. Though he didn't like being away from his family, he enjoyed his time in Iraq and found many of the Iraqis glad the Americans were there. "Contrary to what people say, the Iraqi people were very welcoming," Sgt. Fowler Fowl-er said. Sgt. Fowler was awarded the Bronze Star and a Purple Heart due to the injuries he sustained in the blast. The 10-year Army veteran, his wife Leslie, 1 12-year-old son Shane and a dozen other family members visited the school Monday to thank students stu-dents and employees for rallying ral-lying around them in a particularly par-ticularly crucial time of need. Fowler briefly shared his story during the assembly, thanked them for sending his family their fundraiser proceeds, pro-ceeds, and fielded nearly 30 minutes of questions. "I read all the cards and letter from you guys," he said. "It's wonderful that you opened your hearts to myself and my family. Each one of you has made a difference in our lives." Claudette Fowler, the Army sergeant's mother and a Pleasant Grove resident, is a lunchroom manager at Foothill Elementary. After learning of her son's injuries, inju-ries, students and teachers opted to send the proceeds from the annual fifth-grade Christmas store fundraiser nearly $2,000 including contributions from teachers and staff, according to students stu-dents to Sgt. Fowler and his family. "The outpouring of the community has just been awesome," Claudette Fowler said in December 2005. A handful of those students, stu-dents, now sixth graders, got to meet Sgt. Fowler prior to the assembly and get to know him a little better. Several of them said what prompted them to come to him and his family's aid. "A lot of things, you feel like you're not really making mak-ing a difference," said Ali Hansen. Chris Brousseau said though the gift to Fowler's family made them feel important, impor-tant, they also learned a valuable valu-able lesson. "It was more than just a fundraiser," he said. "It was to help someone." Leslie Fowler said the couple has grown closer together during all the time they've spent together in San Antonio, Texas, where Sgt. Fowler has been receiving treatment at Brooks Army Medical Center. Sgt. Fowler has slowly regained the use of his still-fragile hands, which sustained extensive damage in the explosion. "It's been nice to be a part of it every day and see the baby steps he's taken," she said. Neither Sgt. Fowler nor his wife have regrets about his decision to serve in the Army and his role in Iraq alongside Dak detecting bombs and explosives ex-plosives which saved many lives. "I feel bad soldiers get injured but it was a choice (to serve) and it's an all-volunteer Army," Leslie Fowler said. "It's his job and things happen for a reason." Sgt. Fowler said the most difficult part of his experience experi-ence was losing Dak (who was cremated and buried at his home) and he hopes students stu-dents at Foothill Elementary realize that life is too short to stress over unimportant things. "I wouldn't change anything. any-thing. I wouldn't give it up for the world," he said. "God was with me at the time as he is for all of us." cEnaEE I J |