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Show OREM TIMES Thursday, July 19, 2007 Page 2 fJEWS AND NOTES UVSC library construction progressing on Brittani Lusk It's been 10 months since Utah Valley State College broke ground on the new Digital Learning ( enter, and the five-story building is coming com-ing along on time and within budget. "It's still on budget. It's still on schedule," said Jim Michae-lis, Michae-lis, UVSC's vice president of facilities. "It's going very well." The new library will U; 19(),0K) square feet There will le more than 100 public computers, com-puters, 40 group study rooms, a cafe and a bridge to the Liberal Lib-eral Arts building. The building will cost $ W milium, most which was appropriated appro-priated by the Legislature last March. Brian McBeth, project manager, man-ager, said crews started brick work on the building Wednesday. Wednes-day. Interior framing has been going on for a month or more, and crews have made progress on electrical work inside. The new building will look a lot like the rest of the UVSC campus, but it will be slightly different. "If you were to look at it, it would be in the same family of the rest of campus," McBeth said. The brick will le same color as the other brick on campus, but the exterior aluminum will be different. The new library is slated to open in July 2()0M, right as the sch(X)l changes its name to Utah Valley University, and the new building is considered important for the transition. Cameron Marl in, head of the school's transition task force, said the new library is essential to university status. "The library is the nerve center of the campus. It is the hub of information in and out," he said. The current library has only .15,000 square feet of space and only four study rooms. There's also a walkway through it. "We were definitely lacking," lack-ing," Martin said. "It's just not an environment that's conducive condu-cive to learning." Harvest Continued from Page I "This is an example of where some potential plague ... turned into a blessing," ( )rem Mayor Jerry Washburn at the city's Share the Harvest debut last week. "This is an opportunity for neighbors and the community commu-nity to gather together what they can for those not able to NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS 399 E . 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The new building will not only give students more access to books and periodicals, but also to digital databases. Michael Freeman, UVSC's library director, said there will be more than double the computers in the new library. There will also be more multimedia multi-media work space. There will le three computer labs, including includ-ing a Mac lab. There will even be a family computer lab for students with children. Freeman Free-man said the room will have things for children to do like watch movies and read books. He said the new university wants to help students with children. "It's a way that they can work there, and so we've in grow gardens." Through Oct. 27, people in the pesticide spray area can get produce vouchers from the city that allow them to pick up fresh produce or canned items from Community Action Services's food bank at 815 S. Freedom Boulevard, Provo. A Share the Harvest daily produce cart will also be located lo-cated in the parking lot of Orem's Senior Friendship Phone: 7B6-7669 Fax:756-5274 DAILY HERALD PUBLISHING 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 80 INFORMED AND INVOLVED new Digital Learning Center. corporated that into the building," build-ing," Freeman said. The archives and special collections will triple in size. Freeman also said the library will be a great place to just hang out. "It's just going to be a wonderful won-derful place. It's going to pull students into this place," Freeman Free-man said. Freeman said from the fourth and fifth floors students stu-dents will be able to see Utah Lake from one side and the Wasatch Front from the other. Construction isn't over for the campus when the library is finished, however. Michaelis said the school will ask for funds to expand the Pope Science Sci-ence Building next legislative session. The current library will be converted to space for student services. Center, 93 N. 400 East, where donors can drop off items and residents can come and choose vegetables and fruit on a first-come, first-come, first -served basis after noon. A message board will also be available for "you pick it" opportunities local gardeners may want to advertise. Produce not taken will be transferred to the food bank. Peppers, carrots, zucchini and beets were all to be found last week on the Share Brought together by tragedy ran into Mont Call at a funeral last week. He's the last person I expected to meet there. I've known Mont for more than two decades. He was our graphic artist when I first moved to north Utah County to edit the weekly week-ly newspapers. He was a colorful character, with his long hair pulled into a pony tail, listening lis-tening to avant-garde music and building build-ing ads the old fashioned way with clip art that was actually clipped out with scissors or an X-acto knife and type that was set on early photo-imaging computers marketed by a company com-pany called Compugraphic. Before desktop publishing, building newspaper ads was an art of a dif ferent sort.The artist would have to guess how big the letters should be before they were typeset, then hope they fit. Mont was pretty good at doing this, but he had other interests music interests. He played guitar very well and played in a rock band in his spare time. It was clear that music was his love; the day-work as a layout artist just helped pay the bills. He moved on after some dispute with the publisher, and I would run into him from time to time. But I hadn't seen him for years when we both ended up on the back row at Milo Price's funeral last Thursday. His hair was grayer (as was mine) and cut short, the familiar famil-iar pony tail a thing of the past. I knew him right off, but it was weird to see him there. Milo Price was the father of my sister-in-law, Becky Hancock. I know Becky Hancock quite well. We spent a week with her and her husband, hus-band, Darrell ( my wife's brother) in Cancun, and we get together to play games whenever they come to visit family in Utah County. We've been to visit them in Colorado Springs, Las Cruces, N.M., and Boise, where they now live. We also meet at family events missionary mission-ary goings and comings, weddings and baby blessings. These were the places where I got to know Milo in a pretty superficial way. When he passed away in his Lindon home OREM BRIEFS I Adult ESL Reading Classes at Orem High English as a Second Language reading classes are being offered for free to adults of all ages beginning begin-ning July 9 through Aug. 1 at Orem High School. Taught by instructors Terri Martin and Terry Moreno, the classes run Monday through Thursday, 7 to 9 p.m. Orem High School is located at 175 S. 400 East in Orem. Enter the main school . entrance by the electronic marquee sign out front and follow fol-low signs to the classroom. For more information about the classes, contact Moreno at 426-9515 426-9515 or Martin at 2254240. the Harvest cart. Washburn personally met with county jail inmates who labor la-bor in the garden and said they were pleased and excited to be able to help out. "Inmates get to come out of their cells and work and feel alive," he said. "It was a heartfelt heart-felt thing to see. They know where it's going." Johnson said Orem's 22 neighborhoods neigh-borhoods represented in the Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN 2, J " schedule JERONIM0 NISADaily Herald VINEYARD BRIEFS I UTOPIA in Vineyard Vineyard Vine-yard once again discussed becoming be-coming a member of UTOPIA. Vineyard decided to become a non-pledging member for now, which means they will be a part of UTOPIA but UTOPIA does not need to ensure Vineyard Vine-yard will have fiber-optic connections con-nections until they are pledging pledg-ing members. UTOPIA had to place notice of Vineyard becoming a non-pledging non-pledging member on its Web site for seven days for Vineyard Vine-yard to become a non-pledging member. On the July 25 meeting agenda, agen-da, Vineyard will notify and give information to anyone who wants it, that it is now a non-pledging non-pledging member of UTOPIA. Neighborhoods in Action have come together to assist the three designated neighborhoods in the beetle infested zone with information in-formation and new ways to get fresh garden items. "Through Neighborhoods in Action, we'll fill both needs," she said. For more information about Orem's Share the Harvest program, pro-gram, contact Joyce Johnson at 229-7194. last week, the Hancocks asked if they could use our home as a base while they took care of the business of planning for the funeral. I don't think we had planned on attending the funeral initially, but it became clear as we spent our evenings eve-nings with Darrell and Becky that our place on Thursday was in that church. And so we went and learned a lot about Milo Price, who had lived in Lindon the last six years or so of his life. He was buried the following day in Idaho Falls. Like many of his generation, he spent his life doing various things. He learned TV repair in the early days of television, taught electron ics in high school, learned to repair electronic organs and so ended up owning the Music Center in Twin Falls, Idaho, before he retired. He served in many positions in his church, including service as executive secretary for five consecutive regional representatives of the LDS Church in this area. Music was something of a family passion. Becky plays piano beautifully, as does her daughter. Milo's son, Kevin, owns Heritage Music in Orem. Which brings us back to Mont Call. After Mont left the newspaper, he kicked around for a while as a graphic artist. I'd run into him from time to time and he was designing design-ing trophies and plaques for one company or designing product labels for a local herbal supplement company. But he continued to perform contemporary rock and blues music around the area, and had adopted the stage name Leon Blue for his performances. per-formances. His love of music led him, eventually, eventu-ally, to Heritage Music where he sells guitars and operates the business's small recording studio. That's how he knew Kevin Price, and his father, Milo. So after several years, very different routes had brought us, for a brief time, to the same place, and for the same reason to lend support sup-port to the living. Pesticide Continued from Page 1 contractor TruGreen Chem-Lawn, Chem-Lawn, residents can use Sevin and still be able to eat their produce, said state entomologist en-tomologist Ed Bianco. "It's relatively about as safe as you can get," he said. Instructions about Sevin are being distributed to residents who elect to use it or they can contact state agricultural department or county health department officials for more information, informa-tion, Bianco said. Residents are still being asked by agriculture department depart-ment and Utah State University Univer-sity Extension officials to discontinue vegetable gardens gar-dens this year and during the next couple of summers because the beetles are attracted at-tracted to the plants. Lewis said this summer's Orem beetle sprayings are entering the campaign's final fi-nal phase. In the first phase, pesticide crews treated about 450 acres of turf with Merit pesticide. The next phase consists of two separate sepa-rate sprayings of pesticides applied to trees, shrubs and foliage to kill the beetle in its adult stage. It's relatively about as safe as you can get. Larry Lewis UTAH DEPARTMENT OF AG. The process should be complete this week, Lewis said, though windy conditions condi-tions have interrupted the sprayings before. Bianco said crews should begin catching the beetles in yellow and green traps throughout the infested area of Orem in significant numbers as the adult beetles are just beginning to surface and feed on vegetation. "The application should be doing its job in the next couple of days," he said. Adrian Hinton, a USU Extension Ex-tension agent in Utah County, Coun-ty, said, as of last week, 480 Japanese beetles have been counted in traps located in the Orem area. Only one beetle has been trapped outside of the Orem infestation area, he said. "Ninety-nine point nine percent of Japanese beetles lay their eggs in grass," he said. "If there's one pregnant preg-nant female, we've missed that spot." Richard Manning, Orem's assistant manager, said the Japanese beetle eradication campaign in Orem is currently cur-rently the largest such effort in the nation, as opposed to programs in already-infested areas of the country to control con-trol the insect's populations. For more information about having Sevin sprayed on your property instead of Merit, call Clint Burfitt at 801-5384912. Primary Continued from Page I by Utah County because of the inclusion of the school voucher referendum, and will have the type of electronic elec-tronic equipment used last November. "I'm hoping the biggest question our citizens will have is why we are doing different (systems) between our primary and our general gener-al elections not confusion on how to use the equipment," equip-ment," she said. If voters are not confident, confi-dent, and feel intimidated by the electronic voting equipment, equip-ment, "they have the right to ask for a paper ballot," Weaver said. One element that will not differ in the two elections is the polling locations. "We are using the same polling locations the county is," said Weaver. "... So if a voter figures out where to be for the primary, they should be OK for the general gen-eral election, too." www. heraldextra .com yellowpages pOC |