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Show IN OREM AND VINEYARD IT a 41 x irx y i n iau I T I 0 N THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2007 50 CENTS BUILDING COMMUNITY Or SCHOOLS: Foothill tills teachers quota just in lime TOWH HALL: Meet the City Council candidates SPORTS: MV, THS football pick up first wins Business DREAM DINNERS AIM AT MAKING LIFE EASIER Orem to allow hillside school letters eva Bowen NORTH COUNTY STAFF Timpanogos High School will be getting its "T" on the hillside. The Orem City Council voted Tuesday to enact a section of City Code pertaining to "hillside high school letter signs." The new law will permit any high school in Orem to place a one-letter sign on the hillside above the city, for special events, on a temporary tem-porary basis. Regulations state the signs can be displayed for as long as seven days on a designated parcel of city-owned property. Aaron Barth, a recent graduate of THS, made the application to change the city's laws to allow the hillside signs. Requests for scheduling a display must be made 30 days in advance. During City Council discussion, Councilman Council-man Les Campbell expressed a number of concerns he had about the proposal, including maintenance and repair costs, liability and scheduling issues. "Orem City is a city of three high schools," Campbell said. "How do we get fairness and equity in the use of that? We need to make sure the other two high schools (Orem and Mountain View) feel ownership." Councilwoman Karen McCandless said illumination il-lumination on the site had not been addressed and expressed a concern with the fire hazard. She suggested each school could post a bond for trash pick-up. "I think these kids just want to have fun," said Councilman Dean Dickerson. "And 1 don't want to kill it. I don't think 1'nrin favor of a bond. The consequence will be, if they do not take care of it well, they will lose the privilege (of having the sign). Let these kids See LETTERS, Page 2 Loss of tree like death in the family' v a I V r Nfe f 14 JT I JEREMY HARMONDaily Herald Work crews remove a large tree that fell over on Hidden Hollow Drive in Orem on Monday. Storm topples 100-year-old tree in Orem Joe Pyrah DAILY HERALD A Utah County centenarian, a member of Dave Doering's family, died Sunday from a unrecoverable fall. The good news is that it didn't go through Linda Nichols's front window. The nearly 80-foot -tall cottonwood tree went down around 8 p.m. Sunday during dur-ing a wind storm. Shortly before the fall, Doering noticed that his lawn had risen 6 inches, courtesy of the tree's emerging root system. He ran inside to call the city then heard an "incredible explosion." In the light of Monday morning, just how close the Nicholses came to tragedy was clear: Thick branches were just inches from a large front room window while the top of the tree just missed second-story windows. The tree did manage to snag a string of icicle Christmas lights on the way down. Nichols said when she heard a noise like an earthquake in her front yard, it was no surprise what had caused the commotion. The massive cottonwood tree had always leaned toward her home, she said. As the noise continued for ajmost 30 seconds, sec-onds, Nichols said she ran to make sure her children were safe and was relieved to find that her family was unhurt and no damage had occurred to her home. "I knew it was that tree, and 1 was thinking think-ing I would find a big hole in my roof," Nichols said. Doering and his family moved into the home nine years ago with their eyes on the tree. "We were very proud. We thought we had this heirloom, this piece of Orem history," histo-ry," he said. "It's like a death in the family." A Closer Look: Orem City Council candidate profiles Michael Rigert and Reva Bowen NORTH COUNTY STAFF With a field of 12 candidates vying for three open Orem City Council seats on the Sept. 11 municipal primary pri-mary election ballot, the Orem Times will be helping residents get to know each one a little better with a series of candidate profiles over the next two weeks. Residents filing for the office include: Margaret Black, Steve Hemingway, Carl Hernandez, Edward See CANDIDATES, Page 2 Orem to give 'limited' water to Vineyard Reva Bowen NORTH COUNTY STAFF Orem and Vineyard have come to terms on an agreement that will have Orem providing "limited" water services ser-vices to Vineyard for 50 years, with Vineyard paying its own way. The Orem City Council OK'd the agreement Tuesday. The contract will end on June 30, 2057. Vineyard mayor Randy Farnworth was present at the Orem City Council meeting when the agreement was approved, ap-proved, but did not speak. Major points of the agreement as outlined in the meeting agenda are: Vineyard will provide 35 acre-feet of its own water for its citizens and Orem will deliver the water through its carriage system. On an annual basis, Orem and or the Metropolitan Water District of Orem will provide up to 3,500 acre-feet of water in 500 acre-foot increments to Vineyard. Orem will convey water on behalf of Vineyard through the Orem water system to a minimum of three metered connections located at approximately 1900 W. 400 South, Geneva Road and Center Street, and 400 North Geneva See WATER, Page 2 r Briefing JEREMY HARMON U.ulv Hcmkl Two views of the moon urc seen during a lunar eclipse which happened curly Tuesday morning. The image on the left uw shot at approximately 2:.r7 a.m. and the image on the right was shot at approximately ::2Xu.m. This is the first lime a lunur eclipse has been visible from Utah since 2(104. Another eclipse will not be visible from I'luh until 2010. OREM OFFICERS SAVE WOMAN FROM SUICIDE ATTEMPT A woman who attempted suicide by jumping off a bridge is alive, thanks to two Orem po lice officers. Officers Chris Watson and Delwin Davis jumped into the Provo River and were able to pull the uncon scious woman out of the water before she drowned. A 25-year-old man called Orem police at 5:4! a.m. Saturday to report that his 25-year-old wife had su perficially cut her wrists and attempted to swallow a handful of Tylenol, according to Orem police spokes man Lt. Doug Edwards. The woman left the couple's home on foot with her husband following. The husband then told police that his wife was threatening to jump off the bridge over the Provo River Riv-er at 800 South, near Carterville Road, Edwards said. Davis arrived to find the husband leaning over the side of the bridge, holding his wife's hand to keep her from falling. Before the officer could reach the couple, the woman slipped from her husband's giasp and fell 15 20 feet into the river. Watson ran to the river bank and dove into the water, still wearing his gun belt and other equipment, Edwards said. He reached the woman, who was unconscious. un-conscious. Davis arrived at the scene, and the two officers pulled the woman out of the river. The woman was taken to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo. TWO BOMB THREATS CALLED IN TO OREM GROCERY - If your first bomb threat doesn't sue ceed, try again. That's what one man did when he called in two bomb threats in three hours loan Orem grocery slore. Officers responded to Macey's Food & Drug at 880 N. State St. after a suspect called in a bomb threat at 4:31 a.m. At 7:10 a.m., after a search of the store turned up nothing unusual, the suspect called in a second threat, according to Orem police spokesman Lt. Doug Edwards. Edwards said it was "very unusual" for someone to make multiple bomb threats to the same place in such a short period of time. The suspect told a Macey's employee to gather the store's cash and put it on the front desk when he made his first threat, Edwards said. Managers evacuated the store and officers of-ficers sounded the all clear around 6:30 a m. Less than an hour later, officers returned to the store and evacuated it again. The scene was cleared around 8:45 a.m. Edwards said police have no sus pects. 18TH ANNUAL TIMPANOGOS STORYTELLING FESTIVAL The annual Orem tradition kicks off Thursday night with "Look Who s Talkin'" and continues contin-ues Friday and Saturday with full days of storytelling, entertainment, food and workshops. Featured national tellers at this year's Festival include: in-clude: Patrick Ball, Mitch Capel, Charlie Chin, Donald Davis, Elizabeth Ellis, Beth Horner, Dan Keding, Bobby Norfolk, Carol Russell, and The Storycrafters. Tickets are available online at www.timpfest.org, by phone at 229-7436, in person at the Orem Public Library, or at the Festival itself. Go to the Web site for the full Timpanogos Storytelling Festival schedule. EARLY DEADLINE - Due to the Labor Day holiday, the deadline for turning in wedding, anniversary, missionary mis-sionary and other celebration announcements for the Sept. 6 edition will be Aug. 31 at 3 p.m. Celebrations may be submitted via e mail to jesplin'S-heraldextra.com or at the North County Newspaper office at 399 E. State, Pleasant Grove. 6 ""61055 00050' 1 l I, if (me of Qyww Alpine Credit Union has all your back to school fiscal supplies, VISA debits cards, VISA credit cards, checking accounts and personal loans, 1J l(ti 'tmi'.i. I (iMfll) - l Copy |