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Show Thursday, September 13, 2007 0 R E M TIMES Page 3 ' j, '- -4 A NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED Brush fire reminds residents fire season isn't over yet Jeremy Duda DAILY HERALD Several Orem residents breathed a sigh of relief Monday Mon-day evening after firefighters were able to contain a brush fire before it reached their homes. Though the massive, record-setting record-setting blazes that characterized character-ized Utah's summer have mostly subsided, Provo and Orem got a reminder that the fire season isn't over yet. A brush fire broke out around 4 p.m. in a small ravine along the old Carterville Road walking walk-ing path where 4800 North in Provo turns into Orem Center Street. Fueled by thick, dry vegetation, vegeta-tion, the flames crept up the west side of the ravine toward an Orem neighborhood, but firefighters were able to keep it from spreading. During a summer when fire damage has often been measured in thousands thou-sands of acres, Monday's fire burned about 100 square yards at most, according to Battalion Chief Kevin Kemp of the Orem Election Continued from Page 1 We'll know for sure on the 18th at the canvass." Weaver said she would be very surprised, however, if the final results turned out differently. dif-ferently. "I just appreciate everyone every-one that has confidence in me," said Black, expressing gratitude for supporters who helped her in her campaign. "I will work very hard to be a good council member, and to do well in the general election. There is still a lot of work to do." "It's been a great experience experi-ence for a first time," said Long Continued from Page 1 Manning a M240 machine gun on the turret of the fourth Humvee in the convoy, Long, 42, a seasoned sergeant first class, sensed something was amiss. "We were going about 35 mph and I was thinking 'C'mon, let's get this going,'" he said as he saw an SUV approach ap-proach that seemed to be going go-ing "way too slow." Long had no way of know NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS 399 E. State St. Pleasant Grove Marc Haddock 443-3268 North County Editor mhaddockheraldextra.com Cathy Allred 443-3262 Lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. Grove callredheraldextra.com Barbara Christiansen 443-3264 American Fork, Alpine, Cedar Hills bchristiansenheraldextra.com Mike Rigert 443-3265 Orem, Vineyard mrigertheraldextra.com Beky Beaton 443-3267 Sports bbeatonheraldextra.com Josh Walker 443 3260 Advertising Account Executive jwalker heraldextra .com Volume 134 Orem Times Daily Herald Edition, USPS 411-700, a weekly newspaper published at 399 E. State St., Pleasant Grove. Utah 84063. Periodicals postage paid at Pleasant Grove, Utah 84062 and at additional mailing oHces, Postmaster: Send address changes to Orem Times, P0 Box 65, Orem, Utah 84059-0065. Published Thursdays by Lee Publications, which is a division ol Lee Enterprises, Inc. Member: Audit Bureau ol Circulations . liif II v - . ,. - m. Fire Department. "It could've been a big deal but I think we made a pretty good stop on it and protected those structures," Kemp said. "This stuff's diy. It's been a dry year. We're always concerned con-cerned about that thick vegetation." vegeta-tion." With the flames nearly straddling the dividing line between Provo and Orem, firefighters fire-fighters from both cities helped fight the blaze. Kemp said six engine companies and about 30 firefighters took part in the effort. Vic Deauvono of the North Fork Fire Department, who was at the scene to observe in case his department's 2,000-gallon 2,000-gallon tanker was needed, said he suspected that the blaze was manmade. Deauvono, who lives in the area, said there have been three or four fires near there over the past few years caused by firecrackers firecrack-ers and cigarettes, and said Monday's fire was likely due to similar causes. "It looks manmade to me," he said. Seastrand. He and Black both came to their council seats by appointment, and are now defending those seats as they run for election. "It's been a lot of work. I've met a lot of people, and had a lot of discussions. The (Meet the Candidates) meeting the other night was great. I'm happy to be here." Vote totals for Hernandez and Sumner were close all evening long, with the two candidates exchanging third and fourth place slots in the balloting frequently. "We have been trying to get the word out the best we could, using brochures, and going door-to-door," said Hernandez, adding that he ing the suicide bomber at the wheel of the SUV was about to careen into his Humvee with an improvised explosive device aboard. "I heard a boom, I saw fire and felt an intense, excruciating excruciat-ing pain," Long said. "I knew I was on fire." Knowing he had to get himself him-self out of the vehicle or die, he struggled to free himself from the fireball that had consumed con-sumed his Humvee. Composite parts of his machine gun had completely melted away in the explosion. ) Phone:756-7669 Fax:756-5274 DAILY HERALD PUBLISHING CO. UIAU Jennette Esplin 756-7669 Office Manager Julia Fullmer 344 2570 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Megan Carleton 3442570 DesignerCopy Editor Ashley Franscell 344-2585, Photographer Issue 87 - ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald Firefighters put out a brush fire which started Monday afternoon near Old Carterville Road in Orem. Both Provo and Orem fire departments were on the scene to put it out Joan Lloyd remembers one of those fires. Lloyd's house on 50 South in Orem sits alongside along-side the edge of the ravine. Five years ago another blaze erupted in the same spot, she said, but crept close enough anticipates he will continue going out into the community to meet people as the general election nears. As the owner and publisher of the Orem-Geneva Times for over 30 years, Sumner has had considerable experience covering City Council elections elec-tions and meetings as a newspaper news-paper man. Asked what it has been like being a candidate, he said, "A little different. A little different. It's a little more nerve-wracking on this side. I had no idea it was so much work." Whimpey said his campaign cam-paign has included putting out lawn signs, hanging door flyers, parking a yellow Hummerlarge Hum-merlarge trailer with a sign "I noticed some skin hanging hang-ing off my hands, the sleeves were off my shirt and I was still smoking," Long said. "That's when I realized, T think I'm hurt.' " Long and Faatoafe, who was struck in the helmet by a piece of shrapnel from the blast, were whisked by helicopter heli-copter back to Kandahar for medical treatment. The shrapnel shrap-nel had pierced Faatoaf e's helmet, but only resulted in a concussion and some bruising. Physicians found Long had a shrapnel wound on his shoul Bear Lake is for r m ore than ever, Bear Lake is becoming the place people from the Wasatch Front go to play. But not after La bor Day. And with good reason, as we found out when we spent a week at the Ideal Beach Resort. Our Labor Day arrival coincided with the last day of the first Bear Lake Parade of Homes. Actually, it should have been called the Parade of Summer Homes, because that's the season most people come here to play, and not many of the folks who live here could afford the homes on display. We arrived in the valley about 4 p.m., just as the Parade of Homes was closing up shop, so we didn't get to visit any of the homes on the show, but my brother, broth-er, who still lives in Montpelier, went and saw some of them. Our family presence in Bear Lake goes way back, all the way to 1865, when Brigham Young sent the Haddocks and the Dunns, who had just arrived from England, to the valley to settle it. They must have thought they'd been sent to something like Hell, only much colder. In fact, J. Golden Kimball, who claimed he picked up his bad language as a youth working work-ing as a mule skinner in Paris Canyon, is supposed sup-posed to have told the Bear Lake saints, when speaking from the pulpit in the Paris Tabernacle Taber-nacle as a General Authority, that people who lived in the Bear Lake Valley would never have to go to the infernal pit because they had already been there. My ancestors probably heard that speech, and they would have understood that he was talking about people who lived there year round. At the time, few people came to stay just for the summer. Certainly not enough for a home show. That pretty much all started when I was a kid, and cars and highways made it easy for people like my uncle from Logan to build cabins on the beach and then visit them every weekend. We used to visit there several 1 - ! i ! to burn part of her neighbor's roof. During that fire, Lloyd said she sprayed flames with a hose and ended up with singed clothes and burnt lawn furniture. furni-ture. Kevin Lloyd, Joan Lloyd's at various locations in the community, and knocking on doors to "hear people out." He has found residents most concerned about issues involving involv-ing neighborhood preservation preserva-tion and Orem having its own school district. Sitake seesawed back and forth in the voting totals with former Orem fire chief Gary Wise during the night, but moved ahead in the end. "I'm looking forward to the challenge," Sitake said. "I'm grateful for the chance, and appreciate all the support from everyone my wife, family, and friends. It means a lot." der, a small puncture on his right forearm, and deep second-degree second-degree burns on the backs of his hands, his arms, face and forehead. Along with his helmet and uniform, Long had been wearing fire-resistant Nomex gloves, goggles, sunglasses and a communications headset. "Doctors said if I didn't have the gloves on 'You probably would have lost your hands,' " he said, and that without the headset, his ears would have been burned off. Faatpafe also received a Purple Heart, which is given Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN times a sum- winter rxxm in son, said they were fortunate that the flames did not spread as far this time. "I could see smoke going everywhere," ev-erywhere," he said. "It's a good thing (the firefighters) got here early enough." Election results Registered voters 48,691 Turnout - 6,000 (honest) Pet. - 12.3 Margaret Black - 3,704 Mark Seastrand - 2,906 Carl Hernandez 2,555 Brent Sumner - 2,323 Michael Whimpey 1,596 Tom Fifita Sitake - 1,110 Gary Wise - 983 Ron McDonald - 760 Derek Whetten - 356 Dan Wright - 283 Steve Hemingway 222 Edward Lalone 100 to those killed or wounded in battle. Benton called in a medical helicopter for the men after securing the area. Long spent months recovering recover-ing in Germany and Texas. He will retire from the Reserve next week. He will, however, be back to his normal job as an Orem police detective. "I had my new boss come up to me and say, 'Vacation's over, pal,'" Long said. I Michael Rigert aso contributed to this story. summer mer, and he always tried to talk my father into buying land there. But Dad lacked the disposable income, and we missed out on the property boom that started in the 1960s and is still going strong today. to-day. My brother told me he had visited vis-ited a variety of homes near the lake, ranging from around $.'500,000 to well over $1 million. These are nice homes, but the fact is most eople who buy them are not looking for a residence, just some place to go during the three summer months when Bear Lake Valley is hospitable. Once September hits, any day on the lake is a gamble. The day after the home show ended, pretty much everyone packed up their stuff and went home. Many stores were closed. Many others were operating on limited hours. We had varied weather throughout the week, including the windstorm that blew through Utah County on Tuesday. The lake was still pretty warm, but it was often windy. And the air temperature ranged from cold to warm, but never got to hot. Saturday, by the way, was perfect for jet skiing and playing on the beach and the family fam-ily we had gathered that day had a great time. But it was clear the season was over, and folks who buy those nice "cabins" will only use them a few months a year. There are things you can do around Bear Lake in the winter. Beaver Mountain ski resort re-sort is only about 20 miles away, and there art-lots art-lots of places to snowmobile. But Bear Uike in winter Is dismal and foreboding ... and very, very cold. I know. I spent my first 19 winters there. There are plans to make the area more attractive at-tractive for longer stays two 18-hole golf courses have been announced, and one group wants to build a winter sports resort above Bloomington. Most folks in the valley don't think it will come to much, but if I had some disposable income, I might be willing to chance on a new the place I used to call home. Politics Continued from Page 1 and issues like school vouchers vouch-ers on the November ballot, bal-lot, F.liot Wilcox, the Orem library's general reference associate librarian, said the timing was right for such a series. "The idea was with such a massive year coming up ... we wanted to get people aware of the subjects, aware of the different resources in the community," he said. The political series, "('jetting "('jet-ting Ready to Vote," kicks off Wednesday with a Meet -t he-Candidates night where residents can hear from and ask questions of the six Orem City Council candidates who advanced in Tuesday's primary election including Margaret Black, Carl Hernandez, Mark Seastrand, Sea-strand, Tom l ifita Sitake, Brent Sumner, and Michael Whimpey. On Sept. 20, UVSC president presi-dent William Sederburg, a former state senator, will present "The Political IVocess in Orem: (jetting Involved" and on Sept. 24, Brigham Young University political science professor Quin Monson will talk about "The Top 10 Trends in Utah Politics." All events begin at 7 p.m. in the library's Storytelling Wing. Sandwiched in between these events. Kristin Matthews, Mat-thews, a I5YU American literature lit-erature professor, will offer up an intriguing lecture entitled en-titled "Mutants, Delinquents, and Spies, Oh My! Atomic-Anxiety Atomic-Anxiety in American Film" on Sept . 21. Matthews, who specializes in 20th century literature and culture, and Cold War fiction and film in particular, will take a lx)k at how films during the tense era of potential po-tential nuclear annihilation reflected people's anxieties about the bomb. "When the bomb blew up, people all of sudden were confronted with their own mortality," she said. People thought '"If we can wi)e out the world, who are we as a nation and a culture?" We can see that in everything from B-grade horror flicks to juvenile delinquency films." Matthews will screen clips of everything from Hollywood Holly-wood films to government cartoons during the era. It's her hope that attendees will take a kx)k at the Cold War era through new eyes. "We did bomb drills in school as a kid and a lot of these (college students) have no understanding of why people were so freaked out," she said. i There's also a commonality commonal-ity with the present time in which nuclear proliferation continues, so-called rogue states including North Korea and Iran have their own nuclear nu-clear programs, and nuclear material could be used in the future by terrorists. Wilcox said the series is a way for the library to provide pro-vide access to quality information infor-mation and related materials in its collections. Since the time of Ben franklin, libraries have played a key role in creating literate citizens, Matthews said. In presenting the series. "They're saying it's not just our right but our duty to be literate, but also politically and six:ially literate so we can best direct the shape of this nation," she said. If you go The Orem Public Library's "Getting Ready to Vote" series Sept. 19: Meet the Candidates Can-didates featuring all six Orem City Council finalists Sept. 20: UVSC president William Sederburg presents pres-ents "The Political Process in Orem: Getting Involved" Sept. 21:BYU American Literature professor Kristin Kris-tin Matthews presents "Mutants, Delinquents and Spies, Oh, My! Atomic Anxiety in American Film" Sept. 22: As an encore to Matthews' presentation, there will be a free screening screen-ing of the classic Cold War documentary "The Atomic Cafe" Sept. 24: BYU political science sci-ence professor Quin Monson Mon-son presents "The Top 10 Trends in Utah Politics" Copy |
