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Show BUILDING COMMUNITY IN OREM AND VINEYARD THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2008 EDITION 50 CENTS SI SPORTS: UVU joins Great West Conference . T" I business SCHOOL'S OUT: Solar cooking for the summer ir FAMILY TEAMS UP FOR I TOWN HALL: Lindon, Orem partner for services rUn l 'HOLY COW FLIERS Oram main stives for 'graon' ft - tS I MARIO RUIZDaily Herald UVU student Steve Golieb stands for a portrait before recycling Monday. Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFF If you live in an apartment or condominium con-dominium in Orem, chances are you don't have direct access to a blue recycle re-cycle container to deposit your paper, plastics and junk mail. But one Orem man is out to change that. Steve Golieb, a native of New York who graduated from Mountain View High School and is currently attending attend-ing Utah Valley University, became concerned after he learnedhis apartment apart-ment complex, Courtside Condominiums, Condomini-ums, 464 S. 1230 West, doesn't offer recycling to tenants. He requested his apartment managers consider making mak-ing the service available to tenants and even agreed to help pay for a bin, but owners did not respond to his inquiry. If the complex were to sign on to the idea, Golieb found he could even get a recycling bin from Waste Management Man-agement company to serve all 100 units at his apartment complex at a cost of only 49 cents per apartment per month. "Of course I'm more than willing to pay for it," he said. "But I don't think we should have to pay for it. It should be a service offered to tenants." A representative for ProStar Management, the company that owns Courtside Condominiums and other apartment complexes in Orem, couldn't be reached despite several calls for comment. Golieb, an environmental management manage-ment student who saves up his recyclable recy-clable items in a cabinet and takes them once a week to a local business See RECYCLING, Page 2 Adapted T-ball program builds family ties f 1 (, ifeiw-t -siaM-w Q ft n 'Mi "" or "A. f r i ,r . : ' ' ;. , ; CRAIG DILGERDaily Herald Stan Wiscombe pushes his 24-year-old son Michael to first base during a game at the Adapted T-Ball League or children and adults with disabilities'on Saturday, i' . ' Children and adults with various disabilities t&ke to the baseball field RevaBdweh NORTH COUNTY STAFF The hazy blue morning sky heralds a July day that is not yet hot, but will become so. Families and friends of the team players gather at the Westmore Elementary ball field, carrying "survival" equipment of coolers, cool-ers, blankets, and chairs, and staking out spots in the already- ' velcomeshade of a large tree. ; Members of the two teams, designated by bright red or royal blue T-shirts, begin warm-ups warm-ups teeing up a ball and taking tak-ing swipes at it, tossing a ball, or quietly kneading a leather glove. The last adapted T-ball game of the six-game season is about to begin. "Kids" of all ages, with varying vary-ing handicaps, participate in the program, sponsored by the Orem Recreation Center. The players are from cities around Utah Valley. ' Peggy Cloward, a job coach for Alpine Transition Education Center, who also works with the recreation center, said she got her kids into the program "because "be-cause it's so much fun." "You know, the kids look forward to it," Cloward said. "It builds their association with each other, and increases their self-confidence... Neighbors and the whole family come to watch. It's just fun." In this world of adapted T-ball, T-ball, kindness, encouragement, enthusiastic snouts of support from spectators, opportunity, friendship, and fun are fore-See fore-See T-BALL, Page 2 High prices may delay future road projects Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFF Soaring oil prices arent only hurting people at the pump and at the supermarket with higher food prices based on transportation transpor-tation costs, they soon may be affecting the very streets and roads Orem residents drive on. That's because asphalt for paving pav-ing roads is a petroleum-based product that along with gasoline, has seen its market selling price escalate to new heights in recent months. While in January, asphalt as-phalt was going for about $350 a ton, the price today is $850 a ton. Nile Easton, a Utah Department Depart-ment of Transportation spokesman, spokes-man, explained that asphalt is created at oil refineries with the "bottom of the barrel" remnants of the oil process following fuel, plastics and other products. It's then combined with solids for paving roads. With the cost of oil at about $140 a barrel, refineries are processing pro-cessing as much oil as humanly possible leaving less product for asphalt production. Steve Weber, maintenance division di-vision manager in Orem's public works department, said increasing increas-ing asphalt prices in the last couple cou-ple of years have affected city road projects and repairs. On July 7, he learned from a supplier that asphalt costs could still increase another 30 percent. "The price of oil is constantly going up and recently it's even gotten worse," Weber said. The net effect of higher material mate-rial costs to repave and provide maintenance to Orem's streets, he said is that the city has essentially es-sentially the same annual budget as previous years but is able to complete fewer project each year than planned. Orem gets approximately $2.5 million each year in state gasoline gaso-line sales tax revenue, the bulk of which is used on large street reconstruction and summer road maintenance programs. "If we have 15 repavement overlays to do, now only 10 to 11 get done," he said. "Projects we were hoping in 2007 to have done now we're now looking at 2009-2010." In 2006, rising asphalt prices resulted in Orem's new public See ASPHALT, Page 2 Community Briefing TALENT SEARCH - The Orem Arts Council is seeking seek-ing entries from Orem residents specializing in various art forms such as visual art, pottery, sculpting, wood turning, stained glass, photography, quilting, silver smithing, fly tying, or other fine works tor the first annual an-nual Arts in the Park. The event will be held Aug. 18 from 3:00 p.m. until dark at the SCERA Park prior to the Utah Symphony concert scheduled that evening at the SCERA Shell. For details and registration call: 801-224-4315 or 801-592-6034. PROVO-OREM RAPID TRANSIT EIS TO HOLD PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE - The Federal Transit Administration, Ad-ministration, Utah Transit Authority, and Mountainland Association of Governments, in cooperation with the Utah Department of Transportation, will prepare an Alternatives AnalysisEnvironmental Impact Statement for transit and roadway improvements in Utah County. The potential improvements will serve transit markets mar-kets that include Brigham Young University, Utah Valley University, existing and planned student housing, retail malls', several employment centers, historic downtown Provo, and two major regional intermodal centers. The project team will be conducting an open house at the Provo City Library in room 309 - Bullock room, on Wednesday, July 30 from 7-8 p.m. The open house will allor residents of Provo and Orem to learn more about the project and to comment on project alternatives. The feedback regarding these concepts will assist the project team in identifying transit solutions that fit the needs of these communities. For more information regarding the project, please visit the project Web Site at www.provo-oremrapidtran-sit.ihfo or contact the"oonsultant teSrn at provo'-orem-rapidtransithwlochner.com or (801) 262-8700. You may also contact Chad Eccles, the project manager, at cecclesmountainland.org or call 801.229.3824. PUPPET BASICS - " ft V I - MARIO RUIZDaily Herald Librarian Mark Pulham teaches some basic principles of puppetry including holdingyour puppet at the right height to more than one hundred children who came to the Renaissance Kids program Tuesday. FATAL COLLISION - A Salt Lake City man was struck and killed by a vehicle in Lindon after he ran into the street to ask directions of another driver, according to Lindon police. According to Lindon police spokesman Sgt. Doug Eastman, 50-year-old Dimitre Gudjenov, who worked for a Salt Lake City-based trucking company, pulled over to the north side of Geneva Road, just south of 200 South, around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday. He got out of his truck and ran over to a tow truck that was waiting at the red light in the left-hand lane to ask directions, Eastman said, and was hit by a Jeep Cherokee after inadvertently in-advertently running back toward his truck after the light turned green. He was pronounced dead at Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem. Eastman said Gudjenov likely did not realize that the light had turned green. Witnesses said he darted out in front of the Jeep, and the driver did not have time to stop before hitting him, Eastman said. It is unlikely that any charges will be filed in the accident, ac-cident, Eastman said. STORY TIME - Laugh along with the entire family Monday as The Timp Tellers recount hilarious tales of family mishaps and parenting woes in an engaging evening of family stories titled "Tales of Parenting and Other Natural Disasters." The event is free at the Orem City Public Library storytelling sto-rytelling wing and begins at 7 p.m. More information is available at 229-7161. TASTE OF THE VALLEY - The Orem Provo Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce is co-sponsoring the 17th annual "Taste of the Valley" on July 24 from 12-3 p.m. One of Utah Valley's most popular events, Taste of the Valley offers area restaurants a chance to showcase their cuisine to the community at the historic. Utah County Courthouse campus. Cost for this event is $8 per person or $30 for family of four. Purchase tickets at the Chamber office, 51 S. University Uni-versity Ave., Suite 21 5, in advance or pay at the door. ' 6 IM,61055 00050"" 8 |