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Show Thursday, September 4, 2008 OREM TIMES NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED STORYTELLING FESTIVAL V'S ? A -A v' I ' r Mi. , - ,' - ; : - - , . - , a , A' ' , .KA ;- ' ' r I a- A v.- Myfu--;v 5v ', . - -: S v' ' 5 'w, '""fir' J C r ' yjl) J 1 i CELIA TOBINDaily Herald Eagan Smith, 7, looks to her sister, Keisa, 9, as the girls participate in mix of song, story and puppeteering during the 19th Annual Timpanogos Storytelling Festival at Mt. Timpanogos Park in Provo Canyon Saturday. The festival which ran Thursday through Saturday, featured musicians, puppeteers, vendors and stage performances by some of the world's greatest storytellers. Proposed shelters Stops l: 1660 N. State St. mm Slaw 9. N. Sure St. 375 S. Sure Si ME5S.SMB9t Continued from Page 1 West side 763 N. State (near Walgreens) 20 S. State (near Burger King) 410 S. State (near Osmond Real Estate) 842 S. State (near Walgreens) East side 1660 N. State (near Stock Building Supply) 1248 N. State (near Sun River Gardens) 452 N. State (near Apollo Burger) 56 N. State (near the City Center) Cen-ter) I 375 S. State (near the auto re pair shop) 785 S. State (near Maverik gas station) Orem is looking at customizing the shelters, if possible, by using the green color found in the city's streetlights. Officials are trying to determine if the color can be done as an anodized, lifetime application applica-tion that does not need repeated repainting and if the color can be done at a reasonable price. Another Anoth-er option is to have signs made by the city and installed on the shelter panels. "There is a high usage, I think, of the bus stops along State Street by UTA users," Goodrich said. "Providing benches and shelters is a good service to those who are already using the system. ... It's a nice place to get out of the weather." Providing benches and shelters is a good service to those who are already using the system. ...It's a nice place to get out of the weather. Paul Goodrich OREM TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS 399 E. Stale St Pleasant Grove Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 Marc Haddock 443 3268 North County Editor mhaddock heraldextra com Cathy Allred 443 3262 Lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. Grove callred heraldextra .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 DAILY HERALD PUBLISBIKG CO. 1 Josh Walker 443-3260 Advertising Account Executive jwalkerheraldextra.com Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager Megan Carieton 344-2558 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Allison Davies 344-2570 ! DesignerCopy Editor Ashley Franscell 344-2585 Photographer Volume 135 Issue 37 Orem Times Daily Herald Edition. USPS 411-700 a uveekly newspaper published at 399 E State St., PleasarnGrove. Utah 84063 Periodicals postage para at Pleasant Grove. Utah 84062 and at additional mailing offices. Poetmaater. Send address changes to Orem Times, PO. Box 65, Orem, Utah 84059-0065 Published Thursdays by Lee Publications, which is a division o! Lee Enterprises, Inc Manitiw: Audit Bureau ol Circulations Timp Cave draws tourists t Ihere is a reason Timpanogos Cave is one of Utah County's top tourist des- I I tinations. I I In a state rich with natu- II ral resources, including five LI national parks, three national nation-al recreation areas and eight national monuments, Timpanogos Cave is the one closest to the Wasatch Front, and its most accessible. And while the one-and-a4ialf mile trail to the mouth of the cave is a ' steep climb gaining over 1,000 feet in elevation it is paved and patrolled. A recent trip to the cave found the trail busy with people of all ages. Senior Se-nior citizens were common, as were infants and toddlers in backpacks. One brave grandfather was there with four young granddaughters, the oldest was probably about six. Sharon and I went there with two of our grandsons, Scott, 9, and Toby, 7. Scott had been asking to visit the cave all summer. I've been to the cave several times. The first was in 1980 when I was scoutmaster for a Boy Scout troop from K earns. We spend the night at Little Mill Campground and then came back down the canyon to tour Timpanogos. What I remember most about that experience experi-ence was panicking as the Scouts started back down the trail, running fast even though they'd been told that walking fast was the most the leaders would tolerate. They all beat us to the bottom of the trail. This most recent visit was a treat. We had no timetable, so we could take the trail at our leisure. The folks who run the cave tour recommend recom-mend hikers plan 90 minutes for the hike, but I doubt many hikers take that long. We made it in about 45 minutes. That was with Scott who is a gymnast and trains several sev-eral hours each week leading the way and Toby, who has short legs, bring up the rear and warning us about every 10 minutes that he probably wasnt going to make it and we should just leave him for dead along the trail. That meant we had enough time to catch our breath at the top before our tour. Marc Ellison, one of the tour guides, was nice enough to entertain en-tertain the boys while we waited, pointing out the fossils on the rocks near the cave entrance. IS?! Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN The kids loved the caves, which draw a surprisingly sur-prisingly diverse audience. We had families from Guatemala and Honduras along on our tour. And while I don't usually like enclosed places, the cave tour has always been a lot of fun. Even though you know the tour is safe and hundreds of thousands of people have passed this way without incident, there is something about being deep underground in the cool of the cave, surrounded by fantastic formations and the sound of dripping water, that makes you feel like you are entering uncharted territory. My favorite story about the cave involved the Great Heart of Timpanogos, the giant stalactite near the end of the tour. For years, this formation was backlit with a red light to simulate the color of an actual heart. Some years ago, the red light was replaced with a more natural light by the National Park Service because it didn't reflect the actual color of the f ormatioa But the red light is back because local cave visitors complained about changes in what they considered the "historic" cave tour with which they had grown up. The highlight of the trip down was some poor guy who found the hike too strenuous. He was hying on the trail, surrounded by his friends and attended by rangers. Toby was fascinated, and dawdled down the trail until the rangers passed him carrying the man to the bottom of the trail, where he stood up and walked into the waiting ambulance. It made you think twice about the warnings at the trailhead about being in good shape be-" fore attempting the climb. Timpanogos Cave will be open weekends now through October, when it closes for the winter. If it's been a while since your last visit, or you've never seen the cave, now would be a great time to visit. Reservations are recommended. Our neighbors neigh-bors went without a reservation and found they faced a three-hour wait before they could begin hiking the trail. For information, see www.nps.govtica or call 756-5238. Big Read Continued from Page l for conversations regarding life's most meaningful activities," activi-ties," she said. "To Kill a Mockingbird' demands the reader confront social situations that remain deeply relevant and resonant today," Stevens said. "Its pages contain truths about community, socioeconomic status, identity, difference, and tolerance." Rex Ellis, a featured national storyteller at last week's Timpanogos Storytelling Story-telling Festival in Orem and a vice president at Colonial Williamsburg, will kick off The Big Read events on Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. at the library with his presentation of "Return to Maycomb," stories and songs from the time period of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and a display dis-play of historical documents that provide context for understanding un-derstanding the novel Fiction and storytelling have a way of creating greater understanding of and appreciation for individuals of varying backgrounds and experiences, he said. "I have seen bridges built with storytelling that invites listeners and tellers to unite in ways that are more potent than a town meeting and more healing than a therapy session," Ellis said. "It's pretty hard to hate someone whose story you know." The library received two grants totaling $15,000 used to provide over 3,000 free copies of "To Kill a Mock-i ingbird" to Orem residents, to cover the cost of printing, postage, and to cover presenter pre-senter expenses. This year's program will introduce "Mockingbird for Teens" activities for teenage readers every Tuesday at 3 p.m. Compliments of Barnes & Noble Booksellers, prizes including in-cluding free book giveaways will be held at The Big Read activities at the Orem library throughout the program's run. If you go... What: The Big Read featuring fea-turing Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." Free copies cop-ies of the book are available avail-able to Orem residents while supplies last at the Orem Public Library. When: Sept. 8-Oct. 17 at the Orem Public Library, 56 N. State Street (see event schedule at orembigread. org) Information: Go online to orembigread.org, call Lori Stevens at the library at 229-7175 or e-mail her at lastevensorem.org. Towers Continued from Page I project due to slow preleas-ing preleas-ing activity and high construction con-struction costs. After going back to the drawing board, the one-time $22 to $24 million project was redesigned as a smaller $15 to $19 million five-story building with 78,000 square-feet square-feet of space, Dodge said. "It is not related to the credit crisis or financing. We just want to be careful and make sure it's not going go-ing to be another Midtown Village," project developer Tom Bankhead said previously. previ-ously. Construction on Mid-town Mid-town Village halted earlier this year as the housing slump and credit crunch took a toll on sales of its luxury condos, and the project proj-ect owner stopped paying its general contractors and subcontractors. Because developers downsized down-sized the size of the building, build-ing, Dodge said that made land and space available for nearly 18,000 square-feet of retail space and restaurants., restau-rants., "There's space for 18 to 20 retail units on the front. We'll be targeting some nice retail developments that will compliment the office building," build-ing," Dodge said. "In that area, there's not a whole lot of selection of where to eat lunch." He said developers envision envi-sion anywhere from three to five higher-end eating establishments es-tablishments at Broadmoor Towers along the lines of Magleby's Fresh. One of the project's key anchors, Security Metrics, has already signed on to lease the entire second floor of the project and developers develop-ers are in negotiations with two or three other perspective perspec-tive anchor tenants for either ei-ther half or full floor spaces. Each floor is approximately 15,000 square feet and tenants ten-ants can lease full, half or quarter floor spaces. |