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Show Thursday, September 25, 2008 OREM TIMES Page IS New UVU Community Education Educa-tion Fitness Classes Offered As part of the non-profit partnership with Alpine School District, UVU is offering two new fitness community education educa-tion classes in addition to over 120 classes already offered. Strength Training for Women: Do you want to learn the proper techniques and philosophies of strength training? train-ing? This class is specifically designed for women of all ages and fitness levels that want to become more fit and reap the benefits from doing so. This course is held each Tuesday and Thursday from 6- 7 p.m. beginning Oct. 2-28. The course is held at the American Fork Jr. High located at 20 W, 1120 North in American Fork. PIYO: Develop strength, flexibility, balance, and inner awareness by naturally combining com-bining the best of Pilates and Yoga to maximize your workout. work-out. This course is held each Thursday from 7:15-9:15 p.m. beginning Oct. 2 and ending on Oct. 23. The course is held at Amy's Martial Arts located at 104 South State Street in Orem. Costs range from $35 to $65. For more information or to register for these and other community education courses, including youth courses, visit ce.uvsc.educommed or call Sally at (801) 863-8012. UVU to hold biannual internship in-ternship & career fair UVU Career Services & Student Employment (CSSE) will be hosting its biannual Internship & Career Fair Sept. 30 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Sorensen Center Grande Ballroom. Around 70 to 80 employers Careless drivers wony crossing guards AceStryker DAILY HERALD For more than a decade, JoEUen Throckmorton has battled "creepers" and "twof-ers" "twof-ers" in the streets of Orem. Those are industry terms, the crosswalk guard explains: The former refers to drivers w ho never quite stop at intersections, inter-sections, while the latter nomination nomi-nation is bestowed upon dubious dubi-ous motorists who quickly jet through intersections behind another car without waiting their turn. "The right- and left-hand turns are my worst problem at my intersection," said Throckmorton, Throck-morton, who shepherds more than 200 students to and from Orem Elementary on weekday mornings and afternoons. "These people are going to kill a crossing guard or they're going to kiU a kid, and then the crossing guard is going to have to kill the driver." She was joking, but the issue is-sue is no laughing matter, she reassured. She used to guard a crosswalk located a block away, but was moved when two children were hit by inattentive inat-tentive motorists. She's seen drivers near the school doing just about everything but driving: driv-ing: talking on ceU phones, doing do-ing their makeup, even eating breakfast on the go. "If you're holding a bowl in one hand and a spoon in the Get Dish Network For Just $19.99nnth! Plus, FREE HBO & Cinemax Movie Packages for 3 Months ...... . i I Valuable Coupon I tnmK warn rorKttnswiawjin up w a," , to request WE DVMHDDVR Upgrades! . J 1-800-998-DISH ext. 32699 j ' Promo Code: A24 Some Restrictions Apply Expires 093008 1 I if No Interest 1 ' VjjnJanuvry200 I will be looking for students to fill career and internship positions available now and in the near future. Employers Employ-ers attending this fall include Huntsman Cancer Institute, Intermountain Healthcare, Internal In-ternal Revenue Service, Northwestern North-western Mutual Financial, FedEx Fe-dEx Ground, Enterprise Rent A Car, Provo Canyon School, Space Dynamics Laboratory and many more. "Students need to dress professionally, especially those genuinely seeking an internship intern-ship or a career position," said Amber Collins, a CSSE career counselor and project manager of the career fair. "They also need to understand that companies com-panies hire for various types of positions ... you might see a healthcare company and assume as-sume they are only hiring for health-related positions when in fact they could be hiring for accountants, human resources, education or other areas." Collins recommends that students research the companies compa-nies attending the career fair to know beforehand what each company is looking for. CSSE assists students in finding work and internship opportunities opportuni-ties throughout their college education as well as providing career counseling and coaching. coach-ing. They also help students prepare resumes. CSSE is located at the south end of the Hall of Flags inBA 113. For more information and a complete list of employers attending the fair, call (801) 863-6364 or visit www.uvu. educsse. International Service-Learning conference at UVU Utah Valley University is hosting an International Service-Learning Conference Oct. 2-3. The conference con-ference is for campus teams and individuals involved in or interested in international service-learning. other, chances are you're not holding the wheel," she said. Sadly, it's not uncommon to have to step or jump in front of cars to protect the children, she said. Just Thursday morning, morn-ing, an impatient driver tried to make a left-hand turn through the intersection while kids were still crossing. Throckmorton Throckmor-ton said she blew her whistle, but he drove off without acknowledging ac-knowledging the problem. "He cut between kids that were coming across, and he could've cared less," she said. "If you're going to hit somebody, hit me the city attorney's pretty good, he'll come after you. But don't hit the kids." Orem police Sgt. Matt Pedersen supervises the crosswalk cross-walk guard program. He said guards have the power to record an offending driver's license plate number and description de-scription and refer it to police to pursue a citation, but admits ad-mits they seldom have time to do it in reality. "We have inattentive drivers driv-ers aU over the place, obviously," obvi-ously," he said. "Speed's the biggest problem: not bringing it down to 20 from 25 or 35, depending on what road it is." Bonnie Marquez, a crossing guard in front of Geneva Elementary, El-ementary, said she's seen drivers driv-ers blast by at 45 or 50 mph when the school zone lights are flashing and the 20 mph FREE 4 Room System! FREE Professional Installation! FREE Digital Video Recorders! FREE Lifetime Warranty! FREE HD DVR Upqrade! 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"I hope individuals will walk away with a plan that they can implement when they return to their campus that will create effective and meaningful international inter-national service-learning experiences," expe-riences," said Alexis Palmer, director of UVU Volunteer and Service-Learning Center. This is the first year the International In-ternational Service-Learning Conference is at UVU, it has previously been held at IUPUI-Indianapolis IUPUI-Indianapolis and Elon University Univer-sity in North Carolina. The conference is in collaboration with UVU Academic Service-Learning, Service-Learning, International Center, Utah Campus Compact and the International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership Leader-ship (IPSL). "The focus is to promote international service-learning and provide guidelines and ideas on how to organize, facilitate facil-itate and sustain these opportunities opportu-nities for students and faculty," said Grant Skabelund, director of UVU International Study Programs. "We hope participants par-ticipants will be energized to create their own international service-learning opportunities and that those opportunities will be sustainable, productive and safe." The keynote speaker of the event is Margaret "Peggy" D. Pusch, chair of the board of trustees of IPSL. She will be speaking Oct. 3 at 8:30 a.m. in Centre Stage in the Sorensen Center. Palmer said Pusch is a dynamic speaker who has a rule is in effect. "It's scary," she said. "There have been some close calls this year. I've had the stop sign up and two kids right in front of me, and the car just runs the stop sign." September is Green Ribbon Month across the state, which means various municipalities, including Orem and Provo, are taking steps to educate' the public about crosswalk safety. Throckmorton said she plans to talk to students at Orem Elementary on Monday Mon-day about precautions they can take to minimize risks at the crosswalk. Marquez has adopted a different tack: Every afternoon for the past week, she's placed a sign in the middle of the street with posters designed by her kids. "SLOW DOWN: CHILDREN KROSSING, 20 MPH," they read and so far, they've worked, she said. ."A lot of people are slowing down just to read them or to see what they are," Marquez said. Pedersen said there have been no incidents of chUdren getting hit at crosswalks this year, although two people were struck crossing 800 South near Utah Valley University. Uni-versity. He said the pedestrians pedes-trians were partially at fault there for failing to look both ways before stepping into traffic. Peace of Mind with DQ3 3 fr MIGRAINE HEADACHES? If you are between the ages of 18-65 and have 2-8 migraine headaches per month, you may be eligible to participate in a research study involving an investigational medication. Participants receive study medication, study-related physician visits, lab work, and financial compensation for time and travel. For additional information and participation requirements CALL 322-INFO (4636) Intermountain Clinical Research 12422 S. 450 E., Suite C, Draper www.icrtriah.com wealth of information and experience ex-perience regarding international internation-al issues when working with students in higher education. Registration will close Sept. 26 at 5 p.m. The regular registration regis-tration fee is $200 and includes all conference materials and three meals. UVU faculty, staff and student registration is $100. For a schedule of events and to register, visit www.uvu.edu volunteer. UVU to hold largest leadership leader-ship conference in the nation Utah Valley University's top-ranked Center for the Advancement of Leadership (CAL) is holding its ninth annual an-nual leadership conference on Oct. 7 from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the McKay Center. This year's theme is "The Engaged Leader: Building Your Capacity Capac-ity to Influence." More than four thousand high school and college students stu-dents will gather at the conference confer-ence to listen to some of the most recognized leadership authorities share their philosophy philoso-phy on leadership. The opening keynote speaker win be Ron McMillan, co-founder of Vital-Smarts Vital-Smarts whose programs are used by more than 300 of the Fortune 500 Companies, and the closing keynote speaker will be Sharlene Hawkes, former for-mer Miss America, Chief Marketing Mar-keting Officer for StoryRock and award-winning ESPN Sports broadcaster. Additionally, students wUl break up into small groups and meet in classrooms all over campus to listen to other local leaders explain various leadership leader-ship principles. A breakfast will be held in the morning of the conference for executives, high level managers and other distinguished guests from various careers to learn more about CAL. "The Center for the Ad Friendship Center The Orem Senior Friendship Center is located at 93 N. 400 East and is open Monday through Friday, Fri-day, 8 am to 5 p.m. The center staff can be reached at 229-7111. More details available at www. oremcity.org. Trips and Tours Seniors are allowed only to sign up for themselves and a spouse or a senior-aged friend. Current Orem Senior Friendship Center memberships are required for all participants on the tours. Sign-ups for October tours will be taken through the end of September. Those tours are: I Oct. 8: Wendover Turn-Around Turn-Around costs $ 12 and leaves at 8 a.m. I Oct. 10: Senior Expo at Salt Lake City with the bus leaving at 9 am and cost $1. I Oct. 16: BYU Exhibit-Dismantling Exhibit-Dismantling Geneva Steel will leave at 2:15 p.m. and cost is $1. I Oct. 20: Kennecott Copper Mine tour leaves at 1 p.m. and costs $2. Nov. 3-7: A five-day trip is planned for Laughlin, Nev. Cost is $230 for each person, single occupancy or $170 per person for a double occupancy (sign up together). The bus will leave by 8 am from the center. More detail is available at the center. Community dance The community dance on Saturday will feature the SawmiH River Boat, Trailer & ATVs Insure four vancement of Leadership is leading the charge for developing leadership skills, competencies and experiences for students of afl ages," said Stephen R. Covey, author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective Effec-tive People. "With this vision, I am thriDed to be involved with this cutting-edge program and encourage our community to be involved." "We rank CAL among the top 10 leadership programs at universities," said Ken Shelton, editor and CEO of Leadership ExceHence, an organization who ranks leadership programs pro-grams worldwide. "CAL has better leadership training than aU the other universities in this state put together." Through the extracurricular extracurricu-lar activities CAL provides, students gain experience and accomplishments that help them when applying for a job or graduate school. This is done by the combined efforts of the student and professional mentor given to CAL members to help them in their development. develop-ment. Students who complete one of the three levels of CAL have this accomplishment recognized rec-ognized on their college graduation gradu-ation diploma and recorded on their transcripts, similar to an honors program. CAL also helps students as they apply for jobs and graduate programs pro-grams by providing a letter of reference. Drawings and prizes will be given away at the Conference, along with information regarding regard-ing scholarship opportunities. For a schedule of events and more information, visit www. uvu.eduleadership. UVU to celebrate National Tutoring Week Utah Valley Val-ley University will observe its nearly 80 tutors on campus and the academic aid they sup-pry sup-pry by celebrating National Tutoring Week Oct. 6-10. Band for entertainment and cost is $5 per person. The dance wffl be from 8 to 1 1 p.m. Dance time change Saturday Sat-urday night dances begin at 7 starting October and end by 10. Blood pressure clinics There will be a blood pressure clinic on Friday from 10:30 a.m. to noon sponsored by Community Commu-nity Nursing Services. Transportation Home-bound Home-bound individuals have transportation trans-portation available to them through United Way by calling 374-9306. Meals are cooked at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center and furnished by Moun-tainland Moun-tainland Association of Governments. Govern-ments. Luncheons The Utah County Security Secu-rity Center prepares meals for Orem Senior Friendship Center. Meals are suitable for persons with diabetes, heart disease and hypertension. A list of the number num-ber of carbohydrates in each food item on the menu can be made available for diabetics to make informed choices of what Cigorettas, Cigars, Pip, loose Tobacco LOWEST PRICES 695 Horft State Street PR0V0 410 Horrh Frwdori Bfvd. r Bring in this ad i i FREE I With a Minimum 1 5 Purchase Limit one per customer j feme. ll T' m$m w "Our objective is to honor our tutors for the service they provide to University CoDege and to the University," said Maureen S. Andrade, associate associ-ate dean of University College. "We also want to highlight the special talents, skills and backgrounds back-grounds of our tutors." The academic tutors, trained through a nationally certified certi-fied program, provide help to one-third of the University's student population. With a variety of training resources on campus, tutor coverage ranges from math and writing to learning strategies. And, according ac-cording to the National Association Asso-ciation for Developmental Educations, Edu-cations, a tutor's main drive is to "help under-prepared students prepare, prepared students stu-dents advance and advanced students excel." "It is often noted that learning learn-ing does not take place in a vacuum," said Shannon Israels-en, Israels-en, director of writing sclwlars and a former tutor. "The value of the tutoring centers and labs is that they are centered around the idea of communal learning, of students helping students." Tutoring also affects retention reten-tion at UVU. This, according to Kathy Van Wagoner, math lab manager, is a major goal of the Institution. "We tracked the grades of students who use the Math Lab an average of once a week and the pass rates of that group of students are 20 percent higher than the department average pass rates," explained Van Wagoner. "We often hear students stu-dents say things like, 'I would have never gotten through that class if it weren't for the tutors.'" UVU plans to honor their tutors through food, gifts provided by local sponsors and letters of gratitude from the many students they have helped. they will eat based on their own individual requirements. The suggested donation for the meal is $2 for 60-plus seniors se-niors and $4.90 for 59 years old and younger. The suggested donation for salads, which are still available when pre-ordered, is $2.25 for seniors and $5.65 for those 59 or younger. Moun-tainland Moun-tainland Association Of Governments Govern-ments and The State Of Utah fund the senior lunch program. MENU Friday Chicken strips, potatoes and gravy, carrots, tossed salad and dressing, Mandarin oranges, whole wheat roll or bread. Monday Sweet and sour chicken, rice, stir fry vegetables, tossed salad and dressing, fruit, whole wheat roll or bread. Tuesday Lasagna, corn, tossed salad and dressing, fruit cocktail, whole wheat roll and bread. Wednesday October menu not available. 84Kti!C9ftst 106 N. West State R and receive a LIGHTER Peaches RaspbeRRi'es Tomatoes Potatoes All Gueen Vegetables Local Honey Pink Eye Beans BaRtlett Peons jl st m X |