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Show r BUILDING COMMUNITY IN OREM AND VINEYARD i 0UTALL FOR ADC 840 UTAH PRESS ASSOCI 1521 E 3900 S STE 100 SALT LAKE CITY UT 84124-1550 i EDITION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009 50 CENTS a OremTiM im SCHOOLS: Freedom Week inspires TOWN HALL: Guv touts gas initiative INSIDE: Trim the excess spending off grocery lists A ' V K 1Q1 in rep StaMy Utah Valley High School Sports Legion performs mitairy rites I VPWjTT J ii r (I i 1 r5". J . .!' ' .'. CRAIQ DILGERDaily Herald Members of American Legion Post 72 of Orem stand in attention after firing in honor of Korean War veteran Wayne Vance Gygi during h&futieral services on Tuesday. feterans honor comrade at funeral Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFF n any given day, l:J-. i " a dozen or so men 11 f Jc'a m f'e' caps, navy blue jackets '. ; t s- and bearing World Wdr II-era Ml Garand rifles may Be tailed up to serve. 'Z -They're not acting as military history re-enactors or part of some, new Homeland Security defeike force, but rather U.S. aCmfed. forces veterans performing perform-ing triflitary rites at the funeral of a veteran. ebrge Van De Water of Orerri is a former commander of Orerfl's American Legion Post 72 that has just more than 100 dues-paying members. He served aboard the Navy battleship Iowa off the coast of Korea during the Korean War as part of a Marine contingent. Though the post's members mostly veterans of Korea and Vietnam with very few living liv-ing World War II servicemen left Van De Water said one of their solemn duties is performing perform-ing military rites, which include a legion chaplain, a flag presentation presen-tation to the veteran's next of kin, three rifle volleys fired off by an honor guard of typically seven men, and a bugler playing "Taps." The military funeral honors are provided to any U.S. honorably discharged military veteran at the request of his or her family. There is no charge, and the Orem post covers such requests for most of northern Utah County. "There is no cost," Van De Water said. "This is something we do because we feel each of these veterans deserves to be recognized." Norm Rohr, a member of the Orem-based American Legion Le-gion post, currently serves as the chapter's post adjutant. He served during the Korean War aboard the Navy aircraft carrier car-rier USS Princeton in part of a five-man crew assigned to a F6F Hellcat fighter plane. One of Rohr's many responsibilities respon-sibilities with the Legion is to coordinate the assignments of requested military funeral honors. He said the Orem post performed military rites at 86 veterans' funerals last year, and 94 the year before that. Though he's only been in the Legion for five years, he believes the number num-ber of veterans funerals they've participated in is steadily on the increase. "We average two per week," Rohr said. "Our veterans are dying dy-ing left and right." On Tuesday, Rohr and a complement of Legion members See SERVICE, Page 2 Noted musician, BYU professor joins arts council ' Reva Bowen - ; ' NORTH COUNTY STAFF ' As a child, new Orem Arts Council member mem-ber Ray Smith was afflicted with polio. At one point in his treatment, he had surgery and was in a body cast. Because of that confinement, he could not practice some of his musical instruments tying down, so he learned to play the flute mastering Top 40 tunes, commercials, and themes by ear. - Smith is proficient at all five of the woodwind wood-wind instruments flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and saxophone and variations of those instruments, including electronic wind instruments, recorders, penny whistles, whis-tles, and ethnic flutes. The musician is also versatile in terms of style. His wife, Debbie Smith, said her husband has had a special love for jazz ever since he was a youth, but is equally at home with classical music "Music has sort of been my vocation, and my hobby," Ray Smith said, with understatement. "It's a pretty consuming thing." Smith is in his 27th year of teaching at Brigham Young University an opportunity opportu-nity that Debbie Smith said was his "dream job." The invitation to come to BYU came from music department chairman Newell Dayley after Smith had earned both his master's and doctoral degrees from Indiana Indi-ana University and was teaching at Murray Mur-ray State in Kentucky. At BYU, Smith directs Synthesis, the university's uni-versity's premier Big Band; the jazz band; and serves as professor of saxophone a program that he developed from the ground up. Debbie Smith said her husband teaches improvisation classes, jazz pedagogy peda-gogy and jazz history. "He teaches music teachers how to teach. He also has private students, and See ARTS, Page 2 ' ' : If I f Smith family Ray Smith of Orem, a versatile musician and professor in the music department at Brigham Young University, has recently been appointed as a new member of the Orem Arts Council. Orem Times content shifts to the Bn Herald DAILY HERALD Today is a milestone for the Daily Herald as it marks the final print editions of the North County weekly newspapers that include the American Fork Citizen, Pleasant Grove Review, Re-view, Lehi Free Press, Lone Peak Press, and Orem Times. On Feb. 5 the Daily Herald announced the discontinuation of the publication of the five northern Utah County weeklies. No employees will be laid off as a result of the decision. But this is far from the end of the road for the news content and community coverage of these cities. Local news reporters will continue to cover North County towns, schools', people , and businesses, but their articles will appear in the pages of the Daily Herald In addition, the company will introduce in-. in-. novative online tools for the people of North County to connect them more closely to their communities. A series of Web sites each focused narrowly on a particular town will present news from all local schools, community groups, churches and local governments, and will feature a social marketplace with discussion discus-sion forums highlighting local people and issues. is-sues. The consolidation of printed information from the weeklies into rf:e Daily Herald is part of an ongoing strategy to strengthen the company's com-pany's core daily prod'j" t while reducing costs associated with production and mailing numerous numer-ous small titles, said Herald president and publisher pub-lisher Rona Rahlf . "This will greatly simplify our sales programs pro-grams as well as strengthen the local news identity of the Herald," Rahlf said. "Rather than breaking up news and advertising across several papers, everything will be in one place." Advertisers will benefit from greater audience audi-ence reach than they currently have in the North County weeklies, she said. Combined circulation of the five weeklies is about 5,800, but about one-third of those subscribers also subscribe to the Daily Herald, which meaas redundant costs in newsprint, handling and mailing, Rahlf said. The company will continue to mail advertising advertis-ing to all non-subscribing households in Utah Valley through Savvy Shopper Deals (formerly known as Central Utah Quality Buys). Other weekly newspapers owned by the Herald in Springville, Spanish Fork. Payson and Sanpete County are not affected by the announcement. The Herald purchased the North County weeklies in 1999 from Brett Bezzant of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove. At the time, the newspaper group was known as New Utah. That purchase was followed by the purchase of the Orem Geneva Times in 2000. The paper was renamed Orem Times in 2007. COMING NEXT WEEK New Community Web site ourtowns.heraldextra.com Community Briefing MEET OREM ARTIST JAMES C. CKRISTENSEN On Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Orem Public Library meet renowned artist and Orem resident James Christensen as he discusses his art and his new book 'Men and Angels, the single largest collection of his paintings ever published. An unique opportunity to glimpse into the mind of the artist whose art holds up a mirror to the universal trials and triumphs of life. Christensen will be available for a book signing before and after his presentation. For more information, contact the Orem Public Library Li-brary at 229-7042. 6 6 055 00050llB8 |