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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Thunday. October 20. 2005 1 ml ".li'i NEWS A fj D Tj 0 T E S Batter up As the October sun sets, ekven-ye ar-od Phiip Craig hits the bu f o firs friends, Luke. Ku.vy. Knlhx and Tanner Fndu evening at Art Dye Park hullpeld FRANK SOTT North Count UCHD is giving away The Utah County Heatih Department (UCHDi is giving away 50 booster seats in American Ameri-can Fork On T uesday from 3.30 u lYM p.m., American Fork families can make an appointment to have a free booster seal installed in-stalled in their vehicle. The only requirement is iha; the ctiild receiving re-ceiving the booster seal weigh between 40 and HO pounds and be shorter than four feet . nine inches tall. The vehicle must also have working lap and shoulder seat tielt s in 1 he back seat, and the child and vehicle must make an appointment to come down 10 receiv e instructions instruc-tions and have the booster seat property msi ailed by cert d ied .technicians Families can make &n apt iint mem b calling srl-7008 srl-7008 or Kol-VO.'iF, Many parents and care givers giv-ers are not await that children should ride in a booster seat. Seat tielts are designed to frt adults but not children, and can actually cause additional trauma to a child m an accident . In 2001 in Lit ah. 2H2 school age children were injured and five were killed in motor vehicle crashes according to the AAA Press Room report Cat cr ashes kill more childr en, than ot her causes of injuries These deaths and injuries might have been prevented if children were properly r est rained NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS ' 59 West Mar. i:.a' Kirk Parkinson e.t Vice Preswn 't'jitirw kpart:insoo'h'.Hi:if!ira cs'- Marc Haddock :ka- ? 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I' C Bo- 1 Amew.Lc ,'OU!;u'.: -utwsiiw: IKfujiv i 0 f E E P 'GU i U f CITY NOTES I Meet the Candidate nights Two met -trie-candidate nights have been planned tor American Fork. Tonight. Oct. 2d from 7 to 9 p.m. at the American Fork Senior Citizen Center. 54 E Mam City Council candidates will have a chanc e to meet the voters. The first hour, candidates will have a chance to address voters The second hour will tie dedicated taking questions from 1 he audience. Mayoral candidal es will appear ap-pear at n meet-the-candidale night on ( ct 27 also al 7 p.m. at the senior center. Candidates will take 1 he first hour to present pres-ent their views on three issues, and then will answer questions during the second hour. Downtown parade The annual an-nual Downtown Main Street Halloween Tnck-or-7 teat parade will be F riday . Oct 28 from 4 1o (i p.m. It is sponsor ed by the Cham-tier Cham-tier of Commerce and is for t hose ages 15 and under . Those who participate should gather at Robinson F'ark. north of the library at 100 Last and Mam Street. Five hundred trick or treat hags will tie handed out at the beginning of the parade. Trick -or -Heaters will follow the parade route to 100 West and back lo 100 Last and end at the Allien son's parking lot Phone Fax: "ti-E,l" DiUT EII1LS rUBLIEBIKC CO. Jennette Esplin 'K,b 'iw Chrss Peterson ' ;':o: Casey Rogers ; IT': ' li'SKI ' )?' C O;) i t MCI f Rachel Rybicki ;,:if i r''.iw '.'.'.-); t :nt:r Frank Baa -: O P ? E D A fj D I tJ V 0 booster seats in American Fork liwniown business ha e been asked to hand out promotional items along with candy for the children. Policemen and "special haunts' will be on hand to help with safety along i he parade route COUNCIL NOTES I Recycling gains momentum Representatives from EFT told City Council members that recycling is gaining momentum in the city. BF'l has around 5?0 recycling customers out of its 6.(KlO homes in American Fork Most cities have 10 to 15 percent per-cent participation rate percent, they said. There were some mi-lial mi-lial problems with pickup that they are working to resolve. BFT has made route maps f or carrier's with recycling homes marked and is trying to leave notes to remind people that recycling is picked up every other Frida . "We're trying 10 improve the sea-ice for American Ameri-can Fork in recycling," said BF'l represent at i e Rick Sfiultz. I Site plan approved The City Council approved an amended site plan for a Les Schw abtiri store ai 4Xri N. 90!) West The property hries and orientation of the building were changed to accommodate the Costco being built on neighboring property in Lehi "Wt re very excited to be part of community and locking Pick up a hi ar! old hoisc coveted with, virie Uvea tweh'e if. straight lines r Par: ( girls ir; e visited Smith-field Smith-field Saturday to spend sometime with one of the newest crarid-daiight crarid-daiight ers Lllie is the one-month-old daug'h e' of rny daughter. F.rin In the course o! luliine, the infant, watching her look a-ound and trying to get a smile, we visred the nursery It has everything a nurserv needs. A bright new parr jot- a new crib. A changing tabie buil: r Elite's other grandfather the -n who can make tilings with his hands And ; 'if h. cast, 'ille:: urh books Some were new , nut most were Erin pulie:! out he: Ludwig Fiernelrnaris from the- book, and I and v ell-read orre. ' Madeline." by Those f irst two lines are can still recite the entire text by tieart although I haxen't opened the book in mam years. It s f-"-': becau i reas that book over and wet io all five ot tin daughters, along with many others Each ha- a lavo-ite Aclrienne is fie kee;iet 0! one of my favorites. '"Si one Soup,' by Marcu. Brown. Her copy has a publication date of around 19ri(l. and scrawled on the inside cover is my name, written when 1 was 0 ot 7. and jus: learm-ic how to write. One of the best thirds 1 ever did for my kids was to read I read tot. her:, almost t,xt,rv T11-n, when they were linle And I read for myself. They grew up with parents who cared about books, and it has paid off for al! of then. So it pleases me 10 see bookcases in the nurseries nurser-ies of my grandkids filled with volumes that will tie read over the years, many of them the same volumes their parent heard' and read whenthev were little And it troubles nit thai nianv children goto fieci at night wit. bout a liedtime storv. That bothers Marilyn Kofford. too. Marflvn is a former memtier of the Alpine Board of Educa-ti'ii: Educa-ti'ii: and currently serves as the Utah FTA education edu-cation commissioner Slit and her husband also own Covenant Cornmuniar.ioris, so books are in her blood L V E D forward to opening in a couple of months." said a Les Schwab representative. t City to get grant for sprinklers The City Council approved an agreement with the Central Utah Water Conservancy District Dis-trict for a matching grant of up to $15,000 toward automated sprinklers in American Fork par ks. The watering systems will include sensors that will detect rain and will be tied into a weather station at Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing Point . This is intended to prevent over-watering. I Cell tower approved A site plan for a cellular tower at Art Dye Ball Park was unanimously approved by the City Council on Oct. 11. Cingular will construct the tower and lease the prop-em' prop-em' from the city. One resident protested that the action item w as an amended item on the agenda. She did nc feel it was properly advertised lo let the public to know the council was making a decision and allow citizens to speak f or or against the project. t City accepts bids The City Council gave authorization f or the city to go out to bid on several city projects. Separate bids are expected to come in for improvements at the Mountain Meadows subdivision, improvements improve-ments 10 City Hail, a new fire truck and fire equipment. The book with Marc Haddock THE ED! COLU 'OB'S , ,, :. , tm in city wiU also entertain bids, though they are not ccTOrnitted to the projects, on a fiber route to Salt Lake and docks at the boat harbor. t Make a Difference Day proclaimed pro-claimed Mayor Ted Barratt made a proclamation designating designat-ing Oct. 22 "Make a Difference Day" in American Fork. As part of the national "Make a Difference Differ-ence Day" campaign, residents are urged to select a service project to complete that day or just 10 make an extra eff ort to be kind to and help others that day. Groups can register their projects at USAweekend.com for a chance to win an award and have a cash donation to the charily of their choice, I Cabins accepted The city council voted to accept the donation of two pioneer cabins cab-ins and authorized them to be moved to Robinson Park. The cabins date back from the early 1 860s and belonged 1 0 the .Alexander .Al-exander A damson family. His descendants still live in the area and include Highland Mayor Jess Adamson. The cabins will be placed in Robinson Park just south of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers building. They wfl be placed on concrete con-crete slabs and surrounded by a chain link fence 1 0 prat ect them from damage and vandalism. your child Marilyn was a member of Got. Olene Walker s task force on literacy, but f ound that experience unsatisfying too much politics and not enough literacy, she says. But one of the things she learned was that there is a five-year achievement gap between children entering kindergarten. kinder-garten. According to studies by the National Na-tional Children's Reading Foundation, about 60 percent of the children entering enter-ing kindergarten have reading skills typical erf an 8-year-old child. That's pr etty good. Bui 40 percent enter kindergarten with the skills of a 3-yeir-old five y ears behind their peers. And that 's unacceptable. The st udy goes on 10 show that those 40 percent never make up the diff erence. er-ence. The difference, of course, is how much kids read and are read to. So on "Wednesday. Kofford and others have planned an entire day dedicated to taking the message mes-sage of helping children to read to parents, where it can do the most good. And by parents, she says, she also means grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, cous-ins, siblings, in-laws, foster parents, neighbors, friends or students. That pretty well covers it. The "Reading Succeeding" summit at UYSC is designed 1 0 help parents help their children become better readers. Events will run from 9 am to 9 p.m.. and parents are invited to drop in all day or for just an hour to hear experts on all leveLstalk about helping children to ieam to read and to write. There are sessions geared to the parents erf pre-schoolers to secondary students, with sessions ses-sions in Spanish and Tongan, and sessions geared to American Indian students. It's a grand experiment. Marilyn says, to see if this approach will reach parents and teach them how to help their child"en learn to read. And may! close that five-year gap at least for some. You can read all about Reading Succeeding' at ww-w.uvsc.edu'ccmted c&-w'fuTurfc.php, or call Kofford at 75(i-?KJ5. She'll be happy to hear from anyone who wants to know more. In the meantime, read to your kids 20 minutes a day every day. It will make a world of difference differ-ence in then lives. And .she lurried out the light and closed the door, and t.hut f. ul! there tf. there isn't am' more. Greenwood Continued from Page I rebuild the country's infrastructure. infra-structure. The 190 group members came from dif ferent professions profes-sions and backgrounds. The group included lawyers, politicians, businessmen, and schoolteachers. A medical doctor by trade, Greenwood has a job by helping help-ing the doctors, hospitals and clinics to get the country's medical system going. "Healthcare was neglected for decades under Saddam Hussein. Thirty years ago it was the best in the east, now it's definitely hurting," said Greenwood. He acted as a liaison between be-tween cities and towns and the government in Baghdad to help guide Iraqis in how to distribute and use their resources. "Trying to hook-up the right agency with the right place things needed to go," Greenwood said. Greenwood said it was frustrating sometimes because be-cause bureaucratic red tape on both the Iraqi and American Ameri-can sides made progress slow. When he really felt he was making a difference was when clinics and hospitals he pushed for and lobbied for were finally opened. "The Iraqis would come in and get treatment and I felt like we'd made a difference." Greenwood Green-wood said. Greenwood also acted as the eyes and the ears for organizations like the Red Cross who were reluctant to go into the area around FaHu-jah FaHu-jah because of the dangers of ihe insurgency. He would let them know what the health needs were in the area. Greenwood's tour of duty was also quite a change from what he does at home. "Here I'm a practicing physician. There, the work was on the administrative side," he said. Greenwood didn't mind that he only performed medical medi-cal procedures a few times, since the only time he did was when there were mass American casualties. He particularly remembers the time a convoy of female marines was hit by a suicide bomber and several were killed. He was called to help with the many wounded. Greenwood appreciates being home with family and friends. Though e-mail and phones made communication better than it has ever been in wartime, there is no substitute substi-tute for the real thing. "It's like a big weight has been removed," Sharon said. For those whose loved ones may be deployed, she has this advice, "try to find the positive and not dwell on the negative," she said. "If you look for the positive it can be a growing opportunity'. If you dwell on the negative it will be a long and miserable time." If there is one message about Iraq that Greenwood would share with others, it's this, "To get anything done in that society we need to be patient. The culture has been a certain way for hundreds of years and things do not change very rapidly." "The majority of people are just regular people who want what we want food, safety, safe-ty, family, jobs and security," Greenwood said. "When we entered in we promised to make a better life for these people. We have to follow through on our promise." Park Continued from Page 1 Bruce Mullenix is concerned con-cerned kids will jump Ins fence and tagging on his property prop-erty and in the neighborhood. Michael Pearce said he heard trie middle school principal didnt want the skate park near the school. "It makes me concerned about who will be m Us park at that time of day if they doot want it near the school''" he said. Fratcher suggested the dry put a skate park in a nonresidential nonresi-dential area and patrol it heavily. heav-ily. Pearce was also concerned that having the park close to the freeway would ach'ertise it to other county residents. Mullemx. whose home is right next to the prqposed site for the park, was also concerned about run-off . Councilman Keith Blake thanked the residents fur coming com-ing "It is really iielpt ul to have you come and express your concerns, 1 was not ewart that anyone down there had concerns," con-cerns," Blake said. |