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Show Thursday, September 4, 2008 NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS Pag 11 taste Emily Marlowe NORTH COUNTY STAFF Yesterday morning as our youngest daughter walked up the stairs for school, she looked beautiful. Her eyes were shining; her hair was curly and looked as though she had just been at the most expensive salon on the block. Her cheeks were rosy and she had innocence written all her face. I could not take my eyes off of her smile, as I knew she was so proud of the way she looked. My eyes dropped to t he outfit she had on, and the only thing I could think of was, how am I going to tell her that there is no way, not even on the darkest night that she would be allowed to wear the outfit she had on out of the house. The patterns were off, the colors col-ors did not compliment each other, and the socks lx)ked like something that I would -w A back-hoe moves rock and soil to away from its current path over Poisonous Caleb Warnock DAILY HERALD One of the last working mines in American Fork Canyon, Can-yon, the so-named Live Yankee Mine, has been called "a testament testa-ment to grim determination." This week, as Snowbird and Trout Unlimited have teamed to clean up the mine site, it is also a testament to unusual partnerships and the philosophy philoso-phy that when it comes to helping help-ing the environment, decades later is better than never. After a railroad and then a wagon train ore hauling service ser-vice failed in the canyon in the, 1870s, miners at the Live Yankee Yan-kee Mine got creative in the 1930s, building a tram system in the canyon. "Towers from their four-and-a-half -mile-long tramway still stand in the canyons, a testament tes-tament to grim determination," according to "History of the Uinta National Forest: A Century Cen-tury of Stewardship" edited by Shaun R. Nelson. Since it was abandoned, the legacy of the mine has become poisonous. Water that naturally flows out of one passage of the mine is essentially clean, but once outside the mine, the water travels over mine waste, where it picks up lead and zinc that far exceed federal clean water standards, according to a Trout Unlimited cleanup proposal pro-posal to Snowbird, based on IpurnituridimctI f - mm mm 1 ? "ww v it wear to bed. But, in her mind she thought she looked perfect. 1 low do you shoot someone down when they have spent the morning building themselves them-selves up? As I am playing out in my mind how I will break her heart, and debating if matching clothes is really all that important, my husband walks around the corner and says, "You look beautiful!" I shot him a kxk of "You are going to make this so hard for me aren't you?" As my husband smiles at me, kisses us goodbye and leaves for work, 1 am wondering if this simple task that I have to do of breaking break-ing my little girl's heart is all worth it. I decide that it really is not. We move about our morning morn-ing and then our oldest daughter daugh-ter says to her sister, "Your clothes do not match, and you can't leave the house looking look-ing like that." I wasn't sure whether to kiss and praise our oldest daughter for breaking her sister's heart, or reprimand her for the comment. I let it go and told our daughter daugh-ter that I would take her shopping shop-ping right after school, and we would find her a shirt that matches her skirt a little better. 'fii, v'vV -r"; v 'i CRAIG DILGER, Udily Herald dam the entrance of Live Yankee Mine in American Fork Canyon in order to divert water contaminated mine waste on Aug. 27. stream reclaimed A.F. Canyon federal test data. This has had disastrous effects ef-fects on a stream in Mary Ellen El-len Gulch. Two Forest Service studies showed that macro-invertebrates macro-invertebrates "tiny simple organisms that fish depend on for food " were "plentiful and robust" in the stream above the mine, but for several thousand feet below the mine, they were "nearly nonexistent." The demise de-mise of these creatures is "due directly to the high levels of zinc in the stream." By today, all that will begin to change. Rather than removing re-moving the mine slag, which would be expensive and difficult dif-ficult because of the remote location of the mine, workers are installing a concrete wall and redirecting water through conduits over the slag so that it will arrive into the stream in the same clean condition that it left the mine, said Jared Ishka-nian Ishka-nian of Snowbird. The project is not the first of its kind for Snowbird, and may not be the last, Ishkanian said. In August 200t), Snowbird garnered attention as a national na-tional model for overcoming the red tape that has so far stymied the cleanup of half a million toxic abandoned mines on private property around the West. That month marked the end of a 3-year private cleanup effort, sponsored by Trout Unlimited, Un-limited, that removed contaminated contami-nated earth from 11 mine sites owned by Snowbird resort That worked and the day was saved. How simple this situation situa-tion could have been, if I would have thought more like our oldest daughter and just said it like it was. I believe we do this same thing that I did with our daughter with food. People will show up at our door with a plate full of food and maybe it looks a little questionable. We think, "How am I going to tell them the food is wonderful, wonder-ful, when it does not even look appealing?" We try and choke down food at dinner parties that tastes awful, we spit it out in napkins nonchalantly; we swallow swal-low down one bite with a full glass of water, smile and say, "It tastes as wonderful as it looks." There is no way of getting get-ting around this. We just smile and swallow. This week's recipe you will not have to choke down, because be-cause of the taste or the look. It is just delicious and beautiful. Thank you to Evets from Lehi, for sharing this recipe. You will find it is a breeze to make and even easier to eat. The only thing I found wrong with the recipe was that one bite was just not enough and it will At fir, "r ' f'k Li : CP''. along American Fork River in the Mineral Basin area. The project was the first of its kind in the nation. Snowbird resort did not create cre-ate the contamination and is. not responsible for its cleanup, according to federal law, but helped pay the $ 1.5 million cost of cleanup anyway, along with donations from Trout Unlimited Unlimit-ed and Tiffany & Co., the New York City-based jeweler famous fa-mous for its pricey blue-boxed baubles. Federal law demanded that only a full cleanup be done, making a private effort all but prohibitive. But Trout Unlimited Unlim-ited petitioned the Environmental Environ-mental Protection Agency to allow the nonprofit to conduct a partial cleanup, moving the tailings away from the watershed water-shed areas in order to remove 90 percent of contaminants. It took two years, but the EPA finally agreed to waive liability liabil-ity for a nonprofit to do a site cleanup. Snowbird won a handful of awards for the 2006 project and is committed to continue to do what it can to clean up land that it owns it the canyon, Ishkanian said. Both Snowbird and Trout Unlimited praised the project underway this week, "From Snowbird's perspective, perspec-tive, this is a creative and effective way to help the environment envi-ronment along the Wasatch," Ishkanian said. Sr-V j show on my hips tomorrow. I would love to share your recipes with our readers. I can be contacted at emilymar-lowewconnect2.com. emilymar-lowewconnect2.com. Until next week's batter chatter, may you smile at the little things that don't really matter. Evcts Corn 1 2 boxes Fiddle Faddle popcorn or Crunch and Munch 2 cups mini marshmallows 1 1 cup sliced almonds (optional) Vi cup milk chocolate chips I Vi cup dark chocolate chips I 1 block vanilla almond bark Directions: 1. Place popcorn in a large bowl with almond slices. 2. Melt almond bark in microwave stirring often. 3. Stir almond bark in with popcorn pop-corn and almonds coat well. 4. Spread waxed paper over a cookie sheet and then spread popcorn pop-corn over the waxed paper. 5. Melt chocolate on low in microwave micro-wave stirring often. Drizle melted milk chocolate over popcorn and then drizzle melted dark chocolate over the popcorn. 34 "Trout Unlimited has been proud to ally with Snowbird on the precedent-setting cleanups of the Pacific and Live Yankee Mines," said Ted Fitzgerald of Trout Unlimited. Unlim-ited. "Both the local habitat in American Fork Canyon and large numbers of people who enjoy this recreational area will clearly benefit from this restoration project." 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Of course the officers clubs in Honolulu were wonderful, and I could get a jeep from the motor pool anytime 1 wanted. What was going on at that time was scary! There was no question in my mind that we would be at war with the Soviet Union. The newspapers and politicians were saying that now that the war was over, we were friends with the Soviets. But the military brass knew that war with the Soviets was a potential reality. The messages I bandied were about how to position the fleet so as to give the U.S. a military mili-tary advantage. Of course there were also the mundane duties, because I was in charge of the coding room. I was in Pearl Harbor only six months, but this was during dur-ing the time when atomic bombs were being tested at the Bikini Atoll in Eniwetok. The military was anxious that the United States be the primary power in the world. It wouldn't be long till the Soviets also had their own atomic weapons. Seeing photographs pho-tographs of the effects of the underwater blasts gave me an appreciation for the power of nuclear fission and fusion. I was sent home to Los Angeles An-geles and discharged, and jobs were not easy to find. The Where else would you advertise? hmrdays runrnrr m nrimnii CArE.nl j IN nLnHDILMMMUIl & SENIOR CARE . Orchard Park recently held a . community blood drive. Stand-p. Stand-p. ing outside the blood mobile U is administrator Jared Swain. Orchard Park is dedicated to' (' ifmm-p community efforts, especially providing excellent rehab and nursing services. Feel free to call with any questions ques-tions regarding our services! Editor's note: 7is is the third in a four-part series on Reed Nixon of Orem. This week World War 11 has now ended, and Nixon, navy officer, is ussigned as a service had been wonderful to me. I have always felt very strongly about my obligation to my government. Government Govern-ment service has always been a privilege to me. 1 bummed around for a few weeks, but that soon became baring. My mother was a personal per-sonal friend to Carl Eyring, a dean at BYU who had received re-ceived his PhD from Cal Tech. When we went to visit him, he asked me, "What are you doing with yourself this year, Reed?" "Well, I'm not sure." "Why don't you come to BYU and teach math. We need some people here." So I registered in the graduate gradu-ate school and taught a class in college algebra. I was the youngest in the class, because it was full of veterans. But that was a problem only the first day. I took classes in physics, but also in English history, engineering engi-neering geology and religion all classes that I had lacked time to take at Cal Tech. The religion classes were especially espe-cially foreign to me, but it was fascinating to take all sorts of classes from professors who actually believed in God. I met my wife, Joyce, at BYU, and we decided to get married, even though I'd been called on an LDS mission. She was allowed to be my missionary mission-ary companion during my last year in Western Canada. After my mission, 1 worked at Telluride Power Company in Richfield, Utah for a few years. When the National Reactor Re-actor Testing Station opened in Arco, Idaho, I worked there at the chemical processing plant as an electrical engineer. One day the chief engineer called the group together and said, "We need to get busy. We've got a contract to develop de-velop the chemical process for the fuel rods for the fuel core for the first atomic submarine." sub-marine." Next week: After further training in nuclear physics, Reed Nixon goes to work for the redoubtable Admiral Hyman Rickover, and there hangs many a tale. '.heraldextra.com Professional Grade Blow Dryer & Ceramic Flat Iron Special Sala nice S50.n itatiaii Voted 1 in Utah County 5 Years in a Row! Uvillttkantu j : 4 Private Rooms! 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