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Show s 500 Per Issue Online: www.HarkThEKerald.com an edition of THE DAILY HERALD 1 yearNumber 15 THURSDAY, April 10, 2003 538 South State Street, Orem, UT 84058 (801) 225-1340 xpert jesses ability r poor oonomy N of J REVA BOWEN e s'! Times Reporter he Inr; ie United States econ-is econ-is suffering multiple iturns right now, but Id turn . around if ibilizing influences ie checked, according iternational banker Dusinessman Timothy - jewater. idgewater, a Draper ent, spoke at a recent jng of the Women's dative Council of j County at the Provo iott. He is an expert sian affairs, having oped businesses in a, Indonesia, land and Malaysia. 3 a vice chair of the :ican Thai 5 dation for Education m the board of China jn Telecom national Ltd. e war in Iraq is a --r destabilizing influ-"1 influ-"1 right now. "The war is i- U iling," Bridgewater Continued on page A10 R . . .v'A : . .. . .. UJ-r,.1, : T -. mm.'.Jw . . . . .- - : 7 Trr 4.w0.- yr , 1 - "I - f - . k I . v "'- -v ; .... -........ ' , " 1 ' Photo by Scarlett M. Barger After showing off photographs from his Air Force days, Allan J. Parkinson (left) recalls memories from his World War II service. serv-ice. Don Norton (right) records Parkinson's story. Veteran stories relate to war today SCARLETT M. BARGER Times Reporter Just when the cycle of war is beginning again, members , of the Orem Heritage Commission have started tape recording stories from World War II veterans. The man behind the tape recorder is Don Norton, professor in the Department of Linguistics and the English Language at Brigham Young University. More veterans are sharing their experiences now than ever before, Norton said. He attributes this partly to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "There's been more of a revived spirit spir-it of patriotism." Norton starting recording veterans' veter-ans' stories about 13 years ago for the Commemorative Air Force. He will soon start working on the "Saints at War" project at BYU, Continued on page A9 Attendance increases at Orem City rec facility DUANE HILTON Times Reporter The Orem Fitness Center has seen a large increase in attendance since it remodeled its facilities facil-ities last fall. Aerobics classes have gone from between 1,100 to 1,400 people to between 2,000 and 2,300, according to Nina Blakely, an aerobics aero-bics instructor. Fitness Center Manager Mike Johnson said that child care, the weight room and water aerobics have also increased in attendance as a result of the remodeling. In fact, the month of March would have been a landmark month for the fitness center, but, according accord-ing to Johnson, other factors fac-tors affected attendance, like a bad economy. "It defiantly would have been the best (month) ever," Johnson said. "Right now what we're going to have is a good (one)." Johnson said he believes attendance went Continued on page A9 ' L 1 not taper D I. I fyr i Sat-M-.,21" 11 &He? f On" Tut 13 V i'u Photo by Martin Harris b Thayne and Gareth Seastrand accept a donation to em Heritage Museum from Delynn Rodeback, a region-?S region-?S u imunity manager from Utah Power and Light. Sfah Power and Light fes donation to Orem iritage Museum it to: MH IN HARRIS Times Reporter Orem Heritage mi committee ed a much needed call last Friday ng from a represen- ot. Utah Power and 0 7 lynn Rodeback, a regional community manager man-ager for Utah Power, called Gareth Seastrand, the museum's committee chair, and told him the company would be making a donation to the museum. "We have a lot of projects proj-ects at the museum that need funding for, we Continued on page A10 Neighborhood program gets residents involved CLYDE E. WEEKS, JR. Times Correspondent In a democracy, where the power of government is determined by the vote of its citizens, the elected officials offi-cials are called upon to take courses of action which they believe their constituents would approve and support. sup-port. However, when a community grows to a certain size, it becomes an increasing challenge for the officials to ascertain the will of the people. With the population of the City of Orem approaching the 85,000 mark five years ago, the Orem City Council adopted a resolution, creating creat-ing a Neighborhood Advisory Ad Hoc Committee to study the feasibility of setting up community and neighborhood neighbor-hood committees. The idea was that Orem's city government would be strengthened with more active citizen participation participa-tion and evaluation of government representatives and functions. Communication channels between citizens and government representatives representa-tives and agencies would be broadened broad-ened and strengthened. Through serving on the Neighborhoods In Action Communities, residents would become participants, rather than merely recipients of community action. Through that study, first proposed in May 1998, the Neighborhoods In Action program was instituted by the Orem City Council and has been functioning since that time. Currently serving as director of Orem's Neighborhoods in Action Program is. Joyce W. Johnson, former Mayor of Orem and a former member mem-ber of the Orem City Council. Johnson has a long record of serv ice to the community and is well acquainted with many of the problems prob-lems that must be addressed. "There are 18 communities, organized throughout the City of i i - .in. H j...... m Joyce W. Johnson Orem," Joyce Johnson said Monday. "The purpose of each community is to serve their local neighborhoods, by helping identify strengths and resources to solve local needs and problems." "Each community is provided with a channel of communication to elected officials and city department staff, which promotes effective, informed and representative participation partici-pation of citizens in government and self-help initiatives." Each of the 18 communities is led by a community chair, vice chair and secretary, all of whom must reside within the community boundaries they represent. Community committee commit-tee leaders are presented to their respective community through an election process. Upon their approval, they are appointed by the City Council. The term of office for each elected position is for two years. The supporting sup-porting election is determined by a majority of those residents who are present at the monthly community meeting. According to Johnson, a nominal budget is provided to each community communi-ty for the purpose of relaying information infor-mation to citizens in the form of flyers, fly-ers, newsletters, mailer, etc. The Neighborhoods In Action program pro-gram contemplates that each community com-munity committee divide their community com-munity into neighborhood districts. The number of neighborhoods and their boundaries should be revised as needed to reflect population fluctuations fluc-tuations and natural boundary configurations, con-figurations, as determined by the community committee. The recommended size for each neighborhood is 150 to 250 households, house-holds, or whatever the community committee determines will best represent rep-resent the neighborhoods. According to Johnson, "The committee com-mittee represents the community by developing and championing effective effec-tive issues, such as crime prevention, preven-tion, beautification, traffic, growth and expansion, and other issues, which may be important." They are also responsible for organizing a communityneighborhood communityneighbor-hood meeting for citizens to meet Continued on page A10 At DE1V17A710E TO ESflDEEjflS ou Ctoi Gooliv You can now enjoy membership with ALPINE CREDIT UNION .. OREM AMERICAN FORK LEHI Call for details 225-0256 YEDIT UNION iJ . |
