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Show New Utah - Thursday, August 22, 2i.)2 - Pae 14 Storytelling festival is a $10,000 book bonanza By Harlow Clack Karen Acerson of Lindun and her associate in the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival, Lisa Harkness, arranged about 1,000 new books in front of the Orem Public Library stained-gla.ss window of the children's section and put up a yellow ribbon to keep children out of the collection. The display shows how many books $10,000 from the Festival can buy, and was part of an Aug. 8 media kickoff for the Festival, Aug. 29 to Aug. 31, which started 13 years ago to help the children's library fund. After the children's library was finished, the festival fes-tival has helped add to other collections in the library. The books on display are evenly split between the library's adult, young adult and children's collections. And there are books on telling stories, books of stories sto-ries from some of the festival's festi-val's storytellers, and other storytelling helps. The display also contains a good-sized collection of Spanish materials, including includ-ing sets of tapes teaching English. Library director Louise Wallace said a lot of Spanish-speaking families come to the library together. "Our adult Spanish collection col-lection has tripled in the last year," she said, and the library has had SpanishEnglish storytelling story-telling hours. The display is attractive, too attractive for a yellow ribbon to keep people away. "A couple of times we've v . : , t i ';. - . i ul i l r . "v s-- , ' - : d - rr - ; - ' .- ) J,,. - - . - - - i Doctor welcomes sJ babies into the woild it Photo by Harlow Clark Karen Acerson reads one of the books on display at the Orem Public Library to spotlight spot-light the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival which begins Aug. 31. found little children under the tables, hiding under the tables reading," said Festival Festi-val founder Karen Ashton, and once when a girl called for her mother, the mother stood up from behind a display dis-play table, where she had been reading. While most of the money the Storytelling Festival donates goes to help the library, they made a special $10,000 donation last year to the new library in Provo's Academy Square. The festival is also building build-ing up "a fund to ensure the festival stays here if our sponsors don't want to sponsor anymore," Acerson said. Ashton started the festival festi-val after attending the National Storytelling Festival Festi-val in Jonesborough, Term. "We didn't even know what a storytelling festival was," Acerson said, and had a hard time describing it to people and reporters that first year. "Now we're the second largest in the country," coun-try," Ashton said a few minutes min-utes later. "But not second in quality," Acerson said. The festival has been at the Olmsted at the mouth of Provo Canyon, but Orem is building a permanent location loca-tion a mile or so up the canyon, to be ready in about two years. "Six tent sites. Each tent will hold maybe 1,000 people," peo-ple," Ashton said. "We've loved where we are. We're so grateful to Utah Power & Light for providing pro-viding our present site. Maybe we'll grow big enough that we can combine the sites." The festival is also trying something new this year. Following the traditional Thursday program will be storytelling and workshops just for children, with schools busing in children from around the state, but the festival will also be bringing in its national storytellers sto-rytellers a day early, Wednesday, Aug. 28, and busing them out to schools. Willy Claflin will be holding an assembly and workshop at Lindon Elementary that day. In the meantime there's that pesky yellow ribbon, and when Acerson and Harkness took it down to get some pictures of children chil-dren and books the display drew children in. Stephanie Acerson looked at a book, then two cousins, Christine and Kim Poulsen, sat down and looked at several sev-eral books, while others stood around the display tables. One girl, Hali Lynn, was a little shy, so Acerson knelt down with her and Stephanie and they read "Belly Button Boy" together. "It's about the importance of keeping your belly button clean so plants don't grow there." Clark can be contacted at harlowclarkjuno.com By Debra Hart The year 2002 is delivering deliver-ing a whopper of a celebration celebra-tion for Dr. E. William Parker Park-er Jr. and his OB GYN practice, prac-tice, Mt. Timpanogos Women's Health Care. Not only is it his 20th anniversary practicing as an OB.'GYN in north Utah County, he also is celebrating celebrat-ing the delivery of his 5,000th baby this year. On Feb. 2S, Parker helped Keri Haynie's new son, Max Pratt Haynie, scream his way into the world. As if these two monumental monu-mental career achievements are not enough reason to celebrate, Parker also opened a new satellite office in Eagle Mountain this year. "Over a year ago we became impressed with the growth out here (in Eagle Mountain)," said Parker. "We wanted to get a foot in on the foundation (of Eagle Mountain)." For two days each week, Parker and his partners share office space with Dr. Kenneth L. Crump and Westlake Family Medicine, in the Prairie Gate Professional Profes-sional Building, located in the Ranches area of Eagle Mountain. They plan to expand the office hours as the patient load grows and hope to move into a new office building being planned next to Prairie Gate Professional Building. Parker opened his practice prac-tice in American Fork in 1982 and expanded into a new, larger building in Pleasant Grove in 1999. In his early years as an OBGYN, he decided to deliver every 1,000th baby for free. With an estimated four years in between each 1,000th baby, he plans to at 71 i Dr. E. WilliornT to numtr fl before consider r . ment. Parker is mi ; his personal bodsido , '. ana sincere comvr-.-j his patient's emotion it", i port. "I'm known as th0 j est in the croun l, ' i get gabby," he said T 1 much enjoy talking to ..J ( He feels counselim. v J U patients and helni,,., .l' t of : through problems and -cerns is the favorite m ) his job. 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