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Show ova History Fair winners Two Sego Lily students are gearing up for a trip to Washington, D.C. to participate in the National History Fair in June. Andrea Durrant and Brent Keate were recently named as winners in the state history fair competition and will participate on the national level in June. Three other -- earn right to go to P" fli - D.C. SiKUOhr. DREAMS AND Free Press - Wednesday, April Some unknown suspect had a good time on a joyride, using a vehicle belonging to a Lehi resident who left the keys in the car. The owner noticed that the car was warm when he went out to start it shortly after 5 a.m. Two other signs that the car had been driven were that the seat had been moved and the fuel gauge registered lower than it did the previous f A Lehi man, stopped for erratic driving, which included crossing the center line and driving into oncoming traffic, was found to be driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol. After failing field sobriety and breath tests, the man was booked into the Utah County Jail. Three female juvenile passengers were also cited for illegal consumption. Stopping another driver for lack of license plates on his vehicle, the investigating officer smelled the odor of alcohol coming from a vehicle driven by a Provo man. This man, too, failed field sobriety and breath tests and was released to the custody of a responsible adult. A male driver received three citations on his recent outing after officers discovered that the plates belonged on another make of car. Dispatch later confirmed that the man was driving on suspension and without any insurance. great-grandmoth- 't? TFT 1 Photo by yzfam n To offset costs for partici- WHILE SUPPLIES I ADDITIONAL purchase iMil LAST! BALLS AVAILABLE FOB of the Alpine Certificated was the Negotiated Agreement. Board members and superintendent's information items 1998-199- 9 SI MCKiTOaCECIIYCa Hill - - hr - I 1 Invar shadow mask output Universal Remote "Homesitter"8 timer N 1. J mm W rzr AV27820 i V m. it II ilJ PER ICT i M W tl i Edward Robinson, for whom Robinson Park in Provo may be named, is buried in American Fork Cemetery. Although she hasn't found any famous people, nor any scoundrels, to date, she has found some relatives that she did not know. Some years ago, a family moved to her neighborhood from California; whatever the initial impression was, Shock later found they had a . But the genealogy itself is only part of her story. Shock is also part of the development and the continual upgrading of the computerized software that makes genealogy easier to complete. She started with her typeand gallons of correcwriter and the tion fluid, she said oversized forms used by the LDS Church. She saw the development of the letter-sizeforms and was one of a group of genealogists who was asked to provide comments about the change. Later, she became part of a group that tested the first Personal Ancestral File (PAF), the computer software developed by the church to make recording of genealogy easier. "It was awkward," she said of the earliest version of PAF. "It didn't feel comfortable." Newer versions of the program, however, have eliminated that problem and made PAF a good program for many who were interested in genealogy. Despite the convenience of the program, many who were interested in genealogy did not know anything about computers, some did not even know how to type. Shock decided to d Sku31 96097 I f x-- ' CF30F40R I 11- JJJl Mfm.m, PER MONTH v . smmM LTQQgD v' Fir - r- VCR Hi-- 9m wfrontAV's JUST $30 Complete audio package includes: Dolby Pro Logic Receiver with 'PER MONTH Sku3414396-- "' . 5 speakers one-thir- d to SAVE 20" MTS stereo monitorreceiver h V X MONTH 20" COMPLETE share her knowledge, not only about genealogy, but about the new high-tecmethods, with others. About 18 years ago, she started teaching PAF classes Community through the Education program. Her classes are now some of the most popular offerings each quarter. Through the years, she has of found that about her students not only are unfamiliar with computers, but they have never even used a typewriter. Another third of her class is new to the genealogy part. "It takes about four classes before people relax and start having fun,'' she said. 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Board meets in Lehi, School District board of education held their 2nd meeting of the month on April 28 at Meadow Elementary School in a Lehi. Scheduled as an action item 1 J A i Winners of the history fair on the state level Included, L to R: Andrea Durrant, Andrea Struthers, Karen Struthers, Brooke Worlton and Brent Keate, sixth grade students at Sego Lily Elementary. Durrant and Keate also earned cash awards and will be participating in the National History Fair in June. a considerable amount ot house. town of Clarion as his project-, a Jewish settlement near Gunnison. He interviewed some of the residents of the community and spent I1 i Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest time at the Special Service, the Utah Division of Collections Library at the State History and the Utah University of Utah. Division of Oil, Gas and In addition to competing on the national level, Keate Mining. She worked with June won a $75 cash prize from of the Tintic the Charles Redd Center for McNulty Historical Society and she Western Studies at Brigham wrote letters to residents of Young University. His project Eureka, who responded to was also chosen to be a part her Arden of the exhibit either at the requests. Underwood of Chief Smithsonian Institution or Consolidated Mining the National Archives on Company took her on a tour June 17, during the competiof the old offices and hoist tion. Brent Keate chose the Page 3 day. students Andrea Struthers, Karen Struthers and Brooke Worlton were also named as winners, but family circumstances will not allow them to make the trip. Currant's project focused on the Tintic Mining District, with its boom and bust, because her Virginia Weight lived had in Gurney, Knightsville and Silver City. The project won second at region and first at state. She was also awarded a cash prize of $100 from the Interagency Task Force, a group consisting of the 29, 1998 - and subwoofer STAND OPTIONAL just do it." A few will come to the class with thousands of names they want to include in their genealogy database. She suggests that they limit their intitial work to about 400 to 500 names, checking for accuracy along 53" STEREO CIS SCREEN MONITOR 35" r nifawriiiiMataMMtriafrwi'- pSTERiOlf the way. Whatever the mix of her students, she tries to go at the speed of the slowest student, then work up slowly. She makes assignments, which she expects the students to complete, but she reviews the concepts often so that the students learn. She has been teaching both beginning and intermediate classes, and is now teaching classes for the PAF Companion, a Windows-baseprogram that will print out reports from the names in the PAF database. 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