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Show vf bHL' " U, d w - ! 1 ? , U y nri u, a,u I Vol. 21, No. 2 r i tI V ID W 1 : More LOCAL news than any other source! v3u I January 13, 1999 Wednesday, 50 Town meetings give local residents the chance to express view for Utah in 2020 s Where will you be in the year ? if If that question is important to you then you already have the answer to the second question, where will you be tonight or tomorrow night? Citizens will have an opportunity to voice their opinions on growth in special town meetings that will be held in the north Utah County area tonight and tomorrow night, Jan. 13 and 14. The meetings are part of the Envision Utah program to determine public sentiment on how to handle growth that is happening along the WTasatch Front. Meetings will be held tonight in Lehi and American Fork' city council chambers. Two more meetings will be held tomorrow night in the Lindon City Offices and the auditorium of the Pleasant Grove Public Library. During the meetings, residents will see a detailed slide show and video presentation that parallels the Envision Utah questionnaire that was included in the major Sunday papers this last week. Additional questionnaires will be available at the meeting for those who did not receive one as part of a newspa- I 7 ' "M'"f - - Photo by Julie Loveridge Things are swinging at Sego Lily... Students enjoy playing on the new playground equipment Installed at Sego Lily Elementary over Christmas break. In a cooperative effort between the city, the school, and the PTA, the playground has been moved from its former location which was dangerously close to the freeway, to a safer location near the school on the east side of the school yard. The old wooden big toy has been replaced by safer equipment made from colorful plastic and boastto replace the one large slide the school previously had. ing five mini-slid- all that Jazz Utah Jazz Bear to highlight Lehi-Wasat- ch game Friday This week's game not only promises to be a lively game with region rivals, the Wasatch Wasps, but also makes the second appearance of the Utah Jazz mascot bear. The varsity match starts at 7 p.m. Admission for the game is $4 for adults, $2 for students (other than Lehi High School students) with activity card, and $12 for a family ticket; Lehi High School students with activity cards are admitted free. The event is again being by the Sports sponsored Marketing class, which is designed to help the school promote itself through developing partnerships with members of the business community. Students in the class contact local businesses as part of their curriculum. - .. f ' s; information to leaders in present order to determine "how to grow." "The way to voice your opinion is to fill out the Wednesday, Jan. questionnaire," "We said Davies. are doing this to involve the most -- By Julie Loveridge They come in all shapes, and even sex in some - a y- - - "A H h "J-- to 9 p.m. Lehi City Council Chambers 153 N. 100 East American Fork City Council chariot's Church Street 31 N people." Elementary's pilot program. Sego Lily has been doing for five months now. this Sponsored by the PTA. fathers are invited to come to One even comes from as far the school and spend a half away as Boise. They go by the hour reading to their child and name of Dad, or Pop, or a couple of his or her friends. If Grandpa, or Uncle, and even a father has other commitMom on occasion. ments and can't make it, other But the one thing they all interested adults are encourhave in common is a sincere aged to come in his place. desire to be part of a child's "One dad," says Principal education. They are the people Glenn Martin, "can't make it on who come to read at Sego Lily Fridays. So he comes another Elementary each month as part day, brings his own donuts. and of the school's "Dads and takes his children to lunch to Donuts. read to them." Patterned after Meadow When asked about students sizes,-age- , A 13. 7 Dads and donuts are a recipe for success in elementary reading Get jazzed' up about Pioneer basketball this weekend by attending a special competition this Friday at Lehi High School. Davies. warning that the end result might not he so "cut and dried" as the four prepared sceif narios. "There art trade-offyou want X. you may have to give up Y." The findings from the questionnaires and from the 50 meetings to be held this week will be presented to the Envision L'tah citizens' point of view. According to Ryan Davies, for manager partnership Envision Utah, the organization consists of approximately 120 persons, including government leaders, members of the business community, developers, educators and citizens. He said Envision Utah has no agenda and no bias, but was organized to Envision Utah Thursday. Jan. 14. 7 to 9 p.m. has prepared four Fire Station Eagle Mountain for scenarios 1680 E Heritage Dnve growth, but is not Highland City Council chambers Highland Alpine public limiting 5378 W. 10400 North those to opinion scenarios. Davies Lindon City Council chambers said that citizens 100 N. State Street are welcome to Citv Library auditonu Pleasant Grove express a point of 30E Center Street view that may be in between two per. A facilitator will also be availprepared scenarios or farther partnership, which will present the opinions to the public ir the able to answer questions about beyond the end points. "What we're trying to do is to form of a document likelv m the the Envision Utah program and the questionnaire, and a scribe create preferred scenarios," said fall of 1999. will be in attendance to record comments made by the public to help planners understand the For more information on the scenarios, see page 8 es Lew Pioneers and cents a single copy Looking ahead i 2020? 1 For home delivery call or see our web site at www.newutah.com 756-766- 9 l T n m v. situations. whose parents are unable to attend. Martin said the goal oi the teachers is that every child attend at least once during the year. School leaders understand that work schedules don't always permit a father to take time off in the middle of the day. For that reason, each child is allowed to take two friends with them to their reading session. The main focus of the program is to show students that parents find reading important and a fun thing to do Martin encourages families to extend See DADS on page 12 The Utah Jazz mascot bear, shown here at Lehi High School last year, returns to the school this Friday when the Pioneers face is at 7 p.m. the Wasatch Wasps; tip-off Marching to a Different Drummer Musician finds : By Julie Loveridge success in innovative methods names that seem a little g unusual to the ear . . . names like Suzuki, Kodaly, and most notably, Orff. Orff, Tuttle explains, is a English-speakin- Against a backdrop of two matching grand pianos, Billie Tuttle's music students make their own rainsticks and pound put dancing rhythms on African drums and joyful tambourines. i "I am convinced that dancing in the forest with a hand drum sometimes teaches music more effectively than being perched on a piano bench," says Tuttle, who ia an accomplished musician in her own in a creative mix," says Tuttle. She encourages learners to discover their own uniqueness, effectively linking the past and present in new concept developed by German understanding and awareness composer Carl Orff in the for her students. 1940 s to teach music to chilIt means using a lot of folk dren. Orff believed children songs, and having students would understand music best if explore both art and music they learned to feel it and together. It means having students "speak" it first, the same as we learn any language. use their voices to speak and So when Tuttle has her ring, and their bodies to move classes with very small chiland dance. It means taking dren (as young as 4 fi yrs.), the children through progressive right,. pianos sit silent while xylosteps from musical imitation to When Billie moved to Lehi phones and glockenspiels, improvisation and finally to lit10 years ago with her husband drums and metallophones take eracy. , Dave, she brought to the comcenter stage as props for the Tuttle currently serves as a real instruments the children board member for Utah's chapmunity an exciting perspective on the wonders of music as a use, which are the children, ter of the American Orff themselves. language. Schulwerk Association . It's a perspective she has "My vision is to design a (AOSA). She is also an Artist-Se- e adopted from combining a vari- learning experience that comTUTTLE on page 12 ety of teaching methods with bines the arts and humanities l til- : i ., ; ' - ' ' . ; OOR COPY tiiaattaittt TTr......J11 ..M .. ... - flltfll uliil i Photo by Julie Loveridge illie Tuttle plays one of the two grand pianos In her Lehi studio. Tuttle Is a strong advocate of exposing young children to the wonderful language of music at an early age. S |