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Show SECTION SATURDAY. MARCH 6. METRO EDITOR I Donna Rutek 2004 drutekeheraldextra.com 341-256- 1 Utah groups walking to Mars Booldng fee may Program promoting residents to exercise be dead if Walker Tammy McPherson THE DAILY HERALD At least three times a day, Lorna Fowles rounds up the women in her office to walk up and down the stairs during an exercise break at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo. . Dubbed the "Stair Nazi" by her Fowles organizes the stairwell power marches and logs the weekly mileage walked by her and 28 other quality resources department employees involved in the Utah Walks progratn.T5ince they started a month ago, they've logged a collective 756 miles. "It gives us a break from sitting. I think it helps you to be a little fresher," Fowles said. Utah Walks is sponsored by the Utah Department of Health, Health Care and the Alliance for Cardiovascular Health to fe WALKS, D2 Ft? f T fn T if--1 1' f mr a. $ j f MATT , Keep on walking: Loma Fowles, left, sheriffs control over who can be booked when they say jails are full, said Utah County Commissioner Steve White. It passed in a 7 vote in the House and 15-- 7 in the Senate. The bill also would impose a $32 fee on all justice court fines, including moving traffic citations. If signed by Walker, the bill won't hurt Utah County. "It actually helps us," White said. "In my opinion, it's a Cities won't be charged for booking offenders, counties will Amie Rose THE Inter-mounta- in See signs legislation V' W 1 SMITHDaily Herald and Carrol Grudzinski lead their group of while walking the stairs at UVRMC on Friday afternoon. The group is one of several tracking their walking activities online as part of the Utah Walks program. The goal is to have Utahns walk far enough to get to Mars. DAILY HERALD The booking fee at the Utah County Jail is dead, if Gov. dene Walker signs a bill passed by the state Legislature on Wednesday during the waning hours of the session. Utah County commissioners voted last month to charge cities $50 for booking people into the county jail on most class-- and class-- misdemeanors, starting July 1. The bill would prohibit counties from charging cities when they book certain offenders, but give 42-3- win-win- C B See ." D2 BOOKING FEE, SAVING THE GROVE THEATER Man severely injured in police chase Jf" j?-- ' ... Jill Fellow THE DAILY HERALD A American Fork man was critically injured Friday night after leading police on a three-mil- e car chase at speeds exceeding 100 mph. The suspect was extricated from his car and taken by medical helicopter to University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City were he was in critical condition. Police did not release the name of the suspect. "The suspect hit two other vehicles at a high rate of speed," said Sgt. Hoby Metz of the Utah High- way Patrol. The drivers of the other two woman and a cars, an 18--y ear-ol- d man, were both treated and released at the scene. Police began pursuing the suspect, who was driving a 1986 Toyota Celica, when they sported him driving recklessly on 500 East and Main Street in American Fork just before 6 p.m. The suspect led police north on 100 East for approximately two miles before turning west on State Road 92 heading into Lehi. Near Micron on S.R. 92, the suspect, still traveling at 100 mph, hit a black sedan while traveling in the westbound lane, at which point his car veered into oncoming traffic, where he hit a second car. His car then flipped and slid 200 yards back across the westbound lane, where it came, to a stop off the side of the road. Metz said medical technicians at the scene could not find the suspect's pulse after extricating him from the car. "They loaded the individual in the ambulance and continued the CPR," Metz said. "At that point I . think they got a heartbeat. They then loaded him on the helicopter and took him to U of U." American Fork Police Chief Terry Fox said blood was drawn from' the suspect as part of a police investigation. It was unclear whether or not the suspect was driving under the influence. .. w i CXX f COREY PERRINEDaily Rachel Adams, 19, of Orem, is locked into an old Herald chest by Doug Dial of Pleasant Grove during Friday evening's Extreme Theater at the Grove Theatre in Pleasant Grove. . Theater lund-rais- ing, directing, memorizing and per- Tammy McPherson THE DAILY to create five plays in 24 hours er HERALD The actors were in costume, cheering and whistling as the directors made their way to the stage at the Grove Theatre in Pleasant Grove on Friday night. It was like most nights in theater before a show opens, with one exception: the plays weren't written yet and in the next 24 hours the cast would be writ forming five plays. Appropriately named, Extreme Theg ater is a event to prevent the community, dinner theater from going dark because of financial struggles from its first year of business. "This is kind of like a party to me, that I can get a part and do it and be done in 24 hours," said Nancy Bayless, one of the about 25 actors who will be performing tonight at 7 p.m. at the fund-raisin- the director will have to incorporate into the performances. Bayless wore a cowboy hat and brought a wooden giraffe. Others wore princess dresses, brought pogo sticks and one even carried in the family dog. For his prop, Douglas Dial brought hair clippers, and since the fund-raisis called Extreme, if they want to butcher his hair during the play, so be it. Grove Theatre, 20 N. Main in Pleasant Grove. Suggested donation is $20 for the performances. Bayless, a mother of five and grandmother of two, hasn't had the time to commit to theater for years. She said she thought this was a perfect opportunity to get back on stage without taking too much time away from her family-L- er ike the other actors, Bayless chose a costume and a prop, each of which See D3 THEATER, "The anticipation is almost as intense as Christmas because they cannot wait." Reta Tischner, Salem Elementary School kindergarten teacher Annual Kindy 500 drives leaniing about imerican national monuments Christi C Babbitt THE DAILY HERALD The halls of Salem Elementary School became a hiehwav Friday as nearly 100 kindereartners colorful cardboard cars past parents and paraded . r i . 500. i r,..nl 1 V Kindy Students then drove their cars to various classrooms where they learned about American icons such as Mount Rushmore and the Lincoln Memo- rial. "They have anticipated this for weeks," said Reta Tischner, a Salem Elementary kindergarten teacher. "The anticipation is almost as intense as ft Kalie Carson, left. Summer Christensen, and Kylee Vest wait to line up for the parade Friday morning at Salem Elementary schooL The parade kicked of the Kindy 500, an event at the school for kindergartners. Christmas because they cannot wait." Organized by Tischner and Salem Elementary kindergarten teacher Johna Lew, this year's Kindy 500 was part of the two teachers' efforts to teach students about American patriotic sym- bols. This year, the state began requiring kinder- gartners to learn about the symbols, Tischner said. In past years, the children drove their Kindy 500 cars to various stations and learned about safety and obeying traffic laws. This year, the teachers combined the state's new requirement with the Kindy 500, which has See KINDY 500, D3 mJk -- LL " .' i t VVWW.HARKTHEHERALD.COM CALL 375-510- 3 TO SUBSCRIBE MOUYCORSO Daily Herald I ' W f - .'i i i Tl)- s...,j 41 I'll ' ' --mill |