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Show II TOWNS SECTION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, CITY EDITOR BYU research team DALY HERALD The blurry blade dots may not look like much, but they represent a world of opportunity for Travis Oliphant, an electrical engineering Uniprofessor at Brigham Young v versity. The black dots show the parts of a cell sample that dont transmit electrons as well as other parts, creating a portrait of the eel This portrait is the output from a new instrument, that Oliphant, along with a team of researchers, has developed to look inside living cells, something previously impossible for medical researchers. "A lot of biological tests are destructive," Oliphant said, "we're trying to create an instrument that allows you to see a cell as it goes through its life cycle." See BYU, Marc Haddock mhaddodheraWextra.cofn 344-258- 6 Community donations creating device to see inside living cells David Randall I 2004 JOSHUA BftOWNDaily Herald a senior electrical engineer major at BYU, monitors D3 ' readings from a petri dish. Ben Zhang, give boost to Lehi mother Bull riding event raises $9,000 to assist with Lacy Smith's medical bills The Numbers Game Elisabeth Nardi ' DAILY HERALD Lacy Smith had her last radiation treatment on Wednesday, won't have another CAT scan for three months and received $9,000 for her medical bills some of the money coming from complete strangers. All in all it was a pretty good week. mother in Lehi, was diagSmith, a nosed with adult Hodgkins lymphoma in 2003 after she found a lump in her neck. She went through radiation and chemotherapy for six months. In February, a month after she returned to work, Smith found another lump. Doctors told her the cancer had spread from her ' neck and chest to her ab-domen and right lung. She "Even my then underwent a bone marrow transplant and more rahusband diation. we were all To help the young mother her Smith's ordeal, through crying. family and friends organized a bull riding fund-raislast We have a Saturday, during which more than 35 bull riders rode pretty great in the Lehi Bull Fest. The community." event raised $9,000 and Smith had a great night. Lacy Smith "It was an awesome mother realsaid. "It was night," she in Lehi who was ly special and turned out rediagnosed with adult ally well" Hodgkins lymphoma But unfortunately the $9,000 will only pay a frac- tion of Smith's medical bills. Smith recently received a medical bill for $70,000 she has spent for only one night in the hospital 19. But overall, with perfect strangers coming up to her and handing her money, Smith feels extremely grateful, she said. we were all crying," she "Even my husband said. "We have a pretty great communfty." Mae Radmall, one of the organizers of the event, said 500 people attended but they had hoped for more, especially with the bills starting to come in. "It's not even a drop in the bucket, but it helps," she said. For anyone who would like to donate, an account for Lacy Smith has been set up at Sons Bank. . f I jMi lii r itij b fax WW" if S If l er . NWA . ' n . ' ' I I l I i i I Elisabeth Nardi can be reached at enardiheraldextra.com. 344-254- 7 or if r&J New nonprofit group steps up to fund Pleasant Grove Library 1 Elisabeth Nardi DAILY ' JEREMY HARMONDaily Herald , are weighing whethet to implement a formal address system tnatw businesses and residences in the northwest portion of the town. The council will discuss the system at a meeting later this month With Geneva Steel gone, Vineyard officials Vineyard could see adoption of an official address system . Tammy McPherson ' t , PAH.Y HERALD Some business owners and residents in " Vineyard may have to change their mailing addresses if the town adopts a formal .. system. !' The town has used its own system since it incorporated in 1989. But it wasn't enforced through the northwest end of town where Geneva Steel and a number of other indus-tri- es ad-dre- ss - ' are located. Those businesses were allowed to keep ; their county addresses because Geneva Steel took up so much of the property and had been there before the city incorporated, city s recorder Barbara Davies said But with the possibility of that property being broken up and farmers selling their land to developers, the city is looking to adopt a uniform system before development begins. This will help the city to keep better records, she said. , . "It just makes sense right now," Davies said. "Development over there is beginning." One project in particular is a power plant, expected to be completed on part of the Geneva Steel property by the year 2007. Adopting the system could mean some residents' addresses would also change, be-cause the first address system the dry used was an estimation and wasn't formally engineered, Davies said. , , , . 62-ac- re : The Town Council is scheduled to discuss the address system issue at a meeting later this month. However, plans to adopt a town system could be put on hold with talks about a coun-tywiaddress system, Mayor Rulon Gam1 mon said. Last week county Commissioner Steve White asked Utah County mayors totalk with their city council members about possibly adopting a countywkte address system. The county is projected to hit an 800,000 population by 2030. It would be less expen- sive to switch over to an area-wid- e system, 4 -' , ' de See VINEYARD, D3 i. HERALD While there may no longer be Friends of the' Pleasant Grove Library, a new foundation is ready to take the place of the organization that over the past five years contributed thousands of dollars to the library. The nonprofit Pleasant Grove City Library Foun: dation has formed to replace the Friends of the Pleasant Grove Library, which dissolved last montfi. board is raising mon And already the three-perso-n ey,.looking for more board members and applying, for grants. The previous group disbanded after officials said the Friends had met their main goal: getting a new library. While no new library has actually been built, the city is planning on issuing bonds for a new but that decision will not be fi-- ' $5 million library naluntfl residents vote on the issue in June. The Friends organization focused on getting a new library built by paying for a survey and raising money for a stained glass window for the new library, While getting the library built will be one issue the new foundation win support, the group is ' more interested in helping fund the library, said Brian Bellon, chairman of the foundation. The foundation received its first grants for the liawarded brary when the new Linden Wal-Mathem $2,,000 to be used for the literacy and young . adult programs at the library, Bellon sakL When the Friends organization announced k was going to dissolve, library board members scram- bled because the library would not be eligible for . rt , ' . SeeU3XARY,D5 |