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Show SECTION SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 Joe Pyrah METRO EDITOR m r tt jpyrahheraldextra.com 344-258- 6 1 Students iroul inuirniea warns w lease uran waier have fun raising funds Caleb Warnock ' Elisabeth Nardi '.' DAILY . HERALD Mr. Miner was stuck, literally, to a wall And Orem High School students were happy to see him there. Gary Miner, a history and gov- ernment teacher at Onem, spent his d lunch hour being to a wall in the name of charity, Students lined up to pay $1 per , strip to tape Miner to the wall When students took the desk that was holding him up away, he actually stuck to the wall for a full five duct-tape- seconds. The taping was just one of many events Orem High School is hosting to raise money for Operation Smile. The school has a Operation Smile Club that was revitalized last year after several years on hiatus. For two weeks, the school will try to raise money to give to Operation Smile, which provides reconstructive surgery for children with facial deformities such as cleft lip, cleft palate and burn scars. g The efforts at Orem High have to be unique if organizers want to double what they raised last year and raise more than $8,000 for the operations. That would allow Operation Smile to perform more than 30 operations at an average cost of $240 each, said Alisa Seegmiller, a senior who is president of the school's chib. "We have a really great saying this year: 'Orem High School can't do all the good in the world, but the world needs all the good Orem High can do,' " she said. The cause is important to Seegmiller, in part because she revitalized it last year and also because her sister started the club a few years ago at the high school, she . DAILY HERALD In 2001, migrating bull trout were trapped by low water in the north fork of Montana's Black River after years of drought and diversions to several large irrigation ditches left the river all but dry. Today, that same section of the Black River flows more fully, allowing the trout to reach their destination and mate, thanks to an unusual water-leas- e agreement between Trout Unlimited and long time ranchers John and Irene Weaver, said Timothy Hawkes, staff attorney for Trout Unlimited's Utah Water Project. To make sure the river had enough water during critical .summer migration periods, wrout Unlimited paid to replace the Weavers' irrigation canal with a pump, pipes and a more efficient center-pivo- t sprinkler irrigation system, Hawkes said. In return, the Weavers, leased 18.5 cubic feet per second of water to Trout Unlimited. The organization leaves the water in Black River, where it benefits the fish. Trout Unlimited hopes to strike similar deals with willing ranchers around Utah, but first the Legislature will have to change existing law. According to existing state code, any rancher who does not use his water stands to lose it, Hawkes said. "The principle that guides water rights in Utah is 'use it or lose it,' " he said. "Say a rancher converts from flood irrigation to pivot irrigation. They will save water. But under current law they have to find another use for that water, and continue to divert that same amount, or they lose it. "There is no incentive to conserve." Ten years ago, Trout Unlimited convinced the Montana Legislature to change its "use it or lose it" law. For a decade, the state has allowed farmers and ranchers, on a volunteer basis, to lease some or all of their water rights to Trout f"V Unlimited. The program has been a success, increasing water flows in several important streams around the state, Hawkes said. "With new legislation in Utah, we can sit down with farmers or ranchers and agree to pay them a certain amount of money, and in exchange, they agree to leave a portion of their water in the stream," he said. Trout Unlimited had worked with Rep. Mito chael R. Styler, draft a bill allowing such , -- v" Courtesy Chris Eaton Trout Unlimited has been working for 10 years to keep more water in Montana streams like this one, and now it would like to extend the effort to Utah. leases for the Legislative session that begins this month. But Styler has joined Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s cabinet, heading up the Utah Department of Natural Resources, and will no longer be able to sponsor the private water See WATER, C6 er fund-raisin- said. Tom Brinton, president of the Operation Smile club at BYU, which oversees all the high school clubs, said with Seegmiller at the helm, he feels confident the school can raise the $8,000. J "They are well within their ability to raise that money," he said "It takes a lot of support, and it takes a lot of people getting behind it, but I have seen schools raise that much." See OREM, C6 Eagle Forum members meet to talk politics . Provo man surrenders after police standoff Jill Fellow DAILY HERALD 'f' Neighbors were evacuated Saturday when a man barricaded himself inside his Provo home for four hours and threatened to kill vf 1 ft r 1 , .'51 himself, police said. Jason "Wade" Blackburn surrendered to police at 5 p.m. after a local SWAT team broke his front window and threw in a cell phone. He told police over the phone that he was ready to surrender. Officers escorted him from his brick home to a police vehicle. "We knew he was having problems, that he could be suicidal, and we wanted to make sure that he felt comfortable coming out," Lt. Rick Healeysaid. Police received a domestic abuse call at 12:45 p.m., but when they showed up at the house, the man communicated to police that he was not coming out. Blackburn's wife and young child had left the house before the police arrived. Police said they spent three hours trying to talk to Blackburn over loud speakers before they broke the window, but he would not communicate with them. When the SWAT team charged the home to toss the cell phone in, an officer called over the loudspeaker, "We are not coming in." Neighbors around the home at 879 W. 500 North in Provo were asked to evacuate their homes. Five blocks 6' ! JOSHUA BROWNDaily Herald Members of the SWAT team file out in line as they leave the scene of a standoff on Saturday of road were blocked, and neighbors stood around watching the situatioa In some cases, viewers held binoculars, cameras and snacks. Heidi VanWoerkom stood in her front yard five houses away from the Blackburn home. She said she watched the SWAT team walk by her home with guns and military gear. "I have lived here 10 years, and nothing like this has ever happened," she said. "It is really scary." Some neighbors and passerwere at one point. s-by convinced the man in the home was Victor Hernandez, a Timpview High School student who they said ran away. Friends of Hernandez said they are still waiting for him to come home. Blackburn wore a yellow sweatshirt and a ponytail and afternoon in Provo. yelled profanities out of the police car window as he was driven away. "Right now he is in custody for his lack of obedience to our commands," Healey said. "But when he is arrested, it will be for the domestic issue." David Randall DAILY HERALD At least 140 Utahns gathered Saturday for the annual Eagle Forum convention in South Jordan to take in critiques of vigilante judges and homosexual foster parents and reminders of a spiritual mandate. "It's very important that we, each one of us, defend the kingdom of God," said Gayle Ruzicka, Utah Eagle Forum president. "What we preserve in freedom and liberty will be the country the Savior will return to." The convention, held in the Mountain Heritage Academy just south of the IDS Jordan River Temple, featured speeches by Ruzicka as well as John Eidsmoe, an Alabaman constitutional attorney, and state Sen. Curt Bramble, Bramble, who is sponsoring a bill to limit redevelopment property tax breaks, said he is often on the same side as the Eagle Forum members, but that he doesn't take their advice on how to vote. "I think the media tends to exaggerate the influence of most special interest groups," Bramble said. "The yalue of lobbyists on Capitol Hill is providing information." Aside from the speakers, participants at the convention could peruse the book sale just outside in the hallway, where among other selections, copies of "United States History: An IDS Perspective" were on sale parts one and two. Inside the gymnasium, where the speakers were, another book, "FedEd," was advertised as the source to "Understand the hidden agendas in No Child Left Behind." See EAGLE, C6 Local mothers head to Sumatra to help tsunami victims Caleb Warnock DAILY HERALD Kathy Headlee of Cedar Hills is haunted by thoughts of thousands of children left without parents, food or homes by the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, forced to fend against disease and death. Or even being stolen by sexual predators. Now Headlee, the founder of the children's charity Mothers Without Borders, is headed to Sumatra to help. "What they need most in this disaster is moms, because their moms were gone suddenly, whether they are dead or injured and in a hospital or missing," said Carolyn Sharette, founding board member of Mothers Without Borders. "Doctors Without Borders is there, and they are doing important work, but they don't know what to do with all these kids." Sharette, Headlee and expedition coordinator Vicki Nielsen will leave for Sumatra on Thursday, where they will spend nights in a tent and days helping children in need. Until they get on the ground, they are not sure exactly how they will help such is the nature of disaster response but they will do whatever it takes to nurture and protect the area's orphaned and vulnerable children, Headlee said. Because food and hygiene products from around the world are now being distributed in the area, the women are not taking any emergency supplies 1' V' it bags. We can buy those things over there." Headlee said this event marks the first time that Mothers Without Borders has become involved in disaster relief. After 14 years of building orphanages in Romania, building a medical clinic in Bolivia and a meal center feeding 1,000 street children a day in Zambia, among other things, the organization is ready for the challenge of sending help for disaster relief around the world, she said. "There is a need for nontechnical volunteers," Sharette said. "Going into a situation where there is chaos and bringing order, you don't have to have technical expertise like a doctor to do that." At the end of their stint, the women will return to Utah ready to train their organization's other volunteers to respond to disasters in the future, she said. "I think the goal is, five years from now, when something like this hap" pens, we want to be able to jump on a plan and have an army of us, and the doctors who are helping the children can say, 'You can't find your mother? Go to that tent city over there. Mothers Without Borders will take care of you.' vision." That is the long-terFor information about donating or joining a Mothers Without Borders expedition team, visit 10-d- JOSHUA BROWNDaily Mothers Without Borders members, from left to right, Vicki Nielsen, Herald Kathy Headlee and Carolyn Sharette, are preparing for a trip to Sumatra to aid in relief work for tsunami victims. The women will help take care of orphaned and injured children in the region. to distribute. Instead, they are taking money from donations, which they will use to buy supplies as needed. They are hoping Utah County residents will join the effort by giving donations. "We are going to take money over there and use it as we see fit," Headlee said. "I've talked to some people in In WVWJ1ARCTHEHERAU)XOM '.CAttJ7S-5t0- 1 donesia, and they have a lot of supplies.' What they need is money. "They have the huge task of rebuilding their economy, so we are hoping to buy whatever we need over there to support that. Even the mission president (for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints) over there said what they need is cooking pots and body TO SUBSCRIBE . www.Mother-sWithoutBorders.or- ) Caleb Warnock can be reached at ACYjj |
