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Show DAILY D2 HERALD Monday, February 11 2007 Ml LEARN ftXOXiE ... r S TAH VALLEY Get the full story and other news of local interest in your community newspaper. Ur-- . TCedaf Hills Lehi Free Press DAILY DIGEST COUNTYWIDE Eagle Mountain EAGLE MOUNTAIN I Utah County residents are invited to participate in a skisnowboard session at Sundance Resort on March 3, 10, 17 and 24. The package includes a two-holesson, an lift ticket and transportation from Provo to Sundance and back each Saturday. Participants must be older than 7 years and the cost is $150. For season pass holders the cost is $110. For more information, go to www.provo.edu or call 3744845. y AMERICAN FORK I Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 4918, will present the winners of the Patriot's Pen contest at Westfield Elementary School, 380 S. Long Drive in Alpine, at 10 a.m. today. The contest honors winners in a patriotic essay contest and is open to the public. Oil Feb. 14 the winners in the Voice of Democracy contest will be honored at the Veterans Hall, 53 N. Center St., American Fork. The overall contest winner is Bradley P. Corry from Highland, a student at Lone Peak High School. Pleasant Grove Review Pony Express Cloaca nt Grove I Carroll Johnson was appointed as the first member of the Eagle Mountain Senior Citizen Board. Johnson lives with her daughter and grandchildren in Gty Center. She is a widowed mother of six and grandmother of 24. She works as a floral manager at Macey's in Provo and is excited about getting to work on the board. LEHI Cathy Allred 756-766- V- Library will be closed today. The library will reopen as usual the next morning at 9:30 a.m. The library will also be closed Feb. 19, in observance of Presidents' Day. Saratoga Springs make it now." Turner said there are a few items that did not get donated and for which there is still a need. Those items are: two bedroom dressers for adults, a boy's bicycle for a 5-- to and a television. Donations can be arranged through Turner at 768-110- OREM As part of moving back into the newly remodeled South Wing, the Orem Public Lehi, Cedar Valley, Saratoga :'j Vineyard I Springs, Pleasant Grove or Lindon Orem American Fork Citizen Lone Peak Press Barbara Christiansen 756-766- 9 American Fork, Highland, Alpine or Cedar Hills PLEASANT GROVE Orem Times I The next AARP Driver Safety Program will be taught at the Jacobs Senior Center, 242 W. 200 South in Pleasant Grove, on Thursday and Friday from p.m. each day. The class is for those 50 years and older. To 8 register, call the center at or Don Gover at 7854379. The class costs $10. Participants may qualify for a discount on their automobile insurance upon completion of the class. i'tm Michael Rigert Jksfrtgville Lake v. 5 I The program was able to help 27 families in 2006. Linda Turner, Lehi Community Council member and spokeswoman for the program, said her favorite quote holiday during the Sub4-Sant- a season was "I think we can 9 - irf tiyrom if 443-326- . T Snankh Fork Press Debbie Chandler 798-101ext. 1U 1 J-- 5 Orem, Vineyard ; 1 785-281- Spanish Fork, Salem, Payson, Elk Ridge, Woodland Hills, Genola, Santaquin " ' PROVO . Saletn. ' Payson The Springville Herald , Pat donover i 489-565- 1 Mapleton Springville, I The Provo City Library at Academy Square is holding the annual Academy Valentine Ball on Wednesday. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. followed by a brief awards program and dancing. The Ball will be held in the Historic Ballroom, Third Floor of the Academy Building, 550 N. University Ave. Tickets are $25 per person. Please call for more information. 852-769- 1 Elk Ridge Woodland Daily Herald Hills Amie Rose 344-253- Santaquin' Genola 0 Provo, countywide SPRINGVILLE the Springville City Council There's a new support group in Utah County for people who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome and related illnesses. The group will meet Chambers, 50 S. Main St. Attendees are welcome to bring comfort items (pillows, water) to make the meeting more comfortable. Family members are also encouraged to attend. The group plans to meet on at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at on the second Wednesday of every month. For more information about the group, contact Cherylyn Douglas at 8854709 or by at cherylyndmsn.com. or Kjirstin Youngberg at at kjirstingmail. or by 489-927- 489-112- 1 Utah bank robberies Cedar Hills to decide fate of course golf are on the decline Marc Haddock battles," said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Rick Rasmus-sen- , FBI SALT LAKE CITY who oversees violent crime investigations in Utah. statistics show bank robberies are on the decline across Utah, "In fact, it's better than very few. There aren't any." but some say the drop only reflects a trend among crooks to Detectives from Salt Lake chose other kinds of crime. and Davis counties meet Utah had just 34 bank robweekly to discuss cases and beries in 2006 less than half share information. There's also a multitude of than in 2005, according to the FBI. And it's a huge drop task forces looking at from 2003, when there were major crimes and dedicated to 130 robberies at banks and apprehending fugitives. credit unions. Banks and credit union are also doing more to help catch Police statewide tend to catch the bulks of bandits. Ar- thieves. Digital surveillance cameras provide better imrests were made, or criminal ages the VHS cameras that charges were filed in about 75 percent of bank robberies once monitored banks. Digital in 2006. FBI statistics show footage can also be easily with that's above the national aver- shared by other agencies and new media age of about 60 percent. outlets. Employees are also But Wendy Holloway, senior vice president at the Utah well trained to note details Bankers Association, believes of the robbery and describe those involved. Utah criminals are abandonUtah's decline in bank robing bank robbery in favor of beries comes as national rates identity theft. She said bank stagnate or increase. Whether robbery poses too much risk for too little reward. the numbers will stay down "There just isn't that much remains unclear. Trends in bank robberies are hard to money available (in a bank robbery)," Holloway said. analyze, said Frank Fisher, Police and federal agencies corporate security director attribute some of the drop to for Zions Bank. increased interagency coop"It's kind of like the stock eration. market." he said. "It will fluctuate." "There's very few turf THE ASSOCIATED PRESS multi-agenc- y Severe Back, Sciatica, or Leg Pain Guide That You Should Know About...Available Free. UTAH COUNTY - Have you tried pills, injections, thera py, surgery, or massage? Dr. Gordon Stapel DC is offering "The Severe Back, Sciatica, And Disc Pain Guide" for local residents suffering from severe back, sciatica, and leg pain. Discover why your treatments have failed and a possible new solution. Call (24 hour recorded message) or go to: www, drxutah. com im iio i-- n debate, though. Councilman Gary Maxwell, who supports retaining the golf course, said The Cedar Hills City Council he would meet with members will debate the fate of the city's of the Cedar's Home Owners a deAssociation to see if he could golf course on Feb. 20 cision made after two hours of determine if the HOA would discussion last week. support the proposed change. "We will have an informal At the center of the debate HOA meeting," Maxwell said. over the golf course is a pro"If I don't get enough support, posal from the city staff to then I will give up." golf reconfigure the "If that's what you need, course and develop at least 53 residential lots on the property. then you have my blessing," said Councilwoman Charelle The city would then use the Bowman. revenue from the development In order to develop 15 of the to pay off the $6.25 million general obligation bond passed last proposed resident lots, which are located in the Cedar's subyear to keep the golf course solvent. division, members of the HOA Before the next golf course would have to vote to change NORTH COUNTY STAFF le the association's covenants, which prohibit any more homes in the area. Councilman Jim Perry told council members he didn't think the Cedar's residents would approve the change unless the council could present them with a clear picture of what would happen if the pro- outright. At one point in the meeting, councilman Joel Wright, frustrated with time the council has spent on the issue, made a motion to shut the golf course down within six months, and then look at other options. The motion failed for lack of a second. City Manager Konrad said the plan, which would eliminate the existing par 5 15th hole and add a new par 4 8th hole, would have a minimal effect on the golf posal is denied. "What's the alternative?" Perry asked. "If there's no alternative, I'm not sure (the HOA members) will vote for it." course. Alternatives discussed at the meeting ranged from selling off more of the golf course course and retaining a to abandoning the golf course "We would lose one stroke on the course, trading a par 4 for a par 5," he said. Bush energy budget bypasses Western clean coal the administration was not funding clean coal technoloProGILLETTE, Wyo. gies. Bodman is expected to proposed "clean coal" projects in vide written responses to the Wyoming and the West were left out of the Bush administraoversight committee. Thomas said his criticism tion's budget plan for the U.S. of the Department of Energy Department of Energy. U.S. Sen. Craig Thomas, budget proposal is a matter of balancing priorities. Western grilled Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman last week coal gasification should be for not following certain direcconsidered a near4erm strattives set forth by Congress in egy, while hydrogen and biothe Energy Policy Act of 2005. fuels are part of a longer-terProvisions such as a Weststrategy toward becoming demmore on domestic ern resources. onstration project are being "It's a matter of how much passed over in the DOE's budget in favor of biofuels pro- do you put into future alternative fuels as opposed to these grams and the FutureGen project a proother fuels that we already know how to use," Thomas gram that already eliminated said. Wyoming as a potential site. Thomas demanded answers Congressional delegates from Bodman during a recent from coal supply regions in the Senate Energy Committee West and East are competing oversight hearing as to why against each other for federal THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - self-relia- Yd) MIR dollars to prove the commercial viability of clean coal technologies, including integrated gasification combined cycle, or IGCC, for electrical generation. Although Thomas was able to insert the provision for a "It's a matter of how much do you put into future alternative fuels as opposed to these other fuels that we already know how to use." Western IGCC demonstration project into the Energy Policy Act, he has yet to convince federal officials to put money toward it. In addition, federal loan guarantees that would sway the investment community toward such clean coal efforts are not being funded either. Craig Thomas U.S. Senator, The administration's proposed budget includes more money for coal research and development, but Jim Childress, executive director of Gasification Technologies Council, said those research programs still suffer from several years of minimal appropriations. That has fueled competition between Western and Eastern coal interests, he said. "We think you need to be able to access both coal resources Powder River Basin coals as well as Eastern coals," Childress said. 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