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Show DAILY fnday, January 18. 2008 ii i !! n I ;. jt A3 HERALD City conies under fire for i Provo Joe Pyrah "This is the largest, It took Councilman George most important Stewart a few minutes to jot financial issue facing some notes down after Mayor Lewis Billings's state of the the city. How can you city address on Thursday. After he had his thoughts have something run a in order, though, it didn't take $2 million debt a year long to get to brass tacks. "1 was attacked, literally," and not talk about it?" DAILY HERALD Stewart said of the mayor's comments that the city's iPro vo network is suffering only because of critics scaring off potential customers. The network has fallen short of nearly all projections, from revenue to subscribers. Its first service provider Provo Continued from Al continues to anchor the facility. The I Kathryn S. Allen: For her work bringing about the Covey Center for the I Approximately 415 Rental Dwelling Licenses were viewed during the year. I Hogan and Associates Construction: For work on the arts center k VCBO For work Architecture: on the arts .. center I More than 8,750 new borrowers were added to the library patron database. I Million Air Provo: For its efforts to. promote and improve the Provo centers I 5,668 children were registered for youth sports, and 520 adult sports teams registered. Also processed were 1,761 park reservations and 85 special park use requests, and the gun range key was checked out 126 times. Airport After years of work and more than $8 million, the Covey Center for the Performing Arts opened in 2007 to much fanfare. City business Billings lauded the public and private partnership that The mayor launched a trial designed to see if split the cost. Instead of a bond for the center, there's less than there is enough demand to stay $300,000 left to pay on the open on Fridays. For years the building. city has been open extended He then spoke of a potential hours Monday through Thursconference center that is being day. To cover the extra day, discussed and a possible new the city will shift some emrecreation center that would ployee schedules to Tuesday likely combine the city's recrethrough Friday. ation services that are currentThe city is in good economic ly spread out over the city. shape, he said. There have been "We expect it to come to no tax increases, though he the people of Provo in a vote acknowledged residents' frus"because it's an expensive projtration with high property tax assessments. That will probably ect," he said. I g in Utah County. th Redford Continued from A 1 ever before, however, things Redford and festival director have started to rapidly shift. "There's a new group that's Geoffrey Gilmore, however, both stressed that the festival saying, 'We don't want to inhas always been, and still is, herit anything before us. Just about the art of moviemaking. get out of our way,' " Redford Looking comfortably casual said. in jeans, a fleece-linevest Among that rising genand a sweater with horizoneration is the Sundance Kid's own daughter, Amy Redford, tal stripes, Redford shared the stage with whose debut directorial effort, "The Guitar," is in the festival's Gilmore and Irish playwright Premieres program. and filmmaker Martin Redford said he's pleased whose dark comedy and proud as a father, but "In Bruges" was picked to rebuffed the suggestion that have the first screening of the festival, on Thursday night at daddy's little girl got special consideration from festival the Eccles Theatre on the camN programmers. pus of Park City High School. "1 think she's here with her Redford made some brief inown work and I'm here in suptroductory remarks, followed port of it," he said. by comments from both Gilmore and McDonagh, and then (Speaking of endorsements, the politically outspoken acthe three answered questions for about 40 minutes. tor was asked whether he has Redford said that the idea of a preferred candidate from among the Republicans and change has been on his mind during the buildup to Sundance Democrats vying to replace d black-and-whi- '08. "One of the things that Sundance has the structure to do is adapt to change," he said. "We adapt to the change that comes from the filmmakers themselves, as they adapt to the world around them." In past years, he said, film- makers have seemed to stay rooted in the approach to Medicine Continued fromAl safely, just the assumption they would because of their benefits to adults. In fact, professional groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics warned for years against the medicines' use for young children. As it turned out, children don't necessarily react the same as adults to medicines. Last year, Dr. Joshua M. Sharf stein, Baltimore's health commissioner, and other pediatricians found the products led to some deaths. The pediatricians asked the FDA to ban . their wishes come true." I More than 500 parking permit signs were installed in University Gardens and Foothill Park neighborhoods. be handled in the upcoming islative session, he said. The leg- past ' The mayor singled out Lloyd "Ras" and Nadine Rasmussen as an example 6f Provo's quality residents. The couple met in 1941 when botching an assignment from their boss. "Those guys put everything at ease for me," McDonagh said, admitting that he'd been "terrified" to begin work on his first feature film. Both Redford and Gilmore expressed particular satisfaction with the growth of documentary filmmaking since the start of the festival, which the Sundance Institute took over from the Utah Film Commission in 1984. "We started promoting documentaries as soon as it was clear that the festival was going to survive," Redford said. "Because I felt that they weren't getting a fair shake in the marketplace." Early bird acquisition "The Black List," directed by photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sander- s and hosted by film writer Elvis Mitchell, considers the place in society of 20 influential and is one of seven documentaries given special emphasis in this George W. Bush. The response: year's Spectrum program. Both Redford and Gilmore "Ahhhhh, noooo.") Gilmore praised McDonagh's dismissed the notion of "buzz," film, which the director himself saying that festival audiences said had benefitted greatly will determine over the next 10 from.three weeks' additional days which films are the real rehearsal time with stars Colin surprise performers. And then? And then it begins again. Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, who play hitmen placed on a "We go out," Gilmore said, sort of administrative leave in "two weeks after this festival the Belgian city of Bruges after ends and start looking." African-American- s, the meantime, they urged cau- - " tion, such as making sure kids aren't getting the same ingrediyounger. Sharfstein Thursday urged ents in different medicines. the FDA to warn about the Dr. Jay J. Copal, chief of dangers for children two to pediatrics at Union Memorial six years: "Every day the FDA Hospital in Baltimore, said he doesn't make the statement for has counseled parents about older kids is another day comthe hazards for young children since the publicity started. panies are marketing the prodI le ucts to older kids, so there's suggests parents turn to some urgency." substitute remedies: treating FDA staff and advisers with saline nose drops, giving children soup and other warm have recommended banning liquids, and running a humidificough and er. Parents should call pediatricold medicines for children under 6. Agency officials said cians if their child experiences shortness of breath, coughs for they were trying to resolve some disagreements about more than a week, has a lot of mucus or is listless. the appropriate response, but hoped to take action soon. In - Brandy, recording artist, actress Lloyd was a basketball player for Brigham Young High and Nadine was a cheerleader for PHS. A near collision during a game eventually brought them together. "They said, 'Well, they've got the cutest cheerleaders,' " Lloyd said he was told by his friends. "And she was a cute one." Sv T Your Town, Your Neighbors. Your Newspaper. wmheraldextra.com t rCf ; cinema of Redford's generation. With more young, new filmmakers at the festival than Encourage your children to read 3 newspaper every day. It can help make Services Program graduated 82 women and 124 Spanish-speakindomestic violence program support group at Centra Hispano, a Victim children from the gloom. apples-to-appl- re- I Approximately 90 percent of firefighters completed the Physical Fitness (Combat Challenge) testing in less than five minutes, achieving the Gold Standard. I Thanks to the generous donations by Provo City's employees, $28,176.40 benefitted local charities, 1,587 pounds of food were collected for the Timpanogos Regional Food Bank, and two and a half truck loads of coats were donated as contributions to United Way through Deseret Industries. I 1,463,965 items were circulated through the Library. I Lael Woodbury: For his work as a performer and promoter of the arts Provo continues to have some of the lowest crime rates of Utah's major cities. The crime rate per 1,000 people has actually trended downward since 2002. While the mayor is proud of the numbers, he said there is still more to do. "As long as there is one crime in Provo there is one crime too many," he said. the numbers By iProvo talk Thursday, Stewart wasn't all doom and "There's no question some great things have happened this year," he said. He cited business expansions such as Zions Bank, University Tower and the Southgate retail center, that Billing's has helped shepherd of lawsuits and much critithrough. He also approves of cism when it was launched. the arts center. Now it provides the cheapest Council Chairwoman Cindy power in the state and hasn't Richards said Billings did a seen a rate increase in nearly good job with the speech, and 20 years. also agreed that the city is doStewart says it's not an . ing well. One place she would have comparison because the energy and techliked to see a little more emnology sectors are so differphasis in the speech was on ent. It's also his job to be care- neighborhood development. ful with taxpayer dollars. .While Billings singled out "This is the largest, most individuals on Thursday and cited low crime statistics, important financial issue facthere wasn't much talk about ing the city," Stewart said. "How can you have someProvo's residential zoning problems downtown. The city thing run a $2 million debt a needs to find private and nonyear and not talk about it?" Outside consultants are put- profit partners to help renting ting together reports, due out families become homeowners, soon, on how to deal with the Richards said. 1 "It's just a very strong system. Stewart also pliipis to get his own committee tostabilizing factor that I think Provo needs to keep in the gether to explore options. And while he was unimmiddle of their radar." pressed with the mayor's by Provo Mayor's Award Performing Arts Crime a Mayor's Award Provo City Council went bankrupt and the State Auditor is investigating how mucnrnoney iProvo's current providers owe the city. It's believed to be in the millions of dollars. On Thursday, Billings compared it to Provo Power, which was the subject MARK JOHNSTONDaily Herald Headquarters of Million Air at the Provo Municipal Airport on Thursday. Million Air was awarded Mayor Lewis Billings on Thursday. 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