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Show iut Towns SECTION DAILY , TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26. Amie Rose METRO EDITOR Flood closes Redwood Road in Saratoga Janice Peterson - I 2008 aroseheraldextra.com 344-253- 0 Police was HERALD Rain and melting winter snow caused some flooding in Saratoga Springs and other northern Utah County towns Sunday, and the water just keeps coming. An area of Redwood Road between 400 South and Pelican Bay in Saratoga Springs experienced patchy flooding Sunday evening and throughout Monday, and police asked drivers to use alternate routes while trucks pumped the water away from the road. Aaron Rosen, spokesman for the Saratoga Springs police department, said the standing water could be dangerous to drivers because it could cause cars to hydroplane. Some parts of the road were also damaged and broken down by the water, making it hard to see how deep the water in places. The portion of road between 400 South and Pelican Bay was mostly closed Monday , with the Utah Department of Transportation helping to escort vehicles lflentiiy Ictim in .- through when needed The flooding started Sunday afternoon as rain began to fall, and Redwood Road was drained by about 11 p.m. As temperatures rose Monday, more water poured onto the road from the melting snow. "Sunday's flooding is over, and now we're having more flood- Springville ing along Redwood Road," said Ken Leetham, Saratoga Springs city manager. Between 1 and 3 feet of water stood on the road Monday as MARK trucks drained the street with pumps, and Leetham said some See JOHNSTONDaily Herald Residents of a home in White Hills do their best to prevent more flooding with a barricade sandbags after their basement flooded FLOOD, B4 last week. death Jeremy Duda .DAILY BILL FOR FUNDING FAILS IN SENATE : hi i L ' Springville police on Monday identified the victim of what they are calling a suspicious death as Jeffery Reed Butler. Police responded to Butler's Springville home, 2494 S. Eldorado Drive, around 3:30 p.m. after his mother-in-lacalled 911 to report a possible carbon monoxide poisoning. Lt. Dell Gordon of the Springville Police Department said Butler's wife, Leslie, had called her mother and told her that she and other people in the house were feeling sick. Police released a portion of the 911 call on .;. , . Monday, sans the portion that identifies Leslie Butler's mother by name. Leslie Butler can be heard crying in the background as her mother indicators tells a 911 dispatcher that the couple's two children, ages 2 are A" V ; HERALD ' i, and 5, had started breathing again but that Jeffery Butler, who was on the floor, had M not. "He's cold and his lips are black. I guess the stove was on, the gas. I don't know," she told the dispatcher. Based on information from the 911 call, police initially just not there for carbon monoxide." Dell Gordon Lieutenant of the Springville Police Department suspected that carbon monoxide had killed Butler and sickened his family. Gordon said on Monday that he was still awaiting word from the state medical examiner's office on the official cause of death, but investigators have mostly ruled out carbon . ; CRAIG monoxide poisoning. f OILOERDaily Herald Students in the beginning Chinese class at Provo High School hold up examples of their writing during class on Monday. The IB program requires an early start in language classes in order for students to complete the upper level foreign language classes. Provo High will continue IB programs without support Brittani Lusk ' lem died in a 3 vote during a Senate committee meeting last week. Provo High is in its first year of the IB program, which is the only one in Utah County. The school doesn't plan to cancel the 3-- global focus. Students must take a foreign language to graduate with an IB diploma. Provo High While students at Provo High offers at least seven language School who take Advanced Placeclasses, including Arabic and American Sign Language. ment U.S. history and InternaSen. Margaret Dayton, tional Baccalaureate U.S. history program. ". ' "The students who sit for the said during the committee sit in the same classroom, learn IB test will not get funding from from the same teacher and masmeeting that she had concerns ter the same material, they take the state," said Lori Rich, Provo's about the IB program, saying IB coordinator. "They're studying several times that she was wordifferent tests and the state only ried about the teaching of "world pays schools for the students that the same curriculum." IB classes are similar to adcitizenship and global economy" pass one of them A.P. vanced placement classes in that or "one world and taking away A bill that would have given borders." Dayton's district in$300,000 to IB programs across they can be used to earn college cludes areas within the Provo the state and equalized the prob credit, but IB classes have a DAILY HERALD High boundaries. "I think we do need to read books from all different cultures and we do need to understand all different cultures," she said during the committee discussioa "I'm not opposed to understanding the world," she said. "I'm opposed to the philosophy that's somehow woven into all the classes as they promote the UN agenda." None of the Provo school administrators say they've seen any Firefighters found nothing after testing the house with carbon monoxide detectors, Gordon said. Questar Gas officials also turned up nothing after testing appliances in the home, and Gordon said a pet bird that was still alive in its cage provided more evidence against carbon monoxide poisoning as the cause of ' death. "The indicators are just not there for carbon monoxide," Gordon said. Gordon said the death was suspicious and police are investigating it as a possible crime. "At this point it's really just an investigation that we're pursuing, trying to figure out what caused it," he said. Police obtained a search warrant on Sunday after Leslie Butler refused to give them permission to search the home for other possible causes of death. Gordon said investigators collected some evidence, but he would not elaborate on what that evidence was. Gordon said he did not know why Leslie Butler refused to allow of ficers to search the home. Leslie Butler remained at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo on Monday with undisclosed symptoms. The couple's children were released. ft See IB PROGRAMS, B4 Jeremy Duda can be reached at 344-256- 1 jdudaheraldextra.com. Indispensable. pass More local news than any source in the universe. In print daily. OnlineheraIdextra.com or . |