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Show (X- - Saturday, Aprill 9, 2008 Hatclnvrites Springville Continued from Bl song for Sen. soon massive overhaul ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Not content to sit on the sidelines, longtime senator and presidential hopeful Orrin one-tim- e Hatch has penned a song for his Senate buddy John McCain in hopes of helping his White House bid. Hatch, a Utah Republican e who won a platinum award for helping lyrics for a song that sold more than a million records, crafted a tune called "Together Forever" for the presumptive Republican nominee. Hatch's song, with composer Philip Springer, includes the lines: "Forever together America is the land we're fighting for There's a time in history for a hero's destiny together forever more." of the Interstate 15 exit at 400 South in Springville The project will cost more than $90 million dollars and will widen 400 South to five lanes from the freeway to Main Street. Mangum said this project is important to the city because of the jobs it may bring and the impact ft will have on the growing city. Even if the road work does not use local worker?, Mangum said it will IStjHISelp pour money into trie local economy, "Any kind of project like that, they're going to sell a lot of hamburgers and sell a lot of gas," he said. "It affects every. body." Mangum said several additional projects in the city will certainty add to local jobs, including the waste water treatment plant expansion and small projects around town. The treatment plant should be underway soon, and Mangum said the new facility will be go there for weeks at a time is now filled with refugees, as are two empty chicken coops build a school for 30 disabled made with stone walls. School Kenyan children, with plans expansion plans have been to expand to 70 children over curtailed in lieu of feeding time, and planted 5,000 trees, starving locals, said Vicki Nielsen and Gloria among other projects. His organization now educates 7,000 Terry. children in 13 schools in Kenya. Mary Warutumo, a native Africa Is Life Changing Inc., Kenyan who is Africa Is Life direcon the other hand, has can- - v Changing's celled its plans to take a group tor, described the situation this of volunteers to its Kenyan to Nielsen way in an school in May, choosing now and Terry provided to the to divert to Tanzania instead, Daily Herald: "We are receivfor safety reasons. ing, clash victims from the Both groups said their deciaffected areas and we have to sions to take volunteers over accommodate them and feed them because they have noth- weretjased entireTyon the ing to themselves except themgeographic location of their work. Africa Is Life Changselves. Victims are camping in churches and are ing, which educates 120 children on its campus, feeding them ... There are so has been harder hit by the many needy people." violence. Its boardAfrica Is life Changing had helped a group of squatters ing school has begun housing some of its male students in living in cardboard homes to recent months because it was start an egg business, provid- simply too dangerous for the ing them chicks and feed. The matured chickens had just boys to travel back and forth to school. A f started to lay eggs, finally prolodge meant to house volunteers that ducing an income, when tribal major barrier to progress on the trail, he said. Crossing at street level was simply not safe enough. Going under the road "will allow foot traffic, bicyclists, and moms with strollers to access the park from the west side, and joggers can take the trail, ft will be a nice trail," he said. Horse riders will also use the trail. The planned construction on State Street was a temporary source of angst for at least one State Street business on of Ma andTVs; a restaurant at 70 N. State St., said someone hired by the city and the Utah Department of Transportation came to the business on Thursday and indicated that construction could close or severely limit access to the restaurant for the summer, causing owners concern that they may be forced out of business. But on Friday, city and state officials visited the restaurant with maps showing construction would actually be about a mile away, and owners said they were satisfied their business would continue as well-wishe- 6.5-ac- re all-gir- ls our-roo- STATE BRIEFING normal. The first phase of Heritage Trail will run from 800 West, up Lakeview Road, under State Street into the City Center Park, along Main Street and east on Center Street to connect to an existing trail on Canal Drive, according to the city's Web site. Future sections of the trail will extend to the historic Geneva Resort Park, located on the shores of Utah Lake on the western border of Lindon. Dameron said there is not now funding for the second phase and it is unclear when that could be built. For information on the Lindon Heritage Trail, visit and click on "parks and recreation" at the bottom of the page, and then "trails." Lollipop bandit caught . PoSALT LAKE CITY lice believe they've arrested the lollipop bandit. A man ate a free sucker in the lobby before robbing the Transwest Credit Union in Magna on Monday. After several tips, a man was arrested in Bountiful on suspicion of aggravated robbery and lodged Friday in the Salt Lake County jail. County sheriff 's Sgt. Rex Mulholland says a gun and some cash were recovered. Utah Attorney General warns about fake AMBER SALT LAKE CITY Not every AMBER Alert is legiti- Gardner Continued from B 1 content wasjat or above the f ; Alerts t legal limi t In 2000, he pleaded guilty to charges U driving under the influence theft and driving with an open container. He spent two days on work detail for the opunty jail and was given probation. He was also charged with disorderly conducted in an incident that year in which he was accused of boy. roughing up a I Jeremy Duda can be reached 1 or jduda at heraldextra.com. 344-256- I mate. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is urging the public to only respond to AMBER Alerts from authorized sources. There have been recent cases of unauthorized , alerts circulating by text involvmessages and ing cases that have already been resolved or are simply hoaxes. Shurtleff says AMBER Alerts from unknown sources can lead to a delayed response from the public and jeopardize the integrity of the entire AMBER Alert plan'. The Utah AMBER Alert Plan sends alerts out through radio and television, highway advisory signs and the 511 Quiet start for SLC in downtown Springville," he said. Mangum said the city is threatened the work. In addition to providing schools, water projects and full college scholarships to qualified students, Koins for Kenya owns a tractor and plows hundreds of acres for local farmers who would otherwise have to till by hand. The operation greatly increases farm yields and income and as such the locals are highly invested in the ongoing success of the group. The result is that there has not been a single incidence of violence in the area, he said. "Koins for Kenya is such an school sites. Van Leeuwen said Koins integral part of the community for Kenya has approached its that than the Kenyan government work differently than most, choosing to work only within there," he said. "We were able to say we don't vote with maeight villages in a kilometer area located an hour chetes, we vote with pencils, and they live by those rules outside Mombasa. V No outside organization can even though we have people of both warring factions in our work within Kenya without local tribal approval, and from area." the beginning, Van Leeuwen Nevertheless, Van Leeuwen likened Kenya's election to said, he made if clear to locals that he would permanently Hillary Clinton winning the 2008 election and President suspend alloperations of Bush subsequently refusing to Koins for Kenya if violence, theft or any other disturbance give up the presidency. Pow- - SALT LAKE CITY Just two couples signed up yesterday for Salt Lake City's new domestic partnership registry. The registry, among other things, allows employers to extend benefits to same-se- x couples and others who depend on each other financially. The registry's debut came as a relief to Valerie Larabee, executive director of the Utah Pride Center, who had feared resistance from the state Legislature would doom Salt Lake City's ordinance. Higher levels expected at Lake Powell A state official says spring runoff into Lake Powell should be about 120 percent of average, raising the lake's level 50 feet this summer. But because a November agreement between Colorado River states for managing water shortages also manages water surpluses, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says more about 700,000 acre-fethan usual will be released downstream from Lake Powell into Lake Mead. he said. Both organizations said a growing global food crisis, driven by escalating food and fuel prices, is also playing a part in the unrest in Kenya and it is too early to tell how that crisis might be resolved. Both organizations agreed that if food and fuel prices continue to rise, the consequences on humanitarian aid could be 60-da- Jfcare-morje-po- critical. Fdr information on Koins ;nyaTjdsitJw.wJainsx. forKenya.orgblog. The group is especially interested in Eagle Scout and group volunteer wi School, was diagnosed with autism 13 years ago. "It's devastating," Yearsley to bandage the hole and honor Stuver by creating the library. The autism resource library is open to the public and is holding an open house Tuesday from 7 p.m, at Vineyard Elementary. Healey said she hopes the library's 40 books and smattering of pamphlets will grow into a resource for families with autistic children across the state. "We wanted to really be a resource for the whole community. There is no such place south of Salt Lake," Healey RUIZDaily Herald ersharing between the rival factions is not likely to prove solution and more a long-terchaos may be otjthe horizon, . Continued from Bl 1 need to be done, but the city is making sure to be careful with its budget while providing lo- cal jobs. growing and certain projects said. "You feel like your life is ended. You're not sure where to turn." When Garrett was 4 years old, his parents enrolled him in a special preschool for children with special behavioral needs like autism. Stuver was studying for a master's degree in special education when she crossed paths with old Garrett while teaching in the program. Later, Yearsley told Stuver of a job in Alpine School District. Stuver took it, and started teaching autistic children, including Garrett, in kinsaid. dergarten. She also worked with students outside of class, According to the Centers for Disease Control and Pretaking them to movies or the mall. She cooked with them vention, 1 in 150 American children is diagnosed with ' and threw pool parties to imsome form of autism. In Utah, prove social skills. Yearsley said that helped give Garrett the number is higher. Judith the skills he has now. Zimmerman is an assistant Garrett spoke at Stuver's professor at the University of funeral and worked on the Utah and an autism researcher. She said a national study of resource library for his Eagle Scout project. He made the states found that in Utah the rate is about 1 in 133 children. packets of resources, he stamped the books and he According to the CDC, autism is a spectrum of develi readied the library for the open house. opmental disabilities where "Let's say (she was) a really people struggle with social interaction and communicahuge part in my life, a pintion. They also have unusual nacle," Garrett said. behaviors and interests. Yearsley is awed at the Barbara Yearsley's son things her autistic son can do and she credits his level of funcGarrett, who is now a senior at Lone Peak High tioning to Stuver's early efforts. 4-- domestic registry SALT LAKE CITY MARIO ' Street in Springville. marauders arrived to torch the makeshift refugee camp, "All the (cardboard) houses around the chicken coop burnt down but the Lord spared the chickens," Warutumo wrote. Both groups said their schools are designed to be and will weather the political crisis as long as violence does not spread or escalate. Both groups require their schools to keep a y supply of food on hand for students and staff, and both organizations grow food at Legacy travel information phone line. The public can also receive AMBER Alerts by text for free by signing up at www. wirelessamberalerts.org. ' 1 . Continued from Bl Continued from Bl B3 double the size. Mangum said there are also usually small jobs that can be done by local contractors. "We've got an awful lot of little jobs," he said, "A small gutter here, a small curb there." Another important project that will vitalize the city is the . refurbishment of the Villa Theater, said Chuck Keeler, director of recreation. Keeler said the city purchased the theater earlier this year to remodel it and make it available for plays, performances and other entertainment. Keeler said the community is excited to use the theater again, and it has an important place in the city's history. "Everyone in Springville that has lived here for more than 10 years has memories of the Villa," he said. - Keeler said remodelling the The Art City Playhouse on Main theater will also be a big step toward revitalizing downtown Springville. The "trickle down economy. , revenue" from the theater into "It'll help to bring people other establishments in the downtown once again to take area will be good for the city's advantage of the restaurants Kenya Lindon ' . is the McCain THE DAILY HERALD ar . projects. For information on Africa Is Life Changing, Inc., visit www.africaislifechanging.org The group's or call annual Angels For Africa Benefit will be held today at 6:30 p.m. at La Caille Restaurant. Tickets are available at the 787-842- door. Open house When: Tuesday from p.m. 4--7 Where: Vineyard Elemen-- ' y tary School, 620 E. Road in Vineyard Hold-awa- What: Resources for families of children of autism Contact: LeAnn Healey at ext. 129 or 227-873- 9 atheal271alpine.kl2. ut.us "He just does amazing things. We owe a lot to Laura. She has been a huge part of his progress," Yearsley said. "He really had no language skills until he was 5, so they worked a lot on communication skills and social skills." Marie Stuver said her daughter loved all her students. "I cannot tell you how much she loved them. When we would see her at school she was just there for these children. She wanted them' to achieve as much as they could," Marie Stover said. The library is seeking more resources. Donations can be made to the Alpine Foundation, specifying the Laura Stuver Library. et DENT ...aiaM. 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