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Show r v Friday April 25, 2008' : WW . www.heraldextra.com Utah Valley edition Jlni YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS - 50 CENTS YOUR NEWSPAPER CLASS OF 2003 rz T wm"rZ- p-- Qwest - juices up ( j-'e-' k Internet - service Joe Pyrah DAILY HERALD f demand Feeding the pent-ufor higher Internet speeds, Qwest Communications International Inc, is rolling out a broadband system nearly three times faster than its current offerings. As of today, customers in parts of Draper and Salt Lake City have access to download speeds, if they want to pay for it. The new service will cost $99 on top of a paid phone line or more without one. In return, you can get speeds capable of downr movie in six loading a minutes or 30 songs in one minute. "We're very exited about fiber to the node, and we believe our customers will be excited," said Qwest spokesman Gary Younger. "To the node" means that it still has to travel a short distance over copper lines to customers' homes. Some may require new equipment to take advantage of the speed. While the service isn't available in Utah County yet, Younger said the company is rolling out the service p $5-$1- 5 u Clayton and Jenae Nylander laugh two-hou- ..;' CRAIG DILGERDaily Herald together about the sudden snow shower that interrupted their BYU graduation procession on Thursday Seek Alter I jearnin . BYU graduates head into the world with diplomas in hand See QWEST, A2 Brittani Lusk DAILY HERALD Vineyard says no to trashy beach parties now may have dotted the ceremonial march across campus, but graduates at Brigham Young University still basked in the light of finishing their degrees. Q Janice Peterson DAILY HERALD I "IT FEELS AMAZING," said Allison Wilcox, who graduated with a degree in history teaching. "It's something I worked hard for. I can't believe it's here." Thousands of students donned caps, gowns and tassels to attend the spring commencement ceremony Thursday in the Marriott Center at See CRAIG A2 GRADUATION, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY Plummeting home sales along the Wasatch Front are finally starting to take their toll on selling prices. The Salt Lake Board of Realtors says sales of homes in Salt Lake County existing single-famil- y fell by 42.2 percent in the first quarter, compared with the same period last year. Median selling prices Anick Jesdanun . &"TY K 77 our towns OBITUARIES LOW38 ";.,,,.-,.- bi ' B4- 1 LIFE & STYLE D1 u r t sunny niun ou A4 BRIEFING 6 v x W issued 8 r y ' ' l",61055"00050" - a I I dency to slip nonstandard elements into assignments. The results may give parents, a NEW YORK It's nothing to teachers and others a big :( LOL about: Despite best efforts to frown to the rest of us though the keep school writing assignments study's authors see hope. of teens ad "It's a teachable moment," said formal, two-thirmit in a survey that emoticons Amanda Lenhart, senior research and other informal styles specialist at Pew. "If you find that in a child's or student's writing, that's have crept in. an opportunity to address the differThe Pew Internet and American Life Project, ences between formal and informal v in a study released writing. They learn to make the disV tinction ... just as they learn not to use also Thursday, found that teens . slang terms in formal writing." Half of the teens surveyed say they who keep blogs sometimes fail to use proper capitalor use social- 1 1 ization and punctuation in assignnetworking sites like' ments, while 38 percent have carried over the shortcuts typical in instant Facebook or News Corp.'s messaging or messages, such MySpace have See TEXT LINGO, A2 a greater ten THE ASSOCIATED : tartly Herald Nothing to LOL about: Text lingo creeps into schools Utah home sales drop INSIDE DILGERDaily Amber Jolley gets help with her graduation robe and sash from Sabrina Jarris left and Beth Luthy right on her way into the BYU commencement ceremony on Thursday. .. PRESS l: - , y&i ' . The Vineyard Town Council voted Wednesday to create rules and regulations that would prohibit firearms and bonfires in public parks. The move came after Utah County officials asked the town to come up with laws that could be enforced on the Utah Lake Shoreline Trail, part of which is within the Vineyard town limits. Paul Hawker, associate Utah County engineer, said the area in question lies along Utah Lake in Vineyard and has been used for decades as a party spot for local youth. For years, local residents held large drinking parties and bonfires on the beach, which also served as a dumping ground. "It's just been a mess," he said. "People would take sofas down there and dump them. And the next week the teenagers would burn them." Hawker said a new trail was built along the beach as part of the Provo-Jorda- n River Parkway, segments of which officials have been building in Utah County and other counties since 1982. In Utah County, the trail is almost complete, except for sections around the lake. In Vineyard, Hawker said a part of the trail was completed in September with six pavilions, each of which also has a picnic table. Significant work was put into cleaning up the trail area where parties had been held in the past. Hawker said 18 inches of sand was removed from the beach because of the large amounts of glass buried there, and enough nails were removed with a metal detector to fill a drum. Even after the massive cleanup, Hawker said it is hard to keep the area clean. pijpjfijpjiys , VVi: Tnnav t 7 ijiaaing going on nowi fcnas April UVBid.com Vf UtahValleys premier online auction See VINEYARD, A2 |