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Show Utah Valley's Newspaper Monday Local News for 135 years MAY 19, 2008 50ajTS YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR NEWSPAPER -- h -- YUlftl Si Two children ldUed in Provo Canyon accident 4 Michael Rigert D NORTH COUNTY STAFF ' Two children are dead and several others critically injured after a traffic collision in Provo Canyon HERALD Most members of the Provo Municipal Council said they think a proposed tightening of ethics rules is a good thing, but one member believes it's meant to target him as a private developer. e Steve Turley has been a councilman since 2004. He's also the owner and president of TNT Roofing, a general contracting company in Provo. Turley said the contested proposal which would require council members with a conflict of interest to leave the room during discussion of an issue and keep quiet until it's would stop him from resolved doing his job. "I think it singles out certain people doing business in Provo, and it gags them," said Turley of the ordinance, which the council will next discuss at its meeting Tuesday night. "I'm a general contractor. What this says is that I can't go talk to the building Waft (1ft m Ace Stryker DAILY heraldextra.com v.Cv J I Provo's ethics code causes stir ONLINE: -- MARK JOHNSTONDaily Herald accident in Provo Highway Patrol officers inspect the scene 0 a fatal two-ca- r Canyon as a tine of traffic waits for clearance to pass on Sunday. on U.S. Route 189 Sunday evening. The driver of a red Pontiac passenger car attempting to turn left out of Vivian Park recreation area onto 189 didn't see an oncoming eastbound white pickup truck pulling a camper trailer at about 5:37 p.m., said UHP Sgt. Brett Christensen. The Pontiac, which contained a female driver, approximately 33 years old, and four children, was literally ripped in half when it failed to yield to on the the truck and was left side. The two children pronounced dead at the scene a boy and a girl were ejected from the passenger car. Two children in the car and the female driver were transported by three medical helicopters to Primary Children's Hospital and University of Utah Medical Center, respectively, in critical condition, Christensen said. "She was conscious at the scene," he said of the Pontiac's driver. "She was very upset. I could see her crying." Some of the children in the vehicle were the woman's, but it is not yet known by polke if all four were hers. Christensen wasn't aware if the woman was aware that the two children (believed to be hers) were killed at the scene. The white pickup truck rolled at least once from the force of the crash and came to a rest right-sid- e up on the outside westbound See ACCIDENT, ' A6 city-wid- See MONDAY CLOSE-U- P J 1 ETHICS, A3 Truth about mass killings in Korea revealed i Charles J. Hanley and Jae-Soo- THE i t 3 " Chang n ASSOCIATED PRESS DAEJEON, South Korea Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons d and buried truths of a in the from early slaughter Korean War, when this nation's regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in U.S.-back- 1950. With U.S. military officers sometimes present, and as North Korean invaders pushed down the peninsula, the southern army and police emptied South Korean prisons, lined up detainees and shot them in the head, dumping the See A2 KOREA, ASHLEY Valley Regional Medical Center Keyontae, 5, gets a special visit from Jaro, a therapy animal, and Brett Beasley, "1 think it's good for the kids, to the looks and bom dog. forward was he since seeing the in out and been always of in Provo. Keyontae has hospital said Keyontae's mother. "They get to interact with him, and it really changes their disposition." Local dogs bring smiles to patients ley, get off the elevator on the fourth floor, nurses peek around the corner and yell, "Jaro." His tail wags incesmiles are hard to find on santly as he wanders up to them for a petting and a handout of leftover the fourth floor at Utah Valley Regional Medical lunches. Jaro is a therapy animal and one Center in Provo. Except of three that visits UVRMC on a on Thursdays, because those are the days Jaro weekly basis. Not every animal can be a therapy animal. These animals comes to visit. At each visit, he saunters through including rabbits, horses and birds his hair the lobby of the hospital go through intensive training to screen out the unqualified. They combed and teeth brushed. His red must have mild temperaments. They vest is nicely buttoned with his hosare trained around wheelchairs, pital ID badge clipped to the edge. canes and walkers. They learn not The children and nurses clasp their to be frightened at loud noises or mouths and giggle as he goes by. Even Jaro's smiling. crying children. And, inadvertently, Newfoundland, they learn how make people smile Jaro, a has been visiting the pediatric ward regardless of the amount of pain and the cancer center at UVRMC for they feel. the past five years. See THERAPY, A6 As Jaro and his owner, Brett Beas Ashley Franscell DAILY INSIDE BRIEFINGS A4 EDITORIALS A5 .' sports bi Sunny WEATHER B6 LIFE & STYLE C1 COMICS C4 HGH g9 jQyy 54 OBITUARIES STATE & REGION 'CLASSIFIEDS C5 C6 D1 V0UMES5 ISSUE 293 HERALD f mm x f ( b 150-pou- II '61055 "00050"" 8 FRANSCELLDaily Herald the dog's owner, on Thursday at Utah Introducing the smallest hearing aid on the market., Actual Size Shown I 72 Hour ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald Newfoundland, works as a therapy animal at Utah Jaro, a Valley Regional Medical Center. Every Thursday, he visits the pediatric floor and the cancer center. 150-pou- V ) i " I !: |