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Show SECTION iHcrotii Daily WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008 METRO EDITOR I Ami? Rose ' aroseheraldextra.com 344-253- V awards Springville construction bid UDOT Janice Peterson DAILY HERALD The Utah Department of Transportation recently announced a contractor for the reconstruction of 400 South in Springville, and officials say the work should begin within the next month. Joe Walker, a UDOT spokesman, said a construction bid was awarded to Utah County the engineer's estimate, which in our minds is always a good Contractors, a partnership between Wadsworth Brothers thing," he said. Construction and Staker and The projects will address Parson Companies. Although several needs along the main the lowest bid was not the only road. The current Interstate15 deciding factor, Walker said interchange will be replaced the company's bid of $68 milurban interwith a single-poilion for the project comes well change, or SPU1. The railroad below previous estimates of bridge at 400 West will also be reconstructed, and a new $75 million. railroad bridge will be built at "They're coming in under lehi round-U- p 1500 West. UDOT will also be working to widen 400 South to five lanes and add a southbound auxiliary lane between the exits. The new Springville railroad bridge at 1500 West isexpected to improve safety and congestion because motorists will no longer need to wait for trains at the intersection, which is currently level with - the road. Walker said the contract with Utah County Contractors Walker said. Until the contract is finalized, Walker said it is difficult to know when each phase of t he project will be started. The first stages will be bringing in fill material where new structures will be built. The different dirtiised as fill material w ill need several mont hs should be finalized early next week. After the contract is signed, it will likely be two to three weeks before construction begins, probably in mid-Jul- "Right now, we're going through the process of g through their financials," go-in- See baby Contest UDOT, B2 Doctors send Utah AG. home to recover ASSOCIATED.PRESS THE SALT LAKE CITY ' V," Doc- tors determined Utah's attor ney general doesn't have a deadly form of in- IS f fection in a leg broken .in multiple places in a :Mi motorcycle V -- accident. Spokesman Scott A ""'-- Troxel says Attorney 1 Mark Shurtleff General Mark Shurtleff had another operation Monday that showed his leg infection isn't m spreading. University Hospital sent Shurtleff home to recover for six weeks with an IV antibi- t Ok ft:. otic drip. Shurtleff has had five operations on his left leg and two on his shoulder, all stemming from the motorcycle crash last fall. ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald asie Hawkes, 6 months, stares at the judges as her mother, Brandie, puts her on a platform to be judged during the irp I Lehi contest on at the Center in Lehi. The Lehi will continue I Round-U- p kU baby Tuesday Round-U- p Legacy . through Tests showed the infection wasn't methicillin-resistan- t Staphylococcus aureus. That's a strain of staph that's resistant to a broad spectrum of Sunday. See SHURTLEFF, B2 UVSC makes final preparations for UVU switch Brittani Lusk Crews have until Friday to change the school's marquee, which is visible from Interstate It's been a long road -r- - about 15. Jim Michaelis, UVSC's 80,000 changed Web pages and associate vice president for from facilities, said those two nearly 2,000 new signs Utah Valley State College to signs should be the last of the Utah Valley University, but as school's approximately 2,000 the institution nears the dead-- . signs that need to be changed. line, school administrators say "I'm sure I've forgotten they're ready. something. We only had a "We've hit the target. We couple of thousand to do," Mihad a year and half to do it chaelis said. and we did it," said UVSC vice The signs are the last items on a list that took a year and president Cameron Martin, who headed the school's transi- half of work for the school, tion task force.- which included rewriting poliThe name change that gave cies, creating a master's degree the school license to begin the program, reworking the acatransition was passed by the demic structure, creating a new state Legislature in February image, hiring scores of new 2007, and signed by Gov. Jon facility and staff, building a Huntsman in March of that library and more. There are still small loose year. Utah Valley University becomes the school's official ends to tie up to make the tranname on Tuesday. sition complete, but they aren't Earlier this week, crews vital to Tuesday's deadline and letters on the will continue to be completed placed f oot-taDAILY 8-- HERALD ll McKay Events Center denoting Utah Valley University. See UVU, B2 UVU To Dos Must be completed by Tuesday: , I finish replacing signs on campus I complete the library Loose ends after the deadline: I continue to move all addresses from a UVSC domain to a UVU domain continue to move Web pages to the new domain change legal documents that couldn't be changed until July 1, 2008 MARIO A new Utah Valley University sign was installed on the McKay Events Center at RUIZDaily UVSC on Tuesday. nam mmmmmm mimim introducing the Flexible Certificate Account from America First. It's the perfect place to put your money because financial plans can change. High yield. Deposit up to $100,000. And unlimited withdrawals for the first five days each quarter. It's ideal when financial winds are changing. Call visit a branch or go to americafirst.comflexible. AMERICA FIRST CAOIT " UNION CQ Herald |