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Show fcrET IN! Join your community Web site at OurTowns.heraIdextra.com hrh A Vfi. local news Expanded n MOCK STORM: Cltiesi in forces emergency exercises. See Our Towns Local news Friday for May l, 2009 135 years 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS ' YOUR NEWSPAPER 1 r lJ 3H J UVU student!- ONLINE: - heraldextra.com . I J ft ,. , I,.....,,- ,, .....iLM-g- t . SWINE FLU OUTBREAK TV3fTfll With 5 probable cases, local schools work to Face mask sales, travel changes protect their students spike in Utah Janice Peterson DAILY With news of five probable cases of swine flu being closed, local school districts are putting plans in place to prepare for the disease. State health officials said Thursday that three of the probable cases are from the Park City School District, which has decided to close all of its schools until Monday. A fourth case ' eight comes from Salt Lake County and a fifth was Health Departreported by the Weber-Morgament, based in Ogden, said Tom Hudachko, spokesman for the Utah Department of Health. Hudachko said there is no specific number of cases that would warrant closing schools, and the decision rests with individual districts and their local health departments.' See FLU, A 7 Grace Leong DAILY in Utah and schools in Park City HERALD Local emergency supplies stores and travel agencies are among businesses in Utah that have seen a spike in inquiries in recent days as swine flu fears intensify across the globe and now hit home. Since news emerged of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico, and now with five probable cases in Utah, many emergency supplies stores in fhe state have seen a s significant increase in face masks sales. One store, Emergency Essentials in Orem, even reported even Selling out of the masks though there is no clear evidence that these masks would stop airborne viruses from entering the respiratory tract. Bryan Stinson, store manager of Survival Solutions Inc. in Springville, said face mask sales See MASKS, A3 BYU Legend n InsideA2 I LDS Church delays sending new missionaries to Mexico. MARIO OREM PHILBRICKBYU tight end Gordon Hudson, who played at BYU from 1981-8- 3 and was a favorite target of Steve Young, was selected to the College Football Hall of Fame on Thursday. Former BYU INSIDE BRIEFING A4 EDITORIALS A9 WEATHER 85 COMICS B7 TV LISTINGS B8 LIFE & STYLE HIGH 65 LOW 47 OBITUARIES C5 BUSINESS C6 ,l,,61055"00050l I Experts say virus is pretty much all pig. I More schools nationwide close, doors. Only the most hopped aboard a cherry picker and personal to get an view of the phenomenon. "I wanted to get right up and touch it," Washburn said. "It's just beautiful. Even though the glass is expensive, I would like to have taken the glass down and preserved it. It's a beautiful thing." Washburn said he could see not only the intricate feathers of the open wings, but also imprints of the owls underbelly, talons, beak, eyes and horns. "It's a thing," Reams said. "It is very delicate. It wasn't a big owl. It was very neat, very interest- un- ing." Both men looked at the window a few days after it was first spotted by a library patron. Amy White, an assistant librarian, said she couldn't let this bird MARK See OWL, A 7 An outline of an owl that hit a window at JOHNSTONDaily Herald the Orem library can still be seen on Thursday. Lehi residents honored for work to become Tree City USA Cathy Allred DAILY HERALD Forester" award as a show of appreciation. Together, the four men were instrumental in establishing Lehi as a Retired Forester Ed Frand-se- n Tree City USA community. and three other Lehi residents Frandsen, who has a master's Steve Calton, Scott Bunker and degree in community forestry, will were recognized be the first to tell you it isn't about Kim Struthers for their service to the community on him, that the others worked on their project as well. They will likewise tell Saturday. you Frandsen was the driving force City leaders gave them each a "Lehi City Outstanding Crtizer toward completion. LEHI VOLUME 86 ISSUE 274 ' - up-clo- usual circumstances would prompt the mayor to climb aboard a lift and inspect the dust on a city building window, The Shroud of Turin it is not, but speculation continues to circulate as to how an owl with full wing span has left a. detailed imprint on a dusty window at the Orem Public Library. Was the bird disoriented by late winter storms? Or perhaps the snow could have blown Harry Potter's messenger owl Hedwig off course from a mail delivery, or maybe Winnie the Pooh's friend Owl was just seeking more knowledge. Whatever the origin, the owl's imprint has caused such commotion in the city that Mayor Jerry Washburn and Orem city manager Jim Reams B12 C2, C3 DIGEST 6 Cloudy Herald Mysterious image a hoot at Orem library CORRESPONDENT ... RUIZDaily Farrer Elementary School Principal Don Dowdle wipes down keyboards in Judy Pond's kindergarten classroom as a precaution to minimize the spread of germs Thursday, "We don't want to alarm kids, we just want to protect them," said Dowdle. Genelle Pugmire MARK A. HERALD "He is actually one of the main initiators of the ordinance for trees," said Lehi City Planner Struthers. "You have to have a tree ordinance in order to have to qualify for Tree City USA ... He's the one who gathered the ordinance information from other cities." Frandsen took what he gleaned from other cities' ordinances, from Ogden, Moab, St. George, Highland, Provo, Cedar City and others, and compiled an ordinance for Lehi City. He said he was just doing what he has done for other communities. "I went through and extrapolated and wrote what I thought would be appropriate for Lehi City." Frandsen worked for the Federal Forestry Service for 42 years. Part of See LEHI, A7 |
