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Show THE DAIJ.Y HERALD, (www.HarkTheHerald.com), Provo, Utah, Saturday. April 7, 2001 Page A2 Ifs Showers on the way for weekend The Dailv Herald Accidents have been happening all over town due to the wet weather, Orem police reported Friday. A moist and unstable air mass has been lingering in Utah, bringing .32 inches of rainfall on Friday. Another storm, system is moving through today, according to the National Weather Ser- - V. HarkThe-Herald.co- vice Web site. Expect more showers today, a 70 percent probability, with a chance of thunderstorms. The rain may possibly be mixed with snow. Highs should be in the upper 40s, with lows dropping down to 30-3- 5 degrees. should remain mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain or snow showers. Highs may be in the upper 40s. The forecast through Wednesday calls for rain. The high in Provo on Friday was 50; the low was 36. In other areas, the respective highs and lows were: Pleasant Grove, 4834; American Fork, 4734; Orem, 4837; Springville, 5040; Spanish Fork, 5138; Payson, 5340; and Heber City, 5035. Sunday - f '1" 3 KEVIN LEE UDgOOiH There sure are a lot of angry and outspoken people out there. Thank goodness, they're all coming to to vent. This newspaper's Web site affords everyone the opportunity to comment at the end of any story. The subject of the story rarely has anything to do with the wandering road of controversy the comments take. There seems to be a common denominator, however. A story about beer sales in Springville quickly sparks debates about religion. A letter to the editor about gun control evolves into a' bitter dispute about J religion. The story about an alleged gay student being suspended by BYU immediately attracts comments about religion. The spy plane crisis with China: Religion. It's the tie that binds us here in Utah, and it's also the plank we plunk down betwixt ourselves and our bedmates. But I didn't bring this up as if it's a news flash. p Those of you frequenting HarkTheHerald.com already know what the comments say. I brought it up to tell you that these wonderful debates have helped us break the 2 million page-viebarrier for the first time in our four-yeonline history. In March, our Internet visitors generated 2,008,223 page views; pretty darn handsome for a friendly neighborhood Web site. And I brought it up to pass along another vital statistic. Since the new PROVO -- all The Daily Herald Fine feathered friends: Mickenzie Rueckert feeds a pair of ducks at Utah Lake State Park as her dad, Paul, fishes. ar 1 YEAR i ;p'.rfrjpj-f'fivj-r;jii- Financing w id , t store ' - PROVO Detailed explanations of the full range of benefits available to disabled veterans and their families will be presented at an upcoming Disabled American Veterans (M) Es OllV; Mobile Service Office visit. Sealy Postarepedic Like all services provided by the. nonprofit DAV, there will be no charge for this counseling and claim filing assistance, which will be hosted by Wasatch Chap on-si- te QuaiSet I Twin ea.pc. Full ea.pc. $178 $98 n. Mike Patrick censorship one-uppe- UPDATE: The sports staff at CougarBlue.com recently asked fans of the site a difficult multiple-choic- e question about comments. Would they require all visitors to register before post ing a comment, keep the forum wide open as it now is, or have us Web editors do a better job of cutting out offensive posts. The most popular answer was all of the above. Many CougarBlue.com fans are rather attached to the cool nicknames they've coined for themselves. Others like to be able to sound off completely anonymously. And most everyone wants the extra spicy verbiage toned down a tad. , We aim to please. This summer we'll unleash a leaner, meaner that will enhance its position as theNo. 1 BYU sports news site. And one of the features will be the ability for those who wish to register to do so, while those who don't won't have to. Cougar-Blue.co- SHAMELESS PLUG: Hey, I'm due. Haven't unsealed a tin of Shameless Plugs in more than a week. Today's shameless plug is a hideously blatant attempt to recruit sponsors for CougarBlue.com. We've got a national audience of bright, wealthy BYU fans (well, they're BYU fans, at least) but no site sponsors. If you've got a wad of cash burning a hole in your pocket, and you love the Cougs and want the world to know you do, me asap and we'll have your message plastered all over the place. Please help. If we don't get a sponsor soon, I'll be ... you guessed it, gram. DELIGHTFUL DICHOTOMY: Visitors to our sites might notice the plethon 3f misspelled words, horrendous grammar and other English language infractions. But one would be wrong to conclude that the people posting these fractured fragments d .. m ter No. The Daily Herald lis' o Mike Patrick is general manager of HarkThe-- " Herald.com and Cougar-Blue- . com. mpatrick harktheherald.com. il . benefits explained , 1 give-and-g- , ' "'V-i- w m - deiak for HarkThe-Herald.co- debuted in late January, you folks have used the words "stupid" or ."idiot" almost 300 times. fBalance musl be paid in full withm the year, no interest period, or interest will be assessed from the date ri purchase. APR is 22.99. Subject to credit approval. See Posture Premier Cushion Firm Queen Set-- . , f ft WEGWARD, HO! m w comment-drive- n are stupid andor idiots. Exhibit A: Found a neat from two frequent CougarBlue.com visitors who shed a little light on the thought they'd put into their Internet nicknames. One of tjiem, Gman, said he came up with the name after reading a J. Edgar Hoover biography that discussed Hoover's famous And Gman let us know that his last name starts with the letter "G." A fella who goes by him. gram Asked where that name came from, he said that in his microbiology class, they learned about gram staining, a way to differentiate bacteria. Oram stain is rea, ne wrote.a"Gram is ... you guessed it, blue." Even that card was trumped. The next poster noted that actually, Gram is more of a violet color. 1. It will be presented Monday at the Department of Workforce Services, 1550 N. 200 West, Provo, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. A National Service Officer from the DAV's Salt Lake City office will meet with veterans personally. "This veterans'-benefit- s expert offers you the best counseling and claim filing assistance you and your family can get," said Arthur H. Wilson, DAV national adjutant, in a letter inviting local veterans and their families to visit the Mobile Service Office. Veterans and members of their families need not be DAV or DAV auxiliary members to take advantage of this free DAV service. They should bring their Department of Veterans Affairs claim number and Social Security number and any other pertinent docu- mentation to the DAV Mobile Service Office location. King Set $588 Cold forces illegal immigrants to turn selves in EH TUCSON, Yon ......... f. .. 'Jill tut wA ft.; . Stearns & Foster Firm or Plush 9 .1 o.q ''J - Ariz. (AP) Frigid cold and rain forced 304 undocumented immigrants crossing the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation in the southern Arizona desert to turn themselves in overnight, authorities said j"'. 'A Friday. Most of the illegal immigrants who sought assistance from tribal officers did so near Sells, about 65 miles west of Tucson, said tribal police Chief Larry Seligman. The department set up an emergency service center with the Red Cross at a mid- - die school, providing blankets and food for the immigrants. Officers also notified the Border Patrol, which moved additional rescue personnel into the area. Five people were taken to Tucson hospitals for treatment of hypothermia. y Wiai.siiinihws.ti.iS! POLICE BEAT WJJi iiinti 077 4.- fc.."..tv Mhuily mlk LAYTOiS W. Antelope Dr. (Next to Target Supercenter) 773-G51- . I t ( Scaly, Inc. Retailer!. jorm, Nobody! OGDLN MURRAY 6328 South State Street (Next to Ultimate Electronics) 7 10649 South State Street (By Deseret Books) 'Mi am .KiagStt America's 765 ; 4 CHOKE 293-347- , 6 The Family 1151 Ctr. Wmt 612-050- Riverdale Rnwdelt Ftd 0 OREM VEST JOI1DA.N 1350 South State Street (Next to Chevron) 1609 W. 9000 South (Next to Shopko) Now Open Sundays! Layton, Mursq, West Jordan andOgden- - EXPLOSTVES FOUND Four sticks of dynamite were found and taken home by three youths Thursday. The Utah County Bomb Squad responded to an open lot at 6050 W. 9600 North, Highland, after one of the youth's parents called Alpine police around 7 p.m. Friday. One of the youngsters, a boy, said he and two other friends were climbing around inside two when they found what they thought were road flares. semi-traile- rs They took four sticks to one of the boys' homes. The dynamite was found Friday by the parents. There were about pounds of explosives found in the trailer, an Alpine policeman said. It appeared to be about 5 years old, and very unstable and dangerous. The area was roped off while police and firefighters awaited the bomb squad. It had not been reported at press time how the bomb squad would handle the explosives. 75-10- 0 10-1- "WE SELL THE BEST AND FIX THE REST" LA I j Sundays 12 PM 5 PM -- 619-026- 5 227-052- 6 563-101- 5 Jl2 " 1 3l0lc 225-813- 1 view 330 n. suu 377-444- 4 . rr0VOk MAN FOUND DEAD A man was found dead in his apartment in the area of 400 E. 1100 South, Orem, Friday at 6 p.m. The cause of his death was not immediately clear, Orem paramedics said. His family had been trying to contact him for seven days. When they couldn't get ahold of him, they called the police. When police and paramedics reported to the scene, he had been dead already for at least three days, paramedics said. Police are investigating the cause of death. ACCIDENT A construction worker fell off scaffolding while working at Timpanogos High School at 2:04 p.m. Friday. The man was taken to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, and was admitted to the hospital with back pain, Orem paramedics said. |