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Show Page a: THt DAILY HFRALtX (ww.HaiiThcHerald.eoml. Piwo. I'lah. KnUax. September 21. 2001 New library a hit thanks to city staff, Ghostbusters Our new library in Provo is very lowly. It used to be the Brigham Young Academy, but the building fell into disrepair sometime after the Civil War and was being used primarily as a place for kids to sneak into and make out. It was a marvelous, g old building that scared me every time I drove past it (Bear in mind I also get scared when I see spiders or Christina Ricci.) I imagined a lot of episodes of "Scooby-Doo- " taking place there. It was one of my favorite Provo landmarks, along with the neon Grimace character in the window of the Bulldog Boulevard McDonald's who appears to be flipping us off. A few years ago, some folks decided to restore the Academy building and turn ft into a grand new library. This they did, with the help of a lot of money and the f rededication ceremony. Anyway, I visited the library recently to see what's there. Turns out the whole thing's full of nothing but books. I figured by the 21st century they'd have holograms and talking card catalogs, but no such luck. Just the assemblage of symbols printed on pages. Oh, and cyborg librarians who can see the future. The new facility is beautiful. I cannot stress this enough. It looks like the gorgeous old university libraries you see in movies (and, I suppose, at universities), but it's not musty. (All the must was cleaned out with the beer bottles and skeletons and was donated to a fledgling d-hand store that still e suffered from pif ipic left-to-rig- creepy-lookin- Eric D. Snider Ghostbusters. Some people complained that the dedication ceremo- ny a few weeks ago had too much Mormon influence in it, and I have to agree. I don't understand why a state founded by Mormons in which most of the residents are Mormons in which a building originally built by Mormons for Mormons to use would have so much Mormon stuff in its secon- "new-stor- smell.") observed several people sitting around, reading I UTAH COUNTY -- A high pressure system will remain in place over the ; Wasatch Front through next week, according early ;to the National Weather Service Web site. Today will be sunny ;with highs in the mid- - to upper 80s. Tonight will be ; clear with lows in the 50s. Sunny weather will continue on Saturday and Sun- day, with high tempera- tures expected to be simi- lar to today's. I Monday through Thurs- day .will see mostly clear also heard a woman request a library card, except she pronounced it "libarry." I understand the requirements to obtain a library card are not very stringent, but I do think you should be able to pronounce the word. Anyone requesting a "libarry" card should be given a membership at a video store instead. Spending some time among the books reminded me of my childhood in Lake Elsinore, Calif., where the local library was named after a relative of ours. Because of this connection, we were allowed to check out books for free (or so we were told). I have fond memories of going there often. I got a lot of joke I Fourth Grade Nothing" out around a library, reading free books in quiet, ditioned comfort. Some of us have to sit in an office all dav and surf the Interair-co- net! The library has an entire shelf devoted to Cliffs Notes. This is the height of laziness.. Why read the book when you can read the Cliffs Notes, and why buy the Cliffs Notes when you can read them for free at the library? I applaud the efforts of the American stu Sumy, clear to stay over valley The Daily Herald ful. of some kid's hands. But seriously, whcTare these people? What a charmed life, to be able to spend the whole day sitting sCiies 1 ! ! ; ; : Provo. Police said a wing window was broken to get inside. LOST Orem police said a mother inadvertently left her baby in a shopping cart at Toys R Us in Orem and drove home. Police Lt. Doug Edwards said the woman paid for some toys and took them to her car in a shopping ' cart, unloaded them and ' drove off, leaving her 10-- . month-ol- d baby behind in , the cart. : "She apparently made it all the way home to north-- 1 east Orem before she realized her slight oversight," ; Police Lt. Doug Edwards said. - C- FTT1 . recorded a high temperature of 87 on Thursday. The low was 50. Orem was 8652; Heber City, 8639; Spanish Fork, 8550; Springville, 8749; and Pleasant Grove, 8547. Air quality on Thursday was rated as moderate in Utah County by the Utah Air Monitoring Center. Little change was expected in pollution levels today. 1? ... iA,1iw ASSAULT An was assault aggravated reported on Tuesday around 10:15 p.m. at Valley Inn Motel, 1425 S. State St., Provo. Police said the victim had been drinking with friends when two individuals invited him to another room at the motel. When he entered, he was hit with a baseball bat. The victim was treated and released from a local medical facility and police are following up on the 1 sized flag referred to in Thursday's The cle was indeed unfurled Wednesday evening. A SLOC official provided The Daily Herald with inaccurate information. football-fiel- d The Daily Herald CEDAR CITY Wildlife "officers are seeking three men believed to have illegally shot a bear cub. : The trio allegedly shot ': the black bear from a tree ; stand Aug. 23 in the Goose- - berry area of Fish Lake National Forest, near Cedar : City, said Sgt. Leo Hovinga, ; an investigator for the Divi-- ; sion of Wildlife Resources. "We found the cub still " c but paralyzed from the shoulders down, and we had to kill it," Hovinga said. "They made a real point of telling someone who saw them shoot the bear that they were from the Spanish Fork area. But maybe they were just saying that to throw us off," Hovinga said. The investigator said the trio looked as if it could have been made up of a father out with his two sons in their alive 20s. L I - .a JL. 7 i ;r"" ii 1 " X' Courtesy photo Hot Item: People line up outside the Nu Skin distribution center Thursday waiting to buy the Olympic "We Stand United" charity pin. TflfeSimi Unified' pun sells By TAD WALCH The Daily Herald Heavy sales of PROVO the Olympic "We Stand continued United" pin Thursday as the first pins to reach the state quickly disappeared from the only two sales outlets. Nu Skin sold out its complement of 1,000 pins within 20 minutes Thursday morning, despite limiting customers to five pins each. About 200 people lined up an hour before the doors opened at 9 a.m. at Nu Skin's East Bay warehouse, spokesman Brent Goddard The same phenomenon happened in Salt Lake City, where SLOC sold the 4,600 pins it had for sale in its lobby in 90 minutes, SLOC spokeswoman Linda Luchet-t- i said. By day's end, including Internet sales, more than 186,700 pins had been sold. Luchetti said the pin pro gram, announced Monday, had raised $866,713.50 for The September 11th Fund, which provides relief for the families of victims of the terrorist attacks. The pin includes a 2002 Olympic logo, the words "We Stand United" and "11 Sept 2001" and a red, white and blue background that resembles the American flag. Each $5 pin generates $4.62 for the relief fund. SLOC plans to sell a new shipment of the pins today at its headquarters at 299 S. Main St. in Salt Lake City, but officials plan to limit customers to two pins apiece. They hope to raise that limit to 10 pins on Monday and 50 on Tuesday. . oiE teer. "The mind-se- t of the American people is more patriotic than it's ever been. We see flags on freeway overpasses, in cars and in yards. Every sports team has a flag on its hats or shirts or batting helmets. (SLOC officials) should have known this would happen." Reeves said he would order the pin through the Internet, but he was disappointed that he'd have to wait for it to be shipped. "It's hard to join in with others when they don't have the supply," he said. "I wanted to wear one of those pins Luchetti said Nu Skin should have at least 1,000 more pins for sale Monday. "We can continue to make the pins as long as people want them," she said. "It's just that right now it's a matter of producing and shipping them fast enough." Those production problems frustrated one Provo resident who showed up at the Nu Skin warehouse (275 E. 1325 South) to buy pins Thursday afternoon. "I'm ticked," said Lou Reeves, an Olympic volun MI: now." call (435) 865-610- Take o shower Prepare dinner 8 am to 6 pm 373-645Sat. 9 am to 1 1 am 0 www.sweetdealclasslfleds.com Read a newspaper Mow you lawn Wash the car But you can only do one thing when you read a newspaper READ A NEWSPAPER THE DAILY HERALD;.. 0. Pat Christian can be or at reached at pchristiheraldextra.com. TBIlIiniEnEIimiEIE While listening to the radio you can: stand, and officers took it and left a note on the tree telling the owners where they could call to get it back. "It happened during the deer archery hunt here, and for some unknown reason, they shot a bear cub," Lt. John Schijf said. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to source for buying and selling Mon.-f- ri. i . V1 GGtS RGSUltS! 344-255- 6 The trio left their tree Your 0 dhfa m Hylieraldextra.com r or Three men believed to have shot bear cub By PAT CHRISTIAN Eric D. Snider can be or reached at 344-256- said. case. - books. j - A man who noticed the woman leaving her baby tried to get the woman's attention but couldn't. So he took the baby inside the store, where employees took care of the baby until the mother returned about 45 minutes later. "She was understandably upset and very grateful her baby was safe," Edwards said. The mother told officers she had a lot of things on her mind, Edwards said. 'Tin! s, i F0LEC2 CSAT AUTO BURGLARY Compact discs valued at . $1,300 were reported ' stolen from a car parked in an open garage near : 100 East and 2000 South in Orem. An Alpine stereo and two speakers were stolen Wednesday from a pickup ' truck parked in the area of 400 North and 900 East in tinction merely meant her books were for grown-upnot that they were dirty. I wish I had more time to read books. There are so many I haven't read, such as "the Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and the user's manual for my CD burner. Maybe our beautiful new city library will inspire me to call in sick for a few days and cat ch up with some "old friends." And maybe then I'll go read some books, Choose Your Own Adventure books, the "Alice in Wonderland" books, skies. Monday and Tuesday will see highs in the mid-80- s to low 90s. Wednesday and Thursday will be slightly cooler, with to low highs in the mid-70- s 80s. BYU Danny Dunn bwks. Encyclopedia Brown books, and others that too much time in front of the TV has since edged out of my memory. My brothers and I would prowl around the children's section while Mom looked through the adult books; I now understand this dis- sloth- dent to become more books. My first thought was the same one I have when I see people doing this at Barnes & Noble: Hey, cheapskates, this isn't a library. Then I realized it WAS a library, but not before knocking "Tales of a ' Call 373-505- 0 |