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Show Oil TOWS SECTION FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2007 METRO EDITOR Firefighters to honor Penovieh Natalie Andrews DAILY HERALD The state medical examiner has found that Saratoga Springs Fire Chief Michael Penovieh drowned Jury 5, Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Preston Raban said. Penovieh, 38, drove his truck, a Saratoga Springs Fire Department truck, off U.S. Highway 189 and into Deer Creek Reservoir. A procession of firefighters, family and friends will honor a former fire chief today while questions remain about his tragic death. Over 60 fire vehicles are expected to join the processional today, coming from neighboring agencies and bordering states, Saratoga Springs Police Cpl. Aaron Rosen said, noting FUNERAL, D3 ipyrahheraldextra.com 344-258- 6 Pesticide A that he knew of fire trucks coming from Idaho, Wyoming and Arizona. "It's common when there is a firefighter who has died in the line of duty, we send a contingent, and say 'Hey, we're there for you guys,' " Rosen said of the support. Penovieh was driving to Saratoga Springs from a meeting in Heber for the fire department when witnesses say the truck swerved into the reservoir. A public viewing is scheduled from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Saratoga Springs IDS Stake Center at 587 S. Saratoga Drive. Penovich's body will then travel to the American Fork IDS Tabernacle at 114 E. Main St. for the funeral services. See Joe Pyrah A I1 A option could Mike Penovidi salvage 1,000 PLAYGROUNDS IN 1,000 DAYS produce Orem residents can choose alternative spray to fight beetles Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY . M ' " ' it In the Orem neighborhoods being sprayed with pesticides to eradicate the Japanese beetle this summer, residents have an alternative to letting their fruit and vegetables go to waste. The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, the state agency administering the - $400,000-per-yea- A LA i JERONIMO NISADaily request an optional pesticide for produce, said department spokesman Larry Lewis. Known under its commercial name Sevin, or by its trade name Carbryl, the pesticide can be applied to harvested vegetables and fruit and nut trees. After a specified waiting period, usually 3 to 7 days, the produce can be consumed. Though not as long lasting or effective at killing beetles as the Merit pesticide being sprayed on turf and foliage in the by area of west central Orem by contractor TruGreen ChemLawn, residents can use Sevin and still be Herald Boys and Girls Qub Director David Bayles left and other volunteers carry a section of a to be installed at the Utah Boys and Girls Club's new playground in Provo on Thursday. and relatives of the club's kids, as well as Best Buv and Home Denot emnlovees. volunteered to build the new playground. The project is the result of a partnership between the Boys and Girls Qub and Home Depot, which was facilitated by KaBOOM, a non-proforganization whose goal is to make it possible that every kid has a playground within walking distance from their home. This project is part of a country-wid- e campaign called "1,000 playgrounds in 1,000 days." See erovo it Timpviewteen selected for House page program Brooke Barker DAILY HERALD will be the longest time she's spent from home besides girl's camp Ungerman is in Washington, D.C The from Provo was recently selected for the summer House of Representatives Page Program after receiving a nomination from Congressman Chris Cannon, "I was going out to lunch with my friends at the end of the school year, and my mom called, saying, 'Are you sitting down? Are you sitting down? I just got a call and you're going to Washington D.C,'" said Ungerman. The teen, who will be entering her junior year at Timpview High, said she didn't It know what set her apart from the other applicants, but is excited to gain experience. There are about 66 page positions every summer, divided between two sessions. Unterm on July german started her four-wee- k 8. Pages are employees of the House and are in charge of delivering correspondence between congressmen, answering phone calls, taking messages, and monitoring a telephone bank of incoming requests for Page services. Ungerman said at first she was reluctant to apply, because-o- f last year's scandal. Rep. Mark Foley, R- - Fla., resigned after several former male pages brought forsent by the ward sexually explicit representative. "After I found out more, I decided to apply ," she said. "It will open a lot of doors." Her grandfather had told her that it would be a great experience for her resume. Although she's traveled to D.C once before, Ungerman said she's excited to visit the Smithsonian and Holocaust Museum this time. pesticide spray- in Orem, has made available upon "'V - r ing program to eradicate the beetle J - STAFF PESTICIDE, D3 Questions? For more information about having Sevin sprayed on your property instead of Merit, call Clint Burfitt at Lehi OKs hotel next to elementary school Caleb Warnock DAILY HERALD f ' k r Lehi gave final approval on Thursday night to an extended-stahotel to be built next to Fox Hollow Elementary. After two and a half hours of discussion, Lehi planning commissioners voted unanimously to give a conditional-us- e permit and site plan approval to Box Elder Properties for the North Bench Business Park Extended Stay Suites, located at ' K-' 1 approximately 1500 West and Bull River Road in Lehi. About 150 parents and children packed the meeting after protesting outside for 30 minutes carrying balloons and banners. Parents said the hotel could attract drug users and pedophiles looking to prey on their children. City attorney Ken Rushton said city ordinances allow the planning commission to give final approval to conditional use permits and the issue would not be heard by the City Council. Residents had designated a spokesman to give their concerns to the commission, but Commission ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald Chairman Kerry Schwartz said that Madelin and Sadie Squire hold balloons rallying against a proposed Extended Stay Suites hotel before the though he had said he would consider allowing such a representative Lehi City Council met on Thursday at City Hall in Lehi The balloons read "Safety First" and "No Hotel" to speak, trie commission had deThe hotel will be built next to an elementary school cided it would be repetitive because a public hearing was held on the issue last month. Commissioners then cause of the hotel To prevent even Commissioners said that had parin Lehi in the past year and only voted not to allow further public ents or the city wanted to prevent a two percent of the city's total police the "remote possibility" of danger, comment. commissioners voted to require hotel from being built on the propcalls were to hotels and motels last the hotel to construct a Schwartz said the commission wall erty, the issue should have been year, facts commissioners cited in had been flooded with considered at the time the business from between the hotel and the school, their decisioa residents concerned about the hotel and trees to block the view from the park zoning was assigned to the Dave Holdaway of Alpine School and understood the public sentihotel's upper stories, at the recomDistrict told commissioners the area, and the commission had little ment. mendation of the school district. school had moved its playground power to stop the project now. The hotel was also required to ere- - , Commissioners repeatedly said Before the decision, Lehi police to be as far from the hotel as pos-.ate a security plan with Lehi police, there was no hard evidence of officers told commissioners that no sex crimes have occurred at hotels See HOTEL, D4 danger to Fox Hollow students be- among other requirements. y f |