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Show M TOMS SECTION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, Amie Rose METRO EDITOR Lehi. neighbors anxious for 1-- 344-253- 0 2007 aroseheraldextra.Wm connector 15 Caleb Warnock DAILY want the most effective road system we can get in this county and regionally. We need to move a lot of people east and west." "We HERALD Let's get it built. That sentiment seemed to be most common at Thursday's UDOT open house to give north county residents inconformation on a proposed east-wenector from Redwood Road to Interstate 15. More than 100 people attended. "It will give me a better route to get to and back, and I hope it will relieve congestion on Main Street," said David Nash of LehL Nash and his wife, Peggy, attended Thursday's meeting because UDGTs preferred route for the road, one of eight routes studied, will be four houses down from their home. While they support the road, they wanted to find out the exact alignment, and whether a sound wall would be built near their home. "My only other question is how do we access the road," David Nash said. "And I have a concern about school children on the south side of the road and how they will get across." ; Carol Semmens st Lehi resident considering a move to Eagle Mtn. Justin Earl, a developer working in Cedar Valley, said the difficult commute along Lehi's Main Street has negatively impacted home sales in Cedar Valley, and the proposed road could help turn that around. "For the people who have already purchased, it will give them easier access to where they work, shop, go to school and do their entertainment activities," he said, noting it will also make it easier for people to visit model homes. People who "see a solution coming" will be more likely to buy homes, he said. Ken Lima of Lehi said one of the alternatives, not the one chosen by UDOT, would have taken the road through the center of his subdivision and he was relieved to find UDOT had chosen another rOUte. "I am totally in support," he said. "It should definitely be done quickly." Carol and Jeff Semmens of Lehi said they came to the meeting because they are considering moving to Eagle Mountain "and this would impact us directly," she said. "We want the most effective road system we can get in this county and regionally. We need to move a lot of people east and west." See UDOT, MARK JOHNSTONOaily Herald of Salt Lake City left and Blaine Walker of Sandy connector study how their land will be affected by the east-weduring a UDOT open house at Snow Springs Elementary in Bill Bang st B3 Lehi on Thursday. . Santa Sighting SUB FOR SANTA DAILY nit) At the end of the day it is worth it to Joan to stay home with her daughter Sandra, even if it means having less money. "No one can care for her the way I can," Joan said. Sandra was born with a heart murmur and has undergone surgeries that have failed to fix the problem. Joan is home dra and her with Sanbrother She is also expecting a child, a pregnancy she and her husband, .; Sam, were not planning. Their older son Jared goes to school each day and tries to help with his brother :and sister as much as he can. ; Joan prefers to care for Sandra herself rather than trying to find a day care that can handle her special needs. Sandra is behind on motor skills because of her condition and the medical treatments that went with it. Sandra also gets out of breath easily. In a recent appointment with the cardiologist Joan was told doctors would look at the murmur again in another year and what other surgeries or treatments might improve her condition. But for now Sandra will continue with the same problems. Sam has lost his job three times this year. He lost one long-terjob when Sandra was born because he was missing too much work due to all of the medical appointments. All the job changes have been hard on family finances. He now has a job as a roofer but Joan said that will end soon as more snow falls. The roofing jobs have already begun tapering off for the year and Joan said the medical bills continue to pile up. Christmas gifts are low on the family's priority list but Jared would love a Transformers car. He also needs a coat, some pants and a sweat suit. Sandra could use a coat, pants and a sweat suit too. She would also enjoy a mermaid doll. n r ,? If '.- ,' ' ' CRAIG DILGERDaily Herald Santa Gaus visited Amelia Earhart Elementary in Provo on Thursday, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the schools completion. St. Nick and pilots agree, reading will take you places Janice Peterson two large duffel bags in front of his rapt audience. "When I go fly, this is my two backpacks full of books," he said. "Now you guys thought you had it bad in school, huh?" The Amelia Earhart Elementary School AviaDavis told the students he has been in the Na- tors got a visit Thursday in Provo from a couple of fellow fliers. tional Guard for almost 20 years, and he now travels far and wide flying a refueling plane. When Lt. CoL Kurt Davis of the Utah Air National a plane travels a long distance, he said, it often Guard went to the school to teach the children about the importance of reading, and he told them needs to fly far north, toward the North Pole. how important reading is even as a pilot. "Sometimes we run into one of our favorite "Reading is so important in everything we do," people when we're up there flying, and that's old he said. Santa Claus," he said. A couple hundred small hands flew in the air The surprised children cheered as Santa Claus when Davis asked who had to come to school with walked into the room jingling his bells and pulla heavy backpack full of books. Davis then hefted ing presents behind him. As a gift for the school's DAILY HERALD ' anniversary, Santa brought almost 200 books to the school. He also made sure the children knew how to : read before the presents could be donated. he spelled. "I believe we have for every grade level." , Santa Claus praised the students and encouraged them to be high fliers in reading. "Congratulations Amelia Earhart, and to all you high fliers," he said as he jingled from the room. Santa's stay was brief, so he was not present ' to hear the elementary choir sing holiday songs. And he was long gone when the choir sang their ar HERALD ' , ' See BOOKS, B3 full-tim- e De-ric- k. See . SANTA, B3 UVRMC runs evacuation drill to prepare for disaster scenario Brittani Lusk and fires, and UVRMC wants to be prepared. "I think a lot of hospitals learned a lot of things from The lobby of Utah Valley Katrina," said UVRMC spokesRegional Medical Center was woman Janet Frank. "We need to quiet Thursday morning. The automatic doors swung open and practice." On the fifth floor, where mothshut, someone whistled "Holly Jolly Christmas" and someone else ers were recovering from childbirth, nurses strapped an inflatdropped flowers off at the desk. able dummy dubbed "Leslie" to an This calm environment could be evacuation sled, which looked like disrupted, though, if the hospital lost power. a Styrofoam stretcher with sides and orange fabric handles. In the Thursday morning, hospital staff prepared for just that, turndark, they transported her from the fifth floor down the stairs to ing the lobby into a staging area where they transported inflatable the staging area. dummies treated as patients. The Robin Ebmeyer, the emergency management coordinator emergency scenario involved a for Intermountain Healthcare in winter storm that knocked out Utah County, said the hospital power and a construction acciused gray dummies in lieu of real dent that caused a water line to break', flooding generators. people because it's safer. "The first time you do it, you Hospitals have had to evacuate in situations like mass hurricanes dont want it to be the real pa DAILY HERALD tient," Ebmeyer said. "It's just the exercise." It was the first drill of its kind at UVRMC Ebmeyer said hospitals are required to hold at least two emergency drills each year, using situations that could happen. A winter storm is probable ' in Provo. She said the biggest challenge of the drill was communication, but the staff was ready and willing to help. "You think you've communicated well with people and they do something different," Ebmeyer said. "Communication's a big deal." Thursday, dummy patients like Leslie were evacuated floor by floor. Staff had to put patients in the evacuation sleds, and take them down to staging areas. They I ASHLEY "Y FRANSCEUDally Herald Staff members at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center transport a dummy patient down a hallway toward a stairwell during an emergency drill on Thursday at the hospital in rrovo. i ms ts tn nrst tunc tne hospital has run a anil simulating evacuation ' ' SeeEVAC,B3 during a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina or a wildfire. |