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Show Se Page B6 —. THE DAILY HERALD,Provo, Utah, Tuesday, May 7, 1996 Local boy wins Mazda scholarship 1s contest to make sure everything By BRANDY VOGEL The Daily Herald Volunteers from Niels Fugal and Sons Construction work on a section of Novel | Children's Park in Pleasant Grove on Thursday. Volunteers from Pleasant Grove and around the county camefor epee Photoscourtesy of John Best the first day of park construction last week. Project coordinators say volunteers are still needed to help with the project, which is scheduled to be completed Saturday. Volunteers working to make day shifts from 8 a.m. to noon, ind from 12:30 p.m. to $ p.m Parent and child crews are wel come, anda day careis available for children whoare too small to help. Construction began Thursday and will continue for nine day with completion scheduled for a play areafor tiny tots. Special to The Daily Herald On the first day of construction Niels Fugal and Sons proThe sound of hammers, drills. vided heavy equipment and routers, electric saws and earth approximately 60 laborers for moving equipment have filled eachshift the air of once-quiet Pleasant The concept of a discovery Grove. Thesounds are all part of park in Pleasant Grove is a result transforming the Novell Chilof a trip by Mike Daniels to Floridren's Discoy da. His kids ery Park from a wanted to leave dream into a Disney World to reality go back to the Volunteers discovery park from Pleasant they had visited Grove and on the coast aroundthe coun “They really ty showedupfor lovedthat park,” the first day of said Daniels. park construcAfter he tion and saw an returned home acre of ground the idea came to transform from him that: Pleas barren property ant Grove resito a busy park in denis could all the making benefit from a There were hunparklike the one dreds of volunin Florida. He teers filling all presented his threeshifts TOM jyixe Daniels, right, shakes hands with former Utah Sen. Jake idea to the City sunup 0 SUN Garn at an organizing meeting for Novell Children's Discovery Council and it down, diggi Park. became one of holes. cutting Saturday, The completed park the state’s premier centennial logs. routing lumber, studying will be the largest discovery projects plans and assembling structures park in the United States. There Former Sen. Jake Garn General Project Coordinator ure tens of thousands of board recently spoke at an organizing Mike Daniels of Pleasant Grove of lumber, and more than luncheon for city leaders and ts excited about thepi ct and 100,000 nails and screws to be others involved in the park prohas scheduled his vacation time used in the project ject. Garnsaid. “It’s projects like to make sure the project is suc This park will combine fun this Discovery Park that can cessful and education as youth play ina spark interest in the minds of “Our fund raising is nearly sand box with dinosaur bones, youth.” complete. We hav 1 goal of climb insidethe replicaof a bee Garnsaid, “If kids want to be $200,000 and currently hive. how a volcano works. involved in space, or other scifly on « zip line. stroll in a but- ences they need to make thembut our bi terfly garden. play in a tree selves prepared for the opportuhouse or walk from earth to the nities. He recommended a good hesaid. Daniels ‘oject des: moon in a scale model of the education as the best preparation perately ni help on solar system. There will also be tor future opportunities. FREE MUOTTbed USE THIS *Restrictions ay Mazda a letter enclosed in Mashe AMERICAN FORK— The City Council is planning to examine the possibility ofestablishing a park in the area of 1400 North and 200 West. The vote cameafter a tense discussion invelving Hillcrest subdivision residents and Ray Sparks, a local developer. At issue was a two-acre slice of the Sparks property that Hillcrest residents wanted to have convertedintoacity park. Sparks had said that he would sell the site for $82,000anacre. Scott Hendrickson, a Hillcrest resident, told the City Council, “A recent editorial in our town paper said we could take our kids to large multipurpose parks. During the last two weeks, we have done our research on parks. We found that Highland Centennial Park, a multipurpose one, is little used, becauseit’s situated by a dangerous stretch of road (the Alpine Highway) “At the last council meeting, Kay Robinson(a local develog said that small local parks aren't well used. He cited one park. We found that there are other small neighborhood parks like Evergreen that are well used.” said Hendrickson. team lost every game and nament But Masson will not have tp thought Masson would be a good encounter failure in Mazda's : candidate to go to Japan. — “Mydad said the stuff I didn’t say because of modesty,” Masson said. A Mazdapress release said the scholarship students are selected on the basis of academic achievementand extracurricular activities, volunteer and work experience, teacher recommendations, written for a essays and general suitability foreign exchange experience Massonsaid he hadtodoall of this to be selected. He had to write ten essays. These inciuded why Masson would be a goodpersonto go to Japan, a description of his relationship withhis best friend, a description of his relationship with his family (Masson is the youngest of eight children) and an essay on how Massonhasdealt withfailure scholarship contest. “| was kind ofplanning on wip. ning,” he said. And Masson has planned ahead in anticipation. He said he has bought Japanese tapestolisten to so he can try to pick up on the lan. guage before he goes to Japan,His sisters warned him hisfirst week iq Japan would be scary because he would be in a newcountry and no one would speak English Masson will be living with a math and science teacher and wil] go to school with him every day, he said. Masson will be staying withthis host family for six weeks, Masson will also travel soniewhere on the West Coast before departing to Japan where he will learn about the Japanese culture. ny He pointed out that after reading the local weekly newspaper's stion that Mitchell Hollow, a cre site located near Hillcrest, be examinedasa site for a possible park, he contacted a memberof the Army Corps of Engineers about the area. Sparks said he was told a few years ago by then Mayor Kay Hutchings, “my property wasn’t a Elections to be in June for CUWCD “Not all of Mitchell Hollow is a wetland area,” noted Councilman John McKinney “There is great potential for Mitchell Hollow.” said Councilman Grant Park. “It has several areas in it that can be used for parks. There are even sevenacres there that can be used for a Little e field. | ought to know. My father used to own Mitchell Hol low.” Hillcrest resident, Gary Judd, told the council that the people of his subdivision had waited four years for the city to establish a park nearby. “It’s time that you stop talking andactually give us a park. If you don’t secure something, don’t annex the Sparks property.” The council voted later in the evening to examine the matter again at the next regular session, set for May 14 Exhibit slated for Tintic museum The Tintic Mining Museumin Eureka has been chosen by the Office of MuseumServicesto host a special display from May I1 to June 14. “Wilderness Louvre, Utah Rock Art”will be shownin the White Ow! Gallery, 317 W. Main St., Eureka The display consists of large color photographs of Indian rock art taken by Gary Smith andfeatured in the January 1980 edition of National Geographic magazine The grand opening ofthe gallery tle ALL QUALITY GLASS » INSURANCE COMPANY APPROVED OFF YOUR INSURANCE DEDUCTIBLE and the show will be Saturday at 11 a.m. The Tintic Historical Society will hold a meeting and presentation Friday evening at 7 p.m. in the Eureka Memorial Building as a kickoff for the event. All interested persons areinvitedto attend The White Owl Gallery and the Tintic Mining Museum will be opendaily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the showing. Special group tours may be scheduledby calling (801) 433-6842 ‘ By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN The Daily Herald Election of officers will take place next month at the board meeting of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District A nominating committee was selected at the last meeting, when board members drew lots. The eight selected officers will choose their own chairman The committee will nomi nate individuals to serve as chairman and vice chairman of the board. 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