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Show @ Obituaries B2 @ Utah News 83 @ Lifestyle B7 ~The Dally Herald Land mines can destroy a good date A friend of mine recently stepped on a dating land mine. No, she wasn’t miniature golfing in Cambodia or playing badminton in Bosnia. Those would have been the smart choices. Instead, Andrea decided it would be a fun date ity tovisit a museum. ion, this may ectly normal, safe thing todo. After ali, what could possibly go wrongat a museum?It's not like you're bungee jumpingoff a cliff or diving into shark-intested waters, Wednesday, May 22, 199¢ Springville graduates urged to persevere By LAUREL BRADY Special to The Daily Herald ‘Can any one person makeadifference?” That was the question posed by student Camille Graves at Springville High School's graduation ceremonies Tuesday at the Marriott Center in Provo. Referring to the examples of historical figures such as Copernicus and Gandhi, she assured her classmates they can each make a differe nce andsuggested each could benefit by “taking the path least traveled.” Centered aroundthethemeof Robert Frost's poem The Road Less Traveled. speakers urged i i Single On Being Nouriungea erat four du, walking around, learning about art andgetting to know one another. It sounds idyllic Uniess, of course, you happen to visit the museumwhile it’s showing a nudes exhibit This is exactly what happened to Andrea. One minute she and her date were looking at still lifes and scenery paintings, and the next minute they were face to face with naked hedonists cavort ing all over the canvas. Let metell you, I'mas openminded as the next person, and I'd bethefirst to agree that nudes have rights too. HOWEVER, the LAST thing Vd want to do during a DATEof all things is scrutinize dozens and dozensof naked figures As a matter of fact. | can think of very few activities that would result in more awkward conversa tions ANDREA: “Hmmm . this is aninteresting color scheme.” DATE », itis, AndI really think that’sa nice framethey've usedthere” Unfortunately, this is just one example of the many dating land minesthat are hidden out there in the singles scene. And even when youthink you'vetip-toed around all the trouble spots andarefinal ly homefree, BAM! You can stumble ipto a mine field when youleast expect it Outside of Liberia, the movies maybethe single most dangerous placeto take & date. You're sitting there, watchingthefilm, wondenng what your date thinks about it dnd you, possibly hoping he'll hold your hand. Then, all of a sudden, you're seeing a major love connec tion between two people who could double as stunt actory in a soft-pom video, Andthose are just the people sitting in front of you: It gets even better when thelarger-than-life-sized actors and actressesonthesi ing in some energetic hanky-psanky Whenthat time comes. vou stop thinking about anything except howto discreetly hide ander your chair. (From personal experience| know this is an undertaking that cannot be donediscreetly.) Another risky place to spend time with your dateis tn front of the TV. This is especially trueif you havecable. Just list week my friends and I stumbledacross a program that showed in amaz ingly graphic detail blood. guts, gore andtotal nudity, It was the most sickening thing we'd ever seen. | vowed then andthere to never watch The Learning Channel again. The place tor reconstructive sufgery is a hospi tal, not the TV room Of course, TV commercials can be even worse than the programsthenvselves. For example, how many times have youbeen kicking back with yourdate in front ofthe TV, watching *“Baywatch” or "Married with Children,”and thenext thing you know you're leaming which tamponsoffer the most comfort and security? Or you're beingtokd about Uncle Jack's bout with hemorboids, Grandma Edna's bladder contnal problem or Mes. Johnson's struggle with diarrhea, Somehow those topics don’t seem to lend themselves to romantic eveniag Once you've stumbled across a dating land mine, you might as well forget about ther relationship. And next time play it safe Get yourself 4 nice badminton set and reserve two seats on the Next the 350 graduates to go forward with courage on their chosen roads. Theclass evidently took ‘ ? Graduating seniors Burke Mills, left, Joe the theme to heart even before the ceremony. hy, whenthey urged Principal C. LynnPatterson to Goodell, Rhett Davis, Mike Murphy, invite English teacher Mark Bake to come for . Justin Shepherd and Kent Millett kick a fi foot bag around id before bet graduation cere- - Daily Herald Photo/Matthew PR. : ‘ monies for Spanish Fork High Schoo nd _ YU Marriott Center Thfluesday. i Marri the BYU . . Wartlaring the ved (0 Glay eel sing « some me Fork theme says endis the beginning he composed for them. The class rewarded Bake with astanding ovation Patterson told the crowd when Bake first sang the song to his senior Eng lish students I'd never seen so many seniors comeout of a class withtears on their cheeks before.” District school board represent tative Bonnie Palmer told the graduates they fa aced ‘t an adult world that presents challenges and worries and . “moral confusion that threatens the existence, YM our nation. She urged them not to talk rather than walk the walk andinstructed them not to concern themselve: s with “how much you can get more than he yw much you can give Many od people have sacr ificed so you can haveihe tools you need to becomepart of the solution and not part of thef problem,” she concluded Callie Hs dtold her class dates to take a lesson from a juniper tree th ew ina crack in the wall of the Grand Cany From a small By LAUREL BRADY t t se Of Opposition Hulet. Resa a vale: uo High School's y 400 The theme. ; democra t Series ireterred mout in ies journey and one ata to ese £ yurneys into the woods of There talk the vou believe everythi (See GRADUATES,Page B2) z Life is a series can achievetheir pers will be the beg with that theme. F to “have the dedication to finis and reminded the excellence example of Abraham Lincolr Outlining the trials the forme dent endure Hulet said Linco gled with debt, lacked forma! educ tion, was defeated in his fi and failedin business. But he concede defeat He became president of this country and se or audiencethe great comsuffered despair loss that began in d Beethoven that held him his life because of that ut, for it seemed to be bec impossible to leave this world befo had producedall the works I felt the to compose.” She told her class, “What a c geous step ‘into the woods” t& music he couldn't hear!” She encouraged the graduates t low his example. “Enter the woods of real wor rid and doit courageously, dist garding personal weakness.” Principal Robert K. Wadley revter the theme with Winston Church words “This ts not the end. It is not ey the beg nning of the end. But it is the & of the beginning.” He told the gradu their greatest joys, contributions, accor plishments and challenges are al And he paid tribute to their parents. “w accomplished what was not an easy with grace and skill.” He told thepar “Thestudents are a positive reflection you Payson graduates encouraged to explore potential By CARIN GREEN Special to The Daily Heraid 1996 Payson High School Fgraduates were compared to sun rays as they receivedtheir diplo mas at graduation Tuesday at the Marriott Center in Provo. The theme for the graduation ce AY was “Through the youth of today as theleaders of tomorrow hope. like the sunshine gleams Branton Vest, senior class president, and Rachel Finlayson. senior Giess Vice president, were honoredas outstanding seniors, Vest noted that keeping the friendships strong was the key factor of the semory. “We need to keep the proverbial fnendship strong with love and support. We need to remember that wehadthe strength of the world behindus Four top students spoke addressing characterisicsjot sunlight Kelli Kay addressed responsi Thegraduates, 300 strong, lis tenedas their peers addressed the issues facing the seniors now and in the future bility and gave Six steps toa suc Attorney says $20,000 will help lighten load By DONALD W. MEYERS TheDaity Herald Even $20,000 will not solve the Orem city attorney's problems. Paul B. Johnsonsaid. But the part-time law clerk that the appropnation will fund will help deal with the workload ait IS SWamping the attomey’s office, City officials said onepossible solution ts to establish a munici pal court Johason, Orem'scity attomey, made hny presentation during the City Council's budget workshop Tuesday night The proposed 1996-97 munic ipal budget includes a $20,600 appropriation to hire a part-time law clerk for the office. Johnson said the part-time clerk will supplement the fulltime clerk in handling the backlog of legal research and case preparationthat needs to be done “The law clerks, we found, are a good way to get the most bang out of our buck.” Johnson. said. 4,968 cases filed in 1995, com pared with 2,537 the year before, The additional law clerk will not completely ease that burden, especially if the number of cases continuesits upward trend “We just continue to be behind the 8-ball.” Johnson said. “What I needis another attorney The city hired an additional Prosecutor last year to handle the Cases. Johnson noted that even though the criminal caseload has doubled, the city still receives $207,000 a year from the Fourth District Court, which handles the city’s criminal cases. A change in state court report ing that brought additional rev enue for other Utah cities hus yet to benefit Orem, City Manager Michael Dyalsaid One solution to the problem, introduced by Councilman Stephen E. Sandstrom, is a municipal court operated by the city Johnson said that arrangement would allow the city to keep all fines collected by the court. The Present arrangement with the circuit court only gives the city half The clerks are third-year iaw students with goodresearch skills The ‘s office receives hundreds of requests for Jegal of _ fines that are collected, he opinions from department Heads san employees and developers, and The additional revenue would Johnson. said there is a several allow the city to expand its legal week delay due to the volume of Matt to meet the demands. work in addition to the requests for research, Johnson said the ator “We're going 16 examine our options.” Dyal said The council will Yote on the ney’s office's criminal workload proposed $46.7 million budget at its June 11 meeting. has doubled. He said there were esst e. incl plan, setting sma future goals, havir t shouldhaverespect of law. coun: thers andth operty, oth: ohts; respect and rect of self get respect. you must give espect. The world is ours and we wil never give up if we have als ‘ Also. we need selves. We don’t nee follow any one. besinnibe, Oni said Jorgensen the work,the faith and the carir Holly Benson compared the seniors to paring emerge s. “Weare the cateerpillarswho have the of the family wark independen respect,” Th ‘ you chose chose to be yourself Joseph Jorgenser respect denoted he nd courte He en light of better times. “We cant our dreams into reality ann things will come to us if believe. The future will outsh the past, if we believe” Leslie Laker said the suns of family happinessis caring, un potential for greater things. w emerge as be We flies ready as well as togetier. “We note that fie home is foundation and eprnerstone civilization. It values 3 pe i and love the fi thea UF posterity reachfor the upper levels.” Ber Provo names new parksdirecto By aman EDDINGTON aly Heraid s. the com vs W ash has bee i selected rove P ctor of M contracte: city in February to take ove ur ment of the East Bay G ‘ourse Prove City Council members voted unanimously Tuesd K approve Mayor: Ge election of Thomas. Stewart < more than 3) years. After graduat ing in recteation education fr BnghamYoung University in 1975 he worked four ye Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation iN a Variety of positions That was followed by f stint in C learfield, Utah first as a tecreation director. and then as director of the entire department Thomas has overseen parks and recreation in Puyallup. a city of 29,000 about 35 miles south of Seattle, since 1984 As the assistant recreation director for seven vears, Thomas was esponsible for recreation, parks ance and capital improvement prc jects. the city cemetery, custodial operations and building maintenance. After being promoted to the director position six vears ago, Thomas was also charged with operation of the city’s two recreation centers, senior citizens center and the librury Because of his long and vaned experience in running parks and recreation, Thomas believes he is well-preparedfor the new job. “I's a great career move — an nis and work fo ensure that P: parks and recreation prograt models of excellence for th He said the people and are already here to maketh larger community than | ever have before,” said Thomas. As director, Thomas said he will buildon the foundationleft by Den- and one pen He added the first items of ness will be to get to: know the vist ail the department tac andget 16 know people in the munity. “Based on that, we wi together as a department aw nd & what our priorities are.” 1? said. “Then we'll set up a p! get the funds tosee that thos: Ales are camied out.” Although he is a native o} Rafael, Calif. Thomas views move to Provo as something homecoming because ofhis expe ence as a student at BYU. He « met AnaLyla, his wife of 20 ye. in Salt Lake City. They are the opportunity to work for a much ents of three children — two so — ing in aye from 13 to = Thomas expects to assume | duties in late June or early July Prior co-workers testify in whistle-blower case By ALEXANDER STOCKS The Daily Herald A hearing concerning allega tions that former Tooele Army Incinefation Plant Safety Manager Steven Jones was unjustly fired is showing itself to be less about safety and possibly more an affair of hurt pride and fear. Michael Hampton took the wit ness stand again Tuesday, Hampton was replaced by Jonesas safe ty manager and ended up working a few notches under him. He then reassumed the safety manager position when Jones was terminated three monthslater. Hampton testified further as to Jones”lack of respect for him, and how Jones didn’t give him a supervisory role as he had been testified, but he didi stress of managiny “high prollegregpen’- sean) wer trying to “eardows other whohad ts aryl promised when he agreed to have Jones, a former member of the Amy’s In General Team, replace him, He said he felt deficient in his knowledge of Army regulations and standards, sesretminay |