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Show QUR TOWNS DailySHerald MONDAY,APRIL 17, 2006 METROEDITOR| Joe Pyrah - 344-2586 - jpyrah@heraldextra.com owing a trail forward STORY AND PHOTOS BY ROBB COSTELLO Whether family, friends or strangers, one thing binds us together: Utah Valley is home. Hereis the story of someofus, the Utah Valley Rowing Club. Members ofthe Utah Valley Rowing Club practice on the Great Salt Lakein an eight-person boat. Only three people in the club haveprior experience but through little teaching, people are catching onquick. “For me,it’s just a really beautiful sport,it’s a very fluid and relaxing activity to do.It’s really addicting,” says Cree Jones, president and founderof the club whois seated in the second seat from thefront. “Lfound a rowingclub in Salt Lake but there really wasn't anythinggoing on at BYU and | wanted to)create that opportunity for other-students to have.” Cree Jones,president and founderof the club nspired by a short training course in California, Cree Jones came back determined to pass on lovefor the sport of rowingto others in Utah Valley. “I found a rowingclub in Salt Lake but there really wasn’t anything going on at BYU and I wanted to create that opportunity for other students to have,”Jones said. Started last fall, the Utah Valley An oar dripsin the early morning after a Utah Valley Rowing club practice on the Great Salt Lakeon Saturday. Membersofthe club meet at 5.a.m. in Provo . get out to the lake in time to have access to equipment. Rowing Club was supposed to be named the BYU Rowing Club. “We are working ongettingaffiliation with the university,” Jones explains, “but because weare an athletic club wecan't get sponsorship from BYUSA. The small, determined groupof students are working on other ways to gain affiliation with the university in hopes that through that the numbers will grow and eventually the club will become something more than training course. Interest hasn't been a problem,it’s the experience that has been hard to comeby. “Just three of us have hadprior experience, and therest are all newcomers,” Jones said. But the newcomers are hooked as well. “Whatyou wantto do is make sure that your oar goes in the waterthé sametime as mine,” said Claire Koltko on Saturdayto five membersof the Utah Valley Rowing club who were on the waterfor their first or second time. It was Michael Lyman’sfirst time. “I was really in it for the sunrise, but See ROWING, A8& CedarHills doublesirrigation capacity ; i new watering guidelines this summer. CedarHills has doubled the capacity The upgrades should erase that probafter Sept. 1. Residents would no longer Jem,but city officials still fear they will not be able to plant or sod new lawns or use be able to store enough waterin the sys“frequentirrigation for establishment tem to keep up with demand, Bunkersaid. © purposes” during July and August. “As a city, as a whole, we are overwa“It’s just too hot and dry then,” Buntering. We could install pipes and pumps kersaid. until people could grow rice patties in The council tentatively decided tosplit ofits pressurized irrigation system by their yard.... But weall need to look at Neely Thougha water shortage appearsto be over, CedarHills residents may see strict adding two new wells that will be operational by summer, said city engineer David Bunker. Last year, the city’s upperirrigation system did not have enough pumping capacity, and on manydaysin late July and August, residents turned on their irrigation to find there was no water. During those hottest months, when heat - forced residents to increase outdoor watering, the system simply couldnot refill itself fast enough to keep up with the demand, according tocity officials. our watering habits,” Councilman Eric Richardson said. To prevent overwatering, City Council members pré new summer watering rules at a recent meeting. Council mem- bers are scheduled to vote on the proposal, and fees for those who ignorethe restrictions,at their meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Bunkertold council members he wants to go into the summerwith some rules in place. Under the proposed policy, residents must have new lawns in and established by June 30, or wait until the city east to west along Canyon Road, proposing to allow oneside to water on even days and the other on the odd days, from 7 p.m. to 9 a.m. Councilwoman Charelle Bowman urged the city to makeSaturday an unrestricted day. “That'ss when the most people are out planti Instead of leaving Saturday unrestrict- ed, council members proposed to make an exception for “attended hand watering,” allowing residents to “stand out there holding a hose” to water plants on any day, aspne council memberput it. MATT SMITH/Daily Herald Cedar Hills resident Judy Arnold positions a soaker hose around one of her grow boxesin her garden Friday afternoon. 2 WWWLHERALDEXTRA.COM(CALL3755109ToSUBSCRIBE: |