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Show QUR TOWNS Bp DailySHerald FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2006 METRO EDITOR | Joe Pyrah - 344-2586 - jpyrah@heraldextra.com UVSC plants grads on right course Kjds lie ae na ChangpYen ERALD survival “I would say thatI've alwaysbeenin- When Wendy Yates began herstudies at UVSC five years ago, her sights were set on becoming a teacher. Then she discovered her green thumb. During first-year biology course, she got interested in botany. Today she will graduate from Utah Valley State College with a bachelor’s degree in biology, and plans to work for her own company, Botanical Research Contractors. For five years, Yates has helped Renee Van Buren, who taught her Biology 1010 class, document endangered plants in St. George for the Bureau of Land Management, the School and Institutional Trust about attacks terested in conservation,“ Yates said. “The exciting thing is, is in biology you see that everything is connected to everything else. We're trying our best to protect the endangered plants that are endemic to St. George.” Before entering UVSC, Yates spent a year and a half in Russia and China teaching English to children. Eventually, she would like to go backto schoolto earn a master’s degree in botany. But after graduation, she'll head to St. George to continue herfield work, and then spend six weeksstudying endangered plants in Vernal for Red Butte Gardens. Van Burensaid Yates proved she has Lands Administration and the U.S. Fish ard whatit takes for hands-on work.“Often after one year in the field, people realize Provopolice fori ° P f ce that they reallylike this stuff or they really Wildlife Service. Now Van Burenis helping don't — the bugs, the heat, whateverelse. Yates and her business partner, Allyson But she seemed to really enjoyit. Probably, Bench,securetheir first contracts to moni- discovers truth about i, MARIO RUIZ/Daily Herald! Wendy Yates stands in a greenhouse she worked at during her tor plants andestimatetheir likelihood of See UVSC, D3 undergraduate years at UVSC. Yates graduates from UVSCtoday. i kidnapPping attemp ts . Natalie Andrews DAILY HERALD Four reports of attempted kidnappings in Provolast week scared mothers and sent police searching for a car. This week,police found the suspected Cadillac, the driver andthe truth. Police said Thursday that two of the children had fabricated their stories. The fake kidnapping claims werefrom the Dixon Middle School neighborhood, one from a 12-year-old boy, the other from a 14-year-old girl. Police say that the 12-year-old fabricated his report to lend support to his mother's 18-year-old friend, who said she had a similar experience. They believe the 14- year-old fabricated her report to divert parental attention from “other issues and possibledisciplinaryaction.” The Daily Herald interviewed the 12-year-old with his mother presentthe day after the reported attack. “I fought him,” he said then,“I bit him and kicked him.” The boy was able to provide a clear description to police about the vehicle and the kidnapper, saying it was because the man approached him twice. The14-year-oldgirl told police that she was walking alone when she was grabbed bya male. She said she kicked her attacker and See KIDNAP, D3 Eagle Mtn. JEREMY HARMON/Daily Heraid Biil Allison, Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Mangere at UtahValley Regional Medical Center, leads a group ofvisitors on a tour of the hospital's new hyperbaric chamber, Thursday. ate’chamber finds home in Provo Heidi Toth DAILY HERALD Nohair gel — check. No makeup — it could be worse. Nolip balm — dry lips on a warm day. Using a pencil because a pen »might explode — whatam I get- ting into? This is the new hyperbaric chamber,part of Utah Valley Regional Medical Center's Wound » Care Clinic. The purple chamber, which can seat upto eight people, got its introduction to the county Thursday, andseveral people got a personal introduction to what the chamberdoes, knownto Dr. Eugene Worth as dry-diving — increasing the pressureto the equivalentof a numberof feet below sealevel Hyperbaric chambers are used to treat carbon monoxide poisoning, decompressionillness and severeinfections and wounds. The pure oxygen works by dissolving into blood plasma, promoting the formation of new capillaries to wounds, trapping and washingout other gasesin the body, such as nitrogen, and inhibits the growthofbacteria or other organisms that could cause infection. Theuse of hyperbaric oxygen treatment has become much morepopular; managerBill Al- A group that formed recently to fight dirty campaigning in Utah has cracked its first case — a “dirty campaign tactic” from a 1998 GOP primary race — and forits trouble has been accused on engaging in the verygutter politics criticized by its organizers. Truthin Politics has released information abouta last-minuteadin the 1998 contest between Parley Hellewell and Greg Soter for the GOP nomination in state Senate District 15. Hellewell won that race by 104 votes andis seeking re-election this year. Thatad has been traced to Glenn Way, who worked with Hellewell’s campaignin 1998 and 2002, and Richard Moss,who is now running for a ‘Spot on the state Board of Education. pea campaign Caleb Warnock AILY HERALC lison said most insurance companies will pay for treatments and local doctors are already calling to get patients into the chamber. Having nearly reached the end of available water — and thus The most well-knownuseis to treat carbon monoxidepoison- available building permits — Eagle Mountain and regional water of- ing, but patients in Utah Valley ficials have mounted an unusual campaignto allow thecity to grow. will mostlikely be diabetics with ulcers or foot wounds related to Board membersof the Central Utah Water Conservancy District their disease or cancerpatients whoare suffering tissue-destroy- havevoted to petition the state engineerto allow the conservancy district to temporarily transfer enoughwaterfor 4,300 new homes ing radiation effects. Thus, the traditional woundcare and the hyperbaric treatment feed off eachother. “You can't have one without the other,” Allison said. Thetreatmentis time consumSee CHAMBER, D3 to Eagle Mountain despite a cap on ROBB COSTELLO Daily Herald oe work on the area, January 16, where a 000-pound hyperbaric chamberwasinstalled at the titan Valley Regional Medical Center. Political groupfights dirty ey Alan Choate DAILY HERALD launches water Hellewell and Wayare also former business partners. All three insist that the ad was placed without Hellewell's knowledge, and Hellewell said he didn’t know of Way’s and Moss's involvementuntil last weekend. He les someofthe details in TIP’sversion of events, which is posted at www.truthinpolitics.us. Hellewell also said that the only reason tobring up the 1998 case now is to hurt his candidacy. He's being challenged by two other Republicans — state Rep. Margaret Daytonof Orem and Jeremy Friedbaum of Provo — for the spot on November's ballot, and delegates will vote on the nomination Saturday. TIP co-founder and director Daniel -Thompson said that’s not the motivation: “When dishonest politicians and their supporters engagein dirty cam- paigntactics, the entire democratic system suffers,” he said in a written statement. History lesson Soter and Hellewell were seeking to replacea retiring state senator in 1998. Neither garneredenough support for the GOP nominationat the party con-. aay so they faced offin a June 23 said Thursdayof the ad.“I thought I was goingto sink in a puddle on the floor. There are few things you can say about a guy moreopposite than whathe believes than those things.” The ad was labeled as being from Citizens for Utah’s Values in Education, which TIP described as “an anon- ymous organizationwith notraceable origins nor contact information.” Soter ded with an ad denouncing the attack — andblaming Hellewell for it — in the next day’s Daily Herald. PrThe advertisement attacking Soter appeared June 21, 1998, in the nowHesaid, however, that he was never able to track downinformation about defunct Utah County Journal.It attempted to link Soter with the National _ the group that placed the ad, not even Education Association and support for from the Utah County Journal. the votes were counted after such as teen abortion without the primary, Hellewell edged out a vicparental consent, condom distribution in schools and “teaching children to ac- tory, 3,613 votes to Soter’s 3,509. cept homosexuality as normal.” “It just about devastated me,” Soter See CAMPAIGNING, D3 watertransfers into Cedar Valley. Fearing there is not enough underground water in Cedar Val- ley to support booming demand here, the state engineer has said he will no longer allow the city or developers to buy waterrights and transfer them hereuntil a study of exactly how much waterexists in aquifers here can be done, said Royce Van Tassell, spokesman for Eagle Mountain. In 1995,the state decided no new waterrights would be granted in Cedar Valley because the num- berof existing water rights had reached 14,000 acre-feet, the total amountof water believed to be available in the valley, according to a spokeswoman forthe state engineer. An acre-foot of water equals 325,851 gallons, and the average Eagle Mountain home consumes approximately 224,400 gallons of water per:year, according to city officials. In 2004,the state decided toallow the rights to another 1,000 acre-feet of water to be transferred into the valley, after which no more water would be available, said the spokeswoman.In the past twoyears, water rights representing nearly all 1,000 acre-feet have See WATER, D3 «Mpa |