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Show Utah Valley’s Newspaper DoiluxXHeral Saturday JUNE27, 2009 LOCAL NEWS FOR 135 YEARS 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN* YOUR NEIGHBORS : YOUR NEWSPAPER — ONLINE: heraldextra.com Perfect Key for Sundance concert Reducedprices boostticket sales for patriotic Utah Symphony performance Heidi Toth DAILY HERALD Expect little Beethoven,“Star Wars”andFrancis Scott Key at the Utah Symphony's Patriotic Celebra- tion at Sundancethis year. Thelong-running performance has allied for the first time with America's Freedom Festival, lowered ticket prices andis reaching out to everyone, said Jana Allred, public relations manager for the Utah Symphony. Ticket sales are up 500 percent from last year and upsignificantly from earlier years as well. “This year the word has gotten out, and more and morepeople are deciding to come up,” she said. The show, whichis onJul Apollo 1] lunar landing Sundanceall year andwill feature patriotic pieces, including an armed thought this would be a good union, as well as a good networking oppor forces tunityto tie Sundanceinto the annual festival. alute and the national anthem march,as well asselections from Gustav Holst's “The Planets”to commemoratethe 40th anniversary of the MOURNING 'THE KING OF POP Freedom Festival executivedirector Paul Warney said the board See CONCERT, A8& YouTube ACCESS restored at BYU Joe Pyrah After much consideration by the administration, BYU stu dents now have access to Dra: matic Chipmunk, Laughing Baby Chocolate Rain and all the rest of YouTube. YouTubehas long beeri blocked on campus because administra: tors felt it contained too much questionable content, With the change, however, BYU will tacitly accept the distribution, onits own network, of all the YouTube con- tent it oncefelt was inappropriate It's now up to students to be their ownfilters. “Theusers need REED SAXON /AssociatedPress Hundreds wait in a block-long line to view asidewalk shrine at the star of Michael Jackson on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Friday Details of star’s death still unclear John Rogers LOS ANGELES Thefinal act of Michael Jackson's life cameinto clearer focus Friday a pictureofa fallen superstar working out with TV's “Incred ible Hulk” and under the care of his ownprivate cardiologist as hetriedto get his 50-year-old son's home becauseit may bodyin shapefor a grueling bid include medication or other to reclaim his glory evidence, and a source familiar Whilethe exact circumstances withthe situation told The Asof his death remainedunclear sociated Press that a heart attatk early clues suggested he may simply have pushed his heart too far Police said they had towed appearedto have caused the cardiac arrest that led to the pop icon's sudden death. the doctor's BMW fromJack: More inside D World mourns with tributes, moonwalks, AZ jackson may be worth more dead, A2 B Demand for memorabilia skyrockets, AB Online D Audio from the 911 call, heraldextra.com See JACKSON, A5 to be wise andresponsible users of technology,” said BYU spokes womanCarri Jenkins. Thepolicy was reconsidered in part becauseof professors who want access to YouTubeinclass. rooms Theoverwhelming factor was the educational information and materials that are increasingly becoming available,” Jenkins said. I think there's no other way but to provideall of it YouTube was made available Friday morning at the same time theschool launched its own Web site besafe.byu.edu which is intendedto educatestudents andothers about onlineperils and pitfalls, suchas spam, phishing See BYU, A8& PELOSI'S PROMISE th of July break Matheson gets $1.6M for AF. canyon center Page A6 Caleb Warnock Funding for visitor's center at the mouth of American Fork Canyon has takena stride towardreality. Rep. Jim Matheson’soffice announced on Friday that at Matheson’s request, $1.6 million INSIDE BRIEFING EDITORIALS Aa ar opmuames a2 poest 83-84 toward the project had been added to a funding bill, which has now passed the House. The méney is not final. The Senate must pass its own version of the bill, and then the money ~Sunny, delightful rene a LOW 52 gTV.USTINGS J CELEBRATIONS 87 WEATHER a VOLUME 86 ISSUE 331 AN must be included in negotiations between the two. The final outcomeis unlikely to be known before September, said Alyson Heyrendof Matheson's office. It was unclear why the amount was $1.6 mil lion. Highland is paying $5,000 a month to a lob- byist. hoping to pry $8 million from Uncle Sam's pockets to complete the building. Heyrend said the $1.6 million is a direct result of the work of Highland to push the building to reality. Highland Mayor Jay Franson could not immediately be reached for comment. A statement on Matheson's Web site said See MATHESON, A8 A Journey of Hope LANCE BOOTH /‘Daey Heraic RayFeuga, of NewRochell, N.Y., works onhis bike in Payson, on Friday. Feuga is taking part in Push America’s Journeyof Hope north route, which is an event where members of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternitycycle across America toraise moneyfor people with disabilities. “I've always wanted to go across the country, anddoing it as a service industryis a greatidea,” Feuga said “Mybrother is bipolar and I wanted to be an advocatefor people with disabilities " Feuga’s group will continue tomorrowfrom Payson and head toward Salt Lake City |