Provo

Provo or Provos may refer to:

Locations

  • Provo, Utah
  • Provo Station, Amtrak inter-city rail station
  • Provo Station, Utah Transit Authority intermodal transit center
  • Provo, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
  • Provo, South Dakota, an unincorporated community
  • Provo Township, Fall River County, South Dakota
  • Provo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Provo, Serbia
  • Providenciales, an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands
  • People

  • Saint Provos, another name for Saint Probus of Side, a martyr of the Diocletian persecution
  • Sir Provo Wallis, a British admiral of the fleet
  • Fred Provo, America football player
  • Dwayne Provo, Canadian football player
  • Niels Provos, computer security expert
  • Other uses

  • Provo (movement), a Dutch counterculture movement in the mid-1960s
  • Provos, informal term for the Provisional Irish Republican Army
  • USNS Provo (T-AG-173), a U.S. Navy ship
  • PROV-O, an OWL2 ontology allowing the mapping of the PROV data model to RDF
  • Provo (movement)

    Provo was a Dutch counterculture movement in the mid-1960s that focused on provoking violent responses from authorities using non-violent bait. It was preceded by the nozem movement and followed by the hippie movement. Provo was founded, on 25 May 1965, by Robert Jasper Grootveld, an anti-smoking activist, and the anarchists Roel van Duijn and Rob Stolk. The term was used for the movement as a whole and for individual members. Provo was officially disbanded on 13 May 1967.

    Beginnings

    The Provos are thought to have evolved out of the artist Robert Jasper Grootveld's anti-smoking happenings in June 1964. The following year other groups appeared as a fusion of small groups of youths around the pacifist ban-the-bomb movement. Roel van Duijn is thought to have been the group's theorist, influenced by anarchism, Dadaism, Herbert Marcuse and the Marquis de Sade.

    The Provos borrowed their name from Wouter Buikhuisen, who in doctoral dissertation in 1965, talked about “young trouble-makers” as "provos", a word derived from the Dutch word provoceren meaning to provoke.

    Provo (Amtrak station)

    The Provo Amtrak Station is a train station in Provo, Utah, United States that is served daily by Amtrak's (the national railroad passenger system) California Zephyr, which runs once daily between Chicago, Illinois and Emeryville, California (in the San Francisco Bay Area). (The next westbound stop is in Salt Lake City and the next eastbound stop is in Helper, Utah.)

    Description

    The station is located on the north side of the tracks and south of 600 South at 300 West. It is easily accessible from 200 West and has six paved parking spaces. There are no services provided at the station (i.e., ticketing, restrooms, lounge, etc.). The station is within walking distance of downtown Provo. The station is located within a Quiet Zone, so all trains (including Utah Transit Authority's FrontRunner and Union Pacific's) do not routinely sound their horns when approaching public crossings within this corridor.

    Even though UTA's FrontRunner commuter rail line uses the same right-of-way through downtown Provo that is used by the California Zephyr, UTA built its own station. That station is located one block east on the south side of the tracks. However, there is easy pedestrian access between the two stations and the UTA connecting intra-county and local bus routes. The FrontRunner provides commuter rail service north to Salt Lake City and Ogden, and stops in between.

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    Provo Daily Herald 23 Apr 2025
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    Provo Daily Herald 23 Apr 2025
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    Provo Daily Herald 23 Apr 2025
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    Provo Daily Herald 23 Apr 2025
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    Provo residents celebrate Earth Day by cleaning up downtown

    Provo Daily Herald 22 Apr 2025
    There is an “overabundance” of illegal stickers, posters and graffiti scattered around downtown Provo, said Quinn Peterson, the executive director of Downtown Provo Inc ... Tuesday marked the second consecutive Earth Day that Downtown Provo Inc ... .
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    Guest opinion: Provo should change its water rates instead of taking an unfair payday loan

    Provo Daily Herald 22 Apr 2025
    Curtis Booker, Daily HeraldThe outside of City Hall in Provo is pictured Wednesday, Feb ... In recent months, the Provo City Council has been considering significantly altering its city’s water rates.
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    Opponents of Trump administration policies demonstrate in downtown Provo

    Provo Daily Herald 22 Apr 2025
    Demonstrators are seen in front of Provo City Hall on Saturday, April 19, 2025, as part of a national day of protests against President Donald Trump's administration ... The Provo efforts were spearheaded ...
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    Local Catholic, Latter-day Saints leaders remember Pope Francis

    Provo Daily Herald 22 Apr 2025
    Courtesy Intellectual ReserveThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Russell M. Nelson meets Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2019 ... For Father Omar Ontiveros, a pastor at St ... The Rev. Oscar A ... “He was most gracious and warm and welcoming.
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    Utah Gov. Cox signs executive order for wildfire preparedness

    Provo Daily Herald 22 Apr 2025
    Jeffrey D. Allred, The Deseret News via APA wildfire on Traverse Mountain threatens homes on June 28, 2020, in Lehi. Looking ahead to Utah’s hot and dry summer months, Utah Gov ... This is about making sure we’re ready before the next fire season begins.”.
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    Provo Daily Herald 21 Apr 2025
    Courtesy photo. Courtesy photo. Courtesy photo. Courtesy photo. Bill Johnson headed to his doctor’s office after experiencing searing pain shooting through his back while shoveling snow ... It didn’t help ... Johnson said he was shell shocked ... Dr ... “My No.
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    Child Abuse Prevention Month: Utah County Children’s Justice Center says everyone plays a role in keeping kids safe

    Provo Daily Herald 21 Apr 2025
    Blue pinwheels sit and spin in the wind outside of the Utah County Children’s Justice Center locations in American Fork and Provo throughout the month of April ... joining their longtime Provo center.
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    Utah Fits All voucher program is ‘unconstitutional,’ district court rules

    Provo Daily Herald 20 Apr 2025
    Trent Nelson, The Salt Lake TribuneThird District Judge Laura Scott during a hearing on the Utah Education Association's lawsuit against the Utah Fits All Scholarship (voucher) program in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024 ... Amendment G.
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