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Show - DAILY HERALD Saturday, September 11, 2004 --- D3 Heritage Festival celebrates history of Pleasant Grove - itage that I think the new citizens need to find out," she Tammy McPherson DAILY HERALD : Focusing on 154 years of history, Pleasant Grove will be kicking off it's annual Heritage Festival today. The festivities will begin with a breakfast sponsored by the Lion's Club at 7 a.m. It will be followed by a tribute to 911 with a flag ceremony at 9 am in the Downtown Park, at about 200 S. Main Street. Throughout the afternoon a number of activities will be in the park, including a food fair, hot air balloon and carriage rides, and a talent show. They will start at 10 am. and end around 4 p.m. Strawberry Days, a city celebration held earlier this summer, included rodeos and parades. But the Heritage Festival focuses more on the history of the area, said festival chairwoman and City Council member Cindy Boyd. "We just have a rich her '"' :';rT... Imaee courtesy of Larrv Nielson This depiction of two Jima, by artist Larry Nielson, was presented to President George W. Bush. s Artist y a niche of its own, adorning the walls of famous figures across the nation. The painter grew up in Ephraim, as one might Continued from Dl evening I remembered the painting. I was stunned I had done it. If you know of an Iwo Jima survivor, please contact Larry Nielson about including them on this project. I Keith Renstrom: guess from the major nature themes of his artwork, until he served an IDS mission in "I'm now more of a flag waver than I ever have been before," he said. Only recently has the traveling artist focused on patriotic 801-224-53- I Larry Samoa. images. A lifetime artist, the Ephraim After returning home, he graduated from Brigham Young University with degrees in art and music and headed off where to teach at he helped bring about the Polynesian Cultural Center. His early career involved back-usinging stints with Danny Kaye, Carol Burnett, Sonny & Cher and the Osmonds. On the side he worked on artistic pieces, selling works here and there. In his later years he slowed down his traveling performer lifestyle and began to focus more on his painting. And now, bouncing back and forth from homes in Ephraim and North Hollywood, he's actively involved in the ongoing Iwo Jima project, searching for 351 North Ephraim, ished it off. He's since completed hun- dreds of wooden masterpieces, from Maori tribesmen to renderings of Christ, many of which are being displayed at Payson's Peteetneet Academy throughout the month of September. "I've never looked back," he said. "It started overnight. I did one and I never stopped." His unique work has created . Street 84627 . Main UT www.wlndandwlngs.com Nielson will be at the Peteetneet Academy at 92 N. 600 E. in Payson Sunday, Sept 12 for a special "Meet the Artist" event. BYU-Hawa- native began creating weathered-wood paintings only four years ago when a piece of wood caught his eye. He wandered over to the board, saw what he believed was a face, and fin- Nielson: 801-367-68- p Activities that focus on the history include log sawing, . candle and brick making and tours of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum. The city will also offer bus tours for sightseeing the historic parts of towa Along with this will be the emphasis on restoration to the downtown area. "We feel this is our chance to speak to the community, to tell them what the business owners are trying to do to keep this going," said Melahie Miller, owner of Melanie's International Gourmet. The downtown business owners have formed a Historic Pleasant Grove Business Association and will be promoting the organization, giving away prizes and asking for donations, she said. There will also be information about the Memorial Gar available through the network can be used in the classroom. 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"He stopped running, and so I ran up to him at that point and grabbed him by the arm and said Tou picked the wrong checker to mess with,' " she said. "Two police officers pulled up and took over from there." When Steele returned to the story, "everyone started cheering for me," she said. Managers for the store declined to comment for this story, It was not immediately clear whether or not the man had been charged have access to free materiaL" now in more than 80 million homes, came to cable in 1979 after founder Brian Lamb talked cable companies into "gavel to gavel" coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives. Now 5 or 6 cents from each cable bill goes to fund "He stopped running, and so I ran up to him at that point and grabbed him by the arm and said 'You picked the wrong checker to mess with.' " Kim Steele Allen's checker who caught shoplifter with shoplifting. The incident marks the third shoplifter Steele has helped catch in the past year. After Thursday's incident, Allen's managers gave Steele a new employee badge. "Security" had been added to her title. Steele said she has been applying for jobs with police departments around Utah since she graduated from the police academy last year. Many times police departments receive up to 60 applications for one available position, she said. "I always wanted to be a police officer, but I had low and thought I couldn't do self-estee- I Todd Hollingshead can be 4 or reached at Judith Kohler 344-252- thoUingshecuiheraldextra.com THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I David Randall can be reached at davidrandall heraldextra.com , it," she said. "And then a few years ago I just thought 'I can do it and I'm going to do it' and I applied for the police academy." Completing the physical requirements to graduate proved her most difficult challenge, she said. "I'm overweight and I struggled with running and people said I couldn't do it," she said. "It made me more determined to prove everyone wrong. Instead of getting depressed I went out and ran every day." Twenty times before graduation she failed to finish a required run in mandatory time, but when she finally passed the run on the last try, she thanked those who had doubted her, she . -- 13,000-plus-fo- miles. The area is home to seven six insects and a species . mouse not found anywhere else in the world. The wildlife includes deer, elk, foxes, coyotes, mountain lions and bighorn sheep. Under the ground is the water that anchors the dunes and sustains the agricultural economy of the valley, which receives less than 10 inches of precipitation a year. The water helped shape the dunes, cradled in a crescent at . said. "When you go into the academy there are some people who are so arrogant," she said. "I walked up to them and said Thank you. Your rude, hurtful comments motivated me to prove you wrong. Thank you for those things you said, because now I'm going to graduate, and IVe always wanted to be a police officer.'" I appealed trail closures that manwere part of a agement plan for the forest. Mortensen said alliance members would protest the trails closure again if the Forest Service attempts to close them after revising their f or-emanagement plaa "We have real problems with what they have done," he said "They declared the area as wten it has been used as motorized for many years and $100,000 of state vehicle money had been put into that tral We were quite indignant when we spent all that time and money making into a model trail and then they penalize us." I Caleb Wamock can be 3 or reached at cwamockheraldextra.com. 344-254- . six-mon-th r BUSINESS BURGLARY Sometime Wednesday night, s, Residential Rates 15 01TAE .756-299- 0 r IMsOrQctebitralAmCentcr ' Ia8ikutah.com day during school hours from the Timpanogos High School parking lot at 1450 N. 200 East in Orem. The owner has the only key to the vehicle, according to police. -- ffi) WASTE SERVICES 8 Cub. Yd 1M0 Cub. 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Other money has come from Great Outdoors Colorado, which uses state lottery money for parks and open space, the State Land Board and foundations. The conservancy and the federal government will own and run the ranch together until the title is transferred to the government. Bedford said he expects lingering legal disputes among the sellers over their shares of the money to be settled soon. The Nature Conservancy got involved with the sand dunes and ranch, about 160 miles south of Denver, because of the area's unique ecosystem and the community's push to preserve it for its recreation and environmental values. "Our scientists have been fascinated with the place," Bedford said. Editor online Home! A Loan 5 or 9 785-593- 5 FOR HIGH DEFINITION LASIX -- 344-255- Let ten to the -- 1 a thief entered Alpine Motors car dealership at 380 S. Orem Blvd. in Orem through a door that hadnt been locked before closing and stole keys to some vehicles, four walkie-talkieand a laptop computer. 4Cub.Vd. e r McPherson can be at tmcphersonheraldextra.con i i 344-255- reached e, : I. I Tammy Crime Beat Continued from Dl Lindon I ' Trails st I the foot of the mountains as a result of snow-fe- d creeks flowing across the sand. The dunes' foundation was laid about 25 million years ago through erosion of the San Juan Mountains. The sand dunes Were declared a national monument in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover. The area will expand to about 107,000 acres from 43,000 acres, with part managed by the National Park Service and part by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Monday's ceremony will cap the congressional career of Mclnnis, who is retiring after seven terms in the House. He was first approached 13 years ago by area residents who wanted to see the monument made a national park. "Every generation from now on will look back and say, 'We don't know who did it, but they got it right."' While the idea for the park was around for a while, the legislation authorizing it moved through Congress in just one session, Mclnnis said. Hobey Dixon of Alamosa, president of the citizens' group Friends of the Dunes, said a' crowded public meeting at the monument in 1999 broke for about a half hour while Allard, Mclnnis, Campbell, Attorney General Ken Salazar, a San Luis Valley native, and former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt walked out on the dunes and huddled. "They threw their artns around each out there, and came back to the visitor center . newest national park Monday when Interior Secretary Gale Norton officially reclassifies the Great Sand Dunes National Monument. Norton will join Rep. Scott Mclnnis and Sea Ben Nighthorse Campbell in a ceremony at the dunes to designate the southern Colorado site a national park. Mclnnis, Campbell and fellow Republican Sen. Wayne Allard sponsored legislation and lobbied to have the 750-fodunes, North America's tallest, the surrounding mountains and the sagebrush-dotte- d high desert turned into a national park. The dunes hug the bottom of the snowy Sangre de Cristo Mountains that tower over the San Luis Valley. The landscape changes from 800-foo- t high grasslands, to the dunes, to mountains and all within four alpine lakes according to McGuire.' The first bus hit the road in 1993 and the second in 1996. Since then, between the two, they have been to all 50 states and 2000 communities. McGuire said if the buses are maintained properly they could travel 5 million miles each. decide how much 6f that area so that those who grow up in wiU be housing and what exactthe city can affordto stay there. ly they want to gq in there, Continued from Dl ccvncumember JeraW Hatch "Many people my age find i said. council will also determine if the their children would like to buy in Lindon,'' she said. Hatch said he's1 not sure he zone should be used solely for Much of the residential area rental housing, for ownership,, agrees with changing the ordithat could allow for this type of nance, but agrees with the or both, he said. moratorium because it Many projects through the . housing has already been built '' out. gives the city leaders time to zoning ordinance create apartBut city leaders are focusing look at it. ments and other types of rental : Other changes that may be ; particularly on the area west of housing. Geneva Road near lthe interconsidered are the number of But some city leaders feel state. homes allowed per acre, the there is enough rental housing Since Lindon and Pleasant minimum acreage required for in the city and want to provide Grove started the process to , each project and neighborhood affordable housing for" first-timt build the interchange between ; notification, said City Adminihome buyers. ' Councilmember Lindsey Bay-- . the two cities, Lindon city lead- - f strator Ott Dameroa ers have been working on a ' less said the real estate market master plan for the west area of I Tamml McPharwn can be has driven up the price of i : reached at 9 the city. or homes in Lindon but that she The city leaders still need to wants to help provide housing tmcphersonheraldextra.com. rt Colorado Sand Dunes to become national park any battle survivors who would like to be a part of his increasingly popular painting "My sense of patriotism is just on fire," Nielson said "That's my passion right now." DENVER Colorado will become home to the country's C-SP- AN -- ' said. den, planned to be built on a -half acre plpce of ground in the cemetery that the city donated to the volunteer committee. The group had planned to have the memorial finished by this year's Independence Day celebrations, but the project is now slated to be completed by the first of Jury next year, committee member Carol Harmer said. At this weekend's festival, committee members will be showing plans for the five-pamemorial, which will honor the" early settlers, police officers, firefighters and paramedics, and members of the armed forces. The group will also be asking for donations to pay for the memorial. The committee is selecting a sculptor for the bronze statues. r |