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Show 2a$iHcrolfi e d I T I 0 N YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2 I MM ASSOC! SPORTS: Visit by Iran invokes Olympic spirit TOWN HALL: A.F. delays haunted noose Decision SCHOOL'S OUT: Food for the birds HiJ LAKE ClTvur Business ALPINE CENTER OFFERS PHYSICAL THERAPY ity irecoBisiders a tax asicirease CalebWarnock DAILY HERALD The American Fork City Council Coun-cil has pared down its wish list for city improvements, but still plans on presenting an estimated 14 percent property tax increase and asking residents to approve four additional property tax increases for bond issues in the fall. The city will hold hearings on the property tax increase in upcoming weeks City Council members worked through three hours of financial angst on Thursday to shorten the list of what the city needs to what Council members hope residents will be willing to approve. If Council members approve a proposed $38 property tax increase and residents approve all four proposed bonds this fall, the total spike in property taxes over last year on a $220,000 home would be about $90. A public hearing hear-ing could be held as early as Aug. 5. The city plans to mail details of the proposals to residents in the coming weeks. Despite cutting millions of dollars dol-lars from the list of city needs, Council members expressed concerns con-cerns about how residents would meet any tax increases, let alone the five proposed. "Of the citizens who have talked talk-ed to me, I don't thfnk they can tolerate any tax increase," said Councilman Rick Storrs. "At least 100 have talked to me and they were all dead-set against it." "We ought to communicate to the public and say, 'These are things we need as a city, you tell us how much you want to raise taxes on what you want, if anything,' any-thing,' " said Councilman Dale Gunther. "This is a hard year and people are strapped," said Councilwoman Heidi Rodeback. "I can tell you in my own family I have had to be creative to get by with these gas prices. ... I'm talking about hunkering down because of hard times." At one point in the meeting, Councilwoman Sherry Kramer said one of the smaller proposed tax increases would be the equivalent equiva-lent of her family cutting two trips to Del Taco to eat. "I don't have two trips to cut out," Rodeback replied. Mayor Heber Thompson reminded re-minded the Council that any tax increases would be on top of the new pressurized irrigation fees. The first proposed tax would be See TAXES, Page 2 HISTORIC INFRASTRUCTURE ,i i..t . Ate: i - .W--,,.v-'N ...i fix1 fL ' ,i' .-o-, . sj' - wcrA:v- f.-gt, .... I st. C II & - 5 -I'M .-V - - , : wvt!, CRAIG DILGERDaily Herald A team of workers dig the trenches for the American Fork pressurized irrigation system on July 22. The project recently uncovered a wooden waterline likely dating dqcr to me iare iows una eAci iuiu rfiure oirrmui piu.g ... .v. Historic pipes discovered by accident in dig Barbara Christiansen NORTH COUNTY STAFF A bit of American Fork history surfaced literally recently. Contractors were digging to place a 42-inch 42-inch pipe in 200 East for the main distribution distribu-tion line for the city's pressurized irrigation system when they found pieces of an old " wooden pipe under the road. They are more: than 100 years old, and are estimated to have been installed in the late 1800s. Contractors Con-tractors actually uncovered two different sizes of pipe, with about 12 to 15 feet in length between them. On 700 North, between 200 and 300 East, if they found a portion of six-inch wooden 1 pipe. The other section was on 200 East, near 800 North. That was a 12-inch pipe. Both were made from wood, which appeared ap-peared to be redwood, said John Wof finden, who works for Horrocks Engineers and has been working to protect the pipe for the future. "We were told it was redwood, but it is hard to tell," he said. "It is coated in tar. The pipcis made of individual boards about one ,. three,uarters of an inch thick. They were craiq oiLGERDaiiy Herald dovetailed together so they would fit tightly. A length of old wooden waterline pipe was found ' in American Fork while digging the cities the See PIPES, Page 2 new pressurized irrigations system. Looking for a Children's Book? Vicky Turner can help Trixie Walker NORTH COUNTY STAFF Vicky Turner, the American Fork children's librarian, has been working in a library since high school, more than 40 years ago. "My bus arrived at school early, ear-ly, so I'd always go to the library and read," she said. "One day the librarian said, 'Why don't you come in and help me at noon every ev-ery day?'" Turner worked every day before and after school, as well as during lunchtime. When she graduated from high school, she was hired by the Orem City Library. "At that time, it was a remodeled remod-eled house right across from the SCERA, and the basement was the children's area," she said. She began work as a page, shelving books. She also assisted with library-sponsored dinner theatres by making puppets for the plays. When the children's librarian quit, Turner was offered the position since she "was already doing it anyways." She accepted the position, although al-though she would have preferred to be an adult reference librarian. "I was a stay-at-home person and was tired of talking chil-drenese," chil-drenese," she said. "The day the lady told me she was going to make me a children's librarian, I about bawled, but it's worked out for the best." She later quit the job to attend Snow College, where she received a two-year degree in science; she also received an associate de-See de-See BOOKS, Page 2 "I! T 4r 4 n . la J TRIXIE WALKERNorth County Vicky Turner, American Fork children's librarian, stands next to papier-mache figures that she created for the library. Community Briefing " ' 1 1 '- 111 u '1 ,- -vSi - ' ' I -4 11111 ' t i 'jf " ' , gwi'i- .mm 'I , ( JJL Courtesy Sam Payne will perform at Concerts in the Park July 28 in American Fork. CONCERT IN THE PARK - Sam Payne and Lyndsi Bromley will perform at Concerts in the Park Monday at 7 p.m. in the Amphitheater at Quail Cove, 851 E. 700 North, American Fork. The concert is free and open to the public. Those who attend may bring blankets or chairs. As a songwriter and performer, Payne, the son of troubadour and actor Marvin Payne, has played stages from the jazz clubs of Tokyo to the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Payne has written and performed with a number of projects, including the locally acclaimed "The Utah Jazz Quintet," but it is perhaps with his original music that audiences most identify. Payne's contemporary folk tunes spinning out gripping yarns of pirates, hobbits, spacemen and more, in voicings that range from high folk to big funk have established Payne and his band. The Sam Payne Project, as a perennial peren-nial favorite of audiences around the west. More information infor-mation is available online at www.sampayne.com. The press has said of Payne's music: "Payne is one of those few musicians who can successfully combine both songwriting and stage performing. He can write poignant and meaningful lyrics, combine them with a ' melodic hook, and perform them in a voice that makes you want to close your eyes and drift away." Bromley has played piano for 13 years, the violin for seven years and has been singing for family and friends her whole life. She took first place in her age category at the "American Fork's got Talent" show two years ago. She will perform first in Monday's concert. NEW DMV OFFICE IN DRAPER CLOSER FOR SOME IN NORTH UTAH COUNTY - The Utah Division Divi-sion of Motor Vehicle office serving South Salt Lake County vehicle owners will begin operations at a new Draper location Aug. 18. The current South Jordan office at 10433 S. Redwood Road will close on Aug. 14. The new South Valley office at 14555 S. Minuteman Drive, Draper, will open for business busi-ness on Aug. 18. In an effort to centralize state agencies, the new facility fa-cility will house the Division of Motor Vehicle and the Driver License Division in the South Valley office. The offices will offer extended hours and be opened Monday Mon-day through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. The new location features a drive-through for vehicle renewals. The DMV "On the Spot" program authorizes participating partici-pating state safety and emission inspection stations to renew vehicles and issue decals with an updated registration. regis-tration. NORTHERN UTAH COUNTY EAST-WEST TRANSPORTATION TRANS-PORTATION STUDY OPEN HOUSES - Mountain-land Mountain-land Association of Governments (MAG), the Utah Department of Transportation, Utah County, and the cities of Alpine, Lehi, Saratoga Springs, Eagle Mountain, American Fork, Highland, Cedar Hills, Pleasant Grove, Fairfield, Cedar Fort, Lindon, Vineyard, and Orem are conducting a study to identify east-west transportation solutions in the northern portion of Utah County. Two open houses will provide an opportunity for the public to see the outcome of the public outreach that has been conducted to date as well as comment on the proposed projects. The two open houses will be as follows:. fol-lows:. July 31: 4:30-6:30 p.m., Harvest Elementary, 2105 Providence Drive, Saratoga Springs. 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