T 1- ur S4l Vol. 10, No. 35 Wednesday, August 31, 1988 50 cents a single copy Memorial Park to honor Vets The Utah State Veteran's Memorial Park will be located on a highly visible 23 acre parcel of ground on the UtahSalt Lake County border at the point of the mountain. The $1.2 million project will allow Utah to be one ofall but three states which have a veteran's cemetery in which to honor those individuals who have served their country. Plans for the Park were presented to the Lehi City Council recently by Dee College, vice commander of Lehi Post 19 of the American Legion. According to material provided by the Legion, facilities provided at the park will include a chapel, museumadministration building with a freedom shrine, a maintenance facility and a reflecting pool with an flagpole. Statuary of state and national leaders, war memorials, and a wall with the names of donors to the project will also be featured. Future planned additions to the park will include a Columnabar-iufor the internment of cremated remains, an amphitheater for patriotic events, and additional meditationcontemplation areas with sitting areas overlooking the park and surrounding terrain. Prom the very beginning the memorial park project was meant to be something more than just a place of honored burial. It was decided that the project had to communicate the gratitude of citizens, and honor those who through love and freedom and a sense of responsibility, have served, and to further provide a constant reminder that the cost of freedom is 80-fo- ot 60-fo- ot m - high. ' With this in mind, veterans set about creating a place that is much more a shrine than just a cemetery, a place of light and comfort instead of darkness and sorrow. Vets feelings were that by creating a place of this type, they would truly be honoring the memories of those who are lost, and providing a source of comfort for those who remain, in the knowledge that those whom they love will be honored and not be forgotten. To this end, Vets chose a site rich in natural beauty and surrounding vista, and endeavored to create a building that was a monument in itself, that drew just attention to the site, and speaks ofhonor and respect. "We created a space for the living as well as the dead, where people will come to take in the feeling of peace and patriotic inspiration," according to a release by the American Legion. The park will be a place where families will come to visit the museum and have a sense of pride in the family name inscribed in granite, where school children can come and learn of their heritage, and last but perhaps most important, that those who have lost loved ones may come and feel comforted by the light, airy, hope and strength of the facility. Through symbolic use of shape and color, Vets have created a space which will transport participants to another plane of understanding and sharing, one which will ease the pain of loss. Lehi's Post 19 of the American Legion is supporting the Veterans Memorial Park project, and will work toward it's successful complet... ... ion.- o 'f'"--" '( - OI j lSt day OI SCnOOl u' Lehi City Power Department will roll out the welcome mat to bicyclists riding in the Second Annual "Pedal for Power" bike tour of Utah, which will be held Sept. 10-1- 7. As part of a statewide Public Power Week celebration, Lehi City power will join 40 other nonprofit, consumer-owne- d utilities in spon- t i I I i , , - J A depressed youth puts a gun to his head, or a bottle of pills in her mouth and ends life by suicide. No one realizes there was anything wrong until it's too late. This scenario has skyrocketed in recent years, according to Dr. Anthony LaPray, psychologist at American Fork Hospital but parents and others can learn to recognize "cries of help" and can often prevent the finality of suicide. LaPray gives this message as he speaks to groups of parents and youth leaders concerned about adolescent depression and suicide. "There were 16,000 teenagers who committed suicide in the United States in 1987," LaPray said. "In addition, more than 2 million Sim just west of Camp Williams marks location of 23- acre Utah State Veteran's Memorial Park. Salesman found guilty of rape A jury of five men and three women found Carl M. McClellan, 23, guilty of raping an American Fork woman Tuesday afternoon after deliberating for about three hours. Sentencing has been set for Sept. 23 at 10 a.m. before Judge Ray Harding, who presided over trial. the McClellan was part of a group of sales representatives for a cleaning product called Advantage when he raped a woman in her American Fork two-da- y door-to-do- home on 5. July victim testified that McClellan first came to her home in the early afternoon, then returned later that day, entered her home The and assaulted her. Testifying in his own defense Monday, McClellan denied having committed the rape, and said on M .. i - ..3tm I Kindergarten students in Miss Deborah Leavelle Class at Lehi Elementary get learn about class rules as Lehi Schools opened their doors Monday for the 1988- 89 school year. power comes from the two dams. Cyclists will ride a combined distance of nearly 100 miles through Utah public power communities, and will gather Public Power Week proclamations which will be delivered to Governor Norman H. Bangerter at the State Caj?itol on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 3 p.m. e The ride from Glen Canyon averages 64 miles per day, climbing through Zion National Park and over Cove Fort summit at an elevation of 7200 feet. 525-mil- Cyclists from the north will climb more than 2000 feet in the first few hours of their ride from Flaming Gorge into the Ashley National Forest, at 8400 feet. An average of 63 miles will be covered each day on this route. Mayor George Tripp said the Lehi City power Department hopes the bike tour will call attention to the benefits of public power such as nonprofit service, lower rate and local control. "Most of us don't give a second thought to our electric service as long as this lights come on when we flip the switch," Mayor Tripp said. of our "But as consumer-owner- s utility, we should remember that we have a real voice in how our utility operates." He said the tour will give the citizens ofLehi an opportunity to be reminded of the benefits we enjoy and instill a sense of pride by being served by our own, locally controlled utility. Mayor Tripp invites cyclists to participate in the tour. Cyclists may ride a few miles, a couple of days, or go the entire distance. At least one full meal will be hosted by a public power utility on most of the days of the ride. Support vans will accompany riders to transport gear and groceries. Riders may make their own lodging arrangements" or take camping equipment with them on the ride. For registration information, call Lehi City power Department at The $10 registration fee includes a "Pedal for Power" 768-354- Bicyclists will ride into Lehi on 17 at 9:45 a.m. The group will be at Wines Park for one Saturday, Sept. half hour. Teen depression, suicide on rise U Veterans - .. r 1 . Lehi to welcome bicyclists Hi i iL'A Kid'S eye View n tour, supplysoring the week-loning support vans to carry personal and camping gear and hosting activities along the way, including meals and refreshments. The tour will start from two locations, Glen Canyon and Flaming Gorge dams, to symbolize the importance of federal power generated at these two sites. Public power utilities serve 25 percent of Utah's population, and half of that IHaft w : - . f ,. i I g MEL Hf i the second visit to the home he had asked for a glass of water and left. Witnesses at the trial included several American Fork residents who live in the neighborhood where the rape occurred. All testified that McClellan was very friendly and complimentary in his sales approach, and all said they had seen him in the neighborhood on July 5. American Fork police officer Terry Fox, also a witness at the trial, said McClellan had first denied a second visit to the victim's home, and then admitted he had returned. "He told me he had been lying the first time, his words," Fox testified. McClellan denied the conversation had taken place. As the trial opened Tuesday, assistant county attorney Sherry Ragan planned to play a tape of the conversation between McClellan and Lt. Fox. adolescent suicide at- tempts were reported, and many times that number were not reported." He said teenagers often look at District makes offer to help Pageant AlDine School District has come up with a proposal to help out the financially-trouble- d Utah Pageant of the Arts pay its rent to the dis- trict. In a letter sent to the American Fork City Council, the district proposed to apply $250 per month to the Pageant's rent bill. The money is in consideration for storage space provided by the city. The district further asked the city to guarantee any amounts still owing by the Pageant. They asked a formal, written agreement before the arts group uses the high school next year. Mayor Kent Evans said he could not immediately accept the proposal and asked any decision to be deferred to a later date. death differently than adults, and suicide may seem like an attractive solution to the problems without their realizing the finality of the act. "People become more desensi- tized to violence (because of the amount of violence on television). Youngsters see people get killed on television and know they don't really die and don't stop to realize in real life when you're dead, you're really dead." LaPray warned that suicide is often an impulsive act, and if a person attempts it once, he (or she) will probably do so again. "We're seeing people from all from children 8 walks of life of age up through the eldyears erly," he said. When girls attempt suicide, they normally use drugs. With boys, it is a more violent way with guns or use of a car in some way. See Teen suicide on Page 2 Lehi native to celebrate 100th birthday in P.G. Hazel Austin Sundberg will celebrate her 100th birthday Sept. 7. An open house will be held in her honor at the Alpine Valley Care Center, 25 Alpine Drive, Pleasant Grove, Wednesday, Sept. 7, from 2 to 4 p.m. All friends and relatives are vited to attend. d V t ' it - N, ' ' i i I. " in- "i1 Hazel was born in Lehi and married H.M. Sundberg in Idaho in 1914. She spent most of her adult life in Idaho, in Rexburg and Idaho Falls. After her husband's death in 1970, she moved to Utah. She has had an interesting and enjoyable life, traveling a great deal when she was young. A grand tour of Europe was a highlight of her youth. She particularly enjoyed being of the growth and development of the Snake River Valley. She has always loved to read, to do fine sewing and handwork, especially needlepoint. Hazel attributes her long life to accepting things as they came, and not worrying too much. She advises others to live life to its fullest and enjoy every minute of it. part She has three children: Marguerite Orton, St. George; Howard M. Sundberg, Arcadia, Murie, Calif.; and Kathlyn Claremont, Calif. She also has five grandchildren and 11 great Hazel Austin Sundberg 7-- celebrates 100th birthday. 1