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Show 0 ); V j M Jeanine Cook Nyle Jacobsen - t J. Howard Anderson Three Cedar Fort residents seek office of town mayor Three Cedar Fort residents have announced their candidacy for the office of mayor. Because the number of potential candidates exceeds the number of available positions by more than double, a primary will be held to narrow the slate of candidates to two. The primary election will be held Tuesday, Oct 7. The candidates for Election '97 include Nyle Jacobsen, current Town Councilmember Jeanine Cook, and incumbent Mayor J. Howard Anderson. Nyle Jacobsen Jacobsen, a relative newcomer to Cedar Fort of only three years, has lived most of his life in the Bennion and West Valley City areas of Salt Lake City. After serving an LDS mission in Australia, he married Maela Evans of Bennion; they are the parents of three children. He graduated from Salt Lake Community College and is a licensed general contractor; he is currently working for Pinnacle Management as a maintenance supervisor. Jacobsen is an active member of the Cedar Fort Fire Department, the trained with having AlpineHighland Fire Department, where he became certified as Firefighter I. Jeanine Cook Cook, a native of Lehi, has served as town councilmember for the past two years. She and her husband, Calvin, are proud to raise their five children Cody, Nattilee, Cala, Lesa and Wyatt in Cedar Fort. After completing high school, Cook attended Utah Valley Trade Technical School in Provo, where she studied business and accounting. She is currently employed by the US Department of Agriculture. Cook enjoys being in the outdoors, riding horses, reading, sewing and stained glass. J. Howard Anderson Anderson was born in Spanish Fork. After graduating from Spanish Fork High School, he served an LDS mission in France and Belgium. He graduated from BYU in manufacturing engineering and is employed at Rapistan Demag in Salt Lake City as a proposal manager. Anderson and his wife, the former Charlynn Parker, are the parents of five children. He designed and built the family's home in Cedar Fort, where they have lived for the past 17 years. he plans to keep If working with the council on the fire station project, improving the roads and continued consistency in administering town ordinances. Nominate 0 Continued from front page Cash who resigned about nine months after Smith took office; Smith filled the remaining 15 months of that unexpired term. "It's challenging, but it's rewarding at the same time," said Smith of his experience in politics. Elected officials attend at least two city council meetings per month, and each, including the mayor, is assigned to act as liaison with different departments within the city. In addition, Tripp said that officeholders must make themselves available to hear from the citizens. "Sometimes once we get in office, we forget who elected us," he Taxes Continued from Front page f A. Free Press - Wednesday, September 3, 1997 - Page 3 warned. "We'd like to do away with this partisanship in this city. We'd like people to think of (candidates more as citizens than as one party or another." For more information on running for office or about the nominating conventions, citizens may call Tripp, or Smith, 768-383- 768-317- isn't known when the bills are due. If the valuation is adjusted downward, the taxpayer will receive a refund of the amount judged to have been overpaid, with interest. He also said many of the county's eight taxing entities have needed to increase their rates this year to finance such things as expenses of the county jail, CUP water and school bonds, which will also increase the size of property tax bills. The size of the increases varies by locality, according to which taxing districts individual parcels belong to. Utah County Assessor Claude Richards said the adjustments to assessed values are done every year in lieu of reappraisal by personal inspection of each property in the county, which used to be managed about once every five years. This year, a sales ratio study conducted by the State Tax Commission revealed an across-th- e board undervaluation of homes built before 1961. Values on the oldest homes were the most out of line with true market values, so they had to be adjusted the most, Richards said. Assessed values on homes built 20 years ago will increase about 9 percent, while those on homes 120 years old will increase about 48 predicted percent. Sutherland many residents will be confused by all the changes, resulting in more appeals. The last county-wid- e physical reappraisal of property was done in 1987. After that, a budget-cuttinpolitician reduced funds for creating a appraisers by slowed the that backlog process. A new round of inspections is scheduled to begin next year. Richards said the county has purchased new software that will help track the features and value changes better, removing many of the difficulties associated with accurate valuation changes. g one-thir- Thanks to an alert bank teller, police are investigating the attempted forgery and cashing of a stolen check at a local bank. When the driver of the large, black car saw the bank employee the employee had gone out to write standing behind the car the down the car license plate number male took off. Police contacted the account owner, who had alerted West Valley Police to the theft of 13 checks, his driver's license and his contractor's license; Lehi police informed him that they had the licenses in their possession. The case is still under investigation. A $450 mountain bike was taken from a carport while the owners were on vacation There are no suspects in the case. Four tires and rims were taken from a vehicle while it was at a local business for repairs. With the car left on wood blocks for support, only the lug nuts were left at the scene. Unknown vandals caused about $500 damage to a local church. The perpetrators poured ink on the carpet, bench cushions, draperies and woodwork. A Spanish Fork man, stopped for expired registration, was found to be lacking insurance but did have a $50 warrant for a seat belt violation. The man posted cash bail and was released. Two Lehi men were arrested on their outstanding warrants. One had an $1,150 warrant and was booked into the Utah County Jail; the other posted the $1,070 cash bail and was released. An Alpine man was stopped for driving 103 mph in a 30 mph zone. He was issued a citation for reckless driving and driving on a suspended license. Montessori Academy opens school year under new management The American Montessori Academy in American Fork will school year begin the 1997-9under new management. For the past 10 years the school has been owned and operated by Richard and Lois Bobo of Orem. This year a new parent board has been formed to run the school. This new board allows more interaction and involvement between parents and school. New board members are Manuel Berrondo of Orem, Colin and Rachael Cook of Lindon, Kevin and Alicia Crawford of Pleasant Grove, and Chris and Terry Grevstad of American Fork. The members of the board have been involved with the school for an average of seven years. The board intends to continue the 8 excellent Montessori education the school has provided for children in preschool through middle school. the under Operating Educational Montessori Foundation, the school functions as a nonprofit entity. All profits from the school are put back into the school to create the best educational opportunity for the children. In past years, the school has had a waiting list for most ages of children, but there are still spaces available for some age groups. 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