Lehi Free Press More LOCAL news than any other source! 841 F WESTERN MICROGRAPHICS 5357 CHETS CT SALT LAKE CITY UT 84180 VV Vol 22 No 50 Wednesday home delivery 9 call For 3 756-766- or see our web site at wwwnewutahcom December 13 2000 674 nuuucty events in proposed Cathy Allred concept reviews asking for approval for a total of 674 high density units including twin homes town homes and stacked flats went before the Lehi and Zoning Planning Commission last week By Two Sroadbsnt’s Christmas drawing is next Wednesday The Christmas Tree for Charity sponsored by Broadbents and the Lehi FireEMS City Department will hold an annual drawing for the Beanie Baby Christmas Tree next Wednesday Dec 20 at 5 p m Mr and Mrs Santa Claus will arrive for the event at 4 pm Donations for the project are still being accepted up until the drawing The proceeds go to local needy families for Christmas and will be distributed by the Lehi FireEMS The selected Department families are often ones the department has met during a tragedy Gifts are delivered to the families anonymously The fireEMS volunteers donate their time and shop for the families after the drawing is held next the day very not Broadbents only donates the tree and gift baskets as pnzes for the cause but clothing and other items needed for the families The Beanie Baby Tree will be given to a donor whose name is drawn from the donors The tree has more than 50 Beanie Babies on it with most of the year 2000 Beanie Babies some of the Zodiac Beanie Babies and a few of the older Beanie Babies The tree can be viewed and donations of $5 or more made at Broadbent’s on 128 N 100 East in Lehi Lehi CIA selling Roundup Week Rodeo tickets are being sold early for Christmas gifts The $8 tickets are available from Carl “Blackie” Harris at or 631 N 500 West Lehi Utah 84043 There is a $1 discount off of Saturday night rodeo tickets when purchased early The annual rodeo is this being held June year “We are working on a bigger and better show this year” said vice president Lehi CIA Bert Wilson “We have got some great clown acts coming We had a really good year last year with record Page Photo by Kent Davis A young lyke responds to the microphone director Jan Shelton is holding with chortles of oy His family participated in the Micron Christmas party for children cheer Richard S Van Wagoner presents his new historical work for sale just in time for Christmas The new book is an official Lehi City heritage project to celebrate Golden Jubilee or Lehi’s sesquentennial this February 2001 Titled “Pioneering Lehi City: A Illustrated History” it is written and compiled by the town’s official historian Richard Van ar Lehi of Members and Zoning Planning Commission maintain they inadvertently spent more than five minutes privately discussing an issue during a public hearing by not speaking into the microphones twice at the last Commission meeting They recommended approval for one request and denied the other ple attended each night The company asked the drama team students to help with activities including cookie decorating crafts games and caroling at the party for the two nights it was held And the LHS Pioneer Players were more than happy to comply Golden Jubilee: 3 it public hearing becomes private chat 150-ye- See NOTES on six-un- Lehi Micron donated $2000 to the high the Scottish high school drama festival trip and competition next summer in exchange for some talented entertainment last week for the Micron Children’s Holiday Christmas Party at the Lehi Armory Approximately 500 peo 28-3- 0 town homes in ten buildings and a proposed private road allowing one access into and out of the R-- 3 school fund for 3 R-- 3 development The larger development commissioners proposed Highlands at review asked questions listened to Lehi covers 5231 acres presentations and then with 1174 units per acre promptly requested a traf- and is located at 1200 W fic study done on collector 3200 North There were two access points into and out street 1200 West Both the Highlands at of the development both Lehi and the Kevin Kelter along 1200 West 614 units concepts required use of would be built on this site if 1200 West as their access approved Both concepts were road The traffic study will be done according to combased on the PLTD plan or missioner Mark Johnson in planned developments designed to encourage the approximately three weeks “It fit the master plan construction of affordable and we don’t have a probhousing units with Lehi lem with that” said City Other recommendaJohnson “The traffic study tions were made by the can be the deciding factor” Commission including Kevin Kelter’s developadditional parking fencing ment plan is the smaller of and the name change of the two and covers 504 the larger development so acres at approximately as not to confuse it with 1200 W 2800 North Zoned the bordering Highland the property would City Micron rings in yule tide with LHS Pioneer Players tickets if 60 units support approved or 119 units per acre just under the maxiof mum allowed in an 12 units The plan showed Since no formal action was required for either Enjoying holiday Roundup Week Rodeo 768-9040- den high “I don’t think it was intentional” said commissioner acting chair Steve Roll “I think we were totally unaware it was happening” Perhaps for this reason no explanations were offered by the Commission as to why the change in the legal public hearing process had occurred Presale Wagoner The work is different than the 1990 narrative history “Lehi: Portraits of a Utah Town” and is a photographic history of Lehi from the earliest days of settlement up to the present day More than 200 photos have been selected from the in excess of 3000 in the Richard Van Wagoner collection at the Lehi Library Archives More than half of the photos have never been published elsewhere The book will be an oversize style book with 8 x 10 or 5x7 photographs Connie Disney chief designer for Signature Books is designing the new work Only two thousand books are being published When the book is released in the fall of 2001 it will sell for $40 From now until then collection of the 1990 the two-se- t and 2001 books are available for coffee- -table The first occurrence was with a request for (10000 square foot lots) zoning of 14 acres the Commission granted (20000 square foot lots) and later corrected the R-l-- R-l-- error to square R-l-- 2 22000 foot lots) since the zoning no longer was in existence having been recently deleted from the book The site requested was originally planned as busi- ness park on the general use plan map for Lehi and is located at 450 W Bull River Road just south of the Alpine Highway A previous request by the landowner Lee Anderson See CHAT on Page 3 begins $40 or the same price At the time of purchase buyers will be given the 1990 history book along with a redemption coupon which can be redeemed for the new book at the Lehi City offices in the following November The redemption coupons and 1990 books can be obtained at Lehi City Hall the Lehi Branch of the Bank of American Fork Kohler's The Bridal Shop and Geraldine’s Something to be thankful for A Saratoga Springs r shares his Editor’s note: Mark and his family were featured in New Utah’s Lehi Free Press last spring two weeks before his scheduled surgery in April This is the rest of the story By Cathy Aured As a new Lehi police officer Mark Birch had taken a physical for a higher premium life insurance Requesting more insurance was a common practice for those in this high risk field But being turned down by the insurance company was not The reason the agent gave was the beginning of a family nightmare Mark was dying His kidneys were failing But hope soon followed the news A few weeks after it was announced to the family his sister Davelyn Howland offered just before Christmas to donate one of her kidneys Three months later Mark and his wife Andrea had a baby boy and were getting ready to close on their new home in Saratoga Springs Life had a future again What happened next was totally unforeseen Mark lost his donor It took months to meet the requirements so Davelyn could donate her kidney And while her family was supportive it was still difficult They would hire a coach to help her loose the last 20 pounds Her act of self sacrifice for her brother would end up saving her own life After she had gone through final tests before the kidney transplant surgery the doctors asked for more tests They found Davelyn had cervical cancer If the tests for donating the kidney had not been required they might not have caught the cancer in time The doctor were able to arrest the cancer before it had a chance to spread Today she is in complete remission Davelyn points out losing her as a donor became a blessing for her brother But not before the next blow Mark’s young family lost their home The family was packed and ready to move from their American Fork apartment when the buyers had a disagreement with the builder and the purchase was not finalized They began to unpack and look for a new donor Three months later by July another donor still had not been found As a police officer Mark had been put on light duty while his health quickly dete riorated Police work for some is considered a job of 95 percent boredom and five percent insanity and terror but Mark’s life had become 95 percent insanity and perhaps five percent ss high-stre- boredom “I would vomit daily and had problems with fluid My times a body dehydrated week” said Mark And it was also stressful for his wife “It got so bad in July we went to the emergency room twice” said Andrea “One time I got home from St George and he was not there I found medical supplies on the floor Our cars were in front of our house and something he never does he had left his contacts and glasses behind I found he was in the hospital” The ambulance sendee had come to transport him and left the evidence 2 See BIRCH on Page 3 V Photo by Cafhy Allred Cousins Mark Birch on left and Nathan Hull who donated one of N$ kidneys share a moment during a homeowner’s association meeting Their two families moved into new homes within two blocks of each other without knowing I 9