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Show 037 UT 64107 Vol. 18, No. 37 Wednesday, September 11, 1996 50 To subscribe call cents a single copy 756-766- 9 City urges County to avoid urban development Members of the Lehi City Council were among the few people gathered to give input to the Utah County Commission at a satellite meeting held recently in Lehi. In response to the issue of the county approving developments in the unincorporated areas of the county, the city presented a prepared statement opposing such growth if it places a burden on the city. "We have a contract with the county to provide services said Councilmember Dee Ray Russon in a telephone interview following the meeting. "That puts a strain on city services." Russon said he would like to see controlled growth, from the center of the city outward, rather than growth in outlying areas. "My position is that we should have orderly growth," he said. "I don't want to see the county do the business of the municipalities." The following is the text of the city's statement: 1. It is our understanding that the role of county government is to provide services that have been specifically delegated to the county, such as the assessment and collection of real property taxes, providing for the recording of documents, providing for public safety and the incarceration of prisoners, and such other functions that cannot be economically or practically provid Nanette Pearson has high hopes for Saturday's Miss America Pageant Since becoming Miss Utah in June, Nanette Pearson has hosted local pageants, ridden in parades, spoken to youth groups and practiced, practiced, practiced in preparation for the Miss America competition in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Her wardrobe has increased for the competition as she needs outfits for each night of the preliminary competition walking down the ramps as well as for the parade, judges interview, talent, etc. Her parents, Barry and Linda Pearson of Pleasant Grove, and other family members have joined her in support. Each Miss Utah contestant is required to have a community service project and platform issue. Having suffered from anorexia and bulimia herself, Nanette chose to educate teenage girls and boys about the dangers of the two eating disorders disorders that go Anorexia is the denial of food and bulimia, the purging. "I didn't know what I was doing or what the signs were and it almost killed me," she relates. She hopes to prevent others from doing the same by speaking out on the subject while at the same time aiding in her own hand-in-han- d. ed by municipalities. 2. Conversely, there are services which municipalities are responsible for providing to accommodate urban development as outlined in the Legislative Policy of Section Code. of the Utah states that Specifically, municipalities are created to provide urban governmental services essential for sound urban development and for the protection of public health, safety and welfare in i . . w , ". " Intermountain Health Care and Newtah News are teaming up to provide a unique service to the residents who live in the northern Utah County region. A new weekly column called "The Doctor Is In," will provide an opportunity for community residents to ask a health-relate- d question and have it answered by a medical expert. In this way, Newtah News and IHC hope to continue helping members of our communities learn more about health, fitness and prevention. The format is simple, just call and ask any health-relate- d question. You may also mail in your question. Send it to AFH Public Relations, CO Doctor Is In, 170 N. 1100 East, American Fork, Ut., 84003. A physician specializing in that area will then answer your question in the week- ' 'I A recovery by making a difference in someone else's life. Her platform "Starving for Attention explains her feelings on the issues. Forty-eigpercent of all women are dissatisfied with their body image and eight million Americans suffer from eating disorders, she says. "Although 56 percent of eating disorders are defined and successfully treated, our long-tergoal must be to prevent these disorders from even occurring." It is not uncommon for teenage boys to also suffer from ly column. m disease. To aid in her quest to educate others, she is member of the Body Image and Eating Disorder Task Force at the University of Utah in See NANETTE on Page 4 week. accordd Votes will be ing to the size of the state, and no calls will be allowed from the home state of any of the final contestants. Norm and Rosanne Nielsen, Miss Utah pageant directors, encourage Utahns to call friends and neighbors in other states to vote for Nanette Pearson, a student at the University of Utah. "I think we have a really good chance to have Nanette make the pro-rate- Doctor is in U U These calls will be anonymous. Names will never be used in the article. You can be sure if there is one person out there with a question, then there are countless others who are curious about the same question, so many people will benefit. The column will debut in early October, so please call now with your questions so we can begin this new educational service to the community. Lehi City plans to receive of a milupwards of lion dollars more in property tax revenue during the next fiscal year, but will not raise taxes to do it. Cam Gunter, Finance Director for the city, told the Lehi City Council that, because the county increased property values, Lehi City would be receiving $783,461 more in revenues from property taxes. "That does not mean we will three-quarte- 1 sei increase taxes to the general public," said Councilmember Dee Ray Russon, who made the motion to accept Gunter's report and proposed revision. Councilmember Robert Fox seconded the motion, which carried unanimously. In a related vote, the council, after another Russon motion, unanimously voted to accept the certified tax rate of 0.001897 for property taxes. The council noted that the tax rate remains the same as last year. Photo by Russ Daly Nanette Pearson competes in the Miss American Pageant Saturday night. Viewers can vote for favorite Miss in this year's pageant Viewers all across America will be tuning in this week and to this year phoning in as well the Miss America Program. The pageant will be broadcast on Saturday, Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m. on KSL Television (Channel 5), the local NBC affiliate. This year, the television audience will be able to call a 900 (toll) number to vote for their favorite contestant among the 10 finalists named Saturday following preliminary competition this The nTj Increase in property values gives city a $783,460 windfall the conjunction with The National Eating Disorder Awareness Program. This is a coalition of community professionals, faculty, students, and administrative staff with the goals of combating the media focus that thin is beautiful, establishing a national referral system, conducting programs and workshops, establishing peer support groups, and other. Nanette said she began with the two disorders when she was makes the City or the County, as the case may be, responsible for providing urban governmental services to its residents where urban development has been permitted to occur. 4. We also believe that if the legis islative policy of Section to be carried out, it is imperative that County zoning ordinances discourage or prevent urban development, thereby encouraging the orderly growth of municipalities in a manner that is economically viable. Newspaper, hospital to team up for health column -" . residential, commercial and industrial areas, and in areas undergoing development. 3. This process is frustrated when the County approves urban development in outlying areas. Such developments ultimately and inevitably look to the neighboring municipality for annexation and for providing municipal services which the County cannot provide. We believe that recent legislation as well as the accumulation of case law top ten," said Rosanne. "She is a strong interviewer with an excellent classical ballet talent. She is a good contended and should do well in the program." Pearson competed in the interview and swimsuit judging Tuesday and will compete in the talent phase today (Wednesday) and the evening wear division Thursday. Following the parade of contestants at the beginning of the pageant on Saturday night, the top 10 finalists will be named. Leonard Horn, director of the Miss America Pageant, said the move to include the national audience was a logical extension of the computer age that is linking the world. Daily updated information about the Saturday pageant, including photos and facts about each of the 50 contestants, as well as information about the overall program, can be obtained on the Internet at www.missamerica. org. City okays Thanksgiving Point tower after it's already built Developers of Thanksgiving Point have one more thing to be the decorative thankful about tower that was installed about a month ago was approved two weeks ago by the Lehi City Council. At the Aug. 27 meeting, Councilmember Reed Sunderland, with a second from Councilmember Robert Fox, made a motion to the by request approve Thanksgiving Point "to construct" a decorative tower approximately 85 feet high at the development, 209 N. West Frontage Road. The motion passed unanimously. The council also approved another request for Thanksgiving Point when it gave permission for Young Electric Sign Company to install an 82 foot neon sign on the tower that was constructed. In another request made by Young Electric Sign, the council approved the company's intention to add a two foot by seven foot sign to an existing sign at the Wendy'sWalker's store at 47 S. 850 East, another GC-- 2 zone. All of the motions were included in the consent agenda and approved simultaneously. Interim principal takes helm at Sego Lily Elementary By RUSS DALY City Editor As in the theater, the "show" of running a school must go on, even if one has to call in an understudy. With the illness and hospitalization of Dr. Linda Perkins, principal at Sego Lily Elementary, Alpine School District officials have called Glenn R Martin to serve as interim principal at the school. Martin comes to Lehi from Orem Junior High School, where he has been the assistant principal. His experience in education, however, includes a vast repertoire t)f skills that will assist him in running the school on a temporary basis. "I think my biggest challenge is to support the staff and to facilitate their success," he said about his recent assignment. "My job is to man the ship and keep it afloat." i He credited Dr. Perkins with the work she had accomplished and said he planned to proceed cautiously in moving ahead. ; "(Dr. Perkins is still the principal," he emphasized. "Linda did an incredible amount of work as sick .as she was." Martin received his bachelors degree from Brigham Young University in family life, coupled with a minor in Spanish; he is also certified as a home economics teacher. He received a masters degree from BYU in family life education, with an equivalent minor in marriage and family counseling. When considering whether or not he wanted to pursue a career in counseling, he asked himself if he wanted to listen to problems all day. The answer was no, because he wanted to go into education instead. His background, he said, has been "a plus" in his work, and has led him to using a holistic approach to education, where he encourages parents to become involved in their child's education. In working with the teachers, he also asks them how they have involved the child's parents in solving problems. While in school, Martin served as an adjunct professor in the Child Development and Family Relations department, where he taught child development and discipline, as well as courses in courtship and marriage. He then took a position with Dixon Middle School in Provo, Perkins still recovering in Intensive Care Linda Perkins remains in the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Intensive Care Unit where medical specialists are working to control complications involving a systemic infection which is hindering her progress to a full recovery. Michael Perkins, her husband, expresses sincere gratitude to the staff and many friends who have offered support and faithu in her behalf. Michael stated, We have had 10 miracles already but need 10 Dr. more for Linda to get out of the woods with this illness." placed. Mr. Glenn Martin, interim principal at Sego Lily, states that Dr. Perkins spent many hours this summer during the early stages of her illness and had completed nearly every detail needed for a smooth starting of school. Alpine District administrators allowed Dr. Virgil Jacobsen, Director of 2 Schools, to help with the opening weeks of school until an interim principal could be ten comments from the children indicate the children miss Dr. Perkins' warm and caring personality, but more especially, her fine southern accent that greeted them each day upon arriving and leaving the school. Mr. Martin encourages all patrons of Sego Lily Elementary to keep Dr. Linda Perkins and her family in their'-- t noughts and prayers and hopes for a full K-1- Mr. Martin noted recovery. that writ- where he taught home economics and Spanish. Since teachers did not have to specialize at that time, he also taught health, Utah history, English and careers. After completing the leadership program, which included an assignment at Lehi Junior High School under principal Glen Clark, he joined the administrative staff at Orem Junior High School in 1991. Having served an LDS mission in Peru, as well as having Hispanic ancestry, Martin has ably served as a facilitator for the students in the English as a Second Language program while at Orem Junior High. With the technological advances at Orem Junior, Martin is also trained in the Internet and hopes to use some allocated funds at Sego Lily to move the computer program forward. He has also served on a number of committees within the school district, such as the Resource Screening Committee, the Career Ladder program and the Steering Committee for the ESL program. He has also been involved in a (ESL) number of boundary changes. Despite his extensive education and experience, he summarized his role by saying, "For the most part, students need to feel safe and accepted. They need direction, someone who can help give them options as they take on adult roles." Martin, who grew up in Murray, started taking accordion lessons at 11 years of age and continued studying through his senior year. Later he taught accordion and music theory at the Larry Pino Conservatory in Sandy. He was also a vocalist in high school and he plays the piano and the guitar. He has performed in "The Sound of Music" at the Scera Shell in Orem and aspires to play Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof and King Arthur in "Camelot." During his freshman year at BYU, he toured the Pacific Northwest and Canada with the Young Ambassadors. He and his wife have eight children; the family resides in Orem. "My role is to be an advocate of children, and I will support teachers as they address the needs of those children," he said. |