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Show 4 TIMPANOGOS TIMES July 14 2010 AViking Through and Through in Coaching. He and his wife have five children ranging from ages 12 to 21 . Tim has lived in American Fork for the past 1 5 years and in Orem previous to that. In his spare time, he loves backpacking in the back country with his family and he enjoys lawn work. After graduating from col-lege, Mr. Brantley taught for two years at Independence High School in the Provo School District. He then worked in the Alpine School District, where he taught and coached and was an assis-tant principal at Orem High School for six years. Tim was a principal at Lehi Ju-nior High for three years and served as principal at East Shore High School for the last eight years. Tim also has a Master's degree in Educa-tional Leadership and a read-ing endorsement as well. Mr. Brantley is excited byAngie Walker In April 2010 the Alpine School District announced that Tim Brantley would be the new principal at Pleasant Grove High School beginning July . Principal Brantley admit-ted that he thought he might be moved this year and he told his wife that PGHS would be a school he would be interested in. "It still has that small community feel to it and there's a lot of tradi-tion and pride here that goes toward building a very posi-tive culture and great learning atmosphere," Brantley said. "I feel very blessed and for-tunate to be able to work here in this community. When I grew up in Denver, we were the North High Vikings, so I'm a Viking again!" Tim Brantley attended BYU where he met his wife. While at BYU, he obtained a degree in English and a minor Tim continued, "The vi-sion I have for schools is to be focused on student needs and student learning," he said. "That's our business, so what we want to do is make our de-cisions based on the needs of improving our students' abil-ity to learn and be better pre-pared for their future as they go forward in life. The mis-sion statement here of 'Navi-gating life through learning', I think, is very similar to my philosophy. Great success can come in life as you get more education, more skills . and abilitites. We want to be a student-drive- n facility," Brantley concluded. Principal Brantley, who desires to be a better partner with the community, extend-ed the following invitation. "I have an open door. I appre-ciate the opportunity to fulfill the needs of the community and the students here. Come and visit with me," he urged parents. j Jf ' i M about his new position as prin-cipal of Pleasant Grove High School. He stated that com-munity members, students, staff and faculty have been very welcoming and friendly. "I know that our previously principal, Mr. Christian, has just done a great job in get-ting things going very well," said Brantley. "The school is really doing well. There is great pre gress being made in focusing on student needs and student learning. There's a great culture of learning and cooperation and collaboration here at the school," he added. Tim Brantley is the new prin-cipal at Pleasant Grove High School. Photo courtesy of Timpanogos Times rwnuuiiiiiiTt Student Council Seeking Help to Re-Lig- ht The "G" plish our goal of developing a new lighting system for the "G" which could last many years. We need to purchase a new gen-erator, along with a new set of lights. While donations of all sizes are welcome, sponsorship status will be granted to those mak-ing donations of $100 or more. Sponsors will receive advertis-ing on flyers that will be distrib-uted door-to-do- around the city, and advertising on posters inside PGHS. We sincerely hope that you will see the value of investing in this symbol of our community in order to con-tinue our tradition of lighting the "G" for many more years to come. Please visit our website at lighttheg.com for more infor-mation about the history of the "G", our current efforts to pro-vide a lighting system, and how to donate. Feel free to contact us with any questions, comments, or suggestions at Since 1921 the "G" on the side of the mountain has overlooked our city and served as a symbol of com-munity pride. The tradition of lighting the "G" for graduation began in 1927, with the use of burning rags in 29 ounce cans. In 1978 the current "G" that we see to-day was built on the mountain. A system of custom wires and light bulbs was put in place to light it. For years that system has provided the means to light up the symbol of our community. However, it has now become necessary for us to put in place a new lighting system. The gen-erator no longer produces the necessary level of electricity to light all of the bulbs, and the custom strings of lights no lon-ger work. We are asking for donations of any amount to help us accom- - 1. ..i, .... ,nmi mm ..iu mmmim. mom,mmw"mr . vtmmi Photo courtesy of Jim Phelon Evan Argyle Named Gatorade Utah Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year of accomplished, veteran prep sports journalists to determine the state winners in each sport. The 180-poun- d senior won three events at the Class 5A state meet this spring, leading the Vikings to third place as a team. Argyle won the 800-met- er run with a time of 1:54.14, the 1 ,600-me-t- er run in 4:20.06 and ran the anchor leg on Pleasant Grove's winning distance medley relay quartet. Argyle, who missed the entire 2009 spring track season with a leg injury, had the top times across all classes in both the 800 and 1 ,600 out-doors. Argyle has maintained an un-weighted 3.84 GPA in the class-room. An Eagle Scout, he has The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recog-nizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, Softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selecting process is by ESPN RISE and the Gatorade high school sports leadership team, which work with top sport-specif- ic experts and a media advisory board r, """" In its 25th year of honoring the nation's best high school ath-letes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPN RISE, on June 22, 2010 announced Evan Argyle of Pleasant Grove High School as its 2009-1- 0 Ga-torade Utah Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year. Argyle is the first Gatorade Utah Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year to be chosen from Pleasant Grove High School. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic ex-cellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demon-strated on and off the track, dis-tinguishes Argyle as Utah's best high school boys' track and field athlete. Now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year award to be announced in June, Argyle joins an elite alumni association of past state award-winne- rs in 12 sports, in-cluding Ryan Hall (1999-0- 1, Big Bear HS, Calif.), Meb hi (1993-9- 4, San Diego HS, Calif.), Derek Jeter (1991-9- 2, Kalamazoo HS, Mich.), Candace Parker (2001-0- 2, le Central HS, 111.), Kevin Garnett (1992-9- 3, Maudlin HS, S.C.), Mark Sanchez (2004-0- 5, Mission Viejo HS, Calif.) and Lolo Jones (1997-9- 8, Roosevelt HS,Ia.). tKlNGs " - - r " ' r ' "; , i! I,- i ; ( i 1 volunteered locally as a guide for a blind runner at the Special Olympics and learned sign lan-guage so he could tutor a deaf student. "Evan Argyle, I've seen him run that kid's a stud. He's a man among boys," said Kevin Fletcher, head coach of rival West Jordan High. "Whathedid at state, having to do the 800 and then turning around and doing the distance medley relay, that's something you rarely ask a kid to do. And to win them both, that's impressive." Argyle has signed a National Letter of Intent to compete on an athletic scholarship at Brigham Young University beginning this fall. Evan Argyle ofPCI IS won the 2009-1- 0 Gatorade Utah Hoys Truck A Field Athlete of the Year. .... J I nolo courtesy ol nnpiinoos limes Fiction Writing Class Offered The Writer's Studio of Utah announces an upcoming seven week fiction writing course be-ginning July 29. The Thursday evening classes will be taught from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Pleasant Springs Club House. Successful fiction writers not only ignite their reader's imagi-nations, but inspire them to be-lieve the unbelievable. This requires skill and craftsmanship of the foundations necessary to develop a captivating story. The Fiction I course, spon-sored by The Writer's Studio, will teach how to use these ba-sic elements of character, plot, point of view, description, dia-logue, setting, pacing, voice and theme to create a memorable work. Whatever genre you seek to develop, we can aid in turning ideas into stories people will be eager to read. Students will also learn how and where to market their work. Each week a different as-pect of fiction writing Witt be discussed and applied through writing exercises. From dis-covering one's own voice to creating believable characters and plots, the lessons will give the beginning student the nec-essary tools to craft a market-able short story. The Fiction I course will focus on short story writing and includes lectures, writ-ing assignments, critiquing and class participation. The course will be taught by studio directors Randy Jernigan, Geri Taylor and other published fic-tion authors. While the curriculum is geared to the novice student, experienced writers will find the classes informative and valuable. Fiction II, Novel I and II classes will also be of-fered in the Fall. ' ..... i, 4 v ; - -- .' - ., ., , , .- -I i Cedar Hills City Hikes Tele-communicati- ons Service Provider Tax by Harlow Clark With one nay vole Cedar Mills's City Council voted June 15 to raise the telecommunica-tions service provider tax from 3.3 to 3.5 percent. The city's new budget projects $1,700 to $5,000 (or maybe $7,000) raised from the tax. "If we don't have to do this I would prefer not to," Council Member Ken Kirk said, noting that it's supposed to be a tax on service providers, but they'll just pass it on to their custom-ers . Asked what he would cut to make up the $5,000 loss, Kirk said he didn't have the budget in front of him, "but I will come up with $5,000 worth of budget cuts." The tax adds about 18 cents a month to a household's bill. Kirk said, but with 20 cents here and 72 cents there for liMT and lire services, for things the city has to have, he would rather not add a tax they could get by with-out. Kirk added, "And what would probably come back and ship me in the face is the tele-communications companies would raise their costs anyway, which would really lick me off." A couple of council members thought the providers would raise their rates anyway, and one said that about half the people in Cedar ills have Pleasant Grove on their telecommunications bills, so CVilar I litis doesn't get their taxes. I )ui ill)', n discussion about nmcniliiig the budget. Council Member Marisa Wright said. "1 wonder if this is one against four." "I've been on the one side be-fore," Kirk said. "1 have, too. I have, too. You all know I have," Wright re-plied. Council Member Scott .lack-ma- n voted to adopt the rate in-crease effective Oct. I and said he'd be willing to revisit the budget. Mayor I '.ric Richardson asked City Manager Konrad llildeb-rand- t, "Could you be sure the budget's on the agenda for the next work session, for discus-sion?" Kirk voted no, everyone else yes. "Hasn't been the lirst time," he said. "Nor the last probably," Wright added. tfm? Several Projects Approved by Pleasant Grove City Council Three different develop-ment projects were approved by Pleasant Grove City Coun-cil at the July 6 council meet-ing. The first was the request of Stephen Hullinger for final plat approval for Hullinger Estates Subdivision Plat "C", vacat-ing Hullinger Subdivision Plat "C", located at approximately 885 West 1290 North in the R-l- (Single-Famil- y Residen-tial), and R-- R (Rural Residen-tial) zones in Mudhole Neigh-borhood. There was no public comment and the project was approved. The next request was by Reed Swcrison (Triple Focus I.I.C) for final plat approval for Phase II of the mixed commer cial development called Majes-tic Meadows Commercial Con-dominiums Plat "B", located at approximately 500 West State Street, in the C-- G (Gen-eral Commercial) zone (Sam White's Lane Neighborhood). The project was approved and no comment from the public was received. Following that was to consider the request of Gregg Colton for approval to amend Lilac Subdivision Plat A, spe-cifically adjusting the bound-ary line between lots and 2, located at approximately 1070 West 2674 North in the R-- (Rural Residential) zone (Ma-nila Neighborhood). The project change was approved. In other business, the city council authorized the Leisure Services Dept. to submit an application for the 2010 Utah County Community Activities Fund Grant for the installation of playground equipment in the city's Mahogany Park. The amount to be requested is $19,849.42. The project is expected to be completed by the Oct. 3 1, 20 10 deadline. Council Member Cindy Boyd asked if they could get re-cycle bins placed at the Down-town City Park. Director Deon Giles said this can probably be done but they must obviously be for recycling only. City Admin-istrator Scott Harrington said he would talk to Allied Waste Ser-vices about this matter. Subscribs Today! Gubccriptinn Form on tha bcttom of psrja 2 |