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Show Pleasant Grove Library 112510 - ... 30 E Center y' , A """ - - Pleasant Grove. UT 84062 8 v:X S'i'V ........... " $1 FHR ISSUE VOLUME 2 NUMBER 055 WEDNESDAY, October 6, 2010 WWW.timptimes.com AT A GLANCE f a - I I " " 1 ' --A PAGE 2 LIFESTYLE Pleasant Grove BLAB Life's Moments Thoughts From The Garden. . . "Cool Clear Water" PAGE 3 SCOUTING Eagle Award i A i t Wood Badge 9 Silver Beaver Award 635 Raingutter Regatta SOCIAL PG Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneurial Corner Senior News FA3E 4 SOCIAL Divine Movement PG Players "And Then There Were None" Kate's Quilting Block PAGE 5 EDUCATION "Light the G" Concert Special Olympics PGHS School Calendar FAGE 6 CITY PG. City Calendar C.H. Rec. Plans PG Water Shut Off PAGE 7 CITY UDOTC.O.R.E. PUBLIC NOTICE Handel's Messiah "Trunk r Treat" PUBLIC SAFETY PG Police Beat Lindon Police Beat Golf Tournament Winners Lady Vikings vs Hillcrest PAGE 8 SPORTS Vikings Lose to Jordan Lady Spikers Beat Alta Lady Vikings Soccer JV Soccer & Volleyball V- - A : , 1 I- - ' J f - Mil? ' - - tKll',V 1-- r- -- . I .... .. : j ? 1 f ; j ; ? : ii n r !: if r . : . ' ' ' " . t ' - J ; y Geri Taylor To look at the "G" moun-tain, one could hardly imag-ine its pristine beauty being marred by a tramway and pipeline, but harnessing wa-ter was the main concern in 1905. Enterprising men real-ized a great amount of power could be generated from the output of the Battle Creek and Blue Creek Springs at the foot of Timpanogos and so the Battle Creek Power plant was begun. Robert Fairbanks, broth-er of movie star Douglas Fairbanks, supervised the project for the Telluride Power Company that had built the Nunn's Power Plant in Provo canyon. He later left the company to become a Fox Studio executive in Hol-lywood. To move the transformer and generator to the plant site required two steam engines and 20 horses. According to Sam Hilton, who lived at and operated the plant from 1932 to 1957, about 60 feet of track would be laid and the steam engines and horses would haul the equipment to the end. The tracks would then be disassembled, moved "Power" continued on page 5 Strawberry Days Committee Recognizes Volunteers, Their Contributions and Gives Back to the Community Again know that their hard work and generosity has helped to again to give back even more to the community. A great portion of those who volunteer during Strawberry Days are current PGHS students and a lot more PGHS alumni. According to the Strawberry Days committee, each year it takes between 150 and 200 people each of the four days to pull it all off. The celebrations volunteers perform all sorts of different tasks for the committee. Some work on the grill cooking the hamburgers while others work the windows and others work on slicing and prepping the strawberries and cream. One of the tasks that volunteers perform that not a lot of people know about is topping the strawberries each night. Each night there averages between 300 and 500 flats of strawberries. The Lions Club is great to let the committee use their building where about 145 to 155 of the volunteers come from eight Pleasant Grove and Manila stakes from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. The remainder come from groups such as Youth Court, Kiwanis, Lions Club, individual families, Scouting troops, teams and crews, LDS young women groups, and other groups throughout the community. This year the FFA participated and helped paint and restore the trailer that the Strawberry Days Committee uses at the carnival on the corner of Main Street and 200 South. The FFA painted it like a big strawberry. Then they came and helped man the trailer during the celebration. The money that these volunteers bring in through the concessions is used to help some of the other events during the celebration such as the free concert and strawberries and cream, Huck Finn Day, and the children's parade, all of which are free to the public. This year, thanks to their hard work and dedication as well as a good turnout even after supporting all of these other activities, we still had some money remaining! The Pleasant Grove Strawberry Days volunteers and committee have been able to donate $2000 to the lighting the "G" project. David Beck at Pleasant Grove High School has said that this should be enough to ensure that the "G" will be lit for Homecoming. The Strawberry Days Committee wants the 700 to 800 Strawbery Days volunteers to A . V . - Wf $ t ., ' r U - V: "V '' ' - --T"'"' ; V - - --.v.r - ' ft S A' it - . .v- . - Each night of the Strawberry Days celebration there was an average of 300 to 500 flats of strawberries cut and prepared by volunteers. Shown are I to r, Kelsey Waters, Lindsey Del Castillo and Peyton Shaw. PG City Council's Proposed Utility Rate Hike Draws a Crowd '"vi ".. A " i ' " 7 a ;;--- - - - vr a : - - f ...: A large number of Pleas-ant Grove residents attended a special work session of the Pleasant Grove City Coun-cil last Tuesday to discuss the city's proposed increase in city utility rates. The meeting last-ed almost four hours. The council expected a large crowd so the meeting was held at the Pleasant Grove Ju-nior High School auditorium. This was the second week in a row that the council had dis-cussed the proposed rate hike with citizens. City Administrator Scott Darrington went through all of the proposed rate increases item by item with the citizens. All of the proposals were shown on a screen so that everyone could see what was being discussed. He said that the city should have made the increases quite a while ago but had tried not to have to do it. However, things have reached a point where the city must make the increases and noted that the city has pre-pared a four year implementa-tion plan to get the city up to where it should be to cover ex-penses. Darrington stated that the city council had met with a con-sultant to see what rates the city should charge to cover the costs of providing the services of wa-ter, sewer, police, fire, parks, recreation, streets and dispatch. It was noted that those servic-es provided by taxes from the general fund are police, fire and parks. Those which are f-inanced through taxes and fees are streets, recreation and dis-patch, and the only one covered by enterprise funds is water. A comparison of Pleasant Grove's rate increase proposal with those of surrounding cities for the combined city services in 2011 showed Cedar Hills billing residents with a fee of $94.60, along with Lindon with $75.90, American Fork, $100.36, Spanish Fork, $82.72, Saratoga Springs, $92.35, and Pleasant Grove, $79.67. In 2010 Pleasant Grove combined city services are $64.12. Many residents who ad-dressed the council noted that they did not know how they would be able to pay this large of an increase in utility pay-ments, etc. They were told that there could be a possible discount based on- income and residents qualify for a discount based on property tax abate-ment. Several residents directed questions to the council dur-ing the evening and most were Most citizens felt the water rate hikes were too large of an increase. Some felt that other city services should be cut rather than increase these costs. Others said it appeared that somewhere along the way the city made a mistake and they felt the city needs to get some stimulus money to help out. concerned with the size of the increase in payments to the city for these services. Most felt it was too large of an increase. Some felt that other city ser-vices should be cut rather than increase these costs. Councilman Jensen ex-plained that the lower rates plus the economy slowing down has used up the rainy day fund the city has used to cover some items. It was explained that the city had hoped to not have to make the increase for some time but it had reached the point they could not do that any longer. Some people said it ap-peared that somewhere along the way the city made a mistake and they felt the city needs to get some stimulus money to help out. Council Member Kim Robinson said the rates have been ignored for so long that we need to do something. "We are not going to pass the problems on to the future and we are not going to blame the past," she said. Some residents com-plained that some people do not get the city newsletter which is included monthly in the bill- - "Utilities" continued on page 3 'pleasant GROVE WEATHER Today J H - 69 L - 50 Scattered Storms t v Thursday - H 67 L - 46 Scattered Storms v- ' Friday H - 63 L - 42 Scattered Storms Saturday H - 67 L- - 42 Sunny Sunday H - 70 L - 45 Sunny V J |