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Show Thursday, April 27, 2006 Page 2 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED Home decor store to open in new location Barbara Christiansen The old sheds used by Barratt Builders Supply for lumber storage will be renovated reno-vated and used for a furniture store. Real iX-als on Home tcor plans on owning this summer in that lx:ation, 39 N. Barratt Ave. (approx. 150 West). The store will not take the entire area of buildings available, but will leave some unfinished on the northern end of the former lumber yard. Bryson Bakery will remain at the site of the former Barratt store. Memlx.T s of the Planning and Zoning Commission approved the site plan for the furniture store at their April 1!) meeting. meet-ing. Some hoped the store would have access ac-cess to 200 West, which would allow delivery trucks more room to maneuver when they bring furniture. Juel Belmont, who was in attendance at the meeting for another item, said it would hurt the residential neighlxirhood if large trucks entered and exited on that street. Another concern was related to the width of Barratt Ave. Alan Jensen, representing the developer, said the proposal for the road was to be 21.5 feet wide. Standard city streets in similar areas ar-eas have a .'Mi-foot width for asphalt, sajd J.I 1. 1 ladf leld of the city's engineering department. When the commission approved the site plan, they placed stipulations that sufficient access be made available, perhaps per-haps by widening Barratt Ave. on the east side, and that utilities be upgraded for occupancy of previously storage buildings. CITYNOTES I Planners consider open ditches American Fork's Planning and Zoning Zon-ing Commission is considering making changes to a requirement the city has had in place for 20 years. That is why when development occurs in the area of an irrigation ditch, those ditches must be covered. The requirement is in part a response to liability concerns. The American Fork Irrigation Company asked the city to limit that liability by asking that the ditches be covered in new development. Recently, however, there have been requests to leave the waterways open Planner Rod Despain created a draft ordinance which would address both points of view. He identified three issues safe design, ownership and maintenance, mainte-nance, and liability. IX'spain made suggestions which - FOR LEASE fer'ft-r I (801) 414-500 I bjr I " 1 ft,- r if ' ' r I V WA ' -'ill':.;, ni; f :! ' ' ? li - -A- a i! itrli - ;l f : III X L -1:1-1 III . i 'i 'Irwlil-- -:rS.j5t JH fi II ! j I inrnti ' r : ' (.m : tT J --re A Ti I 1 1 ; f Lii, tp :'$ , . : , r -V t pCTw rlr 1 1 iHM rrf v . -1 1 ' - f A J,": i -C- 1 ,f ?-i- 1 MARC HADDOCKNorth County Real Deals on Home Decor plans to renovate this old shed once used by Barratt Builders Supply for lumber storage and make it a furniture store. could make waterways relatively safe. They include limiting the speed of the . flow, the quantity of water and the slope of the sides. The proposed ordinance would still require irrigation ditches to be covered. The City Council could, however, approve ap-prove landscape design streams. Those would have strict guidelines for safety and design. A project which has a landscape design de-sign stream must be a planned unit development de-velopment instead of a standard subdivision. subdivi-sion. That not only allows, but requires, open space. It is governed by a homeowners hom-eowners association. That FlOA would be required to maintain the stream. The HOA would also be required to provide insurance. Planning Commissioner Joe Gordon said under the proposal the relationship between the city and the irrigation company com-pany would be similar to that between the city and the power company. "It would allow the developer to use water as part of a design landscape plan," he said. "The source for the water could be culinary or irrigation. It would have to be their own water." Gordon referred to tragedies in the Murdock Canal Ca-nal irrigation water. "It doesn't run that fast," he said. "It is just that you can't get out." He said the requirement for shallow water and gently sloping sides would increase the safety. Commissioner Ken Baldwin had additional addi-tional concerns. "I have a question about surface drainage and contamination," he said. "Many times there is a hazard in an open waterway. That is the transition between covered and uncovered. There are potential hidden dangers and potential poten-tial liability." Despain emphasized the difference between be-tween the city and irrigation company. Fie said the developers would have to have the right plans. "If your purpose for wanting a stream is not having the pipe the canal, this won't do it for you," he said. Despain will revise the proposed ordinance and bring it back to the Plan ning Commission for further review. I Planners and staff to review request form When individuals request a zone change in American Fork, they must complete an application which includes questions about the zoning. Members of the Planning and Zoning Commission said they would like to see at least one more question added - that asking whether the request is in accordance accor-dance with the city's General Plan. Planner Plan-ner Rod Despain said the form has been in use since before he started with the city in the 1970s. The staff and commission will consider consid-er revising the application process. Correction Last week's Citizen incorrectly identified identi-fied the attendants in the Miss American Fork Scholarship program. The correct first attendant is Lindsay Steenblik, who received a $1,200 scholarship. Second attendant at-tendant Brianne Healey will receive $900. Disc golf Continued from I'age I Scout groups, teens, youth and others. He said schools could also use the course. "We are hoping that schools can use it as an activity, not only for the recreational aspect, but for physics, like aerodynamics." aerody-namics." he said. Disc golf goals are made of elevated metal baskets with chains hanging from a pole above them. When the disc hits the pole right, it drops in the basket. Scoring is like regular golf, with the lowest total as the win ner. The game can be played with professional discs or with ones from the corner store, he said. Frisbee is a common brand. Players stand on a 4-foot by 8-foot tee pad to launch their discs. Both the tee pads and baskets are moveable if there is a decision deci-sion to change the course. The Planning Commission stipulated the course be reviewed re-viewed every year by the city. NorthCounty NEWSPAPIRS ' 399 E State St Pleasant Grove Kirk Parkinson 7E6 7GG9 Vice Pnmni'Pubishe-!'.! Pnmni'Pubishe-!'.! "'ior S"(" .''d com Marc Haddock 756 um North County Ednor mhaddockSheraidextra com Cathy Allred 756 76C9 Lehi, Saratoga Spnngs, Pi Grove callred3hofaidextra.com Barbara Christiansen 756-7G69 American Fork, Alpine, Cedar Hills bchnstiansenhefaidextra com Chris Peterson 344 2556 Orem, Vineyard cpeterson heraldextra .com Beky Beaton 756 7669 Sports bbeator.Sheraidextra.com Lane Dubois 756-7669 Advertising Account Executive Wubois S her aidextra .com Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 Kids, a great reason to celebrate DAILY HERALD f DBLISBIMO CO. Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager Chris Peterson 344-2556 DesignerCopy Editor Casey Rogers 344-2570 DesignerCopy Edior Rachel Rybicki 344 2558 DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344-2545 Photographer NEWSSTAND PRICE SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS 1 ytar (in Utah County) - Sunday. Thursday and holiday deliveries (which includes the week of Easter plus Memorial, Independence, Pioneer, Labor, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day). t year (outside Utah County) 1 year (in Utah County - Thursday only) USPS 01 MO (SN 1U14MI .- ..-.r:-"- ' . ltaf84Xi ' hey are celebrating el Dia del Nino at Sharon Elementary this week. We don't recog-- recog-- nize Children's Day L j in Utah, but when I lived in Mexico many, many years ago, Children's Day was a big deal. There it is the kid's equivalent of Mother's Day or Father's Day, which we do celebrate. Heck, we are even encouraged to celebrate Grandparents Day, especially by the companies that want to sell us Grandparents' Day greeting cards. But I had to kx)k on the Internet to find out it is the first Sunday after Labor Day. As a card-carrying grandparent, however, I can vouch that grandpar ents get to celebrate twice every time their grandkids come to visit once when they arrive, and then again when they go home. Children's Day, however, has never caught on in the United States, even though it is an international interna-tional event celebrated in more than 100 nations, and it is the result of a resolution passed in the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1954. In Mexico, Children's Day is celebrated on April 30. School was canceled and the kids participated par-ticipated in games and cultural events. Sharon Elementary will be celebrating the event in Mexican style on Friday, and while the kids won't get out of school, several activities are planned, including games, songs, piflatas, a Maria-chi Maria-chi band and a dinner of tamales, rice and beans. The event will take the place of the school's Cin-co Cin-co de Mayo celebration. School officials thought the Dia del Nino celebration would be more inclusive, inclu-sive, since May 5 is strictly a Mexican holiday, but Children's Day has an international flavor. My wife told me that in Utah, every day is Children's Day. I'm not sure we care about our children more than anyone else, but sometimes it seems as if they get plenty of attention. And the fact that we have plenty of children probably adds to that. We have been paying a lot of attention to our children lately. One Alpine City Council member was pushing push-ing for the city to pass the "Resolution for the Natural Family," a declaration that defined the '' ' I Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN "natural family" as your basic Ozzie and Harriet relationship, only with more kids a "full quiver" of 'em, to be exact. A group of Pleasant Grove residents were pushing for the city to pass a Child Appropriate Standard resolution designed to make certain that children were not put in contact with inappropriate inappro-priate material while going about their kid business. In both cases the members of the respective city councils decided that City government the domain of water wa-ter delivery, road repairs and sewage treatment was the wrong venue to attempt to carry out these efforts at social engineering. The fact is, our kids, for the most part, have it pretty good. In many parts of the world, life is hard for children. It's hard in Mexico, where poverty is rampant and many families don't even have a father. That's a fact of life in many of the countries where Children's Day is celebrated, f Recognizing this, the United Nations established estab-lished a Declaration of the Rights of the Child shortly after proclaiming Children's Day. Among those things are the inherent rights to the opportunity oppor-tunity to develop physically, mentally and spiritually, spiritu-ally, the right to a name and a nationality, and the right to enough food, adequate housing, a chance to play and receive good medical services. Unfortunately in many parts of the world, children chil-dren are denied these rights regularly, but they are still dear to their parents, and a testament that life endures through good times and bad. Saturday in Smithfield, we gathered with our daughter, Erin, and her husband, Brian, to celebrate cel-ebrate their daughter. Unable to have children of their own, Erin and Brian invited Ellie into their family when she was 4 days old. That was in September, Sep-tember, and during the past several months their lives have been transformed, and so has ours. It's a miracle what children do for us. They change us. They have the power to take self -centered, simple-minded human beings and transform trans-form them into parents. We're not perfect, but for the most part, we are better than we were. April 30 might be a great day to let them know how much we appreciate them. Dominic Continued from Page 1 he became sick himself with liver, heart and diabetes problems. Between August 2003 and 2004, he lost nearly 95 pounds. "This was part of the reason rea-son I came up with healthier food," he said. Dominic had worked for Marriott, contracting food services for colleges, hospitals hospi-tals and nursing homes. Being around the hospital environment, he found hospital hos-pital food to "be just that, hospital food," and when he began working at the hospital hospi-tal wanted to break the mold and be creative. He loves food and believes it can be healthy, satisfying, and filling as well as good to eat. This shows in the creative cre-ative names he and his staff come up with to observe special "theme" days - names such as Cherub Cherried chicken and Hershey kiss cake for Valentine's Day. Some of the more popular menu items are the fresh vegetable beef stew, the various salads - cobb, Buffalo Buf-falo chicken, chicken Caesar salad and soup or chili bowls. "We've found response has been good" among hospital personnel and hospital visitors visi-tors since the more creative menus have been offered. "Business has more than doubled," he said. The cafe attracts not only hospital personnel and patient visitors but also other community com-munity members who know about the cafe. One such person, per-son, when ask if he was visiting visit-ing at the hospital, said no, he just likes to come for a good home cooked meal. Plans are to expand the kitchen and serving area in the near future. Garden View Cafe is located lo-cated in the basement of the American Fork Hospital. Breakfast is served Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Lunch is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and dinner from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday Mon-day through Sunday. Serving is cafeteria style. Water Continued from Page I ' further study. Schiess gave analysis of those four, including includ-ing the estimated costs for construction. A full culinary system with wells and a treatment plant were estimated to cost $49 million. If the city chose to implement a full secondary water system and use wells for indoor water, the costs would probably be around $46.7 million. The other two options were lower in price. They both anticipated an-ticipated the city using wells for culinary water. One had secondary water for the area south of the freeway; the other had it in the area south of State Street. Those cost estimates es-timates were $39.5 and $38.2 million. Horrocks recommended the first of those options with the addition of lines for major users on the north side of the city. Those include the hospital, hospi-tal, schools, cemetery, parks and the Utah State Developmental Develop-mental Center. Schiess said the first $15 million of the $39.5 million would be financed over a three-year period. "The rest would come as impact fees," he said, referring refer-ring to charges which would be levied for new construction. construc-tion. Another option for the financing is a possible grant from the Central Utah Project. Proj-ect. The city was offered a $5 million grant from CUP several years ago, but council coun-cil members voted to turn it down since it would have required re-quired that the city give back 1,000 acre feet -nearly half - of what it had contracted to purchase from the agency. City officials have anticipated antici-pated that a potential grant at this stage would be lower than $5 million. Schiess said the engineers anticipated it would take two years for construction ; of a main trunk line for the secondary system. The re- ! mainder would be built by ; development as it takes place' south of the freeway. ! m |