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Show ooi EDITION YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, DECEMBER DO CENTS '? S A tf " n r I om an 07 usi -7 . X ' 'J-"-iTTiT iii 'iiiiriiTiiwiiniiimiiiiiMiiiiiMi hi - r-"- ---pTt n inn mi"" inwinr" - YiiMiwmiiiwn SCHOOLS: Legacy students help SLC veterans TOWN HALL: City preschool closure thwarted INSIDE: P.G. residents want rid of waste plant odor -Hi 4P Utah VaUey ZXlgh School Sports l H. .-wfi 'w '' ' Ci ty looks to revise water-rate hike Barbara Christiansen NORTH COUNTY STAFF Facing a 600 percent increase in their culinary cu-linary water rates, numerous business owners own-ers told the American Fork City Council in an open house Thursday that they would be forced to close their doors or relocate if the city imposed the rate increase. In theory, the raise in rates is already in effect. The fact sheet for businesses says the charges started Nov. 1 and would appear on bills in April after March water meter readings. read-ings. However, Mayor Heber Thompson said the amounts could be revised. "The council will talk with consultants," he said. "We will see if the structure will The council will talk with consultants. We will see if the water fee structure will make sense. Heber Thompson, mayor make sense." He promised the business owners they were not just going through the motions of pretending to listen to them. "We have not already made up our minds," he said. The structure that was put in place but has not yet been billed calls for higher rates for culinary water for everyone, both residential and business, but it has a sliding scale that would charge more for those who use the most water, up to $6 per thousand gallons for those who use more than 100,000 gallons a month. The city has produced a list of 30 of the most affected businesses or developers; the list shows a more than $10,000 per year See HIKE, Page 3 Passing down tradition VI.. I K .. V'" I f 1 In..: A IS' 1 1 r h in :. - r ... . q " f J ' Photos by MARIO RUIZNorth County ; From left, RachelLott, 11, BrinleeLott, 7, and Kennadi Hall, 7, sit next to their grandmother Sharon Washington's collection of Nativity sets in American Fork on Friday. ' Nativity sets bring back Christmas memories Barbara Christiansen NORTH COUNTY STAFF t's just not Christmas until she put up x her nativity scenes. Ana ior American rorK resident y Sharon Washington that could take a while. She has 21 of them and has been a collector for years. Her interest started when she was a young girl, growing up in American Fork. "One of my best memories when I was little was when my mom would get out the nativity set," she said. "It had a little stable and we got the figures out individually. We had a fireplace with a mantle and she would place the figures on it. It is one of the things that I remember most about Christmas when I was growing up." Not only was it the nativity, but it was the repetition. "I remember every year that was one of the things that mom did," she said. "It was a neat thing. We got so we could help her arrange it." ww. f .... X'.'ii "y J( " - "- ' - - '- - ' - -- See NATIVITY Page 3 Sharon Washington's first nativity set from more than 30 years ago. Community Briefing ALLEGED RAPIST MAY NOT STAND TRIAL - A door-to-door salesman accused of raping a woman in American Fork may be ruled incompetent to stand trial. Defense attorney Richard Gale said Thursday that two doctors have declared Brian Mask incompetent because of his diminished mental capacity. The second sec-ond report was only given to Judge James Taylor and prosecutors at Thursday's hearing, so a decision will not be made until January. "I'm assuming that the state is going to want to review re-view that," Gale said. Taylor said he wanted to delay the hearing until Jan. 1 5 in order to ensure the doctors who evaluated Mask are sufficiently qualified to make a determination on mental retardation. The prosecutors will now have time to send Mask to an additional specialist if they like, and they may subpoena sub-poena doctors to testify at the competency hearing. American Fork police say Mask, of St. Louis, worked for an Illinois-based magazine subscription company. The man had been in Utah for two days, staying in a motel in Sandy with other salesmen from the company. com-pany. Mask was reportedly selling subscriptions when he went to the home of a 58-year-old woman living alone. The woman allowed Mask into her home to give his sales pitch, after which she asked him to leave, police said. Mask then became angry, and physically and sexually assaulted the woman. According to a police affidavit. Mask choked and punched the woman in the face during the attack, knocking her unconscious. The severe facial trauma required multiple stitches, and police believe Mask left the woman for dead. Mask is charged with aggravated sexual assault and attempted attempt-ed murder with injury, both first-degree felonies. REGISTRATION BEGINS FOR HUNTER PROGRAM PRO-GRAM - Dec. 29 is the first day to apply for Dedicated Dedi-cated Hunter Program. Applications must be received no later than Jan. 12 If you join Utah's Dedicated Hunter program, you'll have a chance to participate in all three general buck deer hunts next fall and you can hunt in the region of your choice. If that sounds good to you, Dec. 29 is an important day. Dec. 29 is the first day you can submit your application appli-cation to join the program in 2009. But before you submit your application, you must learn more about the program by completing a free online course. The course is available at www.wildlife. utah.govdh. It takes at least 30 minutes to complete, so make sure you give yourself enough time to complete com-plete the course before your application is due. After completing the course, you must submit your application at www.wildlife.utah.gov no later than 11 p.m. on Jan. 12. You'll know by the week of Jan. 19 whether your application was drawn to join the program. pro-gram. "A $10 application fee is the only fee you have to pay when you apply," says Rhianna Christopher, volunteer vol-unteer services coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources. "If your application is drawn, you don't have to buy a hunting license until it's time to get your deer hunting permit." Applications for 2009 general season buck deer permits per-mits will be accepted from Jan. 22 to Feb. 26. More information about the Dedicated Hunter program pro-gram is available at www.wildlife.utah.govdh. BIG GAME GUIDEBOOK - The Department of Wildlife Services has released its online 2009 Big Game Guidebook. Everything you need to know to apply for a 2009 Utah big game hunting permit is available In the 2009 Utah Big Game Guidebook. 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