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Show i BULK KATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID I OGDEN. UTAH 8440 I PERMIT NO.278 I Vol. 3 No. 1 Tine Bern Lomond 154 North Ogden, Utch 1 c rfffoiif Thursday, April 13, 1978 itfr tfiiii ntflfr Ii Street widening discussed BY Sl'E ELLEN SIMS Beacon Editor Discussion of the widening of 450 East and the desire to have a petition and a resolution sent tothe Weber County Board of Education concerning the use of the Weber High gyri and the old Weber High gym, brought throngs of citizens to the North Ogbden City Council meeting Tuesday night. About 20 citizens living along the street, 450 East, prepared questions concerning this issue and sent them to the city council and asked that they be allowed to attend the meeting and discuss how the street would be Horse Club 4-- H ) to hold meeting The North Ogden-PleasaView Horse Club will hold the first meeting April 14. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. and will be held at the North Ogden Municipal building. 4-- All interested persons are invited to attend and parents and children may come together. Those attending are asked to bring $1.50 for books and insurance. Cleanup set for Ploasant Viev Spring is here and so is the annual View Spring Cleanup. City officials said that the results will be picked up on April 15 beginning at 8 p.m. All the tree limbs must be tied in bundles not over six feet long and all trash must be in containers not weighing more than 75 pounds. Pleasant View citizens are also asked to not allow dogs to run free without proper supervision. Citizens are also asked to be careful to keep t eir curbs and gutters free of debris mat could clutter the storm drains. Pleasant "I by Glen Perrins, Beacon Writer A long-tim- e favorite Mormon childrens song, I am a Child of God, with words by Mrs. Earl A. (Naomi Ward) Randall of Norht Ogden and music by the late Mildred Pettit, was adapted for presentation by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and was sung as a part of the april General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints. y The song has been popular with both children and adults in the Church since 1957, and recently, choir director, Jerold Ottley, learned that Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. President, Spencer W. Kimball had expressed a desire to hear the choir sing the childrens song. He immediately went to work to find a way to adapt it to a format compatible with the choirs style. 375-voi- North Ogden Kiwanis Club. Kiwanis give awards to sixth grade students The North Ogden Kiwanis Club honored nine outstanding students from Lomond View Elementary School with the Kiwanis Hope of America award. The Hope of America' award is presented annually to recognize those sixth grade students who have demonstrated outstanding leadership ethical and moral qualities, character, and academic abilities. Itecipients of the award are choosen 'y the sixth grade teachers with the approval of the principal. This years winners of the Hope of America award from Lomond View Elementary are: Rebecca Woodward and Brenda Money, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Money. Becky Aardema, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Aardema. Mary Dyer, daughter of Mrs. Herbert C. Dyer. Wendee Haglund, daughter of Mr. Wendee Haglund, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Haglund. Wendy Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Taylor. Michelle Sanders, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sanders. Cynthia Sahleen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Garry Sahleen. Lisa Guderjohn, daughter of Mr. Frl Jfcjrypv drew up lanes going each way, parking, curb and gutter and sidewalks. Many of the citizens living along that street expressed concerns about sidewalks and parking lanes. They said that may be the sidewalks would not be needed. McColley said that sidewalks are sometimes necessary for children to walk on and without them that the children would walk in the streets or in the citizens yards. He also commented that parking lanes were for the convenience of people. Other citizens said that they were afraid that all of the traffic would be directed down 450 East if the widened We dont anroad goes through. ticipate that all of the traffic will go down 450 East and some of the major roads-Wal- l Avenue, Washington Boulevard and Monroe Boulevard are proposed to come all the way north and south and that several roads are also planned to go straight though to the freeway, commented Wangsgard. Wangsgard also answered other questions that were asked by the citizens. He told them that most of the widened road would be built on property that city already owned, but that if it became necessary, the city would buy property. He commented that the city would be responsible for the road and not the state and that hopefully all of the utility cable s would go underground. The cost of the road comes out of the collector road fund which the city of North Ogden participates in. This is a state fund and all of the existing and gutters that have to be moved will After much controversy and many accusing questions, the mayor told the people in attendance that this w as just a proposal and to please dont make up our minds for us, the citizens will have input and we will let you know what will happen. Mayor McColley commented on the suggestion of one citizen that a citizens committee be organized and that the widening of the street be discussed He told the citizens that he would contact citizens to review the problems The matter of the topic of the forthcoming Weber County Board of Education meeting was also brought before the council. The council was told that the board is looking at three alternatives concerning the space problem at the Weber High School gym and that many citizens of the North Ogden-Pleasan- t View com- munity have drawn up a petition requesting that the students of Weber High School not be sent to the old Weber High Gym for activities. Councilman Alan Christiansen said, I think we have to let them know how we feel about the situation and make our presence known at the meeting. All of the other schools in the county get all the funds and Weber sits up here with nothing." The council passed a resolution that will be taken to the meeting that states that they do not want the students to have to go to the old Weber gym and that they w'ould support a recreation complex in the North Ogden area. The council also approved the septic tank clearance of Mark Christenberry and Lamont Hunt. They both met the requirements by the county and will not effect another water supply. North Ogden songwriter n at Lomond View Elementary won the "Hope of America Award" presented by The plans Wangsgard w'ould add seven additional feet to each side of the street and that would make it and 80 foot street with two be replaced, continued Wangsgard. He said that if no curb and gutter exist and they are put in, that the cost falls upon the property holder but that a unit price would be charged He commented that sidewalks would be something that the citizens and the council would have to decide upon Am A Child of God SHOWN HERE IS Utahs world famous Temple Square and the Seagull monument with the many spired Salt Lake Temple in the background. This is the heart of Salt Lake City and the Mecca for tourists each year from all parts of the globe. The Seagull Monument is a memorial to the gulls for saving crops of the pioneers during the cricket invasion of 1848. Mounted on a square granite base is a 16-f- t. Doric column, surmounted by a sphere upon which two gilded seagulls are alighting. The memorial was designed by the Utah-borsculptor, Mahonri Young. (Photo courtesy of Glen Perrins) THESE SIXTH GRADERS widened. City engineer, Lew Wangsgard, drew up a possible set of plans for the widening of the street. Mayor Eldon McColley said, We have not made up our minds about the street, the construction will not be in the near future and these plans were drawn up because you citizens wanted to come and discuss it tonight and these ideas are very preliminary." Mrs. Randall was asked to write two additional verses for the song, Dr. Ottley said. We then asked a gifted composer, Laurence Lyon, to work on an adaptation of the music for the choir. Lyon, in turn, had Lloyd Hanson develop the work into an anthem which we now call: Consolation: I am a Child of God." comThe public munications department of the Church says that the song had its actual premiere performance a couple of weeks ago during the choir's weekly international radio-TMusic and the show, Spoken Word. At that time Ottley said, We felt good about it. A large group of the ologians of many faiths were in the audience in the Tabernacle at the time. They were attending a symposium in the area. "As we were singing, many of these men were visibly moved by the concept of our relationship with God as expressed by the song. Some of them wept openly. The choir director says Consolation: I Am a Child of God" can well become a regular part of the choirs repertoire. It can be a moving personal experience if the listener can get involved in the text. I'm optimistic about its success. Mrs. Randall was present at the conference Sunday and was thrilled by hearing the anthem. When contacted Monday by a BEN LOMOND BEACON reporter she told how she wrote the words. I served as first counselor to Primary General 'President LaVern W. Par-mle- y from 1970 to 1974, when she was asked to compose a new song to be sung at the (cont. on pg. 2) Growth questioned BY WALT LEFLER Beacon Writer The city of Pleasant View will soon be facing the question of growth Members of the verses Pleasant View city council were told that unless certain steps were taken, the city has enough water for one hundred more hookups. At the regular meeting of the city council, Tuesday night, council members were informed of this situation by the Pleasant View Culinary Water Association Company. Members of the association were present at the council meeting and they requested that the city purchase the company and thus make it municipality owned rather than privately owned. Virg Richens of the association told councilmembers that an application for a loan of $580,000 was sent to the FHA. This loan was to be used to dig a new reservoir and enlarge the present water lines. The association was told by the FHA that chances of getting a loan were very small due to the fact that the association is privately owned and all municipalities have priority over it. If the council does in fact buy the water company, the city would assume an indebtedness of $179,000 plus the loan of $580,000 if it is approved. The water association has already applied for the loan in the amount of $580,000 not avails be until at least Oct. 1 and the city council approved a resolution asking the city attorney to draw up a letter of intent informing the FHA of the city's intent to buy the water company. Both council members and water association board members em- phasized that this letter is not binding because the sale of the company must be approved by a majority of the stockholders of the association. If in fact the city doew purchase the company it would then have to raise the water rates to make the company a body of the city of Pleasant View. The prevailing feeling in the council chambers was that the decision to purchase or not purchase the company is one of great importance to the city because with only enough water for one hundred more hookups and a monthly average of approximately seven hookups, the city will be very soon facing a zero growth situation unless positive action is taken. In other business before the council, the basic concept of the road construction improving the intersection at Pleasant View Drive and Elberta Drive was approved by the council. Mayor Barker was asked by city engineer John Reeve to file a request with the state to receive the funds to get the job completed this year. Council members voted to have the mayor sign papers accepting the sotrm sewer project as being completed satisfactorily. In business not on the regular council agenda, council members .were asked to support a petition beging circulated by parents of Weber High School students. The parents are opposing the proposed busing of members of the athletic department at the new high school to the old Weber high school. The busing is one of the alternatives the Board of Education is considering to ease the overcrowding at the new high school. Council members, after discussing the issue, decided that the petition was not something the city should act on as a body but as private citizens of Pleasant View. |