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Show t WEEKLY REFLEX-DAV- NEWS JOURNAL, APRIL 7, 1 977 IS Gary MaHan, president of G.M. Associates, speaking to the Layton Kiwams Club at their regular Saturday breakfast meeting at the Valley View Restaurant said studies conducted by his company indicates Layton is a good place for a shopping mall. Gordon Avenue and Antelope Road. Space will be devoted to use as follows: 28 per cent of the space will be women's wear, 10 per cent men's wear, per cent childrens wear, 11 per cent shoes, 4 per cent specialty foods, 3 per cent fabrics, 5 per cent restaurants, 5 per cent jewelry, 6 per cent music and records, 21 per cent specialty shops, 4 er cent card and gifts and on periphery food market, drugs and hardware.' 3 G.M. ASSOCIATES is a mall development consulting firm. The developers are planning to break ground in September, 1977 on 57 acre mall site in Layton. A May, 1979 opening is expected. The project will provide jobs for 500 people when completed. Cost is expected to approximate $15,000,000. G.M. Associates have helped in development of the Logan Mall and the Cottonwood Mall among others. THE DESIGN calls for low architecture in brick construction with complete landscaping. Major tenants are still negotiating for leases. Small tenant leasing will probably not start for about six months. Final plans and drawings will not be available until the three major tenants have decided on space needs and signed leases. Within the remaining space after final commitment is made to the major tenants, the plans and leases can be arranged with the small tenants, he said HOMCO Investment has acquired the property in Lay-to- n and arranged the zoning and will continue to own and lease the property following construction. Horne Construction will be the prime contractor, he said. The mall will contain 200,000 to 240,000 square feet of space for small shops. Another 200,000 square feet will be devoted to major department stores, three of which are expected to become tenants. RENTS WILL run from $5.00 to $9 00 per square foot. A competing plan for a nearby site is in earlier stages of planning by John Price Associates, who has applied for the same zoning on property immediately to the north of G.M. Associates site. Only one mall can be supported by the market area. A fight between these competing developers may delay development. SITE IS located near the intersection of the freeway off ramp and Hillfield road in the northeast quarant between Building Projects Dominate Davis Dist. Breeze Motta works on a culvert building project on his farm. This project has been partially funded through a ON THE FARM share the cost program with the federal government which seeks to help small farmers improve their land and School Board Meeting ditches. By ROSELYN KIRK Expanding building projects dominated the agenda of the Davis District School Board meeting on Tuesday. The board approved plens for preliminary remodeling a building at the Freeport Center to house Davis school buses, and instructed administrators to look for a school site in the Kaysville area and call for bids for a building at the vocational I center. COIIY BEAN Nominee For Explorer Regional Chairman Corey R. Bean, son of Mr. and Mrs. David E. Bean of Kaysville, was recently elected nominee from the Western Region Area II Explorer Conference to run for Western Regional Explorer Chairman. THE CONVENTION was held March 19 in Pocatello, Idaho on the campus of Idaho State University, where nearly 500 delegates from all over area II attended. As the nominee he will run against two other nominees in the Western Region on April Breeze Motta inspects early cabbages which are first seed ed in the green ouse before they are planted in the fields in April. Breeze and Dominick Motta grow three cabbage crops each summer on their farm in Layton, CABBAGE By ROSELYN KIRK Farming is always a gamble, A.D. Breeze Motta of Layton said, but this year, with only 50 percent of the normal agricultural water available for his vegetable farm, the gamble will be even greater. BREEZE MOTTA, who owns and operates the 81 acre farm in partnership with his -- brother Dominick, says they plan to plant the same vegetable crops as they would in a normal year. Well just have to be more careful with water than usual and hope. We'll take care of our ditches and only raise one crop if thats all the water we have. The planting on the farm started early. The Mot-ta- s planted their early cabbages in the green house and will transplant the cabbages in the fields in late April. cabTHE bages will be seeded in April and the fall cabbages by the end of May. The harvesting of the fall cabbages is not untii late October so the Mottas are hoping for rain this summer to extend their water MID-summ- The onion seeds were drilled into the ground on March 23 just before the snow. This snow will help. The onions wont be harvested until the middle of September and they need a lot of water, Mr. Motta said. IN ADDITION to cabbages and onions, the Mottas raise five acres of bell peppers, four acres of cauliflower, half of an acre of garlic, one acre of summer squash and five or six acres of leaf lettuce. All of these vegetable products are sent to the Salt Lake City market. Six acres of the land has been planted in barley, which does not require as much water as the vegetables and can be harvested in July. WELL BE taking a big chance by planting as usual, but then were hoping if we get a crop, prices will be higher this year due to crop failure in California. But I never plan ahead. When you're a farmer, you learn to roll with the punches. But in spite of the uncertainty, Mr. Motta does not plan to give up farming. He said he could understand why older farmers, whose sons did tUTu'IK WS Davis M 'O KDO'D not want to take over the farms, might want to sell them to subdividers. But I never thought Forms Conservation Committee In a time when energy and water conservation is much in discussion, we would like to have a short release in the Weekly Reflex stating that the Davis North Medical Center has formed a Hospital Conservation Committee. THE committee will be chaired by Dean S. Holman, administrator of the hospital, and will consist of representatives from Dietary, Clinical Laboratory. Housekeeping, and Medical Records, Nursing Services. This group will discuss and outline various ways we as employees and family members can conserve our vital resources. THE FIRST meeting of the Conservation Committee will be held April 7, 1977 in the hospital Conference Room at 2 pm. If any of your readers wish to submit suggestions to this committee for hospital consideration, they are welcome to contact Mr. Holmans office. Sincerely, Christina Poore Administrative Secretary doing anything except farming. I KEEP wondering where everything will be grown if all the farmers sell but." Breeze and Dominick Motta come from a farming farmer. Their father, Steve, began to farm in 1913 in Union in South Salt Lake County. Later they moved to a farm between Murray and Holladay, before buying the land at 2871 West Gentile in Layton in 1967. After Steve Motta died, Breeze and Dominick continued to operate the vegetable farm. Dominick has three daughters who help on the farm, but it is David, Breezes 18 year old son that his father hopes will take over the farm some day. An older son Jeffrey, is a mechanic and his daughter Cheryl isnt very interested in farming. FARMING HAS changed a lot since Breeze Motta used to go with his father to the farmers vegetable market m Salt Lake City located where the Hilton Hotel now stands I used to go with dad to the old market. There were two platforms with about 100 or so stalls around each platform When the market opened at 6 a m., a whistle blew and all the buyers came to buy." Now Dominick, who does the selling and delivery, has all the farm products sold by phone before he begins his deliveries in Salt Lake City. He sells to the commercial houses chains. Medical Center of and Its big grocery more practical, but not as exciting as the days at the market. BREEZE PREPARES the land and gets the vegetable crops growing. "Im not sure we how decided that Dominick would do the selling and delivery, but it just worked out that way. Farming was harder work in the old days. Now we have machinery and chemicals to keep the weeds from growing. But even with all the labor saving devices, the Mottas work from dawn until dark during the growing season. Dominick often gets up at 1 a.m. to take the vegetables to market in the summer. WORK BEGINS about the middle of March when the seeding begins. It continues until the middle of October when the last cabbages are harvested. During the winter, the Mottas work in the storage barn grading and sorting onions. The last bags of onions from last years harvest will be taken to the market next week, making room in the large storage barn for the vegetables which the Mottas hope will be harvested this summer. AFTER ALL the vegetables are planted, they must be weeded and irrigated. The weeding must all be done by hand, in addition to David and one teenage boy, the Mottas hire migrant workers to help with the weeding as well as the harvesting. Even though farming is a constant gamble. Breeze says it has advantages. You can be your own boss and do what you like. I like to be where things grow. It seems like its always the best farmland that the subdividers want to buy, but I dont think Id ever want to sell. Syracuse By VIRGINIA BENNETT 825-M- Mrs. William S. Holt will be hostess to members of the Club members on Syra-Lit- a 11, Monday evening, April and the commencing time will be 7 p m. Mrs. Ruby Michalicek will show films and relate her recent trip to New Zealand that she and her husband, Arthur took this past January. Also it will be election of new officers for the coming year's activities. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S Thurgood are back home after spending the past winter months in Anz. Miss Alma Delia Sanchez, of Mexico City, has been a guest at the home of Bishop and Mrs. Lawrence R. Briggs for the past two weeks. Miss Sanchez is a college and has been employed as a newspaper reporter in Mexico City. She is now preparing to serve a LDS Mission, leaving in the near future. graduate 12, 1977 in Washington, D C. at the National Explorer Presidents Congress. OVER 500 delegates from the Western Region are expected to attend the Congress in Washington, D.C. where they will also meet with the other five regions in the United States. On Wednesday evening, April 13 the total 2,000 delegates to the Congress will elect the national president. Should Corey be successful in his bid for the Western Region Explorer chairman election, he would then be one of six candidates to run for national office. COREY masterful March 18, LAUNCHED a campaign on using his Coreys Beans trademark in the form of a can label, and plans to continue on with the same theme in Washington, and in a mailing campaign. He will send an informative brochure on his platform and qualifications to the over 500 Western Regional delegates. ALSO ATTENDING the Na- tional Congress with Corey will be Mark Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. his Young, campaign manager, and Kent Slade, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Slade, both of Kaysville. His adult advisor, John Naegle will also be attending the National Congress. THE BOARD approved the preliminary plan, submitted by Architect Dale Minson of Minson and Halander, Salt Lake City, for remodeling the G-- 3 building at the Freeport Center. The preliminary cost estimate showed the remodeling project will run about $493,195, Mr. Minson said. The total worth of the building when complete will be between 2 V4 to 3 million, he estimated. After the preliminary approval, the project will be about three months on the drawing board before the board can call for bids on the construction. Mr. Minson estimated construction time on the warehouse remodeling at nine months. THE 120,000 square foot concrete block building will include storage and maintenance centers, in addition to the bus garage. Mr. Mindon said a 17,160 square foot area will be heated and include conference and training rooms for use in instructing the 70 to 80 bus drivers. The 70 district school buses and lawn equipment will be stored in the facility when completed, Superintendent Bernell Wrigley said. The building will also house a parts storage area, three bus hoists and oil storage equipment. THE BOARD questioned the demolition cost of $30,000 and the architects fee of $36,533, before approving the concept. Mr. Minson said a fire sprinkler sys- tem, which will cost $73,000 will be required for the entire building. Roofing and renovating the interior will run about $200,000, he said. AFTER review of an aerial map of the A Farmington and Kaysville area, the school board agreed that the best location for an elementary school would be north of Shepard Lane and west of Highway 89. They instructed administrators to look for a site in that locality. Superintendent Wrigley had indicated previously that the sixth grade at the Farmington Elementary School would be sent to Kaysville Junior High next year. He said if enrollment continues to increase, a new elementary school will be needed to relieve the overcrowding in the Farmington-Kaysvillarea. the East Farmington Bench, east of Highway 106, but rejected that site for the present. That location may be considered as an additional school site later if the area continues to grow, board members said. THEO ITALASANO, board member, specified that the school district work with the county planning office before deciding on the exact location for the site. Board member, Morris Hansen said the county might want to correlate park projects with the school site. In instructing the administration to call for bids for a second building at the Vocational School site in Kaysville, the board specified that bids be requested only if $227,000 in construction money is available from the Utah State Board for Vocational Education. SUPERINTENDENT Wrigley said Walter Ulrich, administrator of the Division of Vocational and Adult Education, had said the money is available and will be transferred to Davis District immediately. He said the district will need to fund another $100,000 to construct the building, which will house a building trades program. The drawings are ready, but bids will not be let until the district is notified whether they have qualified for a grant under the Economic Development Administration (EDA) of the Public Works Act, he said. ARCHITECTURAL drawings for the two buildings, one to house the Young Mothers program, have been completed by Sterling Lyon, Ogden architect. In other business the board promised to visit an area near Davis High which is being used for district bus storage to see if the area can be cleaned up. Mr. and Mrs. Shelton Lewis, 244 South 5th East, Kaysville, protested that the area, which adjoins their property, is being used as a garbage dump where old score boards, broken windows and discarded sinks are discarded. MRS. LEWIS said they have protested to the school board about the problem before, but the situation continues to worsen. She said the board had previously agreed to clean up the area. Superintendent Wrigley said the area in question, west of 5th East in Kaysville, is a part of the total property that has been purchased for the vocational school. LUCILE READING, president of the Davis School Board pledged to visit the site and make recommendations to the board. ASSISTANT Superintendent John S. White said Highways 89 and 106 in that In other business, the board voted to name Kay Anderson of McEwan, Terry, Wunderlee, Price, Anderson and Carpenter as the auditing firm for the district. ed. The board also considered a location on ON THE recommendation of Dr. White and DeWayne Jay, buildings and ground supervisor, they agreed a trade off of small parcels of property to contractor Del Holbrook at the Mueller Park school site in Bountiful. e general area made some locations unfeasible due to traffic patterns. He said the area located between Highway 89 and Highway 106 is too boggy, but said the water table is favorable at the site select- Kaysville Weekend guests of the Coulams were Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Orton and two sons, Robert and Davis also of Heyburn, Idaho. Celebrating birthdays were Eileen Stone, Tyler and Travis Thatcher. In attendance were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Stone of Clearfield; Mr. and Mrs. Tim Moultrie and children of Clearfield; Mr. and Mrs. Terry Thatcher and children of Holladay; Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Stone and children of Layton; and Mr. and Mrs. Wynn Hubrich and children of Centerville. Mr. and Mrs. Elton Hatch of Burley, Idaho were weekend visitors of their daughter and her family, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer K. Wmward. They also visited with Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Couiam while in Kaysville. SPECIALS SPRING US REDUCE INVENTORY HELP Saxony Carpet No-W- Sheet ax a Vinyl the Orton family organization reunion at their home over genealogy the LDS Conference weekend. They met on Friday afternoon for the reunion low sq installed 50 as ins ALSO brand, , Formica Sanitas Wall Coverings & Wallclad Mr. and Mrs Jesse Couiam held $T99 I yd - Dark Brown, Green, Tangerine Pratt & Lambert Paint 25 oit 5 off 1 WE CATER TO PROFESSIONAL PAINTERS msi |