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Show 2A - Lakeside Review, Wednesday, March 12, 1986 options for library ROBERTREGAN Lakeside Review LAYTON Shopping for a brary is nothing like shopping for produce at the market And yet the coalition of Layton City and the Davis County Library Board is doing just that shopping for a library. They won't be squeezing the produce for freshness but they will be squeezing dollars to create a branch library in Layton. Even with a purse of about $1.3 million to spend on the project, the two agencies are looking for a building that is sale priced.. Presently there are two viable options for the coalition to consider, and the one that offers more bricks for the money will be taken to the checkout stand. The old Toms Super Save building, 280 E Gentile, is avail-- , able for purchase and rennova-tio- n now that Tom Winegar has moved his operation to 18 N Fort Lane. In fact the city has tendered an earnest money agreement with Winegar for the property. The other possibility is for the coalition to build a new, from scratch, library building. The city currently favors the grocery store renovation or a new building built on the corner of Hawthorne Drive and Wasatch Drive (Lancer Lane). We need to look at the costs (of renovation) and compare them to a new one, said Charles Parker, Davis County Library Board chairman. As it stands, its a middle line, he continued. One advantage of renovating the old grocery story is that a larger facility could be built for the same amount of money. The store is 4,000 square feet larger than the proposed new building. However, there is strong citizen opposition to that option. In a letter sent to Layton Mayor Richard McKenzie, the Layton Heritage Museum Board asked the city to consider plans made for a library several years ago. The letter stated that a U.S. Bicentennial committee of local people involved with the project had suggested a mu-sue- joint museum-librar- y ROBERTREGAN Review structed in modular design which allows for expansion. If the city is to build a library, LYNDIA GRAHAM m complex. A recent touch SUNSET of spring allowed the Weber and Davis County Canal Company to be ahead of the game in its annual battle against de- lib- rary-museum off-stre-et on-stre- et Lay-to- . i ' Prison). problems that are already there. We try to cooperate as best we can." he said. At the construction site the canal has an inch of water from seepage through the cracks and open spaces created when the old concrete was pulled up. Water has not yet been turned into the canal so the water is ground water. No one has determined where the water is from, he said. He cited a United States .Geological Survey that said there was very little leakage from the canal. Sunset is noted for its springs and high water table and there are problems with. We're hoping we can speak with the committee, Mrs. Bender said. We feel that we have not been represented. STOP is an organized group of Farmington citizens who are agai- - nst the jail facility being located in the city. The jail facility is a hardcore element and we dont want this element where we live, she said. Mrs. Bender referred to the jail as Point of the Mountain North." Dan Bender, a member of the STOP organization, in a tele Recreation east of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad tracks. A slide show containing information on the jail facility was to have been presented to the public Tuesday. After the presentation, residents were to be given the chance to respond to the slides and aske questions they felt had not been answered during the briefing. If the (recreation) board isnt doing their job, then replace us, he said. We want to keep politics out l From i ; i 1A ;bcrs. Sometimes they (comments) fall on deaf ears. I want to be sure the voice of the people is heard, he said. ; He (White) is not speaking for the majority, Osborn said. of the recreation program, Os- born said. A petition endorsing the recreation program has been circulating and will be presented to the Farmington City Council March 26 at the city council meeting. Workmen replace concrete lining on WeberDavis Canal fore water is turned on. high water and no storm sewers, he said. To help the people in the area last summer, the canal company allowed them to pump excess water into the canal even though there could be real that on a reguproblems-doinlar basis. We would lose control of the canal and be responsible if there were problems (like overflow flooding), he said. . The canal is turned 6ff if a summer thunderstorm lasts more than 30 minutes because the canal is a catch basin for E. Farmington City will provide funds to purchase batteries and to put the system back in operation, predicted Zippro. He continued to say the University of Utah will provide manpower to teach the operation and maintenance of the equipment. The county will provide a specialist to oversee the monitor. The system was debe a delivery system to signed and not a storm system. It is a tapered system that of starts with 300 second-fewater in Roy and ends with onor ly 30 second-feethe starting capacity, in Kays-villrun-of- f. et one-ten- t, th e. talks on cemetery LYNDIA GRAHAM Revew correspondent Is the Layton LAYTON issue dead and buried cemetery or should the city try to breathe new life into it? Thats a question that may soon be facing the Layton City Council. A cemetery committee was set up to look into the possibility of a Layton City cemetery, following years of problems with a now cemetery business in the north end of the city. Councilman Gerald Nebeker said Layton is now the largest city ill the county and still doesnt have a plot of ground to bury its dead. Layton deserves it, he said. It would j?e nice if we could have a cemetery so people who are bom and raised here can be buried here. It would be a ser- ) vice. But how to provide that service could be a real problem for Lay-to- n City. All the council members agreed they arent sure the city (should ' be in the cemetery busi- ness. j j ' It has long been established that a good location for such a facility would be on property that is un-- I der the Hill Air Force Base flight path. The strip of property cannot be developed into most types of residential or commercial developments because of the danger to residents. A cemetery would offer the kind of high density population we could have under the flight path, said Layton Mayor Richard McKenzie, with grin. But the location isnt the only problem. A cemetery would require an unending commitment and would have to be maintained much as any of the city parks are, involving quite an expense. Councilman Jerry Stevenson said, he had served on the cemetery committee before being elected to the council. The committee had approached private funeral n homes about a cemetery in and were told no one was interested because it would take at least 20 years to make any payback on the investment. He said with current lower interest rates, and since two funeral homes have built in Layton since that time, perhaps private development was more feasible. McKenzie offered to meet with both funeral home owners and discuss alternatives to the problem before reporting back to the council for further consideration of the issue. Do you Lay-to- have a CALL YOUR sV . si Al-- V-- iiR '16 V. V. ' ' V V...-- . Photo by David Thacker Firemen battle blaze at Layton home Fire causes $225,000 loss With the aid of It was first reported to the station as being a vehicle fire, Adams said. The call came in at 3:30 p.m., and when the trucks arrived at The fire started in the late af- the scene seven minutes later ,the ternoon at 2352 E. Country Oaks blaze was fully involved, he said. We had approximately 18 fiDr. in Layton. A vehicle located next to the refighters and two fire trucks at home caught fire, said Scott Ad- the scene, he said. ams, fire operations officer for During our response the had whipped the flames up winds Layton City. The flames were onto the wooden deck of the catchthen carried by the winds, home, Adams said. ing the wooden deck of the home It took the Layton City Fire on fire. 20 minutes to gain Department The house was unoccupied at control of fire due to the the the time the blaze occured. winds. LAYTON some strong winds, a vehicle fire turned into a house fire Monday, causing an estimated $225,000 in damage. Lakeside Review 2146 North Main St., Layton, Utah NEWS TIP? j f Lakeside Review The Lakeside Review is published weekly and distributed FREE by carrier Wednesday afternoon from Roy through Farmington. The Lakeside Review is a subsidiary of the Standard Corp. AREA CORRESPONDENT CLEARFIELD DARLENE MIX FARMINGTON JOANN CALLAHAN .544-815- 7 451-500- 3 LAYTON LYNDIA GRAHAM 544-442- 3 KAYSVILLE, FRUIT HEIGHTS RUTH MALAN 544-995- 8 SOUTH WEBER JUDY BLACKNER 479-411- 9 ROY ANITA KERSEY 773-635- 2 SYRACUSEWEST POINT ARLENE HAMBLIN Read The For Best Results be- Layton resurrects I 89 and Interstate 15, north of Burke Lane and south of Shepard Lane. 650 W. to 1 100 W. bordered Lane. Clark by North border of Clark Lane, the west border of 1525 West, . 1 by city residents ; . Some sections Of the con- -' crete-line- d canal are cracked and damaged, especially in the high water table areas of Sunset, forcing the canal company to make needed repairs. r ' When people have a problem with water in their basement they look for a water and there we are, source said Tom Hoover, manager of the canal company. he But were concrete-linesaid in defense against a com- de-;fun- ct dont know why they would a put facility of that size in such a populated area like Davis County, Bender said. Members of the STOP plan to lobby against the" funding of the facility when it is presented in a bond election. The final three proposed jail sites include the following areas in Farmington: The area between Highway eight-minu- te damage resulted from a leak in the canal. Referring to a high water table near a construction site at 500 N. 40 W. in Sunset, We dont want to contribute to the Jail sites opposed FARMINGTON Farming-to- n residents have expressed to community leaders their concerns over proposed sites for a future Davis County jail. local residents were in hopes of having their questions answered at a meeting Tuesday night at Farmington Junior High by either Farmington City or Davis Coun- ty Sheriff Department officials on the three proposed sites. Were prepared to ask questions. said Mitzi Bender, mem-- ; ber of STOP (Steps to Turn Off m mon accusation that water She said the setting is poor and the park site would make a much more beautiful setting, as well as being convenient and safe to use. She said the city did not need a building as big as the store and that a new facility would serve the community better. There are some aesthetic considerations to that site, it is true, but as of now there are only two options, said Mayor McKenzie. He also thought the idea didnt seem feasible to him because the land needed for the library and parking spaces is land owned by the Bureau of Reclamation and would need to be purchased by the city, he said. The preferred location for a new library is on the corner of Hawthorne Drive and Wasatch Drive (Lancer Lane). The city owns the land and still owns a set of building plans for a library on that site, he said. Its still a viable option. And that option still contrasts with remodeling the old store. Its more difficult to take a structure and make it look like a library than to start from new, said Parker, But we need to look at costs and compare it to a new one. According to McKenzie, county architects and engineers visited the empty store last week and city personnel would assess it this phone conversation with the Lakeside Review voiced some concern over the prison being used as a satellite to house Utah State Prison overflow. t' d, Lay-to- BRYON SAXTON ' cay.: Due to lack of funds a scaled-dow- n week. project was completed with . Information on those studies should be available by the first n the museum located in the part of April, he said. Commons Park. It was con Review staff Earth slipFARMINGTON Creek Rudd on page monitors will be operational this spring. If mud were to slide down the canyon, Farmington would have an warning from the . devices. ; The system is going to go, said John Zippro, director of emergency services for Davis County. The system could be operational within two weeks after next Wednesdays Farmington City Council meeting. ' The status right now is' that its not hooked up and the university (of Utah) has no responsibility for it, said Farmington City Manager Max Forbush. The university has installed the sensitive equipment so the city can prevent a natural disaster from mudslides and flooding. Our contract (with the university) has lapsed so were looking at options, he continued. One option the city is considering has been proposed by the Davis County Sheriffs Office. The proposal requires the city to spend $2,800 replacing equipment at a telemetering site at the top of Rudd Creek Canyon east of Farmington. Rudd Creek was the site of devastating mud flows in 1983 which destroyed and damaged several homes and forcing the county to build a debris basin at 650 N. 200 staff Review . staff ' ROBERT REGAN the museum board would like it built onto the existing Heritage Museum. They claim that a building of the size needed for a library could be constructed alongside the museum, and although joined could be owned and administered separately. Several advantages of a joint building were cited in the letter. The building would have a compatability of and functions, ample parking, convenient location to the high school, the senior citizens center, other city n recreational facilities and the city offices. It would also have the attractive surroundings of the park. Oma Wilcox, the chairman of the Layton Library Committee, called the grocery store site just awful. Canyon monitors readied Canal repairs Layton, county board discussing ....825-453- 1' NEWS DEADLINES: news and photos should be submitted no later than 12 noon Friday for publication the following Wednesday. 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