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Show Pgt2 Thunday, September 14, 2006 NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU Impanogos Reva Bowen Tirnpanog'A Regional Hospital Hospi-tal will be extimdaig The Orem (jty Ojufx.il Tuesday Tues-day appr oved a code change to allow M f-t as the maximum height of structures in the Hov pttaJ lAerlay (HQ) if the underlying zones are If commercial com-mercial C3 or O zones, and fjO feet if the HO is applied to any other zone About 17 percent iA a planned hospital aiMrtum is within what was a kw -density re-.oVfial fc zone Without the oie change, thr height Jurat of that section would be 45 feet The piaf-d hospital expansion expan-sion will add two floors lo the existing fjospfial building at 750 West XOO North, with the overall budding height to be ) feet at the highest point There is a 240-foot setback from resident resi-dent ial properties to trie east Ojunulman Stephen Sand-strom Sand-strom said trial "the big issue" he had was thai when trie hospital hos-pital was f;rt proposed, fl was extremely controversial Oam-cihvornan Oam-cihvornan Karen McCandless was very involved at the time he said rjt as a member of the City Ojuncil, but as an area resident. He noted that rripr onuses were made particularly with the height issue and with a buffer zone to lessen the impact im-pact of the (jar king Jots NorthCounty NfWSrAPERS ' rt VcT'-',- ffejvjrrt Phone: W,-J'M Fax: Kirk Parkinson 443 -32 Vice twJflJPutMt ier Marc Haddock 443 320s ifcrtrtfoor.tyf.cto? TT.il- ii'J'J'A ij!".-- ''JltTa 'Jfi Cathy Allred 443 322 tefe, Sa'Xogn Springs, PI (jm Barbara Christiansen 443-324 A" .-' fo. Alfjtre. Chd& Mils is? f ft .tiet alcteA'a V' 1 Mike Rigert 443 -32 Beky Beaton 443 327 JosfiWatker 443 3200 Volume 134 .1 Sister Helen rVejean, a Catholic nun who wrote the book "Dead Man Walking," speaks about her exftenent es atun&tlmg a death row inmate during an addrem at UVSC Tuesday. -Yes," said MCandk-ss. "It was a compromise." Ste added that the neighbors were "extremely "ex-tremely concerned with the unknown." un-known." fwt said she can now Mipjxrt tte (i i'nA fmgH because be-cause of th.- 'MM'tA setback. CULT BEKALD rOILIIBHO CO, Jermette Espl'tn 7 -7&e3 Erin Stewart 344-28 DesigrwCofjy Editor Rachel Bendey 344-2570 DewgrwOwy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344- 2Jx!V Pr'tOloyarTier ''jij;j''t' p J'Jlry (VV ! '.ftK: INFORMED AND B-OespntLaO to mmmi ' ( jt t! H ..iff" "As a wigWxir who sat here all those meetings ago, working on this I'm comfortable with what they're proposing." Afjplicarit Brad Upsey, an agent for Timpanjgos Re-gtonaJ Re-gtonaJ Hospital acknrledged that the neighbors have had coTMX'rns arjout not increasing sound levels from mechanical equipment as a result of the expansion "We have slwn as Ixast we cjuld that we'd try to address the existing noise and not aId to it," Lipsy said, Timpaiyjgos also prm'uStd a parking traffic study, reviewed re-viewed and accepted by city erigineers, that justifies a 12J5 percent reduction in required stalls because the hospital's current parking exceeds requirements. re-quirements. 0 REM BRIEFS I Tro-phle prei-etrted Mks ami mm vwhefcldexSTa.com yeJlapoge$ 4 -. ' f f"fi i sly . , i n 1 lilt li -lK -At M n-,.r. ja-u,, ' INVOLVED Kimljerry Harris, Miss Orem pageant director, attended the Sept, 12 CJrem City Ojuncil meeting to present the council with a basketful of trophies awarded in 2005 and 2006 to the city's parade floats. boulter said Orem particj-paled particj-paled in ten parades this summer, sum-mer, including the Days of '47 parade, which gave the city the "Brigham Young Award" one of only two presented "We know that a float going down the street by itself would not have done it," said Mayor Jerry Washbura Thank you for representing us." I Resource officers in schools A contract between the City of Orem and the Alpine School District to provide police officers of-ficers in the city's four high schof jIs was approved by the Orem City Ojuncil September 12 The resource officers will continue to be stationed at Orem, Mountain View, Elvis Continued from Page I respective" Bob Cornier, a producer and first assistant director for Tears of a King," said the film centers around Presley on the night before his death in 11T77, looking back over his life and the choices he had made, "It's about a man, a good man who struggled and searched for redemption," Diamond Dia-mond said "He's reflecting on the things that were tmfiortant -'Kj-Vt-. annuls 1 Timpaoogos, and East Shore high schools. Public Safety Director Mike Larsen told the council that under terms of the contract, the school district provides 50 percent of the officers' salaries and benefits for ten months of the year at Orem, Mountain View, and Timpanogos, and 100 percent at East Shore for the entire year. Orem is responsible to provide vehicles and other equipment. In answer to a question, Lars-en Lars-en explained that the officers assigned to the high schof jIs also have responsibility for "feeder" schools the junior highs and etementary schools. He said the program benefits both the city and the school district. I Rezone okayed A 0.6- acre site at VM North 1200 West was rezoned by the Orem City Council Sept. 12 from the low-density residential residen-tial R8 to highway services (HS). A majority of the council supported the rezone because the site is designated regional commercial in the General Han. Councilman Dean Ditk-erson, Ditk-erson, the only dissenting voter on the issue, said he was concerned that the rezoning was being done in order to sell the property, "I would be more comfortable zoning, knowing what was going in there," he said City Attorney Paul Johnson said Orem has never required disclosure of intended use in rezoning matters. "We have always recommended that you (the council) make a decision to rezone based on whether or not the land uses are legitimate for that property," he said Councilman Stephen Sand-strom Sand-strom said he could understand Dkkerson's position, but was comfortable himself with the highway services rezone under the General Plan designation,, noting that the property is almost completely surrounded by similar zoning. There is nothing wrong with someone trying to maximize maxi-mize the value of their property," prop-erty," Sandstrom said in his life," including thoughts he apparently put down in writing writ-ing in Tr Book of Mormon. Scriptures Presley allegedly underlined in the copy of the brx jk were used in the film, he said Ninety percent of the movie, which cost under $ 1 million to make, was filmed in late August Au-gust and early Septernber at Creative Media Group in Orem, "It was an 1 1-day wonder," OjndersakL The retnairang portion will be filmed on location in Memphis, Term. Diamond and Conder said the though there's clefmiteh an IDS twist to Tears of a King," they believe its a film that will find general appeal with all audiences, au-diences, "Whether you're Mormon or not, you're going to want to see COUGAR EVENTS All EVENTS BEGIN AT 4 P.M. TILL 7 P.M. ML UVt ftMMte - Dot Wright wilt be breafcajr.g and jiying sft T Shirts, Game Tcf, Mats end much more,,, fRII Ajt Siide and Bounce House fcr tr kids FRET! Mac femous Fo68M foorm and try to wtn a BYUtft FRni Moose tee Coram Bars for everyone FfWEEI! Hfkm Eaftoor, for tri kids FRIO teeSfc Train ride for the kids FSSHf PwOirg for Prtz6.,.iin a prize for hofe in cm TOflH Banaoa Drtome mi race a banana for a free prize Hat De - Orfy t earJi Befiwrtf - $t,00 e5 eitrf WmVtm Com to sh of our ta&cithe for free food, . sample rJ f m Fire station Continued from Page I fighters there." The Irving quarters area and bathrooms at Station One are being rebuilt to provide pro-vide individual bedrooms and bathrooms for the firefighters firefight-ers who work 24-hour shifts, said Fire Chief Scott Gurney. Station One was closed in April when construction construc-tion work began and is on schedule to be completed in November. In the interim, firefighters firefight-ers and paramedics are temporarily operating out of Station Three, The basement base-ment area, previously used as Home Safe Home program pro-gram instruction area was converted to living arrangements arrange-ments by the use of screens to create individuals sleeping sleep-ing areas and a common room, Gurney said. "It's worked out very well," he said. Despite working two crews covering varying jurisdictions, Gurney said he hasn't seen any issues with decreased response times to calls for help. During Dur-ing daytime hours, crews are continually making trips and transports to Utah Valley Val-ley Regional Medical Center and Timpanogos Regional Hospital and coordinating calls. "If they're close, they'll take the call," Gurney said Earthquakes and gender-approfjriate gender-approfjriate living quarters aren't the division's only concerns con-cerns in a changing city. In 2005, Orem firefighters firefight-ers and police responded to a ajmbined 54,443 calls for service and the fire division's paramedics transported trans-ported 3,145 patients. And with developments like the behemoth Midi own Village project towering over .south-central Orem, Gurney said city officials and the City Council are keeping a close eye on growing needs. The city is aware that developments de-velopments that come along such as the several story-high story-high M kit own Village not only present challenges of breath, but also of height. "We've sent nine people to a course for high risehigh angle rescues and they'll come back and teach the rest of the shifts," Gurney said it. It's a man's spiritual quest and the mistakes he made," Diamond Dia-mond said. The film's producers considered consid-ered getting big-name talent for the movie, but ultimately decided it would detract from the dependent film's impact and message. Actors Brian Wtmmer, Jeff Oteen, and Jerry Hobtn appear m the film. A Utah native based In Los Angeles, Ange-les, Erin Chambers, portrays FrisriHa Presley. Tears of a King is scheduled to t released sometime tn 2007, the 30th armfversary of Presley's death. Diamond plans to show the film at several film festival prior to its theatrical release, More information and muiti-rnfedia muiti-rnfedia about the f ilm will be at www4earsofaking.com within the next few weeks- I ;r: 1 1 77? |