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Show Page 2 OREM TIMES Thursday, April 17, 2008 NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED MATC, Brittani Lusk DAIU Mic.ALD For new faculty and staff at Utah Valley State College, there's hardly a place to unpack un-pack books and a few knick-knacks knick-knacks unless they can find a spare closet. In order to create more space, UVSC is calling in the lOUs. Mount ainland Applied Technology College has been leasing UVSCs West Campus west of Interstate 15 on Geneva Ge-neva Road in Orem for five years at the rate of $1 a year, but now UVSC is reviewing the agreement. "We would like to have the space back simply because right now it is really tight to even find space for classrooms," class-rooms," said Doug Warner, UVSCs associate vice president presi-dent for finance. In a version of the agreement agree-ment passed by UVSCs board of trustees last week, MATC will have to move out of the second floor of its current Orem campus and find a new home because UVSC needs the space for offices. MATC classes will still be held on the first floor. "Weiinderstand why we have to leave," said MATC spokesman Mark Middle-brook. Middle-brook. "They need the space just as much we do." Warner said the agreement still has to be passed by the MATC board, but looks as if it will become a reality. UVSCs expanding student population has created many space-related concerns. "We have a real space crisis on campus," said UVSC Presi- Home 'Continued from Page 1 with companies stepping up," he said. Although the companies started out with a small project, proj-ect, Perrett said more and more things came up that they wanted to fix or remodel. Workers brought the electrical systems up to code, installed a new furnace and central air and fixed up all of the bedrooms bed-rooms and bathrooms. "We've remade the whole house," he said. "We started out doing just a dining room, but we're a little bit of over-achievers." over-achievers." Under said several nonprofit NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS ' 399 E. State St Pleasant Grove Marc Haddock 443 3268 'North County Editor mhaddockheraldextra.com Cathy AHred 443 3262 lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. Grove callredheraidextra.com Barbara Christiansen 443 3264 American Fork, Alpine, Cedar Hills bchristiansenheraldextra.com Mske Rigert 443 3265 'Orem, Vineyard mrigertheraldextra .com Beky Beaton 443-3267 Sports tobeatonheraldextra.com Josh Walker 443 3260 Advertising Account Executive jwalkerheraldextra.com Volume 135 Oram Times Daily Herald Edition USPS 411-700 a weekly newspaner published ai 396 E State Bt., Pleasant Grove, Utah B4063 Periodicals postage paid at Pleasant Grove. 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Knowing that it is difficult dif-ficult for siblings to be adopted together, the Thills have taken in four sets of siblings. The Big Give organization was also looking for someone who would "pay it forward," and Linder said John is dedicated dedi-cated to the Utah Foster Care Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILT BEB1LD FtTBLIEBIKG CO. Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office 'Manager Julia Fullmer 344-2570 Project Coordinator, 'DesignerCopy Editor Allison Davies 344 2570 'DesignerCopy Editor Ashley FransceJl 344-2585 'Photographer Issue 16 review : (p m J - ;; ; Xi I ' Ml CRAIG DILGER Daily Herald School senior, does work in a computer lab at Mountainland Applied Technology College and Cisco Networking. Monday. positions and 66 new staff positions posi-tions for the next school year. Middlebrook said 17 employees em-ployees that currently occupy the second floor of the Orem building will be dividing and moving July 3 the same dav UVSC becomes Utah Val Family Retreat near Sundance. Cayce is also a peer parent to a woman who was recently reunited with her baby. The baby was fostered in the Thills' home. "They go above and beyond, they really do," Linder said. John said his family knew about a new dining room and had an idea about the new cabinets after workers came to their home to measure for the replacements. When the family got close to their home while riding in a limousine with a police escort. John said the lines of cars and people waving clued them in that something big was happening. hap-pening. But even the greeting of a couple hundred neighbors Grand building dreams lost ,X ulldozers are cleaning up jj 1 the rubble that used to be J a rniniature golf course near the Water 'Garden I J I Cinema 6 in Pleasant J 'Grove. It's been about two years since it served as a golf course. Its demise leaves only the movie theater, which entered the north Utah County scene with a bang in 1997. When the development was first proposed, it was with some fanfare. North Utah County had been without a first -run theater for decades. It was supposed to be an actual water garden, with lots of pools, fountain and walking paths. 'Once the theater opened, soon to follow was a steak house, which would be the first of five major restaurants in the development. The fact that the miniature golf course was built gave some hope that the development had the momentum to drive the building of at least one of the restaurants. We wen took the kids there early on to play miniature golf and walk around the grounds. The pools were there, and some walking paths, and lots of promise. 'Of course, the plans for Pleasant 'Grove's Water 'Gardens were never fuUy realized. Majbe some day a steakhouse wi be built on the site, hut right now the pile of rabble is just 'one more reason why we have become skeptics skep-tics when someone announces the next big thing for north Utah 'County. To be sure, we've seen a lot of neat stuff 'come along in recent years. Thanksgiving Point seemed like an unrealistic unre-alistic dream when Alan Ashtcm and Johnny Miller first stood on the dry dirt of the former Fox Farm and announced they would build a world-class golf course and world-renowned gardens on the spot. The saving grace for that particular project was that it was the brainchild of people who had both the money and the perseverance to make a dream a reality, rather than rely cm investors in-vestors to come up with the necessary cash. But even TlianksgTving Point has had disappointments. dis-appointments. 3 remember going to a high blown .press conference where developers announced an-nounced plans to build a huge shopping 'center around a theme of great ports of the world. kiliog lease ley University to either the MATC's Spanish Fork campus or American Fork campus. Middlebrook said staff will divide di-vide based on where they live. "The students will not even know anything has changed." Middlebrook said. "We will and a new color on the house didn't give away the surprise. "From the distance we thought they had just painted the house, and I just thought vOh my gosh, they got the right color,' " John said. When they got closer, he said he realized the home had new siding, and once he got to the middle of the lawn, he found new sod had been laid. The new dining room is a stark contrast from the area where a nine-foot and six-foot table spilled into the living room for the family to eat together. Now, the family can sit in one 20-foot by 12-foot room, which even has a family tree painted on the wal. just like in the old room. Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN 'Jf I ill just do a little bit more of phone conversation." He said he hopes the Legislature Legisla-ture will approve a new MATC building at Thanksgiving Point and in Orem in the next five years. Cayce said even with a couple of hints over their week at the Rockin' R Ranch, the family still had no idea what was to come. 'We kept getting e-mails on our trip that said, Wow; That's all they said" she said through tears. One of the Thills' children even had a special treat waiting wait-ing for him in the house. Jacob celebrated his ninth birthday Saturday, and Smith's donated a birthday cake. They jokingly told Jacob the wiiole remodel was for his birthday, which is his first with the family. "Just dont expect this for next year; Cayce told Jacob. The centerpiece of the project was a man-made river where shoppers 'could travel by gondola from one country to another, sort of like an Epcot Center on the water. Funding for that f eH through, and supporters were left up their artificial creek without a paddle. Similarly , plans to create a world-class commercial-residential 'center on the bones of Geneva Steel ran out of steam about six months after a development group announced them. Other efforts are underway, and Vineyard seems posed to explode any time now, -or maybe once the current housing crisis has sorted itself out. When I first moved to American Fork in 1982 there was talk about a massive shopping center in the west part of town, with talk about a major developer and a ZCM you remember ZCMI don you? as an anchor. It was 20 years before The Meadows became be-came a realityl anchored by Wal-Mart. It's proof that sometimes these developmental developmen-tal dreams come true, although not exactly as elegant as the original plan may have been. But just as often, it seems, the dreams die from lack of funds, 'or vision. So dont blame us if we wait for the heavy equipment to start preparing for a foundation before we celebrate the nine-story hotel John Hammons says he is going to build in Pleasant 'Grove, 'or the proposed Frank Gehry project Brandt Anderson claims north of Cabela's. What we are learning now as that just digging dig-ging a hole may not be enough. Many thought SuriOrest was foolhardy wben it was first proposed, and local communities commu-nities refused to participate, so the developers found a willing accomplice in Draper City. Now the developer has declared bankruptcy., and we are learning those same individuals may prove to be right. And the imfinished north tower 'df Qrem's Midtown Village, brought to a standstill by a shaky economy , threatens to become a bright yellow monument to unrealistic expectations. At the Water 'Gardens, they are burying the evidence of optimism, and in the process, teaching us all that, in the future, skepticism may be the best policy. Fire Continued from Page 1 patch services will be provided pro-vided to Lindon's new police department in connection with the fire department "Orem has offered us a partnership. We're not just renters anymore," said Lin-don Lin-don City Council member Jerald Hatch. "It gives us as a city a better opportunity to prepare." This will be the first time the city of Lindon will have full-time emergency services provided to them, "The thing that matters is the people, not the provider," said Dave Lesser, a Lindon resident and member of Qrem's Department of Public Safety. Scott Gurney, the Orem Fire Division chief, said that Orem is now in the process of hiring new personnel to fill the new area After the Orem station is remodeled, the two cities will come together and decide how to fill the equipment equip-ment needs, Gurney said However, Orem has a back-up engine that will stay at Station Three while another fire engine will be transferred to Lindon's station. sta-tion. That engine is 10 to 12 years old, and some questions ques-tions were raised concerning its condition. "We keep ours in operation op-eration and running for 21 years," Gurney said. "There are stations around the country coun-try with ones a lot older than that. It all depends on the maintenance and upkeep of the vehicle." The new partnership will take effect starting July L. The new Lindon station will help the city of Orem, as the stations will respond to emergency emer-gency calls as they come in to which ever station is closest clos-est in proximity. Gurney said that if a catastrophe catas-trophe occurs that calls the Lindon station into Orem and something happens in Lindon while the station is out, it would be no problem to have other stations in the county respond across city borders to situations that require assistance. Statue Continued from Page I man-powered swing. Marvin Nelson of Maple-ton Maple-ton is the sculptor who created cre-ated the statue. The design was chosen from several ideas submitted by Nelson, with the Orem City Council giving final approval to the concept recommended by the Historic Preservation Commission. Com-mission. The statue depicts a kneeling kneel-ing Jorgen Nielsen, holding a shovel and a plant ready to be set in the soil. Nielsen was the "designer, developer and proprietor" of Nielsen's Grove, and he cared for the property himself clearing clear-ing the land and laying out the gardens, according to a history written by Nancy Calkins, a landscape historian histo-rian who studied the site. The $13,70X3 work of art has been paid for through a grant from Orem's Cultural Arts and Recreation Enrichment Enrich-ment f(CARE) tax funds. The installation, the base and maintenance costs will come from the city's budget. . The idea for the statue arose when the commission was considering its upcoming upcom-ing restoration of Jorgen Nielsen's ice house, said Asa Nielsen. "Someone suggested the iJorgenil Nielsen statue, and we started to talk about ft. There was the grant, and the ideas submitted, and we chose the 'one which we Felt best portrayed tnm," she said, ft was a joint venture by ev-eryone." t think we always wanted fthe staroej," said farnara Beardal, who, along with Sarah WTlcox, has been the city 's clerical support f or the Historic Preservation Cemmission. "ft needs to be in that park, because that park's about Jorgen 'ILearning about it and researching it, I think irts a food fit,-' said Wilcox of the statue. "It makes '(the park) complete. You can put a face with the park it personifies personi-fies it." t |