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Show Page 2 0 R E M TIMES Thursday, June 26, 2008 NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU Orem, Lindon ink firedispatch services deal Reva Bowen NORTH COUNTY STAFF Orem has finalized its agreement with Lindon for fire, emergency medical, and dispatch services an agreement agree-ment that Orem public safety director Mike Larsen said is fair and beneficial to both parties. par-ties. "It's as if we're treating a joint service area here, with Lindon providing that station," Larsen said. Through the contract approved ap-proved by the Orem City Council Tuesday, Lindon obtains ob-tains fire, EMS, and dispatch services for its community, and Orem receives better coverage cov-erage for those services in the north part of the city. The agreement has Lindon providing a fire station that will serve its community and north Orem. Orem supplies staffing of 12 full-time fire-fight fire-fight ers'paramedics, three dispatchers dis-patchers and supervisors. "The staff are our employees, employ-ees, and they operate under our direction," Larsen said. "The agreement defines the line of authority very clearly." If all of Orem's fire service resources are taxed at any given time, the cities will rely on mutual aid agreements with other communities. McDonald's Continued from Page I each other and younger siblings sib-lings often got jobs working alongside their older brother or sister, VanLeuven said. Employees Em-ployees dated each other, some relationships evolved into marriages. mar-riages. There were also tales of kids making out on the break room sofa and one infamous incident in which several teeas were caught skinny dipping in the SCERA pool after closing the restaurant. KayLynn Palmer, who started start-ed working at the McDonald's when it opened at the age of 20, said the employees were close-knit and would often get together after hours to go roller skating, dancing or pile in car to go to the drive-in movie theater. the-ater. 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Audit 'Bureau df Circulations cHseedte asm, , Utah Lindon will pay an annual fee each fiscal year for the services. The initial amount for 2008-09, which includes start-up costs, is $1,177,955. The fee reflects a reduction this year, because Orem is closing its Fire Station 2 for remodeling, a circumstance that will require an increased service load on the Lindon Fire Station. The contract states that only the cost of first-year employees is included in the annual fee, "even when Orem provides Lindon with veteran, more expensive employees to perform the services required by this agreement." Larsen told the council that with the construction of Orem Fire Station HA. to be built over the next year, and the new contract with Lindon, Orem will have "very, very good coverage." BRIEFS Orem supports Lindon Hollow Hol-low project Lindon and Orem are joining forces to purchase the property to maintain an historical drainage drain-age known as the Lindon Hollow Hol-low ditch. The cities also plan to construct an urban trail through the area. The 13-acre wetland area she said. "People met their husbands and wives. I w eni through a marriage, baby and divorce all at McDonald's." Debbie Lauder Woolf , a close friend of VanLeuven, said she and her husband Tim figured out they had strangely met at the McDonald's before they knew each other without realizing real-izing it. "When we were dating, his voice sounded familiar ... This was one or two years after I worked there," she said. The couple eventually deduced that Tim had come in regularly regu-larly to eat there with his ski patrol buddies in the years she worked behind the counter. "I recognized his laugh," she said. Brent White, a classmate of VanLeuven who is now lives in southern California, worked at the restaurant beginning his junior ju-nior year of high school and on into college. He said the dating Phone:756-7669 Fax:756-5274 DAILY BEBtlD PUBLISHING CO. 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Workshops are for all levels, ranging from beginning begin-ning classes for the youngest dancers, ages 5-7, through Advanced Ad-vanced levels for teens. Workshop classes are taught by Academy of BaJlet faculty and guest instructors instruc-tors Mark Lanham, who has performed with Ballet West, San Francisco Ballet, and Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet; Stephanie Parker, who recently concluded a nine-month nine-month contract with Cirque de Soleil; Kim Pritchett, who has performed with Jose Mateo's scene was huge and the social atmosphere was even larger. "You knew what was going on, knew what had happened between this guy and this girl, and that this group of guys was going racing," he said. "It was kind of '50s retro." White remembers the ugly 70s orange and brown polyester polyes-ter uniforms they wore and to this day, when he walks into a McDonald's location, recalls the distinct odor of the fast -food joint. It was during their stint at Mickey D's in the 70s that signature sig-nature McDonald's items such as drive-thrus. birthday parties, Happy Meals, chicken nuggets, and breakfast menus came into being. One night, the employees all got together after closing hours and prepared a massive formal dinner, White said. Another time, eight employees conspired to take a kid named Scott's Setting a etting a new w orld record re-cord for the Guinness Book of World Records tsnteasy. So when the organizers of the Saratoga Splash set about trying to get 2.O0O people together to-gether for the world's largest water gun fight, they had to know it was a long shot. It was all for a good cause. The event was planned to raise funds for Cassie Cox, who is starting chemotherapy che-motherapy for the third time in four years for an inoperable brain tumor. Besides, you wouldn't think ft would be that hard to find 2.0QO people peo-ple who wanted to get wet when the temperatures are in the 90s. But on Saturday, when the last squirt gun had sqfukted, event organizers figured only about L4O0 turned out f did my part, taking my wife and four grandkids, three of whom were old enough to count (You had to be six or older) We had planned ahead by buying new sqpiirt guns with a lot of water storage and enough power to hit a target at a far distance. Here are some of the things we teamed: 1. It tales wamzatiro to set a record. The Ouirmess people are very picky, and demand an accurate count of those who participate it an event. Everyone who wanrtedto jaminthe squirt gum fight had to register and then obtain a wristband. Even people who had registered on-fee had to get a wristband, al df which took tine. The actual fight didta start urtti almost 45 raimates sifter the announced start time. 2. ft's tough t wtanMfe l,0fl pecfte wrt water ptstcs. Vm not saying the crowd was imrdry, but I was soaked long before the fight ever started. In order to set the record, we were divided into two teams, separated by a tlireeieter'i man's land.' WMe we waited in the sua, many people got itchy trigger (fingers. Many dfthent aimed their pistols at the back df my head. J. oie Totes ovt t son pecpm wets rsy r. Kifls jast tove to sfiirt gramdpas. I had 1 source of local INVOLVED Ballet Theater in Boston; and Kristen Wilkinson, a former soloist for American Folk Ballet, and a member of the Los Angeles based modern dance company, the Posthouse Dance Group. All students in the Summer Sum-mer Intensive Workshops will have the opportunity to perform in the Pioneer Legacy Pageant, held in the beautiful outdoor Springville Arts Park, on July 24-26. Workshops will be held in the Academy of Ballet studios, located in Lehi, Lindon, Orem, and Springville. For more information visit academyof-ballet.net, academyof-ballet.net, or contact Lynne Thompson, at 225-1775 or ly nneI balletutah.com. Twilight Tales Twilight Tales is a free family story time held each Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. downstairs at the Pleasant Grove Library. No fee or registration is required. re-quired. The themes for the month of July are;, I July 2: Barnyard fun I July 9: The Orkin man (bug killer) is coming I July 16: Bean Museum presentation pre-sentation I July 23: Ice cream I July 30: Magic bright yellow Volkswagen Beetle Bee-tle and literally carried it into the shed in back that housed grease cannisters. "The guy came out after his shift and there was literally no way we he could get it out," White said. "It was the best and most memorable pranks I've ever done in my life." Woolf recalls someone dropping drop-ping a smoke bomb into her Toyota Corolla "My heater didn't work all winter," she said Another time she was doing inventory at night and accidentally acciden-tally dropped her pen into a vat of French fry oiL "I instinctively put my hand in," Woolf said. "1 sat with my hand in a glass of ice water the rest of the night." Yet some of the old crew were saddened when they learned recently that the restaurant s current owner is planning to tear down the exist record not so easy J Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN The Ultimate Combat Experience Experi-ence and addiction motor sports of Orem team up to raise money for BACA The Ultimate Combat Experience and Addiction Motor Sports of Orem teamed up to help raise money for Bikers Against Child Abuse. Addiction Motor Sports will be sponsoring a ride from their showroom in Orem to the E Center for the Ultimate Combat Experience event on Saturday. The show will feature Former For-mer UFC World Heavyweight Champion Ricco Rodriguez. During the intermission, Addiction Addic-tion Motor Sports will be giving away a street -legal mini-chopper to the lucky winner of a raffle. Raffle tickets sell for $1 and are available at Addiction Motor Sports, Ultimate Combat Training Center, or at the E Center the night of the event. BACA was founded in Utah, and is organized on behalf of victims of Child Abuse. The Ultimate Combat Experience, also a Utah-based company, and its partners at Addiction Motor Sports of Orem, have committed to raising money for this great cause. For information about this event, contact Mike Stidham at (801) 755-7843 or uce?mac. com. ing restaurant this summer and build a larger, more modern store complete with a Play land on the same spot. For VanLeuven, it made her want to renew those past friendships friend-ships and associations with friends and coworkers wtth whom she had shared so many fun and memorable moments. "AD these emotions are going through me," VanLeuven said. It's not really sad but that ft kind of ended those things that people didn't know about." Woolf and VanLeuven say they still have dreams that they're still working at McDonald's. McDon-ald's. White said his McMemo-ries McMemo-ries are something he'll always carry with him. "Now, it's a job. You go there because you hive to work It wasnt work for us. It was our social life," VanLeuven said. " You felt that if you didn't go, you would miss (out on something." running battles going with four or five kids who would sneak up behind me, squirt me, and then retreat into the crowd-It crowd-It was OK, because I could usually find the kids and douse them, as well as the person they were hiding behind. be-hind. That only seemed to encourage them to come back for more. I get the same response at playgrounds play-grounds when I'm chasing the grand-kids grand-kids around the big toy. More than once a kid I've never seen before calls me Grandpa, and tries to join in the fun. 4. firehoses pack a lot of pnwdL Event organizers were wise in setting up several inflatable swimming poob to serve as refilling stations. But once the rrht was on, anyone who needed to refill a gun had to brave the fire hose to do so. Firefighters were set up on the perimeter of the battlefield, dowsing anyone who came near. This seemed counter productive. We had to fight for five ininutes to attempt a world record, re-cord, and that mean! everyone had to retlS two or three times. I got a lot wetter Tiffing up than I ever dd on the front fines and I spent al the time I could in the front fines. And not everyone it the fight wanted to get drenched in the coW water. The fire hose dampened my wife's spit, and sent my 4-year-dld granddaughter, Ahson, to the rear where she could wrap up it a towel and recover from the dowsing. Her oMer brothers and a cousat cSdnt seem to nsrad at al. And when we its MB tied the ds .ig grand-kids grand-kids to titer parents, AJyson was ful of fun stories about the water pistol fight and her part m i But the fire hose seemed excessive. 5. If at first ye &m sveceed We caiaTt break the record, but we stiffl had a blast WMt the lessons learned front this year's water gun fight, I the the Sarattoga Splash organizers ought to go for the record again next year, and the year after, If necessary. We were so close to making history . A few more water pistoteros, and the record could be ours. news Reservoir Continued from Page 1 Despite water conservation conserva-tion efforts, Orem residents who use roughly about 9 to 10 million gallons of water per day during the winter, use about 55 to 60 million gallons of water a day during peak summer usage, mostly for irrigation, ir-rigation, he said. Going back in the city's history, District project manager David Richer said Orem's first two water tanks held only 2 million gallons a piece. They were located very close to where the new tank now stands. Engineers and contractors were able to maximize the limitations of the site of the new reservoir to construct the massive drum-shaped reservoir with the highest capacity possible, he said "This is as big as we could make it," said District project manager Cort Lambson. The water tank, he said, will provide Orem extra breathing room during peak summer hours and provide Central Utah Water with a backup supply if the water treatment plant is temporarily dowa Rick Wheadon of Carollo Engineers said designers grappled with several problems prob-lems with the site including the steep hillside, its compact footprint size, and issues of where to store and then replace re-place tons of displaced soiL "The question we all restrained re-strained ourselves from asking ask-ing was "You want to do what with this site?," he said. If people consume the recommended 64 ounces of water per day, that's one-half gallon of water. Pitcher said That would mean, theoretically, theoreti-cally, a supply of 20 million gallons should be enough to sustain a population of 40 million mil-lion residents. Though they dont anticipate a future population popu-lation that large. Pitcher said even Orem city's allotment of the water reservoir, 10 million gallons, Is technically enough to support 20 million people. "There's enough water corning out of Provo Canyon that it would fill the tank in an hour," he said. Rezoning Confirmed from Page 1 ect George Pmckney felt there were "density and likeness-issues likeness-issues that would make the development wrong for the surrounding area of single-family single-family homes. He said North-ridge North-ridge Elementary School enrollment Is declining and ' "adding more of this type of housing" does hot address neighborhood needs. "We need to keep to core principles of Orem as a family fam-ily -oriented community," Pinckney sakL "To me, the twin homes look just like duplexes." said Glen Alder. "It doesnt fit with the style of home that's there. There are safety issues with that many drivers in that small of an area." Kelly Seale said she had heard that the development would be a retirement com-munty com-munty and the neighborhood needs families with young children. "I have a feeling this is akeady said and done despke our feelings about it," she said. Greenwood said sales of the twin-homes would not be Kmied to those of a certain age. Qry attorney Paul Johnson advised the council that t would not be appropriate for them to take isto account "popuSatrng the school" or mak ing a decision tsed on the possible ages of t he development's occupants. "We are gettfeg into a hafc," sasd Couirdfean Dean Dkkerson , "that every big peoe of property in Orem we wart to rane ft PRD." Ccuncarnan Carl Hernandez Hernan-dez said he is a "my, very strong property rights pro-poneit," pro-poneit," but is "struggSng a Bile bit with ths issue be-csuse be-csuse the devTlopmert woxid be "right snack dab it the taiii31e of a residential zone. Mayor Jerry WasJ-foum said he and his wife are now empty Htiesters. I hepe that I mx3dld not be iperoaved as a faratiy." Empty oesters are BUM jaal-fied jaal-fied to fve it Faens2y Oy USA.hesaal tOITOMAt www.herat d extra |