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Show ' LHKF ,,lvt STP UT A4107 Serving Pleasant Grove, Lindon and Cedar Hills Vol. 17, No. 45 Wednesday, November 8, 1995 50 cents a single copy To subscribe call 756-7669 Citizens The Citizens Party won all four seats up for election in the Pleasant Grove municipal election elec-tion Tuesday. Jim Danklef received 1,352 votes to lead all candidates. Kevin Walker received 1,100 and Robert Hicks 1,045 for the three four-year seats. Vic Hammond received 1,109 votes for the two-year seat. Challenger Ed Sanderson, who represented the Peoples Party, ran a strong race, receiving receiv-ing 1,016 votes - less than 30 votes behind Hicks. Other candidates for Ihe four-year seat were far behind. Lindon voters give to Hatch, Dain and Lindon voters elected Jerald Hatch, Jim Dain and Lindsey Bayless to the city council in Tuesday's municipal election. elec-tion. Unofficial tallies showed Hatch the top 7-year-old Curtis Clements, 7, barked out orders to the Pleasant Grove Volunteer firemen at a drill last week in which he served as the city's Fire Chief for a Day. Curtis' name was drawn out by Fire Chief Dennis Carter from about 4,000 entries from area elementary ele-mentary school children for the honor. Children at all of the Schools' had been asked to do a fir safety survey at their home with the help of their parents and return the survey to school. This was their entry in the Fire chief For a Day drawing. Curtis is a second grader at Grovecrest School. He was picked up by the big fire truck on Monday, Oct. 23, at 3 p.m. at the school and was taken to do a fire inspection at Taco Amigo. Owner Deanne Keetch treated him to a sundae as a bonus. He was then taken to put out a fire in a pile of rubbish near the rodeo grounds. He received his own fire helmet with his name on it and wore a firefighters coat before being handed the nozzle of the fire hose to put out the fire. He was assisted by Fire Fighter Deon Giles and between the two of them they managed to squirt Fire Chief for a Day chairman Gloria Swenson. Curtis also learned how to dispatch dis-patch the firemen from the public safely building, he toured the fire and ambulance facility, and conducted con-ducted a drill for the firemen that evening. He and his family were treated Grove Creek has always been synonymous with Editor note: This it the fint in a four-part teriek on the hit-tory hit-tory of Grove Creek and Grove Creek Canyon. By BETH B. OLSEN Grove Creek, named because a creek of water flowed out of the mouth of a canyon, took a southwest south-west turn with the contour of the land, and ran through grove of Cottonwood trees located on 200 above 450 East It was in that the first Pleasant families settled the fall and '1850-51. names usually stick, or long remembered. In i name became official. : suggested that in the . ; may have been called Pleasant Grove Creek, and since the grove was considered pleasant, it may well hare taken on the full It was late hi the eentey before white men bs3t their homes sear the entrance of Grove Creek . Canyon. In the meantime Indians . tryraKng tXeir familiar trafll nftan frightened children and adults. ' Bat occasionally Indian esconn-ters esconn-ters toned into fiurt friendship, especially when Indians stopped to South tois prove Grove winter! Origins at least, an this ease thi Ef5 Adanu party sweeps to victory in Incumbent Mary West , running run-ning on the Progressive party ticket as its only candidate, received 717 votes. Doug Mooneyham received 448 votes . id Gary Chapman received 432 votes. For the two-year race, Peoples Party candidate Mike Hatch received 876 votes. Danklef said he is excited to get to work. Hicks expressed surprise at his win. "No one is more surprised sur-prised than I am." Walker was unavailable for comment. Hammond thanked his supporters. sup-porters. vote-getter with 684, fol- lowed by Diane with 668 and Bayless with 505. Jeff Wilson received 313 votes and Scott Arbon 312. Between 30 and 40 per- named PG's Fire Chief Curtis Clements, fire chief fireman Deon Giles. to a chili dinner at the fire station before the drill. Here he received certificates naming him as Fire Chief for a Day and other awards. He received a plaque and his name will be placed on a perma made their temporary homes nearby. near-by. About the early 1870s, two young girls, Clara Herron and Mary Ann Fenton found adventure and enchantment from knowing an Indian woman they called Annie: r Who lived alone in her tent on the banks of Grove Creek. Her Indian husband brought supplies and placed them where she could easily get them, but the never let anyone touch her or come into her tent She was the victim of tuberculosis. tubercu-losis. One could see Annie's pulse beat in the top of her head. She knew she was going to die and she prepared her burial clothes. She thowed them to the girls white buckskin beaded with blue beads. : The sleeves and collar were beauU- : fully fringed. When she died, her people came and took her body away. She had wrapped herself , completely in her India blanket to save them from contagion. They Clara and Mary Ann had visited her often, taking her nice bits of , food end were fascinated by the sto-, ries the told them. Indians had little resistance to the diseases introduced to them by pioneers. As was Annie's fate, many others of "her tribe died ef the Jim Danklef support Bayless centof Lindon's registered voters turned out Tuesday to selecte a new city council. coun-cil. City manager Ott Dameron said the candidates candi-dates had conduced a good campaign. Photo by Marcella Walker for a day, gets an assist in putting out a brush fire from nent history plaque which is kept at the fire station. Curtis is the son of Brad and Geri Clements. He is the oldest of 'three children. He likes to read and build tree houses. water, adventure isms diseases that whites dread ed, but the whites became somewhat some-what resistant because of built-up ' generational immunities. Men, too, found adventure when they frequented Grove Creek Canyon, even in the winter. On Feb. 7, 1870, D.M. Smith, Charles Harper, Joseph Wadley and Joseph Olpin, all neighbors, went exploring explor-ing the area and happened upon a cave that concealed a hibernating . bean One of them headed down the canyon for a rope, hoping to catch the bear alive. But before the rope arrived, the bear was aroused by their noise. -: -f The men "stood ready with ax in hmit they having no other arms 1 with them, and as he emerged from the hole, they struck him so hard a blow that he fell to the ground, they then cot his throat with the blade of the ax He was the largest . "grizzle" they had seen more likely like-ly a brown bear). His skin equaled the size of a buffalo. (Sounds like a . bear stars bat it is true.) ; A great deal of adventure is still t sought in the mountains above - Pleasant Grove. Every new generation genera-tion seeks to explore each peak and crevasse. Bock climbing, repelling. :m P i ' si ir yspm Kevin Walker Jerald Hatch for a Day A scrapbook with pictures of his day as Fire Chief for a Day and other mementos was prepared pre-pared by Gloria and Camilee Giles who assisted Gloria in the fire safety program this year. and back packing, modern twists to mountain adventure, involve many more people in canyon use, creating creat-ing the need to provide specialized rescue workers just in case they are needed. Two years ago, September 1993, the steep walls of Grove Creek Canyon, appearing ideal for potential poten-tial accidents, became the scene of technical mountain rescue teams from Utah County Search and Rescue units who practiced a worst-case scenario. The scenarists, scenar-ists, working for national accreditation accredi-tation by the Mountain Rescue Association, involved technical equipment and medical knowledgeable knowl-edgeable members, as well as climbing experts. These people truly enjoy adventure in the mountains moun-tains while preparing themselves to serve others. Besides adventure, Grove Creek is notorious for its ravaging flood water, which brought adventure with it Of course there have been floods from other areas in Pleasant Grove as well Recorded in Neils Andrew Larson's history are two sentences telling about the first flood encountered by the settlers: See CREEK on Page S PG city Robert Hicks Jim Dain Cedar Hills voters elect Johnson, Cromar to council Cedar Hills voters elected incumbents Elizabeth Johnson and Ken Cromar in Tuesday's municipal election - in one of the closest elections Tuesday. Only six votes separated separat-ed Cromar from challengers chal-lengers Steve Kesler and Ray Leek. The results were verified in a recount Tuesday night, but the results are still unoffi-cials. unoffi-cials. Johnson received 224 votes to lead all candidates. candi-dates. Cromar received 189 votes to Kesler's 188 votes. Leek received 183 votes. G I. Z r V L I t?" -it- J' A er. 1,1 "N This spillway on GroTe Creek was built by the CCC. election Vic Hammond ' Til. Sl Lindsey Fayless Elizabeth Johnson Ken Cromar .- i |