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Show The problems of growth When the founders of north Utah County communities built their first dugouts and log homes, it is unlikely they ever envisioned mansions high on the hillsides of Utah's fastest growing community in dry Cedar Valley. But the demands of the growing population are resulting in homes built in places previously thought uninhabitable and bringing new kinds of problems with it. A good example is the current dilemma over providing sewer service serv-ice for SunCrest, a development planned for the Utah County portion por-tion of Draper City. When developers proposed the idea of building homes on Traverse Mountain, Utah County communities communi-ties scoffed at the idea and sent the developers packing. So they took their plans to Draper, who embraced the development and promptly annexed part of north Utah County into the Salt Lake County city. It was a solution that has created creat-ed repercussions, and hard feelings, south of Point of the Mountain ever since. As construction has started on homes in those hillsides, the feelings have been heightened. However, a recent request by developers asking the Timpanogos Special Service District to treat sewage from the Utah County part of the Draper development is forcing forc-ing the county to take a new look at how we deal with the inevitable growth headed our way. The bottom line is this: People are going to continue building homes along the Wasatch Front, and as we run out of conventional building sites, developers will find new and creative locations to build houses. The challenge now facing our population will be to embrace this growth in ways that minimize the impact on existing communities while providing essential services for all who choose to live here. SunCrest presents problems because the annexation of Utah County land into Draper appropriated appropri-ated control of land that tradition- Joseph, dinner well done We get too busy in our lives and we miss out on some of the opportunities to stop and smell the roses. I found this out recently when I attended the Chamber of Commerce Com-merce Recognition Night at the Little London Dinner Theater in Pleasant . Grove. Following the Recognition program and dinner we were going to be treated to a performance of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat." I had been really looking forward for-ward to this event for several reasons. One was that I had been a member of the Chamber of Commerce for many years and last year was awarded a Life Time Membership and since they had supported me in such a way, I wanted to support them. On top of that, I had been to the Little London a few times before and I knew that the food is out of this world. The chef just so happens hap-pens to have done the catering for all my daughters' wedding receptions and I knew how good he is. The next reason was the most compelling, actually. I had never seen this popular musical before and I really wanted to see it. After a delicious dinner, the presentation of The Man and Woman of the Year in Pleasant Grove and Lindon and the recognition recog-nition of the Business of the Year, we settled in for great entertainment and we got it. At the first of the show the announcer said that they had hired the national road company of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat" but their bus had become lost and they had not been able to locate it for two days. He said that for that reason they had asked the Convent Sisters from Ogden to come and show us how they present pres-ent Bible stories to children. You won't believe this, but I Pleasant Grove Review NewUtah! (ISSN No. 1521-6861) (U.S.P.S. No. 435-780) A member ot NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION Pleasant Grove ReviewLindon New Utah! - Wednesday, ally has been considered "ours." That makes it very hard to help the developers who how want to make a return on their investment by building and selling homes there. But the options are few. One would be to admit Draper as a member of the TSSD, with voting vot-ing power on the board, or at least for Utah County officials to deal directly with the Salt Lake County city. A second would be to create a special service district on the Utah County part of SunCrest which drains naturally into Utah Valley. The TSSD could then contract with the new special service district keeping Draper city out of the operation oper-ation of the existing wastewater treatment plant. The third would be to pump the wastewater from SunCrest back around the Point of the Mountain to be treated in a Salt Lake County wastewater treatment plant. This is not economical nor environmentally environmen-tally desirable, but it will happen if one of the other two solutions is not agreed upon. Members of the board of directors direc-tors of the Timpanogos Special Service Ser-vice District accepted the inevitable last Thursday when they voted last week to not oppose the second alternative mentioned above. In Tuesday's meeting of the Utah County Commission, however, it was learned that this political compromise com-promise may not be enough. Some commission members expressed doubts about creating a Utah County special service district inside the boundaries of an existing city especially when that city is Draper. What that may mean would be dealing directly with Draper the most practical yet least politically popular option available. There are no easy answers here, and no solutions that will make everyone happy. It is, however, an opportunity for Utah County to set the tone for dealing with similar problems that are sure to accompany the coming growth. bought it. That is , I did until the first nun came out and her eyes and makeup were exquisite. I leaned over to Betty Memmott and said I had never seen nuns with that good of makeup before. The show was wonderful. The music was delightful. The costumes cos-tumes were colorful. I hated to see the show end. It moved along at such a quick pace that there was no time to be distracted or anything. The cast did a superb job. Their voices were wonderful and the staging of the musical on such a small stage was a work of art. When the show was over and we were walking out of the theater, the-ater, I told owner Suzanne Kirby that it was a great show. She replied, "It is amazing the wonderful won-derful talent we have right here in Utah County." I agree with her. I did not recognize rec-ognize any of the actors in this musical, although a couple of them looked familiar, but Utah County is filled with excellent performers and we are very fortunate for-tunate to have such talent in our area. Finding actors who also have excellent singing voices is not always easy but this cast was great. If you have not been to see this production, try not to miss it. Even if you have seen "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat" somewhere else, you will enjoy it again. The music is the kind you can listen to over and over again and the message is a very good one which is told in a most delightful way. Published weekly by AewialiAews Qroup 59 West Main American Fork, Utah 84003 Opinion Gasoline is There's some kind of fuel war going on in Pleasant Grove and I think it's the drivers who are winning. win-ning. On Friday I filled up my Plymouth Ply-mouth Voyager van with gas that only cost $1.09 a gallon. It was at the Hart's in downtown Pleasant Grove. I first noticed how cheap it was Wednesday night as I was driving home from the Chamber of Commerce Com-merce Recognition Banquet. I saw the sign that said $1.09 for regular regu-lar unleaded and I immediately pulled the car into the station to fill up the car. I thought the sign must be wrong, who would sell gas for $1.09? Maybe the station was out of three's or two's and just used a 0. What I had forgotten that night however, was that I was driving my husband's Honda, which was already full of gas, no doubt bought at some other more expensive expen-sive station. But I still pulled in anyway and checked out the price at the pump. Sure enough, it really real-ly was $1.09 a gallon. I looked at the Conoco across the street and they were still right on with everyone else at $1.31 a Old photos I have a soft spot for old photographs. photo-graphs. I have a box of old photos in a closet at home. I'm not certain how the pictures came to me, instead of to one of my older brothers. broth-ers. I go through them from time to time, looking at pictures of my father as a baby, and as a young man, and at photographs of the grandparents I never knew. My parents were both the youngest children of large families. fami-lies. My father had eight older brothers. Mom had two older brothers and six older sisters. I am their youngest child. By the time I was born, only my mother's moth-er's mother was still alive. She died when I was four, and any personal per-sonal memories are very dim. . The pictures of Grandpa Dunn, with his violin and bass drum, which he apparently played simultaneously, simul-taneously, are both precious and mysterious. My mother talked about him often, but I didn't know him. One of the most interesting is a picture of my father's father as a young man, posing with a group of other men on the Main Street of Paris, Idaho. Handwriting on the back of the picture identifies the group as the Bear Lake County Democratic Committee. It explains a lot. I don't know the people in the photos well, but I know their children chil-dren very well. They raised me. And that makes the photos priceless. price-less. The pictures of these strangers who are also ancestors creates an extraordinary connection with the Voting a state issue Editor: Senator Orrin Hatch, speaking speak-ing to CNN, stated on Dec. 11, "We will begin hearings very soon to study these problems and recommend a national standard stan-dard for all states; and funding, perhaps some funding will also be available where it is needed." There is no provision in the U.S. Constitution granting power over elections to the federal fed-eral government. The election process is the jurisdiction of the states. What would remain of our federalist system, with its emphasis upon the reserved powers of the states, if Washington Washing-ton were to be given uniform control over the election process? Isn't this just another example of federal usurpation from the States of State powers? Isn't this attempt by Orrin Hatch and others to federalize the election process another example of ongoing centralization centraliza-tion of government powers under the federal government? Couldn't a uniform federal Telephone Numbers Advertising & Circulation 756-7669 News 756-5273 Publisher Brett Bezzant Managing Editor Marc Haddock City Editor Karli Poyfair Subscription price S24x per year Periodicals Postage Paid at American Fork, Utah . POSTMASTER: send address change to 59 West Main, American Fork. Utah 84003 Deadlines Classified Advertising . . Tuesday noon Display Advertising ... .Monday. 5 p m :fs Monday. 2 MlsSK)nares Monday, 2 pm Wed9s Monday 2 pm' Letters to the Editor .. .Monday. 10 a m ,;S-' Monday. 10 am Community Calendar . .Monday 10 am 0b,luaries Tuesday. 11 am January 17, 2001 Page 2 a bargain in Pi. Grove gallon. On Friday corning though they finally relented and were sellLgfoelfor$1.09agalona Hart's Drice is even cheaper aTll Smith's gas station kTt recently opened. They were , n r Uq tnwn last ween- iiv nf thp town id&i- when their fuel price was $1. n onH if vou bought $25 tdiUlUll " J . A b .i f .AorlPS VOU gOt worm ui o trallnn coupon for five cents off a gallon. So that made it even cheaper. 1 heard there were lines ot cars waiting to get filled up. What's amazing is that you drive through Lehi or American Fork and those stations are still trying to milk $1.39 or more per gaThe' Frontier Cafe and gas station sta-tion in Lindon that burned down several months ago still has tfte gas price sign up out by the road and guess how much they were selling gas for back then? Well the sign still says $1.62. 1 can't believe prices were that high and even can tell us about ourselve mMMMMWMWdftliMm past. A couple of weeks ago we ran an old photograph- of three young men in the paper, asking if anyone could identify the boys in the photo. The response was overwhelming. over-whelming. It seems a lot of people knew the subjects of the photo, even though it was 40 years old. The photo came to us through Donna Coughlan, who found it after she purchased a picture and frame at Deseret Industries. She was more interested in the frame than the painting she'd purchased, but when she removed the painting, paint-ing, she found the photograph a 20 x 16 portrait of, apparently, three brothers. She brought the photograph to us more than a month -ago. We scanned the photo so we could run it in the paper, and then the picture pic-ture sat in my office for several weeks. It was long enough that I felt I knew the boys, even though we had no names. On Jan. 3, we had room to run the picture. That same day, we learned that the boys in the photograph photo-graph were indeed brothers, Ronald, Kenneth and Tony Rush-ton Rush-ton of Lehi. Ken Rushton is the Lehi city attorney. Reader's Forum system even turn out worse than our present state-run election systems? What if snA f,o,,j prone methods as Internet " 11 uuu and maii-m voting are encased f ni O nnur i tin in new system, wnat paper record is there from the Internet to prove fraud had taken place? Jay Evanson, editorial page editor of the "Deseret News" in a recent column wryly asked, flow do we know some guy sitting sit-ting m a tiny room in the Philin-pines Philin-pines won't devise an 'I Love You virus that makes Imelda Marcos our president?" onfofr eleCtins remai states? PWerS reserved to the Bliss W. Tew Orem Bond too big Editor: The Alpine School Board they want input from says their &nn :Z .U" ern,ln? a Proposed minion oond election in Mav oetLrrfThismeansthe" oe asking for permission to nrn elchSana6 elect-ffom teachers and parents through the we welcome letters be Wp 6 (pnnted AND s'gned) and a telephone tion' Taste fnnf Vight ,0 ed" le" clari,y' P 1 t3Ste and len9th. Letters are welcome on any How By Mail RO. Box 7, American UT 84003 In Person 59 W Ma'n, American higher than that in some place. wnen i mi" i fvio-c acuinggas. $1.09 a gallon. I mean, it's aV - . 1-11 i-L. I "Li fun to 1111 wie i-eu up' I have to admit I'm a fue gain shopper. I'll drive two n, out oi my way yo-y two cent; gallon less. Which really doe. make sense, uecause that But it s tne principle oi the tU 1 want tu give uusmesi a whomever is giving us consurrJ a urea auu cmng gas a cheaper than everyone else. a The sad thing is, right aid tne time gas puces seemed tc going down, we start hear about how expensive natural I and energy is, and how Questd going to raise customers pr; nearly 30 percent, that does sound good. JNow im tryin decide which is worse, paying to fill up the car or paying a lot heat out house. Actually thev both pretty bad. So be grateful you live in Plf: ant Grove and are able to fifli on. the cheapest gas around probably won't last long, so er.. it while we can! .gc ::;SrtlG!' The calls came early and A lot of people recognized the Hi pie in the photos. On Thursi Ronald Rushton came to offices to claim the family p which he said was taken 40 ago when he was 19. lie explained mat the pict had added significance, since had died in the sixth grade he was killed by a horse. Rorj said he had seen copies of the tograph in the past, but nothinj this magnitude "I didn't know that there ra big picture like that," he said. amazing. He lert our office carryinj photograph Actually, we were quite hapj to help. The photo created a interest among our readers got more response than all the ries. in the rest of our Jan. 3 nei paper put together. Are there any other old, unit: tified photos out there? them by and we'll let our rea: see if they can tell us who they We do have several photos the Pleasant Grove Daughter: the Utah Pioneers which unidentified, and as space mits, we will run these picri and ask for our readers he! identifying the subjects of the MingS tos. These are much older pictu P,Co!f ?,8ac than the Dhoto of the Ru; brothers, but there still mi some people out there who car. us who these people are. We will print them from time, and see if we can get a clues into the past. PTA nromrn7nHr.r.s All citizefc the District have the opportul to vote on the issue. However, only property owners who ha pay for the bonds, mainten; and operation of the schools-Modern schools-Modern day schools are expensive monuments of arch tural splendor. This school (fc: spends $7.5 million for an ele: tary school, double that' am-for am-for high school and junior-buildings.. junior-buildings.. Salt Lake School Distrw closing three or four eleme; schools in the older neig-hoods, neig-hoods, for lack of students busincr tn ntVior cpftinns of This will eventually also occ'J Urem. A large proportion u; cation funding goes for D'; Administration persons salary and benefits rang"1? $75,000 to $100,000. ' I believe that bonding whopping $200 million i VRflr is irrotmnol and Uftf sary. What happened to ? j you go budgeting, mai responsibility, and accoun1 ty.? BobV': to the editor ah i0H0re must include TO REACH US Fork Fork By Fax 756-5274 By E-Mail editor newutah.c0 1. |