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Show iffi.,.l,ii.if.i 3 Til A publication o Aevv(nhWs (l5M,!) IN Serving rilta. t Grove, Lindon and Cedar Hills Vol. 20, No. 24 Wednesday, June 17, 1998 50 cents a single copy To subscribe call 756-7669 .,,,.11,11 rr, , ,rfm Strawberry Days Utah's longest continuous running city celebration is up and running again By Kaiyn Secretan Strawberry Days has arrived in Pleasant Grove! The strawberries are here, the carnival is in town, the rodeo grounds are all cleaned up, and the children's parade and rodeo will begin tonight. Everyone is invited to the Saturday morning parade a change from tradition as the parade has been held on Thursdays in both the morning morn-ing and evening. This year, there will be just one parade featuring 106 entries. The Strawberry Days Royalty will be riding on a r rize winning win-ning float. The loat won Sweepstakes in the Orem and the Springvillo Parades. The Children's Parade will begin today at 5:30. The kids should arrive at the high school parking lot by 5:15. The Kiwanis club is sponsoring sponsor-ing the parade and the participants par-ticipants will receive a carnival carni-val ticket and a popsicle at the conclusion of the parade. The rodeo begins tonight at 8 p.m. and will continue through Saturday. Adult prices on Wednesday will be $6, with children's tickets, $3. Thursday, Friday and Saturday the admission will be $8 f r adults. Children will be admitted free with a paying adult on Thursday, Kid's Night at the Rodeo. The City of Fun Carnival will be in the downtown park through Saturday. The carnival carni-val will close at dark. Thursday Events A breakfast will be held on Thursday sponsored by the Youth City Council. vill be held on the patio at the back of the library. Breakfast will be served from 6 until 10 a.m. It will cost $3 for adults and $2 for children. It will be a good way to start out the day. The Boutique at the Recreation Center will be open each day of the celebration. celebra-tion. It will be held Thursday from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. There are 43 entries in the boutique. The DUP will conduct tours of the Cabin and the Old Bell School from 1 until 5 pm "Cinderella" will be presented pre-sented in the Little Theater at the Library at 2 and 4 p.m. It will be a fun event for the whole family. The rodeo will begin at 8 p.m. Kids are admitted free with a paying adult. Friday Events The City Recreation Department is sponsoring some special events. A pet show will be held at the Veteran's Vet-eran's park at 10 a.m. The event is especially for kids to bring their favorite pet. The Greased Pole Climb is at 1 p.m. Lucky winners take home cash prizes by climbing up the pole. A Pie Eating Contest will be held in the Downtown Park at 6 p.m. Entries will be in age categories and prizes will be given. The Boutique is open from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. and "Cinderella" "Cin-derella" will be performed at 2 and 4 p.m. in the Little Theater. The DUP will conduct con-duct tours at the Old Bell School and the Cabin from 1 until 5 p.m. The rodeo will begin at 8 p.m. Saturday Events Watch for the Strawberry Day's royalty on a winning float and the Grand Marshall's Mar-shall's leading the parade. The parade will begin at 10 a.m. The parade will assemble assem-ble at Pleasant Grove High School and travel down 200 South to 100 East, where it will turn South to 300 South, then West to Main Street. The parade will end on West Center. A tennis tournament will begin at the Manila Park at 7 a.m. The 5-K run will begin at 8 a.m. and the swim meet will be at the city pool For further information on the sporting events, call the recreation center at 785-6172. 785-6172. The DUP will hold their traditional Bake Sale on Saturday Sat-urday morning and tours will be conducted from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. The Boutique will be open from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. A car show will be held at 330 South M. in from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. The final rodeo will begin at 8 p.m. and the City of Fun Carnival will close at dark. Photo by Morcella Walker A father Ifts his little child high out of the pool after a trip down the water side during the Strawberry Days Free Family Swim night Monday. Cedar Hills okays annexation of six homes, waits for action from RG. By Teresa Carlson An ordinance adjusting the boundary between the Town of Cedar Hills and Pleasant Grove was passed at a special boundary hearing by the Cedar Hills Town Council last Tuesday. The ordinance indicates the intent to adjust the location of the common boundary between the two municipalities by transferring trans-ferring six properties that were annexed into Pleasant Grove last March to the jurisdiction of Cedar Hills. After the six property owners expressed their desire to disconnect discon-nect from Pleasant Grove, a resolution reso-lution was passf d by Cedar Hills on April 7 stating Cedar Hills intention to transfer the properties. proper-ties. The property owners notified noti-fied the City of Pleasant Grove via registered letter, in which they stated their intent as well as urging Pleasant Grove to pass a similar resc'.ution. While there were several letters let-ters sent back and forth between the attorneys of the two cities arguing certain points of the See MANILA on Page 3 Fire on the Mountain to give free concert The popular blue grass performing per-forming group, Fire on the Mountain, will present the Concert in the Park on Sunday, June 21, at 7 p.m. on the east side of the Pleasant Grove Community Center, 100 E. 200 South. The concert is free and open to the public. Bring your blankets blan-kets or lawn chairs. PG okays record-setting $7.8 million budget for 1998-99 A 1998-99 general fund budget of $7.8 million was approved by the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove City Council last week. This is the highest general fund budget the city has ever had. Administrative Services Director Richard Paulsen presented the budget to the council and citizens during a public pub-lic hearing explaining that revenues of $7,845,796 will come from taxes ($3,504,000) and sarvices ($2,115,719), with the rest coming from licenses, inter-governmental, transfers, revenues, rev-enues, special funds, and miscellaneous. Expenditures will total $7,817,069. Cost of living increases were allowed for in all departments and this year they will be allocated a little differently with the suggestion being made that they adopt a merit system instead of the present step system for the employees. The budget calls for lower end salaries to be brought up more level with the other salaries. Mayor Edward Sanderson said that at present some of the city employees could qualify for welfare wel-fare and they didn't want any of them to have to do that. Public Safety has the highest percentage per-centage of the budget with 33.2 per cent or $2.6 million. Public Works is the next largest area with 20.4 per cent of the budget at $1.6 million. With 17.1 per cent of the budget is General Government at $1.3 million. At 14.4 per cent of the total is Leisure Services with $1.1 million. The others are Administrative Services wtih $624,000, and Community Development Develop-ment with $541,090. The new budget includes raises for the mayor and city council, a recom mendation for a new in-house legal personnel per-sonnel and for a Leisure Services director. direc-tor. The council also approved adding a new ambulance to the budget in exchange for the elimination of one police car. The city council presently receives $300 per month and the mayor $500 but Mayor Edward Sanderson noted that they spend 20 or more hours a week in their positions and they felt the compensation should be better. The new budget will double their salary. There has not been a salary increase for the city council for many years. Paulsen noted that last year the city spent a lot of money on legal service. He said they had received very good work for the money but felt that they might be able to save some money if they hired an in-house legal representative. He added that they felt a Leisure Services Director would be a new position posi-tion which would help the city. This person per-son would be over such things as recreation, recre-ation, swimming pool, Historic Preservation Preser-vation Commission, Youth Council, senior citizens, library, Arts Council, park scheduling, community celebrations, celebra-tions, etc. Shirl Stone, president of the Pleasant Grove Emergency Medical Services, convinced the city council that the budget bud-get should include funds for an new ambulance. He said the EMS had received a state grant of $20,000 to help purchase a new ambulance. If they did not purchase an ambulance this year they would have to return the grant. He explained that the city's backup ambulance is 11 years old and could not be counted on all the time in an emergency. emer-gency. He said the policy had been to replace an ambulance when it was 10 years old. If they did not accept the state grant this yew there was a good chance they would not get it back next year. The council had been reluctant to go into debt for the rest of the $100,000 cost of the ambulance but it was suggested that perhaps one of the budgeted six police cars be eliminated to make it possible pos-sible to leasepurchase the ambulance. The city council and Public Safety Director Mike Ferre agreed with this suggestion and the ambulance was included. Other Public Safety requests approved included a new first response officer, three new police officers, two new part-time records clerks, five new police vehicles and a new first response vehicle. Election 1998 Tuesday Primary Election features local races Utah County voters will go to the polls Tuesday, June 23, to decide several primary races. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. A list of polling locations and a sample ballot are on Page 17 of this newspaper. One primary race will probably proba-bly determine the next elected official, since no Democrat challenger chal-lenger has filled for the Third Congressional District seat now held by Rep. Chris Cannon. Cannon Can-non faces a challenge from fellow Republican Jeremy Friedbaum. Other important primaries include David Gardner and Hans V. Andersen, running for Utah County Commission Seat B" and David Bateman and Richard Mack, running for Utah County , Sheriff. In addition, voters in the Alpine School District will decide two issues when they vote at the Primary election - a $60 million bond issue and a leeway which will amount to a total of $6.9 million. mil-lion. The bond would raise property taxes by $14. per $100,000 assessed value, while the leeway would raise property taxes by a total of $49.50. Passage of both the bond and leeway would increase taxes by $30.50 on $100,000 assessed value, graduating gradu-ating to $63.50 after the third year. GOP candidates debate tonight Utah County Commission, Seat B David Gardner Hans V. Andersen Utah County Sheriff David Bateman Richard Mack 11 Republican candidates for local offices will square off in a political debate Wednesday, June 17, at Lakeridge Jr. High School, 951 S. 400 West, Orem. Candidates for three Utah County offices will square off in hour-long debates, moderated by Steve White, former Utah County GOP Chair. Candidates will be allowed to tsk each other qvistions. At 6 p.m., candidates for Leg islative District 56, David Cox and Steve Roll, will debate each" other. This district, which is currently cur-rently represented by Christine Fox, covers Lehi and west American Amer-ican Fork. At 7 p.m., County Commission Commis-sion Candidates David Gardner and Hans Verlin Anderson will debate each other. At 8 p.m., David R. Bateman and Richard Mack, who are running run-ning for Sheriff, will debate. Incumbent County Commissioner Commis-sioner David J. Gardner believes he should be returned to office because of "my competence compe-tence and knowledge of the position, posi-tion, my personal per-sonal working work-ing relationships relation-ships in the community, and my willingness will-ingness to do what is right regardless of the outcome." His opponent in next week's Republican Party primary is Hans Andersen. There is no opposition candidate for the November election. Gardner's professional background back-ground is in the mental health field. He said he is serving the County full time and lives on that salary and his wife's income. Gardner said he is pleased that the Commission has found a way to cut property taxes in half through the quarter-cent sales tax that went into effect Jan. 1. He said property taxes dont keep up with the growth because state regulations for certified tax rates require them to stay rev-See rev-See GARDNER on Page 3 k , if County Commission candidate candi-date Hans V. Anderfn Jr. believes Utah County residents are overburdened overbur-dened by taxes and need to have a stronger voice in local government. He is opposing incumbent David Gardner Gard-ner for nom ination to Commission seat "B " where there is no opposition party candidate can-didate running. Andersen is a CPA in private practice since 1972. He has never held public office but has been active in party politics, including serving as campaign treasurer for four congressional campaigns. cam-paigns. He is incensed that Utah County spending has increased 109 percent since 1995 by his reckoning while the population has only increased 11 percent. "New taxes come in from new businesses, equipment and homes," Andersen said. "Unless we're offering new services, the growth in spending should paral- David Bateman is seeking reelection re-election as Utah County's Sheriff. Of his 26 years in law he spent two years as Chief of Police in Alpine, where he still lives, and the rest in the sher- as iffs office, and the last 13 sheriff Bateman has received a bachelor's bach-elor's degree from Weber State College and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy in their law enforcement executive development devel-opment program. "I am certified as both a law enforcement and corrections officer," offi-cer," he said With additional training and recognition through the years, Bateman has continued his education edu-cation and certification in various vari-ous aspects of law enforcement The, fact that I hav stuck with it for 26 years shows that I am someone who enjoys what he is doing," said Bateman. ANDERSEN on Page 3 See BATEMAN on Page 3 The Utah County Sheriffs department is ready for a change and Richard Mack is not afraid to make changes. That's according to Mack, who is seeking the office. "It is okay to be innovative innova-tive and even unorthodox in your approach to crime," he said. "Crime is always changing. Our biggest problem we have in Utah County is the complacency in attacking that crime." Mack says the number one priority pri-ority he sees is getting new leadership lead-ership into the poet, and breaking away from the status qua If elected, he would bring with him experience from the Provo Police Department and as sheriff of Graham County in Arizona for eight years. He has also had training with the FBI Academy Much of his 11 years of service in Provo centered around juvenile and sex crimes, giving him expertise exper-tise in fjgfrfir.y juvenile delinquency delin-quency especially as it relates to See MACK on Page 3 |