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Show Pleasant Grove Review New Utah - Thursday, January 22, 2004 - Page 3 Calendar Projects From Front Page From Front Page Whiting said that about one-fifth of the calendar is made up of facts pertaining to the two topics. The rest of the days are just interesting, interest-ing, age-appropriate information. infor-mation. The calendar is more than a list of dates and places, however, it has colorful color-ful images for each day. It additionally has thought-provoking thought-provoking questions or activity ideas to go along with many of the day's facts. For example, "An ancient stone, known as the 'Roset-ta 'Roset-ta Stone,' was found on July 19, 1799, in Egypt. The large stone was inscribed with text written in both J. ' . 1 ; i S- I y V;.:. V if J ' , 1 . I ; JL0'. i ?-- jn ---- Officer Michael Bartell, officer Collin Gordon, head dispatcher Linda Chapman and Council meeting for outstanding service to their community. City gives awards for exemplary By Megan C. Wallgren Three Pleasant GroveLindon police officers and one civilian employee" were presented" awards for outstanding service at the Jan. 6 City Council meeting. Officer Michael Bartell was given the Silver Star for saving or attempting to save another's life at personal risk. ' In April of 2003 Bartell removed a deadly weapon from a suspect PTSA honors high school extra milers By Kalyn Secretan Pleasant Grove High School Extra Milers for DecemberJanuary are Scott Ormond and Char-laine Char-laine Thompson. They were introduced to the PTSA and presented with a gift certificate for a meal and tickets to a movie. Char Thompson has taught school for 35 years and is in her 24th year at Pleasant Grove High School. She has taught gifted gift-ed students English, history, histo-ry, humanities, German, psychology and creative writing at the school. Char received her degree and started - teaching in California. She moved to Pleasant Grove and started teaching at PGHS in 1980. She has four grandchildren and was able to teach a granddaughter at the high school. Ormond was born and raised in the Pleasant Grove area. He attended PGHS and tells the story of how a PGHS teacher put his arm around him and provided the encouragement encourage-ment he needed to make it through school. He partici- Call 756-7669 to Egyptian hieroglyphics and Greek, enabling hieroglyphics hieroglyph-ics to be deciphered for the first time." The calendar then has an activity idea to "Create your own secret code." Finding information for the calendar is never a problem. Making sure all the information is correct-and correct-and then obtaining permission permis-sion to use names and images is a different story. "It's been kind of an adventure," Whiting said. An interest in making learning fun and exciting is what drives the creative mother-daughter team. Black loves to help children, and in turn remind their ,.-lr ,-. i; "Cl x who was threatening another officer. offi-cer. Bartell also received an exemplary exem-plary service award for going beyond the call of duty. Police Chief Tom Paul related that Bartell had replaced the vandalized mailbox of an elderly woman of limited means at his own expense. Officer Collin Gordon was given a Silver Star for saving another's life at personal risk. i I 1 n Photo by Jenny Secretan Charlaine Thompson was named Extra Miler for DecemberJanuary. Scott Ormond was also honored but was unavailable for the picture. pated in athletics at the school and joined the military. mili-tary. He is in his 23rd year of teaching. He has assisted with the football and wrestling programs and served on various committees. commit-tees. Ormond is a dedicated teacher who generally arrives before anyone else at the school around 5 a.m.,. and leaves after most are gone. His students respect him and his insight in the English Eng-lish language and his understanding of social studies and the world. He is often named as one of the best teachers they have had. place a classified ad parents, that "Learning is such a fun experience ... It doesn't matter where they are or what they're doing they're in a learning mode. They're open to discovery." "We grew up on it so we know the results," Whiting said about learning from the writing hung on the wall. In addition to The Old Schoolhouse Magazine award, the calendar was named the number one kids calendar by Beverly Hernandez Her-nandez ofAbout.com. Other accolades come from people such as Roger B. Porter, a Harvard University Uni-versity Professor and historian. histo-rian. He said, "Americans, . ' In October 2003, Gordon responded to a call where two individuals indi-viduals were overcome by deadly paint fumes. Gordon entered the home and began lifesaving procedures proce-dures before the paramedics arrived. Head Dispatcher Linda Chapman Chap-man was given an outstanding civilian employee award. "She serves with distinction and serves people in ways that go well Preteen helps African orphans By Steven Horseley Denali Cullimore of Pleasant Grove has decided to help orphaned African children through a fund raiser. The 11-year-old has partnered part-nered with Fuddruckers Restaurant in Orem to raise awareness and money for those devastated by the AIDS epidemic in the African continent. Today, Jan. 22, 11 a.m. until 9 p.m., the restaurant on 210 W. University Parkway Park-way will donate 20 percent of the total purchase cost of each meal to Oprah Winfrey's Win-frey's Angel Network. Additional Addi-tional donations will also be accepted. Participating customers cus-tomers must present a flyer or mention the fund raiser City braces for new booking expense By Cathy Allred Utah County is considering consider-ing an ordinance where the county would charge $50 booking fees for those who are booked into the county jail on misdemeanors. Mike Ferre, Pleasant Grove public safety director reported it would cost the city from $5,000 to $6,000 per year. "It is something we're going to have to deal with if they pass it," he said. The item is on the Coun young and old, can benefit greatly from a deeper appreciation of history and the lessons it teaches us. The Learning Calendar serves as a vehicle for engaging all members of a family in learning those lessons les-sons together." Considering where the calendar has come from, over the ideas and experiences experi-ences of the years, and all the time spent making the calendar, Black said, "If some child had their eyes opened to learning because of this, then we're totally rewarded." For more information, visit thelearningcalendar.com or call 1-800-335-5621. . .... ' ! I Photo by Stanley Klemetson civilian John Lloyd received awards in January's first City service in community in order for the Angel Network Net-work to benefit from the event. The daughter of Cody and Debbie Cullimore, Denali has already raised some funds through her school class and with the help of the Fuddruckers' staff she hopes to raise even more. One child is orphaned every 14 seconds in Africa because of AIDS related deaths. Winfrey has visited Africa and is concentrating the fund-raising efforts of her Angel Network toward providing children with the essential needs that will allow them to attend school and obtain at least a basic education including such items as school uniforms, ty Commission agenda for approval in February and the ordinance would become effective in July. "It's a double taxation issue," said Tina Peterson, city attorney. "The county is already taxing for a jail, then to charge fees." The city leaders decided to plan on budgeting for the booking expense in the 2004-2005 fiscal budget that begins in July should the county pass the ordinance. manager. The Community Development Devel-opment Center building, found to be an unstable earthquake hazard, would be torn down and the library could possibly be built there. The recreation center may have already have found a home. The Alpine School District and Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove High School are hoping to partner with the city by donating high school property on its west campus, cam-pus, southeast of the city swimming pool facility. "Another scenario is if the library stays, would be to finish the city hall basement base-ment and move community outside her employee duties," Paul said. Paul gave the Chief of Police's Outstanding Service Award to 18-year 18-year veteran John Lloyd. Lloyd's duties include serving as a school resource officer where he is well liked and respected by the students. stu-dents. "He is a champion to the downtrodden," down-trodden," Paul said of Lloyd's years of service. backpacks, shoes, pencils, paper and other basic items. 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We welcome letters to the editor. All letters must include the author's name (printed AND signed) and a telephone number. We reserve the right to edit letters for clarity, punctuation, punc-tuation, taste and length. Letters are welcome on any topic. development there and give the fire department the community development building," Mills said. "But then the police station still needs more room." Some of the decisions on location will depend on the cost evaluations that will be made after the request are in for qualifications to design and build the facilities. facili-ties. While the recreation department has nearly completed com-pleted its research, more research is being done in all the proposed projects and will continue until probably mid-March, said Mills. After the city receives information and bids from interested companies, the city will do the cost evaluation. evalua-tion. At the Jan. 10 planning session, initial costs were estimated in the range of $15-20 million. The ballpark ball-park cost for the recreation center facility was from $8-14 $8-14 million; for the fire station, sta-tion, $1-2 million; and for the library, $4-5 million. "We need to look at the way to drop it as much as possible," Mills said at the meeting and expressed concern con-cern about potential property proper-ty cost. "You don't want to be spending all your money that you could be spending on bricks and mortar on dirt." He added later in the meeting that he knew people peo-ple who were willing to make sizable donations for the library and fire station projects that would help drop the bonding cost. After the cost evaluation is complete, the city will spend 30 to 45 days sharing the information with the public and getting feedback on the proposals. While they have yet to determine whether or not the proposals will be presented pre-sented as a bond package or as three separate bonds, the city leaders hope to have the project completed for voters in mid-July according accord-ing to Mills, although he suspects there will be three separate general obligation bonds - one each for the library, fire station and recreation center. "The citizens of Pleasant Grove are going to be the ones that determine whether or not these are going to pass," Mills said. "We have to realize to be able to build these we are going to have to ask the citizens cit-izens of Pleasant Grove to pay a higher tax." The bonds will be determined deter-mined by a majority vote, making it possible for each bond proposal to win or lose by one vote. The next article will focus on the recreation center project. 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