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Show Schools: Theater at MM and ALA, A8, B l | Sports: Skyhawks defeat Soringvillp. A1 ? Utah Press Association Arinda Guttierez Guardian of Your Community ^ SERVING SPANISH FORK VOL. 5 / NO. 8 Spanish Fork City Council kicked off with council comments as usual on Feb. 16, 2010. Councilman Richard Davis announced that Sept. 8-13, 2010, the city will have the opportunity to host the moving Vietnam Memorial Wall. The city will need to front $2,000 for the wall to come to our home town. Mayor Andersen encouraged citizens and businesses to donate so that the memorial can come to Spanish Fork. Within moments Kevin Pritchett offered to donate $500. The first item on the agenda called for a zone change to the Hailstone Homes site located around 800 South Main Street. The request was to move from rural residential and residential office to commercial. This change was requested because the owners are hoping to put a full-service car wash facility on south Main Street. The site falls into line with other zoning in the area and Councilman Steve Leifson noted that it meets future plans of developing the south end of Main Street. The issue of what traffic implications might result of such a change was addressed by noting street light placement and lane widening occurring at Volunteer Drive. The change was approved. Title 15 of the general plan was also addressed. The suggested change was to address outdoor storage in industrial zones. This will be taken care of and enforced during the application process. The motion also addressed the re-adoption of a High Industrial Zone designation. etmnei ||, l [ l ,Iu!H,ll..l,l.l..l...ll.l.t.<I.I.II...Ml.l.l.l...l SALEM • MAPLETON • WOODLAND HILLS • ELK RIDGE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2010 SFCN to offer phone service Jen Allen STAFF W R I T E R tll^S^^A^ The motion passed unanimously. SFCN director, John Bowcut, spoke about SFCN's latest addition. The network is now offering telephone services. The program will be rolled out slowly. Door hangers will be put out as the service is offered in different areas of the city. The cost will be $14.95 per month or can be bundled with cable and internet services for $83.95. This will include all local calls and long distance will be $.04 per minute. Residents will be able to keep existing numbers and also receive caller ID, call forwarding, tracing, voice mail and no monthly contracts. In addition to phone services, Bowcut announced the release of even higher internet speeds. For $55 citizens can enjoy 55 MBPS. This will begin to roll out as soon as this summer. Mayor Andersen was authorized to sign contracts with the following companies; Veracity for SFCN's telephone services; TishlerBise Consultants for an impact fee study; and Allied Waste for an extension for garbage removal throughout the city. The council also asked staffers to look into writing an ordinance that would allow for citizens to raise chickens on lots within the city. Several issues were addressed including what kinds of chickens could be kept, how close they could be kept to boundary lines, how many chickens could be kept per household and if they should be registered. Richard Heap then spoke about the Water Conservation Plan. The council approved Mayor Andersen to sign the plan. Best of the best It's that time of year again, time to make your voice heard in selecting who and what is the best in Spanish Fork and Salem. Will last year's results remain the same or will there be some upsets? Everything is up to you, the readers. Our best of area survey is on page B3 in this week's paper. It will also run in the paper the next two weeks. Completed surveys are due to J-Mart Printing, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork, by 6 p.m. on Friday, March 5, 2010. Everyone who completes a survey will be entered in a prize drawing. Results will be published in a special section in March. Championship Tour Kayla Neves / The Sentinel THE REAL THING: Reigning MLS champions Real Salt Lake stopped at Salem and Spanish Fork Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 on their Championship Cup Tour of the state. Pictured above, Real's mascot, Leo the Lion, hoists the championship trophy, surrounded by enthusiastic students at Salem Elementary. Research takes Adams to Antarctica Hilarie Orman STAFF WRITER Nematodes, rotifers, and tardigrades, oh my! There are tens of thousands of these critters in a small scoop of dirt from anywhere on earth, and they have no greater admirer than Byron Adams. He has literally traveled to the ends of the earth and gone where no man has gone before in his quest to study the tiny beasts. This BYU biologist and Woodland Hills city councilman recently returned from his annual research sojourn of several actionpacked weeks in the Antarctic. Like other scientists there, he prepared for it "like it was a lunar mission." All their field work was planned in advance, and they made every minute count. ''I worked about 20 hours a day," he said. Using sterile equipment, Adams and his team gather soil samples from the dry, polar deserts, record their exact location, temperature and moisture, and return to the labs at McMurdo Station. Using a centrifuge and sugar water, they gently extract the mass of organisms from each sample and place them under a microscope for a census. Hilarie Orman / Tfie Sentinel See ADAMS • A7 DOWN UNDER: Byron Adams shows off his "worm herders" t-shirt, commemorating this year's expedition to Antarctica. * |