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Show s $ 1 PER ISSUE Pleasant Grove Library 12512 30 East Center Street Pleasant Grove. L'T 84062 8 VOLUME 3 NUMBER 100 WEDNESDAY, August 17, 201 1 www.timptimes.com AT A GLANCE PAGE 2 LIFESTYLE RG. Blab Life's Moments Thoughts From The Garden. . . "Sacred Ground" PACE 3 BIRTHDAY SCOUTING Scout Expo LIFESTYLE "On-Lin- e Classes Offer "Get Out of Jail Free" Card" SOCIAL Senior News PAGE 4 SCOUTING Brown Receives Distinguished Eagle Award From BSA SOCIAL Casual Critic Lindon Days Flag Ceremony and 5K Race MM' -. : ; f : i f " '. t ; PAGE 5 SOCIAL Harold Newman Featured Sunday Square Dancing Creates Friendships Jeralyn Merrill Gives of Time to Bring Residents "Concerts" Series EDUCATION Oak Canyon Junior High Open House PAGE 6 PUBLIC SAFETY PG Police Beat Lindon Police Beat EDUCATION High School Calendar PAGE 7 CITY PG Council Candidates Announced Are You Registered to Vote? PG City Public Notice PGPD Offers New "Tip" Service RG. City Calendar PAGE 8 SPORTS PG Girls Soccer Defeats Westlake, then Drops Game to Bruins Lindon Days Celebration Photo Review 1 , i PG City Council Discusses Clean Up of Private Lots J- -' '. .' . ' ,. :.. ::, , f. ; s.' 'j , y' : J' c i , by Mary Burgin In a continuing question that seems to revisit the city council and staff, City Adminis-trator Scott Darrington told the council Tuesday that the ques-tion of the clean up of private lots is again corning up. This is due to this being the time of year that weeds grow high, etc. Scott said that there are sev-eral options that the city can use to approach the problem. The city can come in and clean up the property. This has not been a great option in the past, as city crews have much to do just with the facilities the city already maintains. Also, there has been damage to city equipment in the pastTwhen city crews attempted to mow weeds down. The city can have the prop-erty professionally cleaned up, and then lean the property for the expense. This isn't always as good option, either, for vari-ous reasons. After this was dis-cussed, it was determined this would be the last choice. The fire chief can inspect the property, then (if it warrants it) send a letter to the property owner, telling them that their property is posing a fire hazard to the community. The owner would then have a certain num-ber of days to get the property cleaned up. After a discussion by the council, this seemed to be the best of the choices. The city would first have to do their due diligence in trying to reach . the owners and have them clean it up. City Engineer Degen Lewis next explained to the mayor and council that there will most like-ly be a change in the jurisdiction of the North County Boulevard. This is P.G. Boulevard to State St, and up to 2000 West. Cur-rently the city has jurisdiction, but that will probably change in the near future. The Promenade was men-tioned, as it has been in previous meetings. It has been very well attended in this, its second year. Several booths have been added this year due to great attendance. PG City Manager Scott Darrington told the council that the question of the cleaning up ofprivate lots has again been coming up, and suggested ways the city could have the lots cleaned up. pho(o courtesy of ximpanogos Times ; Family Arena Night Great Entertainment at Lindon Days wmww" m i.whw.iiiiwiw.iuii u lUBiM'iwi 'iwnu .nullum uuiiiiiu ii.li ju m miiiumm mw u. iii.n .i.uij w ipnu n. mini mi i ' ... ' The highlight of the eve-ning was next with the Mayor's Candy Scramble. Mayor Jim Dain was unable to attend the night's events due to a business trip to Israel, but had plenty of helpers and many willing to step up and scramble for the candy. Mayor Dain was well represented by his daughter and grandchildren who participated in the scramble and took home several pieces of candy for themselves. After getting plenty of sugar into the kids, out came the Greased Pigs. All the kids laughed as David Hamson and Lewis Cox brought out the pigs in a wheelbarrow style to the middle of the arena. Unlike the chickens in the earlier event, the pigs were not so keen on what was happening and the kids di-verged on them. However, with a few squeals and a few good moves, they were free, but only for a few seconds before our winners were able grab hold and hang on. The price was $5, but the pigs returned home to some good slop. Price winners "Lindon Days" continued on Page 5 The mayor's candy scramble is always a huge hit as children race to get all the candy they can that has been buried in piles of hay. Photo courtesy of David Smith by David Smith The Family Arena Night on Friday, August 12, was a night of fun, thrills, spills and fam-ily entertainment. The night started with Mutton Bustin for the pre-scho- ol kids. After some coaxing from parents, most were ready to get on the sheep and ride into the east just hold-ing onto the rope. Then came the larger event of Steer Riding. The sec-ond rider, Conner Evans, was thrown off, got stepped on and had to be taken to the hospital with a large gash to the back of the knee. Upon completion of the two opening events, the arena night opened up to some light-er entertainment where all that were in attendance were invited to participate. It started with the Chicken Race, where over 40 kids par-ticipated in attempting to catch several chickens that they were allowed to keep. As the an-nouncer yelled "go," off they ran and the kids scrambled to be the first to grab hold. The kids all worked together to coral the chickens. I was surprised how fast those kids were able to catch them. The winners were Mark Udall, Heather Hamson, Alena Jones, Owen Chris-tense- n, younger brother to Little Miss Lindon Taryn Christensen, and Henry Cunningham. Have fun with those chickens! Next came the Ribbon Chase, where a red ribbon was tied onto the tail of a Steer. Af-ter three attempts and many thinking we needed a women's touch in tying the ribbon on the cow's tail, the ultimate winner was Nathan Hale, age 14. f. ,i r . ... j ' , 40 kids participated in attempting to catch several chickens that they were allowed to keep. Photo courtesy of David Smith Youth had the opportunity to ride sheep and calfs dur-ing the event for all to enjov. Photo courtesy of David Smith ' " Ky ' v The Greased Pig is taken into the arena by Lewis Cox for youngsters to try and catch. Photo courtesy of David Smith Last Weekly Issue of Timpanogos Times This is the last weekly issue of Timpanogos Times. We will take one month to evaluate the future of the pa-per. We hope to have month-ly editions in the near future which will go to all the local residents free of charge. It is the hope of Timpanogos Times that local businesses will want to advertise in these monthly or special editions in order to keep the paper going as a service to the community and keep a current and ongoing history of the happenings in PC, Cedar Hills and Lindon. Subscribers will be reim-bursed as soon as possible. If you have any questions or are interested in purchasing the newspaper, please call Calvin Walker at 80 -- 785-3 1 1 1 . fPLEASANT GROVE N WEATHER Today 1 L-- Partly Cloudy Thursday H - 90 L-- Sunny Friday H-- L-- Partly Cloudy Saturday Partly Cloudy Sunday Sunny V |