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Show Pleasant Grove Library 12512 SI PER ISSUE 30 Eui Center Street Pleasant Grove. UT 84062 8 - l - ilviJTrlJh! UluUu2) liMidu) bik VOLUME 5 NUMBER 107 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2013 www.timptimes.com life Ctliilsi, to. Eta - Hi ffiltn v . . --ji1- Dl. i - 'i 1 i if:' .1 ' ' V ; i ., ; ',...:'"-:i-- r V- 'a.T v ' t i t - X 7 X " -'- . A'ew o rte Jubilee is rock climbing, carriage and covered wagon rides, pioneer stories told by costumed historical commission members, and information about how each neighborhood got their name. The event will also include, potato sack races, brick making, and the traditional log cutting, tomahawk throwing and other fun acivities. by Heather Pack What happened to the Heritage Festival? This spring, due to low at-tendance at the 2012 Heritage Festival, Heather Pack was asked by the City of Pleas-ant Grove to evaluate whether the Heritage Festival was still meeting the needs of the com-munity as it has in years past. She formed a committee with those who had frequently at-tended the Heritage Festival, those who had never attended the Heritage Festival, and those who were new to the city and had never heard of the Heritage Festival. She also re-ceived input from the Histori-cal Commission. The committee agreed upon three main objectives for this annual event. 1. To help residents understand and ap-preciate the heritage and leg-acy created by former Pleas-ant Grove citizens. 2. To help residents feel that they are part of a community that ex-tends beyond their own street or church congregation. 3. To show residents how they can become more involved in their community in the future. The name "Heritage Festival" only seemed to en-compass one of the three ob-jectives. Consequently, the committee decided to rename the event Jubilee which means "an occasion for rejoicing and celebration." Those who have attended previous Heritage Festivals will find many of the favorite activities still remain, like brick making and saw-ing logs. New to this event is rock climbing, carriage and covered wagon rides, pioneer stories told by costumed his-torical commission members, and information about how each neighborhood got their name. Did you know that Pleas-ant Grove is divided into 12 neighborhoods' Do you know which one is yours? Come find out at the PG Jubilee Saturday, September 14, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Downtown Park. Each neighborhood will host a different activity that is free for the whole family. Those who come to the Jubilee will receive a free colored wristband identifying their neighborhood. Anyone who doesn't live in Pleasant Grove can adopt the neighbor-hood of their choice. The wristbands are. im-portant because the neighbor-hoods are competing to find out who has the most partici-pants at the Jubilee. In ad-dition to the day's activities, the city is currently holding a contest to see which neighbor-hood's photo gets the most like on the PG Jubilee Facebook page. Jubilee free activities in-clude rock climbing, carriage and covered wagon rides, po-tato sack races, brick making, and the traditional log cutting from the Heritage Festival. Water bottles and snacks will be available for purchase to support the Kiwanis Club. The Lions' Club will be sell-ing Jubilee scones made with their secret recipe fruit sauce , for just $2.50. The PG Jubilee commit-tee is looking for tweens and teenagers willing to help with the different activities. Anyone ages 1 1 to 1 8 who volunteer for at least three hours will receive a free cupcake at Cravings and a free Jubilee scone. To volun-teer contact the Jubilee Chair Heather Pack at packofkids gmail.com or the Cultural Arts Director April Harrison at aharrisonpgcity. org. ATA GLANCE PAGE 2 LIFESTYLE RG. Blab Life's Moments Thoughts From The Garden. . . ' "Of the People" PAGE 3 OBITUARIES LIFESTYLE "Life in the Granny Lane" "Bliss Bits" "Don't Cali Me Old" SOCIAL Senior News PAGE 4 SOCIAL Pleasant Grove's "First Families" ; v PAGE 5 SOCIAL PG Players to Present "Harvey" PAGE 6 CITY PG City Council Application Period Extended Primary Results Certified PAGE 7 CITY How Does PG City Government Work PG. City Calendar PAGE 8 CITY PUBLIC SAFETY PG Police Beat Lindon Police Beat PAGE 9 SOCIAL Raspberry Market Opens PGHS Calendar PAGE 1 0 PGHS Sports i f - i F ....- - r y April Harrison to Retire From PG City U. .HI'. V,; . I i - ; i r , i.i J yy - x ... ' f by Mary Burgin Most of us change ca-reers many times between our high school years and retire-ment. April Harrison is the exception to that rule. She has been employed at the Pleas-ant Grove Library throughout the years, watching the city change and grow over those many years. Harrison has been the head librarian for the city since 1991. Additionally, since last August she has tak-en on even more responsibil-ity when she was appointed as the Arts and Cultural Director. She said her beginnings, however, were humble as she worked during the summers when she was in high school and then college in the small soft rock building on 100 East that now contains a business. She married and had her children and life went on. One day, however, the head librar-ian at that time, Dot Smith, told her that the new library on Center Street would be completed the next year and the city would be hiring more staff. She applied and went to work part time again for the library. Smith subsequently re-tired, and Jean Gifford be-came the head librarian. Har-rison said she worked for her until Gifford's retirement four years later. Harrison, through her ex-periences working at the li-brary as well as her education at BYU and raising her own family, helped to give her a vision of what a forward-thinkin- g library could do for a community. "I love the vision and imagination that can promote reading and learning," she said. "I have been fortunate to have had staff with both those talents!" She said that the library doesn't just provide books, but more importantly, "creates enthusiasm for learn-ing. It is well known that if children participate in summer reading programs, it keeps those skills at a higher level." Harrison observed that the programs at the library have been a group effort between not only those that work for the library, but also those that volunteer their time. "When I first started in 1987, we had four staff mem-bers and now 26 part time and two full time work at the li-brary. These employees are dedicated to serving the citi-zens and it is amazing how each have such talents and abilities that make the library a fun, fantastic, place to come and learn. It has been an honor to work with these individuals that are so dedicated to serve the library and its mission.," April commented. She said that since she has been over not only the library, but also the city events, arts commission and historical commission, she is constantly reminded that ev-eryone brings something dif-ferent to the table. This has served to broaden her own views and helped to recog-nize and appreciate the amaz- - April Harrison, Head Librarian for PG City, is set to retire after sen'ing for 22 years in that capacity:. oJpQ aiy ing pool of volunteers in the community. "I love what I do in that I am able to work with the two things I love which have been books and kids together," she said. These programs in-volve small children up to the READ group, which average age is 83. "I have been able to watch the progression of the library. I am always excited because literacy is never obsolete," she observed. She noted that the bank of computers at the facility are always in use. Also, the ability of patrons to download books on their elec-tronic devices as well as many other services has been very important to the community. "The library becomes the great equalizer for the com-munity by providing these and many other services to those that perhaps wouldn't "April" continued on Page 7 Proposed Tax Increase Tabled by Mary Burgin Pleasant Grove City of-ficials have been on a fast-movi-ride the last few weeks provided by the es of proposed increased taxes for residents as well as new 'acili-tie- s for emergency services for the city. After multiple public meetings, the issues will now go to a vote on the November 5,' 2013 ballot. In the August 7, 2013 meeting held in the fire sta-tion. City Administrator Scott Darrington explained that the city council and mayor had in-structed staff to look into the cost of replacing the current facilities so that the new build-ings would be fully usable through future build-ou- t in ap-proximately the next 50 years. He said that open houses had been held both at the exist ing facilities, as well as virtual ones online. ' He said that increase on those owning a home valued at $217,000, the rate would run about $12.15 per month. In subsequent meetings, however, this original plan was scrapped, and the council determined that they would pursue the General Obligation Bonds, as well as a lower cost per square foot for the proposed buildings. In explaining the concerns of the city leaders, he said the current fire station on 100 East had been built in 1949 and has been determined to not be seis-mical- ly sound in case of an earthquake. Fire department personnel have said there is now and will be in the future a greater need for sleeping facili-ties as well as storage and bays "Taxes" continued on Page 7 'pleasant grove n WEATHER Today H 76 L 57 Thunder Storms 50 a, Thursday H 76 L - 56 Thunder Storms 30 Friday H - 72 L 55 Thunder Storms 30 .v ' , Saturday f i H 77 L- - 58 Partly Cloudy Sunday f H 84 L 60 Partly Cloudy |