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Show lela eneaesloobenel pa é | ' ea ee ee ae | re een aeons arent ngsc.ont ncomie WASATCH COUNTY wh 1, Issue 18 Wasatch County’s Source BON CaO ‘ eoeaion or ae Ole ROO "November | 2 1999 2 | TON Fee a) for Memorial Hill Renovation Sam Allen, Courier Staff. -local Bishop of the LDS Church. If Alvah Kohler.and Kent Berg get their After wish, Memorial Hill will undergo a mas- he talked with the Lockhart Post #23: of sive renovation. The two plan on forming a Memorial Hill Committee ~ to organize donations and supervise the bied the state legislature in order to get the American Legion, the Legion lob-. a law passed that would allow local gov- - ernments to levy a tax to raise funds to long-term maintenance of the site..Once a committee has been formed, it will be charged with the duty of ~ Memorial Hill a place where ;can proudly honor the veterans couhty who fought in America’s construct The making citizens of the wars. and maintain war memorials. original law allowed governments _ to charge a one- “hal mile levy for this purpose. Memorial Hill is in dire need of renova- After the county was able to raise some funds for the memorial, they purchased tion simce the plaques containing the the hill and the Legion began construc- names of the veterans have been stolen and the flagpole itself has been damaged tion on a road up to the top. About one third of the way up, they encountered heavy rock that was beyond their road by fierce winds. “The: hill also needs access to water since any trees that are planted around the memorial a) die in the arid soil. building capacity. Eventually, a-contract was put out with a professional road building firm that spin a the rest of © — the work. cia: Kohler, al veteran . eos ‘the e Korean. ‘War, crenieaibets that when he was a kid the hill used to. be covered by Originally, the hill was. calles “Uncle Jesse’s Mound” after Jesse Hughes McCarrell, a resident of Midway who 4 ts originally owned the. hill. Later, Elijah = ~ Watkins more difficult to keep vegetation alive. FS 8s Kent Berg, , ‘ae county Public Works sg Director, says that Questar, a gas compa- — ny serving the intermountain region, has ~ Citizens who are eee in serving -on the Memorial Hill Committee are “encouraged to call Al Kohler at 435654-2580 or write him at 980 North River Road, Midway, Utah, 84049.2% _ already donated enough pipe to get water up to the top of the hill; it only needs to be installed. Kent is investigating several innovative ways to install - From : the pipe at minimal expense to the taxexisting memorial on top of the hill originally dedicated on Armistice in 1928.-1500 people gathered for ~ occasion on top of the 300 foot high hillock that. is located just outside of Memorial Hill in bdiveats ated a civil engineering firm in down- visitors are creole to a , 360 Names of yeterans from the nae of Since the plaques were stolen and was approximately $10,000. The archi- pers by the he eee veteran’s War, World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam have all been collected. no record was kept of the names they contained, a new list has been reconstruct- . ed using old information from newspalists. War, the Civil War, the Spanish American town Salt Lake City. of the original memorial tect and designer was a woman oh name of Leigh Block Turner who oper- Midway. The re the degree panoramic view of the valley. While the gate to this memorial is open during the day, it is closed at night to prevent hooliganism at the site. ~ “payers. The was Day ‘the purchased the land and eventu- ally the county acquired. it. BAW Nate valol ae Linda Davis Smith of Charleston is not the same Linda Smith | was recently mentioned in a page article in the Courier. apologize for any confusion that front We this— “may have caused. . ‘According to William R. Turner, the son of Leigh Block Turner the architect, the original idea to use the hill as a memo- — rial came from Joseph C. McDonald, a — County Does The Wasatch Shuffle Sam Allen, Courier Staff ‘concerning the hiring of these individuals using the Government Records Management Act Access. arid:” (GRAMA), which is the state equivafederal lent to the better known Freedom of Information Act that gives After two and a half months of waiting, the Wasatch Taxpayers for Change Political Action Committee (WATCHPAC) finally received documents from the county which seem to indicate that four county employees were not hired in ~ accordance with the county’s established personnel policies. These individuals are Joseph Dunbeck, Bob Mathis, Dan Matthews, and Robert Morris. ee requested documents citizens aa NOVEMBER ¥ WEDNESDAY HIGH LOW DF SR — to government the open positions eventually filled by these four individuals were published in a local newspaper, what other forms of notice were given concerning these open positions, what county commission docu- ments. — éach ~~. Of “WATCH-PAC’s — GRAMA requests were unique, they all asked for similar information. | Ws waee COUNTY NOVEMBER 2 TUESDAY HIGH LOW > ee access WATCH-PAC wanted to know whether White > COURIER’ NOVEMBER 5 _— FRIDAY HIGH LOW so aT NOVEMBER 4 THURSDAY HIGH LOW 33 39° re apes * " . ER eg RNS CINE IRE eI Np IRE meetings . were these appointments approved in, what other candidates were considered RHE HORT Ee RTT and __INNON THE CREEK See page 20 for info & registration form! SHUFFLE continued on page 11 oF WEEKLY NOVEMBER6 SATURDAY HIGH LOW 55. 34 for the open positions, what individuals interviewed or evaluat- | of the Week: ; xe) ee NOVEMBER 8 _ NOVEMBER 7 . MONDAY SUNDAY — —C HIGH. LOW HIGH LOW ee ot 25 -50 nr TE ATA wi r TRON eis RR eye ~Presorted Standard : U.S. Postage Paid Heber City, UT ‘Permit No. 32005 | |