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Show TTAH : tJLZZ ASSC'CI-kU- 57 eastJrp SOUTH SAIT LAKE 2ITT, UT By Citizens Steering Committee 1 1 presented a prioritized list of projects for the citys $687,000 allotment and an explanation of their selections. The 11 recommended projects were selected from among 23 requests submitted by various private and public agencies, community councils and citizen recommendation that 11 projects receive Community Development block grant funding next fiscal year. At Tuesdays council study session, the Community Development th steering committee comfortable because county owns land. Wants other funding sources checked also. 6) Elevator for City Hall, $45,000: Important to be taken care of. Besides not being discriminatory against handicapped, could cost the city federal funding. Council in total agreement. Said one: If they cant attend a City Council meeting because theyre in a wheelchair, thats not right. Civic group assistance also being sought. 7) Housing Outreach Rental Program, $5,000: Agency which makes rental referrals for people. Also operates a food bank. Almost total sum goes to administration. 8) Fire Station, $155,000: First phase of proposed fire station in Decker Lake park area. City Fire groups. The two dozen requests exceeded $3.4 million, steering committee chairman Walter Ewell told the council. The steering committee also was forced to reduce all but three of the recommended projects, he added. The requested amount of those projects approached $1.4 million. Before the list is finalized, it will be reviewed by the council - which can delete projects, alter allocations and be subjected to a public hearing, City Manager John Newman said. In a detailed presentation, committee member Jan Garbett outlined the projects in the order of priority: 1) Irrigation Ditch Covering, 6000 West, $ 70,000 recommended: Piping and covering about 270 feet of a dangerous irrigation ditch on the east side of the street at 3800 South. Walkway for children to school, also for pedestrians to Hunter park, a store, a bus stop and an LDS church. Hazards in this area critical enough to merit funding now. 2) West Valley Community Center, $100,000: Centralized city center which could be used by many groups, particularly senior citizen organizations. Would be located in proposed West Valley City park, 4400 W. 3500 South. Modeled after similar centers in Midvale and Magna. Sum covers first phase development. Council wants to check other possible sources of funding also. 3) Irrigation Ditch Covering, 3800 South, $30,000: In sections between 3200 and 3600 West; also by Granger elementary. Sum covers engineering work, installation of pipes, fill material and gravel cover. 4) ASSIST Emergency Home Repair, $68,000: Private, agency which makes emergency such as fixing broken repairs on homes of down water heaters low and moderate-incom- e people, especially senior citizens. Average cost, $475; 150 projects in city. Council questioned percent administrative costs. 5) Upgrading Restroom Facility Of Granger South National Youth Baseball Assn., $10,000: Restroom serving diamonds at 4400 W. 3500 South inadequate septic tank had to be pumped three times last year. Council recognized need, but un- , - ROYAL TRIO . . . is flanked by Newly-crowne- attendants Miss West Valley Brenda Stewart Bonnie Lundquist and Mary Tebbetts. non-prof- d Named Miss Salt Lake Valley - - GHS Grad Captures Title During Pageant E. MILLCREEK. A graduate of Granger high was crowned Miss Salt Lake Valley here Friday night. Brenda Stewart, 22, 2377 E. 6895 South, captured top honors in the pageant, which had drawn 14 contestants. She will represent Salt "Lake 'Valley in the Miss Utah' Pageant in June. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Stewart, West Valley City. The blond, queen sang As Long As He Needs Me from the musical Oliver. She desires to further her education in music at the University of Utah and is interested in a career in vocal music. A former member of the Jay Welch Chorale, she participated in blue-eye- d musicals and madrigals at Granger high. Her interests include sewing, skiing, tennis and hunting. A Murray girl, a pair of Cot Cyprus Parents Differ USPS 656 Thursday, April about an exasperating blem. schools. Of the students, 848 preferred the double sessions plan, while 578 opted for the remaining offer. There were 196 favoring bus Maxs weekly column,is Trivia, choice reading in his Manti Messenger. One of lifes big irri- tations for me is a telephone salesman, Max led off, Im adding, sure you know the kind I mean. Those guys (or gals) who call from Chicago or New York and ask for Max . . . Thereafter Max described it succinctly: When I answer the phone they act as if I were their V. by 0 s, -- - Winder. Added Mayor Jerry Maloney: You astound me at the amount of work you put in. I never expected anything so detailed Serving with Ewell on the committee were Mrs. Garbett, Steven Martinez, Tim Dugdale, Georgia Mills, Lynn Warr and Anne Snow. Brent Birtcher coordinator. is the citys CD 42 Pages At it Store 1 7-- 1 Volume 28, Number All 12 departments 262 6682 - Board Denies Bid For Games WEST VALLEY. A request to install three video games in a store at 5619 W. 3500 South was denied here Thursday by the City Planning Commission. The application was rejected by a vote, with Carroll Elford casting the dissenting vote. Before the vote was taken, the commission heard arguments from three area residents against the request, complaints based nearly as much on problems with the store itself as on opposition to the videogames. George Bruschke, 5591 W. .3500 South, said he could not envision kids earning enough money legally to play the games, adding that his home had been broken into within the past year. In support, Ken Rasmussen, a representative of the Hunter Community Council, added: Im sure that if kids cant get the money from their parents, they will use other means to obtain the money to have their fun. Bruschke said video games had 1 4-- 1 ! twin bedroom tot. footboard, mattress and box chest. springs, Head-boar- she used a Green Sheet classified ad to find a buyer for household furnishings. The Murray lady obviously had little trouble selling the bedroom set. to place your ad. Dial been in and out of the store since it opened in 1979, a violation of the original approval. He also argued that lighting and garbage from the convenience store were a problem. He and a neighbor, Bill Norris, 5555 W. 3500 South, both spoke out against the appearance of a vacant area west of the which is used as a parking lot for commuters taking the bus to work. Bruschke called the parking area a mud hole and suggested the lot be covered with gravel. Norris added that the store also has created drainage problems. Gary Nelson, a spokesman for Southland Corp. , 1 s parent company, said the original installation of the video games had been a mistake, a result of an internal communication problem between several agencies of the corpora1 7-- 1 tion. Store operator Terry Long said the machines currently are turned off. Customers, including many of the commuters, had requested that games now sitting idle in the outlet be turned on. allows the He explained that commuters to park their vehicles for business. there as a trade-of- f The undeveloped piece may be so)d, Long added. The arguments against the for the parking and drainage problems were not the focal point of the issue, Elford contended. Were being unfair to this stores owners, Elford argued after the vote. If its (too many video games) a problem, we need to address the problem citywide and not punish one particular store. The concerns expressed (parking, drainage) dont relate to the games. Theyre separate problems, he added. But the majority sided with Janice Fisher, who made the motion for denial. She said neighbors were opposed to the games, which are not needed, and maintained the commission was within its bounds to uphold the previous decision, referring to the conditional use permit granted in 1979. Staffer Jared Campbell said he was aware of complaints about the store from area residents and said the video game request, in the staffs opinion, did not comply with permit stipulation that the use be necessary or desirable. Earlier in the meeting, the comremission approved another one for three this gasoline quest, pumps at an outlet at 4835 W. 4100 South. This plan received staff support, in part because the site plan included designs for additional landscaping. 1 7-- 2 Baby Girl Welcomed By Manager's Family PROBLEMS . . . Bill Norris listed variety of complaints store in argument against against video game request. 1 WEST VALLEY. City Manager John Newman became a father for the seventh time here Monday when his wife Mardi gave birth to a baby girl. The eight pound, two ounce, long baby, named Heidi, was born at 4:06 p.m. at LDS hospital. She joins the rest of the Newman clan: Cheryl, 11; Duane, 10; Deanna, 8; Carolyn and Christina, 5; and Amy, lxk. NO WAY! . . . George Bruschkes grimace reflects his adamant opposition to request 1 . for video games at 7-- 1 "N t rich relative. When I express doubt that I know them, they say, Surely you remember Joe from the XYZ Company? Fact is, I dont remember him. Ive never heard of him before, although I may have hung up on him at some time in my life. Ive devised a system to thwart them. I may not keep the new ones from calling me, but I doubt that any of them will give me a second call. So ing the junior high youths and 180 opting to bus the senior high students to Skyline. Parents preferring the first option numbered 441, while the double session plan appealed to 384. Only 60 would bus the students to Skyline and 122 would bus the junior high youths to the east side. As explained in the letters, Cyprus high students would attend school from about 6:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and junior high students would attend classes from 1 to 6:50 p.m.. The issues will be aired Tuesday ht a regular meeting of the Board of Education. The survey was designed to give the board input on the matter. There will be no individual presentations. Jim Cornwell long-los- pro- 25-3- 1 here's a point - low-inco- 1, 1982 - were 1,817 returned by students and 1,117 by parents. Next year the district will construct a new wing at Cyprus to replace the central classroom block, which is failing, partly due to age. It means that 38 classrooms, the media center, kitchen, counseling center and administrative offices will be wiped out for at least IVz school years, district officials say. The four options were discussed in a number of public meetings and letters were sent to both students and parents involved with the two Friend Max Call, in tongue in cheek fashion, called a spade a spade the other day st or deferred loans for upgrading housing in areas. Cheaper to fix a home than let it go to pot. Committee recommended city establish its own housing rehabilitation program rather than remain in the county organization, partly because of percent administrative costs. 10) Portable Video Camera System for City Police Department, $4,000: Provide training for officers, surveillance in stake-outevidence in court cases. 11) City Fire Department Public Education and Training Program, $15,000: For video equipment used 380 Students Pick Double Sessions MAGNA. Double sessions at Brockbank junior high is the student choice for solving next years Cyprus high problems Parents, by a small majority, would prefer that the Cyprus students remain on campus and attend class around the construction work, with the ice rink temporarily altered to provide classroom space. There was little support for busing Cyprus sophomores and juniors to Skyline with the seniors remaining on campus or for busing seventh and eighth graders at Brockbank to east side junior high schools from either group. ' A survey card was made available to all students at the two schools and to their parents. There ing Authority which provides Published weekly at 155 E 4905 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84107 Second class posfa9e paid at Salt Lake City, UT 4119 Subscrip tion rate $12 50 per year POSTMASTER Send address changes to West Valley View, Box 7187, Salt Lake City, UT 84107 ! 262-668- Housing Rehabilitation, UTAH I sold it by 11:30 the morning the ad came out and altogether I mustve had 25 or 30 calls. Im very pleased with the results Dixie Burgon, 486 Clover View Dr., relating what happened when MAPLE 9) $100,000: Division of County Hous- in officer training and public education. The committee also set aside $85,000 for administrative costs covering the last six months of the current fiscal year and all of next year. Council members praised the exhaustively detailed work of the steering committee. Wed all join in and say bravo to you, said Pete THE VOICE OF WEST VALLEY CITY 5 Sold By 1 1:30 a.m. requested e&fCMeu - high graduates and an Olympus high senior were selected as attendants . Mary Tebbetts, 22, 333 E. 4500 South, is the first attendant. Originally from Florida, she has extensive training in the equestrian art of dressage and currently attends the Intermountain School of Broadcasting. Her talent presentation was a comedy slice from Neil Simons Plaza Suite. Second runnerup in the pageant was Bonnie Jo Lundquist, 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Farrell Lundquist, 1457 E. 6400 South. She is a 1981 graduate of Cottonwood high and a student at the UofU, majoring in elementary education. She performed a novelty ballet number. Miss Lundquist was also named Miss Photogenic by the pageant photographer and captured top honors in the evening gown competition. had $480,000. Four Sections - 20-2- tonwood 1978 low-inco- Department rlll CD Funds Projects Are Recommended For WEST VALLEY. The City Council is taking under advisement a citizens - Heres the scenario: The phone rings and I answer, Messenger, this is Max. How can I help you? This is Joe with the XYZ Company. How are things in Manti? (He mispronounces it Man-teand that always makes me angry.) Thats not Man-teits Manti, I snarl. Oh, he says, some of those Arizona towns are a little hard to pronounce. e, e, I say. They sure are, Besides, were not in Arizona, ty. were in Wyoming. Oh, yes, thats right, he says. At this point I recognize the call for what it is, so when he says, I just wanted to tell you about our new ... I interrupt with, Where is the XYZ Company located? Chagrined at being interrupted in his sales pitch and being aware that his long distance calls are paid for by the minute, he answers irritably, Its in New Jersey. Is that a part of the USA? I innocently ask. Of course, he says. Now as I was saying, our product ... What part of New Jersey? I ask. And I always thought it was New Joisey. Only New Yorkers say New Joisey, he explains. And wheres New York? ask. You know, the Big Apple Ci yes, that was a dance we danced during World War II days. Well, I wasnt there then, but as I was saying. . . Did you say that was the XYZ Company? I ask. Oh I Yes it is. This next question is extremely important. It always flusters them no end. "Isnt that a Communist front organization? Silence at the other end of the line. Then a gasp, What did you say? I understand that the XYZ Company is a Communist front organization. Didnt I read that the FBI was investigating you? he stutters. The Oh, no, XYZ Company is a completely legitimate company. Thats what all the Com munist front companies say, I say. Well you can check us out if you want. Whats the address of your Better Business Bureau? I ask. Also Ill have to get a release from your local John Birch Society before Ill know youre legitimate. I can tell by the tone of his voice that hes tiring of the whole affair. By the way, I ask, where did you get my name? he That doesnt matter, answers. Well maybe it doesnt to you, but it does to me. Im concerned about how my name gets on the mailing list of so many Communist front organizations. What if the FBI is listening in on this phone call and comes after me for talking to you? At this point I sense hes about to cut the conversation short. Not wanting that to happen until Ive cost him all the long distance time possible, I ask, What did you say you were selling? Ive forgotten, he says. Oh, yes, we have a special for this week only. Now heres how you terminate: You dont hang up. What you do is just say, Yes? eagerly. Then when he gets going good, you put the phone down on the desk and walk away to go about your regular work. After a couple of minutes, you come back. If hes still talking, just put the phone down again. If hes hung up and the phone is buzzing, just put it back on the hook. Sometimes I wish I could see the other end of the line. Id love to see old Joe shake his head in disbelief as he wipes all the names from Manti off his list. Touche, Max . . and Amen! |