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Show ?... (f.S WE. 300 ' SO. Postage i' " Set Clock Ahead One Hour Sunday Ground To Be Broken Tuesday For City Hall by Steve Warren Green Sheet Staff ttriter WEST VALLEY. A new city hall in West Valley will move a giant step closer toward a reality on Tuesday Thats at 1 p.m. when the city has scheduled official groundbreaking ceremonies for the building at 3600 So. Constitution Blvd. (2700 West), said Janet Trueblood, city administrative assistant. The 94,000 square-foo- t building e will be built on the site at million. a cost of $8.1 Construction is expected to be completed next spring, Trueblood noted. About 22,000 square feet of the structure will be occupied by a circuit court to be paid for by the state at a cost of $2.4 million. The city will pay $5.7 million for its 72,000 square feet. The building is expected to fill the citys current needs and projected growth through the year 2015. With Valley Fair Mall on its western border and a major city redevelopment area to the north, some city officials believe the area will become recognized as the West Valley city center. An unusual feature of the project is that the building will be 4.8-acr- HOLE IN ONE ... Artists rendition of the proposed new open pit copper mine which will soon be located In the Dimple Dell park area. To compen sate for the dust which the mine Is presumed to create, local residents will be issued "dustbusters free of charge. Huge Ore Deposit Discovered In Dimple Dell nearby residents with dustbusters free of charge. Its only fair." Interest in a possible mining was sparked by a report operation SANDY. An international that a tunnel suggesting concern announced earlier could be built from subway mining all the Draper this week that it had reached to Park In that City. way it report agreement with Salt Lake county officials to begin mining copper in was disclosed that large copper the Dimple Dell park area. The deposits were found in Dimple exact start up date was not Dell, and that extraction could for the cost of the disclosed; however, officials of the help pay subway system. company did state that the open "When they finish digging this pit mining process would be used. hole to mine the copper the In a confidential letter obtained subway will actually be above by this reporter county officials ground in the Dimple Dell area", approved the project in spite of said the offical. "The view will be environmental concerns, most pretty spectacular from the notably the dust that would subway, it just might become a blanket surrounding homes. "The tourist attraction." park is just a big hole in the ground, anyway,' no.ed the It is anticipated that the official, so we figured we might as excavation will pave the way for well make some money on it to an 18 hole championship golf help the states tax coffers. As to course. Once the copper has been the dust problem, well, well taken out the land will be provide by April Phool Green Cheat Sta ff Writer ; - reclaimed to a large park with rolling hills, trees, possibly even a lake, and the golf course. "Thats the beauty of the hole project, in about 85 years residents wont even be able to tell that the area has been mined." EnvmmmentalisWwere not so sure. John Smyth, recognized the as nationally leading authority on the habits of the Utah rug rat, is concerned that the mining operation will disrupt the natural habitat of this unusual and unpredictable "The creature. Dimple Dell area in Sandy is one of the chief for these breeding grounds creatures and wed sure hate to see their growth and development - impaired. At presstime it was not known whether the giant shovels to be used in the project would be purchased locally or whether they would be brought in from out of state. Larkin Receives Medal Of Valor WEST VALLEY. For the first time in its eight-yea- r West Valley Department has history, the Fire City awarded the Medal of Valor. Recipient of the landmark award was firefighter Brett Larkin whose actions last year prevented serious injury or death in the fire to a captain department. In announcing the award at the annual awards departments banquet Friday at Dis Diner in West Valley, Fire Chief Gerald Maughan reviewed the circumstances which earned Larkin the medal. On April 14, 1987, fire crews The officer became disoriented were dispatched at 2:30 p.m. to a and collapsed due to the intense structure fire at 1307 W. 2320 heat and exhaustion. South. After arriving, Larkin and Learning that the captain was Perez quickly still in the building, Larkin Capt. Regan donned breathing apparatus and the structure, located entered the building to search for the officer, and dragged him to a possible trapped victim. the closest doorway, as interior Once inside, the men found that conditions became totally untenathe rapidly deteriorating condi- ble, Maughan recounted. tion of the blaze, together with Other awards presented at the heavy smoke, made a visual banquet were special recognition survey impossible. The intense to Darrell Mcllrath, who served heat build-u- p also meant that a as fire chief from 1982-86- ; the flashover was immidangerous Award to Service Distinguished nent, Maughan noted. Michael Montgomery; firefighter The men became separated. Officer of the Year Award to Larkin exited the dwelling by a Battalion Chief Jeff Scharman, door that was unknown to Perez. and Engineer of the Year to Joe White. The department presented its 1987 Firefighter of the Year Dave Shopay Is Named Officer Of The Month WEST VALLEY. Officer Dave Shopay has been chosen the outstanding officer of the month in West Valley City for March, according to Police Chief Dennis J. Nordfelt. Shopay was called "a major contributor" as a result of his efforts in working with other cities in the valley to bring about the consolidated joint dispatch and information management systems, scheduled to go into effect in the near future. Nordfelt noted that without Shopays expertise, the combined communications concept would probably not have developed as quickly and completely as it has. Shopay spent many hours data for decision compiling makers to study. Shopay will later be a guest of the Honorary Colonels Assn, at a breakfast in his honor. paid for without raising taxes or issuing bonds. This is possible, observed City Finance Director Russ Sanderson, as a result of the foresight of city leaders five years ago. At that time, the city received some e windfalls following sales tax audits. This created a budget surplus. With the City Council already talking about the need for a new city hall, the surplus was put into a capital improvement program for just such an eventuality. The council also allowed money for the new city hall to accumulate by continuing to set aside funds even after debt service on the current city hall was paid off. A factor causing the council to look more seriously at a new building in 1984 was federal requirements to retrofit the current city hall for handicapped accessibility, Sanderson recalled. Failure to do so, warned the government, would mean that West Valley would lose all federal grant monies. Although current federal grants total only $800,000, at the time the annual amount was closer to $2 million. "We were supposed to have one-tim- complied by now with the federal requirements," handicapped Sanderson said, but the citys plans to have the new building accessible to handicapped has apparently demonstrated enough good faith that the city wont lose its grants. The financial readiness of West Valley to build a new city hall is viewed by many as unusual because it is such a marked contrast from the tendency of many government entities in Utah to bond for virtually every major building construction. Two in point which have cases attracted much attention in the 1980s are Salt Lake Citys bond to rehabilitate the City and County Building and Salt Lake Countys bond to finance the county complex on 2100 South. The City and County Building bond of $30 million will result in principal and interest payments totaling about $80 million while total principal and interest for the county facility will exceed $100 million. That could explain why West officials seem to be as happy with the way the building will be paid for as they are with the prospect of having a building at all. Valley Planners Shoot Down Change Of Street Name WEST VALLEY. The Planning Commission here Thursday shot down a request from the Redevelopment Agency to change the name of a segment of Decker Lake Lane to Sterling Medical Drive in honor of the medical equipment company that will be locating in that area In denying the request, the commissioners expressed fears that the name change could create confusion for public safety officials and the public in general because the street, which is roughly 1935 West, would end up with two, an possibly three different designations as it heads southward from the 2700 South area. The rejection by the commission sets the stage for the city council, whose members are the redevelopment agency, to decide on an appeal of their own request to the Planning Commission. Appearing on behalf of the Redevelopment Agency, Larry Catten explained to the commission that the name change was a very important item to Sterling Medical Devices inc., and that the agency had made a commitment to the company to apply for the change as part of the negotiations with the company as it chose to move into West Valley City. At the time the commitment was made it was anticipated Sterling would be fronting along 2770 South. However, the site has been developed placing the front of the building along 1935 West (Decker Lake Dr.) rather than 2770 South. Because of the agencys commitment, the request was still being made to rename a segment of Decker Lake Dr. to Sterling Medical Dr., rather than renaming 2770 South. Investigative Reporter Joins Staff editor Michele Bartmess in some staffing announcing changes. MURRAY. In an effort to beef April Phool, a New Jersey up its investigative reporting staff native who graduated summa the Green Sheet has hired a new cum laude from the nations most undercover reporter (seen here in prestigious journalism program, has joined the staff and her work disguise). will begin appearing in todays from staff the writer a "Landing Columbia School of Journalism is edition. a big coup for this paper," said "Naturally we had to stretch our by A Ed Itor Green Cheat Staff Writer award to Robert Fitzgerald. In addition to fire department and their spouses, personnel many city leaders attended the banquet including Mayor Brent Anderson, City Manager John Newman and most City Council members. salary schedule, so you will see a lot of Aprils work in the paper," Ms. Bartmess added. "Like most of our reporters, shell be overworked." April will reside with publisher Peter Berhnard and his family at their Murray home until she finds other lodgings suitable to her needs. Ms. Bartmess said the new staff writer would be assigned to cover a variety of hard news topics in keeping with her very specialized training. Her hiring is expected to relieve the burden on other Green Sheet staffers. Phool is believed to be the first Columbia graduate to work on a Utah weekly paper. She is not, however, the first outstanding talent to ply its trade at the Murray-basepaper. Well known columnist Jack Andersons first bylines appeared in the Murray Eagle, the parent paper of the Green Sheet chain. 'Were just thrilled. As Aprils experience grows, no doubt she will take on greater responsibilities. As I look to my own retirement some 22 years away, I see April as being the kind of person who would be able to step in and take over," Ms. Bartmess d Tom Foolery We were feeling a mite foolish as we prepared to send this edition to press - you know, looking ahead to Friday and alL Somehow that and a case of spring fever kind of got the best of us. We hope our April you enjoy Foolishness as much as we enjoyed preparing it. If you look closely, theres an obvious hint as to which information in today's edition you should take with a grain of salt. -- FIRST.. Firefighter Brett Larkin Is presented Medal of Valor from Fire Chief Gerald Maughan, Mayor Brent Anderson and City Manager John Newman. . concluded. Bartmess also announced Foolery has been appointed to the Sports staff and new community correnspondents include N. Joy Ryting, I. Did Goof and A. Ed Itor. Ms. that Tom HARD DAYS NIGHT . . . The Green Sheet's new Investigative reporter, April Phool, (in disguise) Is exhausted after her first day on the Job. April will find herself overworked, like all of the papers staffers. |