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Show Third annual contest Beautification winners named in NSL By JUDY JENSEN Editor NORTH SALT LAKE Winners Win-ners in the third annual beautification beautifica-tion contest have been chosen and will be awarded a plaque and certificate certi-ficate of appreciation from the city at an upcoming council meeting. Winners in the "Lifetime Achievement Residence" category categ-ory were George and Lola Rapich of 205 N. Highway 89. The family has been working at keeping the one-half acre lot beautifully landscaped land-scaped for 40 years. Mr. Rapich said, "If I don't keep it cleaned up it will look like a junk yard. I like to keep it neat and the hedges trimmed, trim-med, not sloppy," he said. Although he may complain a little lit-tle about the yard work, Mr. Rarjich admitted he loves it. "I en- had in 40 years. I must have gotten some bad plants," he said. According to Mr. Rapich, his entire en-tire family enjoys the yard. "All of the kids want to go to grandma and grandpa's house," he said. Although she is involved in canning can-ning the fruit, Mr. Rapich said Lola doesn't get involved in the yard work too much. "She putters around the flowers and bugs me if she can," he joked. The large lot at the corner of 136 Wilson Road is the proud possession posses-sion of Hank and Rudy Wykstra and their neighbors love it too. The beautiful yard is the winner of the "Best Corner Lot" award. According to Rudy, "I just think of it as my job and I've always loved it. I get a thrill out of making it beautiful," she said. Rudy explained that in her are evergreens, "so we can enjoy them all year long," she explained. Ray and Linda Larsen are the winners in the "Newcomer Residence" Resi-dence" category. It was just three years ago when the Larsens moved into their new home on Coventry Lane. "It was just sand and rocks then," said Linda. Today the yard is fully landscaped and filled with thousands of flowers. The Larsen's petunias rival those found on Temple Square. Linda said her secret to keeping the petunias so beautiful is picking off all of the dead blossoms during June and July. "You have to do it every day for the first two months and then they will look good until they freeze," she said. Linda and Ray and worked together to transform the vacant lot into a gardener's dream. "Ray '' ,' '"'. ',,-' ...'If ' .'' fit",, !" f : , Center Street and Highway 89. Both new businesses have been welcome additions to the city and have transformed unsightly corners cor-ners into attractive and eye-appealing eye-appealing areas. Manager of Walker's, Elmer Casaus said they have really enjoyed en-joyed being in North Salt Lake. "The people are nice and friendly and we like to keep the business clean to please them," he said. He added that the business has "great" employees who work together to make the customers happy. "We want to serve our people well and we try to be friendly," he said. Bob Kellersberger, owner of Bob's Deli said the building and the landscaping are maintained through "effort and hard work We've always done things this way. I feel you've got to go first class to survive. If you do things sloppy, it will eventually catch up with you," he said. Bob said the business is "booming" "boom-ing" and has far surpassed their expectations. "We try to offer"" good service and good food in a fun, enjoyable place." Bob added that they really appreciate the support sup-port the people of North Salt Lake have given to the business. Hands down winners in the "Most Improved" category were Kelly and Marlene Sullivan at 660 E. 400 N. Their neighbors got together and signed a petition to nominate the couple for their efforts in transforming their yard into a beautiful garden. The Sulli-vans Sulli-vans purchased their home two years ago. ' ' When we bought it there were a few patches of grass, but all of the bushes had died," said Marlene. She explained that she had been raised on a small farm. Her father raised gladiola and her mom was a florist, "so I am kind of a flower fiend," she said. Her love for flowers flow-ers is evident in Marlene's yard. She has planted at least 1 ,000 flowers flow-ers not counting the 10,000 gladiola. gla-diola. "I sell the gladiola during the summer, that's why I have so many," Marlene explained. She said that in order to get the yard done in just two years, the couple spent many nights until 11 p.m. working with the light of . flashlights to get the landscaping done. "We still have the east side to do, but that's next year," she said gratefully. The Sullivans' six children helped with the work including in-cluding planting the 100 bushes and trees. Marlene admitted there is one part of landscaping she doesn't like. "Lawn edging is really hard," she said, and added that since Kelly Kel-ly wants a "special pitch fork for Christmas," maybe she'll ask for a power edger. The city thanked all of these dedicated de-dicated residents for their hard work and for adding to the beauty of their neighborhoods. Mayor Jake Simmons said he appreciates the cooperation all of the residents of the city show in working together to keep North Salt Lake a city in which all of the residents can take pride. Winners in the "most improved" category for North Salt Lake were Kelly and Marlene Sullivan. They made the job of transforming the weed patch into a beautiful garden a family affair. Children Tiffany, Angela and Christopher had a hand in planting over 1 0,000 gladiolus. Marlene said they sometimes worked late into the night using flashlights to illuminate the yard. :; joy gardening and I love the roses," he said. "My least favorite thing about it is trying to keep ahead of the weeds," he laughed. Mr. Rapich said although he has always prided himself on the size and quality of his tomatoes, "this year's are the worst tomatoes I've homeland of Holland, no one owned own-ed their own home. "I treasure my home and we take pride in it," she said. Rudy said her favorite part ol yard work is, "digging in the dirt. When I get depressed, it's like therapy," ther-apy," she said. She loves greenery and many of her plants and bushes does all of the hard work and I just put on the finishing touches," she said. Two new businesses tied for the award in "Newcomer Business." Walker's Food and Fuel at 10 S. Orchard Drive shared the award with Bob's Deli on the corner of |
