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Show si i U oK : ; ..... r 8,iu I tnrr--i . r , r- lA - i s ' " t t'f h ' .: - ' ' v ' " ' - i i . . ' ' ' ", . '(' V . i - " f ; ' I - ; I - ' 1 $ i - : , - ' , i X i ! 1 ' - ' ! ' . .,:.... Gfy employees end invited;. orator end naturcl 52$ eRg;.. Itchesd Utility Center Volume Ninety-one SPRINGVILLE, UTAH 84663 - July 23, 1986 Price 30 Number Thirty RfepSoftiini eelebratioin Thyreday f prfx Sidewalk Sale Fri. & Sat. Celebrate the 24th of July in Mapleton this year. They have plans for a fun, family celebration and invite in-vite everyone to come out and help celebrate. The day will start with a flag raising rais-ing ceremony at 6 a.m., followed by the Bishop's Breakfast from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. Those attending will enjoy ham, eggs, pancakes and milk or juice. The annual Mapleton parade will begin at 9 a.m. with Fay and Beth Jensen leading the participants and acting as grand marshalls. Children and families are encouraged to participate par-ticipate in the parade that will line up at 1000 North at 8 a.m. Cash prizes will be given for the winning entries and everyone in the parade I I I 1 I , ; will receive a treat at the end. There will be a display of photographs and paintings of Maple Mountain for citizens to view. Prizes will be awarded for the winners of this exhibit. Awards and prizes will be given out from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Mapleton City Park. The "Citizen of the Year" will be named and the Tree City Award presented. Bikes, quilts, dolls and other prizes will be given out. This year David Nemelka is again donating four beautiful bicycles for the occasion. These are donated in honor of his father, Nephi Nemelka, for being such a kind and wonderful father, and to let children have the realization that magical dreams can come true. Children can sign up for the bicycle drawing the morning of the 24th at the park. The Mapleton Boy's Baseball Program Pro-gram will be raffling off a beautiful queen size quilt and an 8" Madam Alexander doll. Tickets will be available at the park Thursday. " Games for all ages will begin at 10 a m. and close at 3 p.m. There will be a fish pond, ring toss, baseball throw, shooting gallery, dart board, moon walk, dunking machine, batting bat-ting machine, and live fish grab. There will also be a ceramics painting pain-ting booth this year. Jhere will be an arts, crafts and hobbies exhibit for all interested citizens. Items should be brought to the town hall at the park today, Wednesday, between 4 and 7 p.m. There will be a bake sale and donated items should be brought to the White Church this evening. A lively program will be presented throughout the day at the park beginning at 10 a.m. Entertainers will include the Dixieland Band, Cloggers USA, Aspen Folk Dancers, Vickie Jones Dancers, Overton Bluegrass Band, Blind Melvin and the Crazy Apaches, Scottish Bagpipes and Highland Dancers, Keeker's Rock Band and the Smokey Mill Blue Grass. Band. .(Il,,t, Springville merchants will hold their annual Sidewalk Sale on Friday Fri-day and Saturday, July 25 and 26. Sponsored by the Springville Chamber of Commerce, this is a popular mid-summer sale and everyone should plan to be downtown early Friday for this event. Check the ads from local merchants mer-chants in this issue of the Springville Herald for sidewalk buys. Prizes will be given away to the persons guessing the correct number of pennies in a jar at Vaud , Hanks and Son. Queens for the Mapleton 24th of July celebration will be riding on the float sponsored by the Mapleton Lions. The queens are, right, front row: Mapleton 3rd Ward Sarah Boyer, daughter of Seth and Angie Boyer ; 5th Ward Brooke Bleggi, daughter of Don and Heidi Bleggi; 2nd Ward Ab-by Ab-by Hjorth, daughter of Richard and Karla Hjorth; 4th Ward Alyson Vir-chow, Vir-chow, daughter of Roy and Jan Virchow; 1st Ward Anne Marie Ford, daughter of Gary and Carolyn Ford; and 6th Ward Shalane Coppieters, daughter of Ron and Marsha Coppieters. These girls are all 6 or 7 years old and represent the six wards in Mapleton, the CTR A Classes. by Kirk Mitchell With budget figures coming in the black at $424,597, council members are saying the 1986-87 fiscal budget needs to be re-opened and revamped. "The mayor has been projecting a deficit all year and now that we know it isn't so we should put the money back into the budget to be utilized by the departments," Councilman Coun-cilman Pete Roundy said. According to Roundy, if the city stops providing services it will be in trouble, it will be going backwards. "Why run scared?" Roundy said. "I can't see spending just to be spending, spen-ding, but there are things that need to be done." He said if the budget looks tight next summer, then the city will need to pull the reigns in. Until then, obligations such as the dredging of Hobble Creek to protect Jensens to lead Mapleton parade Leading the 24th of July Parade in Mapleton Thursday will be two residents who are well-known, who love life and have been long-time citizens of the community. Fay Jensen and his wife of 55 years, Beth, will wave to those who line the parade route. - Joseph Fay Jensen was born July 16, 1903, in Mapleton. Elizabeth Anderson Jensen was born June 27, 1910, in West Jordan and has lived in Mapleton for 55 years. The Jensens have five children, two deceased. One died at birth and the oldest died in a boating accident after graduating from college as a geologist. The three living are Joy Neilsen, Rex Jensen and Pauline Hartvigsen. Fay grew up on a farm in Mapleton and continued to farm after he and Beth were married, raising chickens, milk cows, hay and a very large orchard. He also worked for the pipe company com-pany at Ironton and was later employed for 27 years by Mapleton City as Water Master, roads head and Police Chief. Beth supported him while he was working by taking care of the many chores on their farm. Both of them have been active in the LDS Church. Beth has sung for years with the singing mothers and in duets for scores of funerals. She was Primary chorister for many years and even made instruments for the children for a rhythm band. She led singing in Sunday School and helped with the scouts. She is most famous for her beautiful flower garden and for the way she graciously shares her flowers with friends and neighbors. She rises early every Sunday morn--ing and provides her church with a lovely bouquet. Fay served an LDS mission in the Northern States in 1924. Since that time he has taught Sunday School, worked on the stake MIA board, Vanguards, and ward MIA president. presi-dent. He started the senior scout program pro-gram in Mapleton with Eddie Snow and they made an archery range in the amusement hall and troops from all around came to participate. He has been a scouter or on a troop committee for over 50 years. He was a member of the first scout troop in Mapleton. In 1970 the Jensens served a mission mi-ssion in the Samoan Islands. Since that time they have worked in the Provo LDS Temple. They have always been enthusiastic en-thusiastic and contributed to the community of Mapleton. For years they decorated their hay wagon for every 24th of July Parade. They did this until they retired a couple of years ago. The citizens of Mapleton salute the Jensens and thank them for all they have done to help make Mapleton the special place to live in that it is. w J IsfiiiiiiiP ft",.-. y :: asBfttf" V-- -' f Fay and Beth Jensen the golf course and replenishing the salaries of police officers for morale sake should be done, he said. Other concerns of the city include the swimming pool that Roundy said needed the roof fixed and matching money provided for Jolley's Park. Jolley's Park qualifies for $78,000 in matching money from the government. govern-ment. Roundy said that amount can be matched by labor, direct funds or equipment and needs to be used. "If we don't use it then we're telling tell-ing state and federal government that we don't need it," Roundy said. In the last council meeting Martin Conover, president-elect of the Kiwanis Club, suggested that his organization might be willing to use $4,000 to help build a pavilion in Jolley's Park. Their time could also be used on the project so that the matching money could be utilized. Roundy said the mayor and council coun-cil need to sit down together with the department heads and prioritize. Councilmen Douglas Strong, Delora Bertelsen and Max Knight agree. Earlier in the year, when the city council and the mayor were discussing the budget, it was decided decid-ed that if the budget came in the black then it would be opened again, according to Bertelsen. "We need to look at each department depart-ment item by item," said Bertelsen. "Critical areas such as dredging money and keeping the police staff, along with capital improvements must be considered." ; Strong and Bertelsen said they don't feel the 10 percent sacrificed earlier in the year by each department depart-ment should be automatically put back in, but rather a detailed examination ex-amination should take place and needs determined. 1 Departments that have had to forgo their three percent wage increase in-crease to meet the mayor's 10 percent per-cent reduction demand, Strong said, should receive first consideration. ' Mayor Ken Creer said that before further work is done on the budget he would like to sit down with the city ci-ty council and Grant Paulson, the city ci-ty auditor, and discuss money matters. mat-ters. i According to the mayor, a debt service payment of $1.5 million is due on September 1 and there is Some doubt whether the city will have enough available funds to pay for it. "That has been my biggest concern con-cern to meet that obligation," said Creer. In reference to a report, he had announced an-nounced in a city council meeting that the city could be $1 million in the red for fiscal 1985-86, Creer said he had no regrets. According to him, it helped spark an atmosphere of tight spending and that between January and the end of the fiscal year, thousands of dollars were sav ed. "Don't give me the credit (for department cuts)," Creer said. According to him, it was the frugal efforts of department heads who conserved money. Former mayor Brent Haymond said he had been watching the budget on a month-to-month basis for each department and never felt it would come in other than what he expected. Haymond and council members projected the budget to be about $250,000 in the black. They were off by $174,597 as final estimates came in at $424,597. Figures Creer depended depend-ed on were off $1,424,597. Part of the distortion of the $1 million in the red estimate was centered around the fact that a $900,000 surplus from the previous year was not figured in, according to Haymond. "We budgeted the 1985-86 surplus into the next year because the state law says you can't horde money," Haymond said. $650,000 of the surplus was set aside for capital improvements, and although it was not officially part of the 1985-86 fiscal budget, it was figured in at the end. Percentages of how much each department spent in comparison to projected figures for the past year are as follows: Administrative expenditures ex-penditures - 94.6 percent; Police -97.3 percent; fire - 81 percent; Ambulance Am-bulance - 89 percent; inspection - 95 percent; planning - 87.3 percent; court - 101.6 percent; streets - 91.4 percent; parks - 90.6 percent; art museum - 105.7 percent; recreation -95.6 percent; library -103.5 percent; cemetery - 86.7 percent and airport -75.7 percent. Considering some revenue such as utility consumption of Stouffers that had been expected to come on line and didn't, Haymond said Springville Spr-ingville did quite well. A public hearing for adoption of the final budget for fiscal 1986-87 will be held on August 12, at 6 p.m. in the Springville Civic Center. - ,; - '. -. , ; ' - " '. . t I . 1 t j t i : r..4 ' , j i if fy ; '4 i . I I ' . , W j tZT' m - it 1 ji " ' a ,fnin iiiiiirm-ii r fr ' 'JZttLi jf VmA " 1fc Max Knight, Springville City Councilman in charge of the electric department, depart-ment, beams proudly as he mounts the stairs of the number one gas generating engine that was fired up last week at the new power complex. It was a test run for the engine and dignitaries and city workers were pleased with the results. The plant is scheduled to go on line around the first of August. |
