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Show Historic November's monthly meeting of the Springville Downtown Business Alliance (SDBA) was held at The Read Leaf Bookstore, and was well attended as the group shifted meetings from noon to 7 p.m. "We have talked about trying an evening eve-ning time for our monthly meetings, tonight was our first one and we had 18 people show up," said Daniel Bolz, coordinator for the Alliance. Jeff Mills, president of the Alliance, said, "I'm pleased with both the attendance atten-dance and the involvement. We have one of our three main committees organized with a chair and co-chair. We're making progress." The Design Committee, now chaired by Tony Pickering Picker-ing and co-chaired by David Christopher, has 12 people on the committee. Their first project is to layout the major redesign of the Historic Main Street corridor from 400 South to Center Street. Professional Pro-fessional design work will be done by architect Eric Lyman. Ly-man. The other two committees, commit-tees, yet to be organized with a chair and co-chair, are the Promotions Committee and the Business Growth Committee. Com-mittee. Several people are now involved in these committees. com-mittees. The SDBA is officially part of the National Main Street Program. Professional assistance is provided by the state office of community and economic development. Bim Oliver, state coordinator of the program, attended the November monthly meeting and reviewed organizational issues with the group. Any business owner or private citizen is welcome to join the SDBA. The SDBA works in conjunction with Springville's other business development interests including includ-ing the Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, the 1-15 cprridor and the industrial park. The primary objective of the SDBA is to lay a foundation for economic strength along the Historic Main Street corridor. Elements of the objective include: slowing traffic to encourage a viable "walkingshopping "walk-ingshopping district; building build-ing on the "Art City" marketing mar-keting theme; creating a "look and feel" among storefronts store-fronts that supports the historic his-toric theme; encouraging additional living space on second floors above retail . stores; developing significant "destination centers" that will draw both local shoppers and tourists; and planning for more "night life" in the district. The SDBA is a private organization made up of business owners and citizens who support the above mentioned men-tioned objectives. Once decisions are made by the SDBA, they will be formally presented to the Springville City Council, mayor and city manager and the community for endorsement and support. December's monthly SDBA meeting will be held at The Herb Shop, 188 S. Main, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Wednes-day, Dec. 3. For more info call Jeff Mills, 368-4120, or Daniel Bolz, 465-3000. Dear Friends Letm L 4'"f' LJ Ja. L I you mny best effort. Our citizens are our most important asset. This community is full of talented people. I appreciate the opportunity to represen it you and hope you will not hesitate to bring more I ideas to the table. I would also like tothaankthe Springville City Youth Council and their adv isor Keri Gordon. I was impressed and grateful for" the two public meetings meet-ings that they sponsored a md conducted. And finally, I would likes to express my appreciation appre-ciation to the present cityccsuncil members: Diane Carr, Jim Reed, Mark Balzcotti, Craig Conover, Jay Knight and Mayor Fritz Boye r for their hours of dedicated dedi-cated service to our city. I know they have our city's best interest at heart. Thank you once again ! J. Niel Sftrong Main Street News Things are happening on Springville's Main Street. The Downtown Business Alliance is making plans to redo the look and feel of the area and make it more inviting for businesses and shoppers. In that spirit, several businesses - are and have already redone their store fronts. Workers are busy on the fronts of four businesses right now : including SOS Drug, Duke's Jewelry, the new UPS Store . and the Martial Arts facility. Plans are to create angle ; parking and add a planter strip in the middle of the ; street as well as other plantings and places for people to : sit and enjoy. nan areas grow Oaster than rural by Christi C. Babbitt Staff Writer While Utah and its sur-i sur-i rounding states may bring Tthoughts of open land and i rural lifestyles, the area has ialso experienced a trend Ttoward urbanization. The Mountain West area iis more rural and at the same time more urban than any oother area in the United States, says a paper written tfey two Brigham Young University researchers. More tthan 70 percent of the area's population lives in metropoli-tran metropoli-tran areas. "The Mountain West has fcreen one of the fastest-grow-iing regions of the country," ssaid Matthew Shumway, chairman of the BYU Depart-rxrient Depart-rxrient of Geography. "The poeople that are moving here re moving to urban areas or wery select non-urban areas. " Shumway and Sam Otterstrom, Otter-strom, an assistant professor oof geography, examined (population changes and dis-tiribution dis-tiribution in the Mountain ",rWest area; the resulting (paper was published this fall sin the Journal of Rural Stud-fies. Stud-fies. Utah, Nevada, Montana, ''Wyoming, Colorado, Arizo-ma, Arizo-ma, New Mexico and Idaho sre considered part of the Ilountain West area. The paper points out a (paradox: People moving to tzhe Mountain West may feel e and Citizens, e express my apprecia tion for your support in the recent re-cent ocity elections. I truly thank yyou for your vote of confidence. con-fidence. I appreciate those who contributed their valuble time and money to my campaign cam-paign eeffort, and as previously i I expresssed, ' pledge to give they are moving to a rural setting, but because they locate in areas such as Salt Lake and Utah counties, they are actually contributing , to the urbanization of the West. People' are ' hot ' spreading evenly across the landscape, Otterstrom said. "There is some wide open country. ..they're just not living there," he said. Shumway said there was a continual national trend from 1910 to the 1970s of migration migra-tion from rural to urban areas. In the '70s, as well as in the '90s, rural areas experienced expe-rienced more growth. Unlike these national trends, urban areas int he Mountain West have always grown faster than rural areas, he said. Since 1950, the Mountain West's population has increased in-creased from 3 percent of the nation's population to 6 percent.The area encompasses encompass-es 24 percent of the nation's land area. "This low population density serves to create and perpetuate the idea of the Mountain West as a rural region," the paper says. "While this may be true in terms of extensive land uses and in myth, it is certainly not true in terms of population popula-tion distribution." Otterstrom said it appears the trend toward urbanization in the Mountain West will continue, so people need to prepare for growth. "You're going to see the same thing continuing all the way down to Nephi," Otterstrom Otter-strom said. Shumway said he expects that by 2010, Juab County will be considered part of the Provo-Orem metro area. People to some select non-metro areas, such as Utah's Washington and Sum-rait Sum-rait counties, that have amenities ame-nities including recreational and retirement opportunities or proximity to an urban area. Washington County, where St. George is located, doubled in population from 1990 to 2000; St. George is close to being classified as a metropolitan area. "Current patterns of growth tend to either reinforce rein-force past settlement patterns or to concentrate population within a few favored locations, loca-tions, " the paper says. "If these patterns hold, they should continue to reinforce the Mountain West's distinc-tiw distinc-tiw cnt structure of 'oases and deserts.'" S Obn foe cairetata governor by Howard Stephenson We can only image how wild things must have been in the Governor's office during the past few weeks. Things must have been even crazier when Governor Lea-vitt Lea-vitt delivered his farewell address at 6:30 p.m. Monday night, televised from the Gold Room in the State Capitol. Then on Wednesday, Wednes-day, 10 a.m. Leavitt signed his resignation document, Olene Walker took the oath of office, new Lt. Governor Gale McKeachnie was sworn in and a reception was held in the Gold Room. Later in the day, Leavitt departed for Washington, D.C. Whew, what a schedule! These are truly historic times as Utah's Governor resigns to accept the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency in President George W. Bush's administration and the State of Utah inaugurates its first female governor, Olene Walker. Utahns are deservedly proud of Governor Leavitt being selected to make a difference at the EPA. We should all be pleased that the Governor's office is left in the hands of one of the smartest, smar-test, most capable individuals in the state. While Walker isn't expected to be a big change from Leavitt's moderate moder-ate Republicanism, she is expected to make her own unmistakable mark on the state. Olene Walker has stayed under the radar screen of the media and the public, always deferring to Leavitt at least in public. But now, many will be surprised to find that Walker is no lame-duck, caretaker governor. I predict that this woman is a great communicator. During her eleven years as Lt. Governor, Gover-nor, she has given some of Unlimited calling Friday, I - 7 i I f 600 WHENEVER minutes3 No long distance or roaming charges $39.99 a month 1-year agreement GET MORE MINUTES. MORE FEATURES. MORE St.RV'CE. 25 NORTH MAIN WhoiitobtiiauimmginqdwgigC in W loci. (Mk app. Ktiv Im senice agre rtour irasirtcon(iom. fldw)ttnaart)aiiorcl Rebate is a moi m otta' thai rourm The pmcase o? Ih ptar bltcl r tta ad vx a n KPMIion on $ WihngTMobirittgta.Ratom UnuMdimjMdoTOtarrrtoniaKj (bcim the phono rlny or liw s armctwl) thi Mcn.toWrt snd 9pm w 11:59 pmThu Eraflvrtwrtte (!indrorigarviaiieUS,GSMntwit. Krt!maofr,wt!ililiti.3tit. I imwaijrm oHnr lid in intag mtrlajB otfr. iitiili ptlcirMiing Irxalm 0 subiM C?003 TMorXri USA, Int m m November 20, 2003 - The Springville Herald - Page Three 'ft expect Walker t the most compelling speeches I've heard from any state official, usually without notes and unfortunately, without much media coverage. Now, finally the media will report what she says and many will say they didn't know she was so talented. She always has been, but few noticed because be-cause they assumed lieutenants lieuten-ants aren't that important. Walker was right when, during the announcement that former State Representative Gayle McKeachnie would be her Lt. governor, she said he Employment situation in Utah The seasonally-adjusted rate for October, registered 4.8 percent, a movement downward from a revised 5.0 percent measurement in September. Approximately 58,000 Utahns were unemployed unem-ployed in October 2003. Last October, 72,200 were unemployed, unem-ployed, with the unemployment unemploy-ment rate at 6.1 percent. Mark Knold, Senior Economist for the Department Depart-ment of Woikforce Services (DWS) said, "The current unemployment rate probably understates the real pressures facing our labor market. Discouraged workers are not included and if we did measure mea-sure them, the rate might easily be a percentage-point higher. With the unemployment unemploy-ment rate going dow, and no job growth occurring, this seems counter-intuitive. So we have to assume that workers wor-kers are leaving the labor force, whether by becoming a discouraged worker, or else leaving the state. " For complete details go to the DWS website at: http:j-obs.utah.govwipress2001p-ressratecurrent.pdf. " " 1 Start looking on Saturday and Sunday ('' r 1 jjj SPRINGVILLE was overqualified for the job. McKeachnie was no slouch as a legislator or as chair of the Utah Constitutional Revision Revi-sion Commission and he is expected to be an extremely effective Lt. Governor. Another moderate Republican, Republi-can, McKeachnie is a great choice because of his winning win-ning ways in consensus-building consensus-building and respect for others' viewpoints. I expect Governor Walker to put her own mark on the state budget, public and higher education, social services and transportation. We may see some novel approaches to stubborn problems prob-lems which have plagued the state recently, Problems such as Legacy Highway, education educa-tion reform, equity in education educa-tion funding, economic development de-velopment and taxes. If you really want to get an idea of what Olene Walker's Walk-er's administration will look like during the next 14 months, go to her new web site at http:www.utah.gov-governor. Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. --Freya Stark The need for absolutes may be nothing but a want of love. -Jean Rostand Total abstinence is easier for me than perfect moderation. modera-tion. St. Augustine The more abstract the, truth you wish to teach, the more you must allure the senses to it. ' " --Nietzsche" forward to Thursdays. 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