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Show AN EDITION OF THE YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2004 50 CENTS VOL. 118 NO. 37 Maple building Martin Conover SPRINGVILLE HERALD Mapleton City Council agreed "in principle" to proceed pro-ceed with construction or the proposed new city community communi-ty center by approving the architectural drawings and site plan at last Wednesday's city council meeting at Mapleton City Hall. By so doing the council named Curtis Miner architect archi-tect for the building, which will be built on property owned by the city west of the Central Bank building. At the next council meeting meet-ing set for October 6, the council will hear from the city auditor who will present his annual report as to the financial fi-nancial condition of the city as of June 30 and inform the council of the actual financial reserves, allowing the council coun-cil to make an informed decision deci-sion about building this capital capi-tal project. Estimated cost for the project pro-ject is $1.4 million less the Library Li-brary and other donations and a community development develop-ment block grant towards the cost of a senior center. All of these items would be included in the building. There was also discussion concerning whether they should include the police department de-partment in the basement of the center or build a special public safety building to include in-clude the fire department, ambulance and police department. depart-ment. In other actions by the council Mayor Allen ordered the flags of the city to be flown at half mast until after Springville to get entertainment center Grace Leong STAFF WRITER For those who are inticed by glitzy, over-the-top Las Vegas resorts but are put off by the gaming that defines de-fines Sin City, an alternative may soon be available in Springville. Scheduled to be completed in 2006, Wasatch Spectrum, a 600,000-square-foot master-planned entertainment and commercial center, is expected to generate up to 1,500 jobs and attract hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of visitors visi-tors statewide as well as drive-in traffic from nearby states. It draws its inspiration from a variety of attractions around the country including includ-ing Las Vegas's Treasure Island Is-land for its Pirate's cove Buffet, and the Venetian re t ft-. ? Jr" Jiff tf Springville Museum of Art Director Vern Swanson, right talked to a large gathering of the Haf en-Dallin volunteer guild last week at their fall brunch. Swanson talked at length about the upcoming exhibition, "Bouguereau - Rockwell" that the guild is sponsoring. It will open Sunday, Sept 19, with a reception at 5 p.m. and will feature two of the most popular artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. There will be a small charge for this art exhibit .i4is ton gets new city underway the funeral of former Mapeleton Mayor Marilyn Peterson who passed away last week. Peterson has been very active ac-tive in civic affairs in Mapleton Maple-ton for many years and has filled many positions in the city and worked for the improvement im-provement of live in the city. The council also observed a moment of silence in her memory at the meeting. The council agreed to purchase pur-chase new water meter equipment which will enable water meters to be read automatically au-tomatically by city workers patrolling the streets with special equipment able to pick up signals transmitted to them from the water meters. me-ters. These signals are transmitted transmit-ted on demand to special equipment being purchased by the water department and will save time and money on the part of water department personnel in reading accurately accu-rately the water meters in the city. . The council also accepted the Marshall Acres Subdivision Subdivi-sion at 200 East 1400 North, the Orton Subdivision at 100 South 1500 East, and the L. J. Simmons Subdivision at 1800 North and 1600 West. The council tabled a resolution resolu-tion for the mayor to enter into an interlocal agreement with Nebo School District in respect to the Mapleton Junior Ju-nior High School and the use of those new facilities by the city until more detail can be worked out with between the city and the school district. dis-trict. sort for its 750-foot-long indoor in-door manmade canal with mechanical boats to ferry shoppers and visitors within the center. The privately held 51-acre development, to be built at an estimated cost of between be-tween $30 million and $50 million, will be located just off the 400 South exit of Interstate In-terstate 15 in Springville. The project, now being planned by the Wasatch Spectrum Group, a consortium consor-tium of private investors and local developers, will include in-clude up to 2000,000 square feet of retail space, a 52,000-square-f oot indoor water park, a 1.5-million-gallon aquarium, a 12-screen movie theater, a 60,000-square-foot arcade, four thumbed , restaurants and a food court, a country dance hall OOOti, OOOO i The new school will bring new sports facilities and auditorium au-ditorium facilities to the city. The city wants to have a good working relationship with the school district in the use of these facilities for programs pro-grams sponsored by the city, when they are not being used by the school. The school district also wants to cooperate with the city in the use of these facilities. facili-ties. The delay is to give both the city and school district more tune to come to agree- See MAPLETON CITY COUNCIL on Page 14 Details for the home created by local business Have you ever had a hard time trying to find just the right gift for someone? Heritage Her-itage Woodworks in Springville has many different differ-ent ideas to help you out with the right gift for someone or just the right addition to your own home. Ellen Zimmerman, owner of Heritage Woodworks, started the business in her" home in 1986 by making custom cus-tom furniture and other wood items for people. After five years of doing it out of her home, the business grew and she decided to move to a retail location in Springville. and studio, as well as a fitness fit-ness center. "We're aiming to create an entertainment center that will be on the scale of a Las Vegas resort, but without the gambling," said Brad LeBaron, a local developer and managing partner of Wasatch Spectrum. "We're hoping to attract a specific type of entertainment entertain-ment retailer, such as the Walt Disney Store and Hilo Hattie, a Hawaiian lifestyle and novelty chain, or sporting sport-ing goods, pOlf shops and rock climbing equipment stores," Project consultant Duane Marcnant says the Wasatch Spectrum name is inspired partly by a need to identify See ENTERTAINMENT CENTER on Page 14 .-..-if - i WWW.HARiaHEHEIULD.COM 4 Vf f ; 61 iff "f.fi .. t 2004-05 SHS Student Council members- top L to R: Mike Robbins, Matt Van Orden, Clay Mills, Camille Harlan, Briana Harlan, Sean Smith, Nikki Crandall, Kolby Bradley, Mrs. Brenda Burr. Bottom L to R: Nik-ki Nik-ki Payne, Ashleigh Restad, Candice Sowards, Ben Priest, Taylor Gardner, Jessica Johnson, Zac Jensen, Zac Anderson, James Day. Not Pictured: Justin Moss In 1991 she bought the old Westside Market and totally renovated the building and turned it into the woodshop and retail space that exists today. It is located at 241 S. 100 West in Springville. Heritage Woodworks has thousands of unique "Details for the Home," or gift ideas. One of the great advantages advan-tages of buying at Heritage Woodworks is that if you don't like the color, chances are they have the same item in the back that they can paint in any color that you would like. This is because they build most all of the furniture, fur-niture, shelves- and wall hangings on site. If you have an idea for a piece of unique furniture or wood item that you just don't quite know how to get, go see Ellen, and she can more than likely put it together for you. Or she will have an idea that will work and fit in your home. One of the new services offered of-fered at Heritage Woodworks Wood-works is custom lettering on wood. They can take any saying you have and put it on a piece of wood to make a custom sign. The letters are See HERITAGE WOODWORKS on Page 14 Dates announced for new schools in Nebo School District Todd Hollingshead STAFF WRITER Nebo School District isn't wasting any time putting its $140 million bond to work to alleviate what Superintendent Superinten-dent Chris Sorensen calls "maxed out" district schools. Starting in February 2005, the district will begin construction con-struction on three $8 million elementary schools in Spanish Span-ish Fork, Salem and San-taquin, San-taquin, the first of 10 new schools to be built within Nebo in the next decade. Those projects will be coupled cou-pled with the construction of a $14 million junior high school in Mapleton. That construction will begin in March 2005. Sorensen said the new schools are absolutely necessary neces-sary as the district is growing grow-ing by 1,000 new students a year. "Nebo is experiencing unprecedented un-precedented growth," said Sorensen, who has worked within the district for more than 25 years. "We're grateful for the citizenry cit-izenry that passed the bond for these new schools be CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE v SI" V i r t LULl ! "8 r V -7 Alt V t ' f " 1 r; - V )rJ X n - -J , I J t 4 j Ellen Zimmerman, owner and operator of Heritage Woodworks is shown here with many of the unique items she sells and creates in her shop. Photo by Craig Conover i cause it's critical to the growth that we're experiencing." experi-encing." The first three elementary schools will be completed by spring 2006 and will be Look for Red Devil Digest in newspaper School are doing, we have asked the journalism class to report to us each week. They will receive credit in their class for this extra work In addition to several articles, you will also find lots of pictures and learn who the new coaches are this year at SHS. And if you know any of the student writers, please tell them that you read their article. We hope you will enjoy the Red Devil Digest. 4a I1 ,4 X- r ) A 4. I . ft n named Aspen Meadows Elementary Ele-mentary (Spanish Fork), Foothills Elementary (Salem) and Orchard Hills See NEBO SCHOOLS ANNOUNCED on Page 14 Readers of the Springville Herald will v ' want to check out the k new section of the paper J this week - Red Devil Di- gest. In an effort to know i , more about what the students stu-dents at Springville High , 1-1 XXX |