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Show 8 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, February 17, 2005 Fort Utah, topic at Wed. Historical This is a drawing of Fort Utah as it looked in the 1800s. It was located in Provo at about Center Street where the freeway is today. Robert and Lyndia Carter of Springville did a lot of research to find the exact location which had been forgotten. They will tell about their findings at the Wednesday, Feb. 23, meeting of the Springville Historical Society. The public is invited to attend. ran . m E3A C3 SOME TITLES INCLUDE: "Just Hold Me " by Don Staheli "Book of Mormon " Doubleday Edition "Letters" by Marjorie Pay Hinckley "Mormon World Records" by Paul B. Skousen "Nephi, Nephi, The Scriptures Are True" by Anita Wells AND MANY MORE..... Limited to Stock on Hand - Expires Feb 28th 1 1 11 11 1 1 30 .III HI." ri lit U U c v IB"i W 'WPiPSPSB 0r Monday - Friday: 8 am -6 pm Saturday: 10 am -2 pm , . vf , -tA W u k ' t V - I mi , li IV ,fe. Heating 717 North Main Springville 489-3698 mm I PAYMENTS T Oil & Cooling Systems Since 1904 FOR 12 MONTHS D. Robert and Lyndia Carter of Springville will be guest speakers at the monthly month-ly meeting of the Springville Historical Society on Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. in the City Council Room at the Springville City Office. Their topic will be "Searching for Fort Utah." Using their search prowess, the Carters were able to uncover materials related re-lated to Fort Utah and place it in the proper area of Provo when it was first built by the Pioneers. Many will be surprised sur-prised to hear of its original location, which was where the freeway is now located in the vicinity of Center Street. The old tales and hearsay stated the fort was on the Geneva Road where a partial replica stands today. Using a large array of materials ma-terials such as maps, visits with descendants or original settlers, digging in the dirt, searching records in the Utah I '"'a; ' l 1 v . i I I UK U All r : ill - " 4 Lyndia and Robert Carter, historians of Springville, will be the guest speakers at the Wednesday, Feb. 23, meeting of the Springville Historical Society at 7 p.m. at the Springville City Hall. The public is invited to hear them talk about finding Fort Utah. Shown with the Carters is Provo Mayor Lewis Billings. Governance presents problem with SUVMWA members TiJR llll L di Hi Society State Historical Society, the LDS Historical Department Archives and Library, Brigham Young University Lee Library Special Collections Collec-tions and Archives, the University Uni-versity of Utah's Marriott Library, Li-brary, Utah County and territorial terri-torial records and tramping all over along the Provo River Riv-er from Columbia Lane to Utah Lake, their efforts provided pro-vided a great sleuthing experience expe-rience with great rewards. The Carter's experience and related tales will help you as individuals understand the necessity of using primary sources as you seek and search your family's individual individ-ual history tales and stories to make them authentic and rewarding. Your efforts in uncovering facts, versus fiction, as you research Uncle John's tale of a great battle that took place in Mosida, will reward you with the truth, which is that the battle actually took place ft 1 fT"-ei 5 5 J5v i'w;t"ft,K's''f r A f JHflWTjeifc - Martin Conover SPRINGVILLE HERALD Governance, which limits South Utah Valley Municipal Water Association, raised its head when the SUVMWA members wanted to talk about hiring a full-time man to work on the new south Utah County sewer plant project because the present by-laws of SUVMWA say that the organization's only reason for existance is to work out water and secondary sec-ondary problems. Nothing in the by-laws talks about waste water treatment, and for the organization orga-nization to work on these problems is for the cities to grant them authority to do so and then have SUVMWA work this out in their bylaws. by-laws. All of this came to light in the recent meeting or SUVMWA SU-VMWA voting board members mem-bers and the mayors of the various cities whom the board members represent. It would also seem that all of the work SUVMWA has been doing about conducting a study and working with AQUA Engineering cocern-ing cocern-ing the new proposed south Utah Valley sewer is also not permitted under the governance gover-nance of the water organization. Next construction phase of Provo Canyon highway The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) held a ground breaking ceremony ceremo-ny Friday to begin major work on the next construction construc-tion phase of the Provo Canyon Highway. UDOT will begin construction construc-tion this week on the next 4.5-mile section from the Wasatch County line to a half-mile east of Deer Creek Dam. The initial excavation work will require nighttime closures of the highway starting February 14, from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday through Friday for the next few months. The most significant improvement im-provement motorists will see is an expansion of U.S. Highway High-way 189 from two lanes to a meetini in Mona, by Nephi. Search records before writing stories, sto-ries, and you will be surprised sur-prised what great information informa-tion you can come up with. Come and spend a great information in-formation evening with the Carters on Wednesday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m. Mr. Carter is the writer of the very informative History Page, located in the Daily Herald each Sunday, and has published several articles in the Utah Historical Quarterly. Quarter-ly. Both Robert and Lyndia have written several articles for the Beehive History, and the History Blazer, and she has spent years researching emigration history, particularly particu-larly the Mormon handcart migration. They both share a great love of history. Next month's lecture will feature Mr. Geoff Polack, discussing dis-cussing mining ventures in our area and towns to the west of Springville and the effect on economics. t" 1 Because of this snafu in the organization governance, all of the involved cities will need to become involved and will take some time for the changes required in SUVMWA SU-VMWA to be accomplished. Also no action was taken concerning hiring a new person per-son to work for SUVMWA. Following the lack of action ac-tion on the part of the need for a person, the coming year's proposed budget was given to members of the board which includes $18,369 for Spanish Fork and $18,530 for Springville which does include in-clude the sewer project needs. This could be discussed because be-cause the budget will not be adopted until the June meeting. meet-ing. These numbers also represent rep-resent 27.7 and 27.9 of the total coming year's budget. bud-get. The total proposed budget is $31,075. It was noted in the minutes that AQUA Engineering presented pre-sented their bill for $2300 for the extra work which they were asked to complete because be-cause of adding Springville to their study of the south county waste water treatment treat-ment facility. Springville has now paid up their $40,000 in back "dues" for participation in the SWVMWA study. four-lane (two lanes in each direction) divided highway between State Route 92 (Sundance turnoff) and a half-mile east of Deer Creek Dam. Other notable improvements improve-ments include: - A safer crossing at the Deer Creek Dam, as crews realign the road across the spillway, eliminating the sharp turn at the dam. - A more environmentally friendly roadway, by moving mov-ing sections of U.S. 189 further fur-ther away from the Provo river and into a more geologically geolog-ically stable location. - Safer traffic flow, as segments seg-ments of the highway will be divided with westbound lanes raised 30 feet above eastbound lanes. |