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Show SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, September, 2007 Comments Citizen wants vote on critical construction issues Dear Citizens of Springville: I love Springville's beautiful beau-tiful City Park. I do not want government, buildings build-ings built on it. Dozens of you have told me you agree with me. My oppositiontoplanned construction there is not motivated by resistance to change but by a desire to protect our city's cultural heritage. Some decisions should not be based on money or convenience or preference. prefer-ence. In today's world we see that too many people have been seduced by an ancient, false philosophy which holds that: "You can buy anything in this world for money." We here in "Zion" should know that unless we build on proper prop-er principles we build in vain. The City Park belongs to pfifivitk Herald 269400$outr f&to$tilte,Vf 64663 Msw'WSons I fe'tvey fc. J&Sfcs Springs Henrtif. Dally Herald edlti (USPS 5l5t-06ty a weekly rtewspapef (Abashed at 269 f. 400 S: Spgvlt, Waif 84663 PwMcals Postage Paw at Spring, 64663 and at aSfenaJ mailing offices. POSTMASTER; Sentf adtfress cfwges fc Springville Hard, 265 1. 406 S. SpmgWta, Utah 84663 ? wfcoc new Hps 6ttf m$6$r ts Wf wAonw lettres H AH leSW ague awf wijhow aumbw; iwo frs right Pt llws kt clarity pwttwiiwv Spr rngvitft Herald mum i mtm fcSar ffor War l22th ! ANY UNfc J ITEM I Through September 30, 2007 MM Pinehniiure & Aaaits - -' 4ln it - - r ; I W(f L ! ! 241 &1WW. Springville f Hours: Mon-batlQ-6 Est the whole community. It is not for sale. It was designated desig-nated as a park long ago by wise, hardworking, forward-thinking men and women who knew that this choice piece of land could easily be swallowed up by construction. They were wise enough to place high value on a beautiful, peaceful, green expanse of nature in the middle of our city. We call ourselves The Art City. We say we value culture, education, beauty, unity and community. Are those only words to us? What do we really value? . Do we really want to spend millions and millions to turn our lovely park into a complex of government buildings? And then find that we can't have a new library: without raising taxes again? (And by the way, all this construction is right on an earthquake fault that runs through the center of town.) Why are we allowing our city officials to do what we don't want them to do? This is not how government gov-ernment of, by, and for the people is supposed to work. W I f Mi) y mm my mil iMMfl'ltfiin roil (( ttlumt mmm 7 : A J for fa B t r-- 1 1 ri AMI There will always by opposition op-position in life. Wherever there is opposition, we find a golden opportunity to counsel together, return to our shared values, use our creativity, and come up with better solutions because of all the varied input. Why can't we be wise enough to do this? Making our city buildings build-ings earthquake-proof has been one of the council's main reasons for new construction. con-struction. If our city officials are really concerned about public safety, why don't they proceed immediately immediate-ly with construction of emergency substations in widely separated areas of town? And make plans for city offices that are not on an earthquake fault? If they care about our cultural heritage and if they aim to please the great majority of citizens, they will leave the present pres-ent fire station where it is and allow the City Park to remain the home of the library li-brary and the Playhouse. If they really want to improve Springville, they will find a location or locations lo-cations for office space that will upgrade some blighted area that is in need of beautification instead in-stead of destroying the loveliest piece of real estate es-tate in town. There is no reason why a city office building even needs to be centrally located. lo-cated. And why do all city workers need to .be in one building? Perhaps for emergency reasons, they should be spread about. If our elected leaders understand un-derstand that they are supposed sup-posed to represent all of us, they will hear all of us, not just those who want new offices for themselves to be built on this precious land at uncalculable expense ex-pense to the community--in ways more important than money. Dear city officials, please remember that we are talking about the Community's Park and the Community's money. Whether we destroy our park should be our choice. We deserve a vote on such a moment' cision. We apj ec ite all of you and ..your service to the com; u: it . Please let us woik together to solve thisl I know we can. Thank you. Judy Law Springville A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. . - Spanish Proverb I ftM if VP il Springville's birthday Continued from page 1 old to view, inter-actives for the children to play with. Men can enjoy some of the tools used by the blacksmith shop owners, and women can work on a quilt. Pictures of early Springville will be on display dis-play along with some artifacts. ar-tifacts. Time and years have changed Springville. From the vast landscape, once covered with sagebrush, sage-brush, sunflowers, trees and willow-lined streams, to today, her skirts have changed in style and color. There were once orderly designed fields, orchards with fruit trees laden with cherries, peaches and apples, small farms with cows, pigs, chickens and sheep and lots of happy boisterous children scurrying about on shoeless feet. Log and adobe cabins were the popular places of abode; now homes cover the farm land, homes with many rooms. The horse and buggy have been replaced re-placed with multiple cars in a drive-way. The once dirt and gravel roads were replaced with paved wiggly-waggly roads, noted with street signs, versus the old word-of-mouth directions. Traffic patterns have changed. Old dobbin is i longer on the scene. Cars and trucks of every imagination cruise down the streets, all controlled biy stop signs or traffic lights. However, some of the vehicles can be out of control as much as old dobbin was. Freeways have dissected dis-sected the land, dividing frms along the way. Neighbors do not have time to offer a helping hand with the chores, such as hauling hay, irrigating ir-rigating and painting the barn. And what happened to the apple presses that produced golden autumn juices as friends and neighbors brought their apples to a backyard to be processed? There was always a table laden with pot-luck dining items to be served when the apples were done. The game of . baseball, often played on a recently harvested field, has been replaced by soccer on green manicured grasses. No more horse races on a Saturday afternoon, but the race goes on with the four-wheeled or two-wheeled two-wheeled modes of conveyance con-veyance that frequent the roads or the mountains. A sun-up to sun-down daily work schedule has been replaced with an eight to five, day. And some fields have changed to office buildings with air conditioning, water fountains, restrooms, plush carpet, soft seats, telephones, fax machines, cell phones and comput- j ss 1 What is the answer? All the three-hour parking limit signs are up, including includ-ing an a-frame proclaiming such on the Springville City Park. What now? There were still 35 to 40 vehicles lined down Main Street and around the corner on Friday and Saturday, all proclaiming their YardGarage Sale. The problem lies in the enforcing of the parking limit. Without parking meters, how do you know how long a vehicle has been parked in a certain location? The police can enforce it, but they are short-handed and are not able to have someone out patrolling all day. We understand that a certain city in the valley solved the same problem when two women, stopping to write down all the yard sale addresses, ran into each other and sued the city! Then the two took it upon themselves to solve the weekly problem. That city now has a convenient outdoor bulletin board with hangers to which citizens may post their important sales. They may put their signs on the board on Tuesday. The signs remain until they are taken down on Monday by a city worker and thrown away. This takes only a few minutes of the worker's time. Citizens of that community are able to drive up, go and write down all the important sale addresses and leave, without tying up traffic and causing accidents on Main Street. What an idea! A we read the Springville City GarageYard Sale Permit Per-mit 't says, "It is unlawful for any person to erect or const' con-st' yiy sign above, over, in, or around any part of a 'ic street within the limits of the City, The word ' used herein shall mean any sign, signpost, sign-rch, sign-rch, merchandise, material, flag, banner, rack, ; ynicle, object or structure, used in any way for . anent purposes, which is erected, located, deposit depos-it . i placed above, over, in, on, or around any street." We don't know how others read this, but to us it means NO GARAGEYARD SALE-SIGNS ANYWHERE, ANYTIME! ANY-TIME! How about a city bulletin board? ers. Little shops that once dotted Main Street have been replaced with pizza parlors, Hogi Yogi, Super Su-per Sonic, Subway, all for people on the perpetual perpet-ual move. And Wal-Mart and grocery stores have replaced the little farm roadside stands that displayed dis-played lovely produce, jams and jellies, butter and milk products. The little one or two room school house of a long gone era has been replaced by new grade schools, junior high and high schools with multiple rooms for every conceivable conceiv-able use. Springville has come a long way from the warm, dry September 18th day of 1850, when the first band of pioneers arrived, settling on the banks of Hobble Creek. We citi GRAND OPENING SALE UltraLuX 1000. Plllowtop QUEEN SET $689.00 KING SET $939.00 FULL SET $559.99 TWIN SET $429.00 1 3Ki MATTRESS FACTORY OREM 1032 S. State 801-802-7234 CEKTBLOCATE SPEC H AL ' i4t?vy Credit Unions- -EtHi zens of today have an awful lot to be thankful for. We have reaped the rewards of sacrifice and hard work of so many of those who have passed on, those who dreamed dreams of a great place to live and raise our families. fami-lies. We might not agree with all the changes, but life is good. Happy Birthday Springville. Spring-ville. We celebrate your 157 years of progress and growth! 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