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Show Thursday, August 28, 2008 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 17 SNIPPITS of Springville History Helen Beardall How many have visited downtown, especially the city office area, or better, the once beautiful City Park center. What a disaster, di-saster, and what about all those trees? Where is the water for them? I In light of all the construction, con-struction, I thought it might be interesting to write of some notes from early history pertaining to this area. 1. City Hall and Park: Springville was surveyed in 1851 and laid out in blocks, eight each way, a four-acre plot in the center of Plat A was set apart as a public square. 2. In 1853 a bowery was built in the center of the square. 3. In 1854 a big wall was constructed to protect the city. The wall encompassed encom-passed all of Plat A. This was for the protection of the citizens against the Indians.. In-dians.. 4. The forms for the wall were dirt, wet and packed down with a maul. They were four feet wide at the bottom and 12 feet high, later reduced to four feet by eight feet high, with four feet wide at the bottom and three feet at the top. Four gangs of workers set the forms and shoveled dirt. Boys carried water and packed the dirt. There were gates on the wall at Main Street, 400 North, 400 SouthCenter Street, 400 East and 400 West. 5. The city held a grand celebration. 6. In 1858 the ground was plowed and planted plant-ed to vegetables for the refugees from northern Utah who evacuated their homes at the advent of Johnston's Army. During the year, '58 -'59, volunteer Hobble Creek Singers starting season Hobble Creek Singers, under the direction of Leslie Les-lie Walker and Leanna Crockett are accepting singers from first grade through ninth grade. The choir will be .split into two divisions: Advanced Choir for 4th graders through ninth graders, and Beginning Begin-ning Choir for first grade through third. The choir is non-audi-. tioned. However, students should be singing mostly on pitch before joining. Rehearsals wjll begin on Saturday, Sept. 6. The Advanced Ad-vanced Choir will rehearse from 9 to 10:15 a.m., and the Beginning Choir will rehearse from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. each Saturday. Soccer schedules can be worked around, as there will be special rehearsals on a few afternoons to make up for missed Saturdays because of soccer. Students will be learning to sing with correct support, sup-port, diction and musical-ity. musical-ity. They will sing songs in unison, two-part and three-part three-part harmony. Students who have sung in Walker's children's choirs have gone on to sing in the advanced choirs of the high school in almost every instance. This year, the Hobble Creek Singers will have the added opportunity to work with Leanna Crockett, the director of the Springville High School choirs. The two teachers will work as a team. Crockett has taught in the public schools for 27 years. She started her teaching career in Nephi. She taught Jr. High Choir in Payson, Spanish Fork and Springville before accepting ac-cepting the Springville High position in 2000. Crockett has recently completed the course work for her Master's in Choral Education. She is the wife of Brad Crockett, an educational educa-tional psychologist, and the mother of three children: Mike, Cam and Jenna. Walker has 27 years of teaching experience. She taught 2nd grade and started an elementary school choir in Bountiful in the early 80's. She had a children's choir in Price for five years, and taught children's theater in New Mexico for two years. Walker moved to Springville Spring-ville in 1990, and immediately immedi-ately started children's theater the-ater classes affiliated with Art City Community Theater. The-ater. Quickly thereafter, she and Crockett started Mt. Nebo Children's Choir. Both teachers were affiliated affili-ated with Mt. Nebo Children's Chil-dren's Choir until 2000,' and Walker took over until 2004. Walker taught choir at Canyon View Jr. High, Spanish Fork Jr. High and Mapleton Jr. High. She is currently the choir teacher teach-er at Springville Jr. High, where she has taught since 2003. Walker has an elementary elemen-tary teaching degree from BYU, a secondary choral degree from BYU, and a Master's in Vocal Performance Perfor-mance and Pedagogy. She sings with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. She is the wife of Mark Walker, a physical therapist, thera-pist, and the mother of five children: Megan, Tim, Brennan, Griffin and Greg, and the grandma of Kaenan. For more information about Hobble Creek Singers, Sing-ers, e-mail lesliewalk gmail.com, or call 404-1718. 3r 3 ft pill ppplff l Ml unlet kster mi mtrsster jnriT 492 North 1100 West, Pcys:a, UT S4IS1 (01) Open to the public! 'Ptz Lumber ,Finish Materials Trusses .Fastners Stair Parts .Simpson Hardware "Decking , And Much More! Doors & Knobs Best Service & Prices in Utah labor raised many bushels of potatoes on this spot for the needy emigrants who came to live in the city. 7. In 1865 the City Park area was used as a military mili-tary ground during the Black Hawk Indian War. 8. In 1870 the city gave two rods to those whose land abutted the wall if they tore the wall down. 9. In 1876 the City Park area was converted into a recreational area with horseshoe pitching and picnic facilities. 10. In 1876 the first baseball league was organized orga-nized and played on the City Park. 11. In 1878, the last section sec-tion of the wall was torn down, a block on Center Street to 100 South on 400 West. 11. In 1880 city leaders held a special election to sell the city calf pasture. From these proceeds they built the city hall that sat in the middle of the City Park. Completion of the building was celebrated with a dance on Christmas Eve. The building was a two-story two-story structure of red brick with a basement. The foundation of the building was of native stone and a roof of shingles. The front door on the east opened into a hall which led to city offices of recorder, assessor asses-sor and the council cham ber. At the rear of the first floor was the city jail with steel cells. A flight of stairs led to a large room on the second floor. A gallery on three sides added to the spaciousness spacious-ness of this room, which was used for dancing, theatrical the-atrical performances and many civic purposes. On account of the weight of the bell, the belfry bel-fry on the east end was never finished. The building build-ing was well lit with kerosene kero-sene lamps. The treasurer's treasur-er's office contained a big safe for money and documents. docu-ments. Lewis J. Whitney Sr. was in charge of the construction con-struction of the building. In light of what is taking tak-ing place in our City Park, with now the construction of the third city building at that location, I think it is interesting to look at the past history of the park. Please share your journals jour-nals and histories with the Springville Historical Society. Soci-ety. Because someone took the time to write notes and memoirs of past happenings happen-ings in our city, we now have information to share today and look back to. Please visit the office of the historical society from 1 to 4 p.m. in the old Carnegie Carne-gie Library building on the east side of Main Street. Call Glenn Alleman, 489-3969, 489-3969, for other times. PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given of a Public Hearing to be held during a regular meeting of the Mapleton City Planning Commission Commis-sion on THURSDAY, THURS-DAY, September 11, 2008, AT 6:30 P.M. AT THE MAPLETON MA-PLETON COM MUNITY CENTER BUILDING, 125 West Community Center Way (400 N.), Mapleton, Utah to consider: Mapleton City requests to amend Title 18, Development Develop-ment Code, Part III, Zoning, Chapter Chap-ter 18.84, Supplementary Supple-mentary Regula tions regarding residences for persons with a disability. dis-ability. (s) April Houser, Executive Secretary Published in the Springville Herald August 28, 2008. UPAXLP 1 HOC RKEDTDEE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS Notice is hereby given of a public hearing to be held by the Springville Spring-ville City Planning Commission on September 9, 2008, at 7:00 PM in the Council Chambers of the Springville City Civic Center, 50 South Main Street, Springville UT. Interested parties par-ties will be given the opportunity to be heard. The hearings hear-ings regard the following: fol-lowing: Springville City seeking to vacate and abandon 1500 West Street between be-tween 400 South and approximately 950 South. For information regarding these proposals please contact the Community Com-munity Development Develop-ment Department at (801) 491-7861. Published in the Springville Herald August 14, 21, 28 and September 4, 2008. UPAXLP NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING SPRINGVILLE CITY, UTAH PUBLIC NOTICE NO-TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, August Au-gust 5, 2008, the City Council (the "City Council") of Springville City, Utah (the "City") adopted a resolution resolu-tion (the "Resolution"), "Resolu-tion"), providing for a special bond election to be held in the City on Tuesday, Tues-day, November 4, 2008, at the same time as the regular general election, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors elec-tors of the City the question of the issuance is-suance of general obligation bonds in an amount not to exceed $9,800,000 (the "Special Bond Election") and calling call-ing a public hearing hear-ing to receive input in-put from the public with respect to the issuance of the general obligation bonds and the potential po-tential economic impact that the improvement, im-provement, facility, facil-ity, or property for which the bonds pay all or part of the cost will have on the private sector, sec-tor, pursuant to the Local Government Govern-ment Bonding Act, Title 11, Chapter 14, Utah Code Annotated An-notated 1953, as amended. PURPOSE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS Notice is hereby given of a public hearing to be held by the Springville Spring-ville City Planning Commission on September 9, 2008, at 7:00 PM in the Council Chambers of the Springville City Civic Center, 50 South Main Street, Springville UT. Interested parties par-ties will be given the opportunity to be heard. The hearings hear-ings regard the following: fol-lowing: Springville City seeking to vacate and abandon 1500 West Street between be-tween 400 South and approximately 950 South. For information regarding these proposals please contact the Com-' munity Development Develop-ment Department at (801) 491-7861. Published in the Springville Herald August 14, 21, 28 and September 4, 2008. UPAXLP NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given of a Public Hearing to be held by the Springville City Planning Commission Com-mission on September Septem-ber 9, 2008 at 7:00 PM in the Council Chambers of the Springville City Civic Center, 50 South Main Street, Springville Utah. Interested parties will be given the opportunity to be heard. The hearings hear-ings regard the following: fol-lowing: 1. Gordon Livingston Liv-ingston seeking to amend Title 11 of the Springville City Municipal Code regarding re-garding Off-Street Parking, 11-6- MOUNT! t inimbl mm UOQPTTHT, 'i.'.rri i 'L.V tun n 410 South 450 West ". Springville, Utah 84663 801-489-9676 Dr. Harold Judd Davis D.V.M. Veterinarian DOG & CAT BOARDING! When you're out of town, rest assured your pet is having a gooa time with us! We provide pets with loving care, proper nutrition and plenty of exercise in a safe and healthy environment! Veterinary Supervision Individual Outdoor Walls Group Play Individualized Feedings Indoor & Outdoor Runs Heated & Air Conditioned Facility I . h it ii J-. h r f 1 . If approved by eligible voters at the Special Bond Election, the City intends to issue general obligation bonds for the purpose pur-pose of (1) acquiring, acquir-ing, constructing and improving library li-brary facilities and related improvements improve-ments (the "Project") "Proj-ect") and (2) paying the costs incurred in connection with the issuance and sale of the general obligation bonds. MAXIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATION OBLI-GATION BONDS If approved by eligible voters at the Special Bond Election, the City intends to issue general obligation obliga-tion bonds in an amount not to exceed ex-ceed $9,800,000, in one or more series se-ries at one or more times. THE TAXES, IF ANY, PROPOSED TO BE PLEDGED The City proposes pro-poses to pledge the full faith and credit of the City for the payment of its general obligation bonds and may be obligated to levy and collect ad valorem va-lorem taxes with-, out limitation as to rate or amount in order to pay the general obligation bonds, as provided by law. TIME, PLACE AND LOCATION OF PUBLIC HEARING The City will hold a public hearing hear-ing at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September Septem-ber 16, 2008. The public hearing will be held at the regular regu-lar meeting place of the City Council Coun-cil of the City at 50 South Main, in Springville, Utah. All members of the public are invited to attend and participate par-ticipate in the public pub-lic hearing. Prior to the public hearing, hear-ing, written comments com-ments may be submitted sub-mitted to the City, to the attention of the City Recorder, 50 South Main, Springville, Utah 84663. PURPOSE FOR HEARING The purpose of the hearing is to receive input from the public with respect to the issuance is-suance of general obligation bonds for the purpose of paying all or part of the cost of the Project and the potential economic impact that the Project will have on the private sector. sec-tor. DATED this 5th day of August, 2008. SPRINGVILLE CITY, UTAH By Isl Venla Gubler City Recorder SEAL Published in the Springville Herald August 28 and September Sep-tember 4, 2008. UPAXLP 113(6)(a) Parking Spaces Required. For information regarding these proposals please contact the Community Com-munity Development Develop-ment Department at (801) 491-7861. Published in the Springville Herald August 28, 2008. UPAXLP PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a petition peti-tion for annexation annexa-tion has been filed with Mapleton City, which petition peti-tion has been certified certi-fied as of the 18th day of July, 2008, which petition covers 7.51 acres consisting of property prop-erty owned by the Holm Family Trust located at approxi-mately approxi-mately Mapleton Maple-ton Slant Road in Utah County. The complete petition and accompanying accompany-ing map are available avail-able for inspection and copying at the Mapleton City office, of-fice, located at 125 West 400 North, Mapleton, Utah. Mapleton City may grant the petition peti-tion unless a written writ-ten protest is filed with Mapleton City and the Utah County Boundary Commission. This is undeveloped property covering an area less than 5 of the total land mass of all private and real property with the City. Any protest must be received by Mapleton City and the Boundary Commission on or before September 19,2008. Any protest pro-test should be filed with Mapleton City at 125 West 400 North, Mapleton City, Mapleton, Utah 84664 and to the Utah County Boundary Commission, Commis-sion, Attn: Randall Covington, PO Box 122, Provo, Utah 84603. Those entitled to protest must live in the unincorporated area with V2 mile of the proposed annexation; an-nexation; and must own at least 25 percent per-cent of the private land area located in the unincorporated unincorpo-rated area within V2 mile of the proposed pro-posed annexation; and which property proper-ty is equal in value to at least 15 of all real property located within the unincorporated area within V2 mile of the proposed annexation. an-nexation. Published in the Springville Herald on August 28th, September 4th and 11, 2008. UPAXLP 4 by 4m DiamondBack Ind. Custom Fit & Installed! I Protect your Children Sharp looking Add value to your home CALL TO DM! 319-9413 or 4S5-24S0 T ' 1 f-1 iirCi mtk " ' -i i il iffl ti mil t ml n1 i ' V ' lai ifii mi |