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Show - f i expires O13091 UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 467 EAST jtftf SOUfH SALT LAKE CITY UT B4 1 1 1 Vol. 12, No. 15 Wednesday, April 25, 1090 50 cents a single copy o pi Hospital personnel carry mock victims into Emergency Room at American Fork Hospital as part of emergency drill carried out Saturday. 'Disaster' tests ability of local medical services It looked lika the real thing. , .Individuals appeared injured - : i. j j j j of immediate medical attention. Ambulance were aeen rushing to the scene - Lehi, American Fork, Pleasant Grove and the "whafs happening" crowd mulled around. In reality, it was a disaster drill : preparing American Fork Hospital personnel and personnel from the three ambulance associations so they ; would be ready in the event the real . .thing should ever occur.,-: -. j--'-'- Ihe simulation took place 6at- - v'urday morning - it was scheduled ' ? - far 7 sjb. - with an "explosion" to, ' hats occurred st the old Sugar fleasant Grpve. . . .There were 18 "victims" (actu- aDy members of the Lehi High School drama class and other volunteers) who were made up to appear as having "suffered" burns, fractures, open wounds, and exposure to car-bon car-bon monoxide and other chemicals. Another group of students posed as "hysterical friends and relatives of the group, beseiging the hospital with miARtionn nftr "Ipnrninor" nf the disaster; Ambulances brought the students to the hospital where they were "treated" or sent on to other facilities. facili-ties. 'Directors of the drill said the students were made up to appear to have the various injuries. They were then triaeed to determine the ex- tentbf injury. Atagwent with them to tell hospital personnel the pre- liminary diagnosis. UTA eyes By MARC HADDOCK North Utah County residents will be gettingmore public transportation service, if proposed changes by the Utah Transit Authority are approved. v A public hearing on those changes will be held Monday, May 21, at 6 p.m. in the Provo City Utilities Building auditorium, 251 W. 800 North, Provo. ' Proposed changes would including extending ex-tending 14 more trips into Lehi on Route Committee Wants Representatives from a concerned citizens group met with the Lindon City Council last week to try and move on the secondary water system. sys-tem. Bill Johansson acted as spokesman spokes-man for the group assisted by Morley Keetch and Darrell Frampton. , , Johansson expressed concern that all previous efforts to obtain the secondary water may be lost if they do not move ahead. As a committee, com-mittee, they have no money to go forward.The committee would like to see the city move forward on the project .The city completed the , : project which indicated 62 percent of the citizens were in favor of the system.' " ; The citizena fel the city could move forward because of the vote. .They already have maintenance - people and equipment and liability. liabil-ity. The committee is running out Of time. ' fS ?r - hJS , Themayor suggested comingup with a citizens advisory board to promote the system rather than the city trying to force the system on the citizens. People need to know citizens want the system this time. ' Th mayor explained the water situation is broader than the sec- it'S I ' VC"W . .... A 1 i . ' :j ".TNh vv ' ' f A mm - mTjr gm 111 fi:'.iitmflJ5 y. L .w , . l - Ron Berendson attends to two of the "wounded"at treatment area set up near Lehi Sugar Factory, site of staged "disaster." additional 804 -- the State Street local route. These 14 trips now end at Lindon. ' , Route 807, which begins at the Senior Citizen center and runs through American and Pleasant Grove, would also have four more trips a day. These trips which run in the middle of the day, now end at Lindon, as well. ' The third change is a in Route 810, the express route between Provo and Salt Lake City. The route now stops only at selected ondary system. The water that is ; not used could be put into the culinary culi-nary system. An Advisory board could look at the whole system, a comprehensive plan to use the culi-nary culi-nary water and a second system so ; water will be wasted, vl. The Mayor noted the state will give us more time. )Ne must lay the ' foundation carefully. We don't want citizens to think we are taking off , but the citizens will have input with the comprehensive plan. - . ' The Citizens group doesnt care ' who puts the system in but they feel it is viable and valuable to , move ahead. ' , - 1 ' -The city will call, an advisory committee and charge them with the responsibility to come up with what is good for Lindon. It was mentioned the state can't take water from the city. The city - has a group in place now to take care of water and the power equi p-ment p-ment to carry out a program. Mike Frost met with the council in regard to traffic problems at 135 West by the Lindon Park. The combination of a hill and curb creates cre-ates a blind drive situation. The city will arrange to place warning 1 1 7, V i - A '- 1" j 4 ig S1 - s rv trips into sites in American Fork and Lehi. The change would make the route express between Salt Lake and Lehi, and then the bus would stop at any regular bus stop between Lehi and Provo. Kip Billings, planner for the UTA said the proposed changes are part of the fine-tuning fine-tuning process promised when local mass transit service was first introduced in the area. "As we anticipated, action on water signs in the area. Police Chief Mike Ferre met with the council with a report on 1989. He noted there were 69 car related accidents in Lindon last year. It was reported 47 percent of the ' accidents took place on State Street , or Geneva Road with 28 percent on Geneva Road and 19 percent on Ptate Street. , . Crimes are on the increase due to increased growth and changing attitudes. Morevicioustypecrimes are happening and burglaries are. op with a total of 415 last year. Arrests are up with 120 more adults and 67 more juveniles arrested compared to the previous year. There was a total of 415 burglaries burgla-ries last year and 96 more part 1 crimes. There was 13,5 13 incidents between Lindon and Pleasant Grove. Chief; Ferre feels good about things that are happening. Even f though there are a lot of problems, we are better off here in Utah County, he said. . : . , 1 . In other action, review and action on Resolution to further Phase : II of the sub surface drain for the 60.0 South . Business Park was passed. .. s New zone prohibits new animal rights Pleasant Grove City Council gave its approval last Tuesday to a zone change request for about 13 acres of land near 1250 E. 480 North. Robert O. Burgi had asked for the zone to be changed from Rl-20 to 1(1-10 so that he can build on a lot he owns in that area. The property prop-erty was not large enough for the Rl-20 zone that it was in. The only properties involved in the zone request were those of Mr. Burgi, Jay D. Rigby, Kent W. Broome and Wes Walker. There were no objections to the change from Mr. Rigby and Mr. Walker. Mr. Broome was concerned because he had specifically purchased pur-chased his property in the Rl-20 zone so that he could have animal lights. In order to try to reach a compromise com-promise that would not hurt anyone, any-one, the city council had mulled the situation for some time and Councilman Coun-cilman Lloyd Ash came up with a suggestion on Tuesday afternoon. The council approved the suggestion sug-gestion to change the front part of Mr. Broome's property, where his house was located, to Rl-10 but leave the back part where his animals ani-mals are, in the Rl-20 zone. This kept the zone contiguous with the Rl-20 zone around it Mr. Broome had not become aware of the new plan until just prior to the council meeting and had not been able to study it out He asked the council if it would be possible to wait until the next council meeting to make the decision deci-sion so that he could look at the new plan a little closer. ..The council felt that the situation situ-ation had gone on long enough and that the change would not in any way be detrimental to Mr. Broome. . V pSiWBSHWSWlBSpsi wmmmmmmmmmmmmmm "Don't mooooo-ve " seems to be the word of the day as rezoning still allows people presently having animal rights to keep them as long as they keep animals on the property part of the year. North Utah County we are going through The Special Improvement District Dis-trict Bid will go out on May 1, 1990 for curb and gutter and sidewalks on 200 South, 600 North, 400 North and 400 East The city hired" Nile Harris for part time help mowing the road shoulders in Lindon. District Scout-A-Rama Sat., May 5 TheTimpanogos District Scout-v Scout-v A-Rama will be held Saturday, May 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the ' Downtown Park in Pleasant Grove. The theme for the event is "The Year of the Eagle." There will be a special Eagle display to give boys ideas for Eagle projects, all kinds of other Scouting displays and demonstrations. . Tickets are $1 and are being sold door-to-door by the Scouts. Tickets are available at the door also. ... f " v Merle Astrope is chairman of the event ."v Everyone is invited to attend. Mr. Burgi said he wanted to start cons' action on his home as soon as possible as he had waited for quite some time for permission to do so. A number of people attended the meeting to address the matter of animal rights. Animal rights are not allowed in the Rl-10 zone unless the property had animals legally on it at the time of the rezoning. If animals are kept on the property prop-erty at least part of each year, the property will retain its animal rights, it was explained. Several people spoke out in behalf of Mr. Broome and explained why they wanted to have the animal rights and had bought their property prop-erty where they did specifically for that reason. Mayor David Holdaway said that he wanted to take a win-lose situation situ-ation and make it into a win-win situation so that all those involved would feel right about it. He said that the council had worked hard to make the change be best for everyone He told those assembled that the city cannot spot zone. He also stated that most of the houses in the present Rl-20 zone do not comply because they were there before the new zone was made. Mr. Burgie noted that he did not know until he applied for a building build-ing permit that his property was non-conforming. He said that when he had paid the taxes and other assessments on the property, no one ever mentioned that it was non-conforming. He said he bought the land to build a home for he and his wife's retirement years. Councilman Bill West stated that wmm '''mmmmmm this august and making refinements in our service," Billing said. "We are getting a pretty good response from the North Utah County area." Billings said local bus use ballooned after the UTA mailed coupons to the area for free bus service to help local residents get acquainted with the bus system. "When we had the coupons out there, there were a couple of days when we had more people than we could handle on that Strawberry Rodeo Queen contest next Saturday The Strawberry Days Rodeo Queen Contest will be held May 5, 1990 at 1 p.m. at the Pleasant Grove Arena. The contest will begin with a tea and interviews with judges followed by a horsemanship pattern. pat-tern. Contestants must be 16 years old and have never been a prior queen of Strawberry Days Rodeo. . Winning contestants must be avail Jr. contest May 19 The Strawberry Days Junior Rodeo queen contest will be held May 19 at 3 pjn. at the Pleasant Grove Arena and is open to Utah County girls 15 years and under. The girls will be required to give a short introduction of themselves, ride a pattern, correctly ' up' their own horses and interr 'Hh the judge. The winning contestants must ride the same horse they placed on, provide their own transportation and be available to participate in as the face of the community changes, the zoning has to be altered al-tered to fit in. Some people have to make sacrifices in order to allow for growth and change, he added. The Rl-10 zone allows building lots to be 10,000 square feet rather than 20,000 as required in the Rl-20 Rl-20 zone. One-half acre is needed to have the minimum number of animals. ani-mals. In other matters, the city council coun-cil approved a three year contract with Farmers Insurance for $53,000, a decrease from the previous contract con-tract with the company. Mayor Holdaway mentioned that they will have Deon Giles, parks foreman, work with Bill Hoglund, superintendent of Parks and Recreation, Rec-reation, on the parks budget this spring. The mayor noted that because of the immense growth in the recreation recrea-tion program, the city is considering consider-ing the possibility of separating parks and recreation in the future. The city council stated that so much has been done in the recreation recrea-tion area that needs to be commended. com-mended. They noted that every child who wants to participate in recreation recrea-tion activities has the opportunity to do so. This makes lots of extra work for the recreation department but it has been their goal to make the program be for everyone. The council was told that the Alpine School District wanted to rent the Young Mothers School, located in the Fire and Ambulance facility, for another year. The council was agreeable to the contract which would call for $500 per month rent and the utilities paid on a 50-50 basis. The school will provide its own supplies. Mill routes route (7)," Billings said. "We had similar problems on both routes the last Saturday in March." The coupons expired the next day. Billings said bus service has stabilized since the coupons expired. According to preliminary figure, he estimated esti-mated that some 600 passengers from the area ride the bus each day. Overall, UTA ridership is up 20 percent this year. able for pre-Strawberry Days publicity, pub-licity, such as radio, T.V. and personal per-sonal appearances with city, county and state dignitaries. Winning contestants will reign over Strawberry Days Rodeo to be held June 21-23, 1990. For more information contact Kent Hone 785-2533, Howard Sorensen 785-2951, Gary Clay 785-5580. 785-5580. the Strawberry Days Celebration and Rodeo (June 20-23). Besides riding in the parades and rodeo the Jr. Queen and Attendants Atten-dants will also officiate at the Children's Chil-dren's Parage on Wednesday and the Western Barbecue to be held Friday night ; Applications will be taken up to the time of judging. For more infcrmation call Kannel Oay 785-5580, or Kent Hone 785-2533. |