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Show Comment Review - Wednesday, April 25, 1990 Page 2 Community suffers when system is circumvented Recent events in Lehi City provide some insight into our system of government and what happens when that system is circumvented, for whatever reason. Lehi is in the middle of a power struggle between its Mayor, Guy Cash, and the members of the city council. At the heart of the issue is the future home of Lehi's city offices. Plans have been in the making for a few years to build a new city administration building for offices for the city employees who now work in the basement of a remodeled LDS ward house. It would be constructed in conjunction with a new library and senior citizens center and a new public safety building - both of which have already been constructed. The police have just moved into their new offices. The bid for the new administration building came in over the estimates provided by the architect Nevertheless, the city council coun-cil voted to award the bid and build the new building completing complet-ing a block of city buildings. Across the street from tJtie new buildings lies the Lehi Memorial Memo-rial Building, a unique city structure and the first building completed in the United States which honored World War I veterans. Over the years, the building has served many purposes. It was at one time the city administration building, until the city offices moved to the former church they now occupy. It housed the city library until recently, when it was moved across the street to the new structure. Up until just a few weeks ago it housed the police department. Hand delivery of papers proves successful One of the common symbols of the newspaper business is the paperboy - you see him a lot in old movies, the dirty, ragged waif on the street corner hawking newspapers newspa-pers with sensational headlines that advance the movies plot: "Extra! Extra! Two-headed man terrorizes Tinseltown!" Well, a lot of things about the news business have changed since the 1940s. We don't do many extra editions any more. Television made them obsolete. And paperboys have become be-come "paper carriers" as young women have joined the work force. They don't sell their papers from street corners, either. And two-headed two-headed monster stories are most commonly found in the tabloids near the check-out stand at the grocery store. , ; And in, $he past, the newspaper carrier way associated with daily newspap'ertr, while most folks ex-1 pected to receive their hometown weekly in the mailbox. Well, that's changing, too. And there's a good chance if you are reading this column on Wednesday morning, you've benefited from the changes we are undergoing at the newspaper as we move from mail-delivery mail-delivery to hand-delivery, and turn over the job of getting our paper to your doorstep from the letter carrier car-rier to the newspaper carrier. This is no slight on our local letter carriers. They do a marvelous marvel-ous job delivering our mail - and getting our papers to everyone who subscribes to the paper. And over the years, weekly newspapers and local post offices have developed strong relationships. After all, we have been their best customer. Every week, week in and week out, for decades this paper has been taken to the post office for delivery. After we started the shopper, we provided a weekly delivery for every home in the city. And to think we had By MARCELLA WALKER Remember a few weeks ago when I told you about a neat little jaunt we went on to see the Air Museum at Hill Air Force Base? Well, last week we found another an-other good place to go. We took a few days off to go to Mesquite with my husband's brother and his family. We left a day early and decided to stop at Capitol Reef .National Park because we had never been there. In fact, we had never been to Wayne County at all. . Our trips prior to this in that direction, had always been down Highway 89 to'Salina, Richfield, Pangiiitch, Bryce Canyon and Zion Canyon. . , , Over, the years we nave taken the family to Bryce, Zion, Arches, and parts of Canyonlands, and Grand Canyon National Parks on -many occasions. , . ' The closest national park of all is Capitol Reef and we have never been there before. - , - . It is a gorgeous park. . , : . ' ' What really got me going about-wanting about-wanting to see this park was one of the park rangers who spoke to us -at a section of a recent Utah Arts Ouncil conference. He discussed folk festivals and told about what they do at Fruita - at the entrance" to Capitol Reef ' - National Park each year at the end of September. ' . , . w , - They put on a two-day celebra- tion on a Friday and Saturday. They give a sorghum demonstration and include Such things as a draft horse show, spinning wheel demo, soap -making, blacksmithing, carriage - , . i the editor's column By MARC HADDOCK surveys indicates that most of you We have developed; the most -J;han delivery, and,many-of comprehensive computet listmg'of yott prefer it rjsvwvji -mail delivery in buripctive'dttfr.yL,Ihe success is," due to a' loiTof les -- with each address coded ay delivery route and delivery order. That way we could provide the mail carriers with the papers in the order they were to be delivered. But over the years, as you well know, mail delivery has become more and more expensive. And much of the burden of increasing mail, costs has been given to second and third class mail the bulk mail rates we are charged to deliver our newspapers and shoppers. Last year, third class mail took a tremendous hike. Another increase looms in the near future. The result is it's just getting too expensive to mail you our neWspa-. pers. And so our publisher, Brett Bezzant, decided we would have to find another way to get our papers into your hands. He turned to the method that has been successful for daily newspaper for years hand delivery. We started using young news-, paper carriers last October - only a blab rides, etc. It coincides with the apple har- ' vest in Fruita. ; ' After he got through telling us . ; all about it, I was eager to go..::..rJ'; The little towns of Wayne County -aren't very big. You pass through Loa, Bicknell and Torrey and they are just little farming communi--ties. We have neighbors from Wayne : County and they had already tjjd"--us there was not much there. There 'is hardly any people at all. I thinkjV everyone in Wayne County knows ' eveTyceelsev?'-;:''''1" I As you head out of Torrey to-..; ward Capitol Reef National Park, the scenery becomes outstanding. " There is gorgeous red, white and - yellow sandstone formations and mountains, i . Wewalked some trails and stud- : ied the panorama at several locations loca-tions before we even got to the visitors center and took the 25 mile scenic drive through the park. : . We took the drives down into . Grand Wash and Capitol Gorge, But one by one, the entities that occupied the Memorial Building have moved out to more modern facilities and with no occupants, the building is starting to deteriorate - with stucco noticebly falling off the outside of the structure. About the same time the city was deciding to build the new administration building, an architectural firm from Salt Lake submitted, at the city council's request, a cost feasibility study for restoring the Memorial Building. The cost came in about $120,000 less than building a new administration building. Herein lies the issue. The mayor has determined that Lehi City will be better served by renovating the Memorial Building than building a new administration building - despite the council's decision to build the new structure. And so he refused to sign the paper that would have completed the process awarding the bid -- and held off doing so until the low bid on the new administration building was withdrawn last week. Since the Mayor's refusal to sign the contract awarding the bid, a free-for-all has erupted in Lehi, with citizens groups banding together to save the Memorial Building and a frustrated City Council thwarted by a Mayor who has opted a power he doesn't have -- the power of veto. Utah cities with Lehi's form of government - and that includes most of North Utah County work on the premise that the collective decision of the city council is the ruling factor in city handful at first, with 500 papers hand delivered that first week. Then we surveyed to see how our readers like the method. Gradually we added more hand deliverers, and we kept asking our readers how they liked the new system. The results? "It has exceeded our highest expectations," says the publisher. This morning, more than half of our American Fork newspapers will be hand-delivered and available to you to be read with breakfast. In Lehi and Pleasant Grove, 40 percent per-cent will be delivered by hand. We still rely on the mail for more than half of our 14,375 newspaper deliveries deliv-eries - but we don't expect it to stay at that level for long. And thafs good. Because our factors. Dorothy Lovendge, our circulation manager, has speht months sweating blood to make the conversions to hand delivery and to get the system organized. And Brett has developed a system sys-tem that works very well for our area. Barbara Christiansen, our classified ads manager and a reporter, re-porter, has helped organize the routes as welU r But the backbone of the system is our carriers. The original handful hand-ful has grown to 7 1 and keeps growing. grow-ing. We've had some who didn't get up, or who didn't get all their papers' pa-pers' delivered. But for the most part, our carriers have performed extraordinarily well. Who are these new deliverers of the news? They range in age from 10 to adults - many of them members mem-bers of the same family. They have routes designed for close-to-home delivery where possible, with deliveries de-liveries at every home - a newspaper newspa-per for subscribers and a shopper never been to the closest Nat'l Park even though they both said not to enter if the weather was threatening, threaten-ing, and the weather was threatening threaten-ing at the time. But we had no problems and really enjoyed the drive. I think I learned more about strata of. the earth's crust there than at any other time in my life. There was good information at several points, describing the formations for-mations and how they were formed over the years. Some layers were put down during a time when the land was swampy, others when it was a dry sand dune desert, and some when it was the shores of a lake. '. We learned to pick out the different dif-ferent kinds of sandstone and knew what to look for in color and consistency.., consis-tency.., H ; ": .- There is a lot 'of uranium in some of the layers of sediment there. In. Grand Wash there is the remains re-mains of the old Oyler uranium mine. Uranium was used in some medicines early on. I'm surprised the people who took it didn't glow pUasant (grout Kroino- '..i ESNNa f7SM07 VS PS No. 4K7-KM Published weekly by : ' NewUh Newt Group H So Mate .. Itmal Onrt, I'Ua MM Trfcatwat Xuktn Advertising CirculMiea. 7S-7M New. .v. . . 7M-07I Puthshcr . . . . Bran R BcoM Edrtm Mare Haddock ' Marectla Walter Stfbacnatmi arm lit' ptr year Second class postage paid , at Pleasant Grove. Utah for non-subscribers. Most deliver between 80 and 100 papers each Wednesday morning morn-ing before 8 a.m. It takes them less than an hour, and they average almost $4 an hour - $17 a month. We give them incentives to sell subscriptions; one carrier made over $30 in a month by getting 12 new subscribers to the paper along with his deliveries. They don't worry about collecting collect-ing or keeping track of who subscribes sub-scribes on their routes - we use the same computer billing system as before to handle the paper work. A few drive to the dispersed routes, but most carriers walk. Some make newspaper delivery on Wednesday morning a family affair af-fair and use the experience to teach their children the responsibility and the rewards that come from working, work-ing, v nc a Out readers Hke getting tha-hews earlier - when it's fresher. i .This has truly been a win-win situation. Our only drawback has been the shortage of carriers in some locations loca-tions -- especially in the center of Lehi and Pleasant Grove. Anyone interested in delivering newspapers newspa-pers every Wednesday morning in these areas is welcome to come to our American Fork Office (59 West Main) and fill out an application. (Bring along your social security number.) When I started working on weekly newspapers conventional wisdom said you couldn't make hand-delivery work on a once-a-week basis. It has been fun to prove conventional wisdom wrong and to provide our readers with more timely service as well. ... If you're not getting your paper hand-delivered, you can probably Jook forward to the service in the near future. It is a change in the way we do business that seems to benefit everyone. in the dark. Maybe they did. ', Did the medicine cause them cancer? i- There is a lot of slick rock. On the drive into Grand Wash .the , roadway much of the time is right In the wash, so it is obvious why you shouldn't be there if there is a storm. f The trees were in bloom in Fruita arid it was a sight to behold. We Williamson f , Victor Williamson, Central Ele-, mentary Teacher from Pleasant Grove, has been named outstanding outstand-ing teacher for 1990 and will represent repre-sent Utah in the finals of the U S WEST Outstanding Teacher Program Pro-gram to be held May 2 to 4 -in Denver, where he will be inter-Viewed, inter-Viewed, along with finalists from fl3 other US WEST states, to select r three recipients who will receive a year's paid sabbatical. , ' J t i Williamson will receive a $5,000. " grant from U S WEST to further his development of the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center located on the grounds of Central ' Elementary in Pleasant Grove. .- Williamson is a sixth-grade teacher and says his classroom is the country. To date, he has taken extended field trips with his students stu-dents to California, Arizona, Kan-',, v sas, Oklahoma, Florida,1 Texas, Japan and Russia. These field trips are centered around their aerospace science curriculum. Williamson operates two Young government Mayors have not been given the right to pick and choose which council directives they will follow, they must follow them all. If they refuse to do so, the city council can simply appoint a mayor pro-tern and move ahead with city business - whether the mayor sits in his seat or no t But it is a messy step, a nd in thU case would probably only serve to complicate the matter further. The philosophy behind our form of representative democracy is simple people elect officials and then those officials act to the best of their ability to run our government And when the matter comes to a vote -- the majority rules. By refusing to act on the council's direction, Mayor Cash has circumvented that system. True, he believes he is doing it for the good of the community. But under our system of government, this decision is not bis to make. Whether the Memorial Building is renovated, whether Lehi City gets a new administration building, whether it moves its city offices into the Memorial Bulding or leaves them where tbey are all remains to be determined. T Regardless of the outcome of the controversy, Lehi City has lost something in the process. if ' The community, has been polarized, the will of the city's elected representatives has been circumvented, and the relationship relation-ship between the mayor and his council has been damaged. If the new building is built, it will now cost Lehi more than it would have had the original bid been accepted. The hidden costs in this situation may trouble the community foryears to come. Manila Reunion draws 500 By EFFIE ADAMS The Manila Ward Centennial Reunion drew approximately 500 former ward members back home on April 20, the ward's birthday. They came from both distant and near places. There was a program given and refreshments served, but the most enjoyable part of the evening for those present was the visiting and reminiscing. Many attractive displays brought back memories. There was one display featuring all of the 17 bishops bish-ops of the ward with pictures and write-ups. Another display showed dozens of pictures Of activities at Mutual Dell. Another featured the Manila Rodeo which was a yearly event for along time.1 troawrq h hv.o mi ' Akx WadteyhadctttM piled a list of all the former members of the ward before it was divided. There was amap and membership listing of the ward in 1900 and pictures of the Knud Swenson family (Knud was the first bishop). Another panel showed pictures of the Artemus Holman family, another of the first families in the ward. ' ' Manila's old school bell was displayed and run. " " A scrap book showed the activities activi-ties of the sisters of the ward in the Talent Project," during one of the building fund needs. ' ; i " There were booklets available of Manila Stories, The History of Mutual Dell, and Timpanogos Legends. ' Stephen. Warnick, Master of Ceremonies and former bishop conducted the program. Prayer was offered by David Harvey, a former bishop. A quartette consisting of Robert Monsoh, Duane Major, Susan Haycock, and Tim Ekins sang Try saw two deef there. From the park you can go to Hanksville or back towards Torrey where there is a road which will take you over Boulder Mountain to E seal ante. v A girl in Torrey at the gas station sta-tion said she didn't recommend it when it was storming hard like it was by then because there would be snow on top. outstanding Astronaut Chapters in his school, one of which was chosen to be one, of four in the country to represent the United States at the first International Inter-national Young AstronautYoung Cosmonaut convention in Japans Once a month, Williamson writes a nine-hour "Super Saturday for the Young Astronauts. During this time, he and his students convert the entire school into a' spaceship and travel the "galaxy learning about the wonders and mysteries of the universe. -- - Williamson's honors include receiving the "Christa McAuliffe Fellowship in 1989 from the United States Department of Education and being named "Chapter Leader of the Year by the National Young Astronaut Council in Washington, D.C. last year. He was also chosen to be one of two Young Astronaut Chapter Leaders in the United States to represent the U, at an International Space Camp in the USSR. . v - If chosen as one of three recipi- To Remember," and "Memories." Blanche Warnick told of many of the historical highlights of the ward. Gloria McCallister sang "You'll Never Walk This Way Again." Merrill N. Warnick spoke briefly of his memories of the ward as an early member, as a bishop and as a former stake president. Recognition Recogni-tion was given to those ward members and former ward members mem-bers who were 90 years old, and also those who were 80 years old. A letter was read from former Bishop Elliot Howe, who is teaching teach-ing in China. , - Therehavebeenfourpresidents of the Timpanogos Stake from Manila Ward. Three of them were to the reunion. There have been five stake patriarchs from Manila WaYd.Wee' of the were theft.,. '"Musical numbers were' rendered by members of the former MniToett Chorus. "Ithasbeeriataut25years since they sang as a chorus, said Gwen Adams, director,,. Members present were Carol Swenson, Noma Brown, Betty Harvey, Helen Harvey, Har-vey, Gwen Unthank, Venice FugaL Shirley Hatch, and Lucy Haycock accompanist . V- Barbara Harvey led the entire congregation in singing "Happy Birthday, Dear Manila. ; ,i Cloeingprayerwasby President Grant Fugal. : , ':-: :'v '! ' Hand drawn sketches of the beloved old Manila Church in, its three phases of expansion were drawn by Milt Hanks for the printed program which was typed I by Christine Greening - A x )-' Refreshments of traditional ice cream and cake were served by Manila First Ward Relief Society. Robert Monson and Barbara Harvey were Chairman and Co-chairman Co-chairman of the reunion. Many other committee members and volunteers helped willingly. ' 1 We went back to Richfield and stayed the night But we are determined to go back to Capitol Reef again soon. We'd also like to take in Fish Lake while we are there. You could make the trip to Capitol . Reef and back easily in one day. If you havent been there already, take - a trip down there soon. If you have been there, go again. We will. teacher ents in the final competition, Williamson Wil-liamson will use his paid sabbatical sabbati-cal to continue working on the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center on a full-time basis to com- plete the center.' ?-' ' ' 1 , Upon completion, the center will include a state-of-the-art spaceship simulator which will be able to take up to . 15 students on simulated space Voyages ranging in duration from a few hours to five-day mis-. mis-. sions. the' simulator will be equipped ' with computers which will help : direct the space flight simulation. The simulator will be self-con-tained and will create the illusion of actually being in space. The "astronauts will live, eat, work and sleep in the simulator: The Space Center is designed to serve students and teachers throughout the state. - (- The Outstanding Teacher Program Pro-gram is part of the $20 million US WEST Educational Initiative which was introduced in 19S3 to support education in the 14-tate U S WEST territory. |