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Show like a'good neighbor, State Farm is there. tIATI fAIM Milt ft Imwmu I INSUIANCI Iteview - Wednesday, April 25, 1990 Page 12 J MM.., ' pAuUo I?DPe CaomeovjnoPG C3ggoD?C3 IL0(?e J. Ralph Binnall Insurance, 120 N. 100 E;; American Fork 756-3518 Pleasant Grove homes yield history Editor Note: May la restoration restora-tion month in Utah. The Review Re-view will publish aerie from the Pleasant Grove Historical Committee about restoration, preservation and the history of Pleasant Grove buildings. This week's topic is: Help from the Pleasant Grove Historical Committee. Members of the Pleasant Grove Certified Local Government has researched approximately 60 percent per-cent of Pleasant Grove's older buildings build-ings that retain their historic integrity. in-tegrity. Each search culminated in file for the house or commercial building. build-ing. The file contents include a instigator, short historical sketches on the original owner and subsequent subse-quent long term owners, and interesting inter-esting facts about the building and property. These files are open to the public and accessible through the committee members. We hope they will be useful to several groups: 1) family researchers research-ers seeking ancestral house information, infor-mation, 2) history buffs wanting to know more of Pleasant Grove's past, 3) owners of historic properties who desire to understand more about their buildings. The committee is also in the process of organizing a collection of old photographs of approximately 300 Pleasant Grove buildings. This is a more recent project we have worked on since November 1989. While doing our house research we noted photos that were taken during the 1930's and 1940's for tax purposes and held at the Utah County Tax Office, and we resolved to add them to our house documentary documen-tary resources. These tax photos have been duplicated and should be invaluable in notonly documenting document-ing buildings, and thus our town's history, but in restoration work as High school, jr. high orchestras to present annual spring concert The Pleasant Grove Jr. and Sr. High School Orchestra will be combining for their annual Spring Concert to be held at the Pleasant Grove Jr. High Auditorium on Thursday, Apr. 26, at 7:30 p.m. The Jr. High Orchestra, conducted con-ducted by Leon Honey, will be performing per-forming a variety of pieces by such well-known composers as Pagan-ini Pagan-ini and Handel. Heidi Keith, Concert Con-cert mistress, who has received Superior ratings in Federation and Solo and Ensemble Festivals, will perform a special solo. The high school orchestra, conducted con-ducted by Karen Blalock, will be performing pieces by Mozart, Bar-tok, Bar-tok, and Concertos by Vivaldi. This years soloists will be Angie Bush, Concert mistress, Heidi Ekstrom, Rachel Ives, and Alicia Bush. All of the Concertos that will be performed received Superior ratings at Region Re-gion Solo and Ensemble Festival this year and will be performing at State Solo and Ensemble Festival this Saturday, April 28. The orchestra program in Pleas-ant Pleas-ant Grove has been steadily growing grow-ing and developing over the past few years. It is providing a great opportunity for young musicians to grow and develop. The continued support of parents as well as community com-munity leaders is helping to build a strong interest in the arts and music The concert is open to the public and admission is free. well. So far there have been quite a few people interested in our files including Scott and Debra Riga)). The Rigalls, formerly from Texas, purchased one of the oldest houses in Pleasant Grove. They fell in love with their comfortable com-fortable soft-rock, hall-parlor house with several log additions at the rear. Through the winter they refurbished refur-bished and restored parts of the house interior. The longer Scott and Debra worked the more curious curi-ous they became about their house and they wanted to know more than the neighbors could reveal. But some neighbor did tell them about our history group. Through our file of their house they found that the fron t two room s of their Center Street house were built before 1873, and the back additions were built before the 1890s. The file histories and title search indicated that the house was probably built by William Black. Interestinginsight into the lives of former owners of the house was also gained from the file. The Ri- k :J F - - zu$ - '1' galls outlined work forth summer is to restore t. . exterior stucco and wood of the cottage. They also thought of building decorative front porch rail. A photo of their house from our tax-photo collection revealed that Victorian style lathe-turned spindle porch had been removed; this was much like the style they thought of adding. The porch styling is from the turn of the century indicating the era the porch was added to the house. The photo will help them make a more correct restoration of the rail if they desire to go that way. Like many of our oldei houses, the Rigalls' house is built sturdy and built to last. V. i th their type of tender loving care, it may outlast newer cheaply-constructed house. They are hoping to retain theorigi-- nal look of their house and as I visited with them I felt their love for their house, our past, and our community radiate from them. Are new people to our community commu-nity placing a value on our heritage that we sometimes take too lightly and even seek to destroy? Get One and Use It ' The Bank of American Fork debit card is perfect for me. It saves me from carrying cash, it saves me from writing checks. It works as well in Banff at my summer job as it does in American Fork. If you don't have a card like this, get one. If you do have a card, use it. . r f u ft i Li'I a it a r- Teachers' choice... w Pleasant Grove Jr. High School Citizens of the Week are, L-R, Tvler Harris, eltrhlh srrarlo nnA Plovi.n Pnfh ninth tmA Jant Uden i T7f Nathan Cottle, seventh grade; ' V ' i ?! " 'v. - 1 |