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Show Ill EDITION OF TUB Fun jT CAR -RT LQTC-Q18 UT.-H FSESS ASSOCIATION 3 E 3900 STE 100 I SALT LA: r riTV, UT 84124-1501 YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY. APRIL 21, 2005 50 CENTS TOWN HALL City looking at downtown redesign BUSINESS: A new way ol sniffing out mold SPORTS: Hartgrove's work ethic produced success (r vi "lit, SCIENCE FAIR VICTORY SWEET AS SUGAR lifc ii t Kites Brenda Armstrong NORTH COUNTY STAFF Residents of Pleasant Grove and other surrounding cities will have less to worry about when pulled over by Utah County Sheriff's deputies depu-ties after a recent county policy change. Up until a recent policy change, individuals receiving a citation from a county officer were then directed to resolve those matters at the county courthouse located in Provo. According to Utah County Sheriff Sher-iff Jim Tracy, the county feels it should keep revenue if it is their personnel doing the work. "Deputies have to pass through multiple cities in order to reach the unincorporated areas within the county," Tracy said. "If a deputy does write a citation in areas with a court justice system, the only way we can afford to use our manpower and enforce the laws is to have the offenders appear in the county courts." The amount of funds being lost to the county court system have been of great concern to Pleasant Grove justice system staff and city council members. "The county has been receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue that the. cities should be getting, but aren't," Judge Brent Bullock said. "All tickets written by sheriff's deputies within our city are going to the county courts. They want the revenue. Now this practice is allegedly going to stop, but I question it." Pleasant Grove City Council member Mike Daniels oversees the affairs of the city courts. He said he feels that in order to resolve many of the existing overcrowding and lack of security issues facing city courts, this revenue is needed to help with improvements to the system "The county is writing tickets within our court jurisdiction, scoop-Sec scoop-Sec TICKETS, Page 2 Service shines brightly Helping others an important part of Little Miss Lindon pageant Harlow Clark NORTH COUNTY STAFF T n lty Nelson, who I I created stuffed " bears for The Canary Garden, I I a grieving center U U for children who have lost loves ones, is the new Little Miss Lindon. HoUy was named in a pageant held Saturday. Her attendants are Janessa Olsen, Bethany Pratte, Marlee Whetten, and Annie Lawrence. Law-rence. The pageant theme was "An Evening on Broadway," and many of the talent numbers were taken from Broadway shows, including Annie Lawrence's dance from "Footloose," Janessa Olsen's flips from "Annie," Sydney Johnson's "I Want to be a Rockette," which earned her the talent award, and Saman-tha Saman-tha Romriell's "Big Spender." Other numbers included rock n roll standards, like Brianna Bird's "Do Run Run." Marlee Whetten did a jig with lots of tapping and fast foot work. Stormey Nielsen closed the entertainment segment with "Castle on a Cloud" from "Les Miserables." Master of Ceremonies Johnny John-ny Revill said Nielsen had lost her voice but would recite the song, and she did with presence pres-ence and dignity. Service is a big part of Little Miss Lindon. Each participant thinks up a project, performs the service, often with the help of friends and family, and documents it on a display board. Many projects were humanitarian. Jenna Smoot created finger fin-ger puppet kits for Primary Children's Hospital. Hayley Woolf won the service award for feeding the homeless. She made 25 sack lunches, with ham and cheese sandwiches, apples and chips, for the Food and Care Coalition. Other projects were acts of friendship. Hannah Holladay worked with a neighbor who has autistic children, cleaning crayon marks from the walls, making beds, and cleaning See LITTLE MISS, Page 2 0m 1 lmm ii 1 at J-.f r ft fr. S;? . ' .jv'.J ''BlWIW.'r.'Os. W "i Vt-' W 1 T J: ' ,., : ' -' y',i"' - - " " 1 v tts m - ur """" ' irS' photo by FRANK BOTTNorth County Little Miss Lindon 2004 Savannah Bush, left, hugs Holly Nelson, Little Miss Lindon for 2005. Le the Little Miss Lindon Royalty, from left., are Annie Lawrence, Bethany Pratte, Little Miss Lindon Holly'Nelson, Marlee Whetten and Janessa Olsen. Support group aims Ho help stepparents Brenda Armstrong NORTH COUNTY STAFF Local resident and stepparent step-parent of 12 years, Brenda Smith founded a stepparent support group, Stepparents of TotsTeens (SPOT) in February. Feb-ruary. This program aims at helping local stepparents address the issues associated when raising young and teenage children. "My main focus was to provide a group where peo ple can obtain assistance and support," Smith said. "This support group provides and offers wonderful speakers, resources, times of sharing and experiences that really work." SPOT currently meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month. There is no fee associated asso-ciated with joining the group and the next group meeting will be this Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the John Hancock Charter School, 125 N. 100 East, Pleasant Grove. Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove resident Jonathan " Sherman, a licensed marriage mar-riage and family therapist, will be the keynote speaker. The impact of divorce and dual parental responsibilities has put an increased amount of stress on the family unit, Smith said. Each stepf amity has many challenges. "Stepfamily members face complicated adjustments to the new family situation," Smith said. "When a step- family is formed, the members mem-bers have no shared family histories or shared ways of doing things." During the group sessions, ses-sions, organizers hope that individuals will be able to target the unrealistic expectations expec-tations associated with the stepfamily that may eventually eventu-ally lead to inappropriate behaviors and foster feelings of inadequacy among See SPOT, Page 2 Stepparents of TotsTeens Date: Every fourth Tuesday of the month. Time: 7 p.m. Place: John Hancock Charter School, 125 N. 100 East, PI. Grove. More Info: Contact Brenda Smith at 358-0583. L WWW.HAKKTHEHERALD.COFvVNORTHCOUNTY CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE Community Briefing Orem RETURNING MONEY 'NATURAL' - Hibino Katsuma sa doesn't understand what the big deal is. Ever since he returned the $10,000 he unexpectedly found stashed in his recently purchased Orem home, he has had a steady stream of reporters from newspapers, radio and television televi-sion interested in his story. "It's not special," he said. "I gave (the money) back to its true owner. It's natural." Katsumasa said in Japan it's not uncommon to unexpectedly unex-pectedly run into large amounts of money, and everybody every-body just automatically turns it over to the police. Cedar Hills FRANK BOTTNorth County Cedar Hills Golf Course's parking lot is nearly vacant early Wednesday morning. The course club house is located in the small trailer. NEW GOLF COURSE MANAGEMENT - Things are getting on par at the Cedar Hills Golf Course. A professional administration has signed on to run the course and the council is getting its ducks in a row for addressing the course debt. The large divot that Gina Higbee left after her resignation in March is growing back in. The City Council officially approved month-to-month contract April 5 with RC Management to oversee over-see operations of the course. Cecil Read of RC Management said he has years of experience running a retail golf shop, and currently? manages that side of the operations. His partner, Ryan Liddiard, is a golf pro and brings in the tournaments and will run that side of the business. Highland ZONE CHANGE DENIED - The Alpine City Planning Commission resolved one of its more recent controversial contro-versial issues Tuesday night when it unanimously denied a proposed zone change requested by Alpine businessman Dan Carlisle near the Alpine Highway. Carlisle had asked to have property along the west side of the highway changed to business commercial so that he could expand his home recording business that has exceeded the allowances for a home occupation occupa-tion in a residential zone. Previously, the city has tried to keep commercial uses in the downtown area to draw people to the center cen-ter of the city. American Fork BAGPIPERS IN LOVE - It was love at first pipe bagpipe, that is. Candice and Dale Hawkins have been playing the bagpipes for about 1 0 years now, and that's how they met. They had both decided to join the Ben Lomond High School pipeband in Ogden, and the rest, as they say, is history. Both of them play other instruments, but the bagpipe bag-pipe is their favorite. "I like them just because they're a unique instrument and the effect that they have on people," Candice said. Her husband agreed. "The bagpipe is a unique instrument," Dale said. "It's enabled en-abled us to go a lot of places and meet a lot of people we wouldn't have otherwise." Lehi ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION - A 133 -year-old tradition tradi-tion has taken hold in Lehi city. On April 14, the Lehi city mayor signed a proclamation proclama-tion making the last day of April in the community Lehi Arbor Day. "Whereas trees in our city increase property values, enhance the economic vitality of business area, and beautify our community," read Mayor Ken Greenwood from the proclamation. "... Further, I urge all citizens to plant tree to gladden the heart and promote the well-being well-being of this and future generations." The Lehi Parks and Trails Advisory Committee has organized several Lehi Arbor Day activities on April 30 at the Band Wagon Park, 900 N. 200 West in Lehi, from 10 a.m. to noon. From staff reports J 7W 05 CHEVY AVE 0 1 VkV- kTTTTnTtmnrrl I X DS DURAMAX HD . tKtW CAB 4x4 . 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