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Show L0TC-018 PtUUI ""I" r-r-r.r T AT T ON 1521 t- -7" UT 84124-1501 SALT LAKE CITy. UT F iw mini ur.ar V IV V V Li lV V TtTtlTl YOURTOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1. 2005 50 CENTS A XI EDI lento 4, TOWH HALL: lindon begins new tradition at ceremony SCHOOLS: Pleasant Grove High students help angels out SPORTS: Allyce Wilson earns top valley volleyball honor BUSINESS ADOPTION AGENCY EXTENDS HELPING HAND AwiB Patoison Dimteirnoirs to imwb Brenda Armstrong NORTH COUNTY STAFF After more than 30 years in business, busi-ness, one of Utah's most popular interior design firms located in Pleasant Grove is preparing to vacate va-cate its prime State Street location and relocate to Orem. Since 1974, Steve Peterson Interiors Inte-riors and Associates, 285 E. State St., has specialized in all varieties of floor coverings and area rugs, quality furniture and accessories, window treatments and wall coverings. cov-erings. "I can remember when we first started our business here along State Street and were all by ourselves," our-selves," said OwnerPartner Boyd Hallman. "There were sage brush fields across the street and now it is all built up. This has been a great location for our business. It is too bad we have to leave during these prime times in Pleasant Grove." The owners of Steve Peterson Interiors made the decision to not renew their lease after facing multiple mul-tiple building maintenance problems prob-lems and conflicts with the current landlord. The store will move to 800 N. 1500 West in Orem and will begin operation at the new location by the end of January. "We decided to relocate because we do not own this building," said Hallman. "There have been some conflicts and this facility just isnt ideal." Pleasant Grove Economic Development Devel-opment Director Paul Blanchard said the city has worked tirelessly with Steve Peterson Interiors over the past year to help find a suitable location within Pleasant Grove for the company to relocate. "We have worked with landowners, land-owners, developers and realtors, but just couldn't pull it off," said Blanchard. "We spoke of several opportunities such as relocating to See MOVE, Page 2 O O V : urmni pi m 1 MARIO RUIZNorth County Partner of Steve Peterson Interiors Julie Blackley at the showroom in Pleasant Grove. The furniture and home interior store has been in Pleasnt Grove for 35 years and will soon be moving to Orem. Santas on parade 1 Britain Father Cbrias V mm x C ' R0BB COSTELLONorth County Santas from seven different lands visited Pleasant Grove's main street. Spencer and Matthew Parkes visit with Father Christmas from Britain. Christmas from around the globe comes to PG Brenda Armstrong . NORTH COUNTY STAFF Now in its second season, the downtown merchants and Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove joined together Saturday Satur-day to host the annual Christmas Around the World event offering a unique holiday experience with something new to learn and see about various holiday world traditions, tradi-tions, t The event made it possible for residents with their families to experience along Main Street the holiday customs of Italy, Spain, Germany and Britain. "We hope all of the families that attend enjoyed learning about different dif-ferent Christmas traditions from around the world," said Melanie Miller, Melanie's International Gourmet and the Historic Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Business Association president. The Three Kings who set out to pay homage to the Infant Christ are especially appealing to the Spanish imagination. The figures depicted at Saturday's event are responsible for distributing gifts to all worthy children in Spain during dur-ing the holiday season. Many Christmas traditions also began in Germany centuries ago. Saint Nicholas explained to the Saturday crowds that he rides around the countryside while See CHRISTMAS, Page 2 State honors Lindon with Community of the Year Award Dave Lindsey NORTH COUNTY STAFF The Utah Community Forest Council chose Lindon to receive the Community of the Year Award, an honor given out to only one Utah community annually ."It's an L incredible award," said Janeane Cartwright, a Lindon Tree Board chair. "We were honored because we were so young." The board was formed on May 2 and made giant strides to fulM the Tree City requirements set out by the council. In less than seven months the Lindon City Tree Board accomplished what takes most communities years to achieve. "This was wonderful that they recognized us, but we feel we are just at the beginning of this process," pro-cess," Lindon Mayor Jeff Acerson said. "There is still much more to do as a city. We are still very much committed to enhancing the greening green-ing of our city." But the group effort of the city, volunteers and staff has accomplished accom-plished quite a bit already. Not See TREE, Page 2 WWW.HARKTHEHERALD.COMNORTHCOUNTY CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE IReDI , RES TAG KICKS 131 ALL O KSS O KC COX9UT ( Community Briefing Countywldo CHRISTMAS TRADITION CONTINUES IN NORTH UTAH COUNTY - The North County Newspapers are now accepting nominations for needy families in the area to receive help for Christmas. Some names have been nominated for help. Those who wish to sponsor them may review the letters of nomination at the North County Newspaper office at 59 W. Main, American Fork, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. any weekday. Submissions are being accepted until Monday, may be based on the need for help, and should include information informa-tion about unemployment, illness, injury or other reason the family may be facing a bleak holiday. The front desk at North County Newspapers, located at 59 W. Main in American Fork, has nomination forms, or individuals may send a letter outlining the need. Each nomination should include the name, address and phone number of the person submitting a family for help, so sponsors may use them as confidential contacts. The letters or nomination forms will then be available at the newspaper offices for individuals, families or organizations orga-nizations who are looking for someone to sponsor for the holidays.' Orem 14 8 ft M MATT SMITHNorth County Paul Gourdin has decorated the Christmas tree at the Scera Theaters for the last 50 years. He has only missed decorating the Scera tree 3 of the 50 years. Paul is holding a 50-year-old ornament. VOLUNTEER HAS LONG HISTORY WITH SCERA CHRISTMAS TREE - Decorating the Christmas tree usually means unboxing memories, one by one, along with the ornaments. That statement may be especially true for Highland resident Paul Gourdin who, along with his wife, Carol, has decorated the main tree at Orem's SCERA Theater for the past 17 years. But Gourdin's involvement with the SCERA and its Christmas trees goes back even further. He said it was 1956 or 1957 when he and Jimmy Hunt took over the tree decorating. American Fork CITY SELLS FIBER OPTIC TO UTOPIA - American Fork City has approved a contract with UTOPIA, the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency, to sell optical fiber to the agency. UTOPIA is made of 14 Utah municipalities. UTOPIA has until Dec. 12 to accept the contract. With its broadband system, American Fork has nearly 60 miles of fiber laid between Salt Lake City and Spanish Fork. The sale would be a portion of that fiber, which has been declared surplus, approximately 16.5 percent of the total. The city purchased the high-speed broadband system from SwitchPoint in 2002 and has been upgrading it since that time. Lent Micron poised for expansion You can fit 1 1 5 Super Wal-Marts inside of Micron, the 2.3 million square foot complex built on a 2,100 spread of sagebrush and scrub oak on Lehi's north bench. With less than 20 percent of the interior of the facility complete, a great deal of construction is left to be done. Micron announced on Nov. 21 it would partner with Intel to form IM Flash Technologies Inc. in order to manufacture manu-facture NAND flash memory chips for cell phones and MP3 equipment like Apple's iPod. Production will initially take place in manufacturing facilities located in Boise, Idaho; Manassas, Va.; and Lehi. The Utah plant is poised and ready for the challenge. Construction to finish the facility will begin immediately. 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