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Show 467 past J Cmrth SLG UT. 84111. uiii , mm m Volume 54 Number 16 PRICK TWENTY FIVE-CENTS .A School Board Cance May 8 Leeway Vote April 18, 1984 TATIA FERGUSON !---"w r """"' "'" .: -v: ' ' 1 :-'! I - ' ' i . I . . II LJ ROBIN GARN Seven Girls State The American Legion Auxiliary of Orem has announced the girls selected to represent Orem at Girls State to be held June 3 through June 9 at Southern Utah State College in Cedar City. The girls selected are: Andrea, Gappmayer, Kristen Nielsen,' Kayleen Penrod, Heather Steel, Robin Garn, La Nay Tucker, Tatia Ferguson and the alternatives are Julie Dowdle and Cari Milton. . Andrea Gappmayer is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gappmayer. She attends Mountain View High School, where she was on the Who's Who Among American High School students, co-editor of the school newspaper, and was on Orrin Hatch's Youth Advisory Committee. Kristen Nielsen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Nielsen, and also attends Mountain View High School. Kristen was on the National Honor Society, Who's Who Among American Students, a varsity cheerleader and was appointed choreographer of the Miss Utah Pageant. Kayleen Penrod is the daughter of Mrs. May Penrod. Kayleen is a member of the A Cappella Choir, the National Honor Society and Who's Who Among American Students. She enjoys playing the piano, dancing and doing service projects. Heather Steel is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James Steel. She is also on the National Honor Society, Who's Who Among American Students. Heather is also in the Concert Choir, Past Mayors Direction Of Every mayor has his challenges... they just change according accor-ding to the time the mayor is in office. of-fice. According to former Orem Mayor Winston Crawford, the greatest challenge he faced while in office was the growth of the city - to centralize the Orem business district. Crawford said when he was a member of the Orem City Council, Center Street went only in an east direction. The council worked on opening Center Street through Geneva Road. While Crawford was on the council, four on and off ramps were constructed on the freeway. These entrances and exits were built on 1600 North, 1200 South, 800 North and Center Street. Crawford said there was not a pornography ordinance when he was in office. He and the council members mem-bers initiated the pornography ordinance or-dinance that is now in use. The University Mall was another example of Orem becoming a growing city when Crawford was in office. Crawford said several men came to him and asked him about the possibility of building a mall. They seemed to feel that it was a good location and the business would be good, he said. "Provo City was not too keen about the idea of the mall, because they were afraid it would take business away from their area, but now they have started their own mall ( Provo To wn Square ). " ANDREA GAPPMAYER KAYLEEN PENROD has been in drama productions, and road shows. She has helped raise funds for the blind and enjoys traveling travel-ing with her family to foreign countries. Robin Garn is the daugher of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Garn. She attends Orem High School and is a cheerleader. Robin has participated in forensics, the National Honor Society, a member of the National Honor Society, a member of the Pep Club, Key Club, Science Club, French Club, Varsity Track and the Fine Arts Club. La Nay Tucker is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Terry Tucker. La Nay attends Orem High School and belongs to the French Club. She is also active in the the drama department. La Nay is a clogging instructor and enjoys modern dance and piano. She would like to be engaged in communications com-munications as a general field of occupation. Tatia Ferguson is the daughter of Mr. . and Mrs. Howard Jerry Ferguson. She attends Orem High School and has been a member of the yearbook newspaper staff. Tatia enjoys en-joys ballet, singing, piano, violin, tennis, ten-nis, and swimming. Tatia plans to attend at-tend BYU in an advance computer class. Contributors for the Girls Staters are the Kiwanis Club, Seratoma Club, Olesca and Orem Women's Club. Mrs. Reed Bench is president of the Orem Unit. Mrs. Fred Gourdin is chairman of Girls State. Approve City Crawford worked with the men for several years and at last the idea of the mall became a reality . Crawford also faced the question of whether or not to add a basement to the Orem City Center. Although there were some people who were hesitant about the idea, Crawford and the City Council decided to approve the idea. "Now the entire building is filled," he said. "As the city grows, the problems grow. But I think the present Council and the Mayor are analyzing Orem's problems well. They want to do what is right and are trying to create a city that is livable," he said. LeGrand Jarman, another former for-mer mayor of Orem, said one of the challenges he faced while in office was the construction of a sewage disposal plant. "The real problem was digging up the black top in order to install the pipes. The ground had to settle before new black top could be poured and there were some people who were upset because their roads were dug up for quite a while," Jar-man Jar-man said. Both Crawford and Jarman feel that Orem City is headed in the right direction and is behind good leadership. leader-ship. "The development of Orem is progressing in a very fine manner," Jarman said. "The current mayor nominated me for mayor," he added. LA NAY TUCKER KRISTEN NIELSEN HEATHER STEEL Gillman Orchard Lengthy By Jeanne Thayne With the Public Hearing behind them and rezoning of the site for the proposed Timpanogos Research and Technology Park approved, officials of the Commission for the Economic Development of Orem (CEDO) are moving vigorously forward to tie down committments for companies to locate in the park. According to Jim Renzas, CEDO executive director, CEDO lias "fairly "fair-ly firm committments for about one third of the park." Utah Innovation Center, located in the research park near the University of Utah, "definitely plans to open a branch in the Orem park, " Renzas said. The company specializes in working with small high technology companies offering of-fering them expertise, working space and an "incubation center," so to speak, for their million dollar ideas. In turn UIC is given stock when the company blossoms and grows. UIC was instrumental in establishing Terra Tek, a high technology company now operating in the Salt Lake park, and Native Plants, a horticultural company specializing in breeding plants for specific areas. Renzas said CEDO will announce other companies about June or July. He indicated the federal grant Emergency Declared On 1-80 Governor Scott M. Matheson has declared a state of emergency on a six-mile section of Interstate 80 in Tooele county. The proclamation is required by the U. S. Department of Transportation in order for the Utah Department of Transportation to apply app-ly for emergency relief funds. Flooding along 1-80 has required emergency diking and now will necessitate that the road grade be ; raised approximately four feet. In addition, ad-dition, work is needed in Salt Lake, Tooele and Davis Counties to prevent the loss of other highways and disrup-; tion of interstate traffic. . According to William D. Hurley, Director of the Utah Department of Transportation, nearly $10 million in Interstate 4R Funds have been committed com-mitted on an emergency basis to maintain service on 1-80 and several million more will be needed to preserve or restore the road. i 1 The Alpine School District Board of Education has voted unanimously to cancel the voted leeway wh. h was to take place on May 8. The action ac-tion took place at the board's monthly business meeting which was held at district headquarters in American Fork this week. The prospective leeway would have asked local Gene Parrish To MC Miss Orem Pageant Gene Parrish, who has been involved in-volved in both performing arts and with judging of contests and pageants, pagean-ts, has been selected as the Master of Ceremonies of the 1984 Miss Orem Scholarship Pageant. Gene is a graduate of Brigham Young University Univer-sity with a B.A. in Business Communications. Com-munications. He spent three years traveling with Sounds of Freedom, Young Ambassadors and Lamanite Generation. He was the manager of the Sounds of Freedom performing group. Gene has been a member of the Mks Utah State Pageant Committee since 1979, He was a Master of Ceremonies in the 1981 Miss Utah Pageant. He has been judging local pageants in Colorado and Utah since 197:.. Gene and his wife, Melanie, live in West Valley City. The Orem Boosters, Inc., sponsor spon-sor of che Miss Orem Scholarship A Pr.e int announce that advance To Fall Hearing OK' s Zone necessary to initiate funding of the park will be available about that time also. It will take about a month to complete the paper work on the deeding of the Gillman orchard to Orem City, he said. Mayor DeLance W. Squire said . the park is designed to be self funding with no funds coming from Orem Ci- ty. The grant will be used for the initial in-itial purchase and parcels will be sold to the locating companies. Despite selling off the ground Orem City will maintain strict control by basis of the voting structure established. Restrictions and covenants are being developed now and will be refined with input from a committee to be selected for the project. Councilmember Richard Jackson pointed out that input from local citizens has already resulted in additions addi-tions to the development guidelines. Stella Welsh, councilmember, indicated in-dicated that further study is necessary to complete the guidelines. Between 300 and 400 citizens were present at the Public Hearing April 10. While the majority present wore : V. . ' t Not looking to bite the hand that feeds them, these ducks were easily coaxed trom waters at State Park near Provo boat harbor. Open trunk makes ready access for any stowaways who might prefer the company of two lit t le girls to tbc'r frnlhered friends. patrons to give the district an additional ad-ditional two or five mill raise to provide for building maintenance and other district needs. The proposed vote had been placed on a holding pattern this month mon-th pending the outcome of the state legislature's reaction to the Utah Supreme Court decision which ticket sales are now being conducted by the thirteen contestants involved in the pageant. They are vying for an award for the one who makes the greatest sales. Tickets will also be available at the door the night of the pageant. They will be $3.00 per person. per-son. All seats are general admission and will go on sale at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 28th at the Orem High School ticket booth. Donna Richards, treasurer, is in charge of tickets, assisted by Dan and Tammy Thomas. Paulina Jolley, general chairman chair-man of the event, has also announced that program books will be available at the pageant for $1.00 per copy. They are being assembled by Katy Harris and Ernie Summers of the Boosters. Local businesses are providing scholarships for each girl who enters the contest, according to Winston Crawford, chairman of the scholarships fund. Those selected by the judges for the 1984 royalty will receive additional scholarships to be used to pursue studies in their chosen field and talent. All businesses who purchase ads in support of the pageant will .be. iH?JLJ J&S.-program J&S.-program book. paper badges declaring a "no" vote to the amendment change necessary to rezone the Gillman property, an equal number of proponents and op-ponets op-ponets were given an opportunity to speak. In the initial presentation by CEDO officials, Ken Duncan, chairman, chair-man, and Jim Renzas, pointed ut that of the several pieces of propei ly studied, the Gillman property had only on-ly one negative aspect: not as favorably oriented to Utah Technical College. On a rating scale, the Gillman property rated 58; Cascade property, 53; Osmond property, 50; and Heathman site, 44. There is not any place in Orem we could put this park without opposition," opposi-tion," said Duncan. "We did our homework regarding financial analysis, alternate uses, support systems and residents involved. We have looked at the traffic, and the canal, and plan to earmark funds from the park to alleviate safety and traffic problems. The canal should be fenced. This park will enhance, not destory the neighborhood." "Why don't you study the impact on people," plead Debbie Taylor, a nullified the 1981 tax roll backs. The final legislative action will result in a nearly nine percent increase in residential taxes this year. All board members were in agreement that it would be unfair to impose additional tax burdens this year. The cancellation of the leeway vote roiiowea Doth the recommendation recommen-dation of SunerintenHpnt entire executive leeway committee of citizens. "Emotionally, I feel that we should move ahead," said Dr. Cox, but rationally, I know that we cannot impose further tax increases on our patrons." . Mr. Don Evans, a prominent Orem businessman and co-chairman of the leeway committee, echoed the voice of the superintendent: Because of the unplanned tax increase w hich results from the court decision, and because of other uncertainties, we reluctantly recommend that the board of education not go ahead with the proposed leeway vote at this time," he said. "We wish to thank all of those who have spent so much time and effort ef-fort with this project," he concluded. Dr. Shelton To Speak At UVH Meeting Dr. Dean Shelton will be the speaker at the monthly meeting at Utah Valley Hospital in the Clark Auditorium Foyer for all L.P.N.'s and students who are interested. The meeting will be held on Thursday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Shelton will speak on "Emergency .Ponnx Emergencies, Prognosis and. Nursing Care." . Change resident of northeast Orem. General contractor David Hawkins said, "Major problems have been glossed over...if I were the developer those problems would have to be answered." David Lisonbee, unofficial chairman chair-man of the opposition, questioned, "Who's to say that another city council coun-cil or CEDO 10 years down the road won't bring a change and open the (park) to manufacturing?" Judy Chaston said, "I like the idea of the park. Schools and churches in the area are already overcrowded." overcrowd-ed." She's building a home across from the park. David Taylor, president of the Orem Chamber of Commerce, reported a survey of their 450 members showed more than 90 percent per-cent in favor of the site for the park. Robert Bromley of Mountain Oaks area said, "I paid a lot for my view but I've lived near parks (like this) before and I'm in favor of it." The opposition remained little convinced, but at the end of the three-and-a-half hour hearing neighbors and councilmembers shook hands. For the moment a difficult decision was put to rest. A ' v V f 1 1 M |