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Show ft3ft3001. - m in ... I , Pre st, ftssoc 4 (., 7 Salt Lake City, Participating in the Veterans Day flag ceremony at the University Mall on Monday morning were members of the Utah National Guard. Also marking the event was the Grand Opening of Utah's first National Guard Recruiting Office located in a retail mall. Volume 61 Number 40 fit Wednesday, November 13, 1991 Orem office facilitates driver's licensing role When traveling outside the United States an American passport is the one absolutely indispensable in-dispensable document that every citizen needs to carry in order to facilitate movement through cus-, cus-, toms of every country, as well as K OUUtin lUUglUg 111 iiuieis ouu pensions. It provides the owner with a proof of citizenship, as well as a valuable identification document. docu-ment. Within the United States the document thdt provides the most recognizable identification for an individual, as well as an authorization to drive a vehicle.is a state driver's license. Each state supervises the testing and licensing licens-ing of its citizens, and with some minor variations the regulations for licensing drivers throughout the United States are very much alike. According to Utah Public Safety Commissioner Doug Bodrero, over 300,000 people get new driver's licenses or have their licenses renewed every year. Getting Get-ting that license is sometimes an exercise in frustration, Bodrero says. PASS OUT IN LINE "People not only pass out waiting in line for their driver's license. I've heard stories about people bribing others up to $300 to stand in line for them." For some time, now, Gov. Norm Bangerter and Commissioner Commis-sioner Bodrero have been trying to make getting a driver's license easier, but the Utah State Legislature Legis-lature has been reluctant to implement im-plement the governor's suggestions. sugges-tions. "Opening up satellite offices would ease the lines considerable," consider-able," Bodrero says, "but the Legislature won't let us do it." In Salt Lake City there are only two places to get new driver's licenses or renew old ones: the office at the Utah State Fair-park and the West Valley office. Commercial driver's licenses can be obtained at the 3495 South 300 West office, and motorists can renew their licenses there if a driving test is not required. NON-COMMERCIAL LICENSES Fortunately, residents of Orem have their own Driver's License Division at 826 North 1200 West where non-commercial driver's testing and licensing is conducted. The Orem office is not as busy as the offices in Salt Lake County, and the waiting in line is not as prevalent. Just last week, this writer went into the Orem office at 11:15 a.m. and waited in line less than 10 seconds before the administrative wheels were in motion to renew my license. Within 10 minutes my $5.00 fee had been collected, my photo had been taken, and my new driver's license was in my hand. Utah drivers eligible for renewal-by-mail licenses will soon get a "chance" to avoid driver license lines for an additional four years. But they will never know, unless their correct address is filed with the Utah Driver License Division. LICENSES EXTENDED Beginning in October, the customary cus-tomary four-year driver license was extended to five years. To ease implementation during the conversion period, 20 percent of those drivers eligible for renewal-by-mail licenses will get four-year extensions added to their license expiration dates. Lucky candidates will be selected randomly, but to qualify for one-time extensions, driver must notify Driver License Division of any address change. An address update requires only a telephone call (965-4437) and does not require a visit to a field station. f Although state law requires drivers to register address chact-ges chact-ges within 10 day after a movtj, many Utahns neglect that chore, Orem drivers needing commercial com-mercial driver's licenses can obtain ob-tain them at the office located at 1185 N. Spring Creek Place in Springville. i 1 x f v?Nv v:-: Morning hours are the best time for motorists to obtain their driver's licenses at the Orem Driver's License Division, located at 826 North 1200 West where non-commercial driver's testing and licensing is conducted. For those requiring only an eye test, licenses can sometimes be secured in 10 minutes or less. Utah National Guard notes Veterans Day Veterans Day was celebrated in Orem on Monday at the University Mall with a patriotic ceremony by the Utah National Guard. The salute to veterans took place at the south entrance to the University Mall. As the honor guard posted the Colors, members of the National Guard and interested citizens saluted the flag to the stirring music of the Star Spangled Banner. Ban-ner. The event also marked the Grand Opening of the Utah National Na-tional Guard Recruiting Office, now located in the University Mall just inside the south entrance. Many pieces of National Guard equipment have been located lo-cated outside in the parking lot and in the hallway adjacent to the new recruiting office. - According to Sgt. Adamson of the Utah National Guard, all citizens are encouraged to come by this week to view the weapons and equipment and learn what Utah National Guard is all about Ticket sales began Nov. 11 Tickets will go on sale Monday, Mon-day, November 11, for the 32nd annual "Christmas Around the World" featuring the Brigham Young University International Folk Dance Ensemble. Ticket prices are $5 for stu-, stu-, dents, faculty and senior citizens and $6 for the general public. They will be available at the Marriott Mar-riott Center Ticket Office on Monday Mon-day beginning at 9 a.m. For telephone reservations, call 378-BYU1 378-BYU1 (1-800-322-BYU1 from outside Utah Valley). Eight candidates to seek three seats on SCERA Board By Clyde E. Weeks Three election contests will comprise the principal business of the annual meeting of Sharon's Cultural Educational Recreational Recreation-al Association (SCERA) to be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1991, at the Orem City Center Multi-purpose Room, according to Norm Nielsen, president. All residents of the community are invited and encouraged to attend this meeting at which the President's annual report and the financial report will be presented. Other business of the meeting will include a review of a petition which has, been submitted by Laureen Jaussi and August Jaus-si, Jaus-si, regarding executive committees commit-tees and information. A copy of that petition can be reviewed at the SCERA office prior to and the night of the annual meeting. Membership in SCERA includes in-cludes residents of the City of Orem, Vineyard, Lakeview and Edgemont. PETITIONS FILED Candidates to serve as members mem-bers of the SCERA Board of Directors reside in Districts 4, 8 and 9, and must have filed peti: tions by Oct. 20, 1991, containing the signatures of not less than 10 qualified residents of their respective districts. Zane Alder (incumbent) and Kay L. Thoreson are the candidates can-didates from District 4 which includes in-cludes the area from the Provo River to the West Union Canal and 1200 South to the Provo River. Robert Gillespie (incumbent), Mark Ungerman and Richard A. Heckmann are the candidates from District 8 which includes the area East of the Provo River to the east limits of Provo City and from 1200 North to Provo Canyon, (area of Edgemont, Pleasant View). - CITY COUNCILTRUSTEE - ; Orem Mayor-elect Stella Welsh, and Orem City Council members-elect Judy Bell and Chris Yandow are the candidates from District 9 which is limited to members of the Orem City Council. Coun-cil. Joyce Johnson is the incumbent incum-bent SCERA Board member. ALPINE TRUSTEE RETIRES In a related development this annual meeting of SCERA will note the retirement of Clifton M. Pyne as a member of the Board of Directors. For many years one of the eleven members of the Board of Directors has been a repre- CLIFTON M. PYNE...retir-ing PYNE...retir-ing SCERA Board Trustee sentative of the Alpine School District. For several terms Mr. Pyne has represented the Alpine School District as a trustee on the SCERA Board. However, this year the Alpine School Board voted to discontinue Alpine's representation on the SCERA Board. Therefore, the size of the SCERA Board is being reduced from 11 to 10 trustees with the retirement of Mr. Pyne. Orem's political furor ends as winners quietly prepare for new year By Jeanne Thayne Political signs have dropped from the landscape like late summer sum-mer blooms. Many will lay dormant, dor-mant, for years or forever, and others will pop up when the political politi-cal field is fertile for a few familiar faces to run again in another two or four "years. But for now the political arena is quiet. Candidates Can-didates ponder what happened and the winners begin preparation prepara-tion to take office in January. APOLOGIES TO BAILEY The tally of votes for write-in candidate George Bailey was inadvertently in-advertently misprinted in last week's Orem-Geneva Times. Bailey received 2,972 votes overall over-all for two-year council, or approximately ap-proximately 26 of the votes. He was a write-in for all open positions, posi-tions, however. In the hurry to complete the run of the newspaper with the election results in the early hours Wednesday morning and to label and prepare the newspaper for mail delivery, the error crept in. In response to several phone calls, Bailey opponent Clyde E. Weeks was not present during the process and was in no way responsible for the error. Publisher Brent Sumner takes full responsibility and apologizes for the error that was printed November 6, 1991. Orem could have saved a bundle on this year's election. A Northridge 6th grade class had the results all sewn up early in the day. Mr. Bandley said his class has unusually good results in predicting political winners based on in -class elections. Welsh won, he said. "Had I known that before I went to the city to wait election results, I would have been a lot more confident," said Welsh. The new mayor said she is busy researching re-searching and preparing for her new role but plans to keep a low Srofile while Interim Mayor Joyce ohnson completes her term. "I don't want to step on any toes," said Welsh. She added that, contrary con-trary to some rumors, she was not in coalition with any of the other candidates. Many were surprised by Johnson's defeat and most citizens felt the election of mayor would have been much closer. Johnson's campaign team was disappointed and said they had worked very hard. Colleen Ferguson, Fer-guson, diligent supporter, was puzzled by the defeat. As for Mayor Johnson, her first defeat in city election does not mean she is giving up politics. "I am not thinking of anything in Orem at present but not ruling out anything either," she said. "I would very much enjoy working in county or state office." She said the recent campaign, however, 'left a bad taste in my mouth." Johnson won in 8 of the city's consolidated districts, while Welsh took 16. The only candidate not to lose his seat in a nearly clean sweep for new faces was councilman Kelvin Clayton. He apparently considers this a validation of his conservative direction and viewpoints. view-points. This was the year for women. Judy Bell, candidate for four year council seat was the leading vote taker with 7,216 votes. She also took the highest number in the primary, an honor earned by Joyce Johnson in recent elections. Bell is a resident of northeast Orem. Others elected to council positions posi-tions include Steven L. Heinz, a resident of southwest Orem. He lost by a narrow margin two years ago for the same position. Heinz dug into hard campaigning relatively rela-tively late, politically speaking, but his bright green and white signs were hard to miss two weeks before election day. W. Chris Yandow, another northeast Orem resident, was elected by a wide margin to complete com-plete the remaining two-year term vacated by Joyce Johnson when she was appointed Mayor. George Bailey was appointed to fill that seat until elections would name a councilman to take over in January. If not the youngest to win such a post, Yandow comes close. At 28, he may find it tough to maintain main-tain his idealistic approach with more seasoned councilmembers. "I don't have a preconceived agenda," agen-da," he said, "but will research and ask the experts. I know a lot of people to provide support." Councilmembers leaving office of-fice are Lucile M. Steele and Norman Nor-man K "Woody" Woodhouse. i |
