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Show INSIDE: residential Smtfh Ballot Orem-Geneva .Jitside Harriott Lio-urnv. ot ut. tiz Sou en iztkta t - Kit Doci ocilt Lake u it, u t 70th yearNumber 9 2000, The Orem-Geneva Times Orem 9s Locally Owned Weekly Newspaper WEDNESDAY, PARCH 3, 2000 538 South State Street, Orem UT 84058 (801)225-1340 A garage fire at 1174 North 1015 West, Orem was reported on Sunday at approximately 1:45 a.m. Investigation of the incident is ongoing. Ball is back in council's court on city-wide lighting The ball is back in the Orem City Council's court on the issue of city-wide lighting, after a detailed February 22 report re-port was lobbed to them from the Orem Street Lighting Committee. The committee had been charged to come up wish recommendations for three different lighting options, a timetable for design, construction, and financ ing of each option; and the fee to be assessed to residents and businesses to pay for edSpyp tion. Six of eight responding neighborhood neigh-borhood areas in Orem, and the majority of the lighting commit tee, which had representatives from most areas, favored an option featuring some decorative elements. Industrial areas west of 1-15 would be lighted with a mongoose-type fixture. The main corridors, including State Street, University Parkway, and por tions of 800 North and Center Street, would have a decorative tear-drop fixture on a crook-type pole. The rest of the city, mainly residential areas, would have a pedestal-type acorn fixture on 14-foot, dark green, fluted poles. The second most popular option was the utilitarian cobra-head lighting, already al-ready seen in lighting districts in the city. Committee member Dean Dickerson praised the style's uniformity, invisibility, versatility, vandalism resistance, and ease of installation and maintenance. The third option recommended was mongoose-type lighting throughout the city. Estimates for yearly costs for each of the lighting scenarios were: $1,066,016 for the acorn lighting, mongoose, and decorative deco-rative pole combination; $1, 172,426 for the cobra-head fixtures; and $983,809 for the mongoose fixtures. Committee member Margaret Black gave a presentation arguing for the decorative deco-rative combination lighting option. She said the lighting would provide a sense of beauty, friendliness, welcome, community and identity to the city. A number of Orem residents stayed at the meeting late into the night to give their views on the issue, which were mainly divided into the "utilitarian' versus ver-sus "decorative camps. Bob Wright said die city does not need decorative, expensive lights, and should promote uniformity throughout the city by using the cobra-head style. Kathleen Peterson said she grew up in Salt Lake City in an area with cobra lights, and has also lived in an area with the acorn lights. She said she favors the more aesthetically pleasing choke, and the difference in cost between "something nice" and "something functional" is not that great. Four funding options were Sated by the committee. V i: 'mm mar A $5.26 per month fee could be assessed as-sessed for each meter connection in the city. A fee based on lineal footage of 100 feet to equal a lighting unit would range from $4.04 per month for a typical single family dwelling, to $54.75 for a "big box-store box-store such as Target, to $7.67 for a smaller retail outlet A fee based on a set charge for each dwelling unit in the city would be $3.70 per month for a single family dwelling, big box store, or smaller retail outlet. A property tax increase to raise money for the lighting would be $2.73 per month per typical $150,000 home, $385.58 per month for a big box store, and $23.83 per month for a smaller retail re-tail outlet Committee members agreed that the city should own the streetlight poles for the best long-term financial return. re-turn. The committee also shared recommendations recommen-dations for a tow and moderate income program pro-gram to assist those who qualify in paying the lighting costs. This could be accomplished accom-plished through utility bill donations, city subsidization through the general fund, or government grants, they said. Councilwoman Judy Bell said CQuncihnembers have made the commitment commit-ment to have the city-wide lighting. Safety, cost, and beauty (in that order) are her most important considerations. She said she was also concerned that the funding source be fair and equitable. The council scheduled a decision on the issue for March 21, which will allow time for members to take a field trip to see the lighting options in place. Announcing a new Rotarian Breakfast Club Utah County Breakfast Rotary Club wishes to invite ah past, present Rotarians to meet with us for make-up meetings and come-back to Rotary. Those Rotarians that have moved to Utah County and find it difficult dif-ficult to meet at the Luncheon Clubs times, will find this a great way to start the day. Our Breakfast Club, is Chartered as a Utah County Club, giving all Rotarians living liv-ing within Utah County the opportunity to jom our club The meeting place wili be Frontier Pies in Provo at 7:00 a.m. every Tuesday morn- em Girl earns Venturing Award (From left): Matt Decker, District Executive and David Wilson, District Chairman, present Heather Wilson with the Venturing Silver Award, while her mother, Charlene and Ron Birrell, Exalted ruler, and Danny Martinez, Past Exalted Ruler, of the Elks Lodge look on. BY PATRICIA KNOELL TIMES REPORTER Last Wednesday night, Heather Wilson received something no other girl in Utah and probably no other girl west of the Mississippi has been given, the Venturing Ventur-ing Silver award. Venturing is a relatively new branch of Scouting designed for youth ages 14-21 who are looking to hone leadership skills in an outdoor- and service-oriented setting. It is co-educational and came into being as the Explorer program became more career and education oriented. "The Venture program and the Explorer program have split," District Executive Matt Decker explained. "The explorer program pro-gram is now more career based. It is part of the Learning for Life program in schools and works hand-in-hand with businesses in the area Venturing is more of the traditional tradi-tional scouting area, high adventure, outdoor out-door skills and leadership." The Venturing program, which has its roots in the east, is in its infancy in the west. Last year, David Ellison, also a member mem-ber of Venturing Crew 1984, sponsored by the Provo Elks Lodge, became the first recipient of the Silver Award in the west. National Player of the Week Arizona State left fielder Mitch Jones, son of Cal and Carol Jones of Orem, was named Collegiate Baseball Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week for his performance last weekend in the Packard Classic Jones hit four home runs in t hree games while batting bat-ting .600 (8-15). Six of his nine hits were for extra bases. For the season, Jones has hit fourteen homers in 19 games and is batting .354. Jones graduated from Mount i an View in 1996 This year, Heather continued the "firsts" for the Crew by becoming the first girl in the area to garner the award. It isn't surprising that Heather earned the Venturing award she come from a background that is rich in the Scouting tradition. Her father, David, is the Venturing Ven-turing District Chairman, her older sister sis-ter AnnaJune went through the Explorer program and another sister, Jenny is in Venturing. "I switched over to the Venturing program pro-gram from Explorers about a-year-and-a-half ago," Heather said. "I've been working on earning the Silver award ever since. The Silver, a close equivalent to the Eagle Scout award in Boy Scouts, is one of to the two highest honors in Venturing. Ventur-ing. The other is the Ranger award for demonstrated proficiency in several outdoor out-door oriented tasks and skills. The Silver award combines the outdoor skills with leadership and community service. "It takes a lot of work to get this award," David Wilson said. "The whole Venturing program is under youth leadership. lead-ership. The adults are just there to supervise." su-pervise." As president of her Venturing Crew (the equivalent of a Scout Troop), Heather had specific leadership training. She earned the respect of her crew as a decision de-cision maker and learned how to talk to adults as an equal. Before completing complet-ing the tasks she chose to earn the Silver Sil-ver award, Heather had to earn two Bronze awards and one Gold award by completing work that demonstrated leadership and outdoor skills. One project Heather completed toward to-ward her Silver award, was taking charge of the Biathlon at the District's recent Winter Games. This was an Olympic style event in which the participants par-ticipants with three cross country skiing ski-ing segments and two target shooting segments. The logistics were enormous, but it went smoothly, thanks in large part to Heather's hard work. In her quest for the Silver award, Heather also worked with Timpanogos High School's PACK program (part of the School Esteem Team) and with Service Ser-vice Through Sports. In addition to her Venturing accomplishments, accom-plishments, Heather has been a 4.0 student stu-dent for six years and ranks first in her high school class of more than 5000. She is also an accomplished runner who captained this year's Timberwolf cross country team and earned Academic All-State All-State honors. This spring, she will again be part of the school 's track team. Through her work with Scouting, she has been able to participate in a BSA long-term wilderness leadership outdoors program called Ray ado It is held at the National BSA Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. Sh currently cur-rently plans on working this summer at Philmont as a "Ranger," guiding and instructing the various scout groups that come there from around the country coun-try each year. Heather was not the only recipient of honors at the Venturing DistrictExplorer DistrictEx-plorer Division Recognition Awards Night last week. The winners in the biathlon were presented with their medals, Terry Gardner (adult) and Sari all Whitehead (youth) were given Explorer Leadership Awards, and David Wilson was given a Venturing Leadership Award. Wilson then gave special recognition to Decker, who has been transferred to another District and gave special thanks and recognition recogni-tion to Ron Birrell, Exalted Ruler, and Danny Maratinez, Past Exalted Euler and Chaplain, of the Provo Elks Lodge for their sponsorship of the Venturing Crew 1984. |
