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Show 1 UTAH COUNTY FAIR TABLOID PULL OUT BYU Coach speaks id Orem Kiwanis See page 2 High School Boys' State See page 10 it rr 500 Per Issue Orem fs Locally Owned Weekly Newspaper WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2000 70th yearNumber 31 2000, The Orem-Geneva Times 538 South State Street, Orem, UT 84058 (801) 225-1340 1 1 1 ALU Jail l e ' . I , Trim yffn?'(p Li Canyon Park design amended The Orem City Council decided August 1 that it liked a revised design plan for Canyon Park, with one addition: a pavilion to accommodate 60-70 people. Recreation Director Jerry Ortiz told the council that the original concept plan, approved in 1S94, had to be revised when construction cost estimates were being prepared and it was discovered that some of the topographical features did not fit because be-cause of grade problems. In completing the revision, the Recreation Department De-partment and the landscape architectural design firm Allred Soffe Wilkinson & Nichols, Inc., received input from parks personnel and from those associ-Continued associ-Continued on page 2 Council okays property sale, easement vacation In two separate agenda items covered in its August Au-gust 1 meeting, the Orem City Council approved the sale of some surplus property and gave its okay to the vacation of a utility easement The .76 acre of hillside land declared as surplus and authorized for sale to Harold and Valerie Connell is adjacent to the Connells' property at 865 East Cascade Drive. The city decided to make the sale conditional in that the land can never be subdivided sub-divided from the Connell property and no perma- Continued on page 2 Orem's law changed to better accommodate porches COULD IT MEAN MORE PORCHES IN OREM'S HOUSING FUTURE? MAYBE. The Orem City Council voted unanimously August Au-gust 1 to approve changes to the zone development standards, allowing roof overhangs, bay windows, box windows, chimneys, covered stairwells, and stairs to encroach no more than two feet into the required setback. Porches and roofs over them may extend up to five feet into a required front or rear yard setback. Bill Fairbanks of Carter construction, who proposed pro-posed the changes, said the issue had been one Tes-tering" Tes-tering" in him ever since the city changed its setback set-back requirements. Although he supported the setback set-back changes, as a builder, "some things were lost," he explained. The proposed changes to the city code allow homebuilders'a little more flexibility" to add a bay window, or a view, Fairbanks said. No one's property prop-erty values are negatively affected, and some may even be enhanced. Porches, in particular, give a sense of community to a neighborhood. Councilman Bill Peperone said that adding the touches Fairbanks mentioned is "one of the best things to do to a plain house" adding relief for aesthetic purposes. This is an innocuous thing to ask for," he stated. Councilwoman Judy Bell said that as one who wanted the maximum amount of house built on a minimum amount of lot, she enjoys the porch on her home and doesn't believe it has devalued the neighborhood. Councilman Mike Thompson said the proposal increases the rights of property owners, and gives them more flexibility. Councilman Stephen Sandstrom agreed that if anything, the changes could increase property values an aesthetics. Council vote was unanimously in favor of a motion mo-tion to approve the code changes. ! Canyon View registration information New students to Canyon View will need to show proof of their immunization records. Students who are new to the country, or who have been out of th country for six months must show proof of a recent TB (Tuberculosis) test. New students will raster on Tuesday, Aug. 15 and pay their fees on Au2. 17 and 18 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. i hursdav Aug. 17 and Friday Aue. 18 from 8 a m to 2 p.m. will be fee payment-registration days for all students. A school open house for all students and narmts guardians will be held on Thursday, Aug. 24 from 6 to 8 p.m. This will give students and parents an opportunity to meet teachers and Hsit the school. Friday, Aug. 25, 2000. Canyon View Junior Hich will host Seventh Grade Day (only seventh grade students may attend on this day). This is a mandatory manda-tory attendance day for ail seventh erade students Buses will arrive at bus stops at their normally scheduled times. We are looking forward to meeting meet-ing the new seventh srrade class. Activities for thie day include taking a tour of the building, meeting the faculty and staff, receiving orientation fmm teachers and making new friends through partici pation in smaii group activities. Eighth and ninth grade students onlv wil? Kv. school on Monday, Aug. 23. The first bell will rin? at 7;40 a.m. an class will begin at 7:45 ..m.Th shrvJ day will end at 2:15 p.m. All students will attend school on Aug. 29 at 7:45 a.m. Please call 227-fi7ifl if you have any questions. BY PATRICIA KNOELL Times Reporter Things are happening at Cascade Golf Course. Fun things, exciting things, things that will make that area of northeast Orem one of the premier golf and family fun destinations in the county. Two miniature golf putting courses, a full 18-hole natural natu-ral grass putting course, nine more holes added to the nine already in place for the regular regu-lar golf course, new clubhouse facilities and much more are part of the Cascade expansion. expan-sion. Not content to just replace the driving range and holes lost when the City of Orem and the Alpine School District put in a road leading to the new Foothill Elementary School, Cascade owner Keven Stratton is in the process of a major expansion project at the 800 North facility. "Actually it has been in our master plan to expand to 18 holes and add these putting courses since about 1995 or 1996." Stratton said. "But we had to adjust those plans when they needed the road to get to the school." Stratton began negotiating to buy 60.13 acres of land north of the existing golf course in the spring of 1994 and the purchase was finalized final-ized in October of 1995. Plans for the expansion were going forward, a designer (Neff Alliance Al-liance Golf, Inc.) had been hired and grass fro sod had been planted when Orem City decided it needed a road through what was currently the golf course to connect 800 North with the new Foothill Elementary School and the new housing that was being built to the north. Stratton begin meeting with the Alpine School District Dis-trict and Orem City in the fall of 1998 and many discussions later, a design was drawn up that made it possible to make Stratton's dream for Cascade become a reality. While the project is not yet complete, enough has been LJ ,,.,.1 Li! Cilw. . . Photo by Pat Knoell, Orem-Geneva Times. The Daily Herald't Scott Bell, Cascade owner, Keven Stratton, KSL Radio's Greg Wrubel, and Cascade golf pro Randy Anderson prepare to take on the new Falls putting put-ting course at Cascade Golf Course on 800 North in Orem. finished that the vision of the facility is clear. At grand opening ceremo- Vineyard heritage hook will ust 1 9th he available Aug BY PATRICIA KNOELL Times Reporter The wait is over for citizens of the Town of Vineyard. The book, Our Vineyard Heritage:A Wellspring of Tradition Tra-dition and Change, 1S99-1999 1S99-1999 will be available for pur chase at the Vineyard Town Annual Summer Celebration on Saturday, Aug. 19. A labor of love for the Vine yard Historical Committee, Barbara T. Davies, Rex B. Blake, Norman and Connie Holdaway, Nadine Allen Gillman, Grant Holdaway and Ray and Sylvia Holdaway, the book has been in the works for more than two years. In its 450 pages, there are more than 1200 photos, personal family histories, histo-ries, chapters on the setting, the role of religion in the community, com-munity, business and industry, indus-try, Geneva Steel and incorporation incor-poration among others. Professor Don Norton, a member of the English department de-partment at BYU, wrote the history with the help of student stu-dent writers, Alysa Phillips, Anna English, Elizabeth Celaya, Sarah Jean Carter, Rebecca Sederberg, Aimee Hill and Liza Lorimer. Layout was handled by Karl F. Batdorff, with Alisa Baxter, David Allred, Amber Fawson, Scott Cameron and Karen Esplin assisting with proofing proof-ing and formatting. A big part of the history of . this small town (population approximately 155) is the coming of Geneva Steel to the area. More than 40 families lost land for the war effort when Geneva came in," Davies, Vineyard town clerk and chairman of the historical committee, said. "Many people don't realize that Geneva is actually a part of Vineyard, they think it's in Orem or Lindon." The 10-page chapter on Geneva Steel begins with a history of how this major industry in-dustry became part of a pas toral farming community. The book states, "In November No-vember of 1941, the Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance Corporation Corpora-tion announced plans to invite Columbia Steel Company, as an agent for the Defense Plant Corporation, to build the plant in the carefully selected se-lected site of the community of Vineyard, Utah." Government agents gave five reasons, land area, transportation trans-portation facilities, water supply, sup-ply, drainage and housing as the reasons for selecting the Vineyard site. The book talks about the impact, positive and negative, that the huge plant has had on the area. There is even an excerpt taken from The Voice of Sharon, forerunner to The Orem-Geneva Times, entitles "A Vineyard Cow Speaks with a "Cow's Eye view" of the effect ef-fect the move had on bovines when the plant came in. The plant has b en a focal point in the commi nity ever since with financial and environmental en-vironmental problems threatening threat-ening to shut down the plant on several different occasions. Geneva and its related businesses provide most of the tax base for the community, commu-nity, although there are several sev-eral home businesses cropping crop-ping up as weli, but citizens and leaders are confident of the town's ability to survive were Geneva to leave the area. "If Geneva shut down, the land would be used for other industries or for farm land and we'd go on," Davies said. Along with the coming of Geneva, the biggest moment in the history of Vineyard was its incorporation as a town in 1989. "It (incorporation) was a joint effort by the farmers and Geneva Steel to stop encroachment en-croachment by surrounding cities," Davies said, "the farmers farm-ers realized that all the land nearby was being taken for other uses and they wanted to keep their lifestyles. "When new housing devel opments come into an area:, the new residents often want to change the things that are already al-ready there. Farms are the main thing in Vineyard and they're 24-hour-a-day things. There are loud noises at night and smells that others might not appreciate. "People whose families have lived here for generations stay because it's what they want and people coine here because nies in early August, the new Cascade boasted one 18-hole miniature golf putting course, one 18-hole natural grass putting put-ting course, a driving range and a nine-hole golf course. By the first of September of this year, there will be a second miniature golf putting course and the final phase the nine-hole mountain course is due to be finished in the fall of 200 1 or the spring of 2002. "Our intent is to create a nice facility and center for families to enjoy," Stratton said."WeH also continue to do what we always have provide pro-vide golfers with a good place to practice and a place to enjoy en-joy themselves with a nice round of golf. Once you st art playing, golf is a lifetime opportunity" op-portunity" The ability to practice and improve a game has been enhanced en-hanced with the opening of the natural grass putting course, the only one of its kind between North Salt Lake and Las Vegas. "The first putting green like this was actually put in at St. Andrew's in Scotland," Stratton explained. "So the idea has been around for more than 100 years, but it's not familiar fa-miliar to this area." The putting green is a concept con-cept that is rapidly becoming known and appreciated in the area. The green, an approximately ap-proximately 35,000 square foot surface (one of the largest larg-est continuous surfaces in the state), consists of 18 holes set in difficult lies with that allow players to hone that all important impor-tant part of their game. It is already getting plenty of traffic traf-fic and will get still more once the news spreads about this Continued on page 2 . . - - X i i . t ' - . - . r . , t Prior to 1941, cows dotted the pastoral area that now houses Geneva Steel. The history his-tory of the plant is part of the book, Our Vineyard Heritage: A Wellspring of Tradition and Change that will be available on Aug. 19. it's a nice little retreat so close to the business of Orem and Provo, but such a different lifestyle." Recollections of the town included in-cluded in the book range from, the role of the Relief Society, to Scouting, to the military, to agriculture, ag-riculture, to recreation and even some of the tragedies that have happened in the town. There are fond memories of the Old Geneva Resort (located where the Lindon Boat Harbor now stands), and recollection of religious and education histories histo-ries from Blake, Helen Bunnell Weeks and Blanche Miner among others. "Our hope for the book is to help people realize how had people worked to make this community what it is," Davies said. "The settlers here were real pioneers. They reclaimed this land from Utah Lake and made it into the rich farm land it is today. " This quote, from Vineyard Mayor J. Rulon Gammon, sums up the book and the community it describes. "Vineyard Town has a wonderful won-derful heritage, and as we continue con-tinue to enjoy the comforts of life in this quiet community, the age-old thought comes to mind that, 'We all drink from wells that we did not drill, and we all cross bridges we did not build. May we cherish the sacrifices; sac-rifices; the hard work; and the blood, sweat and teas of those hard-working families that have helped to provide what we have here today." 1 t 1 0 ' .Ai . - ; : lit1 .4 . ,.f4 t - , -HI'' v, . - i , a r .; " v 4. ( ; ;5 . . The agricultural heritage of Vineyard is evident in this photo of the sugar beet harvest. |
