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Show Times Newspaper Thursday, July 24, 2003 Page A7 BICENTENNIAL STEEL PAVING STATE STREET Continued from front page Riggs to construct a Bicentennial Sculpture, after Max D. Weaver, chairman of the Orem City Art Board and of the Council of the Arts, explained that the prototype pro-totype of the Bicentennial Sculpture exhibited exhib-ited to the Council, had been approved by the Art Board. According to Max Weaver, a grant of $4,000 needed for the sculpture came from the National Endowment for the Arts, through the State of Utah's Division of Fine Arts. Orem City took the responsibility for making the necessary excavation and placing plac-ing the work in location, acquiring the steel and providing the artist with working areas and various other types of support, including includ-ing the foundation to the piece. Steel for the structure came from U.S. Steel Geneva Works, as a donation. The abstract work was constructed at the Orem City Public Works shop complex, where the public could observe the process of its creation. In explaining his work, Frank P. Riggs said, "The glass represents the power and the purity of God, and the structure represents repre-sents the original document of the Founding Fathers." The plan was, for the Corten architectural architectur-al and structural steel used in the work to be left unpainted, and be permitted to age, naturally. The natural patina caused by ';he elements would serve to enhance the appearance of the work, as time elapsed. Orem City's Art Advisory Board scheduled sched-uled the official dedicatory services for then community's Bicentennial sculpture piece for Monday, July 12, 1976, at 10 a.m. at the base of the sculpture, which was located directly northwest of the Orem City Library on the City Center grounds at 56 North State Street. Attending the services were the Orem Mayor, members of the City Council, Community Art Board and the State's Division of Fine Arts, and a large number of Orem citizens. This abstract 20-foot high glass and steel sculpture, titled "1776-1976," became an intrinsic part of Orem City's Bicentennial commemoration. Time passed. Many people inspected the Bicentennial steel pylon. Some of them said they had a hard time equating this abstract work of art with America's Bicentennial. Others just could not understand under-stand it at all. Some people even called it "UGLY!" As more time passed, more people expressed their feelings that the "1776-1976" "1776-1976" sculpture seemed out of place, located locat-ed near the beautiful Orem City Center. Some people even said it should be scrapped! At length, when enough people had registered reg-istered their objections to the steel sculpture, sculp-ture, city officials agreed to remove it from its designated location. Ignominiously, it seemed that Orem's "1776-1976" Bicentennial sculpture may be heading for the scrap heap. Fortuitously, fate stepped in, in the person per-son of Norm Nielson, president of SCERA, who offered an alternate location for the sculpture in the SCERA Park, next to the SCERA Shell. "SCERA would be glad to provide a home for this stalwart patriotic art piece," he said. With little delay, and no fanfare, "1776-1976" "1776-1976" was quietly re-located in the SCERA Park, where it's Corten steel continues to age, and the natural patina, caused by the elements, continues to enhance the appearance appear-ance of the work, as time goes by. A careful inspection of the sculpture reveals that the panel of glass, representing the power and purity of God, no longer remains as part of the original work of art. No identification on or near the sculpture sculp-ture gives a clue as to its name, or its once-auspicious once-auspicious history, as a significant element of the City of Orem's Bicentennial Celebration in 1976. OREM WATER SUPPLY Continued from front page Orem warehouse. After dousing the blaze, Orem fire officials found that David Ioana Kali, owner of Aseptic Services Inc., was dumping hazardous medical med-ical waste into a drainage system, corroding the concrete con-crete in the subsurface conduit. con-duit. The waste, comprising three times the allowed limit of lead and high levels of zinc, was dumped into the sewer drain for nearly a year, after Kali was warned that such discharge was in violation of state laws, according to court documents. docu-ments. Last week, the Utah Attorney General's Office charged 64-year-old David Kali with five felonies for allegedly dumping highly acidic chemicals into Orem's sewer system. "The charges allege that Kali violated permits and pretreatment standards from March 11, 1999, through Feb. 7, 2000," according to Lori Hansen of the Environmental Protection Agency's Criminal Investigation Division, which is heading up the prosecution in the case. David Kali did not appear in the 4th District Court in Provo, but was represented rep-resented by his Salt Lake City attorney, John Walsh, who gave the judge a letter from a doctor, claiming that Kali was living in Hawaii, and could not travel by air, due to his poor health. Attorney General spokesman Paul Murphy stated, "We are interested in bringing this case to trial," and the judge set Sept. 3 for the next court date, and instructed John Walsh to produce further evidence on the condition of his client's health. In the probable cause statement, which was filed with the court, Orem Public Works employees were said to have conducted a number num-ber of tests in the sewer channel near Aseptic's warehouse, at 1092 N. Industrial Drive in Orem. The tests found "quenching fluid," a liquid used in Aseptic's incineration process. "On the pH scale a measurement of the acidity or alkalinity of a substancethe sub-stancethe samples showed a level of 0.94, while a normal range is between 6 and 9," the statement state-ment says. Each pH point below the neutral of 7 is 10 times more acidic than the next higher value, meaning the samples were almost pure acid. Also, according to the statement, Aseptic Services, Inc. received medical med-ical waste through contracts con-tracts with various federal medical agencies, including the Veterans Administration facilities in Utah and Idaho, and the Indian Health Service system sys-tem in Arizona. The company collected up to 300 boxes of medical waste per month and had 750 boxes stored in a building build-ing and in an adjacent trailer trail-er in March 2001. It was not known, just when Aseptic went out of business. busi-ness. Bruce Chesnut, Orem Water System Manager at the time, and current Orem Public Works Director, said Thursday, "It's one of those things you wish had never happened, but we were able to find it before major damage dam-age occurred." "No chemicals reached Orem's drinking water or Utah Lake, where the city's water goes after being treated," Chesnut stated. "There is no problem, whatsoever, with Orem's drinking water," Chesnut said. " We handled it and we contained it." Some local observers, however, have expressed concerns, that it has taken the Environmental Protection Agency over four years to prosecute this case. The current occupant of the building at 1092 North Industrial Drive reported on July 4, that Aseptic Services Inc. must have moved out over one and one-half years ago, since he moved into the building at that time. Continued from front page widen State Street and turn it into a massive concrete thoroughfare. The construction construc-tion work took many months to build new sidewalks and pavement from 20th South to 100 North. Most Orem residents were quite surprised, when the massive concrete road project terminated terminat-ed at 100 North, and when they were told that the funding for the balance of the road project had been assigned to other road projects. proj-ects. Since that time, needed road repairs have been made to State Street, from 100 North to 2000 North on the existing asphalt road. However, two years ago, new asphalt paving was laid down on State Street, from 100 North to 800 North, and plans were made to complete the project in 2003. In February of this year the Utah Department of Transportation announced plans to pull up and repave the asphalt of more than 12 miles of State Street this summer from 800 North in Orem to 1100 West in Lehi. Construction on the project proj-ect began at the end of June, and is expected to be completed complet-ed by Labor Day. In order to minimize the impact on business busi-ness and motorists using the road, no road construction work is being done during daylight hours, according to Geoffrey P. Dupaix, Region Three Public Involvement Coordinator. Region Three Headquarters of the State of Utah Department of II TDOl V Located at 658 North 1500 West In Orem is the Region Three Headquarters of the State of Utah Department of Transportation, from which Director Tracy Contl supervises over 200 employees In five counties. Transportation is located at 658 North 1500 West in Orem, and is supervised by Tracy Conti, Region Three Director. With construction crews operating from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. the existing surface of the asphalt road bed is being ground down and scraped off, to be replaced by a heavy layer of hot asphalt, which is then rolled smooth by giant rollers. Driving lanes through construction con-struction areas have minimal restrictions during the daytime, day-time, mainly from utility work. Work on the project was commenced at the Lehi end, in order not to conflict with the American Fork and Pleasant Grove city celebrations, celebra-tions, Geoff Dupaix explained. The last time UDOT repaved the Orem through Lehi section sec-tion of State Street was in 1994. Dupaix also announced that construction work also started on Monday of this week on the reconstruction recon-struction of the rough concrete road from Lehi north to the Utah County line. That existing concrete road will be mechanically crumbled in place, and then be covered cov-ered with a smooth asphalt surface. Geoff Dupaix said that these, and other projects, are being accomplished by UDOT's Region Three, which includes Juab, Utah, Wasatch, Duchesne, and Uintah Counties, and has over 200 employees. Utah and four other states are piloting a unique transportation transporta-tion program, called Context Sensitive Solutions. He said, "CSS uses public input and early involvement of key stakeholders, to ensure that transportation projects connect community values, are safe and efficient, and are in harmony with natural, social and economic environments." GOLF Continued from front page nine of the holes will be seeded. seed-ed. Opening for the 18-hole course is anticipated for either next summer, or September of 2004. "It looks like you're going to have a fabulous golf course for the city," Dye said. "I think you'll be happy with the finished fin-ished product." In other action, the council voted 5-1 to approve a zoning ordinance amendment that will allow conditional professional profes-sional office uses in certain historic homes in the city. Councilmember Shiree Thurston voted against approving the change. Councilman Dean Dickerson, participating in that portion of the meeting by telephone, voted with the majority to approve. Technical difficulties precluded the participation by telephone of Councilmember Karen McCandless, who, like Dickerson, was out of town. Jason Bench, a planner with the city's Development Services, reported on the Hillcrest and Scera Park neighborhood meeting held at the council's direction. Roughly 35 people 'attended the meeting on July 15 in the City Council Chambers of the City Center. Consensus of those present favored enacting enact-ing the proposed ordinance in order to facilitate the preservation preser-vation of a historic home at 815 East 800 South. Most residents res-idents want to see the home restored and used as a small office rather than continuing as a run-down residential rental property. The ordinance was written restrictively enough that only two homes in Orem would qualify under the law's requirements the property on 800 South and a home located at 206 West 1600 North. Requirements include that a home must be on both the city and the National Historic Register and must be located along a minor arterial or principal collector street. In approving the ordinance, the council also added the requirement that under the family and behavioral counseling coun-seling office use, not more than one family at a time be present for drug or alcohol counseling. Other approved office uses include legal services; serv-ices; engineering and architectural; archi-tectural; educational and scientific sci-entific research; accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping; urban planning; genealogical; and interior design. In another agenda item, two agreements were unanimously unani-mously approved by the council coun-cil for the purchase and sale of 1.05 acres of land at 300 West University Parkway. The City of Orem will buy the land from the Central Utah Project (CUP), a governmental governmen-tal entity, at appraised market mar-ket value, and will then resell the property at the same price to Ken Garff Nissan. The car dealership is purchasing adjoining property at 300 West, and needs the CUP parcel par-cel for commercial development. develop-ment. In presenting the item to the council, City Manager Jim Reams said part of the purpose pur-pose of the purchase and resale is simplification of the process by having one governmental govern-mental entity sell property to another, but secondly, the CUP land is "very difficult, if not impossible" to develop as it is, because it has "great frontage, but no depth". Reams noted that "it makes sense" to combine the two properties so they can develop "in a more beneficial manner." Mayor Jerry Washburn said that the city wants to hold on to the valuable businesses busi-nesses it has, without giving "gifts or favors" to any. 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