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Show AN EDITION OF THE 0:" YOURTOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY. MARCH 31. 2005 50 CENTS ISLl SCHOOLS: Timpanogos students re-create The Bio Easy SPORTS: Pikus-Pace sliding headfirst into success TOWN HALL: Mayor, City Council seats open up this year BUSINESS HOME-CARE PATIENTS KNIT HATS FOR ORPHANS I . V - v 1 !- . .'J .o i J LAN DON OLSOK North County Lash Ashmore, of Project Childsafe, explains the type of guns the cable gun locks will work on during an event Friday at Gunnies Sporting Goods in Orem, Gun owners given locks for eld safety Landon Olson NORTH COUNTY STAff AD it took was a simple promise. If gun owners agreed to use the device, they could take home as many of the cable-style gun locks as necessary to secure their firearms as Project Childsafe provided 200 of the locks in Orem Friday. The event at the Gunnies Sporting Sport-ing Goods Store at 396 S. State Street wrapped up a week of Project Childsafe distributing the gun locks throughout Utah County. "This is an education program. The lock is just bait to get them to stop," said Lash Ashmore of Project Child-safe. Child-safe. Ashmore said the program is targeted tar-geted at educating 4- through 12-year-oids and their parents on firearm safety. And while not a lot of children were present at Friday's event, turnout turn-out was high at the Sportsman Expo in Salt Lake City the week before. More than 7,000 locks were given out at the Expo. The firearm locks being distributed are individually keyed and use a braided braid-ed steel cable inside a wrapped steal cable to secure the firearm through the action. The lock wiD work on revolvers, re-volvers, autoloading pistols, See GUN LOCKS, Page 2 h d8iwarfr dm ft mm r-ri 1 ; V; ft v ttiW JEREMY HARMONNorth County Steve Eldredge, of Highland, goes for a walk despite the snow along the Provo River Parkway Trail at Orem's newly renamed Mount Timpanogos Park. Eldredge tries to get out for a walk every day even when the weather tsn t cooperative. Orem's new Mount Timpanogos Park provides a local escape, planners say Erika Nelson NORTH COUNTY STAff Orem city planners want residents to have an escape. Along with planning road improvements to accommodate more cars, a water tank to provide for more people and a sewer system to drain it all away, city planners wanted a place where residents could get away from the urban landscape Orem has become and enjoy the nearby mountains. The newly completed and recently re-cently renamed Mount Timpanogos Park fills those needs, occupying a site just a few minutes up Provo Canyon. "It's just an escape," said Jerry Ortiz, Orem's director of recreation. "It's a mountain environment that's very close to home." The park, which occupies a 44-acre 44-acre strip of land along the Provo River, combines wide sidewalks with paved pathways that lead in and out of the popular Provo River Parkway trail The pavilion-dotted landscape includes neatly edged grassy areas with multiple drinking fountains, bathrooms and tucked away trash cans giving way to wild, untended canyon foliage. "It's more of a passive, scenic park," Ortiz said. "It blends in beautifully beau-tifully with its environment. It provides pro-vides a great escape." Although city planners provided for the mountain park 14 years ago when they put the property into the city plan, plans for the park now include much more than a mere mountain escape. For three days at the end of the summer, the park will be packed with storytellers, schoolchildren and audiences as the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival takes over the park for its annual celebration of storytelling arts. As city planners worked on the plans for the $2.8 million park, they coasidered the Festival's needs, including in-cluding the open space areas See PARK. Page 2 Eleven to compete for Miss Orem scholarship Erika Nelson NORTH COUNTY STAff This Saturday, 1 1 girls wiD show off their talents, evening gowns and their casual wear attempting to win the Miss Orem Scholarship Pageant and an undetermined unde-termined scholarship prize. The pageant will begin at 8 p.m. in the Mountain View High School auditorium, 665 W. Center St., and will last for about two hours, according to the pageant's director, Jennie Sandstrom. Sandstrom chose the theme "Silver Linings" for the pageant, but pageant goers will not find the theme in all aspects of the pageant. "I don't really do theme pageants," Sandstrom said. "Every girl is a little bit different." Sandstrom, who is directing her fifth pageant this year, chose the theme for Gwendolyn Bushman, Miss Orem 2004, Every girl is a little bit different." Jennie Sandstrom See PAGEANT, Page 2 w of em page ant chector American Fork OFFER! NO OJRBS1DE RECYCLING - American Fork will be the fifth city in Utah County to offer curbside recycling. Unlike some other cities that provide the service, recycling will not be mandatory, but it's available onh for those who want to pay. Residents will have to pay $4.50 per month for the every other week pick-up, in addition to the standard $9.75 garbage fee, which will be handled through the city's trash collector, BR. Those who sign up for the service will re-cefve re-cefve a recycling bin, and residents can get rid of various items including plastic bottles, newspapers, aluminum and tin cans, cardboard card-board and office paper. Glass bottles, yard waste and Styrofoam will not be accepted. The program doesn't begin until Jufy, which means residents still have plenty of L .;:.;:..;::;..r..::Tr;;:;- CommunitYBriefing time to sign up. At first BFI was going to require at least 200 people to sign up before the program begins, but the company dropped that from the contract, and city officials agreed to the terms earlier this week at the American Ameri-can Fork City Council meeting. Xehi LOT OWNER: BIGGER IS BETTER Grant Gifford said he wants the best and largest truck lot in the state, but he and Lehi commissioners have disagreed on what "best" is. And while Gifford is seeing green as a benefit to the city in sales tax, municipal planners saw a definite lack of green at the entry way onto Lehi s Main Street "We met with John Bran, a major landscape land-scape in the area, to see what we could SW -m. M I 1, -.' ,,,5 v- t A I v a I J J fain...., ffinl FRANK BOTTNwth County Lehi Truck World owner Grant Gifford sits in front of a Ford F-250 on top of a berm at his truck dealership. do to please the commission and still have it" said Gifford, truck lot owner. "We didn't find out until after the meeting that they were unhappy, and so we didn't know what plan we were implementing. We've gotten the city planning commission angry with us . We're not trying to steam roll the city, we weren't trying to cut any corners." He opened his business east of the Interstate on Lehi's Main Street in June 2004. The new lot holds 110 trucks and has a two-story brick, rock and stucco office building. The custom tile, woodwork and 2-pane reflective glass add to the richness of the structure. Gifford had a goal of having 300 trucks on his lot and so purchased 1.67 acres behind Truck World to build an additional lot He returned to the city's planning commission com-mission March 24 to request approval for phase two of his truck sales business. The commissioners tabled the request until April 14. They wanted time to have staff look at his modified plans. WWW.HAPXTHEHMU.COM CALL 37V51C3 TO SUBSCRIBE Cedar Hills KOHLERS A NO-GO - What some residents resi-dents want for Cedar Hills is apparently not what they are going to get. A group calling themselves the Coalition to Preserve Cedar Hills has been avidly pursuing grocers other than Smith's Food and Drug Centers, Inc. for the commercial sector. The group has stirred up interest from Associated As-sociated Foods, Inc., but Smrth's is already signed on and ready to move forward. "There is nothing the city or anyone can do. I have a contract with the Smart family fam-ily for the land, and Smith's has a contract with me," Mark Hampton of Ftimrock Construction Con-struction LLC, the main developers of the commercial district, said March 25. "Smith's isn't walking away," Hampton said. From staff reports MRL mm. m ...... . 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