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Show Page 2 OREM GENEVA TIMES Thursday. July (4, 2005 j TOW, 9 v'Jifthe HEWS AND NOTtS 10 KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED CITY COUNCIL NOTES Development commission gives report Reva Bowen The lop ( oik ems lor the Commission lor l.conomif Development in Orem (C.T.lX)j are filling up empty "big Ixtx" stores. encouraging businesses Ihiii ;kII to the community and thinking ahead in planning, said John Aldnt h. chairman of the T.I X) Hoard. Aldnth and (FIX) director Brad Whittaker gave a rerxirt on the commission's activities to the Orein ( ily Council on I uesday Aldn li said ( T.I X) was loimcd in the l'lHiis to facilitate business growth and tetention m the city. Ovei the years, the organization has used $! million mil-lion in Revolving Loan funds If) assist husinesses in starting up, result inn in the reation of 2fi)) 1'ihs. (Tlx) has a tc hnology ' enter "incubator program" thai has volunteer business professionals meet with representatives repre-sentatives of startup ( ompanies to give advice and formulate pi. ins Ixal success stories include businesses like Wolf l.lectronix, I'owerquest Corixi-latum. Corixi-latum. Squires Turlxi Systems, and Moxtek. Aldrif h rnenlioned ( T.IX) s role in helping to fill the city's business parks, such as the Wonll'eiled c ampus, and Can-yon Can-yon Park, which is reportedly C percent leased "We're very grateful for the role we've lx-en able to play 'here,'' Aldrich said. ; Whittaker has Ix-en working with State Street businesses on ingress and egress issues during dur-ing road work I diking back to the era that gave rise to (Tlx ). Mayor .Jerry .Jer-ry Washburn said it was a time when there was a concern that Ifxal youth were fx-ing educated educat-ed here, then "exjtorted." l ast forwarding 20 vears. (T.DO has had a major role" in creating needed lobs. 104 and counting... nZmaulhw T Pe"Pk' rg''r'"ti T my Ue'" said Dr Russe" Cl(Jrk' m wh ''"ves at The Seville Retirement Residence Or, m. Uurk worked as a general surgeon for years in Illinois and California before movine to Utah m mkY Residence CITY NOTES ' Local centenarian I n. Russell H ( lark turns 10.r years old in N'ovemlx-r. bul he insists he is still learning He was horn the same year that the lust affordable portable por-table camera was made, a month after Sigmund I reud published "The Interpretation of Dreams." Clark who lives in Orem at the Seville Retirement Residence Resi-dence is Utah's oldest known male resident. He recently Uxik part in the l!th Annual Centenarians Cente-narians Day Party, hosted by (iov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. and f irst Didy Mary Kaye Huntsman. Hunts-man. Also in attendance were alxmt :jl) other Utah centenarians, centenar-ians, including 107-year-old Rowena Harlow Doxev, of Tay-lorsville. Tay-lorsville. I'earl Ham. the state's oldest known woman at 10!), wasn't able to be there. I T-Mobile tower After an extended discussion, T-Mobile received a conditional use permit per-mit from the (i-em Qty Council I uesday for an HS-foot cellular communications monopole at MHWest KM) South, on the west side of ()rem Elementary School. The 8.r)-fx)t tower is a compromise com-promise between T-Mobile officials, who requested a 100-foot pole, and neighbors in the Orem Elementary area, who favored a 60-foot pole. It was noted by City Attorney Paul Johnson during discussion that the city cannot restrict cellular phone towers up to 75 feet in height. For that height or under, the companies do not have to come to the city for approval. ap-proval. The City Council was concerned con-cerned with approving a tower tall enough to make the co-location co-location of three companies' services possible, in order to reduce the proliferation of poles in the city. Other requirements for the pole are that the antennas be flush-mounted, as opposed to extended as arms, and that it be painted "battleship gray." Unique Eagle project Jason Barthel is focusing on bats for his Eagle project. Barthel, a Springwater Park resident, will be a sophomore at Mountain View High School this fall. He participated in the personal per-sonal appearances segment of the Orem City Council meeting Tuesday to explain his project, which will involve building three to five bat houses to be located on the city's golf course near Utah Lake. The thousand or so bats that will come naturally to the houses should have a significant effect in reducing the area's mosquito problem, Barthel believes. City Manager Jim Reams put Barthel in contact with Public Works Director Bruce Chesnut for assistance in coordinating the project with the golf course operators. "Thank you very much," Mayor Jerry Washburn told Barthel after his presentation. "It sounds like a really exciting project." Syd Riggs honored An all-star cast performed on the Eccles Stage at Sundance in Provo Canyon on Sunday honoring hon-oring the life of Sydney Ann Samuelson Riggs, who died June 18. Riggs was the inspiration behind hundreds of musicals and plays in Utah Valley and at Orem High School and her death left family, friends and students reeling. NorthCounty NIWSPAPERS ' A course by any other name... '3 v- f (A Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 716 5274 Kirk Parkinson 5f b.fhr.v.,!iUr.-M!J-.tM r,r,M: Marc Haddock r.i, yui fji.nth County I ditor "it nil' ' i4heraldf-.tr,) r oro Cathy Allred lg 7u !ei .Wfw.W f-1 Cirovfi 'allr'--1at,f;r,jli.?,trd '.urn DAILY IICSALD FDBLIgniMO CO. Barbara Christiansen American f cri Alpine. Ced-jr Hills U,hri',ti,tri',eriWhprdl jo.tm corn Landon Olson 225 13:0 Orem. Vineyard lolvjriWheral'Je.tra con, Beky Beaton 756 7609 Sports !;beaton3 herald tra com Lane Dubois 756 7669 Advertising A( ount tecu!e MUjoisftberdl Jetra corn 7069 Jennpftp rcnlin 7t c ice n -jjfiii 1 .jij Office Mdnaqer John Taylor 755 7669 Ci.iphic Designer Landon Olson 344 2558 DesignerCopy I ditor Mark LaRocco 344 2570 DesignerCopy t. ditoi Leah L. Culler 344 266 1 DesignerCopy Edit": Kent Davis 766 669 Ptioto Technician NEWSSTAND PRICE: $0.50 SUBSCRIPTION RATE 1 year (in Utah County) - $36 40 Sunday. Thursday and huhday deliveries w...ch includes the week of Easter plus Memorial. Independence Pioneer Labor, I hanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Dayl. 1 year (outside Utah County) - $45 40 1 year (in Utah County - Thuaday only) - $36 40 "J 411 711 '' !- : r t i.. .,.., ''WVll,.,.! ,,,,, ri City Golf Course is in search , of a new name. As I understand it, Shadow R idge is t he f ront -runner right now, although the golf course committee is still kxking for other possibilities. Apparently it is no longer attractive for a golf course to have the word "city" in the name. It must conjure up visions of a subsiandard course in the mind of golfers who now have many other choices when it comes to deciding where to play. To anybody familiar with thp hMr, of the area. Tri City ought to conjure up something much more fantastic. After all, the course is a joint venture by three cities that have had a hard time agreeing on anything over the years American 1-ork, Lehi and Pleasant Grove. Not that there is a lot of animosity between the cities friendly rivalry probably describes the relationship" better. But 'Ml years ago, when this golf course was being developed, the towas had a lot less in common than they do now. How they ever overcame their differences enough to combine resources re-sources and build thus beautiful 8-hole golf course has always been a source of amazement. In my mind, Tri City is a pretty extraordinary ex-traordinary concept, and a noble name.' n you ix)K around, however, you start to see some pretty exotic names in golf courses now. (Jrem is about to open its new c ourse, named Sleepy Ridge for the area where it is built near Utah Like and just south of Vineyard And Cedar Hills kept the word "city" out of its courses name, preferring the name Cedar Hills ( )!! Club. 7 he "Club" part conjures up something oiher than a municipal course, although it hasn't saved the new course from its share of controversy contro-versy lately. My favorite is Talon's Cove, the golf course in Saratfga Springs. That's a pretty cool name. Oilier nice goll course names include HoWJe Creek and Spanish Oaks. I think Dyson's Gladstan course is named after a couple named Gladys and Stanley, but the name is evcxaiive of the game's Scottish tradition. Ntx as goixJ as St. Andrews, but we are in Utah, and Payson has the county 's preeminent pre-eminent bagpipe band, so it's gfxxj enough. Tlie fad that none of these golf courses, except " 1 """wun-K, was around when I n Cilv Ui'ji Ktiik ,.M,........I . , ... J Considering that the number of people teeing up is down across the nation, while the number of tees is up, maybe a name change is in order Shadow Ridge is OK. The course has a lot of mature trees which provide plentiful shade and the name evokes that. But is there a chance the course will be confused with Orem's new Sleepy Ridge course. But 1 prefer Temple View or maybe Temple Vue, for those who like unconventional spellings After all, the dominating landmark off the first tee is the spire of the Mt. Timpanogos Temple i ismg aoove tnose glorious trees. If you want a tee shot that will land safely on the first fairway, aim toward Angel Moroni and you can't go wrong. If that's too religioas, or sounds too much like a real estate development, develop-ment, how about American Golf Club. After all, the course is in the largest city in the USA with "American" in its name, and by leaving out the "Fork," the name embraces Lehi and Pleasant vjiwvc m wcu, hoi 10 mention tne rest lUlofn erf the country, mm U As a former piayeri i have a few Haddnrk other names t0 describe the course, but iuuuuuiv they aren., fit for a famiy newspaper so I won't report them here. I just hope THE EDITOR'S !,he commjttee can find a name that will COLUMN bm& more golfers back to American Fork for their cussing. The last time I played golf, it went sorneining wte tnis. After a mediocre round, John and I had arrived at the final hole a long par 5. I hit a spectacular drive. OK, it was my second drive. The first one drifted left into the river. My "second" shot was with a 1 iron. This is a tough iron, and I hit it almost perfectly, landing just off to the right of the green. I was excited I carefully lined up my chip shot, swung at it with what I estimated would be the right force and launched the ball over the green and into the rough on the other side. Then I did it again, and again, and yet again Always overshooting the green. Finally I approached my ball carefully aimed towarcl the driving range and hit it as hard as I could. Then I picked up my golf bag, drove my son home and gave him my clubs. When I take the game up again, however I d be happy to tee up at Tri City Golf Course any r ; BRIAN WAGNERNorlh CounW ! Derailment Continued from Page 1 luxury of being able to call on Salt Lake's H AZM AT team if needed. Unless multiple spills at different locations occurred all at once, the team would likely be able to deal with it, Rieske said. Fortunately the situation was not anywhere near as bad as it could have been, Fdwards said. "There are a lot of things that go down the tracks," he said. "Had something some-thing nasty ruptured it would have been a big deal." Hazardous materials, particularly par-ticularly vapors, are difficult to contain, he said. There is potential for injuries to those already at the scene as well as among those who innocently wander into the area. And in addition to cleaning up spilled waste, residents downwind from the wreck would also need to be evacuated. But as it happened, the two tankers that contained nitrous ni-trous oxide were far enough down the line that they were unaffected by the derailment. The northbound train jack-knifed jack-knifed and derailed near Geneva Road and 400 South on July 6 when the train's brakes locked in an emergency emer-gency response to a failed air hose. The emergency braking brak-ing caused the train's cars to ram into one another, overturning over-turning two cars and knocking knock-ing a total of four cars and an engine off the track. The wreck, which occurred oc-curred on an isolated stretch of track, resulted in a minor brush fire when sparks from the wreck ignited diesel fuel that had leaked from a fuel line, but the problem was quickly resolved. Though the track needed repair and the wreck stalled traffic for 90 minutes, overall the derailment caused little damage. The overturned rail cars contained only wallboard. "These things just don't happen very often," Edwards said, "we don't get a lot of train derailments. It has historically been a pretty reliable reli-able transportation method." Mazda Continued from Page 1 the issue of an undeveloped pad on the west. Sainsbury saic. tne site plan will be reconfigured re-configured when the pad is ready for development. Councilman Doug Forsyth wondered if the council could put "some type of time limit" on the undeveloped portion of the site, which he said consists con-sists of "chewed-up asphalt." "I am not aware," Sainsbury Sains-bury said, "of anything in the ordinance that would require development." Roger Smith, an agent of applicants SL&A Architects, addressed the issue later in the meeting. Smith said that the property owners, Legacy Group, are actively pursuing another car dealership for the spot, and have "options they are currently working on." The owners would like to have both dealerships open at the same time, Smith noted. During the RDA portion of the meeting, Smith showed the council samples of some of the pre-finished, painted metal materials that are a specific color and design to Mazda. Orem City Manager Jim Reams asked the question, "What does Mazda do if the city says no?" Smith said he has done four Saturn dealerships, and with one in Sandy, Saturn had to "go back and change some concepts" to meet city guidelines. Asked by Washburn for his opinion on the materials, RDA board member Stephen Sand-strom, Sand-strom, an architect, said they were "trendy" and might go out of style, but looked OK. A motion by Forsyth to give RDA approval to the design materials passed in a 7-0 vote was built demoastra.es the priy. K?S 55 iTe S Deadline Continued from Page 1 countyonline.org and find the elections link under the clerk auditor section. Mayor Washburn ran unopposed for his seat four years ago. Council members Dickerson, McCandless, and Thurston are all running for their second four-year terms, but McCandless, who was originally appointed by the council to fill the remaining term of a council member, has served a bit longer. POORC |