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Show n .. YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2005 50 CENTS "IMS mm TOWN HALL: Council, Vineyard adjusting boundaries SCHOOLS: H g w arts School program teachs kids science J SPORTS: Tigers' hard work pays off at state tennis BUSINESS CRAFT STORE KEEPS CUSTOMERS IN STITCHES rem, Northgate to 0 swap and Brenda Armstrong NORTH COUNTY STAFF The Orem City Council and legal team made sure all their bases were covered before entering into a real property exchange and 21-page 21-page sales agreement with North-gate North-gate Village Development L.C. on Tuesday night. The involved parties have negotiated nego-tiated over the last several years in order to sell and exchange their respective parcels to each other so the city could build a new public works facility and the Northgate could create a commercial mixed use development. The two groups will now participate par-ticipate in two separate property closings beginning Oct. 20 allowing for the sale and exchange of their respective parcels to each other. "It is our intent to enter into this sales agreement in order to build a new public works building on a 20-acre 20-acre site," said Orem City Manager Jim Reams. "Orem will be giving up 10 acres of the Orem Public Works Property and receiving 20 acres of the Bunker Business Park property, allowing us to own a new site free and clear." The Northgate group has been negotiating with the city over the past several years wanting to purchase pur-chase the excess land for a mixed use development. The public works property was declared surplus by the Orem City Council in 2004. "This has been a long process, over seven years," said Paul Washburn, Member of Northgate Development. "We are trying to create a mixed used development consisting of retail, housing and office space by acquiring the old UDOT property, Drivers License Bureau land and existing public works property. Our development will help make something nice out of something that has been such an eye sore." The City plans to finance the new public works building with the sale of the real property located near 955 North, from 900 West to 1200 West in Orem. See NORTHGATE, Page 2 A LIGHT AGAINST VIOLENCE 'ft " ! - . i . ,-. f H I X 1 ft . 1 ill jl 1 CHAD CHENIERNorlh County zrr have cried a river or two, and my heart is broken in million pieces," Soares said. "My wounds have never closed. They will be open until I see Lori again. I'm LI able to go on each day because of the prayers from people all over the world," said Thelma Soares, Lori Hacking's mother, during a candlelight vigil to support victims vic-tims of domestic abuse at UVSC campus in Orem Oct. 6. Little hands with big hearts quilt for Katrina victims Heather Bowser NORTH COUNTY STAFF I o send relief to children effected by Hurricane Katrina, Northridge Elementary El-ementary school children decided to try something a little different. Rather than collecting pennies or canned goods like many local lo-cal schools, the children, lead by Orem's youngest principal, opted to assemble and send 100 quilts to the nations worst effected region. "We just want to help out America," said 6th grader Justin Schilling. Schilling, spokesperson for the fund raising committee, flocked around Orem with several classmates class-mates shepherded by the principal to petition businesses for fabric money. Although Wal-Mart was the only willing source for immediate cash, See QUILTS, Page 2 r ' v. i , ''if I . ; - i u t 3 I i I ' 1 ; i & Kayla Douglas, 10, left, and Hailey Halford, 9, work on a quilt at Northridge Elementary in Orem on Tuesday. Students are stitching the quilts which will be given to Hurricane Katrina victims. JEREMY HARMON North County t- 3 y Briefing LITERARY CRITIC WAYNE BOOTH DIES AT 84 Funeral services for Wayne Booth, a prominent literary critic and professor whose books are required reading at many universities, will be held Oct. 18 in Alpine. Bodth died Sunday in his home in Chicago from complications com-plications of dementia, said Josh Schonwald, a spokesman spokes-man for the University of Chicago, where Booth was a faculty member for more than four decades. Booth's "The Rhetoric of Fiction," published in 1961, is "the single most important American contribution to narrative nar-rative theory a book that continues to be read, taught and fought about," Bill Brown, chair of the university's English department, said in a statement. Booth was born in American Fork and earned a bachelor's bach-elor's degree in 1944 from Brigham Young University: After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he married Phyllis Barnes in 1946 and moved to Chicago, where he received a master's degree and Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago. American Fork V-" g I V if r ; f FRANK BOTTNorth County Seated in the American Fork Apollo Theater, Hobby ; Giles of Eye-Sign Media jesters to his fellow deaf worker that there won't he enough room for the chairs. "We will have to take that last chuirout to make it fit right," signed Giles. APOLLO DANCE HALL TO REOPEN - For more than a century, the Apollo Dance Hall has been a landmark in American Fork. That tradition will continue as new owners have purchased pur-chased the building and have reopened it as part of a non-profit foundation, dedicated to the youth. They had ribbon cutting ceremonies on Monday. Virl Osmond, Toni Sly and Randy Rowley are the three members of the management team. "I wanted to bring the entertainment flavor of the family," fam-ily," Osmond said. "Kids need an opportunity to help other kids. What better way to do that than in a dance hall or theater setting?" Pleasant Grove RUDAT PLANNER PREPARES CITY - Jerry Ernst visited Pleasant Grove last week preparing him and the community for the RegionalUrban Design Assistance Team project sponsored by the American Institute of Architects Ar-chitects tentatively scheduled from Nov. 11 to Nov. 14. Pleasant Grove City began its efforts in July 2004 to gain acceptance of a RUDAT program in an appeal to obtain expert guidance for impending planning decisions within the city. AIA officials approved the application and asked Ernest to lead a team of experts through the RUDAT process in Pleasant Grove. Alpine WWW.HARKTHEHERALD.COMNORTHCOUNTY CALL 37S-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE ALPINE TO VOTE ON BOND TO PRESERVE OPEN SPACE Alpine residents will vote in the Nov. 8 election elec-tion on a $5 million bond that would be used to purchase and preserve about 150 acres in north Fort Canyon. The area is part of an 800-acre subdivision dubbed "Three Falls," so named because of three natural, year-round year-round waterfalls in the Fort Canyon area. The city has been working for the past two years with the developer of that project. Using donated time and money, a committee dedicated dedi-cated to preserving the site of the waterfalls has begun sending fliers to all residents in Alpine this week, said Everett Williams, who chairs the committee. Lehi PASTOR LEADS SMALL BAPTIST CONGREGATION CONGREGA-TION Adults are chatting in the back of the room while a small group of teenagers seated on the front row tease each other. It is 10:50 a.m. and Natalie Lovelady, 6, is happily hap-pily skipping barefoot past the last few rows of chairs. Dressed in a skirt and top, she has left her shoes by her brother in the front. The congregation is waiting for the service to start at the Timpanogos Best Western Inn in Lehi. Home to the Timpanogos Baptist Church for nearly 10 years, its members mem-bers travel each Sunday as far as 30 miles for its Christian fellowship. Their shepherd is Pastor Chuck Lovelady. "I want you to know that you are valuable to God, that God loves you," he tells his tiny flock. Nearly half of the congregation at the Sept. 25 service is his family. From staff reports cdr 'i Home, Auto, & Personal Loans ' Open to all of Utah County: Once a member, always a member - no matter where you go. wsmtm j :)jwijjfiij(jjii . - .. ... , ) COPY |