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Show ORE M GENEVA TIMES Thursday, July 13, 2006 NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED Page 2 f 1 K A--3 " t w.-.-'35?SMMtk BRENDA MANOOKINNorth County Day at the lake While on vacation, Kalynn, Sabreena, Teena and James Schulick from Missouri, take a swim in Utah Lake, near Vineyard on Tuesday. "It's a lot warmer than the river!" said Teena. Residential unit city code change approved Reva Bowen NOHtH COUNTY STAFF A city code change that will allow attached residential units like condominiums condo-miniums to be individually metered for water if the units are not built on top of each other, was approved by the Orem City Council on Tuesday. Development services director Stan Sainsbury told the council that the Northgate Village development on 800 North plans to have side-by-side town-homes town-homes with five units. Before the ordinance ordi-nance change, any time a structure had more than four attached units, a single water meter was required. "This has never come up before and we'd like to accommodate the developer," devel-oper," Sainsbury said, noting that the change gives a developer options. Councilman Dean Dickerson asked if the policy would be "revenue neutral" to the city, and Public Works Director Bruce Chesnut responded that he believes be-lieves it will be overall. The change is expected to benefit condominium owners who prefer having hav-ing their units individually metered. "You're billed for what you use, instead in-stead of averaging," said Mayor Jerry Washburn. COMMUNITY BRIEFS I Commission appointments extended Three members of Orem's Historic Preservation Advisory Commission who have filled their first terms were approved for second terms by vote of the Orem City Council on Tuesday. The reappointed commission members are Tim Crandall, Shari Warnick, and Karla Nielson. I Mayor pro tern appointed Council member Shiree Thurston has been approved ap-proved by vote of the Orem City Council Coun-cil to serve as mayor pro tern for the next six months. The mayor pro tern conducts meetings meet-ings and otherwise fills in for the mayor may-or in the event of the mayor's absence. I Summer cooking classes at Macey's Residents seeking a playful taste of eatable eat-able summer delights can join Macey's Little Theater, which is sponsoring free cooking classes several times a week. The theater will debut with "Summer Cooking Made Simple," a beginner's course in easy and delicious meals on July 25 and continue with "A True Blue Hawaiian Luau," with Marc Navidad, a Polynesian cook, on Jury 26. Attendance Atten-dance is limited, so please call 225-6002 or stop by any Macey's service desk to reserve your place and to check other class times. There will be no classes held the week of July 17-22. p Fall Softball registration Orem's recreation department is currently accepting ac-cepting registrations for fall Softball. There are openings for men's, women's, wom-en's, and co-ed teams. Teams can register regis-ter at the Orem Fitness Center, 580 W, 165 South, or online at www.orem.org. Games are played at Lakeside Sports Park, located at 1850 W. 400 South, Orem. Play will begin the week of Aug. 7. For more information call 229-7158. I Lindon trail causes concern Lindon residents are not seeing the light at the end of tunnel. After countless discussions during past city council meetings and an open house on June 15, Lindon residents have been left with lingering concerns regarding the proposed Heritage Trail. The $3.6 million project is planned to connect the existing Bonneville Shoreline Shore-line Trail in the north side of Center Street and eventually stretch to the shores of Utah Lake. Because of the continuing concerns, residents were given another chance to talk with council members and trail engineers en-gineers during a special neighborhood meeting on July 6 in the Lindon City Council Chambers. The meeting, however, shed little light on questions brought up by the dozen or more residents who attended the three-hour meeting. Councilman Bruce Carpenter had an idea why the same concerns and residents resi-dents keep coming back. "I just think that they are not getting the answers they want," Carpenter said. One area of concern is a tunnel, which would connect the east and west sides of the trail, and would ultimately pass under State Street through Lakev-iew Lakev-iew Drive. "I would be scared to go through a tunnel not knowing what is under there," Leichty said. "Especially children when you have a child and a horse under a tunnel, someone is going to get hurt," Leichty said. Justin Smart, representative from The Langdon Group Inc. and meeting moderator, said horse riding is not going go-ing to be the main use for the trail. Based on the 29 surveys received from last year's lindon Days and 85 "Sound Off!" surveys mailed back from city residents, 82 percent said they would use the trail for walking. Bicyclingcycling attained 64 percent of the votes, with jogging at 46 percent, horseback riding at 20 percent and skating at 16 percent. Interested residents can browse trail plans and future council meeting times at www.lindoncity.org. NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS 399 E State St Pleasant Grove Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 Kirk Parkinson 443 3250 Vice PresidentPublisher kparkinsonheraldextra com Marc Haddock 443 3268 North County Editor mhaddockheraldextra.com Cathy Allred 443-3262 Lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. 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Some band parents are asking themselves just that after neighbors complained about the noise the band creates during the summer as it practices morning and night. ' The matter was resolved amicably, with the band shifting its practice to another part of the high school's athletic fields. But the brouhaha has left the band's most ardent supporters support-ers wondering if the band has lost its luster. I've loved this band for many years. My stepson started marching as a baritone in the band when Don Peterson was the director and finished under the leadership of John Miller. IVe had three other children march in the American Fork High School Marching Band, as well. One went on to get a degree in music largely because of her experience at American Fork. Another stepson marched in the Rose Parade Pa-rade in Pasadena. All of them learned the value of practice, hard work and teamwork from the band. There is nothing else quite like it. All summer, 200 teenagers get themselves out of bed routinely for the 730 am practice, and then return that evening to do it all over again. The practices are grueling and repetitious, and marching discipline is strictly observed The performances require teamwork on a grand scale, since every member performs every time in every competition. There are no bench warmers in marching band. And year after year Mr. Miller comes up with more challenging chal-lenging music, more difficult formations, and more exciting performance numbers pushing the kids to continually improve. And while band competitions lack the excitement excite-ment of football games or basketball games every performance is almost identical the participants learn that success is not to do something some-thing different., but to do the same tiling as perfectly per-fectly as possible. The remarkable thing is, the kids do it. Will- ITS J tel.. jf f P .,4 Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN ingry. Week after week, year after year, with a built-in turnover of one-third. one-third. When I first saw this band perform, per-form, it was not a perennial winner, but was chasing Skyview or Mountain Moun-tain Crest every year. But it also improved im-proved every year until the band surpassed sur-passed the competition and became the state's standard. To keep improving like that, however, how-ever, a band needs new challenges and ever-increasing year-end competition compe-tition The band reached a high point a year-and-a-half ago when it traveled to Washington, D.C, to represent Utah in President George W. Bush's second inaugural parade. But the trip made us all realize that it takes a lot of money to put a marching band of more than 200 on commercial airliners for this kind of event. The band members had already depleted their personal and family savings accounts that year to attend the annual inarching band competition, competi-tion, so they had to rely on the community more heavily than usual to send the kids to Washington Washing-ton The statewide community responded admirably. admi-rably. A few months later, however, everyone learned what band parents have known for years keeping the band moving forward requires re-quires constant effort, hours of practice and lots of money. When fund-raising efforts started again to send the band to the national competition in Indiana, In-diana, band organizers found themselves going to the weD f or the third time m two years and the well was a little dry. The money was raised, largely from parents and students, but the community support was down. So it's no surprise that requests that the band find a different place to practice was seen as further fur-ther erosion of the band's core support and disheartening for the groups most ardent supporters. sup-porters. So, is American Fork ready for a band break? I hope not. Rezone Continued from Page 1 its previous vote. "I am sure they were as frustrated with the (June) meeting as I was," he said. Two council members Stephen Sandstrom and Les Campbell were not able to participate in the original origi-nal vote. Sandstrom was a candidate in the Republican primary election held that day, and Campbell was out of town. An attempt by the Council to involve Campbell in the meeting by telephone was unsuccessful. Paul Washburn, who served as a member of the Orem City Council years ago, said having all of the members present for a discussion dis-cussion and vote makes a significant difference, particularly par-ticularly on "hard decisions" where all aspects of a matter need to be aired. "The Council is willing to discuss it again, and that's a positive thing," Washburn said. No date was set Tuesday for the rehearing, which will be noticed for the public. Hawkins Continued from Page 1 the two-week safari, she had the opportunity see a lion kill a hyena and live in a different differ-ent culture. "You always hear about what Africa is like, but you can't really understand it until un-til you're there," she said. A week before the national nation-al pageant, Hawkins said she had not yet picked a dress because she is not the type to wear one. "For the state competition, I didn't really have a strategy," strat-egy," she said. "For national, I'm trying to prepare a little bit more." During the state competition competi-tion in Salt Lake City, she wrote her essay later delivered as a speech that same day. Her assigned subject was patriotism and freedom, and her inspiration inspira-tion was her family. Both of Hawkins's grandparents served during World War II and she currently has an uncle, Scott Johnson, serving in Iraq. "I spoke about how in order or-der to have true patriotism and freedom you have to experience it or have someone some-one that you know face it," Hawkins said. During the national pageant pag-eant she will show a one-minute one-minute video about her high school experience and give a speech about what her state represents. "I'm going to talk about the ABCs of Utah and why you should come here," she said. "A is Arches, B for Bonneville Flats ... well, you get the idea." There are no swimsuit or talent competitions in the Homecoming Queen competitions. compe-titions. The winner of the national pageant will receive a cash scholarship and prizes depending de-pending on how she places. The minimum amount she can receive is $200. As for winning, Hawkins said she is more excited about other things. "I'm looking forward to meeting the girls," she said. "It's going to be really cool to say I have a friend in ev-i ery state." As far as beauty pageants, Hawkins said this would be the only one she would participate par-ticipate in. "I just hope to learn more about myself," she said. This fall, Hawkins will attend at-tend Utah State University and focus on art studies and art education. She also paints on the side, selling various creations on eBay and in local galleries. www.heraldextra.com yellowpages Wnafruafrp! esMllide i iQiililhai POOR |