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Show Thursday, March 1 2007 Page 2 OREM TIMES 4 I I .1 t 4 . i i k 1 NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU Despite Reva Bowen Wit h the changes coming to HIK) North in the w ;ike of the Utah -part merit of Transportation Transpor-tation (I 'IX )T road widening project, at least one Orem business busi-ness w ill U- remaining, and expanding Berge I. A Auto received a General I'lan designation change and reone 1 u'-sday from the Orem City Council for prox-rtv at H5I. and 115 1-. at HOO North projHTty remaining remain-ing from the road widening that will Ix1 added to the existing exist-ing auto dealer Nhip at VA 1. Will North The ieneral I'lan designation designa-tion for the property was hanged from medium density residential to community commercial, com-mercial, and the one change was from the medium-density residential K 5 to the C2 one ' i em's general c immercial one which incoi )orates the tvpes of uses that are seen up and down State Street Clinic Continued frum I'uge 1 and neuter surgeries in Utah County. The organization previously served the county through The Bix Fix. a mobile spay and neuter clinic program that would make periodic stops to cities in Utah County and around the state. Yet No More Homeless Pets found that the supply wasn't keeping up w ith the demand. "We were turning people away in Utah County." said Teishi Kennedy, development director for No More Homeless Iets The Utah County Spay and Council Confirmed from I'uge 1 Hellewell has signed a development de-velopment agreement with the city that will require all existing exist-ing structures to be removed for the construction of a new-commercial new-commercial building. The (ieneral Flan land use designation change was from high density residential to regional commercial, and the zoning change was from the low -density residential RK to the highway services zone. Hellewell told the council that his business has been located lo-cated in Provo, but that he lives in Orem, about four blocks NorthCpunty i 393 F P easd- G'f.ve Marc Haddock 443 3268 North County Editor mhaddoc heia'aex Va.com Cathy Alfred 443 3262 Lehi. Saratoga Swings, P1 Cwe cal!'eaheraidera com Barbara Christiansen 443 3264 American Fork. Alpine. 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The garage ls located next to the rear property line and ls nonconforming non-conforming as to setback "It works for us, it works for the neighbors, and it works for IT JOT." said Berge of the plan to keep the garage. "I guess our question is. 'Does it work for Orem City?' " Several City Council mem-lx-rs Shiree Thurston, Karen McCandless and Mark Seastrand felt the exception lor the garage should not be made, and on that basis, voted against the motion to approve the reone. Mayor .Jerry Washburn Wash-burn and councilmembers Margaret Black. lx?s Campbell, and Dean Dickerson formed the majority vote to approve the reone and allow the building build-ing as a nonconforming use. Neuter Clinic hopes to better bet-ter serve local pet owners by providing 6,500 spay neuter surgeries in its first year of operation in a county that has the highest pet euthanasia rates in Utah, according to No More Homeless Pets. The discounted surgeries are possible largely through spoasorships and private pri-vate donat ions. Kennedy said the two main reasons pet ow ners dont spay or neuter their cat or dog is they can't afford it or they can't get to an animal hospital. Fees for spay and neuter surgeries at the new Orem clinic run roughly half of what an owner would pay at a local veterinarian's office. from the planned new location for the business, and looks forward to being able to "walk to work." At a neighborhood meeting that was held in January to explain his proposal. Hellewell said there were no objections. One woman, w ho had come to protest the addition of any more high-density apartments in the area, was relieved to learn that a business was proposed pro-posed for the site instead, he said. Development Services Director Di-rector Stan Sainsbury said the commercial development would generate about the same traffic numbers as high density residential. Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILY HERALD FUBLIIHIMO CO. It Hi. !).-. 'an! Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager Erin Stewart 344 2558 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Julia Fullmer 344 2570 DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344 25851 Photographer Issue 60 PLACE ONE TODAY INFORMED AND UDOT plans to build an eight -foot fencesound waLl along the north property line from 75 East to 2(X) East. CITY BRIEFS I CDBG recommendations Orem's Community Development Devel-opment Block Grant (CDBG) Citizen Advisory Commission presented its recommendatioas for 2007-08 CDBG funding at the Orem City Council meeting meet-ing Tuesday, in the first of tw o public hearings to be held before the council finalizes the distribution of the city's S(26,923 in new entitlement funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development Develop-ment and $52,940 in Orem program income. The next public hearing is set for March 27, 2007, at 6:15 p.m. in the City Council chambers. Charlene McKay, Orem's community and neighborhood services manager, said the funds are earmarked to ad Kennedy said No More Homeless Pets met with Utah County veterinarians prior to ojening the Orem clinic and generally received a warm response. re-sponse. "We talked about our mission versus their mission. They have the advantage of building a lifetime life-time relationship with pets and their owners." she said. "What we like to do is more of a partnership." part-nership." But Dr. Carolyn McGuire of Animal Pet Hospital in Orem, w ho is a proponent of animal rescues and spaying and neutering, neu-tering, said her biggest concern is that low-cost clinics typically end up offering other services such as vaccinations, micro- Area resident Teresa Taylor said neighbors had not heard of the proposal until Sunday. "We're concerned about the safety of our children walking in this area." she said. Petrea Loertscher, 284 S. 1160 West, asked for more explanation on why a zoning change should be made. City Attorney Paul Johnson said the General Plan describes what property is projected to become. The city is divided into areas, and each General Plan designation has at least a couple of zones that could be used. Johnson noted that General Plan designations are made only after noticing is done, public hearings are held, Putting I got my head examined last week. My wife said it was about time. The good news is they didn't find anything ... at least they didn't find anything wrong. But the experience was eye opening. You see people getting MRIs on television all the time. Especially if you are watching "House." But getting get-ting one yourself is another matter. When we were scheduling the MRI, they asked me if I was claustrophobic. claustro-phobic. I admitted that confined spaces can be a problem. 1 mean, I had to take a break during an eye examine once because that test was creeping me out , so the idea of having my body inserted into a fairly confining tube for an extended period of time 45 minutes was the estimate gave me pause. In that case, I was told, I needed to arrive an hour early so I could be sedated before the MRI. And, they said, it was important that I be on time. I'd get the Valium, I wouldn't care where they put me, and all would be well. Which was all fine until the day of the MRI, when I found I was running a little late. It was about 10 minutes, at first, but driving in to Provo, Pro-vo, where the test was scheduled, I encountered a small traffic problem near the north Orem border bor-der and there went 10 more minutes. Trying to find a parking place at Utah Valley Val-ley Regional Medical Center took another 10 minutes, and by the time I walked into the part of the hospital where they do MRIs, I was told I was too late for the scan, if I still wanted to be sedated. And that's how I found myself lying ly-ing down on this narrow platform dressed in a hospital gown that didn't close in the back and pajama bottoms that I couldn't close in the front, completely aware of what was going on. Someone told me that the MRI tube into which one is inserted is more spacious that you might think. That might be the case if you are small But on the outside, it looked like a pretty tight squeeze to me, kind of like packing a sau sage "Don"t worTy'" technician INVOLVED dress lower income needs, urgent ur-gent needs, and urban blight. CDBG Advisory Commission Commis-sion chairman Phil Armstrong first outlined the "other" category cat-egory of expenditures, totaling S5H5825: CDBG administration $1.30.000; code enforcement enforce-ment (two police officers) S 120,000; curbgutter, and sidewalk $90,000; Habitat for Humanity $10,825; Housing Hous-ing Rehabilitation $125,000; Section 108 loan repayment $105,000, and Utah Alcoholism Alcohol-ism Foundation $5,000. No funding was recommended for Mountainlands Community Health, which had requested $100,000. Public service expenditures expen-ditures are limited to 15 percent of the new entitlement funds, or $94.0.38. The commission recommended the money be divided as follows: Center for Women and Children in Crisis $8,000; Children's Justice Center $11,000; Community Action $13,000; Crisis Line $4,000; Family Support & Treatment Treat-ment Center S9.000; Food chipping and deworming that take away from veterinarians' business. "That's where it steps on our toes," she said. McGuire said her animal hospital hos-pital provides a full education to pet owners having spay or neuter surgeries performed on their pets. "My clients are loyal to me so Fm not worried, but it may impact the community as a whole." she said. Kennedy said spay and neuter neu-ter surgeries are the only veterinary vet-erinary service the new clinic will offer. "It's one visit in (their pet's) life." she said. "The rest of their long-term care is to veterinar and the Planning Commission spends "quite a bit of time" discussing dis-cussing them. Johnson next addressed when a zone needs to be changed. Taking the example at hand, he said the parcels on 1200 West will most likely not remain single family, because of their proximity to 1-15 and being located on a major collector collec-tor street. The property owner must be allowed the right to develop or redevelop. With the likelihood of a single family home being built "remote," at some point in time, the council must consider what use would be best for the properties. "This may well be that an MRI to music ' iv Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN have the right reassured me. rience it live & Care Coalition $6,038; Kids On the Move $1 1,000; Orem Literacy $8,000; Parent Par-ent Education Resource Center (PERQ $7,000; Project Read $5,000; Recreation and Habitation Ha-bitation (RAH) - $8,000; and Utah Alcoholism Foundation (House of Hope) - S4.000. No funding recommendations were made for the American Red Cross, which requested S5.000, or the Orem Recreation Department, Depart-ment, w hich requested $20,000. McKay also said there is $97,345 in Commission for Economic Eco-nomic Development in Orem (CEDO) program income. I Fire code adopted As a routine consent item, the Orem City Council approved Tuesday amending the City Code to adopt the 2006 Edition of the International Fire Code as "the required standard for fire protection and prevention in buildings and construction in the City of Orem," according to background information in the council agenda. ians in the community." Pet owners are referred to a listing of area veterinarians if, during a brief pre-spay or neuter neu-ter medical examination, anything any-thing wrong with the animal is found or if the owner has questions ques-tions about pet diet, health care, or other issues. Kennedy said. "We hope it in turn benefits those local veterinarians," she said. The Utah Countv Spav and Neuter Clinic is at 845 N. 100 West Suite 107 west of Macy's. More information about its spay and neuter services and No More Homeless Pets is available avail-able online at www.utahpets. org. point," Johnson said. Jason Bird, who identified himself as a lifelong Orem resident, resi-dent, said 1200 West was his "childhood stomping grounds." He said he understands the concerns of the neighbors, but observed that there is an "inevitability" of growth in a community. Councilman Mark Seastrand expressed support for the zone change to highway services, because, he said, he prefers seeing traffic going away from the neighborhood, rather than toward it, as would be the case with high density residential development. "There's plenty of room. Lots of folks fall asleep in there." I promised him I wasn't falling asleep, as I lay down on the table, let him stabilize my head, and rolled me into the tube. Since we were examining my head, only the top two or threg feet had to go into the actual unit. But i had to hold my arms down and folded, kind of like Adam when he was in the Garden Gar-den of Eden, and still my shoulders rubbed the sides of tube. I had put in ear plugs, and 1 kept my eyes closed. Panic, I was certain, couldn't be far . off. Still the technician's voice was reassuring. reas-suring. "Okay," he said. "This first one is only going to last about two minutes." As the loud noises filled my head, I decided the best way to pass time would be to mentally sing songs of the appropriate length the longer the test, the longer the song. And so it began. Together at last, together forever. We're tying a knot they never can sever... And it was over. "How are you doing?" "Fine." This next one will take about three minutes. When Liberty Valance rode to town the womenfolk would hide, they'd hide... "Still OK?" "Yeah" "This one will be about four-and-a-half minutes." min-utes." That was easy: Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you? The music poured out of my mind, as I drew on songs from shows, from my youth from my present, focusing my attention anywhere but inside that tube where magnets whirled around my head. As medical procedures go, this was about as painless as it gets. But I found out, you have to soundtrack, if you want to expe- Dance Continued from Page 1 "It turned my whole life around," she said. The couple is expecting their first child. Ashly Delgrosso's personal per-sonal highlight during the show was performing a dance number with her five sisters in front of millions of viewers. "I was able to share the dance floor with all my sisters sis-ters and America was able to meet my family," Ashly Delgrosso said. Following Ashly Delgrosso's Delgros-so's turn in the limelight, fellow Center Stage alumnus and Orem resident Jaymz Tuaileva, 21, wowed audiences audi-ences in the summer of 2006 with has dance moves on "So You Think You Can Dance" and this winter, Center Cen-ter Stage instructor Jason Celayacq, 31, was a finalist on NBC's "Grease: You're the One that I Want." , Jared Murillo, 18, son of Center Stage co-owners Alex and Robin Murillo, will be a lead dancer and assistant assis-tant choreographer in "High School Musical 2," which like it's surprise-hit predecessor prede-cessor will be filmed in Utah. Tuaileva will also re-appear in "High School Musical 2." We'd like to think we've given them their best chance to make it in the business. Rick Robinson CENTER STAGE BALLROOM DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR Julianne Hough, 18, the youngest and only American to ever win the British Junior Ju-nior Latin Championship and also a child prodigy of Center Cen-ter Stage, will take Ashly Delgrosso's place on season four of "Dancing with the Stars," which debuts March 19 on ABC. She will be paired with two-time Olympic Olym-pic gold medal speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno. Kim Delgrosso calls Center Cen-ter Stage, which offers professional pro-fessional and recreational training in ballet, ballroom, hip hop, tap and all forms of jazz dance as well as acting act-ing and singing courses, a performing arts school. Anywhere from 550 to 600 students from children to adults attend classes at the studio at any given time. Ashley Delgrosso said Hollywood producers combing comb-ing America for top-notch dancers are finding the most talent primarily in three states: California, New York and Utah. "We literally believe that some of the best talent is in Utah and it needs to be cultivated," culti-vated," her mother said. What sets Center Stage apart from other performing perform-ing arts studios in Utah and around the nation is that students are cross-trained in a wide variety of competition competi-tion level dance styles, Kim Delgrosso said. Center Stage ballroom department director and artistic director for "Origins Dance" Rick Robinson said his new dance company provides a venue for competition compe-tition dancers to show what they can do on the professional profes-sional stage without having to sacrifice their day-time careers. With many former students stu-dents and staff now landing roles on TV and in film, Robinson believes the fruits of students' hard work are paying off. "We'd like to think we've given them their best chance to make it in the business, or at least have their 15 minutes min-utes of fame," he said. Though she's competed in myriad dance competitions around the world, Ashly Delgrosso much prefers performing on TV because of the interesting people she's met along the way and the opportunity to be seen by millions during a single episode. "I'd love to go back, after the baby," she said. "If they asked me, I would love to judge the competition ... and I would actually like to win Dancing with the Stars" one of the seasons." p0 |