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Show Thursday, April 5, 2007 Page 2 0 R E M TIMES NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED 1 Orem pins down uses for Reva Bowen The expected Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) pie was smaller than at the first public hearing one month ago, but the Orem City Council followed exactly the recommendations of the CDBG Citizen Advisory Commission for allocating the funds, approving ap-proving the outlined 2M)7-2X)8 expenditures after a second public hearing March 20. The city's new CDBG entitlement entitle-ment from the Department of Mousing and Urban Development Develop-ment came in at $626,001, which was $922 less than the figures used at the first public hearing, said Charlene McKay, Orem's community and neigh-lxrhood neigh-lxrhood services manager. The money was deducted from the $125,000 originally earmarked ear-marked for housing rehabilitation, rehabilita-tion, now finalized at $124,078. Other funding sources include projected program income from reaymcnt.s to Orem's housing rehabilitation loan fund $52,!MO, and re)ayments to the Commission for Ixonomic Development in Orem (COX)) revolving loan fund $97,345, for a total of $776,2H6. CDBG funds are targeted to address the needs of low and moderate income residents, to address an urgent community need, or to improve designated areas of slum and blight. The $!)4,038 in funds that can go to public service was divided as follows: Center for Women and Children in Crisis $8,(KK); (Children's Justice Center $11,(XM); (Community Action Services $13,000; Crisis Line $4,000; Family Support & Treatment Center $9,(KX); Food and Care Coalition of Beetles Continued from Puge I property, Hiatt was also concerned con-cerned that state officials have seemingly dismissed non-chemical alternatives such as milky spores to get rid of the beetles as opposed to their plan which employs common pesticides like Merit and Tempo. "It seemed like there was going to be more dialogue and there wasn't," she said. Larry Lewis, a spokesman for the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, said milky sxres have been used successfully in Eastern states to control populations of the Japanese beetle with heavy and widespread infestations. Utah's goal, however, is to completely eradicate the beetle NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS 399 E State St Pleasant Grove Marc Haddock 443 3268 North County Editor m haddock heraldex tra com Cathy Allred 443 3262 Lehi. Saratoga Springs, PI. Grove callredheraldextra com Barbara Christiansen 443 3264 American Fork, Alpine, Cedar Hills bchristiansen heraldextra .com Mike Rigert 443 3265 Orem, Vineyard mngertheraldextra.com Beky Beaton 443 3267 Sports bbeatonheraldextra com r.H'iUiill.TE Josh Walker 443 -3260 Advertising Account Executive walkefheraldextra com Volume 134 Orem Tmes Darfy Hwakl Edition USPS 411-700 a weekly newspaper published at 399 E State St Pleasant Grove Utah 84063 Period als postage paid at Pleasant Grow. Utah 64062 and at additional mailing ohres Poetmaeter: Send address changes to Orem Times P0 Bo 6S. Orem. Utah 8409 0065 Published Thursdays bv Lee Pubfccatons. vvhch b a ctvsion of Lee Enterprises Inc Membei : Audit Bureau o Circulations Mmsui Utah Valley $6,03H; Kids On the Move $1 1,000; Orem Literacy Lit-eracy Resources $8,000; Parent Par-ent Education Resource Center (PF.RQ $7,000; Project Read $5,(XH); Recreation and Habitation Services (RAH) . $8,(XX); and Utah Alcoholism Foundation $4, (XX). (Xher listed expenditures, in addition to the $124,078 for housing rehabilitation, were: Utah Alcoholism Foundation (public facility) - $5,(XX); Habitat Habi-tat for Humanity $10,825; code enforcement $120,(XX); CEDO revolving business loan fund $97,345; payment on $3 million loan from HUD for economic development and job creation $105,(XX); Public Works projects for curb, gutter, gut-ter, and sidewalk - $90,(KK); and program administration $130,000. Requests or applications from the American Red Cross for $5,(XX), and the Orem Recreation Department for $20,(XX), received no funding recommendations from the CDBG Commission. Commission chairman Phil Armstrong told the City Council that all of the organizations organiza-tions applying for funds were "worthwhile", and that the commission com-mission did the best they could in funding the requests with the amount of money available. His words were reiterated by fellow fel-low commission members. Councilman Mark Seast-rand Seast-rand asked Armstrong if the commission had any second thoughts about the proposal presented in February. "No," Armstrong said. "I think we feel strongly that what we suggested ought to happen." Mayor Jerry Washburn expressed ex-pressed some frustration that before it spreads outside of Orem and across the state. "Merit and Tempo are products prod-ucts used everyday through the county and state already," he said. "Their products sold at nurseries ... these are not exotic products." And though an Orem resident resi-dent who fears health complications compli-cations from the pesticide spraying has had attorneys file a Notice of Intent to Sue with the state to prevent the spraying spray-ing anywhere in Orem, Lewis said it is not a lawsuit and state and local officials are proceeding proceed-ing forward with the eradication eradica-tion plan. "It's an emergency," he said. "We would be irresponsible to not eradicate a foreign pest like this. State law commands us to do it. It's a threat to the state." And while the state is coor Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILY HERALD PUBLISHING) CO. Jennette Esplin 756-7669 Office Manager Erin Stewart 344 2558 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Julia Fullmer 344 2570 3 DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344 2585 Photographer Issue 65 Give us a call at 756-7669 Community Development APRIL FOOLS JOKE IIS 3- t 7 6s Cameron Cox, 9, plays with a giant foam head on his front yard the CDBG money available to the community has decreased at the same time that needs and population have increased, but noted that he could not see "a flaw" in the commission's allocation al-location process. "This is about as fair, as these gentlemen have said, given the number of applicants and the money (available), as they could determine to be fair," Washburn said. The mayor said the city is looking at creating a commission commis-sion that would be asked to train the boards of the various public service agencies, to give them professional help and advice in raising funds. He also said the city may be able to extend the hours that literacy instruction can be given at the Friendship Center, a request was also made March 20. dinating the summer spraying program, Orem is arranging changes in procedure for green waste disposal and lawn service clean up in the infested area. Because the beetle Ls above ground during the summer months, green waste in the treatment zone the area between 800 North, 400 South, State Street, and 1200 West will be treated in two categories: cat-egories: Above ground lawn clippings, foliage and tree trimmings trim-mings and below ground sod, soil and root systems. "The stuff that before we told people 'You bag' or we won't pick it up, now has to be bagged," Manning said. Prior to May 15 or following Sept. 15, lawn clippings, tree trimmings, foliage and other above-ground green waste can be disposed of in garbage cans School-public efforts problematic When I first moved to American Fork in 1982, the city's indoor swimming swim-ming pool was just a block away from my home on Nob Hill. You would never know it, but that gym on the western-most part of the junior high school once housed one of the city's two pools. The other, an outdoor pool located at Rotary Park, was for summer use only. The last time I looked, it was a sand volleyball pit. The indoor, year-round pool was a joint effort between the city and school district when the junior high school was built. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The school owned the property, and the city helped pay to build the pool, providing a resource for both the school and the city's residents. But there were problems with the engineering engineer-ing for the pool, and the moisture of the pool was destroying the materials in the roof, as I remember it. There were also some problems with janitorial services, and other issues of jurisdiction. ju-risdiction. What seemed like a great idea turned out to be not so great as time went by. Eventually the pool was drained, the gym was built, and now it houses Junior Jazz basketball games every Saturday throughout the winter. American Fork then built its current fitness center, with a pool that could be covered in the winter. Another attempt at blending school and community resources was the public library at Mountain Ridge Jr. High School, where Alpine, Highland and Cedar Hills hoped to make use of the public space created when that school was built. The idea was to let the public have access to the library after school hours. The library functioned func-tioned for a few years before it closed. I'm sure there were many reasons these two city-school joint ventures failed, but one problem prob-lem that hampered both is the basic incompatibility incompat-ibility between a building designed for use by a school and one designed for use by the general public. It s like mixing oil and water, A school needs some control Til UMJI CITY BRIEFS I Girls softball registration Orem City's Recreation Department De-partment is accepting registration registra-tion for the girls fast pitch soft-ball soft-ball program at the Orem Fitness Fit-ness Center, 580 W. 165 South, through April 7. Cost for Girls Softball is $47. Non-residents will be charged an additional $10. This program is for girls in grades three through 12, with team divisions being 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 7-8, and 9-12 grades. Games begin the week of May 21 and will be played on weekday evenings, from 4:30 pm to 10:30 p.m. and possibly some Saturdays. Volunteer coaches are needed for this program. For additional information, call the Orem Fitness Fit-ness Center at 229-7455. or the normal manner. This is the time period when the beetles bee-tles are still underground. However between those dates, all green waste must be bagged and placed either in individual green waste bins or garbage receptacles. For a three year period, green waste collected in the treatment zone will be taken to the county landfill rather than being composted. com-posted. Green waste disposal in the areas of Orem outside of the treatment zone will continue to be processed for composting. Professional lawn services and landscaping crews have also been asked to bag all green matter and to hose down mowers before leaving so they don't inadvertently help the beetles migrate to non-infested areas. Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN of who is com- any vows are T Block Grant MARIO RUIZDaily Herald in Orem Monday afternoon. I T-ballcoach pitchmachine pitch registration The Orem Recreation Department is accepting ac-cepting registration for T-ball, coach pitch, and machine pitch at the Orem Fitness Center, 580 W. 165 South through April 21. T-ball is for boys and girls ages 5, 6 and 7; coach pitch is for boys and girls ages 7, 8 and 9; and machine pitch is for boys and girls ages 9, 10 and 11. Ages are determined as of Sept. 1. Parents are asked to sign their child up in the program that they will be successful in. Games will be played Saturday Satur-day mornings beginning June 2. Cost for T-ball and coach pitch is $27 and the cost for machine pitch is $32. Non-residents will be charged an additional $ 10. For additional information, please call the Orem Fitness Center at 229-7167. "It's probably how they got here," Manning said. "Something "Some-thing inadvertent like that." Arrangements are still in the works to provide out-of-area gardening locations for residents in the treatment zone and a plan to have residents in beetle-free areas of the city to raise more crops to share with others, he said. City officials are also looking into a provision provi-sion to get fresh produce from the Utah County Jail garden to families who rely on their gardens gar-dens for sustenance. For more information about the Japanese beetle, the state's eradication plan, the altered procedures for green waste disposal or to download a spraying permission form, access ac-cess Orem's Web site at www. orem.org and click on the Japanese Japa-nese beetle hot topic header. ing into and leaving the building. A city facility requires maximum public access. A school must operate on a schedule that maximizes its resources re-sources for students especially during school hours. It must be able to dictate who will and who won't use those resources at specific times during the day. Certain groups are allowed greater access than others. A city facility needs to be available avail-able to everyone on an equal basis, since a city can't play favorites. As a result, what looks like a perfect per-fect wedding of school and general public use often ends in a messy divorce because the two have inherent inher-ent incompatibilities that can't be overcome. With all the upcoming school construction, some cities again see an opportunity to blend city and school functions. In Saratoga Springs, for example, where land is at a premium, the city wants to participate in the construction of the new high school City officials have offered to build a third gymnasium at the school. The school would use the third gym during school hours, and the city would use the gyms when they weren't being used for school activities. The city also wants to use part of the space in the school's library for a community library. On its face, the idea makes a kind of sense. Land is so expensive, and if a city can build a gym or a library without having to buy the property it sits on, why, everyone can benefit from that, can't they? The idea of sharing has worked when the facilities are separate, such as Mountain View High School and the Orem Recreation Center. Both Pleasant Grove and the communities of Alpine, Highland and Cedar Hills are planning something like that, with city owned recreation facilities built adjacent to the local high schools. But putting public facilities inside of local schools doesn't have that kind of positive track record. That's not to say it won't work. But the groups attempting to meld the use of school and city facilities should do their best to see that the intended uses are compatible before spoken. Fences Continued from Page 1 residentialcommercial fences in Orem would be unwilling to go through the process of getting special approval. "If we give an option, op-tion, they will always choose the six-foot fence," said Mayor Jerry Washburn. "I feel caught between a rock and a hard spot. He said he did not want to eliminate1 the product from the city, but at the same time had to consider the seven-foot fence standard that has been established for a long time. A motion by Councilman Les Campbell to approve both the fence height and materials changes was turned back for lack of a second, but the council voted 6-1 to revisit the issue April 10, after having the opportunity oppor-tunity to assess what impact the height change might have in the city. Lawrence Continued from Page 1 wanted to teach," he said. Lawrence accepted the position but was initially daunted by the task of teaching the electrical automation auto-mation courses to students many of whom were twice his age. Jeanette Lawrence said that's the reason her husband hus-band grew a beard. To support his wife and six children in his early years at UTTI, Lawrence often of-ten was at the Orem campus from early in the morning to late at night, teaching both his regular courses as well as night classes. "My wife swore up and down for a while (the kids) didn't know who their dad was," he said. "It was just something I had to do to survive." Students in UVSC's electrical elec-trical automation technology and robotics department learn to repair automated equipment at physical plants around the state. Many graduates of the program have gone on to work in the mining industry, including includ-ing Kennecott, and more recently for businesses such as Longview Fiber, IM Flash and Neways, Lawrence said. David Manning, department depart-ment chairman over UVSC's engineering and graphics and electrical automation and robotics programs, has worked closely with Lawrence Law-rence for the last couple of years says his coworker is dedicated and determined. "Larey's the best," he said. "He accepts any assignment and gets it done, he doesn't let things bother him and he's very cordial." Despite a career at UVSC spanning nearly 36 years, Lawrence said he didn't feel old until he taught the grandson of one of his former for-mer students from the 70s. "I taught the grandfather, the father and the grandson," grand-son," he said. "It's kind of neat that the whole family went through the program." He shares the concern of most of the people who work in UVSC's technology trade programs that the college's col-lege's transition to a university univer-sity could further threaten the vocational training it offers. In recent years its electronics and machine programs have gone by the way side. Lawrence also said school administrators are having a tough time finding a replacement replace-ment for him because technology tech-nology instructors now are required to hold master's degrees. Those working in the electrical automation industry in-dustry with similar qualifications qualifica-tions can earn much higher wages managing plants than they can teaching students in the classroom, he said. "They would have to want to come and teach," Lawrence Law-rence said. "That would be their reward." Jeanette Lawrence said though her husband's move into retirement make take some getting used to, he'll relish the new-found hours he has to explore and tinker with his vast collection of gadgets and electrical equipment equip-ment that fill a garage and two storage sheds at the couple's Orem home. "He's got his own UVSC in the garage," she said. JpO |