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Show 1 Thursday, June 28, 2007 Page 2 OREM TIMES NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED Les Campbell ending City Council career Reva Bowen As the July 16 filing deadline for ( hem's 2D07 municipiil election approaches, ap-proaches, two of the City Council members mem-bers whose seats will be open are planning plan-ning to run, while a third, Councilman U-s Campbell, feels that eight years is enough for him. "I do not consider myself to w irreplaceable," irre-placeable," said Campbell, who is finishing finish-ing out a second four-year term. "There are many, many good icople in this community who could do service to the community as a City Council member, and I would hox- that we would have lots and lots of applicants." CamplH'll also expressed support for colleagues Mark Seastrand and Margaret Mar-garet Black - each of whom came to their seats by appointment who have Ixjth decided to attempt to retain their seats in the election. "I'm excited for the opX)itunity to try and get elected and serve four more years with a great mayor and council," said Seastrand, who also complimented city stall memlxirs with whom he has worked. "Orem has a lot of good things going for it." Seastrand was appointed by the City Council to fill the seat held by the late Doug Forsyth, who died in IX'cember 2005 while in office. Black was appointed appoint-ed to her seat in January after Stephen Sandstrom departed to serve in the state legislature. Black said it has leen "a great privilege" to serve on the council, and lielieves she can make a contribution Ix'cause of her background in community commu-nity leadership and service, combined with the training she has received in all aspects of city government. "I will study and work with creative vision to understand issues, make wise decisions, solve problems, meet needs, and accomplish goals that will preserve and enhance our city," Black said. If six people or fewer file for the election, no primary will be held, said city recorder Donna Weaver. Mow-ever, Mow-ever, if seven people or more file, a primary election will be held on Sept. 1 1. A final municipal election will be on Nov. 6. Those wishing to file for a City Council seat during the two-week filing ix-riod should go to the city recorder's office in the Oretn City Center during regular business hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. There is a $.'55 filing fee, said Rachelle Conner, deputy city recorder. DONATING BLOOD I r"""ir vw JER0NIM0 NISADaily Herald Susan Hymas left helps Paige Kimball get ready to donate blood at the Red Cross Center in Orem on June 25. Last -minute filers should be aware that the city recorder's office will close the door right at 5 p.m. on July 16. Candidates are required to be at least 18 years old, be a registered voter, and be a resident of Orem for the last 12 consecutive months. COMMUNIS NOTES Election changes Individuals running run-ning for Orem City Council seats will now be required to file a campaign finance disclosure form prior to the primary election, as well as before the general municipal election. The Orem City Council approved that and other changes to the city's election laws June 26. The penalty for failure to file is the same for the primary and general elec tions removal of a candidate's name from the ballot. City recorder Donna Weaver said having the additional campaign disclosure disclo-sure before the primary would provide consistency and would be beneficial to the "public's right to know." The city holds a candidate orientation orienta-tion to review this and other issues with candidates. State law requires that candidates be informed of the requirement require-ment at the time of filing and 14 days before the deadline. The definition of a municipal primary election was changed to include the new date of the second Tuesday after the second Monday in September, which was established by the state legislature. leg-islature. The primary date was moved up to accommodate early voting requirements. re-quirements. State law also removed additional "grace periods" for disclosures not received re-ceived by the recorder by the deadline, and Orem incorporated that change into its laws. The filing period for primary elections elec-tions in the state is July 1 through July 15, extended by one day this year to July 16 because the 15th is a Sunday. Harmons Fuel Center Customers at the Orchards Shopping Center at 880 E. 800 North in Orem will now be able to get gasoline as well as groceries. The Orem City Council approved a conditional-use permit June 26 for a Harmons Fuel Center. Stan Sainsbury, director of the city's Development Services Department, said the council had previously amended the site-specific PD-4 zone to include a fuel center if it was operated by Harmons, and did not have a fast food operation. Vineyard Contimwd from Page ! difference. Monson said. "( )i em offers fire and medical, medi-cal, which we don't provide," he said. "They will still need ( )rem (resources) for those especially es-pecially because they have the license for ambulances." Like most smaller towns, there aren't a lot of service calls. "We do a lot of proactive patrol such as alleviating problems prob-lems in the area, taking care of drunk drivers around the lake, and handling problems associated associ-ated with the area," Conner said. "We take calls from resi dents and try to solve the problem prob-lem as quickly as possible, although al-though we might not be in the area at that exact moment." Because of Vineyard's small need for specific calls for peace officers, there isn't a huge draw on Orem's resources, he said. If Vineyard chooses the Utah County Sheriff's Office option, deputies also will be able to provide adequate coverage. "They are a small community," com-munity," Monson said. "They are ready to grow at a pretty quick rate and we will add additional people as the need increases." Right now, the Sheriff's Office's contracts between smaller communities, such as Fairfield, include having 20 hours a week of law enforcement enforce-ment in the town along with other services. Deputies will respond to any call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As Vineyard grows, the cost for more police officers to cover the area will increase. 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Utah 84069 0065 Published Thursdays by Lee Publications, which is a division of Lee Enterprises, Inc Memtmr: Audit Bureau ol Circulations Give us a call at 756-7669 If there's really no such thing as bad public ity, Chadder's, the new hamburger joint in American Fork, is enjoying its 15 minutes of fame. I decided to try the place out last week, figuring I'd better hurry, since the California-based In-N-Out Burger is trying to sue Chadder's out of existence. exis-tence. It was my second visit to the restaurant, restau-rant, which is on the corner of Pacific Drive and West State Road kitty corner from Applebee's. The first attempt failed. The newspaper news-paper staff went in our usual Wednesday Wednes-day celebration of actually producing six newspapers in one day. But we had a 15- to 20-minute wait to order, and then a 30-minute wait before our food would be prepared. That meant 50 minutes of our lunch would be spent waiting for the food. We bailed. The second time I went alone, but not before doing some research. Frankly, I've never eaten at an In-N-Out Burger. As far as I know, I've never seen one. I have seen a T-shirt with the In-N-Out logo, however. But until Chadder's started making some noise, I had no idea that In-N-Out had achieved some sort of cult status in California, Nevada and Arizona. They have announced plans to build one in St. George. The reason, according to Wikipedia a dubious source, but an easy one is that the food at In-N-Out is never frozen, and the meat is processed only in one meat packing plant, so its growth is limited by geographical distance from that plant. The meat, according to several Web sites, is one of the secrets of In-N-Out's success. But the main secret is the secret menu. Only a few items are listed on In-N-Out's menu a cheeseburger, a hamburger, a "double-double," fries, shakes and soft drinks. That's it. But if you are initiated into the secret language lan-guage of In-N-Out, you can order your burgers a variety of ways, with or without meat, with or without cheese, with or without the bun. I found one Web site that listed 16 variations of ? Y Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN The ins and outs of ordering burgers burgers, fries and shakes, if you knew what to ask for. The most popular is to order the burger "animal "ani-mal style," which means a mustard- cooked beef patty, additional pickles, extra "secret sauce with grilled onions. on-ions. "Protein style" means a burger without the bun and wrapped in lettuce. let-tuce. A "Flying Dutchman" refers to two beef patties with two slices of cheese nothing else. All of these terms are specific, and they are copyrighted. No one else can offer an "animal-style" cheeseburger without stepping on In-N-Out's toes. Enter Chadder's. The basis of the In-N-Out lawsuit is that Chadders has not only copied the general white, red and yellow color scheme of In-N-Out, not only do the employees wear red aprons over their white uniforms (although they had changed to blue the day I was there), not only is the menu limited to the same six items listed on In-N-Out's simple written menu, but Chadder's has its own "secret" menu. And if you know what to order, you can get a burger resembling one of In-N-Out's secret-but secret-but -signature items. 1 had my burger "Stubby's Way," which meant a mustard-cooked beef party, additional pickles, extra "secret sauce" with grilled onions. The burger was good. The fries which were thin cut from real potatoes were superb. su-perb. I didn't modify those. After all, how much secret sauce do you need in a day. Besides, at Chadder's you can get Utah fry sauce with your order and you can't get that at In-N-Out. If you go, expect a wait. I've never driven by when the place wasn't extremely busy. And when we approached the owner, Chad Stubbs, about doing a business profile, he asked us to hold off, please. Right now he has all the business busi-ness he can handle. And with the In-N-Out suit making news, the lines just grow longer. Me? I may go back tomorrow, and see if 1 can get mine with "extra toast." Roads Continued from Page 1 have to buy the right-of-way to widen to five lanes, and those purchases are not made to the "front door" of a property, but to the "end of the yard," so acquiring the land for a seven-lane expansion expan-sion would not necessarily be much more expensive than for a five-lane expansion. Other proposals for the road include 10-foot multi-use paths on both sides; an 8-foot landscaped buffer between the multi-use paths and the road; and strategically placed raised medians with landscaping. land-scaping. The commission also recommended rec-ommended restricting new driveway locations to UDOT spacing standards, restricting restrict-ing parking along both sides of the road to promote bike and transit use, and providing provid-ing bike route signs along the corridor. Goodrich emphasized that the proposals are "concept designs" and that the city will need to work with UDOT. "I think it's a great plan," said Councilwoman Margaret Mar-garet Black. "I'm very impressed im-pressed with it, and would like to see it happen." As part of the city's transportation trans-portation master plan, the City Council also adopted UDOT's "option 'A' 1-15 concept" con-cept" with minor changes. The option features an interchange at 800 South and frontage roads south of University Parkway for 1-15 improvements. The changes to the concept plan would include designing design-ing a different alignment for the 800 South interchange road west of 1-15, in order to "maximize transit-oriented development that will compliment compli-ment the future Intermodal Center," according to background back-ground material in the council coun-cil agenda. "Having an interchange access to the Intermodal Center is crucial, I believe," Goodrich said. Providing separate pedestrian pedes-trian and bike paths on the new 800 South interchange road to offer service to the transit -oriented development and the Intermodal Center is also called for in the proposed pro-posed changes. The City Council adopted the June 2007 street classification clas-sification map as part of the transportation master plan, an update from 2001. Principal arterials are now defined as "streets that have or are intended to have seven lanes" instead of five to seven sev-en lanes. Minor arterials that cross 1-15 will be designated to have five lanes instead of three to five lanes. A number of streets were "upgraded" 1600 North from Geneva Road to 1200 West from minor arterial to principal arterial; 1200 North from Geneva Road to 1200 West from an urban collector to a minor arterial; Center Street from Geneva Road to 1200 West from a minor arterial arte-rial to a principal arterial. Also upgraded were: 400 South from Geneva Road to 1200 West, from an urban collector to a minor arterial; 800 South from Geneva Road to 900 West, from an urban collector to a minor arterial; and 2000 South from Geneva Road to Sandhill Road, from an urban collector to a minor arterial. Streets identified to cross 1-15 are 1200 North, and 800 South at the new interchange inter-change point. The map adds 1-15 frontage front-age roads from University Parkway south to Provo, and removes the "urban collector to local" street classifications. 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