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Show Thursday, August 16, 2007 Page 2 OREM TIMES 7 I "H NEWS. AND MOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED i i -in i MilligiftMsi m m mm Council clarifies cut-off point for pending ordinance rule Reva Bowen The Orem City Council voted Tuesday to clarify in city law when an ordinance amendment amend-ment has been "formally initiated." initi-ated." The action was necessary, according to agenda background back-ground information, localise Utah Code provides that an application ap-plication for a plat amendment, site plan, or other land use is entitled to approval if it meets all of the ordinance requirements require-ments that exist at the time of filing. An exception to that position is the "pending ordinance rule" - allowing a municipality to put applications on hold while formally initiating proceedings proceed-ings to amend its ordinances, Project Ctmtimwd from I'ugv I a unique piece of property." As proposed, Sunset Ridge would have had 75 units in its residential phase 15 units as side-by -side townhomes on the east of the project, and another an-other (it) units in 20 buildings. As desci ilx'd by Development Develop-ment Services director Stan Sainshury, the (0 units were a new design concept featuring featur-ing three units in each building two on ground level and one unit alxive all made to look like a large, single-family home. Scouts Conhniii'il from I'uc 2 "We got a phone call from our two Ixiys 'We really want to go to the World Scout Jam-Ixuee,' Jam-Ixuee,' " said his father, Luke Lllsworth. "T hey were expecting expect-ing us to sav 'no, but our response re-sponse was 'T hat sounds cool. Let's come up with a plan.' " Though his younger brother Ixiwed out, Lllsworth said his parents contributed $1,500 which they bad planned to give him for a high school graduation gradu-ation trip and tlien matched every dollar he contributed toward the jamboree. Between his summer Scout camp counselor pay at Gimp New Fork, Wyo., and twirling pies at fizza 1 lut, Ellsworth was able to earn enough with his parents' matching funds. ( )nly a handful of Utah County Scouts were able to attend the jamboree. "1 was able to raise $2,000 working minimum wage," LTls- NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS 399 E Stare St Pleasant Grove Marc Haddock 443-3268 North County Editor mhaddockiJheraldextra.com f'l I TTI'VT"! 'iwmmmnwmm Cathy Allred 443 3262 Lehi. Saratoga Springs, PI. Grove callred$heraldextra com Barbara Christiansen 443 3264 American Fori. Alpine, Cedar Hills bclinstiansenheralciextra.com Mike Rigert 443 3265 Orem, Vineyard mngert$heraldextra com Beky Beaton 443 3267 Sports bbeatonheraldextra.com Josh Walker 443 3260 Advertising Account Executive iwalkei heraldextra.com Volume 134 mn in... ( H,.rn, I, Minn USPS 411-700 W(x4 !y nPWSpai i (MhfclWdM 399 E Slate M ''!'M ..I'll i ,i ni.iti 8'1'f I'pitodii al ixjstaqe (Mid at Pleasant Grove Utah 8'106? and at ,nkli'kin,ii mmiii'iij i.iltf Postmaster: Send addrev, ijianyes tu Orem Times, PC) Box 6b, 'J'"' . I '!,ti' i', 9 not,! r-'iihlr,hpf1 lhuf.'l.iv', hy I Publication;, whth i'j a division of L(W i i.ri' Di '..- In. Mmbr: Audit Bu'i'au r if .ulaTKins mis but Orem's laws did not define when an ordinance amendment amend-ment has been "formally initiated." initi-ated." In a -l vote, the City Council Coun-cil decided the point of formal initiation should be after an amendment has been considered consid-ered by the Planning Commission Com-mission and the commission's recommendation forwarded to the council. Steve Earl of the city's legal staff said the issue was raised by the City Council's recent consideration of amendments to its deep lot ordinance, and changes to laws governing check cashing businesses. The clarification of a cut -(iff date would assist in dealing with applications ap-plications made after the City Council has indicated a desire to change city ordinances. The commercial portion of the development would have been an office building and a restaurant pad. Maddox said he felt the "highest and best use" of the land was some commercial development, de-velopment, along with residential residen-tial to buffer the neighbors. But Councilwoman Karen McCandless said site was uncomfortable giving up the "commercial capability" of the property. "Just because it doesn't make sense now to make it completely commercial doesn't mean that it might not make sense later," McCandless said. worth said. "It was something I felt would be worth it ... a sense of learning alwut Scouting Scout-ing all over the world." He was not disappointed. Wearing their special jamboree patches and neckerchiefs neck-erchiefs on their khaki and olive Boy Scouts of America uniforms and hoisting their colors, Lllsworth the troop's assistant senior patrol leader and Troop 420 marched into sub-camp Wadi, near the heart of the teeming teem-ing Jamboree. An expansive English park morphed into a virtual international Scouting metropolis of tent cities with 40,000 Scouts and their leaders lead-ers from 158 countries for the next week. f rom a grand Opening Ceremony Cere-mony celebration, to an almost spiritual early-morning Sunrise Ceremony commemorating to the day the 100th anniversary of Scout ing's first camp-out with founder Robert Baden-Powell, Baden-Powell, Ellsworth and his troop intermingled daily with Scouts Phono: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILY HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager Julia Fullmer 344 2570 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Megan Carleton 344 2570 DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344 2585 Photographer Issue 84 Councilman Dean Dickerson proposed an option from those prepared by staff that would make the cut-off point the time when a proposed amendment Ls noticed for hearing by the Planning Commission. Dickerson said the option would prevent "people coming running all at once" to make applications before ordinance changes, so there would not be "a mad rush to the door." A majority of the council, however, voted to extend the cut-off time a little further into the process, by waiting for the Planning Commission recommendation. recom-mendation. Orem City Council meeting canceled By action of the Orem City Council on Tuesday, Tues-day, the regularly scheduled "This is a beautiful project," said Councilwoman Shiree Thurston, "but (developers) are not going to buy out town homes to do commercial later." Area residents who would be affected by the development develop-ment expressed concerns about traffic, fencing, and grading issues. "Our nightmare," said resident resi-dent Merrill Dunn, "is that everyone ev-eryone is going to want to go through the neighborhoods, not on to Center (Street). We have just seen a tremendous increase (in traffic) from the development above." McCandless noted during the dressed in a wide range of uniform palettes and styles and speaking languages from six continents. Days were filled with challenging physical activities, ac-tivities, excursions and historic visits, concerts and dances, and presentations on pressing global issues. Despite the frantic schedules, Ellsworth and his companions had plenty of opportunities to chat with the foreign Scouts most of which were co-ed units. "Some of the guys in our troop went a little girl crazy," he said. Troop 420 befriended a neighboring German troop from Bavaria clad in navy blue uniforms; they had to take out a loan in order to come to the jamboree. Ellsworth's troop and the Germans frequently got together for fireside chats and regularly exchanged members mem-bers for meals. "Most of the Scouts spoke English ... or had one guy in each troop that spoke it pretty The world finally saw "High School Musical" Musi-cal" Friday, which means I now have something to talk about with every 9-year-old girl on the planet. Sharon and I decided to rent the popular video after we learned that the SCERA was going to do a stage version of the show. We felt we had a professional responsibility to know what the movie was all about, if we were going to keep in touch with popular culture. As empty nesters, we don't have any pre-teen girls living at home. Otherwise I'm pretty sure we would have already seen the movie numerous times. For the uninformed, "High School Musical" is the dopey-sweet Disney made-for-TV movie that has taken the world's "tweeners" by storm. It's "Grease" for the younger set, without the smoking or implied im-plied premarital sex. It's loaded with pop songs that the kids apparently love. At least it seems that way, because the DVD we watched had two versions of the movie, one with the words of the songs on the screen so the viewers can sing along. An added bonus for Utah viewers is that the movie was shot in Utah. (As in, "Hey, that's Park City!" or "Hey, that East High is really East High!"). Most of the film takes place in the Salt Lake City high school, even though the movie is supposed sup-posed to take place in Albuquerque, N.M. The advantage to picking East High is that you can have an East High anywhere except the North Pole, where the only direction is south. Anyway, after watching the movie all the way through, we had an experience not unlike the one you get after buying a new car, when as you drive home it seems that every third car on the road is the same make as yours. Now it seems "High School Musical" the movie is everywhere. There was an article in Sunday's newspaper about how East High has become something of a tourist destination for the pre-teen fans of the movie, who just can't wait to stand exactly where Sharpay (really, that's her name) stood in the school's lunch room during "Stick To The Status Quo" and strike the same pose she t Sept. 11 council meeting was canceled due to the municipal primary election being held that day. The Orem City Council also approved a motion appointing the receiving and alternate poll workers for the 2007 municipal primary election, and approving approv-ing the voting locations. Code on improvement bonds The Orem City Code pertaining pertain-ing to improvement bonds was amended by the City Council Tuesday to make standards uniform throughout the city. Developers have been permitted per-mitted two years to complete site improvements, while other sections of the Orem City Code require completion of improvements improve-ments within one year. Development Services director direc-tor Stan Sainsbury said city discussion that if the property were to develop as commercial, accesses to the north could be eliminated or controlled. "What is our view going to be?' asked resident Becky Green, who also expressed concerns about whether traffic lights would shine in her home and if the planned 6-foot fence in the development would stay at that height despite the changing chang-ing grade of the land. Washburn said that he sympathized sym-pathized with residents' concerns con-cerns about having the view from their homes altered, but added, "There is no ordinance that protects your view of well," Ellsworth said. "The ones that didn't were French. They refused to speak English." Eng-lish." A great deal of free time was spent engaging in a long-established long-established Scout jamboree ritual: swapping patches and gear. Many brought along stacks of extra patches and badges, extra uniforms, and Scout scarves expressly for trading. 'Amid dozens of patches and badges in a variety of shapes and designs, Ellsworth scored an entire light -blue Italian Scout uniform including the socks, a German uniform shirt, an Australian contingent Jamboree Jam-boree jacket, a much-sought after Finnish Scout skullcap and a Brazilian Scout backpack. back-pack. Though the Italians had the coolest backpacks, they refused to part with them, he said. Troop 420 rounded out its adventure with three days of touring in the London area with stops at Windsor Castle, of 'High School Musical' Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN staff wants to "have consistency consis-tency so all ordinances say one year, and we don't have that conflict between one and two years." Orem-Vineyard water agreement agree-ment item postponed Consideration Con-sideration of an interlocal agreement to provide limited water services to the Town of Vineyard was postponed by the Orem City Council on Tuesday. The matter was rescheduled re-scheduled for discussion at the council's Aug. 28 meeting. Contractor OK'd Vineyard Town Council approved Anderson An-derson Development to build Vineyard's new public safety building. Anderson Development Develop-ment will look over the contract, con-tract, and fix any problems, and begin work on the building. (Mount) Timpanogos." Councilwoman Margaret Black voted with Washburn, McCandless and Thurston against approving the rezone. Councilmen Dean Dickerson, Les Campbell and Mark Sea-strand Sea-strand voted in favor of the change. After the vote, Roger Dudley Dud-ley of Dudley and Associates, engineers for the project, said, "It is worrisome to us as designers, how this can be developed de-veloped as purely commercial short of building a 40-foot retaining wall." "This was a good project, wrong site," McCandless said. the Tower of London, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Museum of Britain. Ellsworth said the jamboree has definitely shaped the way he looks at life and the world. "There's governments that hate us and you go (to the jamboree) and find it's not true with the general population," popula-tion," he said. "Scouting is kind of a way to bring people from all over the world to talk about the things that affect us the most. They're the potential future leaders of the world. If we can get these people to work toward common goals, we'll make the world a better place." Luke Ellsworth said his son not only got a rare international internation-al Scouting experience but was able to get a better appreciation apprecia-tion of living in a prosperous America. Many of Scouts had little or nothing to trade and the only uniform they had was the one on their back. "I think that was an eye-opener," eye-opener," Luke Ellsworth said. struck. Then "Troy" and "Gabriella" turned up on the cover of the magazine maga-zine supplement in the Sunday Daily Herald. And the SCERA isn't even close to being the first theater to produce a live version of the musical in fact, 2,000 high schools have already al-ready produced "High School Musical: Musi-cal: On Stage." Nor does this movie just appeal to tween-agers. My 23-year-old daughter, daugh-ter, who saw the DVD we rented, wants to buy the CD. She's not alone. It was the best selling CD of 2006, according to Amazon.com. It's also the best -selling DVD of a television show ever, with 7.8 million mil-lion sold since the movie premiered on Jan. 20, 2006 on the Disney Channel. Since then, the movie has attracted 170 million mil-lion viewers in 100 countries. The cast has performed per-formed 42 sold-out concerts over the past year. Disney clearly had no inkling that "High School Musical" had that kind of money-making potential, or the company would have released it in theaters. After all, no one knows how to wring money out of a movie like Disney. Now the big question is, can they do it again? The sequel, "High School Musical 2," premieres on the Disney Channel this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 9 p.m. Parties are planned nationwide. Much of this movie was also shot in Utah East High again, as well as Southern Utah, so the locales should be fun. And the cast from the first film is returning, which is a good thing, since the actors have become be-come household names since the original movie was aired. Expectations are high. So high that Disney is already talking about "High School Musical 3," which will be released to theaters. Sounds like a great set up for disappointment. disappoint-ment. The single certainty is that Friday night much of the world will stop while Disney attempts at-tempts to make lightning strike twice. And if you have any 'tweeners in your house, you'll probably be right there. Limerick Continued from Page 1 make new friends. Now seniors, the girls are leaders in the club and made a unparalleled journey this summer to Ireland that will take them far beyond the organization's school fundraisers fund-raisers and service projects. Moved by OHS graduate and former Operation Smile club president Chelsea Gould's example in taking an active role in befriending and caring for the children as they undergo under-go the life-changing surgeries in foreign lands, the girls went to the University of Limerick in Ireland from July 27- Aug. 3 for medical mission and leadership lead-ership training. Last year, Gould participated partici-pated in an Operation Smile medical mission to Mexico and previously had traveled to Kenya with her grandmother grand-mother to assist impoverished impover-ished children. Davies and Call learned about the Ireland opportunity at a student meeting last year and on the ride home, Gould talked about her own amazing amaz-ing experience with other teens at a similar training conference in Ogden. "She completely inspired me and kind of convinced me I could do it, that it's worth it," Davies said. Call had traveled with her family to Spain and Germany a year ago, but Davies had never been out of the country. In total, each girl had to pay $1,500 out-of-pocket for transportation trans-portation and mission training and leadership conferences expenses. Though the weather weath-er was often rainy during their stay at the University of Limerick on Ireland's southwestern coast, they described de-scribed the campus and city as green and beautiful. With both girls coming from large Utah families, Call said some of the foreign and American teens expressed culture shock in learning that they had many siblings. "They just couldn't believe it," she said. Yet both found Operation Smile leaders and youth to be warm and friendly. "What amazed me is that even though we didn't know each other, everyone was so willing and accepting," Davies Da-vies said. "I made some good friends ... it was probably the best experience in my life so far." Though Call and Davies won't actually assist surgeons sur-geons during the medical procedures to repair cleft lips and other facial deformities (yet they're welcomed to observe ob-serve the surgeries), they will play a key role in comforting the children before and after their operations, something that can be frightening for small children. The youth volunteers will also teach the children about proper nutrition nutri-tion and hygiene. "It surprised me how little foreign countries know about hygiene," Call said. "Things I've known since I was a child." Dances and activities were held in the evenings and the teens got a few opportunities to tour Limerick historic sites, castles and souvenir shops. A much-anticipated highlight high-light of the trip, Davies said, was the final formal dinner at Adare Manor where the teens waited with bated breath to learn what country they'd been assigned for the two-week medical missions. Davies will be going to the Middle East's Jordan in November, No-vember, and Call, who won't be going on her mission until the spring, will learn her destination des-tination in coming months. "Jordan that's so intense," in-tense," Davies said. "I would have never seen myself going (there) ... I feel good about it." After nearly three years with Operation Smile and the Ireland trip, Call said teen volunteers and the children they're working to help have more in common than many realize. "For me ... the hardest thing about school is being accepted by your peers," she said. "It's an amazing feeling to know what I'm doing here in my own country is helping other kids feel accepted ... " "Operation Smile made me feel accepted into Orem High ... and these children are being be-ing accepted into their community," com-munity," Call said. "It's kind of like (coming) full circle." Davies said she's learned through the club that teens and people can be very unselfish unself-ish and willing to lend a hand to a worthy cause if they are invited to help. "It's just kind of an overwhelming over-whelming feeling," she said. "You really do see the best side of people." i |