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Show V I 1 " ' 1- 388 exDiren 013087 UTAH PRESS ASSOC I AT I ON C 467 EAST 300 SOUTH SALT LAKE CITY UT 64111 1 ! County eyes agreement to keep Adventure Park open Utah ; County Commissioner Robert W. Warnick Is hopeful an agreement can be worked out with state officials under which Utah . County or another public entity can take over the Adventure and Learning Park. The park, located on the north edge of the Utah State Training School , campus, faces permanent closure July 1 unless funding can be found for maintenance and up-keep. The park is believed the only barrier-free park of it's kind in the nation. It was built by government funding and matching "in-kind" donations from volunteers for use by individuals with handicaps in the state. Commissioner Warnick said he met with training school superintendent superin-tendent Jeremiah Dandoy last Thursday. "We discussed the park and he verified they planned not to have it open after July 1," the commissioner com-missioner said. He said Dandoy presented him a proposal under which the county or another public entity could take over the park and keep it open. "I will discuss this with the other commissioners and plan to set up a meeting with the superintendent and officials from the stole social ser vices and the Parks and Recreation Division to tour the property and see what is involved," he said. " Commissioner Warnick said any agreement would have to remain in compliance with . federal requirements because of the federal money involved in the park construction. con-struction. A committee organized to save the park said earlier the park was constructed with a $550,000 grant, of which $275,000 came from federal monies. Volunteer labor and materials madr up the matching money. Dandoy said Monday a further meeting had not been set but he is anxious to see "if there is continued interest" in keeping the park open. "We will have to study it and see what obligations are involved," he said. Commissioner Warnick said he hopes something can be worked out to keep the park open. The commissioner, who was appointed to the office in January, said he hadn't been in office long enough to know what all would be involved for someone to take the park over. "I think the potential is there and if there is anyway we can that we should pursue it," he said. Vol.8, No. 8 i ft. - - 7 Vtl Ik (T P 1 ' Betty Tippetts, instructor, assists Greg Cox with "Cassie." Dogs have Rover is having his day in the classroom While "Mary's Little Lamb" got chastised for following her to school one day, dogs of all sizes and mixtures mix-tures are being welcomed to classes - inside - at the American Fork Junior High School. And, according to the teacher, you can teach old dogs new tricks as well as young pups. M ary Manning balances family, service, sports By SHARON MORREY There are a few rare people who can take on a lot to do, juggle a variety of demands, work under a great deal of pressure and still come out smiling. Mary Manning is one of those people. Currently the only woman on the City Planning Commission, Mary has Just been named Site Plan Persona touches Review Chairjnan. That means an extra meeting twice a month for Mary, some pretty heavy responsibility respon-sibility and the probability of becoming commission chairwoman next year. She has a family; five active children and a busy husband and she's extensively involved in her church, scouting, PTA, and the city athletic program. In fact, according to Gty Recreation director, Steve Bailey, she. has single-handedly organized and run the city youth soccer program for .the past seven years. "She's just totally dedicated. She's really unbelievable." says Bailey. "People ought to know about her, the kind of time she devotes to the city. "She probably gets more done than any other two people I know." Mary says she's embarrassed to have a lot of fuss made over her. She just feels she is doing her part. "I guess I've always jumped in with all four feet. I like to be in Wednesday, February 2$, day at jr. Lessons are geared especially for the pets - but - class registration requires owners to accompany them. Betty Tippetts, teacher of the Community Education sponsored class, said although she has taught dog obedience classes for about nine years, this is the first time she has taught one inside a classroom. "My classes have always been in volved," she laughs. "I haven't done this all myself. No one person could. I've worked with a lot of good coaches and people. And my husband is really neat, he's good to tend the kids and support me. I couldn't do this is he wasn't." Mary is married to a sportsman; Marlow (the son of Bus Manning - a city baseball field was named after Bus) and although sports wasn't a high-priority item with her before she married, it soon became one. Marlow plays baseball and football, and coaches Little League. Mary "jumped in" and helped organize a girl's Softball team when they lived in Alpine, began to coach a softball team in American Fork. Then she discovered soccer and instantly liked it. "Every kid on a soccer team can feel useful. Soccer's good for kids, that appealed to me. Most kids can get in and feel good about playing. There's a lot of running and they can do that!" Mary decided to help set up a soccer league. "Obviously if I can be in charge, anybody can do it," she states simply. .Bailey says that was a monumental effort and is still growing. "But she'll take a project and where you or I might put it off and maybe wait a bit to get to it, she just goes at it. I can't keep up with her." That involves a large investment of time and effort. Mary has two seasons a year. She sets aside three Saturdays in a row to register participants and collect fees. She is responsible to order and distribute uniforms and equipment. She divides up the teams, calls and trains coaches, assigns the team mothers. Mary schedules referees, soccer fields and then has to see that the fields are properly laid out. . 'This year I have a man who's going to help me mark the fields," she says. "But until now, my husband and I have just taken the string and tape and done it. That takes a lot of time. win " -i" v . i.t.TtW tvarcTass 50 cents a single high the summertime, not the winter," Mrs. Tippetts said, adding, "When they asked me to teach a class last October, I said find me a room. It's too cold and stormy to teach outside now. Besides you can't train a dog in the dark." "Scott (Scott MacKay, Community Education Director) wasn't too sure, but one day he See DOG'S DAY on page 3 1986 i l l I T I f , I i ' Sr A? JS) - (At 11 c ;. ' . -.V H ft Chairwoman for the day, Mary Manning goes over a blueprint with City Engineer Carl Hansen as Planning Commission progresses. "I kind of feel like I'm married to the program," Mary jokes. "But it is pretty much full-time from January until May and then again in the fall. Once the season starts we can relax a little bit." When Mary started out there were just a little over a hundred children in the soccer program. Now there are 500 and more children signing up each session. That's great with Mary, she'd like to see it just keep snowballing. "We try to put 12 to 15 on a team, so we have 40 teams this year. It's coming. We've got a really neat junior high team." She says she doesn't mind doing all the calling and organizing. But Serving American copy AF wants industry to be light, not heavy, in city By SHARON MORREY American Fork City welcomes light industry to the city but is not encouraging heavy industrial operations to locate here. That appeared to be the consensus of the city Planning Commission Ffib. 19, as the new M zone for American Fork City became actually ac-tually just a zone for light industry and did not include provisions for and heavy industrial enterprises. "I don't think any of us really want that," Commissioner Jess Green commented, following discussion of the final draft of the ordinance being readied for city council approval. "I think it's good." Mary Manning moved that the ordinance be sent ahead to the City Council "as is" and that move was seconded and approved. The ordinance excludes three uses for the 1-1 zone in American Fork: Citizen earns top state honors For the second year In a row, and the third time in the past four years, the American Citizen was recognized as the best weekly newspaper of its size in Utah. The Citizen received the prestigious General Excellence award for Group 2 newspapers at the Utah Press Association's annual convention held in St. George Friday and Saturday. Papers compete in three different groups, according to circulation size. Citizen Publisher Brett Bezzant she does get upset when people call and complain without offering to help out. "You get a parent who's mad because his child isn't on the team with his friend. They just tell you off but when I ask them to come over and help divide teams, they disappear. I get particularly mad at people who sit back and complain and do nothing to solve problems. "Lots of time things aren't as they appear, you don't know." Mary welcomes help. "There's always a need for more people. Your program is only as good as the people who volunteer. "One person can't change things if people don't help," she says,. Fork, Alpine and Highland livestock feed yards; junk storage or solid waste disposal sites; and auto wrecking yards and salvage yards. Permitted uses include plant nurseries and greenhouses, animal hospitals and veterninary clinics, truck terminals, parking lots, caretaker dwellings and office buildings when incidental to other permitted uses. Planned industrial parks, are allowed as long as the activities do not produce a noxious odor or fumes, noise, vapor, vibration, smoke, glare or a "similar condition which is harmful" to people beyond the boundary of the zone. "An adverse visual impact readily discernible" from public roadways is not permitted. Accessory and non-accessory signs, such as billboards (when situated within 100 feet of the Interstate In-terstate highway) are allowed with was also Mmed treasure of the organization which represents the more than 50 weekly and bi-weekly newspapers throughout the state of Utah. The Citizen won the General Excellence award by placing nine of the 13 categories recognized in the association's annual Better Newspaper Contest. That included first place awards for Best Front Page (tied with the Emery County Progress), Best Society Section (tied with the Pleasant Grove Review), Best Ad Y?l 9.) Z - although Steve Bailey says one person like Mary can certainly give it a fair shot. Soccer and sports aren't the only activity in the Manning's schedules. Mary has also served as PTA president, Primary president, district Blazer committee member and Round Table staff for the Boy Scouts of America. Her Blazer Scouts scored top marks three years running at the fall camporees and district event. She sews. "Almost everything we wear, I sew. Sometimes my husband says why don't I go to work full-time? full-time? It would be easier," she laughs. "But I work better under some conditions. The 1-1 zone was designed to provide a place for light industry to locate in American Fork and has been under lengthy discussion by the commission since the fall of 1965. Residential development and retail commercial enterprises would not be allowed under this zoning in areas designated 1-1. Primary access through residential zones to the site of an industrial business would not be allowed. Businesses would be expected to soften the impact of some visual problems with landscaping and screens. Complete copies of the ordinance are available from Gty Hall and until the City Council gives its stamp of approval, the M zone just exists on paper. M Gampaiga anl.&t .Circulation. Promotion. The newspaper won second place awards in the editorial division (tieo with the Lehi Free Press) for an editorial written by Managing Editor Marc Haddock about the Alpine School District's investment losses, in the news series competition com-petition for a series on the American Fork Police Department written by Sharon Morrey and in the photojournalism competition. The Citizen also won third place See AWARDS on page 3 pressure. I do better." When Mary was asked to take a seat on the Planning Commission she felt overwhelmed. "I told them that. But I did some groundwork, I had an engineer come over and explain plans and plot maps to me. I did have some experience ex-perience reading topographic maps from my work in scouting. And I thought, maybe sometimes they need somebody like me to just sit back and listen from a citizen's point of view. "I felt I could bring that much to the commission." As to her new responsibilities chairing the Site Plan Review, she's excited. "It's fun to see what's coming in," she says, "And we will do what needs to be done." She realizes the demands on her time will increase and she's taking some measures to release herself from some pressures. "I'm raising my family, tool" she exclaims. "In the soccer league, if it continues to grow and it has that potential, we'll need more than one person. One couldn't handle it." With Bailey, Mary has organized the American Fork Youth Athletic Association, an organization of all the youth athletic presidents. They've incorporated and will correlate all the city athletic programs and needs through this association. Again, Bailey gives the Lion's share of credit to Mary for bringing together something that had existed just as an idea for a couple of years. She tole-paints, does ceramics and sometimes just takes her girls on an outing to escape the phone. "Sometimes we have to go five different ways," she comments, "I have to just have something fixed that can stay on the stove for meals while we all run to different games and sporting functions. We're really going. And sometimes, yes, It it hectic. "That's why I've enjoyed my year on the commission. It's been a good experience to be involved on a different dif-ferent level," she smiles. |