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Show ! 320 expires 013089 yjftH PRESS ASSOCIATION C 67 WEST 300 SOUTH SALT LAKE CITY UT 84111 Serving American Fork, Alpine and Highland Vol. 10, No. 17 Wednesday, April 27, 1988 50 cents a single copy SI ff' 9 1 : .1 1 R- hi 1 t V IS 4. I r r .., -.. . It ' " -- - .,1 Nieghbors gather for district caucus Monday night, as local Republicans and Democrats met to elect district officials and delegates to upcoming county and state conventions. North County Demos give support to Dukakis North Utah County Democrats joined the rest of the state in heavily supporting presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in Monday night's straw poll. The poll was conducted at voting district caucuses held throughout the state. Utah's Republicans, firmly fir-mly behind Vice President George Bush as that parties presidential nominee, also meet, but did not take a vote on the president's race. Of the 225 Democratic party members casting ballots in the north . county area, 195 (86 percent) expressed ex-pressed a preference for Dukakis as a presidential candidate. Jesse Jackson received 18 votes, for 8 percent of the total, and seven party members (3 percent) were District mulls calendar The school calendar for 1990-91 was presented to members of the district board of education at their April business meeting. According to the proposal, presented by Supt. Clark Cox, school will begin on Aug. 29, 1990, and end Still time to get low Pageant tickets The April 30 deadline for cashing in on reduced prices for the 1988 Utah Pageant of the Arts is fast approaching. Phone and mail orders are being taken now for the all-new "living pictures" production, which will be presented June 13-July 23 in the air conditioned auditorium at American Fork High School. Curtain time is 8 p.m. Producing director David O. Brockbank has selected 37 new pieces of paintings, sculpture and illustrations to be recreated life-size with live models during the show's I6th season. In addition, old favorites "Blue Boy," "Pinkie" and "La Pieta" will be depicted. Regular seating prices are $11 for center section and $8 for sides. The early bird discount offers $2 off Amtrak dumping sewage in town? Two employees of Amtrak Railroad have appeared before American Fork's City Council and accused the railroad of dumping raw sewage through the community. George Jones, of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, and A. Tom Matthews, of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, said that Amtrak is in violation of Federal Law 94210. Mayor Kent Evans said, "I find it appalling that even in the early 70's the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) passed and accepted a law that the trains can dump raw sewage on the right of way of the railroad." Matthews said the law requires that the trains must be moving 25 m.p.h. to dump, but that is generally disregarded and they just dump , . V.sVJ uncommitted. In the Pleasant Grove-Lindon area, five Democrats (2 percent) voted for Paul Simon, who has stopped campaigning for the office, but has remained as a candidate. Here is an area-by-area breakdown break-down of the votes: American Fork: Dukakis, 71; Jackson, 8; uncommitted, 1. Alpine-Highland: Dukakis, 21; Jackson, 2. Pleasant Grove: Dukakis, 44; . Jackson, 3; Simon, 5; uncommitted, 1. Lehi: Dukakis, 59; Jackson, 5; uncommitted, 5. At Monday's district caucuses, party members also selected delegates for the upcoming county on May 31, 1991. There will De a number of holidays during the year, including: Labor Day, UEA convention. Thanksgiving. Christmas-New Year. P-psidents Day. Spring each June tickets and $1.50 off each July ticket ordered by April 30 Tickets may be ordered by sending sen-ding a check to Utah Pageant of the Arts, Box 111, American Fork. Utah 84003. Specify center or side seating, date and row A to W, stage to back). In addition, phone orders are being taken from 3 to .5 p m weekdays at 756-3505. No performances will be given Sunday evenings of July 1-4 The Pageant ticket includes admission to both youth and professional art exhibits, as well as the stage production. A backstage seminar will also be available for $1 before the show, at 7 p.m. A light meal before the production and pie afterward will be available for purchase. whenever the holding tanks are full. He said that the Board of Health states that the hepatitis germ can live six to eight hours outside of someone's body. His concern was that children and animals could play around the track and bring the germs to many others. The State of Utah is handing the case for the employees and they are seeking the support of the individual communities in the cause. They said that Amtrak trains go through American Fork twice a day, seven days a week. Evans said, "This appears to be a gross violation of good public health and cleaning up the environment." He promised to write a letter confirming con-firming the city's support of the case against the railroad. A party conventions, where delegates will vote on officers for county elections where more than one party member has filed for the office. Delegates for the state party conventions were also elected, as well as chairmen for each party organization at a voting district level. The caucuses mark the first step in the election process. Next will be the county conventions. The Democrats will meet Saturday, May 14, at American Fork High School, starting at noon. The Republican county convention will be Saturday, June 4, starting at 9 a.m. at Mountain View High School, Orem. Vacation, and Memorial Day. A complete copy of the proposed calendar, which will be adopted by the board at a future board meeting, may be obtained from Michael Hobinson. district staff member, at the district of f ice in American Fork. wr sm'f'' isswftsg?w& HwiPMwaiyg-'iiewwi11 " "!9w4f-w,ii " - - , . , ,'. , i ' J i , . ' , ; ' , ; , ; ' n 7 - . J n - , , 1 y. V. . ' ,r J ' J I 1" , ' - 1 L f V : : 1 ,Z . a. r . . it 41laJ ( i. fc in -wiriniinJ ii Fair weather friends Tiffany Turner, 20-month-old daughter of John and Julie Turner, enjoys Tuesday's sunny weather with a neighbor's young chicken. A few minutes later a well-placed peck on the little girl's hand generated some second thoughts about the friendship. Agency gives city okay to form special district By BARBARA CHRISTIANSEN One more step has been taken toward the establishment of a Special Improvement District (SID) to develop the sewer, roads and other improvements for American Fork's proposed North Valley Industrial In-dustrial Park. The Redevelopment Agency (RDA) has authorized the City Council to establish an SID to fund the improvements. The council has accepted the plan and has set a public hearing for May 10 for citizen reaction. The RDA, which has been reviewing the plans of the proposed development, has no authority to take any legal action, but must rely on the City Council to do that. Councilman Don Hampton pointed out that the original concept of the redevelopment area was that "cost Well measurements show local water levels dropping Measurements of ground-water levels in 776 wells statewide during February and March 1988 indicate that water levels declined in about 80 percent of the wells when compared com-pared with measurements for a similar period in 1987, according to Gail Cordy, hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. For the 25th consecutive year, the USGS, in cooperation with the Utah Division of Water Rights, has prepared water-level-change maps for basins and other areas with significant ground-water use. Cedar Valley was the only area in 'Jtie state where the number of wells w:.h measured water-level rises (60 percent) outnumbered wells showing declines (40 percent ). However, water levels in nearby Uah Valley declined in all wells measured except those completed in the water-table aquifer. Declines were noted in more than 90 percent of the wells surveyed in Salt Lake, Tooele, Cache and Juab Valleys, as well as the East Shore and Beryl-Enterprise Beryl-Enterprise areas. Water-level rises were measured in about 40 percent of the wells in the survey in Pahvant, Curlew and Cedar (Iron Co.) valleys, the central Virgin area, the shallow artesian aquifer in Sevier Desert, and the water-table aquifer in Utah and Goshen Valleys. for developing such facilities will be self-sustaining from the project area." Hampton asked what would happen if the Woodbury Corporation, Cor-poration, developers of the industrial in-dustrial park, is not successful in completing the project. Mayor Kent Evans said that the project would then revert to the city and it would have the option to continue the development or sell the property. With bonding proposed for up to $950,000, the city would have to recover over $10,000 per acre to pay off the bonds if default is taken after the improvements are made. Hampton noted that the relatively short period of construction for the infrastructure, it is likely to be fully developed before any abandonment would take place. U S. Geological Survev in cooperation with the Utah Department of Natural Resources. Division of Water HiEhis h i F -V ' , ,N 3: Lah 9:5 v Pelican j Point 40 15 ' ( 7 .1 H I. ' . VrVJi Map of Utah County shows change of ground water levels in water-table aquifers, March 1987 to March 1988. The largest water-level decline 30.4 ft. in a well tapping the deep measured from February-March artesian aouifer in Utah Vallev. 1987 to February-March 1988 was Planning Consultant Rod Despain said that it would be three or four years before the additional taxes on the property would be significant enough to make a dent in the assessments levied on the property owners. Hampton said that former City Councilman Jerry Edwards, a real estate salesman, estimated the raw land value at $5,000 per acre. Hampton was concerned that the city would not be able to recover the costs of development. Mayor Evans promised that the public hearing would be held before the SID is actually put into place. He noted that the agreement between the RDA and the city empowers the city council to form an SID, but does not mandate it to do so. EXPLANATION -5 LINE OF EQUAL WATER-LEVEL WATER-LEVEL CHANGE. Dasfied where approximately located Interval, In feet, Is variable PHI RISE Ceet) 0-3 DECLINE (feet) 0-5 NO DATA r v v v v v u 9 observation! ' WELL A K I See WATER on page 2 AF says no to garbage rate hike American Fork City has told Laidlaw Waste Systems to wait six months before bringing back a request for a rate increase. Dick Zobell appeared before the City Council meeting last week, citing increasing costs as the reason for the proposed increase. He said that it had been six years since Laidlaw had requested the last raise in rates. However, a pass-through pass-through increase had been approved due to rising fees at the landfill. Zobell said, "Had I not thought it necessary, I would not be here." The increased insurance costs the company has encountered "have presented an awful cost to us," he said. Mayor Kent Evans noted that in 1986 Laidlaw had signed a five-year contract with no escalation factor build in. He said that the city had three options : to accept the increase, deny it, or put the contract out to bid Zobell said that his people had accepted low wages in order to get the contract. He continued, "We don't want it to go out for bid. We will still be happy to try to serve the city the best we can." Councilman Don Hampton said that the "fiasco" with rapidly escalating insurance costs began before the contract was issued. He said he could not support the increase in-crease since a signed contract was in existence, and suggested that any consideration be deferred for six months. Councilman Crosby Mecham said, "It is not in the interests of the city to end up with you suffering." However, he continued that generally, cost escalation has not been as high as requested. He suggested that productivity should be increased to merit any raise in wages. H f A; v m L |