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Show 1- h 70 en d i res k L - U!HH PRESS ASSOCIATION '67 EAST 300 SOUTH Sh. r lhke crrv u r am ; i Tuesday Utah County voters will go to the polls on Tuesday, April 9, to decide on whether or not to approve a $7.7 million general obligation obli-gation bond to construct a special events center at Utah Valley Community College. Construction of the events center would dovetail with the building of a planned Physical Education Building at UVCC, expanding the P.E. complex into a structure struc-ture capable of holding conventions and other community events. Malcolm Beck, Utah County Commission Commis-sion chairman, said if approved, the county the bond would be paid over 20 years through the implementation of the 1 percent restaurant res-taurant tax which was recently approved by the legislature. He said the tax would not be imposed until the bonds were sold. UVCC expects to receive $10 million from the state next year to construct a physical education complex, and will go ahead with that construction even if the bond is not approved. The new convention center would feature fea-ture a 6,500 to 8,500 seat arena - expandable expand-able to 10,500 seats, open exhibit space, gymnasiums, classrooms, and offices. The special election is necessary in order or-der to coordinate the construction of the area with the construction of the new physical physi-cal education facility, according to commissioners. commis-sioners. They explained the college has given the county commissioners a July 1 deadline to decide if the county will build the arena and coordinate the construction of the two facilities. fa-cilities. Supporters of the bonding say economic benefits of a special events center would include additional tourist dollars, sales and room tax revenue, increased real estate values and additional employment. The Utah Taxpayers Association has come out against the bond proposal, saying they are concerned about the limited time voters have been giver, to consider the proposal. pro-posal. "Many taxpayers feei they have not been provided sufficient time to properly evaluate evalu-ate the potential impacts of the project." said Howard Stephenson, president of the association said in a press release this week. The Taxpayers Association feels the college is imposing unrealistic demands on the county and that UVCC should still accept the arena if voters approved the bond in a regular Xove-nber election. The Taxpayers Association said scheduling sched-uling policies for the new facility concerning concern-ing public use vs. collepe use has yet to be determined. "Specific access privileges should be clearly outlined before taxpayers decide whether or not to pay for the arena." Where to vote Tuesday For Tuesday's special bond elecf '.on, local voting districts have been consolidated into the following districts and poll ing locations: Alpine District 1 (Regular Districts 1 and 2) Alpine City Hall American Fork: District 1 (Regular Districts 1,2, 3 and 4) Greenwood Elementary District 2 (Regular Districts 5 and 6) Senior Citizens Center District 3 (Regular Districts 7, 8 and 9) American Fork High School Highland District iu Regular uisincis l ana i) nigniana tiementary Vol. 13, No. 14 GODS Wednesday, April 3, 1991 Serving American Fork. Alpine and lliglihuul 50 cents a single copy 1 phvCI tt 0 As local schools broke for spring this past week, hundreds of north Utah County Spring residents traveled south to celebrate. Visitors to Utah's Arches National Park are seen here silhouetted inside the North Window Arch at the park. From Desert Storm Doctors return to warm welcome City hears recycling proposals By BARBARA CHRISTIANSEN The 1990's have been called the decade of recycling and American Fork City isconsideringjumpingon the bandwagon. The Planning Commission is scheduled to take a look at a suggested sug-gested location for a recycling facility facil-ity on East State Road at its April 3 meeting. Members of the City Council listened lis-tened to two proposals at its last meeting, encouraging those interested inter-ested to present written proposals to the city. Barbara McCandless, mother of Miss American Fork Julie McCandless, McCan-dless, presented Julie's ideason the subject and introduced Todd Grant of Rapid Refund Recycling. Julie had studied other communities' commu-nities' recycling efforts, including those in Orem, Lehi, and Bluffdale. Many cities provided locations for voluntary donations for recycling, recy-cling, but Grant said he would be interested in providing a trailer for American Fork residents to bring their items for him to purchase. "People will be more apt to recycle," re-cycle," he said, "if they are paid for it." He indicated he would consider accepting aluminum, copper, brass, paper and perhaps plastics. Mayor B. Kay Hutchings asked the Planning and Zoning Commission Commis-sion to take a look at possible locations loca-tions in commercial or industrial zones where the trailer could be parked. Grant noted that everything would be enclosed and kept clean. Another presentation was made by Tim Chadwick. He showed a video tape of machinery ma-chinery available to sort through refuse and select recyclable items. "It was over-whelming," Bob Steed, a nurse-anesthetist at American Ameri-can Fork Hospital and a member of the 328th Evacuation Hospital, said of the welcome the group received upon arriving home from Operation Opera-tion Desert Storm. "I'll never forget the feeling. We received more hugs and kisses than at a family reunion," Steed said recalling the airplane's landing at Bangor, Maine, for refueling. Dr. Michael Callahan, an orthopedic ortho-pedic physician and another member mem-ber of the group, said about 300 people were at the airport to greet the incoming military, welcoming them with waving yellow ribbons, flags, cakes, cookies and even stuffed animals. Callahan, Steed, Dr. Ronald Saunders, and Dr. Val Dunn have returned to the American Fork Hospital and their offices after being activated for the war in the Persian Gulf. All but Dunn served in Germany. Ger-many. A radiologist, radi-ologist, Dunn went to Texas to replace a physician who had been sent to the Gulf. Dr. Kerry Welch, a family physician; physi-cian; Dr. Roger Sheffield, a surgeon; sur-geon; and other hospital support personnel are still to return home. "We knew from having watched Armed Forces television that we had the support of the people back home, but we didn't realize it would be like this," Callahan said. "I served in Vietnam and it wasn't anything like this when we returned," re-turned," Saunders said. Saunders, whose airplane landed in Canada in the dead of the night, missed the celebration, but said when he returned from Vietnam, "we sort of crawled home from under a rock." All were surprised at having been sent home so quickly they were deployed just four months before their return - and had expected to be overseas until at least June. "We were activated for six months and this was extended to a year," Callahan said. They feel the reservists aren't "weekend warriors" any more, but have earned the respect of their countrymen. "It isn't just 'the weekend warriors' warri-ors' anymore," Callahan said. "We've all had to accept the reality. We accepted the pay for years for week end service, with the understand ing that in return we might have to serve in combat. I think this has brought it home and there's been a lot of pride of service." Callahan was sent to Vad Cannstatt5th General Hospital iu Germany but when the war began, was sent to the same hospital as Saunders in Landstuhl, Germany. This hospital was a regular military mili-tary center and was expanded to 1,000 beds for the war. "I'll never forget the feeling. We received more hugs and kisses than at a family reunion." --Bob Steed Steed was deployed to a "smali rear hospital" in Bremerhaven, Germany, caring for military dependents. de-pendents. Although a Urologist, Saunders said the Urology Clinic at the hospi tal was closed and turned into an Intensive Care Unit and he served as a general surgeon. Although the hospital in Landstuhl Land-stuhl was closed to dependents originally, origi-nally, when the number of war casualties wasn't as great as anticipated, antici-pated, restrictions were relaxed --then --then the war began. "It was sort of schizophrenic -- a Catch-22 situation. We weie waiting wait-ing for it to start. When it didn't we started to see dependents and then it got really busy," Saunders said. Steed said in the smaller hospital hospi-tal they were also prepared for the See REUNION on page 3 Landowners hope to change policies By ANNLEIGH MCMANIS The Highland Landowners Association, As-sociation, H.L.A., was recently incorporated in-corporated as a non-profit and cooperative co-operative association in the state of Utah. Don Callis, organizer of the committee, said that the organization organiza-tion has several objectives, the first objective being to provide a large influential group to represent landowners land-owners and support legislation favorable to the group. Challis feels that the organization organiza-tion can serve as a screening committee com-mittee for the planning commission. commis-sion. When residents come before the commission they will be better organized and prepared to have their requests approved. "We would also like two members mem-bers of the planning commission to be members of the H.L.A. until requested otherwise by the landowners," land-owners," said Challis. Other objectives of the committee commit-tee are to improve the environment in the community by finding uses for the land which would be consis tent with the objective of creating a pleasant, quiet, efficient, rural community. In order to do this the H.L.A. feels thatthezoninglawsneed to be modified to allow for the development develop-ment of land not suitable for agriculture agri-culture into building lots. An information sheet on the landowner association said that it was organized for the following reasons: Land in Highland is difficult if not impossible to sell. Also, individual individ-ual landowners have little influence influ-ence on City Council decisions that affect them. The organization believes that Highland is dominated by one political po-litical party which is unresponsive to the need .; and desires of landowners. land-owners. The landowners feel that the services from Highland are inadequate, inade-quate, principally due to the lack of a sufficient tax base, and irrigation and sewer needs are not being met. The group plans to meet twice a See HIGHLAND on page 3 Easter procession A "Procession of the Cross" was held as part of the Easter Services of the Community Presbyterian Church in American Fork, St. Peter's Catholic Church and the First Baptist Church of Pleasant Grove. The march, signifying the walk of Jesus to the Cross of Calvary, began at St. Peter's Catholic Church on 600 East at noon on Friday and ended with services at the Community Presbyterian Church. rrr" Smm u fay i 'rJi pf H imt Jil ' ft I l . v: Li |