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Show ! 480 expires 013094 UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION c 467 EAST 300 SOUTH SALT LAKE CITY UT 84111 (Dnftnsm Serving American Fork, Alpine and Highland Vol. 15, No. 4 Wednesday, January 27, 1993 50 cents a single copy L - . Pile driver pounds post into ground as construction crews start adding new I 15 Interchange on Lehi's Main Street Construction begins on new 1-15 interchange Preliminary work on the Lehi Main Street interchange has begun according to Bob Westover, project engineer for the Utah Department of Transportation. S taker Paving.contractorforthe job, started the work with widening the railroad structure north of Main Schofield named to post with state insurance dept. Commissioner Robert E. Wilcox Friday announced the appointment of Anthony W. Schofield of American Ameri-can Fork to the position of Deputy Commissioner of the Utah State Insurance Department Schofield' replaces Randall Smart who left the department in October to work for a local law firm. Schofield is a graduate cf BYU with a BA. in history and a J.D., cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School. Since graduating he has spent 16 and one-half years engaged in a general commercial law practice. For the past 11 years he has been an associate, share holder and director of Ray, Quinney There's always room for more AFs Youth City Council is growing, seeks new members By BARBARA CHRISTIANSEN City Editor American Fork is growing again this time with its Youth City Council. The group, now in its second year, is expanding. Students between be-tween the ninth and 12th grades are invited to an orientation meeting meet-ing Monday, Feb. 1 at 5:30 p.m. in City Hall. Introducing the youth council program to interested youth and their parents will be Gary Sessions, Executive Director of the Utah Association As-sociation of Youth City Councils. The program is an exciting one, said Council member Ricky Storrs, recently assigned to oversee it. "We encourage," he said, "as many kids as can to get involved. We won't turn away any youth. "It is a way for these kids to learn i Street and west of US 89. The work will necessitate blocking block-ing off one lane of US 89 during the construction. Two-way traffic will be maintained on the road at all times, but the interference in the area will likely continue into April. The Lehi Main Street project involves in-volves several phases in order to and Nebeker. Civicinvolvementhasbeenahigh priority for Schofield, including a stint as president of the Central Utah Bar Association, member of the Board ofTrustees for the American Ameri-can Fork Hospital, as well as chairman chair-man of their Quality Assurance Committee. Schofield also served as a member mem-ber of the American Fork City Planning Plan-ning Commission. Schofield views this new appointment appoint-ment with the State Insurance Department De-partment as an opportunity to serve the citizens of the State of Utah. This outlook, along with his back- local government. When they get elected to a position later in life, they will have an idea what is going on. It is a great learning process." In addition to the council and mayor positions, there are other positions in which youth may serve, includingbeingon committees helping help-ing with city activities such as beau-tification beau-tification and recreation. "The community," said Storrs, "is behind this program. For example, ex-ample, our police chief is looking forward to having a youth council police representative." There are over 50 youth city councils coun-cils in Utah, with 30 more communities commu-nities preparing to start their own YCC groups. The groups all offer community service and leadership training, but differ in their methods. For example, the Youth City 1 c "Jw IsT -,4 make the interchange a full diamond dia-mond interchange. Other construction will include rehabilitating several roads in the area, adding new ramps to the interstate in-terstate and installing a traffic signal sig-nal on US 89 and West Main Street in American Fork. Anthony Schofield ground, will make him a valuable asset to the Utah State Insurance Department. Council of Pleasant Grove chose a project designed to close the generation genera-tion gap between community young people and senior citizens. They organized fund raising projects to provide a senior citizen banquet and entertainment. They conducted an essay writing contest with hundreds of younger students writing about their grandparents. grand-parents. Over 400 senior citizens shared a dinner and program of pre World War II music with the winners of the essay contest. The YCC students presented many awards to the senior citizens for their long years of community service. "Tears were shed," said a Youth City Council brochure. "Memories were revisited, friendships were established and a mutual respect if Proposed road will probably avoid hazards of golf course By BARBARA CHRISTIANSEN City Editor American Fork's Planning and ZoningCommissionhas determined that the best alignment for a road would be south of the Tri City Golf Course. The group came to that conclusion conclu-sion at its meeting last week, just prior to a discussion with members of the Golf Course Committee regarding re-garding another possible route which would have bisected the golf course. One of the major concerns was liability, according to PlanningCom-mission PlanningCom-mission Chairman JohnMcKinney. "I have called," he said, "other golf courses with roads through them. There are some liability problems." prob-lems." The proposal called for the east-west east-west road being slightly elevated while passing through the course. Concerns were for golf balls hitting cars. While liability legally remains with the individual golfers, both city and golf course officials wanted to find the least danger. Another problem which would have been created by that option was having to relocate portions of the golf course. Commission rules for Greenwood By ANNLEIGH McMANIS The Utah County boundary commission com-mission ruled in favor of Dale Greenwood's annexation in American Ameri-can Fork at Monday night's meeting. meet-ing. Greenwood's property is currently cur-rently part of the county. . Highland City had protested the annexation earlier in 1992 because they were concerned about the lot size. The property is scheduled to be divided into two pieces, Greenwood norm, wnicn win oe i. o ana vxreen-wood vxreen-wood south, which will be five ares. The commission had ruled against the annexation at a meeting in October 1992 and left the issue up to the two cities to resolve; they still haven't come to an agreement concerning the boundary line along 9600 North. City engineer Jay Fransen said that state statute said that a parcel AFman injured in tubing accident A 21-year-old American Fork man was injured in a tubing accident acci-dent Saturday at the old rifle range near the mouth of American Fork Canyon. Jason Transtrum was taken to American Fork Hospital by Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Ambulance for treatment of facial injuries. Dave Vickers, Pleasant Grove medical officer, said that the victim reportedly hit face first in hard-packed hard-packed snow while tubing down a hill. EMTs hiked to the victim and transported him off the hill by basket bas-ket stretcher. Transtrom reportedly was knocked unconscious on impact. EMT Vickers said the victim had a possible broken nose and jaw, and other facial injuries and abrasions. was kindled between elementary school students, the Youth City Council and their 400 newly adopted grandparents." After the banquet, the YCC m em bers had a substantial amount of food left over. They drove to Salt Lake City the following day and helped other volunteer groups serve it to over 500 homeless men, women and children under a freeway overpass over-pass on a cold, rainy Sunday. In Delta, each YCC members selected a student who might be classified as a "youth at risk." The YCC students became a friend with the at risk student to draw them into a new circle of friends who are doing positive things in their school and community with the goal of replacing inappropriate behavior with community service and eliminating elimi-nating social barriers. "It would cost," said one committee commit-tee member, "a half million dollars to move a green plus another $150,000 to move a tee box." Others described the financial impact to the playing revenue. "We would be dead," he said, "if we had to play nine holes for ayear." "We would," said another, "have to replace $600,000 a year in rev-enue." rev-enue." Planners try and minimize the effect of developments. "We normally try," said McKinney, "to impact as little as possible. We do not want to impact the green. We may have to impact the tee box on the 17th hole." The road skirting the southern edge would border the course, but not along the direction that balls would be shot. The southerly route, running between 100 East and 900 East, would go through the Art Dye Leisure Lei-sure Complex, separating the existing exist-ing ball fields from future development. develop-ment. "The ball diamonds," McKinney told the Golf Course Committee, "were planned and placed in preparation prepa-ration for the southerly route of that road." greater than five acres that is annexed an-nexed should go through a public hearing process. Highland took the issue to the boundary commission because they felt that local standards are being imposed on and that the annexation would affect the surrounding property prop-erty owners on 9600 North as well as the population and growth density den-sity of the community. Highland has felt hat there needs to be a buffer nm between a Highland's 40,000 square foot lot sizes and American Fork's 9,000 square foot lots. Monday night, comm ission chairman chair-man Clyde Naylor directed the lay members of the commission to only look at the annexation issue. Tucker Hansen, an attorney representing rep-resenting American Fork, said that the annexation of Green wood's prop Flying High . TTTTf CZ ( ) ( 1 ( i CycZZ) ( ) r t i i f -'7 iOj , Members of American Fork High's "Red Thunder," a male version of the drill team, toss Jon Gunther high as a climax to their performance at Friday's basketball game against Pleasant Grove. The half-time show was only part of the fireworks, as Ryan Bromley shattered the backboard with a slam dunk during warmups, postponing the game opening for an hour. There is no timetable set for development de-velopment of the street, explained McKinney. American Fork City," he said, "will not build the road. The road is built when development comes in because that is when it is needed." With the choice of the road to the south, there is the possibility of closing off the northern portion of 200 East as it continues past the golf course up to meet the Alpine Highway. "There are some good things," said Planning Commissioner Jess Green, "which could come out of this. We are not certain that the road to the west of you needs to be maintained full length. "That may help eliminate some liability youhave on the west side of the course." While the road has been considered consid-ered necessary for the proper traffic flow, planners have said it will not be as heavily traveled as routes west of 100 East. "1120 North," said McKinney, "will have served its purpose as a collector by the junior high school. The road past 100 East doesn't serve a purpose as a m ajor traffic carrying road." erty was in the best interest of all parties involved. "Because of the geography of the area, with a hill that slopes downward, down-ward, American Fork is in the best position to provide sewer for the property," he said. A proposed street was to be pi aced 15 feet from a neighboring home. Hansen said that American Fork, in their most recent meeting, changed that to be 20 feet. While Highland has stated that services, such as utilities, would be duplicated because of the annexation, annex-ation, Hansen said that that won't occur. American Fork will be able to provide all of the necessary services for the developmen t of the property. "There are still some very difficult diffi-cult issues that need to be resolved," said attorney Ray Harding, Jr., for American Fork. |