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Show lean Fork Cft C 3-DIGIT 841 MARRIOTT LIB - UNIV OF UT 3 SERIfiLS ORDER DEPT SALT LAKE CITY UT 84112 More LOCAL news than any other source! For home delivery call 756-7669 or see our web site at www.newutah.com Vol. 21, No. 14 Wednesday, April 7, 1999 50 cents a single copy 'mm nni n n ljVJVSVJU vis LjLSL!Lj LbQ Lehi juror describes Movie Buffs ordeal By Marc Haddock Managing Editor I A Lehi woman who served on the jury for the recent Movie Buffs trial said the jury had no choice but to find Larry Warren Petennan "not guilty." But that doesn't mean the jury thought the cable-edited adult videos they screened as part of the trial were not obscene. "I felt like my free agency was taken away from me," the woman said in an interview with New Utah! She asked that she not be identified. "I don't want the citizens to think that we did not consider that material pornographic. But because of a technicality, we couldn't convict." The verdict in last Wednesday's trial ended a two-and-a-half year legal battle that started in October of 1996 when police raided the American Fork and Lehi Movie Buffs video stores and confiscated confis-cated 1000 videos and computerized comput-erized store records. Peterman's first trial, conducted con-ducted last June, ended in a hung jury when a single juror held out in deciding a community commu-nity standard for obscenity. , The woman juror who spoke to us is a Lehi mother of six who has lived in the communis ty for 12 years. She "said the" trial had been an educational experience, but that in the end she felt betrayed. "I for one am really saddened sad-dened by the outcome, but it was the only outcome that could be," she said. "We weren't trying to set a new community standard." The juror said that when the jury received its instructions before beginning its deliberations, delibera-tions, jurors were told they had to consider two points: Was the material pornographic and did Peterman knowingly break the law in renting the material? That second element was a surprise sur-prise to the jury, she said. ; They did not introduce that fact until the very end, when the case closed down at the very end. And then they brought it in and slapped us with that," she said. "It really was like a slap in the face. "We thought we would have to base our decision on just the one element. And then at the very end, even if the state has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt this case, then you have this other element." C See JUROR on Page 12 r yy In 1 14 Easter egg Photo by Marc Haddock No one had to hunt very hard to find the Easter eggs at American Fork's annual hunt Saturday morning, despite a snowstorm the previous night. City crews had cleared the Vt iv4m hunting grounds, and helpers distributed the goods gener- 1 1 U 1 1 1 w I w ousely, as these youngsters and their parents discovered. Committee hopes to make changes in AF's downtown City cleanup planned for May 1-8 By Barbara Christiansen ClTYEDfrOR In the next few months, American Fork's Downtown Development Steering Committee anticipates seeing a great deal of progress. "By August or September you could have your work plan and have a manager," said Bim Oliver who has been advising the group. There could also be a special improvement district set up to help establish and beautify parking park-ing areas in the downtown sector. Committee members recently reviewed some of the preliminary assignments given to members. They included parking, celebrations, celebra-tions, and attracting businesses. Dale Gunther, who also serves as chair, and George Brown reported on the parking situation. situa-tion. "We have discussed the idea of forming an SID (special improvement improve-ment district) of some sort," said Gunther. "Conceptually we would like to create some sort of mechanism mecha-nism to raise money by bonding." That would go toward parking, landscaping, beautification, acquiring additional parking, and pocket parks in the area. They plan on working with property owners in the area between 100 East and 100 West to get a majority willing to work together on the project. In addition, addi-tion, they may seek help from the city to help with the bonding procedure pro-cedure and to assist in the repayment repay-ment of those bonds, based on sales tax derived from the increased prosperity. City officials have set a precedent, prece-dent, as they recently approved a project on the city's west side in which they would allow reimbursements reim-bursements for some of the infrastructure, infra-structure, based on increased sales tax derived from the project. pro-ject. See DOWNTOWN on Page 12 With longer days, residents are spending time cleaning up their yards. They should be preparing for the American Fork City Spring Cleanup, scheduled for May 1 through 8. The city will place several large dumpsters at the Art Dye . Ball Park, .-550 E. 900 Norths Residents should bring their refuse to the park to place in the dumpsters. If they are full, they should wait until they are emptied emp-tied before dumping the materials. materi-als. Violators will be prosecuted. The area will be open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Materials may not include tires, construction construc-tion materials, large appliances or toxic wastes. Tree limbs '"sheuld be no longer than four feet long and must have the side limbs trimmed off Another option for the cleanup is offereed by the city in the form of landfill passes. Punch cards for five free trips per year per residence are available at City Hall, 31 N. Church Street. The landfill is at 2000 W. 200 South, Lindon and is open Monday through Friday from -7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and" Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The phone number is 225-8170. Family sought as grand marshals Know a family which has made a significant contribution to American Fork? Tell city" officials, in a written nomination up to two pages long, why they should be considered as Grand Marshals of the annual Steel Days parade, and they could be waving to you from the parade's front. Nominations may be mailed or hand-carried to City Hall, ' 31 N. Church Street, and should be received by April 30. This year's theme for Steel Days centers around Home Town Family Fun. Thanksgiving Point to become home of prehistoric treasures Utah County will soon be home to one of the largest dinosaur museums in North America. The 86,000 square foot museum muse-um will be built on seven acres at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi and will include a variety of ancient life displays and educational educa-tional facilities. The first phase of the project, scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2000, includes a special exhibit hall, cafe, concessions area, gift shop, natural history art gallery, and a 350-seat, giant-screen theater. The second phase includes dinosaur and fossil exhibits, an interactive laboratory for all ages, fossil preparation laboratory, extensive exten-sive specimen storage space, science sci-ence library, and a large conference confer-ence area for public and private events. The Museum's creation coincides coin-cides with an increasing public interest in dinosaurs and natural natur-al history. Guests of the museum will walk through a dinosaur quarry, observe fossil preparation, see recreated prehistoric environments, touch fossil specimens ranging from trilobites to dinosaur bone to ancient shark teeth, join in fossil hunts, learn about paleontology, paleon-tology, in the interactive laboratory, and , view movies on a 45 by 75 foot screen. , Proposed museum programs include lectures by prominent dinosaur scientists, field camps We have designed this facility to contain more mounted dinosaur disr plays than any other museum h the world. It will include the longest mounted dinosaur on the planet. Cliff Miles Western Paleotological Labs and tours, and weekly camp events, or DinoSnores, inside the museum. The North American Museum of Dinosaurs and Ancient Life (NAMAL LC) in partnership and cooperation coopera-tion with Thanksgiving Point, is contracting con-tracting with Quantum Construction a n d Development LC to build the $20 million mil-lion facility. Construction is scheduled to begin this spring. Principals in the project are Thanksgiving . Point Development Company LC, Western Paleontological Laboratories Inc., and Quantum Construction and Development LC. The structure will be equivalent equiva-lent to a six-story building of approximately 86,000 square feet and a prominent, large-scale relief of dinosaurs will adorn the high walls facing the freeway. The museum will be visible and easily accessible from 1-15. The museum will be dedicated dedicat-ed to furthering knowledge about the history of nature through education and entertainment. enter-tainment. "We have designed this facility facili-ty to contain more, mounted dinosaur displays than any other museum in the world," explains Cliff Miles of Western Paleontological Laboratories. "It will include the longest mounted mount-ed dinosaur on the planet and one of the tallest Some of these dinosaurs have never been exhibited before." Tom Pugh, President of Quantum Construction and Development, together with KMA Architects and WPL, designed the building. "The proximity to the interstate inter-state corridor and the growing educational and destination status sta-tus of Thanksgiving Point were the deciding factors for its location," loca-tion," said Pugh. "In addition, Lehi City officials have been very instrumental in helping the project to move forward in a timely manner." Thanksgiving Point is excited excit-ed to partner with Western Paleo and Quantum and to welcome the dinosaur museum," muse-um," said D. Clive Winn, President of Thanksgiving Point Institute. "It's a great addition to the educational opportunities already provided here and increases our exposure expo-sure as a national and international interna-tional destination point." iffictency is the key to Tri-Phase growth Editor's note: This is the fifth ' in a series of stories about business busi-ness located at the North.VaUey Business Park ; By Barbara Chkstiansen i City Editor , The North Valley Business Park is home to corporations which selected American Fork as a good location to do business. busi-ness. - It's also home to local businesses busi-nesses which were seeking a place to expand. That's just the case with Tri-Fhase Tri-Fhase Electric. Locally owned by Roy joked Jensen. They do electrical construction construc-tion work, basic but not boring. When architects or engineers engi-neers draw up the plans for a building project, they include specifications for the electrical work. Contractors then submit bids for the work, and the builders select who they want based on the price and the company's com-pany's reputation. Tri-Phase, Kke all other companies, com-panies, bases its His on the amount of materials in the They did work on the Chicago LDS Temple, the Timpanogos Special Service District, Mountain Ridge Junior High School, American Fork Fitness Center, Nestle Frozen Foods in Springville. Also several branch offices for the Bank of American Fork, Dan Peterson School, North Valley Surgical Center, Taylor Drug, American Fork Clinic, Switch Soft in Lindon, Key Labs in Lindon, Merrill Lynch in Provo, Oxbow Jail, and the Hunter Law Library at BYU. Very close to home, they have done the electrical work specifications, and the estimated estimat-ed numbeTof man-hours it will Jensen. Dennis Parker ancN take to eomnl th wrfc- If ilUndv Mott. the comnanv .the mmdav Cr k 1 Kttartfm fhrta Ou1it becm l34, and wsj started the amount of time, it can m&ke Inn, Sento, Axent and Cadi, all money on tne project. "We have good employees, and they can do the job e3 ckntlv" said Jensen. ' ' inc- oasea on tne uuua, others cy havf r -rierrt Crdrrcci tii - FcrUs electrical jobs all over UUh, and at fir away as . &ftt& Ctrolira, Ohio, Missouri, and Kentucky. They are licentdi in 23 ttztzx 1 by Fred B. Jensen, Roy's father. At bis dsath, Roy, Dennis tsd Randy purchased their parties of the company and named it located in the North Valley Cusiness Park. Currently, Tri-Phase is work-icj work-icj on the electrical renovation 1 In 1SC2, the comrsny wu rpsi JHi, lac Cha Tri-Phase "It's a Ions name, bat we're trrktlly a boricj business," in Anutn Fork, an addition to Nattn's Herbs and the Carrrssa Lime Plant in Ohio. ICit exyhisiKl that firms ent applications. Tri-Phase has chosen food processing and lime powder production to be among their specialties, making mak-ing them extra competitive in those areas. There area only a few engineering engi-neering firms that do lime production," pro-duction," he said. Tri-Phase has received recognition not only from firms selecting them to do business, but from among their peers. The Intermountain Electrical Association recently named the firm the Outstanding Electrical Contractor of the Year for the Southern Region, , the aru soO Ctbrt C the Mountain to the Arizona border. One of the reasons they have been so honored is their willingness will-ingness to sty current with , fcchncy cu,--iit "We are . always sending employees to schools to update their skills and knowledge," saia rarxer. v j X vs 1 y ( Photo by Bcrtxara Christiansen Jensea arret4. ttics tech- Trt-Phc' Otari Parkf kwpcts todsteal tpccanorts at Jr";".-L v fs-j-wwnng wemea urn, iacc79a m mm i Pelt. COPY 4 x &afr.-.-& |