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Show SERVING AMERICAN FOUll CITY, CELEBRATING 150 VEARS IN 2003 AH EDITION OF T YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY. OCTOBER 16, 2003 50 CENTS VOL. 25 NO. 43 Aid Public may meet the candidates Voters will have a chance to meet candidates seeking seats on American Fork's City Council at several Meet the Candidate Nights. The first, sponsored by the American Fork Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce, will be Tuesday, Oct 21, at 7 p.m. It will be in the City Council chambers of American Fork City Hall, 31 N. Church Street Refreshments will be served. Each candidate will give a five-minute introduction, then the public will be able to ask questions about issues concerning them. There are four positions available in this year's election. elec-tion. Three are four-year seats and one is for two years. The two-year position is to fill the remainder of council member Don Hampton's Hamp-ton's term. Incumbents Ricky K. Storrs, Thomas H. Hunter and Jimmie D. Cates are facing challengers Shirl Don LeBaron, Judy Price and George E. Brown, Jr. for the four-year seats. Those seeking the two-year two-year position are incumbent Keith S. Blake and challenger chal-lenger Larry E. Roberts. Other meet the candidate nights will be on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. in the clubhouse of Sunset Hills, 950 N. 400 West, at Wednesday, Wednes-day, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in the American Fork Senior Citizen Citi-zen Center, 54 E Main. AFGUT CAR-RT LDTC-007 UTAH FP-ES3 ASSOCIATION 1 307 W 00 3 STE 4006 SALT LA,K E CITY. UT 64101-1277 , (V '. ' r I V, i X I . . m f ' " -i - j 0 Photo by Barbara Christiansen Pinning the nose . . Phoebe Thomas heads toward a dinosuar on the wall to try to pin its nose on. She was one of the participants in the American Fork Public Library's Book Fair last Friday. Fri-day. The library plans on making the event an annual one. idents may falcon parks By Barbara Christiansen City Editor Two of the city's largest parks - Art Dye and Hunter parks - will be the topics of discussion at a hearing to get ideas from community residents about the master plan to build American Fork's parks. There will be a public hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. at the American Fork Senior Citizen Center, 54 E. Main. Voters approved a $3.2 million bond to make initial improvements on the community's com-munity's parks. Representatives Represen-tatives of the MGBA architectural archi-tectural firm have been meeting with city representatives represen-tatives and holding hearings hear-ings to get suggestions from the public about what should be put into the parks. Those master plans are expected to go to the City Council for approval in early November. Plans for the large Art Dye Park may j be finalized at a later date. Hunter Park, on the city's west side and including includ-ing portions of Mitchell Hol low, is new to the city. It includes around 20 acres and is expected to have a variety of uses. Some of the land is wetlands and as such cannot have structures built in those areas. There has been a citizen group meeting and they have a lot of volunteers and donations lined up for the Hunter Park said Kenny Hoggan, who chaired the city's task force, which made initial studies of the community's 27 parks. He outlined the concerns about the Art Dye Park, on the city's northeast side, near the Utah State Developmental Devel-opmental Center. The biggest concern was finding the right balance bal-ance between parks-based recreational facilities and preserving the natural beauty of the park, especially espe-cially on the east side," said Hoggan. He expressed optimism about the process to define the master plan. " "We are excited to see things moving forward," he said. "Wre have had good input from the community." Correction An article in last week's Citizen addressed the American Fork Irrigation Company, including issues of liability. There was an error in the article. It should have read that the irrigation company has now resinstated its liability lia-bility insurance. The Citizen apologizes for the error and any inconvenience incon-venience it may have caused. Downtown American Fork invites kids to come for treats Downtown American Fork Inc. and select businesses busi-nesses between 100 East and 100 West will sponsor a safe trick-or-treat event for elementary-age children, at 4 p.m., on Friday, Oct. 31. Parents and children are asked to meet in costume cos-tume at Robinson Park, 100 E. Main, to receive trick-or-treat instructions, maps and Halloween candy bags. The event is designed to build awareness and loyalty to the historic downtown business district and provide pro-vide a safe environment for Halloween, said Evan Brady, Downtown American Fork board member and owner of the Yogurt Parlor, 66 W. Main. "This is the fifth consecutive consecu-tive year that we've hosted this event, and we've planned for another big turnout," he said. "We had more than 500 children last year, and this year, the businesses busi-nesses are about as excited as the children." Volunteers and the police officials will be on hand for safety and traffic purposes, to help children cross streets. McGruff The Crime Dog will also make an appearance. appear-ance. Downtown businesses have sent letters to invite all students at Barratt, Forbes, Greenwood, Legacy and Shelley elementary schools but want to encourage encour-age all children in American Fork and surrounding cities to participate. "Most children will already be dressed in costume cos-tume because of traditional school parties," Linda P. Walton, downtown American Ameri-can Fork main street manager, man-ager, said. "We wanted to provide a fun and safe way for the children to celebrate Hal loween early as well as generate gen-erate local economic development." devel-opment." Children should wear their Halloween costumes. Parents are asked to stay with their children throughout through-out the trick-or-treat route. For additional information contact Dan Davis, 812-0125 812-0125 or Evan Brady, 756-7900. Super Size That? Our infatuation with fast food began I at the Owl Inn i By Betty G. Spencer The "fast food" fever which erupted in the 1960s and. 1970s has been expended by new, even faster kinds of food to be picked up "in a hurry." In American Fork it all began with the Owl Inn, which operated for more than 40 years. It opened in the 192Q's owned and operated by David Davis, and in later years, La Verl Stewart. The Owl Inn was located on the curve between Main and State Street, on 200 East. After Prohibition ended in 1936, it was one of only three business busi-ness houses in town to hold a beer license. The others were BriggV Drug and Marion C. Robinson's Cafe. y I don't think that most teenagers who frequented the -place knew about the beer. The cafe was always clean, the food hot and fresh, the drinks cold and the service quick. Like the new Sonic Burger, recently opened adjacent to - Kmart, you could either go into the' cafe (it was never fancy enough to be called a restaurant) or you could sit in your car, hit the ! horn and an eager young waitress hurried out to your car to take your order. (And no, they did not use roller skates. In fact, the early parking lot was dirt.) The drive-up window, so popular popu-lar in the 1960s, hadn't yet been' ' invented, either. At the Owl Inn the main menu item was sandwiches, especitlly burgers (plain or with cheese), toasted cheese and chicken. These were accompanied by potato chips and either a soft drink or a tasty malt or a milk shake. The sandwiches sand-wiches were wrapped in squares of extra thin (think tissue) paper, the chips in a paper "twist," and the malts or shakes in heavy, tall glasses. The malts always came with an extra long spoon, to scoop out the fruit. The spoons were heavier and longer than today's iced tea spoons. All of the above was carefully arranged on a metal tray. The tray was attached to the rolled down car window with a clamp which held it in place. You paid for the food when it was delivered. When you were finished, fin-ished, you merely tapped the horn again and the same young waitress wait-ress hurried out to remove the tray. If you went there for serious eating, a real meal, you went BEAT THE HEAT COLD SOOT BoUU4 DSINKS ICE CREAM Ttftr SANDWICHES rTTlT GT?TXTWTt JP.Itto 12 P. It OWL INN AMERICAN FORK Display ad in an August, 1949, American Fork Citizen, offering a cold drink on a hot day. inside and ordered whatever Mr. Davis or Mr. Stewart had cooked up that day. They featured "down home" cooking and not many choices. Next to the A & W, they had the best cold root beer in town! The cafe was small and always crowded. The sides of the wall were lined with booths, with a pinball machine at each end of the booths. There was a counter and stools taking up three sides of the center of the room. The kitchen was in back, where you could see cooking in progress. See OWL on page 8 Oi WSUMANSI MONSTER 0 72 MONTH DISCOUNTED rusANcmai as much as '"'CTTOWntSMf.DBCOUN " MONSTER DISCOUNTED AS MUCH AS '03 TAHOtSI 0 72 MONTH HNANCINOI nut f so . BONUi CASHI f m rnt $i t. 0BcouKrywm Aiiviuw8i! mum t v cash wrmrm urnifo which in uru or ma khtmt m FINANCING. MCB INffFtCTTHW (KT0F71, ?MJ M WE'LL BE THERT 9 COPY |