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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Thursday, July 6, 2006 Page 2 NEWS AND NOTES TO Troy Kipp of the West Valley Police Department instructs members of an underwater crime scene technician class during Dive rescue Police departments Barbara Christiansen wiMi county si Ait The American Fork Boat Ilarlxtr been be-en nm a pseudo crime scene recently as it was the site of an Underwater Crime Scene T echnician Gass, attended by xtlice departments and other agencies from across Utah and lis Vegas, Nev. Yellow crime scene tajx; marked off the area at the harbor on a Wednesday morning. A scenario was arranged by Sgl . Jeff Morgan of the San Bernadino County Sheriff's Department and Corporate Training for Dive Rescue International of Fort Collins, Colo., who taught the three-day class. This particular class focuses fo-cuses on crime scenes and recovering and preserving evidence, not rescue work. In the mock situation, two robbers had taken flight to the lwrlxr, and were pursued by a police officer. Shots were exchanged. A nearby fisherman heard a splash, which most likely indicated the gun had been thrown into the harbor. When the divers came iion the scene they had to determine the probable prob-able sites to check, then started the search. The visibility in the lake was near zero. The divers had to prolw the bottom, holding onto a rope with one hand and NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS :',')' ;,t,iU'M Plea' ..-nit C.tove Phone: 700 7CC9 Fax:706-5274 I ClIIMIIdUll 'tJ j J JU Vk ( ' Pit 'sii li nlPi il ilisl IP! p! inr,oiiWti't.ilcttii coin Marc Haddock 433 320a W'fJ'i Ciuinty Editor mUitli lull hcr,tl(lt'xttH cum Cathy Allred 433 3262 l phi. 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"It is slow and tedious work," American Ameri-can Fork Police Chief Lance Call said. The divers found a gun, and practiced prac-ticed techniques to preserve the evidence evi-dence it contained. It was all part of the class geared to teach public safety representatives how to do surface and subsurface crime scene investigation. Light een individuals participated in the instruction, which included class-nxm class-nxm work, pool and outdoor water training. They lauded the American Fork site as a good one for instruction. Morgan said, "Of all the facilities I teach at, American Fork was one of the best I have ever used. It was exceptional exception-al to have the quality of the locations and their close proximity." The instructor commented on the police station, fitness center and boat harbor. As co-host of the event, the American Fork Police Department was able to take part in the training at no charge. Call is the only member of the department de-partment certified to dive, but he was joined for part of the training by Greg Ludlow. Call said he planned on having more officers certified in the future. "American Fork has the boat harbor, The t hud been a difficult hike, so the breathtaking view was appreciated. My son, my daughter, ' my granddaughter and ' -1, along with the four or five other people sharing the wooden observation deck, sttxxl and admired the view of Hidden Lake. Actually, my I0-month-old granddaughter was riding in a backpack, and we couldn't tell if she was impressed. Nevertheless, there we stood, looking look-ing down on the kike, which was still partially frozen, satisfied at having reached the end of the hike. That's when the mountain goat moved out from behind the brush and stopped about 100 feet from where t! DAILY HERALD PUBLISHING CO. LJZHX Rachel Rybicki 344 2558 Protect Coordinator, Designer Copy Editor Casey Rogers 344 2570 DesignerCopy Editor Chris Peterson 344 2570 DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344 2585 Photographer V. 1 .. . - Zg$ t ponds at the golf course, the mill pond and canals in which the training may be helpful," he said. CITY BRIEFS 1 300 West signal light A traffic signal sig-nal at 300 West and Main Street is officially of-ficially on the list. The Utah Department of Transportation Transporta-tion has approved the signal for design and construction. The department conducted a study at the intersection to determine the traffic flow. Many years ago there had been a signal at that location. "We have needed that forever," councilman Rick Storrs said at the June 27 City Council meeting. Mayor Heber Thompson clarified that the designation from UDOT does not mean construction will begin immediately. im-mediately. "This puts us in the queue," he said. Director of Public Works Howard Denney made an estimate how long it could take. "When we dealt with the light across the freeway it was two years," he said. "I expect we are about two years out." I American Fork to protest annexation to Pleasant Grove American Fork City has filed an official protest of the view is worth the work Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN we were standing. A few seconds later a second goat followed. They stood unaware un-aware or unconcerned about the small group of people who were trying to hold still and take photographs at the same time. I took about 10 shots. That encounter was the highlight of the day-trip to Glacier National Park. We were vacationing in northwestern Montana and the park was about an hour-and-a-half from where we were staying. Erin, my daughter, was particularly excited that this would be her daughter's first visit to a national park. We didn't know what to expect as we drove past Kalispell and neared the park entrance. What we found were lots of places designed to make money from people visiting the park. We passed a water slide park, a go-cart track, and a grizzly bear encounter where you could drive around and look at the bears. ("Your car is your cage" proclaimed the sign outside the entrance to this attraction.) We drove past all that stuff and got to the park in time to look for a place to eat our picnic. pic-nic. There were lots of those. Then we started the 32-mile drive on the Going-to-the-Sun Road which takes you from the park entrance at West Glacier up to Logan Pass, which is 6,646-feet 6,646-feet in elevation. The road continues down again to the park entrance on the east at Saint Mary, an lfkrtile drive. The road was completed in 1932 and took 10 years to build It is on the National Register - J - r8sL-f " I West Valley City an exercise at Utah Lake. Sager annexation to Pleasant Grove. It will be in the Utah County administration administra-tion Building, 100 E. Center St., Provo on Monday at 6:30 p.m. The Sager annexation is 32 acres and is north of the freeway, between the current Pleasant Grove and American Fork boundaries. According to the hearing notice, the protest said the annexation will leave an unincorporated peninsula of land. The area lies within the American Fork portion of a boundary agreement between American fork and Pleasant Grove. Issues also include traffic, drainage and water and sewer lines. I Employee of the month Aaron Brems of the American Fork water department has been named "Employee of the Month" by the city. He received the honor at the June 27 City Council meeting. "He not only does his current water dept. duties, but helps out on the storm dramsanitary sewer dept. as well," reads his nomination. "Aaron is always willing to help out whenever possible or whenever he is needed, with no questions asked, no complaining." He was honored for always being willing to help, not stepping back and letting others do the job. "He takes the responsibility and gets the job done efficiently," the nomination nomina-tion says. of Historic Places and was made a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1985. It opened for the season just a few days before our arrival. This is a breathtaking drive, and takes you past glacier lakes, cedar forests, spectacular waterfalls and finally to the alpine tundra at the top of the pass. We stopped a couple of times before reaching the Logan Pass Visitor Center, where we had planned to hike the 1.5-mile Hidden Lake Overlook trail. We were prepared for a moderate hike, but what we didn't know was that almost all of it would be over one of the glaciers from which the park gets its name. Hiking in the snow and slush is different than hiking on a dirt path. It's harder. It was aLso interesting in that the bright sun made the weather hot, but the glacier below us radiated cold air, cooling off our legs. Still, a lot of people were turning back. Sharon, Sha-ron, my wife, sat down on a rock at the beginning begin-ning of the trail, looked up the snowy path and decided her knees probably wouldn't make it. But the three of us four if you count the baby persevered. Our reward was a spectacular spec-tacular view and that encounter with a mountain moun-tain goat. On the way back, we talked with the hikers who were coming up. "You're getting close," we told them. One guy asked me if it was worth it. I took out my digital camera to show him the goat. It was hard to see the image in the bright sunlight, sun-light, but I thought the picture was pretty good. "Oh, yeah," he said disdainfully .'"We saw a bunch of those just down the road while we were driving here." But, I wanted to say, those goats weren't as precious as this one. The ones you saw came cheap. You didn't have to work. The moment captured in the photograph came at the end of a lot of effort. You'll forget your goats in a day or two. Mine will last a lifetime. Instead, I said nothing. I turned and kept walking down the path. He'd had his experience, experi-ence, and we'd had ours. I'll take ours any day. , t v -, V A j ! Ii. . . . 4 . '. M Gunther Continued from Page 1 passes away to one of the 'bigs.' "I feel like community banks can be continued if the board of directors plans for succession. It is a benefit to society." When Gunther decided to retire, the bank began the process of preparing for a replacement. "We went through a several-year program to develop leadership to take over the bank," he said. "About two years ago we chose a new president and CEO, Rick Beard." Gunther participated in training him and others to take over the leadership role. ' "I feel like a gardener who has cultivated, fertilized, planted and weeded," he said. "Now I get to sit back and watch the flowers grow." Since retirement, he has not let much grass grow under un-der his feet, however. He has been elected to the American Fork City Council, Coun-cil, where his assignments include being chair of the Finance Committee. "I think everyone should be involved in service in the ' community," he said. "We all have different talents and ' interests that we can use. "To me that is what community com-munity is all about getting the people involved in deciding decid-ing what we want, getting people coming out and expressing ex-pressing their opinions and desires." Band Continued from Page 1 effort to move the field a little bit," he said. "The police came out with a decibel meter. me-ter. We were well under any level of a violation. I think we are on safe ground. We have to work with the city and the community." Band members have moved their practices from east of the football field to its north side. Dan Adams and some "band dads" volunteered vol-unteered to make the move, which included restriping the grass. "It was not a small task," Miller said. Amber Walsh, who filed the complaint with the police, said she was hopeful the situation situ-ation would be resolved. "We have asked for eight-and-a-half years," she said. "I am so excited we are having a meeting. I feel horrible it has had to come this far, but maybe they would understand under-stand if they were playing in their back yard." She said the change to the north field has already helped. "You have no idea how much that distance makes inside our home," she said. "We can have a conversation conversa-tion or listen to the TV. We had tried everything, even gone to the expense of extra insulation and double pane windows." "We are not asking them to not play," she said. Walsh said she had spoken with Mayor Heber Thompson Thomp-son to seek help. Thompson said he hoped the situation could be settled. "I have the utmost confidence con-fidence we are going to be able to resolve this without any problems," he said. Alumni Continued from Page I ended up flying 300 hours of combat. After leaving the service he flew 31 years for TWA. Jorgensen is married to the former Alice Mack and they have four daughters. As a hobby, he builds musical instruments for his family members. The counselors at American Ameri-can Fork High School began the Wall of Fame about 10 years ago to honor alumni and loyal supporters of the school. "Special consideration is also given to alumni who not only have accomplished great things but still care deeply or have been involved with the high school since their graduation," counselor Bruce Huggard said. Y |