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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Thursday, July 27, 2006 Page 2 NEWS AND NOTES Hannah Jeffery. at right and her sister Taylor Jeffery, laugh as Cindy fob'ndrafee, center, directs them during a rehearsal for the Heritage and History Pageant at the American Fork Cemetery, Tuesday afternoon. Alyson Jeffery, at left, watches the scene with Taylor Holmes and Miranda Holindrake, at back. Local history portrayed in pageant this weekend Barbara Christiansen N( iRTH COUNTY STAIf The seventh-annual Heritage and History Pageant will be at the American Fork Cemetery on Friday, Saturday and Monday from 5 p m to dusk. The cemetery cem-etery is kx:ated at 6(K) N. Center St. Admission is $2 per person or $5 for an entire family. Wagon Wag-on rides are included with the price of admission. Tickets will lie sold at the two south cemetery entrances and are gtxxl for all three nights of the pageant. Transportation between the scenes will be available avail-able by golf carts for those who need assistance. Food and drink will be sold, as well as 25 cent ice cream cones. This ye;ir's theme will be "The Early Years of American Fork." Located at various areas of the cemetery will be vignettes portraying por-traying the settlement of American Ameri-can Fork and the lives of its early settlers Arza Adams. William Greenwood, Richard Steele and Roxanna Snow. Also presented will be the interesting story of the Indian "Squash." NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS 339 E S'a-e i'. P'easaot G'ove Kirk Parkinson 443 3250 Vice President 'PiMsher kparhnsonifiheMkiextra com Marc Haddock 443 3268 N.r-'- County Ed tor mhd.il .x ifihe'aidei'tra corn Cathy Allred 443 3262 Lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. Grove caUreadrieraidextra com Barbara Christiansen 443 3264 American Fork. Alpine. Cedar Hills bchns;ansenheraldext ra.com Mike Rigert 443-3265 Orem. 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CjTYNOTES I Foundation proposal Christina Chris-tina Peterson of The Simple Earth Foundation presented a proposal to the American Fork City Council on July 20. It included creating an abstract sculpture honoring Geneva Steel. The city officials decided to lend support to the proposal, using its resources to help seek the funding for the sculpture, which could be created using some of the materials from the steel plant. The anticipated total cost of Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAI LT BEBALD PUBLISHING CO. Jennette Esplin 756 7669 Office Manager Rachel Rybicki 344 2558 Project Coordinator. DesgnerCopy Editor Casey Rogers 344 2570 DesignerCopy Editor Chris Peterson 344 -2570 DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344 2585 Photographer rr-,t n n ha uir immjr JT840C3 Piiwxl TIwmws (v INFORMED AND " ft. the sculpture is $100,000 for the materials and the artist. The foundation has been receiving donations already toward the project. City officials had not yet decided where the sculpture would be placed, but suggested Chipman Bicentennial Park, adjacent to the freeway, as a possible location. Peterson said she would invite in-vite the public to comment on the design. "It would be great to organize orga-nize a group of people who could support and actively participate," par-ticipate," she said. I More burgers coming The American Fork Planning and Zoning Commission on July 19 tabled the site plan for Stubby Burger, a gourmet hamburger restaurant, planned for the Timp Plaza at 599 W. Pacific. The planners expressed concern about the site plan, particularly par-ticularly regarding the number of vehicles which could wait in the stacking lane for the drive-through. drive-through. Commissioner Joe Gordon The best ' " i t's been a couple of years ' ; since we went to Cedar ' ; Fort's Pioneer Day parade. But 1 w as surprised Mon- t day when three count i , .,.--1 'em, three fire trucks lined up just behind the Boy Scout honor guard that lead the parade with Old Glory. I didn't realize Cedar Fort had three fire trucks now. And there w ere more surprises. The town's small streets were lined w ith spectators of ev ery size, age and color for the short parade. It looked like more people than I'd ever seen at a Cedar Fort parade. I ran into Virginia Cook, who has been the town recorder for decades. She happened to be sharing the same shady corner of the old church building, and she said the crowd looked like a record breaker to her. I've always thought Cedar Fort had the best Pioneer Day event in Utah, largely because of its relative anonymity. The rodeo, long recognized for its rough stock and unpredictable nature, has been popular popu-lar for years. And the day-long water fight, which was on Saturday this year, is just quirky enough to attract outside attention every few years. But the parade is so low key, and the homespun home-spun carnival that follows it is so simple that it has traditionally attracted mostly locals. I discovered it in the early 1980s when I covered the event for the Lehi Free Press, and I have gone back regularly for years. At first I went to take photos, but lately I've gone to take the grandkids. Sharon and I had three of them with us on Monday, sitting on the curb waiting with bags in hand to reap the harvest. The Cedar Fort parade boasts one of the highest high-est candy -to4tid ratios of any parade in the country, coun-try, so we didn't have a hard time convincing the kids to go with us. It was everything we had expected One of the fire trucks squirted the spectators w ith a huge stream of water. The few floats were small and mostly pulled by four-wheeled A TV's. Those on the floats were throwing INVOLVED , j - , ,. if said there should be room for a minimum of 10 vehicles in the stacking lane, saying sometimes 13-15 would be inadequate. inad-equate. Dave Whitaker, who represented repre-sented the developer, said he would redesign the plan and present it again to the commission. commis-sion. I Subdivision recommended The Planning and Zoning Commission on July 19 voted to recommend the Miller-South subdivision, a two-lot subdivision, subdivi-sion, to the City Council for approval. The subdivision splits off the home at 80 S. 100 East from property to the east of it, used for Superior Concrete. The concrete con-crete company has been in the area prior to the establishment of the zone for the area, and has been granted a non-conforming use. That use cannot be expanded without approval by the city. I Southside design criteria to be studied The Planning and Zoning Commission has begun 0$ i t Pioneer Day around ' Zf i f. ? Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN v.jp MATT SMITH North County its consideration of design criteria cri-teria for the south side of the community, based on a study created by Horrocks Engineers. "This will be the guideline against which requests for subdivisions will be evaluated," planner Rod Despain said. Some of the planners had questioned the advisability of annexing the ground on the south side of the freeway, but Despain said it would be important. impor-tant. "Is the decision between no development and development in American Fork, or development develop-ment in American Fork and development de-velopment in some other city?" he asked. Despain told the commission there are areas in the south side that are not good for development. develop-ment. The study of constraints to development would identify those areas, he said. Commissioner Joe Gordon said there would always be pressure to develop the land. "We will continually be pushed by developers to get as many people on a small piece of ground as they can," he said. candy. There were a lot more ATVs pulling nothing, but people were throwing candy from those, too. The Lehi High School band marched in the parade, to the delight of many. The band has been participating partici-pating in the parade for a few years now, and it's a nice touch. A marching march-ing band gives a parade an air of legitimacy. There weren't many commercial entries, but the Costco people were there, throwing candy and toilet paper from the back of a big pickup. The toilet paper made everyone laugh, but the folks in Cedar Valley will remember that Costco is there for a long time to come. Then there were horses. Lots of horses. Many of the people on the horses were throwing candy, too. And then the parade was over. "Is that it?" Scott, one of my grandkids, asked. Not quite. We stuck around for lunch and the carnival. We ate hot dogs and hamburgers. The kids played the games, and they had a great time. There was a candy walk similar to a cake walk and 2-year old Alyson walked until she woa Scott won his heat of the gunny sack race and Toby knocked down three bottles including two with one throw in one of the games to earn bragging rights for that event. The activities were simple but perfect for the younger set. The kids talked about it all the way home, and then expounded on their feats to Mom and Dad. At the parade, Virginia Cook had asked me if I was going to the rodeo. A lot of people think the rough-and-tumble event is the highlight of the celebralioa I wasn't going, I told her. I love a parade, but I've never embraced the art of rodeo. Virginia said she probably wouldn't go, either, but for different reasons. Seems the rodeo has become a bit gentrified during the past few years, and the event is too tame for her. "I don't think they even have bull riding anymore," any-more," she told me with a sigh. I bet that was the reaction of most of the town folks. West side Continued from Page 1 "If their house was worth $300,000, who would sell it for $250,000 just to be nice?" he asked. Carson said the project could be built to minimize the impact on the neighbors. "My developer has designed de-signed his project so that there is a 65-foot strip of buffering," Carson said. "There would be privacy wall with 15-20 feet of landscaping. land-scaping. It could keep those neighborhoods isolated." He said commercial uses would be medium size stores which would close around 8 p.m. and not open on Sundays. He said 900 West would become more crowded even without his proposal. "That intersection has the potential of being the largest intersection in north Utah County," he said. "Who wants to live on a busy road." Carson said five of the seven neighbors on the east side of his property were in favor of the proposal. Bob and Derrie Morris Mor-ris are among the closest neighbors to the property in question. "We believe it is his property, prop-erty, and he should be able to do whatever he wants," Derrie Morris said. "We have no objections to what he wants to do." She said she would rather have commercial than high density residential, which has also been proposed. "I don't want apartments looking down on me," she said. "I would rather have a parking lot." Bob Morris said he was in favor of commercial in the area, and said it could be done with minimal impact. "When we lived in Mesa, Ariz., we had the same type of development in our residential area," lie said. "It worked great. Nobody was opposed to it." Morris said his property backed up to the commercial area. "We were the ones impacted." im-pacted." Rebecca Staten has lived in the neighborhood eight years, and she said she has different feelings about the potential for commercial development. "Our main concern is support of the general plan that the city has," she said. "The city should protect the neighborhoods and keep them livable. They should avoid any further encroachment encroach-ment of commercial into the residential area." She expressed other concerns about having commercial com-mercial uses which may be vacant. "As we have driven around town, there is so much empty space," she said. "Those areas need to be revitalized and protect the neighborhoods." Staten said the impact on her neighbors would be negative. "Adding more commercial commer-cial would just reduce the quality of life of this neighborhood," neigh-borhood," she said. . After attending most of the Planning Commission meetings for the past six months, urging caution with commercial, Staten said she is ready for the city to make a decision, whatever the outcome. Explosion Continued from Page 1 compressed cardboard boxes near Roberts Manufacturing. This caused a propane tank outside one of the business buildings to explode, sending a fire ball into the area and knocking a hole in the side of the concrete block structure. No one was injured in the fire. All of the resources of the American Fork Fire Department Depart-ment were called out along with two brush trucks from Utah County, Christensen said. Firemen were on the scene about three hours. No estimate on the damage to the building was available. Frank Pulley, firefighter for American Fork, said although grass fires caused by the sparks of passing trains arent uncommon, the explosion was. "It's the first time I've ever seen anything like it," said the 15-year veteran.- Stan Street, assistant fire chief of the American Fork Fire and Rescue team, said a piece of the propane tank went through a brick wall of a neighboring building. |