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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Thursday, August 16, 2007 Pag 2 NEWS AND NOTES Irrigation Barbara Christiansen Vjk'h ' 'ji;'iT 1 max More than KM) miles of pi(e will Ik; installed in American Fork over the next three years for the city's pressurized irrigation irri-gation system. John Schiess, project manager man-ager of the system, told alxwt the status of the program at a meeting Thursday of the Chaml)er of Commerce. The preliminary work is progressing progress-ing well and the ground work is nearly ready to begin. "We are not digging yet, but we are getting close," Schiess said. "We hope within the next four to five months to start putting things in the ground." When the system was first proxsed, the city anticipated putting it in during a three-year three-year period, beginning on the north side of the community. Things have changed. They still have a goal of three years, but will start with the central city. That change was made because of the need to construct con-struct a reservoir at the mouth of the canyon to serve the northern sector. The city has a Web site to inform the public alxmt the progress of the system. There is a map on the site showing the proposed three areas which would be operational in the next three years. The site Is www.afcity.comafpi. More information is available at the hotline, 763-5281. Schiess said the group would work to complete the project with as little impact as possible. "Our goal is to complete the secondary water system with as little inconvenience to businesses and residents," he added. "It will require pipe to be dug in almost every street in the city." "When we are running a line down the street, it will be on one side," he said. "We will keep the street open and will maintain access to individual properties. Maybe they will be blocked off for only a couple of hours." Some questioned whether it was wise for the city to do the project, considering the increased in-creased costs in recent years. Schiess said it was still a good Road Continued from Page I Fork. It is applied on top of a chip seal and is what has given the roads the black color, making mak-ing them Ux)k newer. T. J. Warnick, American Fork's streets superintendent, NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS 399 E. Stale Si Pleasant Grove Marc Haddock 443 3268 North County Editor mhaddockheraldextra.com Cathy Allred 443 3262 Lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. 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COMMUNITY NOTES City Council tables plan On July 31, the City Council voted to table action on a proposal to vacate a portion of the street right of way at 170 South and 700 East. The council referred the item back to the Planning Commission for additional consideration. con-sideration. If that portion of the road had been vacated, it would be explained that another reason the work was done now was so the cities can save money. "We have a coalition with other cities Lehi, Alpine and Pleasant Grove so we can put a fleet of trucks together with workers from those cities," cit-ies," he said. "For example, American Fork has a spreader Phone:756-7669 Fax:756-5274 0 DAILT HERALD PUBLISHING CO. ET7T1 Jennette Esplin 756-7669 Office Manager Julia Fullmer 344 2570 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Megan Carleton 344-2570 H DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344-2585 Photographer Issue 84 - 580 a weeHy newspaper published at 399 E State Pad at Pleasant Grove Utah 84062 and additional to the American Fort Crwi. P0 Box 7, American Publications, wti saclMSionot Lse EntBrpnaes, Inc. INFORMED AND t used for an adjacent development develop-ment of office buildings. Dana DuJardin, the developer, said if he could not get the additional ground, it would scrap the whole project. The ground is on the east side of Pacific Drive, as it curves to meet 700 East. It is a little less than 7,000 square feet. Although the land is in city ownership, it has been used for parking for the current cur-rent development on the site. Planner Rod Despain told the council the Planning Commission Com-mission did not feel the street would be too narrow, but Councilwoman Sherry Kramer differed. "I feel if we give that piece up we will have to buy it back in the future," she said. Arts Council charter and box and Lehi has purchased a distributor. Most of the communities com-munities have rollers. That drives the cost down because there is shared manpower." Warnick said the city had looked at the possibility of banking its budget for road repairs to use in the next years after the pipes were installed, A ft, cm t .r c The world of 'High School Musical' finally saw "High School Musical" Musi-cal" Friday, which means I now have something to talk about with every 9-year-old girl on the planet. Sharon and 1 decided to rent the popular video after we learned that the SCERA was going to do a stage version of the show. We felt we had a professional responsibility to know what the movie was all about, if we were going to keep in touch with popular culture. As empty nesters, we don't have any pre-teen girls living at home. Otherwise I'm pretty sure we would have already seen the movie numerous times. For the uninformed, "High School Musical" is the dopey-sweet Disney made-for-TV movie that has taken the world's "tweeners" by storm. It's "Grease" for the younger set, without the smoking or implied im-plied premarital sex. It's loaded with pop songs that the kids apparently love. At least it seems that way, because the DVD we watched had two versions of the movie, one with the words of the songs on the screen so the viewers can sing along. An added bonus for Utah viewers is that the movie was shot in Utah. (As in, "Hey, that's Park City!" or "Hey, that East High is really East High!"). Most of the film takes place in the Salt Lake City high school even though the movie is supposed sup-posed to take place in Albuquerque, N.M. The advantage to picking East High is that you can have an East High anywhere except the North Pole, where the only direction is south. Anyway, after watching the movie all the way through, we had an experience not unlike the one you get after buying a new car, when as you drive home it seems that every third car on the road is the same make as yours. Now it seems "High School Musical" the movie is everywhere. There was an article in Sunday's newspaper about how East High has become something of a tourist destination for the pre-teen fans of the movie, who just cant wait to stand exactly where Sharpay (really, that's her name) stood in the school's lunch room during "Stick To The Status Quo" and strike the same pose she INVOLVED in American Fork , 4 V BARBARA CHRISTIANSEN 'North County Highland is considering widening the roadway. There will be a School, 28 E. 1340 North, American Fork. bylaws approved American Ameri-can Fork's Arts Council has reached an official stage, having hav-ing had a charter and bylaws approved by the City Council on Aug. 14. Councilwoman Heidi Rode-back, Rode-back, who serves as the council coun-cil liaison to the group said it was a good move. "For 20 years now the Arts Council has been acting with uncertainty," she said. "Taking this step is important to stabilize stabi-lize the Arts Council." Under the charter, the Arts Council's purposes are to develop a plan to strengthen the artistic resources in the city, develop a strategy to acquire and operate facilities, encourage performances and displays, inform the public and City Council, increase public awareness of the contribution but decided against it. "The two biggest problems with roads are water and sunlight," sun-light," he said. "We are trying to protect the roads that have been overlaid or repaired in the last eight to 10 years. Hopefully Hopeful-ly this has been a good preventive preven-tive maintenance measure." Denney said that Payson Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN 0s of the arts, and provide residents resi-dents access to the arts. The move makes the director di-rector of the Arts Council a full-time position. The council previously officially appointed Lori England to the position she has held for numerous years. Correction A story on page 20 of last week's newspaper newspa-per headlined "Highland mom opens school uniform store" left out some vital contact information and incorrectly listed the home town of the owner of Xpressions, a Wore dedicated to selling uniforms for charter and private schools. Store owner Heather Osborne is from Pleasant Grove. The store is located at 661JM state Koaa in FieajWFrurove and the telephone 96-6700. tried to save its repairs until after a similar irrigation system sys-tem was installed, but had problems. Payson had real trouble after af-ter they did a pressurized irrigation irri-gation project," he said, "there was so much equipment working work-ing on it the only thing that was left was the patching." struck. Then "Troy" and "Gabriella" turned up on the cover of the magazine maga-zine supplement in the Sunday Daily Herald. And the SCERA isn't even close to being the first theater to produce a live version of the musical in fact, 2,000 high schools have already al-ready produced "High School Musical: Musi-cal: On Stage." Nor does this movie just appeal to tween-agers. My 23-year-old daughter, daugh-ter, who saw the DVD we rented, wants to buy the CD. She's not alone. It was the best selling CD of 2006, according to Amazon.com. It's also the best-selling DVD of a television show ever, with 7.8 million mil-lion sold since the movie premiered on Jan. 20, 2006 on the Disney Channel Since then, the movie has attracted 170 million mil-lion viewers in 100 countries. The cast has performed per-formed 42 sold-out concerts over the past year. Disney clearly had no inkling that "High School Musical" had that kind of money -making potential, or the company would have released it in theaters. After all no one knows how to wring money out of a movie like Disney. Now the big question is, can they do it again? The sequel "High School Musical 2," premieres on the Disney Channel this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 9 p.m. Parties are planned nationwide. Much of this movie was also shot in Utah East High again, as well as Southern Utah, so the locales should be fun. And the cast from the first film is returning, which is a good thing, since the actors have become be-come household names since the original movie was aired. Expectations are high. So high that Disney is already talking about "High School Musical 3," which will be released to theaters. Sounds like a great set up for disappointment. disappoint-ment. The single certainty is that Friday night much of the world will stop while Disney attempts at-tempts to make lightning strike twice. And if you have any tweeners in your house, you'll probably be right there. Good Will Continued from Page I "He really did love the children of Iraq," Kevin Barnes said. "He told us that in his letters and showed us pictures that he had of them. It is always the poor children that get caught in these bad things that adults do. I am sure he would be grateful for it." "We have been just overwhelmed over-whelmed with the total community support," he added. "We are honored that RoseAnn would think to do something like this to further honor his name and his sacrifice." sac-rifice." Coordinating the "Honoring "Honor-ing An American Fork Hero" project is RoseAnn Gunther and assisting her will be Hank and Cristina Rascon and other volunteers. Gunther said she chose to send the items as a tribute. I think we needed need-ed to give some good, wonderful acts of kindness back. RoseAnn Gunther Gun-ther PROJECT COORDINATOR "I think we needed to give some good, wonderful acts of kindness back," she said. They are seeking donations dona-tions of items to include in the kits. Any of the items listed may be dropped off any Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon at the American Fork East IDS Stake Center, 825 E. 530 North, American Fork. The container will be shipped through "Operation Give," www.operationgive. org, a nonprofit organization organiza-tion that is a Team Member of the Pentagon's "America Supports You" organization that coordinates the collection collec-tion and distribution of items Ttoreas of the world dev astated by war and natural disaster. "Operation Give" was established in 2003 and is the brainchild of CW5 Paul "Chief Wig&es" Holton, an Army interrogator who served in Iraq (during 2003 and 2004 duringi Operation Iraqi Freedom. "Operation Give ewcists to provide what is needeVdmost by the military and whaTfti..;'. needed to help in winning the hearts of the people. The effort has shipped more than 5t) 40-foot containers of items needed by the troops and children in Iraq and Afghanistan. Afghani-stan. The troops will distribute distrib-ute the items that will be sent from American Fork. Donations may be made by check or money order and deposited in the Nathan Barnes Memorial Fund at any branch of Bank of American Amer-ican Fork. All proceeds will be used for items that will fill the container. Those who wish to participate partici-pate in cutting and sewing items for the kits can pick up material at the East Stake Center each Wednesday. Those who wish further information in-formation may call 756-2433 or 492-9457. Kits Continued from Page 2 item (all sizes). Socks, gloves, mittens: adult, children. Shoes: all sizes, sneakers for kids, sandals, san-dals, flip flops for moms and kids. Blankets: baby, regular sizes. Sheets and pillows. Toys: No toys that will not work without with-out batteries, toys that require electricity, violent toys (guns violent action figures), toys that shoot projectiles. Barbies or comparables. Dolls, cars and trucks, balls especially soccer soc-cer balls, plush toys and stuffed animals, plastic animals and dinosaurs, di-nosaurs, tool and cooking sets, puzzles, binoculars, Magna-Doodles, Magna-Doodles, basic Lego's, blocks, jump ropes, Frisbees, Picture books, baby toys and chess sets. Feminine hygiene: Pads, no tampons. Towels, wash clothes, kitchen towels. Medical supplies: wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, prosthesis, first aid items etc. Clothing: women and girls wear dresses, skirts and blouses, men and boys: pants and shirts. All clothing must be clean and in good condition. i POO 1L |