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Show Page 2 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Thursday, March 6, 2008 NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU Senior citizen center undergoes renovations Barbara Christiansen NORTH COUNTY STAFF American Fork's senior citi--zen center has had a facelift. There have been renovations to the kitchen, along with new carpeting and some new doors in the building. "The doors are now solid," said Senior Citizens Director Ted Strong. "They meet the fire code. We have pretty well got our center up to fire specifications speci-fications and code." It took about $45,000 to upgrade the center, Strong said. The money came from a grant from Mountainland Association of Governments, American Fork City, the El-dred El-dred Foundation and funds the seniors had saved up for several years. The renovations have been planned for more than three years, he said. The center closed Dec. 21 and reopened re-opened Feb. 11. Work has included new sinks and countertops, new cabinets, a new island in the kitchen, including a sink for food preparation. There is a new stove with eight burners and two large ovens. There had been one large and one small oven. There will be a warming oven to keep the food warm when it is delivered until it is served. After the work was completed, complet-ed, the floors were refinished, a job which is done every year. It takes about two weeks for the floor to completely dry. Marlene Hancock, one of the volunteers who serves in the center, said she was pleased with the work. "This is so beautiful in here," she said. "It is fun to be in here working. I enjoy it." Strong said the seniors anticipated an-ticipated some more grants coming in for the upcoming year and planned more work. He said they would put some doors on cupboards in a storage stor-age room next to the kitchen. The group put tile in both that room and the kitchen this year in order to have them matching. match-ing. The senior citizen center serves lunch weekdays except Talent Continued from Page 1 Brent Hunsaker from Channel Chan-nel Four News will emcee the talent show. His daughter, Jennifer Vilchez, is one of the coaches. She cheered at both NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS ' 399 E. State St. Pleasant Grove Marc Haddock 443-3268 North County Editor mhaddockheraldextra.com Cathy Alfred 443-3262 Lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. Grove callredheraldextra.com Barbara Christiansen 443 3264 American Fork, Alpine, Cedar Hills bchristiansenheraldextra.com Mike Rigert 443-3265 Orem, Vineyard mrigertheraldextra.com Beky Beaton 443-3267 Sports bbeaton heraldextra.com H Josh Walker 443-3260 Advertising Account Executive jwalkerheraldextra.com Volume 135 American Fork Citizen Dairy Herald Edition USPS 018-B80 a weekly newspaper published at 399 E, State St., Pleasant Grove. Utah 84063 Periodicals Postage Paid at Pleasant Grove. Utah 84062 and additional mailing offices. PoatntMtan Send address changes to the American Fork Citron. P.O. Box 7, American Fork. UT 84003-000 Published Thursdays by lee Publications, which s a division of Lee Enterprises, Inc. autji Bureau or urcmatiorB Marlene Hancock and Ted Strong center recently reopened after holidays. Fridays are usually usu-ally the busiest, Strong said, because the seniors stay after lunch to play bingo. "Friday is the big day. We are serving more than 75 people today," he said during an interview. COMMUNjTY NOTES Employee of the month Deputy City Recorder Teri-lyn Teri-lyn Lurker has been named as the employee of the month for February in American Fork. She has been deputy recorder record-er for four years and exhibits sincere compassion when she meets with those making burial buri-al arrangements, according t9 her nomination. Lurker also works with developers and ex American Fork and Lone Peak High Schools. "There are four team divisions divi-sions regulated by the cheer leading organization, the United Unit-ed States All Star Federation," she said. "There are strict rules about what is allowed in each group. For instance, the Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILY HESALD PUBLISHING CO. Jennette Esplin 756-7669 Office Manager Julia Fullmer 344 2570 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Megan Carleton 344-2570 DesignerCopy Editor Ashley Franscell 344-2585 Photographer Issue 10 INFORMED AND w , - . 1 ' M !:- - X ; j: .. ;: I smmlmmntw - I T ' ?' I ft Wll, 'll'l Hi i i h H' -1 A H & Miill y f A f iMpVmi ' v. f l.rll$t-:ill! lILfl !M i'ij ji .., with some of the renovations the work was completed. hibits organization. "Terilyn works well with her co-workers, whether it is getting information from the Planning Staff for City Council packets or backing up at the counter when someone is ill or on vacation," the nomination says. "She is able to multi-task, a buzz word that has come to mean a great deal in an office setting. Terilyn can handle it." She started working for the city in 1992 and continued in the summers. In 1995 she worked part time as a building inspection clerk and began full time in 1996. Her then-supervisor JoAnn Scott wrote, "She has an incredible' in-credible' ability to organize vast amounts of information and data of different kinds. Blue team can do back hand springs but not back tucks. Platinum can do flips but not full twists." Blue team member Janelle Bailey, a seventh-grade student at Mountain Ridge Junior High School said, "It is so much fun. We do pyramids, dancing, Racing back to childhood fter stumbling over fill my old slot car race set I while putting away the W Christmas decorations. my wife told me to ther fix it or fline it. So I'm playing with toys again, thanks to the Internet. The HO scale Aurora Model Motoring Mo-toring race set dates back to the early 1960s, when it was the best Christmas present I ever received. That Christmas Eve, my father and two older brothers spent hours setting up the track and racing the tiny cars. The racing went on all nnsimas Day. watching those cars race around the track was The model tracks were auite popular in the early 1960s, and I soon discovered discov-ered that I could order cars and extra track through the Montgomery Ward catalogue good news for someone who lived in rural Idaho, where catalogues were the only way to buy many things. I was working in my father's grocery store earning Third World wages, but I still had more disposable income than most of my friends. A good part of went into improving the racing set. I bought extra track and, when new, improved cars were developed, I bought those, too. The time came when I had a first-class set up, and could pretty well cover my entire bedroom floor with racetrack. My friends and I would spend hours creating new race track designs and racing the cars. When my parents and I moved to Rnkp while my father served a term in the state legislature, I leaned the value of city living when I found a store that stocked the same stuff I'd been ordering from Montgomery . Ward, and I spent a good amount of time there. And then I moved on to other things. All that track was packed away. About the same time, national interest in the "model motoring" was waning as well. Still, when I got married, I had invested enough in the set that I took it with me. I'd set it up every once in a while, but over the years, fewer and fewer of the cars worked, and the track spent more and more time in the box. I INVOLVED of the kitchen at the American Fork Senior Citizen Center. The She is very detail oriented and pushes herself to her professional profes-sional best." Beer license granted On Feb. 26, the City Council voted to grant a Class B beer license to Jalisco Restaurant at 224 E. Main Street, American Fork. This license allows beer in its original container to be sold for consumption on the premises. I Parking ordinance revised The American Fork City Council on Feb. 26 voted to change the city's parking requirements for commercial areas. The standard for retail businesses busi-nesses was reduced slightly from 5 to 4.5 spaces per 1,000 square feet of building area tumbling and a lot of gymnastics. gymnas-tics. I can't wait to go to the national competition." Vilchez said she wants to broaden her team base next year to include both a mini squad with the youngest at age 4 and an older squad of girls under 18. "The little ones are so ei Marc Haddock tiny THp chitor hyp- LU Ml N l i - ' BARBARA CHRISTIANSENNorth County and the length of a parking stall was reduced from 20 to 19 feet. For restaurants, the council changed the way the standard is calculated. The previous standard required one parking space for every three seats. That has been changed to be in line with national standards, to 20 spaces for each 1,000 square feet in the building. "The current standard has proven inadequate for good restaurants," wrote planner Rod Despain in a memo to the council. "The change will have the practical effect of making parking areas appear more congested and, except for restaurants, res-taurants, make it easier to met the parking requirements," he added. cute and there are older girls ' that have cheered for their high school teams but aren't 18 yet and would like to compete for one more year," she said. Tryouts are tentatively set for April 21-27 at the American Fork Fitness Center. kept telling myself it would be valuable valu-able some day. So when Sharon told me to either ei-ther fix the set or toss it, I decide the time had come, and I turned to the 2008 version of those massive Montgomery Ward catalogues the Internet. A few minutes on Google, and I found out I am not alone. A lot of old guys are revisiting their childhood, child-hood, and HO slot car racing is experiencing ex-periencing a resurgence. The new cars are a lot faster than those I bought before. Transformers Transform-ers are simpler, and controllers are better. But I was delighted to learn that the cars still race on the same kind of track I had acquired in the 1960S. There are some differences. Mainly, the modern track pieces don't connect the same way as the older track. But after some searching search-ing and e-mail to businesses that specialize in slot car racing, I found that adapter track is available to connect the new style track to the old. And if the stores don't have what you want, there's a good chance other collectors do. After Af-ter all, eBay lists more than 500 entries related to this simple hobby alone. And I'm back on the track, proving that, sometimes, it pays to hold on to all that old stuff. All it took was a bit of new track, with cars and controllers. More stuff is in the mail, and Sharon shakes her head every day when she sees something new arrive in the home. Yesterday Scott and Toby two of my grandsons and I had a great time racing when the family came to visit. That's just going to get better, as track is added and I restore all the old cars that have suffered from years of neglect, packed away in a box in the basement. Just fixing the old stuff should take hours and hours. I figure I'm just catching up with a trend. Mike Rigert, who sits near me in the office, collects dolls ... er, make that, "action figures" ... in authentic battle dress. And plenty of men play with trains. I look forward to sharing my rediscovered toys with my grandkids for years to come. Irrigation Continued from Page 1 Junior High School, Nay took a shop class from Robert Ai-men. Ai-men. "A pen was one of the projects I could do," he said. "I made one and it was really fun. I made another one in the class. I gave the first one to my dad and then made a few more. I told my dad I was interested in making the pens. We got a few supplies) and tried it out." "He Aimen told us about his dad and how he got into wood work from him," Josh said. "Through the money he has earned from it, he has gotten all new tools and equipment. He had enough money to start a shop." That sounded good to Josh and he got started. He made his first pen and he was hooked. When he started, he went around his LDS ward and took orders for Fathers' Day. "I sold a couple," he said. "Then we made a bunch for Christmas and got the sign out. It just went from there. It is really fun. He estimated he had made about 50 of the pens. The process begins with a long, square piece of wood. Josh drills a hold in the middle of it, then turns it on a lathe, rounding off the edges with a lathe chisel. "It is pretty much the only tool I use when I turn it," he said. "I also use sandpaper to finish it. Then I polish it and put it together." It is a matter of practice and experience to get the wood smooth. You have to move your hands with it," Josh said. "It is not using just one part of the chisel. It takes quite a while to get the hang of it." Even then there can be problems. The wood may have a flaw in it, causing it to crack or split when it gets to the proper dimension. It happens quite a few times," Josh said. "You can sometimes get another half a piece to use." The cost varies with the type of wood. "Some wood is $7-8 for a piece, he said. It has been going up in price." Depending on the type of wood, the other materials and the design, the pens vary from $2540. Most of the pens Josh has made are ball point, but he has done a few fountain foun-tain pens. Josh estimated it takes an hour to an hour and a half of labor to put the pens together. I usually cut a bunch, then drill them," he said. "Then I turn them on the lathe, polish them and put them together. He purchases the ink sec tion and the metal parts that adorn the pens. Although he enjoys the work, he does not think he will pursue it for his vocation. I have thought about it," he said. "The way it is kind of go ing, the job isn't enough that it could be a steady job. I have started to look into bowls and other things. I will kind of keep it as a hobby instead of a paying job." He is considering pursuing something in the medical field, perhaps as a doctor or emer gency medical technician, for his paying job. I have also looked into be ing a forest ranger," he said. "I love the outdoors." He also enjoys sports and is going into track, maybe high jump, long jump or pole vault. 1 like taking things apart and seeing how they work and doing things that involve my hands," he said. A sophomore sopho-more at American Fork High School, he is a member of the Future Farmers of America and especially enjoys classes in animal science and small engine repair. Irrigation Continued from Page 1 Company to the open house. "They will be able to answer an-swer questions about irri?a- tion," Wilson said. She said the project was moving along well and was considered on schedule. "We are on track " she said. Representatives nf th nrni- ect have met with Steel Days ujmmittee members and the American Fork Police Department Depart-ment to ensure the construction construc-tion would not disrupt the community too much. "We are doing a lot of consulting so that citizens will have as little difficulty as possible," Wilson said. |