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Show Thursday, February 19, 2009 Page 2 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN CI - Zl XJ r J I -it 1 - - --J NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED American Barbara Christiansen NORTH CjnririrAFF American Fork's new Web site had a grand unveiling at an open house on Feb. 10. Rachel Parrish, of ThinkBox Design Marketing, the group that designed the site, presented present-ed some of the benefits of the new site at the open house. "The Web site provides a variety of online services to current and prospective residents, businesses and visitors," Parrish said. "The site utilizes extensive content con-tent management tools and a database-related architecture to provide a consistent user-friendly user-friendly interface. All this takes place through a secure environment." With the content management manage-ment tools, each city department depart-ment is able to make updates to the information relating to the department. The managers may do it themselves, or seek help from ThinkBox. Parrish said the site was designed de-signed to be user friendly. "Due to the varied thought processes of visitors' to the site, there are numerous ways to find a particular page or piece of information," she said. "For example, one can find the library from the 'For Residents' link, a quick link, or through 'Departments'." The site includes a calendar of events, with color -coded events from all departments. Residents may find information informa-tion about recreation, the Arts Council and events for the family. Business visitors may find answers to questions on building permits, economic development, planning and the Chamber of Commerce. With a soft launch in November, No-vember, the site has had more then 86,000 visitors, and currently cur-rently has around 12,000 a month. Fifty percent of those are new visitors every month. They range from as far away as Germany and Russia. Councilman Shirl LeBaron said he was pleased with the new site. "This is vastly improved," he said. Me suggested adding a link to the site for Scouts planning to earn their Citizenship in the Community merit badges. It could include materials they would need for their packets when they attend City Council meetings, he said. Mayor Heber Thompson also praised the effort. "This is a great step forward for-ward for our city," he said. Bangerter Your I?.Wl?ri Hometown A A Jewelry Gifts Starting at $5.00 Located East of Costco in American Fork. We are in the same parking lot with We do everything; Del Tacol from repairs to custom design at a price you can afford. www.bangerterjewelers.com (ml Tnnr 1r? S.H i it? i i i www.heraldextra.com If n f Utah Fork rolls out new city i ... i, i AMERICAN FORK L c as ' 111 Em m : TriA Amnf c 3 mm iiiiuim muion f CaaXiZZZiZZaZZS t The home page of the new American Fork City Web site. COMMUNITY NOTES Adams appointed Marie Adams has been appointed to fill the remainder of the unexpired term of James 1 Ian-sen, Ian-sen, who has been serving as chairman of the Planning and Zoning Commission. Haasen resigned for personal reasons. His term will expire Jan. 31, 2010. Adams had been serving serv-ing on the commission, but her term expired at the end of this January. Ken Baldwin has been elected as chairman of the commission com-mission for 2009. Comment on downtown parking park-ing Two individuals spoke during the public comment period pe-riod of the Feb. 10 City Council meeting to ask about downtown down-town parking. Brian Cook and Jeff Angel asked the city about what would happen to the parking, park-ing, which Ls already limited, if UDOT went ahead with a proposal to increase the travel lanes on Main Street, removing on-street parking. Mayor Heber Thompson said the city shared the concern of the business owners and that the city's Transportation Committee was meeting with Mountainland Association of Governments to do planning for the future of area. City joins in anti-pornography movement The City Council on Feb. 10 authorized Mayor Jeweler 492-6022 : t I tarn Owner Operated I1K m til VaHeySPK; j FrTTf J Search Login Requitr H KTrii . n Fork Citv fVHinrtl nascftri a new rftcvrtina rwrlinarte ! 10 ?OC9 Urdr the new recycling program all customers that jt! J lor garbage service on (heir American Forte Crty Utility ! automatically oe signed up to receive recycling service Trws j convenient for you the customer, because you don't have to Heber Thompson to sign a proclamation declaring February Febru-ary White Ribbon Against Pornography Por-nography Month. Leading infertility expert from California partners with specialist in American Fork Dr. Richard Marrs is a board certified Reproductive Endocrinologist. Endo-crinologist. While at the University Uni-versity of Southern California (USQ, he developed one of the country's first IVF (in vitro fertilization) programs which is responsible for the second IVF birth in the United States. He made medical history in 1986 with the first pregnancy from a thawed frozen embryo. He is internationally recognized recog-nized for his contributions to the development of IVF. He has published more than 200 papers and books in the area of reproductive endocrinology endocrinol-ogy and in vitro fertilization. Marrs is the managing partner of one of the world's most prominent clinical fertility institutes in-stitutes located in Los Angeles California. In addition, he will now work with Dr. David Richards in American Fork. Richards trained under Marrs, who was the founder and first president of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology. 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Alpine School District's ir. High and High School Art Show in March The Alpine School District's Secondary Art Show, featuring works from high school students March 6-18 and works from junior high school students March 20-31, will be held at the SCERA Center for the Arts in Orem. Each exhibit will offer an opening reception where family, fam-ily, friends, teachers, school principals, and staff as well as the general public can meet the student artists, get a sneak peak at the exhibit and enjoy some light refreshments. The reception for the high school exhibit will be on March 6 from 6:30-8 p.m. and the reception for the junior high exhibit will be March 20 from 6:30-8 p.m. Each reception is free and open to the public. Both the high school and the junior high school exhibits are open for public viewing at the SCERA Center for the Arts, 745 S. State in Orem, between the hours of noon and 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Shop 84 North 180 West MMMCM! MSi 106 N. West Strte Ri and receive a 4fHV PI R BWI Bffll Bfc 1 IS00 Purchase customer j DCOC V Matters to Serving you from my new home office s I write this, I i,i f II l am surrounueu by chaos. (J? At the time you read it, things should be worse. Right now, we are in the process of moving out of our offices, which we have had in Pleasant Grove for more than three years. When we moved in, it was hard because I was so used to being on American Ameri-can Fork's Main Street; it was quite an adjustment. Our building here is nicer, newer and cleaner. Those are three pretty big positives, posi-tives, I'd say. But at the moment, there are boxes and bags stashed all around. Some will be moved to Provo, others will be discarded. Still others will be cast into the recycling bin. Many things from our office have already been moved. The rest sort of looks like a war zone, the way the boxes are scattered around. Today, the day the paper comes out, we will make the final leg of the move. That is the most important impor-tant segment of the move, however. We are all going to be working from our homes now. The tech guys, who speak a whole different language from the rest of us, will arrive some time on Thursday to move computers comput-ers to our homes. The other day, Brian asked us to call somebody and ask if we can get a gizmo of some kind or another. I can't remember what it was that he called it or quite what it does. Can you picture it now? I'll call up my ISP. (Aren't you impressed that I know that acronym? Not only know it I even know what it means.) Anyway I will get someone on the phone and tell them I want to order something to go along with my Internet service. "I was told that it costs about $1.50 to $2 a month. What do you offer in that price range?" I would ask. On the other end of the phone, there would be dead silence. That would not mean the person answering the phone was not laughing at me. It would merely indicate he or she has a mute button. I think I'd better call Brian back and find out what it is that I am supposed to request. There will be benefits to working from home. Instead of driving to Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove every day, then coming back to American Fork for an interview or to take a photo, I will be work- ircd 01 Losing Moncv On stories? COMMERCIAL BUILDING BELOW APPRAISAL! FREEWAY EXPOSURE 1-,- .-" . . J-T-"-.-!.,, 1 i ns it ? - - v-'"s us! J Ivy Barbara Christiansen BARB'S WIRE ing at my home almost in the center of the city, where everything I need to attend is at most 10 minutes away. Most things are a lot closer than that. In addition to less travel time, there will be more efficiency ef-ficiency as I can utilize those 15-minute intervals between appointments. No matter what the effect is on me, I want there to be no effect on the public. I will still be available to hear your concerns. Not only will I be available, but I truly want to hear them. I want to hear about the things you like and dislike. I want to know what's on your mind. As much as you count on me to attend City Council and Planning Commission meetings meet-ings and other similar functions func-tions to represent all of you and let you know what's happening, hap-pening, I am counting on you to keep me posted. I would love to clone myself so I can be in two or more places at the same time, but so far that's not possible. I need, the other 25,000 residents to let me know what's happening. I might not be able to ,, respond to everything that people tell me about. But I'll try to find the ones with the most impact to the greatest number of people. And I may be closer to your event, but that doesn't mean I can cancel appointments appoint-ments to come at the drop of a phone call or e-mail. Give me as much warning as you can, please. No matter where my office is, I still love the people of this community, and I'll work my best to serve you. I Barbara Christiansen may be reached for comment at bchristiansenheraldextra. com or by telephone at 756-6355. v www.heraldextra.com I |