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Show B Times Newspaper Thursday, January 9, 2003, Page A4 Utah Valley Association DAVID LEWIS The Peteetneet Academy The Peteetneet Academy will present the 11th annual annu-al Bunk House Bards (Cowboy songs and poetry) Jan. 10 and 11 at 7 p.m. This event will feature Don Kenington, Utah's Cowboy poet of the year in 2001 and 2002, and Sam Deleeuw, Utah's Cowgirl poet of the year in 2001 and 2002. This program is a fundraiser for the academy. Tickets are $5 per person and can be purchased at the door. Seating is limited. For more information, call 465-2602. 465-2602. Good Earth Natural foods holds seminar Good Earth Natural Foods presents a free seminar semi-nar "How energy nutrients keep your fuel tank full." for Abundant Energy in a Stress Filled World on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 6:30 PM. Seating is limited, limit-ed, call for reserve seating 756-1616. Capital Community Bank Utah County's Capital Community Bank earns special spe-cial achievement award in the Utah Small Business Administration's (SBA) small bank category for providing personalized, supportive lending services in the 2002 fiscal year. Other winners include Zions Bank, larger bank category; cate-gory; Bank of Utah, medium bank category; Celtic Bank, non-bank category; and Community First National Bank, servicingliquidation support category. "SBA appreciates the support sup-port that we receive from our Auiomciive Finishes SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Open Mon-Fri 8am - 5pm FOREIGN & DOMESTIC TOWING AVAILABLE FREE ESTIMATES PRECISE COLOR MATCHING Home Builders installs 2003 officers Utah Valley Home Builders Association will install 2003 officers on Jan. 9 at the McKay Event Center. David A. Lewis of Lewis Development Corp. will serve as president with officers offi-cers Scott Jones, Dale DeLlamas, Stephen Earl, Gary Sell, Leonel Castillo, J. Bradley Simons and Deann Huish. Lewis has been in the building industry for 10 years. He serves on the State of Utah Code Commission and is a board of directors on the Code Provo and Orem mayors to give overview of 2003 plans The Provo-Orem Chamber of Commerce is pleased to feature both Orem Mayor Jerry Washburn and Provo Mayor Lewis Billings as speakers for January Chamber Friday Forum. Friday, Jan. 10, the mix and mingle will begin at 11:30 a.m., with the program pro-gram and lunch scheduled Zions Bank reveals new Orem location Zions Bank unveiled the architectural plans Friday, Jan. 3 for its new Orem branch location at 462 West 800 North. The 14,000-square-foot building was designed by Lucchesi, Galati & Assoc. of Las Vegas. L&T Construction of Orem began working on the project in November 2002. The new office building will provide Utah County clients with access to a full line of personal and business busi-ness banking products and services. The branch will feature four drive-up lanes, a 24-hour ATM, a night depository and safe deposit boxes. The new office will community banks," said Stan Nakano, district director of the Utah District of the U.S. Small Business Administration. "It would be hard for small businesses to receive financial assistance without our help." "We don't have the bureaucracy bureau-cracy common in big banks," said Hal J. Allen, Capital Community Bank president. "With our headquarters here, we don't have to wait to get approval from another head office in Salt Lake or even some other sate. We make all our decisions here." As businesses and banks 226-2969 FAX: 226-6221 354 South State Street, Orem 1 k-t. I iff ' Beehive Chapter with local cities. He resides in Spanish Fork. Lewis and Simons were both awarded the 2002 Builder of the Year Award at the association's annual banquet. Simons, of Cottage Homes, has served as president presi-dent of UVHBA, a national director to the National Association of Home Builders and sits on the NAHB small volume builder committee and a Home Builders Association of Utah director, Simons lives in Draper. for noon. All interested community members are invited to attend the forum. The cost for the luncheon is $18 for chamber members and $25 for non-chamber members. The event will be held at The Provo Marriott Hotel, 101 West 100 North in Provo. replace Zions Bank's Orem branch, currently located at 406 North State St. Bill Talbot, manager of the branch, along with his staff will relocate to the new building May 5. A public ribbon cutting ceremony and open house is slated for mid-May. "Our business in the Orem area has really been growing, and the new branch will allow us to continue con-tinue to expand," said Thone Heppler, Zions Bank's center Utah region president. "Bill Talbot and his team of employees look forward to better serving the community with the added convenience of a new office building." earns award become larger, the customers become smaller, Allen said. Capital Community Bank works with the SBA to provide pro-vide lending opportunities to thousands of Utah County residents and businesses maintaining the heritage of ingenuity and enterprise. The SBA was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government govern-ment to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interest of small business concerns, preserve pre-serve free competitive enterprise enter-prise and maintain and strengthen the overall economy econo-my of the nation. Your Link Back To The Road. "THE DEFINITION OF QUALITY & WORKMANSHIP" EXPERTS IN INSURANCE CLAIMS HANDLING WE WORK WITH ALL INSURANCE COMPANIES UNIBODY & FRAME REPAIR First Orem Town Hall built on 700 North State Street CLYDE E. WEEKS, JR. Times Correspondent One might not think the issue of where to locate the Town of Orem's first town hall could be an issue affecting affect-ing the election of the mayor of Orem, but truth can be stranger than fiction. The story began back in 1919, when the Town of Orem was incorporated. Since the principle reason for incorporating the town was to develop a badly needed need-ed culinary water system, much of the Town Board's attention in those days was centered on how to raise the money to do it, and then, how to get the job done. The need for a town hall was down the list of priorities. priori-ties. After all, Town Board President Lawrence J. Snow and the Town Board of Trustees could hold their meetings in the back room of Snow's Mercantile store or even out in someone's orchard. But of course, there would be no really safe place to secure the town's money or keep the records of the minutes of meetings. Russell K. Homer, Orem's first town clerk, kept the town's records in his automobile, auto-mobile, and sometimes, the town treasury was buried in an orchard. Things went along like that for nearly 20 years, with residents doing a lot of talking about getting a town hall, but never seeing it happen. All that changed, however, howev-er, when Emery McKellip became Orem mayorTown Board president in 1936. He found that nothing had changed since he had served on the Town Board of Trustees 15 years earlier at least, as far as Orem still not having a town hall, where the town's business could be conducted, and where the Board of Trustees could hold its meetings. Mayor McKellip resolved to change that situation by purchasing a lot and building build-ing a log-style town hall on that site. The Town Board authorized the purchase of a 1.57 acre lot at about 700 North State Street. Most of the residents in the north end of town seemed comfortable with the placement of the town hall in that location. Mayor McKellip proceeded to locate some logs from a source in Provo Canyon and made plans to go ahead 1 & 2 Bedroom with Full Kitchen & Balcony Washer & Dryer in each UNIT Educational and Cultural Activities Chauffeured Transportation Storage Space Onsite Beauty & Barbershop Computer Lab & Library Maid Service 5 II I "1 1 ' This scene of the historic Orem City Hall, located for years at the corner of Center and State streets, Includes th vehicle garage and flrestatlon to the north and east, 1970, the structure was moved to 870 West Center Stred In order to make room for the new Orem City Center. with the construction. Another faction of the community felt that the best solution would be for the town to purchase the home that James G. Stratton had built in the very center of town and lost through financial reverses during the Depression. Arthur V. Watkins, prominent attorney, who later served two terms in the United States Senate, had been living in the former for-mer Stratton home with his family for more than two years. He urged McKellip to purchase the Stratton property. prop-erty. He said citizens wanted want-ed a town hall, located in the center of town. When McKellip declined to do so, the matter became the principal issue in the 1937 municipal election, when B. Manning Jolley, who favored making the Stratton home Orem's town hall, was elected town board president. Immediately after being sworn in as town president on Jan. 19, 1938, Jolley opened negotiations to buy the Stratton home and its adjoining 37 12 acres of land, on which a young pear orchard had been planted. The creditors on the home were holding out for a payment of $25,000, but on Watkins' suggestion, Jolley offered $14,000, which they reluctantly accepted. At last, the Town of Orem had a heart, and it was located in the center of the community. Renovations soon got underway on the well-built former Stratton brick home, and before long, a meeting room was designated in which the Orem Town Now Open Call 434-75S1 o 6cl)eduU a vLSii to our lino Rdifcwad Community & i t 1 i T- i m a. ii uoara oi irusiees comacej duct business. At the same time, V. Em Hansen moved the ton clerk's office from his hod into the new Orem TosJ Hall. Without adequa: security in his hoc Hansen had, on occasic hid the town's money m ti ash tray of a wood-burnii stove, while his family vp not home. The Town Hall was graJ ually occupied by otti town services, and in 1939 public library was esta lished in the south port! of the basement. Russell K. Homer, w had been Orem's first ta clerk, contributed bis enia library of books to the Or! Library. Many others mal contributions too. With no bank in toJ the Town of Orem had deposit its money in a Prd bank. Two years after Maji., Jolley's election, which s? -the Stratton home conve: ed to the Orem Town Ha! the original owner of ii -home, James G. Stratfa -was elected to the Ore Town Board, where ! served for eight years. With America's entry ill World War II on Dec. , 1941, the United Stati 1'. undertook a system i ! ration commodities early: 1942. The demise oft!..., Orem Library came at thi ; time, when the need for rationing office took priori! over the library. T. Paper was tacked ovf " the shelves of books, andti rationing office was opene in that space May 8, 1941 - with nine board member ; and a clerk. ?' Community a: v.- t'Y. i |