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Show Times New Page A10 Thursday, February 20, 2003 DEVELOPMENT PAGEANT Continued from front page Geneva its due honor, and put it to permanent rest." Soter said BlueLynx would like to transform the site into a research and development park, or a sort of innovation center. "By innovation center, we mean a beautifully developed park-like location that brings together businesses involved in new product development, technical and product research, business finance, market strategy and marketing, oversight validation, and higher education." edu-cation." Soter said it makes sense to incorporate existing railroad rail-road tracks on the site into a light rail system that would connect Utah Valley with Salt Lake City. Commenting on the concerns con-cerns of BlueLynx about former for-mer Geneva employees, Soter said, "We realize that hundreds of families in Utah Valley have been severely impacted by the closing of Geneva. We know that many former Geneva workers are still unemployed." unem-ployed." "Although we cannot make any guarantees to anyone," Soter said, "we want the public to know that BlueLynx is strongly committed to the idea of helping the former Geneva employees." He explained that the dismantling of the steel plant, creation of new water and wastewater systems, and other things could create cre-ate large amounts of employment. "BlueLynx will do everything every-thing we reasonably can to encourage and motivate the firms we hire the firms who will eventually perform the dismantling site remediation, reme-diation, and construction to give preferential hiring consideration to former Geneva workers who, by that time, are still not back to full employment and who bring reasonable qualifications." qualifica-tions." Soter emphasized the importance BlueLynx places on the participation of local Utah Valley and other Utah businesses, in this project. "Over the next five, 10, 15 or 20 years that may be required to bring this vision to fruition, many millions more likely several billion dollars will be spent to engage the services of a wide variety of businesses. We want business owners in Utah Valley, Salt Lake Valley, and nearby to know that we are local residents. We support the idea of hir ing local businesses. It's good business to spend money locally, and we'll do that as much as possible." Meanwhile, for nearly a year, Catalyst Development has been working with the Town of Vineyard on another anoth-er project, totally unrelated to the Geneva project. Leslie Clements, Catalyst and BlueLynx principal, said the project, called "Lexington at Vineyard," involves the purchase of some 700 acres, located south of Geneva. The gated community would comprise 57 lots one to three acres in size featuring boat docks and white picket fences by Utah Lake. Also included would be a marina, an equestrian park, a condominium development devel-opment and a small retail area. Vineyard Mayor Rulon Gammon said last Wednesday that all of the major developments planned for Vineyard would require major zoning changes. A meeting of the Vineyard Town Council will be held Saturday, Feb. 22, at which time the council will discuss the town's five-year master plan. Any major decisions are unlikely for some time, he said. PAYDAY LENDER BILL Continued from front page card interest or getting a personal loan from a credit union or bank. However, neither of the bills introduced by McCartney or Mayne are designed to cap the interest rates on payday loans. McCartney's bill, which was unanimously approved by the Utah House of Representatives Wednesday, Feb. 5, would require "payday" lenders to allow partial payments on loans and offer borrowers 24 hours to rescind loans. "If a customer comes in with $100 on a $500 loan and the lender won't accept it, the borrower then accrues interest on . $500, rather than on $400," McCartney said. His bill would also require the Utah Department of Financial Institutions to examine deferred deposit lenders annually and would prohibit prohib-it them from using the criminal crim-inal process as a club for col lecting past-due money. Naturally, there was both positive feedback and opposition oppo-sition toward the bill. In testifying for passage of the bill, Linda Hilton, director of the Coalition of Religious Communities, said the biggest problem of payday loans is the fees. "We would like the bill to go even further by capping interest rates," she said, although she agreed that such legislation legisla-tion is only a remote possibility, possi-bility, since few people complain com-plain to the state about payday pay-day lenders. Also testifying was Margie Gendler, controller of Cash Advance, which has five locations in the Salt Lake City area. She said the industry's high fees result from the riskier nature of payday loans. "My company and others like it do not require credit checks. Borrowers are not required to have collateral, and the money is dispersed quickly. We meet a real need." ' In spite of high interest rates, officials pointed out that sometimes it is cheaper to get a short-term loan than to bounce checks that require fees of $20 to both the bank and the merchant. Continued from front page utive director of the Miss Orem program, said it will be sad to see the Miss Utah pageant leave, but it will be nice to have it in Abravanel Hall. Sandstrom, whose husband, hus-band, Stephen, is a member of the Orem City Council, said the city has always enjoyed the pageant. Nielsen and his wife retired from pageant duties three to four years ago. Rhea Kiisel, who replaced the Nielsens, resigned as executive director direc-tor of the pageant five weeks ago. While pageant contestants contest-ants stayed with voluntary host families in Orem, they will now stay in Salt Lake hotels at no extra charge to the contestants, said Haws of Lehi. Although Haws saij is moving the make it more visible! state, Nielsen said h i mixed feelings. 6 in his experience eants across the llflVP n nf An-rn li . UU1H, However, Nielsen there may be situation is not familiar with n would make the new I tion advantageous. SCOUTING Continued from front page council historian for the Boy Scouts of America since '85. Cross served as den master, mas-ter, camp director and in professional service from 1946 to 1961. Early finds of arrowheads in his youth sparked the fire of legend and Indian lore, later to be utilized when he organized "The Order of the Arrow" in '54. As Eagle Scout banquet coordinator, Cross brought in guests such as a seven-year seven-year Vietnam prisoner of war, Col. Robby Risner, a NASA scientist and others to speak to young men and sponsors. Cross recalls a meeting when George Albert Smith, former president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, told him, "Remember every boy is important in the sight of the Lord." This became Cross' motto and creed. While acting as a professional profes-sional scout executive, he said he wanted to give scouts more adventure after their first outdoor Scout camp experiences. He took the first Boy Scout river trip in 1948 on the Colorado River through Glen Canyon. This led Cross to his future career of Whitewater rafting. raft-ing. He organized Cross Tours & Explorations, Inc., a Whitewater rafting company, compa-ny, that ran rivers from the Salmon in Idaho, Utah and Colorado Rivers through the Grand Canyon to the more exciting expeditions into the Barranca Del Cobre of Mexico. Cross holds, with high esteem, his Silver Beaver Award from 1974, but 2002 brought other once-in-a-life-time honors. He was an Olympic torch runner and later received the Silver Antelope Award in New Orleans at the National Boy Scout Convention last June. It was announced in 2001 that the new Boy Scout Service Center in Orem would John bear the no.,. and Vinlnf ' Although Violet v away in 1989, Johns J mg the center comply worth living for. Cross is known c. integrity, honesty and I. i,vj mc men ana has worked with over years. Men often appr him and say, "You prot" uuj.1 i, iciueiuDer me Cross will smile and ' his hand up to the heir'-12-year-old boy at i camp and say, "You r probably about this tat last time I saw you." Fellow Scouters, fc and family will celet-Cross' celet-Cross' birthday and years of scouting at art tion Friday, Feb. 21 at West 1600 South, Oret will be from 6 to 8 ; Friends are invited tosh pages of memories thoughts about Cross. I: will be compiled k. memory book. t "i. Fountain Flavor of the Month "Vjjnr f; ' rtiimi iiiir-ittft-iniiiiMin m "' AWARD FOR SERVICE Continued from front page bly has an hour's break between each. But Hodson said the service brings joy and fulfillment ful-fillment to her life. Twenty years ago, she said, she would have never believed she would be doing this. "I come home from my (volunteering), (volun-teering), and I just think, 'My life has changed.'" If more retired people would spend their time volunteering, vol-unteering, they would be happier, she said. "I'm just so busy that I can't think of age." Dick and Connie Hodson have been married for 44 years. Their children range from 22 to 42 years old, and the couple has 37 grandchildren. grandchil-dren. Eight of their children came to the awards ceremony ceremo-ny at the State Capitol. And it was fitting, Hodson said, that the presentation occurred on her birthday. According to Alicia Campbell, of Utah's Promise public relations, Hodson received a declaration declara-tion signed by the governor and lieutenant governor. The Points of Light Award began in October 2000. It is given weekly and presented monthly. Award-winners Award-winners are selected from nominations sent in by Utah residents. Campbell said Hodson was chosen because her service has been far-reaching and ongoing. ongo-ing. Hodson said she felt dazed to be honored in the awards ceremony. She is still not sure who nominated nominat-ed her. She questioned all of her children, but "no one admitted to it." -. -,- - - ,. -. . 5 Coors & Coors Light 12 pk cans Keystone & Keystone Light Bud & Bud Light 1 8 pk cans 0Q09 20 pk LNNR V O 4 IT tY Natural Light & ?v". Natural Ice 12 pk cans Marlboro Car1nn I Virginia Slims, Parliament carton $3115 Camel, Winston carton $20 j BaSC Carton $27 K"S Carton $27 oral Carton $2519 - Pa Mall Carton $22" Mustang Carton $Oj N Prices aood thru 197ria non . . 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