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Show k " " "" t-A J V 3w Viy. i vjy r rrr--rir. nbt Tij f r.. r n For home delivery call 756-7669 or see our web site at www.newutah.com Vol.21, No. 14 Wednesday, April 7, 1999 50 cents a single copy J f : " H' I f) '0!,! ' . - 'V- hillside By Cindy Burton j Illegal use of motorized vehi- E:s in the foothills east of easant Grove and Lindon urs every year, and is get-Iig get-Iig worse. It angers private : fidovners, annoys homeown-"'3 homeown-"'3 and robs the public of the ""-llues associated with jilional Forest land and open J "Tlie areas above Pleasant ove, Lindon and Springville ,,..,3 the hardest hit by ATVs (all iHrrain vehicles)," explains ..m.sant Grove District "nger, Bob Easton. "Most of the land (that is w National Forest) was pur-;ased pur-;ased and established to pro-'':t pro-'':t watersheds," explains ston. "Tlie key to the whole ng is to prevent watershed .mage." According to Easton, there c'is "tremendous flooding in k early 1900's, mostly from I estock damage." Rocks the "e of cars rolled down the yons in those floodwaters, u l'ollowmg that event, treme measures were taken ity may measure Public sentiment ICS By Marcella Walker rp City Editor Wfroomful of city employees, teers and other Pleasant a residents participated in vey demonstration recent- ' th electronic keypads and 4 Questions. ' 1 Easant Grove City Council t -jjjisidering doing a city sur- n t i i . i i. may anu is looiving ai me TSjjTaility of using an electronic Titions Technology Inc., a ,.1,'any from Salt Lake City .0 1 normally does sui-veys for nesses, demonstrated a -held keypad, called an Ji-finder, on which partici- q could respond to survey -tions- IMOse being sui-veyed were a question and then given 38'''al numbered options to :vym which were shown on a where all could see it. results were immediately f J, pble and were displayed on -t,L:reen and showed in graph j'how the voting went. her questions spawned by nswers could also be asked t more specific responses to he city council more infor-I infor-I n. ose who participated in lemonstration were very C- ed with this survey - ' T " - Photos couresty of U.S. Forest Service ;r'c-ese are tracks left by illegal offroad vehicle use. This kind of damage destroys the vegetation and causes soil to wash down al ORV use is destroying local foothill: While four-wheeling in the foothills, this truck got stuck. Efforts to pull it free caused even more hillside damage. to prevent a re-occurrence. "There was a lot of rehabilitation) rehabilita-tion) to the upper watershed, where the floods were starting," start-ing," Easton says. More recently, he recalls when a large 1,800 acre wildfire wild-fire burned through the foothills in 1987. "After the fire there was a real bad flood," Easton shares. ith electronic survey method, they said. Rather than go from house to house with a written survey or by using the random selection method throughout the city, the council was following up on a suggestion from Tony Onofrietti, Leisure Services Director, to look at this computerized comput-erized method. The council said they could rent 100 of the option-finders for a week and have each of the city's 11 neighborhoods meet individually or combined with others to complete the survey. This way the city council would know how the different neighborhoods responded to the various survey questions which would be helpful in planning. It was noted that if the survey sur-vey is to be of value, the neighborhoods neigh-borhoods will need to get a good representation from their areas out to participate in the survey. No firm decision has been made on when the survey will be done. The cost to the city to use the equipment would be about $5,000. Questions had been raised about using a written survey and finding volunteers to distribute dis-tribute them, finding people at home to complete them, and getting get-ting a good representation from throughout the community. " 1 H i. 1? "It washed down past the houses hous-es in north Orem 'nd went down State Street. It flooded some basements. "The flood also washed out Lindon's city water system," he says. Following this fire and flood, the Forest Service spent several sever-al thousand dollars in rehabilitation rehabili-tation using a helicopter to Pleasant Grove City was one of 24 communities in Utah which have been recognized as a 1998 Tree City USA award winner from the National Arbor Day Foundation. Other cities were Clearfield, Highland, Hill Air Force Base, Kaysville, Murray, Orem, Provo, Salt Lake City, Springville, West Jordan, West 1 - . .... .. 5 scatter seed over the burned area. Regarding the success of reseeding efforts, Ranger Easton says, "Where they stay off, that area will revegetate. But when they don't..." Steep slopes, shallow soil and a southeastern exposure make it a harsh site for plants to get established. "There's not much soil to begin with (on the foothills)," he says. "When you remove the vegetation the soil will wash down the mountain." Spring is an especially susceptible sus-ceptible time for soils to be stripped from the hillsides. "It's wet, and they go up and tear it up," explains Hugh Jacobs, Trails Coordinator. A lot of the severe damage is done by the big four wheel drive pick-ups," says Easton. He explains that the larger vehicles do more damage than the smaller ones. "I came here in 1987 and we've worked on this every year since then," Ranger Easton says. "It's probably one See ORV on Page 12 Valley City, Brigham City, Laketown, Logan, Ogden, Smithfield, Park City, Ephraim, Richfield, Milford, St. George, Moab and Price. Bill Gappmayer of the Pleasant Grove Beautification Commission submitted the application for the city. He said the judging is done on four criteria. cri-teria. i New Miss PI. Grove to be crowned in Saturday pageant Stephanie Langford will relinquish her crown as Miss Pleasant Grove at the conclusion conclu-sion of the Scholarship Pageant which will be held Saturday, April 10, at 7 p.m. in the Pleasant Grove High School auditorium. ine putuic is invited to attend. Tickets are available avail-able from contestants contes-tants or at the door. Fifteen young women will vie for the title in the contest. con-test. A queen and four runners-up will be chosen. The program will feature Todd Hansen of Fox 13 news and Stephanie as emcees. Strawberry Days Grand Marshall Colleen Walker will be introduced at the pageant. The contestants will compete in the Talent portion of the program, the Stephanie Physical Fitness in Swimsuit Competition, and the Eveningwear event. Judges will conduct the interviews earlier ear-lier in the day. Each has also been required to do a service project. Entertainment between events will include dances by Stephanie Langford, who will also introduce her platform; MusiKids, a children's vocal performance group; Dance Showcase, a children's dance group; and Nathan Osmond will given piano and vocal numbers num-bers throughout. Stephanie's sister, Michelle Langford, will join her for a dance duet. Nathan Osmond will also present the Serenade to the Queen when the new Miss Pleasant Grove is announced. The queen and the runners-up will receive scholarships which will be presented when they have completed their one-year reign. One is that the city must have an ordinance creating a Tree Management Program Commission. The council did this by giving that title to the existing Beautification Commission as part of its responsibilities. Also, the city had to assign a city department to handle the tree management for the city. Photo by Marcella Walker ..... -y' .5 : v.iiSsiif-ifiisvj.isi;1 Contestants are Aimee Warner, who will perform a dance;.April Edlefsen, Marimba solo; Becca Marchbanks, dance; Sarah Stancliff, cello solo; Charayye Vanderwel, dance; Becca McClellan, vocal solo; Langford to relinquish title. Erin Guernsey, piano solo; Rebecca Gardner, harp solo; Amdanda Trevenen, dance; Michelle Patterson, dance; Melissa Pyne, vocal solo; Starsha Green, dance; Amber Rolfe, monologue; Christy Pierce, vocal solo; and Megan Roundy, dance. Pageant committee members mem-bers are Chairman Frank Mills, Director Kimberly Bronson, Co-Director Maria Boren; Heather Andress, Karen Bezzant, Karen Blalock, Debbie Eldredge, Marcella Walker, Betty Memmott, Angie Walker, Kathy Fryer, Andrea Taylor, Natasha Brown, Connie Bahr, Wendy Sheffield, Raychellene Talbot, LaRaine Montgomery, Lisa Young, Mark Smith, Mark Atwood, Lyle Biggs, Kristin Anderson, Jamie Carson, Becky Dunn, Doug Bezzant, Vince Burgoyne and the PGHS tech crew. The city Parks Dept. provides that service. The third requirement is that the city spend at least $2 per year per citizen on tree-type tree-type things such as tree care, pruning, planting, etc. And the final requirement is the mayor must proclaim an Arbor Day celebration for the city. 1 Sidewalks completed on vest side of Main The sidewalks have been finished on the west side of Main Street in Pleasant Grove as the first phase of the Downtown RDA continues. The sidewalks between Center Street and 100 South on the west side of the road are two feet wider now. The peninsulas penin-sulas at the corners and at the midblock crosswalk are still to be poured. On Monday, crews laid the pavement and marked the See SIDEWALKS on Page 12 I I S W ink A |