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Show Pleasant Grove ReviewLindon New Utah! - Wednesday, November 15, 2000 - Page 3 PINION km Welcoming Draper Help celebrate PCs first Family Week Aft olism. ,e inform:. can and 1 are al;: swer door sculr. ehind i toghlight ie child;, imong (r: Q obsen variety ; of Art ak of stor. Moot, P.m. ft: series fe storytells ward ai: Art hoc d Hurst n.,Tuest 1 Friday:: p.m., r. to 5 p: is die: free,E of speriai:. .bitions.;::, litionsfci mation i.: ,veai ago, north Utah n raunities lost control of Traverse Moun-t Moun-t Hollow when each ; refused to cooperate toa-s who wanted to JStbe hillsides Uiat J natural boundary Jrtahand Salt Lake "Jtime, Draper City, recog- 5 An nrnnosed develop- lYh a healthy na. aws ' 7,! m n'toh County. ;i, appears that north Utah -has another opportunity to C in the growth on the To let this opportunity slip fflidd be a mistake. .opportunity comes in the 'wastewater treatment, 'rs of what is now called it a 3,800-unit housing -lave approached the Tim--s Special Service District ;oue5t to contract for the tfs wastewater treatment jj.The distnct serves norm Count' communities, han-'Jiesewage han-'Jiesewage treatment for all unities from Pleasant to Eagle Mountain, planis for the portion of ;Bt that is in Utah County to : a separate special sendee dispell dis-pell would then contract ieTSSD to treat the develop-i develop-i wastewater. The agreement u'oe similar to the contracts the j used to have with Highland ajar Hills before those corn- Is were allowed to join the jCrest developers have said sill bear the cost of new les, to be built alongside 3? lines in existing ease- ; that would be needed to wastewater to the treatment The plant itself can handle ided inflow, thanks to a : project that doubled the 5 capacity. 'lis agreement can't be :aj, SunCrest developers say Jill pump the sewage around 1 to Salt Lake County. One :r another, they have demon- i determination to build homes. That cannot be d. :e major impediment to an ment with the local special :e district is hard feelings ' Irnm tlm n.ict ... utvf mpnr rn Travpi'sp MramtoJn 1- i i i ----- auuauea iiKe a bad idea to north Utah County communities when it was proposed several years ago. That's why Alpine and Lehi refused at the time to participate in the project prompting the developers to go to Draper. At the time, the communities thought they were thwarting unwanted growth in our northern hills. Instead they ended up handing hand-ing over control of these areas to a community from the other side of the mountain which has no com-. pelling interest in the greater good of north Utah County. Since that time, impending building in the area has become a sore spot with these towns, and SunCrest's request for a contract with the local sewer district may seem like a good opportunity to tell Draper it can handle its own wastewater. It's understandable that the TSSD board would not want to grant Draper City member status in the district. That is the other option that would allow SunCrest to send its wastewater our way. But a contract with the portion of Traverse Mountain development that lies in north Utah County is a reasonable compromise. For one thing, the TSSD was created to handle the wastewater treatment for north Utah County and, like it or not, part of north Utah County is also part of Draper. For another, by contracting with a Traverse Mountain special service serv-ice district, the TSSD would have some say in how this development handles it sewage treatment. If district member cities force Sun-Crest Sun-Crest to pipe its sewage to Salt Lake County, they have no control whatsoever. There is more to be gained by working with SunCrest than working work-ing against them, since these people peo-ple will be our neighbors. They will send kids to our schools, they will vote in our county elections and they will participate in the lives of our communities. Local communities lost control . of Traverse Mountain development develop-ment years ago. Here is a-chance1 to get back some sense of ownership owner-ship in the future of our natural northern border. It may be our last chance. 51 'J ie voters have spoken 0 my many years of writing the newspaper I have Nd there are some things Jt which it is not wise to These include abortion, ;?ion and politics. These 'SS are not usnallv rnnsid- wise to discuss at social Ciiions either. jice when I wrote about my ;JnP on abortion I received a ::ing letter stating in so words that I did not know Jt was talking about. Even I had no doubt that my . !ll"gs were shared by most of ' Population in Pleasant jreL and Lindon, I did feel ! kittled by this letter, rarely write about religion. Win so much as it is indirect-erred indirect-erred to because of some yr situation. 0llt'CS is annthpr matfpr :her. I usually don't talk Politics as it is such a bor-ct bor-ct and you don't always "'fiat another person's ::onal Politics are and I do ", vant to offend anyone. v ftlW Up in a home where i J4"" was a dyed in the ' "emocrat and he often 'my Republican mother usfte had probably canceled ,;vote when they went to iivew very little about ..'"""cans until I grew up and jarried and began to vote. ' lne evmto n u 3fe ., --"".o ui me past wee. ... tne eenpmi pW; vc ery columnist some- V evi A rwtue about. ..Ml us- W! P. J'1 ,notwin the election jiff 1i did Ule eiecnon rageu I rememhered the years I wage. We had tn aHnA a training session presented by the county clerk's office. They stressed that we could not count any ballots which had been marked twice in the same, category cate-gory as there was no way of "determining what the voters intention was. There were always a few ballots which we had to discard for this reason. We were told that if a person did not understand any part of the ballot he could ask us to explain it to him so that he could accurately mark the ballot bal-lot If a voter made a mistake on his ballot he could bring it back to us and we would give him another ballot and discard the one he had made the mistake n-There is little reason that I can think offor people not being able to mark a ballot correctly. It is possible to make a mistake mis-take in tallying the votes but it no common. Double marked ballots are going to be thrown UtSo some of the arguments that we have heard this past Jeek do not make sense to me because I tlnnk everything that muld be clone to make the oi coum oe l . f . the voters ing process eaiei iui was clone. ennken. So The nPODie Uci -r- let it be clone. ' Family Week begins this Sunday Sun-day and I hope everyone will take this opportunity to join in our city's first celebration of families. The days before Thanksgiving can be busy, but what better way to prepare for the holiday than doing things together as a family. The activities planned aren't terribly time-consuming and I think it's important to support the efforts of those who have planned this celebration cele-bration for the city. Sunday night at 7 p.m. is Family Fam-ily First night at Pleasant Grove High School. A Family Week choir has been rehearsing for several weeks now and will sing that night. There will be speakers and the program should only last about an hour. Monday is Family Flag night where families are encouraged to make their own flags and display them in their yards. Tuesday night is a Family Party Extravaganza Extrava-ganza at the Rec Center. Wednes- day there will be entertainment in the morning put on by families for senior citizens to enjoy. Friday the Water Gardens will show movies in the morning to Pleasant Grove families for free. The Thanksgiving weekend is one of the busiest times for a movie theater and to have the managers agree to show movies at no cost is amazing and very generous. I've been assured that the movies shown will be current movies the whole family can enjoy. Just don't forget to bring a water bill and I.D. as proof of residence. An outstanding Pleasant Grove Family of the Year will be announced during Family Week and several essay contest winners have already been named. We hear so much today about what is wrong in the world, and what is wrong with today's families, fami-lies, that I think it's good to celebrate cele-brate what is right about families I've been very impressed with the organizers of this event. It's hard to begin a city celebration from scratch, but Heather Miller and her committee have done just that. They have put countless hours of work into making this thing something special for families. fami-lies. Miller has worked tirelessly in visiting the different neighborhoods neighbor-hoods and talking about Family Week. She has involved the city council in the plans and the council coun-cil has expressed its support for the celebration. I hope the families in Pleasant Grove will make time to come and support this effort to get together with other residents of the city and celebrate families. See you there! LostNauvoo Temple plans miraculously restored In the recorded history of LDS temples, the name of Truman Tru-man O. Angell is well known as the carpenter who became church architect of the Salt Lake and other early Utah temples. However, in the Nau-voo Nau-voo era, he was assistant to another gifted architect by the name of William Weeks. Among several applicants, Weeks was hand picked -by Joseph Smith to actually create what the prophet had seen only in vision as the Nauvoo Temple. Tem-ple. In the baptistry, for example, exam-ple, Weeks did the initial carving carv-ing for a set of 12 wooden oxen, which supported an early wooden font. Later, when the wood was to be replaced with stone, some of the best stone cutters in America said it could not be done. Though not a stonecutter himself, Weeks took a chisel and mallet in hand and proved them all ' wrong. - ,: ' ' '"" Today the1 'Nauvoo home of William Weeks has been restored at the corner of Young and Partridge streets. He. also helped plan the Masonic Hall, Nauvoo House and the Nauvoo Arsenal. Early in 1846, Weeks was blessed by church patriarch, John Smith, to "discern the order of building cities, temples, tem-ples, and buildings of all kinds, after the order which God hath appointed that Zion should be adorned and ornamented in the last days." Leaving his assistant, assis-tant, Truman O. Angell, in charge of finishing the temple in Nauvoo, Weeks joined the first vanguard of pioneers so he could commence plans for a much larger temple in the midst of the Rocky Mountains. Although he made the arduous ardu-ous trek to Utah, his history with the church came to an abrupt end. Evidently the stark life -of the pioneers, the hopeless hope-less desolation of the desert and the Moses-like leadership of Brigham Young were too much for him. When President Young went east in 1848, Weeks left Salt Lake Valley and the church saying, "They will never build the temple without me." With him, he took the original plans for the Nauvoo Temple, which became lost to the church for over 100 years. However, when President Gordon B. Hinckley announced'to the world in April 1999 that the Nauvoo Temple would be rebuilt, he knew the plans had been recovered and were safely preserved in the archives of the church. How the plans were returned to the church is the miraculous story of Vern Thacker of Heber, Utah. Paul Rasband, Thacker's nephew and president of the American Fork Central Stake, shared his story in a recent stake conference: confer-ence: In 1946, after serving in World War II, Thacker was called to serve in the California Califor-nia Mission under President Oscar W. McConkie. Having carefully saved his military pay, Thacker had sufficient funds to purchase a car so he and his companion could cover their extensive assignment in the Mojave Desert. Near the end of his mission and because he had. the car, Elder Thacker was transferred even further into the desert to the little town of Boron, home of the "Twenty Mule Team" borax mine and near what is now Edwards Air Force Base. There he and his companion knocked on the door of Mr. Leslie Griffin. The missionaries missionar-ies were warmly welcomed and although he had no affiliation affili-ation with the church, Griffin soon informed them that he was a grandson of Williams Weeks, architect of the "old Mormon temple in Nauvoo, Illinois." Weeks had passed away a half century earlier in 1900 and Mr. Griffin remembered little of his grandfather except that he was a very stern, rather eccentric little man about five feet tall with a long gray beard and piercing blue eyes. Evidently, Weeks was very proud of his role as architect of the Nauvoo Temple because his daughter, Griffin's mother, recorded that "he took pride in exhibiting his temple drawings to friends and visitors." After several other gospel discussions with Leslie Griffin, Elder Thacker's- mission came to an end and he informed Griffin Grif-fin that he would be leaving in a few days to start college at Brigham Young University. Continuing in Thacker's own words: "Upon hearing this news, Mr. Griffin excused . himself and went to the rear ; part of the house. He returned with a large roll of papers about three or four feet long and about 10 inches in diameter, secured with a rubber band. He said, 'These are the original architect's archi-tect's drawings for the Nauvoo Temple. They have been in my family for 100 years and we believe they should be returned to the LDS Church.' "They later proved to be valuable exterior drawings with measurements in Weeks' own handwriting. They were yellowed with age but in amazingly amaz-ingly good condition. He asked if I would deliver the plans to the proper people. We didn't ask too many questions for fear that he would change his mind. No one at that time could have suspected the part these plans would play in the reconstruction reconstruc-tion of the temple a half century centu-ry later." Elder Thacker faithfully delivered the plans to the church historical department which are now being used by the current architects in the marvelous restoration of the Nauvoo Temple. Reader's Forum Transplant gives cause for thanks Editor: The United States Senate has designated Thanksgiving Day 2000 as a day to "Give Thanks, Give Life." Since the transplant of my kidney kid-ney to my daughter six years ago, every day has been a day of thanksgiving. More than 71,000 men. women and children across our country are now Waiting for organ transplants. Each day, 16 of them will die because too few organs are available. Many thousands thou-sands more need life-saving tissue, tis-sue, blood and bone marrow. Today we give thanks for the generous donations that enable thousands of Americans, including includ-ing some 21,000 organ transplant recipients each year, to live, work and enjoy another holiday with their families. This Thanksgiving, I ask you to share the gift of life. Discuss organ, blood, bone marrow and tissue donation with your family members so that informed deci-sions deci-sions can be made if the decision to donate arises. Give each one the opportunity to have their wishes known. To learn more about donation, visit www.givethanksgivelife.org or you can call' 1-888-90-SHARE. Donor Pam Woodward Pleasant Grove Transplant Recipient Utahna (Tahnie) Woodward ''SSant . -"wove Heview NewUtah! jSSXNo. 1521-6861) P-S.No. 435-780) 5rp A member of a. national newspaper ASSOCIATION Published weekly by llu- .. la10"" 59 West Main American Fork, Utah 84003 Telephone Numbers Advertising & Circulation 756-7669 News 756'5273 Publisher Brett Bezzant Managing Editor Marc Haddock Cty Editor Karl, Poyfair Subscription price S24 per year Periodicals Postage Paul at American Fork. Utah POSTMASTER: send address change to 59 West Mam. American Fork. Utah 84003 Deadlines Classified Advertising . . .Tuesday, noon Display Advertising . . . .Monday. 5 p m. 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