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Show sarit Growe Fk More LOCAL news than any other source! 1 I R yIXED ODC 840 HOAG & SONS BC30KBINDERY, INC. G 127 RfllLRDRD ST SPRIMGPDRT MI 49284 For home delivery call 756-7669 or see our web site at www.newutah.com I stti&A w&fr.J Vol. 23, No. 5 Wednesday, January 31, 2001 50 cents a single copy Li i r I I i f - . 2 j EY 3 TWontey Town i rates to mee Feb. 7 njet nost R r There will be a meet-Jan meet-Jan j-ing of the Monkey Town ' V 1 1 1 TIT- J 3 neignDornoou vveunesuay, Fph 7 at 7 n.m. in the 'Leisure Services Building, 41 E. 200 South, east room. There will be a discussion on -Olympic volunteering and also an election 01 a u.- A LJ iHCIiair, vice iim ciiiu act- Sjretary. 1 It you have any COn-no-m c in the n Ai crh HnrVi nnH Spra' or city, this is-the place to oyJSvoice them. Anyone with .: rpu questions can call Libby VFlegal, 785-7271. "S's' Last week in oth er &i .neighborhood meetings, - i Little Denmark neighbor-lhood neighbor-lhood re-elected Richard Hansen as chair. Shirley "Vlf 'i Cox will be the vice chair J i-and the new secretary f ". will be Gail Bartholomew. Scratch Gravel also met and elected a new chair, Barbara Wells. Manila park may get nets The city is considering purchasing protective netting to be put up at the ball, fields at Manila Park. The cost of the nets would be $8,500. Rick Heilbut, of the leisure services department, said that the nets will be made of 360 lb. netting and are UV protected. The city council will make a final decision on purchasing the nets at the next city council meeting. Applications due soon for Miss PI. Grove Applications for the J Miss Pleasant Grove Pageant are still avail able at the Pleasant Grove City Hall. The applications are due on February 9, 2001 and should be turned in at the city hall. Contestants must be no less than 17 years of age, never been Miss. Pleasant Grove before, and be available for contestant con-testant workshops each Saturday morning for several weeks before the pageant. Miss Pleasant Grove and her attendants will be required to participate in parades during the summer The pageant will be held April 7, 2001 at PG High School. Velma Robbins has recently ''!l!V'?'.''m;"l-'--',lll 1 r - V f 'RINCIPAL OF THE YEAR v. - 5- . 1:M Eris Waymire, principal at dymire W By Karli Poyfair City Editor Pleasant Grove High School principal Eris Waymire said she was surprised to learn she had received Utah's high school principal of the year award. But judging from all the congratulatory flowers in her office, not many other people were surprised that she was chosen. "It's embarrassing," WOrk. Great fOCUltV, Waymire said of the . . lAu flowers. "i think she's very Q deserving, said assis- tant principal Blaine O Edmand. She has a great knack for sup porting people. Waymire was chosen cho-sen from a field of 17 principals in the state. She received a plaque from the principals' association and will travel to Washington, D.C. in October to compete at a national level. She was also honored at a reception last Wednesday. "It's not me it's you," she told her teachers last week. "You get Photo by Kalyn Secretan completed a cookbook filled with her favorite recipes. I. Photo by Karli Poyfair PGHS was recently named Utah's principal of the year. earns state honor pie to work for you and a student body as great as the Vikings." In her eight years at Pleasant Grove High School, Waymire has implemented several innovative programs, including the sophomore mentor program. "Five years ago we divided the sopho It's a great place to work together as , Team. Eris Waymire started. Then the first day of school would be for sophomores only. "We have an assembly and the students stu-dents can find their lockers and classes and get acquainted without the old students stu-dents there," Waymire said. "It's a great thing to get the kids feel- the best peo- Cooking up Memories mm -"is . more class into groups of 10, then adults from school became mentors," she said. The mentors would personally deliver a welcome packet with academic messages to the new student in the summer before school See WAYMIRE on Page 10 PG woman creates cookbook full of By Kalyn Secretan "Stir it up, Cook it up, Eat it Up!" Velma Robbins just completed com-pleted her cookbook that her family, her friends and neighbors have been waiting wait-ing for. Velma has spent a lifetime cooking and gathered gath-ered recipes from Canada to Mexico and from California to Maine as she traveled with the Good Sam's Club. They are not original although they may have her special touch. She has always exchanged recipes, many of them within her ward. Velma's love of cooking began early. Her mother died when she was only 3 years old. Her sister was 9, so she was learning along with her sister. She was Residents vote for Street Alternative D at open house By Karli Poyfair City Editor . The results are in from the Transportation Open House which was held Jan. 17. J.U.B., the engineering firm hired by the city to create cre-ate a street master plan, estimated that around 200 people attended the event. Comments were collected from those who attended. In addition to the comments on the streets and traffic calming measures, residents resi-dents were able to vote on one of four different street network alternatives. Three alternatives were recommended recom-mended by an advisory committee and one proposal was given by a developer. Alternative D received the most votes on the survey sur-vey forms. Alternatives C and D are nearly identical, and together they received 73 percent of the votes. Alternatives C and D include Pleasant Grove Blvd., which is a straight road from the interchange to State Street. J.U.B. recommended the city council select Alternative D as the basis PI. Commission discusses animal rights issue again By Karli Poyfair City Editor Pleasant Grove residents may yet get their animal rights. The ad hoc committee commit-tee that was formed in December to study the issue gave their recommendations recommenda-tions to the planning commission com-mission last week. An animal rights ordinance ordi-nance was recommended to the city council last year that would have given animal ani-mal rights to anyone in the city with half an acre or more property. The ordinance ordi-nance met with resistance from the mayor and other city officials and was sent back to the planning commission com-mission for revisions. The ad hoc committee met at the end of last month and reported their propositions proposi-tions to the planning commission com-mission last week. One of their first suggestions sugges-tions is that residents living in the northwest portion or the southwest area of the city automatically have animal ani-mal rights if the property is larger than one half acre. Another suggestion the making bread and biscuits when she was 8 or 9 years old. She still makes her own bread. She often said, "If I have bread, cheese and eggs, I've got it made." Velma worked for the school lunch program at Pleasant Grove Jr. High for five years, then she went to Harrington Elementary as manager for another five years. She enjoyed working for the School District. She said you always had the very best to work with. They made all their own bread, cinnamon rolls, cakes or cookies. They had to put together a type "A", meal and it always included includ-ed a dessert. They could only serve chocolate milk a couple of times a year. It was hard work to of the street network master mas-ter plan. J.U.B. presented the survey results to the council last Tuesday at the work session meeting. A public hearing will be held Feb. 20 and after talking public comment on the street plans, the council will formally adopt a plan. Some of the recurring comments J.U.B. reported from the surveys were, "likes connection from interstate to Center Street," "Wants access on Sam White for West (American Fork)," "Connect CBD to I-15 I-15 Interchange," "Place traffic traf-fic light at 100 East and State Street," "Concerned about future plans for Center St.600 WestState St. intersection," "Does not want the rodeo ground impacted," "Does not want connection between 3300 North and Canyon Road," "Connect 100 East to Geneva Road," "Don't widen 100 East in CBD and in front of Manila Park," and "Widen 100 East." Mark Christensen, a rep-See rep-See STREET on Page 10 committee gave the planning plan-ning commission was to create cre-ate citywide map. Council member Freeman Andersen, a member of the committee said, "We have to have a map that shows animal ani-mal rights. Anyone who has them now would go on the map." After all the information was gathered, the map would show where animal rights were located within the city. Someone who was considering buying property proper-ty in Pleasant Grove would be able to see if there were animal rights near where they wanted to buy. The map would also help to identify those properties that have grandfathered animal rights. Another idea the committee commit-tee presented was that city wide, any piece of property one-and-one-half or two acres or more would have animal rights in perpetuity, without the owner's rnain-taining rnain-taining the rights. "If someone had that See ANIMAL on Page 10 favorite recipes work in the lunch room and lug around those big old kettles, but she grew to appreciate the kids, to know them and enjoy them. The Fireman's Breakfast had it's beginning begin-ning in 1960 and Velma was president of the auxiliary. auxil-iary. They served about 600 breakfasts that year and they were really surprised. The breakfast has become a Pleasant Grove tradition and they served about 2,000 this year. Velma helped with the breakfasts up until about five years ago, when her husband Bill got sick. He said if he couldn't drag the hose anymore any-more he was going to quit the fire department. See COOK on Page 10 |