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Show Pleasant Grove ReviewLindon New Utah! - Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - Page 2 Opinion F . , MSUi 3 Survey shows Based on the results of a recent survey, it's likely that north Utah County residents will be asked to invest $200 million in elementary schools some time in the next few months. That's an investment that must be made if local schools are going to keep up with our growing communities. As it is now, the school district dis-trict is hard pressed to keep up. Snow Springs Elementary, for example, opened this school year and is already at capacity. Unless a new school is built for the Cedar Valley area soon, this new elementary will sport a host of portable units to keep up with the influx of new students. stu-dents. It's the same story in several other elementary schools enough so that the school district dis-trict plans to build 11 new schools if thbond is approved, and to renovate 30 existing schools as well. This kind of commitment to education doesn't come cheap. Estimates are that it will cost $100 a year for a $150,000 residence resi-dence over the next 15 years, although the current bond proposal pro-posal would phase the increase in over a four-year period. However, it is a commitment 67 percent of those surveyed said they were willing to make. Other solutions to school overcrowding have been offered. A group of Cedar Hills residents resi-dents hope to establish a charter char-ter school, for example. And the school district has found room where none existed by using productivity plans like the extended-day schedule. None of these solutions, however, how-ever, can meet the pressing Some thoughts on Did you watch the inauguration inaugura-tion of our new president? Every four years we go through one of these ceremonies and they are very impressive. How would you like to be the person who is in charge of making sure every thing comes off on time without any glitches? Did you notice how everything every-thing was on schedule and they worked it all out so that everyone every-one was in their places, but not too early, and they were all ready to begin the swearing in of the president at exactly 10 a.m. MST? How do they do that? Anyone of us who has tried to pull off something on time, especially espe-cially one that has so many elements ele-ments to it which must all come together and mesh at the right time, knows how next to impossible impos-sible it is to do. So, instead of listening to the things that were said as closely as I should have, I was trying to figure out how they got it so everything came off at the right time, in spite of the rain, and all . the rest that goes along with anything of such size and scope and need for security. How did the television people have cameras everywhere? They were at every entrance dignitaries might have come through. They were at all angles to show as many of the dignitaries digni-taries as they could. They were at the luncheon. They were out on the streets where the motorcades motor-cades were and where the parade came by. They were in enough locations on the streets that they could see most of the parade, a good number of the protestors, and the rainy streets. There were more people shaking hands than at an LDS Stake Conference. Most of them shook hands several times, did you notice that? Every time you turned around, President Clinton Clin-ton and President Bush were shaking hands again and Al Gore even managed to shake hands with President Bush several sev-eral times. That probably was very newsworthy. Did you notice how President Bush marked out the rhythm of the words of his oath of office Pleasant Grove Review Newlltah! (ISSN No. 1521-6861) (U.S.P.S. No. 435-780) A member of NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION bond support needs created by explosive growth in Lehi and Eagle Mountain, as well as other north county communities. To meet those needs we must have a place to educate the students, and that means building more schools a lot of them. Nor is this likely to be the last time Alpine School District patrons are asked for funds for new schools. The students who will fill the proposed elementary elemen-tary schools will soon move on to junior high school and high school. It won't be many years before these secondary schools can no longer find room for these students, and more new schools need to be built. The positive survey results are a sign that voters may be ready to bite this educational bullet, however it is no guarantee guaran-tee that such a bond will pass. It takes hard work to make public opinion translate into votes, while groups traditionally opposed to tax increases for schools will likely marshal their forces with little effort. Still, the survey is a good indication that Alpine School District patrons recognize the realities of modern education. In a society of increasing technical tech-nical complexity, a good education educa-tion is a necessity, and children can't be taught if there is no room in the classroom. Given the growth of the school-age population in our area, the district has no choice but to proceed with the proposed pro-posed school building bond, and soon. Then it will be up to the voters to turn popular opinion into a positive vote that will translate into much-needed schools for our children. the inauguration with his raised right hand? I thought that was kind of neat. I am sure he was not aware he was doing it. I remember at our wedding reception, after I had smiled and shaken hands with so many people coming through the receiving line, that finally my face began to hurt from smiling so long. I watched Mrs. Bush at the inauguration and I never saw her stop smiling. I watched her at the parade and she was still smiling. Then she was at the many inaugural balls that they attended, and she was still smiling. That is quite an accomplishment. accomplish-ment. First, it makes your face tired to smile so much, even though it is very good for your facial muscles. Second, it is almost impossible to keep smiling smil-ing when you have to wear high heels all day. Third, when you are in her position, you realize that everything you do is being filmed for posterity so you can't yawn, scratch your nose or anything any-thing else for that matter, you can't burp, nor do any of those other uncouth things that most of us do when we think no one is looking. Mrs. Bush, the younger, looked lovely in her choice of clothes for this special day, as did Mrs. Bush, the elder. President Presi-dent Bush wore a light blue tie instead of a red one for the inauguration inau-guration itself, which I thought was a nice touch. It seems men wear red ties with their dark suits so often. As the new president settles into the White House with his family, the outgoing president moves to his family's new quarters quar-ters in New York. Did you ever wonder where they are going to put those Secret Service guys who will be with him the rest of his life? Published weekly by Tie AewlaliAews ( roup 59 West Main American Fork, Utah 84003 Proposed landfill is still too close to par r aKsSs has his answers all lined ud tW I went for a ride with Melvin Radmall last Thursday. After reading read-ing the editorial in last week's newspaper about a proposed construction con-struction and demolition material landfill in Cedar Valley, Mr. Radmall Rad-mall wanted to tell his side of the story. Our editorial pointed out that the proposed landfill site was under two miles from Camp FloydStagecoach Inn State Park and the historic Camp Floyd Cemetery "spitting distance" was the exact term we used. The gist of the editorial was that this was too close, for a variety of reasons. rea-sons. Mr. Radmall makes a strong case for his landfill proposal. There is no question the facility is needed. Right now, north Utah County sends all of its waste material mate-rial municipal "wet" garbage as well as construction and demolition demoli-tion "dry" garbage to a landfill in East Carbon. The garbage is collected col-lected at a transfer station on the site of the old Lindon landfill and shipped over the mountains to Carbon County. It is a costly proposition, and getting costlier. Mr. Radmall says he could save everybody money with a local landfill that handled the construction construc-tion waste generated by the recent home building boom, much of which is focused in Eagle Mountain, Moun-tain, Saratoga Springs and north Lehi. He figures he could charge about half of what is now being charged at the transfer station and still make a profit. The folks who run the Lindon transfer station sta-tion concur, and have even written a letter of support for Mr. Rad-mall's Rad-mall's proposed landfill. The proposed site meets all the legal requirements for such a facil- It's easy to get addicted to E-bay I've taken up a hobby that has not made my hubby too happy. I discovered E-bay on the Internet and our lives have not been the same since. It started at Christmastime. Pat's aunt collects nativity sets, so logically everyone gets her one for Christmas every year. The problem prob-lem is she now has hundreds of sets and has told us all that she only wants unique sets. So where do you find a unique nativity set for between $5 and $10? E-bay! There were hundreds and hundreds of choices, and they changed every day. Some items had pictures with them and I spent hours pouring over them all. After getting outbid several times, we finally won an auction and even got it shipped to us before Christmas. I forgot about E-bay for a few weeks after Christmas, but then I found something else I needed, Beanie Babies. My daughter Katelyn likes cats. Well, okay, I really like cats and she goes along with me. So we have been collecting collect-ing Ty Beanie Baby cats. Well now Grover responds Editor: I usually do not respond to newspaper articles, but in your Jan. 24 edition, my name was mentioned in conjunction with potentially unethical and illegal activity. The article quoted Barry Miller as stating that the county commissioners had "unanimously" "unanimous-ly" approved the Cedar Valley landfill and that my signature appeared in the landfill file. These statements are absolutely absolute-ly and unequivocally false. The property in question has long been zoned to allow for a landfill, and predated my coming into office six years ago. The Board of Adjustments, a judicial body under state law, reviews final approval for landfills, examining various health and safety criteria. crite-ria. The County Commission, of which I am a member, is prohibited prohibit-ed from exercising any political influence with regards to the Board of Adjustments and has Telephone Numbers Advertising & Circulation 756-7669 News 756-5273 Publisher Brett Bezzant Managing Editor Marc Haddock City Editor Karli Poyfair Subscription price S24x per year Periodicals Postage Paid at American Fork. Utah POSTMASTER: send address change to 59 West Main, American Fork. Utah 84003 Deadlines Classified Advertising . . .Tuesday, noon Display Advertising . . . .Monday. 5 p.m. News Monday. 2 p.m. Missionaries Monday. 2 p.m. Weddings Monday. 2 p.m. Letters to the Editor . . .Monday, 10 a.m. Sports Monday 10 a.m. Community Calendar . .Monday. 10 a.m. Obituaries Tuesday. 1 1 a.m. ity, as well. The property is zoned for mining and grazing, and a landfill fits within those zoning laws. It meets the legal requirements require-ments as far as its location m relation rela-tion to the state park. Based on this, the Utah County Board of Adjustment OKed Rad-mall's Rad-mall's request for the landfill, but imposed 14 conditions on its use including requiring him to build and maintain a road to the site that meets county requirements. He has agreed to meet all those conditions. The Utah County Commission, by the way, is not involved in this process beyond establishing the zone for the land and that was done many years ago. In fact, Mr. Radmall has done an enviable job in complying with the bureaucratic red tape that makes it possible to create a landfill, land-fill, and he has done it all by himself, him-self, without an attorney. This included publishing a notice in all three area daily newspapers about his intentions last Aug. 29. All that's left is approval by the Utah Legislature and the Utah Department of Environmental Quality. Mr. Radmall has secured the support of Utah State Sen. Bill Wright, who represents southern Utah County and Cedar Valley, to present the necessary legislation to make the landfill a reality. Talk about traffic, and Radmall we have all the easy ones to find and the ones we still need for our collection are retired and thus harder to find. Some stores have the retired cats we need, but they want $20 to $40 for them and that's too much for me to pay for something that originally only cost $5. So I went back to my old friend E-bay. You can find all the cats you'd ever need. My first buy was Snip, the Siamese cat. I paid $2.50 for it plus $2.50 for shipping. Silver is in the mail, another good deal, and I recently won an auction for Nip, the light brown cat. I've spent way too much time on the Internet. It's like an obsession obses-sion now where I have to check what's available several times a day. One day I found so many good deals that I accidentally bid in Reader's Forum to landfill story z dczz:fn nothing to do with landfill approval. With regards to Mr. Miller's allegations about my signature, I contacted the mayor of Cedar Fort to produce this so-called "document" "docu-ment" in the landfill file which I had purportedly signed. Initially she said she was sure it was in the file, and would send me a copy. She has been unable to produce any such document. I have examined the Board of Adjustment file, and my name appears nowhere on any document, docu-ment, signature or otherwise. With regards to Mr. Miller's reported statement that I didn't recall unanimously approving the landfill, this is also false. Again the County Commission does not approve landfills. The discussion took place at a meeting of the Lindon Lin-don landfill board, where Cedar Fort's garbage currently goes I told Mr. Miller that I did not believe the Cedar Valley landfill had ever come up for discussion We Wfilrnmo mum, idbie ana length. Letters By Mail P.O. Box 7, American Fork UT 84003 , In Person 59 W. Main, American Fork Of T-. l. l mi. concern about increased trafW Lehi's Main Street, which is I tiK Id. mi. ivctunidii is quiy point out that as a public road W o ctato hiVhwav. he ha 0 r a ijni-v' o uq jjj right to use the road as anylj else. He also points out that all 0(v;ty construction and demolition' '. now generated in Eagle Mounv and other Cedar Valley buildi . now traveling the other i.f through Lehi, on its way to Lindon transfer station. Ifi 'e: when his landfill is in operat ?:f trash will be traveling the oi;f' way on a much shorter tri '- Fairfield. As far as location, Ranj; points out that his landfill is $ ther from Eagle Mountain 'i the Lindon landfill is from University Mall. He hopes to start operation' June. I must admit, Mr. Raft makes a very strong case. jfC need is there. We keep mayl garbage, and we need to find least expensive, most effective,! of dealing with it. The site Radmall has done everythin ;rv final stage. But standing on this m piece Ul pi upci uy, i 1UUK.CU 31 not too distant community of p field, and felt a real sense of li Fi Tl- r r A A a Q rc land will be a landfill, and C FloydStagecoach Inn State t'?' will have lost something pa :3 aI that sense of isolation and err fs ness that help give this state j:'- its unique character. 1 still t fr the landfill is too close. . C H, C. two different auctions for : : "l same cat. Unfortunately I outbid on both auctions. i-sian When I first started lookin hiif the beanie cats I told my husk: Jaa I would only buy one a month -i too bad we get a bid notice tc ;L'-z e-mail each time I make ai Bu because he always calls and "What are you bidding on noi There are only two cats need now, Flip and Zip. Flip ii white cat and Zip is the blacl i with white paws. Flip is the popular and most expensive i'I keen biddine. but I always get' u:j m...: T l v,nJ. uiu. J. wick I1UW 1 nave iiaui winning bid up until the minute, then someone goes in beats by bid by fifty cents. T-;; is no time for me to countei;-'k5 because the auction then clos;:p;e; I promised myself I would' -; :as a break for awhile and not m a ; about Beanie Babies or E-anymore, E-anymore, but then I wentt(Haas Barbie section. There were 2U-i2v items listed under the Bi::-u'j heading. That's something els daughter and I love. ; ;::ve Sorry honey! :, Adjustment . determine -w ... p Whether or not Mr. Miller, quoted accurately by the pain-i), ; don't know, but the way "'Stspe reported is wrong. In any event, those thaH interested in providing their Is! need to know that the ctf ':, entities considering approves iep; the landfill are the State of) ?oft Department of Environri p Quality and the State LegisH tt Although I am always op -h citizen input on any issuta Jieac misleading information uj article has caused citizen spend their efforts mista'j Li lobbying the County CommNii believing we are the entity ; will make this decision. They would probably be t . W served contacting the entity ' 3 tot are currently authorized to;, sider the Cedar Valley lawful proposal to make their PoS'.3 known. 'y , aeliv, - rry D... Utah County Cornrm o,,h iu me editor. All letters musi " KhSLS Hf. P'nted AND si9ned) and a telephone are welcome on any w ,ir ' .a an i HOW TO PEACH US is( By Fax 756-5274 By E-Mail V editor newutah.con vt |
