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Show Grove Review More LOCAL news than any other source! For subscription or delivery problems call 375-5103 or 756-7669 See our web site at www.newutah.com PG,;MIXED ADC 840 PRINGPORT MI 4964-q7P.q Wednesday, June 13,2001 50 cents a single copy 1 1 r l J j I i'J " ''4 f i - ''N V 1 : Vol.23, No. 24 V Police calls increased nine percent last year There was a nine percent urease in calls for service : to the public safety depart- j ment last year as compareu i to 1999, according to the department's year-end , ,onnrt tor uie yedi . I 5 There was a total of 3431 911 calls. Seventy- seven percent were from I I I Pleasant Grove and 23 peril per-il l:,J cent were from Lindon. There were 1,705 animal . control calls from Pleasant !" Grove and 393 animal con-i con-i trol calls from Lindon. Vandalism and arson i incidents were down from the previous year in Pleasant Grove, but rose in Lindon last year. In 1999 there were 405 51 CI reported cases of vandalism "Lt; ; a nrsnn in Pleasant nal 4rm: res. and arson in Grove and 108 cases in Lindon. In the year 2000, fa ii rePorte m Lindon and only id nffl 995 reported in Pleasant Grove. Total damages in the !99 i year 2000 was $160,574. Arrests were also down 53 j slightly last year for both i Pleasant Grove and Lindon. : fate din 1999 there were 1,685 'W5.1M total arrests and in 2000 .sp"ii there were 1,578 arrests. Juvenile arrests were also down last year, as were confirmed con-firmed vehicle thefts. There were 5,635 traffic citations given in 2000. This was a marked increase from 1999 when only 1,875 citations cita-tions were issued. The specific area in Pleasant Grove that received the most citations was 200 South. In Lindon, the most traffic traf-fic citations were given on State Street. Over 1,700 citations were referred to Traffic School in Pleasant Grove and Lindon. There were 334 fire runs in 2000. Two hundred were for Pleasant Grove and 116 were for Lindon. Eighteen calls were to assist other cities. The total fire loss in Pleasant Grove was $505,850, while the total dollar loss in Lindon was just over a million dollars. dol-lars. There were 1,116 ambulance ambu-lance runs in 2000. Other cities requested response from the ambulances 88 times. ' There were 758 total mns in Pleasant Grove and ambulance Lindon. ; ;- " " ' .... ' : I" l : " . , ' I. 1 Dance With Me Photo by Kcrli Poyfair A member of the BYU Ballroom Dance Team dances with a member of the audience audi-ence at the Jacobs Senior Center last Tuesday. The performance was organized by last year's Miss Pleasant Grove Betsy Passmore. Her platform for the Miss Uiah Pageant is "Linking Generations." Betsy competes this week for the Miss Utah title. NO carnival for frawberry By Marcella Walker Strawberry Days Chairman Frank Mills announced this week that due to a miscommunication between the Strawberry Days Committee and the City of Fun Carnival there will be no carnival at the city celebration this year. However, arrangements have been made for a replacement at the Downtown Park to keep residents and visitors entertained during Strawberry Days. According to Mills, the came about because month Tor over 30 years the City of Fun Carnival has been part of our celebration and scheduled for another city the week of June 21 "For over 30 years the City of Fun Carnival has been part of our celebration and it is not their fault that we have had this mix up," Mills explained. "As chairman chair-man of Strawberry Days I must take responsibility because of not contacting Lou Melendez, owner of the carnival, during the off season sea-son to make sure we had the right dates," Mills noted. "We realize that many people come to Strawberry Days and go to the carnival and we regret any inconvenience inconven-ience that this the. it is not their fault June started that we have on a Friday hQC fhiS mix UD." this vear. ' "The City Frank Mills, Strawberry to having The J . Fui Days Chairman fty . of Fun Carnival ' Carnival at celebra- mixup may cause," he continued. con-tinued. "We look forward understood that Strawberry Days would start on the third weekend in June which would be June 16-17," Mills stated. The Strawberry Days event has always been the third Thursday in June which is June 21 this year, he noted. By the time Mills learned of the miscommunication, miscommuni-cation, the City of Fun Carnival had already been our tion next year," he added. "Thank you for your understanding under-standing and we look forward for-ward to a great celebration next year," he concluded. Melendez said he regretted regret-ted the misunderstanding, but that the carnival would be in West Valley City during dur-ing Strawberry Days. The See CARNIVAL on Page 12 City celebration begins Monday with free swim By Kalyn Secretan "Pleasant Grove Welcomes the World to our Treasures," is the theme for Strawberry Days 2001. The week-long celebration begins next Monday. Because of a scheduling mix-up, the traditional carnival will not be in town this year, but the city has made arrangements for a variety of activities activ-ities and amusements to be available avail-able at the city downtown park. There are a lot of events that are free for everyone beginning with a free swim beginning at 6 p.m. at the Veteran's Memorial Pool on Monday June 18. There will be a free concert on Tuesday night featuring two hometown home-town country singers, McCoslyn and Paye, many remember them as Joel McCausland and Kevin Peay, they have performed and recorded for years as "Afterglow." They will perform on the soccer field just east of the swimming pool from 7 until 9 p.m. Fugal's will provide long trailers to provide a stage for the concert. In keeping with an old time tradition, strawberries and cream will be served free of charge to everyone. Rodeo Days will officially begin on Wednesday. The PRCA rodeo will be June 20-23 at 7:30 p.m. On Wednesday tickets will cost $6 for adults and $3 for kids. Adults will be $8 the next three nights. Kids will be admitted free with a paying adult on Thursday. All tickets on Saturday night will be $8. There will be a new route for the Strawberry Day's Children Parade this year on Wednesday evening. Parade participants will meet at the Timpanogos Stake Center on Planners recommend Gateway Ordinance runs m By Karli Poyfair City Editor In their final recommendation to the city council of the Gateway Zoning Ordinance, the planning commission made changes to the Design Review Board and restricted housing along Pleasant Grove Boulevard, in addition to several other changes. An ad hoc committee had met several sev-eral times before the special planning commission meeting last Thursday night. The planning commission voted unanimously to recommend the ordi nance, which was pared down about from its original 50 pages, to the city council. The council was to have its public hearing on the ordinance last night and may have voted on approving approv-ing the ordinance. One of the many issues the planning plan-ning commission discussed in relation to the Gateway Ordinance was the Design Review Board. In the original ordinance, all projects were to go before the Design Review Board and then the city council. Several planning commission members may have been on the board, however project proposals propos-als would not have been seen by the planning commission as a whole. Commission member Ernest Bramwell said it was "an inappropriate inappropri-ate contradiction to the land use codes to eliminate the checks and balances the planning commission provides." Many ideas were discussed and it was finally, agreed by the planning commission that there should be a modified review board comprised of See GATEWAY on Page 12 See DAYS on Page 12 Council changes meeting time The Pleasant Grove City Council meeting for next week has been changed from 7 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The time change is due to the McCoslyn and Paye concert, con-cert, which will be held next Tuesday as well from 7 to 9 p.m. The city council meets in the community development develop-ment conference room, 86 E. 100 South, Pleasant Grove. '0 LAYIN WITH 1HE Boys lorry Sheriff enjoys ploying on a team with his sons and grandson T By Julie A. Bellon Larry Sheriff is an extraordinary sportsman. Not only has he played fast P!tch Softball for the last 43 years, he currently cur-rently plays on a team with his three sons and a grandson. Their team recently placed second in we Pleasant Grove Strawberry Days tour-nament tour-nament and first place in seed bracket in a tournament in St. George. He loves playing with his sons and his grandson, never dreaming he'd still be P'aying at age 63. "I'm not through yet, I guess," he said. Ee still has three other grandsons age 13, ' and 2, "but I think I'll just coach them," ne laughed. "We'll see." When he started playing in 1957, the game looked a little different. Players did-nt did-nt wear helmets, wood bats were used, and all there was back then was fast pitch. Today you can play slow pitch or fast pitch, with mandatory helmets, and using aluminum bats. "It was a lot less expensive expen-sive back then, too," he said. Larry started playing baseball as a child in Little League and on high school teams in Provo. He won several awards including batting championships and was an All-State Outfielder. After Larry finished high school Ray Bulow called him and said he needed a center fielder for a fast pitch team. He told Ray he wasn't a center fielder, and Ray said, "Don't worry, we'll make you one." Larry's been playing fast pitch ever since, not only as a center fielder but also at first base, third base, pitcher and right fielder. When Larry got married and started a family he played six nights a week, practically practi-cally living at Harmon Park in Provo. When his three sons began to play Little League and Pony League, baseball was all the family did. "Sometimes we had 14 games a week," See BALL on Page 3 v rAH . irV Ju---r f Photo by Brian Bellon The teammates, from left to right, Greg Sheriff, Kyle Barbakos, Larry Sheriff, Chris Sheriff and Kelly Sheriff. |