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Show "'ED ADC 840 J AN EDITION OF THE jDcUUlcitflC II I "V 1 V i YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2004 50 CENTS VOL. 26 NO. 6 i w v www 1 1WIMWJJ l V i V y M I 1 M I v y M I i Neighborhood meeting set Monkey Town and Grove Creek Neighborhoods Neighbor-hoods will hold a combined meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. in the City Council room at 86 E. 100 South (use south door). Monkey Town will discuss Adam Langford's subdivision subdivi-sion at 650 E. Center Street. This includes three flag lots. There will also be elections held for a chair, vice-chair and secretary. Grove Creek will hold elections elec-tions for a chair, vice-chair and secretary. There will also be an open session for any other concerns. Those with questions can call Libby Flegal at 785-7271. Council approves new recorder At the Feb. 3 city meeting, meet-ing, the mayor and council voted unanimously to appoint Mary Burger as the acting deputy recorder. She will replace Marcella Walker who has served as the city's deputy recorder for 3.5 years. Burger, sworn into office on Tuesday, Tues-day, has worked for Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove's Community Development Department for several months. City appoints library board member M'Lisa Long has been appointed to the Pleasant Grove library board. Long and her family have lived in several places and she has volunteered her time and talents in every community. com-munity. Long and her husband hus-band were most recently in charge of the local LDS cannery. Municipality honors Darrell Cook Pleasant Grove City paid tribute to Darrell Cook with its Service Award at the Feb. 3 City Council meeting. Cook, who has worked for the city since 1972, has served on numerous numer-ous committees including the neighborhood council and has attended more than 4,284 hours of meetings. meet-ings. He is responsible for several improvements to the city, such as the four-way four-way stop at the intersection of Center Street and Main Street. Cook has completed his term as Planning Commissioner. Com-missioner. Employee of the quarter selected Cindy Beam received the city's Employee of the Quarter Award at the Feb. 3 City Council meeting for her excellent professionalism professional-ism and her constantly positive pos-itive manner. She has worked in accounts payable since 1997 and said she enjoys its proximity and friendly environment. Frank Mills, Pleasant Grove city manager, credits Beam for saving the city thousands of dollars. UTAH'S TOP SmiNG CM CERTIFIED USED VEHICLE DEALERSHIP TWO YEARS RUSHING! cZ? AN AMERICAN revolution J Photo by Cathy Allred Firefighter Dan Simko and first responder Steve Brande fill up the oxygen tanks at the scene of a residential fire in northeast Pleasant Grove on Jan. 26. Unsafe haven PI. Grove city fathers hope to build for the future Editor's note: This is the last article of a 4-part series on the library, .recreation center cen-ter and fire station Pleasant Grove City hopes to build. By Cathy Allred City Editor Pleasant Grove fire chief Mark Hales went to junior high in the 1960's in the same building that today houses the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Community Development Building Build-ing and the fire station. "It was a wood and metal shop," Hales PGHS teacher named Utah Teacher of the Year By Linda Butler Ileen Strasburg received the "McDonald's Teacher of the Year" award for 2004, awarded by the Utah Association Asso-ciation of Career and Technical Tech-nical Educators at the recent conference held in St. George on Jan. 16. This award was based not only on Strasburg's innovative approach to teaching business, but also for her coordination of the School-to-Careers and Technical Tech-nical Preparation programs. pro-grams. Strasburg has taught business courses for 23 SiMiiAi iO MOOtii SriCS. St, it a i "i i I w years, 20 years at PGHS. She is the Applied Technology Technol-ogy Education Coordinator at PGHS and is an enthusiastic enthusi-astic promoter of all the terrific ter-rific ATE courses offered at the high school. She is a strong advocate of concurrent enrollment college courses and work-based work-based learning. She has placed students in part-time part-time employment in the community, and teaches business management, college col-lege accounting, and principles princi-ples of leadership where students receive both high school and college credit '03 CHEVY CAVALIERS OR JUST PER MONTH 10 W0S Uli. "USED VIHICli MYWENTC A!E FM ,1 r 5 said. "The city knocked out the windows and made bays for the fire trucks." The fire station on 150 S. 100 East has served the department for 14 years. Constructed Con-structed in the late 40's with an addition completed in the 1950's, the structure has been found wanting. "We did a study four years ago and found out it would cost $500,000 to retrofit it for an earthquake," Hales said about the station. sta-tion. Times have changed in Pleasant Grove according to the chief, the city has grown exponentially. When he was a junior high See HAVEN on Page 3 concurrently. Students in Strasburg's accounting classes placed well in recent regional accounting competition, taking first place in Accounting 1 and placing second and fifth in Accounting Account-ing 2. Strasburg's students enjoy her courses and she enjoys teaching them. She takes great satisfaction in watching her students learn well and use the principles she's taught them in their lives and careers. Contact Linda Butler at I indasbutlerj uno.com '03 .-. 1 Tu. uCEKSE Three students arrested for gun threat scare By Ann Shields Three Pleasant Grove Junior High School ninth grade girls have been arrested for allegedly writing writ-ing graffiti on the wall of the girls' bathroom at the school on Monday. The threat said they were going to bring a gun to school on Tuesday according accord-ing to police. "We got a tip about who it might possibly be, and the girl (the first one arrested) admitted to doing this," said Capt. Cody Cullimore, Pleasant Grove Public Safety Safe-ty Department. The girls face possible misdemeanor mis-demeanor charges of criminal mischief and making a threat against life or property. When asked why they did it, the girl said they "just wanted to get out of a day of school," and figured the school would be locked down while the investigation investiga-tion went on, Cullimore said. They did not bring a weapon to school. Approximately 10 officers offi-cers were on hand to greet Resident waits nearly 30 years for access road By Robert Cunningham Lloyd Hone was promised prom-ised a road 28 years ago. He has been fighting with Pleasant Grove City Hall ever since. The city, once again, has promised him a future road. In 1976, Hone commenced com-menced construction on a large brick and stone house at the corner of 400 East and 600 South in Pleasant Grove. He laid his foundation founda-tion on good faith that the city would build a road at the front of his property. "I was told that the road would follow the ditch, and the next administration agreed," said Hone, who is frustrated by what he calls "broken promises." Today, Hone's front yard doubles as the backyard of .- i r - r " ' , ; 's "' - ' ! t Ileen Strasburg, back, looks with students Jesse Wilde, Anderson. Strasburg was Technical Educator Teacher CHEVY MMIBUS, OLDS All R OS PONTLAC GRAND AMS , in aces i-y i j , OR JUST I: per - i ; 4v MONTH LLL-U Ji i ''JJ ND FEES DUE T MfCHiSE- 0JLC MICES IN EFFECT some 1,260 students when they arrived, he said, and, along with school administrators, adminis-trators, checked the students stu-dents as they entered the school doors for morning class. Linda Wiggins, who has two daughters attending Pleasant Grove Junior High, said her daughters told her about the graffiti after school on Monday. She advised her daughters to be aware of what was going on around them as they attended school Tuesday, but she wasn't worried about their safety. "I figured it was a prank," Wiggins said. Although officers felt the threat might be a copy cat of a similar one made at Mountain Ridge Junior High School in Highland a week ago in a boys' bathroom. bath-room. The threat was taken seriously and students were asked to leave their backpacks back-packs home when they came to school on Tuesday. See THREAT on Page 10 the new Ajjple Grove condominium condo-minium complex, with only about 75 feet between his front door and the nearest condo. "The road should have been there and Apple Grove should have been made to put it there, and the Planning Plan-ning Commission should have seen it and changed it, but they didn't," Hone added. Currently,' Hone is unable to acquire a loan to finish his house for occupancy, occu-pancy, because there is no road access, or frontage, to his house. "I have access as long as I have a donkey and a pack-horse," pack-horse," he said. ; The proposed road that See ROAD on Page 3 Photo by Linda Butler over an accounting program Todd Hobson, and Jordan named Utah Career and of the Year for 2004. f ' " r- f . ' ' -- v ( ! j I I THfU FEBrum 17. 700. ZJ : TT7TT TrTH, T" a. T |