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Show L N O F T o -i-.'.'C mum YOUR TOWNQUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 2004 50 CENTS J . .- - J J Jt AN EDITIO jndo.n Days r 0; iCi J celebrates k little bit country ' Harlow Clark lindon Days starts Aug. 7 and until Aug. 14, for a week of es, picnics, animals, concerts, -'balloon launch, a flag service i .X n J -v t r- Awn ;'lks. lie Lindon Days Grand Mar-1? Mar-1? will be members of the comity com-ity who have served in Opera--jn Iraqi Freedom; James Antho--i Montoya, chaplain with the lift Engineer Combat Battal-3 Battal-3 Captain Brent Thacker, SSG E. Griffith HHC; SSG Dou-k Dou-k V. Olsen; Master Sergeant iard J. Ovard; and Staff Sergeant Brandon Kent Dupuis. Festivities begin at 8 a.m. Saturday Sat-urday with the annual trail ride and a 5K race. The trail ride will start from the Horse Transfer Station Sta-tion north of Tibbie Fork Reservoir. Reser-voir. Participants are asked to' bring a pair of pruning shears to trim along the trail in return for free admission to American Fork Canyon. The contact person for information on the trail ride is Don Peterson at 796-7954 or 224-8627. 224-8627. Registration for the 5K race and a Kid's Fun Run at 8:45 and See COUNTRY, page 3 f f " " - ... t V -M, ... - - Photo by Cathy Allred The Little Miss Lindon royalty and their float will be one of the featured entries at the Grand Parade. Rehabilitating River liver prepares to return home Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series .-.rescuing a falcon named River. He was captured nr the Jordan River in Lehi. Sherry Keller Five months ago, a prairie falcon named River was :;ar death's door. Today River's a completely different bird. He isn't -iig weight too quickly, is calm, and seems alert and althy. River needs one more test to ensure all the infec-as infec-as are gone and then Steve and Emily Brady of asant Grove will start exercising him and prepar-him prepar-him to be released near where he was originally sghtinLehi. They'll begin by having River hop to Steve's fist then to a lure. As his strength grows they'll start ?3ghim and will take River hunting for doves, -is,and pheasants. But that isn't because falcons -let how to hunt while in captivity. not at all," said Steve. "In fact, they may get a :Hit better at hunting when you fly them as a fal-:ifybird fal-:ifybird or a rehabilitation bird because they're not ' to starve and you can give them a chance to ""t something they normally wouldn't in the wild." at's more, falcons are so easy to reintroduce to -:i natural habitat they're completely wild within three days. Even birds born and raised in cap- -ty have a high survival rate, one of the reasons the :pine falcon is no longer endangered, falconry has the potential to be a really fantastic is-' -: c - , x'v ' . V v. ... " ' -Xv 'Z- - . ) " 'V , . ' See RIVER, page 3 Photo by Sherry Keller Steve Brady begins exercising River, a northwest Utah County falcon recovering from captivity. iOOT.to host open house for train trestle plans Asportation meetin? for the ?ard possible solutions S, SQ ? 6 raurai crossing over or State Street in Pleasant has invited ihe nnWip to . concepts for. railroad bridge ,, Street in Ploacant H-rnvP ii!!CQages area residents, busi- Ti commuters to attend "empoti , , , , . . , . t wiu oe neld tonignt, 5:30 to 7:30 at the 5 from mo f easant Grove. TV.o mPftt.inff will be in open fr,rmnt. No formal presenta- tion will be made so the public to attend the meeting at their convenience. conven-ience. UDOT encourages area residents resi-dents and business to get active in the process. "This is the next step in the public pub-lic process," said Craig Hancock, UDOT project manager. "We received a lot of good feedback from the community after our meeting last spring and now it's time to come back with conceptual solutions and find out if these proposals alleviate the bottleneck and fit within the community values of Pleasant Grove." State Street changes from a five-lane five-lane highway to a two-lane highway between 100 East and 200 South in Pleasant Grove. In this area, the road crosses under the Union Pacific Pacif-ic Railroad where a bridge was constructed con-structed in 1937. This bridge is only wide enough for a two-lane road. UDOT is conducting an environmental environ-mental study to develop and evaluate evalu-ate solutions, which will alleviate the current congestion problems. City creates, adopts storm water plan Robert Cunningham The Environmental Protection Agency has new rules for storm water treatment and Pleasant Grove must comply. J.U.B. .Engineering assisted the city with the creation of a storm water management plan, adopted adopt-ed on July 20, that will align Pleasant Grove with the EPA regulations and allow the city to obtain a permit to discharge storm water into Utah Lake. At the city council meeting, Mark Chris-tensen Chris-tensen of J.U.B. Engineering Engineer-ing named six minimum control measures, addressed in the management manage-ment plan, that will protect pro-tect storm water from pollutants pol-lutants before it reenters the environment. These are Public Education Edu-cation and Outreach, Pub lic Involvement and Participation, Par-ticipation, Illicit Discharge Dis-charge Detection and Elimination, Construction Site Runoff, Post-Construction Storm Water Management, and Pollution Pollu-tion Protection and Good Housekeeping from the City. From these standards, BMPs, or Better Management Manage-ment Practices, are derived. Governed by these BMPs, the city will work with citizens and contractors to ensure that the runoff entering Utah Lake is clean. These requirements will be issued to every contractor con-tractor that applies for a building permit, and applicable BMPs will be sent to citizens in future utility bills. The BMPs will be enforced by the city's Public Pub-lic Works Department. J.U.B. Engineering pinpoints storm water drainage deficiencies . Robert Cunningham For several months, engineers from J.U.B. Engineering Engi-neering studied how precipitation precip-itation gets from Pleasant Grove streets to Utah Lake. They discovered numerous deficiencies that could lead to future problems. At the July 20 City Council Coun-cil meeting, Jared Chris-tensen Chris-tensen reported their findings find-ings to city leaders. "There are places where flooding could occur," Chris-tensen Chris-tensen said. The likelihood of flooding was based on a 25-year storm event, a storm with an intensity that occurs, on average, once every 25 years. A storm of that size would overwhelm Pleasant Grove's storm drain system and send water into the streets. J.U.B. Engineering estimates a $1.3 million price tag to replace the old, inadequate pipes. At Tuesday's, meeting, council members unanimously unani-mously passed an ordinance that will amend the storm drainage master plan to correspond with J.U.B.'s See DRAIN, page 3 'EM UP...MOVE 'Elil OUT - - j WOT JUST SETJGlf ADVERTISED UIMITS.. jiffi iinFnfrnn : EVERY SmE VEHICLE!! !&MMmMMIJ , t...... "" SUBJEG TO PRIOR SALE. PLUS TAX, LICENSE AND FEES 0J.C. 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