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Show Prrn -trm. , i HJ.'. ir CAR-RT !CTR-OOi FPTNCr-RT, in 4 9284-976? L iZORYOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, AUGUST 26. 2004 50 CENTS CTOOQ ftem wit blmi n 1 Oft;. aisile 0 . r Per-e Per-e evf. of irtait; :th0-. 20 Cathy Allred City Editor three-year-old dchildren were playing aim lwu umci were napping in jjon aim mun- idchil "nstairs flusins iGibbons'home on d4u. J North The grandpar-!tsffere grandpar-!tsffere at work and their tWer-in-law, Amy Gib-XJ Gib-XJ was in the kitchen, Jon the main floor, cook-tomatoes cook-tomatoes and onions for Across the street, a saw eaaicu as"- Tlffl 01 UiaULU-V- .l r i j wantea iv uown. a calm, but i,i 20 was .-iy Friday afternoon, fhe home had seen three aerations. It was the home where Mirriam lived as a child. In the backyard was the greenhouse that her father Elton R0bb, deceased, used for his business busi-ness - Robb's Tomato Plants. "A lot of people know Robbie," said his son-in-law. "We still sell tomato and pepper plants. It's not the same as it was though." As Amy looked across the kitchen around 1:30 p.m., she saw a large puff of smoke float up from the stairwell. Running downstairs, down-stairs, she saw her child and a nephew enshrouded in smoke staring at the flames licking out from under the staircase. "I could barely see the kids," Amy said. "I yelled at them to get out. They ran out. I followed and woke up the other two children." Then she called 911. Fire chief Mark Hales was surprised they got out and no one got hurt. "A lot of times kids will run and hide," he said. The preschool-age children chil-dren started the fire by playing with matches the chief said and cautioned residents of his jurisdiction to put matches where kids can't get at them. Hales thinks the fire was burning for approximately 10 to 15 minutes before the firefighters got called out. Response time was under five minutes and 14 See FIRE, page 3 1 " 3 ,, i -"""v-irry :".. -5 "W -. 1 ; ; v ' - ' -v - . ' "I -.- - . : Photo by Cathy Allred Don and Mirriam hug one another while Pleasant Grove firefighters work on containing contain-ing the basement fire at their home. N Friends of the Library dissolves, makes ON i ' I : r f I ? '1 f J i i I - i Photo By Linda Butler 'sWilkey, center meets her teacher, Rebecca Martin, at Valley View Elementary. Older brother Samuel Wilkey 9ht Jennie and Rachel left to meet their teachers during the school's open house. The lazy days of summer this week for Alpine School District students who returned to the classroom on Monday. its last donation Linda Butler After eight years of service serv-ice and support to the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Library, the Friends of the Pleasant Grove Library, Inc. has been dissolved. The Friends has helped sponsor programs and events at the library that helped meet the needs of adults and children in Pleasant Grove. One of the Friends' most notable accomplishments is the Artist Quick Draw Auction that has run annually for six years. The Friends of the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Library, Inc. has been dissolved mainly because the goals established estab-lished in the group's bylaws have been met. "When it was established," said Friends' President Gail Bartholomew, "the bylaws set that it was only to promote pro-mote and earn money for a new library." Now that the city is bonding bond-ing for a new library, Bartholomew said that the Friends' bylaws would either need to be restructured restruc-tured or a new non-profit organization would need to be formed. It was decided that a new entity, The Foundation Foun-dation for the Pleasant Grove Library, be formed as a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization. organ-ization. The Foundation will be working to find appropriate appropri-ate grants for the library as well as fund-raising and soliciting donations. The Artist Quick Draw and Auction, created and supported by the Friends of the Library, will continue and will support not only the Pleasant Grove Library, but the Pleasant Grove Arts Commission as well. "We received so much support for the Quick Draw that the Arts Commission wanted it to become a community com-munity event," said Gail Bartholomew. He hopes that the Quick Draw will continue contin-ue to benefit the library and all of the arts in the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove community. Money raised by the Friends have supported the See LIBRARY, page 3 publicly clarifies the municipal code Robert Cunningham ;V Jim Danklef and J. Council members et retraced their J after a Planning , "7ssion emeritus sug- Thai substantial ;.es had been made to of si " ""-uiiumai coae C Pledge of "officials or the pub- 0ver e past few Citv learWo nA WVe labored over . Uandliofthe code Uch of t.hft lnn- that had been unclear or undefined. City Attorney Tina Petersen presented the edited code to the council and addressed significant changes at Tuesday's meet- i. f John Oscarson, chair ot the Planning Commission spent many hours working on the project. "When I went through that I found that 99.9 percent per-cent of the things were just simply changed, for clarification clarifi-cation and that sort of thing. Those few things that were different were discussed quite thoroughly fen in Planning Commission," said Oscarson. Following Petersen's and Oscarson's remarks, former Planning Commission member Vic Orvis claimed changes had been made to the entire code after the codification process and without the knowledge of the deciding body. "The codification process allows for clarification, but does not really allow for changes, at least not substantial sub-stantial changes. Yet there were numerous, substantial substan-tial changes made, unbeknownst unbe-knownst to the Planning '04 CHEVY SUBURBAN NJU . I.J J t t i r ' t; J W. V S.'l21i "WtO PUBCHUI pivucut m 71 unuTiK WITH PI IK TAX Illli AND LICENSE DOWN. Commission and I assume unbeknownst to the City Council," Orvis said. . Orvis noted that changing chang-ing the code without the benefit of elected officials' involvement is a criminal offense. "I would like to know if the City Council intends to do anything about changes, and there were substantial changes in substantial numbers, if the City Council Coun-cil intends to do anything about members of staff taking tak-ing it on themselves to See CODE, page 3 '04 CHEVY AVEO AIR CONDITIONING 5-SPEED AMFM STEREO 246610 0RIG. MSRPS11.785 Mountain View Corridor steps closer to reality Robert Cunningham At City Council Work Session last Thursday, UDOT administrator Cindy Borland presented to the council four of the eight final designs for a future freeway on the west side of Utah County. Eagle Mountain, Moun-tain, the Ranches and Saratoga Springs are booming boom-ing with plenty of growth on the way. Cities like Pleasant Grove will see significant ULLM increases. It's estimated that much of Utah County will see a 500 percent population popu-lation rise within the next 30 years. To discuss solutions solu-tions to the traffic problems the expansion will produce, UDOT held several meetings meet-ings with city officials in both Utah and Salt Lake counties. From these meetings, over 300 possibilities were created. Transportation See FREEWAY, page 3 JIUSWtl&EMUfEB-" i --3" I ' ' -O- - - W .... AMAP cm.d PI IK MIES TAX WITH TAX TITLE AND LICENSE DUE AT LEASE INCEPTION. DEALER RETAINS INCENMVtx UJl.l. rKllu m ciiriKuijiwj-K- Mi AMERICAN R'OULTDON |