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Show 1- - 370 ftSS0Cll0N VoL13,No.33 Wednesday, August 14, 50 cents a single copy 1991 New commission's goal is to preserve Lehi history A , Jio Members of Lehi's Historical preservation Commission met for the first time Aug. 8 in the Lehi Library Conference Room. Those attending the meeting were John Rockwell, Richard Van Wagoner, Councilman Johnny Barnes and J. "Ben White. Mayor Guy Cash was unable to ( Cash and members of the city A letter was handed out from Roger Roper, Historical Preservation Coordinator from the Division of State History. The letter explained t"he certified local governments program. A copy of the Utah State Historical Society Newsletter explaining CLG Grants that were awarded to many Utah communities, were distributed to the com- f- attend the meeting but John Rockwell read a prepared statement from the Mayor. The letter explained what Mayor Cash expected from the commission and stated ideas and expectations including a list of what needs to be restored in the Lehi area. Members of the commission reviewed the Lehi City ordinance esV.'t4 Tough tag at home mission members. Councilman Barnes explained what he would like to see happen in Lehi during Pioneer Day July 24, 1992. He explained that holding a possible Lehi pageant during this period in conjunction with the other activities would be appropriate. tablishing the Preservation Commission. Paper work to be filled out by each member was handed out to commission members and given to Rockwell on or before Aug. 13, so it can be ratified and signed by Mayor - Cole Kelley dives into Skyline catcher in an attempt to score in Sunday's Utah American Legion Tournament championship game. Kelley was called out and the Twin Cities team came in second despite a strong tournament showing. The team representing Lehi and Pleasant Grove lost to Skyline 8 to 2 in the championship game. Skyline also beat Twin Cities Friday night 13 to 9 to set up a Saturday showdown between Twin Cities and St. George. The Utah County team won that game Lehi's Jason Tahbo pitched in Friday night's contest. John Rockwell noted that there was no mention of funding in the Lehi City Ordinance. Councilman Bames said that he would check and see if any funding was available been Mayor Guy ap- pointed to serve on the board of a housing development corporation in charge of administering part of the HUD funds in Utah County. The appointment was made by the Utah County Council ofGovern non-prof- The recommendation was made by County Commissioner Gary Herbert at the council's recent monthly meeting. Private consultant Jim Kenyon is director of the organization which was created to admin it non-prof- Revitalized Fair opens tonight IFair 1991 UTAH VALLEY "COUNTY FAIR" festivities. Attending the grand opening ceremonies will be mayors from Utah County cities and Chamber of Commerce representatives, The Fair Board will be here, as well as the chair people for the Fair departments. Shades of Grass, a bluegrass band, will be performing on the pavilion stage, followed by the Utah Old Time Fiddlers at 7:30 and then Lees, and country western band, at 9 p.m . Wednesday night activities will also include an openhaltershowfor "We hope to recognize all those mules, ponies, quarter horses and " who have spent so many hours in' paints at 7 p.m. in the Arena. preparation for this fair," said Brian iFair activities will continue Utley, fair director. "We've been Thursday, Friday and Saturday. doing it for the kids, and w hope Exhibit buildings will be open from they will be there to enjoy all the 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday and activities." Friday and until 8 p.m. Saturday. Immediately followingthegrand The fair will close Saturday at 10:30 opening ceremonies at 6 p.m., p.m. it years. Richard Van Wagoner identified areas that he felt needed to be restored in the Lehi area. He also stated that he thought that the Preservation Commission should try and become firmly established in the community during the next two years. Richard also explained some of the national register guidelines for the restoration ofhistoric buildings. An agenda was prepared for the next meetingbecause two members asked to be excused. However, the next meeting of the Lehi City Historical Preservation Committee will beheld Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Lehi City Library Conference Room. 15 of new HUD money coming to Utah County. The money must be spent by a organization for development of affordable new homes, train-ingfnon-prof- it andfor other areas of housing for residents. By BETTY FOWLER City - Editor F.- ;,.7 New West School once housed Lehi's finest learning institution By RICHARD VAN WAGONER Lehi district schools, like other public schools in early Utah, were financed through both property taxes and tuition -- occasionally paid in produce or other goods. The movement for "free schools" in Utah did not succeed until 1890, when the, legislature provided full tax support for elementary education. Much of the influence behind Lehi Yesteryears this movementcamefrom the state's citizens, who felt that too much Mormonism was being taught in the schools. Small as Lehi was in the 1880s, the town did not escape the education controversy then swirling about the state. In 1882 Eliphalet Blatchford, representing the Congregationalist New West Church's Boston-base- d Education Commission, purchased Peter Christofferson's brick home at 99 West Main (present site of First Security Bank) for use as a non-Morm- sectarian-versus-reli-gio- school. The New West School's first teachers were Misses Carter and Winslow. The first four students were Lily and Rose Harwood and Minnie and Eugene Wines, children families. of prominent The size of the student body soon dramatically increased to include primary, intermediate, and academic grades. In 1883 the Commission hired Lehi builders Carl Carison,J. Wiley Norton, and John An dreason tobuild larger school to the east at 55 West Main (present site of Lehi Post Ofnon-Morm- fice). The original building was used as a cottage for teachers until the New West 8chool closed in 1920. The older building, used as residence for many years, was razed in 1953 and the State Bank of Lehi - low-inco- New principal looks forward to school year Philip Armstrong was surprised when he was notified by Alpine School District that he was being transferred from the Cedar Valley School to Lehi Elementary. He'd been at the Cedar Fort School just one year and he'd enjoyed his work as principal there. The transfer meant that former Lehi Elementary principal Jim Gray would now be the new principal at Cedar Fort. Both educators were surprised at the district's edict. Armstrong said that he welcomed the change though, and had already set goals for himself and the students at Lehi Elementary. One of his goals is to involve parents more in theeducation ofthe students, especially focusing on the reading program. "I'd like to invite parents into the classrooms to make them more aware of the students' needs and ' see all the ways they can help and I t." Lmm"mmmm the things they can do to improve ' our school," he said. "I'd also like to improve their ' .Hi,, technical abilities by providingmore computers and involve more parents in computer education. Wehave seven Macintosh computers at the school now. I would like to expand that. Next year well be eligible for the Education Technical Initiative (funds) appropriated by the state legislature each year to improve technical qualities of Utah schools." Armstrong and his wife Rebecca live in Orem with their daughters: Heather 17, Amy 15, Erin 12, and Anne, eight years old. He earned a degree in Elementary Education from BYU after having attended This building complex stood on the present site of the Lehi Post Office. The white building Northern Arizona University. The to the left was originally the New West School. The M. S. Lott building in the foreground family lived in Phoenix and Winslow, was the Lehi Post Office from 1949 until 1965. Arizona, before moving to Utah. He began hiscareer in Education Elder in South Carolina who wrote tated to send their children to the as a teacher at Orem and Orchard was built on the site. A Lehi reporter writing about that missionaries were often "con- school. It was generally considered Elementaries. He took a sabbatical, Lehi's private school in the January fronted with newspaper articles, the best school in town and education-earned a masters degree from BYU citizens recognized its and became assistant principal at in minded 25, 1884, Deseret News noted that originating with "the Lehi Academy is doing a splenUtah, containing the most villainquality. Orchard, one of the largest elemenIn 1897 the New West Commisdid work." The school's 90 students ous falsehoods." tary schools (over 1,000) before beHe noted that one of these arunder the management of Miss sion, which was then an Illinois ing transferred to Cedar Valley Alice M. Warren, principal, and ticles, which resulted in two of the corporation, sold the Lehi property School, one of the smallest (with 64 teachers Mrs. R. L. Ross and Miss elders being rejected "was written to the Congregational Education students). Adelaide Cooley were offered "free by a very Christian woman, who has Society of Boston for $13,500. The "It was kind of a cultural shock, been making an effort to establish a reorganization welcomed the new goingfrom Orchard to Cedar Valley scholarship." The building itself consisted of a sectarian free school in Lehi, Utah century with expanded horizons. The but I enjoyed the total experience single large room which could be County, traducingthe people of that Aug. 30, 1900, Lehi Banner anthere, not only as principal but as nounced thatin addition to primary divided into smaller classrooms by locality." Lehi's Mormon bishop, Thomas and grammar classes theNew West slidingpartitions.The school library with its collection of 450 volumes R. Cutler, did not like the influence School would offer "academy of the school either. Cutler coun- courses to prepare for college. A was likely the largest single accuA Salt Lake woman seled his flock "not to send their listingof these new classes included mulation of books in Lehi. killed as the result of a School New was School New West to the children the West history,math-eliterature, languages, Sunday Though accident at the junction a tics, and sciences. was described in the Jan. 5, 1884, if they did the day would come they Aside from its educational and of and three miles west Deseret News as a free, would be sorry they had." Much of the Congregationalists' religious prominence, the New West of Lehi. institution "purely and strictly A Utah Highway Patrol report sentiment was fueled movement inspired Lehi's first tenfor intellectual education, without identified the victim as Louise M. by opposition to polygamy. When nis interests. In 1875 The All Enany orthodox creed it was essensystem de- the LDS Church publicly announced gland Croquet Club had set aside a Johnson, 960 Lake Street, Salt Lake tially an and unto counterbalance its 1890 abandonment of the prac- rectangle of grass on Worple Road City. signed Ms. Johnson was a passenger in dermine LD3 education and contice, "Mormon bashing" by the New for an upstart sport, lawn tennis. a vehicle driven by John A. Field, vert Lehi children to "Christianity." West people seems to have abated.' ' Though Lehi was not Wimbledon, e There is no evidence that The Nov. 19, 188SfDMretNews 80, 96 West Loyal Avenue, Sandy. prominent local physician Dr. Lehi Mormons hesi contained a letter from a Mormon YESTERYEARS on page 3 According to the report, the Field Commerce. "Through the Fair, we hope to people can gain a greater appreciation for our neighbors in the valley." The County Fair Management team will host the invited guests to for the four days of this kick-of- f for the commission to use. He also mentioned that the committee should keep track of all expenses so that members could keep track of all expenses as a guideline for the commission to use in future Cash named to housing development board ments. Cash has ister percent 6-- 5. Grand opening ceremonies for a revitalized Utah Valley "County Fair" will be held tonight (Aug. 14) at 5 p.m. at the county fair grounds in Spanish Fork. Citymayors, the fair board, Utah County royalty and all valley residents are invited to the opening ceremonies. Dignitaries will all cut the ribbon as the Payson Bagpipe Band plays on the Pavilion Stage at the fair grounds. "This is a great opportunity for us to highlight the people of Utah Valley, said Steve Densley, president ofthe ProvoOrem Chamber of coun- cil. - , fly f anti-Mormo- - F. Philip Armstrong... ...new Lehi principal kind of a jack of all trades, from doing custodial chores to picking up the mail." Another goal is to get to know the teachers here and make sure they have the things they need to teach to the best of their abilities. We must provide what they need. A good rapport with teachers is very important. Armstrong stated that he will work closely with parents and teachers to resolve any conflicts, feeling that if there is good communication between student, teachers and parents, there shouldn't be any major problems. "I don't agree in taking sides in resolving conflicts. Ill hear both sides and try to listen if there are conflicts." Armstrong feels that the school and family must cooperate in solving discipline problems. "I just have to work with the family to resolve problems. In that respect, my hands aren't tied and the parents' hands certainly aren't. We'll work together." At 48 years of age, Armstrong has a wealth of experience to help guide him in important education al issues. He has no retirement plans and expects to dedicate his expertise and knowledge in giving the students at Lehi Elementary the best educational experience possible. SLC woman killed in mishap vehicle southbound on m two-vehic- U-6- non-sectari- anti-Mormo- anti-Mormo- n n Rob-Pe- 8 U-7- 3, was and was struck broadside by a vehicle driven by David C. Thomas, 45, 582 North 500 East, American Fork. He had one passenger, who was not identified. U-6- 8 Thomas was transported to University of Utah Medical Center and Field to Holy Cross Hospital where he was treated for head injuries. The accident investigation is being directed by Trooper Mike Rees. |