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Show 1- - 480 UTAH PRESS 467 EAST 300 SOUTH ASSOCN SALT LAKE CITY UT ""'l6 fl4m r 50 cents a single copy Wednesday, October 30, 1991 Vol. 13. No. 43 Polls to open next Tuesday for city elections - 4 A N- - I i rVi Residents of Lehi and Cedar hills will go to the polls Tuesday to select three new city council members for Vv four year terms. Polls will be open Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at various polling locations. Six candidate are vying for office in Lehi. Progressive Party candidates are Ron Smith, Lee Rosenhan and Knollin Haws. Candidates on the Citizens Party is8 1 i 1 ... .'; rrO peers from Meadow Elementary spelled "Just" and Sego Lily Elementary line up to form the word "No" in an students from Lehi Elementary spelled "say," students at anti-dru- g message aired on KTVX. As Elementaries fete red ribbon week By RUSS DALY Students at all three of Lehi's elementary schools participated in several drug awareness activities during Red Ribbon Week. Each' school held assemblies, with different groups giving their own slant to the drug education program. Cheerleaders and members of the. Lehi High School varsity foot-'ba- ll team, for example, held a pep rally at Meadow Elementary. After the cheerleaders taught the stug dents some cheers, each class had a chance to make up an anti-dru- anti-dru- g rap. An officer from the Lehi Police Department presented a video tape to the fifth and sixth grade students at Sego Lily. Students from Lehi High School also played games with the children at Sego Lily to help teach them about peer pressure and how to avoid its negative effects. Stephanie Burningham and Karla Womble, fourth grade teachers at Meadow Elementary, worked with all of the fourth gradejstudents in presenting a program entitled "Safety Kids." The program was written by Janeen Brady, and uses children singing, dancing, and acting, to portray the message that each child is special and has the right to say no to drugs, even ifit means losing friends, at least not giving in to peer pressure. To reinforce that concept, Meadow students also inked their thumbprints and signed their names to a large wall mural titled, or "I'm Thumb-bod- y Special." Lehi Elementary students had a special set of visitors to help them understand the importance of not using drugs. The Sheriff K-- 9 Unit brought its specially-traine- d drug dogs to that school. Students there also wanted to g word in a big spread the way, so they put their message on the large fence. Children in kindergarten, first, and second grades made bows out of red ribbons. Up anti-dru- Secondary students hear Lehi's secondary schools observed Red Ribbon Week last week as a reminder to students to remain drug free. Throughout the week various activities were held to emphasize the importance of saying no to drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Lehi Mayor Guy Cash visited the Lehi Junior High School to open the week's events and appeared live on Channel I broadcasts throughout the school. The trees leading to the school were decorated with red ribbons and the fence was made into a sign. A Faculty Brunch was held during a Faculty Meeting where frosted cinnamon rolls read "It's Hot to Not," red ribbons were distributed to everyone and the faculty was given a quiz on being drug free. The same quiz was given to students during their morning Channel 1 presentation. The Jr. High Esteem Team went on video urging the students to stay drug free. Speakers were Jared Evans and Loren Berry. Student per grade students then wove the message, "We Are Drug Free" into the chain links. The highlight of the week, however, must have been the opportunity to spread the message to the entire state with help from the helicopter from KTVX Channel 4. All of the students in each school gathered on their, school lawns to spell out "Just Say No." After hovering over each school to film the words, the helicopter landed at Lehi Elementary, where KTVX personality Dave Nemeth spoke to the children about their campaign. The segment aired on the KTVX newscast on Friday. Incumbent Spencer Chamberlain will seek another term as city councilman in Cedar Fort, but Larry Cook has declined to run again in the Nov. 5 election. Nominated as candidates for the two seats up for grabs are: Wendell Jensen, Necia Harris, Glen Cook and the incumbent, Spencer Cham- berlain. Jensen is employed as an inspector at Tooele Ordinance Depot. He is married to the former Valerie Peterson and they are parents of three children Wendee, Maithel and Sidney. Jensen moved with his family from Salt Lake City when his father was hired as a church farm ranch manager. They have enjoyed the serene, atmosphereof Cedar Valley living, and he would like to contribute to their community by serving on the city council. Valerie works e in the Cedar Fort store. Glen Cook is a native of Cedar Fort and married a Cedar Fort girl, Donna Berry. They have raised their family of three children in Cedar Fort. They have 15 grandchildren. Glen has served his community as fire chief for 10 years and is a retired Tooele Ordinance worker after 36 years of faithful service. He and Donna were supervisors for the Cedar Valley area for many years. laid-bac- k part-tim- 4--H anti-dru- g activities during lunch breaks included a balloon relay race and Lifesaver race. Prizes were awarded to the winners. On Wednesday students were encouraged to wear red clothing and Jack Christensen, a seminary instructor at Timp View, showed how influential music can be and videos were shown to students in the lunch room during their lunch break. One day numbered wrist ribbons were distributed and those wearing them were admitted to a Sock Hop and prizes were given to those who were wearing the winning numbers. Members of the Lehi Police Department and representatives from the Utah County Health Department set up drug displays and on Friday was held between the faculty and "Shoot-out- " and students to see who could make the most A Flag Football game was held by the 9th Grade Celebrity Team, with competition be Watkins. Outgoing council members are Wesley Rasmussen, Keith Jenkins and Sherwin Allred. None of them chose to seek All three of the seats up for election are for the next four years. Key issues in the election are implementing a city master plan, expanding sewer and water lines and working with a tight budget. Four seek seat on Cedar Fort council SV IV 'Wafe. ticket are Donna Lee Eisenhart, John Hadfield and Carleton message tween the boys and girls. Frozen guinea hens wereused as bowlingballs with winners keeping the fowl. These birds were contributed by Storehouse Market of Spanish Fork. The junior high's activities were under the direction of Dale Peery, Health Teacher and Drug Team Advisor. Lehi High School's activities were under the direction of the school's Drug Intervention Team, with Mike Cottam and Melody Johnson, advisors. The week-lon- g activities were started with an assembly on Monday, followed by the distribution of red ribbons and red wrist bracelets, which the students wore all week. Several activities were held, all urging students to be drug, tobacco and alcohol free. Posters and signs were hung throughout the building and students were rewarded for follow ing various instructions. They remain thoughtful, concerned citizens and now that they have more time, Glen would like to contribute to the serene, pleasant lifestyle enjoyed by citizens of his community by serving as a member of the city council. Necia Harris is the wife of Kent Harris, a Cedar Fort native. After their marriage, the young couple chose to build a home and raise their family in Cedar Fort. They are parents of three children and Necia is presently serving as water systems operator for the town of Cedar Fort. Necia grew up in Lehi, a daughter of Kent and Colleen Fowler. She is and would work to maintain the wonderful, friendly lifestyle she and her family enjoy as Cedar Fort residents. Spencer Chamberlain has enjoyed his stint on the council and would like to continue his service to the friends and neighbors who make their home in Cedar Fort. He understands the important issues that must be discussed and the decisions that must be made to keep Cedar Fort fiscally responsible with an eye to the future growth of the community. He is a native and is well acquainted with both the complexities and advantages of small town living in the nineties. civic-minde- d Nelson honored for beautification efforts Mayor Cash paid a special tribute and commendation to Charlie Nelson at the last city council meeting. The City received four Awards of Merit from the Salt Lake Tribune's Beautification Program recently, and Nelson has been instrumental in the care of each project. Awards were received for The Senior Citizen's Building, the Memorial Building, the Public Safety Building, and the Library Building. The awards were presented in a special ceremony held recently in Salt Lake City. Mayor Cash told the city council and citizens attending the meeting, that Charlie works tirelessly to keep all the public buildings as beautiful as possible. He prepares the flower beds, plants and maintainsthem through"'out thr nric " fly - - . vi munity." j 'our com Early service station served as inspiration for artist By RICHARD VAN WAGONER The Sanborn Map collection is one of our most valued items in the Lehi Historical Archives. We are fortunate to have extensive blueprints of the town for the years 1890, 1898, 1907, 1922, and 1934. The Sanborn-Perri- s Map Company, then located at 1 19 Broadway in New York City, drew these maps as documentation for determining a community's fire insurance rating. As such they are a treasure trove of for those fascinating minutiae like me who are detail oriented. The maps are colorized. Thus it is possible to determine whether a structure is built of adobe, lumber, rock or brick. The drawings are also to scale. This is very important from an archaeological standpoint. Not only can the site of primary structures be located, but also such secondary features as artesian wells and outbuildings. If you wanted to locate a barn or granary site for example, or the privy pit of your venerable ancestors, the maps would be of utmost - importance. To obtain background information on the northeast corner ofMain and First East (111 East Main) I studied the site on each of the Sanborn Maps. The 1890 version shows a adobe residence there. Houses of this size usually were built in two-roo- m Lehi Yesteryears Lehi after 1860, but it is nearly impossible to date anything built prior to 1890. The earliest known family to reside in this home, although most certainly not the first to live there, was the John Stoker family. Born in Doncaster, England in 1856, Stoker served a mercantile apprenticeship in his home town beforeopening a men's clothing store there. When Mormon missionary James Kirkham came preaching through the area in 1892, Stoker and his wife Clara were converted. In September 1893 they emigrated to America and settled in Lehi to be near merchant Kirkham. The ambitious Stoker wasted no time in establishing his own mercantile. The Dec. 14, 1893 "Lehi Banner reported that he had "finished a nice littlestore"on the northeast corner of Main and First East (probably in his home), where he sold men's furnishings and his wife's baked goods. According to family accounts, Stoker "found conditions here very different from whathehad pictured, and it was difficult to make a But he was successful enough initially to build a new home at 469 North First East (still standing today). The John Stoker Cash Grocery Store, built onto the west of the Stoker home, soon failed, however. He disposed of his property, moved to the northeast part of town, and began peddling Utah Lake fish in mining camps. Later he prospered as a farmer and served as the first bishop of the Lehi Fourth Ward from 1903-20- . Stoker's original home at 111 East Main was demolished sometime between 1907 and 1922. It remained a vacant lot until 1935 when Faye and Oral Evans built the small service station shown in today's photograph. They called their enterprise Evans Brother's Service. In 1936 the property was purchased by Frank Earl, a wholesale distributor for Standard Oil Company. Glen Wanlass whohad worked with the Evans Brothers, became the new lessee. The affable Wanlass operated Glen's Service at the site for the next thirty nine years. Durhe also leased Glen's ing 1950-5Service 2 on State and First East, a Chevron franchise like station 1. Glen's son Stan, considered by many international art critics to be the world's finest sculptor of the automobile, developed his passion for cars while working in hit dad's service station. r T v . - I' r w E IS ....... X tr&f-- 1 , a ' 7T i Hi ill 11 H i.L-- 1 u im7) w m ii ,'(t -- 1 This it what the northeast corner of Main and First East looked like in 1950. Stan Wanlass, notable Lehi artist, is the boy on the right. His father Glen Wanlass is to the extreme right AsahobbyyoungWanlassbegan to carve cars out of sosp bars. When he became old enough to drive he became a hot rod enthusiast and built two 1932 Fords which he raced and exhibited in car shows about the state. Another important influence on Stan's early life was automobile memorabilia. Glen, a college-traine- d geologist, spent much of his free gee YESTERYEARS vn page 3 |