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Show 013096 F 52 expires j UTBHPRESS ASSOCIATION 307 WEST 200 5005 SOUTH STE SALT LAKE CITY 84101 UT Vol. 17, No. 7 50 Wednesday, February 15, 1995 cents a single copy Meadow Elementary considers extended day schedule By CATHY ALLRED Alpine School District is an elementary school up on the north bench in Lehi. The earnest money is already down on 18 acres just north of the city's proposed site for US West's cellular phone tower. The official word is that they are still considering 2 or 3 locations in the Lehi area. Until the purchase of the site is finalized and a new school can be consid-eringbuildi- completed, Meadow Elementary will probably begin an extended day schedule next year to help relieve overcrowding problems. An extended day program extends the teachers' day and divides the student population into two groups, each taking up a different chunk of the instructor's day. With classroom trailers costing $80,000 each and satellite buildings at a price of $.5 million, extend ed day seems to be the most economical alternative for Lehi's schools. "A new school takes three years to complete and costs $7 million," pensate for overcrowding in Meadow because the other two Lehi elementaries are also overcrowded. A positive feature of the extended day program were that the students in extended day have shown to excel academically. "We have a high percentage of students on the junior high honor roll," Rasband pointed out. "By the time they reach junior high, they seem to adapt better to the class said Meadow's Principal Sonja Rasband. "Right now we have 37 students in a core class. Extended day would give us 24.5 kids per teacher in the lower grades and h, 28.7." The school district can not change school boundaries in order to com- - Ofthe top 10 elementaries in the Alpine School District, seven are extended day. Chapter I and Gifted programs will remain and core class sizes will go down. Part ofthe appeal with extended day schedule, is the ability to easily downsize the school after the student population shrinks as a consequence of a new school building, busing transfers, or slowed population growth. Cedar Fort considers variety of ordinances Memorial Building nearing completion Open house to be held in March cerned about and By CATHY ALLRED "The reason for this meeting is to ambiguity of the "lawyerese." de2. Subdivision ordinance provide information, is for you to ask questions and to help you unfines what a subdivision is and diderstand better what these ordivides them into two sizes, large and nances are," so began Mayor Howard small and what the requirements Anderson's opening comments at and subsequent definitions are of a the first Cedar Fort Planning and subdivision. "I'd like to think that we need to Zoning public meeting for 1995, "so if you have any questions, we are take into consideration, assuming not going to read these ordinances that this kind of a document does because they are obviously, well, that, and that is, have you ever we'd be here a long time." noticed that people who move into a Three of the four new proposed subdivision buy their homes right ordinances were lengthily discussed next to each other in an agricultural and below is a brief summary. community, by cattle, and then all 1. Constitutional Taking of Issue ofa sudden they are offended by the concerns the violation by governsmell of the cattle?" asked Councilment of constitutional rights in reman Tom Groff. "I for one have gard to personal property of which cattle in my front yard and I don't there are two types of violation. plan on that to change. I don't know The first is an outright taking of if you can protect the residences that are here now from the resiproperty for road or parks, the second is in taking value away from dences that might come here in the future and be offended by the smell property by rezoning, subdividing, or by other means. The ordinance is of a cow." Other issues considered were required by the state and is a "...successful administrative procedure for "putting the cart before the horse" the town to revei w the constitutionwith discussing a planning and zonal taking aspects of any regulation," ing ordinance before developing a explained David Church, a town master plan for the city which is attorney, "and a procedure by which scheduled to be completed within the citizen can insure for anyone, the year, the deletion of protective themselves, or for the town, or whatstrips, and road costs. ever, that the current constitutionAmajor concern ofresidents was al interpretation are those of the how this ordinance would affect constitution and give them an optheir existing homes and the future homes of their children. portunity to try to correct any mistakes that the town makes without "First of all we can't go back and going to the expense of having to go undo something thatis already been to the court and sueing the town." done but we can go forward from Questions addressed concerning here at this point," responded Maythis required ordinance included or Anderson, "and what we are tryclarifying by example, explaining ing to do is say there really was an the state mandate (which was folordinance in place that says you lowed by protest from a citizen con See CEDAR FORT on Page 4 t,) By RUSS DALY City Editor 'These guys have done a beautiful job," said Harold Hutchings about workers on the project that has renovated the Memorial Building in preparation to house the Hutchings Museum. An open house for public schedule because it is so much like extended day." The core subjects of reading, spelling, writing, language, and math will take up 3 12 hours of the students' time and specialty subjects will last two hours. Each group will overlap attendance time during the middle of the day but will arrive at different times, the early morning group at 8 a.m. and the later group at 9:30 a.m. dis- play ofthe building is tentatively set for Saturday, March 1 1, pending final completion. - Several people have become involved in the project at a great savings to the city from the original estimate of costs. Charles Peterson and Mearle Smith have been A - - on-si- te vc ;i Ami and overseeing the work that is being done, , Their work even extended into saving a bald eagle after it had been knocked down by a scaffold. They carefully restored the statue, one of two that guards the inside of the entrance into the - main hall. Craftsman George Tripp has also provided his talents to create many valuable new features in the building, particularly in the basement portion of the building that will be used by both the museum staff and the American Legion members. Tripp has added a new fire exit, cupboards and woodwork and even new rooms. He has also lf installed 16 units in the now basement, efficiently utilizcoal old and the civil room the ing defense supply rooms. Jack Barnes offered his knowledge in rewiring the decorative in the lights that will be freshly painted lobby and Richg ard Van Wagoner has bees once in the the desk library that will now be the central point of the museum. The city council has commended those persons who have not only completed the workbut made the financial savings possible. z X . . i i; .i?l i . I ' "' w-TTT.- :,. Purchase orders approved i j The Lehi City Council unanimously approved the following pur-cha- five-she- se orders at their last meeting: llfifellltitl:' milSM&f' I' $3,934 to Network Business for a computer for the library. Motion r ' by Mayor Gibbs, second by Councilmember Wayne Carlton. Themoney will berefunded through a $7,000 grant. $13,235.40 to Western States re-hun- g Electric for line improvements on 500 West from Main to 700 South. Motion by Councilmember Knollin Haws, second by Carlton. $54,392.35 to Western States Electric for Somerville and Summercrest subdivisions that have already been paid by the developers. Motion by Haws, second by Carlton. refin-ishin- - - Early deadlines for holiday 1 Photo by Russ Daly Charles Peterson, left, and his son Kris prepare lumber as part of the Memorial Building restoration project now nearing completion. Deadlines for news and display advertising will be Friday, Feb. 17, for the Feb. 22 issue of this newspaper. Newspaper offices will be closed Feb. 20 for the President's Day holiday. All news and display advertising must be into the newspaper office by 5 p.m. Friday. Classified advertising will be accepted until noon on Tuesday, Feb. 21. Main Street wasn't always Lehi's main center of commerce By RICHARD VAN WAGONER As I wrote last week, Lehi, since the early 1870s, because ofthe presence of two railroads in town, has a history ofboth an uptown and down business district. For nearly three decades mercantile activity in the community was dominated by the Mercantile People's PCI becalled Institute, popularly cause it was a retail affiliate of ZCMI. Until 1937, when the Co-o- p closed its doors, Lehi's main street was not Main Street - State Street was. in And until the completion of the early 1960s thousands of cars, trucks and buses drove through our 1-- uptown area daily. In the years following World War II, however, the downtown area gradually became the center of our city's commercial activity. Lehi's Main Street, so named from the earliest days of settlement, joined the State Road east of town at the Forks of the Road. Initially, however, the nomenclature "Main Street" referred only to the area between presentFirstEastandFifth West streets. Westward, towards the Jordan River Bridge, the roadway was called Bridge Road. Furthermore our presentfirst East was then called East Main. The earliest semblance of abusi- - Leiii ne'ss district on Main Street began to develop in the late 1850s. But Sir Richard Burton, famous British explorer, on whose life the recent movie "Mountains of the Moon" is based, made mention of only one structure when he traveled along the street in 1859. "The only decent house was the bishop's David Evans' home was at 288 West Main: in British India it would have been the collector and magistrate's." Bishop Evans' home, a bed and breakfast inn for travelers, was one of the earliest, if not the first, Main Street commercial establishment. Yet in 1861,whenFrenchadventur-e- r Jules Remy stopped in town overnight he and his men camped in the middle of Main Street "without giving ourselves the trouble of looking for an inn, which in all probability we should not have found." After buying wood, fodder and grain from the locals, the men tethered their animals to a nearby garden fence, built a fire and cooked their supper in the darkness. Within an hour, Remy noted in his journal, "we were literally besieged by a crowd of boys, who seemed all the more inclined to sit up the whole night, because, the next day being Sunday, they were in no hurry to take their rest. I don't know what these idlers took us for," the Frenchman added, "but they evinced a singular desire to be m ade acquainted with everything concerning us. . . . The more we rebuffed them, the more they seemed determined to get out our secrets. . . . There were some who inquired of us why we lit our pipes at our fire instead of making use of matches. Others were constantly asking us to tell them the hour, for the mere pleasure of seeing us pull out our watches; some again wanted to know ifit was our expenses we were writing down in our journals, how many pens we consumed in a year, and how much time we took to learn to write. Heavens! How worried we were that night there, and how much in comparison we should have preferred the company of mosquitoes." The earliest reference to a local merchant I have discovered was in the September 1854 Desent News. Utah Stake President George A. See YESTERYEARS on Page 4 111 f fKlWMWIlii'' ! IL :.., I "T n W 1 J I U 1 - Hot) (r irr ''m " SLSbikS"' This photograph, taken during the Christmas season of 1930, was taken from the intersection of Main and First West (looking east). |