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Show Vol. 18, No. 32 Wednesday, August 7,1996 50 cents a To subscribe call single copy 756-766- 9 Citizens speak out against proposals in transportation plan By RUSS DALY City Editor i & A veteran Lehi police officer was one of only a handful of citizens to speak t out some t i r- - against the of transportation proposals under consideration by the Planning Commission. Less than a dozen citizens attended the meeting where the proposal was presented to the and Planning Zoning Commission, which ultimateto ly chose extend the period for receiving comwritten ments from the until public The Lehi City Planning and Zoning Commission will accept written comments on the Master Transportation Plan until 3 p.m. today. Comments will be received at the Public Works Office, 99 W. Main, Suite 100, Lehi. Citizens may view copies of the plan and maps at the offices. Copies of the plan are available for purchase at a cost of $12; copies of the map are available for purchase at $3 each. Over 1.2 million people are expected to visit the Mount Timpanogos Temple over the next six weeks as the LDS Church puts the building on display to the general public before the temple dedication in October. Here they come! Temple open house begins Saturday; up to 25,000 people a day expected to visit The long awaited day is here. Tours of the Mount Timpanogos LDS Temple begin Saturday. From then until Sept. 21, American Fork will host an estimated 1.2 million people as individuals from not only Utah but from throughout the nation and foreign countries visit the reli- tour, except during school hours. Tours will take about an including waiting time in the tents outside the Temple entrance. hour-and-a-ha- Expected traffic patterns gious facility. Dedication ceremonies will be Oct. 13 through 19, almost three years to the day from when the g was held. Robert Matthews was recently named as president of the Temple. His counselors are still to be announced. Elder Earl C. Tingey of the Seventies is Mount Timpanogos Temple Committee with Stephen Studdert, vice chairman. Studdert said an estimated 25,000 people are expected each tour day with tours conducted each Monday through Saturday. A total of 56,000 volunteers from throughout the Temple District-Leh- i to Orem plus Wasatch County-wi- ll conduct the tours and assist in parking. Primary children, ages and youth groups from each of the 43 stakes in the Temple District have been invited to perform at the beginning of each The following routes have been set up lor traffic from outside the area to get to the Mt. Timpanogos Temple Open House: From the South: 1. State Street to 100 East, Pleasant Grove; left (North) on 100 East (Canyon Road) to 2600 North; left (West) on 2600 North to 900 East in American Fork; right on 900 East to Temple Parking ground-breakin- 2, a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon. Public tours begin daily at 8 a.m. and continue until 7 p.m. on Monday, until 10 p.m. Tuesday Lot. 5 from the South, exit at 500 East in American Fork; north on 500 East to 700 North; right (East) on 700 North to 900 East; left (North) on 900 East to Temple Parking Lot. 2. From Exit the North at 2 (Alpine) Exit; East on 2 to 4800 West; then West to Temple Parking Lot. right (South) on 4800 Ticket Distribution Centers: From the South: Manila Chapel at 890 West 2600 North, Pleasant Grove. From the North: Chapel at 5335 West 1 1200 North, Highland. Studdert said tickets are still available for almost every day and can be obtained by calling Ticket distribution hours are Monday-Fridafrom 8 763-457- y through Friday and until 8 p.m. on Saturday. Parking will be available in the Temple parking lot and in a temporary lot immediately north of the Temple. Handicap parking is available in the Temple parking lot, adjacent to the tents, for individuals with a handicap or card. parking license Wheelchairs will be available for those who need them. Several routes have been designated to help visitors arrive at their destination at the Temple with a minimum of delay. (See box) HighlandAlpine police say barricades and cones will be put 2 to try and get up along motorists coming from the north lane to make into the right-han- d a right-han- d turn onto 4800 West and try to keep the through traffic lane open. They will try and have an officer at 11200 North and Alpine Highway for individuals needing to pick up locatheir tickets at the will-ca- ll tion. d It is also hoped that the turn signal will be turned on at the same intersection as an aid to traffic control but it is not known yet whether this will be possible. In noting preparations for the open house, Studdert said he is "Grateful for wonderful spirit of helpfulness of people." He invited every area to tour the facility. (Wednesday, Aug. 7) at 3 p.m. Comments must be addressed to Lehi City Public Works Office, 99 W. Main, Suite 100, Lehi, UT 84043. Citizens may purchase copies of do "I Written comments due today at 3 p.m. today Photo by Marc Haddock the proposal for $12, or may purchase a map for $3. Citizens may also view the plan and the map at the office during office hours, start ing at 8 a.m. have some conabout cerns some of the things contained in the plan," Paul Kirkpatrick, an off-dut- y with the officer Lehi Police Department, told the commis- sion. "I'm very concerned about the proposal for angle parking our Main Street. I don't on know what's going to happen if we allow 45 degree angle parking.' The proposal, outlined in the Transportation Element of the Master Plan, which was prepared by Versar Engineering and transportation consultants Fehr and See ROADS on Page 3 Resident opposes business in residential neighborhood By RUSS DALY City Editor A Lehi resident spoke up at last week's Planning Commission meeting and promised to return with petitions to keep a potential business out of her neighborhood. Maxine Nelson, identifying herself as "one of the old people that live on that street," protested the request of Lawrence Tooley to operate the office for his business, Rainbow Electric, from his home 8 located on 1080 North, an residential zone. The request had been included on the commission's consent agenda, but was pulled by a motion from Elmer Scott, who referred to a letter received from Nelson. There are 65 children on the street," Nelson told the commission. She prefaced her comments by saying the neighborhood already has rental units in three of the homes; she said that one of the homes, where the apartment had been occupied by family members R-l-- of the homeowner, had been sold to another owner. Nelson protested the business request because of the number of trucks involved in the operation and claimed that "in the wintertime, these are parked on the street," which she said prevented snowplows from effectively clearing the roads. "Let businesses go to the business district," said Nelson. "It's a pleasant neighborhood, even with 65 children." With Tooley's absent from the meeting, Commission member Birgitta Holbrook made a motion to deny the request without prejudice, which means that the petitioner must make a new request to be included on a future agenda. Following a second by Commission member Robert Fox, approval to deny without prejudice was unanimous. Nelson promised to return to a future meeting with a petition from other neighborhood residents. U-9- left-han- 7,000 acres burn near Fairfield An estimated 7,000 acres, including 1,000 acres of wheat, and three burned in a lightning started fire south of Fairfield. The blaze, named the Camp Floyd fire, began Thursday about 4:30 p.m. and raged until Sunday, Lt. Richard Casto, Utah County Sheriffs Office, said the blaze was on private and Bureau of Land Management property. It burned within 200 yards of the Lantis Fireworks and Lasers warehouse near Fairfield but a firebreak around the warehouse helped firefighters keep it from getting any closer to the building. The blaze closed Utah Highway-7- 3 for short periods of time, Casto said, as heavy smoke descended across the highway. Erratic winds kept the fire racing ahead of firefighters, preventing them from putting it out. Watering seminar postponed The lawn watering seminar, originally scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 8, has been postponed. The seminar will now be held on Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m. in the City Council chambers, 153 N. 100 E. Utah County midwives share in miracle life every day By LAURA GRAY The miracle of life - that's something Stephanie Walker gets to experience every day. Stephanie, whose family moved to Lehi from Salt Lake City over a year ago, along with four other women, are midwives. They have a clinic in Utah County and deliver, on average, 50-6- 0 babies a month; it's the biggest midwifery practice in the state. There is a lot of confusion in the role of midwives, according to Stephanie, and people get the wrong impression of exactly what it is they do. There's a big difference and a lot of confusion," Stephanie said. "Lay midwives deliver babies at home. The ones around here go to a place called The Utah School of Midwifery" that's held in someone's kitchen. There's no kind of offieialness," she continued. "One or two of the ladies may be nurses, but they don't have any physician's back-up- , so if the woman is in trouble all they can do is take them to the emergency room and leave them there." With the training Stephanie an her have, however, they are fully qualified in their practice of midwifery. All five women graduated from the University of Utah with a Masters Degree in nursing. Stephanie has five licenses, written authorization, and back-u- p doctors in American Fork. "We can call on them any time," she said. "I have full administrative priveleges an I can order tests." In 1980 people thought having a midwife meant having a baby at home, naturally. "Sixteen years later it's still the same," Stephanie said. "But we do it at the hospital. If the mom and baby are fine, it's a blissful experience. The most important thing to us is a healthy baby and mom. If it so be it. If she takes a fine. We even want an epidural have some dads who deliver their babies. Pregnancy is healthy and it's a mind set. so is labor "We follow the guidelines," she continued. The whole plan of midwifery is to support the woman's safe choices. And then, when they realize we don't do it at home and they don't have to go natural, it's even better. I just think women have choices and it's not my point of view that's important." Stephanie said about 50 percent of their patients have an epidural an another percent have a 6-- 8 "Labor support is so extremely, physically, exhausting work," Stephanie said. But an advantage that she, along with her have, is a good schedule so they're not working 80 hours non-sto- p like seven years before becoming a practicing midwife three years ago. "We had to go through a rigorous exam that had to go through four readers and it takes three months to get the results back. My "The whole plan of midwifery is to support the woman's safe choices. And then, when they realize we don't do it at home and they don't have to go natural, it's even better. Stephanie Walker -- doctors sometimes have to do. "We can have one person on call, one person on post call and two or three at the clinic. So we do have more free time." Stephanie went to school for whole life I've been absolutely fascinated with this process," she continued. "Most of us in the state are in our 40's and back in the mid '60's girls didn't go to medical school so we're doing this now. And this is something I can do. It's exactly what I wanted." Most of the women Stephanie works with have been nurses for about 25 years. "And a few of us, like me, become nurses to do things like this. There's just something you learn at the bedside of a laboring woman." Stephanie has seen so much change in the women she coaches along as they prepare for giving birth. "Delivering babies is a big kick," she said. "We get a lot of we get to see teenage mothers them come through and make their own decisions and we get to watch them become a family. "We also get lots and lots of abused ladies," she added. To help them come through this and heal from that a realize they can move on from that abuse is very power-Se- e MIDWIVES on Page 3 |