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Show Kt publication of A iXewlaliACMS ij roup Vol.20, No. 5 Alpine District may ask voters for leeway, bond in May Voters in the Alpine School District may be asked to approve a bond and leeway proposal in May. At the Jan. 27 meeting of the district board of education, district superintendent Steven C. Baugh presented board members with a recommendation that they approve going to district residents in May to ask for a $50 million bond for capital building needs and a $6.2 million leeway to open new schools and meet board goals in reading, technology, reduction in safety, class-siz- e the junior high and language Wednesday, February future requests, as important needs in educating their children. Board members must decide by their March 10 meeting if it will be the bond issue before the voters. If approved, the vote would be May 5. a single copy To subscribe call 756-766- 9 Residents air concerns over old hospital plans Russ Daly City Editor By "We are concerned about the proposed changes," Darlene Durrant told members of the Lehi City Council. "As concerned citizens, we are asking you to be part of a team." Durrant made the plea to the council based on a proposal to turn the old Lehi Hospital building into a residential facility for persons with mental disabilities. "Based on our discussion, anything that happens in the ject a reality, said that he area will be done in a legal intends to have public involveand lawful way," said Mayor ment in the project. Ken Greenwood, "according to the laws of the land, whether they be local, federal or state." Greenwood also said that the council would not be able to answer questions until they knew what the questions were; adding to that statement, Councilmember Frances Comer said that no proposal had been brought before the council prior to that time. Dan Richards, the' developer who hopes to make the pro he said. "This is not something that will be done quickly, but it will be done with that, to his knowledge, "the last money put into it was over 20 years ago." He questioned why he was only allowed to create one apartment in the building when it could now be considered for multiple units. He also doubted the structural soundness of the building. Greenwood said that it was not the city's property to either dispose of or to even determine if the building is do," plan to bring everything to the table and educate the people with what want to do. This is not something that will be done quickly, but it will be done with "I I community involvement." "I plan to bring everything to the table and educate the people with what I want to - Dan Richards sound. "Upholding the rights of a citizen to develop property is of utmost concern," he added. community involvement." Wallace Olsen, former owner of the building, said Lehi High names candidates for Sterling Scholar honors ill') J arts. The presentation was made during the monthly public information meeting of the board held at Forbes Elementary School in American Fork. Baugh said the bond money would be used to construct four new elementary schools, remodel and renovate existing schools, and to purchase additional school sites. He said if approved, new elementary schools would be built in the Strawberry Point area of Pleasant Grove, and in the HighlandAlpine area. The two additional schools would be chosen from among five areas of greatest need, including northeast Orem, the Lindon area, Lehi area, northwest American ForkHighland area and Vineyard. Alpine school district is one of the fastest growing districts in the state, with enrollment projected to exceed 50,000 stuan dents by the year 2002 increase of over 4,700 students from the current enrollment of 45,343 students Citizens passed a $30 million bond issue and a voted leeway in 1992, and a $98 million bond issue in 1994. These monies are now used up, Baugh said with the $98 million going to construct two new high schools and four new elementary school. A new high school and a new elementary school opened with the 1997-9- 8 school year. Expressing appreciation for past support of voters, Baugh said, "the voters have been very supportive of student needs. They have viewed these recent requests, and hopefully 50 cents 4, 1998 I i ' ' "i Editor's Note:This is the first in t series highlighting a Lehi High School's candidates for the Sterling Scholar program. I 4 four-par- Lehi High School has named students as representatives of the school in the Deseret News sponsored Sterling Scholar program. The three students to be honored this week include Matthew V.Alva, social science; Shannon Linn Larsen, family, home and consumer sciences; and Robert Turner, mathemati12 cs. Matt Alva The son of Christine D. and Eugene H. Herman of Lehi, Matt is currently serving as studentbody president at Lehi High School. He has also participated in the Boys State program, where he was elected to the position of governor; Matt also attended Engineering State and the Governor's Photo by Top speller Russ Daly Jacob Wyatt, right, second place winner in the Cedar Valley Elementary spelling bee, congratulates Austin Adams after he successfully spelled "conscious" to win the contest. Depot park on the fast track? By Russ Daly City Editor Lehi The Preservation Historical Commission hopes to be on the fast track toward creating a transportation museum and park. Representing the commis- sion, Richard Van Wagoner asked members of the Lehi City Council to accept an offer of land at 200 E. State which would be used to create the Frank Eastmond Park. Van Wagoner explained that the commission was not asking the council for money, only to accept an offer made by the property owner. He said the city had only until July 15, 1998 to accept the offer, and until Jan. 1, 2000 to actually develop the park or the land would revert to Eastmond's heirs. Van Wagoner said the estimated value of the land is about $50,000. He compared the offer to that made by Ira D. Wines ' when he offered property to the city to be named in honor of his wife, Taylor. the former Margaret sion about the proposal for the site, the council voted four to Councilmember one, with Frances Comer dissenting, to accept the offer of the land. According to a concept prepared by the commission, the park would become the site for the old train station building now owned by the commission itself. Van Wagoner explained how the station could house a transportation museum and also possibly serve as a station for a future light rail system. The station, built in 1872, is See DEPOT on Page After considerable discus 4 Honors Academy. He was selected as an official Youth Olympic Ambassador and attended with the Utah delegation to Budapest, Hungary, where Salt Lake City was named as the 2002 Winter Games host site. One of a set of triplets, Matt credits much of his success to his mother, whom he said has been his strength and example when he needed it the most. Matt is a member of the Academic Decathlon Team and the Knowledge Master Team, the latter of which took second in state for both fall and spring competitions. Shannon Larsen X f' ' s Jh Matt Alva Shannon Larsen t t One of only three students to receive a certificate of competency in nutrition and foods from the Utah State Office of Education, Shannon Larsen has also received a certificate in child care. In practical application of her knowledge, she has served as a teacher's aide at Sego Lily Elementary for a semester and has helped resource students in elemen-SeSCHOLARS on Page 4 e 'if-?-- Robert Turner Books of more than passing interest to owner of Pastimes By Russ Daly City Editor K. Kay has many pastimes, just one of which is her interest in books. With that in mind, she has opened Pastimes, a "bookstore plus more," on Lehi's Main Street. In the small building on the east side of 155 W. Main, area residents can buy, sell, trade or rent a profusion of books in a wide range of titles, from children's books to novels by today's popular authors to specialty books on childbirth and parenting themes. Book lovers can trade two used books for one used book of similar value, or three used books for a new book. For those who want to buy, new books sell for one-hathe list price, while the used books are one-thir- d list price. And as a "ecology nut," she encourages children (and adults alike) to bring in aluminum cans to trade for books at the rate of 100, a grocery sack full of flattened cans, in trade for any lf children's book. "When they took away the bottle recycling, they took away the one way a kid could make a lot of dough," she said, recalling her own growing-u- p years checking the ditch banks near her home in Amosville, Va., a small community about 60 miles southwest of Washington, DC. In her shop, K. Kay features some specialty books that she loans out for a modest fee, which include several volumes of a writer's library, and books on childbirth, which most people only need for a limited period of time. She also features an extensive collection of children's educational toys for rent or trade, which are especially useful for grandparents, who may not need toys at all times, but would like to have toys on hand for when children come to visit. K. Kay and her husband, Jack Thomasson, moved to Utah in 1991 when he accepted a position with Novell. The couple and their two daughters first lived in Pleasant Grove, but later moved to Lehi in order to take advantage of the Spanish Immersion program at Meadow Elementary. Later, when their oldest daughter, Mary, wanted to learn to play the cello, K. Kay became an advocate of a school orchestra program. Because of her interest in and support of such a program, Lehi Junior High School now offers an orchestra class as part of the curriculum. She hopes to provide beginning classes in all of Lehi's elementary schools and a continuation program at Lehi High School in the future. "I moved from Pleasant Grove for one school program," she said. "I wasn't about to do that again. I needed orchestra for my child rather than drag her around all over creation." She said the hardest part of organizing the program was to find enough students who would be interested in the program. Through an extensive telephoning campaign, she was able to accomplish that goal. The first phase of the program offered a class after Photo by d, See KAY on Page 4 Russ Daly the new Pastimes bookstore in Lehi, shelves some of the many new and used titles available at the new business, located at 155 W. Main, Suite B. Ecology-mindeK.Kay will even take aluminum cans in trade for books. K.Kay, owner of |