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Show WESTERN MICROGRAPHICS 4555 COMMERCE SALT LAKE CITY DR STE LIT 841 2m 84107-430- publication of ,: Vol.20, No. 9 Wednesday, March 4, 1998 50 cents City denies Lehi City determined developer By Russ What part of 'no' don't you understand? "Evidently the councilmem-berfor various reasons, don't want to annex this property," Mayor Ken Greenwood told a representative of U.S. General, who had come to the council requesting approval of the Lake View Heights annexation, ability, but not obligate Lehi residents s, By Russ Councilmember Frances Comer, who made the motion to deny the request, said that she felt it was "not in the best interest of the city." The petitioner asked the council for the reasons behind their unanimous denial. Some councilmembers replied that they did not have to answer; Greenwood said that the council was not obligated to accept annexation requests. Councilmember Johnny Barnes said there had been questions about whether the parcel was landlocked or not. The representative said that they had obtained a right of way, but was not at liberty to disclose his source; Comer countered by saying the councilmembers didto disclose their reasons, either. "The council has essentially denied this," said Greenwood to n't have the representative's further attempts to promote further discussion. "They've turned it down." In other council land request actions the council" Tmanimotisry all of the agenda items related to zoning and development, one of which was the Line Agreement with American Fork City. Subject to final and official approval from the American Fork City Council, members of the Lehi City Council approved the agreement that had been made between the cities. Other approvals included the following: Lindy Ozancin's request for a zoning district and zoning district map amendment for 4.3 acres at 2700 N. 300 East from an l zone to an RA-- zone. 1 Verl Hebertson's requests for Carter Ridge, Plats B and D, 19 and 17 lots, respectively, for R-l-- zoning. John Hadfield's request for permission to amend Hidden Cove Plat A to create Hidden Cove Plats A and B, located at 400 E. 1000 North in an existing R-l- -8 zone. Daly City Editor Although there have been obstacles, setbacks and myriad rumors, Lehi may yet be known as the Fish and Chips capital of the intermountain west in not too many years. Members of the Lehi City Council and other staff personnel discussed bond financing options with bond specialists to provide a way for The Living Planet to acquire funds to create a one million gallon aquarium in the community. After hearing about the new financing options in their session, the four members in attendance at the regular session of last week's city council meeting Rod Olsen (Councilmember was absent) unanimously voted to give final approval to Paul Taggert's request for an area plan and development agreement for the land near the Point of the Mountain where the aquarium will be located. If the plans go through as approximately 94.02 acres located at about 4400 N. 600 West (west of Micron and north of SR-92- ). A-- subscribe call 756-766- 9 approached about Conduit financing plan would use , city 's bonding Daly Boundary To bonding for $40 million aquarium City Editor Interlocal a single copy Pre-Coun- JT r fjr. , t "ft LHS Pioneers capture third state title three years three-pea- t for the state bas- crown?" was What started out as a ketball question mark in some peo- answered with a resounding ples' minds last December "Yes!" as the Pioneers conended as an exclamation vincingly beat to claim Emery point last Saturday as the the championship. Lehi High School boys' basWith the win came severketball team claimed their third straight 3A title at al honors as Lehi claimed Weber State University's their eleventh state title, Dee Events Center. dating back to 1908, and The question "Can Lehi See WINNERS on Page 9 second-ranke- d 60-5- 1 By Russ Daly City Editor And the award for Folk Artist of the Year goes to ... Clay Christensen. Nominated by the Utah Arts Council and honored recently by Governor Michael Leavitt, Christensen is the premier artisan of horse hair hitching, a craft brought to the American cowboy through the Spaniards, who started about 200 to 300 years ago. Using Native American-likgeometric patterns woven into a plain background, Christensen creates decorative, yet highly useful items such as belts, checkbook covers, wall hangings, horse hobbles and quirts, the latter being a type of riding crop. The artist started on leather and rawhide as a youth, taught by his father how to work the materials. Later, when he saw a horse hair product, he decided to learn the folk art. Unfortunately, there was only one book on the subject an book published in 1929 that showed only crude pictures of finished work. One piece, in e Clay Christensen, recently honored by the Utah Arts Council, works on a horse hair hitching project. Christensen became fascinated with the art, which was Introduced to the American cowboy through the Spaniards. 1 POOR COPY V ? non-prof- it -- attendance remain at is expected to of a million people five years after opening. Future expansion of more aquariums and an IMAX theater is expected to create additional interest in the project. In the feasibility study conducted by AMS Planning & Research of Petaluma, Calif, and Informal Science, Inc. of See AQUARIUM on Page 3 three-quarter- s 4 : " g Performances will be given on Friday, Saturday and Monday, March 5, 6 and 8 in d auditorithe um of the school, 180 N. 500 East; curtain time is 7:30 p.m. Tickets, available at the door, are priced at $4 for adults, $3 for children and for students with activity cards, and $10 for a family ticket. The production is being directed by Melody Johnson. Cast members include Bethany Johnson, Caleb VanBloem, Angie Briones, Wendy Milam, . it s s 4 newly-renovate- Marie Emerson, Suzanne Hansen, Michael Monson, Fairbanks, Roslyn April Deimler, Aaron Miller, Emily Murphy, Sam Davis, Iyar Rebecca Koren, Simpson, Nathaniel Kerr, Chris DeGrey, Pat Roe, Marcus Vickers, Clint McKell, Mary Anderson, Bethany Willams, Carly Cash, Eleanor Merrill and Nikki Loiseau. Miller originally wrote his Jrk.. --JL Photo by Russ Daly 10-fo- The Lehi High Schools Performing Arts Department will present Arthur Miller's Pulitzer play "The Crucible" in three performances this weekend. . Lehl's Andy Hadfleld launches a shot over the top of Rlchfleld's Carson DeMllle (42) In Thursday's quarterfinals. By Tracy Wilson face-to-gil- ls cial financial statements, according to John Crandall, bond specialist who has sold bonds for the city in the past, investors would look beyond the conduit issuer to the company itself to decide whether to purchase the bonds. Crandall said that investors would ask about the background of the company, the cope of the project and the potential for return on their investment. Led by Brent Andersen, president, of The Living Planet, and executive vice president Steve Schulkens, who recently moved to Salt Lake City from New Orleans, La., where he had been part of an aquarium pi eject in that city, the outlook for the project appears to be very favorable. After a projected 1.1 million people visit the attraction in the first year, regular operating to present Miller's 'The Crucible prize-winnin- in created on paper, over one million visitors resil nts rind tourists alike would be "magically transported to the Oceans of the World and come with sharks and other mysterious creatures of the sea, as well as near ly an acre of recreated Amazon Rain Forest." The $40 million project would be funded in part by private contributions ($15 million) with the remainder from public issue bonding. A special financing option, whereby the project would be labeled as a 501 C3 organization, would allow the city called a conduit issuer to issue the bonds, while the organization itself would remain responsible for the repayment. All costs of issuance are also passed on to the 501-Corganization. This financing arrangement is most often used for health care and educational facilities; The Living Planet is listed as a corporation which would include educational programs for grades K 12, as well as a research center for university programs. Salt Lake County, for example, recently issued bonds on behalf of Westminster College. Although the bond would become part of Lehi City's offi ft v IBP 2BfcM.ITiraili'li Photo courtesy play about the Salem witch trials as a response to his experience testifying at the McCarthy hearings. In both situations, people were forgiven if they plead guilty and accused their .FLED fact, featured a swastika years before the symbol became an icon of hatred. As he learned to create the knots series of half-hitc- h a around warp string, Christensen also laid the foundation for a book he authored on the subject. His "How to Hitch Horse Hair," published in 1989 and reprinted several times since, has sold thousands of copies. "I was just fascinated by this stuff," he said. "I thought 'I've got to figure it out.' That's why I wrote the book." Readers from around the world have called Christensen from as far away as England, Germany and Japan. He said Australia brought his daughter to the United States for equestrian training, he traveled by bus to Utah to meet the artist; he spent three days in the Christensen's Lehi home learning more about the art after getting the basics in the the phone with him black or natural brown hair, or white hair that has been dyed red or blue, into symmetiical places. stayed on for about two hours discussing the craft. When a reader from book. Although the Spaniards who originated the craft actually pulled hairs from their horses' tails, Christensen now purchases commercially processed horse hair from Hitching Post Supply in Snohomish, Wash., which distributes his hook. For the background of his pieces, he uses white palomino hair, one of three natural colors. The geometric patterns are cre- ated by friends, but persecuted if they proclaimed their innocence or refused to testify against others. "The Crucible" explores the universal questions of individual responsibility and justice. UP Clay Christensen named Utah's Folk Artist of the Year for horse hair hitching that the Japanese gentleman Lehi High School Young Puritan maidens orchestrate their accusations in denouncing the defendants accused of witchcraft In Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible." Pictures here are, front row, L to R: Carly Cash, Bethany Johnson and Tanya Loveridge. Back row: Wendy Milam, Marie Emerson and Roslyn Fairbanks. substituting natural As he creates a pattern for the first time, he must count the number of hitches where each colored knot will be placed. Once he has determined the placement of one design, he simply repeats the pattern as needed to make the whole product. "When I first started doing it," he said, "I couldn't have any distractions. If you've gone more than three passes and you've made a mistake, you can't undo it." Now he is able to work on pieces as he relaxes at home with his family. Incidentally, he purchases his red dye from Germany, a special wool dye that has a fixative which keeps it from bleeding. To create a flat piece, such as a belt, he works the hair around a wooden dowel, the width of a finished product being twice the diameter of the dowel. After he removes the dowel, he uses a special press he created to flatten the piece. He has also used a rolling pin to create a larger art-siz- e work, such as a wall hanging. Utilitarian pieces, such as See ARTIST on Page 3 |