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Show DAILY Saturday, April 10, 2004 Ogden fire victims burglarized TH ASSOCIATED PRESS OGDEN Burglars have stolen possessions of Riverview Apartments residents, who have had to live elsewhere since a March 1 fire. The thieves broke into the f enced-of- f block of 24 apartments that no one is supposed to enter not even residents who still have undamaged possessions inside. Riverview manager Tammy Godfrey said she will press charges against anyone caught trespassing. The fire displaced more than two dozen residents and caused damage estimated -at $125 million. The blaze was Trails Continued from Di available, he said. The city's portion of the Bonneville trail will connect with the existing golf course trail and will run from about 4800 West in Highland, near the Lone Peak High School, to the mouth of American Fork Canyon, Sears said. It will be about 10 feet wide. The Forest Creek trail will also connect to the golf course ail and, when completedrwiH extend from the Murdock Canal to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, he said. The city trail will connect with nine of the 10 planned city parks, four of which are completed. Land for five more parks is either already purchased or the city is in negotiations to purchase, Sears said. The city leaders envision the youths being able to ride their bikes to play soccer or football games in the city parks by rid-- Litter Continued from D l And since it looks like construction debris, he attributes it to the Cedar Valley Landfill in Fairfield, which opened for business three years ago. The landfill is designed for construction waste only. At least one state regulator said the landfill is in compliance with state requirements. Carl Wadsworth, an environmental scientist with the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, is responsible for ing sure the landfill in Fairfield is obeying the laws. He went out to the area a few weeks ago and watched for uncovered trucks or debris flying off any vehicles. He said he saw nothing. He has been contacted about the trash on the roads but he said the landfill company is complying with state regulations. "I understand their frustrations," he said. "I think what is happening after a long winter, the snow is melting and with the winds you can see the litter, and the roads look bad. I did find that the waste along the road seems to be more concentrated in areas with more development." Although it generated a lot of local opposition when the state Legislature approved it three years ago, the Cedar Valley landfill is in good standing with the state and county. Landfill employees are responsible for cleaning up the road that leads into Fairfield, which Wadsworth said they do constantly. His suggested concerned residents call the police if they see debris falling out of trucks, or call the landfill. Calls to reach an official at the landfill for comment were not returned by press time. The Utah Department of Transportation is the agency ultimately responsible for the upkeep of state roadways. UDOT spokesman Geoff said he has not received any complaints about litter in the Cedar Fort area. With tight resources, the maintenance crews are out every day, not just cleaning up the roads but fixing them as well, he said. S.R. 73 is one of more than a dozen roads in Utah County for Resident Dixie Dalton said those living in the area hope their community action will send a message. "We care about where we live, we want it to be a nice clean safe place," she said. "We dont want it to become a Caryi Ann Ward Santaquin resident dumping ground, whether for trash or drugs or crime or whatever." Wafd says she is risking the leave." ire of her neighbors by speak, But instead of leaving, Ward ing honestly about property is fighting back valuesand the neighborhood's and her neighbors are joining her. drug problems, but unless someone does something, propTwenty residents met in her home recently to form a neigherty values will never recover. "I got involved because I'm borhood watch program. "We're going to watch out not going to sit back and watch for other people's kids and safethe neighborhood go to pot," she said. "There are drugs here, ty and drug problems and cars saidbroken - and in the summer the neigh- she into, being "The neighborhood has filled up borhood is really bad because with renters and that is when there are a lot of kids on the the drug problems started. Now street. People who dont live if you deal drugs in front of me here go 50 mph and dont unand they have you are goderstand that kids are going to dart out." ing to get called on it." Continued from Dl tainland about three years ago but they wont become available until fiscal year 2006, he said. So far, about 27 of the planned 47 miles of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail in Utah County have been completed, Price said. "We're getting there," he said. When the trail is completed in Cedar Hills, it will be a tree-line- d trail that runs along streams and reaches up along the benches for an expansive viewf the valley 5 Sears said All of our residents who want to can enjoy that," he said. I Tammy McPherson can be 9 or reached at 344-255- tmcphersonheraldextra.com. which one crew is responsible. "It is difficult to get every piece of trash that falls off.the truck onto the roadways," he said. "This is a challenge on any state highway as well as local roads; it's something that all communities face." x UDOT is responsible, but said a viable option is for a community to adopt a highway. "The best way to get results is the program where the community can help," he said. "It provides a valuable asset to the communities." The only requirements for ions the program is that the adopted-porthave to be at least 2 miles long, groups must commit to do it for a minimum of two years, it must be a state road and the litter should be picked up three times a year. Commichaux said since he didn't cause the mess, he doesn't think he should have to clean it up. "I think it is their responsibility," he said. "They have the responsibility to clean up their mess." For more information on the got involved because I'm not going to sit back and watch the neighborhood go to po- t"I Santaquin believed to have been started had promised to have security 24 hours a day at the burn site- .by a blow torch being used to repair plumbing in the kitchen Godfrey said there was no of one apartment. such promise. There was secuTuesday, two men were rity for the first two days after spatted in car carrying a televi- the fire. Since the fire, at least eight sion, VCR and various other incidents of trespassing at items, and a neighbor found Riverview have been reported Terri Valdez's 1947 Phiko radio smashed outside the burned to Ogden police, said Lt. Loring building. Draper. It isn't known if any "I cant get my makeup, (but) arrests have been made from those calls, however. everyone else can steal from me?" Valdez said to assistant Work is supposed to begin on the apartment building this manager Susan Spendlove. All Spendlove could do was week, Godfrey said. She is waiting for a contract from apologize to Valdez and other First General Services of Utah, residents. They really have which specializes in disaster been patient," she said- -- Valdez said management ing on the interconnected trails, thus avoiding busy roads, Sears said. "In my opinion, you couldn't ask for a better trail system," he said. Because Cedar Hills trails will link with other trails, the city application was a good candidate for the federal grant money, said Mark Jensen, grants auditor for the state parks and recreatioa The Cedar Hills portion of the Bonneville trail will con nect with Highland's portion across S.R. 92, after the city constructs an underpass under the road. The Utah Department of Transportation is slated to approve a $132,000 grant for a trail underpass next month, said Jim Price, project trails manager at Mountainland Association of Governments. The city of Lindon is the only other city in Utah County that now has funding planned for construction of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. The funds were granted by Moun D5 HERALD neighborhood watch and it is good to have those kinds of things," he said. "We're excited about their efforts to increase the effectiveness of their neighborhood." Ward said that in the wake of the mudslide, many neighfearful it could happen bors abandoned their again homes to foreclosure or sold to bidders paying at little as half the value of the homes. "After the flood, the investors came in and bought," she said. "The house next door cost $140,000 and it sold for $63,000, You don t realize your property value has nothing to do with you and everything to do with what's around you. I've finished my yard and fence and basement and I'm still in the hole. It's tempting just to Salem their yard waste. Instead of picking up yard waste for residents, Payson city Continued pom D l opens its city landfill and allows 10 years ago because the costs residents to dump their piles at no charge for one week each became too high, said Richard year. Manning, the assistant city The program is for yard manager. waste only, and Community "When we used to do it, it Events Director Diana Erb said cost us an arm and a leg," Manshe has to remind people they ning said. "It became a burden tthexity because not enough -- can't durnpdeadnimalschei ical wastes or household applipeople used it. Those who did ances during that time. overused it, and it cost everyone else a lot of money." Santaquin opens its landfill for free dumping every Satursaid another probManning lem was people would clean out day all year, City Recorder Susan Farnsworth said. Residents their homes and leave household items on the curb with can come to the city offices to - get a free punch card to use at those facilities. "Residents have to provide their own transportation to the dump, but they can call the city if they have something in their yard like a stump that they need help removing," she said. 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