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Show Hit Sp. Fork council questions developers on cleanup Janice Peterson DAILY HERALD The Spanish Fork City Council grilled developers about the Co, safety of the land in a work session Thursday evening. Although the work session addressed the entire site plan for the planned development on the border, Spanish some of the top concerns were the safety of water and soil in the area. d and Presidio Capital are planning a mixed-us- e development on the land that once held the Trojan explosives plant. The company settled a legal battle with Mapleton City in 2006 over groundwater contamination stemming from the plant, which was TOWNS SECTION FRIDAY, MAY 30, METRO EDITOR I Amie Rose 2008 aroseSheraldextra.com 344-253- 0 A.F. sells its broadband business Caleb Warnock and Barbara Christiansen DAILY HERALD Hoping to make good on a bad investment, American Fork has sold another piece of its fiberoptic network. Orem-base- d Surpha will pay $500,000 for the network. The deal is expected to be completed on June 5. The company recently purchased AF Connect, which had been the largest Internet service provider in the city. American Fork will retain an underground fiber network that goes from Salt Lake City to Span in-ci- ish Fork and an elevated network that goes from American Fork to Springville, said Mayor Heber Thompson. "These are avaflable for lease," Thompson said. "We will look at a marketing plan for leasing for the network but the company making the offer was not able to secure financing. In December 2005, the city announced It had sold 24 fiber-opti- c 16.5 percent of the city's strands total capacity along 60 miles of cable to the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency for $1.5 million. That deal, combined with the latest sale of the network, will allow the city to recoup a third of its original investment, and the city hopes to make more money. "The ideal would be if we could lease the $2 million them." The city took out a $6 million bond to purchase its networks and start its broadband business, which at one point was hemorrhaging $1.2 million a year. In an interview, Councilman Dale Gunther said he believed American Fork paid about $900,000 for its and American networks. At one point the city had been offered ty y See BROADBAND, B3 d Ensign-Bickfor- A Hard day's work n Ensign-Bickfor- decommissioned in 2006. The land, which sits at the intersection of U.S. Highways 6 and 89 in Spanish Fork, is undergoing remediation which began in 2006. Peter Barnett, president of d Co., addressed council members about the reEnsign-Bickfor- mediation efforts and tried to assuage any fears of further contamination. Although the site is still being cleaned to levels required for residential use, Barnett said great strides have already been made in the cleanup process. "Right now, the site has been cleaned up to commercialindustrial criteria," he said. See A N; V. 0 ill rrTfl fiv Jill1 . I! hi LjA tfirr if - J ? III ' I f mmi I hmfi I I J I l '1r I J I, fit J CLEANUP, B3 v'k ill, ' MARIO RUIZDaily Taylor Mover plays on new playground equipment at Sherwood Hillside Park on Foothill Drive in Provo on Thursday. The park four barbecue grills, two pavilions, two tennis courts, bathrooms, a stream, field and playground. ld I Herald features Sherwood Hillside Park ready for the public Ace Stryker Mayor Lewis Billings, Municipal Council members George Stewart and Cynthia Dayton, Miss Provo 2007 Elizabeth Jefferson, and a giant Richard Pratt has been wishing Provo's Sherwood Hills neighborandrogynous squirrel named Zippy hood would get a public park since ostensibly the Parks and Recrehe moved in 12 years ago. Thursday, ation Department's newest hire. Dean Hutchison, the city's parks that wish was granted. The neighborhood chairman's project coordinator, said building the dream became a reality with a formal park was an uphill battle and not ribbon-cuttin- g just figuratively, given its location. ceremony Thursday e The altitude change, combined with Shermorning at the new wood Hillside Park at 4500 N. Foothill the presence of five power lines, a Drive. The $1.6 million park hosts ten- gas line and an LProvo line, offered an nis courts, pavilions, a playground, a array of challenges at the proposed e site. fire pit and more than a of "As I walked the site, I remember trails and with a vertical difference of more than 100 feet from its lowthinking, 'Boy, this is going to be a est point to its highest, the park also hard place to build a park in,' " he of said. one the more unique represents But it was worth it, said Pratt, who technical accomplishments in Provo's remembered the way the lot used to system. look. "It means a lot to the neighbor"The low part was a mudhole all hood," Pratt said. "A lot of the neighthe time before," he said. bors are already walking the trails. I'm anxious to go and play tennis Designing and implementing a once a week." system of retention walls and drainOn hand for the celebration were age avenues to ensure water doesn't DAILY who allegedly touched a girl inappropriately is photographed by store surveillance on May 14. An unidentified man Orem police looking for sex abuse suspect DAILY HERALD Orem police are looking for a man they think inappropriately touched a girl while she was sitting in a grocery cart at Wal-Main Orem on May 14. The suspect is described as a white man with short dark hair police said. He was wearing a light ball cap, a gray shirt with white lettering on the front, light khaki pants and white gymshoes. He was wearing sunglasses when he entered'the store, but put them on the bill of his cap while inside. According to police, the child's mother left her for a mpment , while she walked around a corner. When she returned, the girl told her mother that a man had passed and "tickled pry bottom." ' ' The mother saw the man at the end of the aisle, but he quickly ' left. Once outside, he got ijito a white, long-bepickup and left. From looking at the surveillance video, police say the truck appears to have chrome rocker panels along the bottom. Police said the man" entereWie store at 1:13 p.m. that day and wandered around for an hour, without any apparent purpose. Lt. Doug Edwards said officers have been unable to locate the suspect, and police are hoping a member of the public will recognize the man or his vehicle. Anyone with information on the possible identity of the suspect can contact Det. Sgt. John rt at 229-714- HERALD . - - , r1 7.16-acr- v .' J - V - ; - - y half-mil- Sherwood Hills Park Pram, lit An artist's rendering of the new Sherwood Hillside Park. collect in the low part of the park was end result means that Sherwood Hills one of the more technically challeng- - doesn't just get a new park; it also ing aspects, said Parks and RecreSee SHERWOOD, B3 ation Director Roger Thomas. But the Pleasant Grove High celebrates excellence in graduates DAILY HERALD Choosing an appropriate theme of excellence, the Pleasant Grove graduating class has proven it is already capable of greatness. The graduating theme for the Pleasant Grove Vikings was "Impossible is nothing," and Principle Jess Christensen addressed the graduating class of 453 students and their family and friends about the accomplishments that the class has already completed. In their short high school years, the class took 619 ACT tests and earned 4,749 hours of college credit. Also, 26 students earned associate degrees from Utah Valley State College, with 11 more to be completed this summer. The graduating class also earned at least 378 scholarships exceeding $ 1.3 million. In achievements, the graduating - ASHLEY FRANSCELL Daily ' VAVW.H t !IALDE vt ftA .COM -- See Herald Jessla Major smiles with friend and fellow graduate Andrea Lamb during the graduation ceremony for Pleasant Grove High School at the Marriott Center in Provo on Thursday. PLEASANT GROVE, B3 I For more information on local graduation ceremonies see, page B3 ..CAU J?S S1JJ TO SUCSCHIEE ' Pleasant Grove High School Home of the Vikings I No. of graduates: 453 I Graduation Theme: "Impossible is nothing." "At this point, we have the world in our hands. But there is a difference between dreamers and achievers." new PGHS graduate Chad Jacobs |