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Show IITOWNS 5J 2)oiltjmitft . LflJ MONDAY, OCTOBER 17. Joe METRO EDITOR Pyrh 344-258- 6 2005 jpyrahheraldextra.com MONDAY OLOSE- -UP if BY MATT SMITH STORY AND PHOTOS Whether family, friends or strangers, one thing binds us together: Utah Valley is home. Here is the story of two of us, Kyle and Chalise Smith. Three-year-o- Kabrin Jimenez laughs as he runs througn ld Andrew Scarborough rounds a corner while driving a peddle cart on the race track at Hee Haw Farms. ld the mini maze at Hee Haw Farms in Pleasant Grove. Leroythe pig is one of several animal Down on the lawn attractions at Hee Haw Farms. He weighs f. approximately average of 25,000 to 30,000 people each season. A giant corn maze is one of the attractions at Hee Haw Farms, but many visitors come because of the other activities. Some of the popular activities include the corn cannon, the animal train, pedal car races, roping, rubber duck races, hayrides and the animal alley. Heather Burnett visited the farm with her husband, Justin, last year and returned this year with their 2 son, Carson. "We saw the animals and gritainment. Hee Haw Farms in . Pleasant Grove is one f I of the growing number of farms in the country that offers agritainment, or farm activities and family-oriente- d entertainment. Kyle Smith, 35, and his wife Chalise, 33, own Hee Haw Farms in Pleasant Grove. For the past five years they invite the public in for fun and educational entertainment, starting in September and going until the end of October. About 33 of the 100 or so acres farmed by Kyle and Chalise are used for the seasonal festivities that have attracted an In 1,200 pounds, and is about 5 years old. For the past five J years, the public has been invited to come to the farm for fun and educational entertainment, starting in September and going until the end of October. See HEE HAW , Call for Llonday Close-up- s The Herald is looking for more people in the community who have a story to share for our If you know Monday Close-up- s. of anyone, please contact JereLeave my Harmon at 344-258your name and a phone number where you can be reached if no one is available. 5. A8 Pleasant Grove gets technology, information upgrade CalebJWamock DAi.Y HERALD The days of relying on memory and binders full of paperwork to find sewer line locations and other technical property information are coming to an end in Pleasant Grove. L binders full The city has 27 four-inc- h of technical information about properties around the city, he said. When residents need to know where their sewer line is, or who approved a special variance of the law, it can take an employee up to six hours to search and even for the documentation curate we can tell you within inches is and within inches of how deep." The city has begun installing a new software program that allows it to attach the information to a digital map of the city, putting an end to a decades-ol- d reliance on documentation then it may never be found. "We have people digging up the whole front of their property looking for sewer or water laterals because it is guess information," said Doug t, supervicommunity development sor in Pleasant Grove. ' "We're hoping to become so ac where it Bez-zan- or in someone's kept in the binders memory. "It is by chance or by luck we can remember, or that someone can prove, they had a variance," Bezzant said. "We keep missing things that were, See UPGRADES, A8 1 WWW.HERALOEXTRA.COM . m.........,.,.,,,,.,,.,......,..-.- . ...i i.r .in mi mil in.iimi mum n mi.. CALL imin 37S-$10- 3 urn, in TO SUBSCRIBE nil n mi m .ikihi i . inn.i. in... n, hi.it hi . , , .it ,i i.ih. ,. . ,i. |
