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Show D Obituaries B2 MJGofiQ D Opinions B4 B Business B9 JtSliil! The Daily Herald Friday, November 1, losidleinfis wans By MARK EODINGTON The Daily Herald Al Mickelsen, city zoning administrator, say residents are mistaken. The mayor said the city's decision to barricade the street was temporary. He said the city's plan was to reopen the street once the development began cropping up north of the water park and Seven Peaks Boulevard was extended to 700 North. Both of those conditions have been met. "There is a lot of development there right now, and the city would not be providing proper traffic circulation to the rest of the area if the road were to remain closed. All of the traffic would be forced to go , It hardly resembles the bygone Berlin Wall, but a wooden barricade stretched across 300 North in Provo has served to impede traffic U just as well.; But the barricade, like the Berlin Wall, will also come down if city officials get their way. And many residents living in the area aren't happy about it. "I wouldn't say they are up in arms," said Foothills neighborhood chairman Keith Mildenstein. "I would say they are irritated." Traffic is the residents' main concern. The barricade, which Mildenstein said was erected about eight years ago, was installed to prevent motorists traveling to and from Seven Peaks from using the residential street. City officials wanted patrons of .the water park and golf course to use Seven Peaks Boulevard, which instead connects with Center Street. resiRichard Thayne, a dent of 300 North, said the neighborhood was developed, after World War II, for single family homes. He and other residents maintain that past City Council members, who approved the barricade, promised to keep it safe for families by leaving the barrier up unless a funicular railroad was built over the mountain. Now residents are claiming city officials are reneging. But Mayor George Stewart and 46-ye- ar ' mm . north. That doesn't make sense," the mayor said. Mickelsen said the city's position all along was to reevaluate the wooden barrier once Seven Peaks Boulevard had been extended to the area under development. The master plan calls for the boulevard to extend from Center Street to about 1450 East. Thayne said there is more at stake here than traffic circulation. "We have a lot of young children living on this street," he said. "If they open the road up and make it into another thoroughfare, there will be a lot more traffic." Mildenstein is hoping for a compromise. He said he recognizes that city officials can and do change their minds. But he wants to work out somcarrangement with the city that will curtail traffic on the quiet street. The Planning Commission will consider the barricade issue at its Nov. 13 meeting. 1996:- - to n ; .j fa 1 "i - V ..-- Ji -- 4. '..it ; C 4 i i i K99H , .- --4 f-T , CLOSED v - .- r ' - .... 7,,, Daily Herald PhotoMatthew R. Smith Wooden barricades block part of 300 North In Provo. The barricades, which have been in from using the residential street. Residents are concerned about heavier traffic. place for eight years, were installed to prevent motorists traveling to and from Seven Peaks 3 candidates seek House seat in District 66 Work on bus station may begin next spring By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN The Daily Herald Voters will decide Nov. 5 on a y race for the Utah House Representatives in District 66, three-wa- of the seat being vacated by Tim Fork. Moran, The candidates are Republican Glenn Way, Spanish Fork; Democrat Howard N. Creer, Spanish Fork; and Independent-America- n Ruth K. Christensen, Provo. Glenn Way said all the issues facing society have one common the family. denominator "We have had a liberal congress that has assaulted the American family for the last 40 years. From taxation to the social programs of the Great Society, we have seen the family. breakup of the We have taken responsibility away from parents and given it to the government. We have taken away the responsibility of the family to care for our parents and given it to the government. This has to stop!" ,j better years ago. sue She said her decision to run accountability for schools, stucame because she is dissatisfied dents, teachers with what the Legislature has been and parents. doing with our tax money, specifiOwner and cally spending the state's surplus on operator of a unbudgeted items. farm, family"They should have given it back Creer said we to you and me. I can't believe they need to look had a need for $500 million for with unbudgeted things. That's a lot of ahead " Glenri Way Ruth K. Christensen Howard N. Croat vision, Use our money," she said. 'They have put a " land safely and lot of money into schools, but when ..; school choice and a ; and protect our clean air, we have kids in school, the schools .wisely, voucher system, and a crackdown water, parks and areas for recrekeep pleading poverty. There's an on crimes committed by illegal ation. imbalance there." aliens. He pledges to be a watchdog of She believes Utah should keep Way favors abolishing the federtax dollars to assure the conpublic abortion laws strong and the the al departments of education, energy, tinuation of a society founded upon Constitution-give- n right to keep and and urban development housing the principles of economic growth, bear arms intact without harassing and commerce. He also pledges to balanced budgets, equitable taxes gun owners. work for eliminating taxpayer fundand a limited and caring govern"They tell us we can have coning for the National Endowment for cealed weapons, then make it so the Arts, National Endowment for ment. Creer favors adequate funding expeasive that people can't afford the Humanities, Amtrak and Legal for transportation to solve critical :it," she said, citing single moms Services Corporation. and infrastructure who can't afford to take the Way is president of Decks transportation He favors strong law required class to get permits. also needs. Orem-based conUnique, a small solid support for Christensen has lived in District enforcement, tracting corporation. and of citizens senior for 26 years and is active in 66 promotion Howard N. Creer, a retired, civic, political and church affairs. school administrator, said he wiil family values at the local level. Ruth K. Christensen is running She and her husband are the parents work tirelessly to create better a parof 12 children and have 41 schools and a better future for Utah as an Independent-Americachildren, and will continue to pur- - ty her husband helped organize four Hgg V two-pare- nt he said. Way is against abortion, against gun control and against federal ownership of public lands. He favors block grants for welfare, cracking down on deadbeat dads, iu , n, Incumbent faces challenge for spot on Alpine board By PAT CHRISTIAN The Daily Herald Alpine School District Board of Education board member Vance Calder is finally fighting back against challenger Andrea Forsyth, who performed brilliantly in a prireceiving more mary election votes than all six candidates including the incumbent. Calder, who earned 799 votes to the challenger's 1,213, said he chose not to campaign for the primary and save his effort for the main race. Now he said he has spent about $1,000 on his campaign, while Forsyth said she his spent about $500. Calder, of Orem, says all he can remember is being involved with education. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1952. and started teaching. Even after retiring in 1983, he continued working in school as a volunteer and eventually was elected to the school board. He is also vice president of the Orem Heritage Board Officially. Forsyth is a "full-tim- e homemaker," but she has been extremely active in the PTA and has served as executive assistant to the Freedom Festival Parade for f,.o years. ' She has been involved in education, particularly programs to foster more inclusion of handicapped students in regular public education programs. Forsyth has chaired the Possibilities Unlimited Conference at BYU for the past three years. ' She noted that one difference LjMi Heber man gets prison for murder of 'friend' By BRANDY ANDERSON The Daily Herald Vance Calder Andrea Forsyth between herself and the incumbent is that she still has children who are students in district schools. Calder emphasizes his experience in education. His children have completed public school education and he is more likely to have grandchildren in district or sch(X)ls. Calder even taught current District Stephen Superintendent Baugh, and at least five district principals were in his classroom. He said the board has worked very hard recently finding a way to plan and fund two new high schools, two new junior high schools and four elementary schools. Calder said the main issue for him is that he is interested in what is best for the 43,000 students that attend public schools in the district. Forsyth said she was surprised by her primary win and has been campaigning hard since then to keep up the momentum. While campaigning, Forsyth said she wants to maximize every student's opportunity to Jeam and every teacher's opportunity to teach. A Heber HEBER CITY sentenced to was man City in prison Thursday for murdering a man he once called a friend. Jimmy Harker, 33, plead- - Courts beat ed guilty Thursday in the Wasatch County Courthouse to murder and attempted both aggravated murder felonies. He said he wanted to be sentenced as soon as possible so he asked 4th District Judge Lynn W. Davis to sentence him after he pleaded guilty. Harker murdered Brent Winters, 40, outside his Lake Creek home in Heber City and then shot Tracy Anderson on Sept. 15 of last year. Anderson survived a gunshot to the head and was present in the courtroom for the sentencing. "My name is Tracy Anderson, and Jimmy Harker did his best to kill me," Anderson told the judge. "No matter how long he is in prison, he will come back for me. first-degr- (See SENTENCE, Page B2) By DONALD W. MEYERS The Daily Herald - . Work could begin on a new bus station in Orem next spring.- - Bill , Barnes, Utah; Transit Authority spokesman, said the UTA is sending its. preliminary plans for a bus station between 750 East and 800 East near University Mall to an architect for ' ' ; final building plans. The UTA recently signed a contract on a fourth piece of property in the area, giving the authority the land it needs to build the center. Barnes said the UTA already lost the chance to begin work before winter, so construction will begin next year. In the meantime, buses will still operate out of a temporary stop on the east side of the mall's parking lot. Barnes said the UTA will meet with the mall to discuss continuing to operate from that site, as well as maintain the. agreement to turn buses around on mall property between 9:30 p.m. and 9:30 a.m. : The mall agreed in July to allow the buses to turn around and exit on 1200 South rather than leave mall property on 00 South. The agreement accommodated residents who complained about the noise and safety problems caused by buses driving on J at all hours. The agreement called for dispolicy continuing the in' October, to avoid interfering with Christmas shopping at the mall. Barnes said he did not anticipate the buses causing problems with shoppers in the early morning hours. Attempts to contact C. Robert Kallas, mall manager, were not successful. The UTA used the mall's east entrance near Mervyn's as a transfer point from 1985 until February, when the mall's owners asked the transit authority to vacate the property. The Woodbury Corp., which operates the mall, cited damage to the parking lot from buses and problems with bus patrons. 1 lOO-out- turn-arou- Bikers raise money for disabled By PAT CHRISTIAN The Daily Herald Only 53 days before Christmas and over 600 miles left to go the hard way by bicycle. On Saturday, Scott Concver of Orem and Chris Christian of Provo leave for the Mexican border to raise donations for Christmas presents for nearly 300 mentally disabled residents of J&D Health Services. People are donating a lump sum or a pledge per mile to the bikers, and the donations will go toward Christmas presents for J&D residents. Christian, 20, and Conover. 26, know their November departure could be kind or awful, but whatever the conditions, they at least know what they are doing is going to help some people they care about. Rachelle Stowell, director of J&D Health Services which operates 14 facilities for the mentally disabled from Spanish Fork to Ogden, said Christian and Conover have been working at J&D's Hidden Hollow facility in Orem and decided to turn a bicycle ride they had planned into a Christmas fundraiser for the mentally disabled residents they work with. "They always get something for Christmas, but this year we would like them to get more," Christian said. He said one day he and Conover were talking about taking an adventure. He told Conover about some of the long rides he had been on before. Christian said it was Conover's idea to turn the trip into a fund- - 5V r; tf Photo Courtesy ot Chris Christian; Scott Conover of Orem, left, and Chris Christian of Provo plan to leave ' Saturday for the Mexican border to raise donations for Christmas pre-- ; sents for nearly 300 mentally disabled residents of J&D Health Ser--- : vices. The bikers will pedal through Utah, Arizona, Nevada and Cali- -' ; fornia before reaching Mexico south of San Diego, for a total distance; of about 625 miles. . ; raiser for those they worked with, and Conover has been the main organizer and planner for the trip. "We hope to be able to achieve 80 miles a day," Conover said, adding that the longest training ride the two had done is 102 miles. "I felt great up to 80 miles, but after that my legs kind of died. By the time I hit the hill going up to Chris! house in Edgemont. I felt I was living on will power." Stowell said that originally the pair w ere just going to raise money for the Hidden Hollow residents they worked with. But their boss, Kenneth Ekong. got excited about their plans and thought it would to extend the fund-raisto; : all J&D facilities. ; In Utah County alone, there are five facilities: Hidden Hollow in'. ; Orem. Lindon Care and Training! ; Center. Provo Care Center, and a' ; Sunrise Residential Services group! home in Spanish Fork and Ameri-- t can Fork. Nine others are located; 1 along the Wasatch Front. j "I'm just so pleased they are willing to do this," Stowell said.' "It's neat when people think of I things to do for others who are less ; be-go- od er ", (See BIKE, Page B2) |
