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' i s Planning, zoning commission hears views on health center O The citizens of Nephi Vine Bluff Cemetery and to the have no concern over north of the middle school-higJthe construction of a $3.75 school complex. million care facility for the Whether or not the mentally j elderly in Nephi, but some are ill patients taken care of by the 'concerned about the number company will be housed at the and supervision of mental pa- companys present rest home at tients who might be housed 71 North Main, or at the new there. facility depends on the outcome The views were expressed at a of a lawsuit against the federal public hearing of the Nephi government by the state of Connecticut. planning and zoning commission Thursday night. About 20 If the mental patients are citizens were in attendance. housed at the new facility, a The Colonial Manor Health wing will be built oh to the Care Center proposes to build a northeast section of the nursing home at 11th building. North and 4th East in Nephi. The company plans to enclose The facility will be built on a two and a half acres on the east lot to the south of the end of the property for a recrea h N. r?. : ' f ' f - 1. V Vs 1 r-A- W Traci Park Diane Steele i , jM'l'JS) ilwrtvrM i..ritm Patsy Coombs im, Eight will vie for Miss Nephi title Saturday night 100-be- d The new Miss Nephi for 1985 will be selected at a pageant to be held Saturday, May 4 at the Juab High School auditorium. The public is invited to attend the 7:30 p.m. program. The admission charge is $2 per person. Competing for the title will be Tiffany Lofgran, Diane Steele, Patsy Coombs, Denise Robinson, Kimberly Taylor, Natalie Davidson, Lori Christensen, and Traci Park. - The girls will participate in three divisions: personality, talent, and evening gown. The judges will be Scott Quai, a Salt Lake City accountant; Tricia Quai, the reigning Mrs. Utah for 1985; Glen Kozlowski, a member of the BYU football five-acr- e tion area for residents of the facility. There would be restricted access to the area, and those leaving the home would not do so without supervision. Dan Kostenko, general manager of the Colonial Manor, said the larger piece of property would be better and would provide more for the residents. Four citizens asked whether care for the mentally ill now housed in Nephi would be phased out, or whether their numbers would increase. Most of the citizens were concerned not that the program be dropped, but the number of mentally Please turn to page 4 I Members of area prison study group will give findings soon The group studying the feasicor- bility of building a in the Nephi Sections facility rea has scheduled extra meet- ,Tigs to'complete their findings. According to Richard Judd, chairman of the citizens adDenise Robinson visory board, the groups findteam; Julie Kozlowski; Pat ings will be presented as soon Cabulagan, a member of the as possible to members of the BYU football team; and Leslie Juab County Commission and the Nephi City Council. The two Cabulagan. Kozlowski will be the master governmental bodies must then of ceremonies for the pageant. weigh the findings for themselves. If officials find the location of the corrections facility feasible, they will schedule a public hearing on the subject. Area residents would then have a chance to comment on the proposal. The Nephi City Council would also have to issue a conditional use permit before such a facility could be approved. Until a decision is made whe! 72-be- d possible location for the facility. The citizens board noted the state corrections office does not have the power to condemn property for the purpose of constructing the facility. Cleveland was president when Mrs. Francom, 100, was born by Myrna Trauntvein One hundred years ago when Dulcie May Webb Francom was born, Grover Cleveland was Idaho and also helped with school drama and opera productions. After two years in Sugar City, she returned to Lehi to teach school. She was called to serve an president of the United States, Utah was still a territory, and the primary mode of travel was the horse and buggy. LDS mission to the southern states in 1910. Music continued be important to her during to Mrs. Francom, a long-tim- e her missionary service. She Levan resident, will be honored at an open house Saturday, organized a womens and mens chorus which sang for church May 4. It will be held from 3 to 4 p.m. at the home of her meetings. She was released from the daughter, Phyllis Christensen. mission in 1911 and returned to She was bom in Lehi May 9, Lehi. She taught school at 1885 to George and Mary Ann and attended Bingham Canyon Ward Webb. The Webbs were summer school the Universiat Mormon pioneers, and arrived She also taught Utah. of ty in Utah in 1864 in the same school in Lehi for a year and company as George Carless, was called by the Alpine LDS famed pioneer musician. John Stake to serve as stake misa Taylor was president of the sionary. LDS Church when Mrs. FranDuring this time, she fell in com was born. love with John Leonard FranHer family was a musical one. com and they were married in A brother and a, sister sang the Salt Lake LDS Temple June with the Mormon Tabernacle 5, 1913. then moved to They Choir, and every family member Levan where she has lived for has sung with ward and stake 68 years. Five children were choirs. She joined the Lehi LDS born there. Her husband died in Ward choir when she was 14. 1951. Her family had the first organ She took her first plane ride and the second piano in Lehi. in 1957 and her first jet plane She sang in many operas and in 1959. The woman who ride duets in school and organized had Lehi. in Chorus joined the jet age the Areo Ladies remembers when it took a full the of owner Her father was to from Lehi to travel day learned she and Lehi Banner, by Nephi buggy. She a as young girL typesetting .was the youngest of 9 children Music has brought her a lot of and was the apple of her happiness and while in Levan, fathers eye. She often rode in a she was ward chorister for 23 n buggy with her years. She also served as father while he was gathering chorister for other church news for the paper. organizations. A highlight of She attended Brigham Young her life was the year the Juab Academy at Provo, where she LDS Stake furnished music for studied voice and was in the one day of LDS General Conschool's choir and opera. ference in Salt Lake City. After she finished school, she She has also sung for many tauvht school in Sugar City, funerals and weddings through . horse-draw- ther or not to accept the corrections facility for local location, no decision will be made as to a If you don't come Wildlife group Set to appear in the Nephi tumbling revue are Misty Hoaldridge, front left, Amy Hoaldridge, Leslie Petty, and Mariah Sperry; Nicolina Sperry, back left, Melissa McKnight, and Monica McKnight. Juab. Spinners will perform in Nephi Friday Juab The Spinners tumbling group will present a tumbling revue Friday, May 3 in Nephi. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Juab High School Juab Wildlife It is entitled will hold an gymnasium. Girls Just Want to Have meeting at .7 the chambers of Fun. The admission price is $1 for adults and 50 cents for children 12 and under. The students teachers are Kaylene Casper and Annette Hoaldridge. may disappear The East Federation organizational p.m. today in the Nephi City Council. A1 Robb, speaking for the group, says only nine people showed up at a recent meeting Dulcie Francom one less than the number rethe years. Blaine Foster Belliston, 56, quired to keep the organization She was the first president of going. died April 28 in Nephi. the Chicken Creek Camp of the He was born June 8, 1928 in Robb says the group is makof Pioneers. Utah to effort one last ditch Daughters Nephi to Alva Foster and Ethel ing Mrs. Francom has been in the get enough interested persons Tuttle Belliston. He married Rosalie Harmon, March 26, Alpine Valley Care Center in to run the group. Pleasant Grove since she was As members of the federa- 1955 in the Manti LDS Temple. 96, following a fall in which she tion, you can help in the work to He was a member of the LDS broke her lower jaw. She better wildlife conservation and Church and served in many of doesnt talk much these days management in the state of its organizations. He worked but happily greets the family Utah, and to a lesser degree in for NRP Hose Products and its with a cheery wave as soon as the U.S. Try to attend! Robb predecessor companies for 36 she sees them coming. years. He was a member of the says. She is still remarkably Nephi Lions Club and was comtake mander of the American Legion and doesn't healthy medications of any sort. She did Post No. 1. have an operation when she was Survivors are his wife, of 92 to remove cataracts. Nephi; four sons, Tracy Her children are Paul W. Belliston, Cory Belliston, Francom of Salt Lake City, Belliston, all of Salt Lake Maysel Goble died WednesMartha W. Francom Brother-so- day, May 1 in Salt Lake City. City, and Bret Belliston of of Layton, Phyllis W. FranFuneral arrangements are Nephi; a daughter, Mrs. Robert com Christensen of Nephi, and pending, and the family asks W. (Teresa) Andersen of Nephi; John Alan Francom of Antioch, those who are interested to eight grandchildren; two Calif. A daughter, Beth Fran- watch the daily papers for brothers, Richard Belliston of com Tolley, died in 1971. She details. Bountiful and John Belliston of has 18 grandchildren, 58 greatA complete obituary will ap- Salt Lake City; and two sisters, grandchildren, and four pear in next weeks edition of Mrs. Ralph (Bernice) Boswell The and Mrs. Reese (Mildred) Sher- - Funeral to be held Friday for Blaine F. Belliston, 56 wood of Nephi. Funeral services will be held If , t! r Maysel Goble dies; funeral arrangements are pending and-Shan- e n Times-New- s. 1 Blaine Foster Belliston Friday at 11 a.m. at the Nephi 6th LDS Ward Church. Friends may call at Anderson Funeral Home in Nephi Thursday from 7 to 9 and at the chapel Friday prior to the services. Interment will be at Vine Bluff Cemetery. |