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Show CAC84101 EXP. 1199 1 Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! Volume 92, No. 24 10 pages Wednesday, June 15, 1994 Single Copy Price 50 Downtown parks may or may not become a reality as city talks to buyers on properties Survey complete for county and Nephi member, said one piece of propBy Myma Trauntvein erty which the city began to des Correspondent velop as a park has been abandoned at the owners request. The two downtown park The Worwood property, where a projects have been slowed but former medical clinic was razed, a third is progressing. has been taken from the list of County as 78 percent said convenience to higher education was By Myma Trauntvein not high on the list of priorities. s Correspondent One question commissioners had a great deal of interest in The Utah Community Progress was whether people of the county Survey, sponsored by the Utah thought the number of acres rePartners in Rural Leadership, quired per home in the unincorJuab County Economic Develop- porated area ofthe county should ment, and Utah State University be reduced or not. The opinion Extension offices, is now com- was close, said Greenhalgh. In Milt Harmon, city council possible parks by the owners. They had planned a park there They may have a commercial but then a possible commercial use for the property, said venture was considered. Harmon. In other words, the city The second piece of property, thought they might have a sale also on Main street but located for the piece. The sale did not Times-New- where a former Chevron station materialize. was razed, is owned by the city. The city went far enough to get an architect, said Harmon. We had some financial backing for the project. We could have had the park completed by Stampede time. However, city council members have favored businesses for the citys old downtown Main Street. They have voted, in the past, to favor revitalization of the business community in the historic area. A third project, the piece of also property located near on Main Street, has been given A lease has been the signed for the property and the council has indicated a favorable vote for the mini-par- k project. Nephi City Council members voted to send letters of appreciation to the Miss Nephi Committee. Jamie Coombs and Barbara Painter will receive letters of thanks for running the contest 1, go-ahe- so successfully. We have really been coming along, said Mayor Robert Steele. He said the contest was --professionally i ? CITY This property located in downtown Nephi was slated to be a mini-parThe owner of the property has decided not to allow the city to develop it The other downtown property is on hold also. The city will however develop a mini-par- k near to the store on North Main. MINI-PARK- k. Primary election only offers school board elections Three candidates are seeking the position Julie Smalley, Jerry By Myma Trauntvein r s Correspondent Stephenson, incumbent, and Times-New- By Myma Trauntvein candidates will be selected to challenge one another in November.' The third candidate will be eliminated. In Eureka school board precinct 2, Ronald Brey, Brian Underwood, and Jerry Garbett are all seeking the chance to run. One will be eliminated. Two Commission seeking funds to pay for pressurized water system in Calleo area of Juab County The proposed pressurized By Myma Trauntvein Correspondent sys- tem will cost approximately . Juab County Commissioners are requesting assistance in paying for a pressurized water system for the Calleo area of the West Desert of Juab County. We have discussed the project $300,000 to install. The people from the West Desert are in need of the system, said Freston. He said the county had obtained a $150,000 loan from the state water resources board. However, the money will not be enough to finish the proposed with Senator Orrin Hatch, said project. Randy Freston, county We are hoping to acquire a grant, said Freston. Lions Club will be in charge of Ute Stampede Mammoth Parade this year since Morgan has now moved By Myma Trauntvein Times-New- a Correspondent The Nephi Lion's Club will supervise the Mammoth Parade for the Ute Stampede on July 15. Don Eyre Jr., Juab County attorney, will be in charge of the parade and the entries for the Lion's Club. Dave Morgan, a private citizen of Nephi, has spearheaded the drive each year to get a large number of bands to march in the parade. However, said Eyre, from the community, he had been contacting bands as part of his chairmanship of the Mammoth Parade. I have six bands coming, so far, said Eyre. Eyre asked the commission donate the $400 they normally contribute to the event to a special band fund to help pay to have the bands march. For the past several years, the commission has donated the amount to the POOR COPY Continued on page 2 Continued on page 10 vi Times-New- plete for the county and for fact, he said, it was fairly evenly Nephi. split 36 percent thought the Mona and Levan results are requirement should be reduced, still being tabulated, said Glenn 35 percent thought it should not, Greenhalgh, economic develop- and 29 percent didnt know. The results were a little difment director. It was no surprise to find that ferent in Nephi City, said 94 percent of the respondents Greenhalgh. There 42 percent appreciated the rural atmo- thought the acreage requiresphere of the county, nor that 96 ments should be reduced, 28 perpercent appreciated the afford- cent thought they should not, able housing of the area. Good and 30 percent didnt know. schools were one of the reasons Greenhalgh said one thing he 70 percent of respondents found found of interest was the numthe area attractive, 89 percent ber of years residents had lived were appreciative of the low in the county. In the county porcrime rates and 70 percent lived tion of the test, which took the in the area because it was con- answers of unincorporated venient to friends and relatives. county dwellers, Nephi, Levan There was a nearly and even and Mona residents, 24 percent split on one of the appeals of the of residents had lived in the area being attractive because it county under five years. One was convenient to recreation 52 fourth of the population has lived percent said yes and 48 percent in the county less than five said no. Convenience to job was years, said Greenhalgh. For Nephi City residents the listed as important by 52 percent and as unimportant by 51 per- percentage went up to 31 percent cent. who had lived in the county un76 Of the respondents, percent der five years. said being close to cultural activiContinued on page 3 ties was not one of the important reasons they lived in Juab MacS ExprOSS OWtter Upset With City about sidewalk and power costs Marvin Kenison. When voters go to the polls for the primary election at the end of the month, there will only be two races, locally, which will be of importance. On June 28, voters of school board precinct 5 in Nephi will be asked to select the top vote getters to face off in November. Times-Ne- administrated and the committee deserved a v Times-New- s Correspondent judgment should be dismissed the firm of Howard, Lewis, and with prejudice, which means the Peterson, Provo. The firm has case cannot be heard again on agreed to take the case for a perthe same points of law which centage of the winnings. I do believe we still have a case, said were raised the first time. One point was dismissed withDavid McPherson, owner of out prejudice, which would norMacs Countryside Express, is mally mean that the attorney suing Nephi city because he need only fix what had been done thinks it is unfair the city is wrong and then resubmit or charging him at a higher power refile the case. However, this was rate because he has not put in a a which had more to do point sidewalk the city says must be with the filing of a paper than on his property. placed McPherson said he has been with the case. McPherson said the judge adpaying the increased power rate mitted the city policy had hurt since he opened his business in McPherson. August 1992. He said Craig Pew, McPherson has now hired a city building inspector, had new attorney to handle the suit signed his occupancy permit on August 3, 1992. He said he didnt know he was being charged more for power until he went to the city administrator, Randy McKnight, to find out why his power bill was higher one month after he had opened. He said, I was being charged at temporary power rates until the improvements were done. Richard W.W.W. Daynes, attorney with the firm. He said he was in the process of appealing the case. The only course left open to the McPhersons is to appeal to a higher court. Don Eyre Jr., city attorney, said when a case is dismissed with prejudice it means the court determines the faults of the case cannot be reminded and resubmitted to the same judge. Even if the certificate of occu pancy was issued, said Eyre, if it was issued incorrectly, then it is not valid. Nephi City has adopted the Uniform Building Code. They also have zoning laws. Sidewalks are required, said Eyre. Eyre said the simple thing to do would be to put in the sidewalk. All construction sites are charged under the same rate for power used during construction, said Eyre. When construction is complete, then a different power rate is charged. McPherson doesnt qualify for the lower rate because he is still Continued on page 8 McPherson said he had not known he was required to put in a sidewalk until he talked to McKnight. It wasnt on my site plan, he said, and my site plan was approved. McPherson also has a problem with the fact that city crews installed a light pole in the middle of what he thinks would be his sidewalk. He said that was proof the city didnt mean for the sidewalk to be there. "Their engineer designed the curb and gutter, he said. There werent stakes placed for a sidewalk. McPherson said he hired a person to haul in fill and put the curb to grade and then paid for the curb and gutter. At the same time, he said, curb and gutter was put in at other commercial sites in the city by city crews. Judge Lynn Davis, Fourth District Court Judge, dismissed the case. He ruled the summery ROSE SUNDAY Members of the GFWC 21st Century I Delphic Literary Club will celebrate Rose Sunday on June 19th. Club members will display at variety of roses in each of the Nephi LDS Wards and the local Baptist Church. The roses are part of the Nephi Rose Garden which has been a longtime project of the local General Federated Womens Clubs. - |