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Show REFLEX JOURNAL LEADER SEPTEMBER 23, 1982 BULLETIN Recovery Plant Hearing Set By DONETA GATHERUM - The first of at LAYTON least two public hearings on rezoning the Hill Field Road Pond Site" to allow for the n construction of a dollar solid waste recovery plant will be held Tuesday, Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. in the planning commission conference room. THIS STEP will bring to a head the lengthy controversy between Davis County officials and residents living near the pond site over where a solid waste plant should be located. Residents object to building a plant on this site because it is in an area presently zoned r- By DONETA GATHERUM CLEARFIELD - Theres got to be a better way has been Glannin Howard's challenge to himself as he witnesses improvable and clumsy methods and devises used or sold on the market. -- multi-millio- SHOWN HERE is his latest invention he calls a "Corn Chuck," the manufacture of which was triggered by Mr. Howards arthritis in his arms and hands denying him the twisting motion required to remove kernals of corn from the cob for freezing. He and Mrs. Howard have done this for the past seven years, and it became impossible this season without severe pain. The speed with which whole kernel niblet corn can be removed from the cob with the machine rotating corn chuck and the commercially available Kernel Kutter is an explosive surprise. It's a seeing is believing experience. Mr. Howard has also corrected design deficiencies in the Kernel Kutter which he has discovered while listening to complaints of his customers w ho purchase it from him as well as the stores. Some like it, but most say it doesn't w ork Y ou can bet it does work with his corrective measures. esidential on the recently adopted city master plan. They believe the building of this plant will devaluate their property, create traffic problems and adversely affect their res- environment. PROPONENTS OF ths plant claim this is the most feasible site because of its proximity to Hill Air Force Base, the only known market for the steam generated by the plant. These people point out the plant will idential-living . be clean burning. Traffic would increase only slightly because of the closeness to the major freeways. They claim a waste recovery plant can be compatible with residential MR. CLOWARD can place a cob of blanched corn on the Corn Chuck, strip off the kernels and discard the cob in 10 seconds without hurrying. It only takes four seconds to remove the kernels. A bushel of corn (six dozen ears) in less than 15 minutes. The Corn Chuck is a technically designed adapter that holds the corn cob and permits its machine rotation without breaking, splitting, or stripping. You never have half sized, broken, or crushed corn kernels common when using a knife or electric knife. Ninety-eigpercent of the kernels are stripped clean in one motion with a rotating cob. Mr. Howard plans to market the Corn Chuck and reveal the details of his system before the 1983 corn season. Mr. Howard and his wife, Dolores, have been actively involved in food storage and counseling for the past 18 years. They distrig bute the original pouch and its heat sealer manufactured by Kapak Corporation. It is known by the registered trade mark Scotch-paIt has been in use for 21 years and was used commercially, industrially, and in the home 12 years before the other heat sealers available in stores came on the market. neighbors. Last Thursday when the public hearing time INSTANT CORN air from solid tood packages. Mr. Howard has also developed a production line vacuum system, using an electric pump, for commercial production line vacuuming for hospital diet kitchens, meat and cheese packagers. Fifty small packages can be completely vacuumed in about 15 minutes. According to Mr. Howard and his company, Kapak Corporation, air and moisture are the most destructive enemies to food storage. Most food wraps and packaging bags on the market today cannot protect food from loss of nutrition, texture, color and vitamins because they all leak, around folds, sides, seals, taping k. IN 1981 MR Howard was awarded the Intermountain Distributorship by Kapak Corporation of Scotchpak products and accessories. This followed his national award for inventing an oral vacuum device, which then used with the Scotchpak Sealer (only) can remove all the , and through twisties causing freezer burn and loss of food value. Only an air tight vacuumable package does the trick. MR. CLOWARD says "the average citizen knows little about chemistry and cannot tell the difference between a vacuumable polyester pouch and a common plastic bag. Most of the acids commercial chemicals, including battery acid can be packaged in polyester containers. In Mrs. Howard's food storage room hangs this sign: If its food storage space youre after, look to an unfinished ceiling rafter. The ceiling is nearly fixed with storage shelves and , on each side of the rafter is a 4 ': inch shelf lined with bottles of fruit, cans of food , ': gallon milk cartons full of Scotchpackaged in vacuumed sealed film all varieties of dried foods. These shelves are made by centering 10xl0 foot shelves of hard composition board on the bottom of each rafter and securing them in place with a washer and a 2 long steel screw placed 12 apart. The edge of each shelf is then lined by nailing a two inch plywood strip along it making an earthquake-proo- f lip to hold the bottles and packages in place. A three step stool sits in the center of the room for Mrs. Howards 5 foot two convenience. Questions Remain On Garbage Plant BOUNTIFUL - The mayor and city council, meeting in a study session last Wednesday night, agreed that there -- are still a lot of unanswered questions regarding the proposed resource recovery plant in Layton. SOME PEOPLE have the impression that the plant is definitely going to be built and that Bountiful will be a part of the garbage disposal project, but to my knowledge this simply is not the case, commented Councilman Bob Linnell. As far as Im concerned, there are still a lot of unanswered questions and for someone to say that Bountiful has definitely decided in favor of the project is making a wild assumption. acouple of weeks ago that Iflowned a home there (near the proposed site), Id sell because the plant is going to be built. residents who attended the public meeting. After several months of discussions Layton-Clearfiel- d and preliminary negotiations with a likely developer of the proposed plant tentative maintenance and operation costs were announced recently which -- - - apparently pleased some officials throughout the county but made skeptics of others. THESE ARE just a few of the answered questions, rs Davis County Resource Recovery Board that tipping fees - the cost assessed cities and the county for operation and maintenance of the proposed plant - would begin the first year ( 985 or 1986) at $6 per ton and be increased $ per ton to a maximum of $ 2 per ton after six years. 1 -- 1 explained A STUDY is being prepared as to the proposed cost and future life - and use -- THE PROPOSED developer, Incinco Systems Inc., told the -- un- Bountiful Mayor Dean S. Stahle. The Bountiful Council also questioned the cost of keeping the Bay Area Refuse Disposal (BARD) site open in West Bountiful. This cost would be in addition to any costs applicable to the proposed resource recovery plant in Layton, they noted. -- of BARD based both on Katy-Seghe- REFERRING to a recent article in the Clipper." Councilman Linnell noted that there are many residents of Layton (near the proposed site) who are strongly opposed to the facility being built in their backyards. Davis County Commissioner Ernest Eberhard reportedly told a group of residents at a public meeting in Layton But what would the cost be after that? What would the cities hauling costs be to get the garbage and debris to the plant? What would replacement costs of equipment (such as Bountiful) be after the first few years? city-own- BUT RESIDENTS of the area say they will fight construction of the proposed $42 million garbage-burnin- g Well spend the money and plant. take the case to court if thats what it takes, was the opinion of most of 50 for the other council On the other hand, if you have a lot of time and patience, Mr. Cloward shows the old way of shredding the corn, just to keep in practice. Although you still have to take the time to plant it and let nature take its course, thanks to Glannin Clowards in less than five new device, corn can be seconds! boil-in-ba- Shields, Councilman Sam Trujillo stated, "I am still looking, analyzing the situation. I definitely have made no decision. I believe my attitude sums it up THE OLD WAY ht By GARY R. BLODGETT News Editor was announced to city council members by Mayor Lewis G. the advent of the resource recovery plant and on the assumption that the plant may not be built, it was explained. Bountifuls council agreed that if all cities could buy into the North Area Refuse Disposal (NARD) site, the debris that would have to be buried at BARD would be minimal. 1 BUT IF WE have to continue to haul a large portion of garbage and debris from our residences and businesses to BARD because it will not be accepted at the plant, it will put a burden on the BARD facility, one councilman noted. With a resource recovery plant in use, the only debris that should have to be buried would be unburnable products such as rocks, blocks, concrete and the like. BUT BEFORE plans can progress much further, said a spokesman for Wasatch Front Regional Council, consulting agent for the proposed plant, the site must be rezoned (from agricultural) to industrial use. After that, contracts must be worked out between Hill Air Force Base -for use of the plants steam generated during process of the garbage disposal and the builder. - THEN ITS a matter of selling the bonds amounting to about $60 million, including interest all before the end of the year. If not sold before the end of the year, its possible the builder may not be able to participate in a tax shelter proposal that is presently available, it was explained. - - mem- bers. MAYOR SHIELDS stated he felt the rezone request was premature. "The engineering studies are not available yet and wont be ready until Cost estimates from the most likely firm to build the plant, wont be ready until October. Since the city planning commission is an advisory body and not a decision making elected group, the most that can come out of the Tuesday meeting is a recommendation to the city council. A second public hearing before the city council will be set at a later date where the final decision regarding the building of a solid waste recovery plant in Layton will be made. Kady-Seghe- r, Bond Sale Okd - KAYSVILLE Sept. 14, Kaysville City Council held a special meeting at the city chambers to consider the adoption of a bond resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of $343,000 of water revenue bonds to the Board of Water Resource and for citizens input on ths issue. FOLLOWING A lengthy discussion the council adopted the bond resolution on Kaysville West Side Water Project. The Building Regulation Ordinance which has been updated on building and electrical codes was also adopted by the council that evening, np New Look Set CLEARFIELD - A new look is envisioned as the result of Clearfields beautification day set for Oct. 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. -- ITS GOING to be a team effort, with the city being carefully scrutinized for a list of beautification projects and a concerted effort by the chamber, city officials, fire department and all interested parties in helping provide a new look for the downtown area. Businesses, schools, churches, Scouts and others are invited to form teams and register to assist with the Clearfield Chamber of Commerce by calling 3 or by visiting 133 S. State, No. 209. Each group is asked to formulate an individual project. 825-589- RECOGNITION and awards are planned for participants with a special tribute planned for the Clearfield business that does the most to beautify its surroundings. Punch will be served from the 75 S. State parking lot where a central contact point will also be set up. tb Blood Typing For CMldrm Fimerprimtmg, By TOM BUSSELBERG FARMINGTON - Parents can get an assist that hopefully will never be needed in Saturday's fingerprinting and blood typing program set to run county-wid-- e. SHERIFF BRANT Johnson explained the combined efforts of various law enforcement agencies and volunteers in providing fingerinprinting and blood typing for those parents terested from p.m. Saturday. Meeting with the countys mayors last week, he said fingerprinting will be available for youngsters over while footprints will be taken for those younger. Its all aimed at helping parents get a record of their youngster, through a print, that can be kept to never be in a safe spot at -3 2, home-hopef- nwp,m ully used, of course. For now, he stressed police agencies wont make copies or store any such records although that is their hope in the future. will oversee activities elsewhere, Clearfield Police Chief Darrin Green said Thursday afternoon. ALONG WITH that, Davis North Hospital allowhas agreed to provide free ing for another means of helping identify a their blood type. He said Lake-vieyoungster--b- y Hospital is interested in such efforts but has no capacity, currently, to provide such service. Anyone in the county may visit Davis North. Fingerprinting will be conducted in the city halls of all cities except West Point, where it wiU take place at West Point Elementary School and in Fruit Heights at the Mountain Road LDS Chapel. The Sheriffs office will conduct those programs as well as one at South Webers City Hall while individual city police departments THE SHERIFF said a small identifying mark is all thats needed and indicated even a childs blemish or some other birth mark could be noted for future reference. ducted, along with the hope that a lot of Red Es will hopefully appear throughout the county. That refers to a program where authorized parents or other adults will be able to display a large letter Red E in a promin-an- t window when theyre home. That signals to youngsters they can go to that home for aid during an emergency, such as sudden sickness or attempted kidnapping, etc. PTA-sanction- blood-typin- g, w In addition, Sheriff Johnson noted that private parties are preparing market aids where would be possible including fingerprinting that would cost about $4 to complete for five people and said that could be done at home. HAFB PERSONNEL will also conduct similar activities on base. I think parents will quiet down, he said, after such efforts are con PARTICIPANTS will be screened by law enforcement personnel and given authorization while other efforts set up have included placing the signs in authorized businesses in commercial districts or with parents who would be stationed at bus stops in rural areas or when children must wait out of sight of parents homes, for example. |