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Show Local B, Friday, May 10, 1996 "7 Office building plan. put on hold Mother’s Da Local artists brings guilt fo everyone the north. But, as impressive as it sounds, the building may never make it past the drawing board. Mayor George Stewart said the Boyer Companyfailed to exercise its option to purchase the cityowned property for $1 miliion. Neither did it pay the $2,000 Pians for what was to be Provo's tallest office building have been placed on holdafter Salt Lake City-based Boyer Companyfailed to exercise its option to purchase toughest, Why is Mother's Day (this the property before the March deadline passed. Announced with much fanfare by city and companyofficials at a press conference last summer, the 13-story building, dubbed “One Freedom Center,” was to be the tallest office building between Salt ynday} so significant? it doesn’t ve religious sanction,like istmas, Passover, or July 24. It ig not particular to the person, ea birthday or an anniversary. has nolonghistorical tradition, Valentine's Day or May Day. was not even nationally Observed until 1914. There are required to extend the option. He said Boyer’s plans stalled because it has been unable tofind enough tenants to lease office space in the building. “Developers like to have about 50 or 60 percent of a building Lake City and Las Vegas.it was to leased out before they begin contower 209 feet above the street — struction,” explained Stewart. Peoplestill alive who never heard Lonnie Bullard, a senior partner in Boyer, said the company’s nego- 50 feet higher than the NuSkin Building — at the corner of 100 North and Freedom Boulevard and include a penthouse, !2 stories of prime office space, a two-story atrium and a 668-space parking structure adjacent the building on Of Mother's Day when they were kids. Then what makesit so momentous? tiations with several potential anchors for the building have not gone as well as hoped. He said Boyeris still working to find tenants but didn’t want to tie up the “We're not at all discouraged,” he said. “We have had a very good relationship with Provo. We want to perform at July 4 themto know we are still working on the project. But real estate projects of this magnitude often take a long time to pull off.” celebration While city officials remain hopeful that Boyer will eventually come through with the occupancy rate necessary to close the deal, they have begun marketing the property to other prospective buyers. Stewart said he has informed Boyerofthe city’s intent to pursue other options. The city purchased the property for the proposed building over several years at a cost of $1.04 million. Stewart said the city might up the price of the prime real estate for other buyers. Since the city ownsthe land and isn’t trying to make ahuge profit from apprecia- By MARK EDDINGTON The Daily Heraid Singer/songwriter Kurt Bestor, the Salt Lake City Calvary Baptist Choir and Donny Osmond will headline this year’s centennial edition of the Stadiumof Fire Cele bration on July 4 at Cougar Stadium. Bestor, a multi-talented performer who composes and arranges his own music, wil! appear with his full orchestra and choir. He will be per forming some ofhis greatest hits, including selections from Innovators Heis currently adding to his varied musical repertoire by scoring a full-length ballet based on the popular chil dren's bestselling book, The Secret Garden. Bestor has also released a soundtrack album, The Great American West, which was written for an upcoming IMAXfilm. Joining Bestor to celebrate “100 Years Under the Stars and Stripes” will be the Cavalry Baptist Choir. A memo rable favorite whereverit per forms, the choir is noted for its unique blend of musical expertise and soul-stirring rhythm. After wowing crowds throughout the Midwest and Canada as Joseph in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph anc the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Osmond wil! tion, heis confident a buyer will be found and that another building like One Freedom Center remains a possibility atthesite. Sunset View students see readingS rewards By BRANDY VOGEL The Daity Herald Unheralded The students run wild through the halls and ch anxious to get some cotton candy, have their face painted and decorate a cupcake. Tt was an all-out carnival as in a word, guilt Mother's Day guiit is a twoedged sword, piercing both gener- ations involved, and sometimes whacking the same person twice. Sunset View Elementary School in Provo celebrated its annual “Reading Hail of Flame” on Thursday. guilt on this day, If one’sgelationWhy. flame and not fame? ship with his® mother is Because they're the close and lo «says Tami Calderon, co-leader of regrets not arts and in charge ofthe Sons and ers routinely feel gratitude, love, tenderniéSs, relationship is strained, val. “And the Dragons ate having painful, the son.or dau keenly the differencebefween whatis dramatized’on the Hallmark commercials and what actu- ‘ : “some fun after completing yearly ally happens ‘On the other hand, name a pro- fession with higher expectations than motherhood. Every mother I've ever talked to feels that. at best, she rates a grade of C. eae. poets and preachers over years have builfa ge taller than the Sears Which mothers. to stand. No wonder day makes thany women dizzy! They find themselves lacking as daughters AND as mothers! 2 So,if yot’give your mum a Wonderful gift on this occasion, Qddsare she Will feel she doesn’t Geserve it. Ofeouts@iikyou don’t readingprograms. Each grade lev- el was assigned u certain number of pages to read. If they met the bringhisoff-Broadway act to goal, they were awarded tickets which gained the students entrance into the carnival events. Some of the events included sidewalk chalk, pudding throw and hair and nails. “L like getting my hair fixed,” while teen idol will perform said ing aft liked the face painting, like Jaye® Lehman, a kindergartner, Hetearned the black spider drawn dp his right cheek because he read for the whole year. Lehman admitted his sister, Callie Lehman, 8, helped him to read. Callie had to read an ¥en more because she enjoysit so a it escapes me. B d ——r. Suggestions:c 2 “= { 1. Ifyou plar giveaecard Pith poetry on it, something Celebrating reality, not somédne’s Stereotype. One of the great mother” poemsis George Barkf:s “To My Mother.” In these nes fromthe sonnet, the poet femembers his parent“Sitting as Guge as Asia, seismic with laughfer/Gin and chicken helpless in ber Irish hand_/irresistible as br but most tender for/The ne dogs and hurt birds that surind her,--/She is a procession one can follow after/But be fics little dog following a brass .” Robert Frost once wreie, aed » By BRANDY VOGEL The Daily Herald Two men who have been charged in the death of an Orem teenager have been boundoverfor trial on first-degree felony murder and drug distribution charges and will go ontrial in October. Monte White, 19, and Benjamin Jensen. 19, appeared before 4th District Court Judge Lynn W. Davis on Thursday for a preliminary hearingrelating toallegations that they injected Natalie Farrer with an illegal drug. causing her death. “Occupant.” from the|state, Judge Davis found M 40'p de us that “Mother” would love a sume. pump,a paid-up pre-need burial plot, or a gift certificate for cataract surgery. Don’t let them decide for you. You can tell you the right present when you r the words, “Howdid you know that | wanted — 7” And how DO you know? Hey — you Osmond’s “Joseph” was in such démand in Chicago After listening to testimony u Probable cause White Saiapbenes and Je@sen could have committed the alleged crimes. The defense did not call any witnesses. Det. Neil Castleberry testified of an interview be conducted with Jensen. Jensen told Castleberry he went with Farrer and White to Salt Lake City to get heroin on March 8. The threesome injected them- selves with the drug twice while in the city. Once White injected Farrer and the second time, Jensen injected Farrer. Jensen told Castleberry they were careful not to give Farrer too muchheroin, Castleberry said. The threesome then returmed to Orem, Jensen said, where they dropped Farrer off at her home She had a 10 p.m. curfew By DONALD W. MEYERS The Daily Herald Hundreds of senior citizens gathered at the Utah State Hos- in 78 different locations, includ- ing schools, senior citizen centers, the Utah State Hospital and Timpanogos Cave. Last year, RSVP volunteers put in 182,000 hours ofservice, Gardnersaid. Carol Bellmon, RSVP. state program officer, said the volun- And if you are too young to pay taxes, then forget breaking teers’ commitmentis reminisceut RSVP’s 25th annual recognition of the pioneers who first came will be 40 years before: understand Shy tierainar= everyone in the family (without The seniors, volunteers with the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, were honored during banquet. into the Salt Lake Valley. Those David Gardner, Utah County pioneers saw a desert waste and RSVP'sdirector, said the county poe right in and developed it. groupand the national RSVP ‘Even though we honor the Organization are both celebrat- pioneers of the past, you are the ing silver anniversaries this year. pioneers of today,” Bellmon — : said. “We, for the most part of ages 5. olderwath with oppot our nation’s history, placed our nities to perform volunteer focus ‘on youth. You, as the in their communities, _ A few hours later, Farrer called White's residence. Castleberry said. Jensen answered the phone because White was busy, Farrer told Jensen her parents had kicked her out of their home and she Courts beat wantedtostay at White's residence for the night. Jensen went home. Witness Patricia Johnson,ofthe OremPolice Department,testified that she had interviewed White. Johnson testified that White told her he stayed up with Farrer watching television until 2:30 a.m., at which time they went to bed. When White wokeupthe following afternoon, he discovered Farrer, blue in the face and cold Hetried to give her CPR for 20 minutes with noluck, Johnson said concerning her interview with White. When this did not work, White panicked, slid Farrer into a green sleeping bag, loaded her into his car and drove her to the Lakeview LDS chapel on Geneva Road where he left her in a flowerbed. Johnson said White next went to a public pay phone where he called 911 In addition to the murder charge. Jensen faces two felony drug distribution counts and White faces three distribution counts, a felony charge of abusing a human “Theyare the eee RSVP oo of the future, can teer service. The seniors are: Roy Tenney; Miles Colton: Robert Bartlett: Ruth Hassen- fritz; Louise Thompson; Phileon and Hortense Robinson; Joe and May Miller; Theora Boulton; Lois Stokel: and Spanish Fork Mayor Marie Huff. The honoreessreceived a basket of fruit from Central Bank. Hassentritz the recognition was an “unexpected but much appreciate! honor.” The Millers“are among the seniors Who ike quilts at the state hospital ip Faise money for patients’ needs” One Lasyear-old patient thanked the™Millers and other seniors for mising money for * braces. “Thank you for get my braces. | waited a long te She said the volunteers to get my teeth fixed,”he said. “Vbiunmeerism iie swhat sets bridge the gap between the genRSVPis sponsored by Moun- peeve in Our country, a Bottom line: ignore every stereotype; celebrue the ieee woman, age Spots and ail. don’ip wh nagar love you. Sore YUL. corpse and three lesser drug counts. White and Jensen have pleaded not guilty toall charges Friends and family of Farrer White and Jensenfilled the court room benches, but the parties are not on good terms with one anoth er. Farrer’s friends and family wore blue and white ribbons to symbolize drug awareness. White and Jensen's supporters donned yellow ribbons to let the two defendants know they are welcome back home. White and Jensen are currently being housed in the Utah County Jail on $250,000 bend. The will have a bail hearing on May 22 Orem may have to raze pital Thursday afternoon to hoaor volunteer spirit. the piggy bank. Draw a crayon of you and your mother. », it’s not a dumb idea, butit unprecedented 16-month run and broke all attendance records, The Webber production and Osmond are current ly playing to sold-out audi ences in Boston. For more information, call Seniors lauded for volunteer work house near cemetery did your taxes this year, didn’t you? If you can figure out what in tarnation the IRS wants, you can surely figure out what your moth- er wanis! Do some sleuthing! that the musical had an Daity Heraid Matthew A. Smith Andy Andersen,left Sunset View Elementary School on Thursday. StuFirst. round,to: incipal ene dents received carnival tickets as a reward for their a ball to hit the bullseye, putting Wright back into the dunk tank during a carnival a reading efforts 28 year at school. much. the principal and hit him in the again next year. Byfar the most popular event shoulder,” said another student of Sunset View teachers say if the event will their students to was the dunking booth. “Sorry. | his unforgettable experience. had to,” said one studentas he sent Even the students who weren't read, then a tittle water and some a Sunset View teacher plunging able to dunk a teacher or adminis- hectic fun and games are worth the into the pool of water. “I aimed at trator vow they are going to try work. and the wet 2 men bound overfortrial in death of Orem teen *Anything more than the would be too weak.” A clichéd poem is like a gift addressed to 2. As to the actual gift, here is the clue: De yourhomework! selections from Webber's Qreatest musicals, including Phantom afthe Opera, Cats. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and "a Ouderkirk, 7, sportbraid that runs through ive her a grem gift, even assigagd 50 pages. but she read ‘OUthink she doesn’t + Is there asolution? If there « the Stadiumof Fire. The erst- us at from other countries.” <The Utah County program erations through their service. The RSVP board chose 12 tainland Association of Gevernments and is financed in part by has 4OS8 seniors participating seniors to honor for their volun- the United Way. By DONALD W. MEYERS The Daily Heraid Orem maybe forced to raze a house that residents had fought to save for a single mother and her son. Kent Allen, the city’s purchasing agent, said there have been a few offers for the house on 800 more economical to build a new house,”Allen said. The last inquiry was on A\ 20. The city received offers of ase $5 and $1,000 for the house. But they were tumed away by the cost of having to move the house and set it on a newfounda non. Allen said the city will still offers, but demolition nobody has followed through with entertain appears to be the most likely fite a plan’to buy and move the house for the small The city my The house is on land the city offer Habitat house. for Humanity some East near the city cemetery, but purchased for cemetery Work of the fixtures, such as the bathiub, before the walls come down. = Neighborhood residents began fighting to ee a in he house last year when her notice that she nea leave fac boats Denes 1996. Her neighbors said forcing her to move would destroy a social and tional support network that built for her over the years she lived in the neighborhood. ; } One more ing day teft, ks. Don’t fi this one! It’s of the biggies, and absolutely land any longest “If the city$comes up with something, weae want to be perceivedto be staliding in the way by tying up the property.” Bullard said Although several developments in Utah County have caused Boyer officials some concern, Bullard said the effect of the mothballing of the Micron plant on Utah County’s business climate has been greatly exaggerated. He said the uncertainty surrounding the recent acquisition of WordPerfect is of more immediate concern Still, Bullard said, Boyer has not given up on One Freedom Center. He noted that the company’s flagship building, One Utah Center in Salt Lake City, took years to complete. (See HOUSE, Page B2) |