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Show QUR TOWNS DailySHerald SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2005 METRO EDITOR | Joe Pyrah - 344-2586 - jpyrah@heraldextra.com - Grove Creek AF arts centersite si ill upin air trailhead Plans to build next to City Hall tabled until Sept. 7 sets facelift MeganC. Wallgren NORTH COUNTY STAFF American Fork residents might be waiting little longer for a new cultural arts center. Planning commissioners hav: table se plano the wording Brenda Armstrong NORTH COUNTY STAFF ear ago,litter surrounded the Grove Creek Trai and there werelarge ATV scars on the hillside. But now the trailhead is a welcoming entrance to the forest. The once-popular Pleasant Grovetrailhead has hada facelift at the hands of volunteers,the U.S. Forest Service and Pleasant Grovecity staff. They said they hope the improvementswill draw people back to the site. “Weneeded to make improvementsin order to. encourage families to want to come back and use the trail,” said Pleasant GroveDistrict Ranger ear co milange. nearby theater for plays and concerts. par enh proved a preliminary plan, but Fg cpeders hed caked tit oe eee Serenaa tareim pestle ap proving it as a preliminary ak knowing you'l get back to us with the details, but it’s not listed that way,” Baldwin said. Other commissioners agreed. “Weneed to havethat nailed down,” said Commissioner John Wodffinden. ‘The project is under deadline because the arts council wants to building next to City Hall aiemeetin celal 80 people, with seating for 170 peo, ple.It will also have dressing rooms, begin before Dec. 1 to qualify for the money. Arts council Chairwoman and city ChietofSafMets Teeel it eo‘Ragthe city would salWereguinggai.” England If the eea Hall — 31 N. Church feranclaed ne anol Gane chambers do not need renovation and won't be changed. restrooms,a ticket office and an area for concessions. “It’s a really exciting plan it vie cies ek council,” said Sydney Thomas,part of the arts council executive board, The architect, Allen Roberts of Roberts Simonsen Architects, said the renovated City Hall will include a tower and a replica of the building's original bell, which now sits in Robinson Park. See ARTS CENTER, B8 “Somestories might make us uncomfortable. We have to makesure welook back from time to time to the past to make sure we don’t repeat our mistakes in the future.” Pam Gardner.“This area has suffered much dueto inappropriate activity, parties and large amountsoftrash left onthe site.” The Forest Service received a grant from the Utah Departmentof Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation, providing half of the funding — $38,400 — for the project. The trail provides forest access for bikers, hikers and equestrians. The area now has an expanded and paved parking lot, concrete pads with picnic tables and a universally-accessible restroom. Volunteersalso installed the barriers to control unauthorized motorized use of the trail and minimize impacts to water,soil and wildlife habitat. “Directing users to designated roadsand trails will help re-establish vegetation, reduce soil ero- Charlotte Blake Alston, masterteller TELL IT LIKE IT IS sion and reduce overland transport of sediment into the adjacent diversion structures and retention basins,” Gardnersaid. “Landscaping thearea with native vegetation will enhance visual qualities associated with the trailhead.” Pleasant Grove donated morethan 125 cubic yards offill and road base material to assist with construction. Volunteers from the Dedicated Hunters program poured the concrete pads, and See TRAILHEAD, B8 Lt. Gov. hopes to solveI-15 traffic problem Herbert meets withcity, county officials to brainstorm ways to get more money Amie Rose DAILYHERALD Ina scene played out day after day after day, péople are stopped on Interstate 15 up and down the Wasatch Front, on St. George Boulevard and in Logan for no reason other than the number of cars in front of them. 1-15 reconstruction in Salt Lake County improved the situation little, but during commutetimes traffic still stops in Salt Lake City and north in to Davis and Weber counties and south into Utah County. ‘Transportation planners hope the extra lane on the I-15 in Utah County will help too, but won't solvethe big problem on roads all overthe state — people driving theircars,a lot. According tostatistics from the Utah Department of Transportation, travel on Utah's roads is growing twice as fast as the population. Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert, who makes the ete cies nae ie Sak Lb ay office and back, met with city and county officials from Utah, Wasatch and Summit counties Thursdaynight to talk about traffic problems and their ideas to fix them. In the next 10 years, with the existing ways of raising money for transportation projects, Utah comes up $3.5billion to $4 billion short, he said. “it's not just highways and roads," Herbert said. “It’s not just increasing mass transit. It’s not just air travel, but really all of that together.” The gas tax generates most of the money spent on transportation. But Herbert — and the city and county officials — talked about ways to generate JEREMY HARMON/Daily Herald and his mother Molly Kemperlaugh as they listen to one of manystorytellers showcased at the 16th Annual Timpanogos Ben Ki Storytelling Festival. The Kemperstravelled from Boise,Idaho,to takepartin thefestival. Ben, 14, is an aspiring storyteller and participates in similar, but smaller, functions aroundBoise and this was the family’s first time to attendthefestival in Orem.“I think this is just fabulous,” Molly said. Summerfestival of spoken words 16th Timpanogos Storytelling Festival features storiesae around the world than 25,000 people werebelieved to haveattended the festival which started on Thursday — morethan 10,000 of them children. The experience was an homage to the human experience,to the people, places and memories that change,teach and defineus. Caleb Warnock Master teller Charlotte Blake DAILY HERALD Alston opened one of four performances on Saturday by teaching ough and gravely, the audience the harmonies of a sweet, steady, authorisong used in the African nation of tative or gentle, Provo Gabon tostart tribal council meetCanyon was filled with ings where important issues are to voices on Saturday. be resolved. She thentold stories Whethersinging stories or telling them, each was passionate, drawing from the Civil Rights Movement. “When visit kids at schools I thousands torapt attention. try to tell them thatnot all stories Visitors to the final day of the are upbeat, exciting Timpanogos Storytelling Festival JEREMY HARMON/Dally Herald filled gigantic white tents at Orem’s she said. “Some stories might Doug Elliot talks about trying to corral together a bunch offish while- : new Mt. Timpanogos Park SaturSee FESTIVAL, B8 performingat the 16th Annual TimpanogosStorytelling Festival. day from morning to evening. More See TRAFFIC, B8 is es \WWW.HERALDEXTRA.COM — CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE BUY ONE * GET ONE se°ee SALE i One vol For eteyan “Cobra” ben aa cain) L e Home Gi furniture for living | De é |