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Show t b f t V l lGL?fialtt 'Jil t Lu! -T - fl x Um l Or d-j- l C x r D, I , ' l , I . "y f, i II, !, a great deal of history product a little literature. (t tafcfj -- HI VOLUMt 9i NO. to Henry James MII.MHW Thursday, August 3, 2000 Itf incorporation to preserve Magna heritage Community and Proposed Magna map Area councils began petition drive for feasibility study By DEBBI OLSON Editor Area and Magna are gearing Council Community to another begin up try toward the citys incorporation. The first step in the process The that would retain the citys identity and autonomy is to have the county conduct a feasibility study. In order to protect our rightful boundaries and our heritage we felt it was time to incorporate, said Laura Jo McDermaid, president of the Magna Community Council. Both the Area Council and the Community Council are supporting the a petition drive that would request a feasibility study to be done by Salt Lake County The study would be an look at all facets of the city to see if it has the tax base and population to support city serth vices .now, being, supplied by the "county. Currently the citys population is estimated to be between 22,000 to 30,000 residents. Before the feasibility study can be done, the two councils are prepared to circulate a petition to landowners throughout Magna that would request the study to be started by the county. Incorporation has come up a number of times and we dont know where we stand as a community to go forward with this, McDermaid said. We are generating the petition to in order to apply for incorporation. Jn order for the study to begin seven percent of the landowners or 10 percent of the assessed valuation of property need to sign the petition. The councils are planning to Chason Wall, 3, sits in a firs truck as firefighter Jay Ziolkowski lookson. Right, Deputy Greg McArthur talks with Aaron Wames about his motorcycle and Laura Santos receives animmunization from George Riffe. By DFE3I OLSON Editor With temperatures soaring well above 100 degrees, hundreds of residents braved the heat to join the citys block party to fight crime. The Night Out Against Crime celebration at Arbor Park drew enthusiasm from both adults and children as youngsters were entertained by the Salt Lake 2002 Youth Sport Programs and adults were entertained by a drawing for a send volunteers to all the landowners to talk with them variety of prizes, that included a generous supply of Oreo cookies being given away as well as baseball caps, movie passes and gift certificates. Crime prevention is a partnership with the citizens and the Sheriffs department and all the other agencies that partner with Utah, the naming of Roger Hales as the Magna Citizen of the Year said Salt Lake County Hales donated all of the large sheet cakes that were served to Sheriff Aaron Kennard during the Night Out. I hope people will gather all the information they can to help fight crime. the National Following Anthem being sung by Miss residents. There is no question on what he does for Magna, said Norm Fitzgerald, a member of the Area Council. He really supports Magna. us, was announced by Henk Dorenbosch, President of the Featured at the party were displays from the state attorney generals office, th$ Sheriffs department, the Salt decades through periods of The featured entertainment at this years Cooper Days celebration will be the rock group Badfinger. Badfinger will perform at Magna Copper Park at 7 p.m. on Saturoay, Aug. 1 2. Doors open at 6 p.r.i. Tickets will be $15. lence, setbacks and member The band has enjoyed I 1 2 i winding on for nearly four GREER Staff Writsr long- term success by selling more than 15 million albums in its nearly 40 year history. However, the road to stardom has been a long and twisted one. turbu- changes. None of the bands current of Joey Molland, Mark Healey and John Richardson were original members of line-u- p Badfinger. The band, which critics have called a blend of the pop, rock and classic rock genres, originally hailed from Wales under the name The Iveys. Championed as the heirs to the Beatles, the band was signed absentee petition to sign. The county has agreed to provide a list of property owners to the councils. Magna Area Council. Hales was honored for all of Lake his donations to community Highway Patrol. Free hot dogs, drinks and cake was served to those is attendance. We estimate that we went ble, McDermaid said. If the tax base is not there we wont pro- through close to ,000 hot dogs throughout the event, people that is detrimental. events. For the Night Out Party, Fire County Department and the Utah 1 Fitzgerald said. It turned out to be a successful night despite the heat. Badfinger to perform at Copper Days By about incorporation and why the feasibility study is important. Landowners that do not reside on their property will be sent an under the Fab Fours Apple records label by manager Mai Evans in 1964. Their 1968 debut album under the Apple label, entitled Maybe Tomorrow, brought the band early success. But the band didnt completely take off until Beatle Paul McCartney in the fall of 1969 offered the Iveys his song Come and Get It, which was composed for The Magic Christian, a film which included actor Peter Sellers and fellow Beatle Ringo Starr. During that soundtrack pro ject, the band changed its name to Badfinger and added on current member and guitarist Molland. Come and Get It proved to bej breakthrough--somg,"T5Tfufg- -' Badfinger into the Top 10 in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The band used the strength of the film to release their first album under Badfinger, entitled Magic Christian Music, A second album in 1970, called No Dice, fueled Badfingers fire, with the Plesss turn to Conceit, page 8 Were not going to go into incorporation unless its feasimote incorporation. Were not going to push anything on the As the county continues to raise taxes and cut services to unincorporated areas, the Magna councils agreed that if would be in the citys best interest to start up another request to incorporate in order to protect itself. We also have to worry about the threat of annexation from sur- rounding cities, said Norm Fitzgerald, a member of the Area Council. . The councils will gather the signatures within the next 60-9- 0 days and submit it to the county. The councils will hold a series of public meetings to inform the community about what incorporation would mean and to present the feasibility study after it is completed. The first public meeting is expected to be held at the beginning of September. Within a year we hope to Light shaded area Indicates new Magna city boundaries have this on the ballot, McDermaid said. Standing in the way of incorporation is Kennecott Copper, which has informed the councils that it is not in favor of incorporation and will not sign the petition to have a feasibility study done. Kennecott currently owns approximately 50 percent of the land in Magna and has requested that its operational land not be included in the incorporation boundaries. We have included Kennecott in the boundaries to this point, Fitzgerald said. After the feasibility study is done, Kennecott can request from the state that its property be excluded from the incorporation boundaries. In 1984 the city lost in its attempt to incorporate due to a lack of votes. At that time we had attempted to annex Copperton into Magna, Fitzgerald said. We were defeated by the number of votes that came out of Copperton.' According to Fitzgerald, the feasibility study that was done prior to the 1984 vote indicated that Magna had the tax and economic base it needed to provide city services. Clearly we have a bigger commercial area now than we did five years ago, Fitzgerald said. What happened just before the election is that Kennecott and I think began to do lay-offs people were afraid that taxes would go up if the city incorporated at that time. The new boundaries for incorporation will take in the west side of the valley from the West Valley City boundary to the Tooele County line. It will include a portion of the Great Salt Lake and extend north to the Davis County line. The new boundaries have been approved by the county, McDermaid said. In order for the petition drive to be successful the councils are looking for a large number of volunteers to help circulate the petition as well as donate to the effort toward incorporation. The whole city needs to get behind us to protect our autonomy, McDermaid said. The councils have invested $2,500 toward establishing the citys boundaries and writing the petition proposal to be submitted to the county. |