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Show t". Lakeside STANDARD-EXAMINE- ; R COMMUNITY NEWS FOR NORTH DAVIS COUNTY TUESDAY.FEB.il, 1992 . LAKESIDE EDITOR: 776-495- 1 Kaysville wants more green acres City plans to increase number By RUTH MALAN Standard-Examine- t KAYSVILLE The city is looking to expand its recreational park system by improving existing parks and acquiring others as a long-tergoal. A citizens committee has just been appointed to look into finding a location for a park on the east side of town. Former city councilman Beck Sheffield is chairman. We are going to see if we can find a worthwhile place for a park on the east side, hopefully do some exchanging of land, said Mayor Brit Howard, who added that the committee will probably meet for the first time this month. The city is willing to consider exchanging property for property more suitable for a park, he said. Some residents want the city to acquire the privately owned Happy Hollow golf course property at 500 East for a future park site. The goal is also to make it a permanent home for the annual Happy Hollow pageant over July 4. The committee will study it to see if thats the best option, said Mayor Brit Howard. A number of people want that, so we will look at it strongly, but we will be looking at all sites. m city-own- Happy owner Readers share their stories of NEIGHBORS Whos who Ute Dan Clearfield High, have been listed in the silver anniversary edition of Whos Who Among American High School Students. She is the daughter of David Wood of Syracuse and Dana Ricketts of Clinton. Martinez resides in Sunset. Logo of choice . . . Utah State University student Darrell Wilcox recently captured top honors in a logo design contest sponsored by the Classified Employees Association (CEA) at USU. Wilcox is a graduate of Clearfield High School and is the son of Norman and Joy Wilcox of Syracuse. At USU he is a junior majoring in business information systems. The Classified Employees Association is the only organization of its type in the state, according to representative B.J. Tueller. It represents the largest employee group at USU and is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Approximately 20 designs were submitted. Wilcoxs design is computer generated. He chose Old Main as an image that immediately identifies USU and selected a type font that would be classy, he said. State of the city address brings good, bad news By RUTH MALAN Standard-Examine- r $10 million interchange at U.S. 89 and 193 will be built later, which means the four lanes of traffic will complicate its construction. More bad news: the citys infrastructure needs upgrading, which will be costly. The recent annexation of 1,200 acres on the west side of town brings more need for city services, like storm drainage and sewer. Its beyond what we can keep up with, he said. The parks and recreation facilities also need upgrading and expanding, he said. See CHAMBER on page 2 correspondent LAYTON Mayor James Lay-to- n had some good news and some bad news to share in his state of the city address to the Layton Chamber of Commerce Thursday. First the good news. Workers from the Utah Department of Transportation are pounding stakes along Highway 193 in preparation for the widening of the road from two lanes to four from U.S. 89 west to Hill Air Force Bases south gate. Now the bad news. The proposed : f Making sie carried on a craft stick as part of a Met-an- d rics Olympics at West Clinton Elementary last week. Carefully watching every gram, Josie Smith Jaclyn King (foreground) stare intently at the balance weighing grains of rice that Jo- - By JaNAE FRANCIS r Subsidization correspondent A bare-bonmeasure to keep the Utah horse racing industry alive, is how area horsemen and a state representative describe a proposed bill that would establish a horse racing commission. The bill, scheduled to go before the House of Representatives today, proposes an initial $500,000 subsidy to the horse racing industry to establish a regulating commission, purchase adequate liability insurance and estab-- ( lish a Utah Bred incentive program. The bill asks for additional funding each year after that to maintain the program. wrote Rep. David Adams, the bill as an alternative to the bill that would have legalized parimutuel betting in Utah. Horsemen are seeking to fund a regulating commission previously provided by the American Quarter Horse Association. AQHA will cease to provide the service next year and will refuse to sanction races in Utah unless such a commission is established. A Syracuse resident and an established race horse owner and breeder, Janis Spencer, serves as a board member of Citizens to Put Utah First, the group which began the push for legislation to allow parimutuel betting. Many attribute the betting bills defeat to the staunch opposition it received from the LDS Church. Spencer said the proposed legislation would only maintain Utahs horse racing industry at its current level of existence under the direction of the AQHA. We could continue to have some sort of sanctioned races in the state, she said, explaining that the provision would not provide any funds to pay any higher purses than what are now offered. Spencer said winning any significant money requires Utah horse owners to compete out of state. There are quite a few horses in this area that have won $100,000 or more but its all been out of state, she said. Utah has a $1.5 billion horse industry. Spencer said if the Legislature does not approve the measure, Citizens to Put Utah First will begin the process of collecting signatures needed on a petition to put parimutuel betting before Utah voters. She said if the group is given the subsidy, it wont take measures to put betting on the ballot. I think well probably win if we put the petition up, she said. The only reason we might get the $500,000 is the Church is worried enough about it. I guess it depends on what (Senate president) Arnold Christensen gets told to vote by the Church, she said. Its not doing anything for (the horse industry), just keeping them alive," said Rep. es now-defun- measure meets guarded opposition By JaNAE FRANCIS Standard-Examine- r correspondent ct , ' ROBERT r lieves a proposal to subsidize the horse racing industry in Utah would benefit the entire state. Tethering his horse Easy Going Ca- sanova to a walker, Steven Hartman, a Davis County horse breeder, be- of the proposed measure. Voigt was one of the legislators who sponsored the dead bill to allow parimutuel betting. It just brings the hair up on the back of my neck to think that people dont want parimutuel betting but they dont want to raise taxes either," he said. Its either one or the other. Voigt said he is not in favor of a subsidy but he said he will vote for it anyway because he believes something has to happen. The State of Utah cant afford to lose anything, no matter what it is, the representative said. These people buy hay, grain, pickups and horse trailers for their horses," he said. He said thousands of jobs would be lost if horsemen were to move from the state. This is an industry just like McDonnell Douglas or any other business the state has helped, he said, referring to a $10 million subsidy by the state last year to the company. The money is here and its leaving, he said of the $1.5 billion annual industry, cit- ing all the improvements to surrounding states facilities funded by Utah horsemen and Utahns who go there to bet on horses, Voigt predicts that the measure will not pass through the Legislature. h race horses and Ive had four they are for sale in top horse magazines, said horse owner Ken Wood of Syracuse. REGANStanaara-Examine- Gale Voigt, now-defun- With no more horse races, its just a mat- ter of time before there are no more horse people, he said. There just is not enough money in this business to haul all over. Wood said racing one of the top horses in the country and earning over $88,000 just al- lowed him to break even , Wood said establishing a racing commis- sion would help to change the situation around but would fall well short of the ideal , See HORSES on paae 2 , , top-notc- ' ct racing commission. The estimated cost to offer financial incentives to horse breeders willing to stay in the state is approximately $500,000. Howard Stephenson, president of Utah Taxpayers Association, said the intention of the bill to use tax monies to subsidize the horse industry is clear-cu- t. He said although his organization opposes the measure, it hasnt gotten involved in lobbying against it because it believes supporters will have a hard time selling the idea to legislators in light of other financial needs of the state. I do think there is some token amount the state could give the horse industry, he said. But I dont think they are going to see anywhere near the amount they are asking for. Stephenson also cited Goodwill project of the International Order of Jobs Daughters recently presented St. Annes Homeless Shelter with canned food items and a check for $335 as part of a goodwill project of Robyn Spratlen, honored queen of Bethel No. . . . Bethel No. 15 15. Model Some state representatives from Davis County and a leader of a citizens group say using tax dollars to subsidize Utahs horse racing industry would be inappropriate. and Rep. Rep. Kevin Gam, both said they Ann Smedley, hadnt seen the bill and couldnt comment on specifics. However, both said that generally speaking, they dont believe it is the role of government to subsidize the needs of private groups. We cant start subsidizing them, said Smedley. There are so many others who would want the same consideration. said Rep. Vernon Borgeson, he was not ready to express an opinion but cited a great deal of public opposition to the proposed legislation. A bill that would provide financial incentives to the horse racing industry in Utah bill that would replaces a have legalized parimutuel betting. The bill would also establish a horse a Deseret NewsKSL-Tpoll published Sunday where 75 percent of the citizens responding V said they were opposed to state subsidies for horse racing. the grade Four Davis County residents were among the 226 students named to the College of Eastern Utah Deans List for fall quarter. A student must carry at least 12 credit hours and maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher to be named on the Deans List. Students achieving grade point averages above 3.75 are recognized as high honor students. Named on the Deans List are Miriam Tanner, 4.0 gpa, Centerville; Heather Ranner, 3.68 gpa, Centerville; Wendy Kay Tureson, 3.63 gpa, Clearfield; Mary Greaves, 3.62 gpa, Layton. . . . Final push on to keep horse racing alive Standard-Examine- Wood and Thomas Martinez, both juniors at . . . Kim re Knowlton of Kaysville has indicated in the past he would listen to proposals from the city. The citys master plan shows several parks throughout town and includes the development of 12 more acres at Barnes Park on 200 North Page 7 true love. one-thir- ed Hollow Community of parks in west Kaysville, as soon as the money becomes available. The city has one natural wilderness park, six city parks and two playgrounds. The master plan shows the next major development will be at Barnes Park, said City Administrator John Thacker. We are looking for a couple more playgrounds, but they are only about d acre. Barnes Park has 6.8 acres developed into picnic areas and play areas. The additional space will include two or three ball diamonds, said Thacker. Two ball diamonds are part of the 6.9-acCity Park on north Main Street near the old city shops. If a good commercial use is proposed for the property on Main Street, the diamonds planned for Barnes Park will replace the City Park diamonds, said Thacker. We have enough diamonds right now. We are doing OK in our youth programs, he said. But Howard hesitates on confirming that ball diamonds will be constructed at Barnes Park because it is so close to subdivisions, which could be disturbed by the noise. , Id like to put the ball diamonds where they wouldnt have so much impact. Id like to move them to another part of town, and keep Barnes Park passive, Howard said. Eventually we will sell the ball diamonds (City Park), maybe in a couple of years, and reinvest in other parts of town, said Howard. It doesnt make sense to me to See PARKS on page 2' correspondent : I COUNTV LINES Weight watchers talent Joey Lopez of Layton recently took second runner-u. . . p in the monologue comedy category of the International Model and Talent Association Convention held at the Hollywood Bonaventure Hotel. convention The week-lon- g brings in amateur models and actors from around the world to compete before prospective agents. Lopez, who is with the SIE Model and Talent Agency of Ogden, is the daughter of Rick Gallegos of Layton. Wood works Jepson of Layton has been selected to exhibit two original wood-cu- t pieces in the Five-Stat- e Area Competition and Show this month at Hutchinson Community . . . Bret College. He is a senior in visual arts and education at St. Mary of the Plains College in Dodge City, Kan. Exhibitors were chosen from slides of their works. Jepsons wood-cu- t, Hand Over Fist, features a hand, accented by the color green, grabbing a fist. A wood-cinvolves positive and negative spaces. Jepson used a piece of wood and cut out the images that were to be negative space on the print. Ink was rolled over the positive images and printed on paper. ut BEST QUOTE 'The money is here and it's leaving Rep. Gale Voigt, on the effects felt by the Utah horse industry after the defeat bf the parimutuel betting bill. See story, this page. ? |