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Show Standard-Examine- r y INSIDE Minutes seem like hours South Weber council hits snag in passing minutes of meeting.2 LIFESTYLE Trouble in River City Layton Arts Council to present Music Man.73 DAVIS COUNTYS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER August 8, 1998 VOL 17, NO. 9550 CENTS LIVES Kaysville Council approves new building plans Kaysville An agreement to change building plans on property that Basic Computer Services, Inc., has purchased from the city was approved this week. considers consolidating Funfest and July 4 activities Basic Computer Services, By RUTH MALAN Inc., owned and operated by Wayne Bates and his son David Standard Examiner correspondent KAYSVILLE - Being in charge of the citys Funfest activities and the July 4 activities has become a big job. In fact, having two such celebrations is so big that the Chamber of Commerce is looking for help in deciding whether to combine the two major city events. Kaysville Area Chamber of Commerce President Doug Stan-gand president-elec- t Paul Otte-so- n approached the city council for help on making the decision. ' The July 4 activities have traditionally been under the direction of the Kaysville Jaycees, but that organization doesnt have a large enough membership to run the days events without help from the chamber. Last year the responsibility of organizing the parade was handed over to the chamber and this year the Jaycees asked for help with the fireworks. The Jaycees have asked the chamber to assist with the fireworks program, and we are already doing the parade. We thought we ought to reassess the Funfest, Otteson explained to the city council last week. He said of the Funfest, There is no real community support. There is no holiday. The chamber suggested making the Funfest an extension of the July 4 program. Otteson even suggested a change in the parade route so it would end where the food and game booths are. The Davis Applied Technology Center held a car show the week following the Independence Day celebration. We didnt feel it was out place to pull all of these organizations together, Otteson said in asking for the councils help. He said the city should have a Bates, purchased the three acres on 300 West Street. The first proposal was to y build two large office buildings on the land. In recent weeks the council has talked about modifying the plan so the buildings would not be built. Instead there will be five smaller four-stor- multi-stor- er community identity. He sug- gested adding a flag ceremony. There are thousands that come to the parade. We should give them something else, he said. think we should combine efforts, said Councilman Arthur "I Johnson. And Mayor Brian Cook agreed, It is a good idea to enhance July 4. There is a big reason the chamber is concerned about being the sole sponsor of the Funfest. The chamber is an organization intended to promote local businesses. When itinerant merchants are brought in for the Puniest, they arc often competing with local businesses. We need to sit down together and knock some ideas around, Cook said. single-stor- y buildings. y Construction on the first two buildings will begin in September with all construction completed in 2000. South Weber City stays in Corbyn Taurone, 5, is all business when Rodeo on Thursday night in South Weber. AN IMPORTANT JOB: it comes to chasing angry sheep away from competitors during the Little Buckaroo Although South Weber's Public Works Director Russ Schofield said he would like to get out of the business of buckaroos help South Weber celebrate Little Country Fair Days activities continue today By LOR) J. NAKAYU Standard Examiner correspondent OUTH WEBER - Little buckaroos in South Weber got the ) chance to show olT their cowboy skills at the Little Buckaroo Rodeo on Thursday night, part of the city's annual Country Lair Days celebration. Events scheduled for today include a 5K runwalk, a parade, a volleyball tournament, a softball tournament, basketball, booths, arts and crafts displays, entertainment, a Dutch oven cook-of- f, a candy throw, a Youth Council Stomp and fireworks. Most of the events will take place at South Weber City Central Park at 7355 S. 1 375 East or at the LDS Church bowery located across the street. The Little Buckaroo Rodeo is just a small-tow- n rodeo that lets the local kids play cowboy for a night, said Linda Stark, who has been in charge of the event for about 14 years. Some of the kids come dressed in chaps and think they are real buckaroos, said Stark. Stark said it is fun to watch the younger children participate in the goat throw. The little kids sometimes just go give the goat a shove and are always surprised when it doesnt tip over, said Stark. They just stand there looking at the goat, wondering why it didn't fall down, but the goats dont easily lose their balance. You have to actually pull their legs out from under them. Nathan Dahl, 12, of Layton said. I think its a pretty cool rodeo. I really like mutton bustin, but I like the calf riding the best. He said that in 1995 he won first place in calf riding. Dahl, who has participated in the Little Buckaroo Rodeo every year since he was about 4, said, I usually place every year. Our whole family is a rodeo family, so weve just grown up doing it." Nathans mom, Wendy Dahl, grew See FAIR'2 Stoddard Examiner correspondent WEST POINT - West Point City officials voted against a proposed sewer moratorium at their regular Tuesday evening city council meeting. The moratorium, recommended by the citys planning commission by a 2 vote and city staff, had two supported by 4-- purposes. Initially, city staff members requested time to study the issue of how to best provide sewer service to increasing developments at the west end of the city below the bluff, currently served by two lift stations. But as planning commissioner Richard Hoskins said, the other purpose of the moratorium was to get the monkey olT our backs steam cleaning garbage cans, the city council decided not to get out of the garbage maintenance business. Currently, South Weber provides garbage cans, daily delivery of new cans or second cans, pick up of damaged cans, and when necessary steam cleaning" of garbage cans that really stink. The only thing the city doesn't provide is garbage collection, which the city has contracted through BFI. Tuesday, Councilman Jack Frost proposed turning over the maintenance of cans to BFI. He felt this would almost eliminate the citys need to be directly involved with the waste collection services with the exception of the monthly billing process. But Councilwoman Annette Gardner said privatizing the garbage management would take away the timely and personal service so many residents rely on. The council voted down Frost's motion 3-- Helping hands reach out to steady Trevor Simpson, who is a little unhappy about his mount dunng the mutton bustin event ROUGH RIDE: West Point votes against proposed sewer moratorium By D. LOUISE BROWN garbage business and put it back on the council. 1 loskms said, This has already been going on for two years. That moratorium says, City council, you do a study and you get something done. Planning commissioner Bert Rhoton, who cast a dissenting vote against the moratorium, nevertheless basically agreed m principle, stating, Tbis (moratorium) is foolishness. I'm not for because I believe a decision needs to be maJe by the counit cil. While the council agreed that e had come, a moratorium was not its choice either. Council member Cary Kapp distributed copies of his reasons for opposing the moratorium, which included a question of the equity See SEWER, 8 decision-tim- Layton Officials ban Sugar Street parking Noise and safety concerns along Sugar Street have prompted the city to prohibit parking along part of the street near the Smith's Management Distribution Center. Police Chief Doyle Talbot said large trucks park along the street for several hours, waiting to enter the grocery distribution center at 500 N. Sugar St. to load or unload their wares. Police studied the area after several residents complained of near head-ocollisions along the curvy section of road, as drivers maneuvered around trucks, and about the noise of refrigeration units on the trucks. The city council voted to post signs in the area, forbidding parking within 600 feet of the south end of Smith's n Unsung hero Sign ordinance hinders home sales, agent says He wants to post signs that point the way to houses for sale by CATHY MCK1TRICK Standard Cxarmner corespondent I RUIT HIIGlirS - Duane Meacham, a real estate agent GOOD NEIGHBOR: Kent Moffat lets nothing keep him from helping his neighbors with their garbage, not even hot weather or long driveways. Story3 COPY j with Wardley Better Homes and Gardens, came before the I run Heights City Council on Tuesday evening to ask for permission to post signs to his clients homes. Some of the homes he lists arc located in the curvy neighborhoods to the cast of U.S. 89. Some of his clients are desperate to sell their homes, he said. I ruit Heights currently has an ordinance that prohibits the posting of any signs on public proper ty, and Meacham has found that simply putting one of his signs in the front yard of the sellers home doesn't gel the job done. He would like to be able to post signs along U S. 89 and up through the neighborhoods that point the way to the homes that are for sale, making them easier to find, and also catching the eye of travelers. Tve lost about 10 real estate signs in the past few months, Meacham said. Some have been destroyed by vandals, others have been confiscated At $15 per sign, it becomes a lesson in irustration. he said. Political signs are more common that real estate signs. Mea- See SIGNS2 on the west side of the street and within 400 teet of the north end of the Smith s parking lot on the street s east side. Smith's will make changes to its entrance and parking lot to allow room for more trucks COMING TUESDAY Neecfy go shopping Mervyn's gives kids a special Read about in the next Lakeside Review gift |