Show maiMi and regional news Local state In brief Logan By David Nelson staff writer City approves new Recently being designated a “metropolitan” area may have been a clear indication that Logan is growing However another development may be a more meaningful and a more authentically Utahn sign that the community is rapidly expanding as a new expanded Deseret Industries may soon be on the way Plans for a new Deseret Industries building the popular LDS Church-owne- d thrift store and donation center with locations throughout Utah were preliminarily approved by the Logan Planning Commission on Thursday night The approved design is for a 46 foot facility at the corner of 200 West and 1400 North in Logan which would include retail space as well as offices for the LDS Family Services and Employ- ment Services When contacted earlier this week church officials could not comment on whether the existing Deseret Industries will remain open or estimate a date for construction or opening of the recently approved store The local Deseret Industries ' Is currently located at 2SS S Main - Geoff Butler Logan city planner Logan or they can be unsightly something like the garish lattice-towat 300 North owned by Logan city Although designs change heights er By Jamie staff writer Karras In more than 52 years he missed only 15 days of work He worked 18965 days out of 18980 Or he had 99 percent in the black No matter what light you look at it in Keith Hirst certainly put in his time as a “mechanical technician” for Sears Roebuck and Co Quite the feat eh? Not for this goer “You don’t spend 52 years somewhere you don’tlite” said Hirst a e resident of Cache Valley Meeting planned for Wilson area A Wilson neighborhood meeting is scheduled for 7 pm on Thurs- day April 29 at Wilson Elementary School 89 S 500 East Logan Mayor Dpug Thompson and Logan city staff will discuss the 400 East and Long Dugway the Canyon Road clean-u- p bite paths an area crime report and a Willow Park Zoo presentation There will be time for questions and answers and a draw- ing for prizes long-tim- Cache people places followup & things For Hirst the old saying “leave things better than you found them” runs deep — deeper than ' his profession might require Before he was employed as a Hirst used traveling his handyman skills to help ease some hard financial times in the 'early years of his marriage “We made rockin’ horses out of pine board and sold them for $8” Hirst said “Now you can’t buy the board for $8” This began something that was ' - more than just a 1950’s money- - ' maker as now all three of the Hirst grandchildren own a “rockin’ horse” equipped with a mane full of brown knitting yarn as a keep- sake from Grandpa At first he declined a request to ' V take a peek inside the woodwork- ing shopgarage because it was “a mess” But only a few moments later Hirst was on his way out the V Recent threatening ' : The Cache County Sheriff’s Office said that two statements provided to The Herald Journal on fixer-upp- er Brent StevensHerald Journal Keith Hirst : Wednesday wereihaccurateThe story concerned Thomas Michael former EA Carrick a Miller truck driver who was recently fired Cache County Sheriff’s Lt Dave Bennett said the statement made by Carrick “to bum down” E A Miller was said figuratively meaning that he wanted revenge Bennett clarified that Carrick did not say he would literally torch EA Miller property - " " Clarification Marfa Wood began backdoor storytelling event Library- See TOWERS on A8 Logan craftsman has built a life of mechanics woodworking in Logan estab-Iishe- : Ini - A name was omitted from a story that ran in Friday’s edition of The d Herald Journal Marla Wood the Wednesday morning flannel storytelling at North Logan Next month thecity council will vote to approve ordinances regarding the construction of telccommunica-tion- s towers recently completed by’ the community development department The ordinance is intended to give developers guidelines on how the facilities that support phones pagers and wireless Internet should be built Butler said the current city policy has been unclear for years and he hopes to prevent sights like the expansive tower in the north parking lot of Logan’s City Hall “We kind of got burned on the city tower” said Butler “We don’t want that kind of thing again” The ordinance will keep towers out of residential neighborhoods and Ul -- statements clarified vary and opinions on the expanse of cell phone towers often differ the structures may have one thing in common — an inevitable local increase Logan city officials said that the city has received a “flood of interest in telecommunications facilities” recently and each month since last fall reported at least a few requests to buiid cell phone towers As a result the city planning department wants to make sure that while cell phones are sure to be more visible in the future the towers connecting mobile users aren't “Companies want to increase the capacity (for wireless communications) and we want to plan for the future” said Geoff Butler Logan city planner “Companies want to increase the capacity (for wireless communications) and we want to plan for the future" With the rapid spread of mobile communication during the past few years the sight of a cell phone pager BlackBerry or any other handheld gadget seems almost constant Now the communications technology is visible on the local physical landscape as well as an increasing number of cell towers needed to field the telecommunications transmissions Towers can be inconspicuously built in clock towers church steeples or trees which communities including Provo have done across the country Tliey can be high above the sight line like the series of towers atop the Ellen Ecclcs Theatre in Deseret Industries 100-squa- re charts limits on cellular towers -6- 6— — - ' His shop holds luxuries way stands in his wood beyond the average screwdriver wrench and pair of needlenose pliers The power tools are abundant especially considering woodworking is “just a hobby” mess includes The neatly swept floors a remarkable absence of dust and wood and tools filedaway in an orderly fashion" Affixed to the ceiling is a space heater providing warmth to Hirst’s hands during the Cache Valley winters Amid all the oddly named saws is just a small sprinklirig of Hirst’s tinkering A toy rocking horte whose legs ' ' six-pa- ' ck " : : into one and a picture frame with no nails involved “You can’t break it” he said “You could run over it with a trac- tor” finger-removi- de My wo cents worthCacHe gallop as it rocks a “pack deer” whose saddle resembles a of sodaand an “granddaughter clock” made of solid oak All sorts of special sanders shapers and cutters inhabit the area conveniently extended to hold them all Most of these possible tools are on Wheejstomakethem' at times more accessible : has a “Everybody jig to make things easier” Hirst said ' ' As such Hirst actively taps into his creative sjde designing such things as wooden guides that help ' n him make a cutting job ng : ed shop located in his garage at his Logan home ' v Hirst’s handyman's haven didn’t ' come all in one splurge purchase Instead the tools were collected over a span He still has the table saw that he built back in 1954 for a small sum The same saw today would cost around $400 Whether it's in his own house or others 'he seems to go beyond handy He’s something more like a master ' : ' See MASTER on A8 two-ma- Valley views on topics of the day Question: What one store or restaurant would you like to see come to Cache yaUey and why? Correction Missionary to serve Blake Ballard' son of Todd and Norene Ballard of Benson has accepted a' call to serve in the Cana- da Toronto West LDS Mission He enters the MTC on April 28 - Cache trivia Answer Utah State's Merrill Library is named after Milton Reese Merrill bom April 3 1901 in Richmond From 1927 to his retirement in 1971 Dr served jft a wide variety of administration and academic positions at Utah State including USUs first vice president under Daryl Chase He died in 1971 Merrill ' School news tip? Call education reporter Holli Weiss 1 Ext 339 -- j 752-212- l hwaHlyneWsxoB tZJl--l- y - The valley js booming Booming because of the laige amount of new businesses and restaurants local- ly opening their doors for the first time Supermarkets audio and video pleasers clothing stores tasty food joints — the list is probably pages long However Cache Valley is a college town mak- ing it the new hometo from a wide variety of backgrounds - From religion to race you name it and they're probably here SomewhereBecause of this sprinkling of people' perhaps there is always a longing — r a longing for the valley to have something that resembles home We asked a few residenLs what their longings were and came up with answers dial proved just that '! v-- ’ ' - —- : Michelle Weight Springville “Los Hermanos in Provo I really like it That’s the 6nly one could think of" I Ben Turman Providence i Logan - i s “Little Ashley Herd v- mom-and-p- op stores I'm tired of these I - s V s Jordan Davit Logap We need a Tarr get We lived in Washington and we liked shop- - conglomerates coming in One ping there" day we're all ' going to have to go to Mexico to get a job ’ ' John Sanchez : "Melinas It’s a Mexican restau- rant in Fairr West It’s good V‘ 'food-V- ' Logan more o' a ' independent restaurants like "A lot : Le Nonne Just small type restaurants’’ one-on-o- - ne - |