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Show 7- - SO HO AG & SONS BOOKBINDERY, INC R 127 RAILROAD ST REFT j SPR1NGPORT M1 492S4 S .1 ncwapapci m 1 Vol. 6 No. (! Wednesday, February 8, 15)84 50 cents a single copy ... Community Survey coming next week A survey of the residents of Pleasant Grove will be conducted Monday, Feb. 20, from 7-- 9 p.m. under the direction of the city council and community progress committee. Please save the copy of the blue survey sheet which will be distributed with the Pleasant Grove Review on Feb. 15. Fill it out, and return it to the volunteers that will call at your home. The local leaders of the IJ)S church have urged each family to participate in the survey during their family home evening that day. An opportunity will be given to subscribe to the Pleasant Grove Review at the same time the survey is picked up. Fill out the subscription form that will be in next week's paper and return it with payment to the volunteer. For each subscription or renewal taken that night the newspaper will donate $3 to your choice of either the Pleasant Grove library Fund or the Fire Station Fund. The survey will be used to decide priority items by the city council. If there are any questions please call E. Mark Bezzant or the Pleasant Grove City Hall. U .(I I llf i ' ' """"t..-- ,, t , - . rI - f I , . , . . ; ! ,,.. "'"- f; ! f I f i I 4 ' I 1 ; T s ( . - . " : J '.'--' ' , ... - . - '- -.. r- - - y - s . s , ,.'', , ', " ' . - 3.-: - f 4, ' , ".., ?Y.v - " -" ' . J f -. '."!.-.- ' - " " - 1 , ; ' ; . , - - ,V . ''-- , " S If'.' , ' ;s; - " . . - - - -- f , - . - : k. - LANE NIELSON, left, and Robert Krcsser of Pleasant (".rove Street Department, use moments while fog thins to fill chuckholes brought on by winter's cold and ice. ' When the fog lifts... crews fill chuckholes By MARCELLA WALKER Talk about double trouble! The continual g temp-eratures of the last two months are wrecking havoc with the city streets but the dense fog limits the amount of time the city street crews can spend filling in the chuckholes. Grant Fowles, superintendent of city streets in Pleasant Grove, said that for safety reasons his men cannot fill chuckholes when visibility is near zero. When the sun dares to break through the haze a little the crews go immediately to work stuffing the small and little road chasms with cold mix. Grant noted that cold mix cannot adequately adhere to the holes when the temperatures are so low and many times the filling just comes back out again in a few days. He said the police department tries to keep him informed of where the chuckholes are located. They try to do the worst ones first. We joined the road crew filling holes on Orchard Drive the other day. There was one right after another as the entire road seemed to be breaking up. Grant said the older streets suffer the most from the weather but this year even the new ones are getting holes in them. Warming weather would be a real help, Grant added. It would make it possible for them to get the potholes filled up and it would melt off the ice which is still a problem on many streets. He pointed out that this year his department has used double the amount of cinders that they normally use in a winter. They have used 500 tons of cinders on the 90 miles of city streets so far this winter. He explained that they use 35 tons of salt to every 300 tons of cinders for cutting the ice on the streets. The salt is very hard on the surface of the roads, too, he noted. Mr. Fowles said that cars parked overnight or for long periods of time on city streets are certainly a problem when it comes to snow removal. He urges residents to keep their cars off the streets at all times to provide for easier snow removal. He said that because of the cold temperatures the snow has not melted, ice has formed and it has meant the crews have had to take the cinder trucks out much more often than usual. The superintendent stated that he has not received very many complaints from the citizens and he appreciates that. He said he feels that most people understand that they are trying to do the best they can under the circumstances. The city purchased two new snow plows this year and they are holding up very well even though they have been used a great deal. The trucks are old but reliable. The department did receive one new truck this year. Basically, Grant did not feel the roads were much worse this winter than other years. The fog has definitely been a problem though, he noted. Hepatitis danger past A story printed in the Pleasant Grove Review last week regarding the Day Care Center may have been misleading to readers. It should be noted that a teacher and one student at the center did develop hepatitis over a month ago. All children and teachers in contact with the two individuals did receive innoculations as a precaution. - The incubation period for the disease is reported to be three weeks. Since the cases were more than a month ago and there has been no new cases it appears there is now no problem, according to the center officials. Review story lists -- wrong Mills name in criminal story Calvin B. Mills of Pleasant Grove, age 23, has never been charged, arrested or convicted of aggravated assault or plead guilty of such, as was published in the Pleasant Grove Review on Feb. 1, 1984. The name listed should have been Alan Mills. The Review regrets the inadvertent error. Arrest solves vandalism case Det. Steve Frampton of the Pleasant Grove Police Department arrested one ' youth and referred him to the Juvenile Court solving at least four vandalism cases in the city, police reported today. Det. Frampton said that actually it probably solved . more vandalisms but four is all they were able to prove. Officer Cody Cullimore arrested one male adult for driving under the influence of alcohol. Officer Bert Bean is looking into the theft of an undetermined amount of cash from a video machine at the Pleasant Grove Community Center. Damage to the machine was estimated at $75 as the machine was broken into. Investigation is continuing into the theft. Appeal made for heavy flood equipment The Pleasant Grove Flood Control Committee has made an appeal to area contractors and others who use heavy equipment to make that equipment available should flooding occur this spring. Sherri Atwood, Emergency Preparedness director for the city, said the committee wanted to compile a list of available resources for construction equipment and skills. She said the list will consist of companies with available equipment that would be accessible for use in an emergency. Such equipment would be requested only in the event that available city equipment is not sufficient to meet the situation, Mrs. Atwood explained. Anyone with equipment which would be available is asked to notify the Pleasant Grove Police Department, 87 E. 100 S., Pleasant Grove. She said the information would be kept on file in that office and would be used only if the situation requires such action. Alpine meeting schedule clarified session." It's a policy Dr. Heaps says will eliminate "last minute input and politicking, but it does allow the board to function as an elected board, representing all patrons." Instead, the statement says, the lime for virtually unlimited public The President of the Alpine Board of Education has issued a statement clarifying the purpose of the district's two monthly meetings. The clarification comes in the wake of several attempts made by in-dividuals to speak out at the board's first monthly meeting, a meeting board President Richard Heaps says is "to be devoted to decision making and business." The board initiated a second monthly meeting last year, "devoted to information gathering and public input," in the wake of increased public interest in the board's activities. "No elected board should make decisions in a vacuum, especially decisions which affect public monies and public welfare," Dr. Heaps says in the statement. But he goes on to clarify that the district first monthly meeting, scheduled for the second Tuesday of each month, "would be for the major purpose of making specific decisions and to formulate district policy. "All of the major decision items treated in this meeting will have received public input during previous sessions," Dr. Heaps says. "In order to streamline decision making, public input at this first meeting is restricted to a brief 'public opportunity to address the board' at the beginning of the input is the second meeting held on the fourth Tuesday, where the board "devotes almost the entire meeting to an open agenda, where patrons may air any concern of topic of interest." That is when patrons should take up issues that will be decided upon at the upcoming business meeting, Dr. Heaps says. "This second meeting, in fact, is being held as a preparation for the business session," he says. The meeting has nor formal agenda and patrons don't need to sign up before the meeting to address the board, as they do at the business meeting. Heaps says he realizes that some people still want to get a word in at the business session before a decision is made, but that the board feels the current procedure will help it operate most effectively. "The final decision-makin- g powers rest with the board and therecomes a time when decisions must be made," he said. "There will never be a time when all patrons will be happy with a public decision or when all citizens will feel that their input has been employed to the fullest extent." Further information concerning board meeting dates or specific agenda items may be obtained from district information specialist Michael Robinson at 756-967- Board to consider district housing needs The Alpine Board of Education will discuss future housing needs for district public school students at its first meeting in February. The discussion is part of a saturation study being conducted in the area to determine student enrollment projections for the district. The meeting will be held at Pleasant Grove Jr. High School, 810 N. 100 East, Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 6 p.m. Superintendent Clark Cox will make recommendations to the board during the session on possible sites for new school construction during the next two to three years. Two important action items are also listed on the tentative board agenda for the evening. The first is a consideration of the date, amount, and usage of funds for a possible voted leeway in the district. The board postponed a decision on the leeway at its last meeting in order to see what the legislature would do in terms of funds for public education. A second action item is the adoption of high school graduation requirements for students of the district. Public input has been gathered on the proposed changes and board members are expected to vote on the issue during the session. Other items of interest include a report on the use of computers in the schools and the establishment of a school calendar for the next three school years. All patrons are invited to attend the public meeting. An opportunity to address the board will be provided at the beginning of the session. Police attend flood ( control meetings Pleasant Grove Police Chief 4 Mike Ferre and Emergency Preparedness Director Sherri Atwood were participants in a meeting held recently at the Utah County Sheriffs Office on flood response. k. The meetings will be held monthly as plans are made for jl flood control preparations in the county. The object is to keep city officials up to date on flooding prospects in the county, weather predictions and forecasts. Some areas of the county are deemed to be in more potential danger than others and these will be identified. Earth movement in the mountains is being monitored. This is of the most concern at the present time, the participants were told. Areas which showed signs of movement last year are being watched closely. The cooperation of all the cities in the county will be helpful in the flood control efforts, it was reported. The Pleasant Grove representatives will be attending future meetings of the group, too. |