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Show Review - Wednesday, March 14, 1984 - Page 2 Drive up mailbox moved. Pleasant Grove Postmaster Don Keele reported today that the drive-u- p mailbox located on the southwest corner of Main Street and 100 South will be moved Friday. The box will be placed in the parking lot behind the Public Safety Building just off 100 South midway between Main Street and 100 East. The box must be moved because an office building has been con-structed on the corner site. Postmaster Keele said that the police department had been con-cerned with the present location of the box for sometime anyway because drivers would pull onto the wrong side of the road so that they could deposit mail in the box from the driver's window. Used properly the mail had to be deposited from the passenger side of the vehicle at that mailbox. At the new site the mail can be deposited from the drivers side which will be an advantage. Being off the street it will also eliminate previous traffic hazards. Mr Keele said drivers would be able to pull into the parking lot, deposit the mail and leave again through the same driveway. We're proud of our team j By MARCELLA WALKER Pleasant Grove High School was deserted Monday afternoon as all the students headed for the Marriott Center and the state playoffs with Pleasant Grove meeting Bear River in the consolation bracket. I'm sorry, folks, but we lost. But at least we got to play three games in the state playoffs, which is very nice. We lost to Jordan but came back to beat a good Logan team by one point. A heart stopper, for sure. Then we had the game with Bear River and suddenly it was over. Our football team made it to the final four in football and the basketball team has done a commendable job, too. We are proud of each and every player and coach. Although the season is now over for Pleasant Grove as far as basketball is concerned, BYU still has an opportunity. Wouldn't it be neat if the Cougars could go all the way? I know that is a lot to ask as they are not as powerful nor as tall as a lot of teams. They have played some good ones this year and the "rookie coach has done well for his first year with the Cougars. You all know that I am a very big fan of the Coogs and I get teased about it left and right. But I'm not ashamed to say I love those Cougars. You have all seen my BYU shirt. It is getting frayed and worn looking and I really could use a new . one so I have been dropping the hints but I don't know if it will do any good or not. I have been thinking that I should write a fan letter to Coach Anderson and tell him what a great year it has been, what a terrific player I think Scott Sinek is and that my sole entertainment of the winter has been BYU basketball. We had season tickets so we went to every home game. We listened or watched on TV all the other games so we had to stay home for that. Friends keep asking if we have seen this movie or that and we always have to say no because we have not seen any movies at all this winter .because the games are our entertainment. I'd like to see "Terms of Endearment", 'The Right Stuff', and "Yentl" before the acadeffi awards get here but I m won't make it. Were they as god they say? 81 Baseball season is starting PG slated to play Binghai? week, I think, (maybe it's todV and BYU has already begun ft'' n schedule. It would be nice to go to al tk. BYU home games but I know7 ' won't be able to and besides it J probably be too cold to go to nZ ( of them if it is at all like it Wag ' year. They have held the organizafo i meeting for the Pleasant QK1 f softball season and so that wiL ( coming up before too long andlcai, s hardly wait. j Speaking of movies, we did m ( "Ghandi" on a video at home other day and it was a very (J, a picture. Of course, we were only a over a year late in seeing it since J first came out. Mostly I like to set 1 old favorites from the "olden days" p when we get a video. The kids don't particularly enjoy them. I really like the old musicals and they all moan and groan when they haveb watch them. Usually they leave the j room. I could watch "Camelot" "Brigadoon", "Oklahoma", 'The KingandI","SoundofMusic",and j all the others on a regular basis but b some of the kids die at the thought n "On Golden Pond" has been a i popular one at our house and so g was "Chariots of Fire." All of the Disney shows such as "Private B Eyes" and such are good ones that 9 everyone likes. j However, everyone has theirowi ft ideas. When we go to get videos it is best to leave every person except one at home. The one can pick wit the movies for that week and everyone else will just have to likeit f or lump it. Arguments ensue every time we suggest getting videos Sometimes I wonder if it is worth it fj Have you noticed that everyone and his dog rents videos now-adays? You can get them at the grocery store, the music store, the gas station and the convenience rq store. Isn't modem life wonderftd?! ; hope we all survive it K Consider CUP offer, carefully None of those attempts to work with the CUP seemed to work. They have initiated law suits, one of which is still in the courts. But construction of the pipeline will probably begin before that law suit is settled, and it probably won't affect the J-- 4, A-- 3 decision anyway. At last week's meeting of the CUP board, district manager Lynn Ludlow said he thought our mayors are pretty much resigned to seeing the aqueducts go through our communities. "I think the mayors of North Utah County have for the most part accepted the decision have been made," Ludlow said. And he may be right. But at least one mayor, Malcolm Beck, is still standing firm against the pipeline construction, and threatening a new law suit. Still, it demonstrates a willingness on the part of the CUWCD to work with the cities. To many, that might appear promising. Not that the cities haven't had an impact. Largely as a result of local efforts, the way CUP board members are chosen was changed to appointment by the governor, a step to designed to increase responsibility of board members for the areas they served. And observers of the board and the way it operates will . agree that it has had an impact. The criticism of the CUP has also prompted a call for an overall review of the project on a statewide basis by the Bureau of Reclamation -- - a move Gov. Matheson said he will intiate through the Utah Department of Natural Resources and hopes to complete in eight months "while I am still in office." Other changes have been made, and are continuing to be made. Whether the CUWCD's offer to pay for fencing along the canal is the reflection of that change, or simply , an effort to ease the way to gating those easements still remains to be seen. ;"' "' ;' But local communities should deal in good faith with the district as the options are worked out. Ludlow was firm in saying that the resolution was an offer to "fulfill some of our obligations." And residents of North Utah County should get ready for the sound of heavy construction as work on the aqueducts begin. j " ' The time is nearing when North Utah County will lose its ongoing battle with the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, and the Jordan-- 4 and Alpine-- 3 aqueducts will carve their way through our communities. The Bureau of Reclamation, which awarded the contract for the pipeline construction late last year, wants to start construction on the pipeline as soon as possible. But the BOR still faces one remaining obstacle - they don't have all the easements they need to build the pipelines - especially where they will be crossing the water lines that serve the North Utah County Com-munities. The cities have reserved those rights, guarding them as an le in case their other efforts to convince the CUWCD and BOR to change their plans aren't ef-fective. As the date nears for construction to begin on the pipelines, the imprortance of those easements is evident. The Bureau of Reclamation is ready to start con-demnation proceedings on those rights of way so con-struction on the aqueducts can begin this spring. That's not the kind of action that wins friends, but the BOR ap-parently feels like it has run out of options . The CUWCD's response shows that the local com-munities have had an impact on the way the water district approaches this type of business. The board even passed a motion in last Thursday's meeting that approved in principle the expenditure of district funds to offset the costs of local adverse effects the aqueduct construction might have! About $500,000 has been set aside for this purpose, and if it is used, it will probably be used to build a fence along the Murdock Canal. But so many questions remain about the fence con-struction. , It will have to be built on BOR easements and private propert, since negotiations with the Provo River Water Users Association to use the Murdock Canal rights of way have failed time and again to resolve the issue. And it will have to be built by the BOR along with the rest of the project. The details of that still have to be worked out. Not that our local city officials haven't tried other ways to change the decision about the pipelines. They have met with the CUP several times. 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