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Show Ml I . . i . County Commission needs to show commitment Voters should be choosing soon It looks as if the Utah County Commissioners may get an opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to reform in county government. At least they will if supporters of a plan from the private sector are unable to secure an additional 3,000 signatures over the next few weeks. The private plan, which features a county council made up of seven part-tim- e members, got off the ground last year when the commission members voted them-selves a hefty pay raise. That increase made a lot of people angry, and prompted a request from the county Republic Party leadership that elected officials reconsider the raise. But one group got mad enough to do something about what they felt were inadequacies in the three-memb- er commission form of government. The result was the petition in question, calling for an election in November to let Utah County residents decide if they wanted a change. About the same time, however, the County Com-mission named a group of private residents to conduct an indepth study of the commission's activities. One area to be considered was restructuring the three- - . member commission form of government. While the private proposal for change came first, and has garnered most of the media attention, the com-mission's own committee has also returned with a proposal. This one also suggests a seven-memb- er council, but would feature three full-tim- e and four part-tim- e elected officials. There was,, for a time, talk of consolidating the two plans and handing that to the public for a vote. That hasn't happened. And now the citizen-backe- d effort to get a county government change pr jposal on the ballot by November looks as if it may fail to meet I requirement in time for this year's general electio 8 But even if that happens, local voters should still v an opportunity to decide if they want to change J ' form of county government - certainly L , November, but soon. m In such an election, voters would be asked to ch ' B between the current form of county government o !f B proposed by the County Commission's own task force H Any other course would indicate that the ' mission's task forcewas simply a device Tv pi thunder of those backing the petition for envi d change. ernnit Voters should be choosing between one of th 01 proposed county government changes soon 5,! Is0 County Commission is really dedicated mJ f change for the better. uman?i f w an a: Let me check my calendar . . . I love calendars, don't you? Calendars have gorgeous pictures on them and you hate to get rid of them at the end of the year. We save a lot of ours because they are so pretty and we might find a use for them sometime. I am not sure what, but maybe. We recently got a nice calendar at the office from KTVX TV (Channel 4) but it is really different and it throws you at first. It is a two-yea- r calendar and it lists the 24 months on one big poster-like placard. That is a nice feature because you caa see the month you want at a glance rather than having to flip through a bunch of pages. However, it has a strange feature. It begins with Monday as the first day of the week, just like we actually think 'of it. But you are not used to seeing, Monday, Tuesday, Wed-nesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday in that sequence on the calendar. Everyone who comes in the office, and even me, looks at it and doesn't notice the labeling of the days and thinks the calendar is wrong when they look for Wednesday and see Thursday's date. Not only are the days of the week sequence out of step, so to speak, but the calendar only ends in full weeks. So, using July as an example, the last day listed for July is Sunday, July 27. The other four days are listed in the first week of August. If you are not concentrating you would all of a sudden think that July had been shortened to 27 days or that p.g. blab i - ?XJ By TV MARCELLA fW i WALKER the calendar people really goofed up. However, once you learn to read the calendar it is kind of helpful. Learning it, though, is the tough part. Every January I get one of those little Hallmark calendars to put in my purse to keep track of all my appointments because I sure have a bunch and my memory is not all that it should be. The computer is getting full, I tell folks. ; At the first of the year I go through and mark all the dates that I know of, such as my kids birthdays, our anniversary, etc., city council meetings, and all such set things. In January I added the upcoming MIA activities since I work inthat auxiliary. By February the calendar is lost among a whole lot of other junk in my purse and nothing is marked other than what got marked in January. I did better in March and at the end of the month I marked the Chamber of Commerce meetings and the Strawberry Days Queen pageant. Nothing is in April. In May I did better about listing things but I am sure I did not open the calendar after they were listed. There is nothing in June, although it was a very busy month what with a trip, Strawberry Days, and another trip. July did little better although it does have the incorrect date for a family reunion marked. If it were not for all the birthdays our family has in August, there would be nothing listed there at all. Yet, school starts, the family reunion is then, plus several other things. Of course, there is nothing but birthdays listed for the rest of the year. After all, we are not even there yet. Right? Do you forget to turn over calendars at home at the end of the month? About the middle of the month I look at the calendar for the first time in weeks and notice that it is still on June and July is well gone. I always remember at work, for-tunately, because we live by the calendar and the deadline there. Next to our telephone we have one of those big eraseable calendars that you fill in each month with grease pencil. It has big squares for each date so that you can write in all of your appointments. I forget to check it, too. In fact, I forget to erase the old month and fill in the new month,-- so frequently, we have a month i in beginning in the middle and aj p1' month picking up midway u the calendar. 'i ' Everyone is used to my melhx' keeping this calendar up to datf P no one worries about it, I don't th ! One of the paper distributes I often given out calendars j have one large print of a J i ( painting on it. They are it I framing, which, of course, we J I not done. But they are placed id1 1 ' walls of the office and we je ' many comments on them. 1 r Often people want to know J I u the item in the painting is lw:) ! real life. There is an old eta1 1 which everyone comments onlJ j is a farm in winter with the u milling about looking for someti I to eat. There is an old, abate I mill in winter. And, finally, there:. I Ralston-Purin- a mill after a rJ J storm. I - Many people ask if this is tkels j . mill at Lehi at first glance. J I Did you know there is a cat:; I " on the record keeper in n: I checkbook? Did you know laic forget to look there when W o i look up a date? I bet you doto P But, then, who cares whaltol is, anyway? Time goes byw! fast and you don't need toseetij days fly by studying thecalenfe: a regular basis. On vacation you don't cares day it is. We should be like thatr of the time, don't you think? Oh, no! While I was writings, missed an appointment. Do think they will believe my excus' Police look for burglary suspects Several vehicles of various kinds were recently taken from 680 E. !' Center, Pleasant Grove, according to police reports. Frank Santos told Officer Jeff Wilson that a green 1972 Pinto valued at $500 had been stolen along with a blue and white Kawasaki 225 snowmobile, 1978, valued at $500; a homemade yellow dune buggy with VW motor valued at $500; a black snowmobile trailer worth $200; and five pinball machines valued at $100 each. There are some suspects in the theft. A four foot wooden stake with red, white and blue cloth was burned at 904 Sage Circle. It was reported to Officer Lonnie Wilson that this has been done several times in this neighborhood during the past few weeks. There are no suspects. Joseph Benjamin, 990 N. 100 East, told Officer Jay Thornton that two tires on his car had been slashed while the car was parked a few doors down from his home. There are no suspects. Officer Jim Taufer picked up an adult and juvenile who were in-toxicated on West Center. They were arrested for lewdness and in-toxication. Linda Miller reported that a .22 caliber semi-automat- hand gun had been taken from her motorhome. Sgt. Steve Frampton investigated. There is a possible suspect. Harry Peacock's mailbox at 840 N. 1300 West was blown up by vandals. The mailbox was valued at $15. Officer Cody Cullimore reported there are no suspects at this time. A two-to- n white Ford truck with a crane on the back was taken from Hikiau and Associates at 40 N. Geneva Road in Lindon. The truck was later recovered. There is a suspect in the theft. Frederick Fage, 375 N. Canal Drive, Lindon, reported a Craft-sman toolbox with tools was missing from his property. Taken with the box were end wrenches, socket wrenches, rachets, metric tools, etc. The value was $300. Officer Lonnie Wilson said there are no suspects. One passenger was injured when two cars collided at 100 E. 200 North. Drivers of the cars were Gary Lee Bennett and Shane Park, both of Pleasant Grove. Injured was Lamae Bennett. She was taken to American Fork Hospital by Pleasant Grove am-bulance where she was treated for a back injury. Damage to the Bennett car was listed at $1,800 and there was $1,200 damage to the Park auto. Officer Jay Thornton investigated the accident. Taxes to increase for Cedar Hills By BECKI GRASS JOHNSON The Cedar Hills Town Council voted to adopt the final budget for 86-8- 7 as presented in a special meeting held July 23 at the home of Mayor Greg Harris. Because of the 1985 of properties in the Manila area, the tax base of the town is smaller, but the total amount of taxes collected remains the same. The average taxpayer will see an increase of about $30. Other properties have been annexed into the town since the 1985 but their taxes cannot be included in this years budget. As a result, the taxpayers will not see a decrease until next year. Mayor Harris and councilmen are concerned over the increase and will hold a public hearing regarding a change in their salaries. Coun-cilman Bill Bule proposed that their salaries be stricken from the budget altogether. The public hearing will be held at 7 p.m. on August 13 at the Pleasant Grove Junior High Lun-chroom. The Country Wood Estates, a proposed development of 84 lots owned by" Prudential, was discussed. Brian Anderson, of Cedar Hills, expressed concern that the lots and homes of the proposed development would be small and would decrease the value of surrounding properties. According to Mayor Harris, the size of the lots and homes of the development comply with the city ordinances and zoning. The Town Council voted for an alternate member to serve on the Town Planning Commission. The alternate member will be appointed by Mayor Harris upon approval of the Town Council. The Town Council also voted to begin their meeting at 7 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month. Forgetful people have more friend: grassroots Copyright (L1986 Becky Grass Johnson "My what a friendly town!" I said to myself as I drove through Pleasant Grove one day. Nearly everyone I saw waved and several cars honked at me like we were old buddies. That is one of the nice things about a small town, I thought . . . the folks are so amiable. But when a fellow pulled up beside me at the stop light and started motioning to me, I thought he was being downright fresh. The light changed and I left him in my dust. I pulled into my driveway, got out of the car and suddenly felt a little foolish. I had driven around town all morning with a large box of crayons on top of the car. (I had set the box on top while I had loaded two sacks of groceries and three children into the car, then absent-mindedl- y driven away.) It was a harsh realization that the man who had motioned to me at the light was not saying "Hi, sweetie." He was saying, "Hey, stupid, you are driving around with a box of crayons school. Hubby liked to tease the daylights out of me about being so forgetful, until the following summer when we left on vacation. He had carefully loaded the suitcases, sleeping bags, snacks, and blankets into the car top carrier. He had painstakingly arranged each suitcase. He had stacked each item so we could conveniently reach the snacks and storybooks. Then he closed the lid and we were on our way. We had just pulled onto Nearly every car that passed, us honked. The drivers waved. We smiled and waved too, until one of the kids in the back mentioned that they had just seen their Sunday clothes and a bag of Fritos blow off the top of the car. Our station wagon swerved and screeched to a halt. Hubby had forgotten to fasten the latch on the car top carrier. Hubby should have been awarded the red badee of rnurapp that Hav He frantically dodged traffic a mile down the freeway ; gathered up our belongings1 kids in the back of the car cte Dad on and yelled things - ' "Watch out, there's a covered my eyes and prayed & was not going to find myself a-pparent. Hubby didn't tease me aw crayon episode after that. I'll admit that in the past ; years I've lost only a couf' checkbook and a -- off papers, my the top of the car. (So fari" the kids.) Just last week when I W ; Canyon Road, I followed a up truck with a cav couldn't help P ;, noticed that the back door - camper was wide open a ; were all kinds of things of the back. I honked, but was WW, them to get their .attenj. same morning, (Bin80, day!), I saw a wmtf J, from the P.G. swimmtf (rj of Sprite on an open can CaThe next time you are J W open road and people are can smilej fcV friendly, you B you want... or you top of your car.-- N by BECKI GRASS JOHNSON on top of the car! " And all the people I had passed that morning hadn't smiled to be friendly. I had provided them with their laugh for the day. I was so humiliated that I insisted on changing the license plates and even talked about spray painting the car a different color. For two weeks I wore a paper sack over my head when I picked up the kids from i I 7 j:". Jl Lindon Days Royalty are, L-- Amanda Hatch, second runner-up- ; QueeMichelle Schoell; and Heather Anderson, first runner-up- . Sunday concert Kay Brown and her daughter, Melissa, will provide the concert in the park on Sunday, Aug. 3, at 7:00 p.m. in the Downtown City Park. Kay is a songwriter and a per-former who will provide an excellent program for the crowd that attends the concerts. The concerts in the park are held weekly during the summer at the Downtown Park on Sunday evenings to provide some of the best in cultural entertainment for the residents of the community. The concerts are sponsored by the Pleasant Grove Arts Council under the direction of the music com-mittee. There is no charge and everyone is invited to attend. ISSN No.8755- - j U.S.P.S.No.435 j ta& W and Christmas by o II South MJ'11 Pleasant Grove. l' - Advertising 4 Circuw rr News BretlR-Publisher !arcr Editors Man1"' Subscription prWjJ jj Second class Grove F al Pleasant PC, B..x 7. Amtrn j . mmmmmm. . . Reading a metropolitan newspaper is like eating a restaurant meal - you pick and choose from what's offered. 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