OCR Text |
Show " Review - Wednesday, May 14, 1986 - pafr , Q camm&mt ) --Editorial Get guarantee before zone change to tomorrow night's public hearing . 3 Our county commissioners have said that a zone change now can be reversed in the future if the Estes Co should decide, after more study, that the Traverse Ridge development just won't work. But not everyone agrees that it is so easy to jump from one zone to another and then back again. By rezoning the Traverse Ridge property to rural residential, the county will be giving landowners rights they don't currently enjoy in a critical environment zone that make the property more valuable. If Estes were to pull out and the county tried to change the zone back, it would be revoking those rights in a manner that could be considered discriminatory. After all, it's illegal for the county to give Estes more consideration than it gives any other developer. The case would probably end up in court, costing the taxpayers a bundle in legal fees. And the final decision could go either way. The chance of that happening is great enough that the f county cannot afford to rezone the Traverse Ridge property until it is certain that Estes Co. is willing to develop Traverse Ridge in the manner they have said they would. Before handing over this zoning change, the County Commission should have in hand several pieces of in-formation that will ensure the development will be built as envisioned. That includes an environmental impact statement and a preliminary plan of the development. With that information in hand, Estes Co. can make a decision on whether to develop the property or not, and the county can decide if it wants to see the property developed. To go ahead with the zone change for Traverse Ridge tomorrow night without this information in hand is not in the best interests of the residents of Utah County. Tomorrow evening the Utah County Commission will make a major decision regarding the future of the Traverse Ridge area and a proposed 5,000 acre development that the Arizona-base- d Estes Company would like to put there. To be sure, the county officials have argued that the public hearing to change the zoning in the Traverse Ridge area from a critical environment zone to a rural residential zone is just one step in the process of ap-proving or disapproving the Traverse Ridge develop-ment. To a degree, they are correct. The proposed development, which would eventually become a new city with a larger population than that of several existing local communities, will still have to go through a lot of red tape, and get more county approvals, before builders can start moving any earth. And this developer has a lot of points in its favor. Estes Co. has put together similar developments in other states that are feasible from both an economic and ecological standpoint, and their pjans for Traverse Ridge are impressive to say the least. They have envisioned a development that will include open land for wildlife, housing for a wide variety of income levels, recreation areas such as golf courses, special sites reserved for commercial development, land for schools and the industry required to attract and employ the residents of the development. The problem is they want the zoning changed before the detailed plans are developed and the studies are done to show that the Traverse Ridge development is feasible and practical. However, a zone change is a major step that will have an impact on the land involved, not to mention the county, whether Estes Co. goes through with the development or not. And that adds a different dimension Library needs 'G' spirit The weather was no friend of the project to complete the restoration of the G on Little Mountain, but the job is finally done and it looks gorgeous. Even from as far away as Lehi, the block letter stands out in prominence on the mountainside. Workers Saturday had to brush the snow away in order to finish putting the white aluminum strips into place. They also had to work with only a handful of people. With a larger group, the job could have been finished a couple of weeks ago. A tribute should be given to all of those who gave of their time and money to make this project successful. From Boyd Fugal who spent hundreds of hours along with his fellow Kiwanis Club members, to the kids in the Key Club at Pleasant Grove High School who led the fund raising efforts, thanks from all of us. The G brings back memories to all those who have lived here and especially to all those who attended Pleasant Grove High School since about 1921. We get all excited about preserving our heritage and the Block G is a big part of the heritage of most of those who have set their roots in Pleasant Grove over the years. The crusade to save the G and the work involved is like the efforts to save the softrock buildings in the community, or preserving the Fugal blacksmith shop, or adding on to the present library. It took a community effort to do it and it paid off in a glistening white letter, a symbol to all of the pride we have in the community. Now that the project is near completion, the time has come to turn the same efforts to raising funds for the library addition mentioned above. Many residents feel that adding on to the present library is the way to go. They love the old softrock structure which once was a city hall and a jail. It is certainly feasible to build to the south of the library and make the new structure out of soft rock, also. It would fit in and would not detract from the present building. The library is in constant use and larger facilities to house all of the books, a media center, and a reading room would be very desirable. As the Pleasant Grove Historical Preservation Committee begins its efforts to enlarge the library, let us as a community get behind it as we did the G project. It will take a lot more money but Pleasant Grove can do if with just proper organization, which it has, and the contributions of everyone. Slides & movies priceless . . .at least to us By MARCELLA WALKER p.g. blab What can be more fun lhan looking at old slides? I love to look at slides of when the kids were small and of places we have been. The kids say they don't want to watch them, but once they get started they seem to enjoy it as much as anyone. I suggested that for Family Night we look at slides. This resulted in a , bunch of low moans from many ;ffttpyyreiv.Even4e' dad did wJTfi.Vj.ook really happy and I found ouT why. No one knew exactly where a) the slides were. We hadn't looked at slides for a long time, except for the ones our son showed us of his mission when he got home in March. I could remember that we had sorted through the slides the last time and we had labeled them so that we knew what was in each box. The only thing we could find that had slides in it for family night were the remnants. The ones which are really, really old and which we had not got to yet for the labelling. We gathered these together with a shrug of the shoulders, since we could not find the ones we really wanted to look at, and went to it. It was not long until I found myself saying "Oh-h-h- " and "Ah-h-h- " as each new picture came to view. I glanced around and watched the children and dad. "He was more concerned with finding an in-teresting slide than looking at them and the kids were rolling their eyes as I exclaimed over pictures of them remember to keep taking pictures of all the kids. No one would be left out. What a laugh! As more kids came and we were busier and busier it was easy to forget to take the camera out to take pictures of their little ac-complishments and their antics. However, we have done better than a lot of folks, but that does not exactly salve my conscience somehow v' We tiave.taXkJeUnl.taJt, loCoij'p'icTpresVqfj the grandchild and I do hope we ' have learned a lesson and take lots of pictures of all of them as they come along. This is a digression, but when I was a junior at BYU I lived with a crazy bunch of girls. One of them kept her camera loaded and ready in case of emergency. Emergency meant anytime we did something dumb. She has pictures of me when a whole cube of butter slid off the plate onto my mashed potatoes. She has pictures of all of us in our slips, all of us asleep on the couch, all of us studying together which was more like a big gab session, sitting on the throne, playing tricks on one another, dancing. Those pictures are a treasure to me. When I look at those pictures it brings back all the memories, all the feelings of being young again, and I love it. The kids look at those pic-tures and snort. "Oh, Mother," they coo. Oh, I love it. Anyway, back to the slides. Finally the kids began to get into the swing of things. They began to recall the circumstances around some of the pictures. They began to tell experiences and stories. Dad never did get involved much. He just kept trying to find a few good slides. I wonder where the other slides are? I know we put them in a safe place but where is the safe place? We'd like to look at movies. We "toolTl6Js"bf 'Snirijf. movies of the fifiSPj .child' 'and 'somewhat ' less ' of the"1" second child and a' whole lot less of the last three but there are some good ones of all of them. We can't look at movies because someone borrowed our projector r and did not return it and we can't remember who we loaned it to. I guess soon we will go knock on Delia's door and ask to borrow hers so that we can look at those old, amateur movies .that the kids really love. They really do. ' When we first got our movie camera, we took lots of pictures. We took them of our parents. Parents do not know what to do when a motion 5 picture camera goes to work on them. They suddenly realize they can move so they move awkwardly, Jerkily, and look stealthily at the camera, kind of like in the MASH sequence when Radar shows the home movie from his mom. Slides and home movies are fun. Just don't show them to the neig-hbors or your kids friends, no matter what. Say, does anyone know who has our projector? f when they were small and cute. The two youngest, especially the youngest, have complained loud and long for a long time that there are so few pictures of them. And it is true. When our first child came along we took lots of pictures of him and we .could spend an entire evening just looking at his antics. There is an abrupt difference between the number of pictures of him and that of the next child, although there are still quite a few pictures of her. When we get to number three it decreases even more and number four and finally number five hardly get a glance. Poor kids. I was warned about this when we first started taking pictures of the oldest child and I vowed we would f letters tq rz: "ifoe'e We should cherish 'G' Editor: As an active Viking at Pleasant Grove High School, I would like to express my appreciation to the studentbody, past and present, and to the community for their support in the 'G' restoration project of the past year. The Kiwanis and Key Clubs have spearheaded the fund-raisin- g effort, and raised over $6,000 for use ex-clusively in the repair and upkeep of our great 'G.' Since 1920, when the graduating pleasant "Grovians," as they were called, put that block letter on Little Mountain, it has been a symbol of school and community pride. Most people now living in the area have never seen the mountain without the 'G' there. Some have taken exception to this viewpoint, saying that the 'G' is defacing'the mountain. It would be impossible to restore the mountain to what it looked like before the letter was there. Therefore, we should put as much effort as is necessary into making it look as good as we possibly can. The aluminum filler that is now almost completely installed serves that purpose without posing a threat to the mountain itself, as other materials might have. I have heard that a nearby community is envious of our mountain and would like to put their letter in the place of our 'G'. For this, we should cherish our 'G' all the more. The 'G' on our mountain symbolizes the consolidated effort of community and school --- a unity that could have come in no other way. --Susan Liddle Pleasant Grove Take time for kids and 'spires' grassroots titildMV Copyright 1986 Becky Grass Johnson I impatiently took Miss Muffet by the hand and stomped down the stairs to get the dirty work over with. As I entered the kitchen, I froze in my tracks as I beheld the , biggest "spire" I'd ever seen in the house. My meat pie in the oven had boiled over and had indeed created a "big, BIG spire." The baby sat in her high chair watching the blazing inferno as nonchalantly as shen would a re-ru- n of Little House on the Prarie. It took an entire box of baking soda and glass of water to put out the "spire." L I try harder now to listen to what the kids are saying. At least if the three year-ol- d tells me there is big, BIG spire in the kitchen, I" come running with a box of soda and the garden hose . . or an extra large kleenex. I plead guilty and I never thought I would do it. I don't listen to my kids like I should. I had all the intentions of b eing one of those mothers who carry on intelligent, two-wa- y conversations with her preschoolers. But as my children chatter throughout the day about the shiny penny that was found on the driveway or ask for the fifth time why ants can climb walls, my head will automatically nod and I'll say, "Uh-hu- Meanwhile, I'm not really listening to their tale of how punched another kid on the playground. I'm thinking about things like the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl or what we've got left in the refrigerator for supper. Their little voices simply become background music to my own selfish thoughts. And suddenly, she had to tell me something. "No you don't," I said. "You need to eat lunch." "AH right," she sniffed in-dignantly. "But there's a spire in the kitchen." This was the same child who had a severe aversion to anything that crept, crawled or looked sneaky. She had called on Daddy several times in the middle of the night to squash the shadow she thought was a bug. Daddy is the official spider killer in the family and even I call on him from time to time. But if Daddy isn't home, then I'm the exterminator next in line. I looked at my watch. I just didn't have time. Not even enough time to grab a kleenex and send a spider to that big cobweb int he sky. I called reassuringly down the stairs that if she would eat her lunch and ignore the spider, he wouldn't charge or attack. I rolled the curling rod in my hair .when she once again appeared in the doorway. I asked, if she was through with her lunch. She shook her head. "It's a great BIG spire," she exclaimed. By now I was out of patience I told her to get b ack to her 1 un-c- h and I promised that as soon as I brushed my teeth I'd track the horrid creature down and annihilate him. She wouldn't buy it and she shook her head. "It's a big, BIG spire." "But, you are a big girl. Can't you just step on it?" "To big," she said. by BECKI GRASS JOHNSON we've got a communication gap. It had been one of those mornings. You know, the kind where the phone rings every time you even look like you're thinking about getting in the shower. The Avon lady had dropped by and the baby had shredded an entire box of kleenexes and stuffed them in the heat vent of the living room. I finished seeing off the to the school bus and sat the two little girls down to eat some hot meat pies from the oven. I had half an hour to eat, brush my teeth, curl m y hair and put on my face before I had to be to a doctor's appointment. My meat pie would have to wait. I had just started to brush on my mascara when I saw my three year-ol- d from the corner of my eye. She stood hesitantly in the doorway. I reprimanded her and told her she'd better get right back up to the table and finish her lunch. She said 'Thanks, Ches' for talents Editor: Occasionally someone comes into a community and has great in-fluence, not only on those with whom they work directly, but in-directly on the entire community as well. Such a one in our community has been, and will continue to be, Chester Stone. After contributing ten years to music education in other localities, Chester came to Pleasant Grove in 1956 to take over the music departments of both Pleasant Grove in 1956 to take over the music departments of both Pleasant Grove Senior and Junior High Schools. Later when the new high school was built, he confined using his talents to teaching only the high school students. In addition to working with his school groups, Chester has also directed several musicals and other sh ows in which many of the townspeople have participated. These people, too, have been given the benefit of Chester's knowledge and musicianship in developing their talents as they provided a cultural and entertaining ex-perience for the rest of us. Who hasn't enjoyed his fine organ playing at numerous weddings, civic events, etc? He was also 1 eader of a popular dance band in the local area. Chester has also been active in his church where he directed many ward and stake choirs. As he prepares to retire at the end of this school year, we want to take this opportunity to say, "Thanks, Ches, for a job well done. Along with many of your former students who have benefited from your teaching over the past 30 years in Pleasant Grove, we wish you a long, happy and enjoyable retirement." --Dean and Delia Steineckert peasant (Brave iRcuieui ISSN No. 2 , U.S.P.S. No. j a Published weekly except for Thanksgiving and Christmas by Newtah, Inc. 11 South Main Pleasant Grove. Utah 84002 Telephone Numbers Advertising & Circulation. News Publisher Brett R. Bezzant Editors Marc Haddock Marcclla Walker Subscription price $16" per year Second class postage paid J at Pleasant Grove Post Office I'lislmasler: Solid address 1" I'd Hi ix 7. American Knrk. Utah H3 Drapes OVJRF Shirt Laundry EXTRA CARE Leathers v dry Feather Pillows American Fork Lehi 45 West Main 2 19 East State Rd. 756-357- 4 768-946- 1 |