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Show vJl ?,ri 37" expires feCS BKBINbERV. INC. iPRIMGPORT , fIOT lTOEa Vol. 8, No. 17 Wednesday, April 30, 1986 50 cents a single copy $iggs relates history from, Wales to Lindon ' I ' - ' , ' ' " - , - - - ' y - Militia I 1 ew people anywhere can claim experience of being a game jrden, a hunting guide, a miner, a json guard, and horsetrainer like lidon's Stan Biggs. Jiggs journey to the United States ?an in 1928 at the urging of for-;- r LDS President David 0. Kay. At the time, he was a boy living in the mining 'llivn of Blinovin, Wales and McKay s a missionary there. .'My father and several families IjWales found the faith through the Vk of Dr. McKay," Biggs says, ,nd we decided to immigrate to D,i;s promised land called Utah." i3iggs, his eight brothers and " 'ters, and his father arrived on lis Island in New York Harbor in Je 1928. His mother had died a few Jars earlier, and the family lirned across the country to a Hning town called Sunnyside, th of Price. He lived there a few rs, before moving to Orem. 'My father worked in a mine that s snowed in four months of the ir," Biggs recalls. "We wouldn't Sp him from October until April pnetimes. But we kids had strong rits and we survived." 3iggs served in World War II and irried his wife, Norma in 1946. He ed working in the mines for veral years but quit after an Z:ident one day. Ill 'I had some problems with my ir and I was forced to miss that Mdnight shift that day," Biggs ys. "Turns out they had a cave-i- n yd all the workers were killed." le decided to test for a job as a pne warden and became the first fch official to. work in a Southern ah area near Kanab. "The old lers down there weren't used to ving someone tell them when iey could hunt deer, and I had re than a few problems." Vs a game warden, he had guns lied on him by poachers and irate i.iters on several occasions. He :e found a barn full of untagged ' ".er carcasses and had a .357 pistol 'Jck in his gut. "I didn't know for sure whether I would get out of there alive," Biggs says. "But I kept my calm and eventually ended up getting convictions out of the poachers." Biggs, a compassionate man, also worked briefly for the state prisons and used to take the inmates in the mountains to clear trails. "Most of the inmates were not he says. "They just had done a wrong and had to pay . the price with time." His knowledge of the mountains in Utah has led Biggs to notiriety as a professional mountain horse trainer and hunting guide. He has taken trail drives through virtually every mountain range in Utah and has a collection of trophy deer horns on his walls of his home in Lindon. "I started training horses for mountain riding back in the 1930's," Biggs says. "Most horses can eventually learn to be sure-foote- d enough, but I've seen enough ac-cidents to know that you should never take a 'green' horse in the higher peaks." Biggs tells one story about a horse that fell over a mile off a cliff on Mount Timpanogos, and when they finally got to where it was, it wasn't even recognizable. "The owner was taking chances on a narrow ledge and the horse was out of shape -- thats a dangerous combination." He still takes at least two rides in the mountains every week, but plans on even more now that he has retired from the Alpine School District, where he worked the last 27 years. "I love the mountains and the wildlife in them," Biggs says. "Its fun to me to just count the deer and elk that seem so abundant." Biggs is not an advocate of winter feeding programs for elk, except in severe winters. "You should never domisticate wildlife," he adds. "But then we , shouldn't be building on the foothills of the Wasatch Front ' the elks natural winter grazing land Biggs and his wife raised four Stan Biggs stopps for a rest in the mountains that have become a second home. children; Randy and Alwyn (botn teachers in Utah County), Anne and Rosndo. All of his kids became good horsemen under his super vision. "Being retired from working doesn't mean that I'm ever going to retire from riding in the moun-tains," Biggs concludes. "I plan on continuing to hit the trails as long as I can sit in a saddle!". Open house at new complex Friday A noon ribbon cutting ceremony and open house will be held at the new City Complex, 71 S. 100 East, Pleasant Grove, on Friday, May 2. Public tours of the complex will be held from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m. Refreshments will be served. The city hall addition to the Public Safety Building was completed recently. The asphalt work in the parking and driveway areas will be completed in time for the open house. The city council and mayor are delighted with the new building as well as the original Public Safety Building and want the public to see what their tax dollars have bought. The building was completed with money from the Capital Im-provement Fund and did not require a raise in taxes nor bonding to do the project. The Public' Safety Building was built with a grant and Pleasant Grove funds several years ago. This portion of the building, in addition to the City Hall, will be open to the public. The Public Safety Building holds the police department offices, dispatching for all city emergency services, and the city court and city council chambers. In the new addition are the city offices, building inspector, drive-u- p window for utility payments, mayor's office and meeting rooms. The city council would like every citizen of Pleasant Grove and Lindon to take advantage of this opportunity to see the structure. Lindon residents are served by the Pleasant Grove Police Dept. and are cordially invited to see the facililties. Fireman's breakfast Saturday morning J ' " ' ' -' - ' ' v , mm, - , w4ii f j- - - " ' . . - y . - ,v j . ? . . , . , -- t i Thanks to the public support of the annual Firemens Breakfast one Pleasant Grove youngster has a safer place to play. This years breakfast will be held Saturday, May 3, at the Pleasant Grove Fire Station, Center and Main Streets. Some of the proceeds from the Firemen's Breakfast were used this past year to install a "Handicapped Child" sign in a subdivision where little Kevin Lyman lives. Kevin is the son of Gregory and Lynette Lyman. He likes to be out-side and likes to play with the other children. He uses a walker and has leg braces. The sign alerts drivers that a handicapped child plays in the area, and makes playing outside safer for Kevin. Money from the breakfast was also used for the city-wid- e fire prevention program. Margaret Boren of the Pleasant Grove Firemen's Auxiliary was chairman for the sign project. The breakfast Saturday will begin at 6 a.m. and continue until 11 a.m. Tickets are available from any member of the Fire Dept. or the Auxiliary. Tickets will also be sold at the door. The cost is $2 for those ages i3 to adult and $1.50 for children 3 to 12. Children under three may eat for free. The menu includes, ham, eggs, hashed brown potatoes, pancakes and a beverage. I pleasant Grove firefighters hang the sign announcing the Firemen's Breakfast on May 3. " Nominate mommy for contest Friday, May 2, is the last day to submit entries for the annual "Nominate Mommy" contest sponsored by this newspaper. If you are under 12 years of age and think your mommy is the very best mother in the world, tell us why; is she the best cooky-bake- r, tops at reading bedtime stories or just extra cute? List a couple of examples of the kind of nice things she does. Tell us your age, your name, your mommy's name and your telephone number. If we pick your mommy as the winner, she could win a $40 gift certificate (for first prize), a $20 gift certificate (second prize) or a subscription to any of the three Newtah newspapers. Entries will be published in the May 7 edition of the newspapers. Please earmark entries for Sharon Morrey, send to P.O. Box 7, American Fork, Utah, 84003 or drop them off to the office at 59 West Main in American Fork. Board of Equalization reduces assessments J i 'Ass. if ,' la& . vj i t 5 V" i" - ; h lf I ( " '' ' - " , 1 ) VW-- '"-- r -11 1 if-- ' i . I . - i ' 1 i - 'v . ' i: i E ; " 1 s W ' The Pleasant Grove City Council Tuesday acted upon the recom-mendation of the Board of Equalization on SID 1985-- 1, which included two projects, and abated the assessment of three property owners. The projects included allowing all residents of the city to hook on to the sewer through the process of a Special Improvement District as the city had declared that by July, 1986 all residents within 200 feet of a sewer line must hook on; and to put in the street improvements on 1400 East St. One property owner had been paying a sewer fee for 19 years although she had never hooked onto the sewer. The board felt that a credit of $400 should be applied against her assessment and this was approved. The other two property owners were allowed an abatement since they had comer properties which face onto 200 S. Street and the benefit of the improvements on 1400 East were only incidental to them. They were each allowed 50 feet of their frontage to be abated. The amount abated will be paid by the city. A resolution on these abatements was approved by the J council. In related items on 1400 East, the council heard complaints about the final assessment being a good deal higher than the original estimate, and about the deterioration of the edges of the road in some places. The council acknowledged its con-cern about both problems. The city council agreed to authorize the con-tribution of what it would have cost the city to overlay the road, without grading, to the project. The estimated cost of the overlay would have been about $10,000 as it would only have included placing an asphalt mixture on top of the existing roadway. The council members felt that this would decrease the cost of the project by about $1.25 per frontage foot. They also said they would go up and take a look at the street and check with the engineer to see what can be done to stop the edges of the road from deteriorating where there is a sharp dropoff without shoulders to the road. The city council will be sending out notices that all residents must be hooked onto the sewer by July 14 if they live within 200 feet of an existing line. Pi" pjfuilding inspector, Fred Christensen, left, and Mayor David Holdaway listen as Public Vorks Director, Frank Mills, explains plans for asphalting parking lot at the city com-plex before the public open house scheduled for Mav 2. Police investigate break-in- s Pleasant Grove police are in-vestigating the break-i- n of a home at 1415 E. 300 South. The home of Pali Jo Toomer was entered April 25 through a basement window. Jewelry valued at over $800 and $200 in cash was taken. Officer Cody Cullimore is continuing the in-vestigation. Floyd Davis reported the theft of a bicycle from the church lot at 200 South 1200 East on April 23. The bicycle is described as a red Firenza 15 speed, and is valued at $180 Officer Lonnie Wilson is in-vestigating. A break-i- n also occurred over the weekend at Rocky Mountain Refractories, 210 S. 2000 West, Lindon. Taken were a Lincoln spot welder valued at $1600 and several tires valued at over $800. Officer Jeff Wilson is in-vestigating. |