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Show Review - Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1987 - Page 3 v Carnival moves to Lindon, other council business but couldn't get the job he wanted. He did what he could do best and has a very successful business. They gross over $2 million with that little show. The equipment will be sitting in Arizona and will continue to be parked at the rodeo grounds during the five weeks in the area. Pleasant Grove has not requested pay but he pays the city $300 a year to park there for 20 days. "Our family wants to be in this area, that's where they grew up and went to school. They enjoy the people and the climate," Lou ex-plained. Conditions discussed included curb and gutter on the north side, 30 inch pipe, waste water piped or maintained and an eight foot chain link fence. Melendez explained they will meet the conditions. They don't have employees during the winter. They will do the work themselves. The building plans have been submitted to Dennis HOughton. If they are approved by the city engineer and zoning officer, the Planning Commission can set any other conditions on Oct. 13. Melendez stated that given a timetable, he would meet the deadline. The council agreed to give him until April 1 to get the pipe in. By KALYN SECRETAN ii Melendez of the City of Fun rnival met with the Lindon City r! ncU Oct. 7 and presented the site J 7fl for location of his business, ! P' Lh revised to comply with i fitions given at the Planning mission meeting. Brad Melendez met with the incil earlier after the Melendez 1 ooerty in Pleasant Grove was ?f phased as the new post office 5 9pamphlets were distributed to the : council explaining what the family hones to accomplish. jieiendez presented the plan and t minted out improvements made to ; lply with objections raised at the 5 Wanning Commission. A row of Ls will beautify the area on the s JJest and roses or shrubs will be P ' planted between the trees. Melendez explained when the post office came along it was good for them. They are coming to Lindon to improve themselves and the quality of work they do. He is proud of the fact the family business has ac-cumulated 15 to 16 acres in Pleasant Grove. "Not too many people knew we controlled that much land in town. We would like to build a supermarket and a shopping cen-ter," he explained. When they move to Lindon they are asking for a seven car lot for employees and a five car area for visitors. One controversial issue is to have every piece of equipment under the building. They would like to be allowed to park five trucks and trailers at the back. They own 70 '' mm trucks. They would like to use the front part of the building to unload the rides, set them up and repair them in the building. The building will have four big alley ways to park two rows of tractors and trailers. Part of the building will be used as a main-tenance room. Actually, the family would like to get out of the family business. They have been traveling with the car-nival 30 years and are ready to retire. After two years they plan to use the building as a machine shop to refurbish equipment and sell it. The show was sold seven to eight years ago at a little under $1 million but they had to take it back as the money was not available. Melendez stated the carnival has the nicest route in the U.S., with 44 stops. They are not in the area 52 weeks a year. They start out in Tucson, Ariz, on Jan. 31 and finish in Arizona in Nov. The carnival is parked in Arizona and the equip-ment needing repair will be brought up to work on during the two months at home. They do like to come home, he said. Melendez praised his son, Brad, who has met with the council previously, saying he is a good craftsman, a hard-workin- likable young man. The council pointed out they would like to change the image of Geneva Road. This is the same type of business they are trying to get away from. They have equipment and repair shops all along Geneva Road. They are not attractive. Councilman Blackhurst felt there are hundreds of acres below Geneva Road that fit nicely with machine work and they are located on one or two major streets in Lindon. Melendez stated Pleasant Grove apologized for everything and stated if they had any problem in Lindon, come back to Pleasant Grove. They said they would find them a place. The land has been purchased for $96,000 in cash. Melendez said they need to get the ball rolling as they'll be leaving the area in five weeks. Clive Beck accompanied the Melendez's to the meeting and stated he has been associated with them for 15 years. "When Lou says he'll do something, he does it. We have never had a situation when he broke his word," Beck stated. Mayor McMillan asked the council if the issue was parking, and could they work with it? Blackhurst reported one issue is that the neighbors don't want it. Their main concern is all the equipment and they want the site kept up. Melendez explained that on Sundays he moves his equipment 300 to 400 miles. Everything is repaired and ready to move. My employees are not college kids. They may be what some call drop-outs but they are hard working guys. Melendez started out as a migrating farm worker. He worked in the beet and tomato fields. After serving in the Armed Forces, he decided that farm work was not for him. He graduated from college, WE'D LIKE TO REMIND YOU THAT THE UNCENSORED CONTENT OF THIS NEWSPAPER IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. THE CONSTITUTION The words we live by To lcam more about the Constitution write: Constitution. Washington. PCT D.C. 20599. Commission on the Bicentennial of The U.S. Constitution. Smcl j! t if '? Some say they'll go back up. Or; for those who prefer, we also offer a AND OUR FEES ARE DOWN TO 0. 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' bei f . i y i i J .,.ir..T.itt... r , ': - r Joyce Poulson works at her desk in the final days before jtfj her retirement from Pleasant Grove City. til: Poulson retires from I Pleasant Grove City ltl j Jojce Poulson will be making out the last payroll checks this week as the Pleasant Grove City finance ... deyk as she takes advantage of the ufc ement incentives offered by the state this year and retires on Friday. Joyce has worked for the city Marly 18 years. She began in Jan. of . "10. She only worked parttime at fa, helping the city recorder to do m accounts payable. As time went by she was asked to handle the IBilj; Payroll and has also worked on the jjii J of cemetery plots and handling eii:: J Pave opening and closing fees lttl(is "sometime. ispta!: ce was asked to serve as acting tji 2 recorder for a few months while 0tf 7 Clty council sifted through for someone to be the raanent recorder, do: she started to work for the ise i ' ! a systematic machine and ?( 0J8 the accounting and payroll. wthey have gone through three 0ll jWer systems. un,W J, enjoyed the accounting itthe s "re than anything," Joyce oWi! iJL. 1 m this office yu get t0 do itei ? he thinSs she has done ? on cemetery lot sales 't taj!?nings and closings as this is, very satisfying work for afl1"1 ie' orIe she has enjoyed ltetllfi ml with every city employee. rrfSi' "There has not been a one I haven't enjoyed," she added. She said the city councils and mayors have been exceptionally good people and have been fine to work with. She said the councils have been very accommodating. One of the fun things about her job has been meeting the public, which she said she has enjoyed tremen-dously. Joyce and her husband moved here from Richfield in 1952. She loved bookkeeping and had worked as a bookkeeper before coming to work for the city. She is married to Ken Poulson and they are the parents of three children. They also have three grandchildren. She plans to spend her retirement trying to catch up on things she has let go the past few months. She wants to relax a lot and she wants to play golf and travel. She is a BYU basketball fan and plans to keep attending those games. She also likes to swim, sew and walk. ! She added that she would like to write a few histories of her family, also. The city honored her at a luncheon yesterday at the city hall. She received a plaque in com-memoration of her years of service to the community. |