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Show s 7 expires 01 ?,-,.- HOflG & SONS BOOKBINDERY tmp 9 i7 RAILROAD STREET ' R ISPRINGPORT MI 43,Q J Vol- - 10, No. 18 Wednesday, May 4, 1988 50 cents a single copy Full-servi- ce visitor center proposed for 1-- 15 rest stop Bv RACHEL C. MURDOCK About 44,000 cars go by the merican Fork rest stop in ach day. To James Young, director t the Utah County Travel Council, aat number represents an tourist resource. Now Young and the travel council avea plan to tap into that supply. The travel council has plans to ujld a visitors center at the southbound rest stop that would iclude rest room facilities, a fast jjod outlet and a retail gas Deration. 5 "We're getting about three to four ercent of the 44,000 cars into the rea daily," said Young. "And even lose that do come off have othing to draw them further." The new visitors center will emedy that problem. I "The building is designed so that nyone who stops to use the testroom or eat or whatever will go irough the tourist information ijrea," said Heap, president of the llmerican Fork Chamber of Ijommerce and member of the council. i Heap said the visitors center will lake travelers aware of all that is vailable in Utah County. "We want iem to know that not everything is I Salt Lake," she said. Young agreed that many people stop in Salt Lake and drive straight through Utah County. "The opportunity is out there, we're just not stopping the people," Young said. "1-1- 5 has the strongest potential for the county; it's a great resource." Workers at the retail operations will also encourage tourism, said Young. "When people stop to eat or whatever, they'll start talking to the counter worker, who may say, 'Oh, if you're going that way, you ought to go up Provo Canyon and see Robert Redford's place.' So the driver will go see Sundance, but then he'll also stop at Bridal Veil Falls and ride the tram to the top or buy a few things at the gift shop." In fact, a study done by Dan Jones and Associates for the state travel council shows that if people stop at a visitors center, they in-crease their spending in the area but about 33 percent and stay half a day longer, said Young. "We've identified this (visitors center) as a way we can get people here to visit. We're not the Disneyland or the Park City of Utah, but we have our own strengths," he sid. "This type of thing has been done . II would be designed to interest visitors in seeing more of Utah County. Artists rendering shows proposed visitors center, fast food restaurant and gas station proposed for southbound lane of between American Fork and Pleasant Grove. The stop original building, then would lease a portion of it to the fast food outlet to offset building costs. "We're also looking for a national fast food chain because of the name recognition," said Heap. Young said the idea has been presented to UDOT, and they have agreed to hear a firm proposal at the end of May. Heap said the travel council is presenting the proposal to local Chambers of Commerce in an at-tempt to gain their support. It will be presented to the American Fork See VISITORS on page 3 in other areas around the country," said Heap. "There's no reason why Utah shouldn't have the first one in the western part of the country." Due to some concerns about direct competition with local stations, the chances of getting a gas operation at the rest stop are about 30 percent right now, said Young. "In all probability, it will end up just a fast food outlet and a visitors center," he said. Either Utah County or the Utah Department of Transportation would provide funding for the Queen contestants prepare ' ' ,1 , y r 4,'- - ; V'J v."'' A 1 Andrea Holdaway and Kristen rinkerhoff are among the con-stants for Strawberry Days Queen "ho will participate in the pageant i Saturday, May 14, at 7 p.m. in the feasant Grove High School jditorium. t Andrea, a senior at Pleasant rove High School, is the daughter 'David and Janet Holdaway. She has a special love for children jnd would like to major in early '.hiJdhood development and minor in lance. She has been teaching dance hr three years to students ages 5 irough 7, and after graduating om college she would like to open It own l. jAndrea was assistant wreographer for the Lehi Theater foduction of "Annie" in 1987; she jrformed with Jazzin Dance En-jmb- le for one year as a soloist; has jsn a member of Orchesis Dance r;am for three years and currently t:, modeling for the McCarty ;:odeling Agency. i,She has had three years of piano, ur years dance, drill, four years p, ten years creative ballet and 14 ars jazz dance. Andrea's hobbies include dancing, odeling, working with children, rapbooks, cooking and sewing. ie also loves sports such as 'imming, aerobics, tennis and iter skiing. Jhe will perform a lyrical jazz jncein the pageant. Kristen, 19,' is the daughter of Gary and Lareta Brinkerhoff. She is a graduate of Pleasant Grove High School. She is currently a student at UVCC and will transfer later to BYU majoring in communications-broadcastin- She was a disc jockey at KPGR Radio in high school, a seminary officer for three years and a member of A Cappella Choir and Cloggers West, a member of the National Honor Society, toured with the choir and cloggers to San Francisco and toured England and France for six weeks representing the U. S. at a world dance festival. She hopes to graduate from BYU with a B.A. degree in the field of broadcasting. Kristen would also like to serve a mission for the LDS Church. She is active in sports and enjoys water and snow skiing, volleyball, basketball, hiking and racquetball. Her hobbies include sewing, cooking, collecting various items from around the world, traveling, calligraphy and singing. She will perform a flute solo for the pageant. The contestants are selling tickets for $3.50 for the pageant. Iowa Hall, a local educator, will be the master of ceremonies for the evening. Everyone in the community is in-vited to join in the festivities as a new Miss Pleasant Grove is crowned. Andrea Holdaway Us'"''-- ' i, V - - - Kirsten Brinkerhoff I x, x - - "'CT'rS-- - ! n A ' j . , w : ; ) ' i; , ' - V Open at last Workers finish paving 500 East in American Fork in preparation to open the freeway access bridge closed last November for repairs. Construction workers and UDOT employees put in extra hours Friday to complete paving and striping the bridge. Officials had originally planned to open the bridge to traffice tem-porarily and go in later with a final surface. To eliminate further delays, however, UDOT officials were able to modify the specifications and put on a different type of surface, making it possible to open the structure sooner than anticipated but later than most local residents would have hoped for. Costs for the project is just under $200,000. Native plants proposed Kent Broome, a consultant on landscaping, told Pleasant Grove City Council last week that the area near the railroad underpass on State Road 89 could be landscaped with native plants, reducing the need for irrigation. Broome said he had learned that the city was in a dilemma as to how to landscape the underpass area because of the steep terrain and the costs of irrigating. He explained that if native plants were used there would be no need for irrigation after the first year and maintenance would be kept to a minimum. He showed the council slides of some of the different types of plants which could be used, including trees near the top, bushes and wildflowers near the bottom of the slope. He pointed out areas which had been done this way and showed how they looked within two years of the plantings. Broome noted that the plants should be in the ground in the fall and then watered about every three weeks with a fire truck hose until late fall. They would be dormant in the winter and watering would resume in the spring and continue through the first summer. After that the plants should do well on their own. He said that his firm could give about a 70 per cent survival guaranlee with this maintenance. The State Department of Tran-sportation has set aside about $40.0(Hi to assist with the landscaping of the area. The city would have to add something to this to complete the project if done in its entirety at an estimated cost of $50,000. Other forms of landscaping had presented watering and main-tenance problems that had made the project much too costly to undertake at the present time. The council will discuss the proposal and will be required by law to put the project out to bid if it is approved. In other action, the council signed an agreement with the Bureau of Land Management for the in-stallation of fencing along the Murdock Canal. The city had stipulated that the fence be installed when the CUP pipe lines through the city were completed as part of their agreement to allow the construction to be done. The fence will be six feet chain link and will be installed where fencing does not already exist. It will be placed on both sides of the canal. Residents will receive notification before the work begins. A school crossing flashing light will be placed on 100 East near 100 North to increase safety for school children who have to cross 100 East daily. The crosswalk will be manned by PTA volunteers who will be trained. UDOT will put the light in. Students from Central Elemen-tary School will be encouraged to leave from the back of the school and walk down 100 North to the crosswalk at 100 East. The city will pay for the electricity for the sign. The light was approved following efforts by the Central PTA to provide more safety for children going to and from school. ladfield won't get new trial Si.. 1 ft.-- ' j f i ' h By MARC HADDOCK rourth District Court Judge j'en Y. Christensen denied ense motions to grant Allan B. dfieldanew trial Monday, he former Lehi resident was ivicted on four counts of sodomy a child and three counts of child ;ual abuse in a December jury . but has maintained his throughout court cedings. ladfield's attorney, Brad Rich, s joined by two California Brent Carruth and Leonard Js- Carruth argued that a growing nber of similar charges as those olvig Hadfield, all related to raP'st Barbara Snow, show that s testimony was not credible, he motion for a new trial was based on an argument that ,prs m the case had been unduly Pence, and that an attorney for Ulah Attorney General's office represented evidence in his lmg arguments. dge Christensen found that none e defense's arguments justified ! trial. JTuth said he was ready to call wal witnesses to the stand to I bnow had been implicated in ver'ng a number of alleged sex abuse rings, all with ileal practices involving anstic abuse, Satanic rituals and an feces, which, "when put 'her are totally unbelievable. ' ' he bottom line is that the 'DUity of at least three witnesses es so in question tha we tne trial cannot stand," rulh said, referring to the testimony of Snow and of Hadfield's two children, who testified against their father. Carruth labeled Snow's therapeutic style as "brain-washing," and said she is the only link in the broad number of cases with improbably identicle characteristics. But Robert Parrish, representing the state, argued that those charges had been heard at the original trial, and that the evidence existed at the time of the trial and was not new. He also argued that the evidence presented at Hadfield's trial that led to his conviction had nothing to do with a purported child sexual abuse ring working in Lehi. "Even if they could prove that Barbara Snow could magically brainwash , children, there's no evidence of that occuring in this case," Parrish said. He charac-terized the motion for a new trial as a "fishing expedition." "They just want to drag her name through the mud one more time," Parrish said. Parrish said Snow was a minor prosecution witness in the trial, and said that even if she was impeached as a witness, it would probably not have changed the outcome of the trial. In addition to dismissing the I charges of new evidence, Christensen dismissed charges of prosecutorial misconduct. But the judge said he would take a further look at the charges of jury misconduct and issue a written ruling on that later. Attorney Brent Carruth argues for a new trial for his client, Allan B. Hadfield, before Judge Cullen Y. Christensen Tuesday morning. The motion for a new trial was denied. |