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Show s i 4 SONS BDOKBINDERY, Illp :;7RflILROflD STREET R OSINGPORT MI 4gQ4 iklllffit (few Ikflfffe&ff Vol-10- , No. 32 Wednesday, August 10, 1988 50 cents a single copy 5 jndon crowd hears proposals $ for two different golf courses .,.lVNSECRETAN Wd appeared at the Lindon I council meeting August 3, Jtoringinto the foyer to hear Lis about not only one, but 39 mIS courses in the community. Lfl and Brett Frampton Ki Jled a golf course through Hollow," and DeLance Squire, - Za mayor of Orem, asked the to 320 along acres hillside above Lindon to be r ptaped int0 a golf course for Mpton stated his father-in-la- -- jj the hollow 25 years ago and lised, "Don't feed the quail." The jiposed golf course was mapped - jit throughout Lindon involving Bme 17 property owners. He stated 1 (itudy was made by the Utah Golf PI ksociation and Utah County can sustain three more golf courses. A long look was taken along with aerial photographs of the 65 acre area. Jimmy Thompson is on the board of directors. There is not enough land for a full conference course, but a regulation nine and executive nine course was outlined on the property starting in the hollow where the ball diamonds and rodeo grounds are located. The area was designed leaving the existing homes around the course with the exception of one home to be purchased as a clubhouse. The Hollow Water Board has been contacted with a desire to purchase every water share with plans to pump water out of the ponds and sprinkle the grounds. Brett Frampton put a lot of time into the plan which was first drawn up as a proposal for a project at BYU. Property owners have been contacted. Some are interested, some are not. Brett is excited. The area is beautiful and the natural terrain lends itself to the project. They stated it would be a public golf course and should be publically owned and operated. It will sustain and pay for itself. As far as the time schedule, one year was proposed for everything to be tied up and another year for construction. In answer to the question, "What does this do to the tax base?" the council was informed that 65 acres would be put in "green belt," while sales tax will not be received in golfing fees, it would be received in the clubhouse where taxes would be collected in the golf shop and food sales. The Framptons have received many favorable comments from property owners and the coun-cilme- n seemed in favor of the proposal. Stan Walker approached the group with the proposal from Orem City to put in a golf course on the hillside above Lindon. He stated that rather than have 1,000 homes on the hillside, 160,000 acres of open ground could be developed into an 18 hole golf course with homes around the outside. Walker introduced DeLance Squire, chairman of Commission for Economic Development in Orem to give the proposal. Walker said he hasn't talked to anyone who would not be in favor of a golf course in Lindon but not one person who wanted to pay for it. Squire stated they certainly would not pursue the proposed golf course if Lindon City does not want it, but they are prepared to invest $2 or $3 million in developing an golf course within Lindon City if they will 320 acres to Orem City. Orem City bought a Research park about three years ago and sold the property. In an effort to provide three or four thousand jobs, an aerospace company would like to locate where the current golf course is located. Orem is looking for possiblities to move to a new location. They are looking at two places, along the lake and the foothills. Oem City has a developer who will buy the property and donate land to the city if they guarantee they will build a golf course. Orem is trying to build a base to provide good jobs for 30 to 4,000 people. With 48 percent of the population under 18, they are looking towards providing jobs at home. The council questioned why a developer came to Orem and made a proposal concerning property in Lindon. Scott Cullimore as mayor pro tern in the absence of Mayor McMillan stated, "We must maintain the integrity of our boundaries." He feels the area is a prime area for Lindon City and did not feel they would be doing their citizens a favor if they 300 acres. Blackhurst questioned the ad-vantage of the proposal to Lindon City and Squire answered, "We'll build you a golf course." Citizens in the area had different view. They were not offended by the proposal, many were in favor. A citizen stated, "We are all the same people whether we live in Orem or Lindon. They have the money and will enhance the surrounding area." Another stated, "Do most Lindon people work in Lindon? Lindon doesn't provide jobs. We have to look in Utah County." Council members felt in time they would have the money and finan-cing to build a golf course, but they would have to talk awfully hard to get the council to There was a general feeling the Hollow area would not be suitable for homes and would be a natural setting for a golf course. Squire left the meeting stating he was just there for information and not to blame him for trying. i . . , - . i "I j f v 4 t I . 'f f " i S ' S $ :., , J A crowd follows DeLance Squires into the parking lot following the Lindon City Council meeting. Many residents were in favor of the golf development in Lindon Hills. - X ; " ? : V I Governor Norm Bangerter says he is running on his record, and plans to win in November. Guv confident in spite of polls By MARC HADDOCK Governor Norm Bangerter may be trailing in the polls, but he is running on what he feels is a strong record, and expects to win in November. "It's a tough business we are in," Bangerter said in a Friday inter-view about the current campaign.,. "But then, I'm tough." Bangerter spent most of Friday in Utah County, campaigning from American Fork to Payson. He is working hard to show voters he is the candidate who best reflects Utah voters' conservative politics. Bangerter is proud of his four years in office, and said the state has experienced dramatic im-provements since his election. In the early part of the Governor's term, Utah's economy suffered from a series of setbacks that included decreasing oil costs, the closing of Geneva Steel and Kennecott, and the Space Shuttle disaster. Despite those problems, Bangerter said, "We have done many things to encourage change. We believe we have really got this economy moving." He points to a net increase of 50,000 jobs in the state in the face of tough economic times, new in-dustries which have moved to Utah and one of the lowest-eve- r unem-ployment rates in the state's his-tory. In addition, lower-than-avera-wages are offset by a corresponding lower-than-avera- cost of living adding up to a better-than-aver-a-standard living. Bangerter sees economic devel-opment as an important issue in the current campaign, and thinks he has a good track record. "We started from scratch," Bangerter said. "Not long ago Utah was worried about too rapid a growth rate. We found we had to become very aggressive and I think our record is excellent, particularly compared with other intermoun-tai- n states." Bangerter points to new indus tries and growth in tourism as signs that economic development efforts are working and one bright spot in that picture is Utah County, largely because of BYU's ability to turn computer research into profitable businesses such as Novell, Wycat and WordPerfect, as well as several other smaller com-panies. He also points to the role his administration played in helping Geneva Steel to and the continuing role to see the business survive without damaging the quality of life in Utah County. "There was a lot of pressure to get Geneva up and going, and we helped them do that. Now it ap-pears they have been very profit-able," Bangerter said. "It's also clear the valley was cleaner when the plant was shut down, but I think Geneva's been good in the economic sense." The Governor said the state would continue to work with Ge-neva to clean up the air without putting the plant out of business. For the most part, Bangerter discounts Merrill Cook's independ-ent candidacy as hopeless a view he believes more and more Utar voters will come to share as Novem-ber nears. "An independent candidate can't win a major election in Utah," the Governor said. "If the voters will look at the election, they will see it's clearly a choice between Norm Bangerter and Ted Wilson." That's a race he believes he can win, despite the polls which show Wilson with a healthy lead over Bangerter and Cook. "We are clearly behind. But we are going to continue to explain the record and the differences," he said. While the Governor has publicly opposed the proposed tax initia-tives which would cut taxes and limit property tax assessments, he said he won't tell Utahns how to vote on the initiatives. "If that's what the people really See BANGERTER on page 3 PG Council reconsiders E-91- 1 The few calls that do come in on 911 are routed through Orem and add a few seconds to the response time. The city council said that the dispatchers have reported that the need for such a read-ou- t in an emergency situation rarely arises, if at all. Morris said that the cities with sufficient telephone lines to do it are required. Provo and Orem are the only cities large enough to go to the E911 on their own. He said that there will be a savings of $100,000 over what is being spent now. Most of the police chiefs in the county have felt that their own dispatching systems were very good, he said. But the E911 system has excel-lent features and capacity to add more in the future. Orem and Provo are going with it and are collecting funds now, he added. However, interlocal agreements are needed before money can be collected to go toward the system. The county will collect the fee of 50 cents per household and later this could be lowered to perhaps 35 cents per month. The interlocal agreements are needed before they can go to the Public Service Commission on the matter. Morris said there are four major costs connected with the E911 sys-tem. They are for the trunks out of Utah County, three trunks from Salt Lake to Utah County, con-sumer provided equipment, and the data base. The consumer provided equip-ment costs between $350,000 to $600,000, based upon what the cities north ofUtah County are now paying. The data base is furnished by Mt. Bell or by GTE. Pleasant Grove and Lindon would collect about $2,000 per month if they go with the system and the 50 cents was assessed. He added that it was not eco-nomically feasible for Pleasant Grove to be a dispatch center on its own. Pleasant Grove could stay as it is now and would still get calls patched through from Orem but there would not be aread-ou- t on the computer and the city would have to privately contract with Orem to get them to patch through to Pleas-ant Grove. Orem could relay the informa-Se- e City Council Page 3 The Pleasant Grove City Coun-- J promised to study the cost fig-rc- a to have emergency dispatch "rough Orem before making a decision on the E911 system, following a discussion at the recent wincfl meeting. Utah County Commissioner milt Morris spoke to the council tout the pros and cons of the pro-PiE9- system. The Enhanced 'I "ystem would make it possible ""we dispatcher to get a computer f the origin of the call for Wergency assistance in case a Pfwn could not speak into the e, for instance. This service would cost each i phone customer about 50 cents month. Jnearlier discussions, Pleasant IJT Co"ncil has not agreed fjft 1 svstem because they that the city has an adequate Wmnow. city has 24-ho- dispatch-J- - in ine emergency number 785-l- 6i 18 well publicized and most rgency calls come in on this """W, not 911 Voters to meet candidates Area residents are invited to a night Thurs-day, Aug. 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Keith Richan, 794 N. 400 West, American Fork. All local candidates for the Utah House and Senate have been invited to the meeting. Richan said the main issue at the meeting will be the treatment of home-base- d handicapped individu-als by the Utah Department of Serv-ices to the Handicapped. However, area residents will also have an opportunity to ask the candi-dates other questions about current campaign issues. ; H n r ' ' I Li f lilt' I' X V , i Cardinals i state f baseball title j . awnt Grove Cardinals won UBBA Title in Payson ! CteSS WinS Ver Sme W!6 Cards went undefeated this j uament. ptttudS' GroY can very Grov! f act that two Pleasant pi0naK; ams Played for the cham-.- P m Payson. The Cards Dn8 over the Pleasant Grove aalr16 League Program in develn" ove is outstanding for tional vT1 f skills and recrea-0rke- d 'ne coacnes flH have "on. V. rd and had a great sea-- Members of the Cardinals team which took first place in the state tournament are, front l t Craie walker (bat boy), Ryan Van Dorn, Troy Campbell, Ryan Atwood, Andy I arsen Chris Colton, Jordan Colton (bat boy). Middle rowCam Baker, Nathan Overson. Walker, Cody Knuteson, Nathan Duvall and Doug Hansgen. Back, Ryan Jensen. Jeremy Coaches Jay Walker, Kent Larsen, Gary Knuteson and Tom Duvall. Absent were pick-u- p players, Luke Nehring, Cody Anderson and Cody Bocutt. Mail drop moved by drive-u- p The drive-u- p mailbox which was formerly located several yards west of the Pleasant Grove City Hall has been moved. The box is now located at the northwest corner of the city hall building, just west of the drive-u- p window for making city utility payments. The mailbox was moved for the convenience of the residents. At it's former location it was almost hidden by shrubbery and was difficult to approach. The new site should make it much easier for those who want to deposit mail without having to leave their car. Pickup times for the box are listed on the outside of the m ailbox-- . |