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Show Comment Review - Wednesday, October 4, 1989 - Page 2 j Public should take part in determining routes forUTT Far too often, the process of public hearings is past before the public takes the time to comment in the events that will affect our lives. And then most are left to complain with little recourse, because all of legal requirements have been met. Over the next two weeks, North Utah County residents will have a real chance to make a difference in how bus service is brought to the area. True, bus service to the north county area may never come about, since it is up to the voters to decide if the area will be annexed into the Utah Transit Authority system. But possible bus routes are being determined now, so voters can have a clear picture of the kind of service they will be voting for or against. Public workshops will be held next week in Pleasant Grove and Lindon and the following week in American Fork and Lehi. It will be at these meetings that local residents can put in requests for a bus system that will serve the needs of our part of the county. Should a bus route go past American Fork Hospital and the Utah State Training School? Is a simple route along State Street from Lindon to Lehi sufficient, or will that type of minimal service make UTA service too limited to be useful? Many questions must be answered, and over the next two weeks the wheres and whens of local bus service, if it is okayed in November, will be worked out. The hearing process is one of the most under-use- d instru ments of government. It is designed to make governm responsive to the public, yet too often there is little public input and the government agency in question1- 7 make the decisions as it sees fit. ls to But if mass transit is to come to our area, it must b lored to fit our needs - otherwise, that service will be r use and little used. And no one is better suited to decid h bus service can best serve the area than those who liveh If you have an interest in mass transit, attend the wo lT shop scheduled in our towns over the next three weeksTh schedule is on the front page of this newspaper. 6 Help the UTA design a mass transit system that can benefit north Utah County. Dest This politician who promises the moon the editor's 1 I By MARC HADDOCK I hadn't seen Grumble for a long time when he came to my door campaigning for someone running in yesterday's primary election. I thought the visit unusual, since my city didn't participate in the primary election process, but Grumble was enthusiastic, if a bit testy. So I listened. "...and furthermore," he was saying, "Mr. Bandoofenstien has made our greatest health hazard his number one priority. He has vowed to clean up public restrooms." What? I asked without a hint of restraint. "He'll clean up public restrooms.'' How do you know that. "He says so right here in this pamphlet." Grumble had been trying to get me to take the pamphlet for several minutes - exactly as long as I had been refusing to take it. Finally I gave in, just to put an end to the contest. "Vote for Bandoofenstien," shouted the bold red type on the front cover. Then inside, "He puts the Tidy Bowl man to shame." Grumble was flushed with ex-citement. "Isn't it great?" he said. "Here's a man who really has our best inter-ests at heart. He's promised to clean up the toilets from Lehi to Nephi." What is this guy running for? I asked my erstwhile friend. "Why, he hopes to be the next that an animal control officer has nothing to do with public restrooms. After all, his clients' concept of a public restroom is the nearest fire hydrant. "What's your point," Grumble said in annoyance. Just that this guy can't do any-thing about restroom sanitation, in Lower Goshen or anywhere else. "He can make a lot of noise," Grumble grumbled. True. But it will be meaningless noise full of sound and fury, sig-nifying nothing - to borrow a phrase. It will be noise unheard by the people who make restroom sanita-tion a daily concern. Besides, this guy will spend most of his days chasing possibly-rabi- d raccoons through the woods around Lower Goshen, never coming near a pub-lic restroom. "You've never been to Lower Goshen, have you," Grumble said. "There are no woods and no rac-coons. There aren't even very many dogs. Which means my man Ban-doofenstien will have lots of time to worry about clean restrooms all over the county." Okay, I conceded. But why are you all concerned about clean restrooms. "Don't you understand," Grumble said with a. bit of impatience. "Restrooms constitute a major health hazard. They are breeding grounds for germs of all kinds. We have a whole group of people who are backing Bandoofenstien all the way here, lendingmoney, doingthe paper work, giving time and other support. "We need to win this election so we can send a message to all those politicians who neglect clean restrooms that they had better clean up their act, or they will be out on their ears." So, what else does this guy stand for? "How should I know? Ijust know that he stands for clean restrooms and so do I. That's enough for me." I can't help you, you know. I'm not registered to vote on Lower Goshen. Nobody within 20 miles of my home is. "That's true," Grumble admit-ted. "But I hate Lower Goshen, so I figured I would do my part of the campaign here. I figured even if I couldn't drum up support for Ban-doofenstien, I could clear up the restroom issue. "I'll be running on to the next house, now." I wish your candidate luck, I yelled to Grumble as he walked away. I promise to think of him the next time I stop at the local service station. And that's a promise I intend to keep just as diligently as any poli-tician. animal control officer for Lower Goshen." When did you move to Goshen? "I didn't. But I believe in movement, and I'll do everything I can to further the cause." So I tried to explain the facts of life to my friend. You understand, don't you, I said, Scouts invited to Aero--Rama The Utah National Parks Coun-cil invites all Blazers, Scouts, Var-sity and Explorers in the Alpine, Provo Cascade, Lehi, Palmyra, Payson, Provo, Springville, Squaw Peak, Timp, and Utah Lake dis-tricts, to participate in the 1989 Aero-Ram- a. Believed to be the first of its kind in Scouting, the Aero-Ram- a will be held at Cedar Valley airport Friday and Saturday October 6 and 7, 1989. Approximately 8,000 scouts and scouters have been invited to at-tend this event. There will be a registration fee of $1, which will be payable on arrival at the airport. The Cedar Valley Airport can be reached by taking Highway 73 exit off at Lehi. Proceed west on road for about ten miles, then look for the Cedar Valley Airport sign on the south side of the road. Several dignitaries representing government, state government, church, armed services, media, and scouting will be present. On Friday evening, Astronaut Don Lind will inspire the scouts with an illustrated presentation on the ideals of scouting, interwoven within the fabric of aviation and space. Saturday morning there will be an exciting air show under the di-rection of Ken Rice, who just re-cently won the national sport pat-tern championship for radio con-trolled model air planes. The air show ill consist of crowd pleasing flights of radio controlled model air craft by members of the Utah Valley Aeromodlers. These will include demonstrations in pattern, stunt, gliders, helicopters, and pylon racing. In addition to radio controlled aircraft, there will be hot air bal-loons, skydiving, ultralights, sailplanes, and vintage aircraft flights and displays. Also, several large model rock- - etswillbelaunchedbytheWo .ill Area Rocket Pioneers. Rockets constructed smnt' for the Space Exploration7eS , Badge will be launched under ft supervision of the Wasatch Rocket Pioneers. Each scout 5 supplyh.sownrocketandPionee launch platforms. ' Scouts may work on Aviation1' and Space Exploration Merit'' Badges, assistd by local counselor versed in aeronautics. Amidwayof i booths will be set up, with qualified ? counselors to pass of each of the 6 badges. Scouts should have all their 3,1 requirements completed for the aviation or space exploration merit '8 badge by the time they get to Cedar -- Valley, j Following the air-sho- the scouts :1 will participate in a model glider? competition. j Official model glider kits are available for $4 each at the scout: office, or the Family Hobby Shop at:; Brigham's Landingin Provo, or the j Family Hobby Shop, 51 West Cen-.- s ter Street in Orem. f There are only alimitednumber " of model kits available on a first; .: come basis. j. Rocket kits are also available at;i the hobby shops for those whowish i to build rockets. The first place winners of the glider competition will receive rib--1 bons, and be treated to a plane of Alpine Aviation. Rib-- j bons will be awarded to other win-- ners. Rules for the glider competition, program agenda, information on overnight camping, or other activ-ities are available from your scout leaders, hobby shops, or the scout! office. Local citizens interested in avi-ation or scouting, who would like to participate in the Aero-Ram- a as " counselors, timers, or in other capacities, please contact Wid at 225-300- 0 or Paul Sabeyat the Utah National Parks Scout office. We'll miss Christensen's and Radmall's By MARCELLA WALKER Dave Radmall dropped into the office on Monday to tell us that he has decided to close his hardware store next door. It was like a bombshell and everyone sat in stunned silence for a minute before asking him the obvious, "Why?" Pleasant Grove is no different than most other towns in Utah. The downtown area just does not enjoy the business it once did be-fore there were malls and easy transportation to those malls. In a small town there is not always the variety to choose from that one would want. In Pleasant Grove there are no new car dealers, there are no big appliance stores, there are no big department stores, there are not a lot of restaurants although there are some very good eating places here. . Because it is not hard to get to the mall, people drive to Orem and Orem gets to enjoy the fruits of our tax dollars rather than Pleasant Grove. It is a dilemma and in the way of things, nice stores like Radmall Hardware and Christensen's De-partment Store decide not to buck the will of the people any more. A couple of weeks ago when Christensen's announced that they were closing, people couldn't be- - p.g. blab few lieve it. Many said they shopped there all the time. Obviously, there were not enough of them who re-ally did. In an emergency, people are glad to have a Radmall Hardware or a Christensen's Department Store close at hand, but too many times, over the long hall, they go to a larger town to shop and so the little hometown businesses cannot take the financial strain any longer and have to close. Fortunately, up until now, Pleas-ant Grove has not had too many empty buildings on Main St. but then, we don't have a real lot of buildings on Main St. to begin with. Actually, just one block on both sides and one block on one side. Intermountain Craft moved over to Center Street recently and that left an empty building to go with the old post office, Elwood's old barber shop, and the building just north of Smith Market. The building between Ted's Barber Shop and the Pool Hall was just sold to a TV repair service. People are venturing opinions and some say that eventually all the business will be on the State Road because that is where all the traffic is. They are probably right. I noticed a couple of years ago when the stretch of through theNephiareawascompleted, that Nephi put up a magnificent fight to keep traffic coming through the downtown area. Their efforts probably helped a little, but undoubtedly not enough. I hate to think of our tax dollars going to Orem or American Fork or even Salt Lake City. We need them right here, but you have to admit that malls are convenient because if you cannot find it in one store, especially clothes, you can quickly move on to another. On the other hand, some busi-nesses in small towns just keep on doing things the way they always did and neglect to do the things that are necessary to update or improve their business. Americans spend a lot of money on commodities. But they have a limited amount of time to spend on shopping. They go where it is easy to get to and where it is convenient. I am the same way. I never shop in downtown Salt Lake anymore because it is too hard to get to. There is too much traffic and no convenient parking places. Even driving around and around in a parking terrace to find a parking place is frustrating. It use to be a treat to shop in Salt Lake, but no more. I have always wondered why Salt Lake's downtown businesses complain about no shoppers and going broke when there is abso-lutely no parking places left and traffic everywhere. Where do all those people go if not to the shops? ZCMI was once going to build a store in American Fork. Then they decided to build the store in the South Towne Center on 10600 South and that was too close to American Fork to build one there. Now they have announced that they are going to build one in the East Bay area of Provo. North Utah County got the shaft again, as I see it. Mayor David Holdawas plan to form an Economic Development Committee to aid present businesses and encourage new ones is a sound one and is coming none too soon, it would appear. Losing Radmall Hardware and Christensen's Department Store is like losing two very good friends. We will miss them. The only trouble is, it is like waiting for the other shoe to drop. Who will be next? Shop at home, you guys! And a big thank you to Radmall Hard-ware and Christensen's Department Store for the good times. Police Blotter An American Fork women sus-tained broken bones and facial in-juries in an accident Sept. 23 in Pleasant Grove on Center St. near 600 West. Det. Cody Cullimore said that Eva Lagos was treated and released at American Fork Hospital. She received a broken clavicle, broken nose and mouth injuries in the accident, according to ambulance personnel. The officer said the accident occurred when the westbound Lagos vehicle left the roadway and struck a utility pole. There was $3,000 damage to the Lagos car and $100 damage to the pole. Ms. Lagos was treated at the scene and transported to the hospi-tal by Pleasant Grove Ambulance. No injuries were reported in another accident on Sept. 25 when cars driven by Frank Hansen and Don Paul Bearnson, both of Pleas-ant Grove, collided in the intersec-tion at 100 E. 200 South. There was $3,000 damage to the Hansen vehicle and $1,500 dam-age to the Bearnson auto. Officer John Lloyd investigated the accident. Officers investigated a hit and run accident at 1150 E. near 900 South on Sept. 21. The victim was a peach tree valued at $150. The police report stated that a vehicle went off the west side of the street, then off the east side, struck the peach tree and then drove off. Officers again cautioned those who leave their car parked for any reason to be sure the vehicles are locked and no valuables are left inside. Several vehicle burglaries have again occurred, a number of them during the football game last Fri-day at Pleasant Grove High School. Kerry Assay, Orem, reported that he had parked his car on 200 South while he attended the football game. When he returned he found that a concrete rock had been used to break out the side window. A wallet under the seat had been taken. It co-ntained $100 and some ID andcredit cards. Natalie Crosby, Pleasant Grove, told officers that she had parked her car at 150 S. 700 East during the game and when she returned a rock had been thrown through the window and her purse had been taken. It contained no money. The other incidents which o-ccurred that same evening were still being processed at press time and will be listed in next week's report. ' Willis Randall, Pleasant Grove reported that binoculars valued at $54 had been taken from his v-ehicle sometime between Sept. 20 and 22. , The truck was parked behind his home and was inside closed chainlink gates. There were other items in the vehicle but they were not taken. j Officer Bert Bean has arrested four male juveniles for taking s from car lots to test drive and not bringing them back. The youths were referred w Juvenile Court. They were charged with joy riding. The same group was also ar rested for the same thingin Amen can Fork. , One of the boys was from Flea5 ant Grove, one from American r or and two from Orem. Douglas R. Burrell, HigWanJ reported that a Panasonic casse casseUe stereo valued at $250, a tape valued at $7 and a radar tector valued at $65, were taM from his auto while it was sparKe at the Superbowl in Lindon. took Officer Jim Taufer that a boys reported maleadultexposedhimselfto3 near the Lindon Elementary incident tn on Sept. 23. After the boys went home and told tn ther. They told officers exposed him same person had on several other occasions. Letters to the Editor Band pays the price Dear Editor: Friday night was another de-lightful and welcomed victory for our football team as well as our community as the Vikings defeated the Timpview Thunderbirds in a close call game with a final score of 7 to 6. But at the same time the sweet taste of victory was dealt a bitter pill when school spirit and enthusiasm were short changed as the band left the stands in the middle of the fourth quarter. It seems that a PAYING cus-tomer was being inconvenienced by the band members standing up al! of the time to play and cheer for the team. The PAYING customer com-plained to the administration about the conduct of the band. So as not to inconvenience the PAYING cus-tomer the administration requested that the band members remain seated so as not to obstruct the view of the PAYING customer. The fact is, the PAYING cus-tomer sat down in the band section while the band was doing their half time show. I would hope that if someone comes to a game, that they would attend to share in the excitement and cheering and if not, at least, don't stop those who have. I feel that ifanyone is paying the price to be in attendance at the games, it is the band members. They arrive at the. school every morning at 6:30 to practice before class begins. Such effort has made the Pleasant Grove Band among the leading bands in the state: An accomplishment that all of us in this city can be proud of. Our school, our citizens and our community deserve and long for a winning team, a winning school and a winning spirit. May we all support our school'and its organi-zations and share with them in an enthusiastic and winning spirit. The next band performance will be Oct. 10 at the Rocky Mountain Competition at BYU. Brian Gwilliam You Can Change Y)ur Cholesterol Level, ByChanging One Of These Three Things. Your Mother. Your Father. Your Diet. ( ' ' " i 'JZm .i It. Lower the amount of cholesterol and saturated fat in your diet, and you can reduce a major risk factor for heart disease. And that's true even if heart disease runs in your family. To find out how easy it is to change your diet, call or write your local American Heart Association for a free booklet. Its the adult thing to do. Your Life Is In Your Hands. American Heart Association J |