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Show expires GS 130 98 7' 40qnNS BOOKBINDERY, INC. R H0flGJlLROOD STREET . SPR1NGP0RT . Vol 11, No. 15 Wednesday, April 12, 1989 50 cents a single copy PG Council seeks Historical Chairman Pleasant Grove City Council accepted the resignation of Roger Roper, Chairman of the Pleasant Grove Historical Preservation Commission, with regret at its recent meeting. Mayor David Holdaway said that Roger had asked to be released from his position because he is going back to school and will be involved in other activities which will make it impossible for him to continue. The mayor said that they would accept his resignation with regret because of the great accomplish-ments which have been made while he has served as chairman of the commission. The council will seek a replace-ment for Roger as soon as possible. In other matters, the council accepted the apparent low bid of Seven Trees to trim trees in the downtown city park. They will also remove broken limbs and branches as well as low hanging limbs. They will remove all diseased and dead wood. The city has been concerned about the safety of those playing in the park beneath these trees. The bid was for $3,882. Park personnel will do the clean up after the branches are removed. K. A. Driggs, Budget and Fi-nance Director, told the council to expect at least a 21 per cent in-crease in costs for city employee health insurance coverage in the next fiscal year. He said that in many places the cost of coverage is expected to go up nearly 50 per cent this year. Two residents asked the city council to look into what they felt was a nuisance in their neighbor-hood where a skateboard track has been constructed. They said that it attracts many young people. The skateboards m ake a lot ofnoise and the kids play radios loudly which disturbs the neighborhood, the residents stated. Councilwoman Mary West said she had been called at home by these residents and had gone to check the situation. She had talked to the parent and was told that most of the neighbors had said that they did not mind it beingthere because the kids stayed in the neighborhood rather than going elsewhere. Mayor Holdaway said that he would check into the city's noise ordinance to see if it applied here. He told the residents that they could file a formal complaint with the police department. The mayor and other council members said that children play-ing outside are bound to make noise, as did they when they were young. The city has called for cost quotes for modifications to the flood control culvert near where the new road from 100 North to 200 South will be located. The estimated cost is $4,000. Gary Bezzant of Highland made abid of $ 1,950 for the labor with the city providing the materials. This bid was approved. The council was told that Hunts-man Woods is vacating the old li-brary building at 100 E. 100 South. This building will now become available for lease again and the city will be seeking a business or other use for the building. The Pleasant Grove Sportsmen will sponsor a Gun Show during Strawberry Days this June. It will be a display of old guns, etc. The city is arranging for ap-praisals on the property where the city would like to build a new 2 million gallon water tank and on the old junior high school property. ;i liJ I - ' j .... AV tH I I r-- - --i . . V; ; , v , t.D . .t , . It? X ' ih ' . x K Sf - b f'' i d " 1 - v . v ! ' s ? t .4 fji 1 1 1 1 I V ' -- VVIV:-- J "t I I ' .l.llt s ; i M - :. 1 : v j . ;!! i ! : I ' i t , i , .; ''i . 1 I ! ; - - i -'-- i , - ; 1 , i ' ;j ? I ' - 11 ' , ! I V 'u . ' -- 'J r ; ft ' 1 5 ' . j , . - NBC TV technicians prepare to shoot scenes inside the Pleasant Grove Rev iew-P.- Printers Office in Pleasant Grove. !p.G. becomes 'American River' -- in pilot for possible TV series By MARCEL1A WALKER f Pleasant Grove's Main Street ' wame a Hollywood set last Wed--. lesday when NBC TV filmed the I lilot for a new series in town. The movie is to be called "Ameri- - an River", which is supposed to be lie name of a small town in Wash- - ngton. The story is about a mother and lertwo daughters who live in the nountain town. The mother, M by Helen Shaver, runs a mckstop-dine- and is struggling make it succeed. Her father is played by Claude Utins, the n lead from a e series "Moving On." Some developers come to the ommunity and want to change it nto a ski resort. They want the wi tobe changed into a Bavarian-3T- e Village. This seemed like deja vu to team Grove City leaders, who Wthe same proposal put to them 1 consulting firm a couple of Jws ago who wanted to make the y into a Bavarian- - style village. m proposal presents a ofAmerican vef because it would be an tf(pumty would be changed for- - 'Lfc the mother P'ayed by C ,T'has two daughters. '"rebellious and wants to leave e town but ,a wis the younger an honor student who gets a chance to work on the local newspaper. As the one girl is preparing to leave town, the town council holds a meeting in which Claire stands up and gives an eloquent speech about the community. She tells about how her father and grandfather had fished in the streams, walked in the woods, and the beauty of the surroundings which would not be the same if the town is made into a ski resort. The older daughter hears her mother's speech and decides to stay. For love interest, Claire's old boyfriend, a former ski champion, arrives with the developers and Claire becomes involved again with the champion, who is played by David Mcllwraith. Erica, the villainess, is played by Ellen Dolan. Perry Reeves plays the older daughter and Marcianne Warman is the younger daughter. The movie is directed by Mat-thew Robbins, who wrote "Sugar Land Express," Steven Speilberg's first picture, among other credits. He directed "Batteries Not In-cluded," another Steven Speilberg production. The producers are a husband-wif- e team, Willard Huyck and Glo-ria Katz. They wrote "American Graffiti" as well as "American River." Emily Kaufman is the associate producer. f ; I i . a I v I 'j - I "American River" star Claude Akins takes time out to pose for photograph. Judy Marlin, assistant to the director, said that if the pilot does not result in a series, it will be shown as a Movie of the Week on NBC. In Pleasant Grove filming was done at Vector Video, Intermoun-tai- n Craft, the Pleasant Grove Review-P.G- . Printers, and Beacon Finance buildings. They are expected to return later in the month to film at Christensen's Department Store. Interior filming was done in the news office where printer, Jack Pace, was asked to be an exta. Other local residents were used as extras to walk up and down the street, or drive cars on cue. Cindy Howard, a local actress, was asked to be a standin for Helen Shaver. The Pleasant Grove City water truck was used to help create snow for a scene early Wednesday morn-ing. Vehicles had artificial snow on them, also. It turned out to be a very warm day, and performers were dressed in heavy winter coats as it was supposed to be a winter day. Some became very uncomfortable before filming was over. Mr. Akins was cordial and friendly and signed autographs, had his picture taken with the po-lice officers on duty, and even helped serve lunch to Mayor David Holdaway and other city officials at the chow wagon. Filming was done all day Wed-nesday and Main Street was all or partially blocked off from Center to 100 South. Businesses, for the most part, reported good sales to the movie people, although some had com-plained that blocking off Main Street might cause them to lose business. The publicity from the filming, however, was felt to be a boon to the community, according to the Pleas-ant Grove City Council. Timp Cave volunteers sought The National Park Service is accepting applications for volun-teers to assist in providing tours at Timpanogos National Monument during the Spring and Fall, and occasionally during the summer months. As participants in the Volun-teers-in-Par- (VIP) program, the volunteers will serve without com-pensation on a part-tim- e basis. No previous experience is neces-sary to apply. Training will be pro-vided by the park staff on Saturday, May 6, beginning at the Visitor Center at 9 a.m. Those applicants interested should bring a warm jacket or sweater, walking shoes or boots, and a lunch. Most of the training will take place outside and in the caves. Volunteers must be in good health and physically able to make the mile hike to the cave. The program will begin on May 15 and continue through approxi-mately June 6. The fall schedule will begin September 5 and run through approximately September 29. pndon plan to comply with Section 89 Dave Thurgood met with the City regarding the water and sewer connection fees. In order to the City to receive grants, it is necessary to do a sur-vey of the City and determine in-come levels by neighborhood. dyliYNSECRETAN iio,.. ?roPsed cafeteria p an 'ef Sat1LmdonCity Council is IP Ccl ttaxableinceinto ithS4bna89mCOme t0 Cmply iST Erro1 PhiWips and flaJUnardmet with the Coun-- ThrSented the cafeteria i'tratoR previouslv with ), QWavs to deal with Section SS9 fthe Eternal nt EPloye itnminatein favor or 165 1,beT. hiShly Paid- - CcStto.811 employees. 0 'tl0nswit,!na plan offers some ion 89 S,eatlvity to deal with !tithmat, jialists have 'Pine ,inistrators and Pting eiemployees without ''einterpretingthe vdLr having a ha Jover 17 fcefits for all who r'eteri. ,ur8 Per week. offers a wind fall for the employee and employer. Employees can take out of their income money for medical ex-penses, child care, premiums for group insurance, disability and cancer insurance. The employer reduces liability, shows interest in employee wel-fare, and benefits are received without increased cost to city. The plan is known to some employees as flexible compensa-tion. The specialists will sit down with each employee and determine expenses that can be deducted from the salary. The employee will not have to pay taxes on the deter-mined expenses thus reducing the salary. While the total compensation is the same, the taxable compensa-tion is actually reduced and some employees actually end up with a four percent raise. Federal tax savings are generated on the money, and the W-- 2 form is re-duced. The specialists suggested all employees would benefit with the payroll modification procedure. It will help the employer comply with Section 89 and add benefits to the employee. The Council adopted the plan for all employees. Police Chief Ferre met with the Council and told them of reports taken, calls and traffic stops for past year. He reported 892 traffic stops with 80 accidents, 15 injuries and one fatal accident in 1988. There have been 125 Part 1 crimes with more aggravated as-saults which seems to be on the increase county wide and nation wide. There were nine resident bur-glaries, with five cleared, two busi-ness burglaries with one cleared. Sixty seven ofthe 125 Part 1 crimes were cleared, for 54 percent. During the year there were 198 Part II crimes reported. More drunk drivers are arrested in Lin-do- n than Pleasant Grove but they attribute the difference to the Highway and Geneva Road. The police department spends about 20 percent of their time and receive about 20 percent of their calls from Lindon. Chief Ferre mentioned the de-partment is running a seat belt program for the state and taking it to the schools. iillilll I ' ' It vliiUS IfRFV iili, 'llJiiillilill .: list $mmM&m mu ... ..: ?$,': "f " "."..'. " ' .. V ? ' "''' ' I f " , w.;t , j- - w ' . ' " . , , f f "av.' , ,y " , x ' ' ? 'i ' , " - Tree planting time... T. Ardie Adams rides and works a tree planting machine used to plant more than 800 apple trees April 6 in a field on 200 S. and 800 East. Adams and his sons, Eddie and Paul, have one of the largest fruit farms left in Pleasant Grove. More than one P.G. resident stopped to tell Ardie and his sons how "happy" they were that trees were being planted and not houses or four-plexe- s! (Photo by Jack Hill) Dispatchers honored Pleasant Grove Police Dispatch-ers will be honored at a lunch on Wednesday, April 12, along with other county dispatchers as part of National Dispatchers Week. The Pleasant Grove Police De-partment has increased its dis-patching from one and one-ha- lf daytime dispatchers and onenight-tim- e dispatcher in 1981, to the present 10 dispatchers. The city also now has 24-ho-dispatching. The dispatchers are well trained and have been instru-mental in giving assistance until police or medical personnel can arrive. Sherri Atwood is the head dis-patcher for the city. |