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American Fork sells property Alex Boye in Concert at for senior housing project Frontier Middle School American Fork’s City Council has approved the sale of 2.4029 acres of surplus property to the Utah Housing Authority. The property, divided into two parcels, 492 West Pacific Drive, is located between the Rustic Hills subdivision and the railroad tracks. The sale of the parcels to the UHA for $195,000 was expected to close by Dec. 15 (after press deadline).
According to city records, the city purchased the two lots “with the intent to facilitate low to moderate income housing development within American Fork through a successful partnership with the Housing Authority of Utah County.” To help facilitate the project, the city will complete 560 West south to the railroad right-of-way. It will also pipe an irrigation ditch along the property’s northern boundary and install utilities and stub them into the property. The improvements are being funded with Redevelopment Area and Economic Area Development monies. The City Council gave its go ahead on Dec. 8.
Recently, recording artist and performer, Alex Boye posted on Facebook that he wanted to do a Utah “smalltown tour,” asking his Facebook friends where he should perform first. According to his wife, Julie Boye, Alex’s post elicited over 5,000 comments. As it turned out, Eagle Mountain was the winner of the informal poll and so Alex Boye decided that he wanted to hold a special concert just for Eagle Mountain. According to Julie Boye, Alex wanted to perform before Christmas so that residents “could enjoy the concert as families for the Christmas season.” Alex Boye was born in London, England in 1970. He spent much of his youth in foster homes. When he was 16, Boye was introduced to the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by a manager. He was baptized soon afterward. Boye first performed in public while serving as a missionary for the LDS Church in Bristol, England. In 1995, he formed and became the lead singer of Awesome, a
European boy band. Universal Records of Europe signed Awesome to a five-album recording contract. Awesome released three singles off their first album, Rumors, which made Top-10 charts all across Europe. Boye decided to leave the band in 1999 to pursue a solo career. In 2000, Alex moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, to pursue a career in Christian music. He released his first religious album, The Love Goes On, in 2001.Boye joined the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 2006. In 2010, Boyé performed the single, “Born to Be a Scout”, at the National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. In August 2011, Boye was invited to take part in Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Courage” rally in Jerusalem. In early 2014, Boye created an Africanized tribal version of the popular song “Let It Go” from the movie Frozen. The video went viral, propelling Boye’s combined YouTube views to over 100 million. It was selected as YouTube’s best pop cover of 2014. Also during December 2014, Boye released an original Christmas song and YouTube video entitled “Newborn - Wise Men Still Seek Him”.
Alpine survey says…
Experience the art of Norman Rockwell at BYU’s Museum of Art A collection of Norman Rockwell artwork is on display at the BYU Museum of Art now through February 13. Norman Rockwell’s artwork is known for portraying all aspects of human nature from the simple, to patriotic, political, and to the complex social issue pieces of his time. During his 60 year art career, he painted more than 4,000 pieces. The traveling exhibit, “American Chronicles”, had 2,600 reserved tickets for the opening day on November 20. This exhibit in on loan from the Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts. Even from a young age, Rockwell always liked to draw. During his freshman year in high school he also studied art on Saturdays at the Chase School in Massachusetts. He eventually dropped out of high school and decided to focus his talents on art fulltime. One of his dreams was to make a cover for The Saturday Evening Post. In March 1916, his dream came true. The editor accepted one of his completed paintings and then took three
sketches for future covers. He ultimately published 323 original covers for the magazine. Rockwell’s career also included: illustrations for Life magazine, Boys’ Life magazine, illustrated children’s books and was an art editor for a children’s magazine. In 1943 Rockwell’s studio went up in his flames and consequently he lost all of his work and props. However, after that tragedy he changed the way he painted, instead of doing historical illustrations like he had done in the past, he started illustrating more pieces about everyday life. Admission to the exhibit “American Chronicles” is free, but tickets are required. Patrons can reserve tickets in advance online. There is a limited number of standby tickets available at the museum every day. Tickets can be reserved at: http://moa. byu.edu. Museum hours are Monday and Tuesday 10 am - 6 pm, Wednesday - Friday 10 am - 9pm, Saturday 10 am - 6 pm. The museum is located on North Campus Drive. For more information about this exhibit call (801) 422-8287.
The results are in. Alpine Mayor Don Watkins recently sent out a survey to city residents and received 730 responses. The 13-question survey garnered a broad response on subjects ranging from zoning to addressing stray deer. According to the survey, 50 percent of residents favor the city taking measures to reduce the deer population while 29 percent were opposed and 21 percent were undecided. The majority of residents decided to live in Alpine because of the beauty and mountains (27 percent) and its family centeredness (26 percent). Twenty-four percent of respondents like its small-town, rural feel and 14 percent like that it’s private and quiet. Just 7 percent live there because of its location and 2 percent because of the schools. Thirty-five percent favor residential growth while 49 percent like Alpine just the way it is. Sixteen percent are undecided. Among those who said they favor residential growth or are undecided, 43 percent would like to see single family homes, 19 percent senior living, 18 percent single family homes with attached apartment, 8 percent single family with detached apartment. Nine percent favor condos or townhomes while 3 percent would like Alpine to have more apartments. A strong majority, 72 percent, would not support zone changes anywhere in the city to allow for higher density housing. Just 19 percent would support zone changes with 9 percent undecided. On the question of increased commercial growth, the respondents were almost
equally split, with 44 percent favoring it and 45 percent opposing it. Eleven percent was undecided. Of those who would like to see more commercial growth or are undecided about it, 38 percent would like to see more dining, 20 percent more grocery, 18 percent boutique, 12 percent more entertainment, 9 percent hardware and 3 percent other. If unincorporated Utah County land is developed, 60 percent would like to see it annexed into Alpine. Twenty-two percent said it should stay in the county and 18 percent were undecided. Half of respondents want the city to annex the Box Elder South subdivision while twenty five percent are opposed and 25 percent are undecided. Most people, 84 percent, want to see trails in residential areas. Ten percent oppose those trails with 6 percent undecided. An overwhelming majority, 87 percent, find the current city animal regulations acceptable. Nine percent have issues with them with 4 percent undecided. In the city, more respondents were from the southeast, (29 percent) and northeast (28 percent) with 7 percent from the Northwest, 15 percent from downtown and 11 percent from the southwest. Respondents rated their concerns in the following order with 1 being the greatest concern and 10 the least: Hillside/open space (2.9) Rural lifestyle (3.4) Traffic (4.1) Parks & Recreation (4.5) Good tax base (4.9) Noise pollution (5.3) Preserve agriculture (5.8) Animal rights (6.9) Affordable housing (7.2)
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