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Eagle Scouts aim to finish Paradise welcome sign By
Joe Rowley PARADISE -- Volunteers can help get a town on the map. That's what Paradise learned as several new Eagle Scout candidates presented their proposed projects to the Town Council Wednesday night. The Scouts want to help finish the welcome sign at the north end of town. Leader Kevin Smith and three of his Scouts attended the meeting seeking approval from the town to go ahead with their projects. The sign, which now stands on Highway 92 at the edge of town, has been built entirely with volunteer labor organized primarily by Eagle Scout projects. Little money has been needed so far for materials, but the next step is landscaping and lighting, which involves the expense of plants, trees and a qualified electrician. Also, with the space around the sign being landscaped, maintenance is another concern. Wesley Clark showed the council a copy of a flier that he wants to send out with utility bills on Oct. 1 asking residents to donate between $25 and $100 to the sign project. Clark said his goal is to raise $5,000. The Scouts will also follow up by visiting people door to door. As an incentive to people to donate, Clark said that the project would include a plaque mounted on the sign with the names of families who donated. "I think it'd be a good incentive," councilman Aaron Cranney said. "Kind of the legacy sort of thing." Brian Snyder presented a project to light the sign and landscaping around it. He said his project would include running electrical conduit from where the city would hook up to the Utah Power and Light transmission line and around the sign to where lights will be placed. He said that he would also put up the lights. The council decided that the electricity should be wired by a qualified electrician, but that the Scouts should run the conduit, which includes trenching the route the line would run. The council recommended several electricians to Snyder. "The reason we're telling you this," Cranney said, noting that Snyder didn't have curly hair, "is you might after this if you don't have an electrician do it." The council also asked Snyder to determine the cost of the project. "We don't have a check book big enough to have you just go get whatever you need," Mayor Lee Atwood said. Shawn Wengren proposed his project of landscaping the area in front of the sign, leaving the back for another Scout. Because Wengren wanted the council's input on the landscaping, they decided to meet at the site at 6 p.m. Oct. 2 at 6 before their next council meeting. They said the council would brainstorm with Wengren and Smith about how the space should look. Because the sign has been a project that the town has worked on together it has already become a source of pride to the residents. "I look at that baby every time I go by, it looks so neat," said Councilman Dale Anderson. All three projects were approved by the council. The council also discussed finding election judges to run the municipal election Nov. 6. They suggested 10 names of possible judges, hoping that three would be willing to do the job. One concern of the council is how much the election judges would be paid. Atwood said that they would need to pay them the going rate. He said that he would check with the county and see what they paid their judges and that the city would pay them the same. Polls are open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m., after which the judges would have to count the votes. Each judge would have to be there the whole time. "You need someone for the morning rush," Atwood said, "but I imagine people are going to be doing a lot of knitting and crossword puzzles in the afternoon hours." Continuing the water debate, Atwood said that the collection of delinquent water bills has been turned over to Allied collection and that they would soon seek a judgment against the residents to garnish their wages. The council also decided to not take any payments in the town office after an account has been turned over to collections. The council also continued a discussion about illegal water hookups. They explored the mechanics of finding and unhooking illegal hookups, but decided to take their time and make sure that any action taken is fair and clean.
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