Fruit Heights

Lynn Bithell, of Fruit Heights, has died. A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 26, at Lindquist’s Layton Mortuary, 1867 N. Fairfield Road. Friends may visit from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 pm. prior to services. Interment, Kaysville City Cemetery. Post condolences at: www.lindquistmortuary.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner’s e-edition.

FRUIT HEIGHTS — In a forest gully just north of Castle Heights Park off Nichols Road are the remnants of an old park and campground. Once a popular recreation area, massive flooding in 1983 demolished the park, leaving in its wake a solemn trail of damaged trees.

There are still signs of a disjointed trail under the tree rubble and crumbled pieces of asphalt along the streambed, but Fruit Heights is breathing new life into the area. Since last fall, the city has been actively preparing the area for a new trail system, hoping to have it in place by the end of summer.

Steve Petty, Fruit Heights Trails Committee chairman, said the projected milelong trail will begin at Main Street in Kaysville and head up to the area behind Castle Heights Park, where it will branch off into a loop and continue up to U.S. 89.

FRUIT HEIGHTS — A 51-year-old Fruit Heights man has been federally indicted for tax fraud.

FRUIT HEIGHTS -- The city youth council recently received a third-place award of excellence from the state’s Association of Youth Councils for their work during the year 2012.

The group of 12 members competed in the small city youth council category and received the award during the association’s annual leadership training held in mid March at Utah State University.

FRUIT HEIGHTS — Deep in the 100-acre woods is where Fruit Heights residents may lie — permanently.

Utah’s congressional representatives have introduced legislation that would transfer 100 acres of U.S. Forest Service land on the Davis County bench to Fruit Heights for use as a cemetery.

Fruit Heights currently has an agreement with neighboring Kaysville for burials, but because of the area’s significant population growth, the city has been notified its residents soon will no longer be able to be buried in the Kaysville cemetery.

FRUIT HEIGHTS — Mustaches, whether real or fake, tickle the funny bone of 9-year-old Maddie Morris.

Maddie is recovering from having a tumor surgically removed from underneath her brain at Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City.

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill prohibiting a potential employer from asking for and using a job applicant’s access codes to social media has passed a House committee.

Sponsored by Rep. Stewart Barlow, R-Fruit Heights, HB 100 not only imposes limits preventing employers from accessing an employee’s personal account information, but it also contains guidelines limiting an employer’s sharing of private company information via the Internet.