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By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent

Hanging flower baskets will not swing from light posts on Nephi's Main Street this summer but there will be flower containers along the street.
The Nephi Chamber of Commerce earlier proposed to the city that the baskets full of flowers be put into place this coming summer to beautify the city's downtown business district.
"We have been working with the Chamber," said Mark Jones, mayor.
A couple of the city's departments have worked with the group and had done a lot of investigation toward making the ideas of the Nephi Chamber of Commerce come to fruition. However, it had been decided that the project, as first proposed, would not really work at this time.
"We attended a Chamber meeting and talked over the plan with them," said Kent Park, city council member. "There has been a lot of fact finding done. As late as today, we were still considering facts."
However, he said, after reviewing the project and discussing it back and forth, it had been decided to place large cement planters on Main Street rather than the hanging baskets first proposed.
"The Chamber will invest up to $2,500 toward the beautification," said Park.
The plan is, he said, to place 30 flower containers along Main Street from 100 North to 100 South on both sides of the street. That would mean that 15 of the large containers would be on the east side of Main and 15 containers would be on the west side of Main.
"We are still in a fact-finding mode," said Jones. "And we hope that the project can expand at some future date."
He said that members of the Chamber had been very supportive and that they had worked with the city to find a way to make the beautification of Main Street work to the best advantage of the city.
Park said that each of the pots will hold an 18-inch basketful of flowers.
"The Chamber is making a contribution to the Main Street beatification project that will be in excess of what they are contributing," said Jones.
"They are contributing seed money, so to speak," said Don Ball, resident.
The proposal was a good one, said Jones, and though slightly altered from the original proposal, the flowers should add beauty to Main Street and should provide a lot of pleasure to residents of the community and, as well, to those who were traveling through the city.