Show T ' I l 27 2002 A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday March i jj t Utah & The West 1 i 1 In brief Yellowstone rated No 3 family destination Provo school district set to raze Utah’s oldest operating school — Residents Utah’s oldest PROVO (AP) hoping to preserve school still in operation have been given until July to come up with a plan — and the money — to halt the wrecking ball If a project isn’t put together by July 15 the Provo City Maeser Elementary School District will raze the School which is on the National Register of Historic Places The board voted 4-- 1 Saturday to destroy the school unless residents find $300000 to repair the stone and brick building and a tenant willing to pay an annual rent of $100000 “It's an architecturally significant building” said Sandy Packard the lone dissenting school board member “I’d hate to see it razed It's one of the beautiful things in the core neighbor YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Wyo (AP) — Family Fun magazine readers ranked Yellow- stone National Park as the No 3 attraction for family vacations behind Walt Disney World and Yosemite National Park Survey results were published in the April issue of the magazine which has 13 million subscribers Rounding out the top five were Washington DC and Disneyland In the Mountain-Plain- s region which comprises 14 states Yel- lowstone took top honors in the nature escapes category and Old Faithful Geyser was No 1 among tourist attractions ‘ ld hoods” "I'm absolutely convinced there’s a good use for that building” said Stephen Nibley who chaired a committee that spent a year studying options for Maeser Elementary It would cost about $30000 to $50000 to mothball the school boarding it up tu buy time while they find a suitable use for the building Nib-g ideas” said Maeser ley said “We do have some Neighborhood chairwoman Melissa Massey “We’ve spoken with some pebpIC who attended Maeser who are large benefactors now" The survey ranked Jackson fund-raisin- dtifai It SLOC makes payment on rink rental ' PROVO (AP) — The Salt Lake Organizing Committee has made a final $3 million payment for rental of The Peaks Ice Arena where 24 Olypipic Hockey games were played SLOC officials also settled their differences with Peaks Man- ager Max Rabner over payment for upgrades of the arena Olympic organizers wanted Rabner to pay for some items and Rabner expected money from SLOC : The sides agreed to “shake hands and walk away” Utah County Commissioner Gary Herbert said Monday Rabner asked for a scoreboard to fulfill an item in the venue contract SLOC executives Gordon Crabtree and Grant Thomas provided $10 000 to pay for a scoreboard A payment to Daktrpnix for the scoreboard was authorized ' Monday by the Provo CityUtah County Ice Sheet Authority V ' AP photo A herd of elk graze in the meadows In the northern section of Yefldwstone National Park in Wyoming in this Aug 15 1997 photo The National Academy of Science released a report on Tuesday that recommends changes in how the Interior Department manages the northern mountains in the park The mountains are home to North America’s largest elk herd as well as bison and wolves In the background are ML Holmes left and ML Dome to Stoirmns faifl SALT LAKE CITY(AP) — Northern Utah has received much-needprecipitation in the past week but die storms (fid not end the four-yedrought Most northern Utah snowpack levels are a little below normal but the runoff may be reduced because the soil is so dry it will soak up water like a sponge “We’re still in a drought and expect to be all summer long and through next fall” said Randy Julander data collections office supervisor for the US Natural Resource Conservation Service in Salt ed i r - At: Man found shot to death after standoff PROVO (AP) — Police surrounded a trailer following a domestic disturbance call and found the suspect dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Officers were sent to the Imperial Trailer Court Monday afternoon following an emeigency call that a man had assaulted his mother and then shot at her The woman had escaped and was taken to a hospital ' Officers attempted to call the man Chad Paxton 28 but received no response Surrounding trailers were evacuated When there was no response to phone calls and loudspeakers officers set off tear-ga- s canisters and then entered the trailer and found Paxton dead t- ar LakeGty Meanwhile parts of the rest of Utah remain in severe drought “You start looking at places down south and you can see feat life’s going to be really tough on agriculture this year" Hole Mountain Resort as the premiere area in the region for wildlife tours mountain bike trails and proximity to national parks Jackson ranked second to Estes Park Colo in the tourism towns category “This recognition can do nothing but help enhance our posture as a leading destination for safe family vacations" Wyoming travel director Laurie Green said emtil QJtoBi dtoiuglhrii: Julander said March is always wet but this month has been wetter than usual Pete Wilensky lead forecaster at the National Weather Service office in Salt Lake City said the airport precipitation gauge so far has measured nearly an inch more than normal for the month Most of the rain and snow fell in north- cm Utah “The south did receive some precipitation out of this” he said “but it was spotty and showery” ' Julander said recent storms “have actually done a fairly decent job up here in northern Utah” Snowpack for the Bear River drainage is rated at 80 percent of normal for the Weber River 87 percent for the Provo 89 pencenL However the Duchesne River drainage snowpack is only at 65 percent of normal Julander said northern Utah’s snowpack is much better than recently but “still quite a ways down from what we’d like to see” “To tying us to a normal condition we still need another two or three Of these big storms that have been rolling through and feat’s possible" Normally the peak snowpack is on April 1 he said “Boy we'll it anytime we can get iL” National Weather Service hydrologist Brian Mclnenery said there are two things that arc working to improve the drought situation ' “The lower (elevation) fee snowpack the greater the chance of a strong runoff” Mclnenery said “We have a lower snowpack this year and we have a lot of snow on the southern-facin- g slopes” ‘ Yamaha Truckload Sale March 28 29 30 Thurs Fri Sat Huge Discounts on: r Grands DisklayiersV Clavinovas Organs Uprights Major Brands Pianos Musk Origans New orUsed ‘ FactbryDemos1 JlOO or200 off 'I- ”tain p‘ t mm ' hi Mill 1 ' titovo Santas vv7 i -- PARKCfTY pCAIilr'Af TORDrA’-'V a Stop' by these neighborhood locations: LAYTON iff IM Met ? 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