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The Herald Journal Logan Utah In brief smaller subsidy For the first year since its creation in 1992 the Logan River Golf Course may rely on a smaller subsidy from the city i The city's preliminary budget for fiscal year 1999-200- 0 calls for the golf icourse to receive $443641 from Logan's general fund $30000 less than inthe 1998-9- 9 budget While the roduc-'twn is not a massive cot Logtad Mayor iDong Thompson said Tuesday it is a 'good step “It's a small amount but it's in the right direction” Thompson said Logan Paths and Recreation Director Russ A kina said much of the praise should be awarded to the golf course advisory committee which he called the 'most attentive committee he works with In 1996 former Mayor Darla Clark hired a private company to oversee operations Links Management was selected by the mayor without consult-in- g the city council or members of die golf course advisory committee whose piembers resigned in protest 'Before taking office Mayor Doug Thompson said he would form a com- mittee to look at the options for the course The new committee recommended the city regain management SLOC paying for ice rink makeover Weber County Ice Sheet has shut down until early July for an Olympic makeover The Salt Lake Organizing Committee is paying $300000 to ensure that die ice surface is perfectly flat for curling events during the 2002 Winter Games in- floor freezer Sunday Wfeber Recreation Director Cathken Dressier said Curling or sliding large stones on ice requires a perfectly flat and level surface Even the slightest ripple can scad a stone off target And the rink falls short by that standard The rink's freezing pipes anchored in and cjthifjLilightly causing waves and ridges 3flthe fee A concrete floor i Will By Antal Bonaon laJ uaJlAfl wnwr iWn The US West contributes to seniors’ computer lab Often — ' has manifested with Utah's fo itself ini innovation wis evident to visitors Tuesday at the Cache Valley Internet and Tegmoiogy Expo it Utah State Univeruty where they witnessed demonstrations by exhibitors of the latest gadgets and gizmos on the market A recent rating by PC Week magazine listed Utah’s higher education system as the nation's No 1 in technological inno100” list of vation The “Fast-Trac- k government and education technological leaders also included the state at the No 3 position — above the Smithsonian Institution’s and National Aeronautics Space Administration's systems At the expo’s Executive Breakfast on Tuesday morning speaker Dave Moon Utah’s chief information officer said die state now leads die nation and even the world in efforts to pass legislation to protect online commerce with a secure infrastructure State Rep Brad King said Utah also leads the race to tax sales on the Internet By Antal Bronson staff writer The US West Foundation has contributed $10000 to the Cache County Senior Citizen Center to fund new computer lab the foundation's Utah vice president Ted Smith announced Tuesday at the Cache County Internet and Technology Expo at Utah State University Anxious senior citizens have waited as to get into crowded classes where computer they use outdated machines and have access to limited software center director Marcee Cazier long as five months ce said State Senate Majority Leader Lyle Hillyaid of Logaq said the Internet has Because of the new funds hundreds of seniors will learn about computers and changed the way legislation is moved the Web using accessing comwith the House a Anyone through she said technology puter can read proposed bills or agendas “The seniors we serve are excited on the Web page or reach legislators by about the World Wide Web and the window it opens to the world” Cazier said Utah Speaker of the House Marty “Thanks to US West we can introduce a Republican from Fair West them to new vistas of learning” the Internet will continue to influence commerce governmental services Technological advances in the last and telecommunications decade have affected die lives of people In the past three yean sales on the everywhere and further developments Internet nave increased 230 percent are expected to improve communication commerce and governmental services annually he said The problem mis presents for state and local governments is Using computers and the Internet can a decrease in tax revenues because Interenrich the lives all people regardless of net sales are not taxed Stephens said their ages Smith said “The loss of revenue forces govern“We seem to think of the Internet as ments to either find a way to tax Internet kind of the young person’s game but the sales so revenue will not be lost or Internet has applications for everyone 8 John WHdnHemld Journal and our seniors need to lean how to use they’ll be forced to increase tax rates" he said “I think you will see federal tbit technology beMd gbests at the f Don SmeNe-speakrtouttedhnolegynmdodusallon'ottoe opening of the Ti taction dnthta Irittmet taxation sometime-'Xriflfia M Etapcutive Breakfast 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Stepheas'Uita'many if not most gov!“ that can benefit everyone1 in make teach that easier lives our courses the Utah to ernment services that people depend on evening technologies Seniors will learn the basics of com“Radio took more than 38 years to and this continues today on a lesser state agencies to perform will be availtechnology at the Senior Citizen puter able online For example he said state degree" Smellie said “The Internet reach a mass presence in the marketlicenses and permits and vehicle and now provides worldwide opportunities place” Waldrop said “Usage on the Center and how to access information to design develop evaluate and deliver Internet is doubling every three months from travel guides to medical resources pleasure craft registration applications education on the Web” for the last four years and it is still or to state legislation They will also learn can be carried out more efficiently how to seal The critical element of distance eduthe same path” online Smith said the company discovered cation he said is to maintain excellence Don Smellie head of USU’s instrucWaldrop said the technological develthe center’s need when the US West the a are of tional technology department said the in instruction opments only beginning Our World Junior Van staffed land-grathere are a In “There era Widening lot of the few a out new whole the as of people years goal college given USU student interns visited die two and do not things that amaze us now will seem by m the 1800s to bring education to the that pipe distance education seniors the into the Smellie has recentiy never in of primitive quality put process” spite changed people “Our children may laugh at the way The US West WOW Junior Van travimproved methods of accessing and said “We feel that we have a moral we accomplish things but indeed they els Utah’s highways and byways to responsibility at least at Utah State Unitransmitting information will be in awe of what we were able to every community US West serves offer“Distance education traces its beginversity to make certain that it is qualido what we were able to bring to the ing free Internet training classes to stuning back to 1911 when correspondence ty” David Waldrop vice president for banquet of information technology to dents educators senior citizens small study was organized Automobiles added to the ability to tske education to Microsoft Small Business Development the environment today” he said business owners and others state-of-the-- SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The The rink pulled the plug on its Page 3 expo gets big hand High-tec- h Golf course may get May 5 1999 Wadnanday replaclthehand The shutdown is an inconvenience to skaters hockey players and curlers ' “We're going to suffer" said Lva Taggart president of the Wasatch Club “Our kids are gang all over die state looking for ice" But several other rinks in the state are shutting down for a week or longer for maintenance she said ail — nt Coppermine cited for building reserve SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Kennecott Utah Copper Corp will receive an award for building a 3800-acr- e sborebird reserve at the south end the Great Salt Lake The Association of Engineering Geol-bgis- ts will present the environmental hward during a September convention in Salt Lake City Kennecott opened the bird reserve in early 1997 as part of its tailings ‘impoundment project It consulted on the project with the US Army Cops of ' Engineers '"the 'Utah Division of Wildlife the UJS Fish and Wildlife Services tire Environmental Protection Agency and the National Audubon if Vs !:! 'Ann Neville J 'i 'tMW-'-y- ' — i (AP) — the UtifeV job That’s what usually generates a lawsuit” fDeparifoetat of Collections has honored two she said fat its most tenacious watchdogs: the Ameri- - ACLU and DLC lawsuits have forced Utah lAtf:tAKE' CITY fcaa!M Liberties IjLawjCeutefc-- “There has been a dramatic increase jR Tin bird usage and a substantial increase Lin species diversity at the site" said V Murray to get IHC flagship hospital p lawmakers to pump millions of dollars into treat prison medical care and ment and have altered policies jovernini inmate restraints the cue of HIY-infec-te Union1 and foe Disability sex-offen- s ACLU and(he DLCsrereonoug those lauded St Tuesday's Department iojf Conecr Tl f v wetlands manager for rTKemiecott ft Kennecott was named the 1999 rccip--' first of the engineering association's outstanding environmental and engi-'tag geologic project award” one involved in this project very ' ‘ be very proud" said association James H May said p yvuuena unuwHVi pBiw i tomrauu oinuius uwugn uawcu servtatarcdons” tint “prodded a Valuable y deftndanta SQinetiniea welcome the court bat--t iervicta henefoing die Depariment of Conte-- 1 desks a means to shift entrenched or antiquat- - — 1 !rajsh victims were lo'uiderscientists CEDAR CITY Utah (AP) — Two Boulder scientists were among the three people killed in the crash of a single- -' engine plane at Cedar City Utah on Monday I Ryan Wade Sanders 50 a physicist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 'Administration and Glenn P Davis 43 of the University Corporation for KAtmospheric Research were traveling £ Jhmi Boulder to San Diego when the (Gjccklent occurred Sanders had worked at NOAA since 8 Davis ai software designer who i' Jr Got Wf a localnnwaitlpr CHy Editor Mikn Wennergren POOR COPY rarely' getivarU from iherV’fAswe sit down and tty to find solutions to cStttie'Iwonld probeMYsay jfcevctf fsaid these problems we have to understand help Oflad£ ”l alwsys figured thaithe biggest can come from the public — the ACLU is JhaEtag Cpnotrahas Utitoie3depart of that” Haim said Tuesday ”As I’veAmorkmn mi tnrritt Qvfl gotten together with Carol and her con'art&'stittietiti I’ve realized there are areas of com- pffidalta) “Unfixitaby they(pds0tt - ' y v- -t - - - Ti K i ’V ' - A'1- MURRAY (AP) — Intermountain Health Care plans to build a $200 million to $300 million hospital — the hospital chain's new flagship medical center — at the site of the old Murray smelter The new facility will take over LDS Hospital's role IHC's flagship medical center The facility will be designed to meet the needs of the county's growing population said IHC Regional Vice President H Gary Pehrson The deal announced Tuesday complements Murray’s plans to site into a develop the 100-acr- e 36-ac- re u multi-us- e commercial project once the land is cleared of soil contaminated with lead and arsenic from the old smelting operations The reclamation project under the guidance of federal and state environmental agencies is expected to be completed this uid Maya Dan Snarr “IHC has told us they plan on building the Mayo Clinic of the western United States in Murray City” Snarr said Pehrson said IHC hopes to start construction in March 2001 and complete the work during 2004 Medical services to be relocated to the site include LDS HospfaU ital's teaching and research programs its cardiac services including die artificial heart pro- gram and all organ transplant programs Its trauma services and Life Flight operations also will be based there Officials investigate possible conflict of interest SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State officials are investigating whether rules were violated when conflict-- of-interest Eavirocare of Utah owner Khoirow Sctnnani provided a loan guarantee in 1993 to a fellow member of the Utah Bond of Radiation Control — Down-winde- rs director Preston Truman Information made public last week in an unrefined lawsuit showed Semnani guaranteed a $13000 bank loan for Du-m- u who represented the environmental community on the board board is appointed by The the governa to establish rules for businesses handling radioactive material One of those is Eavirocare which operates a landfill for low-lev- el radioactive wastes in Tooele County “It was just a loan guarantee and I paid it back Period” Truman said Ties-da- y He said he was suffering serious health problems and on the verge of bankruptcy when he asked Semnani for help Tlmman said Semnani never asked him for anything in return for the help Asked if it affected his decisions on the board Truman said: “Nope Any- time I found Envirocare was doing something wrong I complained about it" In 1997 Truman opposed a proposal by Laidlaw Environmental Services to accept radioactive waste at ita Grassy Mountain landfill in competition with Envirocare Truman contended the state had enough radioactive-wast-e dumps Semnani’s attorney Rodney Snow said his client was just helping someone in need It was strictly a business deal he said with Semnani insisting Truman give him the trust deed on his home in case he defaulted on the loan “I believe Mr Truman on a number of occasions took positions contrary to Envirocare's interest after the loan guarantee was made” Snow said Details of this business relationship were disclosed to the US Attorney's Office in the summer of 1997 Snow said They were turned ova part of the investigation into $600000 that u Semnani secretly paid to Larry F Anderson forma director of the Utah Division of Radiation Control Bill Sinclair current director of the division said state officials had no details of the loan guarantee to Truman until last Friday Asked if it raises questions of proper behavior Sinclair said: “Yes and we are waking with the Attorney General’s Office in that regard” He said the radiation control board developed a conflict-of-intere- st policy while Semnani and Truman were members Information ia being gathered to determine whether that policy was violated Semnani and Truman were appointed when die board was created in 1991 |
