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Show My Ghe Salt LakeTribune M FORTHE RECORD, B-2 ROLLY & WELLS @ STATE OF THE STATE, B-3 HCOMICS, B-4 already is so deep on the steeps that workers at Alta, Utah’s crusty old skiersonly resort, are talking about shutting the snow-making machines down for the season. More snowis predicted through next week. “This is the best since °92-'93, that record breaker,” said Nate Kies, snow in heavenas resorts open a monthearly BY SKIP KNOWLES © 2000,The Salt Lake Tribune Eagles Legal, But Beaglesin The Dog House NOVEMBER13, 2000 MM MOVIES, B6 Powder PowerJump-Starts Slopes Skiers, boarders PAUL ROLLY and JOANN JACOBSEN-WELLS MITVLISTINGS, B-S maker and longtime Alta skier. “This is the first time we have ever taken days off THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE PARK CITY —-Utah’s ski industry was hitting full snow-worship mode over the weekend, with four major resorts open and snowstill coming down. Theski culture in Utah enjoyed its own Perfect Storm, again and again. Snow whenit was cold enough to make snow. Last year we were driving up to the snow-guns [snow-makers] in trucks with chains, and this year we are already get- ting the snowmobilesstuck.” The resort opened Thursday, exactly one month earlier than last year’s Dec. 9 opening. Nearby, Snowbird officials claim a 50-inch base, and more than 100 inches havefallenso far this season. Virgin snow beckoned in groomed runs on a blue-sky opener Saturday at Park City Mountain Resort. Deer and moose tracks crisscrossed beneath the lifts, showing the snow hadfallen so early this year the big animals had notyet migrated downhill. Most powder shots along the sides of the groomed runs went untouched — too thin — andpeopleonlifts commented on brown splotches below Five helmeted heads appeared in the resort's parking lot on Saturday as the Lee family filed outof their minivan, eager to lay down their boards forthefirst runs of the season. “This early opening is awesome,”” said where the bold had pushed their luck and hit dirt. Eric Lee, a local lawyer. “This is a big contrastto last year, when we were om ing at this time.” His wife, Liz, and children,Dillon, Abs and 7-year-old Chloe, had prowled ski Eighty-three humming snow-guns pumped artificial snow, adding to a clingy See SKI OPENING, Page BSS 2002 ‘Look’: Will Budget: Bring Flashy Or Frugal? REVIVING A GHOST TOWN Rememberthe Beagle Forum? ek was Attorney General Jan G morning mist that broke into sunshine. Enough people showed to cause lift linés, though it was not the crushofficials hoped for. : creation as a spoofon the ultra- conservative Eagle Forum. The Beagle Forum soughtdonations to counterright-wing causes and candi- dates. Graham announcedthe idea at her Law DayBall last May and subsequently raised about $4,000 for the Beagles. Then,the state Division of ConsumerProtection notified Graham that she mustregisterit as a charitable organization. Graham and attorneysshe hired with private funds argued thatit was a political account and exemptfrom charitable organization rules,justlike political funds solicited for Gov. Mike Leavitt (who, BY MIKE GORRELL THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Once upona time, formerSalt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini had big ideas about transforming North Temple into a grand boulevardwith a tree- you might have guessed, was nothassled by the Division of ConsumerProtection). lined center divider, giving Olympic visitors a scenicfirst impression ofthe Thedivision acknowledged it did city on their shuttle from the airportto not require the Eagle Forum toregister, claiming that groupdid notsolicit money. The Eagle Forum hada solicitation message on its Website until just before Graham was notified. But ratherthan fight the bureaucracy, Graham returned the Beagle Forum downtown hotels. The way things stand now, come Games time, North Temple will look just as it does today. No Olympic banners. Nothing. Samefor mostofthe northern Utah donations and noted onits Website communities involved in the staging thatit could not accept money. of the 2002 Winter Games — unless the Side note: The Division ofConsumerProtection that hassled Graham about the Beagle Forum is headed by Francine Giani, who was the campaign managerfor Graham's two-time Republican opponent, Scott Burns. Giani alsotestified at a legislative hearing in support ofa failed attempt by the Republican Legislature to strip Democrat Graham of much of her attorney general duties. Q Rocky’s Not Alone Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Ander- Salt Group’s Efforts Keep Old West Alive Partnership raises $1.35 million to restore abandoned Grafton for future generations go into schoolswith an anti-drug mes- the town. “This is part of history,” said partnertownofGraftonis almostlike a flashback * ship president Jane Whalen, “part of to the frontierof the Old West. Utah’s legacy.” Down a long, winding dirt road in As part of the celebration, Robert southern Utah,intoa valley secluded from Crawford, an associate producer of the hustle andbustle of the outside world, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” lies Grafton — without electricity, runshowed a documentary onthefilming. He ning water, phones and road signs. said it was important to save the town for Picturesque mountains serve as a future generations because it offers a backdrop to the once-thriving communiglimpse into the past. ty, whose only residents now are a few Minneapolis, Austin, Seattle and Omaha, someof which are run by con- servative, Republican mayors. DAREcould becomea hotissue in Utah in the next few years since Salt Lake County Mayor-elect Nancy ‘Workmanmadehersupport of DARE and her disagreement with Anderson a major campaign issue. Q Election Day Drama OnElection Day morning,Josh Savageof Sandy started his new gray Chevy Silverado, then ran inside to grab a Coke before heading to work. He returned to find the truck gone. So he called 911 and gave a report to Sandypolice, Nearly 12 hours later, Savage,takinghis toddler to grandma’s housein the other family car, found himself behindhisstolen truck at Creek Road and 2000 East. Hecalled 911 andfollowed the truck, whichfled. Sandy police joined the chase at Brighton High School and found the abandoned,slightly damaged truck. Thedriver had disappeared with the keys, garage door Organizing Committee “We don’t begin to have the money Lin Alder LuWayne Wood,who was bor in Grafton, is hugged by his granddaughter Camie Jugantat the old Grafton church and schoolhouse. Jugant's T-shirt bears a photo of her granddad at age 25. Wood is part of an effort to preservethe old town. sonis featured in thelatest edition of Rolling Stone magazinefor his banishmentof the DARE program. It noted Andersonwas thelatest city leaderto halt the federally subsidized program in whichpolice officers sage. Cities that scrapped DARE on the groundsit doesn't work include Lake comescloseto balancing its $1.3 billion budget, or other parties, such as local governments and businesses, step up to fill the void. BY THOMAS BURR to the group celebrated raising more than $1.35 million to purchase surrounding SPECIALTO THE TRIBUNE land and restore crumbling buildings in GRAFTON — step inside the ghost grazing cows. Thesetting is world famous, immortalized by the movie “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" filmed here in 1968, In an attemptto preserve that scene, a group of 17 organizations and private landowners called the Grafton Heritage Partnership combined in 1997 to save the town sothatit offers a historical snapshot ofearlier times. On Saturday, in the nearby town of Rockville, more than 150 people with ties “Grafton symbolizes the settlement of ran into German and French visitors in Grafton who wanted to see where the movie wasfilmed. LuWayne Wood, who was born in the town 89 years ago, gathered with his descendants in the town Saturday afternoon, posingfora few pictures at the steps of a reddish;brown church, which’ has beenrestored by the partnership. “This place ties you back to your roots,” Wood said. “It brings back lots of memories.” In 1998, the church, which had also served as a schoolhouse, was crumbling. The corners of the building were almost America,” Crawford said. “It offers a cheerful, fleeting momentinto the past. gone and the wooden supports rotting, It’s not a magnetfor millions[of people], collapse. buta place for those whowantto go offthe Two years and $100,000 later, the churchis now solid, saved by the Grafton beaten path.” “Butch Cassidy,” one of the American Film Institute's top 100 movies ever made, has brought visitors from around the world to Grafton. Crawford said he remembered a time, years after the movie's release, when he causing the structure to sag and almost in our budget to decorate the city,” SLOC President Mitt Romney told trustees this past week. So in a worst-case scenario, Olympic visitors will get off a plane at Salt LakeCity International, decorated toa modesttune of $200,000. Upon leaving’ the airport, they will not see another Games banner until reaching the heart of downtown. Even then, organizers’ decorations will be confined to a few blocks: South Temple and 200 South from 400 West to State Street; West Temple, Main and State streets from South Temple to 500 South. SLOCwill notdecorateParkCity or any other venue community. Nor will it spruce up contemplated community celebration sites at the City-County Building or the Gallivan Center a few blocks away in downtownSalt Lake. The medalsplaza will be gussied up but will operate only during the evenings. Nightly concerts following the awarding of medals to victorious ath- letes will featurelocal talent. Fireworks will be limited, unlike in Sydney where they were plentiful and culminated Olympic closing-cere- monynight with an extravaganza that packed an estimated 1 million rollicking souls into the harbor's central businessdistrict, Heritage Partnership. Last week, the group spent $1.1 million to purchase 216 acres encircling Grafton. Thepartnershipis probably as historic ingly always upbeat Romney laying out such a bleak description of Salt See GHOST TOWN,Page B-2 See ROMNEY,Page B-3 WorkersTell of Lingering Fear It was incongruous to see the seem- HOOP MASTER After Shooting at Triad Center opener, Savage's wedding ring anda Mirror Lake camping pass. While police continue their search, Savage has changed the locks on his house and truck. Q What He Meantto Say After we wrote of complaints that Salt Lake Organizing Committee President Mitt Romney chided low-income peopleat a central city town meeting for not beingable to afford $20 tickets to Olympic events, Romney somewhat al He sent us aletter stating he was BY NESREEN KHASHAN TI and Lasalle L.L.C., the management ‘ALT LAKE TRIBUNE The morning after the 1999 Triad Center shooting, AT&T Wireless manager Bud Hirst returned to find cleanup crews removing blood that stained his mortally wounded colleague’s office. Bullets hadpierced the lobby walls and punctured cubicle partitions. His spirits were shattered, Hirst said, and remained sofor sometimeafter the shooting. “It was tough,” Hirst said this past week in court testimony. “After the shooting, management met to discuss firm,failed to warn tenants in time. On Jan. 14, 1999, 25-year-old De-Kieu Duy, wearing a hooded parka and armed with a 9mm handgun, entered the downtown Salt Lake City building. Whenshe reached the fourth floor, Duy allegedly shot 30-year-old Anne Sleater in the head. Sleater, who had recently returned to work after giving birth to her{irst child, died eight days later. An employee of KSL-TV, onthe first floor, received minorinjuries. Immediately after the shooting, AT&Tordered its employees notto talk about the shootings. The jury. trial, which is expected to continue through “surprisedthatI had so badly miscommunicated that anyone wouldfeel chided.”He added that to ensure everyone has a “powerful Olympic expe- how to make peoplefeel safe again.” But it took nine months and a moveto another building before AT&T employ- rience,” the committee is planning a ees felt comfortable, according to a law- nity for workers to describe what they saw andfelt. free medals plaza, nightly free con. certs, free youth tickets and free education and cultural programs. sult being heard in 3rd District Court. ‘Those nine months, AT&T contends, cost it $1.9 million in lost revenues that the attorney L. Rich Humpherys said employees were too traumatized to return company is suing the building manage- to normal productivity for most of the ment and contract security firms to recover. AT&T claims Allied Security Inc. See WORKERS,Page B-2 Rolly and Wells welcome e-mail at rolly&wells@sitrib.com, 4 “ 4 next week, provided the first opportu- During his opening statement, AT&T A Danny La/The Salt Lake Tribune Carl MooreJr., a memberof the Hopi tribe, performs a Pueblo hoop dance Sundayat the Navajo rug sale in Park City. The sale finances the Adopt-A-Native Elder program, which delivers food and medical supplies to the Navajo reservation, Tr B-2, & “ |