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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, September 22-24, 2004 The Park Record B-15 IHC to hold 'Family Fitness Fest' The IHC Health Plans" "Family Fitness Festival" will be held on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2004. from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the recreation field directly east of the Salt Lake County Ice Center, 5201 Murray Park Lane. Murray. The Festival, which is free to the public, will focus on fitness, nutrition and safety for the entire family. The Utah BlUzz will host a soccer clinic from 10 a.m. to noon for children ages seven to 14. Utah Blitzz players will teach children backyard soccer techniques that kids can use to improve their skills while staying fit. Participants should arrive early to sign up. There are only 300 spots available, and every child in the clinic will receive a free soccer ball and T-shirt. The festival will also offer other fun activities, including a climbing wall, snacks, face painting, special appearances by Smokey Bear and McGruff the Crime Dog. Life Flight helicopter and child immunizations provided by Immunization Care-A-Van. Other interactive information will be available on topics such as diabetes, asthma, immunizations, smoking, safety, and baby-sitting. Parents are encouraged to COME BY FOR A TEST CLIMB. browse the exhibits while their children attend the soccer clinic. The Festival is sponsored by IHC Health Plans in partnership with Primary Children's Medical Center, the Utah Blitzz, Gart Sports, K-Bull 93 FM, B9S.7 FM and Pop 101.9 FM. For more information about the IHC Health Plans' Family Fitness Festival, call (801) 442-5679, or email hpmarketing@ihc.com. School company buying lawmakers? A family that runs a chain of troubled boarding schools has dumped bundles of money into Utah political campaigns over the past two years - and may have been peddling influence with lawmakers to avoid regulation, a newspaper reports. The Salt Lake Tribune reports in Sunday editions that lawmakers quietly killed a bill this year that would have allowed the stale to regulate boarding schools. Since then, checks have flown into political coffers, and complaints surrounding the schools have swirled. At the center of the storm are House Speaker Marty Stephens, who received H $30,000 check six days after the bill died from its biggest opponent, and the Majestic Ranch boarding school near Randolph, which has been has been investigated three separate times for alleged abuse, according to state Human Service officials. That school is owned by Dan Peart, brother-in-law of World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools founder Robert Lichfield, who awarded Stephens the $30,000 check. The ranch is among seven troubled-teen schools affiliated with World Wide in four states and two foreign countries. Several others have been shut down amid allegations of abuse or poor living conditions, including the Casa by the Sea facility near Ensenada, Mexico, closed last weekend by government officials. Ken Stettler, director of the Utah Office of Licensing, told The Tribune he's convinced he had the voles to pass the bill giving his office regulatory authority over Majestic Ranch, if only Stephens and others had allowed it to come up for a vote. "It still goes back to the old deal that, you know, if you are giving political contributions, then when the lime comes and you need to call in your chips, you're going to have a listening ear, which is more than a lot of the citizenry has," he said. After several years of relatively modest contributions, Lichfield, of La Verkin. and his network of family members and business associates opened their wallets to politicians - all of them Republicans, and many of them Utah politicians - starting in 2002. They donated no more than a couple of thousand dollars prior to Jan. 1. 2001, but since then have forked over $1 million. Lichfield told The Tribune there was nothing nefarious about his sudden plunge into the political arena. "We've been abundantly blessed, and when you're blessed, we feel you have a responsibility to bless others," he said, confirming that World Wide member schools gross more than $70 million annually. Lichfield added that the family's charitable contributions, which he estimated at $3 million last year. One way to ready know what a Land Rover can do is to take on our rock course. That's when the IRJB power of the 2004 Discovery kicks in. The a^wheel drive of Ihe newlyredesigned Freeiander is at its best. And Ihe performance of the Range Rover reaches its height Slop by our Land Rover Centre for a lesl drive. Or if you prefer, a lesl climb dwarf its political donations. Stephens, the outgoing House speaker whose bid for governor ended unsuccessfully in the May 8 Republican Stale Convention, did not return repeated requests from The Tribune for comment or a telephone message Sunday from 'Hie Associated Press. However, Lichfield denied receiving undue influence, and shrugs off suggestion, that he has become a political powerbroker. "Believe me. the check had nothing to do with (the bill)," said Lichfield. "Marty Stephens was going to get a donation from me no matter what happened to (it). Marty Stephens is a quality guy" "I'd like to use my means and resources to bless peoples' lives. Docs that also imply, influencing policy-makers to make good policies that support good family values, quality education and the things I believe in? Definitely. I'd like to have some influence in that," he said. 2004 FREELANDERSE Starting at: 2004 DISCOVERYs Starting at: 2004 RANGE ROVER New shipment just arrived, come by and test one out. *Sco dealer lor details AMERICAN FORK TAKE 1-15 EXIT 273 / A Ni% -m^x Mt**iWMS 847-4000 \\ -ROVER J CENTERVILLE TAKE 1-15 EXIT32Z 2aB.5M0 Thinking of Buying or Selling? Call Your Home Team] Light could help Jeremy's traffic woes • Continued from B-13 Another is snow. If the few extant sidewalks aren't shoveled during the winter, kids have to walk in the street, along with cars and snow plows. Peterson said, "Basically the message we want to get out is, 'It's just not a neighborhood to walk in. especially if you're a little kid"' designed to handle as many cars cles and you can't see. It's not a good situation/' DeDen said. as it does," Ehlers said. When dropping kids off at "Everybody drives such huge school, DeDen said she's waited cars around here, it's pretty more than 10 minutes on the nerve-wracking." Peterson said. frontage road between Jeremy and IOur parking lot was never 80 waiting to get into the designed to handle as many cars as it school parking does..Just crossing the parking lot is a lot. Besides the hazard." inconvenience, a busy parking - J.J. Ehlers lot creates its own dangers, Jeremy PTO president "We think that it would probably help," Wallace said. Snatch a kid? 1-80 contributes to parental paranoia in another way: the possibility for a kidnapper to make a quick getaway. "Somebody could snatch a kid and be so far gone before anybody knew about it," DeDen said. DeDen reported that at "Traffic woes" Jeremy Ranch's Back to School Of course, because kids can't night, a man approached some walk to school, that means a lot girls playing in the school's playof parents have to drive them. ground. She said he told the girls Wallace estimates that 300 cars "JUSt CrOSS- ^ H ^ ^ B H M H M B he was there for Back to School come to Jeremy every morning. ing the parking night for his son, but was looking Peterson sakl, "We have traffic lot is a hazard," Ehlers said. ;^ .problem, lor his _qaAv_. ..^wv-^.y-,^ -<*i* woes in our parking lots every It's especially hazardous given Wallace would like to see a traffic "Who take's their cat to Back morning because we have so Jeremy Ranch moms' fondness light installed at the intersection to School?" said DeDen. adding many kids being dropped off." between the school and the free- that the event made "us moms for ltSUVs. "Our parking lot was never We all drive these giant vehi- way off-ramp. extremely nervous." TIMBERED TREASURE IN PIMEBROOK • S685,000 TERRY &LANNIE SCOPES, Your Home Team! 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