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Show EPS IRE )-,; h Ti" "J i ''il 7 -MM- '- Vol. 108, No. 34 3 Sections, 32 Pages Thursday, October 1, 1987 TT TTT a u a m Rec needs subject of joint session by HEIDI WEST Record staff writer It was, well. ..if not a first, at least a landmark. Four city council members, the entire school board and even a Summit Sum-mit County commissioner joined forces Monday night to tackle a common com-mon problem recreation. Facing a packed house, representatives represen-tatives from each governing board first stated their position with respect to funding the facilities the city has deemed desirable namely a gymnasium and swimming pool. The majority opinion of the school board was first stated by board member Ed Axtell. "Our funds are somewhat limited," he said, noting the next project for the school board would be a new elementary school. "I'm not sure we could do both the new school and help fund recreation facilities is the problem." The sentiment was echoed by school board members Lindy Blackbourn and Ralph Hale. "The first thing we're going to be looking at is a new school," said Blackburn. "Our number one priority is a new building," said Hale, who added "if in addition funds are available for recreation, a pool would be a priority." priori-ty." Board president Gene Lambert's position was a little softer, but in the minority. Lambert was a member of the recreation advisory board set up to analyze which facilities were needed and how to fund them two years ago. The board produced a plan which voters "vetoed" through a Dan Jones survey for an $8.5 million recreation complex to be located between the high school and Treasure Mountain Middle School. "From my work on the recreation board, we found the school's interest would be in indoor swimming facilities, an expanded gymnasium and perhaps additional locker space," he said. "Beyond that, a long ways down the road, the school district would be interested in sharing shar-ing outdoor facilities with the county or a special recreation district." Board member Nancy Garbett also expressed a minority opinion which was supported by Blackbourn. "We have millions and millions of dollars of facilities," said Garbett. "These are used 10, 20, 30 percent of the time. If we can avoid turf issues, we can build the new elementary Holland receives death sentence by HEIDI WEST Record staff writer Confessed murderer James Louis Holland was sentenced in Coalville Wednesday to die by lethal injection for his crime. The sentence was handed down by 3rd District Court judge Hon. Homer Wilkinson, who made the decision without help from a jury trial or jury sentencing hearing. Holland waived hjs right to both at his arraignment for first-degree first-degree murder Sept. 1. Wilkinson read through each of the reasons which in Utah statute are considered mitigating circumstances cir-cumstances in applying a sentence for first-degree murder. "He decided the aggravating circumstances cir-cumstances outweighed the mitigating circumstances beyond a reasonable doubt," said prosecutor pro-secutor Terry Christiansen. Since the defendant did not choose between his options of death by injection or firing squad, Wilkinson assigned him to die by lethal injection. Holland admitted to killing Florida resident Sam Patt when Patt ordered him out of his car a few miles north of Coalville a year ago July. According to testimony by Holland at his own sentencing hearing Sept. 17, Patt had approached Holland at an Idaho rest stop earlier that day and asked him if he would be interested in-terested in a lift to Texas in exchange ex-change for driving some of the way. Patt stopped the car a mile from the Junction of 1-80 and 1-84 at Echo and told Holland to get out, the defendant said. Holland took a gun out of his waistband which had until then been concealed. con-cealed. He laid it on his lap, and "pointed toward the dash," he said. school and have recreation facilities." When Garbett's figures were later challenged, she explained schools were used "45 days" out of the calendar calen-dar year when the time actually spent in buildings was counted up. But, there was some debate among audience participants as to whether the needed recreation facilities were actually available. School district community education educa-tion director Steve Haugen noted the school's recreation facilities were used "more than 1,600 hours" for non-school functions last year. He added that the hours from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday were most in demand, and that the premises were usually vacant on the weekends. Parent Deanna Carter mentioned that when she coached basketball last year, the middle school gymnasium gym-nasium was all that was available. It was so well-used that her boys team had 45 minutes a week to play and girls had 15 minutes, she said. Summit County Commission Chairman Tom Flinders then stated his position on helping financially with the city-proposed swimming pool and gymnasium. "Our immediate need is in a fairground," he said, "because the Sumjnit County Fair needs a real boost." Flinders urged the group to "specify exactly what we need" to avoid proposing another recreation complex which voters would not approve. ap-prove. When asked whether the county commissioners might consider activating ac-tivating an existing Snyderville Area Recreation District and taxing residents in the district to pay for new facilities, Flinders said he would be reluctant to do so. "Unless we get a lot of pressure from western Summit County, we wouldn't look at a special service district or the recreation district," he said. When pressed, Flinders said that he would consider creating a new district or taxing if the measure could be put on the ballot instead of the commissioners deciding. "If the public truly wanted to do that, I would be the first one to step forward," he said. City council member Ann Mac- see RECREATION on A2 Holland said Patt then reached for both the gun and him, and Holland "just started firing." Patt was found dead the evening even-ing of July 6. He had been shot once through the head. Holland confessed to the murder from his jail cell in Florida State prison late in July 1987. He was serving 17 years for an armed robbery charge at the time. He also admitted to killing another man in Idaho weeks before he went into prison. Officers did not suspect Holland for either murder until he confessed to both this year. Christiansen said he and fellow prosecutor Summit County Attorney At-torney Robert Adkins "fully support sup-port the judge's sentence." Holland was out of prison for an Iowa murder he confessed to in 1964 "for only six months before he killed Patt," said Christiansen. Chris-tiansen. "He admitted to then committing a number of aggravated ag-gravated robberies and the Idaho murder. "I think he's shown he's an extremely ex-tremely dangerous person." Christiansen added that Holland had showed no remorse for his crimes. "That concerned us as well." Although it is unclear whether Holland will go on to Idaho to stand trial for the murder charge against him there, he does have rights to an automatic appeal of his sentence to the Utah Supreme Court. He must opt to appeal within 30 days. Wilkinson also assigned a day for Holland to be put to death if he does not appeal and Idaho chooses not to prosecution. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection injec-tion Nov. 10 at 10 p.m., at the Utah State Penitentiary. ' - J. I vil-'j wit . f v U : Ufa :M Boy Scout By RON GEORG Record staff writer Until 12-year-old Don Frerichs volunteered to help out, Bob Ander son, president of the Glenwood Cemetery Association, was fighting a losing battle to maintain the cemetery against weeds and vandals. van-dals. Each Memorial Day, Anderson has organized a clean-up party for the Glenwood Cemetery,-at the end of Silver King Drive. Attendance is usually poor, and this year Frerichs, a seventh grader, was one of the only volunteers. , As an aspiring Eagle Scout, however, Frerichs was an exceptionally excep-tionally motivated volunteer. In order to become an Eagle Scout, a rank reached by only one percent of all Boy Scouts, Frerichs had to organize a community service project pro-ject involving at least two other scouts. After Memorial Day, he realized that the cemetery was signifigant enough a project to earn his com Park City It could have been just another Rotary meeting with three new members to be installed. The Park City club which meets upstairs at The Yarrow started off the afternoon with with the traditonal buffet lunch, ribald joke-of-the-week and various fines for various members for various real or imagined transgressions. After acting president Frank Bell put the pins on the new members Russ Veenema, Linda Singer and Lisa Bollen he said to those gathered in the room, "you may have noticed the last two members are somewhat different from the first." Indeed. The first two women to be admit ted to the Park City Rotary Club, and apparently any Rotary Club in the state of Utah for that matter, were welcomed in a low key ceremony no different from any other installation. Physician Lisa Bollen and Parley's Park Elementary School Principal Linda Singer said being admitted to the traditionally all-male all-male club was "exciting." "It's a way to meet people and get involved in the community," said Bollen. Bollen was involved in a Rotary-sponsored group called "Interact" in her high school, and eventually became a student governor gover-nor of that organization. She feels the experience she gained then will help her function well in Rotary now. Singer also speaks highly of the Rotary Club. "I believe in the service ser-vice purpose of the club. It goes right along with education," she said, adding ad-ding "As an educator, I'm concerned concern-ed about making the community a better place." Several Rotararians in Utah are close on the heels of the Park City club. For instance, the Salt Lake Club has elected five women, but each will choose a meeting day in October to be officially introduced, receive a pin, and become a full-fledged full-fledged member, according to the club's secretary. And, although Eldon MacArthur, the Utah District Supervisor for Rotary, said he thought the Ogdcn b- I ! mr. m V. earns Merit Badge at munity service badge. The project was approved by his Scout Board, and Frerichs set about organizing his clean-up project of the cemetery. To find a starting place in the five-acre five-acre graveyard, Frerichs simply found the most run-down section. The cemetery is divided fairly neatly neat-ly into sections, each section representing a fraternal organization, organiza-tion, with one section each for the Catholic Church and for unaffiliated deceased. The section Frerichs chose, the Masons, looked like a lost cause. Most of the section was obscured by choke cherry bush, and many of the stones had settled and toppled. Some had been knocked over by vandals whose judgment must have been impaired im-paired by some of the many beer cans scattered about. Today, all the stones in the section are visible, and most are standing. The weeds and grass have been trimmed, the choke cherry removed, remov-ed, and the aspens left to flourish, as they don't take over the graveyard. Rotary installs first women " t m n i '5 -' ; : J Acting Rotary President Frank club might have already admitted women, the Ogden club secretary said they have not yet done so. MacArthur noted that neither he nor any other Rotary official would be able to tell whether another club had admitted a woman until "quite a bit after" it had happened when MacArthur receives the actual membership records. "This well could be the first (in Utah)," he said of the Park City induction. The Rotary Club of America was put on notice earlier this year when the U.S. Supreme Court determined it was illegal to exlude qualified women from a business club purely on the basis of sex. Singer and Bollen, like all other Rotarians, had to follow an involved process to become members. First, each had to be proposed for membership to the Park City club by an existing member. They were then "(, far Of course, Frerichs hasn't done this alone. One requirement of the community service badge is that the scout demonstrate some organizational organiza-tional skills. Toward that end, Frerichs has more than exceeded the requirements. As well as enlisting the help of members of four scout troops, Frerichs has had volunteers from BYU, the city, and some private industry. in-dustry. The scouts have done the bulk of the work, weeding, raking and piling the growth that has been obscuring this part of Park City's history. The mayor has agreed to send a city crew and truck out to haul away the compost. ' " " ' . " Once they could see all the tomb stones, the scouts found quite a few knocked over. The BYU students stood what stones they could, but some are too large. To lift these, Frerichs is getting a friend of his troopmaster to bring in a crane. Now, lest people grow complacent, compla-cent, thinking the cemetery is in Bell installs new Rotarians at screened by both a classification committee to determine whether a spot in their profession was open, and a membership committee to review their qualifications. When they passed both, they were evaluated by the board of directors for the club and voted on by the board members. The club members were then notified that the board intended to accept both women, and a ten-day protest period ensued. Although according to member Dick Lueck, several Rotarians made it known they did not want women in the Park City club, the protests were not lodged against either Singer or Bollen specifically. The decision to admit was ultimately left to the board, and, said board member Frank Bell, "all the board members felt the same way. These are two people who have Ml ,7lr y4& -V cemetery good hands, realize that this is a 5,000-sqaure-foot section of the i cemetery approximately 40,000 square feet remain. Following Frerichs' precedent, it is likely that other scouts wiU work toward their community service badges in the cemetery. However, they will require the same sort of support Frerichs has enjoyed. The cemetery holds a good part of local history, and it is a beautiful piece of property for an afternoon stroll. The Glenwood Cemetery Board would like to see the graveyard used in exactly that capacity. To achieve that goal, the board hopes to add benches to the cemetery for people enjoying the area. . The cemetery board is a non-profit organization; it can't operate without community support, according accor-ding to Anderson. He hopes that by making the cemetery a more attractive attrac-tive place, it will draw Park City's attention and rescue it from the weeds and vandals. rr I J, 'if H ' :l , if 7 f Teri Gomes Tuesday's meeting. something to contribute to the club and to the city. "Women are as much a part of corporate America now as men," noted Bell, who added he was "personally "per-sonally thrilled" to have the two women in the club. "It's a real step in the right direction." Neither Singer nor Bollen have specific areas where they want the club to focus just yet. "I'm not here to make major changes," said Singer. "I'm just here to contribute to the goals they have already decided on." Bollen, too, wants to get to work helping out. "First, 1 want to become more familiar with the club's goals and which direction it wants 'o go,"' she says. "Then, I'll be able to jump in and supply the same elbow grease and thinking as the other members." |