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Show THE DAILY HERALD. (wwtt.HarkTheHerald.com). Provo. Page A8 I tah. Thursday Seplember 19. 1002 Foundation agrees to operate Soldier Hollow sen as the venue for crosscountry skiing and biathlon in 1997, two years after Salt Lake Organizing Committee landed the bid from the IOC jbr the 2002 Winter Games. The bid included a promise to provide an endowment fund of at least $40 million to keep the Utah Olympic Park and Utah Olympic Oval operating fo decades beyond the Game Tha' decision to add Soldier Hllow was made easiSLOC because er announced earlier in the day it would provide the UAF with $76.5 million, nearly twice what it was promised in the bid. It also By TADWALCH The DaiK Herald PROVO post-Olymp- ic - Directors fund of a agreed Wednesday to operate Soldier Hollow for two winter seasons at a cost of up to $1 million. The Utah Athletic Foundation's board of directors temporarily added Soldier Hollow to the foundation's mission of maintaining programs at two other former Olympic venues. "Now, after the fact, Soldier Hollow has been added under the umbrella of the Olympic Legacy package," UAF spokesman Frank Zang said. Soldier Hollow was cho ensures funding for grams that teach Utah prochil- - tain biking, hiking and "The plan is for these three facilities to be living, breathing legacies for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games." The UAF has secured five World Cup events this winter for the park, home of ski jumping, bobsled, luge and skeleton, and the oval in speedskating Kearns. "The three venues really complement each other," Zang said. "They all are training and competition athsites for- world-clas- s letes and recreation sites Frank Zang, Utah Athletic Foundation spokesman . dren to ski The UAF board approved cross-countr- y. management's recommen- dation to operate Soldier Hollow for 21 months, then review the project. The funding begins in October and extends to June 2004. "The goal is to leave no white elephants," Zang said. "The plan is for these three facilities to be living, breathing legacies for the for the local communities." Most of the 2002 venues camping. 2002 Winter Olympic Games." Soldier Hollow, located on owned companies. The Peaks Ice Arena in Utah County and 'E' Center in West Valley City were rented from those communities. Tad Walch can be or at twalchheraldextra.com. reached at - the east end of Provo Canyon in Heber Valley, was the busiest venue during the Olympics, hosting 23 events. The site includes 24 kilometers of ski trails, a shooting range for biathlon and an elaborate tubing hill. the Delta Center, Park City Mountain Resort, Deer Valley and Snowbasin were rented from privately 592-312- 2 SUPPORTIVE CARE MEANINGFUL ACTIVITIES SECURITY PEACE OF MIND Summer activities include roller skiing, moun Legislature moves to define mental retardation director of the Statewide Association of Prosecutors, said a group of state prosecutors, attorneys with the Disability Law Center and others reached an agreement on the latest version of Gladwell's bill just two days The Associated Press LAKE SALT CITY -P- rosecutors warned Utah legislators Wednesday that the state has to quickly revise its death penalty law. At issue is a June U.S. Supreme Court decision that prohibits execution of the mentally retarded. However, the court didn't provide states a standard to follow when defining who would be ago. sets parameters regarding Despite this, he warned of two components of the court's ruling that will lead to litigation across the country: Who has the burden to prove mental retardation, and who decides if the defendant is mentally retarded. C.C. Horton, a prosecutor with the Utah Attorney General's Office, said the Supreme Court's decision placed states in the uncomfortable position of defining mental retardation and also left procedural questions up in the air. "It leaves more questions makes the finding during the prosecution of a case. Paul Boyden, executive answered," he said. Horton also warned that by failing to offer its own definition, the Supreme in that category. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee met to discuss a proposed bill addressing mental retardation in cases of capital homicide. The bill, sponsored by Sen. David Gladwell, Ogden, may be introduced in the 2003 general session. It provides a definition of mental retardation, when it can be raised as a defense and determines who than unanswered KM KMT Court left open a "huge hole" for capital litigation. "You will get claims by people that they are mental- ly retarded when it has never come up in their life. Just expect it to happen." Utah has a "vague" definition of mental retardation in its death penalty statute but no process for considering that plea by a defendant at the start of a capital trial, he said. Utah has one capital murder case coming to trial you have time to visit or go for a drive, "ow case could come to trial before May, when most new laws passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor take effect. I Got Chocolate? V Roy Wood, 36, is accused of shooting and killing Roosevelt City Police Chief Cecil Gurr outside a Uinta Basin convenience store a year ago. Wood's attorneys are claiming he is mentally retarded. 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