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Show DAILY HERALD D2 Saturday, January 1.2005 Food, body bags among IDS donations to tsunami nations I I ;s . III ft THE ASSOCIATED SALT LAKE CITY medical supplies, soap and easily digested food product for children and the elderly was scheduled to take off from Salt Lake City. The plane was provided by Islamic Relief Worldwide and loaded with supplies from the Mormon church's vast stores, officials said. Relief workers in the southern Asia region are facing several obstacles, including accessing remote areas and coordinating relief efforts between government agencies and humanitarian groups. The IDS church has members in most of the countries affected by the disaster and is tapping stockpiles of humanitarian supplies already in the region. ' PRESS Food, hygiene supplies and body bags are among the kerns The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints and other organizations are speeding to areas devastated by the south Asian tsunamis. Relief of ficials in that region have moved on from counting the dead to providing basic food and medical supplies, said Garry Flake, the church's director of emergency response for welfare services. "The reconstruction phase will come later down the line," Flake said Thursday. On Friday, a large cargo plane filled with hygiene kits, y Bruse Roe has been sporting facial hair for more than 30 years. has been sporting facial hair for more than 30 years. Doug Gaussen has been sporting facial hair for more than 30 years. Gary Johnson Twisting and twealdng can create tense contestants times tor beard-growing Gene Johnson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Doctor Pierson said Nelson would have been told the exact same process five years ago if he had asked about it. Either way, even with a delay and some miscommunication, Nelson can now make progress on the issue. "I guess the way they're looking at it is that this is a full business, and they need it zoned residential office," Nelson said, "which is interesting because on the same side of the street down south, there is a physician's office and home, but just a couple blocks away there isn't zoning for that. It's always interesting to me." Nelson said there are other locations he could go in the valley, but he thinks Spanish Fork is an ideal location. Continued from Dl outside when they lived at the property under consideration. Still, Piersoh said Nelson will have to get the general plan of the city amended and then go through a rezoning process before he can convert his property to a physician's office. That process could take Nelson several months because it requires a public hearing, announcements in the local papers, approval from the Planning Commission and approval from the City Council. "It's pretty common that they have to go through that process," Pierson said. "I have a couple (of these) a year." Nelson said he wishes the city would have told him what process to go through five years ago. I Todd Hollingshead can be 9 or thollings reached headheraldextra.com 344-255- Geneva he said. Representatives from Anderson Development, a com- - y pany that already owns hundreds of acres in Vineyard and looks to purchase the Geneva property, were invited to the meeting but did not attend. Ken Johnsen, CEO for Geneva Steel, came to a town council meeting earlier this month and told the council the three main options on the table are from Anderson, the Geneva group and a third group he called SuVerpoint. At Thursday's meeting, the town council invited Despain to develop his own version of a plan for the PC zone, and for Geneva representatives to bring in more detailed versions of their plans at a future meeting. The council will meet in late January, when they will decide on a new mayor. Major J. Rulon Gammon, Vineyard's first and only mayor, announced earlier this month he would retire at the Continued from Dl parks or ponds within the munity, in exchange for the high profit, high density community that developers are hoping to create. "We're trying to find the amenities that are an asset to Vineyard," said council member Sean Fernandez. "We can obviously give you the density, but what happens in return?" Marcus Phillips, a Geneva representative at the meeting said putting in things like campgrounds and ponds are "things we are open for discussion on." But even with all the open discussion with the Geneva representatives, there's no guarantee for the council that Geneva will end up doing the development. Richard Ross, Geneva's contracts manager who was also at the meeting, said Geneva management has been told by some of the company's creditors that they should pursue development plans. But Ross said he had heard from at least two dozen potential buyers and that the bankruptcy court and the other creditors may elect to sell the Geneva property and allow someone else to develop it. "The fact is we're employees of the unsecured creditors," com- endof2004. The next hearing on Gene- va's bankruptcy case will also happen in late January, after which the council may get a better of picture of who will be the ultimate developers of the PC zone. I David or at davidrandalheraldextra.com. 344-255- 6 2i ' " CompnftMsto bearing vaftHfloM M pastes cl Custom ear plug tor rrtrnntn and rcussjdesa S Soles end Swvfct J Randall can be reached Most ot ol mekM of tea&g teswonn pkm wotjiM Rnoncino Available It BREMERTON, Wash. takes Bruce Roe a solid 30 minutes of twisting, tweaking and hairspraying to get his Wild West mustache competition-readHis wife hunts stray whiskers with a pair of scissors before he goes on stage. Such is life for those who competitively cultivate their n facial hair. It's a world that features nearly every type of mustache and beard imaginable from the Musketeer to the Dali, the handlebar to the Fu Manchu, each of 17 categories rigidly defined by dimension, shape and styling aid. It's a world where men travel thousands of miles to show off a defining male characteristic, where they drink and joke across language barriers, make friends and enjoy other cultures. As with so many competitive endeavors, however, it is not without controversy. International rifts have formed over where and when to hold the whisker championships, how to define varieties of facial hair Should the Dali really be its own catand perhaps most egory? significantly, over who should regulate the pastime. There have been stealth votes, boycotts and power plays. Among those caught in the fray are Roe and his hirsute friends in the Whisker Gub, a Bremerton-base-d group primarily concerned with promoting facial hair, having fun and helping charities. Roe, 53, has sported whiskers since about 1970. He shaved them off "for about 10 minutes" after he got married, but has had at least a mustache ever since. His wife, Tommie, likes to say, "A kiss ' without a tickle isn't worth a nickel" Roe learned of the World Beard and Mustache Championships in 1997 and went to Trondheim, Norway, for the competition that year. He knew right away his outlandish whiskers had found a home. "I was overwhelmed," he says. "I had no idea there would be all these costumes, and the styling of the beards and mustaches ... Extreme that might be a word for it." Roe was the only American in the competition. He didnt win any awards, but he now had a goal: "I thought, we have to get something like this going." Roe could find no evidence of a beard or mustache club y. little-know- f.i & Photo by JIM BRYANT Associated Press Displaying their whiskers, from left, are Doug Claussen, Gary Johnson and Bruce Roe at the monthly meeting of the Whisker Club in December, in Bremerton, WA. The club promotes the growth of facial hair and supports competitions among those who are proud of their facial hair. "A kiss without more than any other nation, and the whisker championnews. ships are front-pag- e It was a German club that organized the first world championships in a small Black Forest town in 1990. The same club hosted the second championships in 1995 in the 'nearby city of Pforzheim. But then things started to get, well, hairy. In 1997, the Norwegian Mustache Gub held the world championships in Trondheim, and the Germans put on their own just months later. "People boycotted because it was the same year," said Roe, who attended both events. "They thought the Germans were trying to steal the limelight from the Norwegians." The issue was resolved in the, manner of trade disputes and nuclear disarmament: by international summit. Following the 1999 championships in Sweden, the clubs agreed that the world championships would be held every other year. The Association of German Beard Clubs, being the biggest and hairiest, emerged to set rules and location. This is where another whiskered American enters the picture. Phil Olsen, a lawyer from Tahoe Gty, Calif., attended the 1999 championships as a spectator and hit it off with the German participants, whose language he spoke. Eventually, his new friends inquired whether the United States might host the 2003 competition. Olsen agreed, putting up $25,000 to finance the event, which drew 120 competitors from nine countries to Carson City, Nev. Roe, outfitted as Wyatt Earp, took third place in the Wild West category. Gaussen, dressed as a New York gang member circa 1865, took third for natural goatee. Johnson, doing his Buffalo Bill, took first in the Musketeer a tickle isn't worth a nickel." Tommie Roe wife of founding member of the Whisker Club ' in the United States. But he worked at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard with another enthusiastic whisker-beare- r Gary Johnson, whose hobbies include waxing his mustache and pointy teardjtond dressing up as Buffalo But Cody. Roe and Johnson began meeting once a month for drinks, and the Whisker Club was born. Its members, 40 in all, must have facial hair, but those lacking it wives, for example may join the fan club. A handful of active members attend the regular meetings. "It's a good way to get together, have a cocktail and shoot the breeze," says Doug Gaussen, 52, attending the group's December meeting wearing a Santa hat. He makes a credible Saint Nick, his gray-whit- e goatee so massive you hardly notice his cheeks are hairless. The world's oldest whisker club is the Handlebar Gub of London, founded in 1947. Members must sport a "hirsute appendage to the upper lip with graspable extremities." Though one Italian club dates to 1965, the idea didn't catch on in the rest of Europe until the 1980s, when clubs began proliferating in the land of bands and bratwurst, oom-pa- h Oktoberfest. Germany now has 10 clubs with hundreds of members, o- Is X. Once again, things turned political. Some of the Germans objected to changes Olsen made. For example, in addition to picking winners in 17 incategories, the judges cluding the chief justice of the state Supreme Court and Miss broke with tradiNevada tion and named three overall winners. There was also a tangle over how certain upward-turninmustaches should be judged Imperial or freestyle? It's not quite the Olympic figure skating scandal, but you get the idea. "A lot of the people think it's gotten completely out of hand, that some of the Germans take the competition way too seriously," Olsen says. In October, he attended a meeting of the German association; the group waited until he left to start voting on where to hold the 2009 and 2011 championships, he says. German cities were awarded both events, even though Olsen had suggested Anchorage, Alaska. (Berlin and London had already been given 2005 and 2007.) Furious, Olsen met with met with Ted Sedman the president of London's Handlebar Gub and owner of a navel-lengt- h Fu Manchu in Berlin over Thanksgiving weekend. Representatives from five other countries, including Germany, attended. They formed the World Beard and Mustache Association and declared they would begin accepting bids for hosting a rival championship event in 2009. Anchorage is expected to enter one, as is the Whisker Gub. "In my mind, a democratic union of groups is the way to go," Roe says. 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