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Show 1 'Pirates of the Caribbean' sails into movie theaters uv High school seniors graduate our towns I I Thursday Utah Valley MAY 24, 2007 Edition www.heraldextra.com 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS - YOUR NEWSPAPER Sex-bi-as "We should not have to sacrifice one neighborhood for another." lawsuit involving XI 7 Oremgym settled 0 Former franchise Owner of Gold's Gym in Orem pays $50,000 Grace Leong DAILY HERALD "Show more cleavage" and "Who would buy a gym membership from someone who is pregnant?" Those comments and others allegedly made by Ron Littlebrant, an executive with a Gold's Gym franchise company, to two former female employees landed the company in hot soup with the federal government. Body Firm Aerobics, which owned a former Gold's Gym at 1640 S. State St. in Orem, was accused by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of subjecting two former female workers to a hostile work environment. The company allegedly demoted Erin Allen, a former sales associate, and cut her salary and work hours after learning she was pregnant. Another former employee, Andrea Liender, allegedly endured sexual harassment and intimidation from Littlebrant. On Wednesday, the company agreed to pay $50,000 to settle the workplace discrimination lawsuit filed four years ago in federal court in Salt Lake City. The company settled without admission of guilt. .. See LAWSUIT, A3 Special session on voucher laws to be discussed by Huntsman f i Photos by ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald Hundreds of community members came to the Legacy Center in Lehi on Wednesday for the rally against the proposed location of the Mountain View Corridor, which would go through the city at 2100 North. Protesters vow to stop JBOT Caleb Warnock because of traffic from Eagle Mountain, Saratoga Springs and Salt Lake County. If residents do not want sound walls to replace their valley views, they must act now, he said. "We should not have to sacrifice one neighborhood for another," he said. "If we do not get involved, we have only ourselves to blame." The road will bring noise, trash and air pollution, endanger children, wildlife and water quality, DAILX HFRALD iTl undreds packed the Lehi Legacy Center in Lehi on Wednesday night to protest a proposed highway. Organizers of the event said the Mountain View Corridor freeway connector proposed at 2100 North in Lehi must be stopped now, especially because the Utah Department of Transportation announced earlier in the day that the road is the preferred route. The protest rally was organized by the grass-root- s group Citizens Organized for Smarter Transportation. COST member Kelly Edwards of Lehi told those gathered that Lehi residents should not have to give up their homes to eminent domain, or suddenly find their homes next to a connector road, It; and disrupt underground water flows, he said. "Now. more than ever, we need to have the courage to fight this battle as a community," he said. "I call this the spaghetti bowl," said COST David Klock, showing those gathered a d map of a freeway connector, frontage roads and an Interstate 15 interchange at 2100 UDOT-propose- See RALLY, I IV, v - ) Dave Larsen of Lehi points out parts of a map that illustrate an alternative boulevard along 2100 North in Lehi instead of the proposed highway on Wednesday at the Legacy Center in Lehi. A3 Brock Vergakis THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Gov. Jon HuntsSALT LAKE CITY man will be encouraged Friday in a private meeting to call a special legislative session to prohibit parents from receiving school vouchers until voters decide the fate of the program in a November referendum. "There are a couple of different ideas being floated around that's certainly one of them," Mike Mower said. Huntsman is scheduled to meet Friday with Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and state education officials to discuss the possibility of calling a special session to See VOUCHERS, A2 Utah officials in Senate hearing urge 4th seat Jennifer Talhelm THE ASSOCIATED WASHINGTON PRESS Utah officials urged Congress on Wednesday to end the debate over creating new House seats for the state and the District of Columbia by passing a bill and letting the U.S. Supreme Court decide whether it's legal. "I wouldn't sign off on this if I didn't think there were legitimate constitutional justification for it," Sen. Orrin Hatch, told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "It's time to write this law," he said. "If the court says it's wrong, we'll live with that. I personally month. Senators now are considering a version sponsored by Hatch, Sen. Bob Bennett, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I Conn. Some lawmakers and the White House oppose the bill because the Constitution limits House represen- - don't think they will." The bill would add two seats to the House, granting the district its first voting member and giving Utah a fourth House seat, which state officials believe they should have received after the 2000 cen- -- sus. The bill passed the House last See Steven Associated Press , -- aqi men and a policeman try to pull a body from the Euphrates River at Musayyib, Iraq on Wednesday. '; , R. Hurst ASSOCIATED PRESS A body recovered by BAGHDAD Iraqi police from the Euphrates River south of Baghdad on Wednesday was identified as one of three American soldiers abducted in an ambush claimed by relatives and off icials said, A second body was also found in the area but there was no immediate word was also one of the missing soldiers, according to a U.S. military official who requested anonymity because the information has not yet been released. Military officials told the family of Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr. of Torrance, Calif., that a commanding officer identified the remains recovered from the river, but that TJNA tests were still pending. if it See IRAQ, A2 INSIDE Family: Body found in river is that of missing U.S. soldier THE FOURTH, SPORTS B1 OUR TOWNS CI BUSINESS C6 COMICS UV EDITORIALS AS MOVIES UV OBITUARIES C4.C5 TV GUIDE UV WEATHER A12 A3 6 Clouds rolling in HIGH 68 LOW 45 VOLUME 84 ISSUE 297 lll,61055"00050l,ll8 c Cascaael Shadows L J Full Flats OBe!r' 'Mi's I prices effective (24 m G il; PLANTS) through 5- - 30-0- 7 X CHirjllit-- |