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Show (0)1 I II I E TOWNS Aversion prompts red Janice Peterson DAILY ' HERALD Utah County has been under an inversion for almost a week, and many healthy people may be feeling the effects. Donna Spangler, spokeswoman for the Utah Department of Environmental Quality , said air quality in Utah County reached Red Alert status Sunday and has not gotten any better since then. Spangler said a red status is declared when air particles pass 35 micrograms per cubic meter, and Utah County had a level of 64.2 on Thursday. During a red alert, sensitive people like the elderly, children and those with heart or breathing problems are cautioned to limit their time outdoors. According to the Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index, particulate pollution can be especially dangerous when it reaches 80 micrograms per cubic meter. At that point, sensitive people should not venture outdoors at all, and healthy people should limit outdoor activity. In the event of heavy pollution, those with heart or lung disease are more likely to visit the emergency room. People with lung problems also have a much harder time breathing as deeply as they normally would, according to the EPA. pollution because their breathing SECTION FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2Z. 2008 METRO EDITOR air-quali- I alert ty pat- terns are much quicker, so they are coast ant ly breathing in the particles. "That's why it's so important for people to drive smarter," she said. During a Red Air Alert, driving should be limited and wood burning is prohibited. Even when the particulate matter levels are especially high, Spangler said the only mandate is precauagainst wood burning.-Othetions are still optional, and people will not be forced to stay indoors or stop driving. Even so, drivers should try to use transit systems and combine errands into one trip. "Any kind of combustionable material that goes into the air will just make it worse," she said. In the early days of the state's air quality program more than a decade ago, Spangler said many repeat r However, Spangler said when the airquality is bad for an extended period of time, even healthy people may begin to have a harder time breathing. "Healthy people, even, are impacted by anything that sticks around for a long time," she said. Winter inversions are made up of particulate matter in the air, while summer inversions are caused by ozone. The particulate matter, Spangler said, makes it difficult to breathe because it can get trapped in the lungs. Children can be affected by the wood-burnin- g offenders were tick-Se- e alert INVERSION, B3 Religious group wants to avoid U.S. high court Jeremy Duda HERALD- DAILY The Utah Attorney General's Of fice is hoping to jump-stathe stalled appeal process of death row inmate Douglas Stewart Carter. Thomas Brunker and Erin Riley, assistant attorneys general, submitted a motion on Friday to vacate the stay in Carter's federal appeal, which has been on hold since August. Brunker said Carter's attorney is unnecessarily delaying a related appeal in state court, which is holding up the federal appeal as well. "As long as the federal stay is in place, Carter has no incentive to move the state case forward, and he has not moved it forward. And in fact he has rt frustrated every attempt to decide any of the pending motions," Brunker said. In order for Carter's neys to raise an issue in his federal appeal, it must first have been brought before a state court. According to Brunker, U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart granted the temporary stay in August so the court could await the outcome of a motion to dismiss Carter's state appeal that was filed by the attorney general's office. But since that stay was granted, a number of issues have prevented 4th District Judge Lynn Davis from ruling on the motion to dismiss. Mark Moffat, the defense attorney in the state appeal, requested permission to withdraw as Carter's lawyer, saying he is not qualified to handle a appeal in a death penalty and his firm has See in Thursday. Jeremy Duda DAILY RUIZDaily Herald MARIO the valley haze in this view from Lindon on Thursday. The Wasatch Front was under red The mountains hide behind Trebuchets and Tennis balls AG's office hopes to end delays in Carter appeal arosehefaldextra.com Amie Rose CARTER, B3 i"" if, if r i HERALD A religious organization is hoping to preserve its most recent legal victory over the city and keep a case regarding a monument in Pleasant Grove's Pioneer Park out of the U.S. Supreme Court. d Summum, a Salt Lake religious group that follows tenets of Gnostic Christianity and ancient Egyptian teachings, including mummification, filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Thursday, asking the court to reject Pleasant Grove's request for it to weigh in on a 2007 ruling by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. That ruling granted a preliminary injunction to Summum, allowing the group to build a monument in Pioneer Park while it awaits the outcome of a federal lawsuit against Pleasant Grove. Brian Barnard, an attorney representing Summum in the case, said that Summum should be allowed to erect a monument to the Seven Aphorisms, a set of principles that are central to the faith. Adherents of Summum believe the Seven Aphorisms are complementary to the Ten ComCity-base- :i ( Jy ) MARIO RUIZDaily Herald Jeff Hogge watches his tennis ball fly toward a target after launching it from a trebuchet he made for the trebuchet competition at Engineering and Technology Week on Thursday at BYU. Engineers have their week at BYU Brittani Lusk DAILY HERALD Kyle Petersen's trebuchet is a little taller than 5 feet, but it can chuck a tennis ball at least 60 feet. On Thursday, Petersen and other students at Brigham Young University were competing to see whose trebuchet (a catapult that uses a counterbalancing weight to sling objects into the air) could hit a series of targets. The prize was an iPod, and Petersen won. The devices were made out of different materials, including wood, connecting toys, a plastic trash can and even a Styrofoam cup. The contest was part of BYU's Engineering and Technology Week, Clubs within the college of Engineering and Technology hosted competi tions, from catapult contests to regattas. The week concludes today with a banquet and awards rain-gutt- said. Caleb Chamberlain, president of the Engineering and Technology Student Council said the week of events, er ceremony. which started Tuesday with a service project, is meant to generate appreciation and awareness for engineering and technology professions. Chamberlain is a senior studying electrical engineering. He said he's known he was meant to be an engineer since he was a child. "I've always known I was going to be an engineer, I don't know why," Chamberlain said. "Before I knew what an engineer was, I wanted to be an astronaut." Senior Dallin Murray's trebuchet was only a few feet tall, and he wished he had built something taller. Good trebuchets are built on principles of physics, which students learn while studying engineering. But they liked the competition because it was fun and wasn't being graded. , "It's essentially the fun part of school," said BYU junior Vonn Holy-oar Junior Chace Wilcoxson said it beat doing math homework, even though trebuchets can require some math. "It's cool to just figure stuff out and . build something, instead of just writing papers all the time," Wilcoxson . I Brittani 344-254- 9 can be reached at or at bluskheraldextra. Lusk mandments. In the early 1970s, the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles built a Ten Commandments monument in Pioneer Park, and after Sept. 11, 2001, the city allowed the Boy Scouts of America to build a monument to the firefighters and police officers who responded to the terrorist attacks. Barnard said Summum should be allowed to exercise its First Amendment rights, See com. SUMMUM, B3 USU Extension expert gives local pruning demonstrations Caleb Warnock sidered prime candidates for the snippers. the weight of the branch as it falls will cause the bark of the The reason people prune fruit tree to rip downward, damagtrees is not necessarily to get To avoid losing your couring the tree, Hinton said. Hinton also recommended more fruit, but to get better, age, don't look down. that Lewis cut back his grape That is the first rule when larger fruit, he said. Fruit proit comes to pruning your own vines even more than the 80 duced on shaded or crowded fruit trees, Adrian Hinton of branches tends to be smaller percent trimming he had althe Utah County office of the and less sugary. ready given them. Utah State University ExtenFor a single peach to reach its Grapes, apples and pears maximum genetic potential for should be pruned immediately sion Service told a dozen people size and flavor, for example, it for best results, Hinton said. gathered for a pruning demonmust be surrounded by stration in Orem on Wednesday Apricot, peach and nectarines should wait until the worst of afternoon leaves, each with full access to It turns out to be good adthe winter weather is finished, sunlight, he said. Rick Lewis, the owner of the but before the weather is too vice. Properly pruning most fruit trees requires cutting off warm. Pruning too early can altrees used for Wednesday's low damage from the cold. as much as half their growth demonstration, said he had MARIO RUIZDaily Herald The public is invited to atand watching the branches planted some of them more Utah State Extension Horticulturalist Adrian Hinto right explains than three decades ago. On one tend any of the free USU Expile up at your feet can cause fruit-tre- e second thoughts. tension Service fruit-treprunpruning techniques during a pruning demonstration of Lewis's old Elberta peach Those who attended at an Orem orchard on Wednesday. trees, Hinton recommended ing demonstrations around Utah Valley. Those interested cutting out major branches to Wednesday's event, part of let the tree be rejuvenated with are asked to call the host to a series of demonstrations around the county, braved are no bad cuts," Hinton said, reserve a spot. cot, apple, plum, walnut and younger branches. It is important when cutting other trees, and demonstrated noting damaged and touching chilly weather, standing in snow as Hinton lopped branches. He also pointed out the proper way to trim grape I Today, 24 p.m. at the home larger tree branches to make a shallow cut on the bottom side of Denise Boyer & Linda Priest, branches from both new and vines. that branches that shade out 1469 E. 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