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Show A-10 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, September 5-7, 2018 Obituary LUNCH SPECIAL $10 OFF Your $30 purchase Local Park City news every Wednesday and Saturday DINNER SPECIAL $25 OFF Your $75 purchase Shabu is Open Daily Lunch and Dinner 12pm–10pm assemble Park City’s Premier Co-Working Space Call 435-649-9014 to subscribe today! WHY WORK ALONE Melba Sue Willard August 11, 2018 It is with great sadness that the family of Melba Sue Willard announces her passing on Aug. 11, 2018 at the age of 83. Melba was born in Arkansas, lived in California for many years but has lived, with her husband Bob, in the Park City area for 23 years. She was a wonderful wife, mother and grandmother and will be lovingly remembered by her husband Bob of 59 years, her son Tom and daughter Karen (Mike) Holt. She will also be fondly remembered by her four grandchildren Michelle, Jeffrey, Megan (Landon) Christensen and Jonathan, great granddaughter Audrey Christensen, and her brother Paul Dickerson. A memorial service will be held for Melba at the Highland Care Center, 4285 South Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, at 10:30 a.m. Tribes: Two seats on Bears Ears group aren’t enough Coalition pushes for representation on committee BRADY MCCOMBS Associated Press Business Lounge • Work Stations • Private Offices Conference Rooms • Reception Services For details please contact Angela at 435-200-1312 info@assembleparkcity.com | www.assembleparkcity.com Located in Newpark @ Kimball Junction LOOKING TO EXPAND YOUR BUSINESS? CONTACT THE SALES REPRESENTATIVES AT THE PARK RECORD TO LEARN HOW ONE OF OUR PRINT AND DIGITAL PACKAGES CAN GET YOUR BUSINESS NOTICED 435.649.9014 Melba Sue Willard SALT LAKE CITY — A 15-person advisory committee for the downsized Bears Ears National Monument on Utah land considered sacred to Native Americans will include two spots for tribal representatives — three less than what a tribal coalition thinks they should get. The Bureau of Land Management said Thursday that it will accept nominations until Oct. 1 for spots earmarked for people from different groups who are interested in contributing opinions about the management of the 315 square-mile monument in southeastern Utah. There are openings for two people who represent outdoor recreation sports such as fishing and off-roading that involve going into the wilderness in jeeps or ATVs, and two spots for people representing the general public, with the description specifically mentioning sportsmen or sportswomen. The committee calls for one spot each for a San Juan county elected official, a representative from state government, a paleontologist, an archaeologist, conservationist, hunter, private landowner, a local business owner and a cattle rancher who has a grazing permit in the monument. The Bureau of Land Management will coordinate with the Utah governor’s office to make recommendations that will be sent to Interior Sec- retary Ryan Zinke, who will make the final decision. Gov. Gary Herbert is a Republican who applauded President Donald Trump’s decision in December to downsize the Bears Ears National Monument by about 85 percent based on a recommendation from Zinke. Pat Gonzales-Rogers, executive director of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, said Friday that each of the five tribes in the coalition should have a spot on the committee. The coalition of the Hopi, Ute Indian, Ute Mountain Ute, Zuni tribes and Navajo Nation spent years lobbying to persuade former President Barack Obama to declare Bears Ears a monument to preserve ancient cliff dwellings and an estimated 100,000 archaeological sites. Gonzales-Rogers also said the coalition objects to the description of the spots as being for “representatives of tribal interests.” He said the wording should be precise to ensure the spots go to tribal leaders. “I don’t even know what that means. It is at once vague and institutionally nebulous,” Gonzalez-Rogers said. “Could one live next to a tribe and have an interest?” The Bureau of Land Management passed along questions about the wording and the composition of the committee to the Department of the Interior, which didn’t return an email seeking more information. A different advisory commission for Bears Ears made up one elected official from each of the tribes already exists but the five members notified government officials in April in a letter that they won’t attend the meetings to protest what they see an attempt by the Trump administration to minimize tribal voices, said Natalie Landreth, senior staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund. In the letter, the five members said they want to be involved in management of the monument but should not be treated as stakeholders or members of the public, but granted nation-to-nation working relationships with the U.S. government because they are sovereign governments. Tribal leaders and conservation groups have also repeatedly called on the Bureau of Land Management to halt the planning process because of their pending lawsuits challenging the legality of Trump’s decision. The commission was created when President Obama declared the original monument in 2016. Trump’s proclamation maintained the commission but renamed it the Shash Jaa Commission, using the Navajo name for Bears Ears, and added a spot for a county commissioner from San Juan County, Utah. Trump said he was scaling back the two monuments to reverse federal overreach and had acted within his authority. Past presidents have trimmed national monuments 18 times, but there’s never been a court ruling on whether the Antiquities Act also lets them reduce one. Bruce Adams, chairman of the San Juan County commission and supporter of Trump’s move to scale back the monument, said he’s generally pleased with the makeup of the new advisory committee but hopes most, if not all, members live in the county. “They are the ones that are affected the most,” Adams said. the Crime Gun Intelligence Center play in piecing together violent crimes. Utah U.S. Attorney John Huber said police wouldn’t have solved the South Salt Lake case and two others in Herriman and Ogden without the ballistic information network. “We have successfully deployed the technology that should leave gang members and thugs shaking in their boots,” he said. Regina Lombardo, associate deputy director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, joined Huber and state and local police at a news conference last week touting the program. “We look at it as going after the trigger-pullers who are causing the crimes in the community, and the traffickers, those traffickers who are getting hold of the firearms and causing the crimes,” Lombardo said. The technology, which the state crime lab has used since last August, allows police to match spent shell casings to the guns that fire them. To date, Utah law enforcers have entered 1,200 casings into the system, resulting in 56 hits in 75 cases. And 15 of those hits involve three or more shootings linked to serial shooters, Department of Public Safety Commissioner Keith Squires said. Justin Bechaver, senior forensic scientist and manager of the crime lab firearms section, sends detailed images of shell casings to an instrument in California that looks for other features. “That information gets sent back to us, and we compare those images that it thinks matches and we look for potential matches from the local database that we have here,” he said. The lab searches the database in Utah as well as surrounding states, but it could also search in states across the country, Bechaver said. Official: New police tech should cause ‘thugs’ worry Web of information helps solve gun crimes Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY – A recently solved drive-by shooting case in South Salt Lake highlights the effectiveness of a newly formed center that provides investigators with improved ballistics testing, according to Utah authorities. Investigators using the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network traced a stolen Glock 26 9-mm handgun to Rory Curtis Cordova, who authorities said is a 50-year-old Ogden Trece gang member, the Deseret News reported. Cordova now faces federal firearms charges that could result in 10 years behind bars. Federal, state and local law enforcement leaders said the arrest is a good example of the role the ballistics network and |