| Show 911 assistance er Emergency response personnel look to offer better services to the hearing-impaired4- 4 len Obituaries C 1 Standard-Examin- Thursday May 6 er 1 Local News Editor: 999 625-422- 0 st- - nty Webs? sheriff setting up precincts Move will improve deputies’ community ties help patrol coverage at n ar en By GEOFFREY FATTAH Standard Examiner staff OGDEN - Weber County Sheriff Brad Slater is out to put a familiar face on county law enforcement by creating precincts complete with their own permanent staff of patrol deputies Designed to be structured like independent police departments Slater said each precinct will be staffed with five patrol units a school resource officer a detective and a sergeant who will essentially function as a police chief but ultimately still be under the sheriff’s control The precincts which are scheduled to go into effect May 14 are an attempt to bring deputies back into the communities they patrol “No bones about it” Slater says this move is an attempt to push consolidation of Weber County’s law enforcement resources Cities who have their will not own police departments be directly affected Slater said but have been invited to join Slater said he anticipated some resistance even within his own ranks mainly because it upsets the familiar chain of command but added the idea makes sense “We’re giving sergeants a lot Weber County precincts AT A GLANCE Weber County has been divided into five precincts where deputies will be permanently assigned Deputy fired over shooting more authority and autonomy than we traditionally have” Permanently assigning depu- ties to the precincts Slater said the officers will get to know the area and the community “They will be working with the local city councils” to deter- - See PATROL4C NEWS BEAT North Hooper 0 SouthHaven BWest Q Valley West rr Standard Examiner OGDEN - The Weber County Sheriff's Office has concluded that Weber County Sheriff deputy Michael Howard did violate office policy when he shot a fleeing inmate in the back last February Weber County Lt Klint Anderson said today that Howard will be terminated from the sheriff s office as of Friday for the incident David M Younger 34 who was convicted of auto theft and drug use was shot once in the back Feb 24 by Howard after trying to escape a patrol vehicle on Interstate 1 5 in Woods Cross Younger was being transported to the Salt Lake County Jail after making a court appearance in Ogden 2nd District Court Investigators said Younger had slipped out of his hand and ankle restraints and convinced Howard to pull over by feigning nausea Once the door opened Younger fled along the interstate when Howard fired one round into his back from 30 yards away Younger sustained a minor injury Anderson said after concluding an internal investigation Young artist’s pin i gets Olympic notice r drawing 4th-grade- r’s h among 4 chosen in state sT i By TRACY GUSSON Standard Examiner staff T isa Newton a fourth-- I grader at the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind was 'j granted every artist’s dream on Wednesday: international expo-- sure In a school assembly SLOC H director of education Dianne Hesleph announced the girl’s ? drawing would be reproduced V on 2002 Olympic Winter j? Games commemorative pins a part of a line of four Utah kids’ pins produced in a pilot pros' gram by SLOC licensee Aminco I j 1 gonna be (International Lisa said with the her smile design - of USU president will not leave LOGAN - Utah State five colorful Olympic rings framing a downhill skier a a figure skater a turning globe and an Olympic torch - was chosen from the work of more than 20 students at the school Her fellow finalists were: Lindsey Bailey Anthony Barcenas Hobie Collins Carla Hatch Joshua Kelley Elizabeth Lopez and Mandy Ple University President George Emert says he plans on ending his career in Logan and will not be leaving his post for a position at the University of bob-sledd- er Tennessee Emert a Tennessee native was up for a position as president of the Knoxville school “We came here intending this would be our last position and that hasn t changed" Emert told Logan s local radio station KUSU today Emert has served as USU president Proceeds from the sale of the pins will go to the Olympics for See PIN4C Since for more coverage wwwstandardnet Olympic pins: See official 2002 Olympic pins and link to collectors worldwide KOflT DUCE'Standard- Examiner Lisa Newton 9 a fourth grader receives a pat from her teacher Shelly Nelson on Wednesday after her artwork (above left) from the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind was selected for an Olympic pin YOUNG ARTIST: t I Mecham defends new park cost : By CHERYL BUCHTA Standard Examiner staff j ) OGDEN Maor Glenn Me-- ) cham lashed out at council mem- -- j j I ? 1 1 I ‘ j t bers Tuesday who questioned cost overruns on Ogden’s newest park saying they were told about the changes in 1996 - “It was an extreme affront to me and my colleagues to see in the (newspaper) article that we went extremely over budget with- - out your knowing" Mecham I said Last week Chairman Ken Alford asked Mecham for a full ac- f counting of the park’s budget changes after a news article pointed out the park ended up costing nearly $1 million more than the initial estimate of SI 75 million But Mecham said council members were told in an Oct 25 1996 work session why the changes were necessary and what the additional charges would be In a memo dated Jan 22 1999 McConkie said the council was informed that the additional costs resulted from the council’s decision to look at more sites The new Jefferson Park will replace Affleck Park which the city sold to a local car dealership for expansion Council Chairman Ken Alford said he and Garth Day were not on the council when the council voted to sell the park However he conceded the two were on the council at the time of the work session Day could not be reached for comment Alford said the council asked for an accounting because they suspected the increases were due to engineering changes But he said after talking with Mecham it appears that was not the case The council is in the process of drafting an ordinance that will give them budget oversight of capital improvement projects The park's history dates from 1995 when John Russo of West-lan- d Ford approached the council asking to buy Affleck Park The park is slated to open in June You cun nach Chen I Bitchia at or 625-22- 1 chuihtastan-dar- J net By MEUSA ANN YILSON KanoarJ Examner sfa ! i - Over PROMONTORY 12000 Ch'nese laborers blasted rock dug trenches hauled and laid ties and i rails built bridges and drove spkes to make the first transcontinental railroad a reality Yet they weren’t invited to the official Golden Spike ceremony connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10 IK9 Over a century Licr descen- - i tone mcn-ca- activities By PAT BEAN Standard Examiner staff OGDEN - Like Wasatch front cities the Wasatch-Cach- e National Forest may soon have zoning laws As part of revisions to the forest's outdated plan officials are recommending specific areas in the 13 forest be zoned for specific purposes Recommended proposals include zones for wilderness wildlife habitat watershed protection motorized recreation ns S te 15 mnutes I See SFIKE9C nomic development (timber grazing oil and gas leases) and scenic byways and rivers More than one activity may be allowed in each area but each area will have a designated zoned priority Forest Service spokesman Tom Scott said The I orest Service archaeologist explained the zoning proposals along with several other changes at a public scoping meeting for a new forest plan held this week in Ogden See FOREST 9C The Wasatch-Cach- e National Forest is rev smg its forest management plan - and wants your be'p Attend one of the remaining public meej’gs explaining the proposed revisions Local meetings wifi be be d at 6 30 and 7 30 p m Buid ng 43 V Yocmg Street m today at tbe Morgan Morgan and at 6 p m and 7pm May 12 m te Davis County Commission Chambers 23 E S'a'e St Fanr 1c‘on Stop by the Ogden Raor D sncl 5C7 E 25th St for a look at dat preposa n s and maps cl the revisions Fo-ecomments ty June t to Vasach-Cach- e Send Superv nor Derrxe Ve ngardt Ftevsn Team 6236 Federal Bu ‘d ng 125 S S’a'e St Sa7 La e Oy UT 64138 n Check Out ucda’ed plans om °e at www s 'ed us wcof wm-re- Thev will be given eco- Get involved Ciy-Count- y dents and other Chinese-will make their appearance at the now annual ceremony at the Golden Spike National HisA Forest may get zoning laws Wasatch-Cach- e Ceremony will honor railroad builders ’ his office determined that Howard had no cause to use deadly force against Younger Last month Davis County Attorney Mel Wilson concluded that Howard did volate policy but that there was insufficient evidence to file criminal charges rev-so- 1 992 Emert told The Salt Lake Tribune he never was up for the position in Tennessee but in the radio interview said he was approached by Tennessee officials about the job and decided to throw his hat in at the request of his family He said he has a “couple thousand" relatives 30 to 40 miles from the Tennessee campus A Tennessee spokesman has said Emert was considered a finalist but the selection committee chose the president from Marshall University The school s board of trustees is expected to approve that selection Friday “My name is not in consideration anymore at this point' Emert said Tech degrees grow in Utah SALT LAKE CITY - Utah is one of only a few states where colleges and universities are giving out more technology degrees than before The American Electronics Association says the number of high tech degrees drcpped 5 percent dunng the 1990s In Utah technology deg-ee- s jumped 15 percent in the same period fxammer s'af S'a-’dat- f a"d w 'e se'vces TOCKS? |
