Show LocalMetro Obituaries Classifieds Standard-Examine- r Saturday October 22 1988 Jury finds for Jogger in bar suit By GORDON WEEKS Standard Examiner staff OGDEN — A jury Friday awarded Sidney Reeves a combined total of $225000 from three Northern Utah bars that served beer to a man who struck Reeves with a car while he was jogging three-ma- n The jury deliberated 2'h hours before finding The Keg the Lighthouse and Peg’s Lew Monico Bar guilty of serving beer to Bret A Trease of North Ogden and Washington Terrace resident Jeff L Edwards on Sept 22 1987 despite their obvious intoxication Trease — driving Edwards’ mother’s car — at 11 pm plowed into North Ogden residents Marcella Montgomery 17 and Reeves then 18 as they jogged down 2250 North Montgomery was killed and Reeves suffered compound fractures of both legs An alcohol expert testified that the men had conbeers between them before the acsumed 47 cident The 2nd District Court jury ordered the three bars to pay $75000 each to Reeves but the compensation will have to be confirmed at a hearing Oct 31 The maximum penalty for the offense is $100000 and the court will decide at the hearing whether the cap can be used for three separate bars The Keg is bankrupt and is protected from creditors It was not represented at the four-da- y trial Reeves who said he wasn’t surprised by the verdict called the trial “pretty intense it was hectic for my family” He said his immediate plans are to get back classes at Weber State College where he is majoring in five-wom- ce j Grave assignment Gary School copy names from tombstones in Ogden Cemetery The students were Richard Buck 10 and Elise Napper 9 at Taylor Elementary fourth-grade- rs ClarkStandard-Examme- r gathering the names as part of a Utah history class assignment biology The trial was filled with conflicting testimony Edwards testified that he started drinking at the Shear Brothers in Ogden at 1 pm Sept 22 and then was joined in the Ogden bar The Keg by Trease Edwards — who Vi hours after the accident had a bloodalcohol level of 30 — told the court he does not recall anything after leaving The Keg about 6:30 pm until the car windshield cracked during the collision Trease — serving a term in the Weber County Jail for automobile homicide leaving the scene of an accident and driving while intoxicated — said the pair then drank at the Lighthouse in Ogden before traveling to Peg’s in Roy The owner of the Lighthouse an employee and four patrons all testified that Trease and Edwards were not served or sold beer or given glasses Some testified the two had nothing to drink at the bar while others said they grabbed glasses from behind the bar and helped themselves to their friends’ pitchers of beer See JOGGERS on 20 IHC 1 one-ye- ar tax exemption called still valid By PAT BEAN Standard Examiner staff OGDEN — In a year marked by layoffs and talk of an antitrust investigation by the Attorney General’s Office disclosure of the salary of Intermountain Health Care Inc’s chief executive officer hasn’t helped the morale of hospital workers the Hostop administrator at McKay-De- e pital acknowledges But it also hasn’t changed the minds of local officials who approved the one status of McKay-De- e of 17 IHC hospitals in Utah This week IHC confirmed that the six-figu- re tax-exem- pt annual salary for its top executive cause of the administrative salaries Scott Parker is $21 1000 — on top of but because of the difficult environwhich he received $175000 in boment hospitals are facing today” said nuses for this year Hanrahan “That’s not excessive for a company “We’re no different than any of the president who supervises over 15000 other health-car- e providers Costs are employees” said Tom Hanrahan going up and the patient base is not administrator McKay-De- e there any more forcing hospitals inHanrahan said the average salary for to making some difficult decisions” other chief executives holding similar he said in April Layoffs at McKay-De- e positions is even higher — “a median when the hospital trimmed 33 posifigure of approximately $392000 according to our studies of 22 other tions was one of those decisions he said hospital systems” “I think morale has generally been But Hanrahan said the layoffs and affected in all hospitals not just be status of IHC’s hospitals fit tax-exem- pt By BECKY CAIRNS OGDEN — Vladimir Malakhov won’t dance the leading men’s role in “Swan Lake” tonight but no matter His turn will come Malakhov appears Tonight the in the “Venetian Dance” one of the smaller roles in the Moscow Classical Ballet’s production of Tchaikovsky’s classic But he will dance Prince Sigfried again when the company moves on to San Francisco just as he did in other cities before coming to Ogden In keeping with its description as a “theater of soloists” the Moscow ballet makes no distinction between principal dancers and the corps de ballet All dancers have the chance to appear in starring roles as well as supporting ones That structure is beneficial Malakhov said through an interpreter Friday at Weber State College because it gives the company “an opportunity to dance all the time” And he said the policy promotes friendship and good relations among the company’s 60 dancers because they are not “fighting for roles” The Moscow Classical Ballet ends its three-nigrun at Weber State College tonight at 8 pm in the Browning Center The Ogden appearance is part of the company's first United States tour which began Sept 27 and continues through Nov 21 with appearances yet to come in Chicago Boston and several Florida ht cities fear Sometimes she’s a source of strength for the dying person and the family Other times she’s the re- cipient of a burst of angry words and blame Whatever the situtation Miller said she is there sharing the final stage of life with them in an objective smpathetic way designed to offer support “People who are closest to the dying patient are going through their own problems They may not be able to handle the death either It helps to have an outsider who is interested and supportive” she said Deanna Miller Miller a Washington native is a registered nurse There had however been some questions in 1987 when Bailey questioned what the hospitals had been doing for the community Bailey said at this year’s hearing See BONUSES on 2C race” Valentine 58 Brigham City is filling the last two years of hiring and firing That’s something department heads should be able to do” Another of his goals would be more unity on the commission “I could supply that I can get along with people” said Gardner bringing up an issue county Democrats have been talking about Gardner said he thinks a lot of Republicans want a change in the commission even across party lines because of the way the two Republicans on the panel have “treated” the Demo- four-yeterm Chase reafter signed suffering a stroke Valentine and Gardner 59 are both trying for the commission scat Both men are local political veterans This is Gardner’s third attempt for a commission seat after to unsuccessful tries against Chase Democrats fielded about the normal number of candidates this cratic commissioner James year as they do in every election White on some issues but Gardner said he feels the “I think people in the county Democratic presence in the want the commission making deblican-dominated county is cisions not just two guys making decisons” Gardner said “I think growing Four years ago he said he lost a lot of times they (the Republiin a close race with Chase makcan commissioners) made up ing large strides from the first their minds beforehand and then time Chase beat him “He had al- they surprise Jim with it” Valentine said a response to ways waxed everybody before then” such charges ought to come from Valentine said he has always White “I can’t believe he still been actively involved in politics feels this way” the incumbent “one way or another I’ve always said noting the issue has not worked on someone’s campaign been mentioned to him during during the last 20 years” the campaign As to goals or projects the men There was some friction when plan if elected Valentine said his the other Republican on the combiggest commitment would be mission Frank Nishiguchi becontinuing to make county gov- came chairman in July 1987 and ernment more efficient changed some commissioner asGardner said he would hold the signments in January of this year line on any “unnecessary governwhich is his prerogative Valenment extras I'm against the per- tine said But he said it was a sonnel director (a position misunderstanding that has been established by the county in the worked out last year) I don’t think a personHe said he still considers White nel director should be doing the See BE on 2C Chase’s ar Ho-neyvi- lle two-ye- ar three-memb- Repu- Vladimir Malakhov warms up Volunteer helps dying patients find inner strength We May BRIGHAM CITY — With only one elected Democratic officeholder in Box Elder County Boyd Gardner is hopeful that this is the year and he’s the guy to at least double that number And his Republican opponent is expecting a good race “Four years ago Boyd pulled 6000 votes against (Republican) Don Chase who was our strongest commissioner at that time” said Republican incumbent county commissioner Robert Valentine “So I’m expecting a tough ny OGDEN — Deanna Miller often deals with a part of life most people don’t want to think about — death As a volunteer for Hospice of Northern Utah Miller works with terminally ill people and their families to help ease the accompanying pain and Weber County Commissioner William Bailey said there had been no problems with allowing McKay-De- e or St Benedict’s Hospital status when the issue came before the Board of Equalization in By TIM GURRISTER Standard Examiner staff Malakhov and Vladimir Vasilyov who codirects the company with his wife Natalya Kasatkina talked about their ballet company during an interview Friday before a rehearsal of “Swan Lake” “For us it’s really very important to tour in the United States for the first time because the United States is considered one of the leading ballet countries in the world” said Vasilev speaking through interpreter Natasha Ivanova who travels with the compaMore importantly he said “the mission of the artists is to bring different peoples closer to each other” and to destroy stereotypes between nations “The more we understand each other the better life we will have without any clouds in the future” said Vasilyov who has directed the Moscow ballet since 1977 Glasnost has brought about a cultural exchange between Soviets and Americans that Vasilyov said is “only for good” and will grow stronger in the future “(Soviet) artists want to have cultural exchange and they want to meet artists from the United States — but it depends on our government as you know not on artists” the director said Malakhov who is in his third season with the Moscow Classical Ballet said the tour is a time of “getting acquainted” for the Soviet dancers and American audiences See BALLET on 2C officers Democrat hopes third time a charm Soviet dancer unworried about getting good parts Standard Examiner staff are different issues than the one of compensation for its administrative Salute By Amy Joi Bryson Sian dj’tJ fxjTwier stall for the PnMedical Physician Care Center in North Ogden She said her profession of caring for people coupled with her interest in volunteer work led her to volunteer for Hospice “I've always been involved with some tpc of volunteer work" she said “I know enough to know that the medical profession sometimes steps out a little bit when it comes to death because there’s really nothing left for them to do medically But even so these people have a real need for caring” Hospice is a organization made up of 50 volunteers who are trained to of-approximately See MILLER on 2C non-prof- it I n 1 er |