| Show ©OUMTY: Lines' 2C Standard-Examin- Local News Editor: 625-422- 4 Monday May 8 2000 er 776-495- 1 (Ogden) (Layton) By BRYON SAXTON Standard-Examine- Davis Bureau r - The $4 million fix on the Davis-WebCanal may be providing area farmers irrigation water this spring but only enough to whet their appetite and not their crops Davis & Weber Counties Canal Co manager Floyd Baham assures the 300 farmers the canal serves that more irrigation water is on its way possibly as early as the next few days “When you live in a desert irrigation is your lifeline” said SYRACUSE er Neal Briggs a Syracuse farmer of 230 acres State officials have requested Cathe flow of the Davis-Webnal be increased slowly to a full flow since it was repaired as a precautionary measure State Division of Water Rights er Weber Regional Engineer John Mann said where the canal alignment goes along a “documented landslide area” wells drilled to measure water levels in the soil surface surrounding the canal need to be monitored as the flow is incrementally increased He said he anticipates farmers will soon have a full flow of water But Briggs said dry weather this spring has put farmers in a difficult position “I wish we could convince the state engineer the critical nature of this” Briggs said But Baham is quick to defend the decisions being made by state officials “The state engineer has been more than fair with us” he said “We’ve just got to work with them it’s that simple” For more than 100 years the canal has carried a flow of feet of water per second 250-cub- ic Briggs said So far this year that flow has been reduced to feet of water per second On July 1 1 the canal sustained a major breach sending 350000 cubic yards of mud into a River-dal- e 150-cu-b- ic about neighborhood 75 homes damaging Since then $4 million worth of repairs have been made to the canal But Briggs said farmers are receiving too small a stream which makes it difficult to push water across their crops particularly those transplant crops needing larger amounts of water early-o- n “The water is in the river and we have the water rights to it That unused water just runs to the (Great Salt) lake” Briggs said Briggs is considering gathering signatures of local farmers on a BRIGHAM CITY -- Mayor David Kano proclaimed May farmers with the same concerns And the water is coming Baham assures “We haven’t been able to bring the canal up as quickly as the demand” he said Canal in The addition to providing irrigation water to 300 farms also provides water to about 6500 lawns and gardens in the area For safety reasons in monitorDavis-Web- i Mayor honors older Americans Farmers eager for more canal water However state officials are very slow to bring a full flow of water to area crops POX ELDER COUNTY: er ing the canal repairs state engineers are requiring the canal flow be increased gradually Baham said that is something canal offipetition regarding the reduced cials have been doing flow and presenting it to canal On Friday engineers gave their company officials approval for the flow of the canal “They all want water” Baham to be increased to said who on Friday received per second Baham said and phone calls from a handful of could be up to full flow soon Older American month to honor the fastest-growin- g age group in Utah Shirley Griffin and Nancy Green presented Kano with the proclamation The Mayor also declared May 14-2- 0 Emergency Medical Services Week and Law Enforcement Week Chief of Police James Payne said there will be radio talk shows and TV newscasts as well as an awards banquet to celebrate Law Enforcement week ‘ ' ‘ ! DAVIS COUNTY HAFB hosts partnership day HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- Pioneer graves being moved Remains will A cold Contractors are invited to attend an Acquisitions & Logistics Reform Partnership Day conference on May 23 at the Hill Officers Club This year the event will highlight Department of Defense and industry perspectives on partnering and acquisitions burst of energy from the sprinklers reform initiatives The Ogden Air Logistics Center theme is “Partnering with Industry to Support the 21st Century Warfighter" meant to strengthen interactions and improve communication For more information or to register contact William Pitt at 1 or make way for widening of Highway 36 south of Tooele WEBER COUNTY pioneers along Highway 36 south of this rapidly growing community- The skeletons are being ) Association to hold conference COOLING OFF: re- moved from the old Tooele Cemetery to make room for a wider Kyle Weathertread 4 cools off at a friend’s home on 22nd and Madison streets in Ogden on Thursday Kyle is the son of Donna Weatherhead of Ogden highway and utility lines The bones will be reburied on another side of the cemetery University of Utah archaeologist Shannon Novak was working Sunday to remove the reddish skeleton of a young mother from the spongy remains of a decayed wooden coffin Her child's coffin rested on her abdomen tiny bones visible through the wood The woman died apparently during childbirth about 150 years ago “She was young” Novak said of the mother “We will do a detailed analysis back in the lab but she probably was less than 25 years old” Just a few feet away Dana Standard-Exara- at: look for clues from scenes It might also reveal what killed them and provide new information about pioneers’ burial practices Experts hope to test stories that early pioneers built coffins from the boards of handcarts they pushed to Utah Still another possibility is matching names from historical records to some of the exhumed bodies Genetic analysis could be used to confirm suspected family ties “We’re going to get them (the to us” Koll- Meteorologists uniting for 2002 forecasts The Associated Press - LAKE CITY The Olympic Games will together the best in winter disciplines including weather forecasting During the games longtime KSL Television weatherman Mark Eubank the Olympics chief meteorologist will brief Olympic games officials on weather at Olympic venues twice daily forecasts will His short-rang- e be based on information gathered by Event Weather Group a dozen seasoned meteorologists assembled by SALT Eubank William Alder chief meteorologist of the National Weather Service’s Salt Lake City field office will be responsible for gathering data on approaching weather systems and devise forecasts to help get everyone to and from venues safely Alder will draw on a series of computer models developed by the University of Utah meteorology department “This is the first time in Olympic weather-suppo- rt (history) that we’ve combined private public and academia all playing important roles" said Thomas Potter who became the Salt Lake Organizing Committee's weather coordinator upon retiring in November 1998 as the National Weather Service’s Western regional director “You get more bang for your buck from teamwork forecasting” Eubank said The National Weather Service a government agency has provided weather-suppo- rt services at the seven Olympics on American soil up through the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta That irritated the Commercial Weather Services Association a trade group of private firms that supply specialized information to groups as varied as television stations and fanners The association complained the NWS was violating a 1991 commitment that it would not compete with private-sectforecasters weather-relate- d or Having NWS provide the services would have saved SLOC money But Allan Eustis director of the agency’s office of industrial meteorology advised organizers last May that the private sector should provide the forecasts Potter said SLOC chose Eubank in part because the veteran weatherman worked at an affiliate of Olympic-sponsNBC and submitted a low bid “No one is losing money” Eubank said “We’re paid for our time but not what we’re getting at our regular jobs” He said he cut his price because of SLOCs budget constraints in the wake of the Olympic bid scandal or employee’s magazine article taints two federal cases Two defendants In sex abuse cases are mentioned In story The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY - An FBI employee has written a magazine article on sex predators that will alter the opening today of the trial of former Eunice Kennedy Shriver personal assistant Thomas Jared Pearl The article in a Utah magazine coaches parents on how to help their children avoid pedophiles over the Internet http:wwwulaorg to be replaced the bodies left behind at crime she was -- Stump well Kollmann’s normal job is helping police in Baltimore But on Sunday office Mark Shurtleff a Salt Lake County commissioner and Jacalyn Leavitt The conference also offers workshops on the 399-846- from the skull of what appeared to be another young woman “I'm guessing she was 14 to 16 years old” she said looking for clues about the life and death of Utah’s pioneers A careful study of the skeletons and the graves can determine the age sex and health of the people who were buried in this cemetery between 1850 and 1867 Kollmann said OGDEN - The Utah Library Association will hold its annual conference May 17-1- 9 at the David Eccles Center in Ogden The theme will be “Expanding our communitiesEmbracing our partnersEnriching our profession” Guest speakers will include Reed Richards chief deputy in the Utah Attorney Generals employer’s responsibility in sexual harassment why and how adoptees search intellectual freedom issues and evaluating Web pages For more information call 6 or visit the Web site ALAN MURRAY Kollmann used a tiny plastic trowel to flick pieces of the dirt FBI ' williampitthillafmil TOOELE - Archeologists are digging up the graves of 11 skeletons) to talk mann said -- 777-847- The Associated Press County Md ' But FBI outreach employee Darleen Thompson also wrote about Pearl and Brent Blackburn a former pediatrician charged with attempted sodomy whose case also is pending before a federal judge The article was written despite an FBI tradition of tight lips and policy of strictly limiting public disclosure during investigations It was featured in this spring's Family Matters Magazine a 70000-cop- y glossy periodical published by Simmons Media Group and Smith’s Food & Drug stores with the support of Utah Gov Mike Leavitt’s office “We take no responsibility for the editorial content - presumably the government agency had checked the accuracy and the proprietary nature of it” said Craig Hanson president of Simmons Radio and KSFI’s FM100 a of the magor azine “Unfortunately there may have been some information in that one article that was either in- accurate or inappropriate or whatever” he said The FBI said the matter is under internal review Thompson while employed by the FBI is not a swom officer Pearl 40 flew to Salt Lake City from Washington DC last May He was arrested at the airport and charged with trying to meet a girl he corresponded with over the Internet The girl was actually a Cache County woman a former Logan police officer who has previously worked as a confidential infor- mant for law enforcement in other child pornography cases In her article which identifies her as an FBI employee Thomp- son shifted from a general de scription of Internet sex predators to the alleged exploits of the two unconvicted men without noting those allegations remain unproven After learning of the article Pearl defense lawyer Robert Breeze asked US District Court Judge Ted Stewart to order an injunction preventing distribution of the magazine unul Pearl’s trial ends But Assistant US Attorney Elizabethanne Stevens offered a using jury seleccompromise - tion today to weed out people who had read the article i I NORTH OGDEN -- The old North Ogden stump well will be replaced by a fiberglass replica and dedicated at 1 0 am May 20 in the Acres Market parking lot The old artesian well stump provided water to many North Ogden residents for years before it deteriorated Washington High to hold open house OGDEN - Washington High" ' School invites the community to attend an open house from 5 pm to 7 pm May 18 celebrating the location of its main campus at 956 20th St Special activities for the evening include building tours' community information tables and a light dinner - For more information call 625-893- 5 REGIONAL honors outstanding faculty BYU PROVO - The Marriott School at Brigham Young University honored Marshall B Romney with its Outstanding Faculty of the Year award ' Romney and five other faculty members were recognized at a recent banquet in the Wilkinson Student Center- for their excellence in teaching citizenship and research Also honored were: Douglas Prawitt professor of accountancy: Keith Hunt professor of business -L management Doyle Buckwalter associate professor of public management Brian Spilker professor or accountancy and Gary Rhoads professor of marketing “ - 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