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Show e UTAH Th rsday, February 20 1997 TheSalt Lake T Jordan District May Granite Board Delays Fee Hikes Allow Gay Clubs BY ROBERT BRYSON BY KATHERINE KAPOS The decision fees for j school students has tough one for the School Board end of this hool year so teachers and nts know what expected hemfor the next the E TRIBL The Jordan School Board is studying a policy that could allow T controversial clubs, such as those ‘om Owen. for gays. lesbians and bisexuals to meetatits schools under strin- f the Thesouthern Salt Lake County district now has a moratoriumin on new clubs while it consid- districts to develop policies on such clubsas long as they adhere to the state’s policy. Jordan, like others throughout the state, must decide whetherit will allow such clubs to meet or follow the Salt Lake City School District's example and ban a clubs not specifically related t school curricula Jordan Superintendent Ban Newboldsaidthereis no pressure on adminis tion ontheissue but they need to makea d ecision. We're to be held accountableto the public on why we made this decision. hesaid. B joard m ber Shane Bodell liccomment be sup- ning that the district n District classroom v The board already is ning to incr from $5 to the fee for a decal that sion was lows The board loc students to al. park tricts of Alpine, Davis and Jor- school property The board will have to de. dan. Granite’s we cideat its March 4 meeting be. the district added the said Michael F tt mignon of High School Services. soon, allows any group of students to meet and form clubs in public schools. They also said thepolicy 2 law. enactedb: hi useregistr: next 3 finalized distributed said spok sman Kent Gardner on thestate Capitol focused na tional attentionon theissue students but be deliberate. It would benice if we could have it wrapped upby require parental consent sought formation of a The Utah ¢ eanCivil Libertie: @ Continued from B-1 such as Boulder, the Abajo Mountains and the Manti-La Sal and ment. “But this is the speaker's b hips @ quasimunici- nuplast year’s tov secure their said he those experienced last year in 1 Brown southern Utah “If they don’t get their natural food, they turn to other sources says Blackwell, adding that 90% is to move Salt ward wall-to-wall t is fair to cities of a bear's naturaldiet consists of nuts, berries and gr e Karelian bear dogs originally and the count Inthe past, cities fi new mu nicipal h dispro: portionate amount of lucrative and reside werebred in the Karelia region of eastern Finland and western Russia. Thestriking black and white dogs were trainedtouse their in- areas andleft resi behind nate herding instincts to hunt bears and other game. But Hunt never trains her dogsfor the kill Under Brown's proposal. Finlandlast fall neededfor the job —is a yearold worked two to three hours daily, dividing their time obedience classes and time in the woods Hunt's interest in bears began after reading Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book in third grade. Before launching her enter. prise, Hunt workedwith private and government agencies. She ys was involved in several hun- dred tracking operations in which Al Hartmana The Lake Tribune Carrie Hunt and oneof her Karelian bear dogs train at the Great Salt Lake Dog Training Club in Salt Lake City ness of her dogs at the invitation of the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks She successf ed her around summer cabins that raided by grizz] as the first time the dogs had come up against the largeest predat in North Ameri “Part of t owners who problem was cabin were imprope storing food beng dog fe nod, swe etened bird feeders left out for wi Bears eat our dogs and ¢ livestock eat, at ea says Tim Manle y month-old bear dog got from Hunt as a puppy. “There's lot of opportunity for be ) get food sociation with people. If the bears aren't getting any food, they won't hang around Bear problems oc irr when they ten during the emerge from hibernation with grumbling bellies, and in the fall whe n they ma alast-ditcheffort bul k up i fore holing up for the ter, Manle explains ast summer Manley had to var-old male griz would not quit Montana, showing theeffe In another incident last sum mer in Montana, Hunt hunter shot a bear he later discov ered ported it to sight tion had little is devo’ d to making food is proper! pred by visi Ve can walk throu hand find 30 camps with food violations ys. “That makes Car rie’s job re: ly hard. The bears am. and get ruined If our campers ar MeCurdy s, its an impo: tuation Hunt has promised a puppy McCurdy from next litter McCurdy says. The pup will be trained to track bears that h anquilized and th that hi been struck by vehi cles We had 19 bears hit by cars in the park last year. Half were killed outright and the others couldn't find,” McCurdy adding that Hunt's dogs loc ated some in the woods licking their wounds Planning Commission Tuesday night, said it needed more infor mation before making a recom mendation on the proposed ex pansion of Snowbird Ski Resort into American Fork Canyon The ski resort, up Little Cotton Before making a recommenda tion to the Utah County Commi: sion on the proposal, the Planning more informa Commission wants tion from the U.S orest Service and Salt Lake and Wasatch c oun ty ‘ommissior The m ‘was not unexpected to Robert Bonar, di re tor of mountain operations for Snowbird. wood Canyon inSalt Lake County has proposed expanding into Min to g long re thr ugh the permitting process eral Basin in American Fork Can step sort owns mining claims, which Represent atives of the conser vation g up Save Our Canyons and off-road vehicle organiza: ’ yonin Utah County, where there would require the installation of two new ski lifts 1 Bonar This is just another tions expressed concerns to the commission that dev lopment would require the upgrading of roads in American Fork Canyon The Forest Service expressed ome concerns about the develop ment Buek F Utah Cou a tant director of community devel opment, said the Planning ( om mission also wants to hear public reaction to an environmental im pact statement Snowbird pre paring The planning body expects to return to the issue March sometime in early on in off theinjunction, weset officials disagreed was the offer that we had the beginning and they said ACLU staff attore Anderson. Wedon’t need aninjunction. The law clearly states that the law does apply to [senators],”. Anderson said. “The lawitself is anin junction against the Senate Developer Urges Draper High School. They allowed the tions that some activities in schools and colleges promoted homosexuality they viewed out the disccussion inter Legislators consistently maintained that th the law were cludingf. oe of the meeti closing it and statin a reasonfor 1 was a resource,” said Horiw rsee most of the coun Draper tion is failure for Draper residents who Hendricksen, who a the so-called secret lunch on Feb. 12, noted that Draper residents incorporated to preserve the ‘acter Friction is not reason enough to disincorporate,” added Coun “It’s just in a growing town Horiuchi, who arrived late and missed the blackened salmonthat Redd enjoyed, said he was invited to the meeting by South Mountain developers to answer questions about dissolving city. He point ed out that Draper already con tracts with the county for police fire and sewer service s the een in my opinion township would ¢ Akerlow said fit In addit and Chr But unincorpora not incorpc g petition process election said represen atchdog whether voted in 1978 to life formationof a sort group for gay and lesbian students at East discussion to stray into allega Horiuchi said hehas killing city government for a township would be an admitted cilman Darrell Smith, into a closed-door meetin; ty’s municipal service @ Continued from B-1 the city’s arts community, we! with public- and higher-education officials and d d pending chi Mayorto Quit town’s rural ¢ said Anderson, add ing the cost was worthit Senators who Jan. 30, 1996, had the case, said Rees. “The only thing this boiled down to was at fees. When they ACLU This made in refused,” ne WI Senate's defens TheSenate's had to pay for its arrogance,” n ‘thestickler’ that blocked a settlement They The ACLU spent $16,000 ACLU demands for aninjune- also have garnered appreciation in California's semite Nationa’ Park Kate McCurdy the k's wild: gers life biologist park have to spen iso much time on crimes such S rape and theft that Hunt's de Deputy Sundberg. ships were OK for Salt Lake case. Taxpa a will ment plus th mated to ha @ Continued from B-1 The dogs wasted no time ing the vulnera Panel Wants More Input on Snowbird Expansion BY MICHAEL SMART Lawmakers, ACLU Settle Meeting Suit ing a half-mile tors. Montana grizzly-bear-manage ment specialist, who has an 18 rity and food Last fall, Hunt was innort SPECIAL TO THE T PROVO — The Utah County new cities could not incorporate more Cassie, a 7-year-old Karelian. fond of sprawling out on Hunt's They are independent dogs says Hunt, that like to roam and are not given to staying around the house Hunt begins working the dogs when they are 7 weeks old. Training in earnest begins when the dog — if it proves to have the “grit atures to for Brown's bill pr mpts efforts by Rep. Blake ( ard, R- ueayton. it improperly kitchen floor, is the leader of the pack. She has helped Hunt train estrictions genda andhehas all the power The biggest problems ar when the animals’ natural food searce, a circumstance that can result from dryconditions such as the others: Rio, Tuffy andEilu, an 18-month-old puppy Hunt got in 5 percent of the tax to provide basic ser ‘ sidents. The bill does not 5 sary Lake County’s township move. Dixie national forests when humansleave their food out or store mal's first inclination is to see out the area it was moved from becauseit is associated with secu not schools for ads, bulletin: e allowed to @ Continued from B-1 off andit finds itself in unfamiliar surroundings. She says the ani, w ould 2 Ameri ACLU) Will Be Gone If Bill Passes Hunt maintains a relocated bear can be traumatized whenthe effects of a tranquilizer dart wear and has criticized the new statepo is unnecessaryti Cause Keep Problem Bears Away with bears. org claimi Townships the bear-herding Karelians and got the idea of using themas an alternative method for dealing discussed oe Under the newstate policy, dis- tricts canset limitations on clubs Dogs Help lared for research, removed from an areaor killed Then in 1982, she heard about It alse would c fu schoolw andstudent ‘ont sts sponsored led fromliability in lawsuits y School Boardtook actionlast winter after a group of East High Weneedto de bears hadto be capturedto becol con new guidelines, they will be pro. clubs. but there is no hurry between e line when it nies adve to letting comp: Officials say if districts follow t to move forward on the issue of The dogs are ed to dre schools, and members are consid ering a new policy that would set limits on commerc rtising and outsideinform: ev mbership to poter tially disruptive members. S' ce cedbefore the Jordan policy is ers But the sehocol board has decid on charged in neighbori and would remain so even BY KATHERINE KAPOS Salt have ¢ ne year or increasing park ingfees. Newbold told the board m eti in a study session Tuesday ev Granite Plan Limits Outside Advertisers Amongthe s gestions made ae were school technolo; length | | BS explore some pa wait to see what t Last month, the Utah School not commit During the next two weeks. posed to adopt a creaseto pay for u administrators ¥ from school-board members. Board passed guidelines allowing may be s_ rules ers action and seeks direction But board members could been a Granite On Tuesday, it who heads a com g the issue for the id “there gent guidelines, place | ° easy road, It is like reverse with t followed by ar Chuck Akerlow, developer of the huge Centennial project on attended At this Traverse Mountain, was astound ed that Redd uld even enter time. al it th tain a proposal that surrendered the city’s independence to count commissioners Such a move would nullif Akerlow's development e ment s and contractual obligation: with the city He pointed out that Centennial his 4.400-home de velopment course, with a hotel convention center shopping center pa ma laimed South M it rs were + behind the an straddles the boundary with Utah County ‘Diehl and Utah Countyallowed Draper to annex land on its been unable to as they side w the mountain and set deve standards. Under a with fe ‘ hristia manipu ecustomed council's upset with Centennial would have to repea Elaine again the approval process t was recent mo’ nt te things together but thi with Salt Lake and Utah counties To pee as itting mayor involve | f Shakula said blows all of that. It wil again |