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Show GheSalt LakeTribune * Section B GRAVE-ROBBING CASE Blanding doctor and wife facetrial on felony charges. /B-4 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER1, 1998 UDOTwants to widenstate Road 224to nine lanes at Kimball NearParkCity ee to accommodate the volume of cars heading be and out of Park City: Making Mostof Being a Host Aussies show Utah cities how to cash in on pre-Olympicshospitality BY MIKE GORRELL Butcity planners,politicians say it will ruin ‘resort town’ image THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE WestValley City, meet Bankstown. Same for Ogden or Murray or any BY KARL CATES THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE community interested in seeing how an Australian city is capitalizing on Sydney’s hosting of the 2000 Summer Olympics. KIMBALL JUNCTION — State highway en, at hadvisions of a spectacular four-story “flyover” that would Senahigh.speed ski-resort traf- As Mayor Ian Stromberg sees it: “Bankstown is the envy of every other local government in Sydney because we fic on andoff Interstate 80. im would have looked similar to the one construction on/interstate 15 near 2100South inSalt Lake City, hardly a selling point. Thus, the idea of a sky decided to go out, to use an Australian bridge at Kimball Juaction fouling what training center for one of the 200-plus term, to ‘catch and kill our own.’ ” And what has this suburban Sydney city of 163,000 done? It set cut to become the pre-Games is left of the scenery around the main gatewayinto Park City was createfaite Ds less than untae apriaral byeae. So the Utah Departmento! tation (UDOT)returned to the table with a proposal thatTebatiiee scale back the ae- rial artery te volume urban iiferehatge:NowtUl simply wants to rebuild and widen state Road 224 at the junction from the currentfive lanes tonine before the 2002 Winter Olympics. Butthat plan,too, is viewed by_ ‘Mike Miller’ The Salt Lake Tribune many as theall-tSee UDOT tack. “Tf you're with hammer, every problem Ik like a nail,” said Myles Rademan, community-development director for Park City and one of a growing chorus of voices calling for a kinder, See PARK CITY, Page B-10 conditions similar to what they will encounter at the Olympics or Paralympics. better. Bankstown is get a second chance, so wetry to take advantage of everything we can,” said Greg Harney, the USOCofficial respon- planting trees, a preserving open space, reducing vandalism and providing more housing “We're in a business where we don’t sible for finding living conditions condu- cive to good American performances in international competition. Harney met Bankstown officials in November1996at u joint session of the International Olympic Committee execu- tive board and the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC). Bankstown’s leaders decided that meeting was their best chance to contact a worldwide audience. Nearly all of the 197 NOCsthat sent athletes to Atlanta National Olympic Committees (NOCs) that will send athletes to Sydney in two years, Andit succeeded big, landing the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC), which would attend. Because the meeting was Cancun, Mexico, however, city officials were pilloried at home for being on oeoe the largest contingent to any and The critics, responded Stromberg, “didn’t take the time to investigate the a we put together to get what we have City officials estimate their affiliation with the USOC will bring in $20 million (U.S.). That is twice the projected costs. Si goon, a steady stream of American athletes and team officials will stay in Bankstown to train in climatic “junket.” eat Plan focused onthecity’s weather and its array of athletic facilities. It also described a city that, while not a tourist attraction, is livable and getting CLICK HERE for its populace, 30 percent of which comes from non-English speaking backgrounds. It has good restaurants, offering everything fromm Mexican and Leba- nese to Thai and Mongolian. There are Kmart and Target stores, Rotary and Lions clubs, a hospital, 15 medical centers, banks equipped to!exchangeforeign currency and a techniral- ly oriented community college. With this message in hand, Bankstewn officials ‘were aggressive and pro-active trying to meet everybody in Cancdn,” Strombergsaid. Harney was impressed by ree of Bankstown’s assets. Helikedits location —a 10-minute driveto a cluster of Off pic venues at Homebush Bay, nainey eee Big Int change © ing every 15 minutes for downtown ney, a nearby airport if a charter flight was needed. S See HOSPITALITY, Page B10 Cannon Will Were Murder Victims Stroll Into Office Again Demosdon’t even bother to run in Utah County BY DAN HARRIE ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The 1998 election is a politician's ind womanSattainous area of dream cometrue for Rep. Chris Cannon: no contest. Democrats didn’t even field a candidate againstthefirst-term Republican in Utah’s 3rd Congressional District. Cannon spokesman Jeff Hartley -describes the campaign as “the race that arently, after the their bodies and ran over them with heavy equipment to concealthekillings. It was unclear how long the two people had been missing, but friends and family notified authorities of their disappear- kind of was.” That's because there are other candidates in the contest — a write-in candi- ance Friday, said Duchesne County Sheriff Ralph Stansfield, who declined to release the names of meSe Hesaid the man and w ve been married, butit is ea orelikelyst omwere friends. Deputies arrested one suspect in the double homicide and are looking for another person who et have been in- volved,Stanfield said. Authorities would not give any infor- mation on the arrested or who Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune Popular singer and Mormon convert Gladys Knight performsto enthusiastic applauseat the Utah/California Women’s Organization luncheon. The event honored Marjorie Hinckley (shownin portrait), wife of the LDS Church president. Mormonconvert Gladys Knight has entertained presidents and ambassadors, but never thought she would be in Salt Lake City. . . else they might be seeking 11 connection Singing for a Prophet with the killings. Deputies had evideace by Saturday that thé two people may have been murdered,the sheriff said. The Associated Press reported thatafter the victims were shot, the bodies “were blown up with high explosives.” However, Stansfield would not confirm that report Saturday night, instead saying that investigators are looking into that possibility, a “To be we are trying to keep these detatls wraps,”he said. “But there is af The: heavy earth-moving equipment to further conceal the remains, he said. Investigators were able to positively identify the male victim through the remains. Portions of a woman's body were also found and authorities assumed that the identity will turn outto be that of the missing companion of the dead man. “Weare going to continue our investi- gation early Sunday morning to try and jetermineif thoseare thewoman's repomsea “This is as bizarre as it theative for the “lings was unclear nighi. The per were fovad in a mountainous section of southwest Duchesne County, about 120 miles southeast of Salt Lake City BY PEGGY FLETCHER STACK THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Gladys Knight, famous former lead singer of Gladys Knight and the Pips,is more than 50 years, andin all that time, knows ‘The Midnight Train [to Georg- who is believed to be a prophet, seer and gia]’?” she asked, causing another wave revelator by the church's 10 million hardly a typical Mormon. Her music is anything but the usually sedate church fare, accompanted bypi- members, Knight said, “I forgot the names of my own grandchildren.” on Saturday, she was greeted with wild been searching for a spiritual home for many years. She has been a Baptist, a ano or violin. But when the singer performed before a largely LDS audience The 54-year-old singer said she has applause and obvious approval. Knight was a guest entertainer at a luncheon in Salt Lake City, honoring Catholic, and in the Church of God in Christ. But none of them satisfied her Church President Gordon B. Hinckley. The luncheon was sponsored by Utah/California Womens Organization and some of the proceeds were donated to Christ of Latter-day Saints in August Marjorie Hinckley, the wife of LDS Utah’s Special Olympics. “TI have by sung for presidents dents and snd am am bassadors and I thought that I had arrived,” Knight told the 1,500 people gathered in the ballroom of the downtown Marriott Hotel. “But eerie for a prophet — now, that’s a ste; a Knight said that she has bean, singing in public since she was a young child, luncheon, Knight wondered whatto sing. she has never been nervous about a performance. But Friday, when she met Hinckley, yearnings, she said. Then she joined The Church of Jesus 1997. Since then, she has become devoted to temples, the church’s unique places of worship open only to faithful Mormons. And she has immersed herself in the church’s belists end practices. “T love the doctrine, and the way the church is set up. It all works well with my spirit,” said Knight. “I may haveto get used fo the music.” The crowd roared with laughter at that. When she agreed to perform for the Her friends told herjust to sing her own music. ‘What? President Hinckley of laughter. To remedy some of her discomfort, Knight has just completed mal an album of inspirational music, titled “Many Roads.” On the compact disc, due outin a few weeks, Knight recorded a song whose lyrics were composed by Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch (who was in the audience) called “In Mercy’s Arms.” Also performing at the luncheon was tenor MichaelBallam, who oe asort of musical journey through time,singing old favorites from the 1930s through the 1980s, linking world events to happen- ings in the Hinckley family. One especially funny moment came, however, “when Ballam: mistakenly said: “In 1973, Gordon B. Hinckley died.” Actually, that was the year that LDSPresi- dent Harold B. Lee died. But no onein the audience had a eee laugh at the line then the 88-year-old Hinckley, sitting a few feet away. date and two minor-party nominees with strong opinions, a few devoted supporters andlittle money. Cannon’s would-be replacements are Libertarian Kitty Burton, who has run previously for governor and other offices; Independent American Will Christensen, a semiretired businessman and longtime John Birch Society member; and Jeremy Friedbaum, a Provo harpmaker who lost a Republican primary contest with Cannon in June. The trio is virtually invisible in the campaign because of a lack of media interest and paid advertising. The single debate scheduled before the generalelection is one on public television station KUED, whichwill air to- nightat 5 p.m. Barring a natural disaster or materialization of Friedbaum’s lingering of divine intervention, Cannonwill stroll to victory. It is a far cry from 1996, when Cannon’s political future appeared shakier and his race against three-term Democratic Rep. Bill Orton was Utah’s hottest contest for majoroffice. The Republican venture--capitaliatturned-politician spent $1.7 million to clinch an 8,000-vote victory out» of 208,000 cast. He was oneof just a handful of challengers nationwide to topple an incumbent House mem} Orton calls the lack of a Democratic challenge this year a ‘sad commentary on our system. . . . Offices seem to be open to the highest bidder.” But the former congressman, working as an attorney-lobbyist, sees with party leaders’ decision not to put a peas sacrificial lamb on the bal- etter to leave the slot empty, Orton See CANNON,Page B10 ‘és an’t afford a holiday vacation? Invite the-relatives over. Thei-go downtown. i |