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Show nae aeee ee SN SS SSS B10 The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/OBITUARIES Sunday, N 1, 1998 ber PaychecksTardy, Bills Mounting Up for Uinta Basin Census Bureau Workers Census workers wouldn't allow their namesto be used,for fear of sgruntied their paychecks are Census workers in the Uinta Basin, hired to go outin the field Other Census Bureau employ- and get addresses to prepare the 2000 Census, complain they have yorkers in the Uinta Basin are late and theirbills are mounting ‘ges in the 10-state Western Cen- worked for about four weeks p Sas Bureauregion havealso yetto without pay or reimbursements for car and phone expenses, Single mothers, who must pay “he paid or have been paid incor‘Fect amounts in their weekly pay- losing their jobs. Crew leaders, who have more seniority, say many times their paychecksfall short of the days they worked. Some say they are also concerned about workers leaving when they did not get id, David Skeehan, @ supervisor in their gas bills and day care, have beenhit particularly hard. lecks due to a regionwide prob- Yom, said a clerk at Census Bureau aa office in Lakewood, Olo. “Explain that to mycreditors,” Park City Puts Up a Fight Over UDOTPlan four solution to the Kimball junction bottleneck. UDOTengineer whois overseeing the project. This statistic alone, he argued, is good reason notto go with what the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission is advocating — an Old World-style highway with roundabouts (or traffic circles) that would replace stoplights and be landscaped with an alpine sensibility. Regardless of where they are going, the sheer number of cars moving through Kimball Junction probably precludes roundabouts, Gemperline said. And anyway,it’s time to move on something now, he said, because an Olympic “‘window”’ of federal funding for such projects won't remain ajar forev- Synderville Basin Planning Com- “Weare largely a resort econow and if they urbanize what we sell, it is diminished,” explained mission last week. Parry said he had heard from a passelof developers that biggeris better, offering this paraphrase of that constituency: “This is not a resort community, this is a bedroom Rademan. Summit County Planner Doug Dotson, who has presided in re- »feent years over sweeping new community.” tontrols on development around “ParkCity,put it more bluntly. “This is a resort town, it’s not who report their payroll to the Denveroffice, Skeehan said. time between when a census creased to 20,000;last year it was er. Indeed, housing projects have mushroomed in the Snyderville Basin during the past few years, Sandy,” he said. “This is not West Valley City. This is a very special place.” Maybe that’s why traffic through Kimball Junction hasescalated so drastically and is expected to double in the next cou- the sametimes of day — according to Andrew Gemperline, the Hospitality Can Pay Off with the 80 NOCs bringing ath- These aren’t the arguments area leaders like to hear, howev- and about three-quarters of the _ traffic through Kimball Junction is coming from or going to Salt Lake City — much ofit at about where 35 clerks enter the data into the \ There are about 4,000 census workers across a 10-state region Skeehan said the payroll departmentshould be able to catch one woman. around 24.000; by 2020, according to UDOT, 56,000 vehicles per day will use the interchange. All the morereasonto give it an urban scale, Bob Parry, a UDOT transportation engineer, told the @ Continued from B-1 said the payroll paperworkis sent to Salt Lake City, then to Denver the Lakewood Regional Office of the Census Bureau, said the de- Park City was 8,000 in 1990, a sickly trickle compared with what has happened since and what is going to eccur. In 1995, it in- ‘Thefirst check was supposed to be mailed out Oct.9, but Skeehan lays are due to paperwork and lag “We all got in this job to be paid, not to put out money,” said ple of decades. The average daily car count on state Road 224 into OBITUARIES worker begins work and when the first check comes, er, and they are quick to toss back the Olympic angle at UDOT. “This is a great place to make an initial Olympic statement,” said Dotson, who did not need to Winter Olympic venuesin 2002. “We want to make people feel they are turning off at a worldclass resort [and] right now when you turn off here, world class is not what you have in mind.” ‘The junction has turned from a quiettruck stop into a predictable collection of bustling fast-food outlets, chain stores and nearby Or. David Wilam Feigal, 73, died October$4, 1998. Bom January 27, 4925 in Morton, Minnesota, to. Dr. Marion P. and Eloise R. Falls, Minnesota. tract housing that marks many freeway interchanges across the country. Such all-American quali- ties, said Max Greenhalgh, head of the Planning Commission, are not whatheis after. “We're looking for something that’s almost European,” said Greenhalgh, who is overseeing a last-minute Summit County effort to hire a consultant and present an alternative to UDOT’s plan. newly established farhily Mmadicine residency program at the University of Utah, School of Medicine before Tohumingio He allowed as to how it might be too late, however, given that UDOTis in a hurry to stitch the deal by January. “Their minds are pretty well made up,” Greenhalghsaid. A lover of the orts, he was an accomplished inge’ 8 remind anyonethat Park City will hold the biggest concentration of up on by Christmas. 4 about $2,000 in back pay. eee said one woman who is owed Census FA TE 28 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “SROOSEVELT — U.S. Harneysaid. Being smaller than the Summer Games, and with the Olympics occurring in the middle of the World Cup schedule for many winter-sports athletes, Bankstown’s experience is unlikely to be replicated here. But opportu- 8Continued from B-1 City officials also had struck a (deal with Pacific International nities exist, he said, as Georgians discovered in 1996. “They [Georgia cities] got beyond the idea this will be a great cash opportunity. They hosted countries they knew didn’t have a lot of money, maybe 5 or6 athletes, and usedit as an opportunity for cultural exchanges,” Harney said. “It’s so rewarding You'll get a lot closer to the athletes then if you went to an {USOCandits family in a special ‘way during and outside of the Olympic period,” said hotelier Ni- Crowne. “This is valuable ‘yasiness two years before the ‘Games. Everybody likes to pretrain, to get acclimatized so that when they come back for the on several Utahns whovisited a booth that Bankstown set up at last month's USOC Congress in officials offered to let the USOC take over the Town Hall as a pressed by Bankstown's efforts to its populace with Americans. The city has an ‘“Adopt-aYank” program linking families, schools or sporting clubs with American athletes training in Bankstown, and a “Homestay” program in which local families welcome athletes’ families and friends into their homes Officials also are organizing “Meet-n-Greet” voiunteers for the airport and train stations, Olympics-oriented youth activi- ties, a multicultural food festival, 4 rodeo anda lapel-pin exchange “Cannon Phoenix. “Bankstown certainly is being innovative and creative about the [AUSTRALIA pre-Olympic period, focusing on all of the Olympic opportunities and not just the Games themselves,” said Salt Lake City Olympic Coordinator Renee Tanner. O sydney Added her Ogden counterpart, Cathleen Dressler: ‘‘They've turned their city into a training area and really embraced the Olympics with community celebrations to get people involved. Those are things we're working on now. We'renotgoingto justlet the Games happen to us.”’ West Valley City probably has the most similarities to Bankstown.It is a suburb of the host city, has a large population, an Olympic venue of its own (the E Center for men’s hockey; Bankstown has a velodrome for cycling), is close to other venues and has non-sports facilities like its city hall, Hale Center Theater and a new recreation/wellness center. Ail But Certain ‘B Continued from B-1 suys. “Why should you give the vot ers a fig leaf to cover up the reali- ‘The reality is that the 8rd Dis- jrict — anchored by conservative Utah County — is Republican ter- bath in the 1990 Republican detimary election that left the GOP vulnerable. believe Orton — who hei -Giit> seat for three terms by follow an independent path that . him often at odds with his leaders — could be the last oPreches, fund-raisers, television | City Cente ° Triathion Hardball lockey Sailing Modern Pentathion neighboring states. Monday, he was in Idaho stumping for Michael Simpson, whois in a tight House race with former Democratic Rep. Richard The Utahn also is making campaign swings into Phoenix for Republican John Shadegg and to Las Vegas for Don Cycling (road), Fencing and Football (prelims) Volleyball Beach Volleyball deeeehetiona roadcast Center (IBC) Main Press Center (MPC) © Bankstown : Oyeling (track) Steve Baker The Salt Lake Tribune promotethe city's image and also, hopefully, to bring us some revenue,” said West Valley Olympic “We're setting our sights high going to effect the voting,” Can- nonsaid. “It has energized the Republican base.” Cannon himself added energy to the issue when he publicly floated a scheme about sparing the country a prolonged leade: ship crisis. He be installed as House Speuker to bet- the House in order to implement ter force the seat majority. boot. He points to unnamed colleagues he describes as ‘‘north- eastern liberals in Republican clothing” who raise obstacles to ambitious cuts in taxes and spend- ing Cannon predicts the odds will tilt more in favor of the conservative agenda after Tuesday's elec- pick up weats GOP A member of the House Judiciary Committee, which is expect- ed to begin pieesky hear- bom March 6, 4942,in son Srerce(Drew) Bondi Beach Olympic Vil Cannon says his goal is to help consolidate Republican control of Bay G Mocre ce eee | ‘Budshun; Boxing,Judo, Volleyball, Weightlifting and Wrestling ings against President Clinton later this year, Cannon believes the Clinton-Monica Lewinsky matter will play a role in boosting Republicans “People are sick of it, but it's tion, in which he predicts on it. While forgoing the typical mind-numbing crush of stump @ Daring Harbor isketball Football(finals) iymnastics ads and honk-and-waves in his conservative reforms that are difficult to achieve with a slim 11‘was helped considerably by a Soe Badminon Baseball | Coordinator Dennis Nordfelt. Stallings. ay of what's going on out there?” Water Polo Venue 2 “We hope those facilities can be utilized during the Olympics to district, Cannon is keeping his campaign skills honed by electioneering for Republicans in “Re-Election ree Aquatics ition or swift impeachment of President Clin- ton and Vice President Al Gore to We're preparing to send a delegation to Sydney to woo those kinds of entities and institutions and to make people aware of what's available in West Valley City.” stuff,” she said. Christensen, the Independent American candidate, also criticized Cannon's suggestion for resolving *he Clinton leadership cri- “Tt was a bad idea,” he said “Mr. Cannon's suggestion would : ah rangements or you can have partnerships. We're partners.”” Since the agreement was reached, Harney has been im- knew him, Densiow The possibilities were not lost able. We'll be family.” Most importantly, Bankstown us. You can have business ar- Beloved husband, father, grandiathe, -gtondiather. brother and friend, loved event.” Games, they won't be uncomfort- ita ‘rates at a 60-room hviel and two‘bedroom apartment complexes “We promised to look after the Hi taeLe 2 Atotels, giving the USOC reduced team-processing center for dispensing uniforms and equipment, conducting medical tests and team briefings, and getting the athletes mentally ready. Harneyalso liked Bankstown's approach. “We could see they Were sincere and wanted to help , middle-class suburb of Sydney, will host U.S. Olympic Team athletesin the years and months before the 2000 Summer Games. Theathletes want to train near Sydneyin order to acclimatize and have a competitive edge. For Bankstown, their presence will be an economic boon. letes to the 2002 Winter Games, Prior to Games i¥ce promotionto encouragecontacts. Utah communities would be wise to pursuethosekindsofactivities i |
