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Show UTA @ BELL & BARBERI, C-2 MHEARTLINES, C-4 MLOTIERY, C-8 MOBITUARIES,C-10 SUNDAY C12 BWi MAY23, 1999 between Schoolhouse and Slaughterhouse E.A. Miller, Hyrum elementaryliaison helps immigrants adjust to newculture BY HILARY GROUTAGE THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE adjust to a new country, a new job, a new langua and a new school. So far. it looks like she w“ill a0 anyth ng to make it easier My biggest worryis that Erika will burn herself out said Paul Barnard, humanresources manager at Miller. Barnardwas approachedlast year by Kevan Ken HYRUM — Srika Cowdell might as well be going 's when she travels thefive or so miles vetween her two di She may also be the nington, principal of Lincoln Elementary School, belween plane where most Miller employees send their childrer only educator on Earth whoroutinelydons ah tino parents who might have conferences She hasanoffice in a slaughterhouse, after all You really do get used toit,” she said of her surroundings He noticed adistinct lack of participation from La felt unwelcome at school functions and wondered if Barnard’s compa ny could help. I was areally easysell Barnard said heard about programslikethis in other places “I The company wasgladto create the position and put up $28,000for the During interviews Barnaré sosaid he was¢ arefulto recruit the per Cowdell is the newly-hired community liaison for Lincoln E mentary School and E.A. Miller, a meat- fect person er. someone whowasn't upset by our processhere. One packing plant and the community's largest employBut it took not a moment for Cowdell to adjust to “The nature of our work is such that | needed of the things that stood out about Erika is how many mentary school where nearly one-fourth of the stu- people shealrea dy knewfrom her involvement in the community Barnardsaid »wdell started work in January, going between Indeed, Cowdell alreadywas anaidein the school district's inglish as a § ‘ond Language program 1,200 employeesare Latino. Her job is to help them See E.A. MILLER, Page C-11 theother half ofher job: spendingtimeatthe elek a languageotherthan English at home Al Hartmann/TheS: ake Tribune F Erika Cowdell, liaison forE.A. Miller and Lincoln Elementary School, sits with Manuela Leon, Norma Cardon and Evangelina Barajas,left to right. Cowdell helps Latino families in Hyrum. the schoolandthe packing plant where 750of the familysearch.org: 400 Million Names BY BOB MIMS Tr T LAKE TRIBUNE The world’s largest family history collection is scheduled to make its de- WGenerations traced inanhour C-42 Cannonseeksto protect website C-42 Evenbeforeits formallaunching,the but on the Internet today, making hundreds of millions of records accessible FamilySearchsite has overwhelmedits planners’ most optimistic projections: to cyber-genealogists. In all, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will make nearly 400 million’ names of deceased people available with the click of a personal “The high was 11 million hits in one day,” said Elder D. Todd Christoffer- computer mouse at its new Family- Search World Wide Web site at http://www.familysearch.org. LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley was scheduled to unveil the service — ultimately to include more than 600 million names — during a morning news conference also being broadcast by satellite to the National Press Center in Washington, D.C., from downtownSalt Lake City’s Family His- tory Library For the present, access to the Web more than 200 million “hits,” or site accesses, were recorded during an eight-week betatesting period. son, executive director of the Family History Department. “It’s sort of evened out to about 5 million [hits per day] over the last week orso. “We were certainly surprised. We had anticipated perhaps1 million hits a day, but nothinglike this.” While FamilySearch is envisoned as a quantum leap for Mormonsresearching their ancestries for such church rites as baptism for the dead andeternal familysealings. the site is expected to become a prime resource for non- site will be free, though some sort of fee in the future has not been ruledout. See ROQTS, Page C-12 BLMAuctions Kinder, Gentler Mustangs BY LESLEY MITCHELL THESALT LAKE TOOE! TRIBUNE — Two of the dozens of mustangs auctioned off Saturday by Danny La/The Salt | at! it, Jessica Necaise, 17, Samantha Ortega, 19, in rear, cruise State Street to meet guys Michelle Necaise, 19, » Taillights on State Street the Bureau of Land Management don't act like wild horses at all Theystand quietlywhile bridles are slipped over their heads and don't al hy awayfrom humantouch. They load e: den ily into trailers andcan berid- These mustangsrepresent an experimentbythe BLM, which rounds upand oversees theadoption of 5,000to 6,000 Cops seek to discontinue thrill seekers on the prowl wild horses a year to keepherd popula- oa are adopted annuallyin Utah Most of the mustangs that sell at BLMauctions at an average $200are completelywild and often take months of work after they are adopted before they are ready to be ridden safely, said Miller/The Sait take Tri Horse trainer Zane Davissits astride 7008, a mustang he has gentled Glenn Foreman, a spokesman for the BLM’s Salt Lake City office. It is not ; Street Site of a mating dance ated by stops for exchanging pl Utahns sample sight, sound BY HILARY GROUTAGE HE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Do not tell John Contreras he can't always buy beer on MainStreetorthat he 20 food vendors there only come out once a year The Columbia native was in Salt Lake City for a jobinterview onFriday and spent Saturday at the 14th Annual Living Traditions Festival at theCity CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS ‘The Columbia hospital chainis severing drink irtir It's a shame we'vecometo thepoint where we haveto curtail activities that once were fun and enjoyable,” says Po . lrivers Lake City Cruisers acknowledge the problems tween carloads or with heckle n the sidewalk. They call police when one of their own flashes a gun. Still, t cruising is their right, a form of 5 And they are pragmatic It will move to another street ear-old Juanita Fry. “They'r g to get rid of us that easily City Council members on Tuesd: mull the police proposal that would b: cruising on State Street in downtovw the panic when a fight breaks out be traffic to gridl is expression, if you will See CRUISING, Page C-5 ee MUSTANGS, Page C-11 County Building | love your city. 1 just love your city!” he said after posing for a photo. graph with an American er Indian dane Your city is wonderful And on Friday, Saturday and again today, chances are the thousands as nieces bags of tissue paper pic val-goers would turn into f erez, who lives part of Guadalajara, Mexico, took Mexico to learnthe craft I don't crochet or ar sembled for the festival agreed with that, I just like paper,” A few yards away, him Thefestival program said Living clothing, beads and feath Traditions is built around themes of mutual respect, understanding, cultur al identity andcultural diversity. It isa joint undertaking of the Utah Arts Council and Salt Lake City and in cludes, food, dancing, crafts and mu sic At the Mexican Paper Flowers booth, Dolores Peiez helped children and adults fold, roll and press ordi its contract with Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah after June 30. A narytissue paper into callalilies, pop pies and mums. Shetakes her patterns otherwise fromnatural flowers and in prepara tion for the weekend, she and her headline in Saturday's paper indicated spun out of control. Decades of lice Chief Ruben Ortega. “But cruising has becomeextremely dangerous in Salt punetu l‘ving Traditions Presents Rainbow of Cultir and tastes ofarea’s diversity catalyst, city police claim cruising State harmless fun has taken on a sinister cast Think of Salt Lake Ci as a night club on asphali where tailin Using two murders in two years as a as BY REBECCA WALSI tions under control. About 400 horses It's a social, at timesviolent, tradition Salt LakeCity police want to end fA | The Salt Lake Tribune r she d Walker donned layer ke aft ration for the American Ir Walker, resident of Cl member of the Winnel tribe and dances at poww ' er he gets th Besides the two stage: d: ” housecrafts ing, stonecutting # Then there was Street between the I 1 State 400 shut down to become a See FESTIVAL Cl Wick Egnn/The Sait Lake Tribune swirls sashes during her Chinese dance number UTAH QUOTES The hate crimes in our country are like a warningsignal. Weshouldfocus [The Living Traditions Festival] is on hate crimes beforeit’s too late, before @ convenient, affordable and non threatening place for people to try we descend into a [Yugoslavia-style] struggle. — Carol Edison, Utah Arts Council — Bill Lann Lee, U.S. acting assis- tant attorney general for civil rights OR COPY something different. ‘Our propensity to produce children with higher demands on¢ t get t take it beyond portunity to get gathering? Yeah Scott tat cationtranslates to higher taxes ~ Douglas MacDonald, Utah Tax Commission chief economist © president »perations . 4s a Frenchman, | know that a Frenchman kept from his wine might get cranky. — 10C spokesman Franklin ServanSchreiber on Utah liquor laws during the 2002 Winter Games |
