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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Thursday, June3, 1999 Utahns Plan Safe-Night Parties CLOSE TO HOME Utah Safe Night Parties For Upbeat Message to Teens Eventspart of nationwide effort to deter drugs, crime that we can all work together City, teen-agers ily with After gang members terrorized her fa shootings, Karen Johnson, 16, can try to douse Miss Teen Utah and Bountiful id some- thing had to change. Three inmates sued the San Juan County Jail in federal court Wednesday, arguing new mail censorship policies are violating their First Amendment and due process rights under the federal and staie constitutions. Steven Briggs, Raymond Richard Hanson and Robert Fergusonareall serving prison sentences but are housed in the San Juan County Jail. Their lawsuit, filed by attorney Brian Barnard, attacks mail policies that say bulk mailfor inmates “can be refused’: sexu- , ally-oriented material, including anynudit: is banned; and catalogs are banned. The policies are vague and {oo broad,infringing on inmaterights, the suit claims. It seeks class-action status; a judgment that the poli- cies are illegal; and $1 a day in damages for each inmate for each day they have been incarcerated under the policies. o ILLEGAL DUMPING? a problem: A lot of teenagersfeel there’s no hope.” Saturday, Johnson will be one of thousands of teen-agers across the nation whowill discover an evening alternative to weapons, arguments and swing contest. Dugway the Salt Lake City event. “It's going to be the coolest Richfield, they can play games and watch a magician, with “I’mpsyched,” said Johnson. whohelped organize party — something for everybody. It will show teenagersthereare other things youcan dothat arefun drive away, Call said. When the officer confronted him, the man told him that he worked at Powerball Technologies and he was disposing of leftover sodium hydride, Call said. Powerball Technologies makes On June 10, 1994, Olusegun Sijuwade organized At and 435-797-2838. For more information about the As thelocal parties take placeinall 50states, powerballs, which are Ping-Pong-size polyethylenecoated sodium hydridepellets that react with waterto Now, Milwaukee youths attend 30 parties each produce hydrogen. Call said the West Valley City Fire Departmentwill inspect the business for proper handling of the product. The man wasnot arrested. Call said investigators will meet to determineif additional action will be taken. abuser. oO year-old girl with whom he had been adults andkids,” Muir said. ‘People understandthat wehave a problem in Utah, and this may be a wayof FIRE NEAR BORDER CONTAINED Firefighters were mopping up 20,000 charredacres of brush after a wildfire in far northwestern Arizona was contained with the help of overnight rains. Ground andair crews wereable to contain 100 percent of the wildfire by 6 p.m. Tuesday. It is probable that heavy rainfall put out anylingeringflames, said Bette Arial, a spokeswomanfor the Bureau of Land Management We awoke to a torrential rainstorm,” Arial said “Now the air has cooled down and I'm surethe fireis completed.” Thefire charred an area between the Arizona-Utah stateline and Grand CanyonNational Park FAMILIES NEED HELP corresponding, authorities say. In re ality, the girl was a Logan social work erposing as achild Pearl had been a personal assistant to Eunice Kennedy Shriver. a sister of the late President John If Kennedy sincelast October, according to the mi tial complaint Accordingto that complaint. Pearl hadbeenconvictedin Virginia in 1878 orassaulting a child The complaint initially charged ‘The GreaterSalt Lake Chapter of the American Red B ASSOCIATED PRESS. OGDEN — Ft Scott Sneddon hd started a one-mar public-relation: ipaign aimed at Chinaon behalf of northern Uta since NATO bombed the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia Sneddon has spent a year preparing costs of helping victims of disasters such as thefire at for Shangri-La,” said DeborahBayle, chief executiveoffi C PILOT DISORIENTED Thepilotof a small plane that crashed in the Grea Salt Lake last week says he was disoriented before the craft hit the water near Fremont Island. Last Thurs day, pilot James Sabodski, who according to FAA re cords had morethan3,000hoursof flying experience put his Cessna 170B in the water about 100 feet from shore. He swamto Fremont Island and flagged down another plane, but disappeared after being taken to Skypark Airport in WoodsCross. Friday, Sabodski re. ported thecrashto the National Transportation Safety Board. Arnold Scott, air safety investigator for the NTSB, said Sabodski a ticing ground refer: ence maneuvers when he became disoriented and ° lit erally flew the plane into the water.” Although Scott still needs to see the Federal Aviation Administration investigator's report andan official pilot's report. he has ruledthe crash accidental PEDESTRIAN HIT ASalt Lake County man waskilled wailwalking throughtraffic Tuesdayafternoonat 7 0 West Thevictim, whopolice did not immediaely identity was crossing 900 West at about 4:15 p.m. Theinside laneof traffic apparently hadstopped for him, but as he continuedto cross, he was struck by a northbound vehicleinthe outsidelane. Hesuffered massive inju ries to his legs and head and was pronounceddead at LDS Hospital a short time later The driver of the vehicle was not cited LOTTERY ‘The winning numbers drawn Wednesday night in Idaho's Powerball lottery worth $38 5 million were 04 20, 24, 46, 4 POWERBAL coerce a minor info un’ were 4,5, 7,1 WIL! ‘ARD:King of Spades For winning numbers and prize amounts players cancall the Idaho Lottery's info line. 1-208-334 1656 eling to en gage in an unlawful sexual act with a Pearl is scheduled to be ar raigaed on the indictment this morn ing before US Magistrate Ronald Boyce Prosecutors say an officer in Fra mingham, Mi as a 12-year old gird had had Simian contact with a man calling himself “Pom” and elaim ing to work for the Kennedys: A spokesman for th Kennedys said Pearl was fired by the family Pearl's attorney said he qint Chinese high school students to come to northern Utah schools next But that wa: NATO air strike ore May 7, when ¢ the Chinese Em bassy in Belgrade up in flames. For Sneddon, the days following the bombing have been tough. Some Chi nese students and their parents have said they will not come to the United would be in danger by coming Some ire Worried their teen-agers might not be accepted in their host homes and at school they've all safe then Wi i he said Sneddon told Ww youre not at Youll be treated warmly and friendly Hespite his efforts. only 20 of the 40 or 50 students who originally planned to make the trip are coming That leaves neddon trying 10. se host families to help. students have the experience they are hoping for and help them forget the bombing It's time to show them some good Utah hospitality.” Sneddon said dealing with it.” Tooele Planning Commission Rejects Proposal for Townhouses Unanimous decision came despite land’s multifamily zoning 1995 set the stage for the current dra ma. The county at that time rezoned BY BRANDON LOOMIS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Stansbury Park toeliminate an open POOELE — The Tooele County ‘lanning Commission unanimouslyre- jected a townhouse developmentproposedfor Stansbury Park, siding with neighbors who feared declining property values and lost views. In turning away the Hamlet Homes commissioners turned their the multifamily zoning that the county approvedin the 1970s. Instead they rezoned the areafor single- family homes ‘Time changes things,” Commis: sioner Christy Kane said. Now town houses are inconsistent with the de- tached homes that have developed aroundtheproperty, she said Developer Michael Brodsky now has the option of appealing to the county commission. He would not comment after Wednesday's meeting Rusty Andrus,a neighbor whopeti tioned against Hamlet Homes, agreed with Kane Stansbury became a community of wonderful people who want to keep a wonderful community,” hesaid. We don't want L.A.,” said Jessica Johnson, another neighbor. “We're not shutting the door on people, but we want it planned Hamlet Homes proposed 106 twin townhouses and 19 detached homeson a 32-acre strip between the village's lake and Highway 138. Leucadia Financial owns the land and has long since won approval for a similar multifamily housing project that it never built But an administrative blunder in endedzone that essentially allowed de velopers to submit any plan theyliked subject to the planning commission review, Whenit cametime to rezone Leuca dia’s townhouse property, the plan. ning commission recommended multi family zoning to match the company plans, but never forwarded the recom mendationto the county commission When Brodsky of Hamlet Homes of, fered to buy Leucadia’s landand finis! the project if the county would hone) the multifamily zoning, neighbor lashed out against the view-blocking row of homes. Besides opposing high density housing in general, they claimed other examples of Brodsky development were shoddy, “cookic cutter” townhouses that wouldnot fii into the neighborhood Residents of the more exclusiy Captain'sIsland, across a narrow arti ficial lake from the proposed home raised the biggest fuss. Those home range up to $250,000, and somecur rently enjoy views of the Great Sal wakeandStansburyIsland, The tow: houses would stand in their way, an residentsay theplainer back edificc that would face them would be uw sightly Brodsky responded that his pri posed homes, averaging aroun $115,000, are closerin price to most of Stansbury Park than the Captain’s | land homes. He alsopointedto a “pet ple’s choice award” ina Tooele parad of homeslast y evidence that Hamlet Homes areattractive ThiefProfits From Loophole in Old Statute ® Continued from D-1 enough cash to repay the bank, Roy rs sand When that didn't happen, Brian ntenced her to probation and ordered her to pay restitution to thi bank at a rate of $100 per month for the first six months and $400 a month thereafter, plus 8 percent annual interest Rogers called the termstoo austere for her client who was by then 19 and caring for a second child with health problems. Rogers also said the judge violated the restitution statute, which at the time defined a victim as “any natural person whom the charged crime or conduct is alle have been perpetrated Black's Law Dictionarydefined natural person Cayaaed » Biolog § TORY as a humanbeing Al a restitution hearing in February 1998, the judge upheldhis ruling, citing legislation passedthat year removing “natural person” fromthe statute But the new law was not scheduled to go into effect until three months later The Court of Appeals ruled that Brian improperly applied the new law, and no provision in the new Wap 0" 14.33 sqvore yords jon allowed for it to be used retroactively heirony of thisis it was the judgeand theprose cutor who wouldn't follow thelaw,’ Rogers said Prosecutor Lemke said it will be up to the Attor ney General's Office whether to appeal the ruling ‘Thewinning numbers in Idaho, Montana, South Dako ta and Nebraska's Wild Cardlottery worth $462,000 exual activity and a count of States and many fear their children mer Ogden Mayor asilent partner’ in times of need: however. we receive no government funding andrely on the contributions of outside donors to help us meet the cer of the Greater Salt Lake Chapter of the American Red Cross. Anyone who would like to donate should ‘all (801) 323-7000. Tt also addsa count of attempting to Grand Jury Hands Up Indictment in Porn Case Cross has provided temporary shelter to 54 people me displaced after their Salt Lake County apartment caught fire Saturday. Kighteen apartments were burned bythe blaze, caused when acat knocked over a candle in a third-floor unit of the Shangri-La s, 4892 S. Highland Circle. “The Red Cross Pearl with three counts of interstate distribution of pornography ‘Theindictment includestheoriginal three counts, but adds two counts of distribution stemmingfrom child por aphy in his possession when he arrested minor. “L've had a lot of good response to this — from Night. | wanted to beinyoived.” Dougsaid he grewup in Brooklyn during a crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s, so he knows today’s Fewer Chin e Students to Visit Utah Now after traveling to Utah to meet the 12- towns and cities across America who have decided this is worth trying.” Jodee Muir, Utah coordinator for the event, said the key is to recognize what's happening and then workat its roots. Doug and Robinson met as extras in Spike Les Mo’ Better Blues.” We reunitedafter he cleaned himself up,” Doug said. “He told meabout his efforts in telling kids about drug abuse, and that he was working with Safe beplentyof role models and adults there. We want at Salt Lake City International Airport provide them with an education while they're atit I'm excited about the level of support andall the first becameinterestedin the night after talking toa friend, Scott Anthony Robinson, who is a former drug We expecting more than 300 and less than 1,000 in Salt Lake,” said Kari Cutler, program director for the Utah Federation for Youth. “Therewill Thomas Jared Pearl, 39. was arrest “It's not a cure-all, but I hope it will serve the distracting them with things they enjoy, and then In a phone interview Wednesday, Doug said he This is the first year the night has gone national, and at least five Utah cities are planning parties ed whenhestepped off a plane May 21 lem. needsof young people today,” Dougsaid. “We'll try Dawes and actor Benito Martinez buteit to Safe Night parties andtried to persuade a girl to engage in sexual activity youths face tough issues. However, he said Safe Night is a contemporary response to a current prob: Doug E. Doug of “Cosby” and Way ) WhoseLine Is It Anyway?” will host the program, whichwill feature Olympicgold medalist Dominique yearat98sites intheir community. ‘The city has seen a 60 percent drop in youth homicide. andthey attri- The grand jury handed up a seven: national event or planning ideas, visit www.pbs.org/safenight. Doug E. Dougwill be featured on Safe Night TV hookup. there will be a PBS/BETpartybroade: street and out oftrouble. former Kennedy family employee who allegedly e-mailed child pornography ® Randolph: Planningsession for a September event. ® Richfield: 6:30 p.m. Snow College South, 145 S. 800 West. Admission is $2. @ St. George: Planning session for an August event. Nationally, a live broadcast for Saturday of dancing. And ail events will have life skillsclasses. hopeda massiveparty would keepteen-agersoff the count indictment Wednesday against a p.m, Admissionis free. night on PBS and Black EntertainmentTelevi- the possibility rather than being on drugsor stealing stuff.” the first Safe Night in Milwaukee because violent injuries and deaths there hadincreased 300 percent between 1983 and 1993. The public health educator THE ASSOULATED PRESS Admissionis free. W Dugway, Shockley Fitness Center, 5:30 sion will feature Doug E. Doug, Wayne Brad Adimu, Dominique Dawes, Benito Martinez, Crystal Lewis, Morley Kamen, and the Mixed Generation. Toorganizea local party, call Jodee Muir at he heard three or four explosions at the Jordan River Park at about 11 p.m. Tuesday,said WestValleypolice In Utah, events are planned in: Salt LakeCity: 7 p.m. National Guard Armory No.1, 1543 Sunnyside Ave. (800 South) dance drugs andalcohol at Safe Night. USAparties. And, she said. they might discover somehope. otherorganized evening events for teen-agers Lt. Lance Call. The officer heard and fell the explosions four blocks away and saw a low-lying cloud of smoke. He then sawa man get into his vehicle and with learning about anger management, con- compete in a Organizers hopethekickoff partywill lead to many A 30-year-old businessman has been caught disposing of chemicals into the Jordan River that caused explosions and small fires, police say. An officer was respondingto a call at a nearby industrial park when dance, play gamesandlisten to bands — along flict resolution and effective communication booth. dance to three bands and a DJ. and Jordan High School student said “I realized there's JAIL MAIL POLICIES TARGETED no arguments. In exchange, teen-agers can police officers in a dunking “I've hadfriends die from drug overdoses and my brother spent time in juvenile detention,” the West FOR THE RECORD can make something bette: In Salt Lake BY KELLY KENNEDY THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE drive-by we on Saturday. Each event hasrules: No weapons. Nodrugsor alcohol and Pe people to know and Hundredsofcities across thenation will celebrate Safe Night, USA He said the decision, though not published (which means it cannot be cited in other cases) could impact other restitution cases filed before May 1998, when the new law took effect The Salt Lake Tribune http://www sitrib.com X19 ioe STORE HOURS! 81Nondoy-sSana ———y CARPETOUTLET OUTLET 10:00 A.M.-10;00 PM, CLOSED SUNDAY Seee TEeeeeR MABE 5530. Von Winkle 273-5800 |