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Show The Salt Lake Tribune C ’ i MONDAY POLICE COLUMN, C-2 MM ANNLANDERS, C-4 MHICOMICS, C-6 MTV LISTINGS, C-7 NOVEMBER 1, 1999 ROLLY & WELLS PAUL ROLLYand JOANN JACOBSEN-WELLS | © 1999, The Salt Laka Tribune | CheaterStill | Giving Them | The Business | Somevictimsof a disbarredSalt } 4 | | LakeCity M attorney whopleaded guilty to chargeshecheatedclients out of hundredsof thousandsofdol lars wereforced into bankruptcy be- | ; " causeoftheirlosses. Someof the bankrupt victims received mailers recently about a special U.S. Housing andUrban Develop: mentprogramofferinglow-interest homeloans with no downpayment for people whofiled for Chapter 13 protection in U.S. bankruptcycourt, | } Danny ta/TheSalt take 1 Airborne wrangiersin oneof three helicopters head part of a herd of 700 Antelope Island bison toward holding pensaspart of the 13th annual roundup. Whirlybird Wranglers Lead the Roundupof Antelope Island Bison BY JANET R/ : BROOKS THE ‘T LAKE TRIBUNE ANTELOPE ISLAND - Pilot Steve Rugg flies Apache attackhelicoptersforthe Air National Guard andscouts to be the administratorof these loans. outillivit marijuana cropsfor the Utah HighwayPatrol, but on Saturdayhisflying kills werereally put to the test in the 13th annualbison roundupat AntelopeIsland State Park. “Mostof the time, when ‘ou'reflying from Point A to Point B, you can use 10pr ent of yourbr: inforflying,” you'vegot to said Rugg. “Whenyou'reherding buffa is the same attorney who cheated use alot more.” Soundtoo good to betrue? Well, their would-be savior who purports Soon after dawn, three helicopters, a dozen truc nd 300 horseback volunteers began gath ipthe herdof about 700 bison scattered over the rugged 15-mile-long Although costly, using helicopter: und up the bi son is quick andeffective, said Rugg. They can react places that vehicles can't. And horses and riders ar By lateafternoon, almost all the bison were ensconced in holdingpens at the island's northern tip, where they Also, buffalo are in don’t like the wind island much slower. \imidated by helicopters. “They ving down off the main rotor said Rugg, Thehelicopters moveherds of hundreds, hovering o the heels of str gglers, occasionallydarting off to cha strays or evensitting on the ground to conserve fuel whenthe herdis moving along aniegatane will rest forfive days before undergoingtagging, vacci nation and pregnancy tests beginning Friday The park hopes to sell about 100 bison from the ase-free herd to ranchersin Colorado, Montana and the Dakotas. “Wetry to managetheherdat about 550,” said park See BISON, Ps manager Garth Taylor. themearlier. Theletters, which ee “Dear Chapter13 par ticipant,” Ate HomeLoa “loan administrator” Lynn Spafford, who is awaiting sentencing Nov. 15 i s hree counts of issuing bad checkstoclients. Prosecutors have recommendedto 8rd District Judge Judith Atherton. that Spafford spendoneyearinjail She could sentence him to up to 15 \ years in prison, which wouldbe a unique environment for federal lending activities Meanwhile David Simmons, the CEO of Simmons Media Group whopleaded guilty to tax fraud stemmingfromthe International Olympic Committee bribery investigation, is awaiting sentencing in federal court for his guilty plea to diverting Olympic Check air advisory before you burn fundstotherelative of an IOC member underthe guiseof a job. But he recently was granteda special permit to leavethe countryby a federal magistrate so he could a week in Cancun, Mexico, aspart of an “advertiser appreciation trip” sponsored by The HAWK, 107.7 FM in Austin, Te: which is ownedby the Simmons Group. Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake Tribune Yellow Fork Canyon,in the southwest cornerof Salt Lake County near Herriman,is a favorite of outdoors enthusiasts. Yellow Fork Off the Market — for Now Q First Amendment Advocates? After we mentionedin our column last week that Deseret News policereporter Amy Joi Bryson took a friend to the execution of condemned killer } Salt Lake County's 800-acre park in Yellow Fork Canyon is a popularspot for Outdoorsactivists applaud as sale to Scouts put on hold hikers, bikers and horsebackriders. Controversialplansto sell the property to the Boy Scoutsare on hold. BY JOE BAIRD ‘THESALTLAKETRIBUNE Joseph Mitchell Parsons, the News demonstrated a schizophrenic attitude towardfreedomof speech rights. It filed an official complaint with the corporate headquartersof The Associated Press, accusing an AP photographer of being our source, and occasional eagles soar overhead. The AP is looking intoits client's whining, and the union representing wire service employees has taken up the cause on behalf of the photogra- week,it seems, are manypeople. Hikers, mountain bikers and horseback riders YELLOW FORK CANYON Wild turkeys scurry across the trails and mule deer bound up the slopes. Hawks, owls Sut not without first consulting with the Utah Division ofAir Quality. during business hours, though the trails Burning woodinyour old fireplace orstove this time of year could land start taking on moreusers after work and can get downright busy on weekends. But busy is a relative term in Yellow air-pollution standardsin check Fork, which sits next to Herriman, nestled between Butterfield and Rose canyonsin the southwestcorner of the Salt LakeValley. ‘The800-acre area has been County regional parkfor 15 Salt Lake years, but few knewofits existence until last June The only thing you won't find in Yellow Fork Canyon during the middleof the whenthecounty offeredto sell the prop: erty to the Great Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts. The Scouts, with nearly 80,000 mem: bersin the Salt Lake Valley, badly needed another campground close to home; at the havetheplace pretty much to themselves See YELLOW FORK,Page C-3 Somewhereuphigher,elk and mountain lions roam, BYBRENTISRAELSEN THESALT LAKETRIBUNE, ees 's getting nippy outside, so put ver log on the fire. pher. Wasatch Frontresidents in hot water with the division as it tries to keep Starting today, the state will issue daily advisories until March 1 on whetherit is OK to burn wood, The the familiar red, yellow and light symbols to let residents of Weber, Davis, Salt Lake and Utah counties know whentheycan fire up the wood-burning appliances. A green light means it's OK to burn, a yellow light asks for a volun tary curb on burning, and a red light prohibits wood burning and asks See BEFORE, Page C-2 orseaproposal C-2 Nobody hasasked us, but the photographer was not our source on the story, which was confirmed by prison spokesman Jack Ford. Q ‘Big Bertha’ Coming Down From Precarious Perch Above Highway Word Getting Around BY MARK HAVNES ‘THESALT LAKETRIBUNE Residents of Franklin County, New York, maynotbeableto vote in The Utah Department of Transportation and an Oremengineering company will make the earth shake on Tuesday just west of Hanksville theSalt Lake City mayor's race, but they know whoRocky Andersonis. + A Rocky Andersonfor Salt Lake City Mayor campaign helium balloon traveled 2,200 miles and landed in the * Northern Adirondacks in upstate in Wayne County whentheytopple a boulder, estimated to weigh 500 tons,onto state Route 24 so it can be blown upand hauled away. The million-pound chunkofstoneis perched precariously above the north side of the twolane road and UDOTofficials say they want to New Yorklast week ’ knockit down before it falls onits own. Between Hanksville and the east entrance of Says Franklin County resident > } Tom Hauf: “I'm not sure how Rocky in stands as an environmen sunlight his campaign message be- ’ OOR COPY ? Officials hope to have the road open by sometime Tuesday aftemoon. | | Johnson,safety risk manager at the UDOT of: fice in Richfield. He says UDOT employees will be stationed on several other highways connecting to state Route 24 to explain the situation to motorists. Stolen campaign signs are a staple inany election year, But Farmington Clty e Council candidate David Barney has a clue about his missing signs. Passing a whitewashed yard-sale sign last week, Barnoy noticed in direct ‘onto the two-lane roadso it can be blasted apart and removed sometime Tuesday afternoon, says Carl Creative Marketing neath the paint =| Capitol Reet National Park will | be closed early Tuesday while workers knock a 500-ton boulder | at least one lane around the rock, probably Q : } K section of state Route 24 west of Hanksville and east of Capitol Reef National Park,the highway will be closed at about 7 a.m, until work crews can open talist, but tell him to please stop lit tering our nation’s largest park.” * Rock:'N' Roll Once the boulder lands on the road, UDOT crews will drill holes into the sandstone and pack them with explosives to blow the rock into UDOTcrews plan to knock ‘Big Bertha’ to the road Tuesday moming, blow it up and haul R awayin time to restore tratfic along state Route 24 by the aftemoon. manageable pieces, The rocks will be dumped ) See BOULDER,Page C-3 »‘ SteveRaker/TheLake Tribune ‘ |