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Show UTAH ParksOfficials Tackling Controversial Issues BY BRENT ISRAELSEN died three days later at Primary Children’s Medical Center from brain swelling caused by a skull frac ture. Whittier and the boy’s mother had broken up, but the boyhad beenvisiting Whittier. SecondDistinct Judge Stanton Taylor sentenced Whittier on Mondayto5 yearsto life in prison, and recommended the parole board keep him behind bars a minimum of 12 years. a} STRONGER CHARGES PENDING? Weber County prosecutors have dismisseda mis demeanor negligent homicide charge age den man, saying they hope to file a more rious charge. Thomas Rebillot, 27, was charged with a A misdemeanorfor the August shooting death of year-old Mikelle Cannon. Rebillot told police he acci dentally shot Cannon in the chest while handling a semiautomatic rifle the two had just bought. He said he was unaware the gun was loaded when it dis: charged after he laid it down. Citing newlydiscov. ered evidence, Deputy Weber County Attorney Rich ard Parmley said, “An investigation is continuingas "It's a rejection letter from that masonry company you interviewed with!" to apotentially more serious charge.” Rebillot was arrested foilowi chase inv h he drove a stolen car into a power pole. In connection with that case, Rebillot was charged with felony theft and failure to respond to a police officer. A hearing is scheduled for FOR THE RECORD Nov. 1 Cy as well as a sergeant t YOUTH STARTS FIRE AT BOYS RANCH A 12-year-old boy was detainedand sent to a juve: nile facility after he allegedly set a conference room on fire at the Utah Boys Ranch, 5500 W. Bagley Park Road (9280 South), West ce say. At about 7:30 p.m. Monday, fire ponded to smoke and flames at the ranch and worked several hours to i § injury accident. Shehnaz J. S$ cles from the northernmost 1.5 miles of the four-mile SnowCan: yonroad. Under the plan, motorvehicles would enter the park from the south only. Two-way traffic would be allowed from the south en trance to the Galoot day-usearea, administration building a CEDAR CITY CRASHKILLS 4 \ 17-year-old CedarCity boy died Sundayafter the riding in crashed into an oncoming pick Orton, a passengerin 16-year-old P. . was riding south onFalcon Drive near the vehicle crossed e say. The car hita Park offici: als say the road clo: sure is needed to protect public safety and to preserve visitor ex » and the park’s natura rces. Closing the road also improves the park's ability to 'y, 16, wasin stable conditionat Val View Medica! Center, Christian and his passen- Sherman, weretreated andreleased from Valley View Medical Center. Cedar City Police THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Parents and teachers went to theSalt Lake for answers about the future of the district's Head Start program. then forced the womaninto hercar, but she got out andran away, Helinleft in her car, ne her purse. Q controlvisitors anden! would be allowed from Galoot to the northernentrance. wishing to stop anywhereinside fused a request by Paramount the park. (Vehicles driving through the park without stopping are not charged.) fromacliff overlooking the Colo: rado River at Dead Horse State The proposal would not change foot or bicycle traffic. Nearbyresidents, pai icularly in Ivins, view the ire as a burden. to their lifestyle and an infringement on their rights, said ‘Theyweredisappointed er Nary program in thecity’s old Matheson School for 29 years. Valdez and the other 60-plus teachers and staff at the programwere told two weeks ago thattheir contracts with thedistrict would end De 31 because the district planned to turn the program overto Salt Lake Community Action Program(CAP). All Head Start funds for Salt Lake County flowthrough the CAP. The communityagency receives $6.9 million annually from the federal government to provide preschool to1,750 chil- dren whosefamilies live in poverty, About 400 mick, 3 , The northern stretch of the road is steep and windingand not designed for the 11,3 the Utah Department of tation estimates would travel the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Authorities in an Juan County said late Tuesdaythat a skeleton discovered ina remote areais the remainsof Alan LamontPilon, one of twosurviv alists wanted in the killing of a policeofficer 1: years ago. TheUtah State Medical Examiner's office determined from dental records that the body was *Pilon’s, San Juan County Sheriff SMike Lacy said. The cause of ‘death remained undetermined. {Lacy gave scavengers partial S credit for the discovery, saying the body might never have been discovered if coyotes hadn't a bag out from beneath a A Juniper tree i During the summer of 1998 more than 600 officers combed the { The issueheatedup earlier this year when the parks division re. Pictures to launch a BASEjumper Park near Moab. Meanwhile. the Paramount re quest has become moot because the filmmaker opted to depict the jump by computersimulation. Hanksville Boulder Comes Down With a Bang outside his downtownSalt Lake City apart- ment early Tuesday. McCormick allegedly used bomblike devices last year to scare twobank tellers into giving him money. Basedonthat evidence, the FBI evacuatedthe apartment, 49 S. 300 East, and sent a bomb squad to search the apartment beforeallowing residents to return. No explosives were found. “Webelieved he used mockdevices,” said FBI Special Agent Craig Ph illippe. “But just to be safe, we did lear.” explosivesto clear the debris. ‘TRIBUNE HANKSVILLE— Less than 30 munutes afterletting school bus pass Tuesday morning, engineers sent million-pound hunk of rock crashing onto state Route 24 just westofhere, The boulder exploded so thor- oughly upon impact with the road that workers from the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) did not have to use served at CAP’s dow ntown Salt Lake City offi and in Murr and Tooele schools. CAP contracts with Granite, Jordanand Salt One laneoftraffic was open to traffic about an hour and a half after the boulder — dubbed “Big Bertha” by locals hit the highway. High Angle Technologies of Orem used a device that employed pneumatics and hydraw lics to separate the sandstone boulder froma cliff and sent it tumbling over a 400-foot cliff. About eight years ago, a “In the nameof commondecency, please continuewith therelationship at least through the endof the school year,” tendedthe meeting, ‘The board will look at a timelinefor a tran sition atits Nov. 16 meeting. ‘That leaveslittle time for a switch to occur mathskills they needto be successful once they enter school contract for the past three or four years because it is unclear hich entity thedi trict or CAP is inc! arge. She got serious about forfeiting the contract in April “My goals is not to have students hurt or to discontinue servicesto famili es,” Robl said. lons havec! ated a “climate But thedi: of fear" at Matheson School, 1240 American Beauty Drive. Parents are wo ed for their Cae ti Four Corners area, looking for underneath it,” Douglas Hansen, operations manager with High Angle Technologies. That accident prompted officials to bring down Bertha themselves. with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. /) Si KG For more information on taking part in this study, please contact: Be ee Soeca) Totel Comfort Package up nothing. Nothing, thatis, until Hallow- APF PackageIncludes * 2-Speed80% Eff. ite Furnace * Central Air ayewae = Plumbing & Heating L.C. Conditioning *® Power Humidifier * Electronic Air Filter wristwatchstill was ticking away. Pilon and Jason Wayne | MeVean have been missing since the May 1996 shooting death of Claxton, A knowing if there is a Volkswagen 295-7404 een. Eleven hunters stumbled pipe bombs sat near the body. And below the dense juniper branches lay theskeletonof Pilon, the bonesstill wrapped in camouflage and a bulletproof vest. The resurfacedtheroad “UDOT still jokes about not DCOTYTM]NCO| OPTIONS, LC Pha eg two menwanted for killing Cortez, Colo., police Officer Dale Claxton. But a search below Tin Cup Mesa where the body was found turned UDOTcrews cut the top off and Bowel Syndrome are needed for a 16-week research study of an investigational drugfor the treatmentof symptoms associated about working conditions, The complaints havecaused tensions among theentirestaff. Rather than working out the employee problems, parents saythe district would rather give up a program with a 30-year history of helping children succeed. ing health and retirement benefits as well as losing jobs or taking pay cuts. road. The road leads to anoil well below the mesa; two homemade Ba8 OP teachers and aides haveclaimed discrimination and filed grievances with thedistrict childrenand teachers are concernedaboutlos: boulder called “Bertha’s Big Brother” unexpectedly rolled onto the samesection of road. It sank 12 feet into the road surface. Om Bowel? LED) Switable Womenwith Irritable before December. “They may have close the school to get the transition in place,” warned Holly Collins, the school secretary, Parents and teachers also questioned Rob: les’ reasonsfor ending the contract. They say that during the past two years, a handful of Superintendent Darline Robles told the boardthat she has wantedout of the HeadStart across the bag. A few feet away the hunters uncovered a rifle set up on a bipod and aimed at a dirt said James Beck, one of about 50 parents and teachers whoat LakeCity schooldistricts to si erve the remain: ing children, All 3- and 4-year-olds whoattend Bones Are Those of S. Utah Fugitive BLANDING p fees. It per vehicle for visitors Ryan Galbralth/The Salt La Debris litters Route 24 in Wayne County on Tuesday. The highway wasreopenedwithin two hours. Agents with the FBI's Violent Crime Task Force arrested bank robbery suspect Jaines Doyle McCor lasses get help with the early reading and “They've left us in limbo,” saidteac Valdez, who has taught at the Head§ forbidding BASE jumping, the sport of jumping with parachutes, from high stationary objects, such as cliffs or bridges. fronted thevictimat her home, punchedandkicked children are City School Board on Tuesdayevening looking meeting is discussion on whetherto reverse a parks policy in the approximate center of the park, One-way northbound traffic Parents, Teachers ‘in Limbo’ Regarding Future of Head Start BY KATHERINE KAPOS Also on the agendaat the two day her, then held a gun to herthroat, saying he was going to kill her, according to charging documents. Helm BANK ROBBERY ARREST engerin the Sargent vehi A 21-year-old Ogden man who beat his 17-month: old son to death has been sent to prison for up to life. The road closur campaign issueinthis takes only an additional two minutes. After hearing from the public Wednesday, the parks boardis ex pected to act on the proposal on Thursday. been sent to prison for up to 5 years, John Ted Helm vated burglary, theft ult. He pleaded guiltyin Dis to onlythe last chi © as part ofa plea bargain agreement. On July 3, Helm who had moved out of the victim’s home a week before con: where he but stable condition Tues TODDLER KILLER SENT TO PRISON position ontheroadclosure. 4 pickupdriven by Jason D. Christian, 18. Orton was 4 “Peopledon't like change. They have been driving that road forever,” said Little, who, like the rest of the City Council, has not taken a the’ misdemeanorif Sial successfully completes proba tion A3 old Salt Lake County man who beat up his ex-girlfriend, then stole her car and purse, has Thefire caused about $5,000 damage, mostly to an still investigating the accident use the park as a thoroughfare, closurewill add 11.5 miles toa trip fromthe northern entranceto the townof Ivins. But the longer drive, which is over better highway, 5, was driving on “apparently did not want to be there,so helit a fire.” the conferenceroomby himselfas a punishme Sargent was flown to LDS Hospital For some area residents who Ivins city councilman ne et near 1480 South at about 11:30 p.m. on ATTACKER SENT TO PRISON are Parks and Recreation has pro posed banning southbound vehi ing to astate parks divisionfact sheet. dune6, when she struckand killed 32-year-old Donna Long, who was crossing the street but not in a cross: walk. Witnesses said Sial did not slow down or stop. She later said she knew she had hit something, but t know it was person. Alechol and drug creening tests performed on Sial v Third District Judge William Barrett and placed her on 12 months probation. T »judge he conviction to a lesser class B said her Chiet Brad Wardle. The chie ger, Tyle! Snow Canyon State Park anda reconsideration of a ban on “BASE: jumping” in state parks. The first issue hits closest home for the southern Utah residents. The Utah Division of State growth trends. That kind of traffic would “negatively affect the visitor ex. perience in the canyon,” accord. DougLittle sues: a plan to close a portion of route daily by 2020 under curreng destrian, then kept driving, has pleaded “no contest” to a class A misdemeanor for leaving the scene of an r a bringtheblaze undercontrol, s They have been driving that roadforever. A Salt Lake City woman who hit and killed a pe- the Utah National Guard. He died Saturday of a heart attack during a physical training test at Camp Wil liams, 1. ing an emotional wd in St George tonight v they con vene a public meeting on two is- Little HiT-AND-RUN DRIVER FINED Funeral services for Sgt. Peter Bell of the Utah Canyon ViewHigh School when the centerline, Cedar City State parks officials are expect Ivins City Councilman Doug FUNERAL PLANS CHANGED County Sheriff's Office have been changed to 11 a.m y at the LDS Stake Center at 900 N. 505 E Spanish Fork. Bell was the directorof the sheri search and rescue crew, “People don’t like tee THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 911 to reportthechild hadstoppedbreathing. The boy & TRANE * Programmable ae ItvHard ToStpA Trane” X A _‘Thermnostat = silo fea wale. Jason Whittier pleaded guilty as charged tofirst degree felony murder in connection with the 1998 death ofElijah C. Fisher. Whittiertold police that on Dec. 21, 1998, he became angry because the boy was erying, so he shook him, punched him twice in the stomachwith aclosedfist, shook him some moreand then dropped himon the floor. Whittier thencalled Wednesday, November3, 1999 262-4671 Cheek out our Website www.manwill. net Se Diesae TheSalt Lake Tribune |