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Show The Galt LakeTribune UTAH FORTHE RECORD, B-2 mSTATEOFTHESIATE, BS £OTIOy WEBRESBAY OBITUARIES, B-4 DECEMBER 22, 1999 Bill Seeks To Profile The Police ROLLY & WELLS PAUL ROLLY and JOANN JACOBSEN-WELLS oweease Measure would track races Democrat Purge Cost S.L. County of drivers in traffic stops BY RAY RIVERA ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE. Nearly $100,000 In &movelikely to kindle debate over allega- Thecost to taxpayers ofSalt Lake tions of racial profiling by Utah police agencies, County Commission pnromen cf Glee ae i m0. i $100,000 tees year nearly state Rep. Duane Bourdeaux plans to sponsor a bill thait would requirepolice to record and monitor statistics on the race of all motorists they WA. stop. Tine Saaiiy tee Moan aie wwBourtleaux, » DSalt Lake Cit y, D- Peatha am torof alternative raneportation : ‘That is in addition to the $15,000 Gonzales was granted in back wages by the Career Service Council last summ council ruled that eacitcusei ot ae coe procedure before eliminating his job. After thatruling, Gonzales was rein- said he was spurred by numerous complaints from minorities who say they have been stopped because of s i Photos by Rick Rgan/The Salt Lake Tribune i A recycle bin brims with barbecue grills, old bed frames andbicycles atthe Salt Lake Valley landfill. 6 9 S 0 a um 9 9 S a an their color — nottheir driving. “I’ve had probiems personally,” said Bourdeaux, the state’s only African-American lawmaker. enn Thethird-year representativeis taking 1 precaution notto alienate police agencies wit his potenti:ally divisive legislation. Toward that end, he met with more than a dozen law- Whateverit is, workers enforcement and minority representatives Tueaday in a two-hour session at the Capitol to pore notice-to-sueletter. Earlier, former Associate Public Works Director say they see a lot of waste “Mygoal is not to strike out against law enforcement,” Hourdeaux said. “Butthere is truly a pajhba beenillegally eliminated PARSE EARS TEBUNE Mike Reberg was paid $45,000 by the county to settle his complaint that use he is a Democrat. Q : BY DAN EGAN a perception in the minority communities thatthis is happening, and the only wayto get this infor- mation is to have a standardized reporting pro- (Constitutional Scholar ieeeeadfeelcasohaga them in the garbage, think about whatyou're doing to Steve Rose. naturalization ceremonyin the Delta workers who are busy burying some WhenCongressman Merrill Cook joined other dignitaries last week at a tot hetid the 850 Freerat as new U.S citizens that the opportunity to be another Larry “or even presidentéethe tiled States.”‘Thenewcitizens had been studying the U.S. anae the president roust be born in the United States or, if born abroad, to .8. citizens. a a es overa firstdlraft of thebill. cess.” Under the «raft legislation, police agencies would be required to submit annual reports to the Attorney Gieneral’s Office and the Governor's It’s Rose’s job to keep sea gulls out of the faces of Salt Lake landfill Commission or\ Criminal and Juvenile Justice detailing the racial makeupof every traffic stop. Failure to proviide information would result in 4 of the 1,600 pounds of trash each of us Ce withhcilding funds from the offending tosses out annually. Pre Rose relies on a shotgun. He Naame he aateinty eeAe longheleat a scaruneeis wens batins ing is occurring is\ difficult to determine because ey bascassceneworkwenamt pester them like a swarm of bread- Wee nonstop job. The hungry birds don’t stay frightened for long little data is kept on what led to a traffic stop and ee information {s availableifa ticket is Shotgun-toting Steve Rose fires a waming in the direction of sea gulls as he Works bird-contro! duty at the landfill. Rose labors constantly to spook the because the stakes are too high. Food hungry scavengers so they don't get in the wayor pester workers. TE caerreels wanery,they spiked wheels specially built tocrush than a hole in the ground filled with Police are alreacly objecting to early language of thebill that would require them tocollect ra- oe ses soem thine ay Pel over: g mnotoriet agp,citizens don’t} want us askingtheltraceand €‘hristmas Sj : Teate Divers moe Xe, won't be scared,” says Rose, sitting the bench seat of a landfill- ryhbish — workoverthe steady supply of bread crust, Kleenex, cereal _stuff nobody wants.It is actually a complex of 11 landfills, called mod- City Police Chief RubenOrtega” ri “(Bourdeaux] is going in the right direction, " ia HetattporLDiteea *tushed a ides alepurt tn ick uy ype af ag ig ret i mirror. He nan oe Ls boxes, Chapstick tubes and ee * ules. Each is lined with several feet of clay as well as a waterproof plastic butthe bill as it is drafted right now is unworkable,” added Roy Polic:e Chief Chris Zimmerman, aaaesnaires fee for another flock to swoop mittee Y es Momirontedanwes ti inilde te teraDosen " Wailed left the Se ith ee. Seakagy tighter terminal to mother. she was wheeling her out to the car, se eo i: ae ticket Sonn Lisa e econ ted eens, owon his gun and- spies fingers ger into the trig. sky, grandpa probably wor or not. insists Margaret woman for the 53Grochocki, employeesspokesat the facility, located at W. 1300 South “T've seen them choke down dirt on the western edgeofSalt Lake City. clumps, big old pieces of dirt,” says Rose. Nearby, “compactore” — roaring, smoke-spittingbulldozersthatrollon “We have a lot of environmental eh tai ae ®#¥8 ee thea ee ae “ tially Several years longer Predicted because nearly a third of _thevalley's waste is now shipped to that goes into this,” adds Carbon County from a transfersta- Indeed, the 650.acre site is more See LANDFILLS,Page B-2 facility director Romney Stewart. See BILL, Page B-6 . ‘i mtenitiames. (on. sixthmodule,The Tith probebly pt oacin eee “It's not a dump,it’s a landfill,” vont he full for 30 years. Stewart bombinto the colorful pilesnutriand Pluck something, anything, president of the Utah Chiefs of Police Associa. The landfill has been open since ‘ ‘ ED Straight Edger ‘ tof Murd Inn “4 ocent of Murder, His Attorney Argues . BY STEPHIEN HUNT Qa ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE re eee While en route to city hall recent: Mayor Tom Dolan watched Amazon Hostage Overver fortor Utahn ros ge Ordeal rae in front ofhim lose Thubeap rerrsed onthe Haat Reoae in his city and the font "prectal Wowk nth iulled rerDoliaapedut of ina . location snowstorm to tell the ofher missing tare ona aa him and drove Unfortunatly thatleft no one to Dolan who’ i locked his jpel te chee avatars eeRoane Eeetercee BewrinCamhee hate called — ‘Be linergroundwater. tokeep gunk from drippinginto the ve pee DE & Ps grindatthe Salt_It'sallpartofthedaily Lake Valley Solid Waste Man- agement Bay -place zou ‘nah * » Wewrote’ who a BY JOHN HEILPRIN mates,” Gamoes ettorney Bill Morrison told jurorsTuesday as Darger’s homicidetrial began in 8rd District Court. EE .Unitedalsobad for killing Bernardo Repreza have been pun captive. freed three weeks after that. Among the family members awaiting Carter'sreturn to" “Few in Carter’s hometown, a close-knit community of Ferdiesivgemplone piogtenkod S00. about 2,000 who mostly work in the oll business, knew of his planned return. For those who did, there was quiet PST ehoactneall qrabsecanfer Cone. anticipation, week later, and several Spaniards who were seized were to prison for 6 to 15 years for| bashing Repreza in Aibrindccrctng someSay Repreza once across in the Ecuadorean “eo . tecting the workers — a common practice among foreign ae on ts portion ofthe Navajo indian reservation, lt Ecuador sboard vately with seven Canadian Lage Yn trp benp abc oe Unied Paste Seiten oh Etoonton and killed during {tsSroup. ownA security force that could not repel the armed Canadian woman taken hostage was released a “Everybody knows each other,” said Sophina Ahtsosie, a medical receptionist at Montezuma Creek’s rural health in time for Christmas.” Added Morrison: “The twyo people responsible ished for It” ‘Last week, 19-year-old Ardrew Moench went the head with a busebell bat the night ofOct. 81, 1098. Colin Reesor,18, got § yeas to life for plungInga knifeinto theunconsck)us boy's abdomen. Reesorand Moenchaccepted yeeDare Sy See UTAHN, Page B-8 arm torso a ae Sce STRAIGHT |EDGER,Page B-2 Sugar House Residents Find Plans for Big-Box Walgreen’s None Too Sweet REBECCA WALSH nie,epmiogiond | gang member Seat) Darger purportedly 8 single swing at the victim with a springloaded billy club. “One swipe, and they wantto hold him for Oll-pipeline Leonard Carter flew home Tues- Pipeline. day to reclaim his life in southeastern Utah after more ON Sept. 11, eight in the crew and some bystanders than three harrowing months ‘armed group's hos- Were snatched at gunpoint. One Ecuadorean soldier pro- ———t. arte Ce so tha Bhscns ad Carter was part of a crew of 10 working to repair and maintain an oil pipeline in the Amazon jungle. Their job was to fit a plastic liner into a leaky steel petroleum ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE abyeenevarHe fatalyear in of 14-year-old Bernardo Repress last downtown Seilt Lake City, Straight ‘THESALELARSTRIBUNE . Housebas a a ery eae “It makes my blood curdle,” resident Lynne Olson. Sugar House residents are a Ute excuse emotional about the ‘They fought this battle before. They and several more the year after that. windows Last summer, a contractor with Sem- per Investments, the a that ‘western builds Walgreen's stores United Salt City with Cleeuit City, shopko and. planners with oa to the aitewalk, reminis- cent ofold-timeMain Streets. Ws Websie the sua “We an tb thal; our new lengths see preserve the visual intayrity of the eun- r |