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Show Bz The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Wednesday, December22, 1999 Shurtleff to Pursue Attorney General Post. } FOR THE RECORD COUPLE CHARGED Onarecent child-welfare check BOMB SCARE Students at Taylorsville’s at a West Valley couple's home, police found a loaded 9 mm handgun on the basement floor, meth- Eisenhower Junior High School were evacuated Tuesday morning amphetamine and cocaine in the living room, a small amount of Marijuana cn a bedroom dresser and meth-lab materials in a car, after a series ofbombthreats were left on the school’s answering machine and an unattended backCounty bomb squad detonated the and papers,said Sait Lake County J. Sn were charged in 3rd District Court on Tuesday with unlawful possession of a con- allowed to go home later that morning. Bomb-sniffing dogs from the Salt Lake City Interna- dering and public-assistance tional Airport made a sweepofthe schoolbut found no explosives. trolled substance, money laun- fraud. Bryon Snyder was also pack, but it contained only books Fire Capt. Bill Brass. Students were taken to Salt Lake Commu- the couple is on state assistance, but investigators searching the homeat 3546 W. RidgelandCircle (2570 South) on Aug. 27 say they also discovered “very expensive” stereo, audio and visual equipment, a Ford Mustang, Suzuki motorcycle, Polaris four-wheeler, Yamaha dirt bike, night-vision and surveillance equipment, power tools and computers. Between May and July, police say, the couple purchased $54,906.54 worth of motorized vehicles — all with cash. Charity Snyder purPortedly told police she was able to purchase extra items because she has bought and sold vehicles, and she won $10,000 in Wendover, but she is not old enough to gamble, court documents say. Prosecutors allege the couple made money through a drugdistribution and moneylaundering scheme. with his gut. : flirting Biespewing poetsitsing Ieweae mayor's position, the Republican commalastoner stuck with his oa plan and announced Tuesday that g he is running for Utah Airs nity College at 8:30 a.m. and were charged with unlawful possession of a dangerous weapon. Police say Kennard Hedges Decision to Drop Out of Mayoral Race SOUTH SALT LAKE — Jn the end, Salt Lake County Commissioner Mark Shurtleff went pack was found. The Salt Lake prosecutors allege. The Division of Child and Family Services has taken an unknown numberof minor children into state custody. Charit: Snyder, 20, and Bryon BY JOE BAIRD THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE ney general. “As a former prosecutor, @ and having worked with law enforcement and victims, I know the best place I can serveis to fight crime state- wide,” Shurtieff said during a news conference at the county's new Adult Detention Complex in South Salt Lake. Shurtleff Q GUN ARREST Police arrested an Orem motorist Monday night after he allegedly pulled a gun. Police say a 19-year-old Lehi woman who stopped ata traffic signal in Provo did not immediately take off when the light turned green. A man in the car behind her honked his horn, and the woman gave him the “high sign,” Orem police say. At the nextlight, the suspect got out of his car and pounded on the woman's window, then continued to follow herin hiscar, She called a friend on hercell phone andarranged to meet at Scera Park in Orem. When the woman pulled into the parking lot, the suspect followed her,and herfriends confronted him. The group dispersed after the suspect allegedly bran- dished a .38 pistol. Police traced the suspect byhislicense plates. Shurtleff has been planning an attorney general’s run for months, but he pulled back last week after Commissioner Brent Overson unexpectedly bowed out of the mayor's race. Shurtleff said he was “overwhelm and humbled” by the e-mails and phone calls urging him to replace Overson.He He paused again over the Kennard informed him he also wasopting out of the mayoral camy paign. with an accidentrate seven times worse than the Air Force average. “When I was sent here, I was warned ofall kinds of problems,” Hostagesaid. “What I found was a healthy wing with a good attitude, and becamethefirstto fly the attack planesin 1979. While the overall Air Force accident rate plunged in the past 20 years, Hill’s spate of F-16 crashes in early 1998 stoodoutin contrast. “We tried to get everyone to take a step back and re-examine the problems leading up to the crashes,” Hostage said. “What we but one that wastired.” discovered wasthatthe accidents A year anda half later, the wing's accident rate has dropped well belowthe Air Force average. wereborneout of a heavy opera- AndHostageis leaving Jan. 19 for Washington, D.C., where hewill serve as senior military assistant to the secretary of the Air Force. a very high emphasis ” said Lt. Col. Philip 388th wing. f of safety for the ‘The colonel [has] given meand my office an open-door policy regarding tions tempoandthepressuresthat accompanythat. . The symp- tomsof overworkcan be found in each of the accidents.” Hostage will be succeeded by Col. Johnny Weida, a command pilot with more than 4,000 hoursof flying experience. Weida comes from Shaw and Nellis Air Force bases in Nevada, where he flew with the aerobatic Thunderbirds team. Kennard, like Overson, has been plotting a mayoral run for monthsand was determined to go ahead as recently as last Thursday, when he told Shurtleff he was committed to the race. But Kennard got cold feet over the weekend and said Tuesday that he was cut — though hedid leave the doorslightly ajar. “We just got through with a very tough [sheriff's] campaign, and I had to take my family into consideration,” said Kennard, whowona third term lastyear.In addition, he said, “We're gearing up for the opening GOP's central committee and said he already has Jaid ont “an extensive statewide grass-roots campaign organization.” He plans to make his candidacy official next month. Bishop indicated Tuesday that other Republicans, including a couple of county attor- oharehingei forie” said state Republican Chairman R neys, also are interested in Graham’s job. The Democrats’ sole candidate, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen. Reed Richards, declared his got experience, he brings a polaes and he’s a provenvote-getter.” Republicans are hopingto capture theattorney general’s post now that the incumbent, Democrat Jan Graham, has announced she will not seek a third term. Graham is contemplating aU.S. Senate run against Orrin Hatch. Another Republican, Salt Lake City attorney anything we see as a potential problem. And, wisely, he insists weanticipate problems and analyze what we're doingin terms of The 388th wing flies 54 F-16s Hostage replaced the fired commanderof the 388th Fighter Wing,a unit that had lost or damaged four F-16 jets in three months nounced his candidacy for Utah attorney general — and Salt Lake County Sheriff Aaron Kennard. All three are Republicans, But Shurtleff ultimately settled on the more familiar turfoflawenforcement. Thefirst-year commissioner previously served as an assistant attorney general and deputy county attorney, as well as a smail-claims judge and a rectic HAFBOfficer Headed to Pentagon, Leaves Behind a Safer Fighter Wing Landfills ‘THEASSOCIATED PRESS Are More Than Just Dumps resembled a clear case of hazard increased training.” duty. Last week, it was County Commissioner Brent Overson who unexpectedly withdrew from the 2000 mayoral contest. He was joined on the sidelines Tuesday by Commissioner Mark Shurtleff — who an- of a newjail, gearing up for the Olympics and getting ready for a communications merger [with the Utah Communications Agency Network]that needed to be done 10 or 20 years ago. I don't think it’s appropriate to doall these thingswith a political cloud hanging over them.’ But Kennard, who repeatedly has said he would run if: nobody in the race was ad- @ Continued from B-1 candidacy in October, with Graham and the party’s top officials lining up behind him. Shurtleff said he is runningto “fight crime across the board,”noting that while the state's overall crime Tatehas dipped, many numbers remain “s' ing.” Nancy Workman. “Never say never. Never close the door,” said Kennard. “If my family feels strongly enough about me running, then Td haveto reconsider.I’m not some great white knight, but I have a lotto offer.” Workman and Callaghanplan to make their candidacies official next month, The new county mayor and ninememberCounty Council will takeoffice in: January 2001. —Joe Baird too lazy to fix or sell. Recently, there was a “Desert Rose” Huffy girls bike, several 10-speed bikes, lawn mowers, file cabinets and even a perfectly good red wagon. “You nameit, I’ve seenit,” says worker Dave Churches with a mischievous smile that almost dares someoneto ask him if he’s seen something really gross. But tion that opened earlier this year on 3300 South and 500 West. The dump only goes about 12 feet deep due to the low watertable, aad so the trash is piled 11 stories above groundlevel. Crewsare specially trained to construct the piles in a precise, even manner beginning at the edge of each module. Siopes are maintained at 20 percent. “It's morethanjust ‘Dig a hole and bury it,’” says Stewart. Most of the garbage is brought to the landfill by commercial garbagetrucks, but nearly 1,000 pri- ticularly loads of aluminum lounge chairs. While it pains the crew to see things go to waste, the land- fill has a no-scavenging policy that prohibits the public and workers from aging. The con- cern is people will hurt themselves foraging, or sicken themselves witn bad food or nasty chemicals. ‘That doesn't mean the workers don’t see stuff they would like to keep. Candy bars in their wrappers are tops on Rose’slist. Still, not everything that winds vate vehicles arrive daily loaded with stuff too bigto fit in private garbage cans. At the public dropoff point, crews divert metal into recycling bins. These bins are often loaded with stuff people evidently were anda motorvehicletheft every hour,” Shurtleff i “And youth crime continues to disturb me,” hesaid. “Forty percent of [serious] crimes are committed by juveniles ages 12 to 17, who com- 5 <i prise only 10 percentof our population.” Shurtleff vows to repair frayed relations between the Attorney General’s Office and legislators, Graham has locked horns with GOP Gov. Mike Leavitt and lawmakers on several issues, including how to spend thestate's tobacco-lawsuit settlement and last session’s attemptto limit the attorney general's powers. “We mustalso restore a workable attorney- client relationship within the state and its “A homicide occurs in this state every six days, an arson every 21 hours, a rape every 10 hours, an aggravated assault every two hours tops onhis list is furniture, par- agencies, which the attorney general has a constitutional duty to represent,” Shurtleff said. up at the dumpwill be sealed for eternity. Of the 1.3 million tons of garbage that arrive annually, nearly 600,000 tons are “diverted” from the landfill. That usually means it is either recycled, groundinto mulch or composted. At the landfill’s “Household Hazardous Waste”facility, for example, more than 500,000 pounds of material are collected annually. 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