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Show The Salt Lake Tribune OLYMPIC NOTES THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE An Escalante environmentalist was shackled, ticketed and de- Salt Lake City tained in a city police car for 30 minutes Saturdayafter he refused For Many, Olympics Offer Dental Work There are 620 days until the 2002 Winter Olympics begin in Salt LakeCity. For many athletes, especially those from Third World countries, the Olympics offer a once-in-alifetime opportunity — to see a dentist. The demand for dental services always runs high at the Sunday, May28, 2000 Activists Cited for Failing to Move Booth Near Staircase-Escalante BY MICHAEL VIGH and HILARY GROUTAGE MIKE GORRELL UTAH to movea booth set up near a federal monument’svisitors center. Patrick Diehl was cited by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Escalante Police GRAND STAIRCASEESCALANTE MONUMENT Tori Woodard, wholives with Diehl, was also cited by the BLM for the same offense. Both are memist Es- calante Wilderness Project; neither wasarrested. Diehl, Woodard and two others had set up the table Saturday morning to hand out pamphlets to visitors of the Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument about grazing impacts on the monument. chant. “This was not a demonstra- from the visitors center, because “we wanted to be able to interact with folks,” said Daniel Patterson, a memberof the group. “We found a spot that would allow us to set up a table andtalk to people without impeding in any way. Patterson complained that the permit placed the booth so far from the visitors center that park pa- tion, we were just trying to give trons were unaware ofthe group, Departmentforfailure to disperse. bers of the envi groupsetup thetablejust a few feet : ‘The Salt Lake Tribune making handing out information impossible. “This is an infringement on our First Amendmentrights,” Patterson said. “Everyone was threatened with arrest.It’s sad when the federal government won't allow the public toexercise their free sheets for people who wanted to get speechrights. more information aboutthe Escal- ‘Added Diehl: “Putting us over 100 feet awayfrom the doors is like putting us in a closet. You can’t exercise your free speech rights in acloset.” Pattersonsaid the group did not ante Wilderness Project. Last year, the group was given permission by the BLM to set up the booth roughly 100 feet from the visitors center. The group also had sign-up On Saturday, however, the solicit visitors, hold up signs or information to people who were interested, we were trying to be respectful to the BLM.” Still, authorities ordered the group to movethe booth to the lo- cation mandated by the permit. Whenthey refused, BLM law enforcement ranger. Larry Vensel threatened to haul the group away in handcuffs. “I said you cannot be here,” Venselsaid. “When theyrefused to leave, a couple of them were cited for failing to disperse.” After Diehl was reltased, the four activists — all from Escalante —moved their tableto the location designated by the permit because police threatened to confiscate their table and pamphlets. The results, Patterson said, were predictable. “Wehad 29 visitors in the three hours when we were atour first location,” Patterson said. “In the two hours since we moved, we have hadnone.” Despite the threatof further citations and possible arrests, Patterson said the groupwill set up the booth near the visitors center again today. “This is the Memorial Day weekend, it’s a high visitation weekend,” he said. “People want to know what we haveto say and we have rightto be heard.” Diehl and Woodward who moved to Escalante from Berkeley, Calif., two years ago have been harassed by several Escalante residents whoare offended at the couple’s opinions on the environment. The local Mormonbishoplabeled them as “exclusionist,” and the town’s mayorsaid the couple have brought much of their troubles upon themselves. During last summer’s Pioneer Day celebrations, vandals pelted the couple’s homewith paintballs, broke two windowsandthedoors, threw beerbottles inside the home andthe cutthe phoneline. Games. Boxers might get teeth knocked out. Field-hockey players dental services provided by orga- nizing committees. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona,600 athletes received dental attention. The number climbed to 900 in Atlanta. When the Sydney Games begin in 109 days, the organizing committee (SO- COG)will have a four-chair clinic to deal with dental issues. National Olympic Committees were encouraged last week to give SOCOG forewarning of the num- ber and typesof dental treatments their athletes may need. The International Olympic Committee’s medical commission also is involved in several dentalrelated studiesthatit believes will help athlete performance through better mouth care. J It is supporting research into the links between chewing tobacco and oral cancer, the relationship between wisdom teeth and jaw fractures among young athletes and the importance of mouth guardsin minimizing concussions and other head trauma, particu- Committee Charts Bike-Friendly Path Seekssafer routes throughout S.L. Valley BY BRANDON LOOMIS THE SALTLAKE TRIBUNE Salt LakeCity cycling advocates have made strides toward safer city streets this year, and now they are pushing for improvements in the suburbs and throughout the state. “The situation [for cyclists] degrades pretty sharply when you leave Salt Lake City,” said Rob MacLeod, chairman ofthe Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Committee. So the committee is recommendinglegislative changesto im- prove cycling throughoutthe Salt Lake Valley and beyond,as well as structural additions to keep cyclists from competing with heavy Some Progress: When IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch lambasted the Greeks last month for the slow pace of 2004 traffic around freeway interchanges. Amongthe suggestions to the Legislature’s Interim Transportation Committee are adoption ofthe “Idahostop rule”allowingcyclists Summer to yield rather than stop at stop larly amongboxers. haveconcerns thatreally can only be addressed atthestate level.” Forits part, Salt Lake City already has taken steps since Mayor Rocky Anderson took office in January. Garbage cans that once littered striped bike lanes and created hazardsto cyclists in the dark have been banished to the curb, andsanitation workers have been trained to keep them there. The city is replacing green garbage cans with more visible tan ones along busy bicycle corridors. The administrationalso is planning to expand thecity’s 107-mile webof bike trails and lanes, and appears to havesecured atleast a $500,000 federal grant to build a tunnel underInterstate 80 at the mouth of Parleys Canyon, said Juan Arce-Larreta, the mayor’s administrative assistant for environmental andinter-governmental ouris took it hard, being a proud Greek. But, he admitted, the criticisms kicked the Greeks into highergear. “They helped move things along. We want an image ofan ef- walk orpathif one is provided beside the road. The committee also wants the relations. “The dream isto see a safe bicycle route for recreation and commutingto go along theI-80 corridor and down to the Jordan River.It’s very important to Rocky andit’s very importantto me.I’ve beenhit by a car,” Arce-Larreta said. transportation-planning Wasatch “We're less than fiveymonthsinto fective country Salt Lake City, avoiding the heavy Games preparations, committee signs, and an endto the require- managing director Costas Bak- mentthat cyclists ride on a side- Athens organizing which can get things done.” Timewill tell. No Progress: traffic and dump trucks of Beck Street. Women will compete in 25 of 27 sports at the Sydney Olympics (all but boxing and wrestling). They will comprise almosthalf of the competitors. But whenit comes to leadership positions in Front Regional Council to fund a safer route between Bountiful and national Olympic committees, Swedish IOC member Gunilla Lindberg sees no progress being made. As she surveyed the assemblyat last week’s Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), Lindberg saw “few ladies and many, many gentlemen.” Only 10 women were among 400 NOCdelegatesat the session — an increase of zero since the association’s previous meetingin 1998. Tomba's Kids: Italian ski legend Alberto Tomba hasbeen put in charge of youth programsfor the Turin organizing committee (TOROC). “Hewill be ourtalent scout in Italy for new champions,” said deputy vice president Evelina Christillin, acknowledging a point frequently made by Salt Lake Organizing Committee officials: There is no better way to get the home-town crowdfired up than to have the host team winning medals. Pot Profits: A snowboard model is being introduced under the name of Ross Rebagliati; the Canadian snowboarder who won a gold medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, hadit taken away after marijuana was discovered in his system, but had it restored after IOC officials could not disprovehis explanation that he must have absorbed it while attending a party where people were smoking pot The name of the model: “Second Hand Smoke.” Membersofthelegislative com- mittee requested the cyclists’ suggestions. “This is definitely new ground for us to be dealing with at the legislative level,” MacLeod said. “We [the administration] and we've donea lot already.” Though it may run counter to the thinking of motorists who see danger whenevera bicycle shares a traffic lane with them, one of the committee’s biggest statewide pushes will be to allow bicycles on the streets and highways even where side paths exist. Sidewalks are dangerous for bikers because Ryan Galbraith/The Salt Lake Tribune A cyclist pedals:south on the sidewalk thatparallels Foothill Drive at about 2400 South. A Salt Lake City mayor's committee is studying ways to make thoroughfares more bike-friendly and to extend routes. motorists turning in or out of driveways do not expect to see bicycles there, MacLeod said. “Cyclists are best served when they stay on the roads with the motor vehicles and everyone learns to compensate for that,” he said. “The chances of running into somebody are much higher on a bike path than on a road. There aren’t anystrollers on thestreet.” Traffic flow also is the reason the committee is asking to let cyclists yield at stop signs. The rationale is that cyclists have greater vision and controlat intersections than motorists have, and requiring a full stop simply slows traffic by forcing cyclists to get back up to suburbs. In particular, there is a dearth ofaccess underInterstate 15 in the central valley and a dangerous intersection at Redwood Road and 2100 South, an importantcorridor for cyclists. And the most dangerous of all is Beck Street, the only wayto get from Davis County to Salt Lake City on pavement. “No one in their right mind makes that commute by bike,” Quann said.“I'll do it on a Sunday afternoon. I would never doit in the directionoftraffic during rush hour.” The committee is asking the Wasatch Front Regional Council to makesaferbicycle entries into the city a priority for federal funding. FormerPhysician Is Named in Fen-Phen Lawsuit THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OGDEN —A doctor who surrendered his medical license over an operating-room death was named in a ldwsuit alleging he prescribed ananti-obesity cocktail to anotherpatient whosuffered severe sideeffects. Wesley GrantHarline, a former Ogden cosmetic surgeonlinked to a dozen malpractice claims, was added to the suit's list of defendants two days after surrendering his medical license on March6 at the state Division of Occupational Licensing. Thedivision was moving to revokehis license after finding Harline grossly negligent in the 1998 operating room death of Phelix Lemond,76. Now Harlineis a targetof a suit over the weight-loss fenfleuramine-phentermine or fen-phen, which was recalled in, 1997 after it was linked with potentially fatal heart-valve damage. A federal judge in Philadelphia is weighing Whether to approve a $8.75 billion national settlementof health claims against the maker of fen-phen, American Home Products ofMadison,N.J. Q The fen-phen suit was filed in Novemberin 2ndDistrict Court by Florence and David Stowe of Weber County.It originally named the makeranddistributors of the drug and an Ogden pharmacy, but was amended March to include Harline. Nancy Mismash,the Salt Lake -City attorney representing the Stowes,said the inclusion of Harline in the suit /had nothing to do with thestate’s investigation ofthe surgeon. Court documents filed by Mismashallege Harline in March 1998 prescribed fen-phen to oneof the HAPPY 80th Stowes, who was later diagnosed with a heart condition in December 1997. “As a direct and proximate result of the defective weight-control drugs, the plaintiff suffered and continues to suffer injury, harm and economic loss,” the suit claims, Memorial Day = We're Service Pros! Call Us For COOLING SEFVWICE. WW... tic ieemtean®, Good work andfair prices. We'll arrive on time,in uniform, wearing a photo I.D. and we clean up before leaving, Callus for thebest in customer care, ee) WeWill ImpressYou. I Promise. 30% OFF 8 portrait sheets PLUS Only 99¢ each additional sheet.* 801-295-4336 South Towne Center 571-7990 Davis, Weber and Salt Lake Counties HAPPY 80™ BIRTHDAY MARLAN NIELSON speed. 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