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Show The SattLakeTribune UT BUSINESS Dropin jobless-benefit claims bodes well / B-4 ROBERT KIRBY © 2001, The Salt Lake Tribune Forget About Turkey Advice; Let’s Talk Pie Payattention, because I amtrying to save your life. Thisis a public service announcement intended to clear up some dangerous misinformation. irresponsibly spread by someone who should know better but routinely choosesnotto; me. B THURSDAY STOCKS, B-7 BLOTIERY. B-2 NOVEMBER 22,2001 Oly Protes t Fund Hits a Wall S.L. City Council not buying mayor’s argumentfor control ure, Anderson's chief of staff. ontrolling the venue is worth the expenditureof public funds.” But City Council members are. includes the Medals Plaza. A groupof Opening and Closing ceremonies. An. balking at the idea of spending public other 10 demonstratorscangatherat 10 protesters can picket outside Rice. Eccles Stadium on the days of the moneyon Olympic malcontents. Gallivan Plaza. Washington Squ though secured like Olympic Square, Bothsides are fast approaching a point ofno return ontheidea. Anderson has about two monthsto rent a will allow 50 protesters outsideits fence. And 300 South. will be turned into a paraderoutefor marchers each day from10 a.m. to 1 p.m. But Pioneer Pai a drop-off point for Olympic buss ould be filled with ) protesters a day. City staff will a ign each group a stage and a microphone. City Council Pioneer Parkis the biggest — and potentially rowdiest — protest area of the 2002 Winter Games. Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson wants to lendthe place a ; sense of order with a stage and mierophone. “The protesters can control us or we can control them,” said Jay Occasionally — less than 84.2 percentof the time — my column members have the same amount of timeto stop the mayor. The Olympics beginFeb.8. Earlier this month, Andersonrelea: da mapofeight protestsi and ators alist of rules for them. Demo: will be allowedtogatheroutsidethree entrancesto the Salt Lake Organ’ ing : Piokecr Park ter without Committee’s Olympic Square a_ little ae more O Entrance Secure Area See MAYOR, Page B-3 block fenced area downtown that 300 Protest Area \d dateto prot figures Pioneer Park could beadi: 7 400 S. It LakeTribune S.L. County Audit STRESS-FREE AIRPORT containsadviceso risky that only idiots would followit to the letter. I call it a genepoolservice. Anyway, Tuesday’s column was no exception.I casually mentioned that a good wayto thaw a turkey was to place it in warm wa- é W Temple S===2===e W FORTHE RECORD, B-2 getion Finds Golf Course A Budget Handicap ter overnight. Do NOTdothis. If you already did,do noteat the turkey, particu- BYJOE BAIRD larly if the plastic bag it came in swelled upto the point where the turkey was hovering overthe sink in the morning. Soaking the turkey in warm waterraises the temperature toa level where bacteria can thrive. the rough whenit purchased South Mountain Golf Course in 1999. According to a countyaudit re! ALT-LA his week, th s were well-founded. The au the coun Bacteria are very small (invisible yed operations at e: has singled out South 1 black hole that has comeno- really) telemarketers that cause ating the revenue eé: ‘ted and ‘ined the county's golf fundtothe point that it all sorts of problemsif you eat them. Please keep in mind that 1 am not kiddingthis time. Exactly 13 secondsafter Tuesday’s edition hit the streetI received this information from the goodfolks atthe Norbest turkey processingfacility. (NOTE: Norbesttold me the warm water and bacteria part. I made up the stuff about very small telemarketers.) Nowthatwe got thatjoutofthe way,it is time to discusS:someof the otherterrible Thanksgiving Day dangers you maybe oblivious to. Thefirst oneis pie. More pie gets eaten on Thanksgiving than in the entire rest of the year combined. Given the percentage of morons in America,it naturally follows that even somethingas simple as pie could be dangerous. Rightoffthe bat, do NOT soak a rowedfromotherfundstostay solvent. It'sanalbatr aid CountyAudit Director Jim Wiettnan ‘here has beena decline in the rounds played at ourother cour But the projections for South Mountain were incredibly optimistic for a coursethat’s so remote and so difficult to play. ally, we bought a countryclub.” Formercounty commissioners approved the purchase of the 18-hole course, which is just below Traverse Ridge in Draper, from CrownGolf Proper- ties for $15.9 million. Critics said the price was too steep. But based on projections at the time, the course was expectedto generate 90,000 nine-hole rounds per year, which would have covered South Mountain's share of a bond usedto finance the purchaseand generatedextra revenueforcounty coffers However, those estimates have never panned out. Despite slashing the price of an 18-hole round (with t) from$80 to $45, South Mountain produced just andis ontrack to do about the rding to the audit, “the ‘rounds played’ esti- s usedto value the course were In light of the of South Mountainto date, the makes a huge mess, andwill probably make your wife mad enough purchase price was.exces that you endupeating alonein the Former County Commissioner Brent Overson, garage. Thetraditional Thanksgiving pieis, ofcourse, pumpkin.This who spearheaded otherpies, including apple, cherry, mince, banana cream, sweet ur sfah 4 purchase of the course, Park City Teacher potato, bean and even(barf) rib.com. the See AUDIT,Page B-3 does not mean that you cannoteat Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Kirby lives in Springville. He welcomes mail at P.O. Box antWeg £4663 or e-mail at 1 eration given to pie overnight in warm water.It pickle. Pumpkin is the real problem. Essentially a gourd, pumpkins can reachthesize oftalk radio hosts andare sturdy enoughto pass a building inspection. There is more fiber in a pumpkin than youwill find in the average wickerchair. Nobody makes pumpkin pie from scratch anymore. There is a reasonforthis,includingthefact that a scratch pumpkin pie usually ends up looking(andtasting) a bit like you boiled a parachute. In orderto make pumpkin edible, you haveto cookit a lot. I think the temperature is 8,000 degrees Celsius for 11 hours.If am wrong,the folks at Libby's will undoubtedly let me know. NEVER stick your finger in a pumpkin pie straight out ofthe oven.Thefilling is the temperature oflava,andit will have you doing screaming kangaroo hops all over the kitchen, Allow thepie to cool before samplingit. The correct amountof time amounts to howeverlong the person who madethepie decides, usually somethingalong the lines of “after dinner.” Circumventing the “after dinner”pie rule is dangerous,butit doesn't compare to thelifethreatening mistakeof feeding leftover pumpkinpie to a dog. Idid this nine years ago. ‘The Ghostof Thanksgiving Past still lingers in the room where the dog slept (and percolated), if you get my drift. We had to burn the couch, ‘There are more Thanksgiving Daydangers, but unfortunately we have run outofspace. You are on your own. Havea safe holiday. ‘TRIBUNE Critics insisted Salt Lake Countysliced oneinto WinsRight to Appeal Unwanted Transfer BY JIM WOOLF THE PARK CITY UP LAI ¢ TRIBUNE Former Park City High School music teacher Bill Huhnke won a round Wednesday and nowcanappeal to school district ofis hotly debated transfer to elementaryschool 4 r of the popular bandteacher prompted petition drives from parents who want him back, numerous angry lettersto‘ itor of the local newspaperand even a We've, Www.savehuhnke, Trent Nelson/TheSalt Lake Tribune com, Harrison Todd,4, laughs at Marcus Wilson's juggling act Wednesdayat Salt Lake City InternationalAirport. The airport saw smaller crowds than usualfor the day before Thanksgiving. It also sparked a lawsuit that was resolved WedY rd District Judge Robert K. Hilder ruledthe teache involuntary transfer and reduc: Travelers Take to Ground Airlines’ holiday businessis down as fear keeps many from flying BY MARK EDDINGTON THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Over the river and through the woods maystill be the way to grandmother's house, but fewer travelers are taking airplanes to get there. Lowergas prices and a fearof terrorism have many travelers choosing alternatives to air travel this Thanksgiving. AAA estimates 87 percent of holiday travelers nationwide will makethepilgrimage to visit relatives and friends by automobile,anall-time high and up 4 percentfrom last year. In Utah, an estimated 243,000. will take cars. “The roads and highways across the state will be heavily. traveled this weekend,” AAA spokeswoman Rolayne Fairclough predicted. Consequently, Salt Lake City International, like airports across the nation, seemed slower than normal on Thanksgiving Eve, normally one of the year’s busiest air-travel days. Delta Air Lines, which maintains a hub in Salt Lake City, acknowledged a drop in passengers but would not say -how muchbusiness has declined. “Bookings and travel this year are below last year’s, but we are seeing some encouraging numbers, We anticipate about 14 million will be catching flights between now and Sunday,” Delta spokeswoman Katie Connell said Wednesday. But Karen Nelson, a cab manager outside the Delta terminal at Salt Lake CityInternational Airport, put it more | | | bluntly. “Businessi ible,just like f ha beenever since September "said Nelson, whoestimated au traffic was about athird of is sufficient evidence to make a ndfair decision,” said Joseph E. orney. Attorneys for the school district argued unsuccessfully that Huhhke’ sfer was a routinepersonnel action taken by Superintendent Nancy DeFord and not subject to administrative review by the hoard Huhnkehadbeenthe music directorat Park City High Schoolfor 18 years, developing a programthat has won numerous awards, Healso was liked by manystudents and parents, so it came as a surprise year ago. ndticket agentsfor several airlines reported busi ness waseither about normalor downslightly from last Thanksgiving. That was airport officials’ impression as well, though they will not knowforsareuntil they get actual numbers from the airlines, “It looks about normalto me. See TRAVELERS,Page B-3_| See TEACHER,Page B-3 CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS State Sen, Chris Bur R-West Jordan, wants to throwout a rulelimiting foster parents to six children. Because of editing errors, a story in Wednesday's Salt Lake Tribunemisidentified Buttars and incorrectly attributed his quotes to Rep, Craig Buttars, R-Lewiston. |
