Salt Lake Tribune | 2001-11-22 | Page 35

SESE SE ea The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Thursday, November22, 2001 4-Year-Old Praised Anew For Sept. 11 Fund Donation _BY THOM. S BURR ALT LAKB TRIBUNE THE Jayde Cluff continues to make an impression with New Yorkers since she donated 60 cents from her Barbie doll fund to help those affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The 4-year-old St. George girl has been madea colonelin the New York State National Guard for her “stand against terrorism,” said Walter Luciano, a major in the New York Guard's 88th Brigade. The Guard unit also presented its youngest-ever honorary member a $100. savings bond. “It was a voice from the heartland of America — your daughter Jayde — that sets the tone and should serveas a role model and example of what a true American is all about,” Luciano wrote to dJayde’s city of St. George and commendation from thecity. In addition, she has been sent 40 Barbie dolls from police Officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians and others around the country. St. George Mayor Daniel McArthur said Wednesday that Jayde showed more generosity than someone who do- nated $100,000, because she gaveall she had. “Most of us today in our lives, even children, think of me, me, me, and here’s somebody who doesn’t earn very muchand thought on her own, to give all of her money to somebody else,” McArthur said. “Thatis touching.” members to gauge their opin- ions. Most of them have not changed their minds since budget discussionslast spring. “Why should the taxpayers The Tooele County Commission with oneof its three membersabsent and another voting reluctantly has authorized a $20 bountyon coyotes. The action surprised federal land managers and wildlife experts who question whetherthere is a coyote problem in Tooele County and say bounty programs are ineffective. “I wasjust out in the west desert [in Tooele County:on Tues¢ one coyote,” said Glenn directorfor the U.S. Burea agement. “I haven't been made aware of any significant livestock predation problem asaresult of coyotes.” Tooele County Commission Chairman Dennis Rockwell, who proposed the coy ote bounty, said he has heardplenty of otherresidents, morethan they have seen “Tam so excited that a child be spending their money to provide a stage andlighting “Since we're putting limits whenfood is usually scarce. To check the coyote population, Rock. well and fellow Commissioner “Gene so small wasable to genuinely MayorSays City Must Keep Protests Orderly on all of this and designating a place, and timerestrictions, in atleast one of those places, we ought to help accommodate them,”he said. Magure has polled council coyote pups feed on during the summer, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Jayde’s mother, Sarah, said Wednesdaysheis proud of her daughter. family. Since her donation wasreported, Jayde has also been presented a golden key to the intervention. BYBRENT ISRAELSEN evidence, albeit anecdotal, that coyotes are gaining in numberandnowthreaten wildlife andlivestock. “I'm noticing a lot moré of them and hearing a lot more of them,” Rockwell make such a difference in popes lives,” Sarah Cluff sai thurvastenbs com @ Continued from B-1 Tooele County OKs $20 Bounty on1 Coyotes and sound for protesters?” Councilman Dave Buhlersays. “People have a right to free speech. They don’t have the right to make taxpayers subsi- dize it. They can bring their own microphone.” Earlier this year, while re- said. “I'm also hearing it from alot of in past years. Rockwell attributedtheallegedrise in coyote numbers to the infestation this year of crickets and grasshoppers, which cost estimate maybe inflated; heis trying to pare the project's cost to persuade members. council Buhler says if the adminis- tration continues to push the park plan, the council may subtract that amount from Olympic budgets or adopt a socalled negative appropriation, would prohibit the For Holiday @ Continued from B-1 Mostflights leaving Salt Lake International are full,” said airport spokeswoman Barbara Gann, addingthat the business impact on Utah's biggest air- port from the terrorist threat was not as severe as in some otherplaces. Audit Calls County Course An ‘Albatross’ ‘MContinued from B-1 “dismissed the audit. “They don’t know squat about golf. Where were they and where was their foresight when we boughtthe course?” Oversonsaid. “I negotiated the purchase, butit didn’t happen without the approval of the District Attorney’s Office, the Auditor’s Office, the Treasurer’s Office andthe outside bond council and advisers. Everything indicated it was going to work,but the market changed.” 145 Legislaturelastyear. Other ruralcountiesthat haveused the fundfor bounty programs include Wayne, Millard, Beaver, Garfield, Kane, Uinta and Duchesne Though Rockwell, a hunter, is con vincedcoyotes are a problem, his fellow commissioners expressed some discom fort withthe bounty. “I voted with reservation. I don't believe in going out andkilling anything just for fun,” said White, whoeventually voted for the bountyafter hearing resi. dents’ concerns. Commissioner Teryl Hunsaker, who was, not present for last week's vote he doesn't know whethercoyotes are problemandis not sure whether he would havevotedfor the bountyprogram. “It's all right to hunt ifyou oing out to get some goodvenisonorcuts of meat, but I don’t support anybodykilling for the pleasureof killing,” Hunsakersaid. Tooele County's Teacher Can Appeal @ Continuedfrom B-1 fundsontheproject. pended for a week without pay and transferred. to teaching Besides the moneyfor the park, budget crunchers. figure budget andtold Olympic plannersthey did not want to spend Olympic shortfall. They want public money on a temporary parkstage. Despite those warnings,city Olympic planners hag set aside $30,000 for the park. — someofit for entertainment by Utah bands. Magure says that the city will face a $400,000 council members to take the extra moneyfrom city reserves. Council ‘members will review budget issues Tuesday and adopt a budget amendment Dee.11. i [e-mail] In fact, the 349 daily flights slated for Salt Lake City this month are 7.7 percent more than last November’stally. Part of: the reason, Gann said, is that Salt Lake City started air service toseven new markets in 2001. Terrorism fears were not about to keep Kim Goodall of Cedar City from catching a Miller, on holiday hiatus in Utah from building a Mormon temple in Monterrey, Mexico, wasslightly more nervous. “The thought of what happened on September11 is never very far away,” the Salt Lake herflight home to Albany, N.Y. “T've never spent a_ holiday awayfrom home. So whybreak But Wightman maintains the Draper course is the primary reason the golf fund has hadto borrow from the general fund andthe tourist, recreation and convention fundto sustain itself. The cash balance of the golf fund was $3.9 million in 1996, he said.It is projected to be $76,000 at the end of this year. Becker said he would have advised against Tooele County’s bounty. He said he has seen no evidenceof a problem. * Andheagr with federal biologists that bounties don't work.“It's a waste of money.” Mike Bodenchuck, state director for Wildlife Services, which controls predators through trapping and gunning,said he believes Tooele County’s bounty ou increase sport hunting of coyot cause now[hunters] will at least get some gas money. It will generate more income inthoselocal towns andcounties Rockwell denied an economic motivation. “That had no play whatsoever.” wanted to befirst chair with students in the class, early inappropri- circulated about possible reasons for the trans- fer, but schooldistrict officials have remained silent because it is.a personnelissue. Details. emerged recently from documents supporting the lawsuit. Included was chairinoneofthe instrumen: tal sections because he could not attend all the practices. She said other students with similarconfi: were allowed tobe first chair: DeFord also. cited the teacher's failuretofollowdis- eople angered by Ted Colvin, a said. arges are petty,” he “They are all explainable.” Colvin described Huhnke as “alittle bit eccentric” and transportation policies aid he apparently“ruffled the whenhedrovea student to a athers” of small group of people who di ee way heranhis trict jazz concert in Salt LakeCity, and his use of words in the classroom that were “in bad taste, inappropriate and certainly unprofessional.” The superintendent . chided Huhnkefordi: the issue of the student He “Aver iw people are makinga lot of people pay,” he said. “This is a tremendous ‘ loss to the schooldistrict and the kids.” jwoolfasltrib.com SBUDGETJECLEARANCE CENTER) ie es A) REDWOOD RD gage carousel. Theterrorist threat hardly and stepgrandfather in San Francisco. “I'll brave the Taliban before I'll face driving through Wendover, Lovelock and all those other towns in Nevada,”shesaid. Construction worker Chris the county’s other courses also have figured in. eral local hunters who regularly cross into Nevadato take coyotes. ing for his luggage at the bag- gave Brigham Young Univer- County Chief Administra- Tom Becker, a Tooele resident and wildlife biologist for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, said he knowsof sev City resident said while wait- flight to see her grandmother tive Officer David Marshall says South Mountain has not been the only drain on the golf fund. Capital expenditures at musicat the district's four elementary schools. Rumors in for the bounty even come from Tooele County. unfairly punished a student by not allowing him to befirst | Transfer when on Oct. 17 he was sus- the said, is that they do not properlytarget the problemcoyotes. For one thing, there is no wayto ensurethat the coyotes brought plaining the reasons for the mayorfrom spending any city down vices. The problem with bounties, Mason DeFord’s letter to Huhnkeex: council members stopped on the $165,000 line item for Pioneer Park. stripped program partment of Agriculture's Wildlife Ser- , one-weeksuspension. Fi t, she said the teacher which They bounty comes at a time when most experts are viewing city Olympic budgets, , Travelers Take to Ground White voted last week to appropriate $5,000 to pay a $20 bounty. The moneywill be matched by a $5,000 grant from a $100,000 anti-predator fund set up by-the distancing themselvesfrombounties as a eenAICS tool. ’s not an appropriate wayta manage w idle said Russ Masonofthé U.S. De- sity music major Christine Wilks pause for concern about tradition now?” [e-mail] County Mayor Nancy Work- manplansto addressthe shortfall next year by slashing $400,000 from the golf fund, a moveshesaid will require layoffs of some golf course employees. Marshall says the county also plansto get more involved in marketing South Mountain and making the course profitable. “We're going to be more ag- gressive in raising revenue. We're going to book more tour- naments and try to find a niche,”he said. [e-mail] BIGGEST THANKSGIVING SALE EVER!! 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