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Show TheSaltLakeTribune UTAH MFORTHE RECORD, B-2 ROLLY & WELLS PAUL ROLLY and JOANN JACOBSEN-WELLS M MOVIES, B-S MBIRTHS, B-6 Tourist requests increase slowly — butfeds are rampingup reservations apartments to 90, said Brian Lash, whose Boston-based Target Sport Adventures handles housing for a halfdozen federalclients. The Immigration andNaturalization Service, State Department and U.S. Customs Service have also bumped up their. room blocks but.Lashis notat libertytodis- THES LT-LAKE TRIBUNE This is a tough time to be a travel agent, butit is less painful if your clients are involved in Olympic security planning. While vacationers counttheir pen- OnSept. 19 oflast year, Salt nies, the federal governmenthas been forced to open the checkbook. Since Sept.11, the Federal Aviation Administration has nearly doubled its Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Darin Olympic lodging request, from 56 Carr pulled over Breton Baranda, a Mexican national, and seized the $2,340 Barandahadin his wallet, sayingit smelled like marijuana. Mi WEATHERB-8 NOVEMBER26,2001 Oly Security a Boonfor Travel _BY LINDA F.ANTIN Confiscation OfMan’s Cash Smells Funny MOBITUARIES.B-6 wonDay a. close details. The extra bookingsarea.b! for Target, which, like most v planners, has been rackedbya tired economy and travel apprehension caused by the Septembertragedies. Target lost a $1 million account when sponsors of the Norwegian Olympic team dropped plans to attend the Salt Lake Games, citing safety concerns. There have been no other cancellations — sofar. “I've had to do a lot of hand- holding,” Lashsaid. “But Latvia's coming. Kazakstan’sstill Dutch speed-skatingteam, Fox Sports, Motorola and IBM Holland areall coming. We've even seen a marketin crease in Olympic packages during . People arefinally starting to rea it is OK to travel again.” Andit could not have happened soon enough. Nationwide, air traffic has plummeted 40 percent fromlast r and hotel occupancyrates are down per: cent, a huge decline for an industry that normally measures change in tenths of a percent. Thesituation so serious ex. perts predict a $33.7 billion drop in began appearing in TV ads to encour- age \Americans to move about the country. It all part ofa projected $20 million campaign spearheaded bythe Travel Industry Association of Jon Jones, president of Travel Zone in Salt Lake City, rporate clients have scaled back hospitality plans and doz- ensof others are waiting to see if the war on terrorism escalates before committing. “September was just a devastating monthfor us,” Jones said. “I month, we did-less business than we normallydo in a week.” ‘The economicsituation has caused domestic travel expenditures for 2001 See FEDERAL,Page B-2 — that on ThursdayPresident Bush Presidents Remain Professors HAVING A BALL | Carrdid not give Baranda a re- saidinterestin the ing fo pick up. But s ceipt, but handed him his business card. Whenattorney Joseph Jardine of Salt Lake City called Carr about Baranda’s moneyseveral weeks later, he felt the sergeant was be- ing evasiveso hefiled a complaint with the sheriff's Internal Affairs Division on Oct.27. Fourdayslater, Barandafi- Utah college bosses nally received a receiptfor his money. It was explained to Jardinethat the money was keptina find timefor teaching container until a drug-sniffing dog could beusedto inspectit. The explanation came on Nov.6, a month and a half afterthe initial stop and a week anda halfafter the Internal Affairs complaint. The sheriff's office then filed an official seizure claim in 3rd District Court on Nov.21. BYKIR‘ WART AKE TRIBUNE, TE On Monday evenings when the lights go out in the Old Main building at Utah State University and employees head for home, Kermit Hall getting down to whathe cal s the real “business of educa tion.” Sheriff's Sgt. Peggy Faulkner said Carr was reprimanded for not giving Baranda a receipt, butthat heotherwise acted properly. Baranda wasnever charged with a The university president has already loggedafull day of back-to-back meetings and crime. The Utah Supreme Court has since ruled money cannot be seized solely on thebasisofits smell. Meanwhile, the Salt Lake phonecalls. Now comesdessert —a 34-hour course in constitutionalhistory. Hall, a legal scholarandhistorian, is among five college County District Attorney's Office agreed after monthsof haggling to split the money with Baranda, whousedit to return to Mexico. presidents in Utah who carve time from their busy schedules to teach class. They are part of a shrinking nationally. Lavish Lobbying The Salt Lake County Council ~DannyLa/TheSalt LakeTribune has appropriated $30,000 to hire the husband-and-wife team of Fred Finlinson and Christine Fox, formerlegislators, to representits Jazmine Quintana, 3, finds pushing a snowball her size a tough task in Murray Park on Sundayafternoon. A weekendarctic blast blanketed the Wasatch Front with snow, andcaused 128accidents on Utah highways Sunday. interests in the Legislature. Love It or Hate It, Winter Is Here County Mayor Nancy Workman already has committed $100,000 to hire two lobbying firms:Tetris, led by former Sen’. Paul Rogers and Blaze Wharton, . and SegoStrategies, led by former Rep. Susan Koehn. Lobbyist Dave Nicponskiis representing Salt Lake County TreasurerLarry Ri- BY KEVIN CANTERA ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Lobbyist Spencer Stokes is representing County SheriffAaron Kennard at the Legislature for World-class winter weather walloped the Wasatch Frontfor the fourth straight day Sunday, frosting 2002 Olympic venues with a thick $45,000. $45,000, Bottom line: County taxpayers. are shelling out nearly a quarterof amillion dollars forfive lobbying firms working independently of one another. layerofpowder and dumping led to a handful of avalanches in the Wasatch Mountains. The Utah Avalanche Center reported no injuries in theslides but issued an avalanche warning throughtoday for the mountains of central Utah; large slides were predicted above 9,000 for about eight years and I've never not taught ys Hall, whoencourageshi vice presidents al: theirfeetin the cla Noteveryone thinksa pres ident's time is best spent lec: 2 Snowy weather wreaks havoc on highways, causes avalanchesin the mountains chardson, Recorder Gary Ott and Surveyor Vaughn Butler, who are pooling their money to pay him minority “I've been an administrator ‘knowledges even days a y. But if I can’t find two hoursto prepare and three hoursto be in _ the classroom, I'm doing some TO) @ SnowTotals Since Nov. 22 presidents. cite diffe sonsfor clinging to their ss catorroots. But they agree on Alta, expected to open this week — 69 inches Brighton,fourlifts open — 88 inches The Canyons,five lifts open — 48 inches ing; DeerValley, expected to open Dec. 8 — 13 inches Park City Resort, twolifts open — 44 inches Snowbird,threelifts open — 95 inches Solitude, expected to open Saturday — 65 inches | | | Source: SkiUtah | It helps them do the “ma ham. I loveto go into the classroom,” says Kerry State Rep. John Swallow,RSandy,filed an official campaign finance committee report with the Federal Elections Commission last week,notifying the commission that he intendsto seek the Republican nominationfor Utah’s 2nd Congressional District seat in a wet blanket of snow on mostvalley dwellers. Andif weather prognosticators are correct, folks in Salt Lake City will wake up this morning to another6 to 14 inches of lake-effect snow waiting to be shoveled. The snow that has piled up since winter’s Thanksgiving premiere not only jump-started the state’s ski season — Alta recorded near d in Dee acpats an official public Mn until after the upcominglegislative session. Butfor the race, he has raised $5,000, which necessi- Pioneering Rafter Still Leaves aWakein Rapids She Conquered Qa Jumping In Bi Swallow sayshe will not make portOtherRepublicanhope rt. Other Republican hopefuls forCongressman Matheson’s seat include SaltLake County i mj to open this week but also feet. Sunday’s arctic blast raced southward across the Great. Salt Lake, for a long time,” sai ‘OF : BY AEE CHRISTOPHER SMITH Sr leaving snow depths from just over 3 inches in West Valley City to well over a foot in’ the AvenuesofSalt Lake City. Halfa foot was reported Sunday in South Ogden, while Bountiful collected more than 14 inchesof the white stuff. The storm from the Pacific “held 7punch ace Nelson, meteorologist with the National Weather Service. Heforecast another to 20 inches in parts of the Salt Lake Valley between Sunday night and noon today, but said predicting where the notoriouslakeeffect will hit “is pretty hard to gauge.” an BALE PONE It is not the roughestsection of river in the Grand Canyon,butafter years of debate, Twenty-Four Mile Rapid is now named after Georgie Clark, the renegade white-water pioneer whose legend continues to swirl nearly a decade after her death. In a split vote last month, the U.S. Jirge. “But she deserves this. Whether you liked her or not, she was a part of the history ofthe Grand Canyon.” Clark’s penchant for leopard-print swimsuits, canned-food cookouts, and damn-the-torpedoes-full-speed-ahead daring while making a 45-year career of running North America’s biggest white water becamethe stuff of legend, She and her “Royal River Rats” raft trips to the victims ofthe Sept.11 terrorist attacks, donations to Utah charities have why Salvation Army wo! thrilled last week when they found a $50 bill had been woman whohelped foundthefloat trip outfit industry on the Colorado River, thumbing her noseatconvention in the process. “This change was more of a fight than I ever imagined,” said Roz “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,” and in countless newspaper stories. “She was the first woman to run a boat through the Grand Canyon, the first woman outfitter, the woman with the Grand Canyon River Guides and fellow outfitter Dee HolladayofSalt in one ofthe kettles in Salt City. Upon however,the bill was found to be counterfeit. See ARCTIC , Page B-4 students,” Romesburg said, “It's better than just sitting in the president'soffice and won dering what's happening on campus.” Ryan Thomas, the College of Eastern Utah’s new president, teaches a sociology class, See COLLEGE,Page B-3 of people who ated her gus” sid Councilman Winston Wilkinson, former Congressman Merrill Cook, state Sen.Bill Hickman, RSt. George, and attorney ane Hawkins, who unsu challenged Sen. Orrin Hatchx the GOP nominationlast year. Q 4 Generous Grinch Because of Utahns’ generosity J Coming on one of the busiest travel days of the year, Sunday's stormcreated “all kinds of havoc on the roads,” said Utah Highway Patrol spokesman Chris Kramer. UHP troopers responded Romesburg, president of Utah Valley State College, who team-teaches an ethics class three times a week. “It keeps mein touch with Board of Geographic Names approved were featured in magazines such as the name change, memorializing the Life, on television programs such as Jirge of California, a of Clark's to swim the canyon, but she wasn't rewho began the “Georgie Rapid” project ally into women’slib at all,” said friend ao perices year i ne death Lake City. “She eet ayet Utah State Historical Soclety brig ralah ae Georgie Clark, who died alat 81 in 1992, made historylory as the first woman to for everyone who Ra eee fulfilling “It’s Rollyand Wells welcomee-mail se Pecniuannnn eve the through rafts run B-5 RAPID,Page See w ere tnevetbute t at sal. i \ eae Soa Sa es ce Ges hasan af en eg |
