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Show @ MOVIES, B-5 FORTHE RECORD, B-2 WANN LANDERS, 8-5 OBITUARIES, B-B Lawmakers may tap fund to avoid deep cuts (©2002, The Sat LakeTribune BY GREG BURTON SLC Mayor THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE A weekend of intense political pressure moved Republican iegislative leaders closer Mondaytoa budget compromise that includes tapping Utah’s rainy day fund to prevent deepercuts in public education. As educators, parents and teachers fervently instructed lawmakers on the devastation that would be wrought by a proposed $51 million public Gets Lesson In ‘Fang Shui’ We depart momentarily from our microscopic Olympic coverage to bring you a breaking story about an attempted dogsuicide. According to police, a dog owned(atleast in theory) by Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson jumped outa second-story window and landed on an awning. education cutback, Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt on Mondayalso dangled a potential veto of any cuts that would harm Utah’s “education momentum.” “As you know, I don't often presubscribe my use of the veto, but I wouldn’t hesitate to use it if { feel [the budget] would disadvantage education in a way thatI feelis disrupting,” Leavitt said Monday. “It’s a bad idea to cut basic education programs midyear,and I came to that conclusion when I made my recoramendations,”he said. “Ultimately, the Legislature will come to that conclusion.” Entering their third weekof tinkering to try to make up for a $202 million shortfall in revenue, lawmakers Monday considered a motion by Democratic Sen. Karen Hale, D-Salt Lake City, to transfer $2i.4 million the dog off the awning, whereupon it jumped and had to be rescued again. The dog — named Sebastian — was joined in the crime waveby yet another mayoral mutt, Winston. Sebastian has since fired several staffers who were supposed to be watching him,filed suit against the police department andissued.a warning to illegal caninestrays about a pending animal contro!raid. All ofthis occurred while Rocky was outof town.If he had | been in town, he would haveread just how therapeuticit is to own such a fine dog. OnSunday,an article in Parade magazineclaimedthat hav- « ing pets playsa “significantrole in-reducing anxiety, depression andloneliness, along with helping to lowerheart rates and blood pressure.” gine how nice the world | wauld be if the samething could + besaid about having kids. Pets are being used as therapy + ingursing homesandhospitals. Experts claim that contact with animals calms people down (especially duringbilling), thereby improvingthe healing process. Much ofthe benefit depends on the animal and whatyoudo with it. Chickens,for example, are not considered therapeutic except in the form ofa potpie. From personal experience,it’s hard to feel bad arounda bigfat Labradorretriever,unless the lab just helped youfind your expensive leather gloves by throwing them backup. This kindof therapyis called “fang shui.” I share my living area with labs Zoe and Scout, and cat Bob Valdez, which makes mea fang shwi expert. As an expert, I would argue against any claim that animal contact always reduces anxiety, depression and loneliness.It’s pretty lonely to wanderthe streets at 3 a.m. becauseyoulet rainy day money would protect hun- ating budget. dreds of teaching jobs and preserve classroom sizes until summer, when a new budget kicksin. Persuaded, but not absolutely convinced, Utah’s main budget committee adjourned before voting on Hale’s handy foldout Salt Lake Tribune 2002 Gage Wayment’s death was personal for many BYBARRY SIEGEL diverse audience of more than * 400 people cheered NAACP National Director of Education John H. Jackson’s rousing call for Salt Lake City to be a leader in the fight for equity in education at the 19th annual Martin Luther King Jr. memorial luncheon Mondayat Little America Hotel. “Salt Lake City is being called to take on issuesofeducation. Salt Lake —______ City can serve as a model for MORE MLK DAY the rest of the South Ogdenmayor’s country. You dreama reality B-3 do fl need LOS ANGELES TIMES COALVILLE — Hesatin his chambers, unprepared forthis. “Just giving you a heads up,” his court administrator was saying. “Paul Wayment hasn’t reportedin yet. They can’t find him.” Judge Robert Hilder felt uneasy. Wayment was supposed to start his jail sentence this morning. The 52-year-old judge walked slowly to his Summit County district courtroom. The trial under way passed as a blur. More than once, clerks pulled him off the benchto give him updates on Wayment. Each time, numbers tqbea decry US. war B-3 Model,’ Jack son said in his keynote in his chambers, he stared out windows at the jail, hoping to see Paul ad- dress about an equity plan to reduce racial disparity in education by 50 drive up. At the lunch break, he went into Park City to eat, alone with his percent over the nextfive years, en- thoughts. couraged by the National Association. for the Advancement of Colored People. He had sentenced Waymenttojail even though the prosecutor didn’t want this distraught father to serve time. Hilderfelt he had to. Wayment’s “People want to know where the money will come from. President Bushhas signed a bili providing $26 billion for education, most of it in block grants to states. We are asking plansto makethis happen be in place by Mayofthis year,” he said. Jackson, who said he never thought he would be giving a com- Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune Joyce Gray was given the Rosa Parks Award by Salt Lake City’s NAACP. branchat the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial luncheon on Monday. munity speech in Salt Lake City on alwayshas beena holiday,”he said. Jackson urged those attending to remember that ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference. “God does not need a perfect individ1986. “On the south side of Chicago,it, ual to carry out His perfect plan.” William A. Haley, director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day, re- minded guests that though King died in 1968, the birthday observance did not becomea national holiday until BY JUDY FAHYS ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE MOAB — Thealternatives appear simple: i Haul away the peisonous uranium-waste heap at Moab’s north gatewaythat spits pollution into the ColoradoRiver,blights this red-rock playground between two national parks and spooks more than 25 million people who get drinking water downstream.Or, swath it in boulders andleaveit where it is. To locals and water users downstream, the correct choice is indisputable; Movethe 130-acre pile of radioactive red dirt that keeps them on the losing side ofthe Cold War legacy. Such hot-blooded convictions collided head-on with the coolrationale of science last week, when a panelof respected scientists came to town to explore the tailings problem for ingress, Eight years ofagonizing over what Games Quick enclosed a check, cash or money order for $ ADDRESS: CITY/STATEZIP: | I | | | | J | i Mail to: 2002 Guide The Salt Lake Tribune 143 South Main Street Salt Lake City, UT 64111 to do has made nearly everyone weary and suspicious, Moabite Mary | | | | Moran told the scientists. Still, she said, “You bring us great hope that you will be ced in your judg- mentandthe science will be good this time.” Butafter two daysofgathering information, the scientists concluded that a solution is far from obvious. They predict many people decision-makers andlocals included — will be disappointed with their final suggestions. That’s because the report, expected by summer,will not say whetherthe tailings should go. “Wecan only be oflimited help,” said Kai Lee, chairman ofthe National AcademyofSciences panel and a professor at Williams College in Massachusetts. “After spending two days here it seems like a far more complicated problem thanI realized when caine.” “We recognize at the heart, these are not scientific decisions,” said he saw, straifed her face. He apHad hedriven Waymentto suicide? Hilderbelieved it possible. Just as he See NAACP,Page B-3 Kevin D. Crowley, a memberof the panel and director of Radicactive Waste programsfor the National Research Council. “These are public policy decisions, political decisions.” Why Washington lawmakers put the issue to scientists might seem puzzling, considering the issue's sensitivity. Thepile is a relic of Cold War efforts to build atomic weapons and proached herdoor, bracing himself. believed it possible that he had caused his own father’s suicide, 20 years fore. Although it includes the Park City ski resorts, Summit Countyis less the provinceofpeople thanofrolling pastures and mountain forests. Only about25,000 live in 1,849 square miles. Only one judge — Hilder — hears criminal cases. Three lawyers make up the county attorney’s criminal di. vision. Twoprivate lawyers on a parttime retainerfill the public defender’s role. When they heard of Gage Way- ment’s death, all of them knew it would come to them. They knew they would soon have to make their own create nuclear power. About half of the uraniumproduced at thesite between 1956 and 1984 wassold to the governmentfor national defense. Beginning in 1988, the Atlas Corp. worked with the U.S. Nuclear Energy Corp.on plansto capthe tailings on site, but the companydeclared bank: ruptcy in 1998. Congress directed the U.S. Energy Departmentto take over the site under pressure from environmentalists, California water users and government officials See SCIENTIFIC PANEL,Page B-4 TheSalt LakePridwne To the Winter Olympics Competitionste: This conciseSalt Lake Tribune foldout 2002 wintersports Quick Refereiice Guide is the perfect daily briefer for the various Olympics competitions —- the athletes to watch, the venuelayouts, basics of the : ‘ms y Laminated to protect against winter elements and handy enoughtofit \ into your hip pocket, this sturdy guide has a unique fold-out ’ construction that allows you to make any oneof the sports the top page. ‘These 2002 guides are available at The Tribunefor $4 each. Or we will mail them,first class, for $5 apiece, (Sales tax is included in both prices.) ORDERS MAILED WITHIN 24 HOURS OF RECEIVING THEM Backat the courthouse, he walked downa hallwaythat took him pastthe administrator's glass-walled office. She rose and waved him in. Concern, litzer Prize winner and author of A Unique 2662 Quick Reference Guide sport and whenthe eventwill be on TV, negligence caused his young son’s death. There must be consequences, the judge ruled. Now there were — more than he had intended. Alex Haley Center in Annapolis, Md., and son of the late Alex Haley, Pu- Scientists Won’t Take Sides on Uranium Waste (number)of the Committee See RAINY DAY,Page B-4 ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Someuse day to Appropriations had endorsed a $51 million cut to public education’s $1.7 billion operating Judge’s Duty BY JUDY MAGID Reference Guide(s) at $5 each (sales tax included). | have — On Thursday, the Legislature's Ex- ecutive A Father’s Pain and a SLC to Push For Equality In Its Schools ~ TO ORDER: Please send me by first class mall _ private with education leaders. “This bears furtherconsideration,” House Speaker Marty Stephens said. “Our intent is not to hurt the classroom.” Byadjourning, lawmakers delayed for two more days a vote to finalize their recommendations to trim $202 million from the state’s current oper- your neurotic labs out to wee and they saw a rabbit. Andit is a hugely anxious momentif the dogs catch the rabbit, and incredibly depressing when the damn dogs return home and jumpin your bed to report that said bunny wasin fact a skunk. Truefang shui teachesus that everything is connected. For example,fang shui began when mywife got the dogs, who later adopted thecat for slobberstudy purposes. In turn, Valdez talked meinto buiidinga bird feeder. Now, mywife yells at me about the mess the birds make. Fang shui can help you understand financial harmony, such as whenyougladly pay 800 bucks to get a 35-centfishing lure outof the throat of a $5 dog, in order to avoid a $100,000 divorce. We won'tgo into the dubious benefits of fang shui aromatherapy,particularly as it relates to dogs and rain, dogs and dead deer, and dogs andbroccoli. Mostly, though,fang shuiis about unconditional love, something humans don’t corae by naturally motion. Before reconvening Wednesday, lawmakers promised to meet in account, called the rainy dayfund, to public education. GOPleaders, whose party dominates the Legislature,previously had refused to tap the fund to make upfor the revenue shortfall. But education leaders’ said the from the state’s emergency savings NAACPAsks The cops showed up and got NAME: JANUARY22, 2002 = Educators Pray for ‘Rainy Day’ ROBERT KIRBY » iy, 8-7 BCOMICS, B-6 See WAYMENT,Page B-2 ~ CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS Utah industrialist Jon Huntsman Sr. solely madethe decision to donate moneyto the 2002 Paralympics. Due to misinterpretation of a source statement, a Salt Lake Tribune story Mondaysaid developer Kem Gardner wasresponsible for persuading him. |
