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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH B2 ay Thursday, January 31, 2002 County OKs Redistricting Plan PUBLIC SAFETY NEWS Salt Lake Council’s Democrats, Republicans forge a compromise SENTENCING DELAYED A Tuesdaysentencing hearing for convicted killer Todd Rettenberger was postponed to give his BY JOE BAIRD attorneys more timeto prepare. ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Earlier this month, Rettenberger, 23, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the Oct. 29, 1996, fatal shooting of Woods Cross For months, Salt Lake County Council members have been wrangling over the details of redistricting. This week,theyfinally struck a compromise. hadsubstantial evidence against him.Heavoided possible convictions that could have landed him in prison for upto life, and now faces an additional 10 years behind bars. Q FIREFIGHTERS INJURED four firefighters to the hospital, officials reported. The blaze, which affected a cargo transfer operation at 5088 W. Amelia Earhart Drive, was first reported by a bystander at about4:25 a.m., according to Salt Lake City Fire Departmentspokes- man Scott Freitag. It took 40 firefighters several hours to control the flames, Freitag said, and four Seomenri) Council District 5: Winston A. Wilkinson (R) eastside. Hatchalso insisted that the bulk of the unincorporated area remain concentrated in Districts 2, 4 and 6 — which was done — andtalked Republicans intoa population deviation of just over 8 percent between districts. Earlier proposals included deviations of more than 10 percent. ontopof them. Eachof the injured firefighters was treated and re- While giving some ground, Republicansstill got mostof whatthey wanted. leased at a nearby hospital, Freitag said. No one was insidethe business whenthefire erupted, Freitag said. The cause ofthefireis still underinvestigation. a KIDNAP CHARGES Council District 6: Marvin L. Hendrickson (R) concession to Hatch, moving primarily Democratic Emigration Canyon back into Skousen’s District 4, whichcovers muchof the unincorporated county’s “This is something everybody can live with,” Hatch said. Jensen'sDistrict 2, which covers mostof the county’s westside, remains a swing district. But District 4, a swing district in 2000, nowtilts toward the GOP, with Skousen unloading heavily Democratic South Salt Lake on Hatch. Elsewhere, Councilman David Wilde's District 3 (Murray and Taylorsville) remains slightly Republican, while ih At-Large Council Members \ Jim Bradiey (D), Randy Horiuchi (D), Steve Harmsen (R) ‘The ‘Salt Lake Tribune Winston Wilkinson’s District 5 (Draper, West Jordan) and Marvin Hendrickson’s District 6 (Sandy and Midvale) continue to be GOP strongholds. “Clearly everyonegavea little, and Councilman Hatch recognizes we didn’t have to make someof the compromises wedid,” Skousen said. At-large council members Jim Bradley and Randy Horiuchi, both Democrats, and Republican Steve Harmsen joined their district colleagues in approving the new map. * Four council members — Horiuchi, Hatch, Wilde and Wilkinson — face re-election this year. Wilkinson also has declared himselfa candidate in the 2nd Congressional District race; Harmsen also is mulling a 2nd District run. jbaird@sltrib.com SLOC Scrambling for More Buses kidnap six women andgirls over the past six months.Salt Lake County prosecutors charged Gwilliam with aggravated sexual assault, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, three counts ofattempted aggravated kidnapping and one countof attempted child kidnappingin 3rd District Court on Wednesday.Beginning in August, Gwilliam approached thefemales and ordered them into his Someticket holders may havetrouble finding rides to venues BY MIKE GORRELL ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE car while pointing a gun orknife at them, accordingto court docu- Olympic organizers are trying to ments. The victims rangein age round up 10 more buses for the from 12to 22.In two instances the “Mountain femalesgot in Gwilliam’s car before being released.In all six case, Venue Express” fleet, which was booked solid for several Gwilliam released the females whenthey began crying, court documents said. a REWARD OFFERED TheSalt Lake City “Tips4Cash” rogram is offering a $3000 reward for informationleadingto the ar- rest and conviction of three men wanted in connection with an as- days of the 2002 Winter Gamesafter the fare was cutto $5. Salt Lake Organizing Committee chief operating officer Fraser Bullock said additional buses would help accommodate the overflow of reservation requests fielded by organizers for events Feb. 9-13 at Olympic venues around Park City and in Midway.It also would give SLOC more leewayin meeting the transportation needs of sault on a University of Utah grad- uate student Friday night. The manwasattacked at about9:40 international and national visitors. But the buses have not been secured yet, Bullock noted, and places to park them must be found. So far, SLOC has booked 45,000. of p.m. while in the area of 900 East and 300 South, andinvestigators believe the assault may have been racially-motivated. All three suspects wore dark, brown jackets at the timeofthe attack, and one man had blue, spiked hair, police said. Anyonewith information is asked to call 799-INFO. Tipsters mayremain anonymous. The winning numbers drawn Wednesday night in Idaho’s Pow- erball lottery worth $10 million were:7,9, 15, 21, 40 RBALL: 18 The winning numbersin Idaho, Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska’s Wild Card lottery worth $130,000 were:4, 7, 16, 23, 25 WILD CARD:Jack of Spades the 66,000 seats available on the Express, which runsfrom downtown Salt Lake City to all mountain venues, from Ogden to Snowbasin Ski Area and from Provoto Soldier Hollow. izers’ transportation models ‘were based on 30,000 people riding the bus, prompting Bullock to say he was “thrilled” the fare reduction — down from $20 — had spurred reservations enough to trim projected congestion on Interstate 80. “Buttraffic will still be tight,” he emphasized. Several out-of-state ticket buyers have complained to The Salt Lake Tri- bune they learned too late of the fare reduction and were unpleasantly surprised to find they could not reserve seats on some days because the buses were sold out. Bullock said all account holders were notified of the price cutby e-mail. He contended 60 percentof busreservations have been made by Americans outside of Utah, matching the percent- age of Olympic ticket buyers from outside thestate. If more busesare lined up, Bullock said anothere-mail notice will be sent. SLOC’s concern now is making sure international visitors can find seats. Bullock said organizers have had no way to inform these people of the cutrate fare since their Games’tickets . were obtained through their respec- tive National Olympic Committee or its brokers. Most Americans bought through SLOC’s Web site, giving organizers access to e-mail addresses. To accommodate ‘late-arriving foreigners, SLOC has not sold 10 percent of the seats on buses (just 5 percent remain on Feb. 12 buses, foreseen as the worsttraffic day in Parleys Canyon). And it released a number, 801-715-0211, that international callers maydial to make reservation. Thetoll-free numberin the United THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Children playing with matches probably sparked an Ogden house fire thatkilled a 3-year-old boy on Monday, officials reported. Clues gathered from charred home at 1221 Ninth Street indicate the victim and a sibling had been experimenting with matches in the basement just before 4 p.m., said Bruce Champion, deputy chief for the Ogden Fire Department. The flames soon engulfed a couch and continued to spread rapidly. “One of the kids did not makeit out,” Champion said. The boy's name was not released Sheriff's Officer Kills Armed Man During Arrest of Robbery Suspect Tuesday, Champion said. His parents and siblings managed to escape. The survivors watched as a police officer andthena firefighter rushed into the basementto try and savethe boy. A firefighter found the boy unconscious underneatha bed, where he had apparently crawled in search ofsafety, Championsaid. Attempts to revive the boy were unsuccessful, and he was later pronounced dead at nearby McKay-Dee Hospital. An autopsy revealed the boy died from smoke inhalation. Red Cross officials were trying to arrange shelter for the boy’s family, Champion said. Firefighters responded ayia quickly to the scene of the fire within five minutes of it being ing her to move her car. When she emerged from the motel room, deputies took her into custody. While searching the motel room, officers saw the man, sitting on a bed. The man then “pulled a 9 mm handgun and pointed at the detectives,” Members of the sheriff's homicide and robbery team were in the area searching for a woman suspected in several armed robberies of Salt Lake The woman was to be vestigators subsequently lured the 19-year-old out of her robbery. It was unclear Wednesdayif the man was involved in the armed robberies. i — Jacob Santini _ No Chopsticks: Olympic Famwill be entertained by the most expensivepianoever created Steinway & Sons: A $675,000 AlmaTadema re-creation grandpiano. Forthe unwashed masses, er,the pianois available for sneak previews and test drives at Daynes Music Co. in Murray for the next week. Compiled by Christopher Smith. csmith@sltrib.com Dick Ebersol To Outline Oly Coverage NBC Sports chief Dick Ebersol will brief reporters on the network’s expansive coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympics at 7:15 a.m. Friday at Lamb’s Grill Cafe, 169 S. Main. Ebersolis the second See in a “Newsmaker Breakfast” Bullock said ticket sales continue to go well, raising $250,000-$300,000 each weekday. SLOC nowhas sold out 84 events (83 haveseats available). No tickets are left for events at Deer Valley, Park City or the Delta Center, while sales at Soldier Hollow are picking up. Bullock said SLOC has 120,000 tickets left, down from 150,000 one week ago. reported. The response time could have been improved, however, if a snowstorm had not pounded the Wasatch Front on Monday,hesaid. Nofirefighters were injured during the one hour it took to control the blaze. Butall involved were overcome with the pain of wondering what might havebeen,if only they had had more timeto attack thefire and rescue the boy, Championsaid. At least onefirefighter, who re_trieved the boy and carried him from the home,is receiving counseling. By Champion’s recollection, the boy is the first personto die in an Ogden fire in at least the past four years. “It's a pretty traumatic event for us,” Champion said. ‘The fireis still underinvestigation. track the Olympic movement, and The Salt Lake Tribune. NBC will provide 3% hours of n lengthy coverage on its two cable affiliates, MSNBC and CNBC,including 30 of the 32 men’s hockey games. Theseries wraps upat 7:15 a.m. Saturday at Lamb’s. U.S. Olympic Committee leaders Lloyd Ward and Sandy Baldwin will be the featured speakers. Authorities Seek Male Abductor Dressed as Woman Police are looking for a man who tried to kidnap four girls in North Ogden while Group’s Land Claim Dismissed BY BRENT ISRAELSEN room atabout 8:30 p.in. by ask- Big Guns:“I find it kind of strange to go offto the men’s room and find myselfbookended on eiEeeee rifles hangingattheir side. It isa whole new way ofcoming to a mapec ron erent in ee States.” — NBC Sports boss Dick Ebersolon the 2002 Games “tight butpolite” security. States is 866-566-4428. Children May Have Started Ogden Fire BY FRANK CURRERI babes and bar bragging as the opening sentence on Mondayfor a page one story on “Countering the Mormon Image.” ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Afederal judge has dismissed an American Indian group's attemptto wrest control of some 3.6 million acres from the state of Utah. US. District Judge Bruce Jenkins ruled Tuesday that the “Nato Indian Nation” lacks legal standing in its lawsuit against the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Division. Jenkins said his decision was based on Sere re nak panama fe governmentas an Indian tribe, said Hea an assistant state attorney Nato, which has its Western office in Provo, was represented by its “chief justice," Henry Clayton, and its “chief counsel,” RonAllen, nether ofwhom salawyer The men could not be reached for comment ednesday, 20 years for this hearing.” “They {the state and federal Judge] are about to find out some Indian law that oy don't ters, the man asked a 10-year-old girl if she needed a ride. The girl declined. government” representing Indians throughout North America, He has estimated its membershipat more than TO eee ear one are ie aa ini otrawou, Natolage that Indians never relinquished their “ancestral title” to the school trust lands. Nato first surfaced publicly in Utah in eeae Clayton convened his own iHemn i iFf i Andrew James Gwilliam,22, was charged with attempting to night. Detective Courtney Nelson, ekDistrict 4: heresisted their efforts to place more Democrats in his already heavily Democratic district. Hatch’s District 1 includes mostof Salt Lake City. GOP council members this week made a final firefighters suffered minorinjuries when a woodenroofcollapsed a 17-year veteran of the Sheriff's Office, fired one shot that struck an unidentified man,22, in the chest. The man was taken to a nearby hospital where he later te said sheriff's Sgt. Shane David Wilde (R) Republican peers overa series of issues. Essentially, Anearly morning fire at a Salt LakeCity business caused anestimated $400,000 in damage andsent A Salt Lake Countysheriff's detective shot and killed a man at a Midvale motel Wednesday Jensen sense) CouncilDistrict 3: ofa which acknowledges prosecutors aDistrict 2: Beate doing.In 2nd District Court, he entered a so-called “Alford plea,” publican Russell Skousen and Democrat Joe Hatch was unanimously approved by the council, just before the end-of-the-month deadline. “The joke is that you’ve reached a compromise whennoone is happy, and that’s what happened today,” GOP Councilman Michael Jensensaid after this week'svote. Though Salt Lake County’s new mayur-council governmentis barely a year old, redistricting was mandated by the 2000 census. The county’s population grew nearly 24 percent — from 726,000 to 898,000 — since 1990. Thebasics for the new six-district map have been in place since lastfall. 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