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Show The Salt Lake Tribune D2 UTAH Monday, July 15, 2002 Crawlers Relish the Rock and the Hard Place BY MARK HAVNES THE SALT LAKE TRUBUNE EDAR CITY Probably no sport has nore ups and downs than rock crawling That was evident Friday and Saturday at a meet sponsored by the Salt Lake City-based Rock Crawlers Association of America northwest of Cedar City at the Three Peaks Recreation Area. For two days, about 10,000 spectators watched as 64 driversin four-wheel behe moths took on humps of granite rising out of the juniper-studded desert as rock mu Sic blared ir the background. The compe tition was ane of four the association has sanctioned this year in Utah, New Mexico and California. The machines, placed on knobby tires about 3 feet in diameter, one-of-a-kind designs said Beau White, a or the association that sancnits. ify, White says the vehicles wareasie clambered out of his upside terred in his enthusiasm. The sport “just gets in your blood,” said “Bolts can shear Brown, as membersof his team worked to vemove the vehicle from the course. The drivers were competing for a share of $380,000 in prize money this season put up by 15 sponsors whose decals were plasteredali over the “crawlers.” The competitors, inchuding @ Spotter outside the vehicle, acting as a guide, are required to maneuvertheir way over two A retired developer who now owns a company that manufactures rock crawl ers. Brown said he had $300,000 sunk in hisvehicle. Mike White, a judge at the event, a six points were subtracted from points Brown started the course with ioe successfully completing part of the courses, each with seven obstacles. The subtracted for infractions such as back- wheel drive vehicles. ing up, hitting a course marker cone, using rear steering or not finishing in the steering and hydraulic suspension sys- required time. Thedriver with the lowest “This is an awesome sport,” White said. “The drivers have nerves of steel.” Results of the competition wili be posted today on the Rock Crawlers Association’s Website, at www.rockcrawler number ofpoints at the end of the meetis org. Some of the machines included rear Suasidiiaaaiete | | brutal Hi-Fi murders shocked | | course. garage floor up to med tems to help lift the vehicles out of After the execution of Andrews, Naisbitt told The Salt Lake Tribune that he had for- down cab bit disappointed but not de- drivers start out with 40 points at the beginning of each obstacle and points are ranged Cortney Naisbitt was one of two survivors =e its wayoutofa crevice. wo, of Farmington, N.M.. was un- have to pass atechnical checklist, includ ing safety harness, helmets, roll bars and welded construction. off,” White said Hi-Fi Torture Victim Dies 28 Years Later the winner. Ome of those obstacles was a little tricky for “Dirty” Dan Brown, whose fire engine red vehicle rolled over as it tried to crevices andup rock faces that challenged the drivers. ‘There's @ lot of money tied up in Ogden, cept to say: the Hi-Fi story. I wantthis to be the end of it.” The story of Cortney Nais- Judgein Jail, Twin Peaks Fire Now Under Control; Accused of 5 Others Still Burning AroundState Having Drugs | errands. TRIBUNESTAFF AND WIRE SERVICES Active adults and children, and those with @ Continued from D-1 a professionally, but said he had seen no indication of druguse by Harding “This was a completely gutoftheblue type of thing.” he said. “We've charged police officers, we've chargedattorneys, but this is uncharted territory for us with a judge.” A woman who answered the phone at the Harding residence Sunday would not comment. Ray M As temperatures in Utah climbed to triple digits again Sunday, three helicopters making nonstop flights over the Twin Peaks fire have helped bring the blaze undercontrol. Thefire thatofficials now believe is of human origin has burned 50 acres of wilderness between Little Cottonwood and Big Cotton- wood canyons, sending plumes of smoke over the Salt Lake Valley The area, surrounded by rocks andat anel evation of 9,000 feet, is inaccessible to fire crews. Officials have relied solely on the heli. copters to battle the blaze and expect complete containment today, according to Kathy Jo Pollock, InteragencyFire Center spokeswoman. Nostructures are threatened. Thedry and hot conditions that haveled to manyof Utah's wildfires continued Sunday For a third straight day, the state Depart. is presiding Harding mentof Environmental! Quality hascalled fora voluntary no-drive day in Salt Lake, Davis and Weber counties, because ofrising ozonelevels. in an 16 month rota Residents are asked to limit driving, whether by working from home, carpooling, using pub- tion on the Harding Jr. adult crimi nal court, which deals with felonies including, among other things, drug charges. His 4th District jurisdiction covers Juab, Millard, Utah lic transportation or postponing or combining Library Will and Wasatch counties. . He was appointedby Gov Charm Visitors, Mike Leavitt in June 1995. Yarding’sfather also served Planners Say a a 4th District judge. = Harding worked in pri Wate practice before his ap- @ Continued from D-1 ips to the bench. He aiso worked as city attorney and prosecutor for various Utah Countycities, including American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Alpine, Lindon and Lehi. meanhameasltrib.com ee And city planners expect there will be a lot more neighbors in the area once thelibrary and commonsare complete. While city officials originally planned on housing east of the library instead of open space, Anderson bagged the idea, thinking housing would develop aroundthe area. So far, three developers want to build 330 apartment or ACTIVE BLAZES IN UTAH condo units on 400 and 500 South near the library. Along with the 400 South TRAX line, thelibrary blockis seen as key to spurring development. “In the next 20 to 30 years, the 400 South corridor will be a thriving, 24-hour neighborhood, not just a commercial strip,” says city Planning Director Stephen Goldsmith. “When this library gets up and running, its [development] is going to be spontaneous.” Wumber of Fires: 5 Acres: 101,186 £ ~ Maple Springs (25 miles Sorth-northeast of Cedar City) 1000 acres at 0 percent contained. Two homes are threatened 4.- Horse (20 miles southeast of Wonticelio): 1,250 acres at 35 Gercent contained. The fire crossed Gotainment lines on southwest Qank, dozers reinitiatedfireline @iistruction. Crews and dozers are Quilding fireling 9n the east flank in fgged terrain 3 Springvilie (One mile north of Springville): 2.257 acres at 96 @ercent contained. Crews are Popping up with support trom rial resources 4 ~ East Fork (35 miles south of Qvanston, Wyo.) 14,000 acres at © percent contained. Evacuation ders remain in place for the Ghristmas Meadows subdivisions, $atlered homes and a Boy Scout @Mp_ structure protection is in = Rattle Complex (20 miles Prtheast of Green River): 81,679 apres al 40 percent contained. This plex is comprised of the and Black Canyon fires Black Canyon tire has been fontained Oramond is advancing West and southwest toward containment lines on Went ridge, crews and dozers are Giproving tireine Cure Nevena! Interagees y Fire Center ‘The Sait Lake Tribune ‘The currentand future residents should have plenty to respiratory problems are advised to limit out- doorexercise. Zion National Park reported a high of 112 degrees. in St. George the high was 109 and at Salt Lake International Airport it was 101, ac- cording to the National Weather Service. Authorities reported a total of five blazes still burning outof control aroundthestate. The Maple Springs Fire had consumed at least 2,000 acres and threatened one structure on U.S. Bureau of Land Management land aboutsix miles south of Minersville in southern Utah. Springs. Late Saturday, firefighters contained the 1@-acre Pack Fire in the Dixie National Forest about 20 miles northeast of St. George. That blaze,believed to be lightning-caused,flared up Friday patrons will be able to wander brary building, which will be the new Leonardo Center. Like the da Vinci namesake, center visitors will explore science, art and culture through the Utah Science the money toward hiring street performers, hosting lectures and showing films. But the City Council still must approve changingthe zoningor- mentary Arts, and Global Artways. Middle school students will also be there, attending a dinance to allow retail estab- charter school focused on the arts. There will be interactive science exhibits, and classes on art, photography and documentary films. Back outside, patrons will be able to meander along the top of the crescent wall to see stunning views of the city, cross a bridge to the library's rooftop and sit on the benches and read, talk, or star gaze. Spots could also be rented out for private parties. The ground floor of the crescent wall is expected to be packed. The library is taking applicationsto lease out 10,000 square feet of space to retail ers. There will be a coffee shop and a Friends of the Library gift store, and probably a magazine and newsstand, maybe a flower cart and a musicstore. Those shops will be in the Ur- lishments on public lands. Somecouncil members are worried that retail will draw awaythe few customers shopping on Main Street. But Tessman says the library shops won't be a destination retail area. All of the stores must complement the library and be unique,so there will be no chain stores, Tessman says. Preference will also be given to nonprofit Ere. There won't evenbe street ad vertisement. Indeed, Baxter says Li. brary Commons won't divert people from other spaces the city is tryingto fill, including Pioneer Park and The Gateway. “I don’t think things have to be busyall the time. whiz had just completed his first solo flight as a pilot. After having his shirt tail uncere- adjacent to the library build. ing. Outside on the library and probably a restaurant or food stand. woman for the Vancouver Public Library, which has a similar retaildined room. That rows of trees, a promenade building designed by Moishe Safdie, the same ar chitect who dreamed up Salt Cortney ian bowling game. Across the walkway dividing the north and south sides of the commons,there will be a Theater Plaza, surrounding what will eventually be two screen. junrise vice, Chairs could be set up to watch an outdoor movie, projected onto the old Iibrary building or on the new li brary’s glass wall Tenhills, some as high as 8 feet, will make up the Wave Garden on the southeast cor. imaginative play,” according to city designs. By early 2004, library 4 Ly Kinder said. “In ICU, you either get better in a few days or youdie. He stayed right ‘on that Kinder said Naisbitt’s survival was testimony to the support he received from his family, church and community, particularly his father, moniousiy cut off by his in- structor and nailed to the wall of the flight school, Naisbitt headed for home. But he decided to stop at a downtown Ogden photo shop to pick up some pictures. To get a shortcut through the neigh- boring HiFi Shop. There, Andrews, airmenfrom Hill Air Force Base, who were in the process of robbingthestore. Selby and Andrews took hostage the high schoolstudent and two other people — Stanley Walker and Michelle Ansley. Later, when Naisbitt's mother, Carol Naisbitt, and the 20year-old Walker’s father, Or- ren Walker, came to look for their sons, they too were held at gunpoint in the store basement. ‘The men forced their five hostages to drink caustic Drano drain opener. there holding Cort's hand 24 hours a day. Brothers,sisters, members of his church. Doctors are notparticularly sentimental, but they saw no other reason whatsoever for him to have survived.” Naisbitt later trained in computers and held a job at Hill Air Force Base. Kinder, now a best: author, said he wrote Victim in 1984 to explore the lasting impact of crime on the victims. Books about criminals always have been popular, he said. “This was the only book until recently that dramatized the victims’side of crime. I hope I made these people real because they were your nextdoor neighbor.” When Kinder, who had never before written a beak, Byron Naishitt Selby ips 18-year-old Ansley. Lathe began shooting each fhe!in the head. When Orren Walker showed signs of life, Selby, who had run out of bullets, kicked a ball-point pen into his ear. Although Orren Walker and Cortney Naisbitt survived the ordeal, Naisbitt, badly brain damaged, never remembered the events of that day. Walker was the key witness coal eran “Tt did not bother me at all in thetrial. Selby was executed by lethal injection in 1987. Despite appeals on the basis that Andrews had not doneanyof the shootings, he was executed in 1992. A third man, who was waiting outside in the getaway car, was convicted of robbery. (Library Commons] doesn't We Raise Most Slabs of| anadian Prescriptions 50% Order by Mail BUTCHER CONCRETERAISINGCO. An Affardabla Alternative tq Cancrete Replacament Phone 718-2441or 282-9910 + 24 Hours 7 Days a Week ing or e-mail at beraising@yahoo.com brary building and will be used for studying or reading. Chess tables, includinga lifesize board, will be available to set up in the promenade. And visitors will be able to sit on a bench,or play boccie,the Ital- 0 Naisbitt, 1982 going to die at have to be active constantly. That's consistent with the themeof the library.” ban Room,an enclosed piazza like space with a glass ceiling Lining the entire east side ofthe green space will be three which LakeCity’s library. in Salt Lake City, the rent will annuallybring in $100,000 to the library, which will put Center, the Center for Docu: Opt trim: “It’s like bringing the street into the library,” says Marya Gadison, spokes: partially encircles the new li. On April 22, 1974, the 16 year-old high school science Naisbitt was confronted by Pierre Dale Selby and William catch. This also is where the city could set up a temporary brary’'s crescent well victims « crime would be the best legacy of his son's struggle. backto the parking lot, he took plaza,there will be more shops mirroring the shape of theli. Naisbitt an a deeper standing of the The Mahogany Knoll Fire, meanwhile, was 80 percent contained, with 70 firefighters working on the blaze five miles east of Maple across the plaza to the old li- was tims’ rights movement. Byron Officials assigned 12 crews, each consisting of20 firefighters, to the blaze, believed started by lightning. do, according to the designs. On the Great Lawn,on the northeast corner with the stage and host concerts. bitt’s struggle to survive his wounds and rebuild his life after the crime, which was made into a book and later a television movie, is credited by many with starting the vic- ] FABRIC CENTER < " SUMMER SIDEWALK SALE * JULY 15TH - 27TH 9135 So. Redwood Road 561-8726 M-F 9:30 AM to 9:00 PM - Sat 9:30 AM-8 PM |
