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Show 0 The Salt Lake Tribune sone ee COUERY ae Be WEATHER B8 OBITUARIES Elynor Martinez of Taylorsville is the new Miss Latina B4 USA SL deputy struck . : parents, but the solace has been overwhelmed bytheir frustration with a legal system they be- Sue Sawsak and her son, Preston lieve is protecting the police of- Hilton,visit the eterans Day — killing woman, 19 danger count |) Sscrmesariaxetamun: Should NCVEY s Go Uinnot1C é d V stopped by The Salt Lake Tribune last week, the furniture and electronics storesalready were advertisingtheir big blowoutVeterans Daysales. This is partly what jogged ficer involvedin the car accident that claimed their 19-year-old BY MATT CANHAM TheSalt Lake CountyDistrict Attorney’s Office reviewed the ©2002, THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE More than 1,200 people at- Criminal charges. The family has appealed and the case will now tended Malarie Hilton’s funeral. gotoa Weber County prosecutor Southern Utah University named The familyis not calling for Shortly after she died in June, 2 hen Jenny Quintana area near 5400 South and 4500 . Sawsak’s daughter, Malarie Ollision and declined to file Hilton,died in June. She was in a car hit by a Salt fora final decision. Lake County sheriffs deput an award in her honor. Kearns former Salt Lake County sherHigh Schoolis working tocreate Gepuly. iff's Deputy Carla Redding | a scholarship. People are bene- who broadsided the car their | fiting from the organs she donated. These facts console Hilton's daughter was riding in— The family is appealing a to goto decision notto charge the deputy, See FATAL, Page B-3 Paul Fraughton/TheSalt Lake Tribune Quintanainto action. Most years, Nov.11 sneaksup on her. Unlike Memorial Day, Veterans Day seemstoslip by. There isso little Plan to Cut TONGAN TEAMWORK hoopla.If the banks were not closed and mail servicehalted, the Grazingin day might fade awaylike any other. This Veterans Daywill be different. Forthefirst time in years, Monument Quintana, a cosmetologist living Gee SEE E Seee TE ee in WestValley City, is remembering the many Quintana men who yktaste "EE Ae Oy beh ee 6 eee eile Sektt echs RIAe we ne eRe ae eeee eee Se Hee cot 2002 Car while speeding, | Hits Snag served their country in three wars. Herolderbrother,Eloy,is 84 yearsold and a decorated veteran BY BRENT ISRAEL, EN of World WarII. Anotherbrother, THE SALTLAKE TRIBUNE, Rumaldo, 78, was a staff sergeant in Europe during World War II Arecent legal opinion by the andreceived the Silver Star for U.S. Department ofInterior has bravery in combat. thrown a monkey wrenchinto an environmental group's aign to purchaseand “re: Quintana’s youngestbrother, Arthur,served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He died 25 years ago. Five cousins fought in World WarJI; one was killed in action in logi the GrandStair National Monument. In a letter to Interior Secre Europe. Two uncles returned from that war, Quintana says,battling severe post-traumaticstress disorder. A brother-in-law survived the tary Gale Norton, department Battle of the Bulge. * Ageneration later, one nephew Management (BLM) can “re solicitar William G. Myersaffirmed that the Bureauof Land tire” grazingpermits. a served in Vietnam. This is a longlist of veterans, but probably no longer than those of otherlarge families. Jenny Quintanais oneof13 children; her a sevensisters andfive brothers haveall reared children and are scattered throughout Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. No onein herfamily ever balked at military service, and, she notes, proudly: “Even though they suffered lotof prejudice, Hispanic men were someof the most decorated World War II sol. diers.” Thoughts of war and memories of herrelatives’ military service have consumed Jenny Quintana in the past few months,as it seems the United States is inching ever closer to war with Iraq. The campaign to oust Saddam Hussein and the United Nations Security Council vote on Friday to authorize weapons inspections have combined to revive an image in her mind that she had hoped was long buried in the past. “I watched my mother go through two wars, spending day eeae on her knees praying for safe return of her sons,” Quiniy Says, tears misting her eyes. “It is always the people like my mother wholose their sons to war, neverthe president, never the leaders. We haven't had a real war ij in along time. I don’t knowif people can remember what it is like.” SCARE ee eae ae gee am What it is like, she says, can be imagined bylooking at a 6-inch scar running across her brother Eloy’s neck. A Japanese solider him from behind during the Battle of Saipan in 1944 and tried to slithis throat. Francisco Kjolseth/TheSalt Lake Tribune Sia Koloti, left, and Leta Fau‘olo volunteer with the National Tongan American Society on Thursday at the Salvation Army in downtown Salt Lake City. The Pacific Islander advocacy group was there to help fellow islanders fill out forms for assistance during the holidays. Helping Handsfor Islanders Immigrants from Pacific are starting to learn where to turn in tough times But Myers a formerlob. byist for the livestock industry also opined that once retired by the BLM, grazing permits could “remain subject to appli cations from other {grazing} permittees” as long as the BLM land remains a “grazing dis: t out in the 1934 Taylor GrazingAct. That opinion could put an end to efforts by the Flagstaff. Ariz.based Grand Canyon Trust, which during the past thre rs has spent about $1.5 million buying grazing permits from ranchers who run cows in the national monument. “I have a [lot of] dollars riding on this,” said Bill Hed den, Moab field directorfor the BY TIM SULLIVAN THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE trust, which has several other similar deals on hold. The free-market deals with the ranchers were made with a This isn't a protest. It isn’t a news conference. And it isn’t storming City Hall. But it is community actionall the same Pacific Islanderstyle. reasonable On a Thursday night, about 60 mostly Tongan residents gatherat the Salvation Army in Salt LakeCityto learn how Luse Lokotui of West Valley City is glad she did. “They're really helpful,” says Lokotui, who immigrated from Tonga 2] years ago. “Theylet us know what's going on, things we can gethelp with.” Connecting islanders like Lokotuito useful services and programs in the Anglo world, however, is a challenge for by monument in southern Utah would agreeto reduce or elimi nate cows from the grazing allotments. In three environmental as sessmentsreleased earlier this grams director of the National Tongan American Society. whowas on handto explain the forms. Herall-volunteeror. ganization, founded in the early 1990s, also offers help in im. migration and English as a Second Languageclasses. “We knowwho's who[in the community] and we know the system,” Nash says. “Once they know wearehere, they come.” expectation Hedden that the BLM, which manages the 1.9 million-acre to fill out forms for Sub for Santa andother holiday charity programs “They look for help all the time,” says Ivoni Nash, pro- year, Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake Tribune Joseph Fangalua counsels a student Friday at Glendale Middle School, where many students have Pacific Islander heritage. their own way “Our people are close-knit. They don't like handouts, says Bill Afeaki, director of the Utah Office of Pacific Islander those less deft than Nash. Utah’s Pacific Islander commu: Affairs. At the same time, headds, “We are not as developed nity is decidedly less vocal and outgoing than other ethnic groups, particularly Latinos. In their 30-year history in Utah, islanders have gone about adjusting to life here in See PACIFIC ISLANDERS. Page B-5 in our advocacy as other groups. Wearestill uninformed the BLM proposed See PLAN, Paye B-5 CORRECTIONS MargaretPetersonis a member of the West Valley City Coun cil. She was misidentified in a story in Saturday's edition and sentto Pearl Harbor four months before the Japanese attack on the base “] think we will be in war before the year is over,” Eloy wrote in a letter to an uncle in New Mex. ico on July 28, 1941. “You won't be called on the drafts, just from 28 years on down.” After serving 46 months and seven daysin the Pacific, Eloy came home to a job with a Durango trucking firm, hauling ura nium for use in building nuclear weapons. He eventually started his own trucking Quintana is the trustee of her brother’s estate, and this, too, got her thinking of the valor that Eloy and millions of other vet erans have demoastrated on behalf of their country. ) NOVEMBER 10, Bs HOLLY MULLEN = SUND.AY I Donations, Support Keep Midvale Shelter Flourishing BY KARYN HSIAO THESALT LAKETRIBUNE MIDVALE She knew Utah's first post eason Olympic winter was not going to be fun and During the holiday season, The games for those without a warm place to Sait Lake Tribune offers a series ‘on Utahns who need help with food clothing, shelter and sleep. She knew it could be a nightmare. A shivering, numbing,frostbiting nightmare That is why 80-year-old Marguerite Kirk perhaps some gifts. The took a break from crocheting doilies and Tribune does not collect or spent the past year crocheting stocking caps. disburse contributions, donors are encouraged to give directly to agencies. The Road Home Community Overtiow Shelter is “With my husband ill, I needed something to do, so I kept crocheting and crocheting until J had 75 of them.” With help from Midvale Councilman Kent King and his wife, Wanda, Kirk took Like so many other World War UI vets, Eloy is growing more frag: most of her handmade caps to The Road ile by the day “He's slowing down,getting a little forgetful,” she says. “He de serves to be remembered.” hmullenesltrib.com donated themjust in time for the shelter’s RR COPY| by a “ground The Giving swell” of Midvale Home Community Overflow Shelter and yearly opening Nov. } “It’s getting so cold now. I hope people can use them,” Kirk says Mayor JoAnn Seghini says Kirk is joined residents whoare embracing the 5year-old homeless shelter. asked “We to welcome the shelter after five other communities said ‘no,’ and it’s oneof the best we've r done,” says located at 529 W. 7300 South Seghini, whotears Midvale. The phone number ts up whenshetalks 801-569-1201 abouttheplace. “It has made us realize that homeless people ar just our neighbors who are downontheir luck, and helping them has taught people that they can Sce MIDVALE, Page B-6 Trent Nelson The Salt Lake Tribune |