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Show METRO STANDARD-EXAMINER SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1994 METRO EDITOR: 625-4220 OBITUARIES RELIGION Board ready to take heat for fee hike NEWS ow | DANSE FARMINGTON — City council Revenuesources for the Davis County Energy Recovery District: FY '95 budget FY ‘94 Estimate Mar. ‘94 YTDactual $8,469,505 $8,071,343 $6,054,696 Revenue Tipping fees FY'93 actual Percent budget $6,664.973 Steam/co-generation revenue $1,929,050 $1,872,864 $1,409,921 $1,481,151 Recycling & salvage revenue $49,205 $48,963 $37,737 $41,089 77.72% 17.70% 0.45% Permits & fee revenue upping fee ch arged to cities $4,935 $5,030 $5,030 $9.113 0.05% Interest income $427,500 $239,021 $179,266 $817,836 3.92% Ofher revenue $17,231 $27,231 $65,396 $0 0.16% Source Davis County Energy Recovery District Standard-Examiner members from Davis County who sit on the burn plant board hate this time ofyear. Starting now, irate residents and colleagues alike will call, demanding explanations for yet another increase in the garbage disposal tipping fee. “It was really rough last year,” said Francine Giani, from Centerville. Giani warned rookie board member Darin Hicks from Woods Cross, “You’re going to havelots of fun with your council this year.” Last year, the Davis County Ener- gy RecoveryDistrict raised the per from $50 to $59 The board also approved a plan to increase the fee each year according to increases in the Consumer Price Index. That means this summertpping fees will be raised $3, or 4.9 percent of the current $59 per ton cost of dumping garbageat the burnplant. Cities usually pass on theincreasein residents’ garbage collection fees. Some board members balked when district officials presented them with the new increase Wednesday. “I have to go back to my council tonight and explain what's happening,” said Scott Mikesell, from Sunset. 1 every Mikesell Said every load dumped at the plant should be assessed equally including spring cleanup dumping and special waste from outside the district. Both are dumpedat reduced rates. “We keep Thy BEAT Cinco de Mayo Many activities are planned in Northern Utah to celebrate raising the tipping fee for residents Mexican heritage and then cut other people a deal It’s not fair.” Board members are considering a Teenagers praised $10.7 million budget which includes the tipping fee increase as part of next fiscal year’s projected revenue. The district will hold a public hearing June | at 5 p.m. to allowpublic discussion of the pro- Three youths are recognized by Gov. Mike Leavitt for their scholastic achievements. 3B AT A GLANCE posed fee increase and expendi- Victim in boating tures. accident dies See FEE on 2B Leavitt 3B SALT LAKE CITY — A 5-year old Ogden boy who was critically injured in a boating accident March 7 in Willard Bay died Thursday of his injuries. . Jared Dalton, son of John Dalton taking Hill battle to and Rachele Zaversnik and U.S. capital a student at Dee Elementary School, By RALPH WAKLEY third person to die as a result of the acDalton cident in which a boat containing six people, including two children, became Standard-Examiner staff SALT LAKE CITY — Gov. Mike Leavitt is taking his battle to save Hill Air Force Base’s Ogden Air Logistics Center to Washington, broke apart. D.C., next week, a trip that will in- The Box Elder County Sheriff's Department said the new motor on the boat, being clude a meeting with the No. 2 person in the Defense Department. Leavitt said this week that he will makethetrip to represent “a coalition of governors from Air Logistics Center states.” He said the Thursday meeting “will be with senior Pentagon officials and White Houseofficials,” including Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch. The Air Force has Air Logistics Centers at Hill; Oklahoma City; Sacramento, Calif.; San Antonio; used for the first time that day, was too powerful for the boat and ripped the back end off the boat. It capsized and sank. Also killed in the accident were Tracy Perry, 20, of Ogden, and Jeffery Sturdevant, 23, of Clinton. Jared's sister, Kelsey, 3, was also aboard but was not seriously injured. Fire department offers tours and Warner Robins, Ga. They maintain and repair Air Forceaircraft plus some planes from other service branches. The Sacramento ALC at McClellan Air Force Base was on the base closure list last year but then was removed. In the next round of base closures, scheduled for next year, one or two ALCsreportedly could be targeted for closure unless the Air Force centers can cempete directly with the depots run by the OGDEN — Residents may tour Ogden’'s fire stations Monday through May 7. Firefighters will escort tour groups through any of the city’s five fire stations from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tours are annually held the first week in May and the first week in October. Fire Chief Jon Williams said tour groups ideally should Army and Navy. If all the aviation depots have to number 15, but families of any size are welcome. compete against each other, rather than just within their branch of the service, Leavitt believes the five Williams said it used to be people could call and schedule JAY DROWNS/Standard-Examiner Air Force centers would remain open and all the others might be closed. “They should look at interservice competition in making downsizing decisions,” Leavitt said during his regular monthly news conference. “There will be very little efficiency,” he said, if the Defense Department compares only Air Force centers against Air Force centers and Navyaviation depots against Navy aviation depots. The Utah governorsaid he will be representing the governors of California, Georgia and Oklahoma at the meeting, but not Texas. “Texas isn’t participating,” he said. “They chose not to for reasons I don’t understand.” Congressman Jim Hansen’s office said Texas officials believe if they Watching a movie on Quorum Vision, Jodie Mata has her teeth worked on by Dr. Lawrence Palmer. Palmer says Quorum Vi- sion, an entertainment system, helps his patients relax while he performs dental work on them. Christi Aviation Depot in south Texas. Also, Texas has a huge aviation industry and many of those major contractors hope to pick up maintenance contracts if Air Logistics Command centers are closed, said Hansen spokesman Steve Petersen. Leavitt said he also will meet next week with Environmental Protection Agencyofficials to discuss air quality issues in Utah County. a tour with just a few days notice, but scheduling and staffing changes have made it High-tech d istraction helps patients necessary to limit full-blown tours to twice a year. Coping with visit SALT LAKE CITY — President Clinton’s declaration of May 5 as a National Day of Prayer won endorsement from the Mormon Church onFriday. to dentist gets easier By JAMIE LAMPROS Standard-Examiner correspondent OGDEN — Local dentists are going hightech with various kinds of entertainment systems to keep their captive audiences happy “Dentistry has changed so much over the years. We're continually trying to make our patients comfortable and these vision systems have an element of getting lost in another world,” said Dr. Lawrence Palmer. A Quorum Vision visor allows Palmer's patients to watch movies while he does their dental work. It's amongthe latest attempts by dentists to distract patients from the discomforting work at hand. Palmer said Quorum Vision has been so successful for him, he believes it should be mandatory for every dentist office. “Patients come in for lengthy procedures and a lot of times you're just a foot or two awayfrom their face. That’s uncomfortable and nerve-racking. I really think they'd rather get lost in a video,” he said. Palmer said patients can also watch TVor play video games with the visor. “But I hesitate with the Nintendo stuff because one night my daughter had them on and was playing a game and her head was bobbingall over the place,” he said, laughing. Quorum Vision looks like a dark pair of sunglasses that rest a few inches away from the eyes. It has a stereo headset, a portable belt pack containing the power source, a small TV tuner and video interface that transmits images up to the eyewear. “It looks like something out of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation.’ ” said Palmer. See DENTIST on 2B openly support interservice compe- tition that automatically will mean the death of the Army’s Corpus the Planning future at WSU a necessary but painful process By LORI BONA HUNT The task force was organized a what is best for Weber,” said Standard-Examiner staff year ago to recommend long-range James, task force chairwoman. OGDEN — Planning for the year 2000 at Weber State Universityis a hectic, frustrating and painful job, planning strategies. Wednesday, it released its preliminary recommendations, causing a stir on campus. The preliminarydraft calls for enhancing the library and women’s Public hearings will be May 1C and 11 before the recommenda- just ask President Paul Thompson and chemistry James. professor Helen Both plan to spend the next three weeks listening to complaints and suggestions from department heads, Under Clean Air Act standards, Utah Countyis a nonattainment area for both carbon monoxide and gic Planning Task Force. for fine particulate pollution called PM 10. “It causes a fair amount of anxiety on campus,” Thompsonsaid. professors and students regarding the recommendations of the Strate- sports, maintaining many programs and majors, and reducing and restructuring football, the crime lab. and programs such as geography. geology and accounting. “Some of what we've done is very painful. It’s painful for me as an individual. But at the same time, | care about Weber and want to dc saying ‘lets not wait until its here, when we might have problems and have to cut unwisely.’ ” he said. Thompson said WSU must narrow its focus, which means restructuring programs and departments. “I know at a university, the hardest thing to do is drop something,” he said But WSU has 250 associate and bachelor degrees, Thompson said “In order to do a better job, we need to do fewer things.” he said The school also must increase it resources such as grants and federal See WSU on 2B tions go back tothetask force for changes and review. The report is then turned over to Thompson, who will make final decisions and pass it on to the Board of Trustees “We are asking ourselves where should Weber State be by the year 2000, and what do we want to do now to prepare to get there. We have to make some hard decisions,” Thompson said. “But this is pro-active. We're ‘Airplane nut’ is winner of statewide volunteerism award Church endorses prayer day A statement from the 8.7 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ governing First Presidency urged Americans to “use prayer to create an environment in which peace and love replace war, hatred and intolerance.” The First Presidency, made up of President Ezra Taft Benson and his two counselors, Gordon B. Hinckley and Thomas S. Monson, said the prayer “can change and purify both individuals and societies.’ The church leaders also praised prayer as “a tool that parents can use to direct their children in making correct and positive choices and in bringing the love of the savior, Jesus Christ, into the lives of family members.” Blue bag program is delayed FARMINGTON — Gung-ho recyclers in Kaysville will have to wait to separate their garbage for a few more weeks The Davis County Energy Recovery District's blue bag program was ready to go last week when district officials learned the bags are caught or as long as he can remember, Deloy Spencer of Pleasant Viewhas been fascinated with airplanes. So it was only natural for the self-described “airplane nut” to want to volunteer at Hill Aerospace Museumonce he retired from teaching history at Weber High School several years ago The amount of timeand effort Spencer has dedicated to the museum in the past three years has been tremendous, according to Kathy McDonough, volunteer coordinator at the museum Spencer volunteered more than 1,000 hours at the museum last year, and those who work with him credit his enthusiasm as a big reason behind the dramatic increase in visitors in recent years “He does anything and memories associated with these WE SALUTE By Becky Oleson olandard-txalmne everything aroundhere,” said McDonough, “Let's just put it this way, if we didn’t have Deloy and the other 81 volunteers who work at the museum, there wouldn't be a museum.” The Utah Museum Volunteer Association recently named Spencer the 1994 Utah Museum Volunteer of the Year, recognizing him for his many contributions made to the museum. He was chosen from 92 candidates “You get lo meet some fascinating people here,” he said “Some of them cometo the planes and cry by them; some comeand pray by them, There's a lot of planes for a lot of men and women.” “This is history,” he said, stretching out his arms and pointing at the various aircraft inside the museum. “People can seeit, touch it, smell it.” He educates museum visitors about each airplane inside and outside the building “There are only 35 B-17s left in the world now,” hesaid. “Most of them havebeen turnedinto frying pans and soda pop cans. Nobody thought we'd ever haveto fight again, they thought theaircraft would be out of date “We're always going to haveto be ready to fight wars — history iclls us that. It scares me to see us getting rid of the military as fast as we are, but on the other hand, we can’t afford it if we don’t need it.” His tours arefull style, individually catered to capture the attention ofall visitors, whether they be cunous onlookers or seasonedpilots. Spencer is a modest man who says he volunteers simply because he loves airplanes and heloves people. somewhere in transit, a victim i of the Teamsters strike Kay Chandler, district board vice Chairman, said he hopes the bags arrive soon so the district can distribute them to Kaysville households the week of May 7. But the strike could keep the project from starting as late as May 21 The district will distribute “] think it (volunteering) keeps you alive,” he said. “It keeps you interested in what's going on in the blue garbage bags for Kaysville and Farmington residents to separate recyclables on a world, | can’t imagine anything worse than having to sit homeand three-month trial basis. The bags will be separated at the burn plant and sent to recycling companies. If the program is successful, bive bags could bedistributed to watch TVall day.” “We Salute” is a weekly feature honoring volunteers. If you know of someone who might qualify for a We Salute,” please call the Com munity Desk weekdays between & am. and § p.m, at 625-4237 ena a ne ae ce me ttl Deloy Spencer every city in the district Standard-Examiner statt and wiré@ Services |