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Show 2C LOCAL Thursday, June 3, 1993 Morganofficials break hard ground for middle school By PAT BEAN Sta “a Aware of a dark approaching storm cloud, Morgan school officials rushed through the groundbreaking Morgan middie school LOCAL BRIEFS Parasailing accident victim improving A Syracuse Junior High School student who injured his head in a weekend parasailing accident at Lake Powell waslisted in fair condition today at Primary Children’s Medical Center. ae Forrest Kruitbosch, 12, was flown byhelicopter to a hospital in Page, Ariz., after the accident Sunday and flown again later that evening to the Salt Lake City hospital where officials said he was taken out of the intensive care unit Wednesday. Char Obergh, a spokeswoman for the National Parks Service. said the seventh-grader had been parasailing with his family in the Bullfrog Bay area about 6:40 p.m. when hereportedly drifted into another boat on the lake that was crowded with Memorial Day weekend 1 said. at MORGAN — Standard-Examiner ceremony for a new $4.9 million middle school Wednesday afternoon After brief speeches by thearchitect, the project manager, the mayor and school officials, 13 men School Superintendent J. Dale Christensen said the goal was to have a roof on the new building ‘before the snow falls” and the construction completed in time for the beginning of school in the fall of Christensen thanked taxpayers for hard-packeddirt. Identical white hard hats worn by votes.” Actually the bond was approved each of the men for the occasion ve the shovel line, choreographed by seven votes, which was confirmed during an official recount of fo: photographers, a costumed ef- ballots. fect Setting the fast pace for Wednesday's ceremony, architect Ken Naylor said it was nice to speak first because the rest of the speakers “might get rained on.” He then said he hoped that when the 70,000-square-foot building is finally “wedged” ontothe site that people will find a lot of thought and reflection has gone into making the project fit in with the adjacent school buildings. John Cockrell, project manager for Okland Construction Co., which is building the new school, said the firm is currently building three schools and promised that like those, the Morgan building away the grass sod at the site, which is adjacent to the existing middle school at 75 N. 100 East. “No sense in wasting it,” said school board President Stan Rees. Only one small patch ofgreen re- mained on the site Wednesday and Rees told the groundbreaking audience of about 30 people that it was still free for the taking but had to be removed bythat night. More sophisticated earth-moving equipment than the shovels used bytheofficial groundbreaking crew was planned to begin work today, Heating oor| vs the “overwhelming support” they grabbed shovels and, in a synchronized, chorus-line-like effort, struggled to break through the dents had been invited to take visitors. location 1994 gave the school in a bond vote. Then smiling, he added, “Well, it is overwhelming for us to be allowed to have a newbuilding bysix Earlier in the week, local resi- New school 3 to remain oie ey oe aio Future 4 Ls 4 expansion Vocational building to remain Parking N Sy —_—_—_——_—_—__—_ Young Street Source: Morgan Schoo!District -have already been estimated to be $127,000 above the spending cap the board originally set. With all costs recorded, the new building will cost $4,927,000, Naylor told the schoo! board just last week. _ Christensen todaysaid the school district is negotiating with the construction companyto reduce the project’s costs by that $127,000. Funding for the new school was approved in a special bondelection last spring. It raised property taxes ‘an average of $50 a year on a $50,000 house or $100 a year on a -$100,000 house. In his remarks, Middle School Principal Vernile Mathesonsaid “it truly is on the taxpayers’ shoulders we ride.” But then he noted that he is a 12th-generation-or-so taxpayer himself. Mayor David Richsaid the city 1s looking forward to “having a beautiful new school building.” Then, looking into the sky, he remarked, “That storm is getting closer.” But, to the relief of groundbreak- ing participants and onlookers, the dark menacing cloud held its moist load until after the ceremony was completed. Roy neighborhood befriends Bob the cat By LORI BONA HUNT Standard-Examiner staff ROY — Six-year-old Anna Almquist likes to think she has exclusive ownershiprights to Bob the cat, a gray tabby she dresses in doll clothes and pushes up and eo ee “ogee eye ee ee down the sidewalks in a baby buggy. But the truth is, every family in Bob’s Roy neighborhood near 2900 West and 6000 South thinks the cat — who is actually a female, despite the impression her name may give — 1s partially their pet. She roams the streets freely, eat- ing food placed out specifically for her and playing with children. Whenshegot pregnant, neighbors set up boxes outside their houses so she would have a com- fortable place to give birth to her kittens. And when the time came, one neighbor evenhelped deliver a kitten. wow eee snows But things did not go quite right. On Memorial Day, Bob had to have an expensive emergency Caesarean section to save her life, and none of the kittens survived. When the neighbors heard, they came to the rescue, agreeing to help hold a garage sale to pay for the expenses. Anna even went through her closets and pulled out clothes she wanted tosell to help the cat she named, said Sharon Almquist, her mother. “She saw this kitten in the neighborhood and said he looks like a bobcat and started calling her Bob,” said Almquist. “When we told her what happened, she cried for an hour. It was really devastating for her. “But she has really helped mother the cat and has already gone over and checked on it. She brought over one of her own stuffed animals last night and gave it to the cat,” Almquistsaid. Bob’s official owner, Valerie Ivers, is both pleased and relieved her neighbors have agreed to help. The bill for Bob’s operation and shots was about $350. Standard-Examinerstaff SOUTH OGDEN — Morethan 200 drivers were caught speeding on 40th Street last week and didn’t even know it. During a two-hour test of Photogadar systems last week, 216 drivers were detected speeding an average of 11 miles over the 30 mph speed limit, said Police Chief Alma Richins. “There were some cars going 40, $0 and 60as well. People have got to start changing their attitude and Start slowing down before someone —~s eee eee > oe —<——— ee ee ee From iC ‘tion can accomplish what we need to do,” Riggs said. Short said he has not talked to any businesses about the idea, but said private corrections facilities Judge Michael MICHAEL BITTON/Standard-Examiner Anna Almquist, 6, holds Bob the cat as the feline recovers from surgery Wednesday afternoon. Bob, who belongs to Valerie Ivers of Roy, has been adopted by neighborhood residents who are now helping pay the cat’s extensive medicalbills. Meanwhile, Bob’s many owners are preparing for a Saturday garage sale at the Ivers home, 2941 W. 6000 S. gets killed on that road,” he said. Photoradar is a system that detects a speeding vehicle andtriggers a camera that produces a photograph of the violator. The device records the vehicle’s speed as well as the date and time of the violation. A copy of the photo along with a citation are then mailed to the vehicle’s registered owner. Speeding drivers were not cited during last week’s test. Photoradar is being used in West Valley City and Garland. Layton Police Chief Doyle Talbot hopes to start using it on U.S. 89 bythis summer. save the taxpayers some money and get the facility we need. He need to relieve the bursting at the seams we are going through now,” adding there are 54 private corrections centers in the country. He added states often have funds to operate a facility, but not money to design and build a center. MTChas beenin the private corrections business for six years, Diamond said. It runs a facility in California for 400 parolees, and is in the process of building a center in Arizona that will house 450 drunken-driving offenders and sub- have done well in other states. “I figure it’s worth a try if we can Bernie R. Diamond, vice president for special services at Manage‘ment and Training Corp. in Ogden, said privatizing corrections centers is an increasing trend, : : “Privatization of corrections is ‘growing as the way to go,”he said, Ivers said her daughter and friends are already busy gathering items from all over the neighbor- hood. Last week, two Photoradar companies demonstrated their equipment for South Ogden officials. They'll also be making a presentation to the city council later this month, said Richins, At a city council meeting Tuesday night, Councilman Lew Thorpe said police are using traditional radar guns to check drivers on 40th Street as well as other heavily traveled roads in the city, including 700 East, 1300 East, Glasmann Prom 1C the company’s site to the southwest. And one property owner who had opposed the project, Chris Bournakis, changed his stance during the commission meeting after engi- neers clarified the layout of the planned roads. Glasmann. But the judge postponed the sentencing to June 23, grantinga reAnderson quest from Adult Probation and Parole for more time to complete Anderson’s presentence evaluation, which Glasmann has ordered include a psychosexual evaluation. Anderson was 15 last Oct. 23 when hefirst helped search for and then confessed to the murder and sexual assault of the missing Bobbie Jo Hart of Layton. She was visiting relatives in Way, Adams Avenue and Edgewood Drive. “Whenever we get complaints from citizens, we beef up the area,” said Richins. Although the mocktest on 40th Street proved to be successful — and potentially expensive for lawbreaking drivers — Richins said he'd rather not use it. “The least important thing is the dollars. The most important thing is getting speeders to slow down,” he said. “I’d like to use Photoradar as a last resort, but I will use it if nothing else works.” stance abusers. Diamond sa'd MTCis putting up about $5 million to construct the Arizona facility, and will manager the center, scheduled for completion by the end of the year. It was selected for the project over five other companies by the Arizona Legislature, he said. “We'd be very interested in doing the same thing in Utah,” Diamond said, OGDEN — Billy Joe Price, already in prison for shooting his girlfriend to death, was given more time behind bars Wednesday for an assault on a Weber County Jail inmate while he awaited his murder trial. Price, 31, now Ezy held at the Utah State Prison, and formerly of Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty Wednesday before 2nd District Judge Michael Glasmann, who sentenced him to six monthsin jail on a charge of class B misdePrice meanorassault. The sentence will run concurrently with a 5-years-to-life prison term Price is serving after a jury conviction in March on a murder for Crossroads Landing, said project partner Gary Wright. The business park, with plans for six buildings totaling 45,000 square $120,000 of the cost, with $25,000 coming from the Crossroads Landing developer, he said, and UDOT section. will cover the remainder, whatever it comes to, } feet, will straddle Ridgeline Drive on the southwestside of the inter- Wright said the first building, 10,000 square feet of office space, / those underthe age of 16. The pyscho-sexual examinations conducted for Adult Probation and Parole by Intermountain Sexual Abuse Treatment Inc. by contract include testing to determine the range of sexual stimulus to which a subject responds. Prosecutors allege the sexual assault of the girl could have come after her death. At a preliminary hearing in Jane uary and again at a motion hearing in April, Ogden police relayed de- tails of Anderson’s confession which cameafter he startled officers with the admission that the girl’s body was in his garbage can. In January, officers testified An- derson told them he had dreamed of the killing six months earlier, and that he first choked thegirl with his hands, then clothing. ~ will be ready for occupancy in two which Moore claims was negligent for allegedly selling the county a weeks, and already has been leased defective product. Mortgage and First American Title. Hatch said that Scourge is probably the least toxic chemical for to Mansell & Associates,Academy Construction on a second building is slated to begin in 30 days, he said, and a third building already has been pre-leased to Burns Chiropractic, Bonneville Title and Associated Title. 2 charge for shooting to death his et tranged girlfriend in January 1992, The assault charge wasfiled after a Feb. 5 attack on another inmate in the downtown Ogden jail: as Price awaited his murder trial. Price grappled with an inméte, wrapping his arms around the man’s neck and forehead from de> hind, before jailer intervened.? Price had found out the man had been sentenced for sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl, according to a f lice report. Price has a daughter roughly a year younger, whom=he fathered with the woman heis: io prison for shooting, Katherin Mie nette Scott. : Atthetrial, Price admitted to the shooting, while defense attorneys were able to convince a jury the-ite cident was an emotional outburst, lacking the intent for a conviction prosecutors sought on a death pet» alty charge. : a Spray sey-based Roussel Uclaf Corp., Meanwhile,it’s full steam ahead Court’s stance against executing for assault on Weber County inmate From 1C Scourge’s manufacturer, New JerNelson said $300,000 is a very rough estimate of the total cost to realign the intersection, modifi traffic signals and close off 155 East where it now meets 89, South Ogden is committed to pick up Anderson’s neighborhood at the time. Anderson’s trial had been set for May 17, but that day he pleaded guilty to the charge in a negotiation whereby prosecutors agreed not to press for a life-without-parole sentence. The death penalty already has been discarded in the case because of the U.S. Supreme Prisoner receives added sentence | emma S. Ogden OGDEN — Police said two men and a teenager reported being robbed Wednesday of jewelry, clothes and cash by two suspects they say threateried to kill them. The incident happened just before 10:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the Sure Stop Store at 630 21st St. The victims, two 18-year-old and one 17-year-old males, were returning to their car when another vehicle drove into the parkinglot and parked behind their car, police said. Two men gotoutof the vehicle and words were exchanged before the suspects allegedly placed their hands by the waistbands oftheir pants as if they had a weapon,police said. A police report said the suspects then told the victims they would kill them and began removing jewelry and cash from the victims. Watches, a gold necklace and a man’s coat were amongthe items allegedly taken in the incident. Police are investigating. — Standard-Examiner staff OGDEN — Sentencing of teenager Doug Anderson on an aggravated-murder charge for killing a 5-year-old girl has been postponed for three weeks. Te Anderson, 16, 2661 Liberty Ave., Ogden, had beenset for sentencing Wednesday before 2nd District neighbor’s house,” she said. he said. Men robbed in Ogden store parking lot Standard-Examinerstaff (ieee Juvenile A spokesman at St. Benedict’s said Elise Ipson of 2759 W. 700 South, Syracuse, was admitted with multiple hip fractures and was in stable condition today after the 5 p.m. Tuesday accident. Police said a motorcycle rider, A. Wayne Davis, 50, of Ogden, suffered leg injuries and was treated and released from McKay-Dée Hospital. Meanwhile, a 23-year-old Ogden man was booked into the Weber County Jail on suspicion of driving underthe influence and driving without insurance. The man, whopolice said was not injured in the accident, was released on his own recognizance andfaces arraignmentin 2nd Circuit Court on June 9. A police report said the 23-year-old man was in a vehicle northbound on Washington Boulevard whenit passed the red light at 30th Street and struck the car Ipson was driving westbound on 30th. The impact pushed Ipson’s car into Davis’ motorcycle, which was westboundin the outside lane. By TIM GURRISTER Photoradar catches many drivers in the fast lane By JAMIE LAMPROS OGDEN — traffic accident police say was caused byan alleged drunken motorist put a 28-year-old woman in a hospital intensive Sentencing delayed for teen in slaying of 5-year-old girl “My husband said, ‘This is a pretty expensivealley cat,’” Ivers said, adding she found Bob at a garage sale last summer. “But she is really a friendly cat. She has the loudest purr I’ve ever heard. It sounds like a motor running,” she said. The Ivers’ have learned to share their cat with the rest of the neighborhood. They even changed her name to include the name Anna gave her. “Her real nameis Callie, but now she’s Bob or Cali-Bob,” Ivers said. “We just can’t keep her home. She roams the neighborhood. | used to ask my daughter, ‘Have you seen the cat? I haven’t seen the cat for a while.’ Then later I’d say, ‘I saw the cat todayat this Sharon Almquist said Bob spends nearly every Sundayat her house, playing with Anna and other neighborhood children. “We have partial ownership. Everyone in the neighborhood has ownership on this cat. It’s a riot. She’s a wonderful cat, just beautiful. The kids adore her,” Almquist said. For now, Bobis resting at the Ivers’, recovering from her Caesarean section. Almquist said she knows as soon as Bob’s able, she will be at her front door crying for Anna to come out andplay. Syracuse woman seriously hurt in crash care unit. Standard-E xaminer would “be on time and within budget.” Construction costs, however, Members of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, who were helping patrol Lake Powell for the holiday, notified emergency crews who met Kruitbosch’s family at the shore. Obergh said the boy, whosuffered a severe head injury, was stabilized at a nearbyclinic and was then flown to the Page hospital. fighting mosquitoes available today. 4 cute toxicity for humans is four times greater for aspirin than Scourge,” he said. Monte Eggett, director of Utah Local Governments Trust, which é insures the mosquito abatement district, said Davis County uses Scourgebecause it is safer than the more widely used malathion, — is also considered to have a toxicity for humans, He said his agency is still inv gating the matter and may some of Moore’s medical bills pay but will most likely fight Moore’s claim that he is entitled to $250,000.° “Otherwise, we'd have to shut down the mosquito abatement at this point, and people don’t want ? POOR! |