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Show Makeyour inside space blossom | life &stvLE Seven BYU games to be broadcast on MountainWest | sports FAcvald xk UTAH VALLEY EDITION 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN: YOUR NEIGHBORS - YOUR NEWSPAPER - hedar pipeline approved Fungus plagues wearers of contacts Kelli Kennedy and Andrew Ryan THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Commissioners reprimand company for handling the application poorly Alan Choate DAILY HERALD Questar Gas got the approval Tuesday for a new gas pipeline needed for William Spadafora had tried reading glasses,distanceglasses andbifooe Hehadlost glasses, stepped on glasses, and dropped glasses off the side of a boat. “I was fed up with glasses and I wanted to try something different, so that’s whyI tried contacts,” said Spadafora, 58. “They worked for meforfive or six years until 1 came down with the fungus. Say hello again to glasses. Spadafora,of Malden, Mass., is among the dozens of contact lens wearersin the United States left groping for glasses thanksto blurred an under-construction powerplant — butthey also were rapped on the knuckles by Utah County commissioners for the way the application was led. “Don’t be so derelict next time in your duty to have true public input,” said Commissioner Steve White, shortly before he and commission chairman fotElertson voted to approvethe the execution,” White said. Commissioner Jerry Grover did not attend Tuesday’s meeting because of an illness. Commissioners spent a fair amount of time discussing the pipeline because or any other publicutility . to come before the bodyin a timely fashion ofits potential impact on farmland and because not everyone was convinced Questar had ehosen the most appropri- — during the planning, andnot during ate route. atmat Questar or Utah Power The 20-inch pipelinewill run from Lehi to Vineyardto provide natural gas to a powerplantunder construc- tion in Vineyard. The route sought by Questar and approved Tuesday takes the pipeline across farmland owned bythe Chris- tensen family. Allen and Niel Christensen lobbied commissioners to require Questar to install the pipe somewhereelse, See QUESTAR, A3 A ‘TRAGIC DAY FOR OREM vision and pain from Fusarium keratitis, a nasty fungal infection. Health authorities say most of the victims in 17 states were using ReNu with MoistureLoc eye solution to cleanse their contacts. Theoutbreak also has many of the nation’s 30 million soft contact wearerstossing out their ReNu-MoistureLoc bottles and turning to other products. Stores and optometrists are taking the solution off their shelves. Optometrists around the country say they're inundated with calls from patients asking whatto do. Florida has the highest numberofcases in the country, with morethan 50 reported so far. “What we'resayingis not to use the solution andif there's any problem or they feel something goii on to come andsee the doctor,” said Sheila Narales, a receptionist for Dr. MarieTartibi of Oviedo, an Orlando, Fla., suburb.“They're concerned. We ~ havea lot of patientscalling about it.” Spadafora describes the symptoms: “T felt pain, like somebody was pressing their finger against my eyeball.” See FUNGUS, A3 Germany agrees to open Nazi records Barry Schweid THE ASSOCIATED PRESS * MARIO RUIZ /Daily Heraic Two cars hit Jim's Family Restaurant in Orem after the twocars collided on State Street on Ree Twopassengers weretransported to the hospitalfor minor injuries sustained during the accident. WASHINGTON —.After decades of holding back, Germany took a major step Tuesday toward opening Nazi records on 17 million Jews,slave laborers and other Holocaust victims to historians andrelatives long anxious for conclusive information about their fate. . Germany pledged to workwith the United States to ensure the opening of the archives, which are housed in the German townBad Arolsen. Eleven nations oversee the 30 million to 50 million documents and are to meet in Luxembourg next monthto consider amending a 1955 treaty that has,effectively, limited access and copying. “Westill have negotiations to do,” the American special envoy for Holocaust issues, Edward B. O'Donnell, saidin an interview. “Our goal is to reach an agreement as soon as possible.” Approval in Luxembourg would require agreementbyall 11 countries. The parliamentsofseveral of the countries would haveto give their approval, as well. At a newsconference Tuesday at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries said Two carsplow into restaurant;truck rear-ends car on I-15; three die on icy roads in Montana Anna Chang-Yen andKatie Ashton DAILY HERALD Twocarsbarreled into the front of an Orem restaurantjust before lunchtime on Tuesday. A Ford Explorer was traveling south on State Street near 1500 South in Orem when a northbound Kia Optima madea left turn into the SUV's path. The twocarssailed over the curb andhit the east side of the Jim's Family Restaurant building,just missing the front door. started to turn but we thought, ‘Well, they’re probably going to goafterus,’ ” said Gary Metcalf of West Jordan, a passengerin the front seat of the Explorer. “But they just kept right on coming.” The driver and passengerin the Optima, a couplein their 70s, were transported to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, said Orem Police Lt. Phil Murphy. The husband, who was on the pas- MATT SMITH/Daily Herald AUtah Highway patrolman walkspast a damaged car near the scene of an accident south of the University Parkway exit on I-15 Tuesday morning. sengerside, had an injured leg and the wife had minorinjuries. Jeff Burke, ownerof Tele-Dynamics Communications based in Salt LakeCity, was at the wheel of the company vehicle whenthe cars collided. sopoet so quick I never hit my brakes,” he oathere was absolutely not tifneto do anything,” said Metcalf. “There's not even skid mark onthe road.” Orem Police Officer James Vancesaid two people insidethe restaurant wereinjured by flying debris. One woman was knocked out of the booth she was sitting at andfell onto the floor, but wasn’t seriously injured, Murphysaid. Responders from Orem Department for Public Safety put makeshift supports for the overhanging roof-ofthe restaurant, which slumped after the impact. The jawsoflife were used to remove the passenger side door and free the passenger from the Optima. The business stayed open for another hour after.the accident, but ‘then was closed by building inspectors, Murphysaid. Burke saidhe and Metcalf were on their way to a job in Springville. “It was pretty interesting, page's bei sure. I don’t think the realization has mAaeTuesday, nocitiations had beenissued. See ACCIDENTS, A7 See GERMANY, A8 Utilities form partnership to serve 4 Western states OPINIONS D1 a COMICS «| UFEASTYLE Bt NATIONAWORLD_ AS OBITUARIES D3, D4 BUSINESS _DS WEATHER cB THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mostly sunny ae 3 voLUME 83 ISSUE 262 QU. SALT LAKE CITY — Seven utilities have announced the formation of a partnership to advance the Frontier Line,an electric-power transmission grid that would serve Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and California. However,the plans announced Mondaycould run afoul of California’s ‘oal of reducing greenhouse-gas emisam Ite Weitern Reon Transmission about faure eect resources and how to re for it. utility partners are PacificGas & etre San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, Sierra Pacific Power, Nevada Power, Rocky Mountain Power and Utah Power. The latter twoaredivisions of PacifiCorp, which Mi Energy Holdings recently acquired. Govs. Jon Huntsman of Utah, Dave Freudenthal of Wyoming, Kenn Guinn of Nevada and Arold Sc ar zenegger of California signed a memorandum of understanding last year to proceed with Frontier Line E During a public address at the New Frontier Power Summit under way in San Diego, Huntsman said that building the transmission line would allow “morediversified, clean energy for the West” that would “help usher in the next generation of renewable and advanced coal technologies across the est.” Frontier Line advocates have said it would be a'wayto getee energy into the However,critics have said solar and ‘wind power would account for about 2 of the load. Meanwhile, for at least 27 new coal_fired power plants are on the boards, “WWIW.HERALDEXTRA.COM — CALL 375-103 TO SUBSCRIBE xf INSIDE OUR TOWNS SPORTS including at least 10 that would sell power to California. None of them would employ a technology that allows producers to strip pollutants before the coal is burned and capture carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. California has said it won't sign any long-term electric energy contracts that would interfere with its ee house-gas emission reduction goals, which pats is quasi bothitie fubure of the planned power plants and the Frontier Line itself, because it can't be built without the assurances oflongterm contracts. wl |