Show B2 The Salt Lake Tribune it mi Monday April Little Inventors Tackle Pesky Problems "3 By Anne Wilson Tribune Staff Writer Fifth-gradMichael Collins had a drinking problem: Glasses occasionally few out of his grasp as he reached into the kitchen cupboards Not to worry He took the hand brake off his bicycle attached it to a stick and produced the "Glass Grabber" Michael's invention was one of dozens created this year by students er r ' it' St 4 '''ft r it An at Beacon Heights Elementary School 1850 S 2500 East The in- ventions were the culmination of a effort to help students r two-yea- think creatively an example of a slight change of focus in education "The world of education is just shifting from a knowledge base of facts to being able to process information and come up with a product for an audience" said Beacon Heights teacher Coleen Menlove "Imagination is what's going to manage your knowledge" Twelve-year-ol- d Jen Snow put her imagination to work to solve a family brother problem: Her kept stalling bedtime by pleading for drinks Jen created The Drinking Bear" a stuffed toy with a baby bottle hidden inside She threaded a straw through an inverted nipple on top of the bottle and stuck the straw Out the bear's mouth This she reasoned would provide company as well as beverage for a testy toddler Marketing tests on her siblings seemed successful "I put it in a Ninja Turtle and they loved it quite a bit — they slept with it And so did my mom 'cause she didn't have to tend to them" Jen said P - £VS mi i- i- Justin Lane checks lunch in his new solar- powered hot dog cooker Justin is one of Tia KeilyTht Sail Lake Tntuiae many Beacon Heights Elementary students working to make the future a little easier i I with a hammer prompted him to create a metal box in which to store tools and nails while standing on a third-grade- ladder "One time I was working on a ladder and I didn't have any place to put the hammer" said the "It fell on me and I had to get stitch- es" Even first-grade- had problems rs to solve Za chary Williams took a baseball cap and stuck another one on top backward to create the "Hat Back Scratcher" He tipped his head back to demonstrate how he could scratch at least the top few inches of his back Beacon Heights' students last year began learning thinking skills like decision-makin- g planning and Leapin' Lizards Burrito Fiends! Is That a Red Iguana? Continued From B-- l and people from the airlines have stopped to pick up food to take to New York or Chicago They always tell us 'Don't ever change' " C was 1966 when Ramone and Maria decided to move from San Francisco to Salt Lake City to open one of the city's first authentic Mexican restaurants then called Casa Grande "Maria cooked and I waited tables" recalls Ramone "It was tough needed a livelier name Ramone Jr suggested The Red Iguana — something that few people would be able H Monday's Weather The State Forecast forecast for noon Monday April 22 Accu-Weath- or X 60 flit tonmrtiiit moW ond uftstobbf okvituw ow lh wtfi fitnoiw Bvouh TtiMckty vfoM o tvtok mmanim arturbooc It uptctad to maw trrto Kxith-Utah Ih (tat kxcit oalH tor voftatoty ctcucfy ' are they?' Today all that's changed People from all over the world live on the west side — oriental people Mexican people Tongan people It makes this part of town an interesting place" Five years ago when the Cardenas moved to a new location at 76 S 300 West they decided their restaurant making a living at first because most people around here didn't know much about Mexican food in those days There were only three Mexican restaurants and there weren't very many immigrants either" "People thought we were from another world when we opened our restaurant" he says "We'd walk into the grocery store and everybody would turn around and look at us like they were thinking 'Now who 50 KMtt through Tuawioy wttn scattered kit day ihowwi - Oaytim temperature mW bt period Might art! b In the mi4--0 to mkMOs wtft ion In tU mxi-X- H 6r thtwdatthtHMn " truough aim to fr Expected Temperatures it Air Pollution Index KWT COLD © Q HON LOW STATIONARY El ZJ2 Mnwus ntMncs 1MO& Inc C1B81 show £l dD cc Butr pt aoucr cloudy Area Forecast mid-30- mtd-oQ- rmd-30- - Weather Summary Intermountain widely scattered late day showers today with o few thunderstorms Scattered showers will develop tomorrow Skies will be cloudy today and mostly cloudy by Tuesday Highs will be in the lower 80s with lows In the upper 40s Utah's Dixie — The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies today with widely scattered late day shevers and a tew thunderstorms Mostly cloudy skies will prevail Tuesday with developing scattered showers Highs in St George will be near 80 degrees with lows In the upper 40s Southwest Valleys and Deserts — The forecast calls for a lew thunderstorms and scattered showers through Tuesday wrth increasingly cloudy skies Winds aie expected tomorrow horn the south at 10 to 20 mph Highs will be In the lower 60s with lows in the upper 30s Northern Mountains — The forecast calls for variable cloudy skies scattered showers and a few late day thunderstorms The snow level will be at 6500 to 7000 feet through tomorrow Highs at Snowbird will be m the mid to upper 40s with lows in the s Highs at Pork City will be in the upper 50s with lows in the lower 30s Recreational Areas — Lake Powell mid-20- ConyonkMids Utah 44 Standing BoghamCrry Bryce Canyon 'BuHiog M SO 2S 36 42 21 M M CeoarCrly 60 CoaVHie Delta Fttmore Rommg Gorge Green ftver Hanktvtte S3 64 62 37 34 33 40 M M 74 73 S3 44 43 30 40 37 39 37 29 HeberOty Helper Hogle Zoo Konub lOf- -l Midway Mdtoid iMoob MortKello Nephi Ogden PorkOty 43 St S9 M M S9 67 73 S8 64 41 31 37 89 63 42 Richf-ek- ! 61 Sot) take City Spanish St Fork George Tooeie Vernal Wenoover Zion Nat Park 69 SI 64 75 61 66 S9 73 02 32 33 34 35 47 37 Reno wmnemucca 40 23 53 20 Daily Data 13 Precipitation — 74 Precipitation this month — 85 Accumulative deficiency — 406 Precipitation since Oct 1 1990 — Accumulative deficiency — 366 State high — 75 at St George 25 at Alta State low — 58 degrees SLC high — 42 degrees SLC low — Normal high for this date — 63 degrees — Normal low for this date 39 degrees Record high for this date — 83 degrees — for this low 22 Record date degrees Sunnse Today — Sunset Today — 31 02 02 52 39 09 T Evonston M loromie 42 Rock Springs 37 70 61 S9 61 59 47 41 39 39 43 T 43 T Idaho Falls Pocaleilo Rextxirg Twm Falls 01 T 11 79 03 01 01 11 Montana W Yellowstone 21 Colorado Grond Junction 54 51 65 42 42 03 Amsterdam Athens Beiing Berlin Cairo Dublin 55 J3 10 01 Geneva Hongkong London Madrid Mexico City Moscow Nairobi Pons Rome Sydney Tokyo 46 70 70 43 77 $2 46 70 SO 61 M 64 75 46 57 28 54 50 32 66 43 36 64 37 38 60 41 54 28 34 MM 68 54 H L Predp Pacific States 42 31 Anchorage Fairbanks Honolulu Los Angeles Portland Son Die-g- o Son froncisco Seattle Midwest Bsmorck Chicago Detroit Konsas City Minneapolis Oklahoma City Omaha St Louis 81 26 83 68 67 55 60 SO 304 66 86 66 SI M 62 47 63 33 54 39 42 37 56 37 89 31 56 49 Todoyt Forecast H I WJ 47 33 ddy SO 33 mod S3 70 smw 70 52 fair 82 44 shwr 67 SS fair 67 49 fair 64 45 ptot 55 3 ptd 60 34 tnny 02 53 37 ptd 60 44 rain 61 35 ddy 62 40 60 40 64 47 ptd 85 40 ddy 60 43 ddy 48 41 332 44 40 57 46 41 113 54 49 04 84 47 02 84 43 82 6$ 47 60 64 82 62 86 64 65 68 64 83 79 03 tatt Yetterdayi Conditions T JS4 01 Global Temps 0 Tettetdoyt Condthont 33 39 33 43 33 32 Casper Cheyenne 6:39 MOT 8:1 3 MOT National T Wyoming Boise 4$ 44 42 Vegas 55 54 76 63 56 Idaho 37 M M 51 48 M Price Provo Randolph Roosevelt 31 Zkxi National Park — morrow Highs at Lake Powell will be in the lower 80s wrth lows near 50 degrees Highs at Conyonland s and ZkxVs National Park highs will be In the mid to upper 70s with lows In the mid to upper 40s 3 to 8 Day Extended Forecast — The extended forecast for Wednesday through Friday calls for increasingly cloudy skies with a few mountain showers Wednesday turning colder on Thursday when occasional rain is expected Snow showers are expected Friday Highs will be In the mid-60- s to near 80 degrees on Wednesday cooling to the 40s ond 50s Friday Lows will be in to upper 40s the mid-20- s Nevada Hio tty W— Summary Yesterday't Conditions Preclp Ma and forecast calls (or widely scattered late day showers today ond a lew thunderstorms Scattered showers will develop to The Las 1—Trace sorry-lookin- Author Scores Extra Bases With SL Line A M Monday and Tuesday Northern Utah foreeaet — Wasatch front and Great Sort Lake Desert — The forecast calls for higher temperatures with portty ctouay skies today becoming irv oeasingly cloudy by Tuesday Widely scattered tale day showers or thunderstorms ore expected through Tuesday Highs along the V --satch Root wiN be In the mid to upper 60s with lows in the upper 30s The Great Salt Lake Desert will have highs in the low to upper 60s with lows In the lower 40s LNnta Basin — The forecast calls for cloudy skies Widely scattered afternoon ortd evening showers or thunderstorms are expected through Tuesday Highs at Vernal witl be In the rmd to upper 60s wrrh lows In the lower 30s Cache Valley — The area can expect widely scattered late day shav ers or thunderstorms today to continue through Tuesday Gusty winds are expected near showers Highs at Logan win be In the lower 60s s wrrh lows in the Southern Utah Forecoiit — Sevier Valley—The forecast calls for Increasingly cloudy skies A tew thunderstorms and widely scattered afternoon and evening showers ate expected today ond tomorrow Southern winds at 10 to 20 mph ore s with expected Highs will be in the s lows in the Southeast Utah — The forecast coiis for The Red Iguana burned down in 1986 and the Cardenas were worried they wouldn't be able to find an affordable place Then one day they g noticed a building for sale on North Temple After a quick cleaning and remodeling they were back in business flaunting their chimichan-ga- s flautas and deep-fryin- g -l Selected kxecosl temperatures throughout the date (HH MamiiittyMiCwkattty 4317 GrMfifttv-- f 7741 logon H1S Moab 1047 Ooctan 44 J9 fWM 47M kM LaU Ctty 64 Vwnat to32 Wwt- -' 6oM 4142 St &mrg 7149 ' to forget After only one year in business Continued from BLeague" he said "It's my vision of baseball is It's what minor-leagu- e what Norman Rockwell would paint" Lamb said he became less and less enamored of Triple-- baseball as his trip progressed and some of his more memorable stops at least as they're presented in the book included towns like El Paso (Double-A- ) Durham NC (A) and Bluefield Higheil air pokAon figures tot leteded ctfwi Some— 9 Wah Heath Dept moderate QOOO harord-- ' unreattifut 20C-29very unheairtut 300-50- 0 out (OZ— ozone CO— carton monowoe PA— ftespno- AO taH lak Ctty— bte parteutatet nwo-- CO 22 U and Davit Coun-22: Coomh-C- O ttot-- OZ V Wait County— C0 11 Weber County— OZ fair cldy fair cldy fair cldy lair cldy lair fair M cldy ddy fair rain M ddy at the base of a wall separating a The flames moved upward about 20 feet to the roof classroom and hallway Chief Dave Limberg said crews contained the fire in 15 minutes When a fire hydrant on the school's north lawn blew its top rendering it useless water pressure was maintained by a fire engine while fire crews transferred the hose to a hydrant across the street and resumed dousing the flames Sgt Rasmussen said investigators are looking into reports of juveniles seen on the roof just prior to the fire 15-Year-- t inr Justin Lane a vented a solar hot dog cooker for outdoor use Matthew Parks 8 took an ashtray with a hinged bottom and mounted it on a pipe to create his snake feeder "I always had to open the cage My snake would jump out" he said of his motivation to invent the feeder Stephen S peers' close encounter Arsonists set fire to Pleasant Green Elementary School 8201 W 2700 South Saturday causing an estimated $5000 in damage to the walls and roof of the east wing Fire investigators found remnants of match books wedged in a crack in a wall on the south side of the school said Granite District Police Sgt Todd Rasmussen The firebugs apparently tried and failed to ignite the fire in two other places on the south wall The third attempt was successful as a crack in the aluminum siding exposed combustible interior plywood The fire started about 5:55 pm Layton Police Probe Crash That Killed : 3' U 3 Fire at Magna Elementary Causes $5000 Damage Boston Buffalo New York Richmond Washington South Atlanta brrrunghom Louisville Memphis Miami New Orleans Orlando Southwest Albuquerque Dodos Paso Pnoenu Ei Son Antonio Tucson 49 47 45 45 69 73 58 78 64 74 48 62 52 84 86 83 60 86 87 81 47 01 04 81 42 shwr 38 rain 42 shwr 4$ ptd 46 ptd 44 ptd 45 ddy 40 ptd 80 rain 65 tnny 60 ptd 56 ptd 72 41 fair 74 SS ptd 81 51 tnny 84 S9 fair 81 57 tnny 82 49 fair W Va (Rookie) Along the way Lamb did more than teams He just check on minor-leagu- e also checked out the alumni of his boyhood team the old Milwaukee Braves of the '50s in an exercise similar to Roger Kahn's in "The Boys of Summer' a book that Lamb reread while on his journey Boston lost the Braves to Milwaukee in 1953 but Lamb's heart went with them to the Midwest In 1955 at the age of 14 Lamb summoned the nerve to write the sports editor of the Milwaukee Journal and suggest he could give the paper a Boston boy's view of his lost team The editor bought the idea and Lamb wrote weekly columns on the Braves from Boston He also visited Milwaukee once that summer and met his heroes Lamb found some of those Braves in middle age on his 1989 trip across the country and mixed their stories in with his own Coming at bis readers from all these different angles Lamb presents a travelogue that uses baseball more as a loose structure rather than a main theme It's an interesting trip with a man who sought Jack Kerouac's open road in the late '50s when he hitchhiked across the country America was more innocent and open then just as David Lamb believes Salt Lake City his "America of the '50s" is now whether we like his infamous line or not LAYTON — Investigation continues in the death of a Lay-to- n girl killed Wednesday night in a two-ca- r accident on Highway 89 Mindy Child was pinned inside a car driven by a male that failed to yield the right of way while making a left turn in to the Tanglewood Subdivision said Lay-to- n City Patrolman Steve Brown The girl was pronounced dead at Humana Hospital According to eyewitnesses the southbound car turned in front of a truck driven by Andria Newsome 18 and passenger Scott Taul 24 both Salt Lake City The truck hit the passenger's side of the car and the driver was ejected onto the pavement The victim was trapped inside Patrolman Brown said She was extracted from the wreckage by Davis County paramedics and Layton City firemen Patrolman Brown said The driver was transported by heHospital licopter to McKay-De- e where he was treated for head facial and internal injuries The occupants of the truck were Old OTAIKI DATELINE LOGAN "I RfYjROALE f UYTOW "£610 syf HEBERCmr LAKE POWELL I treated for minor injuries and Fleeing Driver Hits Kills Clinton Woman RIVERDALE — A woman was struck and killed Saturday by a motorist who fled the scene at 4008 S 1250 West The victim Beverley Shaee McElroy 33 Clinton was pro nounced dead at the scene Riverdale Police said the investigation is pending but have a suspect in the 1:20 am incident No arrests had been made by Sunday night Shape Up and Ship Out Says Lake Powell LAKE POWELL — Spring is tidy-u- p time and on May 4 Lake Powell marinas are once again providing free houseboats to groups who want to "Adopt A Canyon" The National Park Service will suggest canyons and provide trash bags for volunteers to collect litter which is left by 3 percent of boaters according to park service estimates Groups interested in participating in the annual event should contact boat rental offices at Wahweap Marina or Hite Marina Bullfrog Marina "regulars" who turned out in large numbers last year and newcomers are encouraged to join a cleanup party and chili cook-of- f on Saturday Dryland Farmers Pitch In Fund Research LOGAN — For the second time in 26 years dryland wheat farmers and related businesses in northern Utah and southern Idaho have dug into their own pockets to support agricultural research The latest show of support resulted in $25000 to purchase 50 acres for the Blue Creek Dryland Farm a research facility of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station g The campaign duplicated a similar effort in 1964 when fund-raisin- farmers purchased land for the farm "If it weren't for the experimental farm I can honestly say that I would not have stayed in business" said Deloris Stokes of Tremonton g camwho headed the paign "The release of wheat increased yields from 10 to 50 bushels We finally had a bin of wheat to sell I'm 100 percent sold on what's been done and what's going to be accomplished We needed more land for research" fund-raisin- smut-resista- Wasatch County May Bid for HEBER CITY — Wasatch County Commission is prepared to make an offer for 21 acres west of the County Complex One reason the county needs the property the commissioners said is to expand the public-work- s garage They said there isn't enough space to park county vehicles overnight in the nt Lot 21-Ac- re present garage especially since the county purchased garbage trucks several months ago The additional property also would be used to expand the complex's parking facilities The commissioners said the additional property also may be used for recreational activities BYU Scientist Wins Conservation Award PROVO — A Brigham Young University scientist who has fought air pollution for the pasi 20 years is a 1991 recipient of the prestigious Chevron Conservation Award Samuel R Rushforth professor in the Botany and Range Science De partment will travel to Washington DC May 15 to receive a bronze medallion and $1000 honorarium One of 10 winners in the professional category he also joins winners in volunteer and organization divisions from throughout North America Broken Pipe Swamps U Hospital Continued from B-- l ting it on top of things like cabinets" he said "It was constantly flowing" said charge nurse Chris Williams "We had it dammed up in some areas with linen and carpets from the Hobby" Three ladder trucks four fire gines and about 50 firefighters were dispatched to the hospital at 9:58 am They began pumping water out of the buildings and pushed it out with brooms and squeegees said Chief Kleine Sawdust dikes were also erected to dien- vert water "What we had here was a mini Midwest flood that just happened to be in the University Hospital It's all over the place" he said Mr Dwan speculated repairs on the water line the day before may have caused the break "The crews were changing the pipe from the city line to the university s smaller line" he explained "I heard it could have been something like a water surge that burst it " h re- leased Debris was scattered over the width of the highway and the northbound lanes were closed for two hours the patrolman said GBMIPJAD See why you must avoid probate See how 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