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Show Lakeside IMF West Bountiful eyes master traffic plan Small city of 5.000 sutlers from Its location traffic rlan, A pubhc hearing Tuesday night diew a suniciemly large crowd w rak the relatively ima!l council chant kn. PfTOMeusamna (txtj M i A variety of Questions and answers were given during the public heanng with the council asking those at tending to review and turn in their re sponses to a traffic survey by today. The biggest concern, Scott said, is for a potential full interchange at 4uo North and M3. ftoont ST BOUNTI FUL - Traffic play far greater rule in Wen Bountiful than m population of about 5.x) would e indt-tat- c. With a hap like an hour-gU- . inter. icetcJ by 113 and hurting halt Lake City on the south and ttouniiful on the east. this community is inundated by many thousands of schtsles a day. And int The city certainly in favor of that. LOOT (Utah Department of Transpiration) has indicated their will ingness to move forward" and try to find other alternatives, he added, noting the growth. Traffic planning consultant Creg of the meeting was fairly positive. In a transportation clement study com piled by Scott, its noted that the city's local transportation problem are impacted by land-us- e patterns and street Davor Scott said West Bountiful sutlers greatly from ns location, scning often as a con Jutt for commuters traveling to and from Salt Lake City. In an effort to try and minimize those impacts, the City design. Transportation requirement Council is stud)ing opiums for a master arise from the cityi residential, recre Project Starshine aims to get children into space auuocuvtlo pntus SALT LAKE CITY - NASA administrator Dan Goldin immediately found a kindred soul when he met with Oak Hills Elementary School children outside Hansen Plane-ItanuJessica Kcmpe, a student at the Bountiful ichool, announced to Goldin: I want to go to Mars." "You want to go to Mars? So do I!" answered the chief of the nation's space agency. Goldin was in Utah last Wednesday to launch Project Starshine, which aims to launch a mirror-covere- d satellite built by and for students from the spjee shuttle. The mission is scheduled for December 1998, aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor. School children throughout the country, mostly in the West, will polish 250 metallic mirrors to a high reflectivity. The mirrors then will be attached to the satellite and released by Endeavors crew. Designers expect the finished product to twinkle brightly with reflected sunlight in the dusk and dawn skies. Unless step are taken. ?00 South could become hned with strip' commercial deselopment." and that could hr come more of a problem because ii'i the street will carry traffic east from Redwood Road to and Bountiful during peak afternoon rush-hou- r jear. Among prospects for increased traffic are; projections that employ tops to the city are es pecied to more than double py 2o;o; conwfname traffic projections for MIS mdituie iraffc ilirough the city will in crease I percent on mot city streets; on busy JoO Suih, traffic may increase by J50 percem; n also hkely that traffic through the city will be much heavier when 113 construction, acci denis, or breakdown occur. mew-generate- d The citys future action need to be aimed at reducing the impact of travel upon the resident' safety and quality of life." Scott aid. Among way to do that i for the city to preserve and build the street capacity on busy 300 South. , period. to the area JO-M- projections call for that only in increase - bui at a far faster rate than population rn ation. commercial, and industrial land use. But it I ,M0 residences, alone, gcnrraie an estimated IJ.ua) top a day. And the number of homes in the cy is projected to double within the nest II And decreased traffic capacity on 500 West due to adjacent imp deselopment could cause tratllc to spill oser into the city in search of a les congested roue to M3 or Bountiful, lie points to such effort as traffic calming" a a way to ease impact of sehidcs while also fore ing dnsers to slow1 down, dnsing more to the widih of the streets and other con ditions. Among methods to be studied that can slow traffic are: choker or curb exwhuh biovk tension; partial-divertehalf of a street intersection; landscaping rs for calming; median; ipecd display boards; speed bumps; street closures; street narrowing; textured crosswalks; and traitlc ctfkle. or raised pavement at an intersection. Among g.uU and strategies to improve traffic Dow and impact are continuing to strongly push for a sin gle, complete, and fair analysis of M3, commuter rail, and other alternatives to a Legacy Highway decision being made; actively upprt regional ettoits to fund a transit link through ihe south Dans corridor; strongly discourage the reuse of ihe Denver and Rio Grande Western line for transit res train use: promote long-teroluuon to problems with the 1151213 and optimism of the settlers who came to Utah 130 years ago. "We need the same kind of optimism" for the future, he said. "Starshine is about the future," Goldin adJcd, standing beside a mockup of the satellite. "Starshine is about our ball-lak- e children." According to the NASA chief, children who are not skilled with computers and technology will not be able to lead the country into the next century. "This isn't just a little, simple experiment. This is something that's fundamental," he said of Starshine. Goldin credited Gil Moore, a former Utah State University professor who is now retired and living in Colorado, as the originator and prime mover behind the Starshine idea. hwAuMCuvaoftCaS SALT LAKE CITY-Ofte- n. Clan tlcichcr wields the deadly hypodermic. Other times she assists, comforting the frightened dog or cat with soft words and a touch. In cither role, flctchcr makes sure that tenderness is Ihe List thing experienced by the homeless animals before the sung of the needle and oblivion. "We hold them, caress them, talk gently to them." she said. "That is all they feel, and the needle. It's quick and painless." Up to 30 times a day, that doleful routine is repeated at the Sait Lake County animal shelter. Statewide, nearly 28.000 dogs and cats are euthanized each year. "It makes you wonder who forgot them or why no one cares enough to claim them," said Flctchcr. who has worked at the shelter three years. "They're the innocent ones. They didn't do anything to deserve this." Euthanasia is a task the mother of four - five, if you count Nimbus, her female Manx cat would very much like to erase from her job description. So would several animal advo - mcrgeBeck Street overpass area; Tor the city itself, it was noted that pedestrians and bicyclists often are forced into roadways because of inadesidewalks, creating further potential safety hazards. quate or shelters have little choice in destroying roughly half the animals they receive, he said. "Were all try ing to bring an end to the killing of animals. We at the sanctuary have one function, and the others have theirs, but we work together," Mountain said. His nonprofit sanctuary in scenic Angel Canyon rcguljrty swaps "easily adaptable pets, such as popular-bree- d puppies, for otherwise doomed animals. Best Friends estimates 73 perThe coalition of agencies cent of its charges - among hopes to reach its goal with a them a small number of horses, campaign: Stressing burros, water fowl, sheep, pigs pet adoption from shelters over and rabbits - eventually find from homes. animals purchasing "puppy mills," and proAmong the remaining 23 permoting universal pet neutering. cent are ailing, elderly, abused or Animal advocates agree that undomesticated strays who stay neutering alone, if uniformly on at the refuge. At Best Friends, adopted by pet owners, could animals are never euthanized exeliminate the need for half the cept to end unrelieved suffering. states animal euthanasia. We take the basically Until then, such "no-kilanimals, which really is sanctuaries as the one run by the purpose of a no-ki-ll facility Best Friends often are the last relike ours," Mountain said. prieve for unwanted pets. But the The countys shelter generally Kanab facility is a long shot, limkeeps unlicensed animals three-to-fiited to just 1,300 animals. working days. Exceptional MiBest Friends of pets - those chael Mountain said his popular breeds - are kept longer 100.000-membgroup and in some cases qualify for a y knows its limits. Overburdened reprieve in one of 15 fos two-prong- so-call- una-dopta- l" ve d, er 30-da- ter homes. The Humane Society of Utah keeps it charge up to three weeks, but sull euthanizes about half of them. It is not a role relished by Gene Baicrschmidi. executive director of the organiza- tion devoted to rescuing homeless and abused pets. Still, he is optimistic: The numbers of pets taken in. and the numbers euthanized, have been steadily dropping for several years as the push for neutering has gained momentum. In 1976, the Humane Society of Utah received 35.000 animals. A decade later, the figure was 23.000, and dropped to 8.000 in 1996, with 53 percent of those I pets placed in new homes. Chery l Smith, director HOME.MVKER SCHOOLS priiiying Vmu Taste of Home' VVVANV.W.VASSVVAV . .V.WAV-- ? V fcat - X satch Humane, said her volunteers try to save the more readily adoptable animals before their shelter time runs out. Originally known as Help Save the Animals, Wasatch ifumane relics on a dozen pet foster homes. her organization. "On average, we adopt out an average of 75 a month. But we certainly cant save all of them that need our help. THIS YEAR 3 BIG SHOWS! Tues., Sept. 9 at Ogden High' School in Ogden Wed., Sept. 10 at Lincoln Center in Brigham Thurs ., Sept. 11 at Layton High School in Layton up-to-da- te a Everyone who attends the show receives a FREE Maceys gift bag. Prizes, prizes and more prizes given away in drawings I cookbook of the recipes being prepared and valuable items offered by national and local manufactures and businesses. Tickets: $4.00 advance $5.00 at the door Mail-sen- d m . . "We rescue animals from death row, basically," she said of . Sunnie Renshaw, a professional home economist serves up a plate of fun and facts preparing over a dozen recipes on stage food products and kitchen appliances information. and brings With , of Wa- 199i7JStandardEx V.VVAV,AVNWAMV.SVAVAWAV. . ht . strongly oppose connections to the West . Davis (Legacy) Highway other than at . 500 South within the city. cacy group, which have joined Salt Lake County Animal Service in pledging to end euthanasia of healthy stray or abandoned pets a Utah enters the next millennium. The 2001, No More Homeless Pets" campaign is the brain-chi- lJ of the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, located on 200 acres near the southern Utah city of Kanab. Joining the county and sanctuary as cosponsors are the Humane Society and Wasatch Humane organizations. well-traine- " high-capacit- y When pets options up, its the needle Using the Internet and special software, students throughout the world will be able to watch for light glints from the satellite and record it exact position. They then will calculate its orbit. Sen. 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