Show ir$& - Cii'4i V - " fr — Cl- - T- ikw tyMim Page 12 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday October 9 1996 timWEATHE - r r- Utah outlook - 4 -- i HIMW ' Look fonweathednfo links — onlinehttpwvmhfniwrcom ' ‘ wiia M Cache Valley outlook The national picture ogan 76° 6:33 am MDT Albuquerque Anchorage Salt Lake City 82° Provo 82° Richfield 86e & Moab Cedar City 86° U 85° I 98‘ THURSDAY Sunny and continued very warm Fair and mild tonight Logan's high will reach 80 degrees with the low dropping to 40 degrees downtown 44 degrees in Hyrum and 36 degrees in Trenton Sunny with a few afternoon clouds mainly over the mountains and continued very warm Fair and mild Thursday evening Logan's high will reach 81 degrees with the low dropping to 41 degrees downtown and 36 degrees at the colder central val- AV St George TODAY ley locations EXTENDED Sunny and hot Friday with near record-settin- g high tempera- tures Partly cloudy and continued very warm Saturday and Sunday though temperatures may cool a few degrees Logan's high will reach the low 80s Friday near 80 degrees Saturday and mid to upper 70s Sunday Atlanta Baltimore Billings Bismarck Boise Boston Casper Cheyenne Chicago Cincinnati Dallas-F-t Worth Denver Des Moines Detroit Honolulu Kansas City The AccuWeather forecast for noon ujm 10s Thursday Oct 10 'Balim OslOsaosOOeSOsSOsMiTOsOOsiOs Os 100s 110s Weather synopsis: A very strong upper level of high pressure over the Intermountain Region will remain strong for at least the next five days Indian Summer may last through much of October this year 1 Precipitation probabilities: for noon Thursday Oct 10 1996 Wednesday-Frida- 0 percent y Cache temperatures Almanac Logan's average dally evaporation: 15 inches Ultravlolet Index: Low at 3 From Tuesday night and Wednes- - Moon: New moon Oct 12 6:16 am On this date: On Oct 9 in 1985 one inch of snow fell in Trenton COLD Sun: Sunset tonight at 6:58 pm Sunrise tomorrow at 7:33 am H high FS- m’liiilft I'iifflifci to environmental response issues” said Joe Hunter Continued from Page 1 naturally said officials speaking on condition of anonymity Although dams have been run to suit the needs of power coop- eratives for decades all sides agree that the Glen Canyon studies are the start of a new era “Up and down the Colorado River virtually every dam is Swap Continued from Page 3 designate 17 million acres in execu- tive director of the largest power cooperative on the Colorado the Salt Lake City-base- d Colorado River Energy Distributors Association “But Glen Canyon was the first because well it’s the Grand Canyon" The 34 separate studies show the manmade flood returned nutrient-ric- h sediment to the river reviving old beaches and creating new ones He said similar land at Sun Valley Ski Resort in Idaho and Deer Valley in Park City is selling for S4(K)(KK) a half acre “If you take those figures and apply them here they’re going to make a dump truck load” Sanders said The flood also scoured old vegetation out of backwater canyons making room for endangered fish to breed and restored several major rapids They back what environmentalists have been saying for years: River ecosystems crave the natural flow of water and can be harmed by synthetic extreme fluctuations from dams Before Glen Canyon Dam was built in 1963 the Colorado carried millions of tons of sediment each year into the Grand Canyon Sanders said “There is nobody associated with the Olympics who says you need 1320 acres at creating beaches where plants could grow and providing food for insects fish and birds Until 1990 the dam was operated to suit power cooperatives that provide electricity to about 20 million people in the West Water would (low to accommo- date the evening dinner rush when people were running their ovens or in the afternoon when their air conditioning would come on The once red and muddy sand trapped upstream At the urging of environmen Continued from Page 3 The city also held a discussion led by Booth on making greater use of independent contractors lot the city's labor needs The next step in that process Councilman Jay llicken said will be to set an open workshop to formulate a city philosophy on the matter In a public hearing on the city 'x with the Planning and Zoning Commission on a number of ters including the city's home businesses E3 523 HI showchs ham 1IM AccuWaathar Inc s Ei a O mswes snow tee sunny c ft cloudy £Q cloudy mat- policy-regardin- talists and river runners the is generated by Glen (j'anyon gov- ernment began studying the impact of the dam in 1990 slightly increasing or reducing the amount of water released at different times of the day in an effort to create a more natural Dam He figures members would lose about $40 million a year in reduced power generation with a more restrictive water-releas- e schedule He also said the cooperatives habitat What was still missing they realized was a major flood of the have paid about $100 million over the last six years to study the fluctuations This spring's flood cost about $13 million Alterations in the dam's flow and other environmental considerations have forced electricity rates up more than 23 percent since 1990 he said sort that used to happen each spring when the snow melted in Colorado's mountains After years of bureaucratic wrangling the way was cleared for the manmade flood Hunter said about 83 percent of his association's electrical power SCRATCH AND DENT BLOWOUT can't" st budget council members voted to bring forward $47699 from last year's budget to pay some bills In other action the council: Approved a business license for latgan Exterfor Jerry mination at IK) W 170(1 South while noting there were problems with zoning for that business: Introduced a university intern Katie Meldrum who will work Col- orado flowed green and clear with 90 percent of its mud and Snowbasin to run the Olympics and we have challenged Hansen to come up with a name He Southern Utah as a national monThe 411S acres swapped by Save Our Snowbasin an Ogden ument without hearings “It was is in four Weber County the to Holding Valley group opposed wrong for Clinton and it is development called the exchange and Box Elder County parcels wrong for Snowbasin" Sanders a land grab by Holding that will that Sanders said arc virtually said spawn more development worthless Most of it is a 2000-acr- c But Frccmycr said developplot of sagebrush-covere- d throughout the valley ment will he subject to all local Sanders' aide Marcy Smith land on the cast side of Monte state and national environmental C'risto just west of the Cache who organized Tuesday's protest laws said Hansen's methods were “terCounty line Sanders pointed out But Frccmycr said it's the o'her rible" in pushing the land sw ap “Nothing is waived" Frccmycr said in response today “They will around Most of the 1320 down arc way tearing “They pristine be subject to all controls just like forest and getting it for a Kith of acres given up by the Forest Service is scrub oak not pristine what it's worth" Smith said any other private landowner" Sanders said Snowbasin owner Sanders said the additional land land Frccmycr said The 41 15 acres is land the I or-iEarl Holding pulled off a major is not necessary to hold men's Service has coveted for vjars land the women's and downhill events coup by gelling swap and his company stands to make during the winter games at SnowFrccmycr said including one parup to $2(M) million just on land basin but hackers including cel that covers Taylor's Canyon sales alone Hansen used the Olympics as a on Ogden's cast bench “That is pristine land and that will open “It was brilliant on the part of tool to turn the deal Sun Valley and they will forever “Hansen is nothing less than the entire mouth of that canyon be able to say the Olympics were deceitful when he says this is up to recreation" Frccmycr said held here" Sanders said necessary for the Olympics" City L low e STATIONARY Local forecasts provided by Continental Weather Services being operated to some degree in Flood WARM Save hundreds of dollars on cosmetically imperfect merchandise TVs Big Screens Stereo Systems Components and Camcorders one of a kind We’ve finished our remodeling and need to make room for new display merchandise County Continued from Page 1 Discussed use of about 93 acres of county land straddling the North laigan-llyd- c Park border Part of the land is being used by the North Park Equestrian Park and requests to use other parts of it have been made by the Bridgerland Community Ice Arena and Utah Slate University The council plans to tour the site later this month In brloff Continued from Page but we 3 “We deeply regret not being able to open" said Lynn Fischer of Best Tires in Cornish "ibcrc was just no way to meet the regulations (in that short a time)" Fischer and her auctioneer husband L Brad Fis- cher proposed taking over management of the Cache Valley Livestock Auction after Preston rancher Dave Boxen deeidid two weeks ago it was just tiro much work “We were spread too thin and had tix many irons in the fire" Boscn said “The auction was our last venture so we opted to give it up" Boscn said the auction had Keen profitable and aside from keeping him too busy he didn't have any reason to walk away from it Hie auction is owned by David BnkMtaJ a Preston farmer I ynt f ist her said she hadn't expected such a regulatory hassle including liability bonds and numerous forms 10 several state and federal agencies “Wc had understood it was a very simple thing” Fischer xnj "We're going to work to get it open don't have a set date" River Heights backs ice arena RIM R HEIGHTS — The City Council on Tuesday endorsed a resolution to build an ice arena somewhere in Cache County The Bridgerland Community Ice Arena Committee is gathering support from all communities for the project which could begin as early as next year No fixation for the arena has been decided but the committee said it is looking at somew here just norlh of logan Ihc council also js examining a request from River Heights Elementary School to pave sidewalks along two niarby streets where pupils walk Kerry Biinghurst city recorder said the school has sailed a meeting tonight to discuss the issue I he school has requested sidewalks along H' Fast and on 6(KI South but most of the area is along county roads Rringhurst said "We're trying to determine whose responsibility i is" Brinchurst said "Because installing sidewalks is expensive and it takes time” - i Sale Ends October s LYNNS LA - than danci touris Sin garni: City and i entert ing tl 19! forth Jiuma MIDED 4 1655 North Main Logan Ut 84321 Store Hours Monday' thru Saturday 10:00am 7:OOpm 752-656- -- As Las docs S3 outlir EE Thu POOR C( |