Show rr "V 'P'TTT' M- - f ' P7 Utah gets federal grants for Games insldo SALT LAKE CITY (AP)— Perhaps it was his Chelsea's birthday that pot Resident Clinton in a giving mood 4 The grants include $632 million to the Utah lrensit Authority to continue con- - straction of the Salt pur-du- bases and related He granti are the third installment in a $241 million federal SALT LAKE u a conference call with Salt Lake Mayor Deedee Comdini ao Ridsy US Transportation Secretary Rodney 2002 aid I aid done Slater said “We were down to the bottom of the barrel here” said Comdini who stood in front of an oversized novelty check for the $64 million and change from the United States Treasuiywhile conducting the conference call “This will keep us going The entire project will cost $312 lion The of the funding will come from the UTA The light rail fine will begin in downtown Safi Lake City and travel south to mil-balan-ce promised to Utah The state hss received approximately half that amount now Gordon Linton of the federal Transit 13-mi- na& ainoe uir 'Clinton has funding package Slater confirmed the grants which wifi help Utah to build a le light rail Snoring al ywcfimbing ne seven new transit Olympics “This is going to be very 'We're naifway there and we're going to stick with you until we're Lake Rail Line and $13 million to onRiday Ointocused a family ikftvacatkm million in Park City to in federal transportatioo grants to help Utah prepare for the 2002 Winter “right on track for full funding in 1999” until ita completion Administration said the project was : Sandy connecting several major Olympic activity centers UTA board president Jim Clark noted that the light-ra- il line is one of the few major transportation projects in the United States that is on budget and on schedule The project is scheduled for completion by December 2002 Utah Gov Mike Leavitt who wasn't aware of the impending grant was pleased that the funding for the project was coming quickly and easily “All I can say is any time the presi- dent comes to town and brings his checkbook it's a happy event” Leavitt said jgg'CBg iShouldsexes Area volunteers content to dip into own pocketbooks but some financial help would be welcome jtrain: i in BSuaame Schafer MHHanr By Lance Pitcher staff writer ' Writer ? ‘ f you ever find yourself lost in the mountains maybe injured waiting for the shaking beams of light cutting through a cold blustery night to reach TOM'JACKSONSG —A their buddies hoot and holler encourage y meat male and female Army recruits at the Army's Ingest training hoe grab arms legs or midsections to and lift one another over a ot fa-Vwooden wriL'? f' VnjT £ “Hoo-aahh- l” the gronp bellows as ' themes and women of one unit finally over the walL The exercise is to teach trainees tnnt and : inooeanotber but the young recruits also must be where they should — or shouldn't —K greb when helping otters through the ' ' ? -- course’s treaty obstacles:'':1:'--'--and sexual V a'- iSincdreporfrpfjape tadaiiiiwliroka'iboK'tiiEm'A' Jwsr igfr y at an Andy training base in Aberdeen MtL the Pentagon has been struggling to respond to criticism its training rep- men nm been too lax and that mot and women in its M million ' volunteer force has prompted untoward behavior "-- '“Pf t V £'! An advisory pandheaded by former Kansas Sen Nancy Kassebaum Baker has called for separating men and women in the firri six weeks of basic training— the Marine Corps does — housing men and women in separate buikhngs during their first two segments of training 0 12-fo- if when they do Chances are it's all the compensation they’ll get Howev- er there are those among the Cache County Search and Rescue that fej U’a all the compeniatioa tair iJ DeGasser is not alone in his thoughts of the rewards of spending a night searching for people who have lost their way or have been injured in the back country Bait Esphn commander of Search and Rescue said he and his fellow members are often just happy to have the chance to help Z ' s- OUL"-'- ' CachQ & counting cMrict actwoia baaed on w 19M Qrada $ atriawm taadng progtwm' Onktln mWb ft numbttt agpaaftscaar ty IMch MaacaiWHaraM Journal The Cachs County Search and Rescue anowcat makas afternoon near the SMca In Logan Canyon s WMMti UBBEBPUHHUVfU By I t 4 Vil''t Phi Jansen v staff writer jA f state money this year bat will it be enough far some smooth skating? : The Utah House of Representatives has placed tte ice arena lOtt on its pri- e funding and ority liat for new set aside $250 00Q for the project 'i it tha backcountry Sabaday r- ' - t vfA '(fc Ms for short of the $2 million indoor ice It appears that a 2000-aea- t arena for Cache County will get some i! h Ita way down from icearenam OovommcnltolMi a ttottdr liaison officer to the Search and Rescue “That reward is reward enough The real feeling of pay- day is when you return that per-- Sm SOLDIERS on Page 10 'ii i ' ' tit tnriaUiirair MneMWawp ofskidMi andpamaowgalWNy&JewF?M a loved one fanillMMfi and sound” said Sheriffs Capt Bob DeGasser the u - tire inward thkt USTydd comes fiomi bringing ooe-tim- Backers said they are happy with the fonding priority ittongnttei 1 IT'' r' i I 'Kt- 000 fronustate request- - Janet Borg president at Bridgeriand Community Ice Arena Inc a private nonprofit group that has been working for three yean to land the arena said the The group wants to build tte ice arena land n 3100 North and county-owne- d 200 East in Hyde Part Estimated total coat is $4 million Hyde Park and Cache County have endoned tte project and have bepn lob-- oa Bag adding that tte is thrilled that tte arena took such a huge chunk of die $2J million in new money the House had to divide up ‘ The funding still must survive vote in the Senate to be included in die final ropropriatioiis bill that will be approved Wednesday But Sen Lyle Hilly ard the aiaistant majority whip putt it through and the sponsor Rep Craig Buttars R- - imiaed to ’a See RESCUE on Page 10 " - - 'I- 1 know a lew guys that smile they might grumble under their breath but we all have fim doing it” Esplin said The grumble Esplin referred to comes when the team is search- - ' ing for people who might have lost their way for the second time in one season and maybe this search led to some broken equip- - meat for the rescuers There’! no question there are times when you feel a certain amount of frustration when someone uses poor judgment and gets themselves into something that requires others to put themselves at risk and spend tons of money to go find diem and recover them” DeGasser said DeGasser said he doesn't know whether the people in the county are aware the men and women who leave their families in the middle of the night to brave the canyons are volunteers and that the equip- ment they use is their own Last year according to DeGasser die Cache Search and Rescue ttkmt whidi Average 30 to 4Q calls a year covered 10200 miles and dedicated 1699 hours of service Esplin said 200 miles and 300 hours of those were his alone While three are efforts to reimburse the volunteers who ran their Jeeps or snowmobiles into the ground DeGasser said the most the Sheriff’s Office can give them now ii occasional fuel for the trip There are some other methods of payment however “Occasionally a family will come to us after we have spent a great deal of time and money recovering their loved ones and make a donation That is what we ' operate on” DeGasser said And three is often a request made of those alio have stuck a vehicle in a tight spot where no commercial wrecker has a chance “We ask for a donation because we are a nonprofit organization We'd like a $200 donation to roll the cat off the trailer The Lewiston said he doesn’t see any obstacles Tm pretty happy about it” Buttan said from the House floor Friday The arena would be used for hockey atnes including those by Utah State University's hockey team figure skating speed skating ttd open public skating planners said It would include a lounge lobby lockers and rental skates Representatives of USU’a team told lawmakers at a hearing earlier in the See ICE on Page 10 Si i 8olmm8vsMiHaiald Journal VoGthor PARK CITY Utah (AP) — President ' fv Pay no attention to the shiny ban' at left1 'iv' '‘ 1' Page 10 A - MW Page Opinion —25 Sportsuu11 Salt Lake International Airport 23 miles fiinton was taking a brief prase from his away it abruptly stopped twice The first time Clinton clad in a black family's Utah sU vacation Saturday to leather jacket and cowboy boots ducked bona a political fund-raisin- g MMIlwhllB back commitment in California and In Utah— Page 5 assess flood- relief efforts there It was no small task to break away With a - press pool in tow the president bad to Indox About Cache Enterprise mmm7 Crossword 23 for brief visit to California motorcade out of the Wautcfa Mountains to Salt Lake City where Air feroe One waited to shuttle the entourage to Lot Angeles for visit tte four-hoAs the president'! motorcade rolled down Rut City's Main Street to begin his trip to J into the Paxk City Museum at History and Territorial JaiL Asked how he liked the wsot community he flashed a thumbs-u- p A few minutes later the motorcade halted again while the president visited the Main Street DelL ‘ In the Main Street Ddi be ordered a cup of decaf from owner Barbara Lindbloom who remarked aha bad voted for the president and that was “bard la Utah” With a knowing expression the president answered "Hazirdoua to your health out here" AP photo A young gki reaches out to ahaka tha hand tha PwaktomCIntanM ha la greeted by a crowd Saturday at Sait Laka Intamational Ahport Clinton flow to Loa benefit before returning to Utah War Saturday Angaioa for a quick fond-faialn- night t irtriT :i i i |