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' v' Tht Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday July 9 1998 Page3 la brief e over salinity Icon plans changes but no layoffs likely Mineral company scientists disagree over problems at Great Salt Lake Icon Health & Fitness Inci plant in south Southfield plans to change open tious to manufacturing tread mill components instead of actual treadmills Icon Vice President John White said OGDEN (AP) — Officials from a large mineral extraction company disagree with state scientists who believe the Union Pacific Causeway is skewing salinity in the Great Salt Lake Great Salt Lake Mining Carp which changed its name on Tuesday to IMC Kalium and announced a $43 million expansion relies ou the high salinity of the nrth arm of the lake to make a profit Company officials also said that they adamantly oppose any breaching of the causeway which runs across foe lake between foe heavily saline north arm where IMC Kalium'a riant is located and the much less salty south end State scientists have concluded foe causeway permeable when it was built this morning there will be some job description changes and a few employees will have to change facilities but he said there will be no layoffs as a result of the switch The Smithfield warehouse was rumored to be closing but according to White there are no plans to discontinue the operations in the planL Typically when a plant of Icon's size doses there is a team available for laid-oemployees said Lyle Ward at the Utah Department of Workforce Services office in Logan Ward had not heard of a mass lay-ofrom Icon quick-respons- e ff ff Leavitt meeting city i in 1939 has solidified and is now trapping salt in the north aim They say foe north arm is now so saline that it is endangering the lake's brine shrimp manager Corey Milne said that the rising lake level and the 600 million tons of sak left on the West Desert from mismanaged pumping of the lake in the late 1980s are the major causes of unbalanced salinity in die lake "We believe incorrect solutions to the problem have been drawn" Milne said “We believe salt is still flowing back levels would rise again Salinity in the south arm of the lake is now about 8 percent while salinity north of foe causeway is about 28 percent US Geological Survey researcher Doyle Stephens said brine shrimp thrive best between 13 and 19 percent salinity Department rtf Natural Resources lake planner Jim Carter said IMC Kalium has "always been very clear about its position The company wants the north arm of the lake to remain high in salinity Now they are saying that the skewed salinity is just a result of the lake rising and not a long-tertrend as our folks the south arm of the lake its salinity foe lake population But IMC Kalium technical services Gov Mike Leavitt plans to be in Logan on Friday to meet with city and county officials He is scheduled to meet with county I officials from Cache Rich Box Elder less salty south arm ' I A e - A : 7 - ' rl - s j A free ' ' V ' I ! I I t t - ! ! d 7 l k- ' i - VH — ’v r ' '7 clinics will sponsor the screening I j ng lead-base- - ' M to identify t children with elevated lead levels that d may be attributed to paint exposure begins Friday and runs through Sept 30 in Idaho I The Idaho Department of Health and £ Welfare's Bureau of Environmental Health and Safety in collaboration with local health departments and health blood-screeni- s ' - clinic g J r't Idaho plans to hold blood-testin- ' Wl ' f V: Vs si' I pm in the Cache County Council f Chambers 120 N 100 West Logan His next stop at 4 pm is a tour of I Utah State University's Space Dynam-ics Lab 1693 N Research Park Way I North Logan The final engagement is a meeting : with the Cache Mayors Association at 7 I pjn at The Copper Mill restaurant 33 N Main St Logan V ' fikWi ' & SA Weber and Morgan counties at 2:30 I want the state to modify foe pumps m before turning them on The modificathrough the causeway to the south believe" Carter is leading foe state's effort to tions would allow the pumps to lower arm" If the state were to flush the salt left lying in the West Desert back into create a new management strategy for the lake level by taking water from the and county officials Utah I IMC Kalium officials also made it known Tuesday that they want foe state to turn the lake pumps back on when the lake level hits 4205 feet which it easily could do by next June Milne said foie company rebuilt based on foe assumption that the pumps would be an insurance policy for their operations The company built on foe lake shoreline at Little Mountain in Weber County suffered $55 million in damages (hiring foe 1980s high lake levels that peaked at 4212 feet IMC Kalium officials also said they The screening will be available to children 1 to 6 years old who live in or frequently visit buildings built in or before 1930 or buildings built before 1978 that have been under renovation or have been remodeled in the past year This screening excludes children who live in a mining community The free screening involves a simple pin prick so there is little discomfort for the child Lead paint is found in about 83 per--l cent of homes built before 1978 rre-quently children put their hands and other objects that can have lead dust on them in their mouths Unsafe levels of lead can slow a child's growth cause leaning problems hearing loss or even brain damage Call the Idaho Lead Awareness Reject at -! for dates and locations of testing sites 1- 47 Agondas 'The &30 am Friday at tie Buriey Inn 800 N Ow-lenAn Buriey kWio Agenda Seme Include: Voting on the resolution to eetabNeh the Beer River Water Supply Bank Reappoindng a commMee ot nine and an edvleory commareo tor the Water Supply Bank tor Metric! 63 Addressing requests tor loans end grants U worn VW Gnyill WMBflf MHO VMS unJIBOfi Co tie R19M River Water and Sewer Battel Water Co the etty ol the Whltney-NaehviKendrick Ire dty at Mud Lake and dly at d j t Setting the feriereetnle tor Secel year IStXL reports on water planning Hearing status e ! Bku Bl ka nviMi BuM dnvv wni hiqmw nyvoi nw Salmon River Baaki and River Basin Utpe VTuMm Bkamf Banin uiup an Inventory of reaoumae at Hearing Snake main AquBsr Eael-e- Corrocllon ed - The Herald Journal wishes to emphasize that the student's opinion expressed Wednesday on Page 20 In the article Tech Ed Comes of Age was just that one indhriduaTs opinion about toe fashion merchandising program at the Bridger-lan- d Applied Technology Centar It should not bo constoied as a gonsral vardfct on one of tie school's tongeotniming (eight years) and most suocessM programs The program's endurance speaks for RseHL Cacha Valley news tips Cal reporter Arrin Branson 1 Ext 3023 752-212- COPY I Keeping COOl A watsr-aki- sr makaa hia way 1 ktom Hyrum doudtasa sides have brought many Cacha Dam on Tuesday afternoon This week’s warni tomperaturot and VaBay residents to the popular wulsr recreation spot Red Cross to close Group puts off collection drive Hill Air Base office to help fire victims in Florida HILL AIR FORCE BASE (AP) — The Red Cross will close its office here and will provide services over the as part of a plan to "modernize'’ its Armed Forces rency Services s’re not abdicating our role here" said Norman Potter AFES director at HilL “It will continue in a different more efficient way" The office is to close Friday Red Cross will handle calls from its office in Ogden airuntil Jan 1 Then many of the services far men will be provided by a centralized service center located at Fort SiU OUa Potter said g The organization announced its modernization plan last year Since 1903 die Congressional charter of foe Red Cross has called ou foe organization to provide routine and By Michael R ture and appliances can be dropped off Saturday July 18 at Willow Park Zoo Adams Park and Lundstrom Park The project conceived by former Logan mayoral caadidate Steve Bower is backed by the Chamber and the city of Logan but they took a step back this week after being notified that the project needed to be registered with the state to meet requirements of foe Charitable Solicita emergency comnumications between the American people and the armed forces Potter said Last December citing a decline in donations the agency ceased providing advances and loans to active duty servicemen The Red Qoss still acts as a facilitator to secure emergency financial aid from military aid societies tuch as foe Air Force Aid Society The closing of foe Red Gross office at Hill marks foe end of Potter s career with foe Red Cross "It's been a wonderful career since 1973" said Potter a Navy veteran "I’ve served all over foe place and I've really enjoyed iL" ar Act The Utah Division of Consumer Protection also warned tions A planned collection project to help victims of Florida’s fires has been postponed one wed Joe Vizenor membership director with foe Cache Chamber of Commerce said The immediacy is still there but we want to do it right” Items like food AwMinf furni- Hill-bas- ed 23-ye- Wefcd ataff writer 1 cost-cuttin- The Cache Mayors Association is sponsoring a banquet at 7 pm Friday at The Copper Mi restaurant 55 N Main St Logan Al elected officials and lagMn-to-n have been bwAad to eat and hear keynote addressee tom Gov tfika Leavftt and his wife Talking of tech “ cLjonn wbqm wwq joumsi Chamber officials to be cautious of Bower's involvement because of his conviction about 10 yean b's shortly before Christmas and foe tiiy vicarage of it about to receive Merton-cum-Mid-dfew- kk foe “gift" of a lifetime — oriait? The potsibilinr of a £20000 infusion foe rerak of a footbaD (soccer) pool is Review Chelsi Stahr is a delightful Mrs Toopi I thought her character was supposed to be an unconventional American actress but she made foe transition to a Brit in fine style Stahr was at her best in not collect cash donations because of the concerns that have been raised by Bower's involvement He said people who want ago for felony theft But the to make cash donations can conChamber remains committed to tact foe American Red Gross the relief effort and has taken Clark said be talked with relief steps to involve others in addition and emergency management to Bower to ensure public oust in in Florida They said organizers the project immediate needs of the fire vicVizenor said the beginnings of tims have been met and that a a citizens committee to oversee list of needed items will be comthe project met Wednesday nigbt in the next week or so which included Logan City piled He said only specific items Councilman Steve Thompson It requested by Florida officials will was determined foal the committee would operate under the be shipped to the sunshine state umbrella of foe Chamber winch Other items collected July 18 will will register with the Division of be distributed among load charities Consumer Protection For information or to volunteer "We'll take a step back and get it all put together properly" call Vizenor at foe Chamber at Vizenor said 752-216- 1 Quick money is the goal in soccer-base-d PvAimottoMacfartwTbompaon Chamber President Jay Clark also noted that foe project will WVS a delight I’ve watched this fine actor for many years and have never seen him miss a beat There may be a match for his timing and fecial gymnastics somewhere but you'll have to look hard Daily can do more with a slight moan and a shake of his head than other perfonnen can with a soliloquy Daily's churchman role was in stark contrast with that of David Carey Foster foe Bishop of Lax foe typification story Barrow is toper as foe tongue-tie- d local boy iteppiag out with Ida His silence and bashfulness are a perfect foil for Ida and as be becomes increasingly agitated his blooming articulateness is a boot Director Lynda Linford said it'a always n worry with repertory theater because there's such short time to pant style contrasted well with ms stuffiness mount n play especially n play in which Weber's acting and comedic timing of martinet is everything She should hive ' timing Foster's precise and deliberate moveshone brightest in two scenes: fending rested well Wednesday night Her cast with a off foe amorous attentions of foe ments and speech made me wonder pooped Opening night opened members foe opening night audiwhether should bang and foe madcap pace never the I Miss the Skillon put of expect sign spinster played stopped Aided by a beautifully beautifully by Colleen Baum and his cross or a "heil Hitler" salute A fine ence through foe wringer — exactly set by Adam truly characterization designed scenes with the substiwhat they're supposed to do Watkini with vagne overtones of a tute vicar W Lee Daily Ultimately foe show belongs to foe Pool’s Parodist runs in repertory cathedral foe cast romped through three The appearance of Baum in her Flo- maid Ida (Kristie Sessions) and her through Aug 14 Contact the Utah State : acts of organized confusion rence Nightingale get-u-p was one of foe boyfriend Willie for Led by Penelope Toop the vicar's highlights of foe show She’s a powerful Briggs (Kyle Daniel Barrow) Sessions University ticket office dates ticket information and And wife die cast members try to discover actress and when on enjoy foe pivot of is a small tornado on stage literally stage whether indeed they hold foe winning foe action She her character bouncing from one spot to another played ' ticket The hubbub is increased by foe with foe perfect balance of propriety What a sense of ferce she has! She goes Arnetts Macfailane Thompeon Is a profesappearance of a second ticket purchased and wantooaess ' from giiarin to demure sor of secondoiy education at Utah State by foe vicar of a neighboring congrega- Daily (foe Rev Humphrey) was ss curtsying in a heartbeat I was exhaust- Univetsity who has a master's degree in ed just watching bee ttweterarts the foundation for the Old Lyric Repertory Theatre's third offering of foe season: a zany face in the best tnditioe of foe word Quite frankly Pool) Parodist left me scenes with James Weber playing her husband foe Rev Tbop when her flip- sex-starv- two-lev- el ed all 797-030- 3 I 1 m-- m aa a a a mi jf |