Show -- SMwmes Ml r"5-- issssagawag i i The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday August 12 1999 Page 3 School parking at a premium Vanessa Conlinned from Page 1 spot facing the mountains for the interview with Vanessa Smithfield council voices concern over parking problems at Sky View High School The crew cheerfully teased family members bantered about the pageant and answered questions about their schedules By Arrin Brunson staff writer Interviewing SI women in two months is not easy The crew started in Maine and drove down the Eastern states then flew north to drive through the Midwest They work six days a week for the two months After Utah the crew still has interviews with the state winners in Oregon Washington Nevada Arizona and Hawaii When crew members show up at a contestant's house they know everyone's name including the dog’s arid have a tentative agenda for the day Vanessa spent more than two and a half hours on the phone a few weeks ago with tie executive director of the pageant The director took notes and a list of questions and information about Vanessa and her family to Rccht the day before Vanessa’s interview In an effort to make the pageant more appealing to viewers these video segments are aimed at showing the contestants as the normal “girl next door" When Vanessa appeared in a short denim skirt and striped sweater Recht asked her to change She next appeared in denim shorts and a red SMITHFIELD — While crowding in public schools is usually associated with ratios in classrooms Sky View High School is facing a crunch in the parking lot Smithfield City Council members said Wednesday night City Manager Jim Gass said car-linstreets near the campus create irritations for property owners whose driveways are often blocked and whose yards are littered with garbage and crossed by trespassers With school starting in two weeks Gass said the school board is running out of time to remedy the problem “It's not a good situation or it will not be a good situation as soon as school starts” Gass said “The school district has not really done anything to address studcnt-to-teach- er ed the request" District Superintendent Steve Norton said the board has looked at several scenarios but there is no simple solution to the parking problem At the end of the 1998-9- 9 school year the Sky View driver's training range was opened for parking but students who had already developed other habits didn't want to walk the distance “There's no question in my mind that the students will have to use parking — there hasn't been a high school that I've seen in my career that hasn't had to use parking” Norton said “As long as there is parking allowed on those streets I think students have a right to park there as much as anyone” Unless the schx)l and community can cooperate Norton said the school district's only solution is to buy more land for parking a costly alternative “The patrons of the district would have to weigh whether it is worth spending money to buy parking lots or cooperate for the few hours every day the streets are used” he said “We'd have to go back to (he public and ask them to vote whether they want to spend that kind of money" Norton said the parking situation at Sky View was tolerable before construc tion on a new recreation center gvinna-siuand several classrooms began in April Once the projects are completed the situation will remedy itself lie said Because of the new construction the school will lose 40 parking spots hut gain 120 according to city officials But Smithfield Sccretarv I Van Clegg said 80 new parking spots will inl scratch the surface of (he problem latst year more than 20f) cars could be found parked along the streets on school days There was not enough parking at Sky View before the construction project began he said City officials said Smith-fiel- d has inherited the school district’s problems “One concern is we will not be able to clean the snow off the streets because we won't have any place to push it” egg said “Some of our streets are so narrow that if you park a car on each side there's hardly room for cars to pass m there" But Norton said the district and city are equally responsible for dealing with the traffic problem He defended the rights of high school students saying they should have the same privileges as adults “Because kids drive their cars to school doesn't make it a school problem it is a community problem It's one we all have to work together on" Norton said Norton said he understands the frustration of homeowners who are treated discourteously by students School administrators will help protect private properly rights and students will be instructed to park in the driver training range from the first day of school he said Meanwhile local law enforcement officers plan to patrol the neighborhood surrounding campus Clegg said and llicy will issue tickets when violations are found Littering blocking driveways and parking near fire hydrants arc habits Smithfield officials hope to curb early in the school year Councilman Jeff Gittins appealed to students asking them to car-powalk or ride buses whenever possible until construction is completed Say dude you skating for advice? irt “Perfect" Recht said i ol “We need this to be like a Saturday morning event Like you just got up and are spending the day with your family doing things from your normal life” Rccht said By Nicole G Farrell staff writer le He also made Vanessa blot her lipstick “She looks good” Cruz said “We had a real problem with some of those Southern girls who just show up with gobs of stuff on their facet” After Vanessa's interview in her mother’s flowering garden the crew members discussed the rest of the day Then they went to work With a flight to catch tfSfcrwfhid Iftnifed tine to tap-- 1 ture ValfesSaiff sdthe of (he wide vSricty of her activities rt n 1 barely-noticeab- -- While at the Ballam house the crew filmed the family eating lunch “The fastest lunch I think I have ever seen” one witness said Vanessa and her sisters also made raspberry jam under the cameras’ eyes Vanessa played with her younger brother Ben She planted flowers in the yard Vanessa and father Michael practiced her musical number on the piano Next the crew loaded its camera lights boxes and tapes into their sport-utilivehicle along with Vanessa and several changes of clothes and sped off “I think I have changed clothes IS to 20 times today” Vanessa said “That's a lot more than I planned for” The rain held off when the crew was outside and it poured when the team was filming inside “We have just been extremely lucky” said Alario eying the sky “Yep let’s get outside now to film some more” Recht said ty The crew filmed Vanessa walking downtown with her d boyfriend Jake Brenchley The crew shot her and Jake sharing a shake at The Bluebird Restaurant and walking with friends under the “Utah” sign at the Utah Theatre hand-in-han- There were also scenes of Vanessa helping children rehearse for an open presentation Her platform deals with helping children learn through involvement in the arts The crew tossed in a scene of Vanessa rehearsing lines at the Ellen Eccles Theatre and another of her helping Special Olympics kids With all this rushing about what did the crew from Southern California think of Logan? “I’d raise my family here” said Cruz “It seems like the perfect city" Vlario said he had a personal interest in checking out Logan His stepfather attended Utah State University town” he said “It’s a great-siz- e “There is good local character and still it's small enough to be able to get to everything to shoot” At the appointed time the crew drove off to catch a plane “It was more frantic that I expected" Vanessa said “I hope it went well" s Gota local news Up? CaD City Editor Mike Wennengren 752-212- 1 POOR COPY Ext 3023 US Rep Jim Hansen speaks to Kiwanis Club members at The Copper Mill Local skateboarders say the $180 (XX) bund appioved by Logan voters for a skate park is enough to build a facility that rivals (he best They do have a simple request however — have a skateboarder involved in designing and building the park In a meeting Wednesday with Municipal Councilman John 1 larder and Logan parks and recreation officials the skateboarders some of whom have been pursuing the park for more than a decade said Logan shouldn't follow the lead of other Utah cities that recently put in skate parks “They have bad layout you can't flow through them" said S John WilkinHerald Journal Mike Lowder who owns the restaurant in Logan on Wednesday skate shop in the basement of Norda's Mountain Outfitters “That's because those who designed it had never done it Hansen takes aim at gun control By Michael staff writer RWeibel “Wilderness Rep Jim Hansen praised Utah's law- makers Wednesday for takng a stand against more gun control laws The Utah Republican who spoke at the Kiwanis luncheon in Logan said 17 federal laws and nine state laws were broken during the shootings in Colorado earlier this year “We can give you another law but what’s that going to do?” he asked Hansen said people who gun down crowds in schools libraries community centers and other public places should perhaps face the death penalty — “It seems to me that makes more sense than another law “We’re not going to do away with guns in America” he added noting that it's the person not the gun who pulls the trigger The congressman also praised Sen Orrin for having the courage to Hatch ah Warning Continued from Page 1 complex had a history of funnel clouds and tornadoes and everything else and severe weather so we probably acted on the heavy side because of that” The twister threats ended as quickly as they had started “They basically went to bed pretty fast last night” he said “after 7 8 o’clock last night” Although rare tornadoes are not unheard of in Utah State Climatologist Don Jensen who works in the Utah Climate Center at Utah State University said there have been four tornadoes reported in the past 100 or so years in Cache Valley “People probably remember the one up in Preston Mink Geek two years ago” he said And there was me east of Benson in 1987 — “just a little one” Alder said the state has averaged two isn’t what it’s all cracked up to be It just sits there” - Rep Jim Hansen run fra president noting Hatch tends to do better on the “Sunday gas bags" than other politicians referring to the various Sunday morning political talk shows Skipping to the war in Kosovo Hansen said the United States demonstrated it had definitive air superiority and that our bombers were very precise But he added people shouldn't be fooled by the political rhetoric about genocide and other atrocities that were happening there “We killed more people than the Kosovars or Serbs combined” he said Changing gears again Hansen took a shot at Utah environmentalists tornadoes a year since 1930 He said there have been 86 repents of tornadoes in the Beehive State since then “The conditions are mote conducive for tornadoes anywhere east of the Rockies” he said “With the mountains around here we rarely have them And if they do they don't do very much They're always F0 or less or at the (maximum) FI They’re usually out in remote areas and don’t touch down very long and don't do a heck of a lot of damage — maybe a fence or a tree gets uprooted and that sent of thing” Jensen explained that tornadoes form from thunderstorms He said Lake Powell will not he drained and 91 million acres of US Bureau of Land Management properly will not be set aside as wilderness as long as he is chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee “Wilderness isn’t what it's all cracked up to be" he said noting that there's no access to the land and no one to manage it “It just sits there” he added asking what would happen to your yard if you didn't do anything He vowed that a bill in the House to drain Lake Powell will go into his bottom drawer never to see daylight again And the worst thing for Utah according to Hansen would he “President Al Gore" He said he fought with llic vice president to keep Thiokol and Hill Air Force Base in Utah “He hardly fits the image of what we're doing” Hansen said “If he becomes president of the United States Calgary Alberta Canada's looking pretty darn gotkl to me" was on Aug 14 1968 — “About the same track but nowhere near as strong as this one” Jensen added that the 1968 tornado hit within five minutes of the time of day when Wednesday's tornado hit “The circulation was initially observed over the Salt Palace" he said “The tornaacross ZCMI do then moved and the University Club The windows in the upper floors of ZCMI were shattered “Same place same time within five minutes" While Wednesday's tornado was the strongest to hit a metropolitan area in Wednesday’s tornado that hit Salt Lake City with winds up to 137 mph was an F2 on a scale that compares the forces of tornadoes Utah it was not the strongest in the slate “We figure there was an F3 once Chcp-et- a Lake" north of Roosevelt on the south flank of the Uinta Mountains Alder said “Ironically it happened on Aug 11 the same day as this one did back in 1993” Both Alder and Jensen said this week in August seems to be a remarkable time for tornadoes in Utah It was the second one to hit downtown Salt Lake City Alder said The first one But they said twisters have hit during every month including during the winter “We have the thunderstorms but they need to be 43000 feet tall in order to get the tornado” he said “You need a big strong thunderstorm in order to get a torna- do” before" There's more to it than just throwing down concrete they said The design has to be friendly to skaters of all abilities the concrete has to have a smooth finish Not only skateboarders but skaters will be able to use the skate park The park also has to he something the city can live with for a while the skateboarders said since the only way to correct big flaws in concrete is to tear it out completely If Logan's skate park is built as a world-clas- s facility it could attract skaters — who would spend money here — from other cities and even other states Harder said The $ 80 (XX) bond approved by Logan residents Aug 3 allows the city to spend $9 on each square foot of the park at the Willow Park Sports Complex in southeastern Logan but that’s without landscaping and lighting No admission will be charged to get in the park Skateboarding has become really popular in recent years in Logan and Cache Valley Lowder said In general the spot reached a high point around 1987 Interest fell around 1990 but picked back up in 1993 The number of skateboarders here has probably doubled since 1993 Lowder estimated Russ Akina Logan's parks and recreation director said the city would like to select an architect’s bid before the year is over and be ready to break ground in the spring Within 60 days a geothermal analysis will be completed in the area where the park will go to determine where the water table is Akina said Meanwhile die skate group is defining qualifications it would like to see in a designer and contractor and putting together a list of candidates for foe jobs in-li- 1 20000-square-fo- ot |