Show tt- - r I I a ' ' f i ' f ' ' ' : j s i Saturday May 13 2000 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Page3 R-- H:ln brief Activists: Snowbasin swap rules have changed not sing: Demolition derby put off due to rain : rityl ty emsl min- idle mal- - icrly al scar dis- - for Her itner xR the m aI I rma resi- er of I the SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Peggy Keele says she will never ever have ha son alone again afia her car was stolen with the toddla inside Braxton Keele left strapped in his car seat while she and ha boyfriend stopped at a Salt Chip Sibberasen stud that when Congress passed the act it instructed the care of those people — heated restrooms and a place to get out of the elements when the wind is blow-in- g : up there" Bob Swinford a spokesman for the Forest Service's Intermountain Region said the agency won't change course on the 1377 acre swap until Congress tells it to do so ' Lake County convenience store Thursday to buy a cup of coffee on 'The baby was found an hour lata unharmed and still inside the Ford Explorer which had been abandoned about a mile away said Salt d Lake county Sheriff Aaron the boy was lucky the sheriff see Ken-nar- hav--1 I ’ said “Citizens need to use some sense” Kennard said “I know everyone’s in a hurry but anything can happen in a few minutes It's peva a good idea to leave children alone in the car On an unusually cold morning the couple left the car running and the heat on while they dashed into the store While they waited at the checkout counta they saw a man drive the sport utility vehicle out of the parking Jot com- as the mon or in Reva and who in I mak-- 1 Utah said if the gelOl Ut Sheriff's deputies found th? Explorer about ah hour later in‘fti the ligUftoi 'neubynfjjgfth(pith on the windshield wipers running and Braxt9U still strapped inside i “It was the mqst horrible hour of i my life” Keele Said 'tearfully “I’ll never do it again eva not even for a second' t fr Forest Service project manager - thousands of people onto the mountain he said “It’s completely reasonable and appropriate to have facilities to take Valloy schools the way to work mkiel the r the fit Games how can restaurants distant from the race courses be needed? “Those projects should be taken off the table and put through NEPA just like every other facility at every other ski resort on public lands” he said “The same goes with the land exchange in general” dolas capable of transporting I T )oc- - Iff facilities are not needed for the pre-Olym- child inside the what is — Canyons It is even more ludicrous he added that the exemption extended to two midmountain restaurants slated for construction this summer' If base 1 proagency to consider jects as a group Snowbasin already has made a sizable investment in building two gon- Car stolen with pub- - lan Noyes spokesman for Save Our ' 750-987- the same male : Logan Parks and Recreation'! demolition derby that was to take lace today has been rescheduled 7 pm May 20 at the County fairgrounds LoganCache ‘ 400 S 500 West Because of large amounts of nun this week the arena is too wet to build the safety berm Tickets will gp on sale at 5 pm and seating is available ion a first come first saved basis Tickets ate $6 for adults and $3 for children 12 and younger Concessions will be available imd entertainment will be provided by the Wind Riva Band ' Call Logan Parks and Recreation 7 for more information at - n I hit an impasse last month — doesn't go through On Thursday Salt Lake Organizing Committee head Mitt Romney said it and environmentalists say that would cost organizers just $200000 changes the rules on a federal land to erect temporary tents for spectators and news media if the land exchange swap In setting ip the trade between the doesn't happen and Sinclair owner Forest Service and Sinclair Oil Earl Holding cannot build a new day Snowbasin's parent company Conlodge there That spurred officials from Save gress exempted the resort from key National EnvironmenOur of the Canyons and the Sierra Gub to aspects insist that any remaining projects in tal Protection Act to speed up construction of facilities deemed the first phase of Snowbasin's expan' sion should be subject to full environnecesstuy for the Olympics mental regulatory review But now Salt Lake Olympic offi“This land exchange has nothing to cials say they could put on die games even if the land exchange — which do with the Olympics” said Gavin SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake Olympic officials have figured out how to get tar in 2002 without expanding Snowbasin Ski Area — Officials say Delta is staying in Utah SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Delta Air Lines officials on Friday dismissed reports that the company was considering moving its Western Info from Utah unless it received tax breaks from the state jI Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson and representatives from airline the nation’s joined at Gty Hall to reassure Salt 'Lake residents that the company does not intend to leave To the contrary Anderson said his administration and Delta officials 'still are discussing expansion at Salt Lake International Airport He said he was confident the airline will be 'in Utah for a long time ' third-large- st -- J MHHFIELD — What do you get when you mix a amount of flour and wata with some chicken wire and paint? These ingredients are all hat students parents and teachers: who are involved with the Youth 2Q00 and Beyond Club needed to build the Summit Elementary School Health Days Parade float The school entry which replaced the traditional group "hunching students this year for safety reasons will be housed in the Smithfield school after the parade if vohin- teers can squeeze the nearly replica of an eagle through school's doors Heidi Zilles a Summit Elemenfor the tary teacher is a Youth 2000 and Beyond Gub con- sisting of one student from each elms at the school The club’s mem- bora who emphasize clpracbpjtraits Vstkfoascourafc&honestyand 'j'tfespWtiilMdb'-blWtoby their teachers for setting good examples for both academically and social-itiZilles said plans to build a eagle decorated with tissue papa were scrapped for bigga plans v Bettinga anotha club and the school's media spesponsor cialist Sheri Egbert PTA president at Summit Elementary and Tina Christensen: Youth 2000 Gub parent advisa helped organize the project But each woman praised parent voluntea Lori Pomeroy for the school mascot’s grand stature which was fashioned afta a small figurine Pomeroy who recently helped design the sets for several school operas agreed to help design school mas- the cot “It actually turned out to be more hours than we eva anticipated" Christensen said “But then when it started to come togetha and we saw the looks on the kids' faces it was so fun and they were so excited' The project was a community : 'V If- ( co-adv- isa i r: al Brant Richard Jenson : For The Herald Journal - By and fiftogradera pose by the Summit Elementary School Health Days Parade float that was built with the help of students parents and teachers of the students in the school effort Zilles said Kay 80 and Jace Jensen 10 helped tear the welcomed Scholes 73 Marjorie the Summit students into their newspapa strips in the beginning home yard and workshop The stages of construction and decorate retired building contractor who also the base of the statue at the concluowned Kay's Mill and Cabinet said sion “My favorite part was probahaving the youth around is a natural bly the papa mache" he said “You extension of raising three children got your hands all sticky and gooey andyucky" organizing Smithfield’s first cub Jace’s parents Phil and Carol scout troop and volunteering as a 17 Jensen were busy helping unload boy scout leader for ova years their traila full of materials before To get the float finished in time the float set sail They praised the for the parade the youth worked efforts of parents teachers and stuhard Zilles said They were dents who volunteered their time involved early on in the planning and materials and were reminded that they were ' “We came in here Tuesday when all to building something represent three-dimensio- the car for a high school student auditorium Students use formulas to whose father is concerned about his “design the most efficient and best son’s hearing Wheeler is familiar sounding system They must take with the concerned parent role he into account elements such as air ning with two orange fluorescent plugs sticking out of his ears He is holding a sound level meta a gadget and shaped like a TV remote-contrused for measuring decibels His eyes light up as the meta continues to regista higher Finally it peaks at 175 decibels He turns off foe stereo and pulls out the earplugs that was loud he says “Well : with a smile Paul Wheela is a professor in the electrical engineering department at Utah State University and he is an expert in acoustics the physics of 'sound While still sitting in the car ‘Wheela explains that a decibel is a unit of measurement for volume levels He says the level of volume the ol car stereo generates is far beyond safe The threshold of pain for a human ear is around 150 decibels equivalent to a jet engine at less than 100 feet Without hearing protection 170 to 175 decibels once sent a sound level meter with his daughta Andrea Smith to a Def Leppard rock concert “He was actually going to go with me” says Smith “but he backed out at the last minute” Wheela's concern was that music played at 100 or mote decibels for a few hours or more could cause irreversible damage An average concert especially indoors can well exceed 120 decibels There is no place for the sound to escape and the decibel level is much higha than an outdoor concert Wheela adds that this is also true for home stereos and especially for car stereos The air space is so small that eardrums can easily be blown out with extreme volume levels “The Def Leppard concert wasn't as high (decibels) as I thought it would have been it was outdoors so it wasn’t too bad” Wheeler said When not testing volume levels Wheeler can be found teaching his students about acoustics Wheeler teaches classes ranging from the design of complex sound systems to “I would definitely recommend the basics of how sound works Wheela's “Sound System Design” Shearing protection if this was my class teaches the fundamentals of car" uys Wheela 7 Wheeler is testing the volume of designing a sound system for an 'an eardrum will rupture around ' I ' space walls reflecting sound and the distance of each seat from the stage The goal is to have each person attending a performance hear the same sound quality It is more than just placing and aiming speakers the math involved is complicated “With these formulas you can design a great sound system before the building is even built” explains Wheela In his “Science and Sound” class Wheeler teaches his students the principles of what sound is how it works and how it is created Wheela also touches on the importance of hearing protection Hearing loss is a concern that be says plagues young people more than eva “They don’t care about the consequences now but they will down the line" Hearing loss does not just occur with loud noise it is a combination of volume and time Though sudden bursts of sound such as a gunshot can quickly cause damage it is usual- ly high volume ova a long period that causes the most damage explains Wheela Wheela also teaches them about understanding and appreciating sound quality I t ' : they were doing it and we were thinking 'No way are they going to get that eagle up there”’ Carol Jensen said Thursday “But we came back today and it looks great” Summit Elementary School stu- dent Melissa Daines said she was also surprised to see die transformation She carefully put the finishing touches of paint on the eagle's base “It really looks like wood" Daines said The Smithfield Health Days Parade which features 71 entries will begin at 300 North Main at 10 am and will end at 300 South Main bone- - ear-splitti- ng : Teeth and windows rattle as the car stereo reaches its maximum volume Sitting in the passenga side of the shaking Nissan 300ZX is a man grin- - StevenaHerald Journal Third- - fourth- - USU professor studies : i I “There is a lot of bad sound out there I once had a colleague tell me ‘If bad sound were lethal it would be the leading cause of death'" he says laughing Wheeler says that many times he is distracted by poor sound quality at performances but looks around and no one else seems to mind “Many people can't tell the difference" he says Wheeler also consults on many projects dealing with sound design quality and efficiency Sky View High School asked for Wheeler's help with a sound problem in its auditorium The sound system was having feedback problems with the speakers Wheela helped foe school tion foe speakers to stop the feed-an- d get betta sound quality and efficiency The Logan Gty Police Department has requested Wheeler’s services to measure noise pollution for several of its cases In one case a hotel had some problems with noise bothering foe nearby houses Wheeler went into the neighborhood and took decibel readings from several locations The volume levels were too high but when he compared the results wish the limits in the Logan city noise ordinance he ran into a problem “It (the noise ordinance) had sane tfftwMfl mistakes that actually legal music ized the higha volumes of sound that it intended to stop” Wheeler said The police asked Wheeler to rewrite the noise ordinance and correct the mistakes He was then asked to write the noise ordinances for Wcllsvillc and Cache County While Wheeler isn't a big Def Leppard fan he docs have a large music collection “He's a classical man" says Smith “He has hundreds and hundreds of CDs of classical music” Though Wheeler admits that most of the music he owns is classical he says he still has some wild CDs Some of his CDs have sound fre- qucncy warnings similar to those on some heavy-barap CDs “The warning indicates that the range of sounds may be too great for your speakers or ears to handle at high volumes” says Wheela The and high CDs contain ultra-losounds that may blow out speakers or eardrums When Wheeler isn't listening to music he is composing his own His living room is set up as a recording studio He has a piano an organ a synthesizer and a full drum set In foe center is a computer where all the music is recorded digitally: He also plays the French horn and a musical saw ss w -- See MUSIC on Page 10 ' |