Show -- V Inside all the buzz Incoming retailers abound but not all the rumors are true Gart Sports PetsMart and International House of Pancakes have already arrived gets contract extended to 10 years Page 10 is setting up shop in the old ZCMI store in the Cache Valley Mall rt is finishing an expansion that will double its current floor space Not only will the North Logan retailer increase its annual sales by tapping into die local grocery marPlaza The clothing store is ket but it will also add 250 to expected to draw $44 million 300 employees to its payroll in sales annually Applebees is still iffy If WesWestates Theaters which tates Theaters decides to build in south Logan a owns nine of the valley’s 12 its eight-ple- x movie screens i toying with family restaurant — which is two locations in Logan city presumably Applebees —r will theater be built along with it The Salt Lake-base- d to build If the theater moves to mall an plans company movie theater with See STORES on Page 14 surround sound stadium seat ed home improvement centers Update I while ground is being broken for a new Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse on more than 15 acres at the comer of 200 West and 1400 North Old Navy has announced it is coming and plans to build on the comer of 1000 North and Main Street in the Cache Valley Talk of incentives has been in recent weeks in rise a curiosity over new by commercial development! Rumors of new restaurants new movie theaters and new Morrill have swept the valley suggesting the arrival of everything from ice cream shops to retail outlets Some of the rumors are true But others such as the arrival of an Olive Garden or Super Target are not question then which has turned up repeatedly on the voice mail of Logan Economic large-sca- le Entertainment " butcher’s next film is bio of lie Joseph Smith SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mormon filmmaker Richard Dutcher screen” STM- A director and star of “God’s Army” and “Brigham City" has announced plans to make a movie biography of church founder Joseph Smith Dutcher and line producer Steve Lee have begun to scout New York and Midwest locations for the tentatively titled “The Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith Jr” Dutcher said Thursday “I want to bring this amazingly charismatic and strong individual to the -- ' i a & f ' Wal-Ma- W ! i’n fT--V A-- ' VA V A- w - AM vV’y ? S' A' AV AX' ' —O aa 1111 ’ Tuesday’s survey results Have you read a book in the past j a ” i a? - iJt-- j V ' ' V- - 'Vj J - '''W? i’- - - v - '' Mitch MascaioHeiald To Journal skate or not to skate edited sign posted bn a fence near Merlin Olsen Central Park in Logan encourages people to go skateboarding — contrary to the intended message A creatively -- : 76: v- Wodther A 60 percent Chance of rain maybe even snow Page 14 ijndox 17 Obituaries 19 Opinion ' "Xi-j'-- ' ' Cache Valley Plaza: - PetsMart Gart Sports Old Navy Yet-nam- $35 million $51 million $44 million retailer ifer $5 million HOP Burger King Unknown Unknown I Herald journal graphic ’ Utah joins Idaho Alaska and the Boise Cascade Co in road-buildi- ng A 16 year run TC After 23 yean of operation The Cache Citizen has closed itsdoors 'hw decision Was announced by the local newspaper in its last edition distributed Thursday ‘A news story in the newspaper reported that chronic financial woes eventually led to its demise v Wayne Bell and J Walter Ross! who also owned The Preston Citizen 'founded The Cache Citizen in Lewis--! ton in 1978' In 1984 the finairitial burden of carrying the weekly newspaper caused dp partners to donate it to Utah State University which facilitated its publication Nearly a decade later financial difficulties were cited as die reason the paper changed hands USU sold The Cache Citizen to Kathy Heninger on Nov 4 1994 In a prior interview the' publisher of The Cadie Citizen tojd The Herald Journal that running the newspaper was the hardest thing she had ever done but die most rewardA V'ing “I guess the paper is a Vessel — a way for me to See CITIZEN on Page 14 vA V V-- i ! 1400 North in Logan have been stalled for at least 18 months Around 75 percent of the parcel has been declared a wetland by the US 12-ac- re Army Corps 'of Engineers Until this status has been miti- gated district officials won’t be allowed to turn a single shovel of dirt Superintendent Allen Lowe told parents and school is facing potential educators who turned out to ' growth in enrollment next listen and contribute to the disyear This problem won’t be cussion ' Officials discovered the permanently remedied anytime soon district officials said- so problem last summer when the topic of conversation adjacent property owned by turned to the1 district’s Logan city for the develop-- ! tives in a public meeting in the ment of a park wa$ also school’s gymnasium Thursday deemed a wetland Lowe said Now school officials who night Plans by the Logan City acquired the land in a trade six School District to build a new years ago must detepnine the school between 500 West and See SCHOOL on Page 14 600 West at approximately staff writer Outdoors15 ?lloviesCache r V $28 million Unknown v' By Arrin Brunson ' ' tomiC8 Classified! GM Diflanfs Ellis Elementary is the oldest school still in use in all of Cache County Officials in the say Logan City School District ' it is also the smallest Neither of these factors is as problematic though! as the fact that the alreaidy crowded ' -- AxteB-Tayt- or By Arrin Brunson Today’s question Should a new fine subptation be built on the northeast comer of the Logan cemetery? wvwhjnews’com $?9 million $18 million staff writer ‘ Note: This is not a scientific survey Results simply reflect the preferences of “ people visiting The Herald Journal Web site $35 million ex ' - Logan schools between wetland and hard place Go to The Herald " Journal Web site (wwwhjnewscom ) to cast your vote on today's survey question Sea Tuesday's newspaper for results and a new ques- tion t Homo Depot Lowe's Westatea sales challenging the policy which bans in roadless administration that sets areas and prohibits timber cut- -' aside 58 million acres of roadting on the land Colorado less land Wyoming Montana and NevaIn papers to be filed in fedda also are considering legal eral court Friday the Utah challenges Shurtleff said Attorney General’s Office According to Utah’s lawsuit argues that the policy was the roadless plan breaks with enacted so hurriedly that the' the Forest Service’s “multiple state and the public were preuse mandate” which requires vented from assessing the the agency to balance conser' vation with timber harvesting plan’s impact “This is about following recreation and other uses One of the main purposes of rules” said Attorney General Mark Shurtleff at an evening National Forest land is to “furnews conference nish a continuous supply of Inf Utah about 4 million timber” the suit contends acres are affected by the poliThe suit asks a federal judge to declare that the new road- cyWhile the Forest Service less initiative violates existing held several hundred public federal (xlicies'and to prevent ' meetings on the policy those the Forest Service from further the policy meetings came before the implementing A federal judge in the Idaho exact boundaries of the roadless areas had been estabchallenge declined to immedilished Gov Mike Leavitt said! ately block the plan! Quick read Answers Number Percent 163 YeS 24 No : 522 Annual Service over a plan put together in the final days of the Gin-to- n Dutch- month? 8tore SALT LAKE OTY (AP) — Utah is suing the US Forest -- er said “A figure like this is greater than Lawrence of Arabia This is Gandhi If I don’t make this film somebody else is going to And I’m convinced that if they do it I’m not going to like it” Smith was bom in 1805 and died in 1844 shot along with his brother Hyrum by a mob mat stormed the Carthage 111 jail where the brothers were being held for the destruction of a dissenting group’s ness Smith claimed a heavenly being appeared him in 1823 near Palmyra NV and showed him a religious history of an ancient American civilization engraved on metal plates that Smith translated into the “Book of Mormon” Dutcher said the movie wili have a $10 million budget He made “God’s Army” about missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da-y Saints' for $300000 and grossed $26 million New retailers in Cache Valley and their estimated annual sales: Utah joins lawsuit over roadless areas ' f ‘ - - Cash Valley en eight-scre- J jv seats Home Depot has already broken ground on mall block with hopes of attracting $35 million in annual sales while Dillard’s really are coming to town' By Jeremiah Stettler staff writer back-shelv- ing and 1400 gliding love Development Director Nevin Limburg is what businesses Shown are copies of the Cache Citizen's final distributed Ibis week j First lady treated after dog attack SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Jackie Leavitt the governor’s wife was treated at a Salt City area hospital Thursday after being attacked and bitten on the back by a dog She was ' treated and released! said Bridget Fare a spokeswoman for Gov! Mike Leavitt’s office “She’s slightly shaken as anyone would be” Fare said “But die seems fine” Fare declined to disclose when and where the' attack occurred saying: only that the wound did not require stitches fit: She said the animal was hot Herald Journal photo a pet of the Leavitts’: Animal edition published and control officials had the dog in custody Fare said - |