Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday March 2 2002 — AS D mm Utah pays Sea Trek debt joins lawsuit against organizers ' LDS Church SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church has paid off a $438000 debt owed by Sea Trek 2001 to owners of Norwegian sailing ships but has joined a suit against organizers of the of European Mormons’ emigration to the United States The Church of Jesus Christ Saints hopes to of Latter-da-y funds the by joining recoup the suit against the Sea Trek Foundation and organizers Bill and DeAnn Sadleir of Salt Lake City Hundreds of participants from the United States and Europe participated in the which began last summer with eight sailing ships in Esbjerg Denmark and ended with three ships floating into New York City Harbor on Oct 4 In every port Sea Trek put on large parties with family history exhibits! dockside concerts and fireworks The Tall Sailing Ships Foundation of Norway filed a suit last month in Bergen city court against Sea Tide and die Sadleirs in an attempt to collect more than $300000 Vc Oder Ik FoOowlag Scnfccs: Film Service Postage Sumps Money Orders Utah Power P-Station Western Union llibics Drop font Game Licenses Saturday GitCertificrcs ATM Banking 2 Only-Ma- 2002 ATKTPqfSUion Turkey Steaks 9 CL CB Maddox 19th-centu- 99 39-da- y APphoto The Norwegian taH ships Stats raad Lehmkuhl left and Christian Radich sail into Copenhagen harbor the migraAug 9 2001 Aboard were some 400 Mormons mostly from the United States tion of Scandinavian Mormons from Europe to Utah that took place between 1851 and 1866 The ' Mormon church has paid off a $438000 debt owed by Sea Trek 2001 to owners of Norwegian sailing ships but has Joined a suit against organizers of the Tribune on Thursday! “The church has been blamed for the missing payment in the media and we are very happy that this now will be put in the right perspective" Amundsen said the uproar had been so loud because “The tall ships are not only ordinary ships for Norwegians they are really ourcrown jewels symbols of bur long traditions at sea They are part of us all" To the ships’ owners “this ' is a day of joy" Langhelle said in a phone conversation from Bergen But the conflict over pay- ment is not over Langhelle said According to the Norwe owed After numerous discussions between Per Langhelle who represented the ships and Espen Lynn Amundsen the church’s spokesman in Oslo a deal was struck Property Reserve Inc a nonprofit company drat manages some assets for the church purchased the ships’ debts and then joined the ' ships’ owners in the legal action pending against the Sadleirs and Sea Trek “We as (church) members in Norway are most relieved and grateful” Amundsen said in an to The Salt Lake ail Red flag goes up concerning gians Bill Sadleir has never responded to the lawsuit and if he does not answer in the next few weeks probably will face summary judgment Sadleir who lives in Salt Lake City says he has heard nothing bf the suit “We have hot received a complaint a notice or any communication whatsoever from the Bergen City Cotut or from legal counsel” Sadleir said ’ Sadleir said he was grateful the church retired Sea Trek’s debt to the Norwegian ships but he had no firsthand knowledge” the church had joined fog suit against him apd the foundation “Were that to occur we Broccoli or Cauliflower would be very disappointed” he said Sea Trek still owes $306083 to other European vendors which Sadleir hopes to repay by raising donations from families who want to put their names or those of their ancestors on bronze monuments erected in various port cities during the THERAPEUTIC Heals lha body 1 1b Fresh MASSAGE Clean the Mind FIRST SESSION $25hr Natalie Taylor LMT Call Today m 4i 770-569- 5 impuiui- &&& NOTICE TO: PONDlMIN AND ALL FORMER REDUX DIET DRUG USERS FEN-PHE- N homicide bill in Legislature SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A child homicide bill sailing through the state Legislature has some abortion-righactivists wondering whether it is an attempt to sneakinto law the premise that life begins at conception A Senate committee passed the bill and it advanced it in its first floor vote bn Thursday! 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