Show ' A- i Aggies lose finale but no matter — B1 ©email lVop3tfol62JiSunday:iMarchr3f2002 Taking pictures at the Winter Games — Logan£Utahl©42Q02I$l :25 Bridgerlanct’sDallyNevv$papei: Woathor Pfcwei r Mostly sunny with highs in supply shocker the 30s — PgeA12 Lpgan’s electric Update debt quadruples Lawje n fore e m e n tjj By Jeremiah Stettler staff writer scanner now testing for drug use Eye Logan city revealed this week that it is facing up to $34 million in debt — a sum resulting from power contracts gone awry last year It was previously thought that the debt would amount to only $14 million However a decision by the Utah Association of Municipal Power Systems in late January almost quadrupled the city’s losses “It’s painful" lamented a top power official But they maintain that Logan city has been prudent in it’s purchasing decisions and shoulders little blame for what has become a $54 million gaffe In the midst of a crippling energy crisis last year UAMPS entered into contracts for 125 megawatts of power The price was high — between $260 and $395 per ' megawatt hour — but it looked like a steal compared to summer projections in the $1000 range' But when prices plummeted last summer the association found itself stuck with a glut of high-pricpower that would have to be sold at a loss Logan city claims to have opted out of those contracts Ron Saville director of Logan Light and Power said his department made a “conscious decision" to take its chances on the market in the summer rather than lock itself d into power con- tracts But UAMPS isn’t con- - FARMINGTON (Af) —The Davis County Sheriff’s Office is the first agency in the state to use a h eye scanner to determine if someone has rtcently used drags or high-tec- Brent StsvensHarakl Journal calls loomed at Cache the the at the new Logan City Justice Building Now Shelly Peterson takes County dll dispatch center that cell phones are commonly used dispatchers receive several reports on traffic accidents and other crimes but wish they could tall the location where the caV originated i alcohol The PassPoint substance abuser screener which is a little smaller than an ATM was installed at Davis County Drag Court Sept 1 After a y trial run deputies woe pleased enough with the results that they put it into use full time Those convicted of a drag offense are sometimes given the option of going to drag court In drag court participants are required to attend classes complete homework assignments and submit to frequent and random drag testing About 110 people are currently in the Davis County Drag Court In the past it would cost the sheriff’s office up to $6000 each month to drag test all of those people using a urine analysis Each urine test takes six to eight minutes The drag court conducts about 1600 tests each month The PassPoint device takes 45 seconds to complete each test and about $3000 a Inoath to operate Davis County sheriffs detective John Carter said A person using the PassPoint system puts one eye up to the machine's screen The system sends 500 pulsations of light per second intolne eyd measuring it vertically and horizontally After PassPoint collects data firm the eye it puts that information through a series of tests ' Those tests determine whether a person may have recently been using drugs or alcohol person looking into the machine sees a series of dim flashing green lights The subject’s eye follows a light that goes from left to right and thra flashes four green dots at the same time It’s similar to taking a fingerprint but with an eye instead Carter said" It’s nearly impossible to beat the ’ system he said Each offender's eye data is stored in die computer When a person first enters drug court he or she is required reestablish a “baseline” in the database “Your eyeisyour eye You can’t 4 get around it” he sauL After die tests PassPoint will determine if that person is “low risk” or “high tide” If the person is high risk they will be askedto submitto a urine test Of the 110 people in drag court about : 10 percent are forced to fake x urine test after submitting to the eye test Carter said v ' 7--Of diose people who take the urine test about 10 percent usually test positive for drags he said Only 2 percent of people iq drug court are unable to take the pye test Carter Age of cell phone puts new twist on that old police radio alert 90-da- ' I By ‘Jason Bergreen staff writer : le 1 I V v - - OX OMuarieeA10 4)1 'JC7t Opinion M0vi0HC8 7 r’J:: ia irA4 Bt Sports1: ' 0 wwwihrievicom j : :V ? $ officrdwO 'i said one American and killed and that from each coun-- : Doug Hunter general manager of UAMPS said in November that Logan city took that position on one occasion — much to his “astonishf ment” — subsequent emails suggested that the department was looking for atleast 10 additional megawatts ' “The records will show that Logan had a continued inter- -' ' est” he said family-relate- See SHOCK on A12 By Arrin Brunson staff writer ' i" v 7‘ Particularly hard hit by foe cuts were Utah’s schools Public education will receive a : A dol" $16 per student increase in foe oyer stats basic fiinding program next ianhasleftthoyyingfor year Phyllis Sorenson presilegislatiye funding weary but not whipped as fori final score dent of the state’s most mflu- ential teacher’s union foe posted7 UtaiblaWmakeri stretched Utah Education Association I : 'and pulled to balancefoe predicted larger class sizes and said education lost a lot of state’s $7 billion-pl- us state 1 $256’ mil- -' inliitof ground in a short time Throe budget ' lion revenue shortfolLThe million dollars for six new ! 7 charter schools throughout foie state was spared from budget and few anti-terr- or -- viaced Education a loser at the Legislature? 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J" before 4 pm on Jan 1 1 when Wellsville resident Kyle Larsen dialed 911 from his cell phone and told police dispatch his wife Marci was having a baby and that they were on their way to the hospital Tne Larsen’s third child was not going to wait to be bom in a hospital and Kyle was forced to pull over near 900 S and 600 West as Marci r delivered die boy in the front seat of! their Honda While Kyle ran to the closest house for help his oldest son stayed on thbphone with a dispatcher “I had the phone number and the dad had hung tip on tne while I was paging thc ambulance" dispatch operator Shelley Peterson remem bers So Icalled the cell phone back and that’s when the child answered" Jacob Larsen 7 was cool and collected as he watched his mother give brother birth to his brand-nePeterson said 1 “He did really well” she said “He just told me that his mom was hav-ifega baby and I just talked to him w - I 'r I JM was shortly i for a minute and then he handed the ley highways UHP trooper Miguel dad the phone” Chino said More than 1 10 million Americans “I think we get a lot of drank dri-- : are cell phoo subscribers accord vers foat way Chino said “Some- ’ ing to a stary on the NetwoikWorid-Fusio- n body will call in what they think Web site That number is up could be a possible DUI and it’s fiom 16 million in 1994 the report probably something we should states Because the Larsen’s had a check out A lot of times it pans out' sometimes it doesn’t” cell phone emergency creiV£were ' able to respond promptly to the locaChino and Cache County Sheriff’s Lt Dave Bennett agree that drivers tion and transport Marci and her newborn to the hospital using cell phones should be espeThat’s the good news cially careful that the accident The somewhat frustrating news foey’re calling to report doesn't end far dispatch personnel was that only up being their own because they numthe cell phone user’s weren’t paying attention to the road ber was known and not their locasword for the ‘It’s a double-edge- d tion ’people that are calling because “That was the biggest problem” everybody wants to outlaw using cell phones on the road because it’s Peterson said “We couldn’t find foe address The little boy was telling a distraction and it is” Bennett said “I remember when I was in patrol I tne the number on the house but I used to stop lots of people speeding didn’t know What road he was on or exactly” going through red lights that were Local law enforcement and enter- actually on foe phone On the other hand it’s helped greatly catch DUIs gency personnel services in Cache are that there or catch crimes in progress or road Valley agree positive and negative aspects tofoe new conrage” venience of cell phone crime reportAccording to Dispatch Coordinator Marcene Parker many 911 calls ing The public’s use of cell phones for ' from cell phones concern traffic viod lations and crimes reporting crimes espedally traffic violations has helped foe Utah See911onA12 Highway Patrol monitor Cache Val 4 I 11 Classified Cl tug-of-w- ar : 7 7 ISS7! liii?f Hi' T!i ’ cfatsV y : Victories' Higher education suffered a $10 million dollar cut Which Members of the Executive'1 j: H i ' :s Appropriations Committee £ Tould transfer to about $2 milW -- I''1' lion at Utah State according iwete anxious to finalize foe 7 7-- ' i37 tliv t budget before fo? weetoid - to President Kermit Hall Afghan fighfort inttfviewedinGanle2: f Mf I laidAmericans' Cuts in administrati vei fold thmfoererirere aboit4OpO al-- v 7 Ku fonn forlaWtMkm to port for research centers at holed iq in phoaf fonally rign Mooaom- Qaida khd (Utah State and at the Univer- toirer aeen’p 'C'- 'UJEsokfel ateff-budgetilV FottheOrst tirB warpUner dropped v jh baW thatinmjnds foe! wetenegbtiatediarivateses- Details $929100 in 2002-0- 3 detentlotvVfacIBtyi at the mHtteiy ahbase at aioiiibetvyeea Republican about exactly how the cuts official skid' See LOSER on A12 x ! ii t ' 5 ’ wiwapion 1 - :tanuyd 7s' - j ! 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