Show ) Saturday March 23 2002 A3 Local state two conts worthCache Preston High fitly advances in Academic Question: “Do you think that people should be i Valley views on topics of the and regional news day held responsible for the actions of their animals?” Decathlon By Joa Rowtay staff writer By Salty H N Wright staff writer Preston High School's Academic Decathlon team placed second in the state of Idaho at a recent competition in Boise and is now preparing to compete at the national event in Phoenix Ariz in April Teams from Centennial High ' School in Boise and Sandpoint High School in northern Idaho took first and third at the state event respectively Both of those schools are in the huge school category making Preston the only team in the medium school category to place in the top three Preston team members competed against other groups from across Idaho to prove their knowledge of 10 different subject areas including ait music math science economics language and literature and this year’s “super quiz” category topic the Internet Team members took home 38 individual medals and two $500 scholarships said coach and Pre-ston teacher Mary Heers This will be the third time Preston’s team has been invited to attend the national Academic ' Decathlon Heers said Two years ago the team placed fourth in the small school division nationally and last year the team placed sixth in die same division Heers said Although Preston High School is considered a medium school for the Idaho competition it falls into the small school division at the national event This year’s national competition will be held from April 10 to 13 in Phoenix T wo San Francisco residents were convicted Thursday for the killing that their dog committed After more than 11 hours of deliberation a jury found Marjorie Knoller guilty of second-degree murder and her husband Robert Noel guilty of involuntary Ctarice Hodgklnaon Logan “Definitely that’s why they’re manslaughter called pets— ' The mauling took place last year on You need to Jan 26 as San Francisco teacher Diane care of take Whipple returned to her apartment in them" the same building as Knoller’s Whip! pie was attacked by Bane one of Noel ami Knoller’s two Fresa Canarios who eventually toe open Whipple’s throat Dog owners ue rarely charged in cases dog-mauli- ng Don Fulmar North Logan Connie Soahobor Matt Pruitt Logan WeHsviHe If they're going to have any kind of a pet it’s they’re responsibility to take care of them and train them and be respon- "YesldoDefi-- : nitety If Quin Card Logan think they should You know if your you choose to have a pet you also choose to take care of it Pets can't make their own choices” sible for what they do” think they "I "I dog’s a mean dog or not and you have the responsibility to keep it under control should I think you have to take the same responsibility for your pets as your kids You have to raise them both” state-lev- el In brief Sex abuse case arrest generates A man was arrested' Hynun Thursday on suspicion of sexually abusing a girl in her teens Sydney Arthur Wengreen 42 was arrested at his home Cache County Sheriff’s Lt Dave Bennett said He was arrested on a warrant for allegedly having sexual Contact with the girt “He touched her and he would lay on her and he would lay her on him’’ Bennett said Bennett said Wengreen and the gjrl were always folly clothed during die alleged abuse "He didn’t do anything aggravated” Barnett said "He didn’t hurt Milch MascaroHerald Journal $1 5000 to finish rooms-i-n order -- ' Logan resident Wyatt Gardner poses in the last room he has left to finish in the basement of his home Gardner spent more than to accommodate tenants only to have Logan city make him evict the roommates due to an ordinance limiting the' number of unrelated people living in ope house' hold to three 2 her” "Sheriffs investigators sire conducting follow-u-p interviews about the allegedtoexual abuse and trying tp ascertain hdw the' girl knew Wengreen "He was in a position of trust” Bennett said" This (the abuse) had been going on since about March of last year” Bennett said Wengreen was arrested on three charges df sexual abuse of a child felonies He was' all second-degrbooked into foe Cache County Jail and kft the same day on $20000 baiu An initial court appearance in : Wengreen’s case has not been scheduled 1 ee vri roommates! He pictured himself his brother and three other friends sharing the $800 a month Occupancy battles continue in Logan By Jeremiah tffl Wnv0f man mortgage ' But he needed a few more bedrooms! In late August just two weeks before fall semester Gardiner submitted a set of building ? plans to Logan city diagraming a remodeling' scheme forms basement His sketch included three bedrooms and a bathroom at a cost of $5000 The plans were ' approved But six months and $15000 later Gardiner’s home is up for Sale" His reasons are many He talks of having to tackle a plumbing pro-- ' ject three times to meet codpof having to tear down and rebuild newly constructed Walls and Ststtfer - Wyatt Gardiner bought his home last year in a cozyred-bric- k neighborhood carved between it Mormon church and a quiet residential street iir distinnortheast Logan It stood windows and a sin- guished by - mid-blo- ck white-trimm- ed The price: $95000 It was steep for a college student but the house was close to the University and lafge enough for a half-doz- en i of having to cut and instill! four new windows “Everything they told me to do in the end I had already done at least once before” he Said But Gardiner’s breaking point carqe in early December He had nearly finished his basement when the city found him in violation of its occy- - r pancy law — a law Oiat allows only one family or three unrelated persons to occupy a home in most Logan neighborhoods ’For Gardiner it meant evicting his three friends But without theirt he couldn’t afford the rent He was forced to sell Two complaints have lingered on Gafdiner’s mind The first pertains to how the city's occp- pancy law was enforced The second concerns the Uw itself V ' SALT LAKE CITY (AP)- -r Emergency ? !'V ’ TTLESonA6 1 '4 - ' r! r ' of a grave disaster low leteb of exposure cause dikziness and a runny nose Higher concentrations can cause ' ' confusion and eventually coma " The Peseret Qiemical Depot has beeil destroying a stockpiteofdeadlychemicaT weaponisince l996 Earlier this month the depot finished destroying die largtet stockpile of mm nerve gas mtheUnited States offic “Our objective is neva to allow the public management officials in Tooele County said i V that dans evacuation won’t tobe Friday change y anywhere nearwherc tiiey could get con- taminated” she said "Less of (VX) will kill despite an announcement that a nerve agent V storedatalocal Army depot is 10 times more you faster I suppose but such a small amount Y will killyou anyway” than deadly previously thought Tlie emenency response plan is designed to The Deseret Chemical Depot stores more evacuate people as quddy qs possiblersaid VX than iny of foe jother fire depots in the V y "'said' 'Vii Kari Sagos emergency management director '! nation? v ' The nation’s chemical 'for Tbode County f e i v' The 1 JXX) househteds near tin! dqmt have v1 : Preliminaiy findings reka stored at depots in Oregon Aiaoa Thursday from j radios ret to receive emergency updates after tha RnvimnmCTtiii PnWftifll Lvrruy inHiratw tiie37 public sirens EO off she Said The radio ' AHrtratal Indian Mid Kentucky The incinerator next will destroy1 VX a task that VX which has the consistency of veg-- ' transmits instructions on whether and bow to : !t take Several yeanThen it will move etableoiLis 10 times more taxk titan had beta 'evacuate v thatwill 'v ' y faL But chop of VX liquid can kill a ( to foustardgl a blister agent Sagas said tiiat doesn’t affect the ! A pinpdnt-size- d i wmch is based on the possibility Charlie Robots- - mayor ofIbdele which sits person within minutes In a vaporized form ! 1 : ' 25 miles from the depot : It i- saidmostidents v knbw the dangers of VX He sad the edmmu- nity hasn't responded to the newiett announce menL “I haven't received any phone calls” he said“I wasn’teven aware of it before this ” i? 1 Alien! State Sen Ron Park a community near Tooele said the ihcreased ' ! V phbnecall” danger of VX reinforced for him and his neigh- should be destroyed as basic opinion is we’re ' r 1 - - f ' Allen said S ' ofit” ’ i J : V will sk risk management tiiat project how fast and far ii plume of gas cm travel dur- ing different weather conditions ofii-progra- ms dab to update con ' c 3 V v-v--: ) ' J V T y ummii J |