Show fefwaw wwi to y m frft-- I mj ' kb V kl ft kk k)VKil4RI V Seeing Cache County by bus — Cl ®eraa QJ debated i CbgaolUtafiX2002JtSJI25 or necessary travel? SSSKESSSSL Jmmilkete Hot car gone hot Cash woes won’t stop local legislators from taking state-pai- d trips weather stays — PageA12 Lake Ibhoe or Denver to attend con-ferences at the state’s ixpen They join more than 50 other lawmakers who are scheduled to attend conferences at a cost of about $80000 to the state Sen Peter Kmrdsen Gty will spend three days this month nibbing shoulders with counterparts from other Western states at the Council of State Governments regional meeting in Nevada Knudsen who serves on board of directors said his By Leon D'Souza staff writer Updalo out-of-st- ate Utah's budget woes are hitting taxpayers hard Cuss sizes are increasing and numerous state jobs are on the chopping block But for local legislators the financial rut is no cause for cutting back on some of the perks that come with the job Nearly every UtaKlhi story Town to lop off head of Lee statue? CSG-West- ’s tL®®Cg i SALT LAKE CITY (AF) — John D Lee may hive been one of die founders of die southern Utah city of Washington but many are saying he doesn’t deserve to be among memorial statues at a new city part Washington city officials are sidering lopping off the top of a statue of the Mormon and replacing it with the pioneer torso of a more benign founding father Or the recently cast bronze statue of Lee instead may be erected at Lee’s Ferry the Colorado River outpost in Arizona where Lee the only man convicted in die infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre was banished in 1870 He was executed by firing squad in 1877 not far from Washington Washington Mayor Terrill Clove said he is worried about negative impressions people may get from the erection of the Lee statue “The LDS Church has spent a lot of time and effort to soothe the feel- ings about Mountain Meadows and the city is not going to do anything that may be viewed as nibbing salt in the wound” said Clove “It is not that John D Lee did not do several good things here but die one bad thing he did is so horrible it may overshadow everything else” Clove declined to specify what sort of complaints or threats have been conveyed to the city about the Lice statue which ”90 percent of the people who live here don’t even know about yet " he said "Wfe were just delighted to hear they planned on putting up this stat- ue to John P Lee to honor him as one of die great colonizers of the West” said Lee’s great grandson Leroy Lee of the John D Lee Family Organization Clove has met with sculptor Jerry Anderson of nearby Leeds to discuss the fate Of the finished bronze likeness of Lee that now stands in Anderson’s studio One idea was to sever the stidue at die waistline then sell or donate the bust to the Lee family and graft a ‘ an WT5B? IF ' 'nv : a 1 It I d '' legS ! i Croaswofd Enterprise Movies -v" v - 1 i 4 m £ i £ J i ' I mm &&&& ' 4$ Brent StavensHerald JoumaJ Mountain Crest High SchooTs head counselor Kris Hart says she and her colleagues try to provide an important outlist for kids health issues By Holll Gunnell staff writer Counselors try to catch mericahas sera it’s share of destructive behavior from teens over the past severel y earsThe shootings at Jonesboro in 1998 Columbine in 1999 and Santee Calif last year were the acts of ' teenagers known to be social out-were remembered by casts They fellow students as being picked-o-n and withdrawn It is impossible to say whether or not anything could have been done to prevent these tragedies But it is plausible to try to help teenagers understand thra emotions and offer help for those with possible mental a in According to Kris Hart counseling department head at Mountain Crest High School giving kids an outlet where they can sort through their emotions is one way to help them balance themselves out That’s what school counselors are there for she said “We’re the first line” said Hart “From there we can refer and encourage the kids and their entsto essary' Since kids spend 4 large portion of their lime in schooL Hart sid it is the most logical starting point for i counseling “When there are issues of child abuse divorce of families falling apart school can be one of the last tilings they think about” said Hart “We can be a nice healthy founda-tion- ”' " Cache County School District has been trying to do just that Although budget cuts have removed counselors from the schools in the district they the middle and high are available school levels Hart estimated that 25 to 35 percent of the time school counselors spend with students is in “response service and taking pre-: ventati ve measures” When stu- dents talk she saidthe counrelcus assess the See COUNSEL on A12 County software deal not a ByLaoriDouzii ! staff writer - Cf': y’f- - A10 A4 'f Vf 1 -- V'ijtzv' - ? ! imJBI AP photo ) wwwhinewscom ’S- "- t jt C6 Obituaries AS 'Opinion! £5 8porta A "'i ii a California-boun- d wagon train that was camped at Mountain Mead-- ! V ows in September 1857 are told Ihey’ye iisdiey getting anonymous calls and threats feat if"W: this statue goes up it Sill be blown up the same day” said Letoy Lee ' J’ s ' ' - I: com-plaint- ‘m 5 is ) Plannen of the statuary display selected four ptobeers — Lee Samuel Adair Robert Covington and feter Nelson —and commissioned Anderson to create bronze likenesses of each man at a price of $34000 ' per statue s Cahoon said he received about die appropriateness of the Lee statue from local Mormon :7 ' H ' V Readers ‘V Lee was the reby person tried and convicted for the murders of art mated 12b emigrants from Arkansas ' ? - local pioneer onto the Lee statue’s See TRIPS on A12 ©Qflft fljMT W I emphasized “ We learn from each other That’s how it is” While education may be a good reason to attend the conferences the question in some critics' minds is does it make sense in a tough budget year? Pace who will not be attending any conferences this year felt that more prudence was called for during a budget crunch “We voted last Wednesday to cut our salary 20 percent to help with the budget” Pace said referring to a decision at the Legislature's special leadership position makes his attendance necessary "The reason I'm going is because I serve in leadership” he said adding “that does bring benefits to our state" Some question just what those benefits are “I don’t know that solutions for other states fit us here” Rep Loraine Pace pointed out Knudsen disagreed “You could draw a fine line on most anything But frankly all states have much in common It doesn’t matter whether you're in New York or Hawaii or Utah or whoever” he ife newbustofuas-yet-undetenmne- in Smithfield — A3 n TdgexlM'SPaiJ7iew$pap9' 95gnng3pul®200 Woathor Cat collar proposal vA :f-- r t On wn ioioyibiun Wng left tiilka Id Ed rad Loie 8nartthe PV11 M missing Utah youth Ebabath 8mart during gpicu Litton of CNN’s Tany King Uvs’ln Salt Laka City dh Friday ! 7 Cache County’s software woes aren’t as grievous as they’ve been made out to be or so some ebunty ' ' officials insist : ' A few weeks ago certain comity officials had all but given up On a tailed higMedi investment simed at linlripg the offices of die county recorder assessor suditor and trea-surer Now officials suggest that the “integrated system" developed Ingeo Sys-jointly with Logra-bare- d Works terns Inc just “great’5— only it's not wlutt it was intended to be The technology was conceived as s sohrtipn to an antiquated tax roll system previously used by tbe coun: taX out administration to put ty ' notices The new software —an was supposed to Ingeo brainchild cambine Geographic information ' System or GIS‘ data with the tax system ' “(We Would be able) to look at a map identify a parcel and bring up all of fhe data related to the tax roll infonnation7 County Recorder Mike Gleed explained Cbunty Executive M Lynn Lemon told The Herald Journal last month that the system was only concept wheafirst presented to the county Cache County then fronted the money so that development of the software could begin Tbecoun- -' ty according to Lemon hoped tp recoup its investment when the V 7y ' r See SOFTWARE on All '’ |