Show Friday August 2 2002 A3 Local state and regional news In brief — wtim 1— Former Rite-Ai- d building will host Cache Bear Lake pins’ retail locations Hie Herald Journal has received a considerable number of inquiries concerning the retail locations of four collectible Cache Valley pins The newspaper chose not to list the locations in a stoiy this week However because of the call volume received since its publication those locations are being luted here For those interested in purchasing landmark pins they are being sold in Cache County at The Book Tble the Cache Chamber of Commerce the Forest Service office and the American West Heritage Center In Bear Lake the pins are available at the Bear Lake Visitors’ Center die Lighthouse Landing KOA the the store this fall By Jeremiah staff writer Stettler A local book music and video store confirmed Thursday plans to double the site of its store ' Hastings a longtime multimedia retailor on 400 North will be pack ing its bags and moving into its building this neighboring Rite-Ai-d ’ fall to according Darryl Dixon director of store planning and construction '"f The move which is planned for early November will increase the store’s floor space from 11800 square feet to 25000 square feet Hastings' present building will then be toft vacant The move has been rumored for weeks but has been kept hush-huon the local tovti Hastings employees who questioned where the information had come from declined to comment on the matter saying the issue would have to be addressed by corporate management Dixon confirmed Thursday that the rumors were true and said building plans would be submitted to detailLogan city by "y music and video sections and to add a small coffee bar with pastries assorted coffees and A separate lifestyle section will also be included with guitars boomboxes and other bbutique items to suit the teenage andjMriy-- : 20s crowd j ice-drin- ks rts Hastings’ announcement comes mid-Septem- ing remodeling plans for the building on 50 E 400 North Rite-Ai- d Among tire company’s plans are to doqbto the site of Hastings’ book department to increase foie size of its sh just two months after Rite-Ai- d Drugstore and Pharmacy closed its dqctt The Logan drugstore was shutdown after being declared “underperforming’ by company officials Valley man given jail therapy in Raspberry Days Hometown Drive-I-n ami TrendWest ( All profits will used to support abuse case training for the disabled at the Cache Employment and Training Center By Jason Bergroon staff writer (LoganCanyonl Logan Canyon will A be closed at night Nightly closures in Logan Canyon for die nexfseveral days have been announced by the Utah Department of Transportation US Highway 89 near Tray Grove in Logan Canyon will be closed for two hour stretches between 10 pm and 6 am nightly through Aug 16 The three mile begins two miles below die Tony Grove turnoff according to a press release from UDOT Motorists may use Utah 39 as a southerly detour or Idaho 30 to Idaho 36 as a northerly alternate route according to the press release Additional information isavail-abl- e by calling (801) girl last year Robert Brad Noel will remain in the Cache County Jail until space becomes available at the Northern Utah Communities Corrections Center in Ogden “You may sit in jail for a year before being let into the program" 1st District Court Judge Thomas Willmare told Nod during sentencing Nod pleaded guilty to attempted forcible sex abuse in June a fehmytri He was originally charged year-ol- d clo-su- re 891-31- ' 96 third-degr- ee A July Richmond ld man was sentenced Thursday to an indeterminate amount of time in jail and ordered to undergo an intensive therapy program for sexual offenders for attempting to molest a 14- - mi was Utah’s with second-degre- e felony' YR’ forcible sex abuse for alleged-- ’ ly fondling a gitO in August 2001 hottest month ever He “hugged kissed and SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — July was the hottest month ever recorded in Salt Lake City The meim temperature an average of foe daily highs and tows was 819 degrees Hie previous record was 812 in July 1960 sehighi last month ' 96 degrees: nud rad die average tow was 678 or 44 degrees above normal die National Weather Service said unvoiwi mra joumar Austin Andersen reacts as he is hit with water on ihe Shoot W Shower ride at the Raspbeny Days Festival in Garden CHy on Thursday afternoon 1 DToni Festival goes full speed ahead Teacher pay not up next year going — Most SALT LAKE CITY omollnr Hrtpnifn UcSpi L6 smaller rasnberrv cron (AP) of Utah’s 22000 school teachers won’t be getting pay raises next year Last year teachers received an average 47 percent pay hike “It's teen a hard year” Jim EUreidge Utah Education Assoda- lion government rehtionsidirector told foe Deseret News ? And it’s not that it’s a matter of animosity It’s because of the challenges and lack of ®yJeffJinter ' GARDEN CITY — As rare and as valuable as it has became perhaps foe raspberry should be celebrated more this year than ever before Drought frost and a wicked virus have combined to generate fewer of Bear Lake’s celebrated berries the last couple of summers And yet toe 19fe annual Raspberry Days Festival must go on “When I first came here five years ago a case was about $20” said GayneU Hutson cohainnan of the funds" While some districts are still negotiating contracts so fiu only about 216 teachers in the state are in fine to receive pay'raises Contracts have UV6MEVD0C& for 70 percent of Utah teachers So far just one school district San Juan has funded a pay raise The 15 event with her husband Tom “Then it went up to $22 And I was just talking to a laity who said what few there are are going for $26 a case “That’s like eating gold” Hutson added with a laugh “Idon’t know if it’s worth it But they still have the fnvwm miw fnr rnphwry dialog anH that’s the most important thing” Raspberry Days kicked off Thurs-day afternoon with the opening of the fair the Miss Berry Princess pageant and a swing dance and will continue through Saturday night Over 20000 people are expected to pass through Garden City this week- end a town with just 350 residents In order to relieve qbnges- tion along US Highway 89 visitors will be askedlo park near foie town office building at 145 W Center and 137-vend- or year-rou- take a shuttle bus to the primary fes-rival site “We've hired the Rich County school buses and they’re going to be running every 20 minutes” Hutson said “It worked good for the Olympics so we thought we’d give it a try" fa addition the Utah Highway Patnri will also have eight mounted policemen in the area joining other troopers and the Rich County Sher-- ” ifTs Office and Search & Rescue Tfeam in maintaining order and traffic flow ‘We just don’t have a good bypass and UDOT gets very upset when we close down their highway” Hutson nd noted Adding tohe traffic concerns is touched her inappropriately" Cache County Sheriff’s Li Dave Bennett said in April During a teary-eye- d apology Noel told his wife family and kids that he was sorry for what he had done “I especially want to apolo- gire to my children because I ' can’t beywith them like they ' want me to be” Noel said Noel also apologized to the i victim “I’d like to say that in my entire lifetime I've never intentionally done harm to anybody” he said " I want to wish her (the victim) the ! ! J best” The victim’s sister initially told police last that she had had sexual ' year relations with Noel and that she waa “afraid he had done the same thing with her sister” Bennett said in April During the sentencing hearing the mother of both girls said that Noel’s initial friendship with' the girls “turned into abuse” “Brad was a very cunning and deceiving man to than” ' she said The victim’s mother also See BERRY on All See ABUSE on A6 4 tried by reductions in foe health care Rutjaia ha reid State revenues were short $411 million last fiscal year and die Leg- -' islature to Jute raided emergency v: funds and cutbudgets to make up for fit1 By ArrlA Branson staff writer outdoor pools tyro water slides and two hot tabs Logan resident Becky Kendall 39 has fond memories of her childhood summers at Ijoouul Starting at id Sge 8 ue honed her swim- nring skills iand later went on become a lifeguard after die water' slides were installed in 1980 and f aproj$173milliraihortfiillin While happy memories iuebemg 1' made this summer in die second I son of the outdoor pool at the Lc Aquatic Center many CacfaeVUiey residents remember triashing swim-nring and sliding at Logana Lgan s dty’ji previous outdoor pod’ j Hie springs have been capped foe steqi hills leveled foe pools filled in and apaxtmrat bufidings erected No j ’dues remain but foe site at 1400 fforfoand400WestinLogm was i once the hub of water park fun in v r Cache Vriky When owners Ken and ' Marie Lindquist of Logan sold r ' Logana In 1992 the site featured twd -- die current fiscal yean ti t For this yearachoolbudgets were slashed twice Pint byabout $31 jnilfion dien in Juty by more fora $5 ( w ' A': 't 1 'M'1'1' funds1 'vj'1' " I Uniraleadn didn’t iiave much : '? loom to bargain I “It wasn’t a big deal because we ' imew we didn’t have any money" ' Gnmitc Education Association executive director fat Arakaki said v V rMooetarily we tried to keep everything status qua But it wasahard yeat" a r 1981 I : - h V p : ? tiu iiuuiinii :iv- “It wis a great dace to spend the summer I lived out therebecause I was best friends with one of the Ljridquist’i dkuiters" Kendall sirid was like a second home We would go and swim and play all day" “t'I-'vL n- - l ''V ij ' s'1 r 1 ' f i'1 if ll - Photo courtesy of Kan and Mario Undqul Valley residents enjoy a day In foe sun at Logana ' |