Show The - cerate ffil VoL 93 4!ML qj Aggies get first notch in the win column — B1 ouraan School activities mean school fees — A3 Logan Bridgerland’s Daily Newspaper No258ISunday Septembef15'2002 n Dual turn lanes not due Q at 400 North after all Weather Mostly sunny with highs in the lower 80s By Jeremiah staff writer It’s just too bad that someone Ststtler u — PageA14 New traffic lights are fastened over the intersection of 400 North and Main Street awaiting the green turn lanes light for two left-haBut that light won’t change this year And perhaps not the next Hie Utah Department of Transportation is simply widening the intersection until two turn lanes are “warranted” In the meantime the intersections will be striped as they were before Updato mm Stoning-deat-h did- n't tell the county wide transportation nd sentences Utahi0 200ZjU5 office Transportation Planner Jay Aguilar didn't hear about the plan until two or three weeks ago He assumed die dual turn lanes were a done deal And Jim Gass' executive director of the Cache Metropolitan Planning Organization received the news last week That doesn’t sit well for either individual particularly when the $2 million construction cost is coming : of the CMPO’s pocket “If they arc going to be spending our money we need to be kept abreast of what is happening ’’ Gass put said ' Ahmad Jaber director of UDOT’s region 1 believed the CMPO was kept “abreast” of the developments “It was not a lack of communicawas a misundertion” he said liow soon the about standing improvements would take place The CMPO may have thought they (the turn lanes) would be done immediately But in our minds they would “It be done as soon as it was warranted by the numbers” Project Manager Kelly Barrett defended UDOT’s decision to delay creating an additional lane He said the department is acting in the best interest of traffic flow on both 400 North and Mam Street His gave the following reasons A d turn lane allows single vehicles to turn on either a green arrow or a solid green light As a result the arrow is shorter left-han- See LANES on A16 in a Nigeria decried LAGOS Nigeria (AP) — When her time to die comes convicted ' adulteress Amina Lawal will be buried up to her neck in sand When only her head remains exposed those watching will be invited to throw stones until the single mother is dead “As they throw they will be call- ing ‘God is great” court official Ibrahim Abdiillahi says outlining procedure for the first in a sudden string of executions by stoning in Nigeria’s Islamic northern states Lawal and others of a growing number of men and women on Nigeria’s Shariah death row haVe emerged as pawns in a political battle for — in one that power Nigeria civil and religious figures feel has gotten out of control The rush in Nigeria’s north to impose the harshest possible sentences under Islamic law — newly adopted by a dozen states — has laid bare the split between Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south The death sentences have become an act of defiance by northern leaders against President Olusegun Obasanjo whom they accuse of neglect and against the south as a whole where Nigeria’s economic power lies Southerners accuse the rulers of the mainly Muslim north of manipulating Islam to divide voters along religious lines — and to distract people from their state governments’ poor performance since military rule ended in Nigeria three years ago On Aug 22 a Shariah appeal court upheld Lawal’s death by stoning sentence for having sex outside of marriage She gave birth more than high-ranki- ng El LuceraHerald Journal UOin ir Riders make their way along US 89 outside of Richmond during the LOTOJA bike race Saturday The road race attracted 730 riders this year and ended with a Smithfield cyclist in the victo- Logan-ttKlacks- See coverage on B1 Hyrum budgeting defended By Joe Rowley staff writer ' HYRUM — After more than 20 and : years of operating debt-fre- e on a cushioned budget Hyrum city officials are looking at die prospect of braiding fra a new library and sewer treatment facility and lately they have come under fire from residents fra a large tax hike and real estate ventures along Main Street that will ' help provide fra a new post office But Mayra Gordon M Olson said the tax hike was long overdue and he does not regret the direction die city has taken with plans fra a new post office and i' JaCKSOn ry circle & See STONE on Al( TO library Though the city recently has had to raise taxes by as much as double and has tied money up in land Olson stressed that the city still is operating debt free and continues to have reserves avail- able “Are we on a budget crisis? No Hyrum city does not owe any money to anybody” he said “Do we have challenges? Yes” The city has been able to avoid raising property taxes fra nearly 20 years by transferring money into the general fund from the electrical utility fund while neighboring cities have periodically increased rates to keep up with increasing expenses Olson said That has consequently kept Hyrum rates among the lowest in tire valley The practice of transferring money from enterprise funds such as the electrical utility has been criticized because it is tantamount to a hidden tax It is a view that Olson does not disagree with The profits earned by the city’s electric utility daring the 1980s and 1990s could be transferred into the general fund and a new ’ property tax avoided But with the power crunches of the past several years Hyrum felt the pressure and slowly watched its reserves disappear During the past two or three years the electric Terrorist hunt buoyed by a string of arrests TerWASHINGTON (AP) rorism arrests made outside Buffalo NY and in a Pakistani “ firefigty emboldened authorities camSaturday in their and its paign against supporters “One by one we’re hunting the killers down” Presi' ' dent Bush said i Officials said five men from Lackawanna NY received weapons training at an camp visited by Osama bin Laden last summer and were charged with providing support to terrorism The charges were the latest in a series made in the United States over fire past three weeks Officials said the arrests under- score the broad reach of even in America and the far-flu-ng da Music lessons a growing part Local of Cache Valley life Index Crossword C5 Enterprise Movies! A10 C7 Obituaries A12 Opinion M Sports B1 vywwhjnewscom i breadth of the campaign to track the terrorists down ‘Terrorism and support of terrorists is not confined to largp cities arid metropolitan areas of America" Larry Thompson deputy attorney general told a news conference at Justice Department headquarters1 “It lurks in small towns and rural areas as well” With the Buffalo arrests US law enforcement “has identified investigated and disrupted an terrorist cell on American soil" Officials would say little about the fate of Ramzi Binal- shibh an alleged Sept 11 plotter since his capture in an See HUNT on A14 N better way to get A i i l r divorced? By Tiffany Erickson staff writer rv W&i la Divorcer It is a word that is associated with pain conflict expense and frustration and it often brings out the worst sides of people involved in it However some couples going through divorce have found a way to avoid many of the negative aspects in a less expensive and faster way Mediation rather than litigation is a method that one local woman found to be very effective and quick' “We decided to go to a mediator because I felt that the concerns we had fra our son could be resolved without a court battle” said the woman who fra privacy reasons will be identified here simply as Jane Jane went to Sherman Beck a mediator of five years s well as a retired ' marriage counselor of 30 years She said that she anil her were able to sit down with the mediator and come to an agreement that they both approved of rather than something the court decided i “We wanted to put issues to rest ad well as figure out what was best for our son” said Jane! “Dr Beck was nd V : ' AP photo Pakistan police escort an unidentified man arrested after a gunbattle between mempolice and suspected bers in Karachi Pakistan amazing” She said that the divorce and custody issues were settled in a few meetings with Beck and he drew up an agreement that they both signed and submitted to the court x Jane said this sort of process can help to alleviate the hurt anger and See MEDIATION on A14 i V V |