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Bridgerland’s DailyNewspaper : LcganIUtah©20Q4f$50J Council unanimously supports site closer finalization Landfill Weather Sun goes into' hiding before the storm By John Wright staff writer — Page A12 authorize the Logan City Environmental Division the county’s garbage contractor to proceed with property acquisition In addition to the 200 acres needed at the site which sits just south of the Idaho border between Dirty Head and Stink Creek roads the city for a must acquire rights-of-wroad from Logan that would bypass Despite the objections of several residents during a public hearing the Cache County Council expressed unanimous support Tuesday for a proposal to move forward with plans to site a landfill north of Clarkston If the council formally approves a resolution endorsing the proposal at its next meeting April 27 it would Update ESS IRS forms now to choice: edges ay Clarkston and Newton 7 After the current landfill’s capaci neighbors protest ty is exhausted in approximately 18 years the county's solid waste would be taken to a transfer station there before'being loaded onto semi trucks and hauled to the new landfill In the meantime though the ' resolution strongly recommends that officials continue to pursue options for waste disposal “We would only develop this site if and when we exhaust all the other options to go out of county and ty determine that they’re more expen- - sivc” Logan City Environmental Director Issa Hamud said during the ' ' public hearing “Fifteen years from jtow things can change We're not done but we're making plans' for the future” The resolution endorsing the location north of Clarkston known as ' Site C had already been See LANDFILL on All In our schools require more time to fill out WASHINGTON (AP) — Taxpay-- : ere working feverishly to meet the April 15 filing deadline can take some comfort knowing they are not alone when it comes to scratching their heads over this year’s forms Tax returns are getting more compli- - cated The government estimates that the average taxpayer filing a typical tax return with itemized deductions and income from interest capital gains and dividends has to spend 42 minutes more than last year doing the math and papenvork The total estimated time to finish these common forms is 28 hours and 30 minutes It is not only frustrating but eco- - V homically counterproductive said David Keating senior counselor for the National Taxpayers Union and author of a new study on tax complexity “This is something that hobbles the nation’s productivity because we ' have a lot of very talented people filling out paperwork” he said “It’s a mat deadweight in our economy” Even the simplest Form 1040EZ tax return takes 3 hours and 43 min- utes to complete Some of this year’s paperwork burr ' den stems from changes in the tax- payers' favor such as new laws that reduced the rates on capital gains and dividends and increased the child tax credit The Internal Revenue Service reported Wednesday that the average tax refund increased 5 percent this r year to $2090 ' Occasionally taxpayers may spend ' hours filling out forms only lotfis-covtheir work leads to a dead end To test for alternative minimum tax : liability for example the average RADkids taught to protect themselves By Jason Bergroen staff writer T hit him in the stomach elbowed him in the face kicked him in the shin and then ran ’ ' for help “Stay back you're not my dad" the kids yelled with their hands held defensively in front of theqi The Edith Bowen School pilot ' program RADkids or Resist Aggression Defen-sively graduated its first group of students Wednesday The Mitch MascaraHerald Journal personal safety and defense program teaches Kindergartner Rylee Fullmer practices resistance techniques at the RADkids children how to escape class Wednesday afternoon at the the dangers of being Edith Bowen Laboratory School at abducted USU “They did a good job for their first time” RADkids regional director Dean Larsen ry six-we- ek ' RADkids is a spinoff of SDwomen a’defense program for women dial has been offered by the UtahState Police Departs ment for the past three years USU dispatch coordinator Judy ' er SeeFORMSonA9 - Quick redd : la there a fun or fascinating tyfep site you would like ' to share with tallow: HJ readers? Call - : 7 " '" the newspaperat 1 and It could appear hew' Don’t forget to leave your name and town of residence752-212- Mitch MascanrVHetald Jacob Roghaar a : Tfo : in new program fourth-grad- Journal at Edith Bowen Laboratory School tries to escape er from would-b- e attacker Dean Larsen a RADkids instructor from Utah County This was the culminatiori pf the first RADkids class taught in the valley RAD stands for ' Resisting Aggression Defensively - ' ' See DEFENSE on A 12 yywwdeaUiciockc6m 7 :' ' This somewhat apoofy page asks you to fil out a health questionnaire then ere ates a running digital dock that counts ' down the seconds left in your life : " People Index are some of ihe Ipcal names Following that appear : : in today's Herald Journal: Bodrero (CI) Use Jensen- - ’ 7(C1) Douglas Latimer (Cl ) Eric Swan-son (C2) Karen McFarland (C3) Jerry T Storehouse (C3) John Stewart (A4k Richard Keeler (A4) Betsy Beneke (A3) De An Leister (A3) JayFaw (A3) Logan Hufl (B2) Gavin Johnson (B2) Randy Ralie(BI) JuptinHedin(B1) ' Justin D ' : f1- Index : ’ - ClassifiedsuiC6 ObituariesAl 0 ComkavCM Opinioni Mdvles':C2 Spoirti:iCB1 wwwhriewscom : President endorses Sharon's plan to retain West Bank settlements i’hiK WASHINGTON (APjitn toriC policy shift President Bush oq Wednesday endoosed Israel’s plan to hold on to part of the West Bank in ' Crockett spearheaded both programs “It’s a personal empowerment program" Crockett said “It builds their confidence-could see a difference from week prie to week two in some of the kids You could see it in the way ' they talk and you coiildseeit in their eyes" The students ages 5 to 1 1 were put through drills in which they fended off Laieni who simulated an attacker wearing a red padded storm trodper-typ- e outfit “I learned to kick them hard and tun away and call 91 1 and Jake Roghaar said stuff like that ”1 saidlie be scared if he were really attacked wouldn't Roghaar v hiecausd now he knows what to dci-- ' The drills are key to the program Larsen said because it ' “empoiWers" the children to react appropriately in a dangerous ' v’ situation “It’s got to he owned by them it’s got tobe all theirs” he said Utah unit to stay in is like someone giving a part of Texas’ " land to Chtna" : “If Israel wants to make peacd it must talk to the Paltinian leader- - ' : ship” Erekat said Palestinian leaders had previously said they had been assured by the Bush administration they would be consult- ed before any endorsement of Sharoii’s SALTLAKECITY (AP) Reversing a decision that ' r would have returned troops to ' in early May the militaryUtah :plan'final any peace settlement with the ' Bush's statement on settlements is extending the Middle East Palestmians Bush also ruled out ' “will he read by the Arab world as jusUtah Paleriinian refugees returning to Israel stay of a J tification of Sharon’s sovereignty over National Guard battalion bringing strong Criticism from the Tk 1457th Engineer Battal 'major (settlement) blocs” Edward S : Palestinians ' ' Walker i ' ambassador former to ion a US has been deployed since An elated Israeli Prime Minister ' May Its' mission in Iraq and Israel and to Egypt said in an inter- AP photo Ariel Sharon said his plan to pull back U& President Geprge W Bush right and “ view the lengthof the extension : from parts of the West Bank and Gaza Previous US: administrations have: have not been determined the hailed by Bush would create ‘a new Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon depart after making a joint statement to reporters described Jewish settlements as obsta- Guard said Wednesday :' ' and better reality for the state of ' on at k) the y 0 Washington Bush’s cles to One of : prcdeces-Israel" Maj Gen Brian Tarhet peace Wertoesday sore Jimmy Carter went even further But PalestinianPrimc Minister adjutant gototal to the Utah ' and called them 'J AhtoedQurcia —with whom the illegal ' !' : 9u“rd was setedujed to meet senior Israeli official speaking on with family lriembersFnday1 Bush administration deals while boy- 2? VW ' t to discuss the extension' called V ' condition of anonymity said Sharon cotting leader Yasser Arafat ihe the idea earlier called : :Araf Bush “the first president who has Thel457th iVhich was acti-- : thought that no American president had ever made concessions so impor- complete end pf the peace prodess’' vatod in February 2003 had legitimized the (Israeli) settlements in Palestinian territories’’ And Palestinian Cabinet minisier Saeb tant to Israel aS Bush did on Wednes--' '' ' “We as Palestinians reject that”' I Erekai said of Bush’s statement: ’“This yP'STY onA8 day1 v : V:- - - : 430-iheihb- er ’ 'v--1- : - White-Hous- e - 1 r- - cacceptthat - : : - P " J JV ' " Pr : i : rV |