Show n Tuesday October 21 2003 Local state Logan candidates tackle issues In brief at forum By David Nelson staff writer Hyrum ' UDOT city to mark completion of road (gteateni Tax hikes water rate increases growth issues It’s been a three-headmonster in terms of issues for the EJ ed The Utah Department of Trans- and Hyrum dty will completion of construction on Utah Highway 16S at 10 am Friday in the Mountain Crest High citizens of Logan giving die six candidates for three Municipal Council seats plenty of campaign arrows to launch in preparation for the Nov 4 Kion Kerr general election A forum at the Whittier Community Crater on Monday night gave the candidates — Steve Hicken Laraine Swenson Tom Ken Steven Taylor Peter Brunson and Joseph Needham — the first opportunity of the cam- -' paign to publicly address those School auditorium Widening of die of die road between Nibley and Hyrum cost $42 million and began this spring The road now has two lanes m each direction with a crater turn median and udder shoulders Also UDOT improved the intersection at 4600 South rad added curbs and gutters within Hyrum city limits The ribbon-cuttin- g ceremony will include speakers from UDOT Hyrum city state legislators and Mountain Crest Him School student government The Mountain Crest band will perform several issues The race for Council Seat No : 1 Taylor Swenson Brunson Needham local experience as well as the promise of thorough research on the hot issues of the last few months in announcing their positions to local residents Hicken 50 said his business experience will serve him well in addressing the financial decisions matches two longtime residents of Cache Valley Steve Hicken owner of The Kater Shop a men’s clothing store is running against Laraine Swenson a former planning and zoning commissioner who’s been involved with a number of community projects Each has touted that that a council must make He said fiscal responsibility would be important to him as a councilmember rad the thought of analyzing budgets rad payrolls doesn’t faze him' even if that stance isn't always popular Td be lying if I told you our property tax was going to roll back anytime soon” he told the crowd However Hicken said the tax rates See LOGAN on A6 Ellsberg calls Iraq numbers Nibley another City to host forum for council hopefuls Vietnam Nibley city will host a night at 7 pm Thursday in city offices 623 W 3200 South Six candidates who are vying for ' three city council seats will respond to questions from the public during ' — the forum report PARK CITY (AP)— The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers more than 30 years ago said there are striking parallels between Vietnam and Iraq1 “This war could go on for- ever no matter how unpopular it gets That’s very like Viet- nam: a stale hopeless occupa-tion- ” Daniel Ellsberg 71' ? 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S ' larity he said The Bush administration misled the : V public about' : Agendas V The Richmond City Council will be holding a meeting on Tuesday at 7 pm at the Dance Hall next to the councl room in the community buildHearing a charette report -Hearing quarterly reports Hearing an Ecdes lce Center - the threat of Saddam Hus- - ' Logan City pm Library 255 N Main Logan Agenda items include: Hearing budget report including an update on LSTA Grants v Eli LuceroHorald Journal will ones which Deseret at the Industries Erin clothes sorts Beck stay at the store to be deciding Logan through Employee sold and which ones will be shipped off fbr humanitarian aid j) Hearing an update on the literacy program Hearing a Friends of the Library report including an update on the book sale Hearing a presentation on board Logan i J The Millville Planning Commishall sion wifl meet at B pm at city 490 E 300 South Agenda Rems f include: Discussing a request for a zoning clearance fbr a hay shed by Clay and Wendy Wdker 117 W 400 North Reviewing transportation plan Discussing grassy swales Hearing council report J The River Heights Planning Commission will meet at 7 pm at dty had 520 S 500 East Agenda items bidude: Discussing a change of ufce by Kent Dunkley Discussing Utah Opera Company conditional-us- e permit Reviewing Bake minor subdivision i plat Corrections In the story “Shrinking Farmland Bemoaned" on page A1 of the Saturday Oct 23 edition of The Herald Journal we misstated the percentage of Cache County’s economic output for which agriculture accounts The correct amount is 26 percent i Sky View teacher was misidentified In a photo caption on page A3 of Oct 20 edition of The the Monday I is more than meets the eye --u Deseret Industries store i Farming accounts for 26 of output D By Danrell Edward "Ehrlick staff writer report final Ellsberg sein a tactic similar to what he said the Johnson administration took nearly 40 years before ' “It was clear we were being lied into a war again being lied into what amounted to another Tonkin Gulf Resolu- ’ Board will J The Logan Library meet at 6:30 at the Hearing a public relations update on October and November activities Discussing a budget update on the trust fund Discussing long range planning report including a community sendee update and library design facility planning Hearing a librarian's monthly f : Considering business licens applications i' : Hearing coundlmembers and mayor's reports policy ' p big 6 W Main Agenda items include: : A3 and regional rdws Steve Stowers doesn’t Logan to burst anyone’s bubble but there’s not a particular day to shop “the DI ” that’s better than the rest “No Not really” Stowers said “I hate to deflate anyone though If they have a theory that’s fine” While customers may have theories so does DI: Most companies use people to build things but at the receiving docks near the hydraulic bailer ami sorting through the pricing bins the DI uses things to build - ' people And DI gets a lot things Then again DI gets a lot of people While “going to the DI” is a ritual for some a halloween stop for many and still a spring cleaning godsend for others few may realize the DL Logan’s DI is part of a nine-sto- re branch of medium-size- d DI’s explained David Toone the Ogden Field Group manager who oversees stores from Layton to Rexburg Idaho ' The Logan DI receives nearly 42000 pounds of donations per week That’s an average of 35 tons - ' scene at Logan’s behind-the-scen- es rebundled with a mix of clothing sizes and sorted for climate of die country to which they will be sent Clothing is shipped around the world “I love my job People to countries in need The bundles are so generous" have to be sorted by gender size and climate to ensure that a remote vilSteve Stowers lage on the equator doesn’t receive a womens jackstore manager shipment of ets “In iriany cases you’ll see villages ' 10 of or donations pounds per day wearing BYU or Utah State Univerevery minute that DI is open sity shirts" Toone said Some might wager a guess that the Though DI receives anything from couches to dolls to silk suits DI is a large consumer of water rad electric washing and drying all the the majority of items are clothing In fact DI ships nearly 35000 pounds donations that come in However Stowers said that very few articles of or 80 percent of its donations to the humanitarian center in Salt Lake City clothing need washing V each week “People don’t take off a dirty shirt and donate it” Toone said Only 20 percent of the clothing that’s donated to DI in Logan actuSome of the clothing comes to the is The in rest in a DI ally stays Logan bag Even though some items may look pressed comprated and bundled in like they need washing they are in huge 1000 bales and loaded on a truck bound on its weekly sojourn to fact new ' the humanitarian center In a bin in the comer of the shipStowers explained that the 20 perping dock lies dusty boxes and things that are still new r— maybe Christ- - ' cent of clothes that are kept are die ones that are most marketable mas presents never used or the third blender given as a wedding gift The others are tossed into a large Whatever the purpose they are set green baler that bundles the clothes aside into huge rectangles which are then taken by forklift to a waiting truck “It looks like garbage” Toone said After the bales are received in Salt See DL on A9 Lake City they are taken apart and i fur-lin-ed dry-cleani- tion with the Congress signing a blank check To see Congress " sleepwalking into another war was disheartening” Ellsberg said Marine and The one-tim- e former military analyst is best known for leaking in 1971 the Pentagon Papers a top secret Defense Department study on the Vietnam War that he considered proof that American officials were lying about chances for victory As a result of attacking Iraq Bush only gave radicals more reason to hate the United States and terrorists would love tosee him stay in office - Ellsberg said “Osama bin Laden couldn’t dream of a better recruiting drive’’ he said Ellsberg believes there are many people in the Bush government who stay at their posts because they want to help from the inside as he hoped to do during Vietnam The alternative is to go public and become an outsider forever a decision he said he never regretted “What I’m trying to do is encourage other officials in there now to speak out against the administration” Ellsberg said Charges accrue for Smithfield financial investor accused Day-trad- er of swindling millions from Cache clients By Jaaon Bergman staff writer Identity fraud charges have been added to the list of 30 felony communications and securities fraud charges filed in August against Smithfield financial investor Paul Douglas Jensen e The three felony rad two class-- A misdemeanor charges third-degre- were filed against Jensen 50 in 1st District Court on Monday by the Cache County Attorney’s Office Cache County Attorney George Daines said the new charges stem ''from Jensen misrepresenting himself as another person at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas in July Jensen’s attorney Barbara Lach-m- ar requested Monday that the new charges be consolidated with the original charges into one case She also asked that a preliminary hearing scheduled for Wednesday be postponed Preliminary hearings are held in felony cases to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to iV warrant a trial First District Court Judge Gordon J Low granted Lrahmar’s requests and scheduled a Nov 17 statui hearing in the case Lachmar said sne has been working with the Cache County Attorney’s Office to resolve the case Smithfield police began investigat-il- y 17 after receiving a ing Jensen from a local investor complaint Authorities believe Jensen ran a daytrading investment firm from his home rad swindled more than $10 million dollars from more than 70 people between April 2001 and July 2003 Jensen was arrested on a warrant in Las Vegas in July after he allegedly stole nearly $3 million from one investor In August Jensen was extradited back to Cache County After that other valley residents stepped forward rad accused Jensen of bilking them out of thousands The Cache County Attorney’s e Office filed 20 felony charges of communications fraud e three felony charges ' of securities fraud three felony charges of sales of unlicensed securities and three felony charges of sales by an unlicensed broker second-degre- second-degre- third-degr- third-degr- ee ee ' |