Show sl ' t L Local fans flock to final “Lord of the Rings" — AS' "- V-- -vV- !': Sky View basketball prevails over Pocatello -- Bt N(5?362HThu'rsda7 December 8J2003 vVoH94 Paradise teen dies in skiing accident Woatfior Only By Jaaon Bergman and Holll Wetos seven days until Christmas staff writers ! — : Mountain Crest An School died around senior Ifigh 10:30 Wednesday morning after siding into a tree at a iesort in Park PagnA14 Updalo ' City IS J Women CDC: iL’oganlUtahX© 20031550 Bridgerland'slDaily’lNewspape r Christopher Boyer of Paradise was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds said The crash occurred early Wednes- - day morning while Boyer was skiing with friends at Canyons Resort ' “In the process of skiing some- occurred and he went offthe thing trail and struck a tree sustaining fatal injuries to his head” Edmunds said Canyons Resort ski patrol trans- ported Boyer from the mountain He was then transported by Summit Sheriff Office deputies to the Salt Lake City Medical Examiner’s year Another skier died last Sunday after also hitting a tree “We have three ' resorts here in Sum- -' mit County and it’s not unusual to have two or three skiing fatalities a year” Edmunds said office- ‘ In our' schools day reason to lore someone" son said ’Tt’s pretty traumatic The See TRAGEDY on Al4 says newspaper overstated budget bind ’ for first child ATLANTA (AP) —The average age at which American women are having their first child has climbed ' to an high of 251 the gov- -' eminent said Wednesday ' 'The rise reflects a drop in teen births and an increase in the number of women who are putting off moth- erhood until their 30s and 40s American e The age of moms has risen steadily during the put three decades from an average of 214 in 1970 The latest figure for 2002 wu released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Women contemplating mother- hood “are more likely to wait” said CDC statistician Joyce Martin “It’s good overall for infant health because birth outcomes for teen moms are problematic” The teen birth rate has dropped 30 percent in the past decade to a his-toric low of 43 births per l 000 women in 2002 The CDC also said births among women ages 20 and 24 had dropped to 104 per 1000 women from a high of 1097 in 2000 The government attributed the drop in the teen birth rate to health campaigns by public and privateV agencies that discourage teen preg- - -nancies ami promote abstinence The overall birth rates among ' women 35 to 39 (41 births per f 000 women) and those ages 40 to 44 (8 per 1000) were at the highest levels for those age groups in three ' all-ti- By David Nelson ' staff writer first-tim- : - The $65(jOOO deficit cur- rently facing Logan city gen- ' ' eral fund reserves was explained to the Logan ' V Municipal Council on Wednesday night) by officials who said a headline iii Wednesday’s Herald Journal’ caused confusion regarding city financial health‘ V “(The headline) gave the wrong idea of what the article ' was about” said Logan Mayor ' : Doug Thompson whosaid his office fielded calls from citi- - ' zens concerned the city was ' bankrupt after the article was "We felt like that published heeded some explanation”: ' Although the mayor has asked all city' departrecently ment heads to freeze expendi- - ' tures that aren’t "missiori- ' i critical" until the end of Janu-aryThompson said that the city general reserve fund defial is ' not ?r”crisiC as he Suggested the headline “Logan $650000 ' in debt” may have indicated' ' - f : “I think we canrecover” the ' mayor told the Logan Munici- -' ' ”1 don’t think it’s pal Council a major problem ” ) 'As reported in Wednesday's Herald Journal city revenue - v projections for'the fiscal year : that ended June 30 did not materialize and leftthe bud- -" " get without funds to cover ' that made were appropriations earlier in the year from the ' ' reserve fund’ In addition to the hold on ' major expenditures Thomp--) Don"1 son and finance director Fulton said other steps have ' -- ' : : - ' V Jed Rowian “It’s certainly reflective of contin- ued postponement of childbearing” Martin said “But there are some i : fifth-grade- 752-212- This tMskk fifth-graders - ' Murad Wab tte - r celebrate historic flight some students operated a flight lator program projected on a serpen in ' the gymnasium yS Students watched as Jorgensen simulated the flight of Orville and Wifour’s first flight at 10:35 am -i-icsa time the Wright Flyer was airbbme 100 years agoThen Jor: gensen flew all kinds of planes) from a Bombardier jet to a Boeing 747 to ! the sounds of the cheering students v' At the beginning of the assembly ' ' student heard all about life in thecockpit from Delta pitot and Cache Valley resident David Root Some of students were so ' the fifth-grasimu-r- 'RIVER HEIGHTS — The Wright brothers used spruce wood and muslin falnic to biiild their"lirplane rs fashDave Jorgensen’s ioned theirs out of everything from Rice Krispies and chocolate to Card- board and tinfoil ”Some of the models are almost heirloom quality)” Jorgensen said The River Heights Elementary built replicas of the V ): Wright Flyer to celebrate the 100th' anniversary of the first successful ? flight The whole school participated " EH LuceroHerald Journal hold the models of the Wright Flyer that they made in an assembly where Jorgensen arid staff writer Quick read and Zac Hendrickson 5th-grade- rs ByHoUlWMsa See WOMEN on A14 It there a tun or ! fascinating Web its you would like to share wHhfeHow HI readers? Call the newspaper at 1 and could appear here Don’t forget to leave your name and town of residence'- left Shaiytyn Johnson Kyto Johnson River Heights decades- ’ S ''" hpi-- : Nel- was the son of Cache County Sheriff’s Office Sgt Wayne Boyer and his wife Kathy Edmunds said Boyer's death was the second at Canyons Resort this ' - “It’s a tough time of year the Christopher Boyer Boyer Office'' v “It’s a tragedy no matter who this happens to but it was particularly ' noteworthy for us since it was the : child of a fellow law enforcement officer” Edmunds said Cache County Sheriff Lynn Nel- son said the news of Boyer’s death was felt deeply at the sheriff’s J - : de ' impressed with Root who Was dressed in his navy blue pilot uni - form1 that they asked: for his auto: "v-V:- graph -- That’s a first” Root said “I felr like Tom Cruise there for a second"': : - b Meghan O’ Very who wais dared by ) her friends to ask Root for hts auto-- : ) graph said shie thinks airplane the Wright brothers and Root’s job are all " fascinating: “It’s all really cooi’ Q’Veiy said O’ Very is pretty familiar with'aiV planes When she used to live in Oklahoma she flew back to Utah ) : ' See'mERSAT4- : ' Stiff - BUDGET qn A14 £ wwwcensusgov : ' This ia the official Web siteof the US Census Bureau t contains a wealth of demographics data from the 2000 : US Census and subsequent surveys Browers may find it interesting to view the data on Cache County and see " how if compares to other parts of Utah and other parts of the country : Pooplo Indox Following are some of the local names that appear in today's Herald Journal: - Benjamin David Owens (Cl) Jesse Schafer (C2) flee Ame Reed (A4) Erin Cartwright (B1) Lydia Whitehead Chanel (B3) Katie Alton (B3) Biaquiere (B4) Lida Rippflnger (B4) Taml Jeppeeen (A12) Megan Peterson (A3) ARaha Brown (AS) Comics liftlrf— “ A12 Obituaries M C5 Opinion C2 Sports wwwhjnew8coni VRii guerrillas displaying central planning raid In Iraq The Iraqi BAGHDAD Iraq'(AP) is of showing signs central insurgency officials of Sadformer by planning dam Hussein’s regime — figures who coordinate strikes hundreds of miles - ' apart and provide cash and bomb-maki' expertise to guerrilla cells a senior Associofficial jtoldThe US military ated Presson Wednesday In some cases ” signature bombs” are used devices so similar their design suggests they came from the B1 i SAMARRA Iraq (AP) Using sledgehammers crowbars explosives and armored vehicles US forces smashed down the ' gates of homes and the ' doors of workshops and : : junkyards Wednesday to ' : ng : attadc the Iraqi resistance that hupersirted despite -- ume source the official said ' Indox CtossiftodBC7 Military official: Iraqi “We doubt individual cells would ) have die capability themselves to do thaL They're just too much alike” die official saidoncoodition of anonymir ty describing the growing intelligence picture of the attackers The shadowy overseers of the insurgency maintain communications with cells made vp aX a core of about 5000 aqd-U- S guerrillas who in turn have e recruited mousands of fight- part-tim- x---- ' i ithecaptmofSaddam Hussem i" v 'v- -' ' '"' v An liaqi poNM officer bwpacts the remairie of e bus at the scene of an expiosion in Baghdad on WMnesday- - A truck loadad with mptoaivea rammed into the bus instead of speeding toward a police station killing at least 10 people ' era from Iraq’s mosques and its vast pool of unemployed and angry citizens the official ssiid The official cautioned that the guerrillas displayed no signs of a strict commarid-and-contr- ol hierarchy in the conventional military sense but said dozens of independent cells have See PLANNING on AiO Loud Masts nnxed with the sounded women arid children screaming inside the houses An exptoatoo to the gate of one eom- - : pound shattered windows cutting a withassUSmedka ) ': ' ' treated the injury while See RAID on All i 1 |