Show aiMi TV® Saturday May 22 2004 A3 Local state In brief SALT LAKE CITY (AP)— The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah is appealing a federal judge’s ' ruling upholding the land swap the Mormon church and the city engi- neered to allow the church to control speech and behavior on a block of Main Street The ACLU on Friday filed in fed- eral court its intention to take the case to the 1 0th US District Court of Appeals The ACLU is challenging the constitutionality of the deal by which the city relinquished its easement on the street block 'adjacent to the church’s temple in exchange land elsewhere in for church-owne- d Charges filed in fatal car collision 4 SIC Main Street lawsuit ACLU Smithfield A North Logan man' v who reportedly caused a three-ca- r ' collision that killed one man and sent five others to the hospital has been charged with driving too dose to another vehicle Smithfield police issued the class- ' C misdemeanor citation to Clinton Hyrum Lee on Thursday Police Chief John McCoy said Lee told investigators he fell asleep at the wheel of his Ford Taurus before a van on Tuesday causing the driver of the van to ' lose control and collide head-o- n with a four-dosedan traveling in the opposite direction " The driver of the sedan OldTheron Roskelley of Smithfield was killed in the crash Roskelley’s wife as well as the man driving the' van and his two young sonswere injured Lee suffered injuries to his ' hands in the crash After conducting a two-da-y ' investigation into the cause of the 7: wreck McCoy said he didn’t expect any additional charges to be filed and regional news ' the city 'The lawsuit Utah Gospel Mission ' - vs SaltLake City Corp was filed last August Early this month US District Judge Dale Kimball dismissed the lawsuit a development that ACLU of Utah's executive director Dani Eyer said was expect- ed In a statement Eyer said Kimball - ' focused on private property law without giving full consideration to First Amendment and ' religion provisions at the core of its challenge to the land swap l' The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-- y Saints purchased the block in frce-spee- ch tcr-da- ' 1999 for $81 million The original agreement had provided for the pub- lie easement but the church was to ' have had control over speech and nity center The ACLU sued on behalf of the Utah Gospel Mission the First Uni- tarian Church of Salt Lake City a " disarmament group the Utah chapter of the National Organi- zation for Women and two individuals one of whom has dropped out The ACLU contended the agree" ment unconstitutionally restricted ' ' free speech rights and effectively endorsed the church a violation of ' the First Amendment The organization further claimed that the city 7 gave in to the church rather than guarantee civil rights across the for- mer public thoroughfare behavior pro-nucle- The 10th Circuit in October 2002 ruled the city could not give up the public's speech rights on public easement Hie court also said the easement could be relinquished but ar - didn’t elaborate In a deal reached last summer the city gave up the public easement in exchange for four acres in a west Salt Lake City neighborhood and more than $4 million in church and private donations to build a commu- - ' rear-endi- or 76-yea- j v Hyrum v v Council to discuss 4 water restrictions T f v gationsystem' v- -' It’s only May but officials are y already considering restrictions on J ' the use of the city’s pressurized ini- ! y-i - ' ' y' ‘ '' : ' 7 The City Council on Thursday called an emergency meeting for 8 am Monday in the Civic Center tb discuss restrictions) which likely will include a moratorium on con-y- y nections to the pressurized irrigation ' : system Last year Hyrum city didn’t '' impose watering restrictions until mid-Jul- y when it was forced to shut off the system because two storage ponds for pressurized irrigation became so low When the system' was activated again residents were placed on a strict watering schedule ' ! 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Local man reveals alleged encounter with legendary monster Followup And don’t forget Sauerkraut Days The annual Providence Sauer- -' kraut Days celebration was inadvertently omitted from a calender of events in “Summer Ticket” a recent special section in The Herald Journal The celebration will begin on Friday Sept 24 with the traditional sauerkraut dinner and will continue with events throughout the following day in the city center For more information call Providence city at aadak T' By John Wright staff writer' GARDEN CITY r- Brian : V Hirschi may have doubted the exis tence of the legendary Bear Lake Monster when he purchased a pori- toon-boreplica of the creature three years ago But all that changed one evening in the summer of 2002 Afiier'a long day of giving fours aboard the vesr sel Hirschi was anchoring for the hight a few hundred yards offshore when he had a haunting rendezvous with the slimy serpent Now :he’s convinced that the -- : at “The Indians have a tradition concerning a strange serpent-lik- e creature inhabiting the waters of Bear Lake which they say carried off some of their braves nuiny : moons ago Since then they will not sleep close to the lake Neither will they swim in it nor let their squaws and papooses bathe in it" ' — From 1968 newspaper article written by Joseph C Rich ' ' ’ -- r t r y Cache Valley routes from Richmond to Hyrum now operate on Saturday joining-- ' bus routes in Lbgan city that' already feature weekend service ' The expanded service on the Cache Valley Commuter North and South lilies went intoaffect May 8 “Now all of our routes go Mon- day through Saturday” said Ron Bushman director of the Cache ' Valley and Logan transit districts Bushman said the need for Saturday service was indi ated by pas- - ' sengers in a ridershi ) study a year ago ’That was one of the things people wanted the most” he said On the first Saturday of expanded service approximately 80 people took advantage Bushman said and last Saturday ridership was up to 120 A further expansion of service for the CVTD is planned for later in the summer Buses will be added to the Richmond and Hyrum routes to increase pickup frequency during “peak times” such as rush hour Bushman said The enhanced ser- vice is scheduled to begin in the second week of August to coincide with the start of Utah State University’s fall semester -- was made at - Extended CVTD routes in operation Transit District bus 752-944- 1 John ZsirayHerakl Journal V A painting from USUSpecial Collections above depicts the Bear Lake Monster chasing American Indians the painting monster replica sits next to the Performance Rentals building" pontoon-bogers below Brian Hirschi's ' ' l '! " ' ' HSBVIEsTiDMN s Cache people places & things people who' ve seen if you don't' care what everybody else thinks” Hirschi saidThurs- the day ' That elite group reptmedly includes LDS Church presidents Wilford Wwdruff Lorcnzo Snow ' and Joseph F Smith Exen Brigham ‘ scores of other eyewitness accounts Young is said id haxc onee supplied a rope to a Kvalavsideni who want--e- d of the monster which date back to American Indian times are true to snare the creature Arid he shrugs off naysayers who Hirschi's encounter one of the :' more recent sightings occurred at' suggest that the legendary creature is just a tall tale or marketing ploy about sunset as he was drifting “When you join the elite group of backward to make the Neat's anch'r My two cents worthCache lines tight About a hundred feet off the stern of the vessel he noticed ' two small humps three feet apart in the water His first thought was that somebody had left behind a water ski but suddenly disap- surface the beneath peared “I thought this was strangcbut I had seen stranger things on the lake” Hirschi said in a written account of the encounter he posted on the Internet last year - About 30 seconds later he felt ' ' something scrape the bottom of the boat and then lift it out of the water about six inches This grabbed my attention because 1 knew there were no underw ater nvks or obstacles that " could haxe caused this plus the boat divsn't just gel SOlXXVpound lifted out of the waier easilv” ' Valley views on topics oT " See SERPENT on A8 the day Question: What is your favorite thing to barbecue and why? By Hilary Judd staff writer Summer sunshine is on its way It must be time then to aleit our senses season It’s time for awakening traits sitting in the summer-lovin- g silent slumber since summer bid farewell so many months ago The sights the sounds and the feel season may well be of the But the tastes and inviting enough scents of summertime — like fresh barbecue flavor and aroma for exam- pie — may best signify the season's opening act But when Cache Valley residents roll out “the barbie” what do they prefer to please their palate with? to-th- sun-kiss- Erie Sobolawskl Versailles Ky ‘Steak Cause when you barbecue it makes it taste better it chars the edges” Cam Seamons Logan ‘Steak of course But it has to be marir nated and you can't cook it too long" Will Natalia Dana Thayne Wyo Richardson Heber City ‘Hamburgers For sure" don't do that He (pointing to her husband) ‘I cooks” Bill Martin New York "Chicken It's healthier” ' L-V S |