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Show WASATCH AS* COUNTY COURIER OCTOBER ‘S. & O. e Presents Transportation Plan to ais 18, 2000. ge? ‘Public Invited to October 25th Transportation Forum KIRSTEN SHAW LL ~ COURIER 12, Salt Lake Organizing ye Committee officials Bob Perry and Roger Black presented a transportation plan they hope to adopt after receiving ample improve the turn into Heber from Provo Canyon. — We will leave the roads in ~ at least the same condition as it is down. We are the doing. the best we can.” Charleston Mayor John _». Whiting expressed | ride lot, which is currently ‘under construction at the input from local residents. Only = six residents, in addition to the five-member board, Olympics’ his concern that | SLOC be prepared attended f the quiet meeting. | Perry presented a semifinalized map of the 2002 to provide for snow removal, and oe 10 venues, which includes Charleston’s Soldier Hollow, .the site of the biathlon and -crose-country *: skiing events. “Tt will be a world-class venue,” said: Perry. “I went to (former Olympic _ site) Calgary and they had hun- dreds of kids cross-country . SLOC g Bob Peery nyo transportation plan to Charleston Board. south skiing who were charged five fields/2400 South “Olympic sewer fields, a bus will trans- family”- { I SLOC/IOC employees, ath- -_Jetes and families-media and sponsors will travel to the fepic- Gi was SLOC’s plan to have 2400 south become a one-way route twenty-four hours per day during the Olympics. “The one-way street is a concern. Is there anyway to close the road to everything except local traffic, meaning — residents and Olympic buses?” | asked Whiting. “Could it work having a two-way?” | Perry replied that they | _ hope to only have local traffic on the route. While he said _SLOC safety officials strongly _ dollars per day. Our longport spectators towards range goal is to add things | Soldier. Hollow on USS. such as campgrounds, etc., Highway 189, Highway 113 but now we are focusing on - and 2400 south Eastbound. _ the Olympics.” SLOC has engineers working Perry said SLOC plans to to stabilize the parking lots _ divide traffic into as many _ moisture content with a geoseparate routs as possible. mat/sand combination. FRe Pie: | minor contention | “Depending on money, we hope to improve the Highway 113/‘Highway 189 intersection,” Perry said. “We would School Board Candidates Stake Their Claims . Li j ai ie | | i A a ‘J 2 ts forthe folace™, _ COURIER STAFF By contrast, Salazar, who along with his wife Julie, has n less than three weeks, vot- 3 that it will hold up. We’re not going to leave it in a worse conCharleston, further. - dition,” Perry replied, simply. “We welcome the opportu- | Black said if funds become available, SLOC would nity to have people come up improve the road. (October 25) and listen to their concerns,” said Black. © “UDOT has been extraordi“This venue is designed to narily successful at finding accommodate about 25,000. sources of funds to do some people. We’re going to have an very significant improvements impact on your community. to the transportation system. We will do the best we can to An attempt was made to find minimize the inconvenience.” funds to fix this road. The funds Board member Senty Urri aren’t there, so we’re having to reminded Perry and Black _ make due,” said Black. “We that the Wasatch County understand your concern. We hope the configuration that ultiSheriffs office was concerned that 2400 South is refurbished mately follows is one that your before the Olympics. Last residents can live wi August, officers and county Before leaving, Perry and officials submitted a letter to Black invited local residents to SLOC requesting that roads tunities. four children, currently works _ TIM WESTBY COURIER STAFF recent A the difference. “I don’t know if we Midway ordi- initiative, Neal Burton, Stanton ~ McDonald = and ney . : George Pitts. He completed | tromagnetic radiation. _ Midway Elementary School: ‘that, Santa local education. “The way our tower. board seat this year, and the Rose Junior College and the University of. Southern schools and county is grow- race thus far, has been cult to handicap. California diffi- ‘On one side is the incumbent, Richard Bonner, who while serving his eighth year on the board, is finishing up his second term. He is being challenged by Robert Salazar, a 12-year Wasatch resident with an extensive background in education. And while both say they are committed to improving education for the kids of Salazar attended BYU, earned a _ master’s is 62, retired The impetus to get three months ago after work- involved for Bonner, initially ing came in a local sheet metal union for the past 30 years. He has put eight kids through Wasatch High School, and the ninth is a junior this year. He also has 20 grandchildren, about half who are currently ~ in the school district. “It’s hard to keep track,” he joked. But Bonner is serious about education. “I have expe- rience, I have time, and I have. _ the interest,” he said. “I’m not really running to oppose Robert Salazar. ['m just -run- from wrestling. While all of his boys went through Wasatch High’s nationally renowned wrestling program, he became a vociferous advocate and fan. ; | “I wanted people to know. (about the program), I wanted people to hear about it,” Bonner said about his reason programs and district organization. Like most challengers, he strongly hints at changing the status quo if elected. “There needs to be more teered significant time to help various youth programs including football, baseball, wrestling and scouting. “Being very optimistic, with enthusiasm and concern for our children’s needs, I will — make a tremendous differ- ence,” he said. “Difference” is what Bonner is hoping to avoid. “They haven't said it to my for running for school board face - that you’re getting too in 1992. Yet the more involved old or you've been there too : long,” he said. “They say expe- he got in local education issues, the more he appreciat- ed academic achievement along with reaching athletic piece rience is a good thing.” We'll know for sure in three weeks. the potential income from cell — towers makes it difficult for the cash-strapped district to pass up. The district is now looking at leasing its non-school propTalbot conceded, : Danny Talbot said the district could degree in exercise physiology. questions asked, there needs | “IT have unique qualificato be flint and steel to spark our educational decisions,” he tions that would help me be an asset to the school board,” . said. “Strength lies in differ-— - Heber Valley in the future, it Salazar said. “I also have an ences, not in similarities.” is their past which provides inside view of local health Since moving into the valthe notable differences. issues and am concerned.” ley, Salazar has also volunBonner, who | - Superintendent - have potentially made another $20,000 a year by leasing tower space to other wireless conn nies. “We’re not getting Gach support from the city council, . Talbot said. The Midway City Council was already working on the ordinance when the district ing, well a plant also has a degree in physical education, a teaching certificate in secondary education, and later during his tenure at Brian erties outside of Midway be in the school receiving Planner first approached to wireless companies. building business for awhile,” bachelors of Science in he added. Spanish at Brigham Young | Salazar’s concerns run the University, where he played gamut, from curriculum, test football. The Wasatch trans-_ scores and facilities to special before City all rate in the county, Talbot said. - Last month, the school dis. as $10,000 a year for use of the are on the our kids go to school,” she said. “They better os the facts.” act i vated, as the biggest priority in — ballot for one Wasatch school want - cell towers can be located. The - told the Courier that the city new rule, however, blocks cannot not deny a permit for a -| Wasatch ‘County School _ tower because of radiation con- University of Utah. Prior to Well, sort of. Two cae where nas and wireless com-. munications clarifies where Voicestream Wireless would have paid the district as much of government doctors at 7 something similar especially nance regulating anten- specifically the north school ~ will be going back to school. - ~ his medical training at the _ that is currently being reno- . with the hotly debated change: at the Wasatch Medical Clinic with meeting Proposed Cell Tower Causes Rediahon, Funding Concerns trict approached the city about erecting a cell tower on in Wasatch County will not just look to the future, a public p.m. on October 25 at the Wasatch County Courthouse to discuss the transportation plan. We may have to do some patch- © work, but our engineers think ‘Tve learned that our kids need a voice. I want to be a voice for them,” he added. | Bonner points to growth, I: attend they prioritized be repaired. “There are a couple spots. District from a potential wind- “cerns:-if “the equipment is [ fall and does not necessarily. -approved by the Federal answer nagging concerns by | Communications Commission. ‘goals. N ow, 35 sive he Sere.| | some.town residents over elecevery kid to have those oppor- Faced with the lowest tax : < expect a close raceOres” Says Incumbent BY DEREK C JENSEN | prefer one-way traffic, ae will discuss options with intersection. We also hope to Cascade. Springs and -Stringtown Road. Spectators will travel on Heber’s US. Highway 40 to Highway 189. After arriving at the park and t a Charleston Town Board meeting October A like to make it a ninety degree venue via River Road, U.S. Highway 113, Tate Lane, STAFF however, _ the city, but put the project on hold in order to push the ordinance through. Cell towers are not banned under the new ordinance, but alternative technologies and locations must be exhausted before a tower is approved. The ordinance also requires -a set back equal to the height of any tower. | The set back rule effectively killed the district’s proposal. because it could not meet the restriction, Talbot said. Several residents also raised concerns about electromagnet- ic radiation. - PTA member Ellen Kowallis compares those worries to the | controversy a few years ago A now Midway oniinatgs makes it - difficult for wireless communication companies to erect cell phone towers like this one in Park City. that he too has some concerns about radiation. Environmental Protection — Agency before submitting the original plan to the city and found no problem. The district will do more ~ research on the matter before moving forward on other properties, Talbot said. “We just there is no at an attempt by Utah Power to — “We're just lay a power line through town. alternative Kowallis said she does not see schools.” when Midway residents balked He added that = the district checked with the want to make sure problem,” he said. always looking for funding sources for | |
