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Show en Bee Sms i ae eet AR Se TN eet tat titi ‘ i a oe IASATCH COUNTY _ Lines, leather jackets,— parties, cell sooo and Roger Ebert DEREK JENSEN. COMBE. STAFF . eM “Se SK PRESS Sia ' Bey Ay etx A ; > < én < ¥ > sempinn. etme emt, neem Lenten, | ecttlneee: inet . Sa satin ‘ terse apanese Nordic team staff memee masseuse, has traveled extensive- a bloated importance to the L 3 2001 Sundance Film. Festival, oe competition i is cutthroat as ever — and that’s just in the lines for coffee stands ee and PestroOms,. 2 er A ie Spee ERI KIRSTEN. SHAW COURIER STAFF ber Esa Zetterman, a Finnish ‘s the Hollywood strike ea ER Di atiac § 3 Athletes and visitors applaud Heber Valley MTEn, SRL etree THE STREETS WORLD CUP WASATCH S Lema. ‘DANCE’ING IN _ ly across the globe—from. Steamboat, Ee Colo. to Oslo, Norway—and-he says Heber Valley has what it takes to be a | world class destination venue. “One thing I’ve noticed is Utah is wide open; the area is wide, the tracks are wide. It is very nice,” said the stat- Taex -uesque Zetterman. “And the people are very nice. If you ask for help, and they don’t have an answer, they'll find somebody who knows.” Zetterman, suffering from jet lag, said his stay at the Homestead Resort has been relaxing, and added that he PHOTO doesn’t miss the night life in Midway since the World Cup allows little time for entertainment. He, and many other A Swiss racer browses through ws athletes, has favored one excursion: In the trailer shopping at Kimball Junction’s outlet stores. While the Salt Lake Organizing _ Committee provided transportation to - set-up for a tuning mate Werner Scherubl, from Austria, agree that Soldier Hollow’s design and ‘the. valley’s. event ee and Park City’s Utah Olympic: Park, is Olympic caliber. eae athletes complained they had to locate “Ves: It/is: very nice:here, are s~ : PHOTO The film BY DEREK SHAW | ag Gr ae: ‘Scherable ingens at Zetterman’s well-meaning joke that even the people are bigger. and storage, Zetterman and his team- and from Charleston’s Soldier Hollow taxis and rental cars to get to theee ly acclaimed mall. BY KIRSTEN the - Honiétead’s sari shop. before Secinnite a kane run on _ Midway’ S back roads. The Soldier Hollow set-up, much of it i mimicking the Olympic design, providis ed the Nordic World Cup athletes with ee“we 2 competian | ~ have enough ‘we need. The wide beds are nice. Everything is, bigger in the poring rug testing, ~ WORLD: cuP continued on AS |. JENSEN ae. community descends on blustery Park City. Park City’ S annual grab ie is in full tilt over the hill. Despite an opening night snowstorm and the absence of festival-founder Robert Redford, _ attendance is estimated at well over ‘DANCE continued on AS Is Wasatch Still a Good Place to Raise Children? Report paints mixed picture of children’s S health and welfare TIM WESTBY COURIER STAFF tah’ s image of itself as a child-friendly / place was sullied a Utah’s children by looking at five general categories: population, economic security, health, education, and year safety. The 52-page report = found that for every gain in-. which saw a 3.7 percent | from 1995 to 1999 that num- increase in its under age 19 before, the bit by the recent release of a report that measures the report . rate babies rose from.5.7 percent to 7.3 percenti in that © . same time period. . The number of. children age 1 to 19 who died from an : state-of our children’s health injury, including accidents, suicides and homicides, rose from five in the years — and welfare. As for Wasatch County’s performance, it _ was no better than middle of the pack compared to the ber dropped to 81 percent. population in 1999 from the - The number of low birth. _ 1989 to 1993 to 9 from 1994 to 1998. The percentage of 6 to 8 year old children with - untreated tooth decay in the — | county stood at 32 percent in 1996, the last year for. state’s other counties in most of the report’s pipers e of categories. According — to the “Measures: of Child Well-_ which that figure was avail-— Being in Utah, 2001,” the _ was complied and written by recent years a step back was number of low birthrate the Salt Lake City-based ee, taken somewhere else. _ babies born in the county is Utah Children and funded First, some of the on the rise and more chil- - by the Annie E. Casey TS more troublesome dren under of the age of 19 Foundation in Maryland. findings. Fewer women dying from injuries, On the _ This year’s report broke _ received prenatal care withPOSTAL PATRON | positive side, infant mortaliPresorted » Standard down many of its findings to ~ in the first trimester of their — U.S. Postage Paid _ ty is on the wane. : a county and even Zip Code ' pregnancy. Between 1990 | Heber City, UT _. The annual eee | level. and 1994, 84 percent of Permit No. 32005 ‘sive report attempts to _ For Wasatch saoseed women got prenatal care; measure the welfare of REPORT continued on A8 MARRIOTT Lipeany. ARCHIVES _ : 295South 1500 East Salt Lake City, UT, 841 12 |