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Show WASATCH COUNTY COURIER “Little Interest in ~ Turning Off Pity SALT LAKE CITY (AP)- A visit by gation customers county's to shut on electricity use may not have many takers in Wasatch County. the company announced the program as an attempt tion summer. Electricity supplies are expected to be tight this summer thanks to lower-than-normal water ty on the wholesale market. A spokesperson for the Utah Farm Bureau said many farmers and ranchers have yet to hear about the program. But adds that it will be difficult for customers option ranchers who raise alfalfa to feed cattle : they have cattle that need to eat,” said in the state — of using alternative energy sources. Utah Power will pay participants based on the average amount of energy used during the previous five years. The company will pay participants monthly at 10 per kilowatt-hour. Currently, irrigation customers pay 4.5 cents per kilowatt-hour. ~ Eu SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Rep. Jim said. Matheson has joined two other Western SLL mine workers ul recently introduced a-bill to close a 250 beneficiaries of the Radiation Exposure and Compensation Trust Fund empty-handed. The trio made a similar request in a sure the backlog of payments are settled and that no-one gets short_ changed in the future. : “Many of those affected by radiation — fallout from open-air nuclear testing and radiation funing are very ill” Matheson d a week in Jordanelle Reservoir =" efforts. from. Salt Lake City, Kugler, drowned after his canoe suddenly cap- sized during a storm Sunday, March oa Kugler went into the chilly water _ charts during the past year. books on the top 10 religion books to as diverse. Latinos — whose population increased 310 percent — far and away led the influx of immigrants. The Latino population now stands at 775 or 5.4 percent of the county’s population. The number of people claiming Hispanic or Latino ethnicity sealowide grew 138 per- CONTINUED FROM Ai With a worldwide spotlight about to shine on the county in less than a year when the Olympics come, no one expects the strong growth to ee any- cent. People of other races are still only a tiny bump in Wasatch’s overall population. Thirty-two people, or 0.2 percent of the county’s population are AfricanAmerican. In addition, there are 59 ~ time soon. That’s good ‘and bad, say Gel community leaders. “It's a mixed blessing,” says Heber ~ City Manager Mark Anderson. “Growth — American Indians, 44 Asians, 15 Native brings more sales tax money and building permit revenue and more people are gainfully employed.” Hawaiians or other Pacific island, and — 100 people claimed to be of two or more races. But those seemingly small Ainibers don’t tell the whole story, says Adams. a Palestine, a Finish, and a Latino family. “When I ran for mazar tee years Anderson’s boss agrees. Mayor Lynn Adams likes that the Native Hawalian/Pacitic Islanders. : sharp boost in population means more - ~ American Itindians © Asian African Americans Two or more races Hispanics ae = — ed. But swaths of land to the north and east are still open to development, and that troubles the mayor. That’s why he says he is in favor of projects like the LDS Family/Youth Camp proposal on — He says on his block alone, he knows of ~ _ 5,700 acres southeast of Heber. “Yeah, it may cost us some tax rev- enue, but it protects our viewshed, ” he Says. Midway City ‘Community Committee. Development Director Brain Preece says there were no surprises in the num_ bers. , - Wasatch Coutny’s Not-So-Meliting Pot Pie “We're growing fast, but most of itis seco.id homes,” says Preece. Unlike ago, I was shocked at the diversity,” says Heber’s growth, Midway’s number Adams who adds that he can remember aren't likely to mean anything different _ in terms.of receiving money for - state _ when the county was one race ‘and one religion. or federal government. The mayor sums up the sehth as “Most federal grants are income “both great and terrible.” based and our income is so high that we when the boat overturned approxi- | “It’s great because we're going to see | don’t qualify for most of them anyway,” mately 100 yards from shore between more money,” he says. “It’s terrible he says. | the peninsula at the boat ramp and the The county’s explosive growth i in the ~ because we can’t sustain this kind of Rock Cliff area. Kugler’s roommate, growth for two more decades” ‘90s is in sharp contrast to a three decade Frank Craig, 29, was flown by helicop- Strand says the only downside to span from the 1940s to almost 1970 when ter to University Hospital. moving to Wasatch County was dealing Heber saw virtually no growth. When emergency personnel with a county government he calls “politCity officials say they don’t have any arrived on the scene, Craig’s body ically corrupt.” Strand, who was one on complaints about the count either, unlike _ temperature was 84 degrees. He was _ the sponsors of the change of governsome municipalities in the state. Sandy treated for hypothermia and released ment initiative last November, says he | officials, for instance, say the census from the hospital Monday. became involved in county government — | undercounted 20,000 people. After capsizing, two kayakers, out of sheer frustration. “[The count] is a lot more fair and Karen Butler of Park City and Sydnie “There was no need to be active in accurate than it has been in the ae Siegmann of Salt Lake City helped rescounty government in Davis County says Adams : cue Craig. Kugler had already aay because everything ran smoothly.” While still a very white place, the cenpeared under water. ‘sus also shows that Wasatch is slowly Neither of the men were wearing | becoming increasingly ethnically ~ email: ttm@wasatchcountycourier.com — life preservers when the boat capsized. at Jordanelle was discovered Friday morning. - Search and rescue crews. found Christopher David Kugler, 27, using underwater cameras. Crews used cameras aad ‘sonar eciuipment to locate the man because murky water and stormy weather prevented them from diving in reservoir, which is as deep as 150 feet. A Lake Powell robotic submarine aided in oe to help uranium workers, ore transporters, nuclear testing participants and people exposed to downwind fallout from the nation’s nuclear testing program from the 1940s through the 1970s. So far, $266.4 million has been approved to cover 690 claims. The House compensation-fund bill has been sent to the Appropriations Drowned ' The oe of a man missing for more adds the federal government pledged letter last month to President Bush. The measure is intended to make ae _ says Pema Chagzoetsang, one of the event's organizers. i money from the state for things like Utah, signed on to a similar bill in the roads. But planning for the growth Senate to require automatic appropriabrings with it plenty of headaches. “If we tions each year instead of year-by-year don’t preserve our open space in the spending requests. He asked. the next few years, we're going to lose it,” he General Accounting Office, the invessays of what may be the trickiest issue to tigative arm of Congress, to find out why deal with of all. the compensation fund was emptied. - According to Adams, two-thirds oi ithe Under the 1990 compensation law, | viewshed surrounding Heber is protect- funding shortfall that has left about ~ Man shortfall president of The Church of Jesus _ Christ of Latter-day Saints. Both the Dalai Lama and Mormon church President Gordon B. Hinckley have written books on ethics and have had During his stop in Salt Lake, the . Anderson. In early March, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R- harmed by exposure to radiation. Matheson, New Mexico Rep. Tom Udall and Colorado Rep. Mark Udall _ funding city has the 10Project. May 11- Dalai Lama will also meet with the scramble to provide services to keep up with the demand. “It certainly makes things busy here at cy. hall,” says their suffering, and that’s not right.” Democrats in backing a bill that would _ provide permanent funding for downuranium “The San San Jose, | OS CENSUS | Ore.; sold out, and it’s standing room only at an interfaith service in his honor. The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of the world’s six million Tibetan Buddhists and political leader of the Tibetan _ government-in-exile, has proven so popular in Utah that the visit may set an attendance record, But it also means local officials must _ Funding For Downwinders _ and His public lecture on ethics is nearly on Matheson Backs Bill For Permanent. winders on ‘The Practice of Six Perfections.” - Portland, Los Angeles; Calif. and Salt Lake City. Each Tibetan residents settled by year-old Tibetan Resettlement He will be in Salt Lake City tickets for his sold-out May 12 teaching director _ Schedule 10 with pumps 16 kilowatts of demand or greater. Anyone signing up for the program would need to turn off their pumps between May 1 and Sept. 30. Participants would have the _ flows and a high demand for electrici- farm bureau’s Jennifer Dahl. resource Minneapolis; Francisco; biggest events in the United States. Ten thousand people have bought approval from the Public Service Commission, is available to all irriga- to cut the demand for electricity this to take advantage of the program. “They can’t skip a year because _ be one of the Tibetan spiritual leader’s added that there probably wouldn’t be - much demand for the program. Mike Davis said the program is aimed mostly at large farms and not the smaller farms that dominate the county’s agricultural industry. — The program, which still must get off their pumps as a way to save month, water Dunas the Dalai Lama’s six-city tour this spring he will visit the Dalai Lama to Utah is shaping up to The bureau is not taking a ‘stance on the voluntary program. - Since irrigation companies own and run most of the pumps in Wasatch, the tah Power’s offer to pay irti- Last Utah Drawing Big Crowd Power offer to pay irrigation customers not likely to hold water in Wasatch TIM WESTBY _ COURIER STAFF — ; i Tibetan Leader’s Visit To See “Daab APRIL 4, 2001 Sr A8 2 |
