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Show MAY 16, 2001 WASATCH Tentative Budgets COUNTY COURIER Rife With Pre-Olympic Improvements Heber’s sewer system and Midway’ s 250 West are priorities CAMERON WOOLLEY = COURIER STAPE | “We are caine 2001-02 fiscal year are in, before the Olympics ~ and news of how the towns of Heber because we want to _ their money is out. With roughly $3.5 million in rev- © along with other contributions from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and_ possibly UDOT Aeronautics, said Mark Anderson, criminal nonsupport in the which started Tuesday. He is charged separately with child stemming from his relationship y trial, also rape with one of his wives, but no trial date has been set for that case. At a hearing Tuesday, 4th District Judge Guy Burningham told Green — who has repeatedly appeared on national television and held a news A Sees OSI conference the day before — that he was potentially harming his case by speaking so freely to reporters. Pm not sure how the media Of particule concern, Burningham said, is finding an impartial jury. The judge already moved the case from Nephi to Provo over the objections of Green’s lawyer, John Bucher, citing security concerns. Green says he believes he stands less of a chance at a fair trial in Provo, where an estimated 90 percent of residents are Mormons. Although Green traces his polygamy back to Mormon scriptures, he is not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which banned the practice more than 100 years ago. Green now says he fears church members will be eager to convict him to make the ues of polygamy go away. — ‘We've got to make an example out of Tom Green,” Green accused church and state officials of saying. ‘‘We’ve got to send a message.” Seca re WEY detainee ESSE MRE PUTS nlm PLS 2 TRAITS ee bed cate ERRATA But Juab County Prosecutor David Leavitt said he only became aware of would handle it if a self-avowed polyg-— - Green’s case after he appeared on amist is acquitted of bigamy under Dateline, the Jerry Springer show and the Utah state bigamy statute,” other national broadcasts. Burningham said. ‘But I believe it About 100 prospective jurors have could happen because of the way the already filled out a nine-page questionstatute was written. ... What I’m sugnaire on their knowledge of the case gesting and what I suggested to you and Green himself. : before was back off with the media. ‘Some of them, believe it or not, They're not your friend. pee hurtin spite of all your press confer- — ing you.” ences, haven’t heard of you,” Burningham had asked the parties Burningham said. Those who had, involved in the case to stay out of the he said, “only made their minds up news, but said he preferred not to based on what they’ve heard in the instate a formal gag order on Green — media, and that’s unfair to you. And and that it was probably too late to do you're the one that’s —o of invited so this close to the trial. that.” COURIER WASATCH COUNTY ~ Wasatch Conmays Source for News 210 East ain Street ° Midway se0%) 654- 2661 — UT The project is threefold. The city will bity snow removal equipment, replace deteriorating apron and -expand the apron in general, he said. Next, the road maintenance project - cost not yet known - will involve rebuilding small portions of road that have failed and laying chip seal on other segments to lengthen usage life, he said. He did not name which roads would be repaired, but said the information would likely be available by the end of the week. Construction for the job is expected to take place at the end of June and first part of July. Midway’s budget will be about the residents and visitors, Anderson said. | “We are anxious to have that comsame as last year’s, with a slight pleted before the Olympics because increase, said Elva Baum, Midway _ we want to put our best foot forward to City Recorder. But no projects are the world,” he said. presently scheduled. The city does Other funding for the project will not yet know where it rests: financialcome from UDOT — $575,000 — and ly after several big projects already Tree Utah, who will contribute up to. under construction are expected to $35,000, Anderson said. Construction draw from their funds, she said. will begin this month or next and fin‘Among these projects are the 250 ish around August, he said. West road project and participation in - Heber’s airport project — slated to the countywide cleanup. be at least partially completed before - Still, projects may develop before _ the Games - entails 4.53 percent of city the final budget is adopted on June 21, she said. funds. The rest of the funds will be “At this time, it will be determined provided by contributions of 4.53 percent from UDOT Aeronautics and the where the city stands,” she said. balance by the Federal Aviation _ By state law, cities have six weeks Administration, Anderson said. — to settle on final budgets. EE i alg SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -A od de has chastised avowed polygamist Tom Green for speaking to the media and possibly tainting thej jury. pool for trial. 3 Green, who lives with his five wives aad 29 children in Utah’s West future $387,000 of city money put toward the undertaking, is an attempt to make the Heber community more attractive to PORT Sabine ihe ial inpiAaNE Sipties, ashi etek ye Rares ost Judge Urges Polygamist. To Avoid Media Desert, faces charges of bigamy and shee had MARK ANDERSON cd to benefit the southeast and HANNAH WOLFSON ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER and mence the first part of June, he said, with completion probably around September. Heber’s Main Street beautification. project, with close to southwest parts of town. About $1 million of city money will fund the project Topping Heber’s s list in terms of city money spent is a sewer-line project Road parts of town. . Construction is scheduled to com- Street and other roads. tures... Park growth in the southeast and southwest Heber City manager _- Midway City, on the other hand, has past tense- honed in. It awaits actual cost figures for current projects before embarking on any new ven- NIE Industrial forward to the world.” enues, Heber City is honing in on upgrades to the airport, the sewer sys- Sedans raat in particular: businesses on Airport Road, airport hangars, the Pangaea, My Mountain Home subdivisions, put our best foot Midway are planning to spend tem, Main — He cited the following beneficiaries have that completed entative city budgets for the and - Heber City manager. to s ‘CHARLESTON Charleston Town Hall 654-7177 : |