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Show Students... Going away for the summer?... What about vour stuff? Geologists keep eye on Utah's active landslides At A r i T I O r S t o r a g e 1095 North 600 West, in Logan, We've added 1 5 6 new, secure, storage units with you in mind. Call us at 787-2007. Ask about student specials! AGGIEf ROUNDUPS APRIL 17 - 21,2006 : i SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - cleared over Utah. Snowbird ski resort State geologists are watchreported 16 inches of snowing 30 active landslides fall from a storm that linin northern Utah, some of gered over northern Utah them creeping downhill by inches each day. The danger on Monday and overnight. It also brought snow and is that they could pick up speed and unleash a torrent rain to the Wasatch Front, adding to groundwater levof mud and debris. els that Ashland said were The danger of flooding approaching record levels. and landslides will peak in about a month, when warm "Really that's what trigtemperatures combine with gers movement of soil and mountain snowmelt, they debris," he said. said Tuesday. Adding heavy Brian Mclnerney, a rain to the mix would guar- National Weather Service antee problems. hydrologist, said streams throughout northern Utah In Cache County, were picking up volume. He PacifiCorp Energy opened said warming temperatures control gates at Cutler "could bring things up to Reservoir on Tuesday to dump excess runoff directly bankful by the weekend." into the Bear River. Mclnerney said he didn't expect many streams to "We're looking at one of the wettest years on record, jump their banks until temperatures reached into particularly since March the 80s, or until overnight 1, and we're not done with mountain temperatures stay it yet," Francis Ashland, a above freezing. landslide specialist for the Utah Geological Survey, Some geologists were said Tuesday as skies inspecting known land- slide dangers on Tuesday, although there were no immediate reports of any slides moving faster than inches a day. The landslide danger is most acute in Morgan and Cache counties, Ashland said. A mudslide destroyed a South Weber house last . week, fnrcinp, a temporary evacuation of 15 other neighbors for safety. An irrigation canal and reten- . tion pond were being investigated as the likely cause of the April 9 mudslide. Officials say the hill has stabilized. .' Last year also was active r for landslides. The Utah Geological Survey said it • i was aware of hundreds of , slides in 2005 - so many it stopped counting. That was :; up from just three major landslides the previous year, when a lingering drought , keep the activity to a minimum. Some Utah police agencies have trouble filling openings "You have to have some not that great; you have to basic skills,** Keefe said. work (not the best) shifts, • LUNCH FOR THE BUNCH BV LDSSA 11*30 a.m. TSC Patio 51 Pissa & Breucfeticko holidays; and there are no' Police agencies also are looking for applicants who weekends off." can think things through, Ogden Police Chief Jon he said - and a touch of Greiner said that by the 7-10p.m TSC Sunburst Lounge, FREE for seniors common sense doesn't hurt time applicants go through either. the screening and land a Students $5 Tickets available at the door "The days of Barney Fife job, they still may change • are pretty much gone. If an careers for something that OGDEN, Utah (AP) officer messes up, an agen- pays better and offers sta- Some law enforcement ble hours. cy can be facing a multiagencies, particularly those million-dollar lawsuit," "JLABflBBHB SS©®K* "They may decide to offering low pay while hav- said Riverdale Assistant Q-lOpjn at the Skyroom. S3 cbips n' salsa! drive the brown truck anding high expectations, are Police Chief Dave Hansen. deliver packages because having trouble filling job *, Local governments want they can earn more to openings. support their families," better-educated officers, 10 a.m.- 3p.m. LiTt Bftada, food, booth* Some are seeing fewer Greiner said. but few municipalities are infUtable garnet, & aer-riot pprojaoi overall applicants. Others willing to pay a higher Recruits must take tJ©JJ $S3!SI2F OSTQBRV are getting the same num! ! F OOSTQBRV *4J- ft salary to compensate for Police Officer Standards ' ber of applicants, but fewer 7:30p.m., ut the Kent Concert Kail those expectations of their and Training, which lasts fJ who are qualified for law At m i d n i g h t o n t h e ' A * Get Tickets Altnnni Center it lee'a Marketplace officers. about 17 weeks. Then at SAA: S 3 . Stttdt&ts: S 3 , Othtra $ 9 enforcement work. The average pay of a new the agency where they Layton Police Chief will work, they must go '! officer in Weber County Terry Keefe said his through field training, is between $30,000 and UtahState +"£ 5 ujournal \**y **A| department may get 150 which can last up to three$35,000 a year, Hansen applicants for an openmonths, followed by a prosaid. Cio=ica and Doil^ ing, but after physical and bation period. "It's getting harder to written tests have only 10 lure people into this proBy the end of the year, p' ...t meeting the requirements. fession," he said. "The pay's the agency and the can- •: didate may part ways because it's just not a good fit, officials said. Some police agencies, like Ogden's, sponsor their new hires through POST. , The state provides the ! funding, but it can take '• up to a year to get into a ' 1 i i POST session, officials said. I Saturday, April 22 from 10am - 2pm for an open house. Sgt. Wade Breur at 11 1 p ^ V fej p f. i i-ril'l ^ 1515V/5 y i j ^ I ^ :;•{ S ^ *-*ur °ffi ce and clubhouse will be open and many of the homes will be POST said it costs the av state $10,000 for each I ;• r^r^i;':^ ( : ^ , ' j j ; ^ ; ; : * ^ R t ' • ^ ^ ^ ' • ^ ^ ^ ^ ^lable for showing to interested buyers. Come and see what our subdiofficer who goes through j vj i H^^^^/'/^^^if'i^V^Yh^^^^'^i^ixf^S^*^ v ^ s ^ on n a s t 0 °ffen Many homes are priced to sell and some start as low as its program. Each session ! handles about 30 students.! 000. We also still have a few lots available for rent. So agencies that want to [ hire someone often have to' wait and just hope the canU ! if" didate does not get a better ''-••I U:-\ *:%*•%& offer, Greiner said. \ Those who want to .! go through POST before they're hired by a police ; *'-' h agency can attend satellite programs throughout the state. Some agencies, includ- '< ing the Davis County sheriffs office, require officers . to have completed POST before they are hired. Several officials, including Weber County Sheriff . Brad Slater, are trying to ; lessen the time some candidates have to spend in the classroom so they can • get out in the community | sooner as police officers. They propose that those who graduate from Weber State's criminal justice M\v program can test out of the classroom portion of Police Officer Standards and , Training. ,j Breur said more candi- ,; dates may be trained when | the Larry Miller Public i Safety Training Center in ! Salt Lake City is complet- ; ed. 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