The SCENES BY ERIC DOWDLE Folk artist’s Nauvoo Herald series to be unveiled at downtown Logan’s Gallery Walk Journal — Cache Vol. 99 No. 163 Friday, June 12, 2009 Bridgerland’s Daily Newspaper Logan, Utah $0.50 Weather WHO declares H1N1 pandemic High: 65 Low: 46 Chance Decision is first of Six confirmed swine flu of rain cases in Cache County its kind in 41 years - Page A10 By Charles Geraci GENEVA (AP) — Swine flu is staff writer now formally a pandemic, a decla- Update ration by U.N. health officials that will speed vaccine production and There are now six state laboratory-con- spur government spending to com- firmed cases of swine flu in Cache County, Energy bat the first global flu epidemic in according to the Bear River Health Depart- 41 years. ment. Thursday’s announcement by the The Herald Journal obtained the infor- Largest solar World Health Organization doesn’t mation Thursday — the same day the mean the virus is any more lethal World Health Organization declared a plant in U.S. to — only that its spread is considered global pandemic and the Utah Department unstoppable. of Health announced it was adjusting its be built in N.M. Since it was first detected in late testing guidelines for the virus. April in Mexico and the United Five of the six confirmed cases in the ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. States, swine flu has reached 74 county correspond to males — two pediat- (AP) — Utility officials countries, infecting nearly 29,000 ric cases under the age of 12, two between announced plans Thursday to people. Most who catch the bug AP photo the ages of 18 and 24, and the other build a giant solar energy plant A child wears a mask as precaution against swine flu in the New Mexico desert in See WHO on A10 Thursday at a hospital in Bogota, Colombia. See FLU on A10 what is believed to be the larg- est such project in the nation. The 92-megawatt solar In our schools thermal plant could produce enough electricity to power 74,000 homes, far exceeding the size of other solar plants in the United States. The largest solar thermal plant in operation now is about 70 megawatts, said Dave Knox, a spokesman Sounds high-tech for New Jersey-based NRG Energy, the company building and running the facility. “This is larger than anything in existence in America so far today,” he said. The plant was announced at a time when communities around the country are draw- ing up plans for solar and other alternative energy projects, especially with millions of dol- lars in stimulus money avail- able. The plant — to be called the Suntower — will be built on 450 acres of private land near the Santa Teresa port of entry in far southern New Mexico near El Paso, Texas. It will be similar in many respects to a steam plant, using the sun instead of fossil fuel to generate steam and produce electricity, said Michael Lieb- elson, president of NRG and chief of development for its low-carbon technologies. It will look like a giant field of mirrors relatively low to the ground, interspersed with 180-foot towers topped by Photos by Alan Murray/Herald Journal boilers. Motors on the mirrors Margo Liechty, 5, right, listens to sounds played on a recorder by volunteer Liz Wilson in a class at the Listening in Cache Valley Sound will keep them aligned with Beginnings summer camp Thursday at Edith Bowen Laboratory School. the sun. Camp offers solutions, interaction for kids with hearing loss Quick read By Devin Felix groups yesterday and partici- “We wouldn’t have missed staff writer Go to The pated in activities throughout it,” said Nancy Guthrie, whose Herald Jour- the day, including music 9-month-old son, Alex, has nal Web site, bout 35 kids gathered activities, relay races and severe hearing loss. “As a par- www.hjnews. com, to cast with their parents at other games. The groups were ent, I want to learn what the your vote AUtah State Univer- guided by volunteers, many of current research is for kids that on today’s sity this week for the Sound whom are graduate students in are deaf or hard of hearing.” survey ques- Beginnings Summer Camp, a audiology or speech-language Guthrie, who traveled to tion. See Tuesday’s newspaper for results program designed for children pathology at USU. Logan from Provo, said she and a new question. with hearing loss and their While kids were involved and her family found out about families. in activities Thursday, par- Alex’s hearing problem thanks Important note: This is not a sci- The program is geared ents attended seminars for to a hearing test given to all entific survey. Results simply reflect Margo Liechty’s cochlear implant the opinions of some of the people specifically toward families is seen as she works on a proj- information on gauging their newborns. visiting the newspaper’s Web page. who choose to address their ect Thursday at camp. children’s development, laws “When you first find out the children’s hearing loss through governing early interven- diagnosis, you go home and Today’s question technology and tactics to help camp concludes today. tion and special education sob, but then you find out this Has anyone in your their children hear and talk, About 14 of the kids attend- and hearing technology. On whole world that’s available,” immediate family said Todd Houston, an assis- ing have hearing loss, and the Thursday night, everyone went she said. tant professor of speech-lan- rest are their siblings, Houston horseback riding, Houston struggled with alcoholism? guage pathology at USU. The said. They were split into age said. See SOUNDS on A10 1) Yes 2) No Tuesday’s survey results Photo sparks push for new cloud type Do you regularly watch TV after midnight? DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) dedicated weather watchers — Looking out the 11th floor who now are pushing weather Answers Number Percent window of her law office, Jane authorities to create a new Wiggins did a double take and cloud category, something that 1) Yes 83 22 grabbed her camera. The dark, hasn’t been done since 1951. 2) No 286 78 undulating clouds hovering Breaking into the cloud fam- Total Responses: 369 outside were unlike anything ily would require surviving she’d seen before. layers of skeptical international “It looked like Armaged- review. Still, Gavin Pretor-Pin- Index don,” said Wiggins, a paralegal ney and his England-based and amateur photographer Cloud Appreciation Society are Classifieds.....C4 TV..................A9 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “The determined to establish a new Comics..........C2 Opinion..........A4 shadows of the clouds, the variety. They’ve given Wig- Movies.....Cache Sports............B1 lights and the darks, and the gins’ photo and similar pictures greenish-yellow backdrop. taken in different parts of the www.hjnews.com They seemed to change.” world to experts in England, AP photo They dissipated within 15 and are discussing the subject This June 20, 2006, photo provided Monday and taken by Jane minutes, but the photo Wiggins fervently online. Wiggins from a downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, office building shows captured in June 2006 intrigued what may become the first new cloud type to be recognized by scien- — and stumped — a group of See CLOUD on A6 tists since 1951. B4 - The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, June 12, 2009 — he was given a 10-sec- and made him into a steer ond penalty for breaking wrestling horse — he Find Muck the rope barrier — which was a team roping horse is good enough for second before that. Continued from B1 Continued from B1 place at this point. “He treats us really Tom Lewis, of Lehi, good,” said Lewis, whose Magic disappear even better. of McCammon, Idaho. “It’s turned in an impressive father is his hazer. “Good “It ranks right up there kind of miserable, but it’s time of 6.9 seconds and is to haul, good to travel at the top,” he said. “You part of the game, I guess.” the front-runner heading around, and they become know, even greater than Bull rider Dustin Tib- into the final two days of part of the family.” 0.4 because I feel like bits wasn’t thrilled with the rodeo. Bareback rider Moe we’re as close as possible the conditions. Just like any other Heaton, of Paradise, was to what our end goal is.” “I don’t like muddy event Thursday, steer the lone contestant from It was the first time arenas at all,” Tibbits wrestling proved difficult the valley to compete on since 1984, when Magic said. “It’s hard to get in the wet conditions. Thursday night. Johnson’s Lakers and away from (the bulls), “When you first get He needed just one word Larry Bird’s Celtics it’s not fun at all. I don’t here and you see all the to sum up his performance. hooked up, that two AP photo like it. ... I looked up mud and the water, it “Horrible,” said Hea- games in a finals have Lakers guards Kobe Bryant, left, and Derek Fisher celebrate the weather and saw it gets you a little bit,” said ton, who scored 51 on gone to overtime. after beating the Magic 99-91 in overtime in Game 4 of the was raining, and I really Lewis, who has been with No Angel. “Those are the When the clock NBA finals Thursday in Orlando. didn’t want to come. his horse, Cody, for three worst kind of horses to get on.