SLC Planning for a Safer 1300 East Traffic • Crosswalk Signals, Narrowed Lanes, South and 1400 East, Said Dur- Just South of Sugar House Park
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SECTION B » SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2010 » WWW.SLTRIB.COM/NEWS UTAH WILDFIRE • Amid gusty winds and hot COMMUNITY• The University of Utah’s weather, nearly 400 firefighters are in a race Lowell Bennion Community Service Center to rein in the 2-month-old Twitchell Canyon hosted a day of service on Saturday in which wildfire, which has burned 22,200 acres in an estimated 1,100 students, alumni and Utah’s Fishlake National Forest. > B7 friends took part in 15 projects at 30 sites. > B6 } SLC planning for a safer 1300 East Traffic • Crosswalk signals, narrowed lanes, South and 1400 East, said dur- just south of Sugar House Park. 2100 S. ing an open house at Nibley Park New signs will sprout and lane Street 900 E. lower speed limit and bike lanes are projected. School on Saturday. “A whole lot shifts are charted for the inter- 1300 E. upgrade more people would bike if they section of Highland and 1300 80 Salt Lake City By DEREK P. JENSEN politicians plan to make over the made it convenient — or safe East. There, the inside lane will Sugar House officials plan a The Salt Lake Tribune car-happy roadway — the state anyway.” become the left-turn lane, while Park series of safety recently relinquished it to the The impetus, officials say, is the two outside lanes remain 2700 S. upgrades, Salt Lake City is out to change city — by erecting pedestrian- safety. It also stems from rec- through lanes. 1300 East including the culture of its busy streets — controlled crosswalk signals, ommendations culled from a “Pedestrian crossing has been upgrade area crosswalk signals, by taking one back at a time. narrowing the lanes, lowering 2009 University of Utah road- the biggest complaint,” said Kev- Highland Dr. a lower speed Brickyard The latest target: anoth- the speed limit to 35 mph and, safety audit. in Young, the city’s transporta- Plaza limit and bike er stretch of 1300 East, this eventually, painting bicycle al- In coming months, expect to tion planning engineer. “It’s just lanes, along 1300 one from Interstate 80 to 3300 leys along each side. see a pedestrian-activated traf- hard to get across 1300 East.” N East between South. “That’s incredibly needed,” fic signal at the intersection of Though sparsely attended, the 3300 S. Interstate 80 and Transportation engineers and John Rice, who lives near 2700 Stratford Avenue and 1300 East Please see 1300 EAST, B8 The Salt Lake Tribune 3300 South. Angle: ‘Get INDEPENDENCE DAY FIESTA God can up off our lift the big, fat sofas’ ‘burden’ of gay LDS, SLC• Tea party conservative rallies support in race against leader says Majority Leader Harry Reid. Faith • Bishop tells By JUDY FAHYS The Salt Lake Tribune conference “each of us has problems.” Sharron Angle, the tea party conser- vative from Nevada, urged Utahns of all stripes to help her “take out” the most By ROSEMARY WINTERS powerful man in the The Salt Lake Tribune U.S. Senate: Majority Leader Harry Reid. An LDS general authority on Quickly editing her Saturday comforted Mormons words to say she want- who are attracted to people of ed to “defeat” Reid in the same sex but want to live the November election, by the church’s chastity rules, Angle’s remark inspired which bar sexual acts outside of laughter from an audi- marriage between a man and a ence that welcomed woman. her broader message Sharron Angle “Each that Americans want • U.S. Senate of us has their government to candidate problems,” return to the principles SCOTT SOMMERDORF | The Salt Lake Tribune said Bishop of the U.S. Constitution, to cut spending Ramon Granatos, front, and Carlos Quintana, right, dance with the Danza Azteca group on Keith B. Mc- and to cut the deficit. She also took a side- Mullin, sec- long swipe at her Democratic opponent’s the Grandstand stage at Utah State Fairpark. The dancers were part of the Mexican Inde- ond coun- charge that she is extreme by describing pendence Fiesta at the Utah State Fair on Saturday. selor in the Please see ANGLE, B8 Presiding Bishopric of Bishop Keith B. The Church McMullin • Sec- of Jesus ond counsel- Christ of or in the LDS NANCY CONWAY Deferring the dream denies it Latter-day Church’s Presid- Saints. “To- ing Bishopric. A View From Here en. Orrin Hatch, I’d like to here much of their lives but lack gether, we introduce you to Jose Her- citizenship. shall overcome them.” “The Salt Lake Tribbuunnee ... nandez. The Dream Act was supposed McMullin spoke at the 20th will build on our role as He’s a proud graduate to change all that. Now, in an in- annual conference of Ever- the independent watctchh-- of West High School and, creasingly cold-blooded political green International, a nonprof- at 20, a junior at the Uni- environment, Hatch is kicking it it support group for Mormons dog of state and looccaall Sversity of Utah. So far, he’s paid to the curb. who want to “overcome homo- government and coovever news for school with a private scholar- But the Dream Act isn’t an sexual behavior.” Evergreen is PEG as timely, thoroughhllyy ship and internships. Ultimately, easy track to citizenship. A can- not officially affiliated with he’d like to earn a doctorate and MCENTEE didate must have entered the the church, but a leader of the and objectively as become an educator, “contribut- U.S. before age 16 and have lived Utah-based faith addresses the possible.” ing to the community where I’ve here at least five years before group each year. grown up.” is one of 10 states that offer in- the bill was enacted. He or she On Saturday, McMullin Jose was 2 years old when he state tuition for students like must graduate from high school. said people with same-sex Read the column • B3 came to Utah. Fortunately, Utah him — people who have lived Please see MCENTEE, B7 Please see EVERGREEN, B8 HOTFurnace Sale ! 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Still, Angle’s point was clear beginning of unity of all the Reid spokesman Jon Sum- to the crowd, who might not attraction should not call to meet the grass-roots movement she grass-roots organizations.” mers said in an e-mail Satur- have been aware of the con- themselves “gay” or “les- Affirmation, a sup- represents. “The best thing about this day that Angle was “trolling for troversy she sparked when bian.” He offered advice to P port group for gay “This is mainstream Amer- conference by far,” he said in an support anywhere she can get she made a similar remark in LDS ecclesiastical leaders and lesbian Mormons ica,” she said, describing a call interview, “is that it is not just it because she’s not getting it June, a reference some heard in the audience of about 200 that believes everyone’s to action that has drawn so another rally. People have been from Nevadans.” as a call to violence, which she people. sexual orientation is a many to the tea party. “This educated here. They’ve learned, “While she’s seeking every later retracted. “If someone seeking your “special gift from God,” [movement] is folks that re- and they’ve gotten informed.” out-of-state endorsement she “In Nevada, we understand help says to you, ‘I am a ho- will hold its annual con- ally understand we’ve got to In his introduction to Angle, can get, Sen. Reid has the sup- we have the opportunity to mosexual,’ or, ‘I am lesbi- ference Oct. 8-10 in San get up off our big, fat sofas and Wimmer, a founder of the con- port of more than 200 Nevada take out — to defeat,” she said an,’ or, ‘I am gay,’ correct Francisco. For details, go do something. We’re not sure servative Patrick Henry Cau- Republican leaders as well as Saturday, laughing and inspir- this miscasting,” McMullin to www.affirmation.org. what it is, but we’ve heard the cus at the Utah Legislature, law enforcement and business ing a laugh from the crowd. “I said. “Heavenly Father does call” to participate. also sounded a call to action. leaders, just to name a few,” really have had to find a whole not speak of his children even have a conversation Angle was the closing speak- “Let us move forward with Summers wrote. new vocabulary since the pri- this way and neither should about [this],” Pruden said. er at a daylong conference at courage,” he told the group. “Nevadans are rejecting maries.” we. It is simply not true. To “Those people get very isolat- the Radisson Hotel in down- “Let us move forward with Sharron Angle because of her She concluded: “The first speak this way seeds a doubt ed, and it’s kind of a fright- town Salt Lake City hosted strength.