The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 1

i Cost Of Mill Tailings Removal Climbs Fruita Monument Hands Bulldogs 2nd Loss 2B -s 1 Msmaamsxza THE IH3 DAILY WESTERN COLORADO'S CHRONICLE OF RECORD SINCE 1893 FORECAST FOR TOMORROW. PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH 86, LOW 62 Vol. 104, No. 290 GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1997 354 newsstand 22 pages A piece of the past flies over Junction THE RED BARON STEARMAN SQUADRON FLIES over the Grand Valley on Thursday, displaying a little bit of what crowds will see at this weekends Air Show '97 at Walker Reid Airport. The squadron is the only formation team flying authentic antique airplanes.

For a schedule of air show events, see page 10A. Forest Service considers hike of lease rates By C. PATRICK CLEARY The Daily Sentinel with wire reports 1 4 vvj Reunited mom, girl come home By DANA NUNN The Daily Sentinel Bienvemdos, Emilie So read the sign welcoming 5-year-old Emilie Hardy Pearson back to Grand June tion today two years, seven months and seven days after she was abducted by her father Emilie and her mother and stepfa ther, Joanne and Charlie Pearson, were surrounded by family, friends flowers, balloons and stuffed am mals as they walked into Walker Field Airport about 9 30 this mom mg, back from Guadalajara, Mexico, where Emilie was found Ovens helm mg That's the only word I know to desenbe it, Joanne Pearson said this morning as she Emilie and Charlie welcomed the embraces and free-flowing tears of the multitude of aunts, uncles, cous ins and grandparents there to greet them It was clearly a special hug when Joanne spotted Grand Junction Police Detective Kevin Imbnaco and rushed to him and FBI agent Ron Baker, both of whom have worked On finding Emilie since she was if 4 0 I I land she said White River recreation specialist Jim Simonson said only rare cas es would there be a reduction in the fee Both the White River and the Grand Mesa forest officials are now in the process of domg the reappraisals New fees must be put in effect between 1998 and 2000 Simonson of the San Juan and Rio Grande said he has completed his reappraisals but has not released what the new fees will be to his 75 homeowners There will be slight increases Simonson said Increases have been anything but slight in some Northwest forests In Idahos Sawtooth National For est, the first forest where sites have been reappraised the annual fee on four cabms is jumping from $223 to $8 750 apiece A five-cabin compound wall cost more than $67,000, up from $4 400 Were trying to do what the GAO said Folks you've got to charge fair market value, Forest Service spokesman Chris Holmes said Thursday At least 175 private cabin owners on Forest Service land in west era Colorado are likely to face high er rents as the agency undertakes a reappraisal process There are 60 cabms on Forest Ser vice land on the Grand Mesa while 40 will be affected on the White River and an additional 75 on the San Juan and Rio Grande national forests Current regulations require the agency to reappraise the sites every 20 years Owners of cabins on private ground the forests will not be affected Because of out-of-date appraisals, fees have lagged far behind rising land values the General Accounting Office said in a 1996 report There are 15 600 such permits nationwide, and all will be reappraised during the next five years The current average permit fee for the 60 sites in the Grand Mesa and Gunnison forests is about $400 annually, said Diann Pipher 6f the Forest Service Grand Mesa sites were last appraised in the early 1980s she said The process only involves the land and no improvements to that CHRISTOPHER TOMUNSONThe Daily Sentinel EMIUE PEARSON IS ALL SMILES upon her return to Grand Junction this morning Her mother, Joanne Pearson, spent more than 2 years in search of Emilie from a missmg childrens organiza tion Canada On Tuesday, FBI agents and Mexican authorities wefit to Hardys home and captured Hardy and Hardys current wife a Mexican national But a housekeeper and two teen age boys escaped the raid with Emilie in tow few weeks after her third birthday She told her mother that she speaks very little English and doesnt care much for the language, Joanne said The poised little girl speaks fluent Spanish and some French ReJean Hardy was spotted in Guadalajara about three weeks ago by a golf course manager who two days before, had received a flier abducted by ReJean Hardy on Jan 29,1995 As family and friends waited for the Sky West flight to arrive from Salt Lake City, where the Pearsons spent Thursday night they brushed up on their Spanish so they would be able to greet and talk with Emilie a language she could understand Emilie was taken by Hardy just a See REUNITED, page 10A Mother Teresas life of charity ends at 87 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Royal family joins mourners at palace By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON With solemn faces and shy smiles of thanks Prince Charles and his sons alked alongside mourners outside Kensington Palace today Sobbing Britons cheered them reaching out to shake their hands and offer bouquets Queen Elizabeth II wearing black arrived from Scotland shortly afterward and went to Buckingham Palace Stepping from her limou sine she spoke ith some of the thousands ho gathered to offer condolences shaking hands and smiling bravely as she accepted their flowers The queen returned to London hours before she as to deliy er a live address to the nation pray ing for her Mother Teresa created a global charity to care for the human castoffs the world wanted to forget For 50 years she com forted the destitute dy ing in gutters, sheltered in fants abandoned trash heaps, soothed the putnd ulcers of lepers and gave succor to the insane Her work was fi nanced by public foundations, pn vate donors, and scores of prizes, in eluding the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize TERESA ROME Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun whose very name became synonymous with chanty for her work with the poorest of the poor has died. She was 87 A nun at the Sisters of Chanty in Rome disclosed her death today The nun. who refused to be identified, said the convent was notified about the death at about 7 J0 pm (11 30 a m.

MDT) and that she had no other details to give She said nuns at the order were MOTHER PRINCESS DIANA AND QUEEN ELIZABETH 1987.