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POLLUTION ALERT Burning wood or coal is prohibited today in Salt Lake and Davis counties and is discouraged in Utah and Cache counties It is a voluntary no-drive day in all four counties UTAH SDMDAT FOR THE RECORD B-2 WILSON BARBER! B-5 DECEMBER 302001 History 01 Party Begins on First Night CftMatters 7 -PaI'Maihii Ti i Revelers to preview Games-type entertainment traffic NEW YEAR'S EVE Schedule of SLC events B-4 Where to Buy Tickets Downtown Salt Lake City First Night starts at 5:45 pm Buttons are $7 in advance at Crossroads Plaza GNC Stores Saturn of Salt Lake Smith's Tix ZCMI Center and Zions Bank At the gate tickets are $10 Children 10 and younger get in free Provo events start at 5:30 pm Buttons are $3 in advance at Provo City cashier's desk Provo City Economic Development office and the Provo Town Centre Mall Service desk Tickets are $5 at the event Children 10 and younger get in free BY JESUS LOPEZ JR THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE First Night revelers will swarm the downtown streets of Salt Lake City Ogden Provo and St George on Monday night and the magnitude of music games and dancing to kick in 2002 will be a glimpse of the upcoming Winter Games "They say the Olympics will be like 17 days of First Night We will kind of remind people what is in store" said Bob Farrington Farrington said the mix of indoor and outdoor venues assures that- First Night happens no matter what the weather citing the postman's mantra This year Olympic themes play a large' role in the celebrations Provo will bring in Olympic mascots Copper Coal and Powder while NAPAH the Native American Pacific Islander Asian and Hispanic organ-See FIRST NIGHT Page B-4 Downtown Alliance executive director "What we'd like is a place where people can come down and see what it's like to be part of the party and to start to find out how it is to get around" Revelers across the Wasatch Front will feel a cold New Year's night with below-freezing temperatures in the forecast KWANZAA IN UTAH Snowmakers Guarantee Great Racing At Snowbasiri BY KRISTEN MOULTON 2 i 2- 1 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SNOWBASIN Crews preparing? the men's and women's Olympic downhill courses could slop watefc from buckets to get the icy hardj' packed snow that racers prefer But they don't have to 2 All they have to do is push a buttotj and watch the snow fly Snowbasin Ski Resort's state-ofl the-art snowmak- I I 'r'-" i tit 14 4 yM ing system allows a computer operator with the click of a mouse to tell each snow gun when to turn road to the 'mmm 2001 TtaSM Lite Trtxm Third Governor Was Run Out of Utah After 3 Weeks Nobody ever had a worse New Year's Eve than the Utah Territory's third governor John WDawson Dawson an Indiana lawyer and newspaper editor had a tough time during the three December weeks he spent in Utah in 1861 In a speech to the Legislature he called on Mormons to pay $26982 in federal taxes to help fight the Civil War Brigham Young did not like the idea First the Feds would want the taxes and then "they will want us to send 1000 men to the war" He would "see them in Hell before I will raise an army for them" The IDS prophet said that anyone who had been a newspaper editor for 15 years must be "a jackass" After Dawson vetoed a popular scheme to win statehood for the Territory of Deseret someone took five shots at a federal judge in front of the governor's rooms on Main Street Local authorities laughed it off but Dawson got the message i On New Year's Eve he boarded an east-bound stagecoach under "circumstances somewhat novel and puzzling" Dawson said his health "imperatively demanded" that he return home but the Deseret News reported he left "in a state of mental derangement or in other words distressingly insane" An IDS apostle charged that the governor had gotten in trouble "hunting a seamstress" Dawson allegedly propositioned a Mormon widow who "drove him out of her house with a fire shovel" which the News claimed accounted for his mental state An odd gang of rowdies fell in behind the stagecoach as it rumbled up Emigration Canyon to Mountain Dell "I was followed by a band of Danites legendary Mormon vigilantes" Dawson informed Abraham Lincoln That night the crowd at the stage-coach station got drunk -After the governor discovered someone had stolen his valuable beaver robe stage driver Wood Reynolds knocked him down Lot Huntington and other thugs then inflicted serious violence on their victim The gang wounded "my head badly in many places kicking me hi the loins and right breast until I was exhausted" Dawson wrote Once the governor had been "viciously assaulted beaten" and according to some castrated the hoodlums carried "on their orgies for many hours in the night" This vile attack upset Salt Lake City authorities and they ordered the perpetrators rounded up The ruffians claimed the chief of police had ordered the assault but within a month most of them were dead at the hands of either Orrin Porter Rockwell at the time a deputy sheriff or the Salt Lake City police "How long does the government intend to persist in foisting such characters upon us?" asked Young "It is our purpose to no more endure the imposition of such men as Governor Dawson" Dawson said he felt the "misrepresentation calumny unjustifiable-invective" in the Deseret News was an attempt to justify his assault Given the rough handling Dawson received one might expect historians to give him a break but most Utah chroniclers treat him as badly as the thugs did that New Year's Eve at Mountain DelL Ironically being Utah's shortest serving governor was not Dawson's greatest claim to fame The battered politician returned to Indiana and spent his last 15 years as a pain-racked invalid He devoted his time to' the study of local history earning the title "the Herodotus of Fort Wayne" Dawson published the first account of the adventures of John Chapman an old friend who had spent 49 years wandering the frontier planting apple trees Walt Disney eventually made Chapman famous but it was John Dawson who created the American legend "Johnny Appleseed" i rA i Ml tV Photos by Leah HogstenThe Salt lake Tribune Sister Maryam of the Royal Heritage Ensemble leads dozens of children and their parents during the Harvest Kwanzaa Dance at the Kwanzaa celebration Saturday on the University of Utah campus Africa's Past Comes Alive on or on ana which of 20 kinds of snow to make from extremely dry to extremely wet "We're 99 perjent automated" says Justin Rowland the snowmaking and guest services manager for Snowbasin 20 miles east of Ogden Snowbasin which is being transformed into a mountain resort in time for the Olympics will host six days of downhill combined and super-G ski races beginning Feb 10 Three new lodges and a huge skier services building will greet visitors around the world to the largest Olympic venue outside- of Rice-Eccles See SNOWBASIN Page B-2 Utahns celebrate Kwanzaa and its seven principles with dancing singing and gift-making at the BY LEX HEMPHILL THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Big Water Dreams Of a Big-City Life But Hurdles Persist BY THOMAS BURR 'A Dozens of children danced sang and made gifts Saturday at a joyful afternoonlong celebration of Kwanzaa at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts Kwanzaa a weeklong celebration of African culture was created 35 years ago by Maulana Karenga an African-American scholar at Cal State-Long Beach It emphasizes seven principles unity self-determination working collectively sharing ere- ativity purpose and faith and each of these was conveyed by children in Swahili words to the celebrants in the museum auditorium Sister Maryam an anthropologist and songstress led the program of songs and dances for the young crowd AtJtahn for eight years she has been a motivating force behind these annual public celebrations of Kwanzaa in Utah "Kwanzaa is a necessary element" she explained moments before taking the stage "because African people had long-standing traditions long-standing heritage components that were lost and so Kwanzaa is a celebration to restore these things "It has taken us many years to re-create the positive elements of our past And by doing this we invite the whole world to celebrate with us We're not exclusive we're inclusive I was told that Africa is the cradle of civilization and so we are helping to renew our heritage and sharing it with people from all dif-' ferent cultures" The Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City was the scene of the Kwanzaa celebrations in 1997 and 1998 but because of new construction the building was not available the past two years "But now that we're open again in a brand new building" said Bernadette Brown the THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE BIG WATER With the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument for a backdrop this scenic southern Utah town seems to have all the ingredients to thrive as a watering hole and supply locale for millions of visitors who descend every year on nearby Lake Powell Instead Big Water's big dreams are bogged down in a controversial history including a reputation as a polygamic stronghold ubiquitous squabbling over the town's incorporation and most recently a short-lived attempt to essentially decriminalize marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia The town of 417 residents sprang out of the remote desert in Kane County nearly 50 years ago to accommodate builders of Glen Canyon Dam just over the Arizona state line During the boom years the town then known as Glen Canyon City See BIG WATER Page B-4 ML John Harmon and his son Christopher 6 share a laugh at the Kwanzaa celebration on Saturday museum's curator of education "we're happy to collaborate" The day's activities began with a workshop for children at which they created gifts for Kwanzaa In midafternoon Sister Maryam led the singing and dancing portion of the program which included a lively rendition of a song she had written for her daughter titled "Mary Mac" A story-telling session followed Kwanzaa continues through New Year's Day Bagley is a tJtah historian and author David Bigler's "Forgotten Kingdom" described Gov Dawson's unhappy Utah ii mm 1 itit? xisi 1 yi 1 1 if i-m N-A im-g- I Present this I coupon and $3 (plus tax) for each pin at your local Smiths or 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