The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 21

ehfSaltCakfaribnnf CLASSIFIEDS CROSSWORD MONDAY April 4 1994 D1 Crumbling Roads May Take a Toll Wells A new Utah Department of Transportation study examined the feasibility of paying for improvements on four state highways by charging a toll on motonsts Drivers Someday May Pay Fee' to Fund Utah Highway Repairs By Christopher Smith THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE CISCO Few people would mistake the two-lane highway that leads from here to Moab for the New Jersey Turnpike But state Road 128 someday might resemble the legendary expressway in one respect: tollbooths Utah is considering collecting fees on some stretches of popular highways to pay for construction improvements Many Eastern drivers are familiar with paying a toll each time they use popular commuter routes and now such roads are gaining in popularity in the West I would have said less than a year or so ago that no way would you ever have a toll road in Utah says John Quick Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) statewide planning engineer But with the success of toll roads in Colorado and California we have some indications that this could be a possible approach toward funding some much-needed improvements UDOT recently received a report from a consulting team that outlines toll financing of Utah roads Prepared at the request of UDOT and the Legislature the report considered converting these four highways into toll roads: SR (state Road) 128 from Moab to Interstate 70 US 89 from Farmington to Ogden 5600 West from Interstate 80 to 9000 South SR 6 and SR 214 from Spanish Fork to Helper For most of the routes consultants said the primary drawback to tolls was low to moderate traffic volumes The volumes just aren't there for a 100 payback But with toll financing you could fill a funding gap that would make the overall cost of a project more palatable says Quick With the reduced federal funding available we have to find some alternative ways to pay for these projects Virtually all of Utahs major highways are paid for with federal funds and state money the latter coming primarily from the 19-cents-per-gallon state gasoline tax But Utah politicians have avoided raising the tax further fearing a voter backlash during this election year Faced with similar financial crunches and crumbling roads many Western states are turning ii With the success of toll roads in Colorado and California we have some indications that this could be a possible approach toward funding some much-needed improvements in Utah JOHN QUICK Utah Department of Transportation to toll roads to finance construction New federal laws allow public-private partnerships to build highways that charge motorists a fee to retire outstanding debt and defray ongoing maintenance costs This concept of user fees isnt new in the West: During the mining boom at the turn of the century more than 150 toll roads were built in California and more than 200 toll roads stretched through territory that became Colorado and Nevada In Utah Mormon pioneer Parley Pratt regularly charged westward-moving emigrants to use the wagon road he and others had hewn through what now is Parleys Canyon east of Salt Lake City Turnpikes nearly died after See D-2 Column 4 US89 Farmington to Ogden Pro: Heavy traffic volume Con: Numerous access points 5600 West 1-80 to 9000 South Pro: Moderate to high traffic volume Con: Numerous access points SR6SR214 Spanish Fork to Helper Pro: Limited access Con: Cost to improve estimated $266 million SRI 28 Moab to 1-70 Pro: Limited access Con: Low traffic volume Seriously 111 Child Can Strain Marriage To Breaking Point Severe Financial Hardship Takes a Toll University of Utah Researchers Find By Chemll Crosby THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Sherri and Robert Nelson know that having a seriously ill child is enough to break some marriages They do not want to be one of the casualties The West Jordan couples fifth child Riley was born 10 weeks ago with hypoplastic left heart syndrome Ever since the defect was discovered the infant has been at Primary Childrens Medical Center where he underwent heart-transplant surgery March 15 If not for the support of family and neighbors Sherri Nelson says she does not know how the family would have coped the past couple of months A study by two University of Utah social scientists shows the Nelsons like other couples with children that have serious health problems are three to four times more likely to divorce than couples with healthy babies The study found the quality of marriage is greatly affected by the nature of the childs illness with the greatest risk of divorce among those with the most severely ill children Im not going to say we havent had our arguments but overall it has strengthened our marriage Nelson says After getting the three oldest children fed dressed and off to school she takes her 3-year-old to her mother-in-laws home and then heads to newborn intensive care at Primary Childrens for the day In the evening Nelson and her husband return to the hospital for 1V6 to 2 hours of feeding bathing and holding their son She also calls during the middle of the night to check on her son Before Riley was born Nelson says her husband deferred to her when their children became ill Hes really changed she says This isnt something I can do alone He knows that One of the biggest strains the couple faces is finan- See D-3 Column 1 Mk i I a -hfir i 5 i rv- PAUL ROLLY and JOANN JACOBSEN-WELLS New Moniker Remember Fred Fife a reporter for KTVX-Ch 4 in the 1980s? He is now Fred Powers The New Times' March 23 edition reports that KPHO-Ch 5 brass in Phoenix ordered the name change when Fred became the stations weeknight anchor Reason? Phoenix is already rife with Fife KPHOs No 1 daytime program is The Andy Griffith Show and management did not want viewers to confuse anchor Fife with Mayberrys bumbling deputy Barney Our bet is that Fred also sought to distance himself from Arizonas controversy-plagued governor Fife Symington III whom Fife we mean Powers will likely mention while in Fifeville Thats TV news folks BYU Grads? ATM Services Inc operates an automatic-teller machine in the McDonalds restaurant on University Avenue in Provo The machine has a set of special instructions for physically challenged patrons including a section written in Braille One problem: the Braille is safely protected behind a smooth plastic panel that renders it unreadable except to sighted people Super-Efficient The Utah Attorney Generals Office has awarded a $27600 contract for an office-efficiency study the second in four years to two of the top aides to former Salt Lake City Mayor Palmer DePaulis who works for Atty Gen Jan Graham The contract was bid by several companies and was awarded to a joint venture of Mike Zuhl and Linda Hamilton Zuhl was DePaulis chief of staff and Hamilton was his finance director DePaulis now is the public-relations director and adviser to the attorney general Graham also served on the campaign-advisory committee to Zuhl when he ran for Salt Lake City mayor in 1991 DePaulis says because of his relationship to Zuhl and Hamilton he had nothing to do with the selection Dale Carpenter Grahams chief of staff said the bid winners were selected by a committee Their bid was second lowest of seven bidders But Carpenter said they scored high on other aspects such as ability understanding the job and guarantees of completion In 1990 former Atty Gen Paul Van Dam hired Phase II Inc of Washington DC to study the efficiency of the office and develop a workable office structure Graham as Van Dams solicitor general oversaw that project Carpenter says this contract is a followup with emphasis on the specific jobs of the 135 attorneys NO Shame Jim Foley Republican candidate for the 2nd Congressional District and his campaign consultant Jim Murphy like to boast about their Navy experiences Still party members were shocked to see this bumper sticker on Murphys car: Proud Member of Tailhook Get What Ya Pay For Our friends at KSVC-AM in Richfield told us the story of Pete Weimer of Monroe He went to Peterson Plumbing in Richfield recently to buy a faucet for a second bathroom he is finishing The quote for the top-of-the-line unit was $68 Weimer told the clerk he just wanted a cheap faucet The clerk noted on the invoice it was a cheap faucet When Weimer got home and looked at the bill his cheap faucet was listed (incorrectly as it turned out) at $2742300 Well thats cheap to Pentagon purchase officers Fate of the Universe: A scripted and narrated lecture on tape by Stephen Hawking 7 tonight Han- sen Planetarium 15 State Salt Lake City Monsignor Jerome Stoffel lights a candle from the new fire Carmelite convent in Holladay on Saturday night The candle during Easter Vigil service at the Catholic symbolizes Christ as the light of the world Love Has No Bounds for Mother of Nine Adopted Children Steve Baker The Salt Lake Tribune Sons Deadly Allergy Pits Mom Against School Health Care By Katherine Kapos THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Colin Forbes is so allergic to nuts that even a whiff of peanut butter can start his eyes watering and mouth itching If the 6-year-old happened to eat a nut it might be fatal It is with that frightening thought that Melanie Forbes is trying to understand why a lunchroom aide at Draper Elementary forced her son to take a bite of a nut cookie on Dec 6 Since beginning her quest Forbes has found the problem stems in part from an inadequate number of school nurses in the Jordan District At the elementary level there is one nurse for every 25 or 30 schools That means principals teachers and secretaries are having to take on See D-2 Column 4 What gives us comfort and peace is that we have no regrets of how we have lived worked and dealt with each other Added Cirlaine Coffin: We have worked as one Our family has always been our first priority It has been our focus all of our married life Cirlaine became an instant mother when she and David married in 1959 He was rearing three daughters Pamela Nancy and Martha from a previ- See D-4 Column 1 of Bonneville The club which raises money for abuse-prevention programs presented Coffin with its highest honor the Book of Golden Deeds Award Tears ran freely at the ceremony at Salt Lake Citys Lion House Until that day no one knew if Cirlaine Coffin would be able to attend the ceremony because the mom who got her wish is dying We have told the children that that she may go at any time said David Coffin We are facing it like anything else By JoAnn Jacobsen-Wells THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Cirlaine Coffin does not believe there are unadoptable children She has adopted nine of them Children with disabilities Abused children Children who had been shuttled from house to house All found a home with the American Fork schoolteacher and her husband David All she wanted was a loving husband and lots of children said Merrill Mat-zinger a member of the Exchange Club 'V I -r i a I- Ml I- SK A jf- I -A ATA' A 7 cf A w- I 2r A A 1 4 Kick LgaaThc Salt Lake Tnbune Storm System Whips Up Some Wild Weather in Utah By Joshua Good THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Riverton resident Jon Harvey thought he was in a scene from The Wizard of Oz on Sunday when he spotted lumber whipping through the air While watching from the shelter of his open garage Harvey 35 said a dark funnel cloud touched down across the street from his home at 2528 11800 South The swirling mass sent a trampolme careening destroyed a wooden carport wall and launched dozens of unidentified flying objects into the air Ive never seen a tornado so I really wouldnt know if it was a tornado But it was something all right Harvey said William Alder of the National Weather Service office in Salt Lake City said the funnel-cloud sighting probably was a microburst of wind and rain but not a tornado Throughout the Salt Lake Valley winds blew at 35 to 40 mph In Herriman gusts reached 55 mph Forecasters who watched Easter Sunday skies over the valley go from blue to black anticipated the heavens will remain dark and brooding today Alder said to expect showers today with thunderstorms developing Temperatures will remain chilly with highs in the low 50s Above 5500 feet the rain could turn to snow I doubt itll stick though" he said 1 Vs f'yl X'' Wanderlust Shirley Smith presents a travel talk on Greece and Turkey 7 tonight A Woman's PlacOi Bookstore 1890 Bonanza Drive Park City Plaza Park City Vr A 4 Mike Iverson weekend participants PICKIN' 'N' GRINNIN plucks out a tune for Chevron left and Gallon Jug during re-enactment of frontier life at Ogdens Fort Buenaventura Rendezvous annually shoot trade and have a good time one said i 1 1 ijyjnwnH -i-rrrfcri- I Federal Facts: Reading time totals 6 or 7 hours each week among the elderly Source American Demographic hUy 1991 Blue Monday: Rhythm and Blues performs noon today Gallivan Center Plaza 36 200 South Salt Lake ity Free Vocabulary: Skittish (SKIT ish) adj Excitable frisky Our puppy becomes skittish when there is unfamiliar company in our home or something aromatic cooking in the kitchen 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