he disagrees g by 3rd Dis- rederick find- a “ d He wants legislators to guarantee wo-thirds majorities in both cham- ers so the measure can pass with- years to amend the Constitution. Such amendments can be put up for a general election vote only on See PRAYER on 2C STANDARD-EXAMINER WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1992 CITY EDITOR: 625-4220 AUGUST MILLER/Standard-Examiner Dents who were temporarily evacuated follow- ire sit outside the hotel watching workers spruce up the front of the building to prepare it for the filming of an upcoming movie. dents return to Marion Hotel cy workers provided food, shelter for 70 displaced tenants ENTELMAN Marion Hotel me back home on following e tenants, that mergency work- ckly to provide but the new ac- ren’t as much y would have n those cots,” o declined to esday as he sat rion, watching ie company re- terior. His feet hung over the edges and hurt, he said, “so I went down to the Rescue Mission.” The fire broke out at about noon Monday in a storage room in the back of the hotel where blankets were being put away for the summer. It forced more than 70 tenants of the hotel to leave the building overnight. LouAnn Jackson, owner of the hotel, said the fire was caused by a cigarette spark that got into the blankets some of the men who live in the hotel were folding up. The fire damaged an interior storage room of the hotel, she said, but didn’t cause any major structural damage. Jackson said the Ogden building inspector had given her approval to let her tenants back after doing electrical repairs to the building. Scot Safford, vice president of Kier Corporation, which is preparing to renovate the hotel, said his preliminary inspections didn’t turn up anything that would hinder that project. Most of the tenants of the Marion are older men living on retirement incomes, but a few are younger people working to get established. In recent years, the hotel has been used by Weber County Human Services as a transitional housing facility because of its low rents—140 a month—and central city location. The Bonneville chapter of the American Red Cross set up an emergency shelter in the basement of the Weber County Human Services Building, where 36 people spent the night Monday. Bill Spinks, emergency services coordinator, said another seven tenants with medical or special dietary needs were put up in a motel. Spinks said the shelter was staffed with a full-time nurse and volunteers. It was a “well-behaved group,” he said. Spinks said the Red Cross was See HOTEL on 2C