FRFRONTONT PAGE A1 www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE RANSCRIPT T Check out the GHS girls win two features on our new Web site: games over tooeletranscript.com weekend See A10 BULLETIN December 23, 2008 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 115 NO. 063 50¢ Merry Christmas Transcript-Bulletin Christmas Benefit Fund for Mitchell family Family gets help with hearing, vision and dental needs, plus more than $4,400 for medical bills Michael, 30. “I want to thank whoever by Sarah Miley nominated us and thank Tooele County. STAFF WRITER It’s pretty awesome. I’m speechless.” Mother Marsha, 32, looked gratefully The Mitchell family of Tooele will have at her children Aleisha, 7, Isaac, 6, and a Christmas they thought wouldn’t come 3-year-old Skyler, while they took turns this year thanks to the generosity of sitting on Santa’s lap in the family’s living Transcript-Bulletin readers. room. The children eyed gifts that had On Friday, Santa made a special been placed in a previously empty space delivery to the family on behalf of the beneath the family’s Christmas tree. Transcript-Bulletin Christmas Benefit The donations from the Transcript- fund. He was accompanied by the news- Bulletin and its readers are a boost to paper’s publisher, Scott Dunn, and edi- a family who has endured many tri- tor, Jeff Barrus, who presented the family als, including medical emergencies and with a check for $4,446, a short list of financial hardships, this past year. services donated by concerned citizens Michael has been hard of hearing and businesses, and several bags full of since birth and Marsha became deaf photography / Maegan Burr toys. “Thank you very much,” said father SEE BENEFIT PAGE A5 ➤ Skyler, Isaac and Aleisha Mitchell (l-r) talk to Santa Claus in their Tooele home Friday night. The Transcript-Bulletin presented the Mitchells with a check for more than $4,000 as recipients of this year’s benefit fund. A TEAM EFFORT Wendover weathering economic downturn well Gaming revenues down less than 1 percent compared to 2007 by Doug Radunich in Wendover has held steady STAFF WRITER over the past year when com- pared to 2007. Wendover is doing bet- “For the first 10 months of ter economically than other 2008 we were down only 0.9 Nevada gaming towns, percent from what we made thanks in part to a still- during the first 10 months of steady supply of gamblers 2007 — but I expected it to from Tooele County and the be more,” Melville said. “Our Wasatch Front. gaming revenue was $157 According to West million for this year, a slight Wendover City Manager Chris drop from the $159 million Melville, combined gaming revenue for the five casinos SEE WENDOVER PAGE A6 ➤ Student suspended for e-mail threat at Dugway High School by Tim Gillie the situation resolved,” STAFF WRITER said Tooele County School Superintendent Terry Linares A Dugway High School on Thursday afternoon. “We student has been suspended have suspended a student.” after writing a threatening e- Linares stressed that DHS photography / Maegan Burr mail that caused the school did not go into lockdown. to initiate security searches “We activated Safe School Brayden, Braxton and Bryson Borders (l-r) slide down a hill in Middle Canyon on Saturday afternoon while their dog Bijto follows. Six to 10 inches of snow fell of all students last Thursday. on Friday and Saturday, more snow is expected this week. “We believe we have SEE STUDENT PAGE A8 ➤ SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE UV INDEX The Sun Rise Set TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY Tuesday 7:50 a.m. 5:07 p.m. Tough times driving readers to city library Wednesday 7:51 a.m. 5:07 p.m. Thursday 7:51 a.m. 5:08 p.m. by Sarah Miley Emery said she’s noticed a lot bination of programs offered at vices, it didn’t close this year. Friday 7:51 a.m. 5:09 p.m. 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 Saturday 7:52 a.m. 5:09 p.m. STAFF WRITER more people coming into the the library as well as the down- “It just seemed we were hav- Sunday 7:52 a.m. 5:10 p.m. library, and there’s also been an Tueturn Wed in Thuthe economy.Fri Sat Sun Mon ing so many more people come Monday 7:52 a.m. 5:11 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ The Moon Rise Set Despite the credit crunch, one increase in borrowing. number,“I the think greater the whatneed for eye the and skin economy into the library we didn’t want Tuesday 4:38 a.m. 2:08 p.m. institution has seen its lending “We have more people com- protection.has 0-2done Low; 3-5 isModerate; brought 6-7 High; 8-10 people to close it,” Emery said. “We Wednesday 5:40 a.m. 2:45 p.m. Very High; 11+ Extreme Thursday 6:38 a.m. 3:30 p.m. rate increase with tough eco- ing in, much more Internet use, into the library and they realize planned to do it in December Friday 7:30 a.m. 4:22 p.m. nomic times: the Tooele City and our programs, while they’ve there’sALMANAC a lot for them here and too but we’ve been so busy this Saturday 8:16 a.m. 5:19 p.m. Mostly cloudy and Statistics for the week ending Dec. 21. Cloudy and cold with Overcast with a couple Cloudy with snow or Library. alwaysCloudy with abeen couple reallyRather cloudy popular, and not they come back,” she said. “We month.” Sunday 8:54 a.m. 6:20 p.m. Cloudy and cold cold with snow Temperatures Monday 9:27 a.m. 7:22 p.m. snow, 1-2” of snow showers flurries possible Karen Emery, director of the justof snow continue showers to get evenas cold more do have a lot and it’s all here The library, which opened showers High/Low past week 36/14 New First Full Last library, said lending and patron- so,” she said. “November and Normalfor thehigh/low public. past week We’re glad40/20 that eight years ago, now has 62,000 29 13 28 21 30 18 age 22are both15 up this 25year. 15 December,30 21 because38 of holidays,26 Averagepeople temp arepast week using it.” 25.5 items in its collection. From July to November 2007, are not quite as heavy, but this NormalThe average library temp past weektypically 30.0 closes “We’re getting tight as far as TOOELE COUNTY WEATHER Daily Temperatures High Low Dec 27 Jan 4 Jan 10 Jan 17 Shown is Tuesday’s weather. a total of 33,700 patrons vis- year’s numbers [for November] for a month to do inventory, shelf space,” she said. Temperatures are Tuesday ited the library. The same time are more than we did last sum- which36 Emery said36 they were Emery said an area that has Forecasts and graphics provided by 32 33 photography / Maegan Burr night’s lows and Tuesday’s period for this year saw an mer a year ago.” 31planning on31 doing so29 in August. really seen an increase is the AccuWeather, Inc. ©2008 Luke Yearby, 3, looks at a book on NASCAR Friday afternoon in the Tooele highs. increase of 64 percent to 55,300 Emery believes the increase However, because of the high library. Library use is up this year compared to 2007 because of the down- patrons. in patronage is due to a com- number of people26 using its ser- SEE LIBRARY PAGE A9 ➤ 23 20 turn in the economy. UTAH WEATHER 15 14 15 16 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Logan Grouse 22/9 Wendover Precipitation (in inches) INSIDE Creek 30/16 BULLETINKnolls BOARDClive B2 Lake Point 28/13 27/13 WEATHER 19.43 27/5 28/18 15.39 Ogden CLASSIFIEDS B6 Stansbury Park 25/14 Erda 28/18 Tooele couple spends HOMETOWN B1 Grantsville Chinese classes taught Vernal 29/16 Pine Canyon 0.99 1.06 Salt Lake City 21/5 28/18 23/8 0.35 0.34 two months on with new technology Tooele 28/18 OBITUARIES A8 Bauer 29/13 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal 28/13 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D ancestors’ historic See A2 Provo Roosevelt See 29/13 27/3 OPEN FORUM A4 28/13 Complete Stockton Snowfall (in inches) farm Price SPORTS A10 28/13 29/9 Forecast See B1 Nephi on A9 Rush Valley 15.2 16.2 31/10 TV LISTINGS B4 27/12 Ophir 24/7 8.2 Delta Manti 32/10 30/8 Green River Last Month Season 35/14 Dugway Week to date to date Richfield Gold Hill 29/12 32/10 Moab 30/8 SNOWPACK Hanksville 37/18 Beaver 39/15 Vernon Tooele Valley-Vernon Creek Basin 32/10 Ibapah 29/10 32/7 Snow Water Equivalent as of 12 a.m. Sunday Rocky Basin Mining Vernon Settlement Fork Creek Cedar City Blanding Sunday 1.5” 0.8” 0.5” St. George 29/14 34/14 Average 8.2” 4.5” 3.0” 41/30 Kanab 38/19 Eureka Percent of Average 18% 18% 17% 27/10 Source: Utah Natural Resources Conservation Services A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN TUESDAY December 23, 2008 High school students tackling Chinese Notice of Holiday language with help of new technology Deadline Changes by Tim Gillie French and two years of Chinese Due to the Christmas & New Year STAFF WRITER through the school district.