Mitchell Family Battling Hardships with Love, Cheer by Sarah Miley Mitchells, and This Year It Became Has Been Selected As the Tooele STAFF WRITER Even More So
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FRFRONTONT PAGE A1 www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE RANSCRIPT Grantsville T Check out the earns first win features on our new Web site: in Roosevelt tooeletranscript.com See A10 BULLETIN December 9, 2008 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 115 NO. 059 50¢ Governor’s proposed budget could have impact on county by Tim Gillie a number of cuts and proposals that nor will also tap the state’s rainy day STAFF WRITER could impact Tooele County both fund for $124.7 million to reduce the negatively and positively. impact of the spending cuts. With state revenue continuing The proposed budget calls for Education officials across the to spiral downward, Governor John cuts of up to 4 percent in education, state are holding their breath to see Huntsman has proposed a $10.6 bil- which was “held harmless” in a run how much money they’ll be given photography / Maegan Burr lion budget for fiscal year 2010 — of cuts made to balance the 2009 to work with over the next two Middle Canyon Elementary third-graders Peyton Baker, Keaton Pacheco and Conner O’Rourke (l-r) color at about $1 billion less than the 2009 budget. Other department budgets the beginning of class Tuesday morning. Governor John Huntsman has proposed a 4 percent budget cut budget. Included in the budget are will be cut by 7 percent. The gover- SEE BUDGET PAGE A7 ➤ in education for 2010. Transcript-Bulletin Christmas Benefit Fund NEW SNOW, OLD ROUTINE Mitchell family battling hardships with love, cheer by Sarah Miley Mitchells, and this year it became has been selected as the Tooele STAFF WRITER even more so. Mother Marsha, Transcript-Bulletin Christmas who grew up in Tooele, is deaf. Benefit Fund family for 2008. With The Mitchells could be any Father Michael is severely hard of help from the Transcript-Bulletin happy family. Their Tooele home hearing. This year Michael fell into and its readers, the Mitchells may is filled with laughter, smiles and a coma and spent weeks in the yet have a merry Christmas. the sounds of three young chil- hospital. Medical bills have left The family includes parents dren roughhousing. To look at the family struggling financially. Michael, 30, and Marsha, 32; them, you’d have little sense of Christmas for the kids seemed like daughter Aleisha, 7; and sons the hardships they have endured an impossibility. Isaac, 6, and Skyler, 3. They over the past year. But the Mitchells’ bleak holiday But life has been hard for the picture has changed. The family SEE FUND PAGE A6 ➤ photography / Maegan Burr photography / Maegan Burr Transcript-Bulletin Christmas benefit fund recipients Marsha, Aleisha, Michael, Skyler and Isaac Mitchell smile on the Tooele resident Calvin Sandberg shovels his walks Monday afternoon during a break in the snowstorm. The storm couch in their Tooele home Monday night. With help from the Transcript-Bulletin and its readers, the Mitchells could dropped 2 inches of snow on Tooele. have a Christmas they thought wouldn’t come this year. Winter season starts brightly for area motels and inns by Doug Radunich better-than-expected as well. Gisela Rice, lodging manager STAFF WRITER Liz Wagner, manager for the of the Desert Lodge in Dugway, Villa Motel in Tooele, which has said her hotel hasn’t had an empty The holiday season is shaping eight rooms and one suite, said room yet in December. Guests at up as a festive one for local motel she has more guests thus far this the hotel are primarily military SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE managers, many of whom are winter than last year as well. She and UVgovernment INDEX civilians doing The Sun Rise Set WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAYreporting SATURDAY an upsurge SUNDAYin business. added MONDAY that the drop-off TUESDAY in busi- work at Dugway Proving Ground. Wednesday 7:42 a.m. 5:02 p.m. Carol Gibson, manager of the ness between the summer and “Our occupancy depends on Thursday 7:43 a.m. 5:02 p.m. Friday 7:43 a.m. 5:03 p.m. 64-room Holiday Inn Express, said winter seasons has not been as how much work there is at the occupancy rates at her motel have drastic as in the past. Her rates are Dugway Proving Ground, and how Saturday 7:44 a.m. 5:03 p.m. 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 Sunday 7:45 a.m. 5:03 p.m. been running around 75 percent, $50 for a single-bed room, and $70 many training troops are brought Monday 7:46 a.m. 5:03 p.m. compared to 60 percent for the for a suite with two beds. Wedout,” Thu RiceFri Satsaid. Sun “The Mon amountTue of Tuesday 7:46 a.m. 5:04 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ The Moon Rise Set month of December last year. “We’ve had more people come number,work the greater can the also need for change eye and skin on a daily Wednesday 3:03 p.m. 5:26 a.m. “For this week alone we’ve been here around winter this year, pri- protection.basis.0-2 Low;Usually 3-5 Moderate; by 6-7 October High; 8-10 we get Thursday 3:55 p.m. 6:45 a.m. Very High; 11+ Extreme Friday 4:59 p.m. 7:59 a.m. 100 percent full,” Gibson said. “We marily because we’ve had a lot pretty slow here, but this year has Saturday 6:14 p.m. 9:03 a.m. get a lot of corporate or govern- of contractors and workers for beenALMANAC outside of the norm.” Sunday 7:33 p.m. 9:54 a.m. Statistics for the week ending Dec. 8. mentCloudy workerswith a chance here Mostly on cloudy,business, snow companiesSnow much of the like UnionMostly cloudy, Pacific a bit ofand Ginger Martin, manager of the Monday 8:51 p.m. 10:34 a.m. Partial sunshine Partly sunny Mostly sunny Temperatures Tuesday 10:06 p.m. 11:06 a.m. butfor we snow have showers had aor fewflurries families possible the newtime Alleghenysnow Technologies in the p.m. 41-room Oquirrh Motor Inn in High/Low past week 62/24 Full Last New First stay as well. I think we have more plant,” Wagner said. “During NormalLake high/low Point, past weeksaid her holiday 42/23 sea- 46 28 48 28 47 31 workers42 who27 need to34 do business23 Thanksgiving,32 24 most35 of the27 workers Averageson temp business past week so far has been38.5 about in Tooele County than last year.” went home, but we had enough Normalthe average same temp as past it weekwas last 32.6 year, with TOOELE COUNTY WEATHER Daily Temperatures High Low Dec 12 Dec 19 Dec 27 Jan 4 Shown is Wednesday’s At $119 a night for a two-bed travelers who were here to visit occupancy rates holding around room, the Holiday Inn is at the high family to be able to fill us up. 70 percent and rates as low as $59 Forecasts and graphics provided by weather. Temperatures are Wednesday night’s lows and end of the local lodgings market. We have been entirely filled up at 62a night for a seven-day stay. AccuWeather, Inc. ©2008 Wednesday’s highs. 45 50 45 photography / Maegan Burr But there’s other evidence other times since the beginning of last 40 42 35 segments of the market are doing month.” SEE SEASON PAGE A5 ➤ Oquirrh Motor Inn housekeepers Kathy Carrick and Heather Carson make a bed Tuesday morning. Many local motels 41 38 33 are reporting surges in business during the winter season. UTAH WEATHER 24 26 28 30 Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Logan Grouse 41/15 Wendover Precipitation (in inches) INSIDE Creek 38/17 BULLETINKnolls BOARDClive A8 WEATHER Lake Point 47/17 42/22 43/24 45/22 18.79 Ogden CLASSIFIEDS B4 Stansbury Park 14.60 44/25 Erda 45/22 Debt freedom “Scrooge” dance Vernal HOMETOWN B1 Grantsville 46/28 Pine Canyon Salt Lake City 40/15 45/22 44/27 0.20 0.36 0.20 0.42 classes available performance at GHS Tooele 45/22 OBITUARIES A7 Bauer 46/28 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal 46/27 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D See B1 See A3 Provo Roosevelt 46/28 43/16 OPEN FORUM A4 40/21 Stockton Snowfall (in inches) Price SPORTS A10 See Complete 46/27 50/19 3.0 Nephi Forecast Rush Valley 50/25 TV LISTINGS B2 47/26 Ophir 2.0 2.0 on A9 45/26 Delta Manti 53/22 50/25 Green River Last Month Season 51/22 Dugway Week to date to date Richfield Gold Hill 48/24 54/27 Moab 46/17 SNOWPACK Hanksville 52/25 Beaver 48/22 Vernon Tooele Valley-Vernon Creek Basin 56/25 Ibapah 48/25 49/19 Snow Water Equivalent as of 12 a.m. Monday Rocky Basin Mining Vernon Settlement Fork Creek Cedar City Blanding Monday 1.1” 1.5” 0.0” St. George 52/21 49/25 Average 6.1” 3.5” 2.1” 56/32 Kanab 56/30 Eureka Percent of Average 18% 43% 0% 48/25 Source: Utah Natural Resources Conservation Services A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN TUESDAY December 9, 2008 Downtown Tooele SANTA RIDES SHOTGUN decorates to lure in holiday shoppers by Doug Radunich has to offer this holiday season. STAFF WRITER “We have presents and Christmas dresses shown in Tooele’s downtown businesses our front window, and we have have decorated their buildings Christmas bulbs all around on once again for the holidays — a the inside of the building,” she move they’re hoping will lure said.