Fluoride Overwhelmingly Rejected Voters Pick Dunlavy by Jesse Fruhwirth It Was Defeated by a Larger Margin Establishments
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www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE New store TRANSCRIPT owner hopes classy digs will break downtown trend See B1 BULLETIN November 8, 2005 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 112 NO. 48 50 cents Fluoride overwhelmingly rejected Voters pick Dunlavy by Jesse Fruhwirth it was defeated by a larger margin establishments. doubt, why take a chance?” STAFF WRITER than in the 1999 election. “Being able to say that [voters] Dr. Clair Vernon, a Tooele dentist as city’s next mayor Tooele voters have turned down Jim Busico of Tooele, a local should trust their dentists wasn’t and fluoridation proponent, said he a fluoridation proposal for a third realtor and fluoride critic, said the good enough ... There’s so much was “surprised and disappointed” by Mark Watson time. Despite new residents that anti-fluoride activists were success- controversy over fluoride ... that it that Tooele had voted against fluo- STAFF WRITER proponents thought might be more ful in causing voters to doubt the caused reasonable doubt,” Busico On Tuesday night, Patrick Tooele City inclined to vote for fluoridation, advice of the dental and medical said. “Anytime you have reasonable SEE FLUORIDE ON A5 Dunlavy and his family showed up at the Tooele County Courthouse charter changes soon after the polls closed so they could closely monitor the results. narrowly OK’d Cowboys Leap Into Final Four It is a practice Dunlavy is accus- tomed to. Since 1986 he has worked by Mark Watson as the Tooele City Recorder, the per- STAFF WRITER son responsible for helping to make The current Tooele City municipal elections run smoothly. Council along with council This time, however, the night was candidates Scott Wardle and more thrilling than ever for Dunlavy. Dave McCall and mayoral By about 9:30 p.m. he knew he candidate Patrick Dunlavy would be the next mayor of Tooele. were all strong supporters Dunlavy edged out current City of amending the Tooele City SEE TOOELE ON A4 Charter. They were some- what surprised that the vote to amend the charter was so close. On Tuesday, the majority of voters did, however, vote yes to Proposition No. 2 to amend the city charter. The vote tally registered 2245 yes to 1947 no, or 54 to 46 per- cent. SEE CHARTER ON A3 Patrick Dunlavy Mayor Anderson wins bid for another term by Mary Ruth Hammond B. Anderson received 1,100 votes STAFF WRITER for a 65.32 percentage rate. C. With nearly 42 percent of Anderson garnered 584 votes, which Grantsville’s registered voters going accounted for 34.68 percent of votes to the polls Tuesday, Mayor Byron cast in the mayoral race. Anderson handedly beat opponent In a three-man race for two seats Craig Anderson by 516 votes for the on the city council, Brent Marshall city’s top position. drew 1,180 votes which put him in the lead of incumbents Paul Rupp and Kyle Matthews. When votes from all five Grantsville precincts had been counted Tuesday, Rupp, with 959 votes, was just nine votes ahead of Matthews. Rupp won a seat on the city council four years ago. Matthews was appointed to the council a year ago to fill the unex- pired term of a city council member who moved away from the com- munity. Although the possibility exists that absentee votes could change the outcome of the city council race, Matthews said that if that does not happen, he will not ask for a photography / Troy Boman Brent Mouritsen dives inside the 5-yard line after catching a pass leading to the Cowboys’ first score in Saturday’s 3A quarterfinal contest against Morgan. See A10. Byron Anderson SEE GRANTSVILLE ON A4 N-waste site opposition heats up Small communities active at polls by Mark Watson 60 days ago by the Nuclear whom are Skull Valley Band Tooele County used punch cards for its final time STAFF WRITER Regulatory Commission (NRC) members, which opposes the Not all members of the Skull to issue a license to Private Fuel PFS project. by Karen Hunt Valley Band of Goshutes are Storage (PFS) to build the facili- On Sept. 9 the NRC voted to STAFF WRITER pushing to store highly radio- ty. The petition was to be filed in deny the state of Utah’s peti- While some candidates say there active waste on their reserva- the District of Columbia Circuit tion for review of Commission aren’t big issues in small towns, one tion in Tooele County and they Court of Appeals, according to a and Atomic safety and Licensing wouldn’t know it from the turnout. made their voice heard again on spokesperson from Echohawk Board rulings, which found that Smaller communities like Stockton Tuesday. Law Firm, Pocatello, Idaho, cruise missile testing and acci- and Vernon surpassed the turnout Ohngo Gaudadeh Devia which represents OGD. dental crashes of military air- in more populated areas. Overall, (OGD) planned to file a petition Ohngo Gaudadeh Devia is a about one-third of Tooele County SEE PFS ON A3 for review of a decision made group of individuals, some of residents showed up at the polls. Rush Valley In Rush Valley this year, not a Huntsman hails new roofing company single race was contested, yet 34 percent cast votes. by Alleen Lang Manufacturing plants are a “fun- with a Thermoplastic roofing mem- “I thought it was fantastic for damental pillar to our economic brane plant in the western United a non-contested election,” town CORRESPONDENT recorder Joyce McAttee said. “I Tooele is growing with “light- base,” Huntsman said. Employees of States. The plant will also ware- was really surprised. We had all ning speed,” said Utah Governor the Carlisle SynTech Incorporated’s house other Carlisle products, a made guesses — we all had our Jon Huntsman. The results are a single-ply roofing membrane manu- company spokesman said. own little lottery and mine was 25. “very combustible, very exciting,” facturing facility, “will make their Carlisle Tooele is “also helping us I was way off.” community. lives and livelihoods,” in the new pay the bills, we have a lot of bills to While Mayor Travis Sagers won Welcoming Carlisle SynTech Inc. facility. They in turn will raise their pay,” Huntsman said. “I don’t know with 87 votes, there were eight to this growing community during families,” in the community. any other way to pay the bills than photography / Troy Boman write-in candidates for mayor. the company’s grand opening cele- The facility, one of four such to market what I think is the great- Renee McFarland, who lives in Tooele City’s District 4, cast her vote bration Friday, Huntsman said “this establishments in America, is the Tuesday at East Elementary School. SEE TURNOUT ON A2 to me is sacred ground.” first major roofing manufacturer SEE CARLISLE ON A3 WEATHER OPEN FORUM A6 SPORTS A10 INSIDE Mostly cloudy this afternoon. Highs OBITUARIES A7 HOMETOWN B1 CAMDS audit discovers missing around 60s. Partly cloudy tonight nerve agent calibrations and Thursday. Lows in the 40s. CROSSWORD A4 DOINGS B4 See A2 Complete Forecast: A2 TV LISTINGS A8 CLASSIFIEDS B6 A2 TUESDAY November 8, 2005 ETCETERA ... New mayor supports voter’s views on sewer Temps/Precipitation ValleyLocal WeatherWeather Forecast by Jesse Fruhwirth tion. [We should] assign a commit- “I’m glad that people came for- STAFF WRITER tee to come up with some ideas to ward and voted the sewer down,” Date High Low (prec./inches) Nov. 3 64 40 Wed 57/40 In a close race, the Stockton move forward in that direction.” he said. Nov. 4 54 38 .08 11/9 voters rejected a plan to install a Fowler agreed that transpar- Rydalch, Durtschi and Fowler Nov. 5 50 31 .02 A few showers early with partly multi-million dollar sewer system. ency and communication needs to agreed that a sewer may someday Nov. 6 65 35 cloudy skies late. High 57F. be major goals of the new govern- Nov. 7 67 54 Sewer critic Dan Rydalch was elect- become a reality for Stockton, but Nov. 8 63 48 ed mayor by a wide margin. Nearly ment. that future plans would be done half the town’s residents showed up “From the very beginning [of the with more community input. Ned Bevan, Tooele’s weather observer to cast ballots. sewer planning], if there had been Thu 63/43 “As we get the facts, we have to for the National Weather Service, reports Rydalch said that despite his a concerted effort that everyone that his recording station at 139 S. Main 11/10 allow [residents] to find out about received .10 inches of precipitation Partly cloudy. Highs in the low 60s skepticism with the way this sewer knew what was afoot, the problem them,” Rydalch said. “And not just would have been averted,” he said. between Nov. 3 and Nov. 8 and a total and lows in the low 40s. project was put together, he gained think we can just go on and make of .10 so far this month. The normal for the trust of the town by communi- “The situation would have been decisions for them.” November is 1.69 inches. cating the information. handled $200,000 ago.” For the water year, which began Oct. Fowler said the town council has “I never said I was against or in Fowler is referring to the $300,000 1, 2004, Tooele has received 1.10 inches of Fri 60/37 begun posting its minutes on its precipitation. The normal for the year is favor [of the sewer],” Rydalch said. debt the town incurred in planning 11/11 Web site.