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Celebrating 125 years as Davis County’s news source Chinese students experience The Pickleball Davis Clipper ON A7 75 cents VOL. 124 NO. 73 THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2016 Handcart Days 2016 packed Utah Music Awards open JENNIFFER WARDELL, C3 A market life for me Plenty to see and do at Davis County farmers markets. LOUISE R. SHAW, C1 Little League A GROUP OF SCOUTS marching in last year’s Handcart Days Grand Parade. This year’s parade will be on July 22 starting at 6 p.m. Champions Photo by Louise R. Shaw | Davis Clipper South Davis All- Stars go to state Stay safe in 400 North Pioneer celebration kicks off July 22 competition. construction zone BY JENNIFFER WARDELL celebrating at Bountiful City Park, where [email protected] rides will be available along with games and SPORTS, D1 food booths. Musical entertainment starts at BOUNTIFUL—The streets of Bountiful 1 p.m. with the Brady Anderson Quartet, and will be filled with people enjoying the BOUNTIFUL—The entire city continues until 8 p.m. on July 22. The music Handcart Days festivities this weekend comes back, along with the park activities, at and the Utah Department of Transporta- is gearing up to celebrate Hand- 10 a.m. on July 23, ending at 3:20 p.m. with tion (UDOT) wants to remind residents cart Days, and organizers don’t the band Endless Summer. The Bountiful/ to be cautious in the 400 North construc- Davis Art Center’s Handcart Days exhibition tion zone. want you to miss out. will also be open during this time at 90 N. The fun starts at noon on July 22 with The parade will travel through a Main Street. music, food, games, pioneer dancing, the portion of the 400 North Improved (SR- Though the rides and booths will stay open Grand Parade, fireworks and more along 106) project corridor and it is still an during the Grand Parade, which starts at 6 Bountiful’s Main Street and in Bountiful City active work zone, so please stay in the p.m., the musical entertainment will take a Park (400 N. 200 West). It starts right back up designated viewing areas. break and resume at 7:30 p.m. The parade will again at 7 a.m. on July 23, running until 5 p.m. Parade floats will travel on the north start at 1500 S. and Main Street. The parade Based around the theme of “Pioneers and side of 400 North from Main Street to will then travel up to 400 North, then head Patriots: Yesterday and Today,” all activities 100 West as part of the parade route over to 100 West. Residents can start saving are designed to honor both the pioneers that and 400 North will be closed from Main spots along the route no earlier than 7 a.m. on settled the area and the people who make it July 22. great today. Many are free, and all are open to n See “ZONE” p. A6 everyone. Residents can start their Handcart Days n See “HANDCART” p. A6 Woods Cross looks to fund new building, add police officers BY BECKY GINOS [email protected] WOODS CROSS—No one likes a tax increase. But Woods Cross City leaders believe it is a necessity to provide for the community’s needs. “We’ve been so conservative for so many years,” said Woods Cross Mayor Rick Earnshaw. “We’ve tried to keep the best level of services for the least cost but we’ve come to a point that we need the increase to better serve the community.” Davis Chamber The city is proposing a new of Commerce public works facility to replace the aging, small one they currently use. recipient for “It’s been here for 30 years and the 2014 Small we’re in pretty dire need,” said Business of the Operations Manager Wally St. Jeor. Year Award. “It’s designed for three trucks Musicians combine jazz and patriotism and we’re squeezing in five. We’re Members of Woods Cross Vanguard perform favorite American melodies at an event in West Bountiful last month. The jazz crammed pretty good. Houses have musicians are Jamison Dunn on bass, Clara Campbell on keyboards and vocals, Jesse Johnson on saxophone and Carter been built around us and when Finklea on drums. we’re winding up the snowplows Photo by Louise R. Shaw/Davis Clipper early in the morning, we’re within INDEX n See “FUND” p. A6 Editorial - B3 District superintendent set to retire Davis Life - C1 BY LOUISE R. SHAW Young University as associate professor of [email protected] Education Leadership & Foundations in the Horizons - C2 David O. McKay School of Education. FARMINGTON—In an announcement that “He is an amazing, amazing man,” said Showcase - C3 took many by surprise, Bryan Bowles, super- Patty Brown, curriculum director for the Calendar - C5 intendent of Davis School District, told those district. “He will truly be missed.” gathered for a school board meeting July 12 Brown praised Bowles’ ability to bring an Church - C6 that he was retiring. entire group of diverse people together and Bowles has led the district for 14 years and come up with solutions, and said he was very Obituaries - C7 his contract was renewed just last month dur- much a people person. ing the June 7 meeting of the Davis School “When Dr. Bowles says Learning First is Sports - D1 District Board of Education. our aim as a district, he involves everyone DR. BRYAN BOWLES talks with student teachers about His resignation is effective Aug. 31, after the art of teaching in a training session last January. which he plans to take a position at Brigham n See “BOWLES” p. A6 Photo by Louise R. Shaw/Davis Clipper A2 NEWS CLIPPER • THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2016 CRIME BRIEFS Thoughtful people replace stolen purses Compiled by Becky Ginos LAYTON—After two little a cash donation for the girls. girls got their purses stolen Nina Pettit Morse met with Father pleads guilty in kidnapping case while they were at Walmart a the family and gave the girls couple of weeks ago, residents new purses with cash and gifts FARMINGTON—A non-custodial father police said took his two children stepped up to help. inside, along with two new and fled to New Mexico prompting an Amber Alert, pleaded guilty last According to Layton Police, Nintendo DS’s to replace the week to reduced charges. several people contacted them one that was stolen, according Christopher John Montoya and the children’s mother, Monica Jody offering to make things right to the Layton PD’s Facebook Martinez were accused of taking 3-year-old Marae Montoya and since the stolen property was page. 11-month-old Cynthia Montoya from a home where they were being taken not recovered even though the GameStop also contributed care of in Clinton May 5. suspect was apprehended. to the Nintendo DS systems TWO LITTLE GIRLS received new A Motel 6 clerk in Gallup, New Mexico recognized the pair after seeing Bob Tackleberry drove and other items, as well as purses and gifts after theirs were the Amber Alert and notified authorities. The couple were brought back to from Orem to Layton after another anonymous donor. stolen. Utah and charged with two counts each of child kidnapping and burglary. he saw the case on Facebook Courtesy photo They both pleaded guilty to two reduced counts of custodial interference and brought piggy banks and [email protected] and the burglary charge was dropped with the plea deal. Martinez has a sentencing hearing set for Aug. 16 and Montoya’s hear- ing is scheduled for Aug. 23. Journalists seeking federal courthouse video Attorneys repre- discussing federal new effort to bring Lake City Weekly, The senting the Utah reviews of what trans- transparency to the Salt Lake Tribune the Mother and daughter accused of faking infant’s Headliners Chapter of pired. The agencies events of April 21, St. George News, the Society of Profes- also have denied 2014. Besides the the Utah Press Asso- illnesses to get attention from medical staff sional Journalists or not yet replied Headliners, Hunt and ciation, and Utah State have filed requests to FOIA requests Reymann filed the News Service. Clip- SALT LAKE CITY—A Layton mother and grandmother were booked under the Freedom on the matter from request on behalf of per Managing Editor into the Salt Lake County Jail last week on charges of child abuse after of Information Act journalists in individ- 18 Utah news outlets Tom Haraldsen is a authorities said the women repeatedly claimed their infant child and seeking video of the ual newsrooms. The or organizations who past chapter president grandchild was sick. 2014 shooting at Salt Headliners in 2015 agreed to be request- and current chapter Jessica Gutierrez and her mother Rebecca Day are accused of taking Lake City’s federal gave its Black Hole ors. treasurer for the Utah Gutierrez’s son to Primary Children’s Hospital in July 2015 and saying the courthouse. A U.S. Award to the FBI and Those organiza- Headliners. baby was vomiting and had a high fever. After tests came back normal, marshal shot and the Marshals, and tions or outlets are The requestors Gutierrez allegedly took him to McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden with the killed defendant Siale asked Attorney Gen- the Davis Clipper, take no position on same symptoms. She was referred back to Primary Children’s Hospital Angilau. eral Loretta Lynch to ABC 4, the Associat- whether the marshal where numerous procedures and tests were performed, according to In the two years intervene to no avail.