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FRONT PAGE A1 TOOELE RANSCRIPT Tooele defeats T Stansbury SERVING in boys TOOELE COUNTY basketball SINCE 1894 See B1 BULLETIN TUESDAY January 31, 2017 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 123 No. 70 $1.00 County sees another year of real estate expansion Median home price up 8 percent and days on market dropping to 45 in 2016 TIM GILLIE increase, with another 1,393 STAFF WRITER sales pending. For the fifth consecu- The average days on the tive year, real estate agents market until sale for a home in in Tooele County sold more Tooele County dropped from homes faster and for more 60 in 2015 to 45 in 2016, a 25 money than the year before. percent drop in the time it took The median sales price to sell a home. of a home in Tooele County “It was a great year,” said was $205,000 in 2016, up 8 Faye Hall, president of the percent from 2015’s median Tooele County Board of home sales price of $189,900, Realtors and a broker with according to statistics from the Home Fusion Real Estate. Utah Association of Realtors. “Land was good, interest rates The total number of homes were good, price points were sold in the county was 1,369 good — everything came in 2016 compared to 1,267 in 2015. That’s an 8.1 percent SEE EXPANSION PAGE A10 ➤ SOLD-OUT COWBOY MUSIC PHOTOS SUE BUTTERFIELD Trinity Seely (above) and Kevin Davis (right) entertain the audience at the Western Music Singer Songwriting Series event held at Deseret Peak FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO Local real estate officials say 2016 was another banner year for home sales Complex Saturday night. The in Tooele County, with good land, interest rates and price points. audience was also treated to cowboy poetry by Thatch Elmer (below left) and Jay Snider (below right). This was the event’s fourth year, and also the fourth consecutive year it sold out, Dugway looks to event organizers said. Funds raised go test prescription to the Tooele Bit ‘N’ Spur Riding Club. drugs this summer Chemicals to be tested are called ‘emerging threats’ against troops STEVE HOWE as “emerging threats,” have not STAFF WRITER been tested in an outdoor envi- SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE Dugway Proving Ground is ronment to see howUV they INDEX inter- The Sun Rise Set WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAYmoving ahead MONDAY with an environ- TUESDAYact with the environment. Wednesday 7:39 a.m. 5:47 p.m. Thursday 7:38 a.m. 5:49 p.m. mental assessment program for Testing could take place Friday 7:37 a.m. 5:50 p.m. the possibility of testing small as early as July in a “remote Saturday 7:36 a.m. 5:51 p.m. Sunday 7:35 a.m. 5:52 p.m. amounts of pharmaceutical area” at Dugway if the envi- Monday 7:34 a.m. 5:53 p.m. drugs outdoors, following sev- ronmental assessment W Th F is Sa Su M Tu Tuesday 7:32 a.m. 5:55 p.m. eral public scoping meetings completed, Theaccording higher the AccuWeather.com to a UV Index™ The Moon Rise Set number, the greater the need for eye and skin Wednesday 10:23 a.m. 11:05 p.m. earlier this month. public noticeprotection. posted0-2 Low;by 3-5the Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Thursday 10:57 a.m. none The environmental assess- installation.Very Saxon High; 11+ said Extreme the Friday 11:34 a.m. 12:13 a.m. ment would allow the U.S. testing would only occur if Saturday 12:14 p.m. 1:21 a.m. ALMANAC Sunday 12:59 p.m. 2:28 a.m. Army installation the abil- requested byStatistics a federal for the week agency, ending Jan. 30. Times of clouds and Times of clouds and Rather cloudy with a Clouds and sun with a Intervals of clouds Chance for a couple of Monday 1:50 p.m. 3:34 a.m. Mostly cloudyity to test chemicals found in such as the TemperaturesDepartment of Tuesday 2:47 p.m. 4:37 a.m. sun sun shower couple of showers and sun showers prescription drugs that would Defense or DrugHigh/Low Enforcement past week 35/8 First Full Last New inform best practices on detect- Administration.Normal high/low past week 40/23 43 31 45 32 43 34 44 31 44 31 42 28 43 27 Average temp past week 23.4 ing, handling and mitigating The type Normalof chemicals average temp iden- past week 31.4 TOOELE COUNTY WEATHERthem, according to Robert tified for testingDaily Temperatures under the High Low Feb 3 Feb 10 Feb 18 Feb 26 Shown is Wednesday’s Saxon, chief public affairs offi- environmental assessment Forecasts and graphics provided by weather. Temperatures are Wednesday’s highs and cer at Dugway. AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Wednesday night’s lows. The chemicals, referred to SEE DUGWAY PAGE A7 ➤ UTAH WEATHER Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Logan BULLETIN BOARD B4 Grouse 36/16 Wendover PrecipitationINSIDE (in inches) Creek 38/25 Knolls Clive WEATHER Lake Point CLASSIFIEDS B6 41/22 36/26 39/28 48/30 Ogden Stansbury Park Stallions edge Legacy of Utah’s HOMETOWN A8 40/26 Erda 48/30 OBITUARIES A6 Vernal Grantsville 44/31 Pine Canyon Buffs in girls 2002 Winter Salt Lake City 34/14 48/30 42/29 0.09 0.32 2.06 1.36 2.06 1.36 OPEN FORUM A4 Tooele 47/30 Bauer basketball Olympics 43/31 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal 43/31 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D SPORTS B1 Provo Roosevelt 43/31 See B1 See A8 35/14 43/25 See Stockton Snowfall (in inches) Price complete 43/32 37/16 Nephi forecast Rush Valley 42/23 42/31 Ophir on A7 42/30 Delta Manti 46/28 56/28 1.5 20.5 46.5 Green River Last Month Season 55/23 Dugway Week to date to date Richfield Gold Hill 40/29 61/28 Moab 35/20 SNOWPACK Hanksville 46/25 Beaver 47/24 Vernon Tooele Valley-Vernon Creek Basin 47/24 Ibapah 40/27 37/20 Snow Water Equivalent as of 12 a.m. Monday Rocky Basin Mining Vernon Settlement Fork Creek Cedar City Blanding Snowcover 18.7 17.1 12.1 St. George 49/25 45/23 Average 11.2 9.9 5.9 58/37 Kanab 48/23 Eureka Percent of average 167% 173% 205% 42/25 Source: Utah Natural Resources Conservation Services A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN TUESDAY January 31, 2017 County’s detention center housing ICE detainees Wide spectrum of illegal immigrants are temporarily held at county jail before being sent to federal prisons STEVE HOWE Clinton said. “They set aside victed of a more serious crime, STAFF WRITER 50 beds, which they say they they are placed in separate, For more than a month, fill up every week.” more secure housing. the Tooele County Detention Tooele County was a favor- Wimmer said many of the Center has served as a tem- able location for ICE detainees detainees can’t be let free porary holding location for because the county already has prior to deportation but have detainees of U.S. Immigration a contract with U.S. Marshals already served the jail sen- and Customs Enforcement. for temporary detainment, tence connected to their crime. The jail accepts two kinds Wimmer said. Sometimes the Using the dormitory space of federal prisoners, detainees inmate brought in by a mar- ensures detainees are secured of the U.S. Marshals and ICE, shal would be transferred to but not heavily imprisoned according to Tooele County ICE custody while at the jail while they await deportation, Sheriff Paul Wimmer. The and the sheriff’s office would he said. detention center receives a bill ICE for the stay until they Taking on ICE detainees $60 daily reimbursement for were picked up. does create extra work for each federal inmate the facility “It was really viewed as a corrections officers, as they houses. temporary agreement for the sometimes receive 10 or more Tooele County took over time being,” he said. “There’s detainees at once, Wimmer temporary housing for ICE not been anything really for- said. The detainees must all detainees last December after mally set.” be booked into the jail but are Utah County ended its con- ICE detainees cover a wide released a day or two later. tract with the federal agency, spectrum of illegal immigrants “Other than the work load Wimmer said. in the country, from drug it’s created for the staff when FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE “They just needed a facil- charges to those who have they take in a good-sized load The Tooele County Detention Ceter has served as a temporary holding location for detaninees of U.S. Immigration ity that would hold groups crossed the border too many and then have to release a and Customs Enforcement for more than a month. of them for several days at a times, according to Clinton. good group of them, it hasn’t time,” he said. Many of the detainees live, or been that bad,” Wimmer said. Spanish.” administration’s philosophy. agents could prompt Tooele According to Wimmer, were arrested for crimes, in “We haven’t had a whole lot of President Donald Trump It’s also possible the cost of County Sheriff’s deputies and most detainees are only at the Utah and the vast majority are problems with it.” signed an executive order last transporting more detainees corrections officers to seek detention center for a couple men, he said.