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10-18-16 Transcript Bulletin FRONT PAGE A1 Tooele centenarian celebrates 105 years See B2 TOOELETRANSCRIPT SERVING TOOELE COUNTY BULLETIN SINCE 1894 TUESDAY October 18, 2016 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 123 No. 40 $1.00 Home sales hit ‘sellers market’ in 3rd quarter Supply of homes for sale running short TIM GILLIE Multiple Listing Service. STAFF WRITER “It was a good quarter,” said Real estate sales in Tooele Faye Hall, president of Tooele County ended the third quarter County Association of Realtors of 2016 with a strong market, and an agent with Fusion Real according to a local real estate Estate in Tooele. association officer. A total of 383 homes were Compared to the third sold in Tooele County during quarter of 2015 the number of the third quarter compared TOOELE FIRE OPEN HOUSE home sales are up, the median to 358 during the same time price of sold homes is up, and period in 2015, which is a 7- the number of days a home percent increase. SUE BUTTERFIELD/TTB PHOTOS sits on the market before being The median price of a sold sold is shrinking, according home rose by 12.6 percent, to third quarter 2016 statis- Eian Inman (above) gets some help with the hose from tics from the Wasatch Front SEE MARKET PAGE A8 ➤ fire fighter Joshua Benson Saturday at the Tooele City Fire Department Open House. Armando Hernandez (left) checks out the department’s fire fighting equip- ment. Molly and William Webb (below left) browse the fire trucks on display. David and Chance Baum, along Most July 19 fire with their cousin Trevor Mecham (bottom), respond to a mock emergency at the open house. Braxton Howard (below) inspects the equipment his father victims still living uses as a Tooele City fire fighter. in interim housing JESSICA HENRIE damaged 17 others, temporar- STAFF WRITER ily dislocating some residents. With winter fast approach- Of the 10 people whose ing, all the people who lost home was a total loss, four had their homes in the Tooele complete insurance coverage neighborhood fire in July have and two had mortgage insur- roofs over their heads, an offi- ance. The last four homeown- cial said. ers were not insured, said The fire, which was declared Bucky Whitehouse, director arson by Tooele City police, of Tooele County Emergency started in a grass field near Management. 700 South and Coleman Street But despite having different around 10:45 p.m. on July 19. It destroyed 10 homes and SEE FIRE PAGE A8 ➤ Former football coach arraigned SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE UV INDEX in court Monday The Sun Rise Set WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Wednesday 7:45 a.m. 6:43 p.m. Thursday 7:46 a.m. 6:41 p.m. STEVE HOWE Friday 7:47 a.m. 6:40 p.m. STAFF WRITER Saturday 7:48 a.m. 6:38 p.m. Sunday 7:49 a.m. 6:37 p.m. The former Grantsville High Monday 7:50 a.m. 6:36 p.m. W Th F Sa Su M Tu School football coach arrested Tuesday 7:51 a.m. 6:34 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ in connection to sexual battery The Moon Rise Set number, the greater the need for eye and skin Wednesday 9:59 p.m. 11:41 a.m. protection. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 and lewdness with students Thursday 10:56 p.m. 12:44 p.m. Very High; 11+ Extreme made his second appearance Friday 11:55 p.m. 1:40 p.m. in 3rd District Court Monday Saturday none 2:29 p.m. ALMANAC Sunday 12:56 a.m. 3:11 p.m. Statistics for the week ending Oct. 17. morning. Nice with plenty of Pleasant with clouds A couple of showers Monday 1:57 a.m. 3:48 p.m. Sunny and cool Sunny Mostly sunny Mostly sunny Temperatures Curtis Lee Ware, 47, is Tuesday 2:57 a.m. 4:22 p.m. sunshine and sun possible High/Low past week 74/39 charged with five counts of Last New First Full Normal high/low past week 66/43 misdemeanor sexual battery 53 32 61 33 67 40 68 41 68 45 65 44 60 41 Average temp past week 57.7 Normal average temp past week 54.3 and four misdemeanor counts TOOELE COUNTY WEATHER Daily Temperatures High Low of lewdness. Ware became the Oct 22 Oct 30 Nov 7 Nov 14 Shown is Wednesday’s head coach of the Grantsville Forecasts and graphics provided by weather. Temperatures are Wednesday’s highs and High School football team in AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 Wednesday night’s lows. SEE COACH PAGE A8 ➤ Curtis Ware UTAH WEATHER Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Logan BULLETIN BOARD B8 Grouse 53/24 Wendover PrecipitationINSIDE (in inches) Creek 54/33 Knolls Clive WEATHER Lake Point CLASSIFIEDS B6 49/28 56/32 56/32 56/36 Ogden Stansbury Park Dinner theatre set Stansbury beats HOMETOWN B2 55/34 Erda 56/35 OBITUARIES A6 Vernal Grantsville 55/34 Pine Canyon to open ‘The King Ben Lomond on Salt Lake City 53/28 56/34 39/31 OPEN FORUM A4 Tooele 58/36 Bauer and I’ with live last-second pass 53/32 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal 53/31 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D SPORTS B1 Provo Roosevelt 53/32 accompaniment deflection 56/27 57/29 See Stockton Pollen Index Price complete 53/31 See A7 See B1 59/32 High Nephi forecast Rush Valley 56/28 54/30 Ophir Moderate on B10 47/26 Low Delta Manti Absent 59/32 57/30 Green River Tu W Th F Sa Su M 66/35 Dugway Source: Intermountain Allergy & Asthma Richfield Gold Hill 54/31 58/27 Moab 50/31 RIVERS AND LAKES Hanksville 63/36 Beaver 63/34 Vernon In feet as of 7 a.m. Monday 59/30 Ibapah 53/29 24-hour 54/29 Stage Change Vernon Creek at Vernon 0.94 none Cedar City Blanding South Willow Creek St. George 62/26 63/34 at Grantsville 1.41 none 77/47 Kanab 67/40 Eureka 44/30 Great Salt Lake Elevation at Saltair Boat Harbor 4189.16 A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN TUESDAY October 18, 2016 Mock constitutional convention City to hold hearing on dropping board OKs six proposed amendments of adjustment One of which was written by Rep. Nelson of Grantsville JESSICA HENRIE official or city employee and TIM GILLIE convention. among them, according to STAFF WRITER must “possess such qualifica- STAFF WRITER The other amendments Nelson. The Tooele City Council tions as the mayor may deter- A simulated convention approved by the convention In 2016, the Utah House will hold a public hearing mine necessary for the fair and of the states approved a pro- included: a requirement that of Representatives approved Wednesday prior to voting on thorough determination of posed amendment to the U.S. a super-majority of Congress a constitutional convention whether to eliminate the city’s facts and application of law,” Constitution authored by a must approve any increase in resolution, but the resolution board of adjustment. according to city code. Tooele County legislator. the national debt; a repeal of did not pass the state Senate, The public hearing will take According to Baker, refer- Rep. Merrill Nelson, R- 16th amendment that legal- according to Nelson. place at 7 p.m. in Tooele City ring most land use appeals Grantsville was part of the del- ized the federal income tax “The resolution was held Hall, 90 N. Main Street. During to an administrative hearing egation of 150 state legislators and a requirement that a up in the Senate because the hearing, citizens are officer is a better way of mak- from 50 states that participat- super-majority of Congress conservative groups, like the invited to speak for or against a ing sure citizen appeals receive ed in a simulated convention must approve increases in fed- Eagle Forum, are opposed to proposal to eliminate the board their due process than having held in Colonial Williamsburg eral taxes; a limit on federal a convention because they are of adjustment and refer most a volunteer board review the Sept. 22-23. over reach by returning the afraid of a runaway conven- land use appeals to an admin- appeals. The legislators were invited “commerce clause” of the fed- tion making changes in the istrative hearing officer. “This is not a case of right or to participate in the historic eral constitution to its original Constitution,” Nelson said. Currently, the board of wrong — boards of adjustment simulation by Citizens for Self- Rep. Merrill Nelson meaning; allowing a congres- The language of state adjustment hears appeals of bad and hearing officer good,” Governance. sional override for federal resolutions calling for the con- zoning decisions and decides Baker told the planning com- Citizens for Self-Governance the Constitution. regulations, and term limits on vention, state limits on their whether to grant variances mission last week. is a national citizens movement “Nobody wants to replace Congress. delegate’s power, and the con- from the zoning terms. The Instead, the city administra- pushing for states to invoke the Constitution,” Nelson said. If this had been a real con- stitutional requirement for rati- board can also “make deter- tion believes referring land use their right, according to Article “We just want a check on the vention of the states, 38 state fication by 38 states, virtually minations regarding the exis- appeals to a trained hearing V of the U.S.
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